Sage of Humanity

Blood Qi surged to the heavens, blood flowed like rivers.

In the square outside the Chen family's visitors hall, broken corpses could be seen everywhere, especially in the place where Lu Ye was surrounded by a crowd and at the entrance of the hall, where bodies were stacked like small mountains.

The Chen family, a 6th grade family, didn't have too many cultivators, but also not too few. During the battle, numerous Spirit Stream-Cloud River cultivators continuously came over from Heaven's Augury Hall, totaling around several hundred.

Yet at this moment, these several hundred met their end here.

Among them, seventy percent died in fierce battle, the last thirty percent died inexplicably.

The clouds cleared in the sky, and moonlight slanted down.

Xiao Xinghe and others stepped out from the visitors hall and gazed upon the scene resembling hell before them, feeling a chill in their hearts.

Dead people, they had seen before, but the mysterious deaths of the last Chen family cultivators were too peculiar.

No one knew how they died.

Moreover, during the battle, the Chen family members were fearlessly aggressive, leaving everyone puzzled. The hordes rushing forward seemed not like living humans but irrational beasts.

A cracking sound echoed, and everyone looked up to see the moonlit figure three meters high disintegrate, turning into small fragments, transforming into spherical objects the size of infant heads.

Lu Ye reached out to grab them, landing lightly, his body staggering slightly.

Lin Yinxiu hurried forward to support him, seeing his pale face, asked with concern, "Captain, are you alright?"

Lu Ye shook his head.

There wasn't much wrong, just exhausted. Using the Dragon Throne as a trump card greatly depletes oneself, and he also suffered some internal injuries during the fierce battle.

Casual attacks simply cannot penetrate the Dragon Throne's defense, thus causing no harm, but the shockwaves from the attacks cannot be offset by the Dragon Throne. Once or twice is fine, but multiple times become hard to endure.

Especially when he caught Chen Tianchui's strike at the end, he felt as if his hand bones had cracked under that blow.

This is also why he didn't use the Dragon Throne when forced into a corner by Liew Yuemei the last time.

Liew Yuemei might not break through the Dragon Throne's defense, but she has ways to kill him.

"I'll rest for a bit, you all investigate the cause of those people's deaths." Lu Ye said as he sat down cross-legged, took out a handful of elixir pills from the storage sack and stuffed them into his mouth, grasping a Spirit Stone in each hand to activate the Talent Tree's power for absorption.

Spirit force could be quickly replenished, but the physical and mental power consumed by the Dragon Throne requires slow recovery.

Lin Yinxiu quietly guarded by his side, acting as his protector.

Xiao Xinghe and the other four split into pairs to investigate the causes of those people's deaths as instructed by Lu Ye.

Today's affair, too many mysteries abound, too much that remains incomprehensible.

After some investigation, nothing useful was found, only that the last batch of people who died, including Chen Tianchui, seemed to have an external force exploding in their brains, turning them into mush, and killed instantly.

While Xiao Xinghe and others were busy, Lu Ye contemplated Chen Tianchui's words before his death.

He didn't catch it clearly, perhaps Chen Tianchui didn't finish his sentence, vaguely hearing something about the chosen person.

Who chose whom?

If it was him, then who had chosen him?

What did it have to do with today's incident at the Chen family?

Lost in thought, Lu Ye suddenly looked up into the sky to see a stream of light swiftly approaching.

In a flash, it landed in front, revealing a middle-aged man's figure.

The squad immediately gathered around Lu Ye, eyeing with vigilance.

Lu Ye slowly stood up, placing a hand on the Boulder Mountain Saber at his waist.

Seeing the gruesome scene, the newcomer's eyelids twitched.

Seeing the squad so wary, he took out his guard token from his waist, "I am Xiang Dongliu from the Justice Department. Which team are you from?"

Everyone then understood; reinforcement had arrived.

Almost at the moment of action against the Chen family, Lu Ye instructed Lin Yinxiu to send for reinforcements, and Lin Yinxiu successfully conveyed the information, calculating the time, the reinforcement had arrived quickly.

Judging from the previous spirit force fluctuations exhibited by the newcomer, this Xiang Dongliu is evidently in the Divine Sea Realm, only a Divine Sea Realm could hold the position of a Department Chief in the Justice Department.

Confirming they were from the same side, the squad finally relaxed, mainly because the ordeal with the Chen family left everyone shaken, and before the newcomer's identity was confirmed, no one could guarantee whether he was friend or foe.

Even now, they remained alert.

"Law Enforcement Hall Team D-9, Lu Ye, greetings to the Department Chief!" Lu Ye showed his guard token and saluted.

Xiang Dongliu glanced him over before looking aside, "Are these people... killed by you?"

"Some were."

"What happened here?" Xiang Dongliu asked solemnly.

Though he came here upon receiving a distress signal, he didn't expect to witness such a spectacle here. Sensing the surroundings, aside from some mortals residing over ten miles away, anyone with cultivation had perished.

