Sage of Humanity

It's quite simple to verify whether a cultivator is a healing cultivator; just observe the healing methods they use, and it becomes clear at a glance.

The purpose of the cultivator from the 8th Heaven injuring Hua Ci was just this.

Hua Ci raised her hand, a soft and warm emerald light emanating from the palm of her hand. This light enveloped the wound, and in the time it takes for three breaths, the gory wound stopped bleeding. After several more breaths, Hua Ci withdrew her hand.

The few observers looked toward the wound and raised their eyebrows in surprise.

Because the wound had actually started to show signs of healing!

When Hua Ci revealed the properties of her spirit force, the others had mostly concluded that she wasn't lying, because only the spirit force of a healing cultivator could be so gentle and warm. But now, having seen Hua Ci's method, they realized they had somewhat underestimated her.

Such a healing speed was not something an ordinary healing cultivator could achieve, which undoubtedly indicated that the healer before them possessed extremely profound medical skills.

"Which sect are you from?" asked the cultivator from the 8th Heaven.

"Independent cultivator," Hua Ci of course wouldn't be foolish enough to tell others that she was from the Righteous Blood Sect.

The cultivator from the 8th Heaven neither agreed nor disagreed.

Among independent cultivators, all types of schools can be found, but the number of healing cultivators is the rarest. It's uncommon for a healing cultivator to become an independent cultivator because any healing cultivator, no matter their level of cultivation or how profound their medical skills, is a target for big sects to court.

No sect would complain about having too many healing cultivators.

Especially someone like Hua Ci, who was at Level 9, which is considered a not insignificant level of cultivation even in the Spirit Stream battlefield; how could she possibly be a wild healing cultivator.

However, the cultivators from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge didn't bother to delve into her background. They had captured Hua Ci alive at this moment, and although they wouldn't take her life, if she wanted to regain her freedom, it would certainly require her backing sect to pay a price to ransom her.

At that time, they would naturally be able to clarify her origins.

This was also an unwritten rule that had existed in the Spirit Stream battleground since ancient times.

"Hand over your storage sack!" the cultivator from the 8th Heaven reached out.

Hua Ci did not resist; she took off the storage sack from her waist and tossed it to the other party. Her storage sack didn't contain much, at most some elixir pills and spirit stones used for cultivation, along with a few Spiritual Artifacts.

Moments later, the group set out on their journey again. A few cultivators from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge found Hua Ci's weapon control-flying speed too slow, so the cultivator from the 8th Heaven carried her instead.

No one bound her freedom, nor was there any mistreatment, because no one considered a Level 9 healing cultivator a threat to them.

"Where are you headed?" Hua Ci asked.

"Ten Thousand Poisons Forest!" The cultivator from the 8th Heaven flying the weapon replied offhandedly.

Hua Ci nodded slightly and said no more. The cultivators from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge could never have imagined that this satisfactory answer to Hua Ci would allow them to narrowly escape a catastrophe.

Being carried by the cultivator from the 8th Heaven, they moved much faster than Hua Ci could have managed flying her weapon by herself.

Deep within the Ten Thousand Poisons Forest, Lu Ye's dormant consciousness began to stir and slowly wake up.

There was a feeling of weakness in his body, and without a few days of rest, he wouldn't recover. However, the blood robe he wore had been taken off, and all his wounds had been bandaged up; it must have been Yiyi's handiwork.

"How long have I been asleep?"

"Almost two days," Yiyi pulled out a water bladder from her storage sack and handed it to Lu Ye.

Lu Ye took it, drinking deeply, then turned to look around.

The Array he had set up was still in operation, conserved by the spiritual force. Within the area covered by the Array, they were shielded from the poison fog's corrosion. However, outside the Array, the surroundings flowed with a vibrant green color—that was the poisonous barrier of the Ten Thousand Poisons Forest.

From the barrier of the Array came constant crackling noises, evidently from poisons corroding the Array. But as long as there were enough Spirit Stones, there was no worry that the Array's barrier would be damaged.

Green was flowing on Yiyi's body, which was obviously a sign of poisoning.

Looking towards Giant Armor, his condition was even more serious; his whole body had a greenish hue, his eyes deeply sunken, giving off the appearance of a man on the brink of death. If it wasn't for Giant Armor's strong physique, he probably would have been poisoned to death by now.

Only Amber was radiant with clear spirit light on her body.

"The things I gave you, they didn't work?" Lu Ye frowned.

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"They did, but I think Brother Giant Armor had too much accumulated poison. So those things could only suppress it temporarily and couldn't completely eradicate the poison from his body."

Before Lu Ye's arrival, Giant Armor had constantly used his spirit force to protect Amber, keeping her from the harm of the deadly poisons of this place, while Yiyi had been hiding inside Amber's body, naturally not getting poisoned.

But earlier on, in order to steady both Giant Armor and Lu Ye, Yiyi had rushed out of Amber's body. Even though she was a Spiritual Body, the deadly poison in this area still managed to invade her.

A Spiritual Body cannot take royal jelly to detoxify. Fortunately, her symptoms weren't too severe.

While Lu Ye was unconscious, following his instructions, Yiyi had administered royal jelly to Giant Armor. Initially, the effect was significant, but the suppressed poison within his body burst forth again, and after several iterations of this cycle, the royal jelly had lost most of its effectiveness.

Lu Ye turned to look at Giant Armor.

"How are you feeling?"

Giant Armor revealed a goofy smile towards him, which was uglier than crying.

Lu Ye knew his condition was bad.

This is troublesome.

