Sage of Humanity-Chapter 464 462: A Bit of Understanding

Outside the beast park, the young man took the Origin Spirit Pill and gave Lu Ye a meaningful glance, "Keep your cool."

Lu Ye nodded.

The young man then walked over to another guard and whispered something to him.

A moment later, he returned and pulled Lu Ye aside, "I've asked about it. To take a demon beast out from inside, you definitely need a command or order from the City Lord."

Lu Ye understood, "Let me think of a way."

For an ordinary cultivator, it might not be possible to interact with someone like the Two Worlds City Lord, but Lu Ye had previously met the Lord and even presented a substantial gift. Now, to ask for a command token shouldn't be a problem.

However, to play it safe, he went back to the courtyard and took Xia Qianqian with him.

Once again before the City Lord's Residence, the cultivator who had seen them earlier was still maintaining order. He was much more polite upon seeing Lu Ye and Xia Qianqian, and he took the initiative to greet them with a fist salute, "Is there something Young Master Ye needs?"

"I would trouble you to announce us. I have another matter for which I need to see the City Lord."

"Please wait."

With that, he went inside to pass the message.

After waiting for a while, the cultivator returned, accompanied by that cultivator named Asi.

Seeing this, Lu Ye knew he probably wouldn't see the City Lord this time. It seemed the relationship between the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and Two Worlds City truly wasn't great; otherwise, after giving such a generous gift previously, he wouldn't be treated this way.

Approaching Lu Ye and Xia Qianqian, Asi asked, "What brings Young Master Ye here today?"

Lu Ye spoke candidly, "I need to enter the beast park to take out a demon beast!"

Asi furrowed his brows immediately, "A demon beast?" He shook his head slowly, "That's difficult. With the current situation, demon beasts are the most unstable element. The city has yet to determine how to deal with those beasts."

"I only need one!"

"It's not about taking one or two..." Asi paused mid-sentence, suddenly stopping to listen as if someone was speaking to him telepathically. After a moment, he continued, "Young Master Ye, I understand that the strength of cultivators from the beast-taming faction suffers greatly without a demon beast, and I also understand your urgent desire to regain your strength, but Two Worlds City has its own rules..."

"What do I need to do?" Lu Ye cut him off, guessing that someone must have given Asi some instructions.

"Young Master Ye is straightforward, so I will be too. There are many crazed demon beasts appearing outside Two Worlds City. Especially a hundred li to the east, in a valley, a large number of demon beasts have gathered. If Young Master Ye agrees to deal with these beasts..."

"Deal!" Not to mention that Two Worlds City had such a request, even without it, Lu Ye had planned to take Xia Qianqian and the others out to earn battle merits. Seeing that the Nine Provinces cultivation world had already sprung into action, whether or not they could save this world in the end, or if the world would perish following its destined trajectory, the most practical thing was to seize any benefits they could.

Asi gestured, "Follow me."

Following Asi back to the beast park and with his order, Lu Ye successfully went inside.

The beast park was divided into three upper levels and three lower levels, with the demon beasts confined according to their strength; the deeper down, the stronger the beasts were.

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Amber was held in the first basement level. It took Lu Ye a while to find it locked inside a beast cage.

After shutting down the cage's restriction, Amber jumped out angrily and sat on Lu Ye's shoulder, clearly annoyed by its frustrating experience in the secret realm — not doing much and ending up in jail first.

As they left the beast park, Asi was waiting. Seeing Amber's docile nature, he couldn't help but admire, "Young Master Ye's Beast Taming Method is truly remarkable."

From his perspective, Lu Ye had easily tamed such a demon beast with just one trip inside, which was undoubtedly due to his exquisite Beast Taming Method.

"I hope Young Master Ye will not forget what you've promised."

"I know, I'll prepare briefly and then set out."

After responding, Lu Ye took Amber and Xia Qianqian back to the courtyard, where Shen Xiaomao and Lan Ziyi were each resting in their rooms.

"There's work to be done, ladies!" Xia Qianqian called out, and Shen Xiaomao and Lan Ziyi flashed out from their rooms.

After telling them about the mission to eradicate the demon beasts he had agreed to, everyone naturally had no objections, and they set out immediately.

Soon, the four of them took flight on their spiritual artifacts and streaked away in the direction of the city's east.

At this moment, many cultivators from the Nine Provinces were leaving Two Worlds City in groups to exterminate those diseased demon beasts and collect battle merits, so the actions of Lu Ye's group did not attract much attention.

As they traveled, they occasionally encountered cultivators fleeing toward Two Worlds City and some scattered, crazed demon beasts.

Finally, a hundred li away, everyone hovered several hundred feet in the air. Using clouds as cover, they looked down at the scene below.

In a massive valley below, a dense throng of demon beasts swarmed, too numerous to count easily. What was surprising was that despite the large number of beasts, the whole valley was eerily silent, devoid of any roaring sounds.

The vast group of demon beasts was like a well-organized army, gathering and lying in wait.

"Ye Liu, Two Worlds City sent us to clean up these demon beasts? Are you sure they aren't just sending us to our deaths?" Shen Xiaomao looked at the dense mass of demon beasts below, her scalp tingling. With so many beasts, the four of them could not possibly kill them all.

