After helping Yue Ji sell tofu for three days, Lu Ye returned to the Sacred Mountain.

He opened the door of his room and saw many Blood Crystals of different sizes and qualities. Feng Wujiang had asked someone to send these items to him.

Blood Crystals came from Blood Race members. This time, they didn’t collect many Blood Crystals because most invaders were killed outside the defence line. Since the corpses had dropped into the Divine Palace Sea, Humans couldn’t collect many Blood Crystals.

These Blood Crystals were collected in the previous wars, so they had a lot of them.

Lu Ye smiled and sat down cross-legged in his room.

After he activated the Tree of Glyphs’ power, invisible roots extended into the Blood Crystals and madly absorbed their energy, which turned into his heritage.

When a Real Lake Realm Master cultivated his power, he was refining his Spiritual Power. Every ascension to the next Minor Realm meant One Turn of the Spiritual Power. In other words, the Ninth-Order Real Lake Realm meant Nine Turns of the Spiritual Power.

Theoretically, when a cultivator ascended to the next Minor Realm in the Real Lake Realm, the quality and capacity of his Spiritual Power would double. Naturally, the difference wasn’t so huge in reality.

But it was undeniable that every ascension to the next Minor Realm in the Real Lake Realm would mean a huge increase in the cultivator’s power.

That was why as a cultivator progressed, it became increasingly difficult for him to kill much stronger opponents. Those geniuses who could do so in the Spirit Creek Realm and Cloud River Realm might not be able to achieve that when they were in the Real Lake Realm.

Lu Ye could be considered an exception.

He already developed a Divine Ego when he was a First-Order Real Lake Realm Master. With the help of his Divine Ego, he could kill much stronger enemies. When he was a Third-Order Real Lake Realm Master, he killed Tan Shu, who was several Minor Realms above him, in Dark Moon Forest Pass. This caused a commotion, and the name of Li Taibai became well known in the entire Pass overnight. The Deputy Pass Leader, Lin Yue, even regarded him as someone who could rival Lu Ye of the Crimson Blood Sect.

Unfortunately, despite being a rising Star, he was badly injured by a much stronger opponent, which ended his future. Lin Yue felt it was such a shame.

Naturally, even without a Divine Ego, Lu Ye could still kill stronger opponents because his Spiritual Power was pure.

When he was a budding cultivator, he already had the Tree of Glyphs, which ensured that his Spiritual Power had no impurities. This was an advantage other cultivators didn’t have.

Cultivators had to consume Spirit Pills to increase their powers. Even if they had a way to get rid of Pill Poison, it wasn’t comparable to the Tree of Glyphs’ merciless burning.

Their Spiritual Powers weren’t as pure as that of Lu Ye in the first place. As the Turns in Spiritual Power increased, the gap between them widened.

If both parties had similar cultivations, Lu Ye could always showcase a far greater power.

Now, he was a Ninth-Order Real Lake Realm Master, so his Spiritual Power was already at its purest. He could only increase the reserve of his Spiritual Power and improve his physical strength.

According to Feng Wujiang, he had to increase his physical strength until his Divine Soul could no longer control it. Only then would his subconscious mind seek transformation. That would be his chance of ascending to the Divine Ocean Realm.

It wouldn’t take him much effort to cultivate his power with the Tree of Glyphs’ help. He just had to sustain it with some effort. Naturally, the process would consume Mental Power.

This was good news to him because Feng Wujiang had said that he also had to refine his Divine Soul while increasing his physical strength. Only by doing these two things simultaneously would he achieve the best results.

Naturally, Lu Ye would heed his advice. He used some energy to activate his Divine Ego and build the Soul Control Glyph. This was his advantage.

At this stage, other cultivators had to rely on different visualisation methods to exhaust their Mental Powers. Not only was it troublesome, but it also wasn’t efficient.

Now, he didn’t need to visualise things. He just had to keep weaving Divine Glyphs to exhaust his Divine Ego.

Certainly, he was only building the Glyph in the air. He didn’t have a target, nor did he hope to control anyone.

But soon, he found a problem. If he kept doing this, his Mental Power would grow stronger. In that case, his Divine Ego would become more powerful and could easily control his physical strength. Even if he also increased his physical strength at the same time, it might not be great enough for his subconscious mind to seek transformation. It would take him a longer time to have a chance of ascending to the Divine Ocean Realm.

He stopped what he was doing and fell deep in thought. Although his physical strength and Divine Ego were growing at the same time when he cultivated his power like this, his physical strength would grow much quicker than his Divine Ego. That was because his Divine Pool hadn’t changed much since he developed it in the First-Order Real Lake Realm. He had to rely on Soul Cleansing Water to strengthen his Divine Ego. It went to show it was difficult to make the Divine Ego stronger.

His Divine Pool had been expanded several days ago due to his accumulation over a long time.

As such, there was no problem with the way he cultivated his power. As long as his physical strength could increase fast enough, his chance would come eventually.

It could even be said that since he already had a Divine Ego, he could accumulate a larger heritage in the Real Lake Realm. Other Real Lake Realm Masters didn’t have this advantage.

If other Real Lake Realm Masters just had to improve their physical strength to a certain level before the chance of ascending to the Divine Ocean Realm came, Lu Ye had to accumulate a heritage that was significantly greater than those of other Real Lake Realm Masters.

