A few hours later, the purple Spirit Ring dissipated. Lu Ye checked his Spirit Energy river and found that it had increased in size, but it was still far from reaching the Fourth-Order Realm.
After coming out of the Sealed World in the Realm of Beasts, he had used nearly 30,000 merit points to reach the Third-Order Realm. Moreover, he had accumulated a lot of Spirit Energy in the Third-Order Realm, but the higher a cultivator's cultivation, the more resources they needed.
Based on his own experience, in the Cloud River Realm, if Spirit Sticks represented resources, he should only need one Golden Spirit Stick to advance from the First-Order Realm to the Second Order, two Golden Spirit Sticks to advance from the Second Order to the Third-Order, three or four Golden Spirit Sticks to advance from the Third-Order to the Fourth-Order, and even more from the Fourth-Order to the Fifth-Order …
Therefore, even if he had accumulated a lot of Spirit Energy in the Third-Order Realm, a single Purple Spirit Stick was not enough to change his cultivation.
However, Lu Ye was already very satisfied with this.
It had been less than two months since he entered the Cloud River Battlefield, but he had already reached the Third-Order Cloud River Realm. This kind of cultivation speed might not be unprecedented, but it was still rare in a hundred years. What was there to be dissatisfied with?
Just as he was about to set off, a humming sound came from an inexplicable place. In an instant, the sky changed color.
Lu Ye instinctively raised his hand and pressed the hilt of his saber, vigilant of his surroundings.
Before he could find out what had happened, a dazzling light suddenly rose from a distant place in his field of vision. It was as bright as a new star.
However, what made people feel uneasy was that the dazzling light was blood-red.
The red light rose to an extremely high altitude, becoming brighter and brighter. At this moment, cultivators in a radius of hundreds of thousands of kilometres could see it clearly.
Staring at the ominous red light, Lu Ye frowned, thinking about all the information he had bought from the Heavenly Secret Commerce Union.
He did not know what was going on, but such a huge movement was obviously not man-made. The Cloud River Battlefield was full of Cloud River Realm cultivators, and Cloud River Realm cultivators did not have such great ability.
Since it was not man-made, it must be a manifestation of Heaven's Will.
Soon, Lu Ye recalled some information he had read before, and his face changed. He quickly turned around and activated the Flying Wing Spiritual Tattoo instead of the spiritual boat. A fiery red stream of light spread out behind him and turned into a pair of wings. He flapped his wings and soared into the sky. Not only that, he also enhanced himself with the Wind Spiritual Tattoo.
At this moment, Lu Ye raised his speed to the limit, completely ignoring the crazy consumption of his spiritual energy. He fled in panic, as if there was a great flood behind him.
"Lu Ye, what's wrong?"
Yiyi's voice came from within Hu Po's body. She didn't know why Lu Ye looked like he was being chased. She sensed her surroundings, but there was no trace of the enemy.
"I'll tell you later!" Lu Ye was busy running for his life. He didn't have the time to explain too much.
If it was really as he thought, then this place was definitely not a place to stay for long. Although staying here might bring him opportunities, it was even more dangerous!
He was just a Third-Order Cloud River Realm cultivator, so it was best not to get involved in this kind of thing.
Lu Ye fled as fast as he could while behind him, the dazzling red light remained suspended in mid-air for at least a stick of incense worth of time. During this period, there was no change. It wasn't until a stick of incense worth of time later that the red light suddenly exploded. Then, with the red light as its source, a red line visible to the naked eye radiated out in all directions.
Looking around, it was as if a meteor shower was falling from the sky as a series of blood-red streaks of light cut through the sky, radiating out in all directions.
After a stick of incense worth of time, with the help of his Flying Wings and Wind Spiritual Tattoo, Lu Ye had flown at least two or three hundred kilometres!
At that moment, Yiyi's exclamation rang out, "Be careful!"
The dazzling red light suddenly fell straight in front of Lu Ye's eyes and transformed into a red Spirit Energy light curtain.
Lu Ye's eyes narrowed. He had no time to slow down and could only cross his arms in front of him while leaning sideways.
With a bang, Lu Ye's body slammed into the red Spirit Energy light curtain. It was as if he had hit a wall, but the red light curtain remained motionless while Lu Ye was directly bounced back and slammed into the ground. For a moment, he felt dizzy and pain all over his body.
Standing up awkwardly, Lu Ye stared at the red light curtain in front of him with complicated feelings.
In the end, he had not been able to escape … and this red light curtain had actually appeared right in front of him. It was too much of a coincidence.
Moving his body around to make sure there were no broken bones, Lu Ye turned around and looked up. High up in the sky, he saw a red light curtain covering the dazzling sun.
If one looked down from high up in the sky, this red light curtain looked like an inverted bowl, completely enveloping an area of several hundred thousand kilometres, isolating it from the outside world. Lu Ye's current position was right at the edge of this inverted bowl.
Now that he was trapped here, there was no need to look for Giant Armor.
Yiyi flashed out and stared at the huge red light curtain in shock. The red light curtain was like flowing blood, giving off an ominous and murderous feeling.
"Lu Ye, what is this?"
"The Hunting Ground!"
As Lu Ye spoke, he handed the information jade slip that he had bought from the Heavenly Secret Commerce Alliance to Yiyi. The Hunting Ground was rather complicated and could not be explained in a short period of time, so it was better to let Yiyi investigate it herself.
