Three days later, on opposite sides of the wreckage-strewn battlefield, Lu Ye and Luo Ji sat dozens of zhang apart, each recovering.
Over those three days, they had fought more than a dozen battles, clashing several times each day, yet no victor had been decided.
Three days of savage fighting had exhausted Lu Ye in both body and mind. He had barely slept during those days, and he could not understand how that fellow named Luo Ji recovered so quickly!
By now, both sides had revealed every card they had. In a head-on confrontation, neither could do anything to the other. Now it came down to who could endure longer, making recovery speed especially important.
Within the same span of time, whichever side recovered more Spiritual Power could steadily build up an advantage.
With the Taotie Meal aiding him, Lu Ye refined Spiritual Pills twice as fast as usual. While resting, he also constructed Spirit Gathering Spirit Patterns at his Spiritual Apertures, drawing in the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy around him.
With these two methods working together, Lu Ye's recovery speed had reached an almost outrageous level. Even an ordinary Tier Six cultivator might not recover as quickly as he did.
Luo Ji harbored the same doubts. Inside, he was cursing furiously. How could this brute recover so quickly?
Though he was at the Spirit Stream Second Layer, he had already opened fifty-five apertures, nearly twice as many as Lu Ye. Moreover, the Spiritual Pills he took were not ordinary Spirit Nurturing Pills, but Minor Restoration Pills specially made by Boundless Island.
When used for cultivation, these pills were not much different from Spirit Nurturing Pills. But if used solely for recovery, they were roughly thirty percent more effective.
While recovering, he had even used Spirit Stones, gripping one