Sage of Humanity-Chapter 638 - 636: As If Hell

Strolling forward, Lu Ye looked down on Song Zhui from a higher position.

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Spitting out a mouthful of blood, Song Zhui said to Lu Ye, "Sooner or later, someone stronger than you will kill you. I'll be waiting for you on the road to Hell!"

Abandoning all schemes and deceptions, Song Zhui was quite courageous; even facing death, he showed no hint of fear, his expression calm and resolute.

With the long saber pressed against his chest, Lu Ye said in an even tone, "Don't talk as if I am some kind of great evil. I just wanted to cultivate peacefully in the Great Reversal Valley. It was you who forced me into this. All of this is your own doing!"

As he spoke, he suddenly bent down, whispered into Song Zhui's ear, "After I kill you, I'll return to the Nine Provinces and enter the Spirit Stream battlefield again to eradicate your Yuanhong Hall base. From now on, I will enter the Spirit Stream battlefield every two months."

At the brink of death, Song Zhui was fearless. However, upon hearing Lu Ye's words, he suddenly became agitated, "You dare..."

The long saber pierced into his body, slowly penetrating deeper, rupturing his heart. Song Zhui's eyes bulged, his hands gripping the blade, regardless of the sharp edge slashing his hands to a bloody mess.

"Guess whether I dare or not," Lu Ye straightened up, his slightly narrowed eyes filled with contempt.

As the saber was pulled out, blood spurted from Song Zhui's chest, and his body slumped down limply, the light quickly fading from his eyes.

Shaking the blood off the Boulder Mountain Saber, Lu Ye sheathed the blade and continued walking deeper into the mine, searching the cave. After ensuring there was no living person left, he took a deep breath and sat down on the ground, lying flat on his back in a spreadeagled fashion.

Spirit force and physical strength were severely drained, although not yet to the point of complete exhaustion, it was getting close.

When he decided to leave the Great Wilderness Mountain previously, he had not expected such a development to unfold. However, the discovery of this mine had sparked some plans in his mind.

Although the process was somewhat tricky, it was still under control. Now, the mine was littered with the corpses of Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators; there were as many as seven or eight of Level 9 alone, including cultivators from 1st grade sects like Song Zhui.

It can be said that the losses of Ten Thousand Demons Ridge this time were enormous. Once this news spread, it would surely shock the entire Cloud River battlefield and even the whole Nine Provinces.

Lu Yiye's name, unfortunately, was going to catch the attention of those Divine Sea Realm strong cultivators again, and he would inevitably face even crazier suppression and targeting.

There were no regrets. Even without this incident, Ten Thousand Demons Ridge had been constantly trying to suppress him without ever succeeding. Instead, it was he who had been growing rapidly through the continuous suppression and targeting. It could be said that if not for the targeting by Ten Thousand Demons Ridge, his growth might not have been so rapid.

In a sense, he should actually thank Ten Thousand Demons Ridge for their targeting.

Though exhausted, this was not a place to linger.

The main issue was the poison mist filling the mine tunnel. Although Lu Ye was immune to all poisons, the Talent Tree needed to consume fuel to purify and burn the toxins invading his body.

Therefore, the longer he stayed here, the greater his loss would be.

So, even though Lu Ye very much wanted to collapse and sleep, he only rested for less than one incense stick's time before quickly standing up.

With so many from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge dead, each had at least two or three storage sacks, not to mention the various Spiritual Artifacts they had been wielding—this was a huge fortune.

Lu Ye moved through puddles of blood and numerous corpses, collecting one storage sack after another and the scattered Spiritual Artifacts on the ground.

As he was busy, a message came from the battlefield marking. Lu Ye hastily checked and discovered it was from Yiyi.

Some people were clearing the rubble in the mine tunnel on the other side, and the two leading the efforts were none other than Xia Liang and Tan Sheng...

Lu Ye couldn't help but lament that these two wretches really had lingering spirits, and their luck was astoundingly good.

If they had entered with the other two thousand cultivators earlier, they would have certainly died here, but they were clearly late. The collapsed mine tunnel had blocked their way, and paradoxically, they had survived.

The cultivators outside the mine tunnel were unaffected by the poison mist, so their efficiency in clearing was rapid. According to Yiyi, it would likely take less than half a shichen for them to completely clear the tunnel.

With little time to spare, Lu Ye's actions grew even more swift.

In less than half a shichen, Lu Ye had collected all the loot he could, and although there were surely some items missed, there was no longer time to search thoroughly.

He dashed into the mine tunnel, arrived at the collapse, and listened intently, indeed hearing voices and the sounds of rubble being cleared on the other side.

The sounds meant the cultivators on the other side were indeed not far from him.

Lu Ye quickly took out Amber from the spirit beast sack; Yiyi appeared just in time to rush into Amber's body, then Lu Ye put Amber back into the spirit beast sack, before shouldering a huge bundle and heading back into the mine.

The Great Sky Prohibition Array had already been deactivated by him. He leapt up, heading straight towards a part of the cave's deep wall.

