Chapter 177: Earth Core Fire

In the past, the Green Blood Sect had no Lingxi Realm disciples, and the station was unattended, so the casual cultivators could come here. Now it is different. The Green Blood Sect has one more Lu Ye. If Lu Ye insists on driving people away, those casual cultivators will not be able to stay.

After the news of Lu Ye's appearance in the station spread yesterday, many casual cultivators were worried, fearing that they would be driven away.

This is also the reason why Chen Yu hurried to find Lu Ye.

Unexpectedly, before he explained his intention, Lu Ye actually gave him a contract.

Looking down, Chen Yu's expression gradually eased.

The content of the contract is very simple, that is, the situation in the market will remain the same for the time being, but the Green Blood Sect can let the casual cultivators leave at any time.

At the same time, the Green Blood Sect entrusted Chen Yu to manage the market, and if the casual cultivators want to stay in the market, depending on the level of their cultivation, they need to pay two to five spirit stones to the Green Blood Sect every month.

This is the contract drawn up by Shui Yuan. The fee is not high. If it is a few spirit stones, the casual cultivators can afford it. This can bring a certain income to Lu Ye, and also let those casual cultivators know that this is the residence of the Blue Blood Sect. If they want to stay here, they must pay a certain price.

Chen Yu quickly read it, bit his finger very happily, and pressed his fingerprint on the contract.

He and Lu Ye exchanged their respective brandings again, and rushed to the market happily, ready to tell the casual cultivators who were waiting for the news.

Compared with the benefits of the casual cultivators, Chen Yu's gains are naturally greater. Although he was the nominal manager of the market before, he was in name only. Now it is different. With the commission from the Blue Blood Sect, he has a real identity, and it will be more legitimate to manage.

Lu Ye does not need to worry about the affairs of the casual cultivators for the time being. The residence is so large that he can't use it all by himself. Instead of offending people now, it is better to keep it as it is.

In front of the Tianji Pillar, Lu Ye's mind connected with the Tianji Treasure House, looking for the treasures he needs.

After a cup of tea, Lu Ye had a palm-sized box in his hand, and hurried to the training room.

The spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the training room was obviously richer than other places, especially the one he had stayed in yesterday, because there were three spiritual patterns he arranged, which were in effect all the time, making the spiritual energy here much richer than ordinary places.

He opened the door and walked in, sitting down with the box in his arms.

Looking at the box in his hand, Lu Ye was both happy and distressed.

What he was happy about was that there were really all kinds of good things in the Tianji Treasure House, as long as he wanted, he could find it from it. What he was distressed about was that such a small box cost him two hundred merit points, which was much more expensive than the Panshan Knife.

Gently opening the box, a ball of flame about the size of a baby's fist immediately came into view, and a scorching breath spread.

This was a small ball of earth core fire, the cheapest kind of strange fire Lu Ye found in the Tianji Treasure House.

The effect of the talent tree in burning the poison must be restored as soon as possible, which is related to the improvement of his cultivation. Lu Ye had previously guessed that the talent tree needed to absorb some heat or flame power, so that the leaves on it would burn, and then he would get more spiritual patterns.

However, this has always been a guess and could not be verified.

But after a trip to the Tianji Treasure House, this guess was confirmed, because when he stood among the treasures full of burning power and many strange fires, the talent tree dormant in his source spiritual acupoint became obviously active, but because those treasures were in the Tianji Treasure House, the talent tree could not absorb the power from them.

Until this moment, when Lu Ye opened the box in his hand, a trace of strangeness immediately came from the source spiritual acupoint. Lu Ye immediately immersed himself in his mind, and the next moment he saw the roots of the talent tree growing into the earth's core fire in the box.

In just a blink of an eye, the heat disappeared, and the earth's core fire in the box disappeared.

On the talent tree, the fourth leaf burned fiercely!

Before leaving Qingyun Mountain, after the battle in which he obtained the Barrier Breaking Fruit, the fourth leaf had already begun to glow, but because it did not absorb enough energy, it did not achieve a qualitative change.

Today it finally began to burn, in other words, Lu Ye will have another spiritual pattern.

He suppressed his expectations and joy and continued to wait and see, only to find that... it was gone!

The fifth leaf showed no signs of burning, and it did not even glow...

Lu Ye frowned, which was somewhat different from what he expected.

However, he soon discovered that the talent tree had recovered the effect of burning the poison, and his own spiritual power was in operation, and gray mist was constantly being burned out.

The poison in his body had accumulated to a peak after the battle at Jinguangding, causing his spiritual power to be obscure and his spiritual light to be dim, which had a great impact on his strength and practice.

Since the battle at Jinguangding, Lu Ye did not dare to swallow the spiritual pill. Although the second sister had a way to help him expel the poison in his body, the effect was quite good, but there was no way to completely eliminate it.

