Day after day passed, and the three women's cultivation went from rapid growth to stability. Their cultivation levels were once again even, all at early-stage Spirit Marshal. They would not be making any more rapid advances in the short term.
As for Huo Hai, he had made little progress with Sunset Swordsmanship. He could merely control five swords at once more effectively. He still had no grasp of how to unleash a sixth sword, nor any idea how to succeed. In fact, he spent most of his time studying skeletons, trying to reproduce the human body's spirit veins within them.
Huo Hai had gained a great deal from his research over this period. Human bones were extremely unusual, and he had kept trying to imitate their structure. By now, he could reproduce roughly half of a complete spirit vein on the bones.
Once this spirit vein was complete, the skeletons he created would not be much weaker than experts of the same level. At the very least, three to five skeletons would be enough to reliably defeat most experts at their level.
The only pity was that the Ghost Bone Insects still had not finished their transformation. As a result, Huo Hai could not properly test the ideas he had developed through research and calculations, much less determine whether they would actually succeed. All of this would still take time. He was in no hurry; there was nothing he needed these skeletons to help with right now anyway.
Early one morning, Huo Hai heard a commotion outside again. His brows furrowed at the noise. Had someone come to cause trouble again? Still, it was not very loud, at least nowhere near the uproar last time.
Just then, a maid approached. "Young master, young ladies, the Four Young Masters are here.