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Humanity’s Great Sage – Chapter 1014: Lan Qiyue
If a formation plate could only cover such a small area when activated, its utility would be rather mediocre.
Of course, this might be due to the restrictions on his current cultivation, combined with his lack of proficiency in refining formation plates.
Perhaps when his cultivation grows in the future and his techniques become more skilled, the coverage area of such formation plates will be larger.
Just as he was thinking this, a heart-wrenching scream suddenly rang out.
Lu Ye frowned and looked toward the source of the sound.
The scream came again. Lu Ye initially thought someone had met with foul play, but he quickly realized things might not be as he had imagined.
He stood up, walked out of the cave, and followed the sound.
The noise came from the direction of the entrance, which was also where the pregnant Human women lived.
When Lu Ye arrived, he saw that in each cave dwelling, the pregnant women living inside were peeking out, their faces filled with worry.
Sensing Lu Ye’s footsteps, these women hurriedly retracted their heads and hid in the corners.
Lu Ye walked straight to the entrance of a cave dwelling on the left and glanced inside. He found a woman sitting on the ground, pale-faced, covered in sweat, her hair disheveled. One of her hands was clutching the stone wall, her hand bloodied from the grip, while the other hand rested on her belly.
There was blood flowing between her legs.
This woman… was clearly in labor.
Although he had already guessed this would happen, this was the first time Lu Ye had encountered such a situation in his life, and for a moment, he didn’t know how to handle it.
Fortunately, he quickly came to his senses and shouted, “Who here knows how to deliver a baby?”
These Human women must not be giving birth for the first time in this place; someone must have given birth here before, so surely someone would have experience.
No one dared to make a sound.
To these Human women who had been abducted here, they had never left their own cave dwellings since arriving, nor had they spoken to anyone, so naturally, they didn’t dare to respond to Lu Ye’s question.
Lu Ye frowned and had to speak again: “Whoever has experience, come out and help!”
Still, no one responded.
Lu Ye had no other choice. He couldn’t just grab anyone to help; if they couldn’t help, they might just add to the chaos. Gritting his teeth, he stepped into the cave himself.
Seeing him enter, the woman who was straining looked up, staring at him pitifully, her eyes filled with pain and a hint of pleading.
Lu Ye stepped forward, thought for a moment, and placed his hand on her shoulder. “I don’t know how to do this, so I’m afraid you’ll have to work hard yourself. I will try my best to protect you.”
As he said this, he slightly channeled his Spiritual Power into the woman’s body.
The woman was not an ordinary person; she had a cultivation base, though it wasn’t high—only the Fourth-Order Spirit Creek Realm.
Even so, the pain of childbirth was not something she could endure. In such an environment, with no one to help, she was likely in mortal danger.
Under the influence of his Spiritual Power, the woman’s tightly furrowed brows relaxed slightly. She suddenly inhaled sharply, strained, and let out a muffled scream.
Lu Ye had a look of utter bewilderment on his face at this moment, because he discovered something that was very hard for him to understand; he was silently perceiving the situation inside the woman’s body with his Spiritual Power.
Time passed. The woman’s labor was not going well. Although she had exerted her strength several times, she still hadn’t managed to deliver the fetus. Instead, she became weaker, and gradually, even her life force became faint—where would she still have the strength to give birth?
For a Human woman to carry a Blood Race infant, it naturally consumed a vast amount of the mother’s essence. Generally speaking, women who had given birth to Blood Race infants would not have long lives.
In many cases, Human women would die from exhaustion during the birthing process.
Whenever this happened, the Blood Race would perform a cesarean section to extract the fetus.
As far as the current situation was concerned, Lu Ye could clearly feel that the fetus in the woman’s womb was frantically devouring everything from the mother. This was the reason why, even with a Fourth-Order Spirit Creek Realm cultivation, she could not give birth smoothly.
If it had been a normal fetus, it would have already been born.
Sensing the woman’s faltering life force, Lu Ye knew that if he left her alone, she would inevitably die here.
Without further hesitation, he activated the Common Breath, Shared Branches Spirit Pattern toward the woman.
In an instant, the Spirit Pattern formed. The woman, who had already fallen into despair and had tears flowing from the corners of her eyes, suddenly opened her eyes. She felt a surging and astonishing life force being injected into her body through an unknown method, just like parched earth receiving rain. It not only gave her a burst of strength but also rapidly replenished the essence that had been devoured by the fetus during her pregnancy.
She naturally knew the source of all this. She turned her head to look at Lu Ye, who was gripping her arm, cast a grateful look at him, and exerted her strength again.
A short while later, with the woman’s final scream, the fetus in her womb was successfully delivered.
Lu Ye looked forward, his eyes slightly lowered.
There was no sound of an infant crying, because the Blood Race’s fetus was not born in the form of an infant.
What the woman had just given birth to was an oval-shaped egg, crimson on the surface, with visible veins.
At first glance, it looked like a piece of flesh, and the veins on its surface were pulsing slightly, as if it were breathing.
In the Blood Race’s terminology, this was a Blood Fetus!
