For a long time, with the support of the Talent Tree by his side, and the assistance of the Bestial Gluttony Feast, Lu Ye could endlessly consume elixir pills to enhance his own cultivation; thus, he had always been very confident in the speed at which he opened his spiritual orifices. Among the Spirit Stream Realm cultivators across the Nine Provinces, when it comes to the speed of orifice-opening, probably no one was faster than him.
With a 7th Heaven cultivation, maintaining the pace of opening one orifice each day in such an environment—who could compare?
Until he saw Hua Ci today!
When Hua Ci left her residence to go to Mount Ying, she was only at Level 8.
Entering the Ten Thousand Poisons Forest, she advanced to Level 9, which could be explained by her obtaining enough benefits in that land of legacy to progress her cultivation.
But from the time she entered the Ten Thousand Poisons Forest until now, it had only been a little over a month, and she had actually advanced from Level 9 to 7th Heaven!
One must know that after Level 9, advancing each level required the opening of sixty orifices. In just over a month, to open sixty orifices was almost the pace of opening two orifices a day.
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There’s no comparison...
Lu Ye knew somewhat how Hua Ci had been cultivating during this time; she spent most of her time not in the wooden hut, for there was no poisonous mist inside due to the barrier created by the Formation.
However, Lu Ye did not expect that Hua Ci’s unconventional cultivation method would speed up her cultivation advancement so rapidly.
Now everyone had attained a 7th Heaven cultivation. If it continued like this, it was only a matter of time before Hua Ci’s cultivation surpassed his own.
Lu Ye felt a sense of urgency!
Giant Armor had advanced to Cloud River earlier than him, for he had amassed enough and was in possession of a unique demonic pill long before, already having the capital to advance to Cloud River.
If someday Hua Ci also advanced to Cloud River before he did...
However, thinking about it from a different angle, this wasn’t necessarily a bad thing for Hua Ci, and his sense of urgency instantly dissolved into nothingness.
As days passed by, Lu Ye still maintained the speed of opening one orifice per day.
In a blink of an eye, more than a month had passed.
Crack! A sound rang out. Accompanied by the surging of spirit force, the spiritual orifice barrier shattered loudly, and a trickle of spirit force flowed into the newly opened spiritual orifice.
Three hundred orifices!
Being trapped in the Ten Thousand Poisons Forest for roughly two months, he forcefully opened his spiritual orifices from two hundred forty and some to a full three hundred.
Having reached the required number of orifices, the next step was to advance his cultivation.
He stimulated his spirit force, connecting those sixty disorganized orifices to form a new Minor Circumambulation cycle. When the spirit force began to circulate back and forth in this mini-system without Lu Ye’s prompting, waves of energy swept through the area, and the 8th Heaven inherently solidified.
Lu Ye then sat calmly for an entire day to consolidate his cultivation, ensuring that no issues arose in the newly formed Minor Circumambulation system before he stood up.
He stepped out of the wooden hut and started busying himself in the courtyard outside, driving down one array banner after another to construct the framework of a Formation.
Yiyi watched curiously from the side, "Lu Ye, what sort of Formation are you setting up?"
"A fun Formation," Lu Ye responded casually. It wasn’t that he intended to conceal anything; it was his first time setting up this type of Formation, and he wasn’t sure if it would work. If he couldn’t make it happen after boasting in front of Yiyi, wouldn’t that be embarrassing?
When the framework of the Formation was formed, Lu Ye once again stimulated his spirit force to enrich the internal structure of the Formation. After a bustle of activity, he finally constructed the core of the Formation. Stay updated via freewebnovel
The core was that one array of over three thousand Yin-Yang Dual Origins spirit runes, which he had spent a great deal of time and effort learning from books.
These days he practiced this spirit rune daily, and now that he was constructing it, even though there was a chance of failure, the success rate had indeed increased significantly.
This time he was rather lucky, and it formed on the first try.
Having followed Lu Ye for so long, Yiyi had some understanding of the Path of Spirit Runes. Seeing the core spirit rune of the Formation before her, she couldn’t help but marvel, "Lu Ye, this spirit rune is so complicated. What kind of rune is this?"
"Void!"
"Void?"
"Yes, the name of this spirit rune is Void!"
This was a spirit rune related to space. Depending on how it was used, it could have different impacts. If it was constructed within a Formation as the core, with certain special techniques applied, it would become the famous teleportation array!
In the Nine Provinces, there were teleportation arrays, but not in large numbers, for the cultivators of the Nine Provinces found it convenient to travel using the Heaven’s Augury Pillar provided by the Alliance Sect.
The Heaven’s Augury Pillar itself had the effect of teleportation, so unless necessary, no one would spend the time and effort to set up a teleportation array.
Besides, teleportation arrays required regular maintenance, which was nowhere near as convenient as using the Heaven’s Augury Pillar. The Heaven’s Augury Pillar was a divine object granted by Heaven’s Augury, very difficult to damage.
The teleportation array Lu Ye was setting up now was quite rudimentary because it used array banners as the framework, built with his own spirit force. To maintain the operation of this Formation, Lu Ye also made some modifications to this teleportation array, giving it the ability to gather spirit, ensuring that it could collect nature’s spiritual energy from the surroundings and maintain itself over a long period.
With his current mastery in the Array Path, he was capable of accomplishing this.
