Sage of Humanity-Chapter 551 - 549: Spirit Energy-Storing Ring

The batch of resources was shared by many sects of the Haotian Alliance, but thanks to Lu Ye's merits, the Righteous Blood Sect got the lion's share.

It was precisely because of that batch of resources that Shui Yuan finally stepped into the Divine Sea Realm.

But at that time, the sect needed to continue developing, so Shui Yuan dared not use too many resources.

However, as Lu Ye maneuvered through the Core Circle and extorted materials worth twenty or thirty million from the major sects of Ten Thousand Demons Ridge's Core Circle, Shui Yuan was no longer restricted in using resources for cultivation.

It was foreseeable that, with another batch of resources coming in, Shui Yuan's cultivation would grow even higher in the future.

After all, currently in the entire Righteous Blood Sect, only she and the sect master were at the Divine Sea Realm, and the sect master no longer needed to cultivate much. If Shui Yuan wished, she could pour all the sect's resources into herself, an advantage that no other Divine Sea Realm cultivator could match.

Lu Ye was currently only in the Cloud River Realm and didn't need to consider the future too deeply, it wouldn't be too late to think about it after advancing to the True Lake Realm.

Within the Heaven's Augury treasure vault, Lu Ye picked through his storage space, selling some items that neither he nor his sect needed in the immediate future, and his merit points increased at an impressively fast rate.

He stopped only when he nearly reached the three hundred thousand mark.

Nearly three hundred thousand merit points were enough for him to use, even if he met some irresistible danger in the future, he could still summon a Heaven's Augury Pillar to escape.

But then again, it's not always certain that calling a Heaven's Augury Pillar in danger will ensure escape.

In the hunting grounds, he was protected by the Golden Body Token, which is why so many cultivators from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge couldn't handle him. Without the Golden Body Token, even if he summoned a Heaven's Augury Pillar, he might not be able to reach it.

Therefore, only with enough space and time to maneuver could he use this method to save his life.

Immediately after, Lu Ye began purchasing Earth's Core Fire, devouring them one after another.

The fuel for the Talent Tree needed urgent replenishing. Previously, he only knew that the Talent Tree could burn toxins, but now he knew it could even burn Soul-Destroying Divine Lightning that had invaded his body. There might be other things it could burn in the future, so he naturally had to pay more attention to fuel.

Time passed, and the portions of Earth's Core Fire were devoured clean.

To Lu Ye's surprise, the leaves of the Talent Tree showed no reaction at all.

It was not until he had devoured nearly two hundred portions of Earth's Core Fire that a leaf on the Talent Tree began to show signs of burning.

Lu Ye guessed that his recent experiences had also caused some crisis for the Talent Tree, so the previously devoured Earth's Core Fire had all been stored as fuel until it felt that it had enough reserves to allow the leaves to change.

It had been a long time since he had obtained new spirit runes from the Talent Tree. Lu Ye was curious about what spirit runes he would get next, so he continued to buy and devour more Earth's Core Fire.

After buying about another hundred portions, when Lu Ye wanted to purchase more, he was startled to find that the Earth's Core Fire was gone!

This revelation left him stunned; he had always thought that this item in the Heaven's Augury treasure vault was inexhaustible.

Upon reflection, he realized he had taken it for granted. The items in the Heaven's Augury treasure vault did not appear out of thin air; every treasure had a specific source.

The most widespread statement was that the items in the Heaven's Augury treasure vault were closely related to the Heaven's Augury Mercantile Union.

Because someone had once sold items to the Heaven's Augury Mercantile Union, they ended up finding traces of those items in the treasure vault.

Thinking of this, the Earth's Core Fire must also be something that cultivators collected from somewhere and then sold to the treasure vault. Lu Ye wasn't sure how this item was collected, but those who used it were either engaged in alchemy or artifact refining, and the amounts they purchased were not very large, which is why there was always a large stock.

But in his case, he often bought dozens or hundreds at a time, and this time, buying several hundred portions at once, he had bought out all the stock of Earth's Core Fire.

Without Earth's Core Fire, there should still be other fires.

Led by a slight stirring of his mind, Lu Ye uses the Heaven's Augury treasure vault to search for the things he wanted.

A moment later, many items related to flames appeared in his view.

However, each of these items was somewhat different, and the most numerous were pill fires.

Pill fire was not the flame used for alchemy, but the demonic pills of fire attribute demon beasts, each pill like a bundle of burning flames.

The prices also varied greatly, starting from five or six hundred merit points, with some costing several thousand to tens of thousands of merit points.

In them, Lu Ye also saw an item called Extreme Icy Flames, which seemed to be a type of uncanny fire. Just looking at it gave a profoundly cold feeling, as the flames displayed a ghostly blue color.

This item was expensively priced at one hundred eighty thousand merit points!

It reminded him of the Phoenix True Fire he obtained in the Land of Fiery Flames.

If placed in the Heaven's Augury treasure vault, it would probably also be valued highly, possibly even more than the Extreme Icy Flames, because what Lu Ye had were just meant to be devoured by the Talent Tree, whereas others could use such uncanny fires to cultivate some unique secret techniques, naturally making their value incomparable.

