Chapter 77: Strange and Wonderful Ideas

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The medicinal potency of the elixir now dissolved much faster than before, significantly boosting his efficiency in refining spiritual pills.

Chen He indeed hadn't lied; no wonder he dared to swear an Oath of Heavenly Mystery in front of him.

However, Lu Ye quickly understood why this cultivation method was being widely sold.

"Glutton's Feast" claiming to double cultivation efficiency sounded incredibly powerful at first, but cultivators typically accumulate elixir toxins when practicing with spiritual pills. Once these toxins build up, the spiritual energy in the body becomes sluggish and unclear, a situation that worsens with more refined elixirs.

This is why cultivators often pause their elixir-assisted training after a period and instead seek ways to neutralize the toxins.

In other words, under normal circumstances, the speed at which a cultivator refines spiritual pills makes little difference; slower even has its benefits.

But Lu Ye was different. His Talent Tree could incinerate elixir toxins, so spiritual pills ingested by him would only transform into spiritual energy, purer than what ordinary cultivators achieve through repeated refinement. Therefore, the efficiency boost from "Glutton's Feast" was a tangible benefit for him.

The combination of his Talent Tree and "Glutton's Feast" was simply a perfect match!

Realizing this, Lu Ye couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement. This meant he would undoubtedly save a lot of time in his future cultivation.

However, it also meant that he was destined to delve deeper into the path of "pill-popping" cultivation.

The potency of one spiritual pill was quickly consumed, and Lu Ye's spiritual energy gradually became abundant. Perhaps due to his cultivation session, his stomach began to rumble. Lu Ye immediately took out food from his storage bag and ate heartily.

Then, he noticed something interesting: his digestive ability had also improved.

All fifteen spiritual apertures of "Glutton's Feast" were located near the stomach. When the cultivation method operated, the entire stomach churned violently like a millstone. This powerful grinding force not only rapidly refined elixir potency but also digested food.

After some investigation, Lu Ye discovered that "Glutton's Feast" worked not just through simple digestion, but more so through absorption. Digestion without absorption was useless; only by absorbing could cultivation efficiency truly be enhanced.

In his perception, Lu Ye noticed that if those fifteen spiritual apertures were connected according to a certain pattern, they formed a design that looked somewhat familiar to him.

He quickly recalled and then, with a raised hand, activated his spiritual energy to construct a spiritual紋.

It was precisely the third spiritual紋 he had obtained: Spirit Gathering.

As the Spirit Gathering spiritual紋 appeared in his hand, an invisible pull was generated, causing the surrounding spiritual energy to flow towards it.

The Spirit Gathering spiritual紋 was an extremely complex and intricate design formed by spiritual energy. The pattern he obtained by connecting the spiritual apertures of "Glutton's Feast" in a certain way was undoubtedly much simpler, yet both seemed to originate from the same source!

Was it a coincidence? Or did the cultivator who created the "Glutton's Feast" method draw inspiration from the structure of the Spirit Gathering spiritual紋?

The main purpose of the Spirit Gathering spiritual紋 was to gather spiritual energy from heaven and earth. If elixir potency was likened to spiritual energy, then "Glutton's Feast" was also gathering it, but transforming the gathered elixir potency into spiritual energy for the cultivator to absorb.

Thinking this, a vague idea suddenly popped into Lu Ye's mind, but when he tried to clarify it, he found himself unable to articulate it.

He fell into contemplation, allowing "Glutton's Feast" to continue operating.

The spiritual energy from the surroundings was drawn towards Lu Ye by an unknown force, flowing into the Spirit Gathering spiritual紋 in his hand, then dissipating, repeating the cycle.

However, Lu Ye soon discovered that a portion of the heaven and earth spiritual energy was flowing into his abdomen, and with the grinding action of "Glutton's Feast," it was transformed into his own spiritual energy.

This greatly surprised him.

He had been cultivating primarily by refining spiritual pills and supplementing with the "Refining Essence into Qi" method because the efficiency of absorbing spiritual energy from heaven and earth was too low. His body found it difficult to accept spiritual energy, as if an invisible barrier covered him, isolating it.

Even cultivating with spirit stones was not very efficient. Strictly speaking, spirit stones were condensed spiritual energy, and if he couldn't accept spiritual energy, he naturally couldn't accept the power of spirit stones either.

Yet now, without even actively cultivating, "Glutton's Feast" was actually gathering and refining some spiritual energy.

This also indirectly verified Lu Ye's earlier conjecture: the creator of the "Glutton's Feast" method must have borrowed from the structure of the Spirit Gathering spiritual紋, otherwise, the two wouldn't share similar properties.

Of course, the amount of spiritual energy gathered this way by "Glutton's Feast" was not much; the true purpose of this method was still to refine ingested substances. Gathering spiritual energy was merely an incidental effect.

As he thought this, the vague idea in Lu Ye's mind suddenly became clear!

"Glutton's Feast" could gather spiritual energy, and the Spirit Gathering spiritual紋 could also gather spiritual energy. Both originated from the same source.

The effect of the "Glutton's Feast" method came from the fifteen spiritual apertures operating in series, so the focus was on the spiritual apertures.

What if he applied the Spirit Gathering spiritual紋 to a spiritual aperture?

What would happen?

Lu Ye was startled by his own bold idea.

Although he was just a novice cultivator who had only been practicing for a few months and was ignorant of many common practices in the cultivation world, he knew the importance of spiritual apertures to cultivators. It could be said that once a spiritual aperture had a problem, a cultivator's entire life would be affected.

When he obtained the Spirit Gathering spiritual紋, he had examined its properties and ultimately gave it a "useless" rating because his body found it difficult to accept external spiritual energy, so even activating the Spirit Gathering spiritual紋 would be of little use.

But he seemed to have entered a blind spot in his thinking: the Spirit Gathering spiritual紋 could be applied not only to his hand but also to other places.

Such as... within a spiritual aperture!

If this idea came true, then Spirit Gathering would be far from useless; it might even become the most useful spiritual紋.

The more he thought about it, the more feasible the idea seemed. Lu Ye stopped the operation of "Glutton's Feast" and switched to "Golden Cicada's Leisure Art."

Other cultivators wouldn't dare to apply spiritual紋s to their own spiritual apertures, primarily because spiritual紋 construction was complex, and even the most experienced spiritual紋 masters could fail. Once a spiritual紋 failed to construct, the spiritual energy used to build it would explode, subsequently causing some damage to the spiritual aperture.

But Lu Ye had no such worries. He now controlled three spiritual紋s, and each time he obtained one, a large amount of information about it would be poured into his mind. He had never failed in constructing a spiritual紋.

Even so, Lu Ye didn't dare to start with his Source Spiritual Aperture, but chose another one.

The Source Spiritual Aperture was the most important; if something went wrong with it, it would truly be over. If other spiritual apertures had problems, there might still be ways to remedy them.

Sensing the location of that spiritual aperture, Lu Ye's mind stirred slightly, activating his spiritual energy to apply a Spirit Gathering spiritual紋 to it.

However, in just an instant, the Spirit Gathering spiritual紋 was dispersed by the spiritual energy flowing within his body.

No, adjustments were needed. The spiritual紋 couldn't be applied inside the spiritual aperture, otherwise, it couldn't be maintained at all.