Sage of Humanity

When Lu Ye regained his senses, he already stood beside a large pool enveloped in dense mist. Rows of Xianyuan Guards stood nearby, and the lead commander, seeing the City Lord, immediately saluted.

The City Lord waved his hand, signaling him to step back.

Lu Ye looked down but could see nothing but the swirling mist, which seemed bound by some force. Despite its constant churning, it didn't drift away even slightly.

Was this the legendary Soul Cleansing Pool?

Yiyi stood beside him and whispered softly, "Lu Ye, that mist seems very useful to me."

Being a Spiritual Body, she was extremely sensitive to the mist. Lu Ye hadn't noticed anything, but Yiyi could feel that entering the pool would benefit her unimaginably.

Lu Ye turned to look at the City Lord standing aside. "Just jump down?"

The City Lord, with his hands behind his back, stepped forward and nodded. "Yes, go ahead and jump. However, you only have six hours. After six hours, I will send you back."

No sooner had he finished speaking than Lu Ye jumped down. With limited time, he naturally wanted to seize the opportunity.

As he continuously fell, Lu Ye soon realized something was off—the Soul Cleansing Pool seemed... incredibly deep?

The City Lord hadn't mentioned this.

Just as Lu Ye was about to activate his wings rune tattoo, he suddenly felt lighter as if some force below was supporting him, and his descent slowed down and eventually stabilized.

He couldn't feel any solid substance under his feet; it felt more like stepping on cotton. He was sure he hadn't reached the bottom of the Soul Cleansing Pool. Looking around, he couldn't see Yiyi or the others; the rolling mist here was so thick he couldn't see his own hands in front of him.

He wasn't worried about their safety; they must be somewhere in this Soul Cleansing Pool.

With only six hours, Lu Ye quickly sat down cross-legged.

The situation reminded him of when he was in the Dragon Spring Body Tempering, quite similar to this place, but in Dragon Spring, he had to absorb the blood mist to achieve the tempering effect. Here, it was different. Lu Ye could feel an unseen, intangible force constantly piercing into his body.

His body became lighter, his psyche clearer, sweeping away the fatigue from continuous cultivation and reading.

This was the power of the Soul Cleansing Pool, acting on the psyche. Unfortunately, Lu Ye's cultivation level was not sufficient to reach the psyche level; otherwise, the benefits he could gain from this place would be unimaginable.

Even so, as long as he could absorb and refine the mist around him, the enhancement to his psyche would be tremendous.

Just being here brought great benefits, what about cultivating?

Lu Ye hurriedly began to build Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes within his spiritual orifice.

As each little funnel-shaped Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Rune was added, the surrounding mist gathered and rushed into Lu Ye's body at an increased pace, making his consciousness clearer and his body lighter.

Above the Soul Cleansing Pool, the City Lord stood with his hands behind his back, murmuring to himself, "The Four Auspicious Beasts gather its second, and it seems to have some connection with that one beast. Interesting."

As he murmured, the City Lord's expression suddenly tightened because he noticed something was not quite right with Lu Ye. He didn't know what method the boy had used, but the surrounding mist was continuously rushing into his body, and the speed was getting faster.

This wasn't a good sign. The mist in the Soul Cleansing Pool indeed greatly benefited the psyche—even just soaking here continuously strengthened the Soul Power, but everything should be in moderation. Lu Ye was only at Spirit Stream Level 8 and far from reaching the level of the psyche. Absorbing the soul mist so frantically would only result in his psyche being assimilated by the soul mist, leading to its disintegration.

It seemed giving him six hours was too much; at this rate, he wouldn't last even one hour.

The City Lord didn't rush to intervene, rather observing with interest. He wanted to see what choices the boy would make once he realized something was wrong.

The enhancement of Soul Power was irresistible and easy to lose oneself in.

At this moment, Lu Ye was energetically building Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes in his spiritual orifice, and as the mist continued to pour in, he felt increasingly lighter, experiencing an indescribably pleasant sensation that was intoxicating, irresistible, and made him feel omnipotent.

No sooner had this feeling arisen than he became alert and stopped constructing spirit runes.

Having experienced tempering in the Dragon Spring before, he knew some things were better in moderation.

He silently sensed his own condition. Unlike the vague sensations of the past, his perception now was clearer and continued to sharpen as he refined the mist.

He could even "see" the spirit force flowing inside his body, and he also "saw" his own Talent Tree rooted in the Root Spiritual Orifice, with many leaves blazing with flames.

He even "saw" himself sitting cross-legged atop the cloud of mist.

Lu Ye was surprised; seeing himself from an outsider's perspective was clearly unusual, almost resembling the legendary psyche out-of-body experience.

He looked down and noticed that unknowingly he had become like Yiyi, turned into a Spiritual Body.

The connection between his Spiritual Body and his flesh body was weakening rapidly.

Something was wrong!

