Sage of Humanity-Chapter 788 - 786 Believe Me!

Under the hazy sunlight, two figures were gliding close to the ground, none other than Lu Ye and Ying Wuji.

However, judging by their somewhat distant manner, Ying Wuji remained vigilant toward Lu Ye at all times.

Understanding the complexity of human hearts and suspect of others as of himself, Ying Wuji dared not guarantee that Lu Yiye wouldn't strike him down, despite the latter having shown no such intentions thus far, he couldn't be complacent.

People like him would never entrust their fate to someone else's hands, especially when he and Lu Ye were from opposing factions.

Temporary cooperation was acceptable, but real trust was not something that could be established so easily.

Lu Ye was aware of this and didn't mind; while weapon control-flying, he also carved a Crystal Stone he held in his hand.

After resolving the issue with the corpse swarm yesterday, he had set out on the road with Ying Wuji.

But so far, they hadn't encountered a single living person, which indicated only one thing.

This shattered Unparalleled Continent was either devoid of life or the living were hiding in extremely concealed places.

Lu Ye was more inclined to believe in the latter possibility.

A vast land, even if damaged by some unknown cause, was unlikely to be completely uninhabited.

Therefore, the priority was to find native cultivators of the Unparalleled Continent, try to gather more intelligence, and also to locate those cultivators from the Nine Provinces who had come with him, to meet up with them.

Heaven's Augury had chosen them and gone to great lengths to send them here, hinting that they should join forces, so each of the nine individuals was an indispensable strength.

The journey was undoubtedly monotonous, and Ying Wuji felt somewhat oppressed.

As a ghost cultivator, he was not accustomed to traveling with others; he was mostly solitary, especially traveling with someone like Lu Ye, which subconsciously added some pressure.

He tried to strike up a conversation with Lu Ye along the way, but unfortunately never got a response. After a few attempts, he simply gave up.

He had never known that Lu Yiye was such a taciturn character...

Suddenly, Ying Wuji's eyes brightened as he concentrated on something ahead, his spirit lifted as he exclaimed, "Lu Yiye, it looks like there's a city ahead!"

Lu Ye looked up and indeed saw the outline of a city entering his field of vision. The city wasn't large, but it was the only place they had discovered that day where living people might reside.

The closer they got, the clearer the outline of the city became.

But gradually, the excitement and anticipation on Ying Wuji's face faded.

The city appeared to be in ruins, seemingly uninhabited for many years, and the city walls bore vague marks of a great battle, with many areas still stained with traces of blood, long since dimmed.

Such a city had a minuscule chance of being inhabited by living people.

About thirty miles from the city, Lu Ye suddenly descended.

Ying Wuji paused, following him down and asked, "Aren't we going to explore it?"

Given the rare discovery of such a city, whether there were people or not, it seemed like they should take a look, perhaps they would find some useful clues.

"There could be danger," replied Lu Ye, who surprisingly responded this time and then tossed the Crystal Stone he was holding to him.

Ying Wuji caught it and curiously asked, "What is this?"

Throughout the journey, he had seen Lu Ye carving these Crystal Stones, and although he had asked before, he received no response. Unexpectedly, Lu Ye now gave him one.

"An audio transmission stone!" Lu Ye explained casually while another similar Crystal Stone appeared in his hand, "Keep it with you, and you can contact me at any time. However, it does have a range limit; it's usable within about three thousand miles. Beyond that, it won't work."

This item didn't exist in the Nine Provinces.

Nine Provinces cultivators all had the battlefield marking, which allowed them to communicate with each other as long as they were in the same Heaven and Earth, negating the need for something like an audio transmission stone.

Lu Ye's ability to craft such an item was thanks to his previous visit to the Soaring Dragon World.

In the Soaring Dragon World, cultivators used audio transmission stones to communicate with each other.

Out of curiosity at the time, he had asked Huang Liang for one to study, discovering it was not too complex to make, mainly due to a voice-transmitting spirit rune that played a key role.

On Lu Ye's Talent Tree, there was a spirit rune called "audio message," which wasn't of much use, so he had never used it before.

Audio message and audio transmission shared about eighty percent similarity, so after some research, Lu Ye completely mastered the voice-transmitting spirit rune.

Anticipating a future need for audio transmission stones, he had previously purchased suitable materials for making them from the Heaven's Augury treasure vault.

Now was the perfect time to use them.

In the shattered Unparalleled Continent, the battlefield marking had completely stopped working, which meant they had completely lost contact with the Heaven's Augury of the Nine Provinces. To communicate with each other, audio transmission stones were the only option.

It's just that he hadn't anticipated this situation sooner. If he had anticipated it earlier, before the activation of the teleportation array, he could have left one for each Hua Ci and Giant Armor; finding them now would have been easier.

Ying Wuji's eyes lit up: "What a great item!"

He couldn't stop playing with the audio transmission stone.

Although it was his first encounter with it, being a Cloud River Realm cultivator, he was naturally talented and quickly figured out how to use the item after a brief attempt.

