Chapter 69: Third Floor

Amber, who was eating on the side, shrank her head and the noise she made when swallowing food was much quieter.

When Yiyi saw it like this, she knew it must have done something wrong...

She pursed her lips and asked Lu Ye: "What did Amber do wrong?"

Lu Ye turned his head and glared at Amber, and briefly told her about Amber's rash rush when he went to rescue her before, and then said: "Remember the first of our three rules?"

Yiyi sat in front of him obediently, with her back straight, and immediately replied: "Everything is based on you. If we disagree, I will listen to you!"

"You have a good memory!"

Yiyi turned her head and whispered: "Amber!"

Amber whimpered, and his strong body slowly moved in front of Yiyi, raised his eyes, and looked at her pitifully. Yiyi raised her hand and slapped Amber on the head: "Lu Ye told you not to be impulsive, why didn't you listen? You can't rush at that time, you have to follow the arrangement."

Slap him for every word.

Yiyi also knew that Amber's previous impulse had some bad consequences. Judging from the results, Lu Ye killed the four monks and rescued her, but if Amber could be more patient, the situation would definitely be better, and Lu Ye might not have fainted because of this.

This time, she was able to escape, all thanks to Lu Ye's decisiveness. If Amber had rushed out at that time, he would have missed the opportunity if he had hesitated a little.

Yiyi remembered this favor in her heart, and in order to teach Amber a lesson, she was merciless and hit Amber's head.

"Okay." Lu Ye interrupted her and looked at her seriously: "I don't want this kind of thing to happen again."

It wasn't long after the cooperation started, and everyone had to adapt to each other and have a running-in period, but it was enough to experience this kind of thing once. If it happened again, Lu Ye couldn't guarantee that he could get away with it. He didn't want to be killed by his own people one day.

"Got it!" Yiyi nodded and looked at Amber again: "Remember?"

Amber whimpered softly, which was considered a response.

Yiyi looked at Lu Ye again and said sincerely, "Thank you!"

This thank you was for Amber and for herself. After all, Lu Ye risked his life to help her escape, and this matter was not over yet. They were trapped in the Sky-Splitting Gorge, and it was unknown whether they could escape.

Lu Ye waved his hand and checked his condition. There was no need to worry too much about the injury. He just needed to recuperate for a few days. His spiritual power had been consumed a lot in the previous battle and needed to be replenished. However, what surprised him was that the spiritual barrier of the twenty-sixth orifice showed some signs of loosening.

He had practiced until the twenty-fifth orifice was full, and had not tried to impact the twenty-sixth orifice. Now he thought that it should be because the spiritual power surged during the fierce battle with Zhang Wu and impacted the spiritual barrier.

This was a good thing, saving him some time to practice.

But before that, he had to replenish his spiritual power. In such a dangerous environment, it was very important to have a good condition. He might encounter a fierce battle at any time, and Lu Ye would not have time to recover at that time.

However, he was not in a hurry to practice, but winked at Yiyi.

Yiyi understood and patted Amber's head. The spirit and the tiger immediately separated and went to both sides of the corridor.

In this way, with the two of them monitoring the corridor, Lu Ye would not be blocked in the corridor and would have room to advance and retreat when encountering danger.

After Yiyi and Amber left, Lu Ye looked down at the back of his hand again. After activating his spiritual power, the back of his hand was covered with a layer of blue light, which turned into several lines of large characters.

Name: Lu Ye.

Identity: Disciple of the Blue Blood Sect.

Cultivation: Twenty-five Apertures.

Merit: Thirty-four.

Lu Ye looked at the line of merit numbers in astonishment, and couldn't figure out where the number thirty-four came from.

Last time, he killed the fair-skinned man and Liu Ruyin in Qingyun Mountain and got eight merit points. This time, he killed four people, and the merit became thirty-four. In other words, the four people gave him a full twenty-six merit points.

Lu Ye is still unclear about the use of merit. He asked Yiyi, but Yiyi didn't seem to know much about it. Her memory was severely impaired. She knew some things, but she didn't know some things.

This thing must be useful, but how and where it can work, we have to explore slowly.

If you don't understand, you don't bother to think about it.

Lu Ye threw a soul-enriching pill into his mouth, refined the pill power, replenished his own consumption, and his spiritual power slowly recovered.

Lu Ye had discovered before that the efficiency of recovery and cultivation, as well as the consumption of spiritual pills, are very different. When it comes to simple recovery, the speed is much faster than cultivation, and the consumption will be much smaller.

The most intuitive comparison is that Lu Ye has opened twenty-five orifices now, and the total amount of spiritual pills he spent during the period is nearly two hundred, which took nearly three months. But if he ran out of spiritual power in the battle and wanted to replenish it, it would be impossible to consume two hundred spiritual pills, let alone three months.

If this is true, the price a cultivator needs to pay after a battle is too high.

During the practice, the power of the elixir is often depleted, and it takes a lot of effort to polish the spiritual orifice. It is a gradual process from opening a spiritual orifice to fullness, but once the elixir is full, it is much easier to restore it.

Time passed, and the elixir was consumed one by one. Two days later, Lu Ye recovered completely, but there were only more than 20 elixir pills left in his hand.

There was no movement from Yiyi and Amber, and it seemed that their location was safe for the time being.

Lu Ye was not in a hurry to leave. He didn't know what was going on outside. Leaving rashly would only make the situation more troublesome.

He was only two orifices away from the third level of Lingxi. The barrier of the twenty-six orifices was still loose, and there were enough spiritual pills in his hand, so Lu Ye decided to improve his cultivation by one level first.

At the second level, he could cooperate with Amber and Yiyi to kill Zhang Wu. If he reached the third level, his strength would increase, which would be of great help to the current situation!

What's more, his injuries had not healed yet, so he could take advantage of these few days to recuperate.

Having made up his mind, Lu Ye continued to swallow the spiritual pills and urged his spiritual power to attack the barrier of the twenty-six orifices.

Five days later, in the corridor in the belly of the mountain, Lu Ye sat cross-legged with a solemn expression. He had opened the twenty-seven orifices the day before yesterday, and spent some spiritual pills to cultivate the twenty-seven orifices to a full state. Today was the time to advance to the third level of Lingxi!

With the previous two experiences, Lu Ye was very familiar with it this time. The spiritual power started from the 19th orifice and followed the route of the exercise, passing through the 20th orifice, the 21st orifice, and finally the 27th orifice.

The spiritual power kept running in these nine orifices, repeating over and over again, and the speed was getting faster and faster, until a certain moment, it broke through a bottleneck, and Lu Ye, who was sitting cross-legged, was shaken, and the spiritual power around him surged.