Chapter 3269: The End And The Beginning

The summoned Garan Zhiluo from the stellular tribulation tried to use her innate gift, Eight-Star Garan, but she was too late. Lu Yin obliterated the figure with one palm strike.

The Pillar of Heaven and the Divine Tree approached him once more.

Lu Yin’s fierce attack broke the Pillar of Heaven as he threw a palm strike at Chu Yi.

The summoned Chu Yi narrowly dodged Lu Yin’s palm, whose eyes flashed. Had that been One Word Manifestation? As a Progenitor, Chu Yi had not yet fully developed his Dao of One Heavens, but just his One Word Manifestation had been enough for him to avoid Lu Yin’s simple, yet powerful, attack.

However, Lu Yin had also learned the Dao of One Heavens.

Just as the summoned image succeeded in avoiding Lu Yin’s palm strike, Chu Yi was shattered.

Far away, the real Chu Yi was taken aback by this development, and he reflexively turned to look at Lu Tianyi. “He knows the Dao of One Heavens?”

Lu Tianyi awkwardly bowed to Chu Yi. “I’m sorry, Master. I taught him the Dao of One Heavens without your permission.”

Chu Yi responded with a bitter smile and a wave of his hand. “Forget it. Forget it.”

Beneath the stellular tribulation, the summoned Hongyan Mavis threw a punch at Lu Yin’s back. He spun around and countered with his own fist, meeting hers.

Far away, Hongyan Mavis covered her face with a hand. It was over.

Not even the Pridebeast could endure Lu Yin’s current strength.

Elsewhere, the Pridebeast and Megalith were still holding the black Mother Tree in place. They watched as Lu Yin crushed the humanoid tribulations one by one. Subconsciously, the two beasts reached out and gave Lu Yin a thumbs-up. Neither of the beasts wanted to be beaten up again.

As expected, the Hongyan Mavis beneath the stellular tribulation was shattered by a single punch.

Lu Yin then set his sights on Wu Tian. There was a flash of light on the tribulation’s forehead. Was that an early version of Heaven’s Sight, or had the man already fully developed his technique by the time he had become a Progenitor?

Regardless, Lu Yin easily shattered the summoned Wu Tian.

Heaven’s Sight allowed a person to see through all weaknesses in battle techniques, and it had even allowed Lu Yin to observe sequence particles as a mere Envoy.

But so what?

No matter how clearly someone could perceive overwhelming power, there was no way to stop it.

What difference would it make if an ordinary human was able to see their planet shattering? What if they could see their universe collapse?

The moment that Wu Tian shattered, a line suddenly appeared in the distance. The God of Death had disappeared long ago, but at some point in time, he had reappeared behind Lu Yin, shrouded by his dark energy. This was the God of Death’s Progenitor’s world: Deathly Forcefield.

Several of the God of Death’s Fields of Death still remained in the Origin Universe. They had always been regarded as places where death energy gathered. This understanding was not wrong, as the Fields of Death were essentially copies of the God of Death’s Progenitor’s world.

The Deathly Forcefield was the God of Death’s Progenitor’s world.

The summoned God of Death swung his scythe, draining the Deathly Forcefield of all death energy as the blade slashed sideways at Lu Yin.

Lu Yin turned around. Now it made sense to him. He understood how Destiny fought.

Destiny had the ability to see the future and could weave her threads together to create bridges across the River of Aeons. When she saw that Lu Yin was about to shatter Wu Tian, Destiny had joined hands with the God of Death to attack at the perfect moment.

There was only one opening that the God of Death could use for his attack.

Similarly, Destiny also had only one chance to strike.

This was Destiny’s combat method.

Destiny did not try to attack or defend and instead only sought to seize opportunities.

The God of Death’s attack was the most powerful one he was capable of unleashing as a Progenitor. In an instant, everyone close to the Immemorial Citadel felt chilled to the bone.

