On the battlefield, Yue Yao's corpse lay strewn across the ground. Lu Ye had already left.
His opponent's death was a little unjust because he had used the Great Windmill Secret Technique at the last moment …
When Lu Ye first cultivated this Secret Technique, he had wondered if the Insect Race also had an inheritance of this Secret Technique. After all, Qing Fu, who had created this Secret Technique, was from the Insect Race.
However, Lu Ye had never encountered this Secret Technique until today.
When his opponent assumed that posture, he could tell that it was the Great Windmill Secret Technique's starting stance. If it had been another Yue Yao, she would have had no chance of breaking this Secret Technique unless she acted before her opponent's saber aura was activated.
However, Lu Ye had been killed by Qing Fu countless times. In terms of cultivation of this Secret Technique, he was confident that he was not inferior to his opponent. Naturally, he knew the various mysteries of this Secret Technique.
It would be easy to break this Secret Technique.
Of course, even if he had never cultivated this Secret Technique, he only needed to use a Sweeping Technique to distance himself. When his opponent's saber aura was exhausted, he would still be able to easily reap the harvest.
Using this Secret Technique placed a great burden on one's body. Even if his opponent was a late-stage Yue Yao, she would not be able to maintain this Secret Technique for too long.
The twists and turns along the way delayed Lu Ye for about 20 breaths of time. After collecting his opponent's two bone sabers and Storage Ring, he continued on his journey.
After a while, he frowned. All the negative emotions in his mind were swept away at this moment — the Seven Colored Divine Lotus had broken through the Blood Eye!
He had made some progress in observing the Blood Eye Spirit Rune, but not much. At this rate, Lu Ye estimated that he would have to experience another 20 to 30 blinks of the Demonic Eye before he could fully comprehend the Blood Eye Spirit Rune.
This would take a very long time.
The Demonic Eye Spirit Rune had no pattern at all. Even if it came once every month, 20 to 30 blinks would still take two years!
If it came once every three to five months, it would take even longer.
More importantly, after the Blood Eye Spirit Rune was broken, that faint connection had also been severed!
However, Lu Ye did not stop. Instead, he continued to fly forward according to his senses. In his opinion, although the connection had been severed, the source must still be in this direction. If he continued searching like this, he might be able to discover something.
He was not sure if the source was as he guessed, but this was still an opportunity.
If it was as he guessed, then there was one question that could not be explained — why would this source respond to him from afar?
Could it be because of the three red talismans in his body?
The three red talismans came from the Humanoid Race, so it made sense that they were connected to the unknown source.
Because according to Lu Ye's guess, that unknown source was the core of Mount Innerheart!
But in the end, it was still very difficult.
In the past, Yue Yao, who had been sent here by the Dwarf Tribe, would definitely have been bestowed with spirit talismans by the Dwarf Tribe. She might not have three red talismans, but she would at least have one.
He hadn't heard any of the Yue Yao from the other races mention such a thing.
But if it wasn't the red talisman … then what else could it be?
Lu Ye once again thought of Su Yuqing. After becoming one with this woman, his body was tainted with the aura of the minimen race. He had even refined a part of Su Yuqing's cultivation, which was why he was able to participate in the Black Abyss Martial Arts Exhibition as a human.
Mount Innerheart was the birthplace of the Dwarf Tribe, and he had the aura of the Dwarf Tribe on him. Perhaps this was the reason?
But that didn't seem right. Su Yuqing had said that for some reason, the core of Mount Innerheart had been avoiding the Dwarf Tribe. Thus, in the early days, the Yue Yao of the Dwarf Tribe had come here to search, but they had found nothing. Left with no choice, they had asked the Yue Yao of the other races to deal with this matter.
In the end, the Yue Yao of the other races had also found nothing, and some of them had even gone missing.
If this was purely because of the aura of the Dwarf Tribe, there was no reason for Su Yuqing not to mention this matter.
He couldn't understand … so he could only search for the source and investigate.
Whether this source was the core of Mount Innerheart or not, he would know once he found it.
Actually, he was still puzzled about one thing — why would the core of Mount Innerheart hide from the Dwarf Tribe? Logically speaking, it should have taken the initiative to accept them. After all, the relationship between the two races was extraordinary, and the entire Dwarf Tribe had been born from Mount Innerheart.
There were many questions that couldn't be answered.
He continued forward, but he found nothing.
It wasn't until a few days later that Lu Ye, who was searching along the way, sensed something approaching her area from afar.
The other party didn't have any signs of life, so it shouldn't be a living thing. Its speed didn't seem very fast either.
He released his divine perception to investigate, and soon discovered that it was a meteorite about the size of a water tank. It didn't look very eye-catching, but it could be seen everywhere in this wonder.
This meteorite was probably being moved by some kind of power, and it was drifting in this wonder. This was a very common situation. Lu Ye had encountered many meteorites like this before, so he didn't pay much attention to it.
He just glanced at it out of habit.
Lu Ye didn't expect to see trouble with just one glance.
Almost at the same time that he noticed this meteorite flying toward him, he suddenly felt a great sense of danger, and an inexplicable feeling of impending doom lingered in his heart.
