saint of humanity

Chapter 2218 Ruins
In the core of the insect nest, almost at the same time when Lu Ye fell into the illusion, a figure walked in.

"Greetings, Insect Mother." The man stopped about ten feet away from the Insect Mother. It was Li Qi, who had captured Lu Ye and brought him here before.

"You should already know the specific plan." The voice of the Insect Queen sounded.

Li Qi said, "Yes, take him to the altar and send him into the ruins."

"Is it ready over there?" asked the Insect Queen.

"It's all ready, just waiting to send the person over."

The Insect Mother did not speak again, and seemed a little hesitant. However, things had come to this point, and there was no other way. She finally said, "Go, and don't let anything go wrong."

Lu Ye’s life is related to the survival of her soul. If she is not forced to do so, she will not take the risk.

In the past six months, she has been trying to remove the life chain. After all, she is at the peak of the Fusion Dao, so how can she be willing to be controlled by a Ru Dao? But in the end, she still failed.

Because the complex patterns of the life chain have been completely integrated into her soul, the only way to release it is to get Lu Ye's cooperation.

But how could Lu Ye cooperate?

If it were just that, the worst that could happen would be to keep Lu Ye trapped in the insect nest. She was confident that she could protect Lu Ye and keep him from danger.

However, another characteristic of the life chain made her a little intolerable. The fruits of her hard practice were actually going to be shared away by Lu Ye.

The Insect Mother did not expect that the young initiate who she had captured because of an array pattern, even at the cost of exposing a hidden pawn of Rong Dao, would actually become a hindrance to her.

You can't beat or kill them, it's really embarrassing.

After thinking about it, the Insect Mother thought of a possibility - if she and Lu Ye were in different spaces, would the life chain lose its effect?

This pattern is indeed magical. It can closely connect two unrelated individuals and allow them to share life and death, but it is ultimately just a pattern.

Now it works in the same space, but what if we are not in the same space? Will the pattern break by itself, or will the connection between them become weak?
This is undoubtedly a good solution.

She couldn't send Lu Ye out of Banlan, because no one had escaped since ancient times, but she could send Lu Ye into the ruins!
That is Banlan’s biggest secret. No one knows when the ruins were left behind or what secrets they hide. But since ancient times, there has been a saying that there is a way to escape from Banlan in the ruins.

For countless years, whether it is the Human War Alliance, the two insect-blood tribes, or the giant tribe, they have invested a lot of energy to explore the ruins, but so far, there has been little progress, because there are great dangers in the ruins that ordinary cultivators cannot resist.

The Insect Mother's idea was very simple. She wanted to send Lu Ye into the ruins to observe the changes in the life chain. If the pattern lost its effect because they were in different spaces, then she could get rid of Lu Ye's constraints.

If even different spaces cannot solve the Dao patterns, then we have to think of other ways.

Just give it a try, there's nothing to lose anyway.

In order to send Lu Ye to the ruins safely, the Insect Mother could only pull him into the illusion to prevent him from causing trouble.

Inside the insect nest, Li Qi mobilized his strength, wrapped the unconscious Lu Ye, flew out, and soon disappeared.

In the illusion, Lu Ye knew that something was wrong, but he could do nothing about it. The huge gap in strength made it impossible for him to even see the flaws in the illusion, let alone get rid of it.

In this illusion, the insect mother can do whatever she wants to him.

He did not show his worry, and Youdie had no intention of making things difficult for him. The couple chopped wood and picked wild vegetables during the day, and slept in the same bed but had different dreams at night.

Several days passed in a flash.

Until one morning, when they had finished eating the vegetable porridge, Lu Ye picked up the hatchet as usual, but found Youdie standing beside him, looking at him with a smile.

Her expression was strangely complicated, which made Lu Ye's heart sink.

He was silent for a moment and said, "It seems that you have found a solution."

Lu Ye knew very well that the Insect Mother would never be willing to be bound by the chains of life, so she must have been trying to remove the pattern during this period of time. This time, the Insect Mother suddenly pulled him into this illusion, and Lu Ye had some guesses.

Youdie smiled lightly and did not hide anything: "I don't know if it will work yet, I'm just giving it a try."

As she spoke, she moved closer to Lu Ye step by step, with a playful look on her face: "Brother Ye, if it doesn't work out, we'll see each other again in the future."

The implication is that if this happens, there will probably be no chance for us to see each other again.

Lu Ye's expression remained unchanged: "Then you better be careful." He was clear about his own life chain. Unless the Insect Mother gave up this soul, it would be impossible to break it. The bond of ten reincarnations made the effect of this pattern much greater than normal.

"Thank you for your good words!" Youdie smiled, raised a finger and pointed it at Lu Ye's forehead, then gently pushed it back.

Lu Ye fell backwards involuntarily.

