Sage of Humanity

The speed at which the pill energy dissipated was much faster than before, which naturally increased his efficiency in refining elixir pills.

Chen He indeed hadn't lied; no wonder he dared to swear an oath of Heaven's Augury in front of him.

But Lu Ye quickly understood why this Cultivation Technique was being sold everywhere.

The Bestial Gluttony Feast could double the efficiency of cultivation at first glance, which seemed revolutionary, but in reality, cultivators accumulate pill poison when they consume elixir pills during cultivation. Once the pill poison accumulates, the spirit force within the body becomes turbid and unclear. The more elixir pills refined, the more evident the problem becomes.

Therefore, after a period of cultivation, cultivators would stop consuming elixir pills and look for ways to resolve the pill poison.

In other words, under normal circumstances, whether the efficiency of a cultivator in refining elixir pills is fast or slow doesn't make much of a difference; being slower might even have its advantages...

However, Lu Ye was different; he had the Talent Tree to burn away the pill poison, turning elixir pills into spirit force upon consumption, which was even purer than what ordinary cultivators could achieve through painstaking refinement. Therefore, the effect of the Bestial Gluttony Feast on increasing the efficiency of cultivation was genuinely substantial for him.

The combination of the Talent Tree and the Bestial Gluttony Feast was simply a perfect match!

Realizing this, Lu Ye felt somewhat excited as his future cultivation would undoubtedly save a lot of time.

However, this also meant that on the path of pill-consumption cultivation, he was destined to venture further and further.

The pill energy of an elixir pill was quickly depleted, and the spirit force within Lu Ye gradually became abundant. Perhaps because he had been cultivating, his stomach started to growl. He immediately took food out from his storage sack and began to eat voraciously.

Then he discovered something interesting—his digestive ability had also become stronger.

All fifteen spiritual orifices of the Bestial Gluttony Feast were located near the stomach, and when the Cultivation Technique was in operation, the entire stomach churned intensely like a millstone. Under the powerful milling force, not only could it quickly refine pill energy, but it could also digest food.

Upon further investigation, Lu Ye found that what made the Bestial Gluttony Feast so effective was not merely digestion, but absorption. Digestion without absorption would be futile; only by absorbing could the efficiency of cultivation truly be increased.

Through his senses, Lu Ye discovered that if he connected those fifteen spiritual orifices according to a certain pattern, he could create a figure that seemed somewhat familiar to him...

With a slight recollection, he raised his hand and manipulated the spirit force to construct a spirit rune.

It was the 3rd spirit rune he had acquired—Gathering Spirit.

The Gathering Spirit rune in his hand, once manifested, generated an invisible pulling force, and the surrounding Spiritual Energy began to flow toward it.

The Gathering Spirit rune was an extremely complex and profound pattern constructed with spirit force. The figure he had created by connecting the Bestial Gluttony Feast according to a certain pattern was undoubtedly much cruder, but both seemed to originate from the same source!

Was it a coincidence? Or did the cultivator who created the Bestial Gluttony Feast Technique draw inspiration from the structure of the Gathering Spirit rune?

The primary function of the Gathering Spirit rune was to gather nature's spiritual energy. If one considered pill energy as comparable to Spiritual Energy, then the Bestial Gluttony Feast was also gathering—however, it converted the gathered pill energy into spirit force for the cultivator to absorb.

With this line of thought, a vague idea suddenly sprung into Lu Ye's mind, but when he tried to clarify this thought, he found he couldn't grasp it momentarily.

He fell into contemplation, letting the Bestial Gluttony Feast operate...

The nature's spiritual energy around him, drawn by some inexplicable force, converged towards Lu Ye, merged into the Gathering Spirit rune on his hand, and then dispersed, in an ongoing cycle.

However, Lu Ye soon noticed that a portion of the nature's spiritual energy flowed into his own stomach and was transformed into his spirit force through the milling of the Bestial Gluttony Feast...

This surprised him somewhat.

During these days of cultivation, he had always relied on refining elixir pills, supplemented by Essence Refinement-Qi Conversion, mainly because the efficiency of absorbing nature's spiritual energy was too low. His body found it difficult to accept spiritual energy, as though there was an invisible barrier covering him, keeping nature's spiritual energy at bay.

Even the efficiency of cultivating with the aid of Spirit Stones wasn't high. Strictly speaking, Spirit Stones are the condensation of spiritual energy, and if he couldn't accept spiritual energy, naturally, he couldn't accept the power of Spirit Stones either.

But now, without cultivating, the Bestial Gluttony Feast had actually gathered some spiritual energy for grinding and refining...Nôv(el)B\\jnn

This also indirectly verified Lu Ye's earlier speculation that the creator of the Bestial Gluttony Feast Technique must have made use of the construction of the Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes, otherwise the two wouldn't have similar characteristics.

Of course, the spiritual energy gathered by the Bestial Gluttony Feast wasn't much. The true purpose of this technique was to refine the substances consumed, the gathering of spiritual energy was just a secondary effect.

Thinking this, the vague idea in Lu Ye's mind suddenly became clear!

The Bestial Gluttony Feast could gather spiritual energy, and the Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes could also gather spiritual energy, both originating from the same source.

The effect of the Bestial Gluttony Feast Technique came from the operation of fifteen spiritual orifices in series, so the focus was on the spiritual orifices.

What if he were to enhance a spiritual orifice with Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes?

What would happen then?

Lu Ye was startled by his own bold idea.

Although he was only a novice cultivator who had been practicing for a few months and was ignorant of many common knowledges in the cultivation world, he knew the importance of spiritual orifices to a cultivator. It could be said that once there was a problem with a spiritual orifice, it would affect a cultivator's entire life.

When he obtained the Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Rune, he had investigated its properties and ultimately deemed it worthless, because his body found it very difficult to accept external spiritual energy, and even if he activated the Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes, it wouldn't be of much use.

But it seemed that he had entered a mental blind spot. Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes could not only be applied to his hands, they could also be applied elsewhere.

For instance... within a spiritual orifice!

If his idea could be realized, then the Gathering Spirit would not be garbage at all, in fact, it could become the most useful spirit rune.

The more he thought about it, the more feasible the idea seemed. Lu Ye stopped the operation of the Bestial Gluttony Feast Technique and switched to the Golden Cicada Carefree Method.

The main reason other cultivators dared not apply spirit runes on their own spiritual orifices is that the construction of spirit runes is complex. Even the most seasoned spirit runes master could fail in its construction, and if the spirit runes were constructed incorrectly, the spirit force used to build them would explode, causing some damage to the spiritual orifice.

But Lu Ye had no such concerns. He now mastered three spirit runes, and each time he obtained a spirit rune, a wealth of information about that spirit rune would pour into his mind. He had never once failed in constructing spirit runes.

Even so, Lu Ye did not dare to meddle with his Root Spiritual Orifice but chose another spiritual orifice instead.

The Root Spiritual Orifice is the most important one, and if something goes wrong there, it would truly be the end. If other spiritual orifices encounter issues, perhaps there is a way to remedy the situation.

Sensing the location of that spiritual orifice, Lu Ye's mind moved subtly, and he channeled his spirit force, applying a Gathering Spirit rune onto that spiritual orifice.

However, in just an instant, the Gathering Spirit runes were scattered by the flow of spirit force within his body.

No, this needed adjustment. He couldn't just place the spirit runes inside the spiritual orifice, otherwise, there was no way to maintain it.