Sage of Humanity

Chapter 247 Sky Supporting Sect's Misfortune

Hao Ren slowly stood up, plucking up his courage to take some beast meat from his storage sack.

Basically, every cultivator's storage sack would have some food, mainly to be prepared for emergencies.

He lifted the meat and then tossed it toward the quasi-flood dragon.

The quasi-flood dragon remained unmoved.

He threw a few more pieces, but still there was no response.

"It's no use, Brother Yiye..." Hao Ren's forehead dripped with sweat.

Lu Ye let out a soft sigh and said, "Brother Hao, you guys go first. It's been staring at me and probably won't bother with you."

"But what about you?"

"I have my own ways of escape."

After a moment of hesitation, Hao Ren gritted his teeth and said, "Then you be careful, Brother Yiye." Stay tuned to My Virtual Library Empire

As he spoke, he signaled Hao Qing with his eyes, and the siblings tiptoed away.

The quasi-flood dragon indeed paid no attention to them, not even casting a glance their way, which left Hao Ren and his sister feeling both suffocated from being ignored and inexplicably relieved.

They didn't stop until they had retreated a hundred zhang away and then suddenly merged into the darkness.

At this moment, Lu Ye was pondering a question: just what did the quasi-flood dragon see in him?

According to Hao Ren, he and his sister had come to this place several times and never encountered the quasi-flood dragon, yet Lu Ye had been targeted on his first visit.

Something was amiss.

Lu Ye thought back on his previous actions and then raised his hand to grasp Amber, who lay stiffly on his lap, lifting it to his side.

The quasi-flood dragon's eyes followed the movement.

Lu Ye then moved Amber to the other side.

The quasi-flood dragon's eyes followed again.

It was confirmed, the quasi-flood dragon's interest was not in him, but in Amber. It was only because Amber stayed with him and the quasi-flood dragon's eyes were so huge, he had initially misjudged and thought he was the target.

Amber was a demon beast, which might be why it caught the quasi-flood dragon's attention, but Lu Ye felt that a bigger reason was likely the blood Qi within the Scale Armor.

If it were just because of Amber, the quasi-flood dragon should have appeared as soon as Lu Ye and the others came here. In fact, it only showed up after Amber had consumed the blood Qi from the scales. In other words, it was lured out by the scale armor Lu Ye had taken out.

The scale looked like it could be from a dragon or a snake, and since the quasi-flood dragon's true nature was a type of snake demon, the blood Qi from the scale inevitably had a great attraction to it.

However, to be certain, further verification was needed.

"Yiyi."

"Hmm."

"Take the things and go underground!"

As Lu Ye spoke, his hand reached into the storage sack, and the next moment, he took out the Scale Armor and tossed it to Yiyi. Simultaneously, spirit force surged through his body, and a pair of fiery red wings unfolded on his back and he soared into the sky.

The moment Yiyi caught the Scale Armor, she melted into the ground.

The quasi-flood dragon, which had remained still up until that moment, suddenly stirred to action; almost at the instant Lu Ye took to the skies, the huge snake head violently smashed into the spot where Yiyi had just been. Dust flew everywhere, and the ground was left with a large crater from the impact, strong gusts spreading in all directions. Lu Ye's figure swayed as he quickly widened the gap between them.

After soaring a hundred zhang high, he looked down to see a massive creature pounding the ground below, seemingly trying to uncover Yiyi hidden beneath.

Demon Qi billowed, the sound was terrifying, and the continuous booming was relentless to the ears. Each strike shook the ground, and in a short period, the place where Yiyi had been transformed into a large crater about ten zhang wide and several zhang deep.

Indeed, it was because of the Scale Armor! Seeing this, how could Lu Ye not realize his previous guess was correct?

Whether the scales were from a dragon or a snake, they definitely had a great significance to the quasi-flood dragon; otherwise, there was no reason for it to be drawn out.

For a monster like it, having grown to the limits of what the Spirit Stream battlefield could accommodate, it normally resided at the bottom of the lake, never showing itself, because it had no more room to grow. To put it nicely, it was lonely at the top; realistically, it was simply waiting to die.

But obtaining that Scale Armor would change the situation. It was called a quasi-flood dragon because it was only one step away from a flood dragon metamorphosis; its instincts told it that with the Scale Armor, it could transform into a flood dragon! Then it could break through the containment of Heaven's Augury and leave this prison that bound it.

Not far away, Hao Ren and his sister, who had already fled from the lakeside, watched the commotion from afar and couldn't help but swallow hard.

They didn't know how Lu Ye had provoked the quasi-flood dragon, to cause it to erupt so fiercely.

Fortunately, Lu Ye's figure was clearly visible, so they didn't need to worry about his safety.

Suspended in the sky, Lu Ye looked down. There was no need to worry about Yiyi; if she went underground, then even if the quasi-flood dragon was strong, it had no way to deal with her unless it also had the ability for ground evasion.

Now all he needed to do was figure out how to shake off the quasi-flood dragon.

To shake off the quasi-flood dragon was actually quite simple; the monster was tracking the blood Qi in the scales. So, as long as he isolated the Scale Armor so it couldn't sense it, that would suffice.

In short, store it in the storage sack! This was the quickest and most effective method. Lu Ye raised his hand to touch the battlefield marking on his body and sent a message to Yiyi.

Yiyi followed his instructions and put the Scale Armor into her storage sack.

The quasi-flood dragon that kept bombarding the ground immediately went crazy, its roar even more terrifying.

