Three hundred feet above the cliff, there was a dark cave entrance. Pei Yuan led Lu Ye to this place and stopped. He pointed to the cave entrance and said, "Fellow Taoist Lu, from this cave entrance, you will see the Holy Land. Now there are many spiritual tattooists gathered here. Maybe more people will come here in the future. I hope you can gain something from it."
"Thank you, Sect Master Pei!" Lu Ye thanked him.
Pei Yuan was only responsible for leading Lu Ye to this place. He didn't intend to go deeper, so he quickly turned and left.
After watching him leave, Lu Ye stepped into the cave entrance. The passage inside the cave was very spacious, enough to accommodate several people walking side by side. Through the perception of Divine Thought, Lu Ye could perceive that there were many vitality gathering in the depths of the cave. They must be the spiritual tattooists from all over the Nine Regions who came to observe and cultivate.
Lu Ye went straight inside. After walking for half a cup of tea's time, he vaguely heard someone talking in front of him. Listening carefully, it seemed that they were arguing about something.
He continued to move forward. After a while, a huge karst cave appeared in front of him.
There were spots of light all around, decorated with strange stones, so that the karst cave was not dark, but as bright as day.
Looking around, there were quite a number of people gathered in the cave, at least a hundred. Some were gathered together, some were sitting cross-legged in front of the cave wall, observing with rapt attention, and some were sitting in pairs with a jade plate in front of them. Everyone was circulating their spirit force, as if they were competing with each other.
All kinds of voices came into his ears, and it seemed very lively.
Lu Ye didn't expect this place to be like this. Originally, he thought that the so-called Holy Land must be a quiet and peaceful place. Now he knew that he thought too much.
He turned his head and looked around. He found that the inside of the karst cave was flat and smooth stone everywhere. Those stone surfaces were engraved with all kinds of complicated lines. If a cultivator who didn't know the Dao of Spiritual Tattoos saw it, he would be dizzy and confused. But for spiritual tattooists, these complicated lines contained great wisdom and were good things to be understood and observed.
When Lu Ye walked in, there were some who noticed him. However, they only casually cast a few glances at him and didn't pay any more attention to him. Right now, there were many people entering and exiting the sacred grounds of the Divine Inscriptions Sect. Lu Ye's youthful appearance naturally wouldn't attract any attention.
Following the quarrel, Lu Ye came to a smooth stone wall. After listening silently for a moment, he figured out what was going on. Obviously, the spiritual tattooists gathered here had different understandings and opinions about the lines inscribed on the stone wall. One side believed that the lines were the embryonic form of a certain spiritual tattoo, while the other side believed that they were the embryonic form of another spiritual tattoo. Both sides had their own opinions and quarreled fiercely.
Lu Ye took the opportunity to join in and express his opinion, but he was quickly drowned out by the spit of both sides. He had never experienced such a situation before. Facing a group of seniors who had been immersed in the Dao longer than him, Lu Ye did not want to argue too much with them, so he could only stand aside and watch.
However, the two sides didn't quarrel for too long, because there was no fixed winner or loser in the dispute of the Dao of Spiritual Tattoo. Both sides had their own reasons, and no one was right.
Then they could only fight to see who was the real winner.
They didn't want to fight to the death like ordinary fights. Since they were all spiritual tattooists, what they competed with was naturally things in the Dao of Spiritual Tattoo.
Based on the lines in dispute, each of them tried their best to deduce the spiritual tattoo. Whoever could deduce the most stable spiritual tattoo would be the winner.
This was also the most tacit way of fighting among the spiritual tattooists gathered here. Lu Ye had never seen it before, so he felt it was quite novel.
He silently integrated into it, took out a jade plate specially used by spiritual tattooists, and began to build the Yin and Yang on the jade plate with his spiritual force.
The lines on the stone wall were incomplete. If a spiritual tattooist wanted to deduce a new spiritual tattoo with them, it would undoubtedly test the spiritual tattooists' skills.
Lu Ye didn't know how the other spiritual tattooists were doing, but he was making good progress. Perhaps it was because of the characteristics brought by the second transformation of the talent tree, he always had many wonderful ideas that others couldn't reach when it came to deduce spiritual tattoos.
An hour later, the jade plate in Lu Ye's hand flashed, and a spiritual tattoo was formed.
This anomaly immediately attracted the attention of other spiritual tattooists who were working hard. They all looked over and were very surprised. No one expected that among so many people present, this seemingly youngest guy was the first one to produce results.
They didn't need to deduce anymore. They all gathered around and passed Lu Ye's jade plate around, commenting from time to time.
Although this newly deduced spiritual tattoo had some shortcomings, it was undeniable that it was indeed a formed spiritual tattoo, because it could exist stably on the jade plate.
Of course, being able to exist stably and form didn't mean that it was useful!
