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Humanity’s Great Sage – Chapter 1008: Blood Realm?
After pondering for a moment, Lu Ye had a faint guess.
However, whether things were exactly as he thought remained to be verified.
He turned his head to look, and Dao Thirteen immediately turned his body, using his stature to shield the roasted meat in his hand… He was afraid Lu Ye would snatch it away again.
Lu Ye had no intention of snatching it from him. He stood up, walked to the side, and grabbed the bag of spirit rice that the village chief had sent over earlier. Opening the mouth of the bag, he grabbed a handful of Spirit Rice and stuffed it into his mouth.
Although the spirit rice hadn’t been cooked and was difficult to swallow, it was of no consequence to Lu Ye.
He chewed it casually a few times before swallowing it down, simultaneously activating his Taotie Technique to accelerate digestion, while silently perceiving the sensations.
The inexplicable power that confined his cultivation base was clearly dissipating faster.
Lu Ye raised his brows; it was exactly as he thought.
It wasn’t that eating meat could accelerate the dissipation of the confining power, but rather, one had to eat the local produce of this world, regardless of whether it was meat or Spirit Rice…
As for why this was the case, Lu Ye wasn’t entirely clear.
Subconsciously, he felt that there might be some special power hidden within the food of this world, which could dissolve the confining power within his own body.
But thinking about it, he felt it wasn’t very likely. Because regardless of whether it was the meat or the Spirit Rice he had eaten, there wasn’t anything special about them. If they truly contained any special power, he would certainly have been able to detect it.
Furthermore, that inexplicable confining power was a means left behind by the Heavenly Mystery on him, and the Heavenly Mystery’s purpose in doing so was to conceal him from being discovered by someone. If that were the case, why would eating things produced in this world accelerate the dissolution of the confining power?
Lu Ye pondered while eating the Spirit Rice.
What person was the Heavenly Mystery of Jiu Zhou guarding against? And what kind of person in this world would be worth the Heavenly Mystery of Jiu Zhou being so guarded, even resorting to the means of sending him over under the cover of a meteor shower, and sealing ninety-nine percent of his cultivation, reducing him almost to the level of an ordinary mortal?
Suddenly, a possibility occurred to Lu Ye.
Could it be that the Heavenly Mystery of Jiu Zhou was guarding against… not a person, but this entire world itself?
Worlds have wills.
Although no one had ever told Lu Ye anything, he had always felt that the mysterious and omnipresent Heavenly Mystery was the will of the Jiu Zhou world.
That was why it could have those many profound aspects.
The Longteng Realm he had visited in the past also had a will, which had even manifested as Ye Liuli to accompany him, and finally gifted him the source of the broken Longteng Realm.
If that was the case, then this unknown world likely also possessed a will.
As an outsider sent to this world by the Heavenly Mystery of Jiu Zhou, his arrival was equivalent to an invasion. It would be very easy for the will of this world to detect him. Therefore, the Heavenly Mystery of Jiu Zhou had confined his cultivation and used the cover of the meteor shower to bring him to this world.
Eating the meat and Spirit Rice of this world was equivalent to imprinting the information of this world within his body, assimilating his own existence with this world… In this way, the will of this world would find it difficult to detect the existence of an invader like him.
That was why the confining power accelerated its speed of dissipation.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this guess was correct.
Many doubts were also solved.
Take the method of arriving in this world as an example. When he and Ying Wuji’s group traveled to the shattered Wushuang Continent, the Heavenly Mystery of Jiu Zhou had directly teleported them over; there hadn’t been any twists or turns, letting them appear across various parts of the Wushuang Continent.
But this time, it had made use of the cover of the meteor shower.
Because only in this way could it deceive the world under the nose of this world’s will.
If this were truly the case, then the will of this world was inevitably inferior to the Heavenly Mystery of Jiu Zhou; otherwise, it would have already detected him—an outsider—and wouldn’t have been deceived by the various means of the Heavenly Mystery of Jiu Zhou.
It was highly likely that the will of this world was in a hazy, muddled state, not as perfect as the Heavenly Mystery of Jiu Zhou.
If one were to compare himself to the Heavenly Mystery of Jiu Zhou, then Dao Thirteen’s intelligence was comparable to the will of this world.
A large piece of half-eaten beast meat was suddenly passed before Lu Ye’s eyes. Lu Ye finally returned to his senses from his deep contemplation. Looking up, he saw Dao Thirteen with an expression of reluctance, yet resolutely handing over his own beast meat. Presumably, he had seen Lu Ye eating Spirit Rice and couldn’t bear it…
Lu Ye chuckled, patted his shoulder, and said, “Follow me. I’ll take you to find something good to eat.”
Since eating local goods could accelerate the dissipation of the confining power, then it was too simple.
The mountains were filled with many beasts and demonic beasts. He and Dao Thirteen had killed quite a few on their way here, but they hadn’t eaten them, so it was only today that he had discovered this subtlety.
The entire village was in tranquil silence, with everyone keeping their doors and windows tightly shut. The departure of Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen didn’t alarm anyone.
Heading deep into the mountains, master and servant soon achieved a bountiful harvest. They found a place to light a fire, roasted the meat simply, and feasted upon it.
Lu Ye had always had a hearty appetite, and with the Taotie Technique assisting him, he could naturally digest as much as he could eat.
Dao Thirteen was even more remarkable. After all, he possessed the physique of a Divine Ocean Realm Master, so his eating speed was much faster than Lu Ye’s.
Therefore, in less than an hour, the harvest of their half-night’s work was eaten clean.
