When the three of them were in a formation, Lu Ye's team's attacks were already extremely sharp. Now that they were in a five-man formation, they were even more formidable.
On the other hand, the enemies they were targeting, after losing a late-stage Constellation Realm cultivator, were unable to perform well. Coupled with the great danger brought by the phantom's flickering figure, they were even more wary of attacking.
In just a few moments of fighting, this relatively strong team was completely annihilated, either injured or dead, leaving the scene in a sorry state.
In the Heavenly Secret Commerce Alliance, Liu Quan politely sent Lu Ye to the door. Most of the cultivators in the outer circle were relatively poor, unless they were disciples from large sects. As such, it wasn't easy to come across a transaction worth a few dozen spirit stones. Moreover, Lu Ye's personality was quite straightforward, so Liu Quan naturally wanted to become more familiar with him so that he could take care of business in the future.
After watching Lu Ye's figure disappear, Liu Quan turned around and a fragrant wind blew in his face. Someone was standing behind him.
"You scared me!" Liu Quan grumbled, "Why are you standing behind me instead of greeting the guests?"
The person said sweetly, "I missed you."
Liu Quan glanced around with a guilty conscience and found that no one was paying attention to them, so he lowered his voice and said, "I'll look for you when I get off work tonight."
"Sure," the woman replied with a smile.
Liu Quan walked towards the hall as if nothing had happened and greeted the other guests. The woman glanced in the direction Lu Ye left, a thoughtful look in her eyes. When night fell, they naturally lingered around each other and stopped. The two of them chatted casually, and the topic was intentionally or unintentionally led by the woman to their daily transactions. Liu Quan was a little sleepy, so he responded intermittently and soon fell asleep.
The woman laid in his arms, but she found it difficult to fall asleep.
If she wasn't mistaken, the customer during the day was the one she received half a month ago. He sold a lot of ores and bought some spirit pills before leaving.
She didn't expect that in just half a month, he would come to sell ores again.
Looking at the guest's appearance, there was no doubt that he was a Loose Cultivator. A Loose Cultivator who had no one to rely on was able to amass a fortune of dozens of Spirit Stones in such a short period of time.
If she worked in the Tianji Business Alliance, including the extra income, she would at most get twelve or thirteen spiritual stones per month. This reminded her of her days as a Loose Cultivator. When she compared them, she couldn't help but feel a little bitter. After letting her imagination run wild for a long time, she finally felt sleepy. However, she couldn't sleep well.
At the same time, Lu Ye was cultivating in a cave on Mount Azure Cloud.
During the day, after he finished his business at the Tianji Business Alliance, he bought a lot of food with the remaining spirit stones and rushed back without stopping. Only then did he make it back before nightfall.
With enough Spirit Pills, he immediately began to take them and cultivate.
As the spiritual pills were consumed one by one, the spiritual energy in the fifteenth orifice was gradually filled up, and it continued to rush towards the sixteenth orifice.
Twelve days later, Lu Ye sat cross-legged in the cave, meditating.
Today was a big day. If everything went well, he would break through to the Second Order Spirit Stream Realm today.
Since returning twelve days ago, he had consumed more than thirty Spirit Accumulation Pills one after another and finally opened the eighteenth orifice. Moreover, he had already cultivated the eighteenth orifice to the brim level.
Recalling the cultivation route in the Golden Cicada Free Art, Lu Ye urged his spiritual energy, starting from the tenth orifice, going through the eleventh orifice, the twelfth, and finally the eighteenth.
When he reached the First Order Spirit Stream Realm, he had done this before, so now he was quite familiar with it and didn't encounter any difficulties.
His spiritual energy smoothly passed through the nine Spirit Apertures and slowly flowed like a stream. With Lu Ye's practice, the spiritual energy in the nine Spirit Apertures continued to flow faster and faster, cycling back and forth.
When it reached its limit, Lu Ye felt his body shake, and a wave of energy swept out. The spiritual energy in the tenth to eighteenth orifice began to circulate on its own.
Second Order Spirit Stream Realm, success!
Having had such an experience before, Lu Ye wasn't too happy about it. Instead, he was indifferent to it.
Today, he was no longer the little Three Orifice cultivator who had wandered into the Spirit Stream Battlefield two months ago.
If reaching the First Order Spirit Stream Realm gave him the qualifications to survive in the outer ring of the battlefield, then reaching the Second Order Spirit Stream Realm gave him the qualifications to walk freely. Of course, there was still a gap between him and those cultivators with higher cultivation, but Lu Ye was already very satisfied.
Compared to him …
He had spent about forty days, but from the first to the second layer, he had used less than a month.
The main reason was that he had sufficient cultivation resources, but even so, this cultivation speed was still extremely terrifying.
One had to know that in the early stages of cultivation, a cultivator would need about ten days to open a new orifice. This was because their main method of cultivation was to absorb World Energy. If their cultivation wasn't high enough, the efficiency of absorbing World Energy wouldn't be high, so their cultivation speed naturally wouldn't be fast.
