What was more, Amber was another bond between Lu Ye and Jujia.
Even now, Lu Ye had not figured out how Amber and Jujia had taken a liking to each other. They had clearly met by chance, yet they seemed remarkably close.
"How much Merit do you have now?" Lu Ye suddenly recalled something.
Jujia was at Tier Nine, which meant he had opened one hundred and eighty apertures. Once a cultivator had opened that many apertures, it was time to find a Heaven-Grade Cultivation Technique suited to oneself.
There were very few sources for Heaven-Grade Cultivation Techniques. The greatest source was spending Merit to exchange for them from Heaven's Mystery Vault. However, due to the restrictions of the Heavenly Mechanism, a Heaven-Grade Cultivation Technique exchanged this way could only be used by its owner and could not be passed on. Thus, learning a Heaven-Grade Cultivation Technique from someone else was impossible.
A Heaven-Grade Cultivation Technique was the key to a cultivator breaking through into the Cloud River Realm. Without one, subsequent Spiritual Apertures could not be opened, nor could one advance to the Cloud River Realm.
Thus, for cultivators qualified to advance to the Cloud River Realm, a Heaven-Grade Cultivation Technique was a necessity. It was not cheap. Many cultivators began accumulating Merit from the very start of their cultivation, yet might still fail to save enough by Tier Nine. On the Spirit Stream Battlefield, there were no small number of cultivators whose cultivation was stuck at Tier Nine due to lacking a Heaven-Grade Cultivation Technique, especially Rogue Cultivators.
When Jujia had followed Sima Yang, he had not killed a single person. Without killing enemies, where would he get Merit?
"Thirty-five," Jujia replied dully.
Though Lu Ye had already suspected it, he still found the number unbelievable when he