Chapter 2318: Su Yan's Innate Divine Ability

The Winds of Kyushu Rise

“How many Star Abyss Coins have you accumulated?” Lu Ye asked.

Su Yan looked a bit embarrassed. “Just over a hundred…”

Lu Ye was momentarily at a loss for words. He could only conclude that Su Yan’s wish was beautiful, but reality was ultimately cruel.

The Star Abyss Scions’ contention had already passed its halfway mark. For Su Yan to have accumulated over a hundred Star Abyss Coins wasn’t a small feat, especially since she usually acted alone. If not for her formidable strength, she wouldn’t have gathered even that much. However, the Mirror Realm required five hundred Star Abyss Coins to exchange for. Lu Ye estimated that even if the contention concluded, Su Yan wouldn’t be able to gather enough for the exchange.

“You should have been the one to collect those Star Abyss Coins earlier,” Lu Ye said, feeling a pang of regret. Although the coins reaped from that battle were only a little over a hundred, not enough when combined, it would have at least given Su Yan some hope if she had collected them herself.

Su Yan lowered her head. “Actually… Big Brother’s Star Abyss Coins can be given to me.”

Lu Ye shook his head. “You might not know this, but during this contention, cultivators can’t trade any resources among themselves.” He had already tried this before.

This was also why Song Weiwei had never collected any Star Abyss Coins herself; if she collected them, they would be hers and couldn’t be transferred to Lu Ye. Only one type of item was an exception: special treasures or other valuable items nurtured within this cosmic fragment. That’s why Dao Power Vials could be used by Su Yan, and personal treasures, like the one taken by the female ghost cultivator earlier, could be intercepted and plundered by others.

“Others can’t, but we can, between us,” Su Yan stated.

Lu Ye’s heart stirred, and he quickly understood. “Because of the Twin Hearts Knot?”

Su Yan nodded. “Other people’s partnerships are merely verbal agreements, but our partnership is bound by the Twin Hearts Knot. That’s what makes us different from others. In fact… I suspect that if those Fused Dao cultivators could swear by the will of the Star Abyss to live and die together with their companions, they could also trade resources.”

Lu Ye truly hadn’t known this, nor had anyone mentioned it to him, because no one dared to attempt such a thing.

A verbal agreement could be discarded at any time, but swearing an oath was different; no one was willing to take that risk.

“I just don’t know if Big Brother is willing…” Su Yan became even more bashful.

Lu Ye looked at her. “Are you truly unwilling to give up this realm?”

Su Yan shook her head. “I’ve held on for so long; no matter what, I must see it through to the end.”

Lu Ye pondered. Over three hundred Star Abyss Coins was not a small amount. He was quite interested in one of the treasures in the vault, though it was just an interest, and not exchanging it wouldn’t truly matter.

Currently, he was bound with Su Yan, and he couldn’t persuade her otherwise. Moreover, he also had his own arrangements within that realm.

“You can have the Star Abyss Coins. If it’s not enough, I can find a way to get more, but I have one condition!”

“Please tell me, Big Brother. I will certainly not refuse if it’s within my power!”

“I want you to teach me your marvelous escape art!”

“This…” Su Yan looked thoughtful. “It’s not impossible, but I’m afraid Big Brother might not be able to learn it.”

“Just teach me. Whether I can learn it or not is my business.”

“In that case, I agree, Big Brother!”

With the discussion settled, Lu Ye took out all his Star Abyss Coins and handed them to Su Yan. As she had said, thanks to the Twin Hearts Knot, resources could indeed be exchanged between them.

After counting the amount, they found they were still short by more than fifty coins, meaning they would need to continue hunting other Fused Dao cultivators to accumulate the rest.

Outside the realm, on a meteorite, Lu Ye’s Talent Tree avatar sat facing Su Yan.

A momentous battle had just concluded here, so it should be safe for a short while. Lu Ye was eager to practice Su Yan’s escape art and naturally wouldn’t waste time.

After all, he had given up so many Star Abyss Coins; he needed to gain something in return.

If he could gain something from Su Yan, then the sacrifice of several hundred Star Abyss Coins would be worthwhile. As for his true self, he had already left the area to hunt.

Resolving the Mirror Realm matter sooner would also remove a burden for both of them.

“Big Brother, you should know that my bloodline is a bit special, so my escape art is actually an innate divine ability.”

“An innate divine ability!” The avatar was stunned. No wonder Su Yan had said he might not be able to learn the art. If it was an innate divine ability, what was there to learn?

An innate divine ability was something one was born with, intrinsically understood, not acquired through cultivation.

Just like his own Precious Blood and Dao Blood, these were similar to innate divine abilities; if taught to others, they couldn’t cultivate them because they required the bloodline of the Blood Clan.

And such a miraculous escape art was actually an innate divine ability? What kind of bloodline could possibly possess such a power!

“Big Brother, I noticed you’ve used spatial secret arts before, so you must have some mastery in that field. How about this: you share the spatial secret arts you practice, and we discuss them together?” Su Yan suggested.

