Humanity's Great Sage

Chapter 891, How Real Lake Realm Masters Cultivate

Translator: Jon

Translation Checker: Silavin

Lu Ye didn’t leave the Vault of Providence in a hurry. He purchased some fresh meat and connected his Divine Soul to the Hall of Battle Points.

There was something he had to purchase just in case he needed it in the future.

Seeing him, the Flood Dragons on the ancient door immediately came back to life. The Silver Flood Dragon on the right was exultant. “Brat, have you brought any food with you?”

Although the Golden Flood Dragon on the left was silent, its lifted head showed how eager it was.

They could endure boredom for countless years, but once they got a taste of something interesting, they were in a different state of mind.

They could withstand endless darkness and desolation only if they had never seen light before.

Lu Ye put on a smile and tossed the fresh meat he had purchased at the two Flood Dragons.

As usual, the Silver Flood Dragon ate its food and said joyfully, “It’s delicious! I’m on cloud nine!”

There was no doubt the Golden Flood Dragon was more reserved, but it was now pigging out on the food as well.

They finished everything in a short time. The Silver Flood Dragon looked longingly at Lu Ye. It was apparent that it still wanted more.

Naturally, Lu Ye had none left. The food he had purchased from the Vault of Providence was expensive. He had paid around 20,000 Contribution points for the meat of Master-class Spirit Beasts. Although he didn’t lack Contribution points, he couldn’t buy a lot of meat at once.

After staring at Lu Ye for a moment, the Silver Flood Dragon realised he wasn’t going to give them more food. Suddenly discovering something strange, it exclaimed and extended its long figure from the door before coiling around Lu Ye. Its huge head hovered in front of Lu Ye as its pupils reflected the man’s figure. Suddenly, it started guffawing. “Look, Big Brother. This brat has a Divine Ego!”

The Golden Flood Dragon narrowed its eyes. After some observation, it appeared surprised as well. “You’re right.”

Lu Ye was astounded, wondering how they even found out about it. [Who are they?]

His being in this space was merely a projection of his soul as his body was still in the Sanctum of Providence.

The two Flood Dragons weren’t supposed to find out anything. Even if Lu Ye was standing in front of a Divine Ocean Realm Master, the other party wouldn’t discover he had a Divine Ego as long as he never activated it.

However, the two Flood Dragons could see through his secret even though he was only a projection. That was inconceivable.

“Brat, you’re only a Real Lake Realm Master. How did you nurture a Soul Body and develop a Divine Ego?” The Golden Flood Dragon appeared puzzled. They had been around for eternity, but they had never seen something as strange as this. Naturally, their curiosity was piqued.

“It’s due to some luck and opportunities.” Lu Ye had no intention of explaining it to them. It was pointless to do so. Although he had no idea why the two Flood Dragons had to guard the Hall of Battle Points, he could tell that they never liked this job through his interaction with them. They seemed to have been confined to the door by a mysterious force. As such, they couldn’t leave this place.

In that case, it wouldn’t matter much even though they could see that Lu Ye had a Divine Ego.

“Well, can I go in now?” Lu Ye asked.

The Golden Flood Dragon stared fixedly at Lu Ye for a while before letting out an eerie laugh. “You’re such a strange brat.”

With that, the two Flood Dragons retracted their bodies. On the door, their figures swirled around and turned into concentric circles.

As a creak sounded, the door to the Hall of Battle Points opened.

Lu Ye stepped into it and easily found the item he was looking for. He spent 18,000 battle points to purchase a Thousand Demon Ridge’s Battlefield Imprint.

A red light flashed across his eyes as he felt the heat on the back of his hand.

A Battlefield Imprint purchased from the Hall of Battle Points wasn’t permanent. It was a single-use item. Lu Ye already knew it when he purchased the item for the first time.

Moreover, it could only last for about two hours.

In other words, once the Thousand Demon Ridge’s Battlefield Imprint, which was hidden on the back of his hand, was activated, it would only last for two hours before dissipating.

Therefore, Lu Ye had taken a huge risk to follow Ying Wuji to Lone Cloud City Pass back then. If anybody wanted to verify his identity at that time, he would be exposed.

However, he speculated that those from Lone Cloud City Pass wouldn’t do that, which was why he made such a bold decision.

After all, he arrived in the city with Ying Wuji, so those from Thousand Demon Ridge subconsciously thought that he was on their side. Moreover, the Fire Spirit Race members were about to attack the city at that time, so no one had time to verify his identity.

Since his previous Thousand Demon Ridge’s Battlefield Imprint was gone, he had to buy a new one in case he needed it in the future.

Following this incident, Lu Ye felt that it was a wonderful item. It could be used to fool his enemies and get him out of danger.

Take this time as an example. Without the Thousand Demon Ridge’s Battlefield Imprint, he would’ve gotten into a conflict with Ying Wuji and the others and killed them all.

He took a look at his Battlefield Imprint and realised he still had 88,410 battle points.

Compared with the last time he checked, his battle points had increased instead.

After giving it some thought, Lu Ye reckoned that he had acquired some battle points by killing Fire Spirit Race members previously. He must’ve gotten his salary as the patroller as well.

