Humanity's Great Sage

Chapter 787, Is He a Corpse Race Member as Well?

Translator: Jon

Translation Checker: Silavin

Although many thoughts turned over in Lu Ye’s mind, he never stopped what he was doing. On the other hand, Ying Wuji had snuck into the city while Yi Yi followed him in secret. They hadn’t discovered anything so far.

Lu Ye reckoned that there wouldn’t be useful clues in the city. If the local cultivators had to go into hiding because of a crisis, they wouldn’t hide in such a conspicuous place. They would probably choose an ancient forest or somewhere else.

As time passed, there came a moment when Lu Ye suddenly lifted his head and turned to look in a particular direction.

He felt some fluctuations of Spiritual Powers coming from over there. It seemed that some people were in a fight.

The day before, he had discovered Ying Wuji the same way. Therefore, the moment he detected the noise, he was surprised. Perhaps a cultivator from Jiu Zhou was nearby.

He quickly kept the unfinished transmission stone and shot forward in that direction.

As the distance shortened, he discovered that his speculation was wrong. One of the parties wasn’t from Jiu Zhou, for their Spiritual Powers were not powerful.

When he arrived somewhere near the battlefield, he leapt onto a branch and looked down, after which he saw both parties in the fight.

One of the parties was one man and two women. There was no doubt the man was the most powerful. The fluctuations of his Spiritual Power showed that he was in the Fifth-Order Cloud River Realm.

The two women, one was in her thirties while the other was a young woman who was 17 or 18, had only ascended to the Cloud River Realm.

Of the three of them, the man was the most badly injured. There was a huge wound that ran from his chest to his abdomen. The flesh around the wound had rolled up, and even his face was livid.

However, he still steadfastly protected the two women, ensuring that they were not hurt. As such, even though the women looked dishevelled, they were generally fine.

Lu Ye turned to look at their opponent and was surprised because the person couldn’t be considered a Human.

His body was withered, looking like a corpse that had been left there to rot for years, and his skin was full of cracks. A corpse like this, which looked like it had been years since the person passed away, appeared more powerful than the injured man.

Moreover, his combat style was brutal, and he was unimaginably strengthful. He wasn’t holding any Spirit Artifact, but his sharp nails were the best weapon. The wound that ran across the man’s chest and abdomen was caused by the nails.

Besides that, Lu Ye realised that his physique was extraordinarily robust. Faced with the attacks from three people, he didn’t dodge at all. He let the artifacts strike him, but he wasn’t hurt one bit. The weapons only left some marks on his shrivelled body.

[Is he a Corpse Race member as well?] Lu Ye was both shocked and doubtful.

The Corpse Race member Lu Ye came across the day before wasn’t as powerful, but he could control thousands of corpses, so he shared some similarities with Beastmasters.

Nevertheless, the one before Lu Ye’s eyes was different. He didn’t have any corpses under his control, but he could dominate his opponents with his extremely robust body.

A Corpse Race member like this was more like a Body-tempering Cultivator. However, compared with the Body-tempering Cultivators in Jiu Zhou, this Corpse Race member seemed to have a stronger body.

In comparison, the Corpse Race member from the day before relied on the large group of corpses he controlled, but this one could make use of his own strength.

“Run! I’ll hold him up!” Since the situation wasn’t in their favour, the injured man told them to run away. Then, he charged towards the opponent without worrying about his own safety.

Initially, there were six people on their team, and two of them were stronger than this man.

However, after they bumped into this Corpse Race member, their team was easily destroyed. A short moment after their exchange of moves, three of them were killed, and this man was injured. Only the two women were safe as they were well-protected. It might also be because the Corpse Race member didn’t set his eyes on them since they were the weakest.

Nonetheless, if it went on like this, all of them would be killed. There was no doubt the man was doomed, but if he could hold this Corpse Race member up before his death, his companions might stand a chance to survive.

In this apocalyptic era, Human nature was complicated. Many people betrayed each other, and even the closest friends might get into battles. However, there were also those who were sincere to one another.

When the woman saw the man charging towards the Corpse Race member, she exclaimed in shock, “Husband!”

The young woman took her arm and said in a flustered tone, “Let’s run, Aunt Shen!”

The woman turned around as tears streamed down her cheeks. Although she was reluctant to leave and fuming deep within, they had no choice but to run in such a situation.

“None of you can leave!” The withered corpse snorted upon seeing that. His voice was so hoarse that it didn’t sound like a Human voice. It was more like the howl of a ghost from Hell. He extended his hideous hand and clawed at the male cultivator.

Faced with the pungent Corpse Qi, the male cultivator almost couldn’t breathe. After he was struck, a patch of his flesh was torn apart.

Then, he was attacked again and sent flying away before he fell to the ground in front of the ladies.