Yiyi took it and immersed herself in reading the information about the Hunting Ground.
Lu Ye, on the other hand, was looking around.
If he had only been suspicious before, he was now certain that this was really the Hunting Ground.
However, he did not expect that he would encounter such a thing.
The Hunting Ground was a name and could be considered a sudden occurrence. It was a sudden occurrence that was unique to the Cloud River Battlefield. The appearance of the Hunting Ground was marked by the rising of a red star and the Blood Curtain covering the sky.
The Hunting Ground varied in size, and the pattern of its appearance was difficult to grasp. Sometimes, it would not appear once in a year or two, and sometimes, it would appear several times in a year.
The location of its appearance was completely random, but when the Hunting Ground appeared, it would be within the range of the Blood Curtain.
In other words, cultivators could enter the Hunting Ground from outside, but before the Hunting Ground disappeared, they would not be able to leave.
Looking at the range of the Blood Curtain this time, this was undoubtedly a large-scale Hunting Ground. After all, it covered an area of hundreds of thousands of miles.
Even for Cloud River Tier cultivators, this was not a small range. However, compared to the entire Cloud River Battlefield, the area of hundreds of thousands of miles was only a drop in the ocean.
Since it was called the Hunting Ground, there was naturally no lack of fighting and killing.
Normally, when unfamiliar Cloud River Tier cultivators met, it was very difficult to start a conflict because no one knew which faction the other belonged to.
However, in the Hunting Ground, as long as cultivators were within a certain range of each other, their factions would be exposed.
This was similar to the declaration of war by the sects on the Spirit Stream Battlefield.
On the Spirit Stream Battlefield, if a sect declared war on another sect, the cultivators of both sides would also reveal their factions when they met. This made it easier for unfamiliar cultivators to distinguish between friend and foe.
Since Lu Ye entered the Cloud River Battlefield, apart from killing a few Myriad Demons Ridge cultivators when he took back the Spiritual Land, he had not killed anyone else.
This was not because he was cultivating, but because he really did not have the opportunity. Even if he met other cultivators in the wilderness, it was difficult to start a conflict without knowing which faction the other party belonged to.
However, it was different in the Hunting Ground. As long as the distance between the two parties was close enough, their factions could be seen at a glance. This could easily lead to some fighting and killing, especially when the difference in cultivation between the two parties was too great.
This was also the reason why Lu Ye had wanted to escape when he sensed that something was wrong.
He was only a Third Order Cloud River Tier cultivator. Even if he had the ability to kill enemies above his realm, if he really encountered Eighth or Ninth Order Cloud River Tier cultivators, let alone being able to defeat them, he was afraid that he would not even be able to escape.
The sudden occurrence of the Hunting Ground was still too dangerous for him.
Unfortunately … he did not manage to escape. The range of the Hunting Ground just happened to cover him. He seriously suspected that he had been targeted. Otherwise, it would not have been so coincidental that he was just a few steps away.
There was no doubt that the appearance of the Hunting Ground was due to the operation of Heaven's Will. It could be said that this thing was created by Heaven's Will. When Lu Ye first came into contact with Heaven's Will, he felt that Heaven's Will was illusory. However, as his cultivation increased and his vision broadened, he slowly discovered that Heaven's Will was everywhere in the life of a cultivator.
Although there were many battles and killings in the Hunting Ground, there were also great benefits and opportunities.
Without mentioning anything else, the most common thing that appeared in the Hunting Ground was the Heavenly Spirit Lot, and there was a high chance that a Golden Spirit Lot would appear.
The Heavenly Spirit Lot did not always have a Golden Spirit Lot.
Just like when Lu Ye had just entered the Cloud River Battlefield, the clouds that appeared at that time only had four colors, so the highest quality Spirit Lot that appeared was only purple.
Only a five-colored cloud would bring a Golden Spirit Lot.
Correspondingly, if there were a three-colored cloud, the highest quality Spirit Lot would be a Blue Spirit Lot.
If there were two colors, then only a White Spirit Lot and a Green Spirit Lot would appear.
Not only that, but every time a Hunting Ground appeared, it would be accompanied by the birth of a Killing Ground List. Just like the Spirit Stream List, the top 100 cultivators would be rewarded by Heaven's Will. As for exactly what the reward was, Lu Ye had no idea. There was no record of it in the intelligence reports from the Heaven's Will Business Alliance.
In addition to that, Heaven's Will would choose one person from the Hunting Ground each day and bestow a Golden Spirit Lot.
That was not a good thing. To cultivators with low Cultivation bases, it was a nightmare.
That was because the Golden Spirit Lot bestowed by Heaven's Will was a special kind of Spirit Lot. It could not be used directly, nor could it be stored in a bag of holding. Only after twenty-four hours had elapsed would the special Golden Spirit Lot become a normal Golden Spirit Lot. Only then could it truly be used.
In other words, if the cultivator who had been bestowed a Golden Spirit Lot wanted to keep it, they would have to hold it for twenty-four hours.
If that was all there was to it, it wouldn't be too difficult. After all, if one could find a completely hidden place to hide for twenty-four hours, that would be enough. Ghost Cultivators were experts at such things.
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