Sage of Humanity

If the power of an array disc could only cover such a small range when activated, then its effectiveness would be rather limited.

Of course, this might be related to his current cultivation being restricted, along with his lack of skilled techniques in refining the array disc.

Perhaps in the future, when his cultivation increases and his skills improve, this kind of array disc might cover a larger area.

Just as he was thinking this, a heart-wrenching scream suddenly came through.

Lu Ye furrowed his brows and looked in the direction the sound came from.

The scream came again. Initially, Lu Ye thought someone had fallen victim to something sinister, but he quickly realized the situation might not be as he imagined.

He stood up and walked out of the cave, following the direction of the sound.

The sound came from the direction of the cave entrance, where the human race women who were pregnant resided.

As Lu Ye approached, the pregnant mothers in each cave dwelling peeked out, faces full of worry.

When they noticed Lu Ye's footsteps, these women quickly retracted their heads, hiding in the corners.

Lu Ye walked straight to the doorway on his left, glanced inside, and found a woman sitting on the ground with a pale complexion. Her face and forehead were covered in sweat, her hair disheveled. One hand was gripping the stone wall beside her so tightly that blood dripped from it, while the other hand was on her belly.

Blood was flowing between her legs.

This woman... was about to give birth.

Even though he had guessed this, Lu Ye had never encountered such a situation before and did not know how to handle it for a moment.

Fortunately, he quickly reacted and turned his head to shout, "Does anyone know how to deliver a baby?"

This couldn't be the first time a human woman had given birth here. Surely someone had given birth before and someone had experience.

No one dared to speak.

To these human women who were taken here, they hadn't left their cave dwellings since arriving here, nor had they spoken to anyone. Naturally, they dared not answer Lu Ye's question.

Lu Ye frowned and had to speak again, "Who has experience? Come out and help!"

Still, no response.

Lu Ye had no choice but to enter the cave himself since he couldn't just grab someone randomly to help; it might make things worse.

As he walked in, the woman in labor looked up, gazing at him with a mixture of pain and a pleading look in her eyes.

Lu Ye stepped forward, thought for a moment, and placed his hand on her shoulder, "I don't know what to do, this is something you'll have to work on yourself, but I'll try my best to support you."

Saying this, he gently channeled some spirit force into her body.

The woman was not an ordinary person; she possessed some cultivation, but it was low, at the Spirit Stream Level 4.

Even so, the pain of childbirth was unbearable for her. In such an environment, without anyone to assist, there was a real danger to her life.

With the activation of spirit force, the woman's tightly furrowed brows relaxed slightly, and she took a deep breath, exerting effort, letting out a suppressed scream.

At this moment, Lu Ye had a look of disbelief on his face, because he had discovered something difficult to comprehend as he silently sensed the woman's internal condition by channeling spirit force.

Time passed, and the woman's labor was not progressing well. Despite several bursts of strength, she still couldn't deliver the fetus, becoming weaker instead, and even her life force gradually waned. How could she have the strength to continue giving birth?

The human race giving birth to the Blood Race's offspring required a vast consumption of the mother's essence. Typically, women who had given birth to a Blood Race child wouldn't live long.

Often, human women would die during childbirth.

At such times, the Blood Race would cut open the abdomen to retrieve the embryo.

As for now, Lu Ye could clearly feel that the embryo within the woman's womb was voraciously devouring everything from the mother's body, which was why, despite her Spirit Stream Level 4 cultivation, she couldn't successfully deliver the fetus.

Had it been a normal fetus, it would have been born by now.

Feeling the woman's dwindling life force, Lu Ye knew that if he did nothing, she would surely die here.

Without further hesitation, he activated the Twin Flying Phoenixes Spirit Runes on the woman.

In an instant, the spirit runes were constructed, and the woman, who had fallen into despair with tears at the corners of her eyes, suddenly opened her eyes. She felt a surging and astonishing life force being infused into her in an unknown way, like a parched land receiving rainfall, not only granting her strength but also swiftly replenishing the essence devoured by the fetus during pregnancy.

She naturally knew the source of all this, turned her head to look at Lu Ye gripping her arm, and cast him a grateful glance before exerting her strength again.

Shortly after, with the woman's final scream, the fetus was successfully born.

Lu Ye looked up ahead, his eyelids slightly drooping.

There was no sound of a baby's cry because the Blood Race's offspring did not emerge in the form of a baby.

What the woman gave birth to was an oval-shaped, blood-red egg with visible veins.

At a glance, it looked like a fleshy egg, with its surface veins gently pulsing, as if it were breathing.

In the Blood Race's terminology, this was a Blood Embryo!

To nurture a blood embryo, the Blood Race must send it to certain special places, only then will it hatch and transform into a true member of the Blood Race. And the place to nurture these blood embryos is called the Blood River!

