Sage of Humanity-Chapter 601 - 599: Crisis Strikes

"That other power from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge, junior brother should not be unfamiliar with it."

"Which one?"

"Sacred Fire Order!"

Lu Ye was indeed not unfamiliar with this power; his first contact with their people left an extremely deep impression on him.

It was atop Golden Light Peak on the Spirit Stream battlefield where his last battle took place against a Saintess from the Sacred Fire Order who had shattered her spiritual orifice, causing her cultivation to drop from Level 7 to Level 6.

That battle could be said to be extremely fierce; in the end, both sides were exhausted. He finally used the last bit of his spirit force to cast the Fire Phoenix Technique, killing his opponent.

Later on in the inner circle of the battlefield, when Lu Ye was pulling out a unit of the Haotian Alliance's Allied Forces, he specifically led the forces to destroy the Sacred Fire Order's base, because his eldest senior sister had mentioned that the Sacred Fire Order had a deep grudge with the Righteous Blood Sect!

The sudden appearance of a person suspected to be from the Universe Sect here, and the Sacred Universe Spirit Ground jointly controlled by the Sacred Fire Order and the Universe Sect just two or three thousand li away, naturally led Li Baxian to many speculations.

"If this person really comes from the Sacred Universe Spirit Ground, then we might have quite some trouble coming our way soon," Li Baxian spoke up.

Not to mention other things, just the fact that a huge 1st grade sect was beaten down so hard that it fell in rank and only today has it recovered to the level of 4th grade. Such hatred is fundamentally impossible to resolve; once the people from the Sacred Fire Order learn of Lu Ye's current location, they will surely take action.

"We'll have to play it by ear," Lu Ye's eyes flashed.

He had thought that with a Class A spirit ground, he would be able to cultivate in peace with Li Baxian and the others, but fate had other plans. It hadn't been long before Xia Liang and Tan Sheng and others attacked, and now they might also be targeted by the Sacred Universe Spirit Ground...

Lu Ye wasn't panicked though. In the spirit ground, there was the Heaven's Augury Pillar he had invited, as well as many formations and a pack of wolves to guard. The worst outcome would simply be the spirit ground being breached and he, along with Li Baxian and the others, being forced to retreat back to the Nine Provinces.

"Did this person send out any messages before dying?" Li Baxian asked.

Lu Ye nodded: "Yes, but whether he was successful, I'm not sure."

This Yan Gui fellow, upon sensing something wrong, suddenly raised his hand and pressed it on his battlefield marking. Although Lu Ye quickly killed him, Lu Ye didn't know whether he had managed to send out his message successfully.

"Let's prepare for the worst and respond appropriately," Li Baxian said. The three quickly returned to the spirit ground.

Amber was sound asleep. The reason for this was that Lu Ye had fed it the demonic pill of an Overlord-class demon beast.

The storage sack he had obtained from the Fox Demon had already been opened by him, yielding rich gains, with hundreds of demonic pills alone.

Thinking about how the Fox Demon had lived in Fox Fairy Valley commanding respect and awe for twenty years, it wasn't surprising that it had accumulated so many demonic pills.

Amber had swallowed quite a few demonic pills before, but there were never many reactions. However, after swallowing that Berserk Giant Ape's demonic pill, it fell into a deep sleep not long after, clearly needing to sleep to refine the immense power contained within the pill.

This caused Yiyi to also enter a state of silence.

However, Lu Ye was actually looking forward to it. With Amber showing such an unusual reaction this time, when it awoke, it would surely gain considerably. Perhaps it would even make a breakthrough.

Sacred Universe Spirit Ground.

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Tu Guanxiong suddenly felt a reaction from his battlefield marking and hurriedly checked it, discovering it was a message from Yan Gui, who had left a few days ago. The message was very simple, comprised of only three words.

"Lu Yiye..."

It wasn't that Yan Gui didn't want to send more information; he simply didn't have the time. Managing to send these three words was already his limit.

And as Tu Guanxiong finished checking this unclear message, Yan Gui's battlefield marking disappeared completely.

Tu Guanxiong's face changed dramatically.

The disappearance of the battlefield marking undoubtedly meant Yan Gui's downfall, something completely unexpected to him. After all, Yan Gui was at Level 7 and, as a cultivator who specialized in the Path of Concealment, had posed little danger even when faced with Level 9 practitioners of the Cloud River Realm if he didn't expose himself intentionally.

That was why he had felt relieved sending Yan Gui out.

He had only been sent to Great Reversal Valley to gather some information; how could he have fallen?

But the last message sent by Yan Gui undoubtedly indicated that he had seen Lu Yiye, suggesting that the intelligence Huo Liaoyuan had received before was true!

Lu Yiye was in Great Reversal Valley!

"Damn it!" Tu Guanxiong cursed under his breath, the mysterious death of his junior brother causing him immense grief.

Suppressing the sorrow in his heart, Tu Guanxiong left the room, found Huo Liaoyuan, and informed him about Yan Gui's fate.

Huo Liaoyuan was utterly astonished: "Yan Gui is dead?"

Tu Guanxiong responded somberly: "He's dead!"

The disappearance of the battlefield marking was the most definite proof.

Huo Liaoyuan's mouth twitched, and in the end, all he could say was, "Please accept my condolences."

"Yean Gui must not die in vain!" Tu Guanxiong said coldly.

Huo Liaoyuan nodded, "Of course, we will not let him die for nothing. Since Lu Yiye is in that Great Reversal Valley, I will take people there to kill him immediately!"

"If the intelligence that Lu Yiye is in the Great Reversal Valley is true, then the rest should also be accurate. It won't be easy to deal with a few hundred demon wolves. Brother Huo, it might not be successful if we don't have enough people!"

