Sage of Humanity-Chapter 1790 - 1788: Do We Have a Grudge?

About 30 miles away from Snowy Peak, three figures stand tall, two of which are Xiang Yin and her sister.

Xuan Yu's body trembles slightly. Although she had heard of the terrifying power of the red talisman crafted by the Dwarf Race, witnessing it firsthand is a first. Under such terror, even a cultivator at the Moon Jade Late-Stage appears extremely fragile and can be easily obliterated.

Xiang Yin's face flickers in the blood moonlight, a hint of guilt flashes in her eyes, quickly replaced by determination. In such a place, under such circumstances, her actions are solely to struggle for survival, unrelated to personal grudges. Moreover, she has no enmity with Lu Ye at all.

A man in a blood-red robe stands before the sisters, his head and face covered, obscuring his appearance. Xuan Yu saw this man when she followed Xiang Yin here earlier.

Though she does not recognize him, his attire undoubtedly reveals his identity — a cultivator of Sacred Blood Summit!

And he is not just any cultivator from Sacred Blood Summit; he is one who once betrayed the Red Talisman Society and joined Sacred Blood Summit. The red talisman he just activated was once bestowed by the Dwarf Race.

Meng Xu had previously told Lu Ye that they had been betrayed before; not only by those of weak will but also by those they once considered brothers, who had undergone years of trials before coming here and were trusted by the Dwarf Race.

Hu Dequan was right; the resources brought in from the outside are limited. When one's own resources are exhausted and the consumed strength cannot be replenished, the pain of waning cultivation is unbearable for many.

The only Spirit Jade Vein in this realm is held by Sacred Blood Summit. To obtain resources, one can only turn to them.

Due to these years of painful experiences, when Hu Dequan and others learned that Lu Ye had been tainted with saintliness, they decided to kill mercilessly; this has historical reasons.

"You have done well, follow me back to the Summit, and the Saintly Venerable will reward you." The man in the red robe spoke slowly, appearing quite weak.

Even though he is at the Moon Jade Late-Stage, fully activating a single red talisman greatly drained him.

This red talisman has been nurtured in his body for nearly a thousand years.

But to ensure a one-hit kill on Lu Ye, he dared not hold back at all, because according to the information provided by Xiang Yin and his own probing of nearby independent cultivators, the saintliness on this newcomer is terrifying, beyond even the reach of the Saintly Venerable.

For this reason, Saintly Venerable Lih Tian spared no expense, dispatching him to use the red talisman for this matter; otherwise, such a strategic killing weapon as the red talisman would not be used lightly.

If not for the concern about the opponent's saintliness, wouldn't sending Lih Tian personally have been more stable?

Now the entire Snowy Peak has been flattened, and the cultivator at Moon Jade Mid-Stage there must be dead with no place for burial.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist, thank you, Saintly Venerable." Xiang Yin pressed her dry red lips, showing little joy.

"I need to recover for a while, protect me." The man in the red robe instructed, about to sit cross-legged.

But at that moment, he suddenly sensed something, turned his head to look aside, and saw a figure approaching leisurely from that direction. He looked unfamiliar, a young man with a long knife at his waist, indicating a combat cultivator identity, and his mana fluctuations were not very strong, only at Moon Jade Mid-Stage.

In this world, Moon Jade Mid-Stage is really nothing, considering how this damned place has countless Moon Jade Late-Stage cultivators.

The red-robed cultivator was slightly taken aback because he didn't know who was coming.

But beside him, Xiang Yin gasped in shock, her voice filled with disbelief and fear.

Immediately, the red-robed cultivator heard Xiang Yin shout urgently: "Sister, run!"

Amidst the fluctuation of mana, the clothes of Xiang Yin and her sister flapped as they fled into the distance as if encountering a ferocious beast.

Unfortunately, they can't escape!

Rivers of blood formed from treasure blood rushed in from all directions, as Lu Ye's figure approached, turning this place into a circle of encirclement.

Xiang Yin still struggled, but those blood rivers suddenly swelled and merged, transforming into a massive blood orb that tightly enveloped the entire area.

The center of the blood orb was devoid of blood color, as were the faces of Xiang Yin and her sister. Realizing they couldn't escape, they had no choice but to descend, terrified, watching Lu Ye standing not far ahead. Xiang Yin's body trembled, and her clenched fists turned white.

She couldn't understand how Lu Ye, only at the Moon Jade Mid-Stage, managed to escape the red talisman's might unharmed, seemingly unaffected by its power.

Originally, the red-robed cultivator didn't know who Lu Ye was, but after seeing the reaction of Xiang Yin and her sister, he immediately had a guess.

Gazing steadily at Lu Ye standing not far away, a flash of guilt appeared in the red-robed cultivator's eyes.

Originally... he could have been on the same side as Lu Ye, brothers in arms, but now they met in such a terrible way.

"Which division are you from?" he asked, showing a touch of resignation.

