Sage of Humanity-Chapter 736 - 734: Heaven Envies the Talented

Medicine Valley, where cultivators were coming in and going out constantly. Many cultivators looked exhausted, bearing injuries, yet they still couldn't afford to rest.

Those who could walk on their own like them were still considered lucky.

There were even more who were missing arms or legs, or were so gravely injured that they couldn't leave their beds.

Below the Sky Ravine, a fierce blood battle had taken place, wherein the invading Blood Race was nearly wiped out, but the Soaring Dragon World also paid an unimaginable price.

In the recorded history of the Soaring Dragon World, there had never been such a large-scale battle with such heavy casualties.

In front of the thatched cottage, on the chair where Zhuang Bufan once sat, Lu Ye sat weakly, covered with a thick beast skin blanket, occasionally coughing lightly.

The Little Miracle Healer was right beside him, examining his injuries.

In that day's battle, after slaying the venerable Blood Race, Lu Ye had fallen into a coma, only barely awakening yesterday, and even that was the result of the Little Miracle Healer's efforts; otherwise, he might have slept longer, or even passed away in his sleep.

Although he had now awoken, his physical condition was extremely poor. While he had no serious injuries on his body, Lu Ye could feel an unprecedented weakness, as if his whole being had been drained.

He was a youth not yet twenty, but his face suddenly bore traces of age, and large patches of his hair had turned snow-white.

Yiyi, Ye Liuli, and Huang Liang stood by the side, waiting anxiously.

After a long time, the Little Miracle Healer finally withdrew her jade hand from Lu Ye's wrist and tucked his hand back into the beast skin blanket.

"Senior, how is he?" Yiyi asked nervously.

Huang Liang also looked over with concern, his heart in his throat.

The Little Miracle Healer glanced at Lu Ye, and Lu Ye said weakly, "There's no harm in speaking; I'm well aware of my own body."

Only then did the Little Miracle Healer nod and said, "His life, for the time being, has been saved." frёewebηovel.cѳm

Yiyi felt more anxious rather than relieved, detecting the implication in the Little Miracle Healer's words, "For the time being?"

"His body has suffered severe depletion, so although his life is saved for now, it's hard to say what might happen later," the Little Miracle Healer explained.

In fact, in her diagnosis, Lu Ye's condition was so severe that he might not even survive a month.

And this was after Lu Ye had taken a large amount of elixir pills and the Five Drops of Soul Water before wielding the Dragon Throne. Without these preparations, the strike he launched while donning the Dragon Throne would have completely drained his lifeforce in one go.

The cultivators of the Soaring Dragon World are limited by the heavens and the earth and can only cultivate up to the pinnacle of the Cloud River Realm. Even invaders like the Blood Race cannot exert power beyond this realm after arriving here.

However, external forces like the Dragon Throne are not subject to this constraint. The only limitation it faces is the cultivator himself. Under the Sky Ravine altar, the blow Lu Ye struck far exceeded the standard of the Cloud River Realm, and such an act cannot be without consequences.

And now, the cost seems unbearable.

"If his body is depleted, can't it be nourished back?" Yiyi asked urgently, "We have many elixir pills that nourish the body, and we also have real dragon scales and soul water, all of which can be used!"

Dragon scales replenished blood Qi, and soul water replenished the psyche. In Yiyi's view, since Lu Ye's body was depleted, they just needed to find a way to replenish it.

The Little Miracle Healer sighed and shook her head: "There is an Origin to the world, and there is an Origin to a person. Just as this domain, with the Blood World leeching off of it for eight hundred years, the Origin of Soaring Dragon has drastically diminished, leading to a continuous decline in the upper limit of cultivators' cultivation. Unless the Origin of this realm is replenished and restored, the glory of eight hundred years ago cannot be revived. Ye Liu's current physical condition follows the same principle; the depletion he's suffering from isn't something that can be replenished by ordinary means."

"Senior, is there really no way?" Yiyi was close to tears.

"I... am powerless."

If it were possible, Zhuang Bufan would not have had to meet his end that day. Now, Lu Ye's situation is exactly like Zhuang Bufan's; the life force that remained could only barely sustain him for a short while, and it would not be too long.

After the Little Miracle Healer left, Yiyi lay down in front of Lu Ye, wailing. Yet, as a Spiritual Body, even with all her sorrow, not a single tear fell, her heartache unable to be vented.

Amber's mood was also unprecedentedly gloomy, squatting on one side, her tiger eyes dim.

Seeing this scene, Huang Liang heaved a sigh: "Young friend, you should take good care of yourself for now. I will come visit you later."

He wasn't mistaken in his feeling before; the young man before him truly was the savior destined to confront the calamity. In the most desperate moment of the Soaring Dragon cultivation world, it was he who donned the Dragon Throne, and with a heaven-shaking strike, cut through the gloom, bringing light to Soaring Dragon.

However, looking at Lu Ye's current state, Huang Liang was full of unease.

Should the savior really pay such a heavy price?

He was still a young man of not yet twenty. He saved the world, but who could save him?

Even the Little Miracle Healer was at a loss; in this wide world, there probably wasn't anyone else who could do anything for him.

"Senior, please wait," Lu Ye said gently, patting the trembling shoulders of Yiyi and looking towards Huang Liang, "I would like to know the current situation at the Sky Ravine."

Huang Liang hesitated slightly: "Young friend..."

"Having paid such a great price, I think I still have the right to care," retorted Lu Ye.

