Sage of Humanity
Chapter 848 - 846: Gold Flood Dragon, Silver Flood Dragon

The first batch of disciples should soon be advancing to the Cloud River. Once they arrive at the Cloud River battlefield, they can directly enter the Great Reversal Valley Spirit Ground for cultivation. They should wait until they have gained some self-protection abilities before venturing out to acquire cultivation resources.

Lu Ye had advanced step by step himself, but he had the favor of Heaven's Augury and abundant luck. Other disciples of the Righteous Blood Sect did not have such good fortune.

The current efforts will definitely help future junior brothers and sisters to avoid many detours and enable quicker growth.

As for the scale of a hundred people, it should be sufficient.

Most cultivators rarely stay in one place for long, always needing to go out and temper themselves. Therefore, even if many disciples advance to Cloud River in the future and come to the Cloud River battlefield, the spirit ground here will not have too many people staying at the same time.

The expansion of the spirit ground will take some time, about three to five days to see results.

Li Baxian has already headed to the Heaven's Augury Pillar, apparently to exchange the battle merits he earned this time for a spirit fortune stick for cultivation.

Lu Ye followed behind him, heading forward while immersing his mind to check his battlefield marking.

Name: Lu Yiye.

Identity: Disciple of the Righteous Blood Sect.

Cultivation: Cloud River Level 8.

Location: Cloud River battlefield.

Merit: 116,245 points.

Battle Merit: 186,472 points.

Compared to the last time he checked, the merit points had not changed much since he hadn't used them recently, but the battle merit accumulated was quite shocking.

After redeeming a gold-hued spirit fortune stick from the Hall of Battle Merits last time, he remembered that his battle merit was only 3,232 points. Although he gained some during the Cloud River struggle afterwards, it was at most a few thousand points.

But now, it was over 180,000.

Merely exterminating the Corpse Race wouldn't yield such a massive amount of battle merit. Even a Golden Corpse King, equivalent to a Cloud River Level 9, only represented 60 points of battle merit.

However, killing the Golden Corpse King was extremely significant in solving the Corpse calamity on the Unparalleled Continent, so the Nine Provinces Heaven's Augury granted an enormous reward during its assessment.

An Iron Corpse Commander brought Lu Ye over ten thousand points of battle merit, but the Golden Corpse King provided nearly a hundred thousand. The rest came from the large number of Corpse Race members he killed, accumulating the remaining battle merit.

The advanced team from Nine Provinces to the Unparalleled Continent had a total of nine people. Lu Ye didn't know how much battle merit the others received, but he was sure that no one earned more than he did because he was the main force in the final battle, killing the Golden Corpse King.

With over 180,000 battle merit, by the exchange ratios in the Hall of Battle Merits, he could claim more than ten gold-hued spirit fortune sticks.

He already had twenty gold-hued spirit fortune sticks from the Cloud River struggle for the top prize, which he hadn't used yet. With such ample resources, he had more than enough to advance to True Lake Realm.

The benefits from the expedition to the Unparalleled Continent were not limited to the battle merit shown in the battlefield marking.

There was another significant benefit as well.

In comparison, this benefit might be the greatest!

As Lu Ye returned to the Nine Provinces through the gate of Ziwei Dao Palace, a piece of information exploded in his mind.

The contents of that message made him excited and full of anticipation.

"Junior Brother, I am going to cultivate first."

Li Baxian had already exchanged the spirit fortune stick and turned to speak to Lu Ye.

Lu Ye withdrew his mind: "Senior Brother, go ahead."

After Li Baxian left, Lu Ye stepped forward, raised his hand, and pressed it on the Heaven's Augury Pillar. He did not immediately connect to the Hall of Battle Merits but connected to the Heaven's Augury treasure vault instead.

It had become a habit to select some uncanny fire and pill fire from the Heaven's Augury treasure vault every now and then.

However, since he spent a large amount of merit last time to buy out the Earth's Core Fire from the Heaven's Augury treasure vault, it had become difficult to purchase it in large quantities anymore.

This time his luck was mediocre, buying a dozen or so portions of various uncanny fire and pill fire, spending almost ten thousand merit points.

These were all resources for his Talent Tree. Due to the lack of resources, there was still one spirit rune on his Talent Tree that had only just begun to take shape and hadn't been fully ignited yet.

Lu Ye was still highly anticipating this rune, as runes requiring many tree leaves to sustain were extremely complex and bound to be highly useful.

The spirit runes he mastered, like Wings and Fire Phoenix, were of this type.

Then he bought some demonic pills for Amber, costing him another ten thousand merit points.

The next part was the highlight and the most anticipated.

Just as he was about to exit the Heaven's Augury treasure vault and connect to the Hall of Battle Merits, Lu Ye seemed to remember something and hastily searched the Heaven's Augury treasure vault again.