Previously, he felt that it was pointless to have so many job titles, but now, it seemed that they were useful.

He had two jobs which required him to protect the Pass and patrol the surrounding area. That way, he could get two monthly salaries, and each would give him 20,000 battle points.

It meant that in Blue Flame Mountain Pass, even if he only went out to patrol the area without doing anything else, he could still easily get 40,000 battle points every month. He had no idea where else he could get such wonderful jobs.

It was no wonder so many cultivators loved to join the Zhou Watches and head to the frontlines where the two sides clashed.

Yi Yi had a job as well, though she didn’t have a military title. Being a Chief Walker was a special role. Lu Ye wondered how many battle points she would get monthly.

With over 80,000 battle points, he could purchase several Golden Amulets. After giving it some thought, he decided against the idea.

He needed to accumulate more battle points to purchase a treasure.

Following a setback because of Wan Zhanggang, he had a first-hand experience of the difference between a Divine Ocean Realm Master and him.

In the future, he would inevitably come into contact with more Divine Ocean Realm Masters. Although he had his Divine Pool and Divine Ego now, they came to him by chance as his Divine Soul was severely injured. There was a huge gap in power between Divine Ocean Realm Masters and him.

He had to ponder how he could better protect his Divine Soul in front of Divine Ocean Realm Masters.

Nian Yuexian had given him a golden lock, which had some protection against Soul Attacks. Lu Ye had no idea how useful it was. Since he hadn’t tried it before, he didn’t know how powerful it was. However, he couldn’t leave his fate to the golden lock.

Fortunately, there were all sorts of treasures in the Hall of Battle Points, which included items that could protect Divine Souls. They even had a special name, which was Soul Artifact.

Lu Ye had his eye on a particular Soul Artifact, but it was costly, so he couldn’t afford it yet.

Soon, he left the Hall of Battle Points. The two Flood Dragons watched him leave.

After leaving the Sanctum of Providence, he returned to his bamboo house, where Yi Yi and Amber were waiting for him.

“Let’s cultivate!” Lu Ye said.

The two of them immediately sat down beside him.

The way Real Lake Realm Masters cultivated was different from Spirit Creek Realm Masters and Cloud River Realm Masters.

There was something Pang Huanyin didn’t understand in the past. Upon her arrival in Jiu Zhou, even though she could feel that this world was vast and had an ample heritage, the World Spiritual Qi here wasn’t thick. It was undoubtedly better than the broken Peerless Continent, but it wasn’t enough to nurture Divine Ocean Realm Masters. It could even be said that cultivators would find it hard to make it to the Real Lake Realm by relying on the World Spiritual Qi here alone.

But in truth, there were many Divine Ocean Realm Masters in Jiu Zhou and even more Real Lake Realm Masters.

All this was because of the unique cultivation method of cultivators in Jiu Zhou.

When cultivators were in the Spirit Creek Realm, they could go to the Spirit Creek Battlefield where the Sects and Families had their Outposts. The World Spiritual Qi in those Outposts were thick thanks to the presence of Divine Opportunity Columns. It was good enough for Spirit Creek Realm Masters to cultivate.

When they arrived at Cloud River Battlefield, there were all sorts of Amulets and Arcane Glades, which could help cultivators grow their powers quickly.

Upon ascending to the Real Lake Realm, they could still use Amulets. Moreover, they had more ways to acquire Amulets now.

However, cultivators couldn’t always rely on Amulets to cultivate their powers. The items had to be traded with battle points, after all.

As such, Real Lake Realm Masters had their own cultivation method.

Before Lu Ye left the Crimson Blood Sect, Shui Yuan had told him about it.

This kind of cultivation method required not Amulets or battle points but Contribution points.

Inside the bamboo house, as Lu Ye recalled Shui Yuan’s guidance, he pointed at his Battlefield Imprint and connected his soul to the Heavens.

The next moment, a message exploded in his mind. He felt some heat on the back of his hand, and at the same time, a swirl appeared in front of him.

As soon as the swirl took shape, the thick World Spiritual Qi gusted out of it and spread around the room as though it had a spirituality of its own. It engulfed Lu Ye, Yi Yi, and Amber before it stopped spreading further.

Lu Ye had built many Spirit Gathering Funnels around him. These funnels drew the World Spiritual Qi into his body to strengthen his heritage.

Yi Yi said, “Lu Ye, this kind of cultivation method is similar to using Amulets.”

It was indeed similar. When they used an Amulet to cultivate by crushing it, a swirl would appear and the pure World Spiritual Qi would stream out of it, just like what was going on now.

It was a wonder where the World Spiritual Qi came from. The Heavens must be behind this.

In comparison, the World Spiritual Qi drawn by Amulets was much purer. The cultivators could absorb it without refining it first and turn it into their Spiritual Powers. Therefore, using Amulets to cultivate was the quickest way.

Even though the World Spiritual Qi drawn using this method was thick enough, the cultivators had to refine it. As such, it wasn’t as effective as using Amulets.

Amulets would be gone once they were used, whereas the method Lu Ye was using required Contribution points.

Lu Ye watched as his Contribution points were decreasing slowly. That was the reason he felt some heat on the back of his hand earlier.