At the Tianji Merchant Alliance, Liu Quan politely saw Lu Ye off at the door. Most of the cultivators in the outer circle were quite poor, unless they were disciples from major sects. 520 Official Website
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Therefore, a transaction involving dozens of spirit stones was not easy to come by. Moreover, Lu Ye had a rather straightforward personality, so Liu Quan naturally wanted to get to know him better, hoping to take care of him in future business dealings.
As he watched Lu Ye's figure disappear, Liu Quan turned around, and a fragrant breeze hit his face. A person was standing behind him.
"Scared me!" Liu Quan said irritably, "Why aren't you serving the guests? What are you doing standing behind me?"
The person replied in a sweet voice, "I missed you."
Liu Quan glanced around nervously, seeing no one paying attention, he lowered his voice, "I'll come to you after work tonight."
"Sure..." the woman responded with a smile.
Liu Quan walked towards the hall as if nothing had happened, serving other guests, while the woman glanced thoughtfully in the direction Lu Ye had left, her eyes filled with contemplation.
That night, after a passionate session, they chatted casually. The woman subtly guided the conversation towards the day's transaction. Liu Quan, feeling drowsy, responded half-heartedly and soon fell into a deep sleep.
The woman, lying in his arms, found it hard to sleep.
If she hadn't been mistaken, the guest from earlier was the same person she had served half a month ago, who had sold many minerals and bought some spirit pills.
She hadn't expected that in just half a month, he would come back to sell minerals again.
From the look of the guest, he was undoubtedly a wandering cultivator, someone without any support. For a wandering cultivator to gather dozens of spirit stones in such a short time naturally raised some curiosity.
Working at the Tianji Merchant Alliance, she earned at most thirteen spirit stones a month, including extra income. This made her recall her days as a wandering cultivator, and the comparison left her feeling somewhat bitter. After much contemplation, she finally felt sleepy but found it hard to sleep soundly.
Meanwhile, in the cave on Qingyun Mountain, Lu Ye was cultivating.
After completing his transaction at the Tianji Merchant Alliance, he used the remaining spirit stones to buy a lot of food and hurried back, arriving just before nightfall.
With enough spirit pills, he immediately began his cultivation, taking them one by one.
As the spirit pills were consumed, the spiritual energy in his fifteenth acupoint gradually filled up, and he began to push towards the sixteenth acupoint.
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Twelve days later, in the cave, Lu Ye sat cross-legged, focusing his mind and spirit.
Today was a significant day. If everything went smoothly, he would advance to the second level of the Spirit Stream realm today.
Since his return twelve days ago, he had gradually consumed over thirty Spirit Nourishing Pills, finally opening eighteen acupoints and filling the spiritual energy in the eighteenth acupoint to its maximum capacity.
Recalling the cultivation route described in the Golden Cicada Freedom Technique, Lu Ye activated his spiritual energy, starting from the tenth acupoint and sequentially penetrating the eleventh, twelfth, and so on, up to the eighteenth acupoint.
He had done this when he achieved the first level of the Spirit Stream realm, so he was quite familiar with the process and encountered no difficulties.
The spiritual energy smoothly penetrated the nine major acupoints, flowing like a stream. As Lu Ye manipulated it, the speed of the spiritual energy flowing through these nine acupoints gradually increased, circulating continuously.
When it reached a certain limit, Lu Ye felt a surge of energy, and the spiritual energy in the acupoints from the tenth to the eighteenth began to circulate on its own.
The second level of the Spirit Stream realm was achieved!
Having experienced this once before, Lu Ye didn't feel overly excited; it was just a matter of course.
He was no longer the three-acupoint cultivator who had drifted to the Spirit Stream battlefield two months ago.
Achieving the first level of the Spirit Stream realm gave him the qualifications to survive in the outer circle of the battlefield, while the second level gave him the qualifications to move around. Of course, he was still far from the more advanced cultivators, but Lu Ye was already quite satisfied.
Compared to achieving the first level, his advancement to the second level took even less time. It took him about forty days to go from three acupoints to the first level of the Spirit Stream realm, but it took him less than a month to advance from the first to the second level.
The main reason was the abundance of cultivation resources. Even so, this cultivation speed was extremely terrifying.
Cultivators in the early stages of cultivation typically take about ten days to open each acupoint, as their primary method of cultivation is absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. With insufficient cultivation, the efficiency of absorbing spiritual energy is low, so the cultivation speed is naturally not fast.
This situation improves slightly after reaching the fourth level of the Spirit Stream realm.
In other words, it is normal for ordinary cultivators to advance one level every three months at the beginning of their cultivation. However, with Lu Ye, he advanced one level every month on average, which was the joy of cultivating with spirit pills.
At the first level, Lu Ye had only one small cycle of spiritual energy circulation from the source acupoint to the ninth acupoint. After reaching the second level, he gained another cycle from the tenth to the eighteenth acupoint, giving him two cycles of spiritual energy circulation in his body.
This allowed him to mobilize more spiritual energy in a short time, making his attacks more powerful.
At the third level, he would have three such cycles, and so on, with a ninth-level Spirit Stream realm cultivator having nine cycles of spiritual energy circulation in their body.
With thirty Spirit Nourishing Pills left, although Lu Ye was eager to continue his cultivation, he knew that haste makes waste.
He first ate something, then went outside the cave to find a mountain spring to take a bath, changed into a clean set of clothes, and, amidst the tinkling of the spring, took out the Golden Cicada Freedom Technique to study.
Next, he planned to advance to the third level of the Spirit Stream realm. He needed to figure out the positions of the acupoints after the eighteenth to facilitate his future cultivation.
The mountain was peaceful, with the occasional sound of birds and insects. Dappled sunlight filtered through the leaves, casting a warm glow on the young man's face, making the scene look like a painting.
"What are you sneaking around for?" Lu Ye called out without looking up.
A small head peeked out from the trunk of a nearby large tree. Her disheveled hair would have frightened anyone who saw her.
Yi Yi glanced at the book in Lu Ye's hand. Upon recognizing it as a low-level cultivation technique, she pouted in disdain.
"Is there something you need?" Lu Ye asked, suppressing the urge to punch her, tilting his head.
"When are you leaving?" Yi Yi asked.
Although Lu Ye hadn't gone out hunting recently, this was her and Da Hu's territory. How could she allow someone to sleep next to her bed? If not for the fear of the spirit talismans in Lu Ye's possession, she and Da Hu would have driven him away long ago. However, after being defeated by Lu Ye once, Yi Yi was hesitant to act rashly, especially since she could see that Lu Ye was much stronger than he was two months ago.
Lu Ye closed the book, stood up, and stretched. "I'm tired, going back to sleep!"
"Hey, I'm talking to you!" Yi Yi said angrily, but received no response. She gritted her teeth and cursed, "Scoundrel, stinky thing, you really make me mad, wah wah wah..." She scratched at the nearby tree, sending wood chips flying.