Devouring the Phoenix True Fire had added a Fire Phoenix Spirit Rune to the Talent Tree. Lu Ye was curious to know if devouring the Extreme Icy Flames would cause any change to the Talent Tree.

But the price of one hundred eighty thousand merit points made him dismiss the thought.

Even though he had the capital to afford this amount of merit points, after some consideration, he decided against it.

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It wouldn't make sense to devour the Extreme Icy Flames only to end up with an ice flame type of spirit rune, as there were no such spirit runes in the world, and obtaining no corresponding spirit runes while merely devouring it would not be cost-effective.

After sweeping away all the flames priced under a thousand points, Lu Ye finally stopped.

Almost three hundred thousand merits, and in an instant, he spent a hundred thousand. Indeed, money came fast and went fast.

This was only in the Cloud River Realm. Once he reached the True Lake Realm and Divine Sea Realm, that was when he would need to expend the most merits. The path of a cultivator's cultivation, while talent and aptitude were important, without sufficient financial support, it was still difficult to rapidly increase one's cultivation.

The Talent Tree was still devouring those flames, but this time, Lu Ye planned to save some for later use, to avoid a situation where the Talent Tree ran out of fuel again.

As he immersed his mind, with each flame being devoured, the leaves on the Talent Tree also began to burn one by one.

Lu Ye couldn't help but feel expectant.

Compared to the spirit runes he learned from books, the spirit runes on the Talent Tree were what he could freely manipulate, often indirectly boosting his strength.

He continued searching in the Heaven's Augury treasure vault.

He was looking for a spirit artifact that could store spirit force.

The Fire Phoenix Spirit Runes, he had used them twice, and those experiences were still fresh in his memory.

It must be said, at times, this spirit rune could play a decisive role, but the cost required to activate it was too great.

Not to mention the side effects which he could slowly recover from afterward as long as his situation was safe.

However, the amount of spirit force needed to support the activation of this spirit rune was alarmingly huge, which was a problem that needed to be solved.

Previously, he had relied on the spirit energy storing spirit runes to construct this spirit rune, but if he had a spirit artifact for storing spirit force, it wouldn't be so troublesome.

He could completely store the spirit force in the spirit artifact in advance, and use it when needed.

The Heaven's Augury treasure vault had all kinds of treasures, and surely there were numerous spirit artifacts for storing spirit force.

Sure enough, moments later, hundreds of spirit artifacts capable of storing spirit force appeared in Lu Ye's view, each differing in quality, price, and even shape.

Lu Ye carefully picked and chose, eventually selecting a ring.

This object was convenient to wear and not easy to lose, and its quality was also good, with the classification of a supreme-grade spirit artifact.

In the category of spirit artifacts, quality primarily depended on how many restrictions were constructed during the making of the artifact.

Below nine restrictions, it was a low-grade spirit artifact.

From nine to eighteen restrictions, it was mid-grade.

From eighteen to twenty-seven for top-grade.

From twenty-seven to thirty-six, it was supreme-grade.

Different qualities meant different prices. Generally, if one were to buy a supreme-grade spirit artifact from the Heaven's Augury treasure vault, the price would usually be between fifteen hundred to two thousand points, with not a great disparity.

From Lu Ye's perspective, a mere one or two thousand merits were naturally not much, easily obtainable.

But for most Cloud River Realm cultivators, one or two thousand points of merit was already a lot, especially since each cultivator possessed more than one spirit artifact.

As their cultivation continuously improved, spirit artifacts also needed to be replaced, so cultivators spent a lot of their merits on spirit artifacts.

Of course, they could also use Spirit Stones to make purchases from the Heaven's Augury Mercantile Union instead of using merits, but the prerequisite was having enough Spirit Stones, and indeed, it turned out to be even more expensive when calculated.

The spirit energy-storing ring chosen by Lu Ye was ridiculously expensive, amounting to four thousand merits.

Firstly, spirit energy-storing artifacts were specialized spirit artifacts, not weapons for cultivators to battle with, making them pricier than normal spirit artifacts due to their rarity.

Secondly, this was the smallest of all spirit energy-storing artifacts, the most convenient to carry, and naturally, it was even more expensive.

With the spirit energy-storing ring now in hand, Lu Ye wore it on his finger, fitting perfectly and not affecting his usual sword swinging. It inherently had the capability to absorb and store the spirit force that normally floated around a cultivator's body, so even if Lu Ye did not actively infuse it with spirit force, as long as he wore it over time, it could store a substantial amount of spirit force.

When Lu Ye needed it, he could directly extract the spirit force from it, much more efficiently than using elixir pills to recover his own.

Having bought what he needed and sold what he should have, Lu Ye checked his own battlefield marking.

On the merit column, it clearly showed: one hundred and ninety-three thousand six hundred forty-three points.

The main event was about to begin.

The rewards from the Kills Ranking in the hunting field!

Since his return from the hunting field, Lu Ye hadn't dealt with this matter, choosing instead to immediately enter the Spirit Stream battlefield after he had recovered.

Now he finally had the time.

When the hunting field closed, Heaven's Augury had granted him a golden marking on the back of his hand. With this marking, Lu Ye could connect to any Heaven's Augury Pillar, link to the Heaven's Augury treasure vault, and claim his rewards.