Sage of Humanity-Chapter 778 - 776 - Plundering the Spring Spirit

"Run!"

As Tu Guanxiong was in a daze, a weak voice from Wang Xun reached his ears.

He gazed down at him in a stultified manner, momentarily unresponsive.

"Run, for God's sake!" Wang Xun screamed with all his might.

Only then did Tu Guanxiong come back to his senses and hastily cried out, "Escape!"

The many panic-stricken cultivators of the spirit ground, as if granted amnesty, all spurred on their forms and fled in all directions.

They no longer possessed the courage to confront Lu Ye.

Tu Guanxiong also hurriedly embraced the gravely injured Wang Xun, stimulated his spirit force, and shot toward the sky.

Not far into their flight, booming sounds came from behind, as if something had collapsed.

He looked back to see that the place where Heaven's Augury Hall originally stood was now enveloped in dust; the entire hall had become ruins.

The Heaven's Augury Hall here was itself hastily built by a group of Cloud River Realm cultivators and couldn't be mentioned in the same breath as the Heaven's Augury Hall of the Nine Provinces sect headquarters; it simply couldn't withstand the aftermath of a fierce battle.

Within the shrouded dust, a figure slowly walked out, holding a pitch-black long saber— who else could it be but Lu Yiye?

At this moment, Lu Ye's upper clothes had been torn away, revealing his muscular torso with wounds large and small densely covering it, making him seem like he had been soaked in a blood pool.

Despite appearing in a pitiful state, the ferocity of his bearing made it difficult for others to look directly at him.

Among the collapsed ruins behind him lay numerous broken bodies, at least twenty people, among which Tu Guanxiong recognized many familiar figures.

Boundless sorrow welled up from within him, and Tu Guanxiong spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

A single thought echoed in his mind.

Invincible!

With such strength, within the Cloud River Realm, it was already impossible for anyone to pose a threat to him.

What he found fortunate was that Lu Yiye seemed to harbor no intention of pursuing them to the bitter end, merely glancing over from a distance of over ten miles before no longer paying them any heed.

Lu Ye indeed had no intention of an all-out purge, mainly because it wasn't very feasible.

The two sects' cultivators who had escaped totaled over a hundred people, scattered in all directions. How could he, alone, chase after them?

So he chose not to bother.

His trip here was secondarily to kill enemies; his main focus was actually on the Sacred Universe Spirit Ground itself.

Huo Liaoyuan's advance to the Great Reversal Valley had appeared aggressive and imminent, yet who could have imagined, in just a few months' time, such a calamity would befall the Sacred Universe Spirit Ground.

He wondered what his thoughts would be if he knew about it in the afterlife.

In front of the destroyed Heaven's Augury Hall, Lu Ye frowned and pondered.

Should he go to the Heaven's Augury treasure vault to find a treasure garment with protective abilities?

Otherwise, coming out of battles like this with tattered clothes was rather unseemly.

The last time he killed Xia Liang and their group was the same, and this time was no different.

But after careful consideration, he decided against it.

Treasure garments, compared to spiritual artifacts of the same defensive capabilities, were much more expensive. Those of lower quality were of little use to him now, and those of high quality came with a high price. If they were damaged, fixing them would not only be troublesome, but the most important aspect was that during combat, he would have to stimulate his spirit force to activate the garment's protective powers.

For a combat cultivator, this was undoubtedly disadvantageous.

Therefore, in the Nine Provinces cultivation world, combat cultivators generally did not wear treasure garments. It wasn't a matter of being unwilling— for all combat cultivators, offense was the best defense.

Instead of diverting a portion of spirit force to activate the power of a treasure garment, Lu Ye preferred to construct Defense Spirit Runes.

Only magic cultivators with fragile constitutions would wear treasure garments. Yet, despite having killed so many magic cultivators, the protection provided by their treasure garments was very limited.

Yiyi had already begun cleaning up the battlefield and collecting the spoils of war.

Hua Ci's voice came from outside the protective array, "Open up, will you!"

During the previous battle, she stayed outside, and only when the dust had settled here did she leisurely fly over, but was blocked by the protective array.

Lu Ye stepped toward her direction, examining the array nodes, and released a series of array banners, quickly bringing Hua Ci inside.

As Hua Ci leisurely tended to his wounds, her gentle jade hands caressing Lu Ye's chest, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief, "The vitality in your body... it's extraordinary."

The robust vitality made Lu Ye's physique strong and significantly enhanced his healing ability.

So although on the surface, he seemed terribly wounded, in reality, he was hardly troubled, and if his enemy were deceived by this appearance, they would surely suffer a great loss.

With the vitality contained within his body now, such injuries would fade without a trace in a day or two even without Hua Ci's help.

Even though it wasn't the first time she had felt it first-hand, Hua Ci still found it astonishing.

"Focus on healing the wounds and stop touching all over!" Lu Ye couldn't help but glare at her as her caressing tickled him.

Hua Ci pursed her lips and chuckled, refraining from teasing him further.

Soon, the healing was complete.

Lu Ye approached the Spiritual Spring, using its water to wash his body before changing into a set of clean clothes.

Immediately after, he took out a small net-like object from his storage space, about the size of a palm.

Hua Ci looked puzzled, "What is this?"

She had never seen such a spiritual artifact before.

"It's a spirit capturing net, specifically used to capture spring spirits," Lu Ye explained.

