Sage of Humanity-Chapter 743 - 741

The elder being chased was Huang Liang, the Sect Master of the Imperial Heaven Sect, who looked no different from the Huang Liang that Lu Ye had seen before. After all, during this time period, Huang Liang was supposed to look exactly like this, so there wouldn't be any change.

However, inside Medicine Valley, the Little Miracle Healer wasn't in the form of Hua Ci; she was a middle-aged woman with a gentle demeanor, neither particularly beautiful nor ugly.

The Young Master Ye Liu of Tyrannical Saber Villa, who had brought his seventh sister here seeking medical help, naturally didn't look like Lu Ye either; he was a young man with a resolute expression and the light of hatred burning in his eyes.

The illness suffered by Ye Liuli wasn't as Lu Ye had understood it to be; she had been innately deficient, thus plagued by illness since her early years.

She did not have a centipede-like birthmark on her back that bore a striking resemblance to the shape of Sky Ravine.

This was the true reality of the Soaring Dragon World.

And this point in time was precisely when the disaster of the Soaring Dragon World was about to begin.

Fa Hua and Liu Tianyi died in battle beneath Sky Ravine, still lending their fate to Heaven and Earth. They fought to the death, and before dying, they managed to send Huang Liang out of danger, allowing him to survive.

In Lu Ye's experience, he had just managed to set up a tremendous array within Medicine Valley. When Huang Liang fled there, he was saved by Lu Ye, ensuring his survival.

However, the many elders of the Sky Ravine Sect remained gathered outside of Medicine Valley, and Zhuang Bufan, wielding the might of the Dragon Throne, unleashed the last brilliance of his life, after which Lu Ye obtained the Dragon Throne.

This was what he had experienced within those snatches of time and space.

In the real Soaring Dragon World, the events unfolding at this point in time were not much different from what he had experienced.

The only difference was that the real Ye Liu didn't understand formations, so naturally, there was no such powerful array within Medicine Valley.

When Huang Liang fled there, it was Zhuang Bufan who stepped forward, killing the invading enemies. Soon after, Ye Liu, blessed with great destiny, had the Dragon Throne acknowledge him as its master.

What happened in the Soaring Dragon World after that started to diverge from Lu Ye's experience.

The Blood Race used the Blood River Great Array laid by the Sky Ravine Sect to descend into the Soaring Dragon World.

The Soaring Dragon cultivators fought desperately, but they were no match at all.

At the critical moment, Ye Liu donned the Dragon Throne, summoned the Dragon Spine Saber sealed beneath the tower of Vajra Temple, and slaughtered the enemies beneath Sky Ravine. Many strong members of the Blood Race were killed on the spot, managing to turn the tide of battle.

However, after that battle, Ye Liu also passed away due to a drain on his Origin, leaving him incurable.

What followed was years of bloody battles between cultivators from both realms!

Normally, the Soaring Dragon cultivators were no match for the visitors from the Blood World, but the shadow of the Dragon Throne appeared in every major battle.

One after another, the masters of the Dragon Throne stepped forward, burning their lives, postponing the doomed fate of the Soaring Dragon cultivation world.

However, the Soaring Dragon World was up against an existence like the Blood World, and the secret techniques of the Blood Race's cultivators had a very strong erosive effect on the spirituality of Spiritual Artifacts.

In those battles, the spirituality of the Dragon Throne was also eroded, its might gradually diminished.

Until the last battle, when a powerful member of the Blood Race brought an artifact from the Blood World, perishing together with the master of the Dragon Throne, it also severely damaged the Dragon Throne.

After this battle, the Soaring Dragon cultivation world no longer had the strength to resist; the Blood Race invaded on a large scale, leaving the entire Soaring Dragon in dire straits.

Time passed, and who knows how many years later, the vitality of the Soaring Dragon World was dim, its foundation almost completely drained, all living humans were captured by the Blood Race, turned into their nurtured Blood Food, and the Blood World left far behind, leaving a land full of devastation.

In the history of the Soaring Dragon World, everything that happened during this period was grand and tumultuous.

Facing that world-ending disaster, there was no Savior; all that awaited the Soaring Dragon was the hardship of resistance and the painful slow march towards extinction.

What Lu Ye had experienced was, after all, just another possibility within that slice of time and space, and not the actual reality.

At this moment, what entered his sight was a world utterly devoid of life, desolate to the extreme, where the entire world was silent, without life, without nature's spiritual energy, as if the whole world had already died.

This was the current state of the Soaring Dragon World.

Lu Ye snapped back to reality, the place where he stood was no longer the Sky-mending Platform that soared hundreds of feet high, but rather a bald mountain, devoid of any vegetation, littered only with broken stones and sand whipped up by the wind.

Witnessing the destruction of a world firsthand, the impact on Lu Ye's mind and spirit was unimaginable.

In the end, he was just a Cloud River Realm cultivator; he never imagined that one day he would have such an astonishing experience.

Last time in the secret realm of the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain, he had not experienced anything like this; back then, he just worked with other cultivators of the Haotian Alliance to resolve the source of the beast calamity in the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain.

Thinking about it now, the real Ten Thousand Beasts Domain is likely also in such a state.

An endless melancholy welled up in his heart, but it also imbued him with many new insights.

Compared to the world, how insignificant a cultivator is; a world can perish, let alone the cultivators within it.

He took out the Dragon Throne from his storage space and immediately saw that the previously intact Dragon Throne was now pitted and scarred on the surface, its spirituality greatly diminished, obviously no longer of much use.