In a single night, the Chen family could almost be said to have been annihilated.

The Chen family of Mount Mi will also become history.

Lu Ye then briefly recounted the events that had transpired.

Xiang Dongliu listened with furrowed brows, as there were too many holes in Lu Ye's account.

Leaving aside other issues, the Chen family's tampering with the tea made no sense. How could the Chen family, a 6th grade family, be unaware of the consequences of such actions against a Law Enforcement Hall team?

Even more irrational was the family's collective assault after the events were exposed.

He had little interaction with the Chen family but knew of Chen Tianchui. A person capable of being the Chen Family Patriarch and possessing a True Lake Level 9 cultivation was certainly no ordinary person. Could such a person be this foolish?

Lu Ye spoke quickly, as the situation itself wasn't complex, but there were too many puzzling aspects.

Xiang Dongliu remained silent for a moment after hearing him, then finally spoke: "Lu Ye the Sect Destroyer, truly lives up to his name. Seeing is believing."

The moniker "Lu Ye the Sect Destroyer" originated when Lu Ye was on the Spirit Stream battlefield, but back then he merely destroyed the outposts of Ten Thousand Demons Ridge sects, never actually wiping out an entire sect. The name was somewhat exaggerated.

Until today... it was now truly confirmed.

"I hope what you're saying is true," Xiang Dongliu said, looking at Lu Ye with a meaningful glance.

Lu Ye sensed something: "Sir, do you suspect us?"

Xiang Dongliu replied, "This matter will be judged by the Lord Department Chief when you return to Haotian City. It is not for me to comment. I was merely dispatched to rescue you."

Lu Ye was silent for a moment and did not say more.

Indeed, today's event had too many suspicious points, so it's no wonder Xiang Dongliu had doubts.

"Since you are all unharmed, then I have nothing more to do here. Please clean up the area..." Xiang Dongliu was speaking when he suddenly sensed something, looked up in a direction, immediately frowned, and soared into the sky, heading in that direction.

His sudden action left Lu Ye and the others confused, for none of them knew what he had discovered.

"That direction... it's the direction of Mist Cliff?" Feng Yuechan mused.

At that moment, a violent surge of spirit force came from that direction, and Lu Ye and the others looked over. Under the night sky, they saw brilliant flashes erupting repeatedly from that direction, illuminating the heavens. Two distinct auras were clashing fiercely.

"He's encountered an enemy!" Xiao Xinghe frowned.

Of the two people fighting over there, one was obviously Xiang Dongliu, who had just rushed over, but the identity of the other person was unknown.

Judging by the auras, one was clearly stronger, and the other slightly weaker, but from such a distance, no one could determine which was which.

Only Lu Ye, who had already developed Mental Consciousness, had an intense worry etched across his brow.

Because he sensed that the slightly weaker aura was indeed Xiang Dongliu's.

In other words, the person fighting Xiang Dongliu was much more formidable.

"How dare you!" An angry shout came from the direction of Mist Cliff, immediately followed by a sudden cry brought to an abrupt halt.

The battle ended!

From the moment Xiang Dongliu arrived to engage the unknown enemy, only thirty breaths had passed!

Lu Ye's heart sank continuously, unable to comprehend the night's events. A series of bizarre happenings unfolded one after another, giving him a sense of being swept into some rapid current and a premonition of something major about to occur.

A stream of light quickly approached from Mist Cliff, carrying the imposing power unique to a strong cultivator of the Divine Sea Realm.

After finishing off Xiang Dongliu, the unknown Divine Sea Realm entity was heading towards them.

Lu Ye and the others all felt a numbness on their scalps, instantly readying for battle.

Though they knew it was unlikely to be a match for a Divine Sea Realm strong cultivator, no one among them was willing to sit and await death.

Lu Ye even took out the Dragon Throne, but before he could activate it, the figure rushing from Mist Cliff flew directly over their heads.

In that split second, Lu Ye exerted his Ocular Power and vaguely saw an alluring figure in the stream of light.

It was a woman!

When the woman flew over their heads, Lu Ye distinctly saw her glance downward but showed no intention of stopping and continued on her way.

The brief exchange of glances made Lu Ye break into a cold sweat because in that instant, he vaguely perceived a meaningful look flash across the woman's eyes.

Ten breaths later, the sound of a long exhale filled the air.

The survivors all wore grave expressions.

"Why... didn't she kill us?" Lin Yinxiu asked.

If the woman had decided to kill them, the squad would have been unable to resist. Even if Lu Ye donned the Dragon Throne, it wouldn't suffice. At that point, only activating the Golden Body Token could save his life, leaving the others to certain death!

"Perhaps she disdained it!" Xiao Xinghe looked at the blade in his hand, a feeling of helplessness welling up within.

Though having their lives spared was a relief, being dismissed like that wasn't something to be jubilant about.

"Let's go!" Lu Ye urged as he headed toward Mist Cliff.

In any case, they needed to check on Xiang Dongliu's fate, for he had come to their aid.