Sage of Humanity-Chapter 786 - 784: He Can Withstand Even if the Sky Falls

The murky big sun hung high, emitting a dull glow that bathed the entire world in a twilight atmosphere.

Atop a bare hill in a desolate wilderness, Lu Ye stood with his hand on his saber, his brows deeply furrowed.

No sign of other people could be seen around, and the battlefield marking had stopped responding, preventing him from contacting Hua Ci and Giant Armor.

What Ying Wuji could sense, he could naturally sense as well.

And he had made the same deduction as Ying Wuji.

This place... was not the Nine Provinces!

Usually, whether it be the secret realm of the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain or the Soaring Dragon World, they all existed under the large environment of the Nine Provinces, so cultivators entering them could experience a projection of the secret realm's world at a certain time and, under the operation of Heaven's Augury, obtain a natural identity suitable for merging into the secret realm's world.

For example, Lu Ye had once obtained the identity of the Young Master of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, Young Master Ye Liu of the Tyrannical Saber Sect.

But this time, he had not obtained any identity and had very little understanding of this world.

The only thing he knew more about this world than Ying Wuji and the others was its name and the purpose of his trip.

Because at the moment the transmission began, a piece of information had exploded in his heart.

"Save the shattered Unparalleled Continent!"

This must be the guidance of Heaven's Augury; Lu Ye was not sure if everyone had received this guidance or if only he had.

A simple guidance, yet it contained not a small amount of information.

At the very least, Lu Ye knew that the world called Unparalleled Continent was in a state of disrepair.

A vast domain can also be shattered?

How was he to save it?

Reflecting on the secret realms he had experienced so far, which revolved around a domain as the backdrop, they seemed to all be related to saving the world.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Domain was like this, as was the Soaring Dragon World, and now this Unparalleled Continent was no different.

In comparison, the Unparalleled Continent indeed felt like it was on the brink of extinction, nearing its end.

Lu Ye reminisced about the four sealed Heaven's Augury Pillars he had received, and a guess vaguely formed in his mind.

It made no sense for the folks from the Heaven's Augury Mercantile Union to wait there to hand over the four Heaven's Augury Pillars to him; the keys to saving this realm must lie in these four pillars.

Moreover, if this place was not the Nine Provinces, then returning to the Nine Provinces would also be troublesome.

The Heaven's Augury Pillars were the only hope for them who were transported here.

However, where to place the Heaven's Augury Pillars was a problem; such items could not be placed arbitrarily, there were surely some rules.

His thoughts gradually became clearer; what he needed to do now was to quickly familiarize himself with this world, gather some basic intelligence on it, and then find the right locations to install the four Heaven's Augury Pillars.

If gathering intelligence was necessary, then he must find the cultivators of this world!

He also needed to look for Hua Ci and Giant Armor.

Lu Ye wasn't too worried about Giant Armor's safety; Heaven's Augury had chosen them, the cultivators of the Cloud River Realm, and transported them here, meaning the problem of this realm could surely only be solved by the Cloud River Realm.

In other words, this world was very possibly like the Soaring Dragon World, lacking any existence above Cloud River; with Giant Armor's abilities, there was no need to worry too much.

Soaring Dragon World was weak due to the absorption of the Blood World, leading to a constant drain of its essence, causing the cultivators' cultivation to decline generation after generation.

This shattered Unparalleled Continent was similarly causing a continuous loss of natural essence; perhaps this domain had more potent beings long ago, but not necessarily now.

However, Hua Ci, after all, was a healing cultivator, and even if his methods of using poisons were unpredictable, finding him sooner could bring some peace of mind.

With a decision made, Lu Ye took off into the air, choosing a direction at random and flew out.

He hadn't flown far when he suddenly felt something and turned his head to look in a certain direction.

Over there, faint spirit force fluctuations were emanating.

Someone was fighting.

Lu Ye immediately redirected and flew towards it.

Having covered no more than thirty li, he looked from afar and saw a person desperately fleeing mid-air, while a large, dense group of figures hotly pursued him.

The pursuing crowd, chaotic and disorderly, each radiated an ominous aura; the auras combined together, creating a yellow cloud that seemed to spill from the sky.

Lu Ye recognized at a glance that the person fleeing ahead was Ying Wuji!

His brows couldn't help but frown; what had Ying Wuji done to be chased by so many upon his arrival here?

Under normal circumstances, Lu Ye would not care about Ying Wuji's life or death.

But now, with the situation on the Unparalleled Continent still unclear, whether it be Ying Wuji or anyone else, they were all brought together by the guidance of Heaven's Augury, which subtly suggested they cooperate.

With this in mind, Lu Ye felt it best not to ignore the situation.

After all, in this foreign land, Ying Wuji was arguably one of his own.

As Lu Ye was pondering this, Ying Wuji had already spotted him and, overcome with joy, cried out from afar, "Lu Yiye! Save me!"

The panicked emotion instantly settled down.

He had thought that he was undoubtedly going to die this time, but unexpectedly, he had encountered Lu Ye here.

