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Humanity’s Great Sage – Chapter 1009: Blood Crystal
Almost at the exact same moment Lu Ye’s voice fell, Dao Thirteen made his move. He grabbed the unfamiliar Blood Race member’s wrist, and with just a slight exertion of force, he twisted the other party’s arm into the shape of a fried dough twist.
The unfamiliar Blood Race member let out a miserable shriek. His spiritual power surged madly as a thick, blood-red hue tumbled out from within his body, desperately trying to break free from Dao Thirteen’s grip.
Although Dao Thirteen’s current cultivation was unsightly, his Divine Ocean Realm physique was still present. How could that unfamiliar Blood Race member possibly break free?
A look of both anger and horror appeared on his face as he yelled, “Audacious blood food, let go immediately!”
He had never experienced such a bizarre incident before. Not only was a mere piece of blood food unafraid of him, but it even dared to attack him.
His struggling made Dao Thirteen very irritated. Giving a vicious yank, Dao Thirteen pulled the Blood Race member right in front of him and smashed a headbutt down onto him.
With a loud boom, Dao Thirteen remained completely unharmed, while the unfamiliar Blood Race member felt the world spinning around him, seeing stars before his eyes.
He finally realized that something was wrong. The two pieces of blood food before his eyes were not the type to obey his every command; they had rebellious hearts. The blood light around his body grew increasingly dense, and his entire figure suddenly transformed into a puddle of blood water.
Dao Thirteen had never seen such an eerie secret technique before. Caught off guard, he felt his hands lighten as the unfamiliar Blood Race member broke free from his restraint.
The bloodlight shifted and was about to flee into the distance.
However, Lu Ye was already prepared. As his divine sense surged, it turned into an invisible blast that shot towards the blood light.
When a shriek was heard, the blood light contorted, revealing the figure of the unfamiliar Blood Race member.
Seeing this, Dao Thirteen also activated his Divine Sense and added another strike.
The unfamiliar Blood Race member immediately collapsed to the ground, twitching all over…
He was merely a Cloud River Realm Master. After being successively attacked by the Divine Senses of Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen, how could he possibly withstand it? At this moment, his mind was completely muddled. Even if he recovered, he would likely become an idiot.
Lu Ye stepped forward, raising his hand to point at the Blood Race member’s forehead. After a slight hesitation, he ultimately activated the Point of Consonance Glyph against him!
If he wanted to gather information about this world, starting with this Blood Race member was undoubtedly the most suitable option.
This was Lu Ye’s first time activating the Point of Consonance. Because this Glyph was related to the Divine Soul, he was very cautious.
As his Divine Sense surged, it easily broke through the unfamiliar Blood Race member’s Divine Soul defense. The instant the Glyph was successfully constructed, Lu Ye frowned. Scenes of unfamiliar images he had never seen before inexplicably surfaced in his mind, and a massive amount of information flooded in like a tidal wave.
The feeling was extremely strange and uncomfortable.
While he felt uncomfortable, the unfamiliar Blood Race member wasn’t having a good time either. The Blood Race member, who was originally almost comatose, suddenly widened his eyes and trembled violently. His eyes were filled with shock and disbelief; evidently, he had discovered some of Lu Ye’s secrets.
A long moment later, Lu Ye retracted his finger and stepped back. His face was visibly pale, and his forehead was covered in sweat.
Many unfamiliar images and a jumble of information in his mind were impacting his mental state. Lu Ye hurriedly took out a drop of Soul Cleansing Water and swallowed it, only then feeling slightly better.
He secretly made up his mind that unless absolutely necessary, he would never lightly use the Point of Consonance in the future. Although this Glyph was miraculous, it was a form of torture for both himself and the other party.
Perhaps it would be better when his Divine Soul became stronger in the future, but for now, the experience brought about by activating this Glyph was definitely not pleasant.
Fortunately, he had managed to pry into a lot of information about this world.
