Sage of Humanity-Chapter 679 - 677: Cloud River 6th Layer Realm

At a certain moment, as Lu Ye was carefully comprehending the gifts from the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, a humming sound suddenly emanated from within his body, like the roaring tides of a great river.

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He immediately regained his focus, feeling his own condition.

It was only then that he realized the spirit force river within his body felt extremely swollen, and as the small spirit energy gathering funnels distributed throughout his body kept performing their functions, pure and rich Spiritual Energy was being devoured into his body, making that feeling of fullness stronger and stronger.

The breakthrough was imminent.

With this realization, he immediately guarded his mind.

The sound resembling the flow of river water grew louder, the crashing of waves clearer and clearer, and the spirit force river seemed to come alive, expanding and contracting relentlessly.

Then, at a certain moment, accompanied by a thunderous expansion of the spirit force river and a violent surge of spirit force, a wave of air, invisible yet emanating from Lu Ye as the center spread out. With the dispersal of this wave, the invisible shackles within also burst apart, and the feeling of fullness was no longer to be found.

All the abnormal sounds were quieted in an instant, the surging spirit force flowing rapidly through the river in his body, cycling faster than before.

Lu Ye suddenly felt as if he had undergone a transformation.

Cloud River Level 6!

Silently perceiving his own body, Lu Ye could clearly sense that the volume of the spirit force river inside of him was much larger than before.

When cultivators are in the Spirit Stream Realm, the main purpose of cultivation is to open orifices, fully opened orifices mean reaching a state of Perfection with three hundred and sixty orifices.

Of course, everyone has different aptitudes. Most cultivators are unable to open all three hundred and sixty orifices; some can only open around two hundred, others manage to open three hundred.

The Spirit Stream Realm is the foundation for cultivators, where the number of orifices opened can generally affect a cultivator's achievements for their entire life. Naturally, the more orifices, the better.

However, there's always a way out. Even if a cultivator has not achieved Great Perfection, it is still possible to advance to the Cloud River Realm. But the minimum requirement is to open at least two hundred and forty orifices and to learn a Heaven Rank technique, because only a Heaven Rank technique's cultivation route can connect all of a cultivator's orifices together to achieve a spirit force river!

Only when a spirit force river is formed inside the body, can a cultivator truly be considered to have advanced to the Cloud River Realm.

At the Cloud River Realm stage, the cultivator's task is to keep expanding the volume of the spirit force river until it covers the entire body. When that happens, the spirit force river isn't merely a river anymore; it is a lake of spirit force within the cultivator's body, known as the True Lake Realm.

With the spirit force covering the entire body, the cultivator's control and mobilization of their spirit force will ascend to a new level. Hence, True Lake Realm cultivators are far more powerful than those in the Cloud River Realm.

Though cultivators in the Cloud River Realm can also stimulate their spirit force to cover any corner of their body, there's still a process of spirit force flow involved; the spirit force needs to first flow out from the spirit force river and then be controlled to move to the appropriate location.

But for True Lake Realm cultivators, even a random patch of skin contains pure spirit force.

Now that Lu Ye has advanced to Cloud River Level 6, he is only three small levels away from reaching the True Lake Realm.

Moreover, he could feel that the improvement his advancement brought this time was significantly greater than before.

This was rather peculiar, as every realm in a cultivator's journey is divided into nine minor levels, and it's common to feel a surge in strength at Level 4 and Level 7.

There doesn't seem to be such a saying regarding Level 6.

But soon, Lu Ye understood the reason.

Previously, he had received a baptism from Heaven's Augury in Fox Fairy Valley, which greatly increased his foundation. The increase in foundation does not immediately show, but gradually reveals itself with subsequent improvements in cultivation.

In other words, even though others may also be advancing from Cloud River Level 5 to Level 6, the growth they obtain wouldn't be as massive as Lu Ye's.

This was naturally a good thing; with the people of Ten Thousand Demons Ridge always watching and blocking his path, being stronger meant he had more means to protect himself.

The lurking danger that Lu Ye was concerned about had also been resolved.

Ever since he returned from Xianyuan City, he had always felt, albeit faintly, that his physical body was struggling to contain his psyche. Now that his cultivation had increased by one level, that feeling had disappeared.

Of course, this was only temporary.

He had so much Soul Cleansing Water at hand, and he continued to take it as he braved the challenges of the Hundred Arrays Pagoda; it was meant to alleviate the pressure on his psyche and the impact of the massive influx of information. However, it was also silently strengthening his psyche.