There were two kinds of spiritual tattoos. One was useful, which could play a role in fighting, cultivation or other fields. The other was the one deduced by Lu Ye at this moment. It was a kind of useless spiritual tattoo. It could only exist, but it couldn't play any practical role.
In fact, there were many such spiritual tattoos. Most of them were used by spiritual tattooists for research purposes. Basically, every spiritual tattooist could deduce many useless spiritual tattoos.
Of course, uselessness and usefulness could often be interchanged. A useless spiritual tattoo might become a useful spiritual tattoo after some slight changes in the details.
Similarly, those useful spiritual tattoos, if the arrangement of one or two Yin and Yang was changed, would become useless or even unable to take shape.
After a round of comments, the two spiritual tattooists fell into a new round of quarrel. Both of them thought that the spiritual tattoo deduced by Lu Ye belonged to the field they recognized.
Lu Ye found that these spiritual tattooists were all stubborn and didn't submit to anyone. If these guys died a hundred years later, they might still have a mouth left.
Amidst the commotion, everyone suddenly turned their gazes to Lu Ye, and a respected old man asked, "Little friend, you were the one who deduced this spirit rune, so tell us, what are the characteristics of this spirit rune?"
Lu Ye looked embarrassed and stammered for a while, "I think … what you said is quite reasonable!"
A group of people immediately glared at him!
After all, the fence-sitters didn't have a good ending. Lu Ye was soon excluded from this circle, but he didn't care. He continued to walk to the side and observe other lines on the stone wall.
There was no doubt that these lines were left by the powerful spiritual tattooists in the previous Nine Provinces Era. This place might have been the place where some spiritual tattooists practiced in seclusion. They carved some of their understandings on the stone wall, which had been passed down to the present day over the years.
Latecomers came here to observe the legacy of their ancestors, get some inspiration, and then improve their own spiritual tattoos.
In the long run, this place had become the holy land of spiritual tattooists.
In fact, there was nothing special here. If a person who was not a spiritual tattooist came here, he or she would not get any practical benefits at all. But a real spiritual tattooist would scramble for such a treasure land like a flock of ducks. Moreover, those who were qualified to come here were all highly accomplished in spiritual tattoos. Those who were not accomplished enough would not be led here at all.
In the first few days, those spiritual tattooists ignored Lu Ye because of his age. But as time went by, when Lu Ye gradually showed his attainments in spiritual tattoos, many spiritual tattooists really regarded him as a fellow practitioner.
Lu Ye sometimes observed the lines on the stone wall by himself, sometimes discussed with other spiritual tattooists, and sometimes joined in some debates.
In such a place, no one knew that he was Lu Yiye of the Jade Blood Sect, and he didn't know the names of others. No matter men or women, old or young, they were all like-minded people who were striving for spiritual tattoos. They were real fellow practitioners.
Such an atmosphere was an extremely rare experience for a spiritual tattooist. Compared with the closed-door cultivation, it was undoubtedly much more effective.
The mutual discussion with each spiritual tattooist could benefit Lu Ye. In this way, he could get the advantages of all kinds of spiritual tattooists.
Once again, Lu Ye forgot the passage of time and was completely immersed in it. Unconsciously, his attainments in spiritual tattoos were constantly improved.
Under his purposeful arrangement, he almost had one-to-one in-depth exchanges with all the spiritual tattooists here.
Many spiritual tattooists gradually realized his profound attainments in spiritual tattoos, and no one looked down upon him because of his age. In many cases, they even asked him to make a judgment when the dispute couldn't be resolved.
Every time, it was quite difficult for Lu Ye, because no matter which side he stood on, the other side would not be convinced. In the end, they could only decide the winner in the way of spiritual tattooists.
In a flash, three months had passed.
On this day, two spiritual tattooists kept quarreling because of the lines on a stone wall. They couldn't reach a conclusion, so they decided to let Lu Ye be the judge.
However, when they turned around, they found that Lu Ye was sitting on a stone wall motionlessly, as if he had fallen into a deep meditation!
"Don't disturb him. This little fellow practitioner has been meditating three days ago, and he seems to have comprehended something." Someone said.
"Then let's keep our voices down. It's an opportunity to comprehend something here. Don't ruin his good fortune."
All the people nodded.
Lu Ye was meditating, not because of comprehension, but because he was reviewing the loads on the leaves of the Talent Tree.
The leaves of the Talent Tree carried not only the complete spiritual tattoos, but also the construction skills of spiritual tattoos and many understandings of the spiritual tattoos.
Lu Ye didn't know where these understandings of the spiritual tattoos came from, just as he didn't know how those spiritual tattoos came to be.
But there was no doubt that these understandings were rare treasures for any spiritual tattooist, which could help Lu Ye achieve higher achievements on the basis of these understandings.
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