The benefits were far more than just improving one's perception. Even if Lu Ye couldn't touch Spiritual Energy at the moment, it was something everyone had. It was related to all aspects of life, cultivation, and combat.
With the improvement of one's Spiritual Energy, many things had changed.
Lu Ye had noticed it when he was constructing the Great Funnel Spirit Tattoo in the Soul Cleansing Pond, and his control of Spirit Energy had improved.
Originally, because he had been practicing Spirit Tattoo, his control of Spirit Energy had surpassed cultivators of the same level. Now, there was a huge improvement on this foundation.
With a thought, Lu Ye pushed his Spirit Energy, and a fiery red light surged in his hand, turning into a ball of fire.
Lu Ye gently threw it out, and the ball of fire immediately flew up, constantly moving in the air. Lu Ye's thoughts moved again, and the ball of fire immediately turned into a beautiful Fire Bird, dragging a long tail and dancing in the air, leaving a trail of light in the air.
The Fire Phoenix Technique finally became normal!
Lu Ye couldn't help but sigh. Ever since he had learned this technique, it had been a bit abnormal. The Fire Phoenix Technique had turned into a Fire Quail. Even if his cultivation continued to increase, there was no improvement. This led to him not using this technique before reaching the Seventh Order Spirit Stream Realm unless absolutely necessary, so as to avoid being laughed at by others.
After reaching the Seventh Order, he learned the Fire Dragon Technique.
The Fire Phoenix began to twist and change again, turning into a Fire Dragon.
This was no longer a simple Spirit Technique. Even those Spirit Stream Eighth or Ninth Order cultivators wouldn't be able to achieve such a feat.
This was a higher level of fire control.
The Spirit Energy slowly dissipated, and the Fire Dragon disappeared.
Lu Ye suddenly remembered that he had always been dissatisfied with the power of his Imperial Artifact. The main reason was that he couldn't construct Spirit Tattoos on his Imperial Artifact to increase its lethality and speed.
So, he had always wanted to add Spirit Tattoos to his Imperial Artifact when he was using it, but it was too difficult. He had tried several times before, but all of them ended in failure.
Although he still had control over the Spirit Energy that left his body, the strength of his control had greatly decreased. It didn't affect his Imperial Artifact too much, but it was a bit of a fantasy to construct Spirit Tattoos at the same time.
He thought that he would have to wait until his cultivation was higher to realize this idea.
Now, it seemed that he could try it in advance.
With that thought in mind, Lu Ye took out the hiltless short knife from his storage bag and threw it out. The Imperial Equipment immediately turned into a stream of light and flew away.
With a thought, the hiltless short saber flashed with brilliance. With the support of Wind Travel, the already extremely fast flowing light suddenly increased in speed, reaching an unimaginable speed.
Imperial Equipment was originally known for its speed, and with the support of Wind Travel, this kind of speed was simply not something an ordinary Eighth or Ninth Order Spirit Stream cultivator could react to. Even those cultivators who had switched to Heaven Grade Secret Arts wouldn't be able to block this attack if they weren't careful.
The hiltless short saber flashed once again, [Increase of Sharpness]!
After a short while, Lu Ye took back his Imperial Equipment, feeling quite satisfied.
A Imperial Equipment that could be augmented with Spirit Inscriptions had its lethality greatly increased. However, there was only one drawback, and that was that the time it could be maintained was shortened.
The Spirit Qi consumed by an Imperial Equipment was stored in the Spirit Artifact in advance. Whether it was Wind Travel or Sharpness, they all consumed Spirit Qi. This caused the amount of Spirit Qi stored in the Imperial Equipment to decrease significantly after Lu Ye constructed the Spirit Inscriptions, so the time it could be maintained was naturally shortened.
This wasn't a big problem. Killing an enemy often only took an instant. Lu Ye didn't need to fight with an Imperial Equipment for a long time. If he really encountered such a situation, Lu Ye would naturally take out the Mountain Coiling Saber and fight back.
Now, he could refine two more Spirit Artifacts.
In the past, Lu Ye's Imperial Equipment limit was more than two, but he felt that too many would distract his mind, so he didn't refine more.
But now that his Soul had become stronger, his mind would naturally become stronger as well. Refining two more Spirit Artifacts wouldn't weaken his combat strength.
If one day he could reach the level of Fourth Senior Brother Li Ba Xian, who could create a hundred swords with a single thought, he would be able to walk sideways on the Spirit Stream Battlefield.
However, this kind of thing depended on talent. It wasn't just a matter of having a strong Soul and mind.
After so many years on the Spirit Stream Battlefield, only Li Ba Xian had appeared.
He had many Spirit Artifacts on hand that could be used, and there was no lack of Ninth Restriction Spirit Artifacts. They were all obtained from killing enemies. Lu Ye found two suitable Spirit Artifacts and swallowed a Spirit Pill to recover his Spirit Qi while slowly refining the restrictions on them.
Giant Armor was still meditating, Hu Po was still sleeping, and Yi Yi didn't move. Only Lu Ye was left in the small courtyard.
He didn't feel bored. Every day, he cultivated and read as usual.
Now, his reading efficiency was much higher than before, and his understanding of the knowledge in the books was much more thorough. This was all a benefit brought about by the strength of his Soul.
Time flew by, and several days later.
Lu Ye, who was cultivating and studying the books, suddenly felt a faint repulsive force coming from his surroundings. He hurriedly closed the thick book in his hands and stood up.
Giant Armor stood up as well.