The Blood Race needed to send the Blood Fetus to some special places to be nurtured, only then would the Blood Fetus break out of the egg and transform into a true Blood Race member. And the places where Blood Fetuses were nurtured were called Blood Rivers!
In the entire Blood Refining Boundary, the Blood River ran through the north, south, east, and west, and had branches in various locations. It could be said that the Blood River was the foundation of the Blood Race in the Blood Refining Boundary.
Without the Blood River, there would be no Blood Race.
This information was all gleaned by Lu Ye from the memories of the dead Blood Race member.
Lu Ye looked at the Blood Fetus, recalling the information he had obtained, when the woman beside him suddenly stood up, snatched the Mount Pan Saber from his waist, and hacked it fiercely at the Blood Fetus between her legs.
With just one hack, a gap was opened in the Blood Fetus.
However, because the Mount Pan Saber itself wasn’t sharp, it failed to cut it open completely.
The woman’s action of drawing the saber undoubtedly surprised Lu Ye, because in the concept of the Humans in this realm, the Blood Race was sacred and inviolable. Regardless of what the Blood Race did to them, they could only silently endure it; even if the Blood Race wanted their lives, they wouldn’t resist.
This wasn’t cowardice, nor was it timidity, but a deeply ingrained ideology.
It wasn’t just that the Blood Race treated the Humans in this realm as livestock; even the Humans themselves viewed themselves as livestock.
Under such a trend, for a Human woman to have the guts to draw a saber and hack at a Blood Fetus was undoubtedly extremely unbelievable.
So, although he could have stopped her, he didn’t make a move.
He just watched blankly as the woman cried and shouted, wielding the Mount Pan Saber, chopping the hard-won Blood Fetus into pieces.
Blood flowed all over the ground.
It wasn’t until the Blood Fetus was completely unrecognizable that the woman began to wail, her heart-wrenching screams filling the room.
Lu Ye silently took back the Mount Pan Saber, returned it to its sheath, and stood up to walk out of the cave dwelling.
Although he had never had experience in delivering a baby, he knew at least one thing: a lot of hot water was needed at this time.
He decided to go and boil some hot water.
He didn’t need to do it himself; he called over the two Human youths who had served Sun Miaozhu, gave them an order, and soon some boiled hot water was brought over.
Lu Ye personally delivered it into the woman’s cave dwelling, let her clean herself up, and then left.
Although the woman had exhausted a vast amount of essence giving birth, she had replenished her loss through the nourishment of the Common Breath, Shared Branches Spirit Pattern. After resting for a while, she had fully recovered.
A flurry of activity.
One hour later, Lu Ye, who was studying how to better refine a formation plate containing the Common Breath, Shared Branches Spirit Pattern, heard footsteps approaching. Soon, someone walked up to the entrance of his cave dwelling and stood still.
Lu Ye put down the formation plate in his hand and looked up, seeing the woman standing there prettily. She must have washed herself; the original filth had been washed away, but she had no clothes to change into, so she was still wearing dirty ones.
Her hair had been simply combed, but it was still a bit messy.
She stood hesitantly at the entrance. Upon meeting Lu Ye’s gaze, she flinched slightly, but then looked Lu Ye straight in the eye, pursed her lips, and walked in. She knelt in front of Lu Ye without a word and kowtowed several times.
She was likely trying to express her gratitude.
After all, if it weren’t for Lu Ye just now, she would likely have died there.
Lu Ye channeled his Spiritual Power and gently raised his hand.
The woman’s upper body was involuntarily straightened up.
“What is your name?” Lu Ye asked.
The woman replied: “Lan Qiyue.”
Her voice sounded a little hoarse, although she had recovered from her exhaustion following Lu Ye’s aid, but she had been screaming so loudly just now, after all.
“Why did you kill the Blood Fetus?” Lu Ye asked again. “It was something you gave birth to, after all.”
Lan Qiyue suddenly became agitated again. “The Blood Race are not good people! If he grows up, who knows how many people he will harm? That’s why I killed him!”
Lu Ye noticed one thing: she referred to the Blood Race not as the “Holy Race,” but directly as the “Blood Race.” And she had no hint of reverence for the Blood Race; she only had boundless hostility and hatred.
This was something completely unseen in the villagers of Cangnan Village. As such, it appeared that even in a world like the Blood Refining Boundary, there were still people who had a rebellious heart from birth.
“Do you think I shouldn’t have killed him?” Lan Qiyue looked at Lu Ye.
“No.” Lu Ye shook his head. “Even if you didn’t kill him, I wouldn’t have let him live either.”
Although the newborn fetus was innocent, the Blood Race were, after all, the Blood Race. As Lan Qiyue had said, if he grew up, he would definitely harm many Humans, so Lu Ye never intended to let the Blood Fetus survive.
Having received such an answer, Lan Qiyue was clearly surprised. She stared blankly at Lu Ye, and she had no idea what kind of person he was. Initially, she thought that since he had saved her, he must be a benevolent person, but now it seemed that he was far from that.
(End of Chapter)