They were all shocked. Even as a Progenitor, the gathered sequence powerhouses felt an incredible sense of danger from the God of Death. The man’s reputation as the most deadly combatant during the ancient Heavens Sect era was fully deserved.

Even Lu Yin grew cautious.

From what he could see, the God of Death’s full-powered attack was no weaker than Tian Fa's Heaven's Spear. In other words, as soon as the God of Death became a Progenitor, he had been strong enough to fight against Tian Fa, who had been an Ortuser.

Lu Yin had always believed that no one in all of history could rival him, aside from the unfathomable Destiny. However, he now felt the presence of another peer in the God of Death.

Both of them were capable of fighting against Origin realm cultivators before becoming Sequence Progenitors.

Lu Yin raised a hand and used the soil of his Dust World to form a scythe of his own that swept out.

Clang!

A deafening sound echoed across the battlefield and the Immemorial Citadel. It kicked up a gale that swept the area, even swaying the city’s flames.

The God of Death's scythe had been severed. By relying on his terrifying physical strength and the properties of his Dust World, Lu Yin had overcome the God of Death's attack and sliced through both the scythe and the humanoid tribulation.

As he watched the God of Death's image slowly dissipate, Lu Yin casually flung his scythe out to slash at Destiny.

The summoned version of Destiny did not try to dodge at all. The blade passed through her, and Destiny vanished.

At the moment, there was only one figure remaining beneath the stellular tribulation: Wilderness God.

It was not that Lu Yin had deliberately saved Wilderness God for last, but rather that Wilderness God had survived one of Lu Yin’s punches.

Lu Yin was fully aware of just how powerful that punch had been. Out of all the Three Realms and Six Daos, Wilderness God alone had been able to endure Lu Yin’s power with just his body. Wilderness God had possessed incredible physical strength as well.

Silence fell upon the watching crowd.

They had watched as one humanoid tribulation after another, each of which represented one of the Three Realms and Six Daos, had been ruthlessly crushed by Lu Yin. Watching such a scene induced an indescribable feeling.

It was as though they were witnessing the fall of one legend and the rise of another.

What made things even more remarkable was that some of these ancient legends who had fallen to Lu Yin were also in the audience.

Many people sneaked glances at Lu Yuan and the others, unsure of what the Three Realms and Six Daos must be thinking.

"Yellowy was always the strongest," Wu Tian stated.

Lu Yuan replied, "Yellowy is an astral beast, and he had a much higher starting point than the rest of us. When he first became a Progenitor, Yellowy was far stronger than any of the rest of us. At that time, aside from Master, Yellowy was the most powerful."

"That's why, at that time, we would all pester Yellowy into taking us to explore different parallel universes," Hongyan Mavis continued, her expression complicated.

Human greed had ultimately led Wilderness God to lose heart. That was why the Fourth Mainland had not fought back and had been shattered by Aeternus.

If not for that, the Heavens Sect would not have been so easily defeated.

𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

At what point had Yellowy and the rest of his disciples become enemies?

Beneath the Immemorial Citadel, the Origin Progenitor sighed. "Yellowy, I wish I could see you again."

Under the vortex of the stellular tribulation, Lu Yin faced a beast-shaped tribulation. After a brief standoff, they both charged at each other.

As they passed by, Lu Yin landed a punch on the summoned astral beast and sent him flying. The bestial tribulation twisted around even while hurtling through outer space so that he could stare at Lu Yin. Then, he let out a roar that caused the void to tremble and also induced a wave of dizziness.

Still, the vertigo was quite mild.

Lu Yin was close behind the astral beast, as he used Inverse Step to appear above the summoned creature and punch him again, this time sending him crashing downwards.

Punch after punch, the bestial tribulation was offered no chance to counterattack. While Wilderness God’s body was strong enough to endure Lu Yin's power, there was no way for Lu Yin to lose.

Not to mention the Wilderness God of the past—even at his peak, Wilderness God would not have been a match for Lu Yin.

Wilderness God had once been defeated by the God of Death. While the astral beast might not have been any weaker than the rest of the Three Realms and Six Daos, he also had not been any stronger.

