Humanity’s Great Sage

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It won’t be long before we’re done here.
Do you need help, Brother Yi Ye? I can spare a few of my men.”

 

“It’s all good.
I’m contacting you because I have a proposal.”

 

“A proposal?” an incredulous Ding Yushu uttered when he saw Lu Ye’s message.
What proposal could Lu Ye have hatched when he should be busy dealing with his own insectoid infestation?

 

Lu Ye ended his lengthy conversation with Ding Yushu with a pondering look on his expression.

 

Outside the outpost, Chen Yu and his contingent of Cultivators were maintaining a perimeter, holding off the insectoids from inundating the outpost. 

 

The insectoids at the front were just the tiny and weaker ones, plus a handful of stronger ones which Chen Yu and his men could still resist for now.
But they could not be expected to hold out for long.
The long trail of insectoids leading from the wormhole ten miles away was hardly stopping and it would take more than just several Cultivators to fully mow them down. 

 

“I’m done here!”

 

Hua Ci’s voice broke Lu Ye’s train of thought.
The look she was wearing indicated success. 

 

The extensive amounts of enhancements on the Divine Opportunity Column of the Redoubt of Wrath outpost showed just how glorious and historic it had been, despite being just a Tier-Eight sect.
Just the affluence of Spiritual Qi in the atmosphere alone was thicker than that of the Crimson Blood Sect outpost.
Lu Ye and Hua Ci might have reaped enough bounties from their participation in the Battle Royal of the Legates to improve things at their outpost, but it still didn’t come close to competing with the boon of this place.
That made coming here to strip away the enhancements one of the prime objectives of capturing this fort. 

 

Even so, the process of stripping away enhancements from a Divine Opportunity Column was bound to incur unwanted collateral damage.
Nevertheless, the gains were still huge indeed. 

 

Lu Ye paced towards Hua Ci and told her the new devilry he had just come up with.

 

Hua Ci stared at him.
“Are you sure about this?”

 

As if taking down the Redoubt of Wrath wasn’t enough, now Lu Ye has set his sights on Clan Feng!

 

“There’s no harm in trying,” he shrugged, “Might as well give it a go.”

 

[That was what you said before.
“No harm in trying”.
Now look at what happened to the Redoubt of Wrath…] Hua Ci mused sardonically.

 

That was exactly what he said before when he was trying to downplay his motives and the Redoubt of Wrath really took the brunt of his shrewd design. 

Hua Ci began to feel somewhat sorry for the Clan Feng outpost for the calamity they were about to face.

 

The two Thousand Demon Ridge outposts could only blame their luck for building their outposts so close to the Crimson Blood Sect.

 

At the shrill signal of a whistle, the Crimson Blood Sect force withdrew from the outpost expeditiously at Hua Ci’s lead while Lu Ye, Chen Yu, and those more powerful helped to make sure everyone pulled out safely. 

 

Within moments, Chen Yu and the others found a chance to slip away too, leaving Lu Ye to face the insectoids alone.
The latter surveyed his handiwork: a full vista of black; an endless sprawl of crawling insectoids wanting to sink their mandibles, pincers, chelicerae, or whatever mouthparts they had on his flesh.

 

Lu Ye unleashed his full plethora of skills.
The fiery-red sparkle of his hiltless knife shot around like a deadly comet, engendering sprays of hemolymph everywhere.
His Fire Dragons pummeled into masses of insectoids, releasing waves of infernos.
Glowing red, Inviolable was just as deadly, cutting down every insectoid its edge found with unnerving ease.
Everything Lu Ye was doing, he was certainly making sure that the insectoids could see him and only him.

 

Satisfied that he had done enough, at last, he unfurled his wings, and he took to the air. 

He landed almost a hundred meters away where Amber was already waiting.
Lu Ye fired another Fire Dragon for good measure and the resultant trace of Spiritual Power was enough to make every insectoid look his way!

 

Lu Ye thrust an arm in a certain direction and Amber began speeding that way.
In the meantime, Lu Ye retrieved another flask of Mystic Fruit cider and gulped down everything to restore the Spiritual Power that he had expended.

Chen Yu gazed at Lu Ye scampering off.
“Wait a minute, where is he going?”

 

That was not the direction of the outpost!

 

“Nope, not yet, at any rate,” replied Hua Ci, “Now, everybody! Come with me!” She got up on her Wolf Golem and led the Crimson Blood Sect force onward.

 

At the same time, inside another insectoid nest deep underground, the acolytes of the Atheneum of Finality gave one final push, ending the infestation at their end with the slaughter of the remaining insectoid monsters.

 

That would last another two hours until Ding Yushu finally walked up to the nexus and sliced it open to retrieve the Nuclei of Life inside.