Sage of Humanity-Chapter 1566 - 1564: Breaking the Siege

It's highly likely to be the latter situation! Senior Brother Zhou judged in his heart, because if these two World Devouring Beasts simply came to lay eggs, they probably wouldn't attack them voluntarily. World Devouring Beasts themselves are not considered violent star beasts unless they are protecting their offspring!

In other words, there are their offspring hatching in Qingfeng World, which is why they are preventing our entry.

With this thought, Senior Brother Zhou shouted, "I'll lure the big one away first, then find a way to support you. Hold on!" He was someone experienced in battle arrays, and immediately thought of a strategy to defeat the enemy. For now, only the three of them working together could prevail over one World Devouring Beast, so they had to lure one away first.

As the battle erupted, because of their close proximity to Qingfeng World, the booming sounds immediately traveled into the domain, leaving countless cultivators within the domain confused. They looked up but couldn't see anything, except for the occasional flash of light, like lightning splitting the sky.

In the magma at the core of the earth, Lu Ye looked at the World Devouring Beast that was about to hatch and slowly drew out the Boulder Mountain Saber. He suddenly recalled something, which was that when a small World Devouring Beast hatches, its parents would surely come to escort it. Therefore, if his guess was correct, there were probably two large World Devouring Beasts waiting outside Qingfeng World at this moment.

Almost at the same time Lu Ye drew out the Boulder Mountain Saber, the egg of the World Devouring Beast shattered with a boom, and a figure quickly jumped out, lunging straight at Lu Ye.

Evidently, the newly hatched small World Devouring Beast had sensed something, and instinctively struck first!

However, it had just hatched, and its aura at most only equaled that of a cultivator in the True Lake Realm. Despite its sudden ferocity, the massive difference in strength made it difficult to pose any threat to Lu Ye.

Standing in place without moving, with merely a slash of his long blade, the small World Devouring Beast was split in two.

Lu Ye re-sheathed his blade and reached out to grab, extracting a Crystal Core from the small World Devouring Beast's corpse. After a brief moment of consideration, his eyebrows raised slightly.

Just as the rumors said, the Crystal Core of a World Devouring Beast is completely different from those of ordinary star beasts. The energy contained within this Crystal Core is almost indistinguishable from the essence of a domain, after all, fundamentally speaking, the hatching of a World Devouring Beast occurs from consuming the essence of a domain.

In other words, if this Crystal Core is shattered and the energy inside is released, the essence of the domain can be elevated!

Lu Ye thought for a moment and then squeezed, crushing the Crystal Core.

Although he could take this Crystal Core back to the Nine Provinces for Number Nine to consume, benefiting the Nine Provinces, this thing was essentially the concentrated essence of Qingfeng World's domain, so it wasn't right to take it away, lest it hinder this domain's development for hundreds or thousands of years.

Almost the moment Lu Ye crushed the Crystal Core, he suddenly sensed an extremely faint energy fluctuation coming from above his head.

Even while being at the core of the earth, he could sense this energy fluctuation, which was obviously extraordinary.

He immediately understood, probably the parents of the small World Devouring Beast had arrived!

Pushing his spirit force, he urgently dashed out! Secretly annoyed, he regretted not leaving a weapon control outside before entering. Otherwise, he could have constructed a Void to return, saving much trouble.

When he emerged from the Abyss, he saw Zhu Yue waiting there, looking up with a face full of shock.

Not only Zhu Yue but almost everyone in Qingfeng World was watching this unbelievable scene.

In the sky, there was a huge creature like a ray furiously flickering, and on either side of this ray, two figures were fiercely entangled with it.

Nobody knew what was happening; this ray-like creature and the two figures had suddenly crashed into Qingfeng World, causing sky-shattering, earth-rendering, lightning, and thunder. But soon, the cultivators of Qingfeng World realized that those contending against the ray must be strong cultivators from the upper world. Aside from strong cultivators from the upper world, no one else would appear at this juncture.

But what made them feel despair was that, even though the two upper realm strong cultivators were exhibiting mysteriously unpredictable abilities, they still couldn't match the ray-like creature. A man and a woman, the two upper realm strong cultivators, were undoubtedly doing their utmost yet were each bleeding profusely.

Sun Ye and Tang Xiaoyue felt despair as well. Following Senior Brother Zhou Dingtian's instructions, they were both tangling with this World Devouring Beast, intending to buy time until Senior Brother Zhou returned to assist them. However, for some reason, this World Devouring Beast suddenly went mad, charging straight towards Qingfeng World.

The two did not know that the reason the World Devouring Beast suddenly became agitated was because it sensed its offspring being killed.

There wasn't much trouble as long as they only entangled it, but attempting to stop the berserk World Devouring Beast was beyond their ability. After a few forced clashes, they both had turbulent auras and surging blood Qi.

"Senior Brother Sun, we can't hold it!" Tang Xiaoyue activated one of her spirit treasures, a handkerchief-like spirit treasure that stuck to the World Devouring Beast. Initially, it had a mountain-like suppressive force, but under the resistance of the berserk World Devouring Beast, the light on the handkerchief spirit treasure began to dim, threatening to break in just a few breaths.

Sun Ye broke into a sweat on his forehead. He noticed something unusual about this World Devouring Beast. If he retreated with Tang Xiaoyue now, they might be unharmed, but allowing such a star beast to charge into Qingfeng World could lead to unthinkable casualties. So, unless absolutely forced, he didn't wish to give up easily.