The young woman, who was trying to lug the woman away, instantly knew that they could no longer leave. She quickly helped the man up, and when she straightened up, the Corpse Race member had reached them.

Faced with imminent death, the woman was relieved. The fury and hatred behind her gaze was gone. With her eyes full of love and tenderness, she turned to look at the man, who was spitting blood.

In the end, she didn’t leave her Husband behind. Although they would soon be separated by death, she was glad that they could die together.

“Ah!” the young woman exclaimed just then.

Initially, the Corpse Race member, who was about to make a move, thought that the young woman was horrified, but he soon realised something was off.

That was because the young woman didn’t look at him, Instead, she looked behind him.

Right then, the sound of breaking through the air was heard, and it came with the powerful fluctuations of Spiritual Power.

[There’s someone else!] The Corpse Race member had no choice but to turn around instead of dealing with the three of them first. He saw a fiery figure leaping into the air with his palm around the hilt, ready to unsheathe the saber and strike.

As soon as the other party’s aura had locked onto him, the Corpse Race member felt a prickly sensation on his skin, which was rare.

He found it inconceivable, for Corpse Race members knew no pain. Soon, he realised that the prickly sensation on his skin didn’t come from his body but from his heart. It showed that his opponent was formidable.

The Corpse Race member growled as his withered flesh tightened. His physique was robust in the first place, and it was now even sturdier. Even Human cultivators who were stronger than him might not be able to hurt him. As long as he wasn’t hurt, he could kill his opponent.

*Clang!* The saber was unsheathed as a fiery Saber Light slashed across the Corpse Race member. Lu Ye skirted past his opponent and stood in front of the three of them.

The young woman and the woman were both shocked and doubtful, for they couldn’t see what had happened.

The wounded middle-aged man was more powerful than them, but he also couldn’t clearly see the exchange of moves earlier.

Following the attack, the Corpse Race member, who almost destroyed their entire team, became rooted to the spot. A gurgling sound was faintly heard coming from his throat.

Lu Ye put his saber back into the sheath as the blade and the inside of the sheath rubbed against each other. As though impacted by the noise, the head of the Corpse Race member fell to the ground. The incision was smooth, and the stinky green blood spurted from his wound.

The Spiritual Power around Lu Ye surged. The blood was burned before it could even come into contact with him.

“Ah!” the young woman exclaimed again. Her eyes were full of horror and disbelief. She looked at the beheaded Corpse Race member on the ground before shifting her attention to the icy-looking Lu Ye. She couldn’t believe that such a powerful Corpse Race member was easily destroyed.

Moreover, the person who had made a move was only older than her by one to two years. Everything felt surreal.

She reckoned that even the strongest cultivator in their base, Senior Zui Shan, was weaker than this man.

“You’re struck with poison. Do you have Antidote Pills?” Lu Ye asked the man while looking at him.

The Corpse Qi contained Corpse Poison. He had found out about it when fighting the corpses the day before. However, the Corpse Poison wasn’t so harmful to the cultivators. They just had to form a protective layer around their figures by activating their Spiritual Powers to fend off the poison.

Even if they were struck with the poison, they could dispel it by running their Spiritual Powers within their bodies.

Although the man was badly wounded, it wouldn’t be hard for him to recover, considering his power.

The thing was, he was struck with poison, so he had to quickly dispel it to make sure he had the energy to recuperate.

Upon hearing Lu Ye’s words, the middle-aged man put on a helpless smile and shook his head. “It’s useless. I’m struck with Source Corpse Poison, so it’ll be a waste to use Antidote Pills.”

A puzzled Lu Ye frowned. “Source Corpse Poison?”

He wondered how that was different from ordinary Corpse Poison.

Judging from the man’s words, it seemed that once a person was struck with Source Corpse Poison, it was incurable.

Although the middle-aged man was on his last legs, he found Lu Ye’s reaction strange.

Source Corpse Poison was the main way the Corpse Race members turned Humans into their own. Once a person was struck with such poison, it was incurable. [Has this young man never heard of it before?]

He wasn’t in a hurry to ask Lu Ye anything. Instead, he turned to look at the sorrowful woman. “Please deal with their corpses.”

The woman shook her head.

The man said, “I can hold on for a while longer. I’ll wait for your return!”

Only then did the woman get to her feet and look longingly at the man. “You must wait for my return!”

She activated her Spiritual Power and shot into the sky to look for the corpses of their companions.

After she was gone, the man sat down with the young woman’s help.

His panting showed that he was activating his Spiritual Power to suppress something. He glanced at Lu Ye and asked, “Which Hidden Realm are you from, Little Brother?”

Lu Ye was powerful despite his young age. In this broken Peerless Continent, only a small number of Hidden Realms could nurture such a person. People like them, who scattered around different bases and struggled to survive, faced immense difficulty in nurturing cultivators like the young woman.