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Sage of Humanity-Chapter 725 - 723: Characteristics of the Blood World
The remaining members of the Blood Race were all brought out, and under the direction of Little Miracle Healer, the guard cultivators each took charge of one, maintaining a firm grip so they couldn't budge.
Looking at the woman in front of them, beautiful as a flower with a full figure, the Blood Race all revealed expressions of disdain.
Huang Liang's cruel methods had not been able to subdue them, so what could such a woman, gentle as water, possibly do?
Little Miracle Healer strolled up to one of the Blood Race, softly beginning, "These past two days, I've taken some time to study the corpses of some members of the Blood Race. I've discovered that the bodies of the Blood Race aren't much different from ours, the Soaring Dragon cultivators. They are flesh and blood just like us, they bleed when injured, and they die when the wounds are severe. Although they arrive from beyond the skies, it now seems they are just another race, very similar yet slightly different, born from a world different from the Soaring Dragon World."
As she spoke, she suddenly raised her hand and aimed a point at the Blood Race before her.
A flash of cold light vanished in the blink of an eye.
Lu Ye and the others standing by had a clear view: the fleeting cold light was a fine needle smaller than a strand of hair.
Little Miracle Healer's fingers trembled as she flicked the needle into various spots on the Blood Race's body, one after another.
The Blood Race's expression did not change, frowning deeply, "What have you done?"
He could feel the presence of foreign objects inside him, yet no discomfort, so he truly did not understand what Little Miracle Healer was doing.
"Don't rush." Little Miracle Healer smiled faintly at him, then walked to the second Blood Race.
Her dexterous hands trembled once more, and soon many fine needles were also lodged inside the second Blood Race's body.
She continued in this manner, each of the living Blood Race members had been subjected to her mysterious methods.
It was only then that Little Miracle Healer stepped back, her eyes curved in a pure and innocent smile, and she said to the Blood Race members, "Whichever of you speaks first will have an easy death."
The Blood Race members each sneered coldly, the first one even spoke with mockery, "Delusional thinking!"
"Don't speak so absolutely." Her soft tone didn't sound like a threat, but rather like she was teasing.
As her words fell, the face of the first Blood Race who had been subjected to her methods suddenly changed. He seemed to endure unimaginable torture and pain and let out a terrible scream.
His screams were so wretched they startled the Soaring Dragon cultivator who guarded him.
The Blood Race member then clutched his head, kneeling on the ground as his eyes quickly filled with blood, his screams incessant.
Another scream followed, coming from the second Blood Race member who had been subjected to her methods.
Then came the third's, the fourth's...
Even the likes of Huang Liang, who had gone through great tumults, felt a chill run down their spines at this sight.
Earlier, Huang Liang had used lightning techniques to torture these Blood Race members, and yet they didn't seem to react as intensely. This Little Miracle Healer, known for her healing and renowned for saving lives throughout the world, what kind of method had she employed to silently inflict such agony upon the Blood Race?
For a moment, the gaze of the elders watching her changed.
Lu Ye had been mentally prepared, and thought to himself, as expected… Such beautiful women, ample and rounded, usually gentle as water, all have another side to their humanity!
Frightening!
Horrible!
This faction of healing cultivators, indeed they all keep their capabilities hidden, they know how to save lives, therefore they naturally understand how to hurt others better than anyone else.
Lu Ye inwardly warned himself, in the future, when encountering enemy healing cultivators in the Nine Provinces, never to take them lightly, who knows what unknown methods they possess.
The screams grew louder and louder, causing many passing cultivators to look over, none understanding exactly what was happening.
However, upon seeing the figures of Huang Liang and others, they vaguely realized something and did not come to interfere.
In front of the trap array, Little Miracle Healer's voice rang out again, "Remember what I just said, I won't tell you a second time."
As her words ended, two of the Blood Race started to speak over each other, "I'll talk, I'll talk!"
Since Little Miracle Healer had acted, it only took the time it takes to brew half a pot of tea for her to break down the psychological defenses of these Blood Race members whom Huang Liang had been at a loss to deal with, causing them to collapse in boundless torment and agony!
Huang Liang and the others all had looks of shock on their faces! At the same time, they felt relieved, thankful that it was Little Miracle Healer, that it was a Soaring Dragon cultivator. Had the Blood Race possessed such methods, it would have been too terrifying.
"Then you go ahead and speak." Little Miracle Healer pointed to the first Blood Race member who had spoken, "Tell us everything about the Blood Race, the Blood World, and everything else you know, and don't leave anything out!"
While speaking, she suddenly pressed down towards the Blood Race's chest. When she withdrew her hand, there were over a dozen fine needles on her palm—it wasn't from compassion but rather because under such torture, the Blood Race simply couldn't speak coherently.
The unbearable pain quickly dissipated, but the continuous screams of his companions were still echoing. Recalling his recent ordeal, that Blood Race member couldn't help but shiver, no longer daring to hesitate, his voice hoarse as he began, "The Blood World is a flowing domain that sustains itself by plundering..."
As his other Blood Race companions wailed endlessly, this one recounted everything he knew without daring to hide anything.
