Sage of Humanity

Six hours later, Lu Ye had completed nearly twenty trials and passed the eleventh level of the Hundred Arrays Pagoda. The spiritual energy in the room once again became as dense as mist, and then a palm-sized glow appeared before his eyes.

Looking at the floating glow before him, Lu Ye's eyes twitched.

The glows he had received before were only the size of a fist, and each experience had been extremely unpleasant. Now that it had grown to the size of a palm, the experience would undoubtedly be even worse.

Lu Ye faintly felt that if he truly absorbed and digested the information contained within this glow, he would probably reach his limit.

Even though his psyche was tougher than that of an average Spirit Stream Realm cultivator, he couldn't withstand such torment.

But the reward was right in front of him, and he couldn't just ignore it, especially since this was the return on his hard effort of three Shichen.

With clenched teeth, he reached out to grab the ball of light and pressed it into his forehead.

The next moment, Lu Ye's body became stiff, his vision went dark, and he almost passed out. Struggling to remain conscious, Lu Ye hurriedly absorbed and digested the information.

Gradually, he recovered.

Several Shichen later, he lay exhausted on the ground, without the strength to even move a finger.

This was it, he had truly reached his limit.

Every time he absorbed the reward from the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, it impacted his psyche. Once or twice he hadn't felt much, but after eleven consecutive times, his mind was now somewhat numb, his thoughts were blank and chaotic, and he didn't want to think about anything.

Even though the spiritual energy in the surroundings was dense, making it an excellent opportunity for cultivation, Lu Ye had no desire to move at all.

He just wanted to lie there until the end of time.

He instinctively felt that he had forgotten something, but he simply couldn't muster the energy to think deeply about it.

After an unknown amount of time, a bitter taste spread in his mouth, followed by a cool sensation that quickly spread through his mind, stimulating his stagnant thoughts into motion, and even the fatigue on his psyche rapidly dissipated, becoming vibrant and energetic.

Lu Ye instantly regained his senses, blinked, and belatedly realized that he had grabbed something with his hand and placed it near his mouth.

He quickly got up and looked down to find, just as he had thought, that he was holding the jade vial containing the Soul Cleansing Water. The bitter taste in his mouth was due to him drinking the Soul Cleansing Water.

He then remembered the thing he had forgotten before his thoughts became chaotic, which was to take the Soul Cleansing Water.

He had been told by Shui Yuan that this elixir could be directly consumed, although it would work better if concocted with some other herbs to make a pill. Consuming it directly was somewhat wasteful.

The rewards of the Hundred Arrays Pagoda impacted the psyche, consuming the power of the psyche, so the Soul Cleansing Water should be useful.

This idea had occurred to him before his thoughts became chaotic, but at that time, he had not been in the state of mind to think further about it.

Although he had not thought about it, his body instinctively responded.

The Soul Cleansing Water kept working, sweeping away the fatigue in his psyche.

The sky cleared, the rain stopped, and I was on my way again!

Looking at the Soul Cleansing Water in the jade vial, Lu Ye felt a pang of regret; he had drunk about seven or eight drops just now.

Hurriedly securing the jade vial, Lu Ye started to stimulate the spirit force within his spiritual orifice to construct Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes, absorbing the spiritual energy in the room to replenish his own consumption, while taking out some jerky from his storage sack and chewing vigorously.

His spirits were high, but the physical exhaustion couldn't be replenished by the Soul Cleansing Water. To continue progressing in the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, he needed to quickly restore his physical strength.

Slowly, he completely recovered, and then began to stimulate his spirit force to attack the spiritual orifice barrier.

Generally speaking, each time he passed the trials of the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, after digesting and absorbing the benefits the pagoda granted him, Lu Ye would open a new spiritual orifice, reaching the time limit to proceed to the next level.

After breaking through these eleven layers, Lu Ye had already opened over ten orifices.

This was an unexpected delight. Although he knew there were such benefits after breaking through the pagoda, he had not anticipated the spiritual energy to be so rich, which was even faster than his ordinary cultivation pace for opening orifices.

About one hour later, the time limit arrived, and Lu Ye entered the twelfth level.

...

Yooi Xiao and Bai Qian felt like they were going crazy.

When Lu Ye completed ten levels in five days, causing a resonance in the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, both thought that this guy must have reached his limit and would probably come out soon.

But what happened next blew their minds.

Lu Ye continued to maintain his pace of overcoming two levels a day, rushing upward, and each level continued to trigger a resonance in the Hundred Arrays Pagoda.

Before the 15th level, Bai Qian contacted Zhao Li about every half-hour, asking him to use the imprint in the battlefield marking to confirm whether Lu Ye was dead or alive.

After the 15th level, the two of them became completely numb.

Whatever! The kid from the Righteous Blood Sect had already made such a fuss—how much worse could it get?

In comparison to the two of them, the array cultivators of the Tianyan Sect went crazy.

