Chapter 391: Full Speed Ahead


    As usual, Lu Ye kicked off the battle byunching his flying weapons at his enemy. Nine auras mmed into the body-tempering cultivators Shield Spirit Artifact so hard that his body shook, and the light on the shield weakened with each impact.


    The body-tempering cultivator was shocked to say the least. He knew just how powerful his Shield Spirit Artifact was, and yet it had lost a ton of Spiritual Power in a matter of seconds. That was just how powerful Lu Yes attack was.


    By the time all nine flying weapons had struck the shield, Lu Ye was already in front of the body-tempering cultivator. He activated Gravity Well as he brought down the Invible like lightning.


    An unimaginable pressure pressed down on the body-tempering cultivator. He felt like he was struck by a mountain, not a saber. Although he ultimately managed to withstand the blow, he still nearly dropped to one knee.


    The body-tempering cultivator pushed his Spiritual Power so hard that his entire face was red. He let out a mighty roar, pushed back Lu Yes saber, and brought down his spiked hammer all at the same time.


    Lu Yes flying weapons appeared from the sides and mmed into the spiked hammer, causing it to miss and strike the floor right next to Lu Ye instead. There was enough force behind the blow to cause some cracks.


    Spiritual Power boiled around Lu Ye as he thrust his saber forward. He was a Heaven Eight cultivator, and his saber was empowered by two Sharp Edges. Right now, his offensive power was off the charts.


    The Shield Spirit Artifacts aura vanished instantly. In fact, the shield itself shattered into pieces with a loud crack.


    The body-tempering cultivators expression turned horrified as Lu Ye brought his me-wreathed saber down. He instinctively tried to call for surrender.


    It was at this moment Amberthe white tiger had been crouching on his shoulder this entire timeopened its mouth and let out a mighty roar. A visible shockwave swept across his body and caused his thoughts to go nk for an instant. As a result, he missed the window to say the words he needed to say to survive.


    Metal cut through flesh, and blood sttered everywhere!


    The body-tempering cultivator took two unsteady steps back before copsing on the ground. His wide open eyes were full of grievance even as they gradually turned ssy.


    He knew he was no match for Lu Ye, but he thought he would have the time to surrender at least as a body-tempering cultivator. However, Amber had ruined his one shot at surviving at thest moment.


    Yi Yi appeared and asked, Done already?


    The girl was extremely unhappy. It was because she didnt even have the chance to participate!


    They picked up the loot and requested the Heavens to teleport them away from the battlefield. After they had returned to the wooden building, Lu Ye checked the Scroll of Supremacy and confirmed that he was now in the ny-eighth spot. The challenger could challenge the ranker five ces above their spot at most. In Lu Yes case, that was the ny-third ranker.


    He didnt do so though. Instead, he challenged the ny-fifth ranker. The reason he did not challenge the ny-sixth and ny-seventh ranker was because they belonged to the Grand Sky Coalition, of course.


    Since he entered the Core Circle, the Thousand Demon Ridge had attacked him like he had massacred their nine generations. If he wasnt as strong as he was, he wouldve died a million times already.


    Naturally, he was quite resentful of their actions even though he understood why they had done this. Forget that he was a brash young man, even the Buddha would be provoked into violence if you pushed him too far. It was why he had chosen to break out of the Myriad Poison Forest by force instead of stealth. For one, he needed to umte the Contribution Points necessary to buy his ward gs. Two, he wanted to give his pursuers a taste of their own medicine.


    But of course, he couldnt challenge the entire world all the time. The risks alone made it something to be attempted only once in a blue moon.


    On the other hand, the challenge battles of the Scroll of Supremacy was apletely different story. Since the battle only featured one-on-ones, he never had to worry about being ganged up by multiple cultivators.


    That was why he decided that he was going to kill every Thousand Demon Ridge cultivator he encountered along the way. It was only right considering all the attacks he had received so far!


    The ny-fifth cultivator wasnt as busy as the bottom feeders, so Lu Yes challenge request went through and was epted in just a short time. After the Heavens teleported him into the battlefield, Yi Yi immediately hid herself as she had before. Amber was also crouching on Lu Yes shoulder


    Lu Ye examined his environment and discovered that it was a massive desert. The hot sun was hanging in the middle of the sky, and the air felt hot enough to scald a mortals skin. Wherever he looked, there was only yellow sand. Not only that, his opponent was nowhere to be seen


    Lu Ye immediately determined that his opponent was probably a spell cultivator who majored in Fire Attribute or Earth Attribute spell techniques. No other cultivator would choose a terrain like this.


    Lu Ye could not be bothered to search for his enemy across an entire desert, so he just stayed where he was and waited for the signal. A whileter, Yi Yi messaged him saying that she had found the enemy. As predicted, they were a spell cultivator.


    Meanwhile, the Thousand Demon Ridge was in shambles yet again. The Yi Ye Elimination Front were searching for the Vanquisher of Sects all over the Core Circle to no avail. No one knew where he had hidden himself. It was almost as if the young man had vanished into thin air.


    It was at this moment Lu Yi Yes name appeared on the Scroll of Supremacy once more. As it turned out, the sonuvabitch was climbing the rank list!


    At first, only a handful of people were aware of this. However, all eyes were on the Scroll of Supremacy once the news had spread.


    They watched as Lu Yi Ye climbed the Scroll of Supremacy at meteoric speed. When they first noticed him, he was only at the ny-fifth spot. However, it only took him half a day to ascend to the eighty-second spot. Another half a day passed, and he was at the seventy-third spot. When the following day came, he was at the sixty-fifth spot!