If anyone could save his life in such a situation, it had to be Lu Yiye!

Heaven hasn't forsaken me!

Ying Wuji thought so, but soon became uneasy because he did not know whether Lu Ye would come to his aid. After all, they belonged to different camps and had previous disputes. It wouldn't be surprising if Lu Yiye chose to just stand by and watch.

Hoping for a rescue depended solely on a whim of Lu Yiye's kindness.

As Ying Wuji was feeling anxious, Lu Ye had already started moving towards him.

As the distance closed, Lu Ye's eyebrows furrowed.

He had assumed Ying Wuji was being chased by the cultivators of this realm, but what he saw now were not cultivators, but rotting corpses hanging with decaying flesh!

The yellow clouds he had seen earlier, which filled the air with a howling sound, shockingly turned out to be corpse Qi emitted by these bodies.

What are these things?

Ying Wuji had been terrified half to death when he first witnessed these corpses reviving. Although Lu Ye was not frightened to that extent, his mind still tightened sharply.

He had never seen such bizarre phenomena before.

"What is this?" Lu Ye asked, looking forward as Ying Wuji rapidly approached him.

Ying Wuji was almost spitting blood, his expression full of despair. "I don't know, I didn't provoke them!"

He had been transported to a mass grave mound, barely recovering before these bodies revived and started attacking him, forcing him to flee in a pathetic state.

With his mind slightly steadied, Lu Ye charged towards Ying Wuji.

He vaguely felt that these strange beings might be the source of this realm's crisis. Having encountered them, it was natural he would try to gather some intelligence.

At the very least, he needed to understand whether these bizarre existences were dead or alive, and what their strength was.

"Hey!"

As they brushed past each other, Ying Wuji was too late to stop him. Turning his head, he saw Lu Ye had already plunged into the swarm of corpses. His entire body was wrapped in swirling spirit force, the crimson spirit force making him look as if he were ablaze, shining brighter than the big sun in the sky.

"The corpse Qi is poisonous, and it seems they have some kind of combined strength technique!" With no way to stop him, Ying Wuji could only hastily shout a warning.

Had this been in the Nine Provinces, he would have wished to see Lu Ye dead sooner rather than later. But in such a strange place, with Lu Ye being the only familiar face, he didn't want him to die here.

He would rather face Lu Yiye than this group of extremely bizarre entities.

At least, he knew everything about Lu Yiye.

The corpse Qi indeed was poisonous, something Lu Ye realized the moment he plunged into the swarm, as his Talent Tree responded.

He quickly mobilized his spirit force to shield himself, thus blocking the intrusion of the corpse poison.

With the Boulder Mountain Saber in hand, its blade climbed with flames, he alone with his saber, cut a bloody path through the swarm.

The stench of rotting corpses was all under his nose, pus and rotten flesh splattered when the bodies were cleaved apart, and for anyone with slightly worse mental endurance, just the sight of these eerie beings was enough to instill terror and panic.

Soon, Lu Ye also understood the combined strength technique that Ying Wuji had spoken of.

The aura emanating from these bodies was not particularly strong, and some, judging by their attire, were clearly not cultivators but ordinary people. Yet, they still managed to exert tremendous power.

This was indeed bizarre.

Their bodies were covered in rotten flesh that seemed like it would fall off just from moving around, but in reality, their physical defense was very strong!

The issue lay in the corpse Qi enveloping them.

This pooling corpse Qi seemed to allow each of the rotting corpse to borrow strength from others.

So even those who seemed like ordinary people before their deaths could now deliver incredibly powerful strikes.

The shroud of corpse Qi enabled these rotting corpses to unite in battle, and its poisonous nature provided them with a powerful defense...

No wonder Ying Wuji was being relentlessly pursued and was in such a desperate plight.

Although he was a ghost cultivator and not proficient in direct fights, that was only relatively speaking.

His cultivation at the Cloud River Level 9 was genuine, and with his rank at the sixteenth in the Cloud River, he was only slightly inferior in a direct combat to a few others at Level 9.

Had the swarm not been powerful, he wouldn't have fled in such a panic.

In the midst of battling within the swarm, with limbs and rotten flesh flying around, Lu Ye, who was now unleashing a secret technique to hide his form and restrain his aura, soared impressively as Ying Wuji, hidden aside, watched in awe.

He couldn't help but feel, "This guy, Lu Yiye... is outrageously strong!"

The corpses that he was utterly helpless against seemed not immovable in his presence but handled them with great ease, cutting in and out of the vast swarm like a tiger among sheep.

One must say, when enemies, Lu Yiye was a formidable adversary.

Yet, as a companion, he could easily provide a tremendous sense of security.

It seemed that as long as he was present, even if the sky fell, he could hold it up!

Ying Wuji felt a bit bitter. Why was such a person born in the Haotian Alliance and not in Ten Thousand Demons Ridge?

Why did their generation have to contend against someone like Lu Yiye?

With Lu Yiye in this generation, other talents, no matter how outstanding, were just relegated to be a backdrop.

Truly, the ways of heaven are unjust!