Huo Liaoyuan nodded, "Don't worry, I will send the message out right away and have the disciples of the Sacred Fire Order nearby gather at the Great Reversal Valley. In addition, I will take half of the people from the spirit ground!"

Taking half of the cultivators from the spirit ground meant fifty people, and counting the disciples of the Sacred Fire Order who were summoned, they could easily form a contingent of a hundred. Such a force could contend with what lay in the Great Reversal Valley... if their intelligence was correct.

"Take seventy percent!" Tu Guanxiong commanded, "If we are to make a move, then we must do so with overwhelming force!"

Huo Liaoyuan wanted to say that it wasn't necessary, but seeing the hatred in Tu Guanxiong's eyes, he ultimately nodded and said, "Then I will follow Brother Tu's instructions. I will personally kill that Lu Yiye and bring his head back."

Tu Guanxiong warned, "Brother Huo, you must not be careless. Last time at the hunting field, Lu Yiye summoned the Heaven's Augury Pillar and escaped back to the Nine Provinces. Now, he might still have the ability to call upon the Heaven's Augury Pillar."

"I have heard about the incident at the hunting field. The main reason he was able to escape was not because of the Heaven's Augury Pillar, but the protection of the Golden Body Token, which no one could breach. This time, without the Golden Body Token, even if he summons the Heaven's Augury Pillar, he might not have a chance to escape back to the Nine Provinces." Huo Liaoyuan said with a cold smile, "Moreover, Brother Tu, don't forget, I still have that thing with me. As long as I find an opportunity, he's as good as dead!"

Tu Guanxiong was startled at first, then as if he remembered something, he slightly nodded, "That's true, but using that item on Lu Yiye... seems somewhat of a waste."

"I will seize the right moment to act, Brother Tu, just wait for my good news."

With a resolution made, Huo Liaoyuan immediately sprang into action. All the cultivators in the spirit ground who were not in closed-door cultivation were gathered, selecting seventy percent of them.

Following that, Huo Liaoyuan continuously sent out messages, summoning the scattered disciples of the Sacred Fire Order to assemble on the periphery of the Great Wilderness Mountain.

In no more than half a Shichen later, a gigantic spirit ark soared into the sky, heading in the direction of the Great Wilderness Mountain.

In the Spirit Stream battlefield, large spirit arks capable of transporting many cultivators are not uncommon, especially in the inner and Core Circle areas—almost every sect has one.

These massive spirit arks, though not as fast as smaller Flying Spirit Artifacts, are not much slower either and are essential for a sect or the same force to travel together.

However, in the Cloud River battlefield, such large Flying Spirit Artifacts are rarely seen because Cloud River Level cultivators seldom gather in large numbers. Only some large spirit grounds would be equipped with such Flying Spirit Artifacts in case of unexpected need.

Tu Guanxiong watched the spirit ark depart. Although he was eager to avenge the death himself, someone needed to be left in charge of the spirit ground. Between him and Huo Liaoyuan, one had to stay behind, and since Huo Liaoyuan held that item, it was decided that Huo Liaoyuan would lead the expedition.

As the spirit ark was deployed, a few dozen miles away, another pair of eyes watched silently.

It was none other than Xia Liang and Tan Sheng. After several days of recovery, the two were nearly back to full health.

"Brother Xia is prescient indeed. The Sacred Universe Spirit Ground could not hold back after all and has mobilized in full force. And it seems that the news has not been completely leaked."

Xia Liang snorted coldly, "Money moves the heart. How could they bear to let the news leak out? Otherwise, wouldn't everyone want a share of the spoils?"

"Shall we set off too?"

"Let's go."

The two of them did not follow directly behind the spirit ark from the Sacred Universe Spirit Ground. After all, they had known the location of the Great Reversal Valley well in advance and could arrive there first to await quietly.

In the spirit ground, all was quiet.

Li Baxian and the others were in the midst of cultivation, Amber was still asleep, and Lu Ye was holding a broken arrow, examining it back and forth.

This broken arrow belonged to Wei Que. When he was on the verge of death, he used this broken arrow, which unleashed tremendous power, piercing through the Giant Armor's body.

Later, as Lu Ye and Li Baxian pursued the severely injured Tan Sheng and Xia Liang, Feng Yuechan stayed behind to watch over the Giant Armor and collected the broken arrow.

This object looked quite old; it was unclear where Wei Que had found it.

However, according to Feng Yuechan, this broken arrow was an exotic treasure.

Exotic treasures are so named because it is difficult to judge their quality by common standards.

For example, the Golden Body Token used by Lu Ye in the hunting field, or the tracking disc Tan Sheng once used to trace his location, are exotic treasures.

The Nine Provinces have many exotic treasures, most of which have emerged from various secret realms or have been gifted by Heaven's Augury. Anything related to exotic treasures cannot be considered ordinary; they often possess a variety of strange and unusual functions.

Take this broken arrow for example. According to Lu Ye's investigation, the number of restrictions within it was not very many, at best equivalent to a supreme-grade spirit artifact.

But no supreme-grade spirit artifact could display such formidable lethality; after all, this thing could penetrate the Giant Armor's defenses.

And this was just a segment of the broken arrow!

It was hard to imagine what kind of power it could wield if it were intact.

There was a crack on the broken arrow, so it probably couldn't be used many more times. Feng Yuechan had handed it over to Lu Ye because activating it required an enormous amount of spirit force. Even though she had reached Cloud River Level 6 in her cultivation, if she truly wanted to unleash the broken arrow's full power, it would likely exhaust all her spirit force.

Therefore, in her hands, it was difficult to utilize effectively.