    The speed at which he was climbing the rank list was ridiculous to say the least. Moreover, it didnt look like he was nning to stop any time soon. He would be climbing even faster if it wasnt for the fact that the rankers he challenged often made use of the four-hour preparation time to the max. The waiting actually cost him far more time than the actual fights.


    What angered the Thousand Demon Ridge even more was that Lu Yi Ye was challenging every Thousand Demon Ridge cultivator in his way instead of skipping them to save himself some time and energy. As if that wasnt bad enough, none of them had survived the challenges!


    As a result, a strange phenomenon was happening on the list. The twenty rankers behind Lu Ye all belonged to the Grand Sky Coalition.


    This had never happened before as both the Thousand Demon Ridge and the Grand Sky Coalition were overflowing with talent. Usually, it was rare enough for a group of four or five rankers on the Scroll of Supremacy to all belong to the same faction, much less twenty of them. Now? Lu Ye had done something unprecedented yet again.


    For a time, countless Thousand Demon Ridge cultivators were angry both at Lu Ye and their own rankers. They just could not understand how these so-called future pirs of their faction would be so weak. Even if they were no match for Lu Ye, why didnt they just forfeit the battle and save their own lives? Surely they had enough sense and time to do that, right?


    Regardless, it was clear that Lu Yi Ye was targeting them on purpose. He was pping the Thousand Demon Ridges face so to speak.


    If the rank list was created by cultivators, then they would have had a million ways to manipte it. At the very least, they couldve removed it and stopped their shame from spreading further. Unfortunately, the Scroll of Supremacy was generated by the Heavens, and it was impossible for mere cultivators to interfere with it in any way. Any Spirit Creek Realm cultivator with sufficient strength could connect to Scroll of Supremacy and check it.


    The Thousand Demon Ridge was deeply humiliated by the rank list to say the least. Every time someone took a look at the list, they would feel their faces turning deep red with shame. It was as if someone had pped them multiple times in a row.


    While Lu Yes mad actions deeply humiliated the Thousand Demon Ridge, the Grand Sky Coalition was celebrating as a matter of course. Countless Grand Sky Coalition cultivators were spreading the news as far as they could reach. Every time Lu Ye ascended a rank, and the Thousand Demon Ridge cultivator he was challenging had disappeared from the list, a cheer would break out among the crowd.


    By the third day since Lu Ye began climbing the Scroll of Supremacy, he was sitting at the fiftieth spot!


    Contrary to his faction or the Thousand Demon Ridges feelings, Lu Ye was feeling rather miffed and disappointed. It was because none of them was strong enough to put up a fight at all.


    No matter what cultivator faction they belonged to or the terrain they chose, Lu Ye almost always ended the battle shortly after he or Yi Yi had located them. Even better, Ambers roar prevented them from being able to surrender and live.


    In fact, Ambers only role on the battlefield was to sit on Lu Yes shoulder and roar the second it looked like the challenger was about to speak. So far, no one who had been struck by Ambers roar had managed to regain their mind fast enough to survive the battle!


    When Lu Ye wasnt fighting the rankers, he was cultivating and feeding the Tree of Glyphs the me of Earthen Spirits. Since he was so busy these days, he had only fed it half of the mes of Earthen Spirits he had bought. Still, he was able to obtain two new Glyphs. They were Glyph: Golden Arc and Glyph: Invoke Lightning


    He already suspected it was the case when he saw their names, but upon absorbing their information, he discovered that he could use them as spell techniques after construction.


    Intentionally or not, the Tree of Glyphs was bringing him further down the path of a spell cultivator.


    That said, he suspected that the spell techniques cast using these two Glyphs would be quite different from the usual spell technique because his Primary Attribute was Fire, and his Supplementary Attribute was Gold. Also, the best way to use these two Glyphs was actually in offensive wards. He was sure they would perform wonderfully with the proper application.


    He had already issued a challenge request to the forty-eighth ranker, but the battle had not begun immediately even though his opponent had epted the challenge. It was likely he was going to have to wait another four hours before the battle would ensue. So, he took out another me of Earthen Spirits and fed the Tree of Glyphs. While doing so, he spared some concentration to cultivate as well.


    The remaining twenty me of Earthen Spirits were devoured in no time. Once done, Lu Ye looked at the Tree of Glyphs expectantly. He was hoping to see if it had obtained more Glyphs.


    His eyes contracted into needles as he saw a clump of leaves glowing red


    He had encountered this exactly one time in the past. It was when he was absorbing the True Phoenix me in the Burning Lands. At the time, an entire clump of leaves had reacted more or less the same way. It wasnt until the Tree of Glyphs had devoured the True Phoenix mepletely did they burst into mes. After that, the image of the Vermillion Bird had appeared on the tree crown, and he had obtained Glyph: Fire Phoenix.


    Since this was happening again, it meant that he was most likely getting a special Glyph!


    Lu Ye examined the leaves closely. Only a dozen or so leaves were glowing red, which was nowhere as impressive as Fire Phoenix. Even so, he still looked forward to the Glyph a lot. In fact, he had been hoping to receive special Glyphs since Fire Phoenix because they were far, far more powerful than the average Glyph.


    The arrangement of the glowing leaves on the Tree of Glyphs werent random. If he wasnt mistaken, it was shaped like a pair of wings?


    Lu Ye immediately perked up.


    [Could it be]


    [It could be]


    [It better be]


    Unfortunately, twenty mes of the Earthen Spirits werent enough to manifest the Glyphpletely. He would need to feed the Tree of Glyphs more mes to confirm his suspicion.