Chapter 2381: Lu Yin And True God Wei Yi

Lu Yin was also able to see everything happening in turn. He saw the battlefield in the Dominion Realm, as well as Forgotten Ruins God and Corpse God.

Suddenly, Lu Yin looked out into the distance. There, he saw a single slitted, scarlet eye. It looked perfectly ordinary and even lifeless.

However, the moment Lu Yin’s eyes landed on the eye, he felt an endless chill wash over him, and the coldness pierced straight to his forehead. He recognized the eyes out in the distant space, as he had seen it in Marquis Lan’s memories during a Possession. This was the symbol of the Aeternals’ True God.

Lu Yin and the solitary scarlet eye stared at each other across a vast distance. One was framed by the darkness of the infinite universe, and the other was framed by the golden light of the Investiture of the Gods. One was dark, the other was light. Between the two lay the Dominion Realm and the Progenitors’ battlefield. The two individuals were like chess players, who were manipulating Progenitors as the pieces in their game.

This was a perspective that only these two individuals could see. If Xia Shenji discovered that he was being regarded as a mere pawn, he would absolutely attack Lu Yin out of pure rage.

The golden light faded. While it felt like it had lit up the Perennial World for a long time, the place had only been illuminated for a brief moment.

At the bottom of Food Paradise, Lu Yin looked at the Investiture of the Gods that was slowly dimming in front of him. "Sorry, I left you gathering dust for too long."

Even as he spoke, the Investiture of the Gods transformed into a stream of light that entered his forehead.

An image of the Investiture of the Gods appeared in his mind. Lu Yin had not known that the scroll had been hidden in the depths of Food Paradise, but after entering what had once been his home and seeing so many familiar sights, many memories had come back. He remembered his home with Bai Xian'er, as well as her seven-colored deer. There was also more about Food Paradise, as well as the fact that he had left his Investiture of the Gods hidden there.

Lu Yin had no idea when Lu Xiaoxuan had awakened his Investiture of the Gods. All that Lu Yin knew was that, as Lu Xiaoxuan, he had never told anyone that he had awakened the Investiture of the Gods, not even the Seven Heroes. Every instinct he possessed told him that same message.

Of course, regarding the Seven Heroes, Lu Yin could only remember a bit of what they had all looked like, as he could not remember anything regarding their strength, cultivation, or innate gifts.

After the Investiture of the Gods entered his body, Lu Yin was able to understand that the Investiture of the Gods was something that could only be used on Progenitors. Only Progenitors had the strength to qualify to be referred to as gods.

This made Lu Yin quite curious, as Kui Luo had mentioned that Lu Yin’s father, Lu Qi, had once brazenly charged into the New World on his own after awakening the Investiture of the Gods. Had Lu Qi summoned a god? He had not himself been a Progenitor at that time, so perhaps Kui Luo had remembered the details wrong.

The Dominion Realm might have been attacked because Lu Yin’s Investiture of the Gods had revealed itself, but that did not matter to Lu Yin. After all, Bai Wangyuan and the other human Progenitors were holding back Aeternus’s Progenitors.

Zhi Yi had been watching him this entire time, so she saw Lu Yin emerge from the depths of the mountain. The woman had been terrified that Lu Yin would leave without her.

"Can you take me away from this place?" Zhi Yi asked nervously as she stared at Lu Yin. She would have never spoken to Lu Yin in such a manner in the past, but from her current point of view, Lu Yin was no different from a Semi-Progenitor.

Lu Yin looked around. He was ready to leave, but he simply could not bear to leave Food Paradise behind. He had too many memories of the place, and this was a place that embodied Lu Xiaoxuan's innocence. Lu Yin knew that he had to leave, but he was also determined to return as soon as he had a chance.

"Are you Senior Progenitor of Bloodlines’ disciple?" Lu Yin asked.

Hearing the question, Zhi Yi finally felt that Lu Yin resembled a normal person. He had given off the impression of a wandering soul before, and he had not even looked at her when he had first arrived.

"That’s right. My master will thank you for saving me, and it’s not impossible for him to accept you as his disciple," Zhi Yi answered out of reflex.

Lu Yin thought that this was hilarious, but he did not reveal any of his internal mirth. "Let's go."

He then grabbed hold of Zhi Yi with a hand, and they disappeared from Food Paradise.

The very next moment, the two people appeared just above the lake on Mount Mei.

The moment he emerged from Food Paradise, Lu Yin felt a surge of stellular energy pour into his body. He lifted his head and looked upwards, only to see that the sky was growing dark.

Zhi Yi looked out at the darkness gathering in every direction. She initially assumed that she was simply looking out at dark clouds, but she quickly realized that she was staring at stellular energy. Due to the sheer quantity of stellular energy, the sky was growing dark, and the violence hidden within the stellular energy terrified Zhi Yi.