This kind of thing requires a long time of cultivation and adjustment.

But after the talent tree restored its ability to burn the poison, in just a short time, the spiritual energy in Lu Ye's body became pure again.

The hidden danger that had been there for a long time was finally solved, and Lu Ye felt relieved.

Combining all the previous things, his guess was correct.

The talent tree can absorb the energy of burning or some flames. That energy can make the leaves of the talent tree burn, allowing Lu Ye to master spiritual patterns. In addition, that energy will also be stored in the talent tree as a fuel to burn the poison.

This time, only one leaf burned. Probably because the talent tree needed to accumulate fuel, more energy was stored, and only a small part of it was used to burn the fourth leaf.

There are many treasures in the Tianji Treasury that are suitable for the talent tree to absorb. There are many copies of the Earth Core Fire alone. Lu Ye just bought one copy from it.

So it seems that we still have to get merit! As long as there are enough merits, the role that the talent tree can play will become greater and greater.

Looking at the more than 500 merits he had left, Lu Ye sighed slightly. He almost broke a thousand a few days ago.

Merit is difficult to accumulate, but it is as fast as running water to spend.

Without rushing to practice, Lu Ye focused on the fourth burning leaf of the talent tree, took a deep breath, and his expression became tragic, and his mind was immersed in it.

The burning leaf rapidly enlarged in his vision, obscuring all thoughts, and his brain was forcibly opened again, as if a red-hot iron was inserted in and stirred vigorously!

After a long while, Lu Ye came back to his senses, sweating all over, and shook his head to dispel the discomfort.

Even though he had already reached the fifth level, it was still an extremely unpleasant experience to check the spiritual patterns on the talent tree. Fortunately, he did not faint directly like the first time.

Bloodstained!

This is the name of the fourth spiritual pattern.

After checking its mystery, Lu Ye soon discovered that although this was a spiritual pattern on the attack side, it would not directly increase its own lethality like Fengrui, and it had another function.

But it is undeniable that if this spiritual pattern is used well, it may not be impossible to defeat the strong with the weak!

It is an additional means to fight with a strong enemy.

Every spiritual pattern on the talent tree is very useful, but if you want to get those spiritual patterns, you must first obtain some treasures that are suitable for the talent tree to absorb energy.

In other words, it requires a lot of merit!

Let's not consider these for the time being. Although he still has more than 500 merits, he is not going to buy the earth's core fire again. Merit is something to keep some for backup, maybe it will be used someday.

He stood up and placed spirit stones in the eight positions of the spirit gathering array. When he placed the last piece, Lu Ye thought about it, took out the blood-red scale armor obtained from the dragon spring, and placed it in the groove.

The spirit gathering array can stimulate the power in the spirit stone, and perhaps it can also stimulate the power in the scale armor.

There are a lot of blood lines on the scale armor. Amber has absorbed this thing several times, and every time he is very excited. Lu Ye dare not learn from Amber. After all, the body of the monster is not comparable to him.

However, if the spirit gathering array can stimulate its power, then this is not a safe way to absorb the power in the scale armor.

He also constructed the spirit gathering pattern in his spiritual orifice.

After everything was ready, he began to swallow the elixir and practice. Soon, the room was filled with spiritual energy, and there was some red mist flowing in the spiritual energy. Each mist was like a swimming dragon...

Days passed by, and during the day, he tempered his skills under the care and love of Li Baxian. Every day, he was killed many times by the fourth brother. After each fight, he was covered in blood, and then dragged by the second sister to take a bath for treatment.

At night, he entered the garrison, first explored the mysteries of the Tianji Pillar and the authority of his own guardian, or went to the Tianji Treasure House to broaden his horizons, and then practiced.

Li Baxian did not teach him too many skills to fight the enemy, nor did he teach him any sword and knife skills, because these routines were worthless in Li Baxian's eyes, just for show.

Good knife and sword skills are the simplest killing skills!

What he did was to let Lu Ye remember every injury with his own body. This teaching method can be called cruel. Only the Bixue Sect is now qualified to teach in this way. If it were other sects, I don’t know how many disciples would have been crippled.

At the dinner table, Lu Ye ate his food in big mouthfuls while asking Li Baxian vaguely: "Fourth Senior Brother, how can I quickly gain a lot of merits?"

"Kill the enemy!" Li Baxian said concisely.

"I know killing the enemy, but didn’t you say that I am not suitable for making trouble outside recently?"

It has only been a month since the battle of Jinguangding, and the storm has just subsided. So Li Baxian had told Lu Ye before that it would be better to be more stable in the near future. Fortunately, Lu Ye himself was also recovering from his injuries during this period. He ran back and forth in the sect’s residence every day and had no chance to run out to make trouble.

"In addition to killing the enemy, it is to sell things to the Tianji Treasury."