Xia Ruofei didn't step out of his bedroom all morning, dedicating his complete focus to refining the mansion-guarding wooden token.
If measured by progress, the refinement was 99.99 percent complete. Only the tiniest fraction remained. Had his cultivation still been at the Qi refining stage, this final 0.01 percent might have taken him weeks or even months to conquer. But now, he was on the verge of breaking through to the nascent soul realm, and his mental strength was nearing the advanced stage of the Golden core. Naturally, his efficiency was leagues beyond what it used to be.
It took Xia Ruofei about three hours. During this time, he abandoned his usual method of sending out just a sliver of mental strength to slowly infiltrate the token. Instead, he unleashed his mental strength at full capacity, continuously grinding away the final bit of resistance.
Even so, it was nearly noon by the time he finally refined the mansion-guarding wooden token completely.