The violent toxicity within Giant Armor was so fierce that not even royal jelly could detoxify it. To cure the poison, they probably could only send him back to the Righteous Blood Sect headquarters and ask Second Senior Sister to take action.

But they were trapped in the Ten Thousand Poisons Forest, and Lu Ye's own power was greatly reduced. How could they break through the heavy encirclement of the Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators and escape from this place?

Although he did not know the exact situation outside, it was certain that Ten Thousand Demons Ridge had definitely surrounded the area, and with his current state, there was no chance of leaving.

Maybe he could use the Talent Tree's power to burn the toxins?

But the Talent Tree was rooted in Lu Ye's Root Spiritual Orifice, and when he activated the power of the Talent Tree, only many imperceptible roots would extend from his body, devouring any energy they could consume. How could they burn the deadly poison inside Giant Armor?

Lu Ye briefly tried and discovered that this method was completely impractical.

What he could do now was to prompt his spirit force to penetrate into Giant Armor's body and use the characteristics of his fire attribute spirit force to burn the pill poison. But not only was this method inefficient, but it also greatly harmed Giant Armor himself.

"Lu Ye, is there no other way?" Yiyi looked at Giant Armor worriedly. These past few days, she had watched Giant Armor steadily weaken. Her heart was anxious, yet she was powerless to help.

Lu Ye pondered for a moment, then raised his head to look at Giant Armor, "Is it possible for you to advance to Cloud River?"

Giant Armor's current cultivation level was 7th Heaven, but Lu Ye knew this was not his limit. If Giant Armor was willing, he could open more spiritual orifices because he possessed a demonic pill that could store a large amount of spirit force!

He had maintained the cultivation level of 7th Heaven because Lu Ye's level was at this stage. All along, he had suppressed his cultivation to match the realm of Lu Ye.

This might be due to Giant Armor's own personality or perhaps a habit formed while following Sima Yang before; he would never allow his cultivation to surpass the person he followed.

Lu Ye had noticed this early on.

Lu Ye did not know exactly how much spirit force was stored in Giant Armor's demonic pill, but if he could advance to Cloud River, then there was a way out of this deadly situation.

The Spirit Stream battlefield could only accommodate cultivators of the Spirit Stream Realm. If Giant Armor were to advance here, he would be ejected by the Spirit Stream battlefield and sent back to the Nine Provinces sect headquarters, where Second Senior Sister would definitely save him.

Throughout the ages, many cultivators chose to advance to Cloud River in their own residence within the Spirit Stream battlefield because the place was rich in Spiritual Energy and safe. So, the fact that cultivators would be expelled after advancing to Cloud River was well-known. Lu Ye had heard of such cases but had never witnessed it.

"I don't know," Giant Armor replied with a buzzing voice.

"Give it a try!"

Whether Giant Armor could advance to Cloud River here or not, having a higher cultivation level was always beneficial. Perhaps with a higher cultivation level, his condition might improve a bit.

Giant Armor nodded at those words and closed his eyes.

As the spirit force surged, a series of soft popping sounds emerged, signaling the shattering of the spiritual orifice barriers.

Even though Lu Ye had once experienced the terrifying speed of Giant Armor opening his orifices, he couldn't help but twitch at the corner of his eyes.

For any cultivator, breaking through the spiritual orifice barriers required time, but to Giant Armor, opening orifices was virtually unimpeded; wherever the spirit force traveled, the barriers were shattered.

Lu Ye estimated that this was related to the abundant spirit force within Giant Armor.

A riverbank might hold back the river's flow, but it certainly cannot withstand the impact of floodwaters.

Within a brief moment, sixty sounds of breaking were heard.

After a while, when Giant Armor linked these freshly opened sixty orifices with spirit force to complete a new Minor Circumambulation cycle, he successfully advanced to 8th Heaven.

The sound of shattering spiritual orifice barriers rang out again, and Lu Ye and Yiyi counted the sequence nearby.

Another sixty sounds of breaking resounded, and Lu Ye understood that all along, he had underestimated the amount of spirit force stored in the demonic pill within Giant Armor.

Giant Armor had had the resources to advance to Cloud River for quite some time already.

The biggest obstacle preventing his advancement in the past was the lack of merit to purchase a Heaven Rank technique, but ever since Lu Ye helped him gather the merits required to buy a Heaven Rank technique, his path forward was clear.

With three hundred and sixty orifices opened within his body, but because Giant Armor had not formed a Circumambulation with the last sixty orifices, the cultivation level he displayed was still 8th Heaven.

All orifices had been opened; Giant Armor could advance to Cloud River and leave this place at any moment.

"Go back and tell Second Senior Sister and the sect master not to worry about me," Lu Ye instructed him as he apportioned some of the various spoils he had obtained recently into a storage sack and tied it around his waist.

Perhaps because of the advancement in cultivation, Giant Armor's complexion seemed to have improved compared to before.

Giant Armor looked at him and then suddenly leaned against a large tree, his arms folded, giving Lu Ye his back.

What does this mean? Lu Ye was utterly confused.

"He doesn't want to go; he's worried about you," Yiyi spoke up from the side.

Lu Ye couldn't help but chuckle, stood up, walked next to Giant Armor, and crouched beside him, speaking earnestly, "You don't want me to clean up your corpse here, do you? Go back to the sect, find Second Senior Sister. She is the only one who can save you now. I'm not trying to drive you away, but we really have no choice at this point. You don't need to worry about me; I'm immune to all poisons. This place is dangerous for others, but it's nothing to me."

"I'll take you, we'll fight our way out!" Giant Armor suddenly said with a fierce expression.