Sage of Humanity-Chapter 1799 - 1797: Great Restoration

In fact, initially, the cycle of Black Abyss Conflict was not once every ten years, but once every hundred years. Yet, as time passed, this cycle became shorter and shorter, until in recent times, it has changed to once every ten years.

Here is where the source consciousness hides, and the shortening of the conflict cycle undoubtedly indicates a dire situation for the source.

Judging by the current outcome, the erosion of the core world's origin by the Blood Ancestor's treasure blood has already achieved preliminary results. If it continues like this, even if the cultivators of the Red Talisman Society could still hold on, the source wouldn't sustain. If the source is completely devoured by the treasure blood, there would be no place for the cultivators of the Red Talisman Society in this realm.

"In the confrontation with the Sacred Blood Summit, we are at a disadvantage because they have larger numbers and Sun Blaze. But as the defending side, we have advantages too, because with the source's support, we arrived here early, giving us enough time to make some deployments!" Hu Dequan's voice continued to echo.

This is the biggest reason why, despite being at a disadvantage in numbers and overall strength, the Red Talisman Society can persist. Because every Black Abyss Conflict, they arrive in this space ahead of time to make some defensive deployments.

The source, ultimately being the source of the core world, naturally can use its rights to provide conveniences to its cultivators.

So, the current situation is that the cultivators of the Red Talisman Society arrived here first, and after some time, the people of the Sacred Blood Summit could open the passage to enter this place.

The duration of this time gap depends on how long the source consciousness can last. Because the process of the Sacred Blood Summit opening the passage is breaking the blockade that the source consciousness has on this space.

"Therefore, we must deploy as many defensive methods as possible. Once the battle begins, the primary task is to protect the source, and secondly, to kill the enemy! After the war starts, the source consciousness will repel all invading enemies. As long as we can hold on long enough, the cultivators of the Sacred Blood Summit will be expelled from this place, and that is how we can achieve victory!"

Hu Dequan had discussed this with Lu Ye before, and had mentioned how the repulsion had weakened over time. Initially, the source consciousness needed only a day, even half a day, to repel the enemies from this space. But during the last Black Abyss Conflict, it took five full days.

This time will certainly be longer.

The reason, after all, is that the source consciousness's control over this space is weakening, and this undoubtedly poses a disadvantage for the defending side of the Red Talisman Society.

After a brief explanation of the essence of Black Abyss Conflict, the cultivators quickly sprang into action, and they must perform more deployments before the Sacred Blood Summit's cultivators arrive.

Figures shuttled back and forth, transporting large amounts of meteorites and floating land, while cultivators proficient in formations began laying arrays on these meteorites and floating lands.

Lu Ye did not rush to help immediately but instead flew towards the source glowing with light.

As early as when he was amid the Demon Eye Marvel, Lu Ye had surmised that the core world has its consciousness. Because the core world, during its mutual pursuit with him, indeed showed conscious reactions, and he even attempted to communicate with it but received no response, ultimately being swallowed by the core world.

After entering this realm, Lu Ye similarly tried communicating with the consciousness of this realm, yet all to no avail.

Until today, he finally realized that the consciousness of the core world has always been hiding in this special space, so naturally, won't respond to his calls.

But if this is the case, then what was the situation previously when the core world approached him? At that time, the core world was clearly acting consciously, searching for his whereabouts...

Especially when he attempted to escape and sacrificed the treasure blood, the core world reacted exceedingly fiercely.

In his musings, a chilling thought suddenly sprang into Lu Ye's mind—what if the consciousness that the core world exhibited then wasn't the source?

In other words, what if the act of swallowing him into the core world wasn't spearheaded by the source consciousness, but another consciousness? It perceived his Blood Race lineage, swallowed him, and transformed him into its aid...

If so, then the truth is somewhat terrifying, and the situation facing the Red Talisman Society is far more serious than imagined.

Lu Ye's expression changed, as he raised his hand to touch the luminous source in front of him.

Not far away, Hu Dequan observed coldly.

The action of Lu Ye flying towards the core source was clear to him, yet he did not intervene, knowing full well that any cultivator with saintliness approaching the source faces no good consequences. This had been proven in previous battles.

Because the thin layer of blood light covering the source seems particularly intense with saintliness, any cultivator with saintliness finds their strength increasingly suppressed the closer they get to the source.

Yet, to Hu Dequan's amazement, Lu Ye showed no signs of suppression, even as he extended his hand to touch the source, causing Hu Dequan's eyes to widen.

What is happening?

He couldn't comprehend, as the scene before him already surpassed his established perceptions.

It's certain that Lu Ye possesses saintliness, and it's quite intense, yet it shouldn't be intense enough not to be suppressed by that layer of blood light...

But peculiarly, such an event just happened.

He felt peculiar because he hadn't understood Lu Ye's prior statements.

