Sage of Humanity

"Fifth Brother, can you unlock the restriction lock on the storage sack?" The disciple asked curiously, since he had never seen their Fifth Brother possess this skill before.

"I can!"

"Please wait a moment, Brother."

The disciple hurried away, and returned shortly with a storage sack in hand, which he handed to Lu Ye, "Please help me open this storage sack, Fifth Brother."

It was one of the spoils of war he had picked from a pile after the Insect Plague; there were hundreds of storage sacks accumulated on the plaza at that time, which was also why Lu Ye came here to unlock them for free.

The storage sacks from Hua Ci had already been dealt with, but there were still many that the disciples had not handled. Most of these sacks came from the Phong Clan, and certainly could not compare in quality to those from Hua Ci. No one knew exactly what was inside; they could contain treasures or could be a pile of junk.

So the holders of the storage sacks kept them, not going to the nearby Heaven's Augury Mercantile Union to find someone to unlock them, in case it resulted in a loss.

Lu Ye took the storage sack and began to work.

Soon, a crowd gathered around him, having heard that Lu Ye was helping people unlock restriction locks for free, they all came to see this novelty.

As the spirit force surged, Lu Ye suddenly frowned, raised his hand, and tossed the storage sack into the air.

A pairs of eyes looked up just in time to see the storage sack rapidly bursting into flames and turning into a fireball in the blink of an eye!

Lu Ye looked up as well, his brows deeply furrowed.

The first attempt had not been successful! The very first storage sack was destroyed.

Originally, he had wanted to build a good reputation among the disciples with his skill so that he would have more storage sacks to open, but instead, he'd set off fireworks for everyone...

The bustling scene suddenly fell silent, and the disciples felt rather awkward.

"Fifth Brother..." The disciple who had brought the storage sack looked at Lu Ye with a pitiful expression.

"Yours is gone," said Lu Ye calmly, looking at him. "Opening sacks comes with risks."

"Oh," the disciple said, disheartened, wondering if he could ask Fifth Brother to compensate for the storage sack that had been ruined. Accepting his bad luck, he consoled himself by thinking that there must have been nothing but trash in that storage sack, and he didn't feel sorry about it at all.

Lu Ye scanned the surroundings, the disciples' gaze flitting away, and some even hiding their storage sacks behind their backs...

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Lu Ye pointed at a disciple, "Hand over the storage sack hidden behind you!"

The disciple felt like mourning the dead; how could he disobey? He walked over to Lu Ye reluctantly and handed over the hidden storage sack, cautiously advising, "Take your time, Fifth Brother, I'm not in a hurry."

Lu Ye activated his spirit force, cracking the restriction inside.

This time it went smoothly, and shortly after, Lu Ye tossed the now-unlocked storage sack back to the disciple.

"It's done."

The disciple was slightly stunned but quickly inspected the sack and discovered it was indeed opened. Not knowing what treasures were inside, he suddenly burst into laughter, "Haha, I've struck it rich!"

After laughing twice, he hurriedly thanked Lu Ye, "Many thanks, Fifth Brother!"

"Next!" Lu Ye waved his hand.

The onlooking cultivators were astonished since they truly could unlock the restriction locks! After the first storage sack was destroyed by Lu Ye, they all hesitated to try again, but to their surprise, the second attempt was a success.

"This is mine, Fifth Brother," a female cultivator stepped forward and handed over her storage sack.

Lu Ye broke the restriction again and tossed it back to her a moment later.

"Many thanks, Fifth Brother, you are truly amazing," the female cultivator praised Lu Ye before joyfully running off.

With the success of the first two attempts, more people were encouraged to try. After more than ten consecutive successes without a single failure, it solidified the cultivators' confidence in Lu Ye.

It appeared that the first destroyed storage sack had not been due to Lu Ye's lack of skill, but rather a matter of luck.

The news spread rapidly, and soon a large number of cultivators gathered, forming an orderly queue.

The occasional failure did occur, but the situation was much better than the previous day's; when one did fail, the storage sack was simply destroyed, and the few unlucky disciples could only accept their fate.

Lu Ye kept busy until dawn and then stretched and stood up, announcing, "That's enough for now. We'll continue in the evening."

For several days in a row, Lu Ye set up a stall in the marketplace to unlock sacks, continuing until all the spoils of war the disciples had obtained were processed, and only then did he stop.

With the experience accumulated from unlocking time after time, combined with his daytime learning from Madam Yun, his proficiency in the Path of Spirit Runes continued to improve.

As his proficiency improved, he could understand the books more easily. Gaining knowledge from the books enhanced his own proficiency, thus creating a virtuous cycle.

The game with Madam Yun began to escalate, simple restriction breaking could no longer challenge Lu Ye, so Madam Yun started setting up Formations for him to break.

That was exactly the direction Lu Ye wished to learn in, his ultimate goal was to decipher the Sect Protection Arrays of the various Ten Thousand Demons Ridge strongholds! As long as he had this ability, then in the future, he could have as much merit as he wanted.