For if the saintliness of this newcomer is as terrifying as known, then even if he surpasses him by a minor realm, resistance is futile.

Not to mention he is now greatly exhausted, his strength significantly reduced.

For many years, he had lived in pain, and perhaps dying from that forced betrayal was a kind of relief.

"The East!" Lu Ye replied casually.

The red-robed cultivator nodded slightly, "I'm from the Southern Region, my Dao companion is..."

Lu Ye raised his hand to stop him, "No need to say it, I won't carry your message out."

The red-robed cultivator was taken aback, then sighed with relief, "That's good to know!" As soon as he spoke, the remnants of his mana hummed violently, and purple glimmers burst from within him.

Indeed, he couldn't just resign himself to death. If he could really face death calmly, he wouldn't have chosen to join the Sacred Blood Summit back then.

He had already used the red talisman, but he still had the purple talisman!

After all these years of nurturing, though the power invoked by the purple talisman was not as formidable as the red talisman, it was not to be underestimated. As long as he could invoke the power of the purple talisman, he could resolve the crisis before him.

While activating the purple talisman, he also shouted, "Do it together!"

This was undoubtedly directed at Xiang Yin and her sister.

However, just as these words fell, the world suddenly hummed, and at the same time, the red-robed cultivator's body hunched as if bearing a star, his mana stilled and unable to flow smoothly.

Even when he was at his peak, he could barely exert thirty percent of his strength under such terrifying suppression.

The red-robed cultivator widened his eyes, utterly unable to comprehend how anyone in this world could possess such terrifying saintliness!

Compared to what he was feeling now, Lih Tian's saintliness was like the glow of a firefly trying to compete with the brilliance of the moon.

He had already had some understanding of this matter from Xiang Yin and had even personally inquired with two local cultivators, but what he learned differed vastly from his personal experience.

Some concepts cannot be imagined without firsthand experience.

The world went dark, and as he looked up again, Lu Ye was already closing in, a flash of blade light passed by, and the red-robed cultivator's vision turned upside down before slowly plunging into darkness.

Lu Ye flicked the blood off his blade, pushed aside the headless body of the red-robed cultivator, and looked expressionlessly at Xiang Yin and her sister.

Xiang Yin's face was deathly pale, her eyes dimmed to the extreme, and Xuan Yu wasn't doing any better. Both sisters knew that today might be their last.

In terms of cultivation, both sisters were stronger than Lu Ye, but the Blood Race's saintliness suppression was just that unreasonable. They had experienced it once before, and now faced with Lu Ye who had killed the red-robed cultivator, they didn't even have a thought of resistance.

Fortunately, Lu Ye did not immediately kill them.

He looked at Xiang Yin and said, "You gave me the map of this realm, intentionally marked a region, hinting for me to find people from the Red Talisman Society there, intending to use their hand to kill me, right?"

The Red Talisman Society had means to discern if a cultivator was stained by saintliness, it shouldn't be a secret, and Xiang Yin surely knew it.

But Lu Ye, being new, wouldn't know these things, so Xiang Yin intentionally marked it on the map she gave him, clearly to borrow someone else's hand for murder. If Lu Ye came into contact with people from the Red Talisman Society, he'd be doomed.

Furthermore, Xiang Yin was likely aware that the Red Talisman Society had laid many traps for Sacred Blood Summit in that area, and without a doppelganger to help or the Void Spirit Runes for teleportation, Lu Ye would have been killed well before meeting Hu Dequan.

Hearing him ask, Xuan Yu looked at Xiang Yin in shock, clearly unaware of the situation and unable to understand why her sister bore such murderous intent towards a stranger.

"Yes." Xiang Yin's dry voice responded.

Lu Ye nodded, just as he thought.

He hadn't understood before why Xiang Yin directed him to that area, initially thinking she meant well, but now it was clear she did not.

After parting with Hu Dequan and others, Lu Ye had some suspicions and came back specifically to find Xiang Yin and her sister; partly because he had nowhere else to go, and partly to verify some things.

Otherwise, he had no reason to come to this Snowy Peak.

"After I arrived here, you secretly contacted Sacred Blood Summit, left while the Blood Moon was overhead, actually fearing the impact of the red talisman's power, you even intentionally gave me false clues before leaving, wanting to trap me within the big array of Snowy Peak, making it more convenient for Sacred Blood Summit people to kill me."

"Yes!" Xiang Yin admitted again.

"Do we have a grudge?" Lu Ye looked at her.

"No enmity." Xiang Yin replied, her head, which had been lowered all along, suddenly lifted to meet Lu Ye's eyes, and she pursed her lips, "This is just a woman's way to survive!"

At this point, any explanation and argument were useless. From Lu Ye's previous decisiveness and ruthlessness, Xiang Yin knew she wouldn't escape death today, so her demeanor was much calmer, "I plotted against you, sold you out, just to live better, that's all!"