saint of humanity

In a snow-white, nameless land, sharp laughter echoed incessantly, concealing endless resentment and the pleasure of revenge.

Lu Ye stood motionless, covered in filth, his stiff expression slowly turning into a mocking one. Across from him, Jin Yao's eyes were filled with pity.

The laughter abruptly stopped, and the person stared blankly at Lu Ye: "You...are you alright?"

Lu Ye casually put away the Heavenly Needle and said slowly, "Why is something wrong with me?" As he said this, his body trembled slightly, and the filth all over his body was swept away, as if it had never existed.

He finally understood why the spirit of the Heavenly Needle was so hostile to him, showing no intention of compromise even after the death of the Crimson Weaver, and even going so far as to expose itself in order to launch an attack.

All because the spirit of this Heavenly Needle is also a member of the Feather Clan!
At this moment, the spirit of the Heavenly Needle manifested before them, appearing as an old woman of the Feather Clan. Without a doubt, this must be some senior member of the Feather Clan who, before dying, used some secret technique to transform her soul into the spirit of the Heavenly Needle.

It's similar to Jin Yao's methods.

When Lu Ye chatted with Jin Yao before, he asked about similar methods. He learned from Jin Yao that such methods were not guaranteed to succeed. In other words, even with great determination, there was a high risk of failure. If it failed, the soul and body would be destroyed.

Jin Yao was trapped in this place back then, and it was a glimmer of hope in a desperate situation, so she had no choice but to do it, but fortunately she succeeded in the end.

The Feather Clan of the Origin Realm must have tried countless times before succeeding.

However, since the spirit of the Heavenly Needle was a senior member of the Feather Clan, after Lu Ye killed Zhi Fei and seized this treasure, she certainly wouldn't show any kindness or concern.

There's a reason why the spirit of this precious treasure is so loyal to Zhifei.

"This filthy substance is not the most harmful to the soul..." The spirit of the Heavenly Needle was speaking when it suddenly realized something and turned to look at Jin Yao beside it: "You lied to me?"

It's a good thing she believed Jin Yao's nonsense, saying that this thing couldn't be touched in the slightest. Otherwise, why would she have willingly exposed herself like this?

But now it seems that if this thing is really as terrifying as Jin Yao said, then she should be the first to be affected, because she herself is a soul.

Even after she emerged from that jar, she felt no discomfort whatsoever.

She had mistakenly thought that this would allow her to perish together with the enemy.

Jin Yao looked helpless and sighed, "I told you not to be ungrateful..."

She had given so many names of materials before, making it seem so real that even Lu Ye would have believed her if she hadn't secretly told him.

“There are indeed many methods in this world to obliterate the spirits of supreme treasures, but none of them can be effective within a few days.” Jin Yao sighed, “You’ve lived to be this old, how come you don’t even understand this?”

These words were a bit too harsh, and Lu Ye's eyes twitched as he listened from the side.

The spirit of the Heavenly Needle could not withstand such a blow. Now that it was at its wit's end, the Heavenly Needle had been put away by Lu Ye, and even if it wanted to hide back, it would be a pipe dream.

He could only grit his teeth and shout fiercely, "I'll fight you to the death!"

He stared at Jin Yao with venomous eyes, as if she were a thorn in his side, but then his soul flickered and he crashed straight into Lu Ye.

Lu Ye couldn't help but sigh. The two people in front of him, whether it was Jin Yao or the spirit of the Heavenly Needle, were indeed very cunning and treacherous. Judging from the spirit of the Heavenly Needle's posture, it seemed that she was going to fight Jin Yao to the death, but in reality, she was eyeing Lu Ye, the culprit.

Lu Ye was unprepared, nor did he need to be.

As his body trembled, the spirit of the Heavenly Needle crashed into his soul sea. Jin Yao remained silent and threw herself into the attack.

Lu Ye stood still, focusing his mind on observing the battle between the two within his own divine sea.

There's nothing to worry about. The spirit of the Heavenly Needle is currently like water without a source or a mountain without a foundation. Even without Jin Yao's help, she can't do anything to Lu Ye, not to mention that Jin Yao is also controlling the Soul-Suppressing Bell.

The spirit of the Heavenly Needle's desperate struggle was nothing more than an ant trying to shake a tree, and was not worth worrying about.

Taking advantage of the confrontation between the two, Lu Ye took out the Heavenly Needle again, held it in his palm, and activated the power of the Talent Tree to refine it.

Several days passed in a flash, and Lu Ye looked with delight at the extra fruit that had appeared on the Talent Tree.

It's called a fruit, but it doesn't look like a fruit at all. It's more like a Heavenly Needle hanging on a branch of the Talent Tree.

Jin Yao had already dealt with the spirit of the Heavenly Needle. Standing on the Talent Tree, she curiously examined the Heavenly Needle fruit. The spirit of the Black Coffin stood beside her, one large and one small, looking like a mother and daughter.

Although she had always stayed in this place and knew more or less about the divine power of the Talent Tree, she was still shaken to her core at this moment.

Currently, the Talent Tree contains seven supreme treasures: the Myriad Poison Pearl, the Starry Sky Chessboard, the Azure Sky Mirror, the Nine Profound Heavenly Thunder Seal, the Formless Army Flag, the Soul-Suppressing Bell, and a newly appeared Heaven-Weaving Needle. Each of these treasures has a unique shape and profound power.

