Chapter 368: Inheritance


    Vitality and Spiritual Power were the two main things to cultivate for a Spirit Creek Realm cultivator. A powerful vitality meant a powerful physique, and no cultivator no matter which cultivator faction they belonged to would argue against having a stronger body. Spiritual Power was even more self-exnatory. It was the foundation of all cultivation andbat.


    The flow rate of both energies directly affected the strength of a cultivation. There were several reasons why a cultivator experienced a massive boost in strength after cultivating a Heaven Grade cultivation technique. One, their Spiritual Power control would improve by leaps and bounds. Two, the flow speed of their Spiritual Power would experience a qualitative increase.


    Since the royal jelly improved the flow speed of his vitality and his Spiritual Power, Lu Ye was physically and spiritually stronger even though his cultivation level hadnt changed one bit.


    The only question now was whether the effect was permanent or temporary. If it was temporary, then it wasnt very valuable. Some Spirit Pills such as the Qi Boosting Pill could temporarily increase a cultivators strength, although the aftereffects were pretty severe. A cultivator who used the pill and pushed themselves too far carried the risk of damaging their Spiritual Point beyond repair.


    If the effects were permanent though, then the royal jelly might as well be priceless.


    There was no way to tell if the royal jellys effects were actually permanent though. The only way to know was to wait and see if it would wear off over time.


    With that done, Lu Ye switched his focus to the Tree of Glyphs. Speaking of which, the more he looked at the orange mes burning on the crown of the Tree of Glyphs, the more it looked like a bird to him. The impression was the same even if he tried looking at it from multiple different angles. It was quite strange to say the least.


    As usual, he calmed his mind and randomly selected a leaf to examine. He was going to check out the patterns when suddenly, something unusual happened. In his vision, the bird along the tree suddenly came to life and flew down the tree. It pped its wings, dragged its long tail, and filled his vision with orange mes in an instant. At the same time, a long, melodious cry resounded inside his head.


    Lu Ye dropped unconscious just like that.


    This was how Lu Ye had reacted when the Tree of Glyphs first came to life, and he had received his first ever Glyph in the mining caves of Evil Moon Valley. However, he hadnt even unlocked a Spiritual Point at the time, so of course he could barely withstand the packet ofplex information that was shoved into his brain.


    As he grew in cultivation, something like this had never happened again. This was especially true after he returned from the Lost City of Xianyuan. His Divine Soul had be so strong that the massive amount of information in the leaf only felt like a breeze these days.


    That was why he hadnt anticipated that he would be knocked out for an entire day. It had happened so fast that he didnt even have time to react.


    In a dim and silent inheritance site, a naked woman suddenly emerged from a bluish pond. Translucent water slid down her smooth, white skin as she sucked in a deep breath. She looked like she had just been reborn.


    She suppressed a shiver as she stared at the seemingly innocent pond in front of her. The past few weeks had been pure torture, so much so that she wasnt sure how she had managed to endure until the end.


    The pond wasnt translucent at the beginning. In fact, it was an unnatural aquamarine. ording to her inheritance, it was a pool of pure poison. Without the secret art that only she, the inheritor possessed, even a Divine Ocean cultivator would have to make a great sacrifice to survive the poison.


    She recalled the day she had made the decision to ept this inheritance and wondered how she was able to muster the courage back then. Assuming she could redo her past, she wasnt sure if she could have made the same choice.


    It was precisely because she had lived through the experience that she knew just how painful it was. It was bad enough that it tormented both her body and her mind, but she didnt even have the luxury of falling unconscious. She was aware of every second of it.


    Thankfully, that was all in the past.


    She slowly stepped out of the Thousand Poison Pond. After evaporating the water droplets on her body with her Spiritual Power, she pulled out a set of clothes from her Storage Bag.


    She was a quiet and demure youngdy, which was why therge majority of her wardrobe was made up of white dresses. But for some reason, she didnt feel like wearing white right now. She thought for a moment before recing the dress with a green one. Now she was satisfied.


    After she was fully dressed and groomed to perfection, she tapped on her Battlefield Imprint with the intent of sharing her joy with her friends. Then, she recalled that this inheritance site was isted from the outside world because it was a pocket space of its own. She would not be able tomunicate with the others until she went outside.


    She then recalled a certain someone and smirked impishly. She was going to teach him a lesson he wouldnt forget the next time he grabbed her hand without permission!


    She triggered the Control Gem controlling the ward surrounding this pocket space. The scenery changed, and she found herself standing beneath a bright moon and a starry sky. She opened her arms wide as if to embrace the moonlight while feeling freer and morefortable than ever before.


    From now on, she would never have to worry that she might not be able to catch up to him anymore.


    Starting today, the scariest medicine cultivator in all of Jiu Zhou had emerged from her closed cultivation!


    Lu Yes consciousness was a jumbled mess right now. He didnt know where he was or what he was doing. He felt like he was in a cramped space and instinctively tried to stretch his limbs, but something was keeping him from doing so.