This situation would only improve slightly after reaching the Fourth Order Spirit Stream Realm.
In other words, in the early stages of cultivation, it was normal for an ordinary cultivator to break through one layer in three months, but for Lu Ye, he could break through one layer in a month on average. This was the joy of cultivation.
When he was in the First Order, Lu Ye's body only had a small cycle from the Source Spirit Aperture to the Ninth Orifice, but after reaching the Second Order, there was an additional cycle from the Tenth Orifice to the Eighteenth Orifice. Now, he had two Spirit Qi circulation systems in his body.
As a result, he could stimulate more Spirit Energy in a short period of time, and the destructive power of his Spirit Energy would naturally be stronger.
At the Third Order, there would be three Spirit Qi circulation systems, and so on. A Ninth Order Spirit Stream Realm cultivator would have nine Spirit Qi circulation systems in their body.
There were still thirty Spirit Accumulation Pills left. Although Lu Ye wanted to continue cultivating, he also knew that haste made waste.
He first ate something, then walked out of the cave and found a mountain spring to take a bath. After changing into a clean set of clothes, he took out the Golden Cicada Carefree Secret Art and studied it while the spring water gurgled.
Next, he wanted to advance to the Third Order Spirit Stream Realm. He needed to figure out the location of the Spirit Apertures after the Eighteenth Orifice so that it would be convenient for him to continue cultivating.
The mountains were quiet, and the occasional sound of birds chirping and insects flying could be heard. The mottled sunlight penetrated the screen of leaves and shone on the side of the young man's face, making this scene seem like a scene from a painting.
"What are you doing sneaking around?" Lu Ye shouted without raising his head.
On the trunk of a big tree to the side, a small head poked out. If someone who didn't know saw her appearance, they would definitely be frightened. ‘
Yi Yi looked at the reading material in Lu Ye's hand. After seeing that it was a low-level Secret Art, she curled her lips in disdain.
"What's the matter?" Lu Ye resisted the urge to punch her, tilting his head and asking.
"When are you leaving?" Yi Yi asked.
Although Lu Ye hadn't come out to hunt during this time, this was still her and Da Hu's territory. How could they allow others to sleep beside them? If it weren't for her fear of the Spirit Talisman in Lu Ye's hands, she would have already cooperated with Da Hu to drive Lu Ye away. However, having suffered a loss at Lu Ye's hands, Yi Yi didn't dare act rashly. What's more, Yi Yi could see that Lu Ye was much stronger than he was two months ago.
Lu Ye closed the book, stood up, and stretched, "I'm tired, I'm going back to sleep!"
"Hey, I asked you a question!" Yi Yi shouted angrily, but she didn't get a response. She could only grit her teeth and curse, "Scoundrel, smelly thing, you really piss me off. Wa ya ya ya!" She clawed at the tree next to her, splinters flying everywhere.
The spirit disappeared, and Lu Ye led his team of four to the purple amulet. He raised his hand and tried to grab it, but when he was about ten inches away from the purple amulet, his hand was blocked by an invisible barrier.
This was the treasure's barrier!
He turned his claw into a palm, pressed it against the barrier, and poured his spiritual energy into it.
When someone interfered, it was not easy to break the barrier, but when there was no interference, it was easy to break it. It only took twenty breaths of time. After being grounded for four hours, Lu Ye put away his sword and walked to a dark corner. He took out his water sack, washed it a little, put on his clothes, and returned to the cliff.
Da Hu had already fallen asleep, his snores shaking the sky. Yi Yi was still sitting there, probably waiting for him.
However, when she saw Lu Ye's expression, she felt a little strange, because Lu Ye seemed to have made a difficult decision at the moment. He had an expression that said, "Even if there are tens of thousands of people around me, I will still go forward." 3
She couldn't help but tilt her head …
Lu Ye sat down cross-legged with a knot in his stomach. After thinking for a while, he told Yi Yi, "If I faint later, don't worry too much."
"Huh?" Yi Yi was puzzled.
Lu Ye didn't explain too much. He closed his eyes and immersed his mind, once again "seeing" the Talent Tree entrenched in his Source Aperture.
On the huge crown of the tree, three leaves were burning, and the fourth one had already bloomed, but it didn't burn.
In the mine of the Evil Moon Valley, the first burning leaf appeared on his Talent Tree, carrying a kind of sharp spirit pattern. If it weren't for the sharp spirit pattern, he wouldn't have been able to kill the seriously injured Zhou Cheng so easily. He wouldn't have been able to pierce through the protective spiritual energy of the fair-skinned man, and he wouldn't have been able to severely injure the snake demon and finally win.
It could be said that this spirit pattern had brought great help to Lu Ye at several critical moments.
Now, two more leaves on the Talent Tree were burning. While he was nervous, he was also looking forward to what kind of spirit pattern he would get.
Slowly focusing his attention, Lu Ye looked at one of the burning leaves. Just like the last time, the small leaf quickly enlarged, and in the blink of an eye, it filled all his vision and thoughts.
At the same time, a large amount of information uncontrollably poured into his mind. Lu Ye once again had the feeling that someone had smashed his head with a hammer. Last time, he directly fainted.