If this was compared to building houses, other Divine Ocean Realm Masters only had a layer of foundation, whereas Lu Ye had several layers.

That way, when he became a Divine Ocean Realm Master, he would be tremendously stronger than an average Divine Ocean Realm Master.

Naturally, he could imagine that, given his uniqueness, it would be more difficult for him to ascend to the Divine Ocean Realm than an average person.

He was mentally prepared for this, and he reckoned that he would probably achieve his goal in one year.

He weaved more and more Soul Control Glyphs until he was exhausted. Then, he would get some rest and adjust his breathing to let his Divine Ego recover.

This process could be seen happening in his Divine Pool, which wasn’t empty. There was some water inside which was the manifestation of his Divine Ego.

As he consumed his Divine Ego, the pool water would decrease as well. When he had ample Divine Ego, the pool water would also be full.

It was difficult for the Divine Ego to recover as no Spirit Pills could help. It was especially true for someone like Lu Ye who had a weak Divine Ego. When his Divine Ego was drained in the past, he would use Soul Cleansing Water to easily replenish it, but he couldn’t do that now.

Feng Wujiang had said that at this important stage, any action that would help speed up the process wasn’t recommended.

As such, Lu Ye could only exhaust his Divine Ego and let it slowly recover again and again.

In the room, he was seated cross-legged while the power of his Tree of Glyphs was continuously running. Blood Crystals turned to dust. When his Divine Pool was full, he would build Soul Control. When his Divine Pool was empty, he would wait patiently.

He wouldn’t cultivate his power in seclusion for a long time as he didn’t have the patience.

After all, he was a young man who was full of energy. He couldn’t stay as still as those Seniors who had cultivated their powers for hundreds of years.

From time to time, he would leave the mountain to eat some tofu made by Yue Ji, listen to the fortune teller predict his future, and play a game of chess with some Seniors. He would even work on a farm with Meng Jie.

It was hard to imagine the Third Sect Master of the Righteous Sect toiling away on the farm with the bottom of his trousers rolled up while wearing a straw hat.

Gradually, Lu Ye got used to the temperaments of these Seniors. Since there was no more room for growth, they didn’t have to cultivate their powers. Still, they had to do something to kill time.

It couldn’t be said that they were having fun, trying to experience lives of a different kind, but they loved mingling with the commoners.

Certainly, not all Seniors were like this. Some of them retained their sense of pride as mighty cultivators and lived in remote places.

Lu Ye didn’t go looking for these Seniors. They were scattered around the Sacred Island, so he would come across some of them from time to time when taking a stroll.

He was the Holy Master’s Junior Brother, and he had made significant contributions to their success in the war against the Blood Race. Naturally, these Seniors regarded him highly and were willing to talk to him.

No one taught him anything about cultivating his power. Given their eyesight, they could tell that he was at a critical stage where he was trying to make it to the Divine Ocean Realm. At this point, it wasn’t appropriate for them to teach him anything as it would only distract him. They were certain that Feng Wujiang had talked to Lu Ye about it.

Although Feng Wujiang was so much younger than they were, age had nothing to do with cultivation. Since Feng Wujiang had already given Lu Ye some advice, these Seniors didn’t need to do so.

Lu Ye wouldn’t seek advice from them either. Since he already had a goal, he just had to work on achieving it step by step.

It felt comfortable to talk to each other when no benefits or interests were involved. In an environment such as Jiu Zhou, these Seniors were all famous. If they showed up, their disciples and younger cultivators would surround them all the time. They wouldn’t be as carefree as now.

In just half a year, Lu Ye had come into contact with most Seniors.

He didn’t know whether they were from the Grand Sky Coalition or Thousand Demon Ridge. He didn’t even know most of their names. He was only aware of the names of several people.

Anyway, in an environment such as this, whether they were from the Grand Sky Coalition or Thousand Demon Ridge was meaningless.

However, when they came into contact in private, these Seniors would expose each other’s secrets. They would say some people were terrible so Lu Ye should be wary of them. They would also say some people were evil so Lu Ye’d better avoid them.

It seemed to be their biggest fun to say bad things about other people in front of Lu Ye. They didn’t have such a chance in the past, but they could do it to their heart’s content now.

Whenever that happened, Lu Ye would dip his head in agreement, looking obedient. This made the Seniors feel he had a bright future.

However, Lu Ye recently discovered that some Seniors were missing from the Sacred Island. He couldn’t find them where they usually showed up. Even Feng Wujiang was nowhere to be seen.

One day, Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen crouched down beside Yue Ji’s tofu stall with big bowls in their hands. While enjoying the delicate tofu, Lu Ye asked in a muffled voice, “Senior, where’s my Eldest Senior Brother?”

While serving her customers, Yue Ji replied without looking at him, “He went looking for Blood Crystals for you.”

“Huh?” Lu Ye was shocked.

“The Holy Master has said you need a lot of Blood Crystals for cultivation, so our reserve might not meet your need. As such, he has brought some people with him to hunt for Blood Crystals.” She didn’t hide it from him as there wasn’t a need to do so.

If you find any errors ( broken links, non-standard content, etc.. ), Please let us know < report chapter > so we can fix it as soon as possible.