The sect master and Shui Yuan often teach the disciples, but both have limited energy and can't cover everything. Besides, due to the reason of their cultivation faction, they are completely clueless about the Path of Ghost Cultivation.

Now that Wuchang is here, he is a ready-made top instructor! He does not refuse this matter, and even quite enjoys the contact with the young members of the Righteous Blood Sect. This might be an old man feeling rejuvenated, even though Wuchang doesn't appear aged in his looks, his actual age is indeed not small.

After the celebration banquet, the native land of the Nine Provinces remained peaceful. The Nine Provinces cultivators are now mostly busy digesting the gains from the expedition to the Blood Refinement World, naturally having no mood or time to stir trouble everywhere.

But this does not mean the situation will remain as such in the future.

Through two cooperative endeavors, the relations between the two camps have improved unprecedentedly. Yet, the interaction among cultivators can hardly maintain such peace long term; over time, conflicts are inevitable to arise, and clashes are bound to recur.

However, one consensus the two camps have achieved is that within the Nine Provinces, there will be no further large-scale confrontations between the two camps' cultivators. Even if conflicts occur, they should be kept within a certain scope.

In a tranquil and harmonious atmosphere like this, the cultivators of the Righteous Blood Sacred Land relocated to the Nine Provinces, with Bingzhou chosen as the site.

This is reasonable; although the Righteous Blood Sacred Land was co-created by Feng Wujiang and many other old seniors, Feng Wujiang is ultimately the Sacred Master. He hails from Bingzhou, so placing the Righteous Blood Sacred Land in Bingzhou is naturally expected.

The foundation of the Nine Provinces is rapidly enhancing.

This is exceptionally noticeable to those top-tier experts because as the foundation of the Nine Provinces enhances, the bottlenecks that shackled them for years are increasingly loosening. If not for Lu Ye's prior words at the celebration banquet, many might have started secluded breakthroughs by now.

But since Lu Ye gave the prior notice, everyone knows breaking through now is futile work. Naturally, no one wants to waste time and effort. Hence, they are waiting, waiting for the Heaven's Augury to descend from the indistinct realm.

In this wait, Lu Ye's cultivation steadily advanced to the Divine Sea Level 7.

In the Blood Refinement World, he refined a lot of Sacred Blood of the Blood Race. Each drop of Sacred Blood harbored an enormous amount of energy, boosting his saintliness while also increasing his foundation. By the time he returned to the Nine Provinces, he was already close to Level 7, so this advancement was naturally smooth.

The improvement of his cultivation is secondary; what delights him the most is that the Talent Tree has begun metamorphosis again!

The process of metamorphosis was supposed to start months ago, but during the Blood Refinement World refinement of Sacred Blood, Lu Ye expended too much fuel of the Talent Tree and fire spirit stones, naturally causing the delay of the metamorphosis.

Initially, when Lu Ye obtained the Talent Tree, it could only burn off impurities mixed in the energy absorbed into his body, allowing him to cultivate without any worries.

With the first metamorphosis, the Talent Tree acquired the ability to absorb outside energy and could send out a section of Talent Tree roots to assist in forming a doppelganger.

The second metamorphosis is late, but Lu Ye eagerly awaits the changes it will bring.

At this moment, a seed like flame already exists in his Root Spiritual Orifice from the Talent Tree, likely indicating this metamorphosis process will require some time.

He can only wait quietly.

During this process, he can't cultivate, so he begins to enhance his knowledge in the Array Path and Path of Spirit Runes. When his cultivation wasn't high, both the Array Path and Path of Spirit Runes improved alongside his cultivation, but as his cultivation grew, he spent less time on these techniques, not because he didn't want to, but because he had no time.

It's perfect to take advantage of the Talent Tree's metamorphosis process for some intensive learning.

The Path of Spirit Runes goes without saying; his current proficiency might be no match for his master Yun Xuechu. But there's not much left for the master to teach him, and more often, they both engage in skills comparison, mutual exploration, and progress together.

As for the Array Path... his proficiency originates partly from the solid foundation of the Path of Spirit Runes and partly from the gifts of the Hundred Arrays Pagoda.

Thus, the Hundred Arrays Pagoda remains a subject of interest for Lu Ye.

If he could find the third part of the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, his proficiency in the Array Path would certainly receive a massive leap.

Unfortunately, to date, no one knows where the third part of the Hundred Arrays Pagoda is located. All that is known is that the bottom part lies within the Tianyan Sect of Wuzhou, the middle part in the Cloud River battlefield; the missing third part seems to never have been discovered.

The best way to learn about this is asking Number Nine. Despite Number Nine usually maintaining a professional manner, reiterating several times that he cannot provide special privileges before Lu Ye refines the Heaven's Augury Compass, he frequently offers Lu Ye some extra instruction.

Wuchang and many top-tier human experts indeed feel this correctly.

