From the moment a cultivator stepped onto the path of cultivation, it was inevitable that they would have to deal with the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance.
Take Lu Ye for example. Not long after he entered the Spirit Stream Battlefield, he began to buy and sell things in the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance. Although he could also trade with other cultivators, it was not as convenient and practical as doing business in the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance.
If he couldn't do business with the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance, many things would become complicated.
The lower the cultivation of a cultivator, the more dependent they would be on the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance. The business alliance's decision brought a lot of trouble to the two sects from the Myriad Devil Ridge.
It had been many years since anyone had caused trouble in the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance. To the current generation of cultivators, the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance was just a place to buy and sell things. Only now did the cultivators realize that to a certain extent, the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance was a colossus that was not inferior to the Grand Heaven Alliance or the Myriad Devil Ridge.
Normally, this colossus would maintain a neutral stance and not interfere with the competition between the two factions. However, if its rules were broken in its territory, it would also bare its fangs.
Moreover, compared to the Grand Heaven Alliance and the Myriad Devil Ridge, this colossus had its own unique advantages …
All kinds of rumors floated into the cultivators' minds. Everyone realized that the interesting rumors they heard in the past were not just rumors. They were all things that had happened in the past.
For example, this time …
Perhaps in a few decades, the next generation of cultivators would only think of today's incident as a rumor. However, the cultivators who had witnessed it with their own eyes knew that it was not just a rumor.
Lu Ye was surprised by the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance's decisiveness and viciousness in dealing with this matter. He had only wanted to stall for time and wait for the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance's experts to appear so that he could be safe.
However, on second thought, perhaps the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance felt that this was a good opportunity to establish their power. Since they wanted to establish their power, the more ruthless they acted, the more effective the results would be.
He believed that after today, no one would dare to cause trouble in the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance for a long time to come.
As for revenge … as long as the cultivators from the two Myriad Devil Ridge sects were sane, they would not think of taking revenge on the Heavenly Secret Business Alliance.
After a short while, the attendants of the Tianji Business Alliance arrived and dragged the three corpses away. They quickly cleaned up the bloodstains on the ground and cleaned up the Tianji Palace as if nothing had happened.
Only the smell of blood lingering at the tip of everyone's nose reminded them that everything just now was not an illusion.
The middle-aged cultivator said, "It's just a small matter. I hope I didn't disturb you."
He was an elite at the peak stage of the True Lake Tier. Regardless of whether it was his cultivation level or his age, he was not wrong to call a group of Cloud River Tier cultivators' little friends'.
He strode away, glancing over at Lu Ye before he left, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
After a moment of silence, the Heavenly Secret Hall became lively again.
Lu Ye suddenly recalled the time when Dong Shuye had chased after him in the Spirit Stream Battlefield. Back then, there had been a significant gap between his cultivation base and Dong Shuye's, and he'd had no choice but to flee to the Heavenly Secret Commerce Alliance. At the time, the Heavenly Secret Commerce Alliance had sent an elderly man to intervene.
The cultivation he displayed was only at the Ninth Order Spirit Stream Realm, but in the periphery of the Spirit Stream Battlefield, a Ninth Order cultivator was undoubtedly a very powerful existence.
But now that he thought about it, was that old man really only at the Ninth Order? Who knew if that old man was a Cloud River Tier or even a True Lake Tier cultivator in disguise …
He secretly warned himself that he would have to be more careful when dealing with people from the Heavenly Secret Commerce Alliance in the future. These people were protected by Heavenly Secret, and under certain circumstances, the strength they displayed might just be a facade.
Throwing away the distracting thoughts in his mind, Lu Ye raised his hand and pressed it on the Heavenly Secret Pillar. He immersed his mind and connected to the Heavenly Secret Treasury.
His luck was not bad. The Earth Core Fire that had been sold out before actually appeared in a dozen this time.
One Earth Core Fire cost 200 merit points. In the early days, this price was not cheap for Lu Ye. After all, merit points were hard to come by. But now, the price was simply too good. If not for the fact that there was no stock in the Heavenly Secret Treasury, Lu Ye would have bought as many as there were.
The Talent Tree's demand for rare flames like the Earth Core Fire was too great. Lu Ye sometimes wondered what it would be like if he ignited all the leaves on the Talent Tree.
But in the end, this was only a thought. So far, although he had ignited many leaves, compared to the entire Talent Tree, it was not even half.
But one day, he believed that he would be able to ignite the entire Talent Tree.
After buying the Earth Core Fire, Lu Ye looked for other things that were suitable for the Talent Tree to devour and were not too expensive. For example, pill flames and the like.
In the end, he spent more than 10,000 merit points.
The spirit lot auction was about to begin.
Just like last time, Lu Ye received an item from the Heavenly Secret Merchant Union to participate in the spirit lot auction. It was an item that looked like a jade finger. As long as one was in the Heavenly Secret Merchant Union, their mind could enter a special space and participate in the spirit lot auction.
After half a cup of tea's time, the cultivators participating in the spirit lot auction in various locations of the Heavenly Secret Merchant Union opened their eyes one after another with ugly expressions.
