Sage of Humanity-Chapter 473 - 471 My Name is Pang Dahai

"Xia Qianqian, what on earth is going on?" Pang Dahai didn't show any abnormality towards Lu Ye, withdrew his gaze, and looked towards Xia Qianqian.

"I'll explain in a moment."

Pang Dahai frowned, took out his inscription tablet to check it, and his face twitched with distress as he said, "They deducted five hundred points of battle merit from me!"

Just as he had said, at such a critical moment of defending the city, leaving one's post without permission would result in the deduction of battle merits. Five hundred points of battle merit was not a small amount, enough to buy two spirit fortune sticks.

Another streak of sword light whistled in, and once the light dispersed, a majestic figure appeared. It was a sword cultivator.

Pang Dahai greeted him enthusiastically, "Brother Zhou Hai!"

Zhou Hai nodded slightly in greeting, landed, stood to one side, took out an elixir pill and popped it into his mouth, then started to silently regulate his breath.

People kept arriving and in a short while, there were already seven or eight people who had rushed here from different directions, obviously all summoned by Xia Qianqian. What was noteworthy was that Pang Dahai seemed to be familiar with everyone; no matter who arrived, he managed to exchange a few words with them.

Lu Ye observed from the side and although he couldn't precisely determine these people's cultivation, he could still roughly gauge it. Among those who came, not one was below the Cloud River Level 5 realm, especially the earlier-arrived Pang Dahai and that sword cultivator named Zhou Hai; both of them should be at the Cloud River Level 9 realm, just like Xia Qianqian.

After waiting for a moment longer, no one else came.

Pang Dahai said, "All who should be here have arrived, and those who aren't here probably can't make it now. So what's really going on?"

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A pair of eyes turned towards Xia Qianqian.

Xia Qianqian spoke calmly, "We've found the reason for the demon beasts' madness!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the eyes of the Nine Provinces cultivators gathered here lit up.

Since entering the secret realm of the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain and learning about the situation the domain was facing, everyone had been investigating the cause of the demon beasts' madness. The cultivators from the Nine Provinces, much like the local cultivators of the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain, had captured many mad demon beasts for research, but no progress had been made until now.

Now that they heard Xia Qianqian say this, they were all naturally intrigued.

Because in the eyes of Nine Provinces cultivators, only by knowing why the demon beasts went mad could they take targeted actions.

Lu Ye could tell that Two Worlds City would not hold; could others fail to see it? If they only fighting to defend the city, it would ultimately be a dead end.

All had cultivated to the Cloud River realm, and no one wanted to die here.

"What reason?"

"An insect!" Xia Qianqian replied, sharing the discoveries they had made before.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Hai, without uttering a word, dashed off. In a brief moment, he returned by Sword Control, but this time he was holding a struggling, roaring demon beast in his hand. The beast resembled a blood fox, with blood-red fur like a burning flame, extremely beautiful.

"Three inches behind the neck?" Zhou Hai looked at Xia Qianqian.

The latter nodded, "It was in this position before!"

When the sword light flashed, the blood fox held in Zhou Hai's hand let out a pitiful cry as blood splattered.

All eyes turned towards Zhou Hai's longsword, only to see a cicada-like creature struggling and squirming on its tip.

However, the next moment the insect burst into a clump of black fluid. Zhou Hai, with quick reflexes, incited his spirit force, enveloped the black liquid, and eradicated it into nothingness.

"There really was an insect!"

Everyone, now seeing with their own eyes, confirmed the accuracy of Xia Qianqian's information.

Someone spoke, "Strange. If those demon beasts were controlled by parasite insects, why couldn't we find these insects in the beasts' carcasses? We especially studied many demon beast carcasses before, but didn't find anything."

"There's only one explanation then," said Pang Dahai gravely, looking grief-stricken, "the insect must have burst open at the moment of the host's death, just like what happened just now! I hate insects!"

Most of the others wore expressions of agreement.

"However, such an insect capable of parasitically controlling demon beasts is unique; never seen before. Could it be that there is an insect hive somewhere?"

"The question now is where is the insect hive? If we could locate the insect hive, then it would be easy to handle."

"Fellow Daoist Xia, since you've summoned us here, you must have some clues, right?"

All eyes once again turned to Xia Qianqian. "There are indeed clues, but the clue wasn't found by me," Xia Qianqian said. "It was discovered by our Fellow Daoist Ye Liu. He has a beast pet with an exceptional sense of perception. It was parasitized by one of those insects, and it was he who found out about them. Moreover, when his pet was parasitized, it sensed some peculiar connections in a certain direction. If we are not mistaken, that direction might lead us to the location of the insect hive!"

Following the direction of Xia Qianqian's finger, everyone looked towards Lu Ye.

The chubby man said with interest, "You're called Ye Liu? What a coincidence, I have a friend with the same name. Let me introduce myself, my name is Pang Dahai!"

"Fellow Daoist Pang!"

"Let's talk about the insect hive."

"I'm not too clear about the insect hive, but when my pet beast was parasitically controlled, I did sense something in one direction. And according to some clues we obtained later, that direction points to the site of the Black Tortoise Sect, which is precisely where the madness outbreak started!"