“Keep an eye on him!” Lu Ye ordered Dao Thirteen before sitting cross-legged to the side, silently digesting the various pieces of intelligence he had just obtained.
It was slightly different from what he had imagined. This place was probably not the Blood Boundary that had once destroyed the Soaring Dragon Boundary, but rather a realm called the Blood Refining Boundary.
This realm was as expansive as Jiu Zhou, and the Blood Race were the ones in charge.
There were also many Humans living here, but Humans were merely blood food raised in captivity by the Blood Race, treated just like livestock.
In the Blood Refining Boundary, the status of the Blood Race was supreme. They could take whatever they wanted from Humans and kill them on a whim. The deeply ingrained ideology developed over countless years left most Humans with no desire to resist the Blood Race; in fact, most of them didn’t even know what the Blood Race was.
They only knew of the Holy Race!
Take the nearby village, for example. From the village chief down to the naughty children, not a single person had ever seen a Blood Race member. Everyone who had seen a Blood Race member was dead.
With this, many things that had puzzled Lu Ye finally became clear.
Lu Ye had previously found it strange. The people in that village seemed to have no worries about food and clothing, so why were they plagued with anxiety all day long and tightly shut their doors and windows every night?
Now he knew that death could descend at any moment. In such an oppressive atmosphere, how could the villagers possibly feel at ease? Tightly shutting their doors and windows at night was a mere instinctual defense against the Blood Race, but what use did it actually serve?
When a Blood Race member came to the village, they could capture whoever they pleased. A flimsy door could not stop a Blood Race invasion.
The village had a sizable population because the Blood Race raised Humans like livestock. Since they were livestock, breeding was naturally encouraged, so every household raised as many children as possible.
The Blood Race even allowed Humans to cultivate. To the Blood Race, the blood of a cultivator with some cultivation base was much more useful than the blood of ordinary mortals.
However, the Blood Race did not allow Humans to produce overly powerful cultivators. Thus, whenever a cultivator in the village exceeded a certain level of cultivation, they would vanish without a trace at a certain point in time.
This was also the reason why there were no older Humans with high cultivation bases in the village.
Once they reached a certain age, they were of no further use to the Blood Race and could only serve as blood food.
In the Blood Refining Boundary, Humans lived like pigs and dogs, or perhaps even worse than pigs and dogs. Because in this realm, under the rule of the Blood Race, Humans generally did not live past the age of forty.
Someone like the village chief was already considered a long-lived individual among Humans.
After sorting through the complex information in his mind, Lu Ye slowly stood up and walked over to the Blood Race member.
Having been successively hit by the Divine Sense blasts from Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen, and then subjected to Lu Ye’s Point of Consonance, this Blood Race member had completely fallen into a coma at this moment.
Lu Ye took out the Inviolable Saber, aimed it at his chest, and thrust the blade in.
The comatose Blood Race member suddenly opened his eyes. His body stiffened, and he stared with horror and fury into Lu Ye’s eyes, which were mere inches away.
Lu Ye’s gaze was completely cold and ruthless.
With a twist of the long saber, a blood-red, longan-sized spherical orb was dug out from the chest.
The orb was dark red all over, appearing as if it had been cast from fresh blood. At first glance, it also looked like a type of crystal, appearing extremely sturdy.
This was the heart of the Blood Race member, and it was also the condensation of their entire cultivation, similar to a Spirit Beast’s Mutant Core.
The Blood Race called this a Blood Crystal!
This was the first time Lu Ye learned of the existence of Blood Crystals. Previously, when he slaughtered the Blood Race in the Soaring Dragon Boundary, he had donned the Dragon Throne and wreaked havoc in all directions; how could he have cared about such details?
If he hadn’t relied on the Point of Consonance to pry out a lot of information this time, he might not have noticed this matter either.
Once the Blood Crystal was extracted, the Blood Race member’s neck immediately slumped to the side, completely devoid of life.
