Sage of Humanity

Lu Ye didn't rush to take the Barrier-breaking Fruit, as he was unsure of its authenticity and dared not consume it recklessly.

The fight with Big Tiger was brief, but the momentary clash was extremely perilous, and he was wounded. He had been confronting Big Tiger, with no time to check his injuries.

Only when he removed his clothing did he realize that his chest was a blur of flesh and blood, his torso marked by several deep claw wounds, and his blood had already dyed the clothes below his chest red.

Fortunately, he was no longer a mortal body; during his standoff with Big Tiger, he had consciously activated his spirit force to seal the wounds, so the bleeding wasn't too severe, but the injuries looked rather gruesome.

After moving his limbs to make sure there were no fractures, he breathed a sigh of relief. If it was just flesh wounds, they were relatively easy to handle.

He still had eight healing pills, which were very effective for treating wounds.

Taking out the bottle containing the healing pills, Lu Ye swallowed one and then took out another, crushed it with his finger, and evenly applied the powder to the wounds on his chest.

He winced in pain.

Having attended to these matters, he then dressed, sat down cross-legged, and began refining the pill energy of the healing pills.

After one night, Lu Ye felt much better. The wounds had started to heal and scab over, and he expected to recover in a few days.

In the meantime, he finished eating the remains of a large snake to replenish his strength.

At dawn, Lu Ye went to a water source a few miles away, easily caught a fat rabbit, and, holding it by the ears, headed back to the cave.

A moment later, Lu Ye sat cross-legged in the cave, holding the Barrier-breaking Fruit in one hand and gently peeling off a layer of its skin with his Longsword. He then pried open the rabbit's mouth, stuffed the skin inside, closed the rabbit's mouth, and vigorously shook it for a while.

After making sure the rabbit had consumed the skin completely, Lu Ye let it go. Likely terrified, the rabbit lay motionless on the ground.

Ignoring it, Lu Ye blocked the cave entrance to ensure it couldn't escape, then began to examine the storage sacks Yiyi had brought over. When Yiyi and Amber had left the day before, they hadn't taken these storage sacks back with them, mainly because these items were locked with a restriction lock, which was useless to them.

The storage sacks were covered in mud, as if they had been dug out from the ground.

Picking up a storage sack, Lu Ye activated his Spiritual Energy towards it, but he distinctly felt that his spirit force couldn't penetrate the sack, blocked by a peculiar force.

That was a restriction lock; each storage sack had its own restriction lock, unlocked by the cultivator owner's spirit force.

Originally, Lu Ye had three storage sacks. One belonged to Manager Yang, one to Zhou Cheng, and one was given to him by the sect master.

Manager Yang's sack, although locked, was opened by Yang before he died in order to retrieve a sword. In the urgency of the moment, Manager Yang had neither the extra energy nor the inclination to relock the storage sack, so its contents went to Lu Ye at a bargain.

The storage sack from Zhou Cheng was forcibly opened by the sect master.

These two storage sacks remained with their restriction locks disengaged.

The storage sack given to him by the sect master was brand new. After Lu Ye acquired it, he nurtured the restriction lock in the sack with his own spirit force, allowing his spirit force to permeate the restriction, thereby gaining the ability to freely open and close the restriction lock.

If he happened to lose his storage sack, even if someone else found it, they couldn't easily open it unless they had some special lock-picking skills.

Lu Ye naturally didn't have any special lock-picking skills; he was just trying it out of boredom.

Spiritual force slowly seeped into the storage sack, sensing the presence of the restriction lock, Lu Ye continuously stirred his spiritual force, charging at the restriction lock.

Once, twice, by the third time, the restriction lock suddenly disappeared without a trace.

As Lu Ye was astonished, a burst of flame suddenly erupted from the storage sack in his hand, blazing fiercely. He hastily threw the storage sack away, watching it burn to ash in an extremely short amount of time...

Could it really happen like this? Lu Ye frowned.

Only then did he understand that the restriction lock not only protected the storage sack from being taken by strangers but, in a critical moment, could even destroy the entire storage sack.

This indeed had a semblance of preferring to be broken rather than whole.

It looked like without special unlocking skills, one really shouldn't act rashly; destroying the storage sack was a minor issue, but if those restriction locks contained any dangerous restrictions, it could likely cause injury.

Lu Ye gathered the remaining storage sacks and then went to check on the rabbit's condition.

There was no problem; it still hopped around lively and looked very cute.

Grabbing the rabbit's head, he twisted it harshly. With a snap, such a cute rabbit would definitely taste delicious.

It was confirmed, even if the Barrier-breaking Fruit did not break the spiritual orifice barrier, it would not be poisonous.

Lu Ye completely set his mind at ease, walked over to where he cultivated, took out a cushion, sat down cross-legged, and took out the Barrier-breaking Fruit, taking a bite.

Juice spilled everywhere, leaving a lingering fragrance on the lips; unexpectedly sweet, Lu Ye raised his eyebrows and quickly ate up the Barrier-breaking Fruit completely.

The fruit had no core, and was like a small tomato.

After savoring it briefly, Lu Ye closed his eyes and concentrated, silently feeling its effects.

Initially, there were no changes, but soon a hot stream emerged from his lower abdomen, similar to the sensation when he used elixir pills for cultivation before.

However, the difference was, normally the pill energy from the elixir pills would transform into either spiritual force or blood Qi energy, but the hot stream produced by the Barrier-breaking Fruit was neither spiritual force nor blood Qi energy, it was a type of power that Lu Ye had never felt before.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

The hot stream accumulated in his abdomen, and Lu Ye tried to guide it into his Root Spiritual Orifice.

It went smoothly...

The hot stream passed through the Root Spiritual Orifice and entered the 2nd Spiritual Orifice, then flowed into the 3rd Spiritual Orifice, the 4th Spiritual Orifice...

Within moments, it crossed the 8th Spiritual Orifice and continued charging towards the 9th Spiritual Orifice.

In the next instant, Lu Ye felt the spiritual orifice barrier at his 9th Spiritual Orifice rapidly dissolving, like snowflakes under the scorching sun!

This discovery startled him. Previously, each time he opened an orifice, it took a great amount of effort, repeatedly guiding spiritual force to strike the spiritual orifice barrier, and the feeling during the strikes was very uncomfortable, as though someone was hammering at the location of his spiritual orifice. After many times, an inevitable sense of soreness and swelling arose.

But now, there was no striking, no discomfort, the medicinal effect of the Barrier-breaking Fruit quickly dissolved the spiritual orifice barrier.

Comparing the two, the Barrier-breaking Fruit was truly a blessing for cultivators in opening orifices.

No wonder, when he had previously asked Yiyi about the uses of Barrier-breaking Fruit, that woman had looked at him strangely; now it seemed, the Barrier-breaking Fruit mustn't be an obscure item, likely every cultivator knew of the existence of this spirit fruit.