Under the hazy sunlight, two figures were gliding close to the ground, none other than Lu Ye and Ying Wuji.
However, judging by their sowhat distant manner, Ying Wuji remained vigilant toward Lu Ye at all tis.
Understanding the complexity of human hearts and suspect of others as of himself, Ying Wuji dared not guarantee that Lu Yiye wouldn't strike him down, despite the latter having shown no such intentions thus far, he couldn't be complacent.
People like him would never entrust their fate to soone else's hands, especially when he and Lu Ye were from opposing factions.
Temporary cooperation was acceptable, but real trust was not sothing that could be established so easily.
Lu Ye was aware of this and didn't mind; while weapon control-flying, he also carved a Crystal Stone he held in his hand.
After resolving the issue with the corpse swarm yesterday, he had set out on the road with Ying Wuji.
But so far, they hadn't encountered a single living person, which indicated only one thing.
This shattered Unparalleled Continent was either devoid of life or the living were hiding in extrely concealed places.
Lu Ye was more inclined to believe in the latter possibility.
A vast land, even if damaged by so unknown cause, was unlikely to be completely uninhabited.
Therefore, the priority was to find native cultivators of the Unparalleled Continent, try to gather more intelligence, and also to locate those cultivators from the Nine Provinces who had co with him, to et up with them.
Heaven's Augury had chosen them and gone to great lengths to send them here, hinting that they should join forces, so each of the nine individuals was an indispensable strength.
The journey was undoubtedly monotonous, and Ying Wuji felt sowhat oppressed.
As a ghost cultivator, he was not accustod to traveling with others; he was mostly solitary, especially traveling with soone like Lu Ye, which subconsciously added so pressure.
He tried to strike up a conversation with Lu Ye along the way, but unfortunately never got a response. After a few attempts, he simply gave up.
He had never known that Lu Yiye was such a taciturn character...
Suddenly, Ying Wuji's eyes brightened as he concentrated on sothing ahead, his spirit lifted as he exclaid, "Lu Yiye, it looks like there's a city ahead!"
Lu Ye looked up and indeed saw the outline of a city entering his field of vision. The city wasn't large, but it was the only place they had discovered that day where living people might reside.
The closer they got, the clearer the outline of the city beca.
But gradually, the excitent and anticipation on Ying Wuji's face faded.
The city appeared to be in ruins, seemingly uninhabited for many years, and the city walls bore vague marks of a great battle, with many areas still stained with traces of blood, long since dimd.
Such a city had a minuscule chance of being inhabited by living people.
About thirty miles from the city, Lu Ye suddenly descended.
Ying Wuji paused, following him down and asked, "Aren't we going to explore it?"
Given the rare discovery of such a city, whether there were people or not, it seed like they should take a look, perhaps they would find so useful clues.
"There could be danger," replied Lu Ye, who surprisingly responded this ti and then tossed the Crystal Stone he was holding to him.
Ying Wuji caught it and curiously asked, "What is this?"
Throughout the journey, he had seen Lu Ye carving these Crystal Stones, and although he had asked before, he received no response. Unexpectedly, Lu Ye now gave him one.
"An audio transmission stone!" Lu Ye explained casually while another similar Crystal Stone appeared in his hand, "Keep it with you, and you can contact at any ti. However, it does have a range limit; it's usable within about three thousand miles. Beyond that, it won't work."
This item didn't exist in the Nine Provinces.
Nine Provinces cultivators all had the battlefield marking, which allowed them to communicate with each other as long as they were in the sa Heaven and Earth, negating the need for sothing like an audio transmission stone.
Lu Ye's ability to craft such an item was thanks to his previous visit to the Soaring Dragon World.
In the Soaring Dragon World, cultivators used audio transmission stones to communicate with each other.
Out of curiosity at the ti, he had asked Huang Liang for one to study, discovering it was not too complex to make, mainly due to a voice-transmitting spirit rune that played a key role.
On Lu Ye's Talent Tree, there was a spirit rune called "audio ssage," which wasn't of much use, so he had never used it before.
Audio ssage and audio transmission shared about eighty percent similarity, so after so research, Lu Ye completely mastered the voice-transmitting spirit rune.
Anticipating a future need for audio transmission stones, he had previously purchased suitable materials for making them from the Heaven's Augury treasure vault.
Now was the perfect ti to use them.
In the shattered Unparalleled Continent, the battlefield marking had completely stopped working, which ant they had completely lost contact with the Heaven's Augury of the Nine Provinces. To communicate with each other, audio transmission stones were the only option.
It's just that he hadn't anticipated this situation sooner. If he had anticipated it earlier, before the activation of the teleportation array, he could have left one for each Hua Ci and Giant Armor; finding them now would have been easier.
Ying Wuji's eyes lit up: "What a great item!"
He couldn't stop playing with the audio transmission stone.
Although it was his first encounter with it, being a Cloud River Realm cultivator, he was naturally talented and quickly figured out how to use the item after a brief attempt.
He channeled spirit force into it and casually said sothing into the audio transmission stone.