Lu Ye held the Blood Crystal in his hand and examined it for a moment, feeling quite a psychological hurdle in his heart.
To eat or not to eat, that was the question…
To dissolve the restrictive force within his body and recover his original cultivation, he had to imprint as much information of this world into his body as possible, allowing himself to assimilate with this realm. The specific method was to consume items from this world.
He had been doing exactly this over the past few days, but the progress had not been fast. Judging from the current pace, it would take at least two months to fully recover his cultivation. Dao Thirteen’s recovery would definitely be even slower because his cultivation base was higher.
The main issue was that they couldn’t hunt any valuable Spirit Beasts. The creatures he and Dao Thirteen hunted were mostly ordinary beasts.
Relatively speaking, the Blood Crystal in his hand was undoubtedly of much greater value.
If he were to truly refine the power within this Blood Crystal, Lu Ye felt that the restrictive force within him would definitely dissolve significantly. It was highly likely that he could recover a portion of his strength.
The Blood Race were not Humans, but they still bore some resemblance to Humans. Furthermore, this thing was extracted from a Blood Race member’s body…
On second thought, the Blood Race raised Humans like livestock, so what did it matter if he ate a Blood Crystal? It wasn’t as if he had never consumed a Spirit Beast’s Mutant Core before. He could just treat this as a Mutant Core.
This wasn’t Jiu Zhou. No matter what, recovering his cultivation as soon as possible was the most pressing priority.
With this thought in mind, Lu Ye hesitated no longer. He took out some clean water, washed the Blood Crystal thoroughly, and then, under Dao Thirteen’s dumbfounded gaze, stuffed it into his mouth.
He bit down, and it gave a crisp, cracking sound…
It didn’t have any special texture, nor was there much of a bloody taste. It actually wasn’t hard to eat.
Just as he was eating, the sound of something tearing through the air suddenly came from not far away. Lu Ye quietly looked up and saw a blood light flying directly toward the direction of the village.
Obviously, it was another Blood Race member heading to the village to capture blood food.
Lu Ye then slightly activated a bit of Spiritual Power.
As expected, it immediately attracted the Blood Race member’s attention. The blood light changed direction and flew over, quickly landing nearby to reveal a figure.
Just like the Blood Race member from earlier, this Blood Race member had a tall and slender figure, reddish skin, and two pointed ears.
The physical stature of the Blood Race was generally taller than that of Humans.
As Lu Ye looked at his face, a scene immediately surfaced in his mind.
This scene came from the dead Blood Race member lying on the ground.
Because just an incense stick’s time ago, these two Blood Race members had been fighting each other.
In the world of Jiu Zhou, Humans were divided into two major factions that endlessly opposed each other and waged war year after year.
In this Blood Refining Boundary, the Blood Race was not a monolithic entity either. In fact, their internal conflicts were even more fierce and chaotic.
Everything was due to the existence of Blood Crystals.
After one Blood Race member killed another, they could take the other party’s Blood Crystal to improve their own cultivation. This point was actually quite similar to Spirit Beasts, who could improve themselves by devouring the Mutant Cores of Spirit Beasts of the same attribute.
Precisely because of this, the growth rate of the Blood Race was much faster than that of Humans. By devouring each other’s Blood Crystals, they could accelerate their own growth, and doing so carried no major hidden dangers.
This was an advantage that Humans did not possess, and it was also the fundamental reason why this world was ruled by the Blood Race.
An incense stick’s time ago, the two Blood Race members had fought. The weaker one fled in a wretched state and came to the village to capture blood food to replenish himself, only to be killed by the combined efforts of Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen.
An incense stick’s time later, the other Blood Race member tracked him down to this place. He probably also wanted to enter the village to treat himself to a meal, but he was lured over by Lu Ye.
The Blood Race member landed and immediately saw his kin lying on the ground. He then looked at Lu Ye and Dao Thirteen. Unable to figure out the situation for a moment, he demanded, “How did he die?”
(End of Chapter)