He soon found his target.

The flesh and blood of the Red-Eyed Silver-Backed Wolf, five thousand merit points.

The flesh and blood of the Heaven-Devouring Bull Python, eight thousand merit points.

...

He bought four pieces of demon beast meat, spending a total of twenty thousand merit points, incredibly expensive. Lu Ye hadn't even heard of these demon beasts' names before, and looking at the flesh, it was clear they were otherworldly. They contained pure energy and belonged to demon beasts at the True Lake level.

Demon beasts of such level were already of Demon Commander level, not something Lu Ye could handle currently.

Though it pained his wallet, if his idea worked, there would be substantial rewards in the future.

"Hall of Battle Merits!"

Lu Ye silently chanted, and the scenery around him rapidly changed, then settled.

A heavy, ancient-looking door appeared before him, with an aura of ancient desolation. Above the door, a seemingly rusty plaque bore the words "Hall of Battle Merits."

On the door itself were two flood dragon-like creatures, resting with their eyes closed.

Perhaps Lu Ye's arrival disturbed them, and both flood dragons opened their vertical pupils simultaneously.

A fierce, bloody aura emanated, sending chills down his spine.

Lu Ye had experienced this once before and remained calm, even taking the time to examine the two flood dragons on the door.

In his previous hasty visit, he hadn't observed them closely.

This time, Lu Ye noticed they looked almost identical, but there were subtle differences.

The flood dragon on the left had a golden glow at the center of its forehead, while the one on the right had a silver glow.

Golden Flood Dragon? Silver Flood Dragon? Lu Ye pondered inwardly.

"Greetings, seniors!" Lu Ye bowed respectfully.

From his previous visit, he decided never to offend these two flood dragons. They seemed trapped here but were immensely powerful. Lu Ye suspected they were of the Demon King level.

Despite the saying that a fallen Phoenix is inferior to a chicken, they guarded the Hall of Battle Merits.

He was likely to frequent the Hall of Battle Merits in the future and couldn't afford to offend them.

Not only should he avoid offending them, he should cultivate a good relationship with them. These two had guarded the Hall for countless years and surely knew many secrets unknown to ordinary people.

Someday he might need their wisdom.

"This boy is back," the golden flood dragon said, showing an amused expression, its golden vertical pupils assessing Lu Ye.

"Still alive!" The silver flood dragon also spoke. Last time, it commented on whether Lu Ye would survive, as entering the Hall of Battle Merits often foreshadowed a short lifespan.

"And you've grown stronger. Interesting, interesting!" The golden flood dragon extended from the door, circling Lu Ye, its massive head almost touching his, its tongue flickering.

Lu Ye remained composed: "Thanks for your concern, seniors. I have been well and gained some small fortune, thus improving a bit in strength."

"Concern?" The golden flood dragon looked perplexed, then laughed, turning to the silver flood dragon: "He said we were concerned about him!"

The silver flood dragon said: "Strictly speaking, we are concerned about when he'll die!"

The golden flood dragon turned back to Lu Ye: "Don't die too soon. We made a bet on whether you'd live past three years!"

Lu Ye was curious: "Who bet I'd live?"

The golden flood dragon sneered: "It bet you'd surely die within three years, and I bet you'd live past three years!"

Lu Ye nodded: "I see."

No one bet he would live; they all bet on his death, just with different timelines.

"Since you two seniors enjoy betting, may I join?"

"Oh? You want to bet too?"

"I bet I can live ten, twenty, fifty, a hundred years or even longer!"

The silver flood dragon's eyes glinted maliciously: "Boy, if you're to bet, what's your stake?"

"How about these?" Lu Ye said, presenting the four pieces of beast meat he bought from the Heaven's Augury treasure vault, "I'll bring you treats every time I visit, as my wager!"

"Mere trinkets…" The golden flood dragon stopped mid-sentence, saliva showing.

Imprisoned for thousands of years, with occasional human visitors, but none brought them food. They'd never beg either; dragons have pride.

Until today…

Thousands of years away from blood scent, they'd forgotten the taste of flesh, especially these rare beast meats, urging them to devour them.

Responding, Lu Ye tossed the meats out. Each dragon took two pieces, chewing, with the golden dragon mumbling: "Don't think you can buy us!"

"Quite delicious, yum… so good!" The silver dragon nodded fervently.

Lu Ye smiled, satisfied watching this scene.

It confirmed they were living creatures, somehow trapped here as guards of the Hall of Battle Merits.

They now lacked their earlier superiority and savagery, looking like starved ghosts, gobbling greedily.

The four pieces vanished quickly, the silver dragon eyeing Lu Ye, signaling for more.

The golden dragon, though subtler, shared the hunger.