Lu Ye immediately stopped, and at the same time, he became vigilant of his surroundings.
He thought that there was some powerful expert lying in ambush around him! And to be able to make him feel such a sense of danger, and to be unable to detect any traces of it, this expert must be very powerful!
Just as this thought flashed through his mind, he suddenly discovered that the meteorite flying toward him had unreasonably increased its speed by a lot.
In the blink of an eye, it had arrived a few dozen kilometres in front of him!
Suddenly, an inexplicable mysterious force surged out, causing ripples to appear in the void, spreading out in all directions with the meteorite as the centre.
Almost at the same time as this mysterious force surged out, Lu Ye fled backwards.
The next moment, his eyes widened greatly, because as the ripples in the void disappeared, everything within a few dozen kilometres around the meteorite had disappeared.
It was as if everything had been swallowed by the meteorite.
Lu Ye felt a burst of fear. Fortunately, he had reacted quickly enough, otherwise, even he would have been swallowed up. Although he didn't know what the consequences of being swallowed up like this would be, it obviously wasn't a good thing.
Seeing that Lu Ye was unharmed, the meteorite sped up even more and flew straight towards him.
Lu Ye was shocked. Was this … coming for him?
He didn't dare to be sure, so he immediately dodged and flashed to the side. The inconspicuous meteorite also changed its direction and followed closely behind him. The mysterious energy fluctuated from time to time, and everywhere it passed, large expanses of the void would become a vacuum.
After a moment, Lu Ye finally confirmed one thing. This meteorite was indeed coming for him, because no matter how he changed direction, the other party was still hot on his tail.
This was clearly a meteorite without any signs of life and looked like it could be seen anywhere, but it actually had such a mysterious ability.
There was only one thought in Lu Ye's mind — found it!
This was obviously the core of Miniscule Mountain!
To be honest, he didn't think that his trip would go so smoothly. Because since ancient times, the Lesser Humans had already spent too much time, manpower, energy, and material resources on this matter, but so far, there hadn't been much progress.
Lu Ye had come here because Su Yuqing had personally mentioned this matter to him, and also because he thought that if he could find the core of Miniscule Mountain, he could fuse Miniscule Mountain with Jade Conch and become its backing.
But he didn't think that he would definitely succeed on this trip, and he had long been mentally prepared to return empty-handed.
So he never thought that he would actually really find the core of Miniscule Mountain!
Or rather … the core of Miniscule Mountain had found him!
The reason why he could determine that this was the core of Miniscule Mountain was naturally because of its strange devouring power!
There was definitely a world inside Miniscule Mountain's core. Those things that had disappeared seemed to have been devoured by it, but in reality, they should have all fallen into the world inside the core.
The source of the feeling he had previously was also undoubtedly the core.
Actually, this feeling had already existed a month ago. It was just that Lu Ye was immersed in comprehending the Blood Eye Spirit Rune at that time and didn't pay too much attention to it.
He didn't pay attention, but the core of Miniscule Mountain would. So a month ago, this core had already been looking for him. It was just that after the connection was severed, the core couldn't accurately find his tracks, so it drifted in another direction.
A few days ago, as the demonic eye blinked, that connection appeared again. While he was rushing, the core was also rushing toward him. It could be said that they were rushing in both directions!
Until now, when they met at this location.
Lu Ye couldn't see the core's true nature right away, but the core could. So it suddenly took action when Lu Ye was caught off guard. If it weren't for Lu Ye's quick reaction, he would have been devoured into the core world.
As expected, this core had its own spiritual intelligence.
If it had spiritual intelligence, it meant that it could communicate!
As Lu Ye fled, he sent a voice transmission through his divine sense. "Jade Conch Lu Ye, entrusted by Su Yuqing, Zhang Kun, and the others of the Human Clan, to come here to search for the lost core. The three divisions of Miniscule Mountain have been divided for a long time. I hope that they can be united as soon as possible and restore the glory of our ancestors!"
After transmitting his voice several times, Lu Ye helplessly discovered that the core chasing after him didn't respond at all. It looked like it wouldn't rest until he was dead.
Lu Ye didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He never imagined that there would be a day when he would be hunted down by something like this.
He didn't dare to stop, and he didn't even dare to let the core get too close to him. Because from what he had seen just now, if he got too close to the core, he would definitely be devoured into its inner world.
At that time, it was hard to say what the situation would be. The most ideal situation was, of course, that he could communicate with the core's spiritual intelligence and safely bring it out of here. But the other party had no intention of paying attention to him.
Lu Ye couldn't understand why this was!
Why did the core have a connection with him? Why was it targeting him? Since it had spiritual intelligence, why didn't it want to communicate with him?
With a thought, Lu Ye raised his finger and a red light bloomed on his fingertip. He continued to transmit his voice. "This is a red talisman given to me by the Human Clan's Rizhao before I left. If you have spiritual intelligence, you should be able to recognize it!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Ye clearly felt the core chasing him pause for a moment.
He was overjoyed. There was hope!
(End of Chapter)
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