Actually, if one had an array disc, that would be the best option. Using an array disc to set up a Formation would result in a more stable Formation—a field in which array banners were much inferior. However, using array banners to set up a Formation was more flexible. With thirty-two basic array banners on hand, various combinations and changes, Lu Ye could set up all the Formations he had mastered.
Array discs were different; each one corresponded to just one or a few Formations and couldn’t compete with the versatility of array banners.
Although this Formation was set up, whether it could function properly was still uncertain in Lu Ye’s mind.
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However, everything requires a first step. Now that he has reached the 8th Heaven of cultivation, he already has the means to fight his way out of the Ten Thousand Poisons Forest. But what then? He would still be hounded and intercepted by countless Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators. Even if he took refuge in any Alliance Sect’s Core Circle stronghold, he would only bring disaster and trouble to others.
It could be said that the dread Ten Thousand Demons Ridge held for him made it very difficult for him to find a foothold in the Core Circle.
The Ten Thousand Poisons Forest is a good place; it’s a forbidden zone for cultivators. No matter how powerful and numerous the Ten Thousand Demons Ridge might be, as long as he hid in the forest, no one would dare to come in and make trouble for him. If anyone dared to enter, Hua Ci would surely teach them a lesson.
So before leaving, he had to make arrangements for a way back, ensuring he could return here any time he wished.
This was also the plan he came up with after seeing the Void Spirit Runes.
The teleportation array was his way out, and this Ten Thousand Poisons Forest was his refuge. Indeed, the Spiritual Energy here was much inferior compared to the sect strongholds, but as long as he had enough elixir pills, he didn’t need to worry about his cultivation, even if the efficiency was somewhat lower.
Others rely on inhaling and exhaling nature’s spiritual energy for their cultivation, which demands a high-quality environment. But he was different...
After briefly inspecting this teleportation array and confirming there were no problems,
"Stay here and watch over this,"
Lu Ye instructed Yiyi, and then he left and entered the Ten Thousand Poisons Forest.
There were several types of teleportation arrays. One was random teleportation; once activated, the array would teleport a person to a nearby location at random.
There were also targeted teleportations. Within these, there were single-point-to-single-point transmissions, single-point-to-multiple-points transmissions, and multiple-points-to-multiple-points transmissions...
Simply put, single-point-to-single-point meant that two teleportation arrays would resonate with each other and enable teleportation between them.
Single-point-to-multiple-points referred to a parent teleportation array resonating with multiple child arrays, enabling teleportation between the parent and each child array, but not between the child arrays themselves.
Multiple-points-to-multiple-points meant that all arrays could function as both child and parent arrays.
The array setup for different types of teleportation arrays vary greatly and each has its intricacies.
At present, Lu Ye was setting up a teleportation array for single-point-to-single-point transmission; the array outside the small courtyard of the cabin was the parent array.
He still needed to set up a child array somewhere else to test whether this teleportation array was functional.
Night fell, and Hua Ci returned from nearby cultivation. Seeing Yiyi squatting in the courtyard with Amber beside her, she couldn’t help but be curious, "What are you both doing here?"
"Lu Ye set up an array and asked me to watch over it for him," Yiyi replied truthfully.
"Where is he?"
"I don’t know, wow."
Moments later, Hua Ci and Yiyi squatted together in the courtyard, gazing eagerly at the teleportation array in front of them.
"Yiyi, did he mention what this array is for?"
"Nope."
"All so secretive."
Meanwhile, twenty li away, in an open space, Lu Ye stood upon the newly set up child teleportation array. He activated the spirit force to power the array beneath his feet. In a moment, he felt a resonance from the direction of the cabin suggesting that something was responding to the array beneath his feet.
Very smoothly!
The two teleportation arrays had achieved resonance, indicating his array setup had no issues. The next step was to see if he could teleport successfully.
Continuing to channel power into the array, the space around Lu Ye suddenly began to distort. An indescribable force enveloped him, giving him the illusion of stepping into an abyss with no bottom.
That feeling came quickly and left just as fast. By the time he came to his senses, he had already appeared at another location.
Simultaneously, outside the cabin, Yiyi and Hua Ci, who were guarding the parent teleportation array, pricked up their ears upon hearing some strange noises not far away.
"What’s that sound?" Yiyi asked curiously.
"Maybe some creature passing by?" Hua Ci tilted her head and responded. It must have been fairly large, she thought; otherwise, it wouldn’t make such a commotion. Likely it was a venomous python. Hua Ci had encountered many of these creatures in the Ten Thousand Poisons Forest recently; most had ended up in her soup pot.
"What’s wrong with the array?" Yiyi asked again.
Just then, the array in front of her had some activity—the space enveloped by the array became extremely distorted, and immediately after, the spirit force within the array became chaotic and completely collapsed.
"Yiyi, did you hear someone shouting for help?" Hua Ci asked while listening intently.
"Did I?"
"Listen carefully!"
Yiyi also strained her ears to listen, her expression quickly turning peculiar, "It seems to be Lu Ye’s voice?"
The two women exchanged glances, quickly stood up, and headed towards the source of the sound. Moments later, on a large tree a few dozen zhang from the cabin, they found a figure hanging like a rag doll.
"Lu Ye!" Yiyi exclaimed in shock, quickly leaping up to him, and brought Lu Ye down. Upon closer inspection, his clothes were tattered, streaked with blood; some cuts were so deep that bones were visible, he was completely drenched in blood.
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