Becoming His.
Hours later, Hal exited Emily's room and proceeded on his essence harvesting with the other ladies. It was quite early the next morning before he completed his rounds and that was despite him making use of the Time Warped chamber with the rest of the ladies.
He had taken his time with each and every one of them and made sure he left them with a smile on their faces.
After that, he returned to Melinda's room to sit cross-legged beside her and refine the essence.
However, despite him making use of Cosmic energy to facilitate the process, he was still unable to advance to the next stage and remained stuck in the Early Stage of the Cosmic Phenomenon Realm.
Sensing his impatience, Grimoire reminded him once again that it usually took other cultivators, Dual or otherwise, years to achieve the amount of progress he had in a month.
Hal knew the Artifact was correct but he retorted that Grimoire should be more than aware that his situation was different.