There was another black coffin, but it had developed a bulge.

If we include the fruits of time, then there are a total of eight complete fruits.

The treasure of fruit is growing in number on the talent tree.

Jin Yao couldn't help but imagine whether a spectacular scene of a hundred treasures vying for attention would appear here in the future. If so, with the combined power of these many treasures, who in the world could rival them?

She had always wanted to ask Lu Ye a question: what exactly is the Talent Tree?
Even though she was very knowledgeable, she had never heard of a treasure like the Tree of Talent. Treasures were already the pinnacle of the world, so how could the Tree of Talent devour the power of treasures and bear fruit?
Although she was curious, she also knew that there were some things in this world that were worth asking, and some things that were better left unasked.

Regardless of what the talent tree is, it is Lu Ye's greatest asset, and it must involve some secrets.

She is now quite satisfied with her situation. Although she is trapped in the Tree of Talent and cannot escape, it is still better than when she was exhausted and about to perish.

At this moment, Lu Ye did not remain idle, but instead took out the gauntlets left behind by Hong Tu after his death.

He had just briefly examined the power of the Heavenly Needle and was quite satisfied with it. After all, he had personally experienced the power of this treasure, and its destructive power was indeed terrifying.

If that's the case, then we might as well become stronger, so that we will be more threatening when facing powerful enemies in the future.

The reason Hongtu left behind this treasured gauntlet was to enhance the power of the Heavenly Needle.

Several days later, the treasured gauntlet turned to dust and disappeared. The Heavenly Needle Fruit looked largely unchanged, but in reality, its power had increased.

With that, the trip has come to a successful conclusion, and it's time to leave.

Following that unseen intuition, Lu Ye continued forward.

Half a day later, they returned to the courtyard in the Hehe Realm.

Half a day later, Lu Ye appeared outside Hundred Battles City.

When I first came here, this area was filled with numerous Dao-Connecting Cities, but in just a few days, it has become deserted, and the former glory is nowhere to be seen.

Even the massive and magnificent Hundred Battles City appeared somewhat dilapidated, its protective array already broken.

On the day Hongtu and Moduo left one after another, the hearts of many cultivators in the city were in turmoil. With Xuejiu and Sishengsheng launching fierce attacks from the outside, the protective array was completely broken in a short time under these internal and external troubles.

Blood Blade stormed into the city and wreaked havoc. The survivors fled, and the many Dao-Merging Beads gathered in the area, seeing that the Hundred Battles had been defeated, naturally did not linger and scattered in all directions.

When Lu Ye rushed into the Hundred Battles City, he found it to be an empty city, with only two powerful auras remaining in the central hall.

A short while later, Lu Ye stepped into the central hall.

The blood feud and the life of the master, who remained here, looked up at the same time.

Xue Jiu said, "Brother Lu, you're finally back."

Lu Ye glanced at him: "You seem disappointed?"

Xue Jiu hurriedly said, "How could that be? Brother Lu's heroic act of chasing Hongtu to the Hehe Realm and killing him has already spread throughout Xingyuan. I just hope you will come back soon so that we can continue to attack Qianliu."

The Ten Great Dao-Merging Cities, ever since the day Blood Blade fell into the Origin Realm, leaving Blood Drinking City leaderless and subsequently annihilated by the Dragon and Phoenix Clans, seem to have triggered a series of reactions.

A few years later, Ba Qiu died, and Yi Fu City was destroyed.

Then came Senluo City, Shibu City, Wangu City, and today it's Baizhan City.

Throughout the countless years of history, this has never happened before. In all the past dynasties, even if the ten Great Dao Cities changed hands, new Great Dao Cities would soon emerge.

It can be said that there are no fewer than eight of the ten Great Dao Cities.

But now only four remain: Dragon City Phoenix Nest, Crimson Flame City, and Thousand Streams City.

Six of the Ten Greats were destroyed, along with six core fragments. Xue Jiu and Si Shengya each controlled one, Lu Ye had one left, his inner world had fused two, and the last one was right in front of him!
Lu Ye nodded slightly and strode towards the high platform ahead.

Xue Jiu and Si Shengyuan are guarding this place because they are protecting this Universe-level Dao Integration Pearl. This is their greatest spoils of war besides killing Hongtu.

Following Lu Ye's figure, Xue Jiu's gaze followed. He watched as Lu Ye shattered the Dao Integration Pearl with a single punch, then raised his hand and gathered all the fragments of the Dao Integration Pearl together. He couldn't help but feel a surge of emotions.

Back when he rose to power, he put in a lot of effort and thought to upgrade his Dao Integration Pearl. If he had Lu Ye's ability back then, he wouldn't have needed to go through so much trouble to quickly improve the quality of his Dao Integration Pearl.

However, he couldn't possibly use such an unbelievable method; he could only admire it from afar.

"Brother Lu, I've always been curious, how exactly did you manage to capture all these fragments?" The first time I saw such a miraculous method was in the abyss of the Origin Realm.

Those fragments of the Dao Integration Pearl were merely passing through the Origin Realm when Lu Ye forcibly kept them, thus condensing them into the Dao Integration Pearl.

But he still couldn't understand how Lu Ye had managed to do it.

Even though she guessed that Lu Ye wouldn't tell her, she still couldn't help but ask.

As expected, Lu Ye acted as if he hadn't heard the question, causing Xue Jiu to curl his lip in disapproval. (End of Chapter)