A cultivator's daily life, cultivation, and even combat are all intimately connected with spirit runes, so many cultivators are familiar with spirit runes, even capable of constructing some, but compared to a real spirit runes master, the difference is vast.

Take array cultivators, for instance, this is actually considered a branch of spirit runes masters, as array setup involves spirit runes.

It can be said, any spirit runes master is an outstanding array cultivator, but an array cultivator does not equal a spirit runes master.

As of today, Lu Ye had come to realize Madam Yun's teaching principles, everything started from breaking! Including at the very beginning when she let Lu Ye analyze those numerical spirit runes, it was the same.

Madam Yun didn't teach Lu Ye how to construct restrictions, but over this period, Lu Ye had broken so many restriction locks of storage sacks, that he was already thoroughly familiar with the structure of restriction locks. If he had suitable materials, he could even create his own storage sack now, of course, he couldn't guarantee success, but practice makes perfect.

This was the brilliance in Madam Yun's teaching method, first break, then establish!

When Lu Ye was able to easily break those restrictions, it would naturally come to him how to construct them, because he was extremely familiar with every part of those restrictions.

Currently, Madam Yun hadn't taught Lu Ye how to set up Formations either, but in the process of array destruction, Lu Ye would naturally understand how these Formations operated. Once he could perfectly break through every kind of Formation, he himself would be able to arrange Formations.

On Bright Heart Peak, watching Lu Ye who was engrossed in breaking a Formation, Madam Yun wore a complex expression.

In her earlier years, she had actually taught a few disciples, but she had never used this method of teaching on any of them, because although this method yields quick results, it has high demands on talent, and insufficient aptitude could even have the opposite effect.

Initially, she had only tried it out a little, prepared to see the effects. If it proved unsuitable, she would switch to a more conventional teaching method, which was slow to show results but surer.

However, over this period, she found that Lu Ye was highly suited for this method of teaching, which couldn't help but reignite her thoughts of taking Lu Ye as a disciple.

The disciples she had taught in earlier years were no longer around, and for a top spirit runes master like her, it was a sad thing to have no one to inherit her mantle.

If it were this youth, he could definitely carry on her mantle gloriously, even surpassing the teacher!

This thought churned in her heart every day until she could no longer suppress it.

Leaving Lu Ye to break the Formation on his own, Madam Yun walked away, her figure leaping towards Righteous Peak.

Meanwhile, at Righteous Peak, while teaching Yiyi, the sect master turned his head to look toward Bright Heart Peak, in haste he said, "That's enough for today. Practice twice as much when you return."

"Yes!" Yiyi replied respectfully.

But then she saw the sect master rush out, and outside came his somewhat ingratiating voice, "Yun'er, what brings you here?"

Yun'er? Yiyi's eyes were filled with confusion, and following outside, she saw a beautiful, unfamiliar woman standing coldly in front of the sect master, who was all smiles, a stark contrast to his usual dignified demeanor.

That must be Madam Yun, right? Yiyi suddenly remembered someone Lu Ye had mentioned before, and Amber had also exchanged information about her since Lu Ye often rode Amber to go to Bright Heart Peak, and Amber had seen Madam Yun several times.

"Shush!" Shui Yuan appeared out of nowhere, pulling her into the room, then tore a hole in the window paper and stuck one eye to the opening to spy outside.

Seeing this, Yiyi imitated her.

"The old man is going to get a beating," Shui Yuan suddenly said.

"What?" Yiyi was startled.

No sooner had she spoken than the distinguished Madam Yun threw a punch, sending the sect master's head reeling back, a ring of explosive force centered on his head bursting forth.

Yiyi trembled, feeling that Madam Yun's punch could shatter a mountain peak.

She didn't know why the sect master was getting beaten, but after seeing him take the beating without getting angry, as if nothing had happened, he wiped the blood from his nose and sighed, "Yiye is already a disciple of the Righteous Blood Sect, how can he casually take someone else as his master?"

"Casual? Outsider?" Madam Yun's tone suddenly escalated, "Are you telling me I'm an outsider now?"

"No... not at all, listen to my explanation!"

"Oh, so I am an outsider!" infuriated, Madam Yun's spirit force began to roil, "Then let this outsider, see the capability of the Righteous Blood Sect master!"

Boom boom boom... Powerful fluctuations of spirit force erupted outside, Yiyi watched dumbfounded as the sect master was sent flying, then disappeared from view.

Upon running outside, she saw two figures chasing each other across the sky, a lively scene, with powerful fluctuations of spirit force emanating time and again, but from what she could see, it was only the sect master getting beat up one-sidedly. Faced with Madam Yun's successive attacks, he could at best defend a little and never fought back.

"Alas," Shui Yuan sighed.

Yiyi was worried, "The sect master won't be beaten to death, right?"

"The old man's body is tough, he won't die. And such things happen several times a year, you'll get used to it eventually," said Shui Yuan.

Yiyi, full of confusion, thinking the sect master was just a magic cultivator, wondered if it was really okay for him to be beaten up like this. And what did it mean that this happened several times a year?

Suddenly, she felt the sect master was quite fortunate to have survived this long.