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Chen He indeed did not lie; no wonder he dared to swear to the heavens in front of him.
However, Lu Ye quickly figured out why this cultivation technique was being sold everywhere.
The Taotie Meal could double the cultivation efficiency, which sounded incredibly powerful at first, but in reality, cultivators would accumulate pill toxins from consuming spirit pills. Once the pill toxins accumulated, the spiritual energy within the body would become murky and stagnant. The more spirit pills one refined, the more obvious this condition became.
Therefore, after cultivating for a period, cultivators would usually stop consuming spirit pills and instead find ways to resolve the pill toxins.
In other words, under normal circumstances, whether the efficiency of refining spirit pills was fast or slow made little difference. Being a bit slower might even have its benefits…
But Lu Ye was different. He had the Talent Tree to burn away pill toxins, so the spiritual energy from the spirit pills would be pure, even more so than the refined spiritual energy of ordinary cultivators. Thus, the effect of the Taotie Meal in enhancing cultivation efficiency was very real for him.
The combination of the Talent Tree and the Taotie Meal was simply a perfect match!
Realizing this, Lu Ye couldn't help but feel a bit excited. This way, he would undoubtedly save a lot of time in his future cultivation.
However, this also meant that he was destined to go further down the path of cultivating with pills.
The power of a spirit pill was quickly consumed, and Lu Ye's spiritual energy gradually became abundant. Perhaps due to the cultivation, his stomach began to rumble. Lu Ye immediately took out some food from his storage bag and started eating voraciously.
Then he discovered something interesting: his ability to digest food had also improved.
The fifteen spirit apertures of the Taotie Meal were all distributed around the stomach. When the cultivation technique was activated, the entire stomach would vigorously contract, like a millstone. Under this powerful grinding force, it could not only quickly refine the pill's power but also digest food.
After some investigation, Lu Ye found that the Taotie Meal's ability to do this was not just about digestion but more about absorption. Digestion alone was not enough; only through absorption could the cultivation efficiency truly be improved.
In his perception, Lu Ye discovered that if the fifteen spirit apertures were connected in a certain pattern, it would form a familiar diagram…
He recalled for a moment and, with a wave of his hand, he constructed a spirit pattern with his spiritual energy.
It was the third spirit pattern he had obtained, the Spirit Gathering Pattern.
As soon as the Spirit Gathering Pattern appeared in his hand, it generated an invisible pulling force, causing the surrounding spiritual energy to flow toward it.
The Spirit Gathering Pattern was an extremely complex and profound diagram, constructed with spiritual energy. The pattern he obtained by connecting the fifteen spirit apertures of the Taotie Meal was much simpler, but they were undoubtedly of the same origin!
Was it a coincidence? Or did the cultivator who created the Taotie Meal cultivation technique draw inspiration from the construction of the Spirit Gathering Pattern?
The main function of the Spirit Gathering Pattern was to gather the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. If the pill's power was compared to spiritual energy, then the Taotie Meal was also gathering, but it transformed the gathered pill's power into spiritual energy for the cultivator to absorb.
Thinking about this, a vague idea suddenly sprang to mind for Lu Ye, but when he tried to clarify it, he found himself unable to do so for the moment.
He fell into deep thought, allowing the Taotie Meal to continue running…
The surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth was drawn toward Lu Ye under some mysterious force, merging into the Spirit Gathering Pattern in his hand and then dispersing, repeating the cycle.
However, Lu Ye soon discovered that a portion of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was flowing into his abdomen, where it was ground and transformed into his own spiritual energy…
This surprised him.
These days, he had been cultivating by refining spirit pills, supplemented by refining essence into qi, mainly because the efficiency of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was too low. His body found it difficult to accept spiritual energy, as if there was an invisible barrier covering his body, isolating the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from the outside.
Even using spirit stones for cultivation was not very efficient. Strictly speaking, spirit stones were condensed spiritual energy, and since his body found it difficult to accept spiritual energy, it naturally could not accept the power of spirit stones either.
But now, without even cultivating, the Taotie Meal was gathering some spiritual energy and grinding it…
This indirectly confirmed Lu Ye's earlier conjecture: the creator of the Taotie Meal cultivation technique must have drawn inspiration from the construction of the Spirit Gathering Pattern; otherwise, the two would not have similar properties.
Of course, the amount of spiritual energy gathered by the Taotie Meal was not much. The true purpose of this cultivation technique was to refine ingested substances, and gathering spiritual energy was just a side effect.
Thinking about this, the vague idea in Lu Ye's mind suddenly became clear!
The Taotie Meal could gather spiritual energy, and the Spirit Gathering Pattern could also gather spiritual energy; they were of the same origin.
The effect of the Taotie Meal cultivation technique came from the serial operation of the fifteen spirit apertures, so the key was in the spirit apertures.
What if he added the Spirit Gathering Pattern to the spirit apertures?
What would happen?
Lu Ye was startled by his own bold idea.
Although he was only a small cultivator who had been practicing for a few months and was ignorant of many common knowledge in the cultivation world, he knew the importance of spirit apertures to cultivators. If a spirit aperture had a problem, it would affect the cultivator's entire life.
When he obtained the Spirit Gathering Pattern, he had investigated its characteristics and ultimately concluded that it was useless because his body found it difficult to accept external spiritual energy. Even if he activated the Spirit Gathering Pattern, it wouldn't be of much use.
But he seemed to have entered a blind spot in his thinking. The Spirit Gathering Pattern could be added not only to the hand but also to other places.
For example… inside the spirit apertures!
If his idea came true, then the Spirit Gathering Pattern would not be useless at all; it might even become the most useful spirit pattern.
The more he thought about it, the more he believed this idea was feasible. Lu Ye stopped the operation of the Taotie Meal cultivation technique and switched to the Golden Cicada Freedom Technique.
Other cultivators dared not add spirit patterns to their own spirit apertures, mainly because the construction of spirit patterns was complex. Even the most experienced spirit pattern masters could fail, and if a spirit pattern construction failed, the spiritual energy used to construct it would explode, causing damage to the spirit aperture.
But Lu Ye had no such concerns. He now mastered three spirit patterns, and each time he obtained a spirit pattern, a large amount of information about that spirit pattern was infused into his mind. He had never failed in constructing a spirit pattern before.
Even so, Lu Ye did not dare to work on his source spirit aperture but chose another spirit aperture instead.
The source spirit aperture was the most important. If it had a problem, it would be truly over. If other spirit apertures had issues, there might still be ways to remedy them.
Perceiving the location of the spirit aperture, Lu Ye slightly moved his mind, activating his spiritual energy to add a Spirit Gathering Pattern to the spirit aperture.
However, in an instant, the Spirit Gathering Pattern was dispersed by the flowing spiritual energy within his body.
No, it needs adjustment. I can't add the spirit pattern inside the spirit aperture; otherwise, it won't be able to maintain.