His companions beside him were listening; if he hid anything, surely a companion would interject, and then he would have to endure that torment again.
Time passed, and as they continued to gain understanding of the Blood World and the Blood Race, the expressions of Huang Liang and others became as serious as still water.
Because the intelligence revealed by the Blood Race was truly incredible.
This vast Void was not limited to just the Soaring Dragon domain, a fact everyone was mentally prepared for.
Before the Blood Race, the Soaring Dragon World had already encountered extraterrestrial entities like the Dragon Throne.
If there were extraterrestrial entities, then there must be other domains.
The Blood World was one such domain in the vast Void, but unlike most domains that would be fixed in a certain position in the Void, the Blood World was a mobile domain.
And the entire characteristic of the Blood World was plunder!
In the process of its movement, if it encountered other domains, the Blood World would attach itself to them, plundering and sucking the essence of those domains to strengthen itself.
Every world had its own essence, and the strength of this essence directly influenced the strength of the beings living within that domain.
This kind of essence could also be described as the foundation of the world, the Origin of the world.
For instance, the secret realm of the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain that Lu Ye once entered, its essence was not very strong, because the strongest cultivator living there was only at the Cloud River Realm.
However, the secret realm of the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain was not the domain with the weakest essence. Perhaps in that vast and boundless Void, there were even weaker domains where no civilization had been born, or perhaps they lacked the group of cultivators, merely consisting of ordinary mortals.
The essence of the Soaring Dragon World was undoubtedly stronger than that of the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain, equal to that of the Nine Provinces, for it had given birth to Divine Sea Realm cultivators.
If things had remained this way, the Soaring Dragon World wouldn't have changed much.
But ever since 800 years ago, when the Blood World drifted near the Soaring Dragon World, drastic changes occurred.
A never-disappearing Sky Ravine appeared in the Far North Territory.
The reason for the Sky Ravine's emergence was precisely the attachment of the Blood World, the power of the Blood World that had torn a rift in this domain of the Soaring Dragon World.
It was like a leech attaching itself to a person.
During these 800 years, the Blood World, this leech, had been continuously sucking and plundering the essence of the Soaring Dragon World, causing its foundation to continually erode.
Hence, the cultivation limit of the Soaring Dragon cultivators kept decreasing, from the Divine Sea Realm to the True Lake Realm, from the True Lake Realm to the Cloud River Realm.
If this went on for a few hundred more years, perhaps there would only be the Spirit Stream Realm left...
The sucking and plundering of a world's essence was never a simple matter, often taking hundreds or even thousands of years.
Even if they just had to wait a few hundred or thousand more years, the Blood Race still invaded because their invasion could accelerate the plundering process.
This had always been the standard procedure for the Blood World and the Blood Race when plundering other domains.
First, the Blood World would attach and suck the essence, weakening the strength of the beings in the plundered domain. Then they would invade forcefully, speeding up the process. By the time they chose to invade, the plundered domain usually had no strength left to resist.
In fact, if it hadn't been for Lu Ye setting up a big array in Medicine Valley, saving the allied forces of Soaring Dragon cultivators, everyone should have perished in the previous battle, and once those cultivators died, what strength would the Soaring Dragon cultivation world have to resist the Blood Race?
However, it was not an easy task for the Blood Race to invade other domains.
The Heaven and Earth are sentient, especially in domains like Soaring Dragon that could nurture a community of cultivators. The Will of Heaven and Earth was omnipresent. Perhaps this Will did not have spiritual intelligence, but when Heaven and Earth suffer severe damage and are on the brink of extinction, there will inevitably be some reactive responses.
This is the root of heroes emerging from troubled times, these heroes all bear great fortunes, a manifestation of Heaven and Earth's Will to address great calamities.
The disasters between Heaven and Earth themselves can provoke reactive responses from the Will of Heaven and Earth, and if there is an invasion by foreign enemies, the response might be even more intense.
So, if the Blood Race wants to invade other domains, they must have an inside connection! Without an inside connection, they can't forcibly descend.
In the Soaring Dragon World, the Sky Ravine Sect played such a role.
The Sect Hierarch of the Sky Ravine Sect, Celestial Saint, had been comprehending the secrets of the Sky Ravine for decades, which led to some unknown connections with the Blood Race.
The Blood River Great Array was precisely passed down by the Blood Race, used to facilitate the descent of the Blood Race into this world.
Even so, after the Blood Race descended into the Soaring Dragon World, they were still affected by this world. Even Divine Sea Realm Blood Race members could only exert the strength of Peak Cloud River Realm upon arriving here.
This was similar to the rules imposed on the Nine Provinces' Spirit Stream battlefield.
The suppression of Heaven and Earth couldn't be contended by individuals; only the Heaven and Earth of the same level could counteract it.
Now that the Blood Race had invaded, the reason they had taken no action over these two days, nor come back with a vengeance, was not because they did not want to avenge their dead kin, but because they had more important matters to attend to.
They were constructing a special altar, drawing the complete descent of the Blood World. Once the Blood World fully descended, the essence of the Soaring Dragon World would be plundered in an extremely short time.
By then, any grudge could be avenged.