He took the entire day to figure out how the plant worked. After getting back to his original condition, he got ready to open the second item he bought.
The first item more than lived up to its price. The amount of help it would give him in the future when training was not measurable by money. He wouldn't need to buy any pills from the Thousand Treasure Tower masking his identity to train his magic.
He was planning on doing that because of how hard it was getting to use Beast Cores. Now he could just use the Beast Cores to feed his plant.
He now had to see if the Swift Ascension Pill was actually worth the price. It would be as long as he got to the 1st Circle. He prepared himself to take the pill.
The first thing he did was shut off himself from magic and started circulating the aura in his body. He did this to get his mind and body more accustomed to aura than magic because of how often he uses the latter. He did this for an hour to get the hang of it.