The two of them walked out side by side. Just as they reached the entrance of the courtyard, Ji Yan greeted them. "Brother Yi Ye, Immortal Essence City is about to close."
"I feel it."
They continued to move forward and soon met up with Gu Canyang and the others. The reason why they had to meet up was that if they didn't gather together, they might be separated when they were expelled from Immortal Essence City. If they gathered together like this, they would still be together when they left Immortal Essence City, which could avoid some unnecessary trouble.
Everyone waited silently. The repulsive force around them became stronger and stronger until it reached a certain limit. The scenery in front of everyone began to blur and then distort.
When everything stabilized, everyone appeared in the wilderness.
At the same time, in Immortal Essence City, the City Lord was sitting in the City Lord's Mansion. The Immortal Essence Guard commander stepped forward and reported, "City Lord, everyone has left."
The City Lord raised his hand slightly and waved gently. "Lift the restrictions."
"Yes!"
As the orders were passed down, the restrictions in the entire Immortal Essence City were lifted one by one. The city shook, and the entire Immortal Essence City underwent a great change.
When Lu Ye and the others were here, the city showed signs of being extremely dilapidated, but that was only the appearance of Immortal Essence City.
As the restrictions were lifted, ripples spread out, and the real Immortal Essence City slowly appeared.
Rows of dilapidated houses disappeared and were replaced by solid lines of defense. The lines of defense were filled with arrays and large-scale offensive and defensive spiritual treasures. Each of these things was priceless in the Nine Provinces, but they could be seen everywhere in Immortal Essence City.
The soul fog in the Soul-Cleansing Pool rolled, and from the soul fog, powerful spiritual bodies walked out one after another. Basically, half of them were dressed as Immortal Essence Guards, and the other half were the original residents of Immortal Essence City.
They were different from the spiritual bodies that Lu Ye and the others had encountered before. The weakest of these spiritual bodies was at the Cloud River Tier, and there were countless True Lake and Divine Ocean Tier cultivators. No sect in the Nine Provinces could compare to such a force, even those first-grade sects with a long history.
They walked out of the Soul-Cleansing Pool, and their expressions were solemn. They were full of fighting spirit because they knew that another war was about to break out! And this war had been going on for who knew how many years.
If Lu Ye stood here, he would definitely find some familiar Immortal Essence Guards. They were the Immortal Essence Guards that he had killed before.
No one knew that the Immortal Essence Guards would not really die. Even if their spiritual bodies were destroyed, as long as the Soul-Cleansing Pool was still there, they could walk out of the Soul-Cleansing Pool again. This was because all the spiritual bodies' soul seals were in the Soul-Cleansing Pool. As long as the soul seals were not broken, the spiritual bodies would never perish.
Therefore, the Soul-Cleansing Pool was the foundation of Immortal Essence City. Not only Immortal Essence City, but many Boundless Mirage Realms were also like this.
In the gambling house, a trace of clarity flashed through Liu Sanbao's eyes. He strode out, and his fat body soared into the air, flying straight toward the City Lord's Mansion.
In the brothel, the pipa woman hugged her pipa and walked down the street with a gloomy expression.
In the academy, the scholar threw down a half-written essay, shook his head, and sighed. "Heaven and earth are heartless. They treat all things as straw dogs!"
In the butcher's shop, the butcher sharpened his knife.
At the corner of the street, the blind fortune-teller threw a copper coin and did a little divination. He sighed. "A bloody disaster."
These five Bi Spirits that had been taken under Lu Ye's command were not just at the Spirit Stream Realm. Each and every one of them was clearly at the Divine Ocean Realm.
The strength that they had shown before was only on the surface, or it could be said that it was the result of being suppressed by the restriction.
In the entire Immortal Essence City, the only two people who were not suppressed by the restriction were the City Lord and the woman in the red dress.
This was also the reason why the City Lord told Lu Ye that the spiritual bodies of the Immortal Essence City could not leave the city. Not to mention whether Lu Ye could take them away, even if he could, with Hu Po's current strength, it would be difficult for him to bear such powerful Bi Spirits. The only result was that he would explode and die after leaving the Immortal Essence City.
In just a short period of time, the dilapidated and desolate Immortal Essence City changed its appearance. At this moment, the Immortal Essence City was filled with spiritual bodies. The entire city was shrouded in an austere atmosphere. A war was about to break out.
The spiritual bodies greedily sensed the surroundings. It had been a long time since they felt the smell of living people, which was left behind by the active cultivators in the Immortal Essence City. This smell could not be felt by ordinary people, even by Yiyi, who was also a spiritual body. However, for the spiritual bodies who had abandoned their physical bodies and fought here for countless years, this smell was too clear.
It was the smell of these living people that allowed them to maintain their intelligence for so many years. If not for this, after so many years of war, these spirits who had "died" countless times would not have been able to withstand the endless torment and would have turned into mindless existences that only knew how to kill. This had nothing to do with the strength of the spirit.
It was also for this reason that the Infinite Mirage would occasionally appear in the Spirit Stream Battlefield and various places in Nine Regions. Whether it was the Immortal Essence City or other Infinite Mirage, they all needed living people to dilute the omnipresent lethargy.
In the City Lord's Mansion, the City Lord sat with his eyes closed. On his left and right, stood the commander of the Immortal Essence Guards and the woman in the red dress with the white cat in her arms.
The former commanded all the Immortal Essence Guards in the Immortal Essence City, while the latter commanded the other spiritual bodies except for the Immortal Essence Guards.
The City Lord suddenly opened his eyes, and his sharp gaze pierced through the void. He looked above the city and shouted softly, "Open the array!"
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