An innate divine ability couldn’t be directly taught, but approaching it from a different angle made it feasible.

With things as they were, Lu Ye had no other option but to follow Su Yan’s suggestion. He activated his power, constructing void spirit patterns. Su Yan’s eyes lit up; Lu Ye had demonstrated such methods multiple times before, but seeing them again was still astonishing, as she had never seen anyone successfully construct such complex and profound spirit patterns instantly.

Due to her bloodline, her mastery of spatial secret arts was indeed far superior to Lu Ye’s, yet she couldn’t execute such a method.

And the profundity contained within these spirit patterns offered some inspiration even to Su Yan.

Time passed as the two continued their discussions. While they called it a discussion, more often than not, it was Su Yan guiding Lu Ye. Her inherited bloodline granted her an unparalleled advantage in cultivating the Dao of Space, something Lu Ye simply couldn’t compare to. Many times, a casual remark from Su Yan would leave him pondering for a long time.

Although these insights wouldn’t bring substantial improvements to Lu Ye’s cultivation strength, they could serve as a foundation for the Talent Tree to deduce void spirit patterns.

The Talent Tree’s deductive ability was based on the information about spirit patterns Lu Ye received from the outside world and his own understanding.

The more he learned from Su Yan now, the more refined and powerful the spirit patterns would become when he deduced void spirit patterns in the future.

Honestly, the gains were significant.

While it was indeed impossible to cultivate Su Yan’s innate divine ability, after this experience, Lu Ye’s mastery of void spirit patterns would undoubtedly deepen considerably.

“Big Brother, are you ready?” Su Yan asked, looking gravely at Lu Ye, who sat poised before her.

Lu Ye, still holding her wrist, nodded gently, his expression equally serious. The reason for such a grave demeanor was that Su Yan had suddenly mentioned spatial rifts and spatial turbulence.

She often traversed these phenomena, and Lu Ye, feeling curious, asked her to take him to witness them.

Su Yan couldn’t refuse, mainly because the favor of three hundred Star Abyss Coins wasn’t easily repaid, so she had no choice but to agree.

“Absolutely do not activate any power, and do not let go of me. If you accidentally get separated from me, stay put and don’t move. I will definitely find you and bring you out!” Su Yan warned with a solemn expression.

Lu Ye nodded earnestly. “Don’t worry! I understand the gravity of this.”

The next moment, he felt Dao Power surging around Su Yan, accompanied by a ripple of profound energy. Space began to twist, and his vision became extremely strange.

In a daze, when Lu Ye regained his senses, his surroundings had changed entirely.

The nearby realms were gone, the stars had vanished, and even the meteorite they had been on was nowhere to be seen.

He felt as if he had sunk into a mire, with distinct surges of peculiar energy all around him. What met his eyes was a bizarre spectacle of kaleidoscopic light.

It was as if endless beams of light stretched and flowed through his vision, giving him a sense of traversing something.

Lu Ye suddenly recalled the time, not long after he first left the Nine Provinces, when he and Tang Jun were trapped in an unformed wormhole.

It was strikingly similar to the present moment!

Back when he was trapped, Lu Ye’s strength was insufficient, so he hadn’t fully grasped the experience.

But today, he sensed a profound mystery within the peculiar energies surging around him.

This place… was an excellent spot for cultivating spatial secret arts! He realized that if he could stay in such a place, his understanding of spatial secret arts would undoubtedly improve rapidly.

“This is a spatial rift,” Su Yan’s voice echoed, seeming both very close and very far away.

Lu Ye was clearly still holding her wrist, feeling her presence, yet he couldn’t see her.

“If an ordinary cultivator accidentally falls in here, they can only wait for death. Even those with some slight knowledge of the Dao of Space can easily get lost and find no way out. So, Big Brother, be extremely careful in your future travels; this place is not somewhere you can just enter casually.”

Lu Ye nodded slightly. He had experienced such dangers before and certainly knew how perilous this place was. His escape with Old Tang back then was partly due to sheer luck, as he happened to have a void beast’s core he could use. Secondly, that was ultimately a wormhole, even if unformed, and different from a true spatial rift.

If he had fallen into a spatial rift like this back then, he would probably be attending Old Tang’s funeral by now.

“Do you feel the spatial turbulence around us?” Su Yan asked. “This is also very dangerous, like an undercurrent surging in a great river. If you don’t know how to resist it and get caught, you could be swept away to who knows where.”

“There are also various void beasts living here. In places like this, they are natural hunters. Even if you are stronger than them, you might not fare well if you encounter them. These void beasts have extremely keen senses; if they detect an unfamiliar aura nearby, they will definitely be drawn to it.”

“Actually, this is just the first layer of the spatial rift. There’s an even deeper layer, a chaotic and extremely perilous place from which there is no return.”

As Su Yan continued speaking by Lu Ye’s ear, he felt his horizons greatly expanded. Without Su Yan leading the way, he would never have had the chance to explore such a wondrous sight.