Cultivators hoped to be able to absorb as much star energy or stellular energy as possible, but there were times when their bodies could not contain the energy. For example, when Lu Yin had traveled through time and space with Chu Yuan and the others, no one had been able to endure the fluctuating tides of stellular energy created by the Origin Progenitor’s sword, and only Lu Yin had tried to cultivate during the surges.

At this moment, Lu Yin was experiencing a similar situation.

To Zhi Yi's eyes, the stellular energy that surrounded the two of them was aggressive and dangerous; it was stalking towards them like wild astral beasts that wanted to rip her to pieces.

Lu Yin casually tossed Zhi Yi aside and stood above the lake. He spread his arms open and floated upwards as he absorbed as much stellular energy as he could wish for.

The battle in the Dominion Realm continued. Bai Wangyuan and other Progenitors all noticed the abnormality with the stellular energy near Mount Mei, but they had no time to deal with it.

Furthermore, the violent stellular energy was restricted to the area around Mount Mei, and it was not spreading across the entire Higher Realm. If it did that, then not even Lu Yin would be able to endure the stellular energy.

Lu Yin’s Investiture of the Gods had triggered this event.

Despite not having his former memories, Lu Yin was not surprised by the surge of stellular energy. When the Investiture of the Gods returned to his body, he had realized that he would be forced to absorb massive amounts of stellular energy. It came to him almost as though it was innate knowledge linked to the Investiture of the Gods.

In the sky just above the lake on Mount Mei, Lu Yin started frantically absorbing the stellular energy that had appeared. Normally, since he had four stellular energy vortices, he would fill them up one by one, and each time one became full, it would trigger a separate stellular tribulation. However, since Lu Yin was currently in the Higher Realm, he quickly removed the death energy that sealed away each of his vortices. He intended to fill all four of them at the same time, as this would prevent anyone observing from realizing that Lu Yin had multiple vortices. If Bai Wangyuan or the others learned the truth, they would make sure to cause even more headaches for Lu Yin.

Just beyond the range of Mount Mei, Zhi Yi watched on in horror as Lu Yin absorbed the violent stellular energy that had suddenly appeared. She simply could not understand what was going on with him at this moment.

Suddenly, the sky grew even darker, to the point where even the violent clouds of stellular energy that had just appeared were obscured as though something had hidden the entire sky.

Zhi Yi slowly lifted her head. She saw an unbelievably large body fill the entire sky and even blot out the sun. The monstrous beast bared its fangs and flashed its claws.

This was the single most frightening moment in Zhi Yi's entire life. Never before had she ever felt so afraid. Her terror was so overpowering that she started wishing that this meeting with Lu Yin was just a dream, as Zhi Yi would rather be trapped in Food Paradise than face this creature. Just what was she looking at?

The jiao lowered its head and looked at Zhi Yi. Immediately, the creature bared its fangs and flashed its claws. Saliva dripped from the beast’s fangs, and even if it was only a single drop, to Zhi Yi, it was as though an entire lake had fallen onto her.

A biting cold covered Zhi Yi's entire body as she stared up at the saliva that was about to land on her. She did not dare to even try to dodge.

A sudden gust of wind swept by, pushing her out from under the falling saliva. Lu Yin had taken action. For the sake of the Progenitor of Bloodlines, Lu Yin would not allow the jiao to torment Zhi Yi. "Behave!"

The jiao lowered its claws and bent its head. Instantly, its intimidating aura vanished.

Only after that did Zhi Yi realize her situation, and she picked herself up off the ground in embarrassment, even as she stared at Lu Yin in horror. Did this terrifying beast actually listen to Lu Yin? Just what had he done in recent years? Even if Zhi Yi could not determine the jiao’s strength, the pressure it gave off indicated that it was at least as strong as a Semi-Progenitor.

The possibility of the jiao having the strength of a Progenitor did not even occur to the woman. Progenitors stood at the pinnacle of cultivation, and it was inconceivable for anyone to have tamed a living creature with the strength of a Progenitor.

Lu Yin looked away. His four stellular vortices were still filling up, and they soon reached their limits, triggering his fourth stellular tribulation. Instantly, a vortex appeared above his head. His fourth tribulation was about to descend.

Lu Yin was not at all concerned about a minor tribulation like this, and he knew that he could even use a power vessel to pass it. He had already passed two other similar minor stellular tribulations.

The only part of Lu Yin’s tribulation that might attract undue attention was the fact that he needed to pass four tribulations instead of one, but luckily, due to Lu Yin’s foresight, all four tribulations descended at the same time. Thus, no one would ever suspect that they were actually four separate tribulations.

