Chapter 97
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Chapter 97: Hunting Time
Fang Jia still understood what cultivation methods represented.
He said, “Spiritual cultivation has its limits, so to advance further, one must increase the quality and quantity of spirit energy. Cultivation methods can transform spirit energy into higher-level energy, allowing the body to store more spirit energy.”
“Our family practices the Thick Earth Town Spirit Law. Once this method is mastered, spirit energy will be transformed into Thick Earth Town spirit energy, enhancing power to a new level and granting special abilities to the practitioner. However, the training is difficult and requires a long time to enter and adjust, far surpassing basic Spiritual Law and technique-level Spiritual Law. There is a true cultivation process.”
“Our family’s fastest record for mastering it is fifteen years.”
Yun Ye pondered, “Fifteen years? Is it really that difficult?”
“Cultivation methods require rare treasures. Without such treasures, building a true spiritual void will be extremely slow, making it impossible to cultivate quickly,” Fang Jia explained.
“True spiritual void?”
“It is a spiritual void constructed from life force, forming a foundational spiritual void. By using a special method to build a foundation of spirit energy upon it, it becomes a true spiritual void. Aside from enhancing the power of spirit energy, it greatly increases the speed of spirit energy conversion, thus reducing lifespan consumption.”
“I see. What about Physical Law and Spirit Sense Law?”
“I do not know.”
Clearly, Fang Jia was only familiar with Spiritual Roots Law.
Yun Ye continued to ask several questions, gradually clarifying many long-standing confusions.
For instance, what the great disaster was.
Fang Jia’s family had a legacy of about two hundred years and had experienced the last great disaster, so he knew some things.
The so-called great disaster, or major calamity, was entirely different from the monster disaster Yun Ye had witnessed.
The great disaster in Baishi Town was a kind of heavenly rule that activated periodically, causing various disasters that plagued humanity—yes, this was specifically a calamity targeting humans, and the reasons were unknown.
Fang Jia only knew that the last great disaster was horrifying, featuring a monster tide that lasted ten years, during which countless families were destroyed, and the Seven Great Families were severely damaged and had not yet recovered.
In recent years, Baishi Town had enjoyed a “peaceful” order, thanks to the terrors of the last great disaster. All families wanted to avoid overexerting their powers, so they kept a low profile.
“Baishi Town used to be so peaceful…”
Yun Ye felt a chill down his spine.
What was the environment like in Baishi Town during that last great disaster?
“Yang Shi… how did you escape the Spirit Law…”
Fang Jia snapped back to reality after Yun Ye finished asking questions. His face was full of terror. He was completely awake during the interrogation, but his body had lost control. Everything felt so surreal!
Yun Ye glanced at him, and a flicker of flame ignited in the void. Fang Jia’s pupils contracted as he reached out to stop Yun Ye, “No…”
Without a sound.
Fang Jia was ignited and turned to ashes in a matter of moments.
Only a bag of Spiritual Herbs fell, not burned along with him; after all, why let something go to waste?
“Now, who’s next…”
“Forget about Ji Ming’e; she’s too strong to fight.”
This area had many members of great families, and Yun Ye had no need to look for tough opponents.
And so, the hunter set out, brandishing a scythe no one had expected.
Don’t mention being alone; even if there were two or three others, as long as there were valuable individuals among them, Yun Ye would move in to take them down—after all, other users of Black Armored Spiritual Law had great trust in Spirit Law’s constraints and were not wary.
Like this, after Yun Ye crushed the fourth person, he easily obtained basic information about the three major cultivation methods.
However, it seemed that the true cultivation methods were held by those who were core members; cannon fodder was of little value for interrogation.
He continued hunting these small figures, which probably would just yield a bit more Spiritual Herbs, and they were all ordinary herbs.
There was no hesitation about this; Yun Ye began to target members of the Seven Great Families.
Team Four, led by Ji Ming’e, had quite a number of Ji family members.
They should possess the highest-level cultivation methods in all of Baishi Town.
Just as Yun Ye was preparing to act, a burst of pressure suddenly descended, causing his movements to hesitate, rendering him almost unable to proceed. He looked around in shock.
The water surface and the ground trembled!
From such a distance, Ji Ming’e could interfere with his movements using Spirit Sense?
Moreover, this was clearly a large-scale interference, not targeting any one person!
“What is this… come out!”
A powerful Spirit Sense swept across the sky, trying to root out the monster that had ambushed her team member with a thunderous strike.
Yet Yun Ye remained calm, cloaked in Nether Fire, suddenly vanishing and entering the Netherworld.
The Spirit Sense swept through, finding nothing, and continued onward.
“What is this thing? In such a short time, it has devoured the lives of four people!”
Ji Ming’e stood on the water, grasping a giant serpent corpse over thirty meters long floating on the surface. She frowned slightly, completely unable to comprehend what had happened.
To know that she was part of Team Four, which consisted of only eight people, and yet in a moment of distraction, all four of them had died?
Was this some kind of joke?
…
After escaping, Yun Ye pondered his next move.
He was definitely going to target the great families.
The question was, whom to take aim at.
The current situation was as follows:
Team One had a total of fifteen members, with ten remaining.
Team Two had eleven members, with eleven remaining.
Team Three had ten members, with ten remaining.
Team Four had eight members, with four remaining.
Team Five had six members, with six remaining.
Other teams had no members from the Seven Great Families and were not taken into consideration.
If Yun Ye guessed correctly, each team of the Black Armored Army probably controlled a specific area.
Team One was located in Ten Across Mountains.
Team Four was at Lingyun Lake.
Teams Two, Three, and Five likely also rooted themselves in areas dense with Spiritual Herbs.
Ah, why did Yun Ye, as a member of Team Two, not know what area he belonged to?
Was he… a member of a great family?
Why would a great family share its benefits with commoners?
So the question became quite simple; Yun Ye activated the Eye of Invisible Light and followed the concentration of spirit energy.
Although he did not know which team it would be, it did not matter to Yun Ye; he was a hunter in any case.
During his search, he also occasionally consulted his manual and contacted Wang Yao to see if he had made any discoveries.
However, Wang Yao had not encountered any more Black Armored obstacles afterward, and gathering herbs went smoothly; he had already collected around seventeen by today.
Though these were just ordinary Spiritual Herbs, their effects were similar to Spirit-level superior food. Still, Spiritual Herbs had various other uses, and if used for alchemy, their value would increase significantly; the great families would willingly pay huge sums to acquire them.
An ordinary Spiritual Herb was worth about ten thousand dark copper, and under the price discounts in the Spiritual Law teams, the money for three herbs could easily elevate a cultivation level to Major Achievement.
The rewards from seven days of this would allow an entire family of a typical Spiritual Law master to live a prosperous life.
For ordinary Spiritual Law masters, this was indeed a grand event, even if this gathering only involved a few bones tossed by the host; it was still better than nothing.
“This is the Hundred Flower Garden… this Secret Realm is indeed crafted to have different landscapes?”
Yun Ye arrived at a new area.
Ten Across Mountains, Lingyun Lake, Hundred Flower Garden—these names all came from the interrogations of the family members.
According to their accounts, each area in the Secret Realm contained many Stone Tablets, some meant for trials, while others recorded the deeds of ancient heroes and the functions of each area.
Once, the Hundred Flower Garden was essential for growing spiritual flowers and collecting pollen to make spiritual honey.
But now, various formations and barriers had crumbled over time, and the numerous Spiritual Herbs here had become chaotic, merely a place where herbs were more plentiful than in other locales.
