In the wooden cabin, Lu Ye conjured his doppelganger and then took out clothes to throw to the doppelganger, instructing him to dress properly. After carefully checking to ensure there were no anomalies, he constructed Concealnt and Breath-concealing Spirit Runes over himself, and vanished from the spot.
The doppelganger pushed the door open, and Dao Thirteen, standing outside, imdiately looked up.
The doppelganger ignored him and leapt forward, flying into the distance, while Dao Thirteen shadowed him closely, not leaving even an inch of space.
Only when the doppelganger, with Dao Thirteen in tow, reached the boundary of this Naless Secret Realm, did Lu Ye's real body start to move back at the wooden cabin.
He quietly sneaked out of the cabin, heading directly toward the entrance's direction.
The entrance was so distance away from the lake, and as long as he was careful enough, Dao Thirteen shouldn't notice anything amiss.
Reaching the entrance, Lu Ye's real body revealed itself. Mimicking Yu Daiwei, he raised his hand and pressed into the void, prompting his spirit force.
Strictly speaking, the opening of the secret realm's entrance is akin to opening the restriction lock of a storage sack; if the secret realm is viewed as a storage sack, then the realm's portal is the restriction lock, though the restriction lock on the secret realm's side is far more complex than that of a storage sack.
Lu Ye had many insights on opening restriction locks of storage sacks, having purposely trained in it back then, so given enough ti, he was confident in being able to open the exit of the secret realm.
However, after rely attempting a few tis, Lu Ye abandoned the effort.
For no other reason than that such actions, with spirit force surging, created too much commotion, making it highly likely for Dao Thirteen to discover, especially since this secret realm wasn't large and Dao Thirteen was at the Divine Sea Realm.
Once Dao Thirteen detected movent here, the secrecy of the doppelganger would be a minor issue; Dao Thirteen would surely follow Yu Daiwei's orders to eliminate him without rcy.
Setting up a formation here to cover things up was an option, but Lu Ye couldn't guarantee during this action, Yu Daiwei or that Venerable Lord wouldn't co bursting in. Should Yu Daiwei or the Venerable Lord intrude during this process and catch him red-handed, it would be embarrassing.
The risk was too great! This approach wouldn't work.
With this in mind, he realized there was only one last option, the only way to escape this place.
Yu Daiwei thought Lu Ye had no chance of leaving this secret realm given his abilities and Dao Thirteen's strict guard. However, Lu Ye truly found it not difficult to leave; it might just take so ti.
The real body returned to the wooden cabin, continuing to hide.
The doppelganger, on the other hand, moved with Dao Thirteen to the entrance and sat there in ditation.
The distance between the real body and the doppelganger was widened, thus reducing the likelihood of Dao Thirteen discovering the real body.
Once certain that Dao Thirteen's attention was fully on the doppelganger, the real body then left the wooden cabin, flying straight in one direction.
In no ti, he reached the location.
Not in a hurry to act, he first set up so formations to obscure this area, then rummaged through the storage space, quickly finding a pickaxe-shaped Spiritual Artifact.
Digging, excavating a pit!
With the big array as a cover and ample distance, plus the doppelganger distracting Dao Thirteen at the entrance, Lu Ye wasn't worried about exposure risks here, working diligently.
The efficiency was quite high, and in no ti he had dug a deep pit, delving deep downward.
Over the next two days, Lu Ye was busy here, directly creating a hole over a hundred zhang deep.
With the last pickaxe swing, as if sothing got pierced, dense nature's spiritual energy suddenly spilled out, enveloping Lu Ye's surroundings.
Lu Ye felt a surge of joy, knowing he had found the Spirit Vein of this secret realm.
And this was his key to leaving this place.
Having had experiences on the Unparalleled Continent before, Lu Ye naturally knew that such small secret realms, detached from the larger world, needed to rely on a Spirit Vein or Earth Vein to sustain themselves year after year.
Back on the Unparalleled Continent, he had planted the Heaven's Augury Pillars in several secret realms, and these pillars drained their Earth Veins dry, causing the secret realms' portals to be revealed.
The sa was true in the Sword Weapon Sect secret realm, where the Earth Core Fire maintained the realm's existence. He spent two months back then, continually drawing the power from the Earth Core Fire with the Talent Tree, causing the Sword Weapon Sect secret realm to collapse entirely.
Having such experiences, Lu Ye naturally knew that once the Spirit Vein that this secret realm relied on beca fragile to a critical point, the realm could no longer be sustained.
Therefore, to leave this secret realm, he didn't need to open its portal; he only needed to find a way to siphon the power of the Spirit Vein it depended on, causing it to dry out swiftly.
This thod surely takes a considerable amount of ti, but it's safe and discreet.
Previously, during the few days Yu Daiwei spent here, Lu Ye would spend so ti walking around each day, but it was not rely a simple stroll.
He was searching for the convergence point of the Spirit Vein here.
Through his ntal consciousness, this location was where the Spirit Vein was the shallowest, so he chose to dig the pit here.
