It was almost close to a month since August advanced to the elite rank-0 apprentice level. Although the capacity of his spiritual sea had expanded, August had not rushed to increase his power, but rather settled for consolidation and refining of his wind elemental essence and spells. This was also in line with his previous plan of steady, patient growth.
For many sorcerers, increasing their Spirit was a matter of talent, years of accumulation and constant meditation, superior cultivation environments, and reliance on heavenly and earthly resources as well as pills and elixirs.
One's affinity and level of their spiritual root was fixed since the moment of their birth and could not be improved naturally except for fortuitous encounters in dangerous magic zones and by consuming of special and rare divine medicines and resources.