Sage of Humanity-Chapter 765 - 763 Leisure Time in a Busy Schedule

Amber rarely had the opportunity to confront enemies head-on; it usually perched quietly on Lu Ye's shoulder, lending him its power during combat.

Now that it finally had a chance, it naturally cherished it tremendously.

It didn't even reveal its true form, opting instead to fight in its small cat-like size.

It had the upper hand!

Within the Heaven's Augury Mercantile Union, Lu Ye's cultivation had leapt from Level 6 to Level 8 realm, so how could Yiyi and Amber not have grown as well?

Against a Level 5 realm enemy, even without going all out, Amber could easily emerge victorious.

The cultivator's emotions shifted from initial anger to shock and then to despair…

A few dozen breaths later, he conceded defeat.

There was no longer any need to continue fighting since he couldn't even beat someone's pet beast.

After his concession, his figure immediately disappeared from view.

Lu Ye then withdrew from the combat arena, ready for the next battle.

In this way…

Encountering enemies of varying cultivation levels, from Level 1 realm to Level 9 realm, Lu Ye couldn't figure out the selection principle, but it seemed to be a random choice.

If the enemy's cultivation wasn't high, he let Amber take the fight, only taking action himself against opponents above Level 7 realm.

There were also bouts that ended before they even began.

Because the opponents recognized Lu Ye right away.

After slaying Xia Liang in full view of everyone at the Heaven's Augury Mercantile Union, Lu Ye had since been acknowledged as one of the strongest in the Cloud River Realm. What common cultivator would want to face off against him after recognizing him?

After all, one needed to fight a total of one hundred matches, and one or two losses wouldn't make much of a difference.

Occasionally, when returning from the combat arena, he would bump into his Fourth Senior Brother and the others, exchange a few words, and then start the next fight.

Lu Ye was incredibly efficient; it didn't even take him seven days. In just two days, he had completed all one hundred matches, naturally winning all of them.

The accumulated battle merits weren't much, only around two or three thousand.

He had nothing else to do for the time being and just waited for the list of the top three thousand names to emerge, signaling the beginning of the next round of battles.

Lu Ye had intended to take this time to probe the origin of the Soaring Dragon World. Even though a few days wasn't a long period, it was enough for him to try two or three times. With some luck, he might find a cultivator specializing in using sabers. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com

But then he suddenly remembered something else and started waiting in front of the Heaven's Augury Pillar.

Before long, the void beside him twisted, and a figure appeared—it was none other than his Fourth Senior Brother, Li Baxian.

Li Baxian's progress was undoubtedly swift as well. Although he hadn't completed one hundred matches yet, he was getting close with around sixty or seventy under his belt. His foundation was robust, and his main disadvantage previously was a lack of experience in lethal techniques. Now, with the Words and Sword Theorem Lu Ye had given him, he was confident about breaking into the top hundred.

Yet the top ten did not seem achievable, not from Li Baxian's unduly modesty, but because there was simply no certainty in it.

Big sects across the Nine Provinces were brimming with talent. While Li Baxian was remarkable, his cultivation was ultimately a bottleneck. At present, he was just at Cloud River Level 7 realm.

Furthermore, many cultivators who had reached Cloud River Level 9 realm were deliberately putting off advancing to the True Lake in order to compete for supremacy in the Cloud River.

Some had been waiting for this grand event for one or two years!

While their cultivation levels wouldn't have increased much in those one or two years, their foundations certainly would have strengthened.

For these people, the rewards of the gold-hued spirit fortune stick were indeed important, but it was the favor of Heaven's Augury that they valued the most. To fight for the top ten, they would undoubtedly give their all.

"Do you need something, Junior Brother?" Li Baxian noticed right away that Lu Ye was waiting for him on purpose.

"I need to return to the sect," Lu Ye stated.

"At this time…" Li Baxian pondered, "That's fine then, Junior Brother. You may go."

The Cloud River battle would last for a month, and once a cultivator left the Cloud River battlefield, they wouldn't be able to return until a month later. By the time the Cloud River contest ended, Lu Ye would be able to come back just in time.

"I'll explain the situation to Hua Ci and the others," Lu Ye said.

"Then I'll leave right away."

Lu Ye set off without another word, laying his hand on the Heaven's Augury Pillar. With a thought, the scenery around him twisted rapidly.

The next moment, he was already present in the Heaven's Augury Hall within the Righteous Blood Sect.

He did not immediately seek the sect master or Second Senior Sister. Instead, he reached out and tapped into his battlefield marking to search for a specific imprint.

Soon, he found it and sent a message.

After waiting for a short while, he received a reply.

"Meet me at the usual place!"

Lu Ye raised an eyebrow. The message seemed somewhat ambiguous, especially since the sender was an exceptionally voluptuous woman!

Without overthinking it, Lu Ye laid his hand on the Heaven's Augury Pillar again, connected his mind to the Heaven's Augury treasure vault, and silently invoked.

"Upgrade the spirit artifact!"

Following this, a person appeared in a secluded small space with a stone platform in front of him, and beyond that, there was nothing else.

Almost the moment Lu Ye stepped in, a figure flashed before him, a woman who looked to be in her thirties, with fair and delicate skin, wearing a form-fitting floral dress that outlined her exquisite and graceful curves, materialized in front of him.

She was an old acquaintance, so there was naturally no need for superfluous words.

Lu Ye removed the Boulder Mountain Saber from his waist and placed it on the stone platform before him.