This was not the first time many people participated in the spirit lot auction, so they had a rough estimate of the price of the various colors of the spirit lot. Generally, the price fluctuated around 10%, which was not worth it. After all, everyone's merit points did not come from the wind. They were earned through life and death battles with their enemies. It could be said that every merit point was a struggle of blood and sweat.
Except for people like Lu Ye who spent merit points like water, every cultivator was very careful with their merit points.
But this time's spirit lot auction was not going in the right direction from the beginning …
No one knew which bastard had directly raised the price to a level that made it difficult for everyone to participate.
As a result, the shortest spirit lot auction in history was born. From the beginning to the end, it took less than half a cup of tea's time …
At this moment, Lu Ye had returned the jade finger-like item and returned to his room.
With Lu Ye's current status, competing with a group of Cloud River cultivators for spirit lots was no challenge at all. All the spirit lots, from white to purple, were obtained by him alone.
Unfortunately, there were not many spirit lots this time. There was only one purple spirit lot, two blue spirit lots, four green spirit lots, and nine white spirit lots.
It was better than nothing.
He had broken through to the Fifth-Order in Fox Immortal Valley. Since then, he had been busy fighting a battle of wits and courage with the cultivators of Myriad Demon Ridge. Although he had cultivated during this period, overall, his cultivation had not improved by much.
The spirit lots he had now were not enough for him to break through to the Sixth-Order, but they could save him some time.
As early as when Lu Ye had just entered the Cloud River Battlefield, he had learned that the Cloud River Realm was the fastest realm for cultivators to improve their cultivation.
It turned out that this was indeed the case. As long as a cultivator had enough spirit lots, it would not take long to cross the entire Cloud River Realm.
Thinking back to when he was in the Spirit Stream Battlefield, each small realm breakthrough took one or two months at the fastest and two or three months at the slowest. Especially from the Eighth-Order to the Ninth-Order, it took him a full four months. Although it was delayed by various unexpected events, even if there were no delays, the cultivation speed would not be too fast. After all, the Spirit Apertures had to be opened one after another.
But it had only been half a year since he set foot on the Cloud River Battlefield, and he had already reached the Fifth-Order Cloud River Realm.
Ghost Shadow's cultivation speed was fast enough. He had come to the Cloud River Battlefield a few months earlier than Lu Ye, but he was only in the Third-Order.
In comparison, Lu Ye's cultivation speed could be said to be terrifying.
Of course, he had experienced many hardships during this period. It could only be said that the greater the effort, the greater the reward.
Returning to the guest room, Hu Po was sleeping soundly while Yi Yi was cultivating. Lu Ye did not disturb her.
Walking to the side and sitting down, Lu Ye took out the Earth Core Fire and Alchemy Fire he had bought this time and urged the Talent Tree to devour them. At the same time, he paid close attention to the reaction of the Talent Tree.
After such a long time, Lu Ye had more or less concluded some patterns.
In the process of devouring the strange flames, if only one leaf on the Talent Tree lit up, there was basically no need to have too much hope. The things on the leaf were most likely some techniques to construct Spirit Runes. Of course, there were exceptions.
For example, Spirit Runes like Sharpness and Defence were all carried by individual leaves.
If many leaves lit up at the same time, it would definitely be an incredible Spirit Rune.
For example, the Fire Phoenix, Flight Wings, Sky Restriction, and even the Charm Divine Rune were all carried by more than one leaf. Because the construction of these Spirit Runes was extremely complicated, a single leaf would not be able to carry them. More leaves would need to be combined.
Moreover, some Spirit Runes could only be activated by devouring special flames.
Back then, when he urged the Talent Tree to devour the Phoenix True Fire, there was an additional Fire Phoenix Spirit Rune on the Talent Tree.
After killing the Fox Demon and devouring its Alchemy Fire, the Charm Divine Rune was activated.
However, even if most of the leaves on the Talent Tree did not carry complete Spirit Runes, the many techniques to construct Spirit Runes were still of great help to Lu Ye.
Now, his attainments in the Dao of Spirit Runes were far superior to cultivators of the same level. For him to be valued and taught by Madam Yun, these techniques from the Talent Tree were indispensable.
It could even be said that when he was setting up arrays, he would use such techniques every time.
The Earth Core Fire and Alchemy Fire that he had bought with more than 10,000 merit points were quickly devoured. A few leaves on the Talent Tree burned fiercely. Lu Ye checked them one by one and found that he did not obtain any new Spirit Runes.
He was not too disappointed. After all, the number of Spirit Runes he had grasped now was enough for him to deal with most situations.
The only thing that made him a little uneasy was the Void Spirit Rune.
He was sure that there was a Void Spirit Rune on the Talent Tree, but he did not know where it was and could not activate it.
The more he came into contact with the Void Spirit Rune, the more he felt that this Spirit Rune had many wonderful uses. It was a pity that the Talent Tree had not been activated, so he could not put many ideas into practice.
Just based on his efficiency and speed in constructing Void Spirit Runes, he could not verify those wonderful ideas. (To be continued)
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