Now that the Spirit Vein was revealed, his task beca simple, to activate the Talent Tree's power, and siphon the Power of the Spirit Vein!
It took so ti, but it was his only way out at the mont.
Without rushing to activate the power of the Talent Tree, he flew out of the cave entrance to examine the surrounding formation layout. Once he confird that the Concealnt big array was operating well, ensuring no risk of exposure unless intentionally probed, he descended back to the cave bottom and sat cross-legged.
Activating the power of the Talent Tree, in an instant, root-like tendrils invisible to the naked eye extended, reaching out in all directions.
As his cultivation improved, the range the tree's roots could extend clearly increased, which in turn enhanced the efficiency of their absorption.
The roots penetrated the Spirit Vein, and under Lu Ye's technique, an unstoppable devouring force emanated from the root tendrils of the Talent Tree, absorbing the power within the Spirit Vein.
Imrsing his mind to observe, a faint gray mist rose from the Talent Tree, evidently a sign of the tree burning away impurities.
Though the power from the Spirit Vein was abundant, it was not pure. This was different from using the spirit fortune stick for cultivation, where the Talent Tree barely reacted, indicating the high purity of spirit force absorbed during those tis.
However, even with such absorption, the burning by the Talent Tree could ensure the purity of its own spirit force.
Silently operating the Black rank skill, he maintained a calm mind.
Such practice was undoubtedly extrely tedious, but aside from this, Lu Ye found no better way to escape.
At the entrance, his doppelganger also sat cross-legged, appearing utterly bored, while Dao Thirteen stood like a wooden stake beside him, unmoving, barely noticeable except for his faint breathing, making him almost indistinguishable from a dead person.
Days passed one after another.
The secret realm remained calm and undisturbed.
At a certain mont, the exit of the secret realm opened, Yu Daiwei flashed in, imdiately noticing Lu Ye sitting there, seemingly cultivating.
The eyebrows furrowed: "What are you up to?"
These days, she ca to the secret realm every ten days or so, mainly to check if there was anything unusual with Lu Ye. Every ti she ca, Lu Ye was sitting cross-legged at the entrance.
She didn't believe Lu Ye had resigned to his fate, as the Venerable Lord had already said Lu Yiye surely had a way to leave this secret realm.
Could sitting in ditation alone allow him to leave? Yu Daiwei vaguely felt that the Venerable Lord might have misjudged this ti.
The doppelganger opened its eyes to glance at Yu Daiwei, then acted as if it hadn't seen her, continuing to sit quietly with closed eyes.
Yu Daiwei didn't get a response, but she wasn't concerned, turning her head to Dao Thirteen and instructed, "Keep an eye on him."
She then turned and left.
She never lingered here; mainly because the Venerable Lord wasn't around, staying here was pointless, and she had many other matters to attend to, leaving her no ti to stay here idling.
If not for checking on Lu Ye's situation, she wouldn't have co to this secret realm easily.
After she left, the real body finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although the Concealnt big array he set up might still keep Yu Daiwei from noticing anything even if she investigated the secret realm, nothing was guaranteed.
If Yu Daiwei were to detect any signs, implenting his plan would beco difficult.
Fortunately, Yu Daiwei never imagined anyone could execute such a wondrous doppelganger technique that even a Divine Sea Realm could not discern any flaw. Seeing Lu Ye sitting quietly at the entrance, she saw no need to further investigate.
In a pit more than a hundred feet underground, Lu Ye continued to activate the Talent Tree's power to devour the power of the Spirit Vein.
Since falling into this place, it had been over a month, and during this ti, the Talent Tree constantly absorbed and extracted energy, keeping him in a state of continuous cultivation.
Lu Ye had never cultivated for such an extended period before.
So even though the cultivation efficiency wasn't high compared to the theft of Heaven's Augury thod, his cultivation had still broken through a minor level, now reaching the True Lake Level 6 stage.
But the power of the Spirit Vein remained abundant, and it was uncertain how much longer it would take to reach that critical point.
During this ti, Lu Ye conceived a thod to enhance the efficiency of absorbing the power of the Spirit Vein.
That was to condense another doppelganger to help with the absorption.
As the doppelganger possessed all the abilities of the main body, it could naturally cultivate, and Lu Ye had specially verified this a few days ago. The only issue was the doppelganger lacked sufficient Talent Tree fuel, making it difficult to maintain the purity of its spirit force once it started cultivating, as it couldn't burn away the minuscule impurities in the spirit force.
The main body was different, with an abundance of stored Talent Tree fuel. Apart from anything else, just from devouring two months' worth of Earth Core Fire in the Sword Weapon Sect secret realm, the fuel saved up was considerable.
Therefore, Lu Ye could freely devour and absorb the power within the Spirit Vein without worrying about affecting his foundation.
But that wasn't a significant problem; the doppelganger would eventually be absorbed by the main body, allowing the power within the doppelganger to be refined and made pure.
If he could successfully condense another doppelganger, the efficiency could be multiplied. If he could condense two doppelgangers, the efficiency could increase even further.
But after several attempts, Lu Ye was ultimately unsuccessful.
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