Starting the next day, servants did indeed tell Huo Hai that Qu Siyu had entered secluded cultivation. Huo Hai had already known, so he said nothing. He was unfamiliar with the Divine Mystery Sect, and many of its people disliked him.
Huo Hai did not want to meet those people, so he simply stayed at home and slowly browsed his atlas. When he had nothing else to do, he absorbed some spirit energy crystals or drank a little Spirit Wine to speed up the fusion of the spiritual power within his body.
By his reckoning, once he returned from the ruins, he would need only a few more days before he could attempt to break through to the Spirit King Realm. After that, he still had to find the Starstone Wall. His Celestial Star Transformation was only earth grade lower-tier. He could continue cultivating it in the Spirit King Realm, but once he advanced beyond that realm, he would no longer be able to use it.
Besides, Huo Hai did not know whether there were any problems with the Spirit King Realm cultivation methods in his copy of the Celestial Star Transformation. If there were, he needed to correct them as soon as possible. Otherwise, heaven only knew what might go wrong with his cultivation.
No outsiders came to disturb him in Qu Siyu's courtyard, either. Perhaps it was because of her personality, but very few people came looking for her during this time. It seemed she did not have many friends in the Divine Mystery Sect.
There was one person, however, whom Huo Hai found rather curious: Elder Gu Yan, who had fought him to a draw in the arena. What Huo Hai did not know was that Gu Yan had left shortly after he did. Invoking the ice