Throughout the Blood Refinement World, the Blood River runs through all directions, with branches in various locations. One could say the Blood River is the foundation of the Blood Race in the Blood Refinement World.

Without the Blood River, there would be no Blood Race.

These pieces of information were all glimpsed by Lu Ye from the memories of the deceased Blood Race member.

Lu Ye gazed at the blood embryo, recalling the intelligence he had obtained, only to be caught off guard when the woman beside him suddenly stood up and drew the Boulder Mountain Saber from his waist, fiercely chopping at the blood embryo between her legs.

With just one slash, a gap was cleaved into the blood embryo.

However, because the Boulder Mountain Saber was not particularly sharp, it failed to cut it open completely.

The woman's action of pulling out the saber undoubtedly left Lu Ye astonished. In this world, within the beliefs of the human race, the Blood Race was sacred and inviolable. No matter what the Blood Race did to them, they would silently endure it. Even if their lives were demanded by the Blood Race, they wouldn't resist.

This was neither weakness nor cowardice, but ingrained ideology at work over a long period.

Not only did the Blood Race treat the human race in this world like livestock, but even the human race themselves only saw themselves as such.

Under such overwhelming forces, for a human woman to have the courage to draw a saber and strike at a blood embryo was utterly unbelievable.

So, although he could have stopped her, he didn't take action.

He just watched as the woman cried and shouted, wielding the Boulder Mountain Saber, and hacked the blood embryo into pieces.

The ground was flowing with fresh blood.

When the blood embryo was completely unrecognizable, the woman finally broke down into tears, a heart-wrenching sob.

Lu Ye silently retrieved the Boulder Mountain Saber, sheathed it, and stood up to exit the cave.

Though he had no experience in childbirth, he knew at least one thing: a lot of hot water was needed at this moment.

He decided to boil some hot water.

There was no need for him to do it himself; he called upon two humans who had previously served Sun Miaozhu, gave them simple instructions, and soon a basin of hot water was brought.

Lu Ye personally delivered it to the woman's cave, allowing her to cleanse herself before he left.

Though pregnancy and birth had depleted her significantly, with the nourishment of the Twin Flying Phoenixes Spirit Runes, she had replenished herself. After resting briefly, she was completely restored.

A flurry of activity.

Two hours later, while Lu Ye was researching how to better refine the Spirit Runes Array with the As-Close-As-Siblings Spirit Runes, he heard footsteps approaching. Soon, someone stopped in front of his cave entrance.

Lu Ye set down the array disc he was holding and looked up to see the woman standing there shyly. She must have washed herself; the previous filth was gone, but her clothes were still dirty with nothing to change into.

Her hair was slightly tidied, yet a bit disheveled.

She stood nervously at the cave entrance, meeting Lu Ye's gaze. After a moment's hesitation, she raised her head and walked straight in, knelt before Lu Ye, and knocked her head on the ground several times.

Probably intending to express gratitude.

After all, without Lu Ye, she would most likely be dead.

Lu Ye activated his spirit force and raised a hand.

The woman's upper body involuntarily straightened.

"What's your name?" Lu Ye asked.

The woman replied, "Lann Qiyue."

Her voice carried a trace of hoarseness. Although her body's depletion had been restored due to Lu Ye, she had just been shouting so loudly.

"Why did you kill the blood embryo?" Lu Ye asked again, "After all, it was birthed by you."

The now-calm Lann Qiyue suddenly became agitated again, "The Blood Race are all vile! If he grew up, who knows how many people he would harm, so I killed him!"

Lu Ye noticed one thing: she referred to the Blood Race not as the Sacred Race but directly as the Blood Race, and there was no reverence, only endless hatred and resentment.

This was something entirely absent in the villagers of Cangnan Village.

It seemed that even under the overwhelming forces of the Blood Refinement World, there were still those who were naturally resistant.

"Do you think I shouldn't have killed?" Lann Qiyue looked at Lu Ye.

"No." Lu Ye shook his head, "Even if you hadn't killed, I wouldn't have let him live."

Though innocent the young might be, blood race is ultimately blood race. As Lann Qiyue said, if he grew up, who knows how many humans he would harm. Lu Ye never intended for the blood embryo to survive.

Receiving such an answer, Lann Qiyue was clearly surprised. She looked at Lu Ye with a stunned expression. She did not know who Lu Ye was; she only saw him return with Zhang Julai the previous day and assumed Lu Ye to be Zhang's Blood Slave.

But today, her life had been saved by Lu Ye, so she did not want to deceive him and answered straightly.

As it turned out, the man before her didn't seem like a Blood Slave. After all, a Blood Slave would never harbor intent to harm a Blood Race member.