Chapter 1956: Good Things Take Time

The days became uneventful again. Every day, Lu Ye either helped the Celestial Asura clan burn away the bloodline curse poison or entered Haichuan Tower to examine the numerous jade slips.

Less than two days after the previous incident, Yu Yaorao sent another message, wishing to visit Lu Ye and thank him in person.

This time was different from their encounter in the Grand Beginning Realm. This was a genuine life-saving favor. Back in the Grand Beginning Realm, she at least had the option to withdraw voluntarily; if she felt she couldn't continue, she could simply leave. However, during the trials in the Asura Arena, there was no such option.

It's fair to say that if she hadn't summoned Lu Ye at that crucial moment, her outcome would certainly not have been good.

Of course, Lu Ye couldn't meet her. While being summoned by a summoning order would allow him to directly go to Yu Yaorao's side to assist, his current location was within the Celestial Asura clan's secluded realm. If he were to leave rashly, the Celestial Asuras would have to expend effort to bring him back in.

He replied to Yu Yaorao, telling her he was in seclusion.

Yu Yaorao then dared not disturb him.

Several more months passed. In front of Haichuan Tower, a Celestial Asura cultivator, whose bloodline curse poison he had helped resolve, bowed in thanks and departed.

A Qiduo, who had been accompanying him, spoke up, "Senior Brother, you've worked hard during this period."

Lu Ye paused for a moment, then understood immediately, "Is there no one left?"

A Qiduo nodded, "We've reached a thousand five hundred people."

The Celestial Asura clan comprised about ten thousand members in total, but Mi Shi had previously signed an Asura Contract with Lu Ye. Therefore, Lu Ye only needed to resolve the bloodline curse poison for fifteen hundred people. With these members able to procreate and thrive, the Celestial Asura clan would no longer be troubled by the curse poison in the future. Even if their reproduction remained difficult, they would always have a chance to rise again.

At this point, the Asura Contract was truly complete. In addition to the artifact he had initially acquired, Lu Ye now enjoyed the same 50% discount on material exchanges from the Asura Treasury as the Celestial Asura clan. This single discount alone would save him an unknown amount of Asura Seals in the future.

"If Senior Brother wishes to leave, I can escort you out," A Qiduo offered again.

Lu Ye pondered briefly, then asked, "What if I want to return after leaving?" The ancient jade slips inside Haichuan Tower intrigued him. Although he hadn't found anything particularly interesting recently, Lu Ye still wanted to examine them more.

A Qiduo replied, "At that time, you'll just need to send me a message, and I will bring Senior Brother back in." This place was an absolute forbidden zone for others; no outsiders had ever entered it throughout history. However, Lu Ye was naturally different.

Lu Ye nodded and, after thinking for a moment, said, "Then go about your business. I'll let you know when I'm ready to leave."

"Very well, Senior Brother. Call me anytime," A Qiduo responded before withdrawing.

No longer needing to help the Celestial Asura clan with the bloodline curse poison, Lu Ye spent the next period of time continuously in Haichuan Tower.

Initially, apart from seeing many novel records that broadened his horizons, he still hadn't gained much. That was until one day when he picked up a somewhat damaged jade slip.

"Three thousand years of cultivation, yet no further progress is possible, but I can feel it… how can this bottleneck be broken?"

"The external avatar method cannot solve this; I can only store power in advance. But if the door doesn't open, everything will be..."

"The inner core method is also useless; it cannot reach that level. Must I simply wait? But if the door opens, that will be a catastrophe."

"I asked Senior Brother Xun Yun; as expected of one who cultivates ancient methods, he has actually achieved enlightenment!"

"I regret not persevering back then. If only I had also cultivated ancient methods..."

"But how easy is it to cultivate ancient methods? Changes in the environment have long since caused these cultivation techniques to disappear. Senior Brother Xun Yun's success involved a great deal of luck, as well as the full support of his entire clan."

"My mind is plagued by inner demons... I've decided to enter seclusion..."

The records on the jade slip, like those he had previously examined, were fragmented, but he could generally discern some information. Lu Ye felt an itching curiosity because this jade slip once again mentioned "that door."

Judging solely from the records on the jade slip, the owner of this slip had reached a cultivation limit. He seemed to sense his own bottleneck, but unfortunately, he couldn't break through it. To do so, he could only wait for "the door" to open.

Yet, he was very concerned, because if the door opened, it would be a catastrophe.

There were also methods like the "external avatar method" and the "inner core method"... Lu Ye had no idea what these were.

What intrigued him most was Senior Brother Xun Yun, mentioned in the jade slip, who cultivated ancient methods. The only ancient method Lu Ye knew so far was the Three Flowers method, but he wasn't sure if Senior Brother Xun Yun was indeed cultivating the Three Flowers.

It seemed that cultivators of ancient methods had more advantages compared to those who cultivated normally. Senior Brother Xun Yun had achieved enlightenment, but what kind of enlightenment?

After a long silence, Lu Ye put down the jade slip and continued his search.

He didn't know how much time had passed when his Asura Token suddenly showed activity. Lu Ye looked down to check and found that someone from the Moonstone Battle Arena was challenging him.