This time, although he felt that the world was spinning and the pain was unbearable, he didn't faint.
Lu Ye would rather have fainted because the whole process gave him a feeling that death was better than living. It was as if someone had opened up his brain, forcibly stuffed something he didn't understand into it, and stirred it up.
He suddenly opened his eyes, a suppressed growl came from his throat, and his eyes were blood red.
Yiyi, who had been paying attention to him, was startled. Even the sleeping Big Tiger was awakened, roaring and looking around vigilantly, mistakenly thinking that they had been sneak attacked.
After a while, Lu Ye gradually calmed down. His vision was blood red, and his whole body was drenched in sweat. Yiyi and Big Tiger stood aside in panic, not knowing what to do.
In fact, Lu Ye's appearance at the moment was extremely ferocious. His eyes were blood red, and blue veins were bulging on his temples, as if he was enduring great torture. After a moment of heavy breathing, Lu Ye recovered a little and said to the nervous Big Tiger and Yiyi, "It's okay."
He closed his eyes again.
The pain was over, and it was time to receive the fruits of victory.
Yiyi and Big Tiger looked at each other in confusion, but this matter seemed to be related to Lu Ye's cultivation. If he didn't say anything, Yiyi couldn't ask and could only stand aside with Big Tiger.
At this time, Lu Ye was investigating the characteristics of the second spiritual inscription.
Defense!
This was the name of the second spiritual inscription. From the name alone, it should be a defensive spiritual inscription.
Lu Ye had some guesses before that the first spiritual inscription was on the offensive side, and perhaps the second one would be on the defensive side. Now it seemed that this was indeed the case.
He opened his eyes and prepared for a moment. Suddenly, a layer of spirit light visible to the naked eye flashed on his palm. The spirit light turned into the shape of a triangular shield, engraved with complicated patterns.
"This is … a spiritual inscription?" Yiyi, who had been silently paying attention to Lu Ye, was shocked. Although she had lost a lot of memories, she still remembered some common knowledge of the cultivation world and knew more than Lu Ye.
This spiritual inscription was a little unbelievable.
It should be known that low-level cultivators like Lu Ye generally focused on improving their own cultivation. They didn't even have time to study spells, let alone complex spiritual inscriptions. Of course, some spells could also be regarded as the manifestation of spiritual inscriptions.
It could even be said that the spiritual inscription that Lu Ye was activating now could be regarded as a defensive spell.
Spells and spiritual inscriptions were closely related. Many times, they were similar but not completely the same. It was difficult to explain in a few words.
But in any case, it was still unbelievable that a low-level cultivator could construct spiritual inscriptions.
Yiyi was more and more certain that Lu Ye was a disciple of a top sect, and his status in that sect was definitely not low. Maybe he was the illegitimate son of a sect master. Due to some unavoidable reasons, he could only come out alone to gain experience …
In just a few breaths of time, she had already conjured up a novel filled with love and hatred.
Lu Ye didn't care about Yiyi's gaze. At this moment, he was feeling the sturdiness of the Defense. Purely in terms of defensive power, the defensive power of the Defense completely surpassed his protective spiritual power. Comparing the two, the difference in defensive power was at least several times.
This meant that if he encountered any attacks in the future, he would have a better defensive method.
However, although the defensive power was outstanding, the consumption was not low. This palm-sized Defense Spiritual Inscription consumed the spiritual power of one of Lu Ye's spiritual cavities.
The consumption was even greater than the sharpness.
In other words, if Lu Ye activated this spiritual inscription twenty times in a row, his spiritual power would be exhausted.
Moreover, if the defensive range was expanded, the consumption would increase. Lu Ye was only activating a palm-sized Defense Spiritual Inscription, but it didn't mean that the Defense Spiritual Inscription was only this big. If he wanted, he could activate a bigger one.
In short, this was a pretty good spiritual inscription. Although he had something like the Golden Body Talisman, there would be a time when the talisman would be exhausted. However, this Defense Spiritual Inscription was his own ability.
In comparison, activating the Defense Spiritual Inscription was more troublesome. First, he had to take out the Spiritual Inscription from his storage bag and pour in spiritual power. In the midst of an intense battle, Lu Ye often didn't have the time to do these things.
If he had such a spiritual inscription before meeting Ri Jin, he could have withstood the opponent's attack and killed him in a head-on battle.
Although this spiritual inscription didn't increase Lu Ye's cultivation, it greatly increased his combat power.
There was still one more …
Lu Ye shuddered when he thought of the previous feeling. He didn't plan to investigate the other spiritual inscription, at least not for the next two days.
His mind was a mess now. If he investigated the spiritual inscription again, he might die.
Therefore, he had to rest for a few days.
Taking out a Yun Spirit Pill, Lu Ye prepared to investigate the question that had always puzzled him. Was it related to the Talent Tree that he didn't have any hidden dangers after taking pills?
Calmly sensing, he soon "saw" the Talent Tree hidden in the Source Spiritual Cavities.
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