He quickly focused his mind. A strong pulling force came, and Lu Ye abruptly opened his eyes to find himself still sitting on that mist cluster, but he was no longer in the state of a Spiritual Body as before.

The mist in the Soul Cleansing Pool was strange.

Realizing this, Lu Ye immediately became cautious.

He carefully examined his body and recalled the various sensations he had just experienced, quickly identifying the problem.

The mist of the Soul Cleansing Pool indeed had a great nurturing power for the psyche, capable of strengthening the power of the psyche, but he had his limits to bear, after all, he was just a Spirit Stream Realm cultivator.

If the power of the psyche became too strong in a short period of time, it would instinctively want to break free from the constraints of the flesh body, such as the phenomenon of the psyche leaving the body that had just occurred, and with the continuous strengthening of the psyche, this situation would become more severe.

The flesh body is the container of the psyche, the fundamental where the psyche resides. Once the psyche breaks free from the flesh body's constraints, it would truly be transformed into a Spiritual Body.

This was a result that Lu Ye absolutely could not accept.

A pure Spiritual Body certainly has many conveniences, but without a flesh body as a basis, it ultimately is like water without a source, a tree without roots.

Yiyi had no flesh body, but she was transformed from Amber, a minion spirit, so she actually also had a basis.

Having identified the problem, Lu Ye dared not act recklessly anymore. This situation was different from that in the Dragon Spring Body Tempering. In the Dragon Spring, even if one absorbed too much blood mist, it would only cause the physique to become temporarily stronger, the mind not keeping up with the body's responses, which one could gradually adapt to over time.

But in this place, letting the psyche become too strong was ultimately not a good thing.

Originally, he had constructed over a hundred and thirty Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes in his own Root Spiritual Orifice. At this moment, he hurriedly dispersed half of them to avoid bearing the nourishment of the soul mist around him.

A moment later, Lu Ye dispersed another half, leaving only thirty Spirit Energy Gathering Spirit Runes.

The situation was still not optimistic. He seemed to have devoured and refined too much soul mist earlier, causing the power of his psyche to have almost grown to a limit. If it continued to grow like this, the phenomenon of psyche leaving the body would inevitably occur again.

After sensing for a moment, compelled, he dispersed the remaining thirty spirit runes as well.

The situation became awkward. While the benefits were within reach, so close he could almost touch them, he could only sit idly by.

By the side of the Soul Cleansing Pool, the City Lord looked down with a slight nod. Lu Ye being able to quickly recognize the problem and even resist the temptation of the soul mist's enhancement was somewhat unexpected to him.

It seemed that the boy was not bad, just as he had said before, being not too greedy in life allows one to be content and happy.

While thinking this, he then saw Lu Ye take out his storage sack, open the mouth of the bag, and shake it from side to side, seemingly trying to stuff the soul mist into the storage sack...

The City Lord, watching, couldn't help but laugh and cry at the same time. He now understood, whatever nonsense about not being too greedy was purely balderdash.

Below the Soul Cleansing Pool, Lu Ye checked inside the storage sack, having indeed collected some soul mist, but the storage sack itself had limited space. Even if it was filled to the brim, how much could it really hold?

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Lu Ye pocketed the storage sack, looking downward.

This rich, churning soul mist couldn't have been created out of nothing. Could it be that the Soul Cleansing Pool's water was below?

Quickly hanging the storage sack at his waist, Lu Ye dove down, using both his hands and feet, swimming towards the depths of the Soul Cleansing Pool like swimming.

A moment later, feeling too slow, he activated the wings rune tattoo, quickly flying downwards.

Flying through the dense clouds of mist, Lu Ye continued to delve deeper.

For the duration of one incense stick's time, he still hadn't reached the bottom. The Soul Cleansing Pool seemed like a bottomless abyss. Lu Ye felt something wasn't quite right—the Soul Cleansing Pool, despite being deep, should have a limit; flying for the time of one incense stick was clearly not normal.

By the side of the Soul Cleansing Pool, the City Lord, unbeknownst to when, had already sat down at the pool's edge, one hand propping up his chin, his expression amused. Xianyuan City, though often having living people entering due to some reasons, he as the City Lord, would not easily show himself before these juniors. It had been a long time since he had seen such an interesting scene.

In his view, Lu Ye hadn't delved into the depths of the Soul Cleansing Pool at all but rather stayed in place, maintaining a posture of flying downward, the rolling soul mist around and the special environment inside the Soul Cleansing Pool creating in Lu Ye the illusion of continuously delving deeper.

In the Soul Cleansing Pool, Lu Ye retracted his spirit force wings, turning his head to look around at the dense soul mist, contemplating.

Since it was impossible to determine just how deep the Soul Cleansing Pool really was, or whether reaching the bottom would enable him to find any pool water, could he possibly create some Soul Cleansing Pool water himself?

This thick soul mist, logically speaking, should be able to form soul water if guided slightly to condense, similar to how mist condenses into water. As for how to guide the soul mist to condense, Lu Ye did have some ideas.