Name: Lu Yiye
Identity: Disciple of the Jade Blood Sect
Cultivation: 335 apertures.
Location: Spirit Stream Battlefield
Merit points: 9,352 points.
It had been a long time since Lu Ye had used the battlefield imprint to check his complete information. Currently, he was seriously injured and was recuperating in the wooden house. Besides cultivating and reading, there was nothing else he could do.
Looking at the column of names, Lu Ye frowned, a sense of sadness rising in his heart.
His name was clearly Lu Ye, but he didn't know when the heavens had decided that his name was Lu Yiye.
This was the case on the Spirit Stream List, and now even the information in the battlefield imprint was the same!
It had been more than two months since he had ascended to Heaven Eight, but he had only opened 335 apertures. His speed wasn't that fast, especially with the howling of the magnetic field and the restriction of spiritual power. He couldn't even use the Gluttony Meal, so his cultivation efficiency had decreased by a lot.
He was only 25 apertures away from Heaven Nine, and he wasn't far away!
He didn't have too many merit points, and they were all obtained from killing enemies recently. This was the result of him not selling a large amount of spoils to the Heavens Secret Treasury. If he had sold all of them to the Heavens Secret Treasury, his merit points would have definitely increased by several times.
The Spirit Stream Battlefield was like this. It was difficult for cultivators who weren't strong enough to earn merit points, but for people like Lu Ye, it was simply too easy.
Especially since he was the enemy of the entire Myriad Devil Ridge camp. He just had to casually run around and there would be a large group of people who wanted to kill him. If they couldn't kill him, they would be killed instead …
Every day, under Hua Ci's care, his injuries were quickly recovering. However, the condition of his right arm wasn't optimistic, and it was still swollen.
Thinking back to his battle with Lan Ziyi, Lu Ye was incomparably glad that he had learned some special techniques from his Third Senior Brother Xiao Xinghe's saber technique.
With that saber technique, his Flash Saber Technique had been perfected.
Moreover, he had also learned Combo Slash from it!
Whether it was Flash or Combo Slash, they were both saber arts and skills. If they were used individually, the burden on Lu Ye was not too great. However, if they were used together, the result would be like this. It had been six or seven days, but his right arm had not recovered. This was under Hua Ci's care. If not for Hua Ci's care, Lu Ye estimated that his right arm would have been crippled.
It was undeniable that the combination of One Flash and Consecutive Slashes was a little too powerful. Lan Ziyi's Spirit Robe's defense was very strong. Even One Flash couldn't break it easily. In the end, Lu Ye had to slash three times to break it open.
Although it was strong, the aftereffects were huge. The reason for such a huge aftereffect was that the last three slashes had taken too much of a toll on Lu Ye's body. The second reason was that Lu Ye wasn't proficient enough in using it.
If there were enough of them, the aftereffects wouldn't be so terrible.
Over the past few days, Lu Ye had been meditating for two hours every day in addition to taking pills to cultivate. He breathed in and out with the Pan Mountain Saber to deepen the connection between him and the saber. Other than that, he would read the books he had brought from Madam Yun's place or comprehend his Third Senior Brother's saber techniques.
Time passed by quickly.
Inside the wooden hut, Lu Ye and Hu Po were on guard. Hua Ci had run off somewhere to cultivate.
Now that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth had been sealed off, it had a huge impact on the cultivation of all the cultivators. Only Lu Ye and Hua Ci were not affected much. The former mainly relied on consuming spirit pills to cultivate, while the latter devoured the poisonous fog in the Myriad Poisons Forest.
Another month had passed since the baptism bestowed by the heavens. The second baptism was about to arrive.
With his previous experience, Lu Ye was looking forward to this kind of reward.
Not long after, the heavens descended and his vision began to change.
By the time Lu Ye came back to his senses, he was already in the Heavenly Fate Pool. His surroundings were filled with dense spiritual mist.
Time was limited, so he hastily set up a Spirit Gathering Formation in the Heavenly Fate Pool. He also constructed small Spirit Gathering Funnels in his spiritual cavities.
Yiyi flashed out of Hu Po's body. The two humans and one tiger each found a suitable location and devoured the spiritual mist to their heart's content. They could feel the spiritual mist transforming and improving their bodies.
Lu Ye felt it especially clearly because his injuries hadn't healed yet.
After receiving the baptism bestowed by the heavens last time, he discovered that the spiritual mist here had the effect of healing the internal injuries that had accumulated in his body.
This time, it was even more obvious. His injuries that hadn't completely healed quickly healed. His swollen right arm also began to shrink, slowly returning to its original state.
The cool and refreshing feeling made him feel incomparably comfortable.
The only thing that made Lu Ye feel regretful was that even though he was the Spirit Stream Champion, he could only stay in the Heavenly Fate Pool for an hour!
The time was too short. If he stayed long enough, he might be able to obtain even more benefits.
However, after thinking about it, the spiritual mist here had limited effects on cultivators. Most cultivators came in three or four times before it lost its effect. He was only at the Heaven Eighth Stage, so he still had a chance to come in.
Another thing was that when Lu Ye tried to collect some spiritual mist here last time, he seemed to have touched the heavens' mysteries. This made him faintly suspect that the omnipresent heavens' mysteries seemed to have its own intelligence.