Everyone's eyes lit up upon hearing this, and Zhou Hai said, "Then there's no mistake, the insect hive is at the Black Tortoise Sect!"

"There's no time to lose, let's set off now and deal with the insect hive quickly, then everything will be resolved!"

"Wait a moment, someone hasn't arrived yet!" Xia Qianqian called out.

Just then, a streak of light rapidly approached, it was the Great Elder who had volunteered to go to the City Lord's Residence earlier. At this moment, the Great Elder's expression was quite ugly. As soon as he landed, he cursed, "Liew Wuzhai, that old fool, is senseless and unreasonable! How can he still play political games with me at a time like this?" Saying this, he cupped his fist towards Lu Ye, "Young Master, I have failed in my task!"

"What did the City Lord say?"

The Great Elder angrily said, "That old dog not only ignored my advice, but he also wouldn't allow us to leave Two Worlds City. He has declared that if we dare desert in the face of battle, we would be considered criminals of Two Worlds City and henceforth forbidden from setting foot inside it ever again!"

The surviving cultivators of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect listened with righteous indignation, their expressions filled with anger.

Lu Ye said, "There's no need to care about that, we will act on our own!"

It was then that the Great Elder realized there were seven or eight more people on this side. He asked in confusion, "Young Master, who are these...?"

"Fellow Daoists who came to help after hearing the news," Lu Ye casually explained.

The Great Elder was overjoyed, "That's wonderful!" His heart sighed with emotion; his Young Master had indeed grown tremendously and was no longer the pampered young lord who was oblivious to the suffering of the common people.

While the two were conversing, Pang Dahai and the other Nine Provinces cultivators were taken aback. Pang Dahai leaned over to Xia Qianqian and whispered, "This old man is from the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain, right? Why is he calling Ye Liu Young Master? What's Ye Liu's status here?"

"Young Master of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect."

"Ten Thousand Beasts Sect?" Pang Dahai was initially stunned, and then exclaimed in surprise, "This guy is that lucky? I've been in and out of various secret realms so many times, yet I've never seen anyone with such a high status."

A bitter feeling arose in Xia Qianqian's heart, "Neither have I."

"This guy must be someone with astounding fortune, otherwise, he wouldn't be so favored by Heaven's Augury. Plus, he was the one who discovered the issue with the bugs, tsk tsk, impressive... And what about you? What's your status?"

"It's none of your business!" Xia Qianqian snapped, annoyed. How could she admit to being a Young Master's maid? After all, wasn't she also a cultivator of the Cloud River Level 9? Didn't she have any pride?

Pang Dahai snickered, he seemed to have realized something.

Xia Qianqian kicked Pang Dahai in the calf, causing him to stagger before she said, "Everyone's here now, let's set out."

No one had any objections.

The protective array at Section A-3 of the city wall wasn't activated, leaving them to exit the Two Worlds City through a nearby breach. A group of people immediately brought out their Flying Spirit Artifacts and shot up into the sky, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

The remaining Crimson Fire Camp cultivators were left dumbfounded, and the survived deputy camp head quickly sent a message to the City Lord's Residence to report the situation.

Xia Qianqian had gathered around seven or eight cultivators, and although their numbers weren't large, their overall strength was formidable. Especially Pang Dahai and Zhou Hai, both of whom were at Level 9 cultivation. Including Xia Qianqian, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect's Great Elder, and the old woman, there were altogether five cultivators at Level 9 in this team.

The rest were mostly above the Cloud River Level 5.

Only Lu Ye and Lan Ziyi were at Level 2, but their Level 2 was different from the ordinary; they had once been ranked first and second on the Spirit Stream Ranking. The strength they could exhibit was far more than typical for their level, so they wouldn't be a drag on the team.

A group of less than twenty people broke out of Two Worlds City with two physique cultivators leading the way. The rest killed their enemies using weapon control or magic and spells. When this group charged into the overwhelming demon beast swarm, multicolored glows began to blossom, as powerful magic and spells annihilated waves of demon beasts. Wherever the team passed, bodies of demon beasts fell like dumplings to the ground below.

Located in the middle of the team, Lu Ye, with the Great Elder of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and others behind him, didn't face too much pressure. Even so, the continuous onslaught of demon beasts still wore him down. The number of demon beasts was too overwhelming; it seemed like all the demon beasts from the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain had converged around Two Worlds City. The swarms of demon beasts in the sky were dense enough to obscure the sun's light, and those rampaging on the ground were like an unstoppable torrent.

Even though their team was powerful, by the time they had spent a full half-hour breaking out of the encircling demon beasts, they had experienced some casualties.

Three figures had vanished, two from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and one was a Nine Provinces cultivator; Lu Ye vaguely remembered that one was a short-statured ghost cultivator.

The fates of these three was unknown; they had been separated from the group by the demon beasts during the breakout.

Even after they had broken out of the encirclement, a large number of demon beasts continued to pursue them from behind. These avian demon beasts had no special talents except for one: their exceptionally fast flying speed, which made shaking them off no easy task.