Several months passed while Li Xiaoya remained in seclusion.
Throughout those months, Li Xiaoya meditated in his sealed chamber every day, concerning himself with nothing else. If rain was destined to fall and the Demon Realm was destined to invade, no divine ability of his could stop either. He could only rely on the sect to investigate; probing around on his own would uncover nothing. His immediate priority was naturally to improve his cultivation through meditation. In fact, after just over two months, the unimaginably abundant spiritual qi from the Spirit Stone Furnace had already restored his magic power completely. Yet he did not rush to emerge. Instead, he continued cultivating in his cave abode. Although he had spent these past years refining elixirs rather than cultivating, he vaguely sensed that his intense focus on alchemy and prolonged mental concentration had brought his divine sense to the verge of a breakthrough. He therefore simply remained in seclusion, attempting to break through its bottleneck.
Sure enough!
After another three months and more, his divine sense rose to a new level. Its strength had now completely surpassed that of a Nascent Soul Realm cultivator, reaching the level normally possessed only by Spirit Communion Stage cultivators-the realm of divine sense spiritualization. Having reached this realm, Li Xiaoya would find advancing to the Spirit Communion Stage much easier, which gave him greater confidence. With the formidable strength of his physical body and his current divine sense, he felt certain that, provided he could cultivate to the Nascent Soul Late-Stage Peak within a hundred years, taking the Nine-Turn Spirit Communion Pill would allow him to enter the Spirit Communion Stage.
Thus, he still did not emerge from seclusion, instead taking elixirs to further his cultivation.
During this period, however, he received some findings from Qin