If this continued, the very danger he had just resolved might reappear.

Thus, the path of cultivation was arduous and long. This kind of happy trouble was probably difficult for other cultivators in the Nine Provinces to understand.

"Yiyi, how many levels have I passed?" Lu Ye gathered his thoughts and asked.

"Fifteen levels," Yiyi, who was meditating nearby, replied.

Fifteen levels, with less than six hours to cultivate on each level. The cultivation environment here was nearly indistinguishable from the effects of using a spirit fortune stick. All things considered, the time he had spent cultivating inside the Hundred Arrays Pagoda was equivalent to the consumption of nearly three gold-hued spirit fortune sticks.

Three gold-hued spirit fortune sticks were certainly not enough for him to make a breakthrough, but ever since leaving Fox Fairy Valley, he had been swallowing a large number of elixir pills daily. After such an extended period of time, he had made significant progress within the Level 5 realm.

With a total of thirty-three levels in the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, this meant there were still eighteen levels left, which could invisibly provide him with an environment equivalent to three more gold-hued spirit fortune sticks for his cultivation.

It wouldn't be enough for him to advance to the Cloud River Level 7, but it would significantly increase his cultivation, shortening the time he would need to reach Level 7.

It was somewhat imperfect, but still acceptable.

Once again, the small space fell silent as Yiyi continued her cultivation. Amber swallowed a demonic pill and began to snore loudly as she fell into a deep sleep by the side.

Lu Ye immersed himself once more in comprehending the benefits granted by the Hundred Arrays Pagoda.

As time passed and the Spiritual Energy around him suddenly vanished, Lu Ye stood up, awaiting the arrival of his next trial.

Outside the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, it was a sea of people.

Half the population of Hundred Arrays City had gathered, and many others, upon receiving the message, were hurrying over in a frenzy.

If at first some had suspected that the resonance of the Hundred Arrays Pagoda was artificially triggered, there were few who still held such a belief now.

Because it was simply too preposterous.

In the span of five days, there were a total of twenty resonances, averaging one every six hours. This was clearly not something humanly achievable.

After confirming that these resonances were not set off by any array cultivator, the majority of the array cultivators felt much more at ease.

People are ultimately like this. Sometimes, they don't mind their mediocrity, or have already accepted it, but they always feel inferior when someone exceptionally talented appears.

Fortunately, such a situation did not occur here. The cause of the resonances at the Hundred Arrays Pagoda was not due to human intervention.

Only Cultivator Luo, in his spare moments, would occasionally look up at the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, his heart churning with immense doubt.

Was it that man braving the tower? Were these repeated resonances truly not caused by a person?

But regardless of whether it was artificial or not, this time he had gained tremendously. Originally, he had no confidence in tackling the challenge of Level 51, but in these five days and under the inspiration from the twenty resonances, he felt a clear improvement in his understanding of the Array Path and was confident that he could overcome Level 51!

He was not in a hurry to set out, as he was uncertain whether there would be more resonances.

Looking around, the noise and clamor of his surroundings made him frown.

When did the area outside the Hundred Arrays Pagoda become so chaotic...

In the past, although there were quite a number of cultivators gathered here, they were all array cultivators. They would discuss and debate while seated and always made sure not to disturb others, but now... with more people, the scene had become disorderly.

Cultivator Luo shook his head, not bothering with it, and carefully savored the insights he had just experienced.

At this moment, in front of the safe passage leading from Hundred Arrays City to the front of the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, several figures hurried over, covered in dust.

If Lu Ye were here, he probably would have exclaimed in frustration at the persistent haunting.

Because among those who arrived were several Level 9 cultivators who had previously attempted to kill him.

Xia Liang and Tan Sheng from the Sacred Fire Order, Chu Yun and Zhou Pei, were all present.

They had previously chased Lu Ye to River Pi, only for Lu Ye to be saved by a mysterious woman and, with the help of a teleportation array, to vanish without a trace.

They were frustrated at not being able to inquire about Lu Ye's whereabouts when suddenly news came that Lu Ye had appeared outside the Hundred Arrays Pagoda.

Considering Lu Ye was an array cultivator, it made sense that he would show up near the Hundred Arrays Pagoda. Therefore, these individuals rushed over in a hurry, fearing that if they were to arrive late, Lu Yiye would escape once again.

They were not together; it was merely a coincidence that they had all arrived at the same time.