Sage of Humanity
Chapter 912 - 910: The Talent Tree Transformation is Complete

Hearing Qian Wudang say this, Lu Ye finally understood that he had been messaging Nian Yuexian earlier.

Although they hadn't been together for very long, Lu Ye had some understanding of his own Mountain Pass Chief's temperament. If she didn't want to engage with someone, no matter how they tried to message her, she wouldn't respond.

Qian Wudang was clearly unable to contact Nian Yuexian, so he asked Lu Ye to relay the message.

With no other choice, Lu Ye had to use the guard token to contact Nian Yuexian.

Soon there was a response, and seeing this, Qian Wudang was rendered quite helpless.

"Sir, how should I reply?" Lu Ye looked up at Qian Wudang.

"Just tell her I have urgent matters and ask her to contact me," Qian Wudang instructed.

Lu Ye did as instructed, then raised his head with a peculiar expression to look at Qian Wudang.

"What is it?"

"Sir, my Mountain Pass Chief tells you to scram!" Lu Ye reported truthfully.

Qian Wudang was instantly troubled.

Lu Ye was also troubled; two Divine Sea Realm strong cultivators were using him as a relay, and one of them was even speaking unpleasantly—what sort of situation was this?

"Also, sir, the Mountain Pass Chief ordered me to return to Cangyan Mountain Pass within two days and not to stay for any reason!" Lu Ye continued.

Qian Wudang sighed, the guard token was issued, and he couldn't reach Nian Yuexian, so he couldn't keep Lu Ye, which he regretted. Thinking it over, he could only agree with the proposal Lu Ye had just made: "Let's go with what you said earlier; I'll send someone to Cangyan Mountain Pass every seven days to collect goods. If you go out, let me know in advance."

"Understood." Lu Ye accepted the order.

"Here's the material needed for the next seven days." Qian Wudang tossed a storage sack to Lu Ye.

Lu Ye took it and checked, finding another ten thousand Fire Spirit Stones inside.

After leaving the Justice Department, Lu Ye didn't immediately set off for Cangyan Mountain Pass. Instead, he sent a message to Warlord Geng and the others to arrange a small gathering.

A few days ago, when the A-3 squad members were recovering from their injuries, they had mentioned this to Lu Ye.

After all, having survived together and completed their task in excess, it was naturally deserving of celebration. But at that time, Lu Ye was under orders to refine Explosive Fire Spirit Stones and couldn't leave casually, so he postponed it.

Now, as he was about to return to Cangyan Mountain Pass, he naturally had to fulfill his promise to others.

The gathering location was chosen by Warlord Geng, and it was at a restaurant in Haotian City. Cultivators' gatherings had nothing novel, mostly drinking, chatting about the wider world, and sometimes sparring if the mood struck, which made it lively.

The bonds between them deepened a bit.

After eating and drinking their fill, they each went their separate ways, and Lu Ye made a visit to the Heaven's Augury Hall.

The Boulder Mountain Saber had been repaired!

Retrieving the Boulder Mountain Saber, Lu Ye felt a sense of peace. The days without the Boulder Mountain Saber by his side felt like something was missing. Now that the long saber was back with him, he finally felt complete.

Without lingering, he activated his spirit force, instantly dissipating the slight intoxication and soared into the sky, heading straight in the direction of Cangyan Mountain Pass.

On the way there, he encountered those mysterious organization's cultivators. But on the return journey, the road was smooth and uneventful.

By evening, he finally reached Cangyan Mountain Pass, heading straight for the spirit mountaintop where Nian Yuexian's bamboo tower was located.

From afar, he saw Nian Yuexian seemingly idly sitting by the window on the second floor, propping her cheek with one hand and gazing in his direction.

When their eyes met, Nian Yuexian immediately withdrew her gaze, turning to fiddle with her fingers instead.

Lu Ye arrived below the bamboo tower, cupped his fists, and called out loudly, "Sir, this subordinate requests to return from leave and report back!"

"Hmm," Nian Yuexian responded softly, continuing to look at her long, fair fingers as if there was a flower on them.

Lu Ye maintained his salute posture, waited for a moment, and seeing she had no other instructions, he said, "This subordinate takes his leave."

He turned and headed towards his own bamboo tower.

Behind him, Nian Yuexian opened her mouth, wanting to ask how he felt about carrying out tasks with the Justice Department's team this time and whether he encountered any dangers, but in the end, she didn't speak.

Years of solitary living had long made her forget how to engage with others properly.

She hadn't even realized that during this mission, Lu Ye had actually slain a Divine Sea Realm.

Since returning from Haotian City, life was uneventful.

Every day, besides cultivating, Lu Ye had the Talent Tree devour Fire Spirit Stones, and then he would patrol outside with Yiyi and Amber for one shichen.

Though he knew patrolling near Cangyan Mountain Pass wouldn't yield much, he felt he needed to justify his monthly salary as Roving Colonel.

If he didn't patrol, he felt unworthy of that thirty thousand battle merit monthly salary.

Nian Yuexian was still the same, elusive, and Lu Ye often wouldn't see her for days. Occasionally, when they did meet, they would merely exchange greetings and pass by each other.

Nothing happened on Cangyan Mountain Pass's side, but a major event occurred in Nine Provinces.

The Cloud River battlefield had reopened!

Calculating the time, the domain fusion had been going on for almost two months and indeed should have ended.