He channeled spirit force into it and casually said something into the audio transmission stone.

Lu Ye's stone immediately reacted, and when he stimulated it with spirit force, Ying Wuji's words from before came out of the stone.

"This is quite interesting," Ying Wuji said with a smirk.

However, his smile faded as he noticed Lu Ye was staring intently at him.

Ying Wuji's heart sank as he vaguely realized something, "What are you implying? Surely you can't be thinking..."

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Ying Wuji was left feeling frustrated...

He had just asked Lu Ye if they should scout out the city, to which Lu Ye said there might be dangers before tossing him an audio transmission stone.

The intent in those fixed stares was all too clear.

It was obviously his task to scout out the situation!

And as a ghost cultivator, this was indeed his duty to fulfill.

The corners of Ying Wuji's eyes twitched a few times as he silently assessed the gap in strength between himself and Lu Ye, ultimately deciding to accept the task.

One's fist can't be bigger than others', and a true man knows when to bend and when to stand tall...

"If something unexpected happens to me..." Ying Wuji looked as though he wanted to leave some last words.

But Lu Ye cut him off, "Don't worry, if something goes wrong, you just need to shout 'Righteous Blood Flows Forever', and I'll immediately come to rescue you!"

Ying Wuji's twitching intensified: "Are you serious?"

Lu Ye nodded solemnly, "Trust me!"

Ying Wuji took a deep breath.

Do I dare not trust you?

Can I afford not to trust you?

With complex emotions, Ying Wuji activated his stealth method and silently approached the dilapidated city.

After he left, Amber, who had been crouching on Lu Ye's shoulder, shook its body slightly as Yiyi, like a spectral apparition, flashed out and moved through the ground.

To gather intelligence, Lu Ye naturally couldn't rely solely on Ying Wuji; Yiyi following along should allow for a more thorough investigation.

As for himself... his ability to conceal was not necessarily inferior to Ying Wuji's, but one shouldn't put all their eggs in one basket.

Whether there was danger in the city, no one knew. If there really was some unavoidable danger, remaining outside would allow him to think of a way to coordinate a response.

He continued to take out materials to craft new audio transmission stones.

Lu Ye's mind inevitably recalled what the corpse herder he killed yesterday had said.

He had intended to extract some useful information from the man, but that fellow's character was so unbending that he didn't give Lu Ye any chance, forcing him to kill him unwillingly.

Although he didn't wring much information out, the man's last words unintentionally revealed something.

Corpse Race!

Undead!

The man must have thought he and Ying Wuji were cultivators from the Unparalleled Continent, hence he didn't avoid these basic details.

Ying Wuji might have heard those words too, but what he thought, Lu Ye didn't know.

Yet many thoughts arose in Lu Ye's mind.

The destruction of the Soaring Dragon World was due to the attachment of the Blood World, which caused the Heaven-Earth Origin to constantly dissipate until the world met its demise.

And it was the Blood Race, a peculiar race that invaded the Soaring Dragon World.

The Unparalleled Continent didn't have a Blood Race but had a Corpse Race!

Compared to the Blood Race, the Corpse Race seemed to be more eerie.

Although the Blood Race was somewhat taller and slender than normal people and mastered many strange Blood Path Secret Techniques, at least they were alive.

The Corpse Race, however, was not living at all!

In terms of danger, the Corpse Race seemed harder to deal with than the Blood Race.

The corpse group that was destroyed yesterday had only one true member of the Corpse Race; all the other rotting corpses were mere puppets controlled by it, similar to how the beast-taming faction's cultivators commanded demon beasts.

This race could become an army on its own. If not for Lu Ye's sufficiently strong willpower and prompt identification of the Corpse Race member in that group, such an enemy would have been impossible to confront.

How did the Corpse Race come to be?

Could there be a realm such as the Corpse World?

Lu Ye had no answers to these questions.

However, comparatively speaking, the inherent strength of the Corpse Race didn't seem very formidable. As long as one could precisely locate the Corpse Race members, slaying them wasn't difficult, and once a Corpse Race member died, the puppet corpses they controlled would lose the ability to move.

From this perspective, from Lu Ye's stance, the Corpse Race was somewhat easier to handle than the Blood Race.

The vast Void, so many domains – why such calamities?

And what about the Nine Provinces?

Under the seemingly stable conditions of the Nine Provinces, what hidden dangers lurked?

Lu Ye couldn't help thinking of the Insect Race in Xianyuan City.

For ages, the continuous opposition between the two major factions... did it relate to these hidden dangers?

Within the Nine Provinces, did those Divine Sea Realm strong cultivators know of this intelligence?

Living longer or having a higher cultivation didn't necessarily mean knowing more.

It was indeed because of Lu Ye's last trip to the Soaring Dragon World that he observed and understood so much.

That mysterious and omnipresent Heaven's Augury even manifested directly before him, engaging in numerous communications!

Among the cultivators of the Nine Provinces, even the strong cultivators of the Divine Sea Realm might not have received such treatment!