A giant hammer spirit treasure was summoned by him, lifted high with both hands, and thrust down onto the World Devouring Beast with the force of a mountain peak pressing down. His entire body's spirit force crazily poured into the spirit treasure.

The cultivators in Qingfeng World saw a scene they would never forget in their lifetimes: the hammer suddenly enlarged, as huge as a mountain, its entirety shimmering with dazzling light, and then plummeted fiercely.

Just as the hammer seemed poised to succeed, Tang Xiaoyue coughed up a mouthful of blood. The handkerchief spirit treasure attached to the World Devouring Beast completely dimmed, turning to powder and disappearing.

The unbound World Devouring Beast merely flicked its tail, heavily striking the shadow of the giant hammer.

As the giant hammer shattered, Sun Ye was also sent flying backward, unsure of how many of his bones had broken!

The World Devouring Beast had clearly lost all sense of reason, its flattened body rushed straight toward the retreating Sun Ye, its enormous mouth on its abdomen opening and closing grotesquely. Countless cultivators from Qingfeng World watched this scene with their hearts in their throats, almost unable to bear looking directly at it.

Tang Xiaoyue cried out in alarm, "Senior Brother Sun!"

Sun Ye felt a chill all over his body, seeing calamity about to befall him and wanting to dodge, but the previous attack left him paralyzed, his entire body of spirit force utterly dissipated, making it impossible for him to move!

Just as he thought he was about to face certain death, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a streak of light rapidly darting toward him from below, moving faster than he could have imagined.

He couldn't see clearly what it was, only that the streak of light passed by the rampaging World Devouring Beast attacking him, and they brushed past each other.

A faint glimmer of saber light flickered in and out!

The next moment, Sun Ye's eyes widened, as did the eyes of all the cultivators from Qingfeng World watching in this direction.

The previously ferocious and unstoppable World Devouring Beast was suddenly split into two halves, the cuts clean and tidy as blood scattered into the sky, its life snuffed out instantly.

An entire domain was plunged into silence at that moment.

Beside the Abyss, Zhu Yue's heart nearly leaped out of her chest, her gaze tightly following the streak of light that had just shot out from beside her until it came to a halt.

Everyone was clueless about what that streak of light was, but she knew it was a strong cultivator of unknown origin passing through this domain!

But...how could his power be this formidable?

Even strong cultivators from Qingli Dao World working in tandem had been nearly killed by this stingray-like creature, while this strong cultivator who had saved her had effortlessly slain it with just one strike!

She hadn't even seen how he did it.

Glancing at Sun Ye, who was panting heavily and still looking fearful, Lu Ye thought to himself that he hadn't arrived too late. He had hurriedly employed the Brazen Plundering Technique upon seeing Sun Ye's dire situation, enabling him to provide timely assistance, else it truly might have been too late.

At this moment, both Sun Ye and the nearby Tang Xiaoyue were looking at Lu Ye, their eyes filled with suspicion, astonishment, and immense gratitude.

The suspicion lay in the fact that, apart from them, there turned out to be another Constellation in Qingfeng World. Where did he come from? He looked unfamiliar, not like a cultivator from Qingli Dao World.

The astonishment lay in the terrifying power of this person, despite being a fellow Constellation.

The gratitude arose not for any other reason, but for the life-saving kindness, and judging by appearances, Lu Ye harbored no ill intentions.

With these thoughts, Sun Ye hurriedly clasped his hands and said, "Thank you, Fellow Daoist, for saving my life."

Lu Ye nodded, "It was nothing!" He could see clearly that these two could have completely ignored the World Devouring Beast, yet they desperately blocked it, evidently not wanting the beast to charge into the domain, causing death and injuries to the creatures of this world. Ultimately, the beast's rage was his fault.

He asked again, "Is there only one?"

According to the records in Xiyuan Pavilion, if the World Devouring Beast came to receive its offspring, it would appear in pairs, and it made no sense for only one to appear here.

Sun Ye quickly replied, "Senior Brother Zhou led another one away. Senior Brother Zhou might not be able to handle it. Please, Fellow Daoist, lend your aid!"

Realization dawned on Lu Ye, and he immediately dashed toward the outer sky.

After he left, Tang Xiaoyue slowly flew over to join Sun Ye, the two exchanging glances and each seeing the shock in the other's eyes.

"Such power, it must undoubtedly be a native of Jade Conch. The Jade Conch's foundation is truly beyond our Qingli Dao World's comparison," Sun Ye sighed, seemingly somewhat dejected.

"Yet, we don't know what he's doing here," Tang Xiaoyue said worriedly. In principle, this place, as a subordinate world of Qingli Dao World, is of low level, offering no attraction to Constellation cultivators. The presence of Jade Conch's Constellation here inevitably invites speculation.

If Jade Conch had intentions toward this world, Qingli Dao World wouldn't have the confidence to contest with them.

Elsewhere, Lu Ye rushed into the near-space territory of Qingfeng World, immediately spotting someone engaged in battle with an even larger World Devouring Beast. However, it seemed the person was at a disadvantage. Although this World Devouring Beast was not quite at Moon Jade's level, it was undoubtedly larger and stronger than the one he had just killed.

The man was a middle-aged person at the Constellation Late Stage, likely the so-called Senior Brother Zhou.