Lu Ye's stone imdiately reacted, and when he stimulated it with spirit force, Ying Wuji's words from before ca out of the stone.
"This is quite interesting," Ying Wuji said with a smirk.
However, his smile faded as he noticed Lu Ye was staring intently at him.
Ying Wuji's heart sank as he vaguely realized sothing, "What are you implying? Surely you can't be thinking..."
"You are a ghost cultivator!"
Ying Wuji was left feeling frustrated...
He had just asked Lu Ye if they should scout out the city, to which Lu Ye said there might be dangers before tossing him an audio transmission stone.
The intent in those fixed stares was all too clear.
It was obviously his task to scout out the situation!
And as a ghost cultivator, this was indeed his duty to fulfill.
The corners of Ying Wuji's eyes twitched a few tis as he silently assessed the gap in strength between himself and Lu Ye, ultimately deciding to accept the task.
One's fist can't be bigger than others', and a true man knows when to bend and when to stand tall...
"If sothing unexpected happens to ..." Ying Wuji looked as though he wanted to leave so last words.
But Lu Ye cut him off, "Don't worry, if sothing goes wrong, you just need to shout 'Righteous Blood Flows Forever', and I'll imdiately co to rescue you!"
Ying Wuji's twitching intensified: "Are you serious?"
Lu Ye nodded solemnly, "Trust !"
Ying Wuji took a deep breath.
Do I dare not trust you?
Can I afford not to trust you?
With complex emotions, Ying Wuji activated his stealth thod and silently approached the dilapidated city.
After he left, Amber, who had been crouching on Lu Ye's shoulder, shook its body slightly as Yiyi, like a spectral apparition, flashed out and moved through the ground.
To gather intelligence, Lu Ye naturally couldn't rely solely on Ying Wuji; Yiyi following along should allow for a more thorough investigation.
As for himself... his ability to conceal was not necessarily inferior to Ying Wuji's, but one shouldn't put all their eggs in one basket.
Whether there was danger in the city, no one knew. If there really was so unavoidable danger, remaining outside would allow him to think of a way to coordinate a response.
He continued to take out materials to craft new audio transmission stones.
Lu Ye's mind inevitably recalled what the corpse herder he killed yesterday had said.
He had intended to extract so useful information from the man, but that fellow's character was so unbending that he didn't give Lu Ye any chance, forcing him to kill him unwillingly.
Although he didn't wring much information out, the man's last words unintentionally revealed sothing.
Corpse Race!
Undead!
The man must have thought he and Ying Wuji were cultivators from the Unparalleled Continent, hence he didn't avoid these basic details.
Ying Wuji might have heard those words too, but what he thought, Lu Ye didn't know.
Yet many thoughts arose in Lu Ye's mind.
The destruction of the Soaring Dragon World was due to the attachnt of the Blood World, which caused the Heaven-Earth Origin to constantly dissipate until the world t its demise.
And it was the Blood Race, a peculiar race that invaded the Soaring Dragon World.
The Unparalleled Continent didn't have a Blood Race but had a Corpse Race!
Compared to the Blood Race, the Corpse Race seed to be more eerie.
Although the Blood Race was sowhat taller and slender than normal people and mastered many strange Blood Path Secret Techniques, at least they were alive.
The Corpse Race, however, was not living at all!
In terms of danger, the Corpse Race seed harder to deal with than the Blood Race.
The corpse group that was destroyed yesterday had only one true mber of the Corpse Race; all the other rotting corpses were re puppets controlled by it, similar to how the beast-taming faction's cultivators commanded demon beasts.
This race could beco an army on its own. If not for Lu Ye's sufficiently strong willpower and prompt identification of the Corpse Race mber in that group, such an enemy would have been impossible to confront.
How did the Corpse Race co to be?
Could there be a realm such as the Corpse World?
Lu Ye had no answers to these questions.
However, comparatively speaking, the inherent strength of the Corpse Race didn't seem very formidable. As long as one could precisely locate the Corpse Race mbers, slaying them wasn't difficult, and once a Corpse Race mber died, the puppet corpses they controlled would lose the ability to move.
From this perspective, from Lu Ye's stance, the Corpse Race was sowhat easier to handle than the Blood Race.
The vast Void, so many domains – why such calamities?
And what about the Nine Provinces?
Under the seemingly stable conditions of the Nine Provinces, what hidden dangers lurked?
Lu Ye couldn't help thinking of the Insect Race in Xianyuan City.
For ages, the continuous opposition between the two major factions... did it relate to these hidden dangers?
Within the Nine Provinces, did those Divine Sea Realm strong cultivators know of this intelligence?
Living longer or having a higher cultivation didn't necessarily an knowing more.
It was indeed because of Lu Ye's last trip to the Soaring Dragon World that he observed and understood so much.
That mysterious and omnipresent Heaven's Augury even manifested directly before him, engaging in nurous communications!
Among the cultivators of the Nine Provinces, even the strong cultivators of the Divine Sea Realm might not have received such treatnt!
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