Chapter 48: Pursuit

After a day of rest, Lu Ye felt that the fatigue brought by the days of practice was swept away. It was time to move towards the third level of Lingxi!

He did not rush to take the elixir, but first urged his own spiritual power to locate the position of the nineteenth orifice.

Now that he is in the second level of Lingxi, his spiritual power is much stronger and more abundant than two months ago, so locating the position of the spiritual orifice is more handy.

In less than an incense stick of time, he found the location of the nineteenth orifice.

Until then, he took out a soul-enriching pill and took it, refining the pill power, and guiding his own spiritual power to impact the spiritual orifice barrier of the nineteen orifices.

Three days later, after consuming nearly eleven soul-enriching pills, the nineteenth orifice was full.

This result was expected.

Before achieving the Lingxi realm, he opened his orifice about once every three days, which required six elixir pills.

When he reached the first level of Lingxi, the frequency of opening his orifices did not change much, and the number of elixir pills consumed for each opening of an orifice increased, about eight or nine pills.

Now that he has reached the second level of Lingxi, the consumption has increased again, reaching eleven pills, and the time has not changed much. The main reason is that his cultivation level has increased, and the efficiency of refining elixirs has also increased.

It seems that the higher the level of cultivation, the more elixirs will be needed to open the orifices in the future.

At present, he still has twenty elixirs left, and he should be able to open two more orifices.

Lu Ye silently calculated that if he calculated it at the frequency of one orifice every three days, it would take him a full one thousand and eighty days to open three hundred and sixty orifices!

This result made him secretly astonished. He didn't know how other cultivators practiced, but his speed of practice should not be slow. Even so, it would take nearly three years to practice to the ninth level of Lingxi.

In the next few days, Lu Ye stayed at home until the last elixir was used up, and then he walked out of the cave.

The result was similar to what he expected. The spiritual orifices opened to twenty-one orifices, but they were not full.

If he wants to cultivate to the twenty-seven orifices, he needs at least seventy soul pills. The only ore he has is the Yuanci ore. The other miscellaneous ores were sold to the Tianji Business Alliance in the previous two transactions.

This time, he has to sell two Yuanci ores to buy back seventy soul pills.

Half a day later, Lu Ye walked into the Tianji Business Alliance. When he came out again, there were eighty-one soul pills and several soul stones in his storage bag.

A graceful figure stood at the window on the second floor of the Business Alliance. Looking at his back as he left, the figure hesitated for a long time, then sighed, stretched out her hand and touched the back of her hand. A mark immediately appeared on the back of her hand. Unlike the blue battlefield mark on the back of Lu Ye's hand, the mark on the woman's hand was yellow.

She opened her mouth softly, spoke a few words to the mark, and the mark disappeared.

After a cup of tea, she walked out of the Business Alliance. If someone familiar greeted her, she would smile in response.

In Qingyun Mountain, Lu Ye ran towards the cave. He didn't know if it was his illusion or something. He had a strange feeling after leaving Qingyun Market.

But he couldn't tell what was strange.

Until he circled a few circles in the jungle, he suddenly found a figure lingering near him, but before he could see clearly, the figure disappeared.

Was he being targeted? Lu Ye immediately became alert.

He was very careful every time he entered and exited the market, especially on the way back. There were no accidents in the previous two times, but this time he was targeted by an unknown cultivator. This made him a little puzzled. He didn't know whether the person chasing him was looking for him specifically or met him by chance.

If it was the latter, it would be fine. If it was the former, it would be intriguing.

Fortunately, the opponent's speed was not very fast. When Lu Ye used all his strength, it was difficult for that person to catch up with him. So it seemed that the opponent's cultivation was not very high.

This is not difficult to understand. The cultivators who can appear in the outer circle of the battlefield are not very high in cultivation.

Just as he was thinking this, spiritual power suddenly surged from behind, followed by a chill. Lu Ye turned his head and saw an ice ridge breaking through the air and coming in front of him in the blink of an eye.

Lu Ye was shocked and turned around in a hurry. He drew his sword and slashed it. As his spiritual power urged, the long sword broke the ice ridge and scattered the chill all over Lu Ye's face.

Affected by the impact of the ice ridge, Lu Ye's footing was unstable and his body could not help but stagger back a few steps. He rolled over and then stood firm again, making him extremely embarrassed.

However, when he stood up, the attacker had already rushed to him. He was a man a few years older than him, with a white face and no beard. He had two fist-sized earrings hanging on his ears, which was quite exotic.

The weapon in his hand was like a knife or a sword. It was longer than an ordinary sword, but only half the width of a normal blade. It looked a bit like the legendary Embroidered Spring Knife.

While Lu Ye just stood up, the fair-skinned male cultivator chopped down with a knife.

In a hurry, Lu Ye had no time to activate the sharp spiritual pattern to bless the long sword, so he could only raise the sword to block.

With a clang, fire splashed, Lu Ye's palm was numb, and the long sword in his hand almost flew out. He was also pressed down by the knife and his body was short, almost kneeling on the ground.

"Oh?" The fair-skinned man seemed a little surprised. He didn't expect Lu Ye to block his attack.

Just when he was surprised, the long sword in Lu Ye's hand had blocked his weapon and stabbed him in the chest.

The fair-skinned man was not surprised, and the long sword shook slightly a few times. Before Lu Ye could react to what happened, he felt a pain in his arm, and the long sword that was stabbed out became powerless, and was easily dodged by the opponent.

The sword stabbed into the air, causing Lu Ye to lean forward, and a flash of knife light came into his eyes. Lu Ye felt cold all over, and only felt the breath of death coming towards him.

With a clang... sound, the long sword chopped Lu Ye's chest, but it didn't feel like it hit the flesh, but instead chopped Lu Ye away.

Looking at Lu Ye again, a layer of golden light covered his body. It was this layer of golden light that protected him and saved him from the misfortune of being seriously injured! But he realized that he was no match for the opponent, and hurriedly took out a defensive talisman and slapped it on his body.

"Golden body talisman?" The fair-skinned man's eyes were a little red. It was not because he was jealous of Lu Ye's talisman, but this talisman should have been his trophy, but it was wasted by Lu Ye like this, which made him feel heartbroken.

However, he was sure that the information he got was correct. This casual cultivator of the second level of Lingxi was indeed wealthy, otherwise how could he have talismans? You know, any talisman is worth more than ten or twenty spirit stones. Low-level cultivators rarely use talismans in fights. Most people don't have the financial resources, and at most they prepare one or two for emergency use.

Looking at the golden light shrouding Lu Ye, the fair-skinned man retreated several feet, holding a knife in one hand and making hand gestures with the other. With a sneer on his lips, visible spiritual power gathered on his fingertips.