Humanity's Great Sage

Chapter 796, You’re Not a Bad Person

Translator: Jon

Translation Checker: Silavin

Darkness descended upon the entire Peerless Continent. There used to be beautiful nights with a sky full of Stars and a bright Moon. However, after the Divine Transformation, none of those things were seen again.

During the day, a turbid Sun would shine on the entire Continent, but at night, it was pitch-black.

In the wilderness, the fire flickered as the commoners came together to keep each other warm. The cultivators stood around them to keep them safe.

Wu Jun, who was now without an arm, was responsible for keeping guard in a particular direction along with several cultivators.

Suddenly, someone seemed to be rapidly approaching them in the darkness.

“Who are you!?” Wu Jun growled.

“It’s me,” the person replied.

Upon hearing the familiar voice, Wu Jun let out a sigh of relief, for their Commander was there.

With Lu Ye’s protection, they ran away from the base and arrived at this place, which was the meeting point where Zui Shan and Xu Wang had agreed upon. It was to ensure that they would meet again after they parted ways.

They had been waiting for Zui Shan, and upon his arrival, they finally felt relieved.

Soon, the news of Zui Shan’s return spread among them. The atmosphere of anxiety around them finally dissipated.

As Xu Wang approached Zui Shan, he couldn’t help but ask, “Are you injured or anything?”

Zui Shan took a glance at Ying Wuji, who had followed them to this place. With this man around, it was impossible that Zui Shan would be injured.

“It’s a long story.” Zui Shan shook his head. If not for Ying Wuji appearing suddenly and killing their strongest enemy, these people would’ve probably lost their lives and wouldn’t have met up with the rest of the people from the base.

“How about your side? Did anyone pass away?” Zui Shan asked grimly.

After killing the people from the Pure Land, they left the place through the passageway. Along the way, they saw many corpses. It showed that the cultivators they had come across were not the only people from the Pure Land who had tried to attack their base.

More enemies must’ve tried to intercept the people from the base in the passageway. That was why Zui Shan was worried.

“Well, no one was killed.” With a conflicted expression, Xu Wang turned to look in a particular direction. He would never forget about what he had witnessed.

After he left the passageway, he saw a man standing there on his own with a saber in his hand. Corpses lay around him as the ground was dyed red with blood. At that moment, that man looked towering to all of them.

The entire battle had only lasted for around ten breaths of time, from start to finish.

He was able to kill more than ten cultivators from the Pure Land on his own. That number excluded the ones he had destroyed in the passageway.

If Xu Wang hadn’t seen it with his eyes, he could never have believed there existed such an incredible cultivator.

“It seems that a certain someone is unimaginably powerful.” Zui Shan understood what Xu Wang meant and looked in the same direction, where Lu Ye was seated there while carving a crystal with his Inviolable Saber.

While on their way earlier, Ying Wuji seemed to understand that Zui Shan was worried, so he placated him by saying, “Don’t worry about them since they have my Senior Brother’s protection. Regardless of how many people there are from the Pure Land, he can kill them all. If he finds out where their headquarters is, he’ll go there and destroy it on his own. He’s good at eliminating Sects.”

It seemed that Ying Wuji had a lot of confidence in his Senior Brother, and as though recalling some unpleasant memories, he couldn’t help but shudder.

At that time, Zui Shan only thought that Ying Wuji was overstating his Senior Brother’s abilities. After all, Ying Wuji was already incredibly powerful, but even he was full of praise for Lu Ye. How fiercely powerful must the man be?

Now, it seemed that his claims were true. Lu Ye didn’t seem like a bad person. It was just that he was taciturn and distant. Had he really destroyed many Sects?

After a brief conversation with Xu Wang, Zui Shan approached Lu Ye and saluted him. “Thanks for your help, Cultivator Lu and Cultivator Ying. I’ll never forget about your favour.”

Now, he was finally certain that these two men had no ill intentions against their base.

“That was the least we could do. There’s no need to thank us,” Lu Ye replied impassively.

Ying Wuji asked, “Since you’ve abandoned the base, is there anywhere you can go?”

“There’s a spare base 300 kilometres from here. We’re going there,” Zui Shan replied.

“That’s great.” Ying Wuji nodded.

Zui Shan saluted them again. “Will you please escort us to our next base?”

There were many commoners among them, so they couldn’t walk quickly. Both Lu Ye and Ying Wuji were immensely powerful. With their protection, the safety of these people would be ensured.

However, they were merely acquaintances, and they couldn’t provide any benefits that were tempting enough.

As such, Zui Shan could only come up with such a request with sincerity.

“Sur…” Ying Wuji had almost agreed to it. He quickly turned to look at Lu Ye. “My Senior Brother will make the call.”

Although he could tell that Lu Ye had the intention of escorting them to their next base, he wouldn’t dare agree to it on his behalf.

“There’s no problem.” Lu Ye nodded.

Zui Shan was elated. “Thanks!”

