Sage of Humanity

Time and time again, Lu Ye tried and failed, but rather than feeling discouraged, he was bursting with excitement, for each failure accumulated experience.

The greatest challenge of infusing the Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes into the largest spiritual orifice was the surge and cycle of one's spirit force, which could blow the runes apart.

Therefore, for Lu Ye to affix spirit runes into his spiritual orifice, he needed to avoid the impact of the spirit force, otherwise success would be impossible.

However, this would lead to another issue: if the constructed spirit runes were too far from the spiritual orifice, they wouldn't be very effective. For instance, if Lu Ye built the spirit runes on his hand and they gathered spiritual energy, his body would struggle to accept this external spiritual energy and transform it into his own spirit force.

Finding a balance that allowed the spirit runes to be stable while still functioning effectively was a challenge.

Luckily, constructing a Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Rune wasn't too costly, as Lu Ye had discovered when he first obtained the runes.

Two shichen later, he still hadn't succeeded.

Lu Ye tried altering the shape of the spirit runes. Normally, spirit runes took the form of a flat surface, and without profound knowledge in this area, altering them would be impossible.

Although Lu Ye hadn't studied spirit runes extensively, when he acquired them, a wealth of information about the runes flooded into his mind, giving him insight into their mysteries.

As for the three spirit runes he currently mastered, Lu Ye had the capability to change their shapes, lacking only practical experience.

After numerous attempts, and nearly half a day later, a Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Rune finally took shape, and this time, it wasn't dispersed by the flow of his own spirit force.

Success!

Lu Ye revealed a contented expression, silently sensing that under the effect of the spirit rune, spiritual energy from all around was converging, flowing into that orifice and melding into his own spirit force.

The Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Rune he transformed now looked like a funnel, which he then affixed to his spiritual orifice, the tip of it poking into the orifice with the least possible extent.

In other words, the spiritual energy gathered from the outside world would directly enter through this small funnel into his spiritual orifice, transforming through the flow of spirit force, without passing through his body.

Thus, whether Lu Ye's talent was a single leaf or sixty-four, it wouldn't affect the effectiveness of the Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes.

I am quite clever! Lu Ye couldn't help but give himself a mental thumbs up.

Even though he had been successful in affixing the Gathering Spirit Rune to his spiritual orifice and had begun to imbibe nature's spiritual energy, because the rune was rather small, its effect was extremely limited.

This is but one spiritual orifice...

Lu Ye had now opened twenty-nine orifices...

What effect would it produce if he affixed Gathering Spirit Runes to all twenty-nine orifices?

Lu Ye couldn't help but look forward to it. If he could implement this idea, he wouldn't be confined to consuming elixir pills for cultivation in the future; he could also breathe in and out the spiritual energy of nature! Not only would this save a vast amount of cultivation resources, but it would also enhance the efficiency of his cultivation practice.

Once this thought emerged, Lu Ye couldn't contain his excitement and immediately began to attempt it.

With the experience from the first success, the second attempt became much easier.

In less than half a shichen, Lu Ye applied the small funnel spirit rune to his second spiritual orifice, followed by the third, the fourth... Lu Ye gradually became more skilled.

By the time he reached the tenth orifice, Lu Ye vaguely felt the effects; when he reached the twentieth, the effects were even more apparent, and by the time he had affixed Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes to all twenty-nine orifices, the night had set in.

At this point, he distinctly sensed the continuous stream of spiritual energy from all around rushing into each of his orifices, transforming into his own strength as the spirit force surged through them.

The Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes could last a long time because they were constantly gathering nature's spiritual energy to sustain themselves. In theory, as long as Lu Ye didn't voluntarily disperse these runes, they could last indefinitely.

Of course, in reality, that was impossible. Lu Ye's state was stable at this moment, allowing the runes to remain intact, but once he engaged in combat with others, his spirit force would stir and flow vigorously, which could easily destroy the runes.

In the end, this was a business that required no capital. Lu Ye only needed to construct the spirit runes at the right time to augment his spiritual orifice, and then do nothing. The Spiritual Energy of heaven and earth would be gathered and flow into his body. He could even go about other tasks...

Now, it all depended on how much benefit these spirit runes could bring him over a certain period of time.

To determine this, he calmed his energy and focused his spirit, sensing the changes in the spirit force within his body.

After six hours, he came to a conclusion. If the spirit runes of the twenty-nine spiritual orifices could be maintained for a day and a night, then the benefit they brought him would be roughly equivalent to consuming one Spirit-Nurturing Pill...

That wasn't a lot, but it was not insignificant either.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

One must know that there were only twenty-nine spiritual orifices at the moment, but a cultivator's body contained a total of three hundred and sixty. One day, if Lu Ye could augment all three hundred and sixty spiritual orifices with Gathering Spirit, the benefits would be substantial.

With many Spirit-Nurturing Pills in hand, the auxiliary Cultivation Technique Bestial Gluttony Feast, and the assistance of Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes, Lu Ye was itching to find a place to hunker down and cultivate until he reached Spirit Stream Level 9...

However, what made him feel helpless was that he didn't have a suitable cultivation technique on hand.

The Golden Cicada Carefree Method he obtained from Manager Yang was only cultivatable up to Spirit Stream Level 3 Perfection.

He originally planned to wait for the next marketplace and then visit the branch of Heaven's Augury Mercantile Union to see if he could purchase a technique. For this purpose, he had sold four pieces of origin magnetic ore along the way and saved up over two hundred Spirit Stones.

But who would have thought that he would now be trapped in Sky-Splitting Gorge and unable to leave for the time being.

This was somewhat frustrating...

After pondering for a moment, Lu Ye lifted his hand and tapped on his battlefield marking, sending out a message.

Chu Tian was meditating to recover when he suddenly perceived the message. He hastily checked it and discovered that it was Lu Ye looking for him.

After the lesson learned during the daytime, Chu Tian cautiously replied, "Junior Brother Yiye, what do you need?"

"Do you have a Black rank skill? Sell me one."

Chu Tian felt perplexed, "What do you need a Black rank skill for?"

In the passageway, Lu Ye looked at Chu Tian's response speechlessly, thinking that this guy must be an idiot, and patiently replied, "To cultivate!"

Chu Tian, looking at Lu Ye's response, couldn't help but scratch his head.

A moment later, the message reached the Xuanmen base.

Wang Yeang stared at Xiaozhu with a look of surprise, "Is the message correct?"

Xiaozhu nodded, "It's from Chu Tian; it should be correct."

Wang Yeang thought for a moment, then couldn't help but click his tongue, "Indeed, it's the style of those big sects. Disciples they send out have to rely entirely on themselves, they don't even prepare cultivation techniques for them. It seems he was previously cultivating with just a Yellow Level Technique, and now that he's reached Spirit Stream Level 3 Perfection, he needs a new technique."

"Chu Tian is waiting for a reply, what should we say?"

"Just a technique. It's a dime a dozen. Give him one and ask Chu Tian what his element sign is."

"Okay." Xiaozhu nodded, thinking to herself that disciples from big sects seemed rather pitiful. Although Xuanmen was just Ninth Grade, the disciples would help each other out in the early stages of cultivation, and they wouldn't have this many hardships.

"Right, don't give it away for free; those big sects frown upon that. Sell it to him but charge less for the Spirit Stones, they are quite poor after all."

"Understood."