He immediately ignored it...

This was because he was no longer the top-ranked competitor in the Moonstone Battle Arena. Having spent nearly two years in the Celestial Asura clan's secluded realm, it was inevitable that someone would challenge him over such a long period.

Initially, it was A Bu Luo and Gu Sheng, who, unable to contact him, sought to force him to appear through this method.

Lu Ye naturally did not respond, and his ranking subsequently dropped. Even Tian Yan later came to challenge him...

After that, his ranking continued to fall, and he was now well outside the top five hundred.

If he hadn't signed the Asura Contract with Mi Shi, Lu Ye might have still intended to maintain his top position. According to the rules of the Asura Arena, holding the top rank for a certain number of times granted a discount on resource exchanges from the Asura Treasury.

A significant reason he initially competed for the top rank was for this discount, but now it was no longer necessary to care.

Could any discount be better than what the Celestial Asura clan members received?

As for the top rank, it was merely an empty title; at Lu Ye's level, he no longer cared about it.

After a while, Lu Ye left this realm and returned to the Celestial Asura World. He first visited the Bounty Hall, accepted a few suitable missions, and then participated in a trial.

The number of jade slips in Haichuan Tower was too vast to examine completely in a short time, and prolonged examination was indeed tiring. Occasionally participating in a trial could also offer relaxation and stretch his muscles.

Now that he enjoyed such a discount, the Asura Seals he earned effectively had double their value.

This time, the trial was much more normal without the Celestial Asura clan's secret intervention, just like his very first trial.

Even the Dice of Fate landed on "auspicious," allowing him to overcome obstacles and defeat the final enemy, successfully completing this trial.

However, the Asura Seal reward he received at settlement left Lu Ye somewhat unenthusiastic, as it was less than two hundred thousand Asura Seals...

He recalled that his very first trial had only yielded over a hundred thousand Asura Seals. He had previously discussed with A Bu Luo and Gu Sheng that trials at the Moonstone level typically yielded less than two hundred thousand Asura Seals, rarely exceeding three hundred thousand.

However, since entering the Asura Arena, Lu Ye had rapidly accumulated a large number of Asura Seals by competing in battlefields, and later made a substantial profit at the Bounty Hall.

The trial in Ding'an City, in particular, had yielded over seven million Asura Seals in one go...

Having grown accustomed to delicacies, suddenly having to eat coarse food was too great a disparity.

But he knew that this was actually the normal speed and efficiency for earning Asura Seals; his previous rapid accumulation of wealth was abnormal.

The Celestial Asura clan's interference in the Asura Arena had its limits. After their last intervention in the Ding'an City realm, they couldn't replicate that method again in the short term.

Lu Ye could only console himself with the thought that good things take time.

After completing the trial, he messaged A Qiduo, asking her to bring him back to the secluded realm, where he continued to immerse himself in Haichuan Tower.

One day, Lu Ye casually picked up a jade slip and focused his gaze on it.

"Ancient Method: The Secret of the Three Flowers"

A line of large characters instantly appeared before his eyes, and Lu Ye couldn't help but be stunned, then his spirits soared!

He knew it. A race like the Celestial Asuras, which had once been supreme, couldn't possibly lack records of the Three Flowers. After all, a previous jade slip he had examined mentioned someone referring to a senior brother who cultivated an ancient method.

After such a long search, he finally had a breakthrough. Truly, effort pays off!

He immediately composed himself and began to examine it carefully, secretly hoping that the jade slip wasn't too severely damaged.

A moment later, Lu Ye held the jade slip, a thoughtful expression on his face.

The jade slip wasn't too severely damaged; although the latter half was almost unreadable, the various records in the first half were still decipherable.

According to the records on this jade slip, he hadn't taken the wrong path. During the Constellation Realm, he had specifically gone to the Yin-Yang Grand Millstone to temper his physical body, enabling him to condense the Flower of the Body.

And now, in the Moonstone Realm, he indeed needed to refine his own dharma source to perfection before he could condense the Flower of Qi.

As for the subsequent Sunlit level involving the Flower of Spirit, Lu Ye couldn't discern much.

The jade slip recorded that each step was extremely difficult, as one had to reach the absolute extreme in a given realm to condense the Three Flowers.

The Flower of the Body, while difficult, had actually been achieved by many throughout history. However, the perfection of the dharma source required for the Flower of Qi had stumped countless prodigious cultivators.

It wasn't about innate talent, but simply required too many rare treasures. Only cultivators from top clans, with their own lineage as support, had any hope of meeting this condition.

For someone like Lu Ye, who lacked strong backing, he could only rely on his own efforts. But how could one achieve such a feat alone, and how long would it take?

Even in prosperous places like the Myriad Manifestation Sea, treasures that could refine the quality of one's dharma source were immediately snatched up upon appearance, as too many cultivators had a demand for such items.

From this perspective, Lu Ye actually admired those cultivators who practiced the Three Flowers method. He had his Talent Tree to rely on and had been guided by the Reincarnation Tree, which allowed him to embark on this path. It could be said that he inherently possessed more advantages than other cultivators. Others did not have his unique conditions, and their efforts on this path would undoubtedly be far greater than his.