Lu Ye had no expression on his face, his hand on the hilt of his knife, knowing that either the news from Two Worlds City was outdated, or they were deliberately making things difficult for him.

But since he was already here, from another perspective, more demon beasts meant more battle merits. If he really couldn't beat them, he could still run away.

"I can set up the array at that position!" Lu Ye pointed in a direction, which was right opposite the mouth of the valley with flat terrain.

"You understand formations?" Xia Qianqian looked at Lu Ye in surprise. "Aren't you a combat cultivator?"

"A bit."

Lan Ziyi's eyes twitched at the side.

Of the three women present, neither Xia Qianqian nor Shen Xiaomao knew much about Lu Ye's background, only Lan Ziyi knew how profound his knowledge in the Array Path was.

This was the same guy who made a name for himself as Lu Ye the Sect Destroyer and the bearer of the Three Calamities of Spirit Stream title on the Spirit Stream battlefield. His claim of having a bit of knowledge in formations was a massive understatement.

"Then you set up the formation first, we'll lead the demon beasts there later. The more we can kill, the better," Xia Qianqian said.

Lu Ye nodded and made his way to that position, with the women following and keeping watch nearby.

Banners for the arrays were planted one by one, and various formations quickly took shape.

This time, Lu Ye only set up one type of formation—explosion magic arrays!

Since the targets to be eliminated were demon beasts gone mad, there was no need for overly complicated formations—the simpler, the better.

Large explosion magic arrays and small ones, of varying sizes, were nested together.

Many of the formations were trigger-based. The moment a demon beast stepped into the formation, it would immediately activate.

There were also some arrays that he left for manual control. Lu Ye specifically had the three women memorize the locations of those formations in case they were needed unexpectedly.

Lu Ye still had a significant number of array banners left in his hands, but this time, to scrape up as many battle merits as possible, he used up all the remaining banners, except for the set rewarded to him from the Hundred Arrays Pagoda.

With everything in place, all three women turned their eyes to Xia Qianqian.

Xia Qianqian understood, "I'm the most powerful, so I should be the one to go, right? Alright, I'll go. Get ready to back me up."

All three nodded in agreement.

Then they watched as she turned into a streak of light, speeding toward the valley where the demon beasts were gathering.

Shortly thereafter, intense fluctuations of spirit force came from that direction, with the bright flashes of magic and spells bursting forth. Xia Qianqian had made her move; as a magic cultivator who had also learned some healing, her power was strong, even though her medical skills were not impressive.

Throughout the Nine Provinces cultivation world, it was common for magic cultivators or cultivators of other schools to also learn some healing, much like healing cultivators were often versed in other schools as well.

However, no matter the school, the secondary skill they learned usually wasn't as refined as their primary one.

Accompanied by roars, a streak of light swiftly came from that direction, followed by the ground shaking as if a vast army were charging from there.

Trailing right behind Xia Qianqian, a massive horde of demon beasts hotly pursued her. Most of them couldn't fly, but a few were avian demon beasts capable of flight.

Unlike cultivators, demon beasts differ; while cultivators could travel through air upon reaching the Cloud River Realm, demon generals didn't necessarily possess that ability. Some could manage it, but most couldn't.

As for naturally flying avian demon beasts, they weren't constrained by cultivation level or strength.

As Xia Qianqian kept fleeing and casting spells, her strength as a Cloud River Level 9 powerhouse was evident. With each spell that burst into light, several avian demon beasts plunged from the sky to be trampled to a pulp by the surging demon beast horde.

Seeing the overwhelming flood of demon beasts approaching, even though Lu Ye and the others were mentally prepared, they couldn't help feeling their scalps tighten.

When the distance between them had shortened to about 300 feet, Lu Ye was the first to act. Flames of red spirit force flowed, and the figure of a beautiful Fire Phoenix materialized, spreading its wings to soar. It charged at the oncoming demon beasts, every detail of its tail feathers visible.

Having reached Cloud River Level 2, the power of his Fire Phoenix Technique had significantly increased.

Yet Lu Ye still couldn't casually activate the Fire Phoenix Spirit Runes. Those runes demanded an enormous amount of spirit force and were still beyond his current foundation.

"You can use magic and spells too!" Shen Xiaomao looked at Lu Ye as if she was meeting him for the first time, full of surprise.

Until now, Lu Ye had never displayed his talent in magic in front of her.

Moreover, the speed and power of Lu Ye's spellcasting were on par with that of a true magic cultivator.

As a sword-wielding combat cultivator who knew formations, spells, and even possessed a pet beast, seemingly versed in the beast-taming faction, Shen Xiaomao was eager to ask Lu Ye what it was he wasn't an expert at.

The Fire Phoenix that soared through the air crashed into the group of demon beasts. Flames rose to the sky in an explosive combustion, searing every beast caught in the blast and killing scores of them instantly.

One Fire Phoenix was followed by a second, and then a third...

It was only after this that Shen Xiaomao and Lan Ziyi had a chance to join in. The Spiritual Artifact that had been coiling around Shen Xiaomao's arm flew out as if it had a life of its own, wrapping around an avian demon beast and turning it into a mist of blood in the next instant.