    An unknown amount of timeter, he abruptly realized that he had fallen unconscious. But if that was the case, then how was he conscious right now?


    It was strange. It was like he was experiencing a lucid dream, but not quite. The reason he said this was because he couldnt wake back to reality no matter what he tried.


    His consciousness grew clearer and clearer, but his environment remained the same as before.


    An unknown period of timeter, he suddenly heard a small crack. A ray of light abruptly pierced through the darkness. When he looked up, he saw that a crack had appeared in the sky.


    The crack grew bigger and bigger. Finally, the world around him shattered into pieces. It was then he saw a tiny, feathery thing surrounded by a floor of egg shells.


    It was only now Lu Ye realized that he wasnt living through the experience himself. He was watching a chick being born from a third person perspective.


    [On second thought, its probably not a chick.] The reason he thought this was because the creature was way bigger and cockier than your ordinary chick. Moreover, it immediately ate all the egg shells around it until its tummy was as full as it could be, which he was pretty sure wasnt normal chick behavior. Finally, it burped out tiny jets of mes after it was full


    After that, time was elerated by a great deal. The scenes before him began speeding up so fast it was like he was outside the passage of time. Long story short was that the chick had grown into a massive bird with rainbow-colored feathers. It was covered in orange mes and carrying a long, long tail behind its back.


    It was none other than the Sacred Beast, the Vermillion Bird!


    Lu Ye would continue to witness the Vermillion Birds life. He saw it growing day by day and eliminating many powerful enemies. He saw it dominating everything until one day, even the world it was born to could no longer suppress its desire to explore.


    So, it took to the sky and entered the world beyond the heavens. It soared through infinite space and stars in search of a wider world.


    An unknown amount of time passed, and a ball of orange mes descended from the sky. It burned through the heavens, split the sky in half, and finallynded on the ground.


    The me was so hot that it burned through the ground. The entire world was shaking from the aftermath. Everything within tens of thousands of kilometers of the epicenter had turned to dust.


    Lu Ye abruptly opened his eyes. At the same time, he was assaulted by a pain beyond the ability of anynguage to describe. He could only say that it had made him curl up like a prawn and shake like a leaf. His face was so white he looked like a ghost.


    His Divine Soul wasnt as strong as a Real Lake Realm cultivators yet, but he wasnt that far behind. However, the information he received from the Tree of Glyphs still knocked him out in an instant and left him as miserable as a wretch. Heavens only knew how much information he had received just now!


    He took out the Soul Cleansing Water with a shuddering hand. Normally, he would try to ration his usage, but now was not the time to do so. He filled his mouth to the brim and gulped it all down in one go. It was only then the pain afflicting his Divine Soul faded bit by bit. However, he was so exhausted from the ordeal that he dropped back to the ground and fell asleep just like that.


    The next day, he woke up with a start and lingering fear. When he shook his head, it felt like his brain was sloshing weakly inside his skull. It had been a very, very long time since he felt something like this. It had topped all of his previous experiences to be the most painful experience of his whole life.


    Not only that, Lu Ye highly suspected that he wouldve be a retard if his Divine Soul wasnt as powerful as it was.


    After sorting out the jumbled information in his mind, he finally figured out why this had happened.


    He thought he was gleaning one leafs worth of information when he was inspecting the new leaf, but that wasnt the case. The power of the orange me was so massive that it took over a hundred leaves to bear it all. In other words, he had identally tried to absorb over one hundred leaves worth of information into his brain. Not even his insanely powerful Divine Soul could consume that much information in one go. That was why he had been knocked out like a light.


    The strange scenes he saw while he was unconscious didnt originally belong to the Tree of Glyphs though. It belonged to the ball of me that was consumed by the Tree of Glyphs.


    The ball of me hade from the Vermillion Bird of the Four Sacred Beasts. To be specific, it was an iplete ball of True Phoenix me. So much time had passed that the True Phoenix me, which was iplete to begin with, weakened to the point that it only annihted tens of thousands of kilometers ofnd when it impacted Spirit Creek Battlefield. It was also why the scenes he saw in his mind were dibobted and missing some pieces here and there.


    Afterall, he did not know what had happened to the Vermillion Bird after it left its own world. He only knew that it got its ass kicked so bad that it was turned into a ball of iplete me and hurtled through space for Heavens know how long. In the end, itnded on the Spirit Creek Battlefield and created the Burning Lands.


    It was said that a phoenix could achieve Nirvana ande back to life. While Lu Ye had no idea if that legend was true, he knew that this phoenix at least wasnting back to life. Why? Because its me had been fully devoured by the Tree of Glyphs, of course


    He had gotten a single Glyph for his misery. And it was a spell technique.


    In fact, Glyphs and spells werent that different from one another. It was just that the former had a wide variety of uses, while thetter was heavily focused onbat.


    If one had to make aparison, then a spell technique was a simplified version of a Glyph.


    The new Glyph Lu Ye obtained was called Glyph: Fire Phoenix!