After helping Tofu Ji sell tofu for three days, Lu Ye returned to the Sacred Mountain.
When he pushed open his door, he found the room piled full of Blood Crystals of every size and quality. Clearly, Eldest Senior Brother had sent people to deliver them.
Blood Crystals came from the Blood Race. During this war, the Human Race had not collected many, because the invading Blood Race had basically all been slain beyond the defensive line, their corpses falling into the Divine Palace Sea. How could anyone collect Blood Crystals from that?
These Blood Crystals had been gathered and preserved from several previous wars, and their quantity was immense.
Lu Ye smiled knowingly, walked into the room, and sat down cross-legged.
Activating the Talent Tree's power, invisible roots spread out and plunged into the nearby Blood Crystals, devouring them to their heart's content and turning them into his own foundation.
Cultivation in the True Lake Realm was the tempering of a cultivator's Spiritual Power. Every advancement in realm was one refinement of Spiritual Power; True Lake Tier Nine meant nine refinements of Spiritual Power.
In theory, every minor realm separating True Lake Realm cultivators meant a twofold difference in both the quality and quantity of Spiritual Power. Of course, the actual gap was not quite so great.
But there was no denying that every advancement in the True Lake Realm greatly enhanced a cultivator's strength.
That was also why, the higher a cultivator's cultivation, the harder it became to kill enemies above one's realm. Those elite geniuses who could fight across realms in the Spirit Stream Realm and Cloud River Realm might not necessarily retain such ability upon reaching the True Lake Realm.
Lu Ye was an exception.
He had developed Divine Sense while still at True Lake Tier