The confining power within his body had dissipated somewhat; Lu Ye’s cultivation had recovered to the level of the Fourth-Order Spirit Creek Realm, and it was the same for Dao Thirteen.
They didn’t continue, but instead led Dao Thirteen back to the village.
During the daytime, teams responsible for hunting didn’t need to labor in the fields. They only needed to enter the mountains once every five days to hunt some beasts and bring them back. This saved Lu Ye quite a bit of trouble.
He spent his days chatting with people to probe for information about this world, and at night, he would lead Dao Thirteen into the mountains to forage for food.
Relatively speaking, probing for information hadn’t gone very smoothly. Lu Ye still hadn’t figured out what this world was called, and the villagers in the village had never left the village from the time they were born until now.
He only knew that this world didn’t just contain the Human race, but also another race referred to by the villagers as the “Holy Race.”
As for what kind of race this Holy Race truly was, Lu Ye didn’t know, and the villagers couldn’t clearly explain it either.
What made Lu Ye’s mood heavy was that this Holy Race seemed to hold a majestic, inviolable status in the hearts of the village inhabitants. Whenever Lu Ye wanted to probe more about the Holy Race, the villagers would avoid the topic, leaving him quite helpless.
On the night of the fifth day since arriving in the village, Lu Ye was still leading Dao Thirteen to roam and hunt in the mountains. After these few days, their cultivation had already recovered to the level of the Sixth-Order Spirit Creek Realm. Although this was nothing compared to their original cultivation bases, it was, at the very least, a good start.
Furthermore, Lu Ye had also discovered something: eating the blood and meat of demonic beasts had a much better effect than eating the blood and meat of ordinary beasts.
Perhaps it was because there was more essence within the blood and meat of demonic beasts. That was why he had been searching for powerful demonic beasts for the past few days, but unfortunately, he hadn’t had much harvest.
It was already late at night. Lu Ye was leading Dao Thirteen back toward the village, needing to return before dawn, otherwise, if they were seen by the villagers, the Village Chief would definitely come to reprimand them for not knowing the rules.
Coming out of the forest, he looked into the distance and saw the scene in the village. Lu Ye’s footsteps, however, came to a halt. From the direction of the village, a beam of blood-red light was flying over. Within that red light, there were faint sounds of screaming.
The screaming sounded somewhat familiar. A woman’s figure immediately flashed through Lu Ye’s mind.
After a few days of getting along, Lu Ye could be considered familiar with the villagers of Cangnan Village; he knew many of them.
He had spoken a few words with this woman; she was about twenty years old, possessed a cultivation base of the Third-Order Spirit Creek Realm, and was a member of the hunting team.
The screaming sound came from her, but the blood-red light definitely wasn’t hers. Because the Spiritual Power fluctuations radiating from that red light were astonishingly at the Cloud River Realm level!
Cangnan Village had no Cloud River Realm cultivators!
Lu Ye didn’t know what kind of person she had encountered to be abducted, but it was clearly not the time to be a spectator. However, just as he was about to go and save her, her screaming had already abruptly ceased.
Perhaps the commotion on his side had alerted the owner of the red light. After the figure within the red light glanced in his direction, she actually flew straight toward him.
A moment later, she landed right in front of Lu Ye.
The blood-red light dissipated, revealing a figure.
The newcomer wore a robe and had a slender, tall figure—at least a head taller than Lu Ye. The skin exposed outside was blood-red, as if he were a cooked lobster. Moreover, he possessed a pair of pointed ears, and the nails on his ten fingers were sharp and keen, shimmering with a cold light.
The woman Lu Ye knew was being carried in his hand like a torn sack, already devoid of any sound. There were two blood-filled holes in her fair, slender neck, yet no blood was flowing out anymore.
Even her entire person had become extremely pale, as if all her blood had been drained dry.
Lu Ye stared silently at the bizarre figure before him, his eyelids drooping slightly.
He finally understood what the “Holy Race” the villagers spoke of truly was.
Blood Race!
He had seen many Blood Race in the Longteng Realm and had even killed many with his own hands; how could he be unfamiliar with them?
In fact, now, when he used the Breath Fruit Core to enter the Mirage Realm to hone himself, the figures that rushed out from the fog were often Blood Race as well.
And the destruction of the Longteng Realm had a direct correlation with the Blood Race—it was the adhesion of the Blood Realm and the invasion of the Blood Race that led to the Longteng Realm’s destruction.
He had entered the Longteng Realm for training and, through his own power, brought a different possible future to the Longteng Realm. Although this future could no longer be realized, he still received the gift of the Longteng Realm’s final source.
So, this meant… this was the Blood Realm?
“Where did this blood-food come from?” The strange Blood Race member sized up Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen, his eyes lighting up. “The quality is actually not bad!”
Saying this, he casually tossed the woman’s corpse to the side and reached out a hand to grab Dao Thirteen.
For the Blood Race, someone like Dao Thirteen with such abundant Vitality and blood was undoubtedly more attractive, so he attacked Dao Thirteen directly.
However, this time, he kicked an iron plate.
One hand clamped onto Dao Thirteen’s shoulder, but the sharp nails failed to break through Dao Thirteen’s physical body. This was, after all, the physical body of a Divine Ocean Realm Master; how could a Cloud River Realm Blood Race member possibly break through it?
The strange Blood Race member’s expression changed.
Dao Thirteen turned his head to look at Lu Ye.
“Take him down!” Lu Ye’s low voice sounded.
(End of Chapter)