Because Number Nine knew that among the current generation of cultivators, the only one it could rely on was Lu Ye. In the future, he was most likely the one qualified to refine the Heaven's Augury Compass.

In some ways, although Number Nine was a combination of an artifact spirit and Heaven and Earth's Will, it was not rigid and knew how to adapt.

"Hundred Arrays Pagoda? Can't find it. After being shifted to the current location by the mighty experts of the former Nine Provinces, many years have passed. Although I have obscured the existence of the Nine Provinces, some things will inevitably drift nearby, like world fragments, like the Hundred Arrays Pagoda... When they drift over, I just collect them. When I initially collected the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, there were only two parts, and the other part is completely missing."

Number Nine spoke as if it were scavenging junk, making Lu Ye feel amused, but it was indeed the case. The Nine Provinces World had stood in the starry sky for so many years, and various things drifted nearby. Number Nine naturally wouldn't collect useless items but would take those of value.

It was truly scavenging.

The Hundred Arrays Pagoda was one of the gains.

"When you qualify to roam the starry sky in the future, perhaps you might find the last portion of the Hundred Arrays Pagoda, but the hope is very slim."

The starry sky is vast and boundless, and who knows where the other part of the Hundred Arrays Pagoda has drifted? For a person to search for a specific item in the starry sky, it's basically hopeless unless guided by something special.

"Lu Ye, do you think the spirit jade should be distributed to those in need, or should they compete for it?" Number Nine suddenly threw out another question.

Lu Ye was puzzled: "Spirit jade? What is that?"

"It's the resource needed for cultivation after the Divine Sea Realm, containing the power to connect cultivators with the starry sky."

Lu Ye came to a realization: "The Constellation Realm cultivation requires this thing? What about Spirit Stones? What about nature's spiritual energy?"

"For cultivation beyond the Divine Sea Realm, Spirit Stones and ordinary nature's spiritual energy are already not very effective. Spirit jade is the crystallization of numerous starry sky energies, and it is the main means for cultivators beyond the Divine Sea Realm. Only by refining spirit jade during the breakthrough to the Constellation Realm can a cultivator break through the Divine Sea Realm and step out of their domain."

In other words, this thing is the treasure that the top experts of the current Nine Provinces dream of!

"Is this thing difficult to obtain?" Lu Ye asked.

"It's not extremely difficult, but aggregating it consumes the foundation of the domain. You know, the growth of a domain comes from either swallowing up the foundation of other domains or slowly enhancing itself by continually absorbing energy from the starry sky over many years. Hence, the birth of every spirit jade is a consumption of the domain's foundation. Generally speaking, worlds that aren't strong enough can't give birth to spirit jade, because the starry sky energy absorbed is used for the world's own growth, which is an inherent need of the world. Only when the world's level grows to a certain extent, like the current Nine Provinces situation, does it qualify to condense spirit jade, but the quantity mustn't be too much or too frequent, otherwise it will affect the domain's growth."

"If that's the case, how will future cultivation be ensured?"

"Stellar space energy is omnipresent, and domain after domain and world can absorb it, so cultivators naturally can too. It's like the Nine Provinces' nature's spiritual energy, but your cultivators' stage has shifted from the small world of the Nine Provinces to the big world of the stellar space. But this method of cultivation is bound to have a low efficiency."

This is understandable. Just take the current cultivators of the Nine Provinces; there are many ways of cultivation, inhaling nature's spiritual energy, taking elixir pills, using Spirit Stones, but the enhancement through inhaling nature's spiritual energy is the slowest. Of course, this method is relatively safe and reliable, not bringing any hidden troubles to cultivators, unlike taking elixir pills, which enhances rapidly but leaves pill poison accumulation.

Once you reach the Constellation Realm, you no longer inhale nature's spiritual energy, but instead inhale stellar space energy. It's the same cultivation method, with different energy sources.

"To enhance cultivation efficiency, meteorites, dead stars, and various unusual locations in the starry sky will give birth to spirit jade. Powerful domains will even give rise to spirit jade veins within them. In the starry sky cultivation, as long as you strive hard enough, you can always find them." Saying this, Number Nine sighed, "Actually, strictly speaking, cultivators are like a swarm of blood-sucking insects to a domain, only with the domain's foundation blood do they qualify to step into the starry sky. So, if you ever plan to die, remember to return to the Nine Provinces before doing so. That way, the benefits you've gained from it will be repaid."

Lu Ye's face darkened: "I'm only in my twenties, and you're already hoping for my death?"

Number Nine was getting more and more outrageous!

"So, how should we handle this?" Number Nine shifted the topic back to the main issue.

"How was it handled during the former Nine Provinces period?"

"I'm not sure. My creation was solely for shifting the Nine Provinces, and at that time, the Nine Provinces' Heaven and Earth's Will wasn't clear, nor would it discuss anything with anyone."

"Then let them compete. The cultivator's creed is competition, competing with others, competing with the heavens, only by competing can one go further."

"Let's go with what you say."