The sect asked me to marry, and I cultivated to the pinnacle of martial arts!

Rumble!
These final few bolts of heavenly lightning caused the Bloodthirsty Tree Demon's entire trunk to begin to break apart.

A tree demon, comparable to a mid-stage Heavenly Realm cultivator, perished at Lu Ye's hands in two battles.

Filled with the same deep resentment, the Bloodthirsty Tree Demon's mangled trunk finally crashed down from mid-air with a thunderous roar.

The location where he fell was not far from the two Earth Realm cultivators who had fallen, less than two hundred meters away.

Lu Ye quickly arrived in front of the Bloodthirsty Tree Demon and scanned its corpse. He soon discovered a crystal core that still possessed enormous energy inside the tree demon's body.

"If this crystal core is used as the energy source for the array in the secluded place in the North, it should last for a long time."

This thing is just like the battery in my previous life; the more energy it contains, the longer it can last.

After collecting the crystal core, Lu Ye used another handful of bone-melting powder, and the Bloodthirsty Tree Demon began to melt and disappear rapidly, turning into wood chips that began to scatter.

Afterwards, Lu Ye went to the two fallen Earth Realm cultivators and sighed.

"I can understand that you two don't believe me. After all, that's how the cultivation world is. Fortunately, I've helped you get revenge."

After saying that, Lu Ye removed the two people's storage rings and disposed of them in the same way to prevent them from being used by those with ulterior motives.

...

On the other side, under the night sky.

Xiao Yudie and Qingyu waited for Lu Ye's return at the same spot where he had been.

After a while, the two keenly noticed that thunder was heard again about a thousand miles away.

"Are they fighting again?"

Xiao Yudie asked curiously.

Qingyu was somewhat worried and whispered, "That tree demon is very strong. Will Young Master get hurt?"

Hearing this, Xiao Yudie thought to herself, "When you come back later, you're not going to check me again, are you?"

There are outsiders here!

However, that tree demon was indeed powerful. Xiao Yudie felt that if Chen Beixuan's Heavenly Thunder Technique hadn't been a perfect counter to it, he wouldn't have been able to defeat it so badly last time.

Just as the two were pondering, a figure broke through the darkness of the night and headed straight for them.

The two were initially wary, but once their spiritual senses detected the newcomer's aura and found it to be quite familiar, they relaxed.

Lu Ye has returned.

But why did they come back so quickly?

Could it be that they finally reached an agreement with that bloodthirsty tree demon, and after testing each other, they realized that neither could do anything to the other, and finally sounded the retreat—no, I mean, they sounded the thunder to call it quits?

After all, only a few minutes have passed?

To say that the opponent has been completely killed... that probably isn't that easy.

Just as these thoughts were circulating in Xiao Yudie's mind, Lu Ye had already landed in this area.

"Why didn't you light a fire? It was pitch black, and I almost mistook you for a speed bump."

Looking at the pitch-black expanse, with some wooden branches in front of them but not using them, Lu Ye spoke up.

Speed ​​bumps...what speed bumps?

Xiao Yudie asked curiously, "Did you and that tree spirit reach an agreement to keep to your own business?"

Qingyu didn't speak. Based on her understanding of her son-in-law... unless he beat the other side to a pulp, or even kills them outright, that's not his style.

An agreement? That doesn't even exist.

Hearing Xiao Yudie's words, Lu Ye smiled slightly. The next moment, a crystal core with wisps of blood-red swirls inside, filled with violent and bloody energy, appeared in Lu Ye's hand.

Xiao Yudie: "?!!"

She recognized it at a glance—wasn't that the crystal core of that mid-stage Heavenly Realm tree demon?!
That tree spirit was so polite, it even gave away its own crystal core!

"You killed it?!" Xiao Yudie felt that this was the loudest she had ever spoken in her life.

Xiao Yudie knew that even if she used all her tricks, the tree demon would probably only be able to escape by using her trump card.

Within minutes, this man had slain the tree demon while the wine was still warm...

Doesn't that mean that if I had really fought him to the death back then, I would be dead by now?
So, it turns out they really did hold back back then...

A sense of defeat, which had been inexplicably dealt a blow, arose in Xiao Yudie's heart at this moment.

Having heard countless praises in the boundless sea, Xiao Yudie herself was quite confident, believing that she was among the very best of all the heroes in the world.

This trip to the North felt like it had dealt her more blows than it had in the previous ten years.

...

After dealing with the Bloodthirsty Tree Demon, nothing unusual happened in the latter half of the night.

Lu Ye also took the time to examine the storage rings of the two Earth Realm cultivators.

These two didn't have many source crystals, a little over a hundred in total, which is considered quite a lot for someone in the Earth Realm.

The rest of the silver and such amounted to several hundred thousand taels.

The manuals were two Earth-rank manuals. Lu Ye glanced at them briefly and put them down. Now, even Heaven-rank manuals didn't really pique Lu Ye's interest.

If you want to significantly improve your strength, you need supernatural powers.

"By the way, after we get out of here, we can ask Sang Xiyao how we can get a chance to study the Heavenly Palace Divine Power Stele..."

However, there was one thing among the two rings that piqued Lu Ye's interest.

Those were two pieces that resembled some kind of Bagua (Eight Trigrams) array, one of which was in each of the two rings.

However, it is not complete when pieced together; two pieces are probably still missing.

"What is this? Is it a key to open somewhere?" Having grown more experienced than the novice he was before in the Crimson Cloud Sect, Lu Ye quickly came to a conclusion.

After thinking for a moment, he transferred the two Bagua patterns into his storage ring.

Within a radius of several thousand miles, there were still some cultivators attracted by the exotic fragrance, searching for opportunities all over the place.

They didn't know that if they had actually found it... they might have been in serious trouble.

Ultimately, these people searched in vain and could only leave with a sense of regret, preparing to look for other opportunities.

The next morning, the three set off again.

In the morning, while driving on the highway, Xiao Yudie took out the map again and looked at some small details on it.

"Right, it should be just ahead." Xiao Yudie said with a hint of surprise, finally almost at her destination.

A moment later, the three of them successfully arrived at a narrow stream. Passing through this stream would lead them to the entrance to the valley that Xiao Yudie had mentioned.

"By the way, do you have the key to that place?" Lu Ye asked Xiao Yudie, remembering something.

He remembered that the first two times he went to similar breeding grounds, he needed a key to leave through the teleportation array left in the valley.

Without the key, traversing the misty valley entrance would be far more dangerous. (End of Chapter)