This made Lu Ye rather curious. He didn't know how to test it to confirm this.
Lu Ye had a faint feeling that if he could communicate with the heavens' mysteries, he might be able to figure out the truth of the cultivation world!
Why were there two opposing factions in the cultivation world, the Grand Heaven Alliance and the Myriad Devil Ridge? Why did cultivators from different factions kill each other to gain merits? What was the situation with the Heavenly Fate Treasury? What was the relationship between the Heavenly Fate Merchant Alliance and the heavens' mysteries?
He believed that many cultivators wanted answers to these questions.
An hour quickly passed. When the heavens' mysteries sent Lu Ye back to the wooden house, his injuries had completely healed. Even his right arm had completely returned to normal.
The second baptism bestowed by the heavens' mysteries made Lu Ye's qi, blood, and mind even more robust. He could feel that if he used the Flash Blade Technique again, he should be able to make the fourth slash. It wouldn't be like last time, where he could only make three slashes.
This was undoubtedly a very obvious increase in strength.
However, at the Spirit Stream Realm, there was only one person who was qualified to make him use this kind of blade technique that could kill a thousand enemies and injure eight hundred of his own men.
Although the cultivation world of the Nine States was full of talents, there was no such monstrous figure in this world.
Two days later, the magnetic field dissipated, and the spiritual Qi of heaven and earth resumed its flow.
Lu Ye let out a long breath.
As a cultivator, the feeling of having one's spiritual power confined in one's body and unable to use it was simply terrible. During the period of the magnetic field's howling, almost every cultivator would feel an indescribable sense of danger. This was because in that state, not only would one's spiritual power be confined, but even one's perception would be greatly enhanced. It was as if one had suddenly become blind and deaf. No one knew when the danger would come.
Lu Ye immediately rearranged the array inside and outside the wooden house.
He had been worried about one thing before, and that was that the Talent Tree's fuel would run out.
During this period of time, without the isolation of the array, he had been living in the poisonous fog. Hu Po had also been by Hua Ci's side. Even Yiyi was trapped in Hu Po's body, unable to move freely.
If the Talent Tree's fuel really ran out, then he would have to rely on Hua Ci to survive here.
Fortunately, the crisis had passed.
Lu Ye didn't set up another teleportation array because he felt that there was no need for it.
He secretly made up his mind that if he didn't ascend to the Ninth Heaven this time, he would never leave the Myriad Poison Forest. Even if the world outside fell apart, he wouldn't leave!
The Three Sacred Academies had already been broken through, and the Myriad Devil Ridge would no longer be able to force him to show himself.
With the world's spiritual qi, his spiritual power was no longer confined, and his cultivation efficiency had greatly increased.
However, because Lu Ye spent a lot of time cultivating his blade technique every day, the speed of his enlightenment had always been stable.
He had already thoroughly comprehended his third senior brother's blade technique, and all that was left was practice and comprehension. This required time to settle down, and could not be rushed.
On the Spirit Stream List, many familiar names had disappeared, and some unfamiliar names had appeared. It was a perfect example of the saying that each generation had its own talent, and that the new generation would surpass the old.
Lan Ziyi had reached the second position on the Spirit Stream List, but she didn't challenge Lu Ye again.
Her strength was indeed strong enough, and she was qualified to compete with Lu Ye for first place, but her greatest reliance was that layer of spirit clothes. Since Lu Ye had the means to break through her spirit clothes, she had lost the qualifications to compete with Lu Ye.
As long as Lu Ye was still on the Spirit Stream List, she could only settle for second place!
Occasionally, he would chat with his second senior sister, Shui Yuan, and pass his days leisurely.
Time passed, and more than a month went by.
When Lu Ye brought Hu Po and Yiyi for the third baptism, he discovered a problem.
The spiritual mist in the Heaven's Mystery Pond didn't help him or Yiyi Hu as much as the previous two baptisms.
During the first and second baptisms, Lu Ye felt that his qi, blood, and mind had increased by at least ten percent.
This third baptism was less than half of the previous two.
He didn't know how much of an increase he would get next time.
It seemed that the rumors about cultivators being baptized three or four times by the Heaven's Mystery Pond were true.
Returning to the wooden house, Lu Ye felt refreshed.
He checked his spiritual apertures, and found that he had 359 apertures!
He only needed one more aperture to reach the ninth heaven!
When he had first started cultivating, the Head Teacher had told him that the difficulty of opening apertures would increase as a cultivator reached the end. Therefore, many cultivators in the Spirit Stream Stage were unable to open 360 apertures. Everyone's aptitude and talent were different, and many people had different limits on the number of apertures they could open.
However, as long as one switched to a Heaven grade cultivation technique and opened 240 apertures, they would have the qualifications to reach the Cloud River Stage.
Ever since Lu Ye had opened his apertures, he had never experienced the increasing difficulty that the Head Teacher had told him about. He felt that every time he opened his apertures, the difficulty was about the same.
This was related to the purity of his spiritual power. No matter how pure other cultivators' spiritual power was, as long as they had taken spirit pills, they would have accumulated pill toxins. The higher their cultivation base, the more severe the pill toxins would be. Although there were methods to remove the pill toxins, it was the same as when a cultivator was injured. On the surface, it seemed that the injury had completely healed, but in reality, there were still hidden injuries that couldn't be detected.
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