saint of humanity

Chapter 2965 The Power of the World

For the first thirty years, Lu Ye's aura was extremely unstable. Occasionally, Yang Qing could even sense a trace of the abyss's aura from Lu Ye.

This made him wonder if Lu Ye had lost in this soul battle and was about to have his body possessed by Yuan.

Fortunately, this situation has gradually decreased over time.

Another thirty years passed, and Lu Ye's breathing gradually became stable. However, no matter how Yang Qing called out to him, he could not get any response from Lu Ye.

He knew that this must be because Lu Ye had sealed his own soul sea. In this way, unless Yuan Qiang broke through, the entire soul sea would be in an absolutely closed state.

Although the situation of the soul battle could not be ascertained, judging from the changes in Lu Ye's aura over the years, the battle was clearly turning in a positive direction.

Time flies, and several decades have passed in the blink of an eye.

One day, Yang Qing suddenly discovered that the unique traces of Yuan that filled the universe were gradually fading, as if they were about to be erased.

This excited him and made him even more certain that things were going smoothly on Lu Ye's end.

The Soul War is progressing quite smoothly.

At this moment, within the sea of ​​souls, in the originally thick and boundless darkness devoid of any impurities, faint traces of golden light could be seen scattered throughout.

Within that initial golden light, Lu Ye's soul sat cross-legged, his expression extremely solemn. Opposite him, Jin Yao was in the same posture, but her expression was much more composed than Lu Ye's.

She casually flicked her wrist, then slapped it down, looking up at Lu Ye with a smile: "Checkmate! Fellow Daoist, you've lost!"

Lu Ye's expression grew increasingly solemn. He closed his eyes slightly, nodded, and said, "Fellow Daoist's chess skills are superb; I am no match for them!"

With a wave of his hand, the starry chessboard in front of him disappeared, and then, looking completely nonchalant, he asked, "How many years has it been?"

Jin Yao secretly pursed her lips, but still replied, "It should be about a hundred years ago!"

Lu Ye's gaze pierced through his own soul sea, and he said softly, "A hundred years... He's really troublesome."

With the power of the Talent Tree, refining a supreme treasure only takes half a day, but since he started refining the Abyss, a hundred years have passed.

It did have an effect; the few specks of golden light shining through the boundless darkness were the best proof of that.

However, there is still a long way to go before Jiang Yuan is completely refined.

Fortunately, Yuan's resistance is now completely futile. Unable to invade Lu Ye's soul sea, the only thing it can do is to continuously unleash its divine soul attacks in an attempt to shake Lu Ye's soul body.

With Jin Yao wielding the Soul-Suppressing Bell to guard this place, how easy would it be for Yuan to achieve his goal?

At first, Jin Yao had to be on high alert, but as time went by, Yuan's will weakened, and now she no longer needed to be so nervous or concerned.

Bored with their time there, Lu Ye set up the Starry Sky Chessboard and started playing chess with Jin Yao.

However, in this area, Lu Ye was clearly no match for Jin Yao, and repeatedly suffered defeats.

"How much longer do you estimate it will take to refine, fellow Daoist?" Jin Yao asked.

Lu Ye shook his head: "It's impossible to say. It might be soon, or it might take several centuries."

That depends on how long Yuan can persist. After a hundred years of refining, how could he not feel Yuan's resistance? However, if one day, this refining reaches a critical point, and even if Yuan resists, it will be futile, then the efficiency of refining will increase significantly, and then it will be like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

Yuan is destined to be unable to cause any trouble. The only thing Lu Ye needs to worry about right now is whether the Dao power reserves on the talent tree are sufficient.

This century of refining has consumed a considerable amount of Dao power.

If he can completely defeat Yuan before his Dao power reserves are depleted, then everything will be fine. But if not, he will have to break the seal on his soul sea and then refine the Dao fish to replenish his power reserves.

This is risky. Although Yuan seems to be at his wit's end and can only wait to die, in terms of sheer willpower, no one in the entire universe can match him.

Who knows what other tricks or methods it has up its sleeve? If it manages to escape when Lu Ye breaks the seal on the Soul Sea, then all its previous efforts will have been in vain.

When dealing with Yuan, no negligence or carelessness is permissible.

What Lu Ye feared has finally happened.

Nearly a century later, in the Sea of ​​Souls, Lu Ye gazed at the sea of ​​souls filled with golden light, his brows furrowing slightly.

Having refined it to this point, Yuan seemed to have given up resisting for decades, allowing Lu Ye to do as he pleased. Therefore, the refining efficiency has been very high in the last few decades.

At present, the entire soul sea has not been fully restored, but at least about 70% has been restored.

Looking around, it was a scene of gold interspersed with darkness.

However, the continuous consumption over two hundred years has made it difficult for Lu Ye to continue. Although the Dao power reserves on the Talent Tree were abundant before, they will eventually run out.

