Everything inside his body was much the same as when he had condensed his Star Core before. Only the level had risen: the Star Cores he condensed were of higher quality, and more of them grew stronger as Huo Hai's strength increased.
As before, all his spiritual power was absorbed completely, tempered by the Star Cores, and only then released again. The freshly released spiritual power was somewhat reduced in quantity, but far purer than before.
The missing spiritual power had not been lost permanently. He simply needed to replenish it slowly, just as he would recover after expending spiritual power. Under Huo Hai's anxious scrutiny, his Star Cores gradually tempered all his spiritual power. At the same time, they absorbed vast quantities of spiritual energy streaming in from the world around him, refining and replenishing it bit by bit to make up for his expenditure.
He did not know how much time had passed before spiritual power surged out again. Huo Hai watched it nervously. "Why isn't there any? Why is all of it mist?" He felt more dejected than he ever had in his life.
When others broke through in their cultivation, their strength increased. Even if it did not increase, it would not decline. Why had his begun to decline instead when he broke through? It was not his fighting strength or cultivation that had fallen, but the fundamental nature of his spiritual power.
Yet just as Huo Hai was wallowing in self-pity, his spirits suddenly lifted. He discovered that liquid spiritual power had reappeared inside his Spirit Source. "What's going on? Why did this happen?" The joy of recovering what he had lost filled his heart. Never before had he felt so excited and delighted.
With that feeling in his heart, Huo Hai carefully examined his