Lu Ye had told him before that while he does possess saintliness and can freely wield various secret techniques of the Blood Race, saintliness is merely one of his powers!

This power will surely be suppressed by the source's external blood light, as it carries the force of the Blood Ancestor's Treasure Blood, its saintliness far beyond Lu Ye's reach.

But Lu Ye possesses not only saintliness; he himself is also a human race combat cultivator. Standing here, he indeed cannot activate his own saintliness, and the Blood Race's secret techniques are difficult to perform. Yet, his mana remains unaffected.

If it were Xiang Yin, she might not even be able to approach the Origin.

Hu Dequan, seeing the situation wasn't right, wanted to step forward to stop it, but in the next instant, his eyes widened significantly.

Because as Lu Ye's large hand touched the Origin, the hazy blood light surrounding it started to undergo some strange changes. Originally, this blood light was like a layer of shell tightly enveloping the Origin, but now it seemed to be boiling.

At this moment, extremely tiny, almost undetectable roots extended from Lu Ye's palm, in the blink of an eye wrapping the large Origin.

Lu Ye activated the power of the Talent Tree!

If the Origin is seen as a cultivator, then the hazy blood light is like an intrusion into the cultivator's body, similar to the curse poison in the merfolk race bloodline, akin to the Soul-Devouring Aphid in Yaya's Divine Sea back then.

Lu Ye activated the Talent Tree's power to see if he could refine away this blood light.

In just a moment of contact, Lu Ye knew this could be done!

Because with the activation of the Talent Tree's power, the layer of blood light had some abnormal reactions.

The blood light transformed into blood mist, as if wanting to evaporate, and the color of the blood light steadily weakened.

Hu Dequan finally came to his senses, leaped to stand in front of Lu Ye, suspicious and uncertain: "Brother Lu, what are you doing?"

He had wanted to stop it just now because whatever Lu Ye is doing, the Origin must not be touched casually. If Lu Ye harbored ill intentions, the battle would be lost without even fighting.

But having seen the change in the Origin, he realized that what Lu Ye was doing seemed to be good for the Origin.

"Talk later," Lu Ye replied, focusing wholeheartedly on activating the power of the Talent Tree. At this moment, he keenly sensed the refining process of the blood light causing some profound essence to be absorbed into his body through the roots of the Talent Tree.

He felt his own saintliness rapidly enhancing!

Originally, after arriving in this realm, he had bestowed much treasure blood, which had actually led to the loss of his own saintliness. However, due to his saintliness being too intense, this damage was not very noticeable. Compared to other members of the Blood Race, he still had enough advantage to crush them in terms of saintliness.

To supplement the loss of saintliness, he would have to refine more Blood Race Sacred Blood.

He certainly couldn't find Blood Race Sacred Blood for the time being, yet unexpectedly, he found a huge supplement here!

As he pondered, Lu Ye realized that this blood light is the manifestation of the Blood Ancestor's treasure blood. His intent was merely to refine it away, thereby relieving the pressure on the Origin Consciousness, maybe enabling it to assist his side in the upcoming battle.

But this process of refining turned it into cultivation resources similar to spirit jade.

In the refining process of spirit jade, the roots of the Talent Tree probe into the spirit jade, refining impurities while absorbing the energy for oneself, strengthening one's own foundation.

Currently, the spirit jade is replaced by this layer of blood light; essentially his present state is no different from normal cultivation.

It's just that in this cultivation, his cultivation level is not increased; what grows rapidly is his Blood Race saintliness.

Huge supplement!

The previously lost saintliness was quickly replenished, and it continued to enhance.

Hu Dequan stood aside and watched, increasingly confirming that Lu Ye's actions were beneficial to the Origin, so he no longer had the thought of stopping him, leaving him here, and started overseeing various matters of defense construction.

Lu Ye originally thought he could quickly refine that layer of blood light cleanly. Who knew regardless of his refining efforts, that layer of blood light showed no signs of weakening.

But the growth of his internal saintliness was visibly discernible.

This led him to gradually understand one thing — it was not only the surface of the Origin that was stained by the Blood Ancestor's sacred blood, but internally as well, giving him the illusion that it couldn't be thoroughly refined.

If given enough time, he should be able to restore the Origin to its original state, but currently, there isn't enough time, which posed a dilemma.

Just as he was feeling helpless, he suddenly sensed a force gently touching the protective barrier of his Divine Sea, as if someone was knocking on the door. Lu Ye paused momentarily, quickly realized and hurriedly opened his Divine Sea, urgently immersing himself, manifesting his psyche spirit body.

Inside the Divine Sea, Lu Ye raised his eyes and looked, immediately seeing a new figure here.

An old man with white hair, leaning on a cane.

The figure was very short, roughly the height of a ten-year-old child, with a long beard hanging down to his chest, and a forehead with series of large protruding lumps, resembling mountain peaks.