It was as if I had fallen into a bottomless abyss. The illusion before my eyes shattered and my consciousness suddenly returned to my body.

What came into view was Li Qi's figure. At this moment, there was a vampire monk standing next to him, looking at him with interest.

Lu Ye felt something was wrong and tried to move immediately, but suddenly a light surged out from all around him, fixing him firmly in place.

Turning around, he realized that he was no longer in the insect nest, but had come to an ancient altar.

The place where he stood was full of intricate patterns, and dazzling light bloomed from those patterns.

The next moment, the vision blurred and the world changed.

When Lu Ye came back to his senses, he had already appeared in a passage. The passage was so long that one could not see the end at a glance, and no one knew where it led to.

Almost at the same time when Lu Ye entered the ruins, Li Qi contacted Youdie and informed her of the progress here.

The queen insect in the nest felt it silently. According to her original guess, success or failure depended on this moment.

However, to her disappointment, the mysterious Dao pattern did not change because Lu Ye entered another space. Not to mention that it collapsed on its own, there was not even any sign of weakening.

After a few breaths, her spiritual thoughts surged, and an order was conveyed to Li Qi.

After another breath, Li Qi turned to the vampire monk who was waiting on the side and said, "Help!"

There are great dangers in the ruins. Now that the Dao pattern has not changed, Youdie's previous plan has failed. She must rescue Lu Ye quickly, otherwise if Lu Ye dies in the ruins, she will not have an easy life.

The blood clan monk turned his head and sneered: "A mere human..."

Li Qi's face was solemn: "This is an order from the Dark Butterfly Insect Mother. If that person dies, you should know the consequences!"

The blood clan cultivator frowned. Of course he had heard of the name of the Ghost Butterfly Insect Mother. Those who could sit in the war zone were all at the peak of the Rong Dao. Although he was a blood clan member, if he made such a strong person unhappy, he would not have a good ending.

"Got it!" The vampire stepped onto the altar, a light flashed, and the man disappeared.

In the passage, Lu Ye turned around and looked back, but he could not see anything at all. Behind him was nothingness. He did not try, but instinctively felt that if he touched this nothingness, nothing good would happen.

What did the Insect Queen bring herself here for?
What is this place?
He was confused, but after half a year, he finally got rid of the insect mother, which made Lu Ye excited.

No matter what the Worm Queen wants to do, he is free for now.

If you can’t go back, you can only go forward!
Calming his mind, Lu Ye took a step forward.

However, before he could take a few steps, he heard a sudden noise behind him.

He quickly turned his head and saw a figure appearing at the same place where he was just now.

It was the vampire monk who was standing next to Li Qi just now!
As soon as he appeared, he looked at Lu Ye arrogantly: "You are lucky, Lord Youdie ordered me to rescue you!"

Lu Ye blinked, suppressed the urge in his heart, and asked, "Where is this place?"

The vampire walked right past him without even looking at him, and just said, "Follow me!"

Lu Ye thought about it, took a step forward and followed, with even more doubts in his mind.

Youdie brought him to this place obviously with no good intentions, but now she actually asked this vampire to rescue him, which undoubtedly shows that this is not a good place.

Youdie is not so kind. She must be afraid that something might happen to her and implicate her, so she asked the vampires to rescue her.

This vampire...what kind of cultivation is this?
Since the other person didn't make a move, Lu Ye couldn't judge his cultivation level for a moment, but the other person didn't give him the feeling of being a Rong Dao.

Why did he come to save himself instead of Li Qi? Li Qi was at the sixth level of the Dao of Integration, so he must be stronger than this vampire.

Not long after they walked, the vampire suddenly stopped and said slowly, "Stay still!"

Lu Ye leaned his body, glanced forward at the vampire, and found that a tall figure had suddenly appeared in the passage ahead.

The figure was wearing a face-covering armor and his face could not be seen at all. What made Lu Ye feel even more strange was that he did not sense any life from the armor.

The other party seems to be a dead object!

The vampire had already rushed forward, and the armored figure also moved, and the two began to fight in the passage.

When the vampire took action, Lu Ye immediately saw through his cultivation level. It turned out that he had not yet reached the stage of Fusion, but was only entering the Dao.

But the strength of this person who has entered the Dao...seems a little off.

Not only was the strength displayed by this vampire wrong, but even the armored figure was wrong. The collision and dissipation of each other's power made Lu Ye feel like two fourteen or fifteen-year-old cultivators were fighting each other.

No, there are more than fourteen or fifteen vampires!
Not long into the fight, the armored figure was beaten to pieces by the vampires, leaving only a dim fluorescent light in its place.

Lu Ye was stunned. This reminded him of the shadows in the Shura Field. The shadows looked almost the same when they were killed.

In this case, the armored figure is indeed not a living creature, but a projection of power.

(End of this chapter)