"Are you wondering why, since I had been here all along, I stood by and did nothing earlier?" Si Shengya spoke leisurely.
Lu Ye said nothing, but the gloom between his brows was answer enough.
He had not been in the Origin Realm for long, and even fewer days had passed since he fled to Long Cloud Island. Aside from Xia He, the only person he knew was Chu Li. He had little contact with others, much less any friendship.
But in the end, they were all members of the Human Race.
If not for his own self-preservation and the hidden measures he had laid down in advance during this struggle for Long Cloud Island, the island would already have been awash in slaughter. Several million humans would have become prisoners beneath the watchtower, doomed to be sacrificed.
And Long Cloud Island was not the only one above the Cage Sea!
So Lu Ye could not understand why a Half-Saint powerhouse like Si Shengya had watched with folded arms, only revealing himself because of the Heavenly Origin Astrolabe.
"Within the Origin Realm, Half-Saints may not interfere in the struggles between the major races. That is the rule. If I acted, the foreign Half-Saints would never stand idly by. When that time came, I would surely die!" Si Shengya sighed again. It was already the third sigh he had given since appearing, filled with helplessness. "Though the old house is broken, it can still barely shelter us from wind and rain. If I die, the Human Race of the Cage Sea will become slaves of the foreign races completely, with nowhere left to stand."
Lu Ye fell silent for a moment, then nodded slightly. "I more or less understand Sacred Venerable's difficulties."
The Human Race had only one Half-Saint, Si Shengya.