After struggling for a while and no longer sensing the presence of the Scale Armor, the quasi-flood dragon begrudgingly changed its direction and swam towards the lake, incessantly flicking its snake tongue and with demon Qi swirling around it uncontrollably, a clear sign of its inner turmoil.

Just as the quasi-flood dragon was about to re-enter the lake, Lu Ye suddenly thought, what if he could lure this monster to the Sky Supporting Sect's grounds… what then?

It was probably an existence on the same level as Little Gray, and if possible, the cultivators of the Sky Supporting Sect would surely be moved to tears of gratitude.

Lu Ye's trip to the inner circle served two purposes: to hone himself and to avenge the battle at Golden Light Peak, intending to kill as many Sky Supporting Sect cultivators as possible under the premise of ensuring his own safety.

But now, it seemed his ambitions could be greater?

The prerequisite was that he could lure the quasi-flood dragon there.

"Yiyi, take out the item and then run!" Lu Ye sent a message to Yiyi.

"Okay." Yiyi didn't ask any questions and took the Scale Armor out of the storage sack again.

At the lakeside, the quasi-flood dragon that was about to dive into the water immediately sensed something and straightened up its body, swiftly sweeping in a direction with its nearly sixty-foot-long body moving at an incredibly fast speed—it was estimated that even Amber at full speed couldn't outrun it.

The direction the quasi-flood dragon was pursuing was exactly where Yiyi was fleeing. From this, it seemed that it could indeed sense the direction where the blood Qi in the Scale Armor was located.

Such a powerful demon beast that defied reason indeed had sharp senses.

Moreover, it was too fast; Yiyi couldn't shake it off at all.

One hour later, the quasi-flood dragon stopped. Again, it slammed the ground, but it was Yiyi who, under Lu Ye's instructions, kept burrowing deeper into the ground.

The reason for this was that Yiyi was not as fast as the quasi-flood dragon, so Lu Ye wanted to test how large the quasi-flood dragon's sensing range for the Scale Armor was.

Yiyi's ground evasion had its limits; the deeper she went, the more severe the interference from the underground fields became. That omnipresent force field was similar to the type of origin magnetic field pervaded by origin magnetic ore, both with the effect of imprisoning spirit force. Therefore, the deeper Yiyi went, the less strength she could exert, and once all her spirit force was confined, she would be trapped deep underground forever.

One hundred zhang deep was Yiyi's limit; at that distance, the flow of her spirit force was nearly halved. Going any further would be dangerous, especially for a Spiritual Body like hers.

After a short while, Yiyi sent a message: "How about now?"

"It's fine now."

Even though Yiyi had burrowed to a depth of one hundred zhang, the quasi-flood dragon still hadn't given up; the ground where Yiyi was located had already been dug into pits more than thirty feet deep by it.

At this rate, if Yiyi were to stay still, it would take less than two hours for the quasi-flood dragon to dig her out.

"Keep running, I'll direct you." Lu Ye sent another message.

"Understood."

Soon, under the guidance of Yiyi hiding underground, the quasi-flood dragon began to move. As it passed, one tree after another was uprooted, and clear crawl marks were left on the ground.

Lu Ye corrected Yiyi's direction and, upon confirming the direction was correct, turned into a shadow, withdrew his Wings, and dropped Amber, who had recovered, onto the ground.

Hao Ren and his sister rushed over, both looking clueless.

"Brother Yiye, what's the situation now? Where is Sister Yiyi?"

Lu Ye mounted the tiger's back and said, "Yiyi is safe. Right now… it's hard to say, I can only tell that the Sky Supporting Sect is probably in for some bad luck."

"The Sky Supporting Sect is in trouble?" Hao Ren couldn't grasp the situation for a moment, but after glancing in the direction the quasi-flood dragon had left, he immediately realized, "Is the quasi-flood dragon going to the Sky Supporting Sect's base?"

"If nothing unexpected happens, yes!"

"Why would the quasi-flood dragon go to the Sky Supporting Sect's base?"

"Maybe it's in a bad mood today, and feeling particularly murderous? Brother Hao, this is where we part ways."

After Lu Ye finished speaking, Amber dashed out in the direction the quasi-flood dragon had gone, leaving Hao Ren and his sister even more bewildered.

The quasi-flood dragon was definitely going to be led to the Sky Supporting Sect's base; the creature now thirsted for the blood Qi in that Scale Armor and would not give up easily.

And there were probably many cultivators gathered at the Sky Supporting Sect's base now, especially since he and Hao Ren had just raided their mining vein and killed quite a few of their people.

The sky was still dark, and the Sky Supporting Sect's people didn't dare to come out to investigate at that time, so they could only wait until dawn.

But they probably couldn't imagine that what would come their way after waiting was a quasi-flood dragon!

Hundreds of cultivators gathered, bristling with a murderous aura, ready for battle. But when the quasi-flood dragon came, there was no need for words—the scene was bound to become very lively.

Lu Ye wasn't sure if the quasi-flood dragon could break through the protective array of the sect, but he was the one who stirred up the muddy waters, so naturally, he wanted to join in the excitement.

Hao Ren and his sister were one level higher in cultivation than him, but in such chaos, two Level 8 ghost cultivators would struggle to protect themselves, so Lu Ye didn't plan to invite them.

It was best to part ways here after all, they were but passing acquaintances.

If the quasi-flood dragon couldn't break through the sect's protective array, it didn't matter; as long as there was conflict between the two sides, and the Sky Supporting Sect suffered casualties, it was all the same to Lu Ye, who wasn't averse to making things worse. In the end, he would lose nothing.