The reopening of the Cloud River battlefield meant a significant loss of Cloud River Realm cultivators from the frontline checkpoints since, for the Cloud River Realm, the Cloud River battlefield was their main destination.

Of course, not every Cloud River Realm would go to the Cloud River battlefield. The checkpoints never lacked cultivators eager to earn battle merit. Not to mention the Cloud River Realm, even Spirit Stream Realm cultivators were present.

After all, regardless of cultivation level, as long as they joined the Bingzhou guard, had their own military rank and position, there was a monthly salary. Each pass also had tasks that Cloud River Realm and Spirit Stream Realm cultivators could perform, exchanging monthly salaries for spirit sticks, cultivation doesn't fall too far behind.

In comparison to this major event in the Nine Provinces, something is also happening on the side of Bingzhou.

The Ziwei Dao Palace has been founded!

On that day, it was proclaimed to Bingzhou, bowing to the Righteous Blood Sect as the superior sect, selecting thirty peaks within Mount Ao as the foundation of their sect, and to aid each other with the Righteous Blood Sect.

The news sparked some attention.

But that was all.

Not to mention that Ziwei Dao Palace is a sect from the Unparalleled Continent with no formidable cultivators, even the Righteous Blood Sect no longer has its past glory.

The combination of these two sects is like a newborn baby seeking refuge with a senile old man, not much noticed by the powerful forces.

Fortunately, the old man's connections are widespread, so on the day of Ziwei Dao Palace's founding, many big sects' Divine Sea Realm cultivators came to congratulate, creating a bustling scene.

It also allowed this group of cultivators from the Unparalleled Continent at Ziwei Dao Palace to truly feel the might of the Divine Sea Realm!

Inside the bamboo loft, Lu Ye sat cross-legged, with a fire spirit stone in each hand, harnessing the power of the Talent Tree to constantly absorb, his expression remained calm on the surface, but his heart was full of anticipation.

Nothing else, it seems the Talent Tree is about to complete its transformation!

Finally, it's going to be completed.

Since perceiving the Talent Tree's sign of transformation at the volcano mouth of Cangyan Mountain until now, more than a month has passed, during which Lu Ye didn't know how many fire spirit stones he had consumed.

Most of his gains from the underground cave were fed to the Talent Tree, and the consumption was immense.

He initially thought that with the gains from the underground cave, he would never again worry about the Talent Tree's fuel problem, but now it seems, he was too naïve.

The consumption was so large that it made him even more expectant of the Talent Tree's transformation, eager to know what changes would occur after its transformation.

Now that the transformation is imminent, he devoted himself fully to this matter, even setting aside his cultivation.

After more than half a day, not knowing how many fire spirit stones consumed, as his mind immersed, the Talent Tree hidden in the location of his Root Spiritual Orifice suddenly burst with brilliance, its roots swaying.

In an instant, for the first time, Lu Ye clearly sensed the existence of the Talent Tree!

He couldn't sense it before.

Although the Talent Tree had always been hidden in his Root Spiritual Orifice, and he could "see" it each time he immersed his mind, Lu Ye had no feeling of its existence.

Until this moment!

Lu Ye acutely perceived that, at the location of his Root Spiritual Orifice, there was something miraculous living in symbiosis with him!

Has the transformation been completed?

As this thought passed, Lu Ye was dumbfounded, for the Talent Tree suddenly contracted violently, and in the blink of an eye turned into a flame...

To call it a flame is more fitting to say it's a fire seed because its shape is like a seed.

The transformation wasn't over yet, the seed blazed, suddenly the fire light expanded, and with the rolling flames, the seed sprouted, grew, and then a large tree appeared in the field of vision.

Lu Ye concentrated and observed, only at this moment did he finally confirm that the Talent Tree's transformation was completed!

But... it seems not much changed?

The unignited leaves on the Talent Tree were still shrouded in darkness, and the lit leaves seemed to be slightly more vivid in color.

Beyond that, there wasn't anything particularly different.

The roots appeared somewhat more luxuriant...

Just this?

Lu Ye's heart sank to the bottom; he spent a vast amount of fire spirit stones, with more than half of the underground cave gains invested in the Talent Tree's transformation, tirelessly for over a month, and the result... just this?

No, it shouldn't be this way!

He immediately calmed his senses, and sure enough, soon he felt some subtle differences.

Previously he couldn't sense the existence of the Talent Tree, naturally, he couldn't sense the interior intricacies of the Talent Tree.

Now it's different. He detected the existence of this divine object itself and could sense the internal intricacies of the Talent Tree through perception.

For instance... the storage of fuel!

The Talent Tree just completed its transformation, so there's naturally no stored fuel internally, though there was some before, but it was all consumed during the transformation process.

At this moment, as the spirit force from the fire spirit stones in his hands continually depleted, fuel began to accumulate within the Talent Tree.

Continuing to calmly sense, Lu Ye soon had a facial expression change.

Even though he couldn't put it into words, he seemed to detect some changes in the Talent Tree, and these changes manifested outwardly...

Thoughts surging, he immediately took out a mid-grade spirit stone, held it in his palm, then urged the Talent Tree's power, concentrating and observing.

The next moment, what appeared was a scene that left him both delighted and shocked.

An invisible root that only he could see extended from his palm, enveloping the mid-grade spirit stone, and as thoughts surged, a powerful suction and devouring force came from within the tiny roots.

The spirit force within the mid-grade spirit stone vanished at a terrifying speed, pouring into Lu Ye's body along with the roots!

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Caught a cold, feeling all sorts of discomfort.

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