Soon, the array runes on the wall activated, space twisted, and Lu Ye's figure disappeared.

Song Zhui was right in his thinking; Lu Ye had indeed set up a teleportation array in advance, but not on the ground—it was set on the side wall.

In his plan to poison the Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators, while the chances of success were not small, he also had to prepare for the worst, the advance setup of the teleportation array was his escape route.

If the effects of the Ten Thousand Poisons Pill had not met his expectations, he would have used the teleportation array to leave immediately.

The effects of the Ten Thousand Poisons Pill turned out to be even better than he had anticipated; it could be said that for this particular demise of two thousand Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators, the three Ten Thousand Poisons Pills contributed to seventy percent of the work, with many cultivators of lower cultivation hard-killed by the poison.

One must know that this was the Ten Thousand Poisons Pill refined by Hua Ci at the Spirit Stream Realm… and it already possessed such formidable potency; it was hard to imagine the horror of the enhancement to the pill's potency once Hua Ci advanced to Cloud River, and subsequently to True Lake, Divine Sea, right?

If she really had the chance to advance to the Divine Sea in the future, then within the Nine Provinces, there might be no one she could not poison to death.

Lu Ye had long known that Hua Ci must have received an incredible inheritance, but only after this battle did he realize that the inheritance Hua Ci had was even more terrifying than he had imagined.

In the mining tunnel, Lu Ye's figure vanished with the activation of the teleportation array, and three breaths later, the explosion magic array that had been activated in advance exploded, turning the location of the array into a complete mess.

The intense vibrations and noises alarmed the Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators who were clearing rubble at the other end of the mining tunnel, with both Xia Liang and Tan Sheng showing expressions of shock and uncertainty.

Ever since half an hour ago, the noises from inside the mining tunnel had gradually thinned out until there was no sound at all.

No one knew what the situation was inside the tunnel, but both Xia Liang and Tan Sheng felt an unsettling premonition.

A good while later, an astonished cry suddenly rang out: "We've broken through!"

Accompanying the excited shouts of the cultivator, the sealed mining tunnel indeed revealed a gap, but before anyone could rejoice, a greenish mist poured out from the opening.

A few cultivators near the gap, unobservant for a moment, inhaled some of the mist and immediately felt dizzy and weak.

"It's poisonous!" a cry of alarm went out, and the cultivators quickly retreated.

"Stand back!" Xia Liang bellowed, brandishing his saber and slashing forward, sending out a saber light that destroyed the final barrier ahead. The debris scattered and the passageway was completely cleared, but more poison mist surged out with the airflow, forcing the group of cultivators who had come to inspect the situation to keep retreating in a sorry state.

Eventually, having no alternative, the cultivators were forced to muster their spirit force to blow the spreading poison mist back.

Gradually, the scenes deep inside the mining tunnel came into everyone's view.

The sight made everyone's color change in horror.

Deep in the mining tunnel, bodies lay strewn haphazardly, with blood spilling all over the ground, forming streams, dyeing the ground blood-red.

"That's… Senior Brother Song Zhui!" someone recognized the figure of Song Zhui leaning against the cave wall, his voice trembling as he spoke.

This person had seen Song Zhui outside of Great Reversal Valley before, and he naturally recognized him at a glance after not much time had passed.

However, the Level 9 strong cultivator who had been full of vigor outside of the Great Reversal Valley now appeared like a lump of mud, slumped there with his eyes wide open, a look of death with unshut eyes, and even the expression on his face still showed panic and unwillingness, as if he had heard something that terrified him just before dying.

Song Zhui was dead, many more were dead not far from his body, and the mining tunnel was silent.

Everyone felt a chill, and an uncontrollable thought surfaced in their minds.

Someone called out in a shaky voice, "Is anyone in there?"

Only echoes responded, no answer came.

The sound of swallowing saliva was heard, unbearably hard to perform.

"I'll go in and take a look," Xia Liang felt something was awry inside, but hearing that two thousand members of the Ten Thousand Demons Ridge had entered this mining tunnel, he couldn't believe they could all be dead.

"Be careful!" Tan Sheng cautioned.

Xia Liang nodded, charged his spirit force to protect himself, swallowed a Detoxification Pill, and then dashed into the tunnel.

However, just a dozen breaths later, he rushed back out, his expression as grave as it could possibly be, and a faint greenish color appeared on his face.

"What's the situation?" Tan Sheng asked.

Xia Liang shook his head: "All dead!"

Even though Tan Sheng had some guesses, when Xia Liang uttered those words, he still found it unbelievable: "All… dead?"

That was two thousand people! Not two thousand pigs, how could they possibly all be dead?

He suddenly remembered another matter: "Did Lu Yiye also die?"

"Not sure." Xia Liang shook his head.

Although the poison mist inside the tunnel was thinning out, it still wasn't safe enough for people to stay, and even as a Level 9 cultivator, Xia Liang could not stay inside for too long. During the dozen breaths he stayed, he only had a quick glance, and the scene that met his eyes was like purgatory!

Despite not having examined closely, he was certain that all of the Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators who had entered the tunnel were dead!