The true reality of the Soaring Dragon World is that it had already been destroyed.

The true reality of the Dragon Throne was the same.

Although he had obtained the Dragon Throne in that temporal snapshot and even activated its mighty power, it was only recreated by Heaven's Augury through means beyond his comprehension.

The real Dragon Throne had already been severely damaged in the struggle of the Soaring Dragon cultivators against the Blood Race.

Even the blood-red Dragon Spine Saber had its divine light concealed, its surface dull, and numerous notches on its blade.

Stowing the Dragon Throne back carefully, although this divine object was already damaged and in a state that couldn't be wielded again, it was still a divine object. Should he encounter a highly skilled cover armorer in the future, perhaps an attempt could be made to repair it.

The strong cultivator of the Divine Sea Realm from the Thousand Contraptions Pavilion would probably be very interested in this item.

The Little Miracle Healer who looked like Hua Ci was still standing beside him, her expression calm.

"What's the situation with Liuli?" Lu Ye asked.

He had basically figured out everything about the Soaring Dragon World, he even had speculations regarding the identity of the woman beside him.

But he didn't dare to say or ask.

Some things are better left unclear even if you know the truth; poking too deep may not yield anything good.

The only person he was unsure about was Ye Liuli.

There indeed had been a person called Ye Liuli in the Soaring Dragon World during this period.

However, after Ye Liu's death, Ye Liuli also passed away silently, with her death unnoticed by the world, and in the end, it was the Little Miracle Healer who let her attendant arrange for her to be buried in Medicine Valley.

It could be said that in the history of the Soaring Dragon World, Ye Liuli hadn't played a role in changing the situation. At least Ye Liu had carried the fate of the world, donned the Dragon Throne, and helped the Soaring Dragon cultivators win the first battle against the Blood Race.

"The essence of the Liuli you encountered..." the Little Miracle Healer thought for a moment, "could be considered the last remaining Origin of this world, and also a persistence of will."

"Even the world can have a persistence of will?" Lu Ye was surprised.

"Once will is born, naturally, persistence arises."

Lu Ye understood, "So her persistence is that if there had been a savior-like figure in the Soaring Dragon World initially, perhaps there could have been a different future, without facing a destiny of destruction?"

"Exactly!" the Little Miracle Healer nodded.

"I see!"

Lu Ye had previously pondered over something, the damaged teleportation array leading to the secret realm of the Soaring Dragon World was a test, a challenge in the Array Path.

Only those who repaired the teleportation array were qualified to step foot into the secret realm of the Soaring Dragon World, because only such a person could have an extremely profound mastery of the Array Path, required to carry out the final Sky-mending scheme.

Now it seemed that this was indeed the case.

That was also the reason why the location of the teleportation array was near the Hundred Arrays Pagoda; those who came and went from the pagoda were array cultivators, and only those with a deep mastery of the Array Path could undertake such a major task.

Lu Ye repaired the teleportation array, entered the secret realm, and his subsequent performances had been recognized by the last remaining Origin of this world. That's why on Wangyang Peak, Ye Liuli transferred the Heaven-Earth Origin to him.

Lu Ye didn't disappoint her expectations, the sixty-four Sky-mending Platforms were activated, pushing the world's momentum to break free from its dependence on the Blood World. The Sky-mending Array diagram had emerged, it was just that the final result hadn't revealed itself.

Because the persistence of this world found its answer in him, the final outcome was no longer important.

But a silhouette is just a silhouette after all...

In the real history of the Soaring Dragon World, there was no person named Lu Ye, so it naturally couldn't avoid the destiny of destruction.

But the persistence of the world's will had been relieved.

"This world now belongs to you!" the Little Miracle Healer suddenly uttered something startling.

"Mine?" Lu Ye was astonished. Although when he received that final Origin, Lu Ye felt the connection between this world and himself become extremely close, the ownership of a world was still something shockingly unimaginable to him.

And moreover...

What use was a broken world devoid of any life to him?

"The last Origin of the world is in you, so naturally it is yours," the Little Miracle Healer said with a gentle smile.

A thought struck Lu Ye, "Can this world be restored?"

"That I do not know. Perhaps it can, it depends on how hard you're willing to work."

Lu Ye suddenly understood.

He needed to advance his cultivation.

He was only in the Cloud River Realm, even if there truly was a way to restore this world, it wasn't something the Cloud River Realm could touch.

"Then, may we meet again if fate allows," the Little Miracle Healer said before her figure suddenly dissipated into twinkling lights.

Her departure was abrupt.

Lu Ye quickly raised his hand, "How do I leave this place?"

But who was there to respond?

This understandably irritated Lu Ye.

The figures of Yiyi and Amber suddenly appeared beside him, both the spirit and the tiger looking extremely flustered.

"Lu Ye!" Yiyi rushed over, grabbing Lu Ye's arm with the demeanor of someone afraid to lose him again.

Just before, the spirit and the tiger were clearly observing the movements of the Great Sky-mending Array, but in the blink of an eye, the surroundings drastically changed and they found themselves on this lifeless barren hill, with no sign of Lu Ye in sight.

What panicked them even more was that no matter what they tried, they couldn't leave the small hill.

Just as they were at a loss, they looked up and saw Lu Ye's figure.

Amber leaped onto Lu Ye's chest, its claws frantically scrabbling to open his clothes and burrow inside, only its eyes peering out, watching the outside with vigilance.

Having never experienced such bizarre occurrences, it was truly frightened out of its wits!