His injuries had healed, but in this sunless darkness, Huo Hai could not even make out which direction he was facing. Left with no other choice, he could only continue cultivating. This was no place to practice swordsmanship, so he had to give up on that.
He let Little Water support his body as he drifted back and forth through the sea, while he swiftly began refining the Qi-Sealing Art. He had nothing else to do anyway. As his familiarity with the Qi-Sealing Art grew, aided by large quantities of spirit energy crystals, his refinement grew faster and faster. Finding even a patch of land in this vast sea was far from easy.
Time slowly passed, and two months went by in the blink of an eye. Throughout those two months, Huo Hai refined the Qi-Sealing Art without interruption. Once he finished each day's refinement, he would move somewhere else, conceal himself, and have Little Water investigate everything nearby again.
Huo Hai himself continued refining. Eventually, his proficiency with the Qi-Sealing Art reached the point where he could refine an entire spirit vein in less than a day. His speed was astonishing.
On this day, Huo Hai finally finished refining the Qi-Sealing Art in his last spirit vein. Fortunately, he had opened all the spirit veins throughout his body, and the spiritual power within them had already been refined. Otherwise, condensing fine threads of spiritual power to refine the Qi-Sealing Art would have been no easy task. The instant the Qi-Sealing Art reached the greater accomplishment stage, Huo Hai felt his entire body change.
All the pathways of the Qi-Sealing Art began melding together, starting from their ends. After an unknown stretch of time, Huo Hai sensed that the Qi-Sealing Art pathways throughout his spirit veins had actually fused into