“You don’t have to keep us company, Commander. Please attend to your affairs.”

Only then did Zui Shan leave the place.

Ying Wuji examined Lu Ye before he smiled and muttered, “Actually, you’re not a bad person.”

Lu Ye didn’t even spare him a glance. “What makes you think I’m a bad person?”

Ying Wuji snorted. “Don’t you remember you’re called the Annihilator of Sects?”

“In the environment of Jiu Zhou, the two sides have been at war for a long time. No one is inherently good or bad. All of us are just ordinary people who do things against our own wishes. From the perspective of Thousand Demon Ridge, I’m a horrible person who has killed many people, but that’s only because you’re on the opposing side. From the perspective of the Grand Sky Coalition, you’re an evil person too.”

Ying Wuji smacked his lips. “I’m just saying, so there’s no need to lecture me. I understand where you’re coming from. Although you’re younger than me, you’re boring and old-fashioned.”

Lu Ye finally glanced at him. “Are you so forgetful? Or do you think I can’t wield a saber again? Or have I been treating you too well?”

Ying Wuji’s expression changed instantly. “Lu Yi Ye, I’m just trying to have a conversation with you, so there isn’t a need for you to threaten me. You’re unreasonable!”

With that, he quickly ran away from him. Since he couldn’t afford to offend him, he decided to stay away from him.

Lu Ye then continued carving the crystal with his Inviolable Saber.

He wasn’t just trying to make more transmission stones. This kind of meticulous carving was also a form of training to help improve his Way of Blades.

Before the break of dawn, the cultivators told the commoners to get ready and continued their journey.

During peaceful times, the cultivators could activate their Spiritual Powers and take the commoners with them to fly in the sky. There wasn’t a need to walk across such a long distance.

However, in this current environment, the cultivators wouldn’t use their Spiritual Powers unless it was necessary to do so. First of all, they had to save some energy. Secondly, they were worried the fluctuations of Spiritual Powers would bring them trouble.

Therefore, everyone walked forward on the ground.

Around 300 kilometres was a long distance for the commoners, but they had no choice but to do it for their survival.

If the Peerless Continent could return to normalcy one day, the descendants would recall the hardship their ancestors had gone through and think of it as the most tragic chapter in their history.

They plodded forward as cautiously as they could. Fortunately, there were no twists and turns. Luck seemed to be on the side of this group of people who were trying to survive. Corpse Race members and cultivators from the Pure Land, whom Zui Shan was worried they would bump into, were nowhere in sight.

The next evening, they finally arrived at their spare base.

In this apocalyptic era, all Humans had learned to have several locations where they could go to.

When they settled down in the first base more than ten years ago, Zui Shan led some people to create another base to serve as a spare.

It had never been in use for the past ten years, but now, it had become their sanctuary.

The environment in the second base wasn’t so different from the first one. It was located 900 metres beneath the ground.

Zui Shan led some people to look around the new base, and upon making sure that no one else had discovered this location, he told everyone to enter the place and settle down.

The exodus was finally over, and the people could set their minds at ease.

While Zui Shan helped everyone settle down in the base, Xu Wang asked Lu Ye to help build a Grand Ward near the entrance.

The first time Xu Wang saw Lu Ye, he knew the latter was well-versed in the Way of Wards. Now that they had to build a new Grand Ward, he naturally wanted to seek his help.

Lu Ye didn’t turn him down, and Xu Wang was thankful for that.

When they jointly built the Grand Ward, Xu Wang asked him many questions, and Lu Ye told him everything he knew. Xu Wang had learned a lot from him.

After the Grand Ward was completed, tears threatened to stream down from Xu Wang’s eyes.

The Grand Ward was more powerful than anything he could build. Although the power of the Grand Ward hadn’t been activated yet, he could feel that with the Grand Ward in place, they wouldn’t have to worry about any ill-intentioned people who came to attack them.

Lu Ye even passed Xu Wang a jade slip. “It contains my understanding of and insights on the Way of Wards.”

When Xu Wang took it, his wrinkled hands were seen trembling.

In such an era, this thing was invaluable. He had learned the Way of Wards from a tattered ancient book. Since he hadn’t learned it in a systematic way, he hadn’t achieved much.

Considering that he could become knowledgeable in the Way of Wards by learning from an old book, it showed that he had an aptitude for this Way. Now that he had the jade slip given to him by Lu Ye, he might achieve a breakthrough in his lifetime.

Such a thing was significantly more valuable than cultivation resources in this apocalyptic era, but Lu Ye just gave it to him for free, which was why he was thankful.

“Are you leaving soon, Little Friend?”

Although Xu Wang had already expected it, he still couldn’t help feeling dejected when the time came. It would be wonderful if such a talented person could stay in their base.

That said, he understood that a pond could never accommodate a Flood Dragon and an eagle was meant to fly in the sky.

Their base was too small for Lu Ye and Ying Wuji, so they didn’t have the capital to make them stay.