Even as the vortex began to dissipate, Lu Yin resealed his three meridian points and the stellular energy vortices that they held. He had officially become a four-tribulation Envoy.

With the tribulation finished, Lu Yin gathered Zhi Yi and stepped onto the jiao’s back. He directed the beast towards the Wang family’s territory, as it was time to return to the Fifth Mainland.

The jiao was unbelievably fast, and it almost instantly covered half of the Higher Realm. The Wang family’s floating mainland soon appeared in the distance.

The Wang family also saw the jiao approaching, and they knew that Lu Yin was on his way. The thought made everyone grow somber.

When the people in the mountain valley beneath the hand-shaped mainland saw the jiao appear, every last person from the Fifth Mainland bowed as one. "Greetings, Dao Chosen."

"Greetings, Dao Chosen."

Lu Yin did not hesitate, nor did he even glance down at the people who had arrived in the Perennial World from the Fifth Mainland. He simply left through the New Corridor.

The jiao also made its body shrink, and it followed after Lu Yin.

Wang Yan watched on, envious. Despite being mortal enemies, the man had to admit that Lu Yin lived a very impressive life. It was a complete mystery, but regardless of the various powerhouses present, Lu Yin was able to freely enter and leave the Perennial World, and even the Higher Realm. This was something that Lu Xiaoxuan alone was capable of doing.

If the Lu family had not been exiled, Lu Xiaoxuan would not only stand at the peak of the Fifth Mainland, but also the pinnacle of the entire human race!

Lu Yin passed through the New Corridor and returned to the Technocracy in the Fifth Mainland. After the jiao emerged from the passage, the beast’s body returned to its full size, and it immediately bared its fangs and claws.

Some distance away from the New Corridor’s exit, a group of people from the Perennial World who had just arrived on the Fifth Mainland stared in horror, and one of them even blurted, "Shenwu’s Sky’s jiao?"

Lu Yin had been about to leave, but the outburst had come from a familiar voice. He looked over, and saw an old acquaintance. Long Zhang?

Some distance away, standing within a group of people from the Sixth Mainland, was Long Zhang. He regretted his outburst the moment he spoke, and so he had tried to hide. How could he speak up and draw Lu Xiaoxuan’s attention?

When Lu Yin’s eyes landed on Long Zhang, the man’s expression grew bitter, as he knew that he had been discovered.

Lu Yin just glanced at Long Zhang and then paid the man no further attention. It was true that Long Zhang had caused some issues for Lu Yin when he had been impersonating Long Qi, but Long Zhang was a minor character who was not even worth Lu Yin’s breath.

The jiao quickly disappeared.

The people from the Sixth Mainland all heaved sighs of relief.

Long Zhang stared into the empty region of space, and his bitterness grew stronger and stronger.

If Lu Yin had tried to make trouble for Long Zhang, it would have been terrifying, but instead, Lu Yin had simply ignored the man. While this meant that Long Zhang did not have to suffer from fear, he was instead experiencing another ineffable emotion. Did Long Zhang no longer even have the right to be considered troublesome for Lu Yin?

Long Zhang had matured a great deal in the decades that had passed, and he was no longer the spoiled brat that he had been before. He was the son of a patriarch of a branch family of the White Dragon Clan. Long Zhang’s cultivation had originally been about on par with Lu Yin’s, and in the intervening years, he had become an Enlighter. While such strength at his age was not terribly uncommon in the Perennial World, it was still quite impressive when compared to most people in the Fifth Mainland. This was why Long Zhang had been selected to join the people sent to try to enter the Tower of the Fifth.

Unfortunately, Long Zhang had become a nobody in Lu Yin's eyes.

Zhi Yi was finally freed from Food Paradise, and Lu Yin released her at where the Astral River formed the border with the Innerverse. After sending word to the Progenitor of Bloodlines, Lu Yin rode the jiao and continued on towards the Cosmic Sea.

The Soldier Crew had long since been a concern of Lu Yin’s. They had once been heralded as one of the Four Pirate Crews of the Cosmic Sea, but Lu Yin had discovered a massive secret of the Soldier Crew: they could release a Progenitor’s attack. This meant that, throughout the entire Fifth Mainland, very few powers could compare to the Soldier Crew. Despite their strength, they had never left their chosen region of the Cosmic Sea, even after many, many years. What were they doing there?

Lu Yin would not feel at ease without understanding this secret.

The jiao quickly arrived in the Cosmic Sea, but Lu Yin continued on to the Soldier Crew’s territory on his own.

The moment that Lu Yin stepped into the Soldier Crew’s territory, the distant sky grew dark, and lightning fell into the sea with a deafening roar of thunder. Shouts rang out, and they drew closer and more distinct by the moment.

"Kill."

"Kill!"

"KILL!"

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