After returning from the Chess Sea, Lu Ye had a full 5,352 Merit. Later, he spent 2,000 Merit to buy ten portions of Core Fire, and he often entered the Mirage Realm to train, causing his Merit to gradually dwindle.
During the Bug Tide, he earned quite a bit of Merit. Afterward, Hua Ci took it upon herself to issue him part of his monthly stipend, bringing the total back up to an even 5,000.
So, for the time being, Lu Ye was not short on Merit.
To speed up his progress in studying the Spirit Pattern Path under Madam Yun, he bought another ten portions of Core Fire from the Heaven's Mystery Vault and had the Talent Tree devour them one by one, gaining several Spiritual Patterns.
This was because he had discovered something: the more Spiritual Patterns he mastered, the deeper his attainments in the Spirit Pattern Path became, and the easier it was for him to learn other things related to Spiritual Patterns.
As a result, his progress in cultivating the Spirit Pattern Path under Madam Yun advanced by leaps and bounds, winning Madam Yun's great praise.
On the first day, he spent an entire day barely managing to decipher a single Spiritual Pattern.
But on the second day, it took him only a little over two hours to decipher one.
By the third day, deciphering one Spiritual Pattern required only half an hour.
After five or six days like this, no matter how complicated a Spiritual Pattern Madam Yun constructed, Lu Ye could decipher it in a short time.
Deciphering a single Spiritual Pattern was no longer enough to make him feel challenged.
So Madam Yun constructed interlocking Spiritual Patterns. So-called interlocking Spiritual Patterns used a special technique to combine two, three, or even more Spiritual