Unable to help sighing, Huang Liang gave in since Lu Ye had put it that way; refusing further would appear unkind.

He then recounted what he knew of the situation.

In the battle that day, the invading Blood Race from the Blood World was routed and annihilated, and the Bridging Altar had been destroyed. Thanks to the borrowed power of the heavens and earth in that strike, even the attachment of the Blood World to the Soaring Dragon World had greatly weakened.

But the matter wasn't over yet.

The Sky Ravine still existed, and the Blood World still clung to the outside of the Soaring Dragon World, so the root of the problem had not been resolved.

For now, the Blood Race has no way to invade the Soaring Dragon World, but as time elapses, once the connection between the two worlds becomes even more intimate, the Blood Race will surely rise again.

Furthermore, during the process in which the Blood World attaches to the Soaring Dragon World, it is constantly siphoning the foundation of the Soaring Dragon World, which is the Origin that Little Miracle Healer mentioned.

Therefore, even if there are no future invasions from the Blood Race, without resolving the issue of the Blood World's attachment, Soaring Dragon will gradually march toward its doom.

"To prepare for a possible invasion by the Blood Race, we Soaring Dragon cultivators are urgently setting up a big array beneath Sky Ravine. In this way, even if the Blood Race appears again, they will be walking into their own demise."

The Blood Race is indeed powerful, but if everything is well-prepared on the Soaring Dragon's side, they will perish in as great numbers as they dare to come.

Once a Formation is properly set up, the power it can unleash is extremely formidable.

But that's about it...

It's the only thing that Soaring Dragon World cultivators can do now, specifically against the Blood Race.

They have no means to deal with the Blood World itself.

There's nothing more sorrowful in this world than knowing that a guillotine is hanging overhead, slowly descending, yet no one can stop it!

When the day comes that the guillotine falls, Soaring Dragon will certainly vanish into nothingness, and the living beings of this world will cease to exist - it will be a true disaster of world destruction and domain obliteration.

After listening to Huang Liang's narration, Lu Ye flicked his finger, and a jade slip flew out.

"I've organized some information on Formations, hoping it could be of some help to my Fellow Daoists."

Huang Liang was taken aback for a moment, then showed a look of respect and gave Lu Ye a formal bow, "Thank you, my young friend!"

He felt moved, realizing that the savior who should combat the calamity was still concerned about the state of the Soaring Dragon World, despite his own predicament - such breadth of mind truly deserved his admiration.

The profound expertise Lu Ye had in the Array Path was something Huang Liang had already heard about from his array cultivators, so the materials Lu Ye had prepared would undoubtedly be of great use.

"Sect Master Huang, please go about your business," Lu Ye said somewhat weakly, waving his hand.

Huang Liang nodded, "I will come to visit you later."

With a look of regret on his face, Huang Liang left, lamenting the jealousy of the heavens toward the talented.

Yiyi continued to sob incessantly.

Lu Ye stroked her head, silently comforting her.

Suddenly, as if she remembered something, Yiyi looked up and said, "Lu Ye, let's go back to the Nine Provinces!"

Given Lu Ye's current condition, even Little Miracle Healer was at a loss, and the entire Soaring Dragon World was helpless, but that did not mean there was no one in the Nine Provinces who could heal him.

After all, the Nine Provinces had Divine Sea Realm cultivators, whose level of cultivation was much higher than that of the Soaring Dragon World.

Perhaps the conditions that left Little Miracle Healer helpless could be easily resolved by those of the Divine Sea Realm?

Lu Ye shook his head, "We can't go back."

If Yiyi could think to find a solution by returning to the Nine Provinces, had he never considered it?

But... how could they return to the Nine Provinces?

In the secret realm of Xianyuan City, he was sent out by the City Lord.

In the secret realm of Ten Thousand Beasts Domain, once the crisis there was resolved, a passage to the Cloud River battlefield opened up at the military supplies department.

What about the secret realm of the Soaring Dragon World?

Not to mention whether there's a place like the military supplies department here, even if there is, as long as the crisis of Soaring Dragon World is not completely resolved, a passage back to the Nine Provinces would be impossible.

This was also the fundamental reason he resolutely used the Dragon Throne despite knowing its tremendous risks.

He was not the type of person to easily take the world to heart or to willingly die for others as an Unparalleled Righteous Man.

From the beginning, he was clear about one thing: the moment he entered the Soaring Dragon World, his fate was tied to the survival of this domain.

To survive, he needed to protect the Soaring Dragon World first.

Unfortunately, even if he fought desperately, he could only delay the demise of the Soaring Dragon World; he couldn't completely solve the disaster facing this world.

Perhaps once the problem of this world was truly resolved, there would be a way for him to leave this domain, but until then, it would be impossible for him to return to the Nine Provinces.

The situation in the Soaring Dragon World was different from that in the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain.

In the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain, many Nine Provinces cultivators entered and could join forces and work together in unity.

But here, he was alone, without the opportunity to collaborate or discuss with other cultivators.

"What should we do then?" Yiyi asked, seeming to be at her wits' end as she watched Lu Ye in such a state; her heart ached, yet she was powerless to help.

She resented her lack of talent in the path of healing cultivators. If she had chosen that path, she might have been able to help Lu Ye more in many situations.

At the beginning, she actually wanted to pursue the path of a healing cultivator and even studied with Second Senior Sister Shui Yuan for a long time. However, she did not exhibit any special talent and instead found a smooth journey on the path of a magic cultivator.