Sage of Humanity

Lu Ye stared at the back of his hand, it took him a long while to snap back to reality.

Recalling everything that had happened, the mark on the back of his hand was undoubtedly related to the sect master pressing that big seal against it.

He didn't know what exactly it was, but there were too many things in this world he didn't know, and the unknown wasn't to be feared. For now, he could only face it calmly.

However, the good news was that he had confirmed his location; he was indeed in the Spirit Stream battlefield.

Just from the prefix of this battlefield, Lu Ye felt a sense of unease brewing. If he wasn't mistaken, this was a battlefield where only cultivators from the Spirit Stream Realm were qualified to set foot.

As a junior cultivator who had opened three orifices, he was undoubtedly in great danger in this unfamiliar place. Just now, he had only encountered a pack of wolves, but what if he ran into a group of cultivators?

If it was a battlefield, then there must be cultivators present!

As for the two sides fighting in this battlefield, it wasn't difficult to guess that it would be the Haotian Alliance and Ten Thousand Demons Ridge.

He could understand the sect master's intention in sending him here. Under those circumstances, the sect master couldn't engage others in battle while taking care of him. If they had fought forcefully, he, as a junior cultivator, would most certainly have met a dire fate. The sect master had sent him here as a last resort, seeking a slim chance of survival in a desperate situation.

It seemed the sect master had also stuffed something into his bosom before.

Thinking of this, Lu Ye quickly started to search.

He soon found a storage sack, opened it, and took out a few bottles, some stacks of talisman paper, several sets of clothes, and then a jade slip.

He checked each item.

The bottles contained only two kinds of elixir pills, one was the blood Qi pill, and the other was the Spirit-Nurturing Pill. There were two bottles of the latter, about twenty pills in total, and fewer of the blood Qi pills, less than ten in a bottle.

As for the talisman paper, he had never seen it before, but he hazarded a guess at what they might be.

Indeed, upon checking them, he found that they were Spirit Talismans.

Extrinsic cultivation included experts in talisman drawing. Spirit Talismans could assist cultivators in battle or in their cultivation practice. However, Lu Ye had not been exposed to these before and had never seen them.

The Spirit Talismans in the storage sack varied, including the defensive Vajra Talisman, the offensive Fire Serpent Talisman, and the auxiliary Breath-concealing Talisman, as well as the Shadowfold Talisman for concealing one's tracks. The uses of each Spirit Talisman were clearly described, lest Lu Ye be unclear about them. There were more than thirty in total.

Gazing at these items, Lu Ye felt a surge of warmth.

Undoubtedly, these were all prepared by the sect master specifically for him, for whether it was the elixir pills in front of him or the Spirit Talismans, they were all suitable for a cultivator at his level. The sect master had no use for them.

The clothing didn't even need to be mentioned; it was clearly meant for a young man.

Thinking back to those days when the sect master had disappeared on the Flying Dragon Ship, Lu Ye understood that it must have been during those days that the sect master had gathered these items suited for him from disciples of other sects.

Perhaps the sect master had intended to give them to him after returning to Mount Ao, but they had encountered that incident halfway, and he had ended up giving them to Lu Ye in advance.

For someone who had just started their path of cultivation, these items were undoubtedly a vast fortune. Not to mention the bottles of elixir pills, even the Spirit Talismans alone seemed very valuable to Lu Ye.

This was because he had found no Spirit Talismans in Manager Yang's and Zhou Cheng's storage sacks, which indicated just how precious Spirit Talismans were. Yet, the sect master had managed to collect over thirty in various uses.

Taking a deep breath, Lu Ye carefully stored the items and picked up the jade slip.

If he wasn't wrong, this jade slip should be the same one the sect master had taken out while fleeing with him. The sect master had asked him if he had heard of the Spirit Stream battlefield, and when Lu Ye replied that he had not, the sect master had attached a jade slip to his forehead for a moment.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

The information that the sect master wanted to leave him might be recorded here. As the situation was urgent at the time, the sect master had no time for explanations and could only convey the message in this way.

Lu Ye stimulated his spirit force, pouring it into the jade slip, but there was no response, which left him puzzled.

After a moment's thought, he mimicked the sect master, pressing the jade slip to his forehead and once again channeling his spirit force.

This time, a flood of information surged into his mind, stunning him.

A moment later, he lowered the jade slip, his expression complex.

Inside the jade slip, there were indeed some messages left by the sect master, all about the Spirit Stream battlefield.

The Nine Provinces World was made up of the Nine Provincial States, but the world of the Nine Provinces wasn't limited to these nine states; there were other spaces beyond them.

The Spirit Stream battlefield was one of these spaces.

Where exactly the Spirit Stream battlefield was located within the Nine Provinces World was unknown. Divine Sea Realm cultivators had tried to uncover this secret, but over countless years, no one had found useful clues and the matter had been left unresolved.

The conflict between the Haotian Alliance and Ten Thousand Demons Ridge wasn't confined to the Nine Provinces World. The battles within these spatial battlefields were the most ferocious.

To enter the Spirit Stream battlefield, one required the aid of Heaven's Augury Pillars, the crystal pillars that Lu Ye had seen before. Each sect had one, and even if a sect were destroyed, it would be preserved. Countless sects had been decimated over the years in the Nine Provinces World, so there were Heaven's Augury Pillars scattered in the wild, as numerous as the Myriad Stars.

Once sect cultivators entered the Spirit Stream battlefield through their own Heaven's Augury Pillar, they would appear within a fixed territory. This territory was typically fortified by the sect to serve as their base in the battlefield, with powerful cultivators stationed year-round to prevent surprise attacks.

However, if a cultivator didn't enter the battlefield through their own sect's Heaven's Augury Pillar, they would appear randomly somewhere within the battlefield.

As such, cultivators usually entered the battlefield through their own sect's Heaven's Augury Pillar and wouldn't use that of another sect unless they had the approval of that sect and were branded with a specific big seal. Only then could they appear within that sect's base.

The circumstances Lu Ye and the sect master had faced didn't leave the sect master with many choices. Even though he knew that sending Lu Ye into the Spirit Stream battlefield was more likely to bring misfortune than good fortune, he had no choice but to try his luck.

After going through the information in the jade slip, Lu Ye understood his situation.

He was somewhere in the Spirit Stream battlefield; as for the exact location, he had no idea because the entire Spirit Stream battlefield was extremely vast, as large as one provincial state.

The marking on the back of his hand that he couldn't see was a battlefield marking. Every cultivator who entered the battlefield had one, which recorded the cultivator's origin, cultivation, and merit.

This was also related to his way out.

His battlefield marking was branded by the big seal of the Righteous Blood Sect sect master. As a result, the marking had a connection to the Heaven's Augury Pillar at the Righteous Blood Sect's base. As long as he followed this connection, Lu Ye could head to the Righteous Blood Sect's base in the Spirit Stream battlefield, and once there, he would be able to return to the Righteous Blood Sect!