Because they had witnessed a miracle, an unprecedented miracle. There was still no answer about the identity of the challenger, but it no longer mattered; to the array cultivators of the Tianyan Sect, whoever was challenging the pagoda was already akin to a god-like being. Discover hidden content at My Virtual Library Empire

In just ten days, to continuously challenge twenty levels without rest and to cause the Hundred Arrays Pagoda to resonate with every level—how could this be achieved by human effort?

Each resonance benefited the Tianyan Sect's array cultivators in more or less significant ways, and it can be said that, during these ten days, the proficiency of Tianyan Sect's array cultivators generally improved.

On the 21st level, inside a deadly large array, Lu Ye dodged the various attacks generated by the array while probing its reality to find the big array's flaws.

He had realized that, at this place—the Hundred Arrays Pagoda—every ten levels, the difficulty saw a significant increase, unlike the formations he had encountered before.

He was secretly glad that he had taken the time to eat and replenish his strength during each rest interval, otherwise he would have struggled to keep up.

The various attacks derived from the big array were not very strong, but they were frequent, forcing Lu Ye to find ways to dodge. Otherwise, relying solely on activating the Defense Spirit Runes to defend would be a burden due to the consumption of his own spirit force.

Planting array banners towards all directions, it took a total of sixteen array banners for Lu Ye to find a flaw in this array. He activated the Insight Spirit Runes to confirm it, and once sure, he genuinely began the array destruction.

Another incense stick's time later, the big array stagnated and then shattered with a thunderous collapse.

The second challenge followed immediately.

Since ancient times, countless array cultivators have challenged the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, but even those cultivators whose cultivation was much higher than Lu Ye's had not been able to cause the Hundred Arrays Pagoda to resonate for twenty consecutive levels, not to mention ten consecutive levels.

This was because the rewards granted by the Hundred Arrays Pagoda were immensely shocking to a cultivator's psyche. The better the reward, the greater the impact. Only those strong cultivators who had reached the Divine Sea Realm could withstand the continuous impact of these rewards.

Yet how could cultivators of the Divine Sea Realm come here to challenge the Hundred Arrays Pagoda?

The Hundred Arrays Pagoda of the Tianyan Sect was only the first part, suitable for array cultivators of the Spirit Stream Realm and Cloud River Realm to challenge.

Compared to other array cultivators who came to challenge, Lu Ye had his own advantages.

Firstly, regarding spirit force, after finishing a challenge, array cultivators needed to spend a significant amount of time assimilating the benefits granted by the Hundred Arrays Pagoda before they could focus on restoring their consumed spirit force.

Sometimes, array cultivators were even forced to pause their assimilation to prioritize restoring their spirit force, as lacking sufficient spirit force would undoubtedly make it difficult to continue.

Lu Ye did not need to do so; as he digested and absorbed the benefits granted by the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, the spirit force he consumed was already replenished with the help of the Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes, and he even had extra time to practice opening new spiritual orifices.

This was something no other cultivator challenging the array could compare with.

Another advantage, naturally, was the Soul Cleansing Water.

No one had ever brought Soul Cleansing Water to challenge the array like Lu Ye did. This substance, mainly used to enhance one's Soul Power, was extremely rare and sought after throughout the Nine Provinces, even by strong cultivators in the Divine Sea Realm.

No one used it to recover from mental exhaustion.

Yet Lu Ye did just that, and more than once. Whenever he felt mentally exhausted, he would immediately consume a drop of Soul Cleansing Water to refresh his psyche and quickly become invigorated again.

Replenishing spirit force was not a problem, and with his psyche never exhausted, Lu Ye could exert his utmost effort on each level, achieve the best results, receive rewards from the Hundred Arrays Pagoda to enhance his own Array Path, and then move on to the next level.

This formed an exceptionally beneficial cycle.

Indisputably, the price paid was somewhat high—if those Divine Sea Realm strong cultivators knew what Lu Ye was doing, they would certainly be furious, since even they greatly coveted this preciously wasteful usage of the substance, which was downright outrageous.

But for Lu Ye, it was worth it.

No matter how excellent a treasure was, its real usefulness lay in its function; unused, it would not reproduce.

Moreover, with two-and-a-half bottles of Soul Cleansing Water in his possession, using half a bottle for the Hundred Arrays Pagoda was hardly a significant loss.

This was originally brought from Xianyuan City.

Five days later, Lu Ye had successfully cleared the 30th level, once again causing the Hundred Arrays Pagoda to resonate.

With the experience from before, Lu Ye knew that the difficulty of the 31st level would see another significant increase. Therefore, within the 30th level, he did not rush to practice opening spiritual orifices but focused on recovering himself and even took a short nap to fully refresh his spirit.

Outside the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, the cultivators of the Tianyan Sect truly went mad. The number of cultivators gathered in the valley had more than doubled.

Previously, those who had come were array cultivators, because only array cultivators could gain enlightenment from those resonances. But after the news spread, even cultivators who had not practiced Array Path came to watch the excitement, all eager to know who the formidable person causing the Hundred Arrays Pagoda to resonate thirty consecutive times was, and more eager to know if he could extend his previous brilliance, for in the Hundred Arrays Pagoda of Tianyan Sect, only three levels remained.