Hua Ci realized, "So you came prepared."

In the spirit ground, there is a Spiritual Spring, and within it reside spring spirits that can be captured and seized. Although Hua Ci had not been in the Cloud River battlefield for long, she was aware of such common knowledge.

This was also the origin of the birth of the large spirit grounds within the Cloud River battlefield.

These large spirit grounds did not naturally exist as such; they were developed slowly through the efforts of generations of people.

From the moment Lu Ye left Great Reversal Valley, he had headed straight for this place and had brought a spirit capturing net, clearly having prepared well in advance.

While speaking, Lu Ye tossed the spirit capturing net in his hand into the Spiritual Spring in front of him, yet he still held onto a long, thin line.

How to refine a spirit capturing net was unknown to the entire Nine Provinces, as it was a unique object from Heaven's Augury treasure vault, its essence not any particularly powerful spiritual artifact; it was simply endowed with a special ability by Heaven's Augury.

And such a spirit capturing net was priced at five thousand merits in the Heaven's Augury treasure vault, definitely not cheap.

The depths of the Spiritual Spring were unknowable, and as Lu Ye held onto the thin line, he had the odd impression of fishing.

The spirit capturing net continued to descend deeper and finally sank to the bottom of the Spiritual Spring. Soon, Lu Ye felt a movement and quickly pulled the net out.

There were no complications, and after just a moment, the spirit capturing net emerged wrapped around a plump and chubby object resembling a silkworm cocoon, coming into Lu Ye's view.

Having obtained a spring spirit before, he was not surprised by this.

However, Hua Ci was seeing such a thing for the first time and couldn't help but be curious, "So this is a spring spirit."

As she spoke, she even poked it with her hand.

The spring spirit seemed to lazily shrink its body a bit.

Lu Ye scrutinized the spring spirit before him and didn't find it much different from the ones he had acquired before, but he knew that if he could find a place for it, it would give birth to nothing but a Class B spirit ground.

The Sacred Universe Spirit Ground was Class A, but once a spring spirit was taken out, its quality would drop by one grade.

As for the range that the spirit ground would cover, that probably wouldn't change too much.

Of course, Lu Ye wasn't planning to create another Class B spirit ground; the primary purpose of the spring spirit in his hand was to bring it back to Great Reversal Valley and place it in the Spiritual Spring to expand the scope of Great Reversal Valley's spirit ground.

How much it could be expanded was yet to be seen.

The Great Reversal Valley spirit ground was currently a small spirit ground although the nature's spiritual energy was rich there, it could only accommodate a limited number of people.

In the future, undoubtedly there would be a continuous stream of disciples from the Righteous Blood Sect advancing to the Cloud River, entering the Cloud River battlefield. Having the Great Reversal Valley spirit ground in this place would at least provide the disciples an easier start.

Lu Ye then took out the box used to contain the spring spirit, a reward from a previous hunting ground, and placed the spring spirit from the spirit capturing net into it, carefully keeping it secure.

"Let's go!" Lu Ye called out and once again brought out his spirit ark, carrying Hua Ci towards the direction of the Five Poisons Pond.

Behind them lay a broken spirit ground, the stench of blood reaching to the heavens.

Who could have imagined that a large spirit ground with many years of heritage could be breached and toppled by the power of one person, and moreover, turned into a river of blood within it.

And the cause of it all was Huo Liaoyuan's previous attack on the Great Reversal Valley spirit ground.

There are no secrets that wind does not reveal; when the news from the Sacred Universe Spirit Ground spread, the name Lu Ye the Sect Destroyer resurfaced in the minds of many Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators.

Especially those who had experienced the dark era when Lu Ye ruled the Spirit Stream battlefield, they all had a vague feeling.

The scenario of a vast battlefield dominated by a single person seemed to be reemerging.

For a time, countless cultivators from the Ten Thousand Demons Ridge were frightened and uneasy.

Lu Yiye was so vengeful and now so powerful that if they encountered him in the wild, an unpleasant fate was certain.

This led to many Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators who had previously troubled Lu Ye either returning to the Nine Provinces sect headquarters or shut themselves away in earnest cultivation within the Cloud River battlefield, seldom daring to venture out.

The atmosphere of the Cloud River battlefield itself became much more peaceful as a result.

At night, with the moon's hazy light, the campfire flickered.

Hidden formations around provided warning and protection.

Hua Ci and Yiyi were roasting beast meat by the campfire, the crackling sounds unceasing, and the tempting aroma spread in all directions.

Lu Ye, with his upper body bare, was practicing saber skills not too far away.

Recently, he had been studying the secrets of the Tyrannical Saber Technique and gained some understanding, but unfortunately, the environment was not suitable for entering the Mirage Realm to hone it, so he had to cultivate on his own.

Suddenly, Lu Ye stopped moving.

It was not that he had gained any insight, but rather his battlefield marking began to react oddly.

The sensation was not like someone sending a message. It was a type of response Lu Ye had never experienced before.

Curious, he placed his hand on the battlefield marking and immersed his consciousness to investigate. A burst of information suddenly exploded in his mind, forming lines of text.

Lu Ye watched intently, his expression beginning to change.

This information wasn't sent to him by anyone; it appeared out of nowhere in his battlefield marking.

Without guessing, Lu Ye knew who possessed such means.

The content of the information naturally led to speculation.