He was consolidating his cultivation.
A cultivator who had just broken through to the Nascent Soul Realm had an unstable realm.
It was the time to consolidate cultivation so that one's cultivation would be firmly established in the Nascent Soul Realm.
During this period, if one had to fight out of necessity, there was a risk of falling back in realm.
Although this possibility wasn't very high, it still existed.
Therefore, any cultivator, after making a significant breakthrough, would not emerge from seclusion immediately but would continue to cultivate to consolidate their cultivation.
Only when their cultivation reached a level where they could fight freely, even if they drained all the mana from their bodies, without the risk of falling back in realm, would they then come out of seclusion.
By that time, cultivators no longer needed to worry about falling back in their realm when exerting their full strength.
Meanwhile, in the process of consolidating cultivation,