The reason he left the Cloud River battlefield in such a hurry to return to the Nine Provinces was precisely to take advantage of this period to upgrade his Boulder Mountain Saber.

His cultivation had improved too quickly, and the quality of the Boulder Mountain Saber was somewhat lagging.

Initially, the Boulder Mountain Saber was just a Restriction Level 9 low-grade spirit artifact; it then became mid-grade, and now it was top-grade.

However, with his current strength, a top-grade spirit artifact was no longer sufficient to fully unleash his power. During his previous encounter where he fought alone against two hundred enemies from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge, Lu Ye felt that although he exerted his full power, the output was only nine-tenths of what he expected.

This was the result of the spirit artifact's quality not keeping up with his increase in cultivation.

Moreover, having wielded the Boulder Mountain Saber for so long in combat against numerous enemies, the saber, no matter how robust, had acquired some fine marks on it. While these had little impact, if left unaddressed, they could significantly affect the Boulder Mountain Saber's overall might and the lifespan of the spirit artifact.

The Boulder Mountain Saber had been upgraded twice, both times by this woman who claimed to be Feathered Master.

Lu Ye certainly could find someone else, but if he were to switch to another person, he couldn't be sure of their skills. At the very least, he was quite reassured of the Feathered Master's craftsmanship.

He had exchanged battlefield markings with her last time, so Lu Ye still wanted her to do this job.

However, the Feathered Master's cultivation was definitely above the Cloud River Realm, at the very least in the True Lake Realm, and very possibly in the Divine Sea.

If Lu Ye wanted to contact her, he could only return to the Nine Provinces to send a message; she couldn't be contacted on the Cloud River battlefield.

For other cultivators, at such a crucial moment in the Cloud River hegemony, no matter what, they would not likely make any changes to their trusted spirit artifacts, as this could potentially affect their own strength.

Every cultivator aiming for the top hundred would try to maintain their optimal condition as much as possible.

Yet Lu Ye just did that. If others knew, they would probably be astounded.

In front of the stone platform, the woman scrutinized Lu Ye up and down, seemingly trying to see his face clearly, but from her perspective, Lu Ye was shrouded in a mist at the moment, such that not just his face, but even his body shape was indistinct.

This was a kind of protective measure from Heaven's Augury, convenient for both parties in a transaction to conceal their identities.

However, this kind of concealment was meaningless to Lu Ye, who had received Heaven's Augury Bestowment before. In this place, it seemed he had some privileges that others did not, enabling him to see the woman clearly.

"Aren't you from the Cloud River Realm?" the woman asked with full of confusion, her voice aged as if an elderly person were speaking.

"Is there a problem?"

"Isn't it the Cloud River hegemony now? Why aren't you participating in it and instead coming to me to upgrade your spirit artifact?"

Her cultivation was indeed far above that of the Cloud River Realm, but it was natural for her to have heard of such a grand event as the Cloud River hegemony, as she had participated in it herself in the past.

She had determined that Lu Ye was from the Cloud River Realm because the Boulder Mountain Saber was a top-grade spirit artifact, and cultivators using such a quality artifact would naturally be of the Cloud River Realm level.

Of course, Lu Ye wouldn't tell her that the first hundred bouts had already finished, merely saying indifferently, "How so? Does doing business now require prying into other people's secrets?"

"Ahem..." The woman coughed lightly, "That's not it. Just casual questioning, if the young friend does not wish to say, then don't."

She reached out to grab the Boulder Mountain Saber in front of her, drew the saber to look at it, and nodded slightly, "State your requirements."

"Upgrade it to the magic-artifact class, other requirements are the same as before!"

A spirit artifact can have up to thirty-six restrictions as its limit; beyond that, it reaches the class of magic artifacts.

The woman's heart stirred, and she suddenly understood.

No wonder this youngster didn't participate in the Cloud River hegemony; he had already advanced to the True Lake. This was because artifacts of the magic-artifact class generally required the power of someone in the True Lake realm to activate.

Of course, some cultivators at the Cloud River Level 9 with strong backgrounds could also activate them, but at a great cost.

"This saber is currently top-grade, to upgrade it to a magic artifact, directly skipping the supreme-grade level, ordinary people can't do it..." Her meaning behind these words was obviously to say she was not an ordinary person, she was waiting for Lu Ye to ask her.

But Lu Ye had no intention of continuing the conversation.

So she had to go on by herself, "The materials needed won't be cheap either, and those materials are quite valuable as well..."

"Quote a price!"

Lu Ye cut her off directly.

Through several encounters, he had figured out that no matter if the woman was in the True Lake or the Divine Sea Realm, she was just a beggar; otherwise, she wouldn't have previously taken on the commission to upgrade the Boulder Mountain Saber from low-grade to mid-grade.

Furthermore, she seemed not to want too many people to know about her identity as an Artifact Refiner; otherwise, she could have used this skill to amass wealth openly and aboveboard.

Therefore, even if she asked for a higher price, it didn't matter as long as she could meet his requirements. Lu Ye didn't care too much about spending merits.

He had more than a hundred thousand merits in his hands. Even if he ran out, he could take some goods from the sect's treasure vault and sell them to Heaven's Augury treasure vault.

"Thirty thousand!"

The woman bit her lip and quoted a price she thought was quite high. She had figured out some of Lu Ye's details from their several encounters, just as she had seen some of his.

No matter where this youngster was from, he was the kind not short of money. Since it was not easy to open for business, naturally, she would take as much as she could.