Judging from the current situation, we can only hold on for another three to five days at most before our power is completely exhausted!

We still need to refine the Dao Fish to replenish our energy reserves!

That would mean that Lu Ye would have to break the seal on his soul sea so that his consciousness could leave the soul sea and transmit his voice to the outside world.

There must be someone waiting outside, either Yang Qing or one of the seventh generation masters, so he only needs to give a shout, and someone will naturally bring over a large number of Dao fish.

Lu Ye kept considering the risks of the plan in his mind, but ultimately decided to go ahead and do it.

Because the restrictions left by the Dragon and Phoenix Ancestors are still in place, even if Yuan could escape his own soul sea, he would not be able to leave Yuan Island and would ultimately be imprisoned here.

However, this might make the subsequent refining process a bit more complicated.

Just as he was thinking this, his expression suddenly changed.

In that instant, Yuan seemed to sense something, and his will, which had been dormant for decades, suddenly began to rebel fiercely.

This time, the resistance was more ferocious than ever before.

A violent surge of divine soul energy swept over them, causing both Lu Ye and Jin Yao to grunt involuntarily. Jin Yao hurriedly activated the power of the Soul-Suppressing Bell in a panic.

Within the sea of ​​souls, the waves surged fiercely, and the darkness mixed in with the gold seemed to come alive, converging towards one point.

They quickly gathered into a ball, and then transformed into a ferocious behemoth.

It was a monster that looked like an octopus, except that it was completely black and had hundreds of tentacles. Both its body and tentacles were covered with strange vertical pupils.

As soon as the black octopus took shape, it stirred up a storm in Lu Ye's soul sea, making his soul unstable. Lu Ye had no choice but to more fiercely activate the power of the talent tree to restrain it.

Furthermore, Jin Yao activated the Soul-Suppressing Bell, which also consumed her Dao Power reserves. In this short period of time, her already meager Dao Power reserves were about to run out.

We can't wait any longer!

Lu Ye knew he had to get Yang Qing to send over the Dao Fish as soon as possible, otherwise, once his Dao power was completely exhausted, the Abyss would inevitably break free.

Just as he was about to do so, a mysterious power suddenly surged from his body and flowed into the Tree of Talents.

Lu Ye was taken aback.

Because this was a power he had never felt before, a very strange power.

There was no time to comprehend anything, because with the surge of this power, the previously invisible roots of the Talent Tree were revealed at this moment.

Countless roots, like sharp thorns, pierced the body of the black octopus, turning its massive body into a hedgehog. The scene was spectacular.

A refining power more ferocious and terrifying than ever before was born from the talent tree, increasing the efficiency of refining by more than ten times in an instant.

Yuan finally saw with his own eyes the culprit that had been refining him for over two hundred years. He had always been able to sense something refining him, but he had never been able to find out what it was until this moment.

"Gah!" The strange sound rang out, a mixture of boundless panic and anger.

The wondrous power emanating from Lu Ye's body wasn't actually that vast or overwhelming, but it seemed particularly suited to unleashing the power of the Talent Tree; this power seemed tailor-made for the Talent Tree.

It's far more useful than Taoist power!

Yuan's resistance was undoubtedly a last-ditch effort, and as Lu Ye's talent tree suddenly and continuously increased in power, his soul sea finally returned to calm after more than ten days.

By this time, the Dao power reserves on the talent tree had been completely exhausted.

However, the refining process continues.

Because the power surging from Lu Ye's body was continuous and unbroken, like a flowing stream...

Only then did he have time to examine himself.

He was eager to find out where that mysterious power came from, because he was certain that he had never come into contact with that power before, nor had he ever cultivated it.

Following the source of the power, Lu Ye quickly pinpointed the origin.

He was stunned for a moment...

Because this power actually comes from one's own inner world!

Even now, many semi-saints remain in the inner world, and the Primordial Wutong tree still stands tall.

Even after more than two hundred years, nothing has changed.

What has changed is the Yuanling race, who live in the inner world.

Before coming to Yuan Island to compete with those True Saints, the Yuanling Clan had been thriving in Lu Ye's inner world for a hundred years, and now more than two hundred years have passed.

Over the past three hundred years, without any conflict or external crisis, the Yuanling race has experienced explosive population growth.

That would have been one thing, but as the Yuanling race multiplied within the inner world, the entire inner world underwent wondrous changes.

Lu Ye had vaguely sensed something before, but he wasn't sure what this change was.

While it cannot be completely confirmed yet, the only thing that is certain is that the survival of the Yuanling race has allowed the inner world to nurture a wondrous power.

A power that belongs to this world!

The power that surged from the body earlier was the power of this world!

It might not seem overwhelming, and Lu Ye himself hadn't even realized it before, but it was perfectly suited for activating the Talent Tree. Moreover, as long as the Yuanling Clan remained, and the inner world continued to exist, this power would be inexhaustible. (End of Chapter)