Lu Yin had grown so powerful that not even Ortusers like Lu Yuan or Chu Yi could compare to Lu Yin, let alone Wilderness God right after becoming a Progenitor.

The summoned astral beast was beaten into submission. Even then, to the shock of many, the figure stood upright and started wielding a strange weapon in a hand. It was a halberd.

"An indestructible body and an unbeatable weapon—that was Yellowy’s power," Lu Yuan commented admiringly.

Just as the man reminisced, Yellowy had been invincible. He had boasted an unbreakable body as well as an undefeated weapon. He had roamed across parallel universes, undefeated, and overwhelming all astral beasts that he encountered. Even the rest of the Three Realms and Six Daos had acknowledged Wilderness God’s strength.

His undefeated weapon was called Limitless Halberd. It used space as its shaft and time as its blade.

Despite being an astral beast, the summoned form of Wilderness God stood upright like a human and pointed his halberd at Lu Yin while charging forward with a strange movement technique.

Lu Yin found the movement odd, but it was also clear that the halberd was no ordinary weapon.

As the halberd was thrust forward, the void froze, and time and space were both thrown into chaos. Lu Yin used Inverse Step, but the movement technique instantly failed. Lu Yin could not see through either space or time.

The halberd thrust out straight at Lu Yin's face.

He watched the halberd’s approach calmly. Lightstream appeared and moved through space, causing the halberd to pass right through Lu Yin.

The bestial tribulation froze in place. Lu Yin turned around, and with a casual wave of his hand, the stellular tribulation dissipated.

The exchange made no sense to anyone beneath the level of sequence powerhouses, as this had been a battle with the power of time.

Despite the fact that the Limitless Halberd used time as its blade, it could not touch Lightstream, as Lightstream was something that did not belong to the River of Aeons.

All of the Three Realms and Six Daos had vanished. Lu Yin stared up at the black hole of his stellular tribulation. He refused to believe that it could manifest anything more formidable than the Three Realms and Six Daos. There was nothing more that could stop him from breaking into the Progenitor realm.

Stellular tribulations had been created by the Origin Progenitor, and Lu Yin, to some extent, was already capable of challenging the Origin Progenitor.

The black hole at the center of the stellular tribulation's vortex rumbled with thunder, and a vast amount of stellular energy flooded out like a sea, surging into Lu Yin's body.

A smile touched his lips. He had overcome his tribulation.

The Origin Universe trembled as an endless stream of stellular energy surged into Lu Yin.

The sea of stellular energy in Lu Yin’s inner universe swelled. Throughout the entire Origin Universe, countless people praised Lu Yin while staring at the universe that he had released.

The light of the Wordless Heavenly Book blazed brightly.

Stars suddenly appeared, but not from the Cosmic Art. They were something that not even Lu Yin understood.

He immediately retracted his inner universe back inside his chest. While it was continuing to evolve, others could no longer see it.

Lu Yin himself did not know what his inner universe would become after he fully became a Progenitor. All he knew was that, if he wanted to, he would be able to accomplish many things that he had wished to do in the past, but been incapable of. Things like reviving Ming Yan or leaving the Cosmic Art to the Cosmic Sect.

He knew that he had just crossed a crucial threshold. This was what it meant to truly enter the Progenitor realm.

Outer space swayed as a massive tree appeared behind Lu Yin. It grew and stretched until it covered the Immemorial Citadel, the surrounding area, and then spilled out into countless parallel universes. The scope of this phenomenon far surpassed anything that had appeared in the past.

This was a phenomenon, and it was one that Lu Yin had seen several times before during his earlier breakthroughs. This time, the tree was large enough to envelop multiple universes, and it was impossible to see where the tree ended.

Its branches hung low, and from them hung various objects.

In the past, Lu Yin had not been able to understand what his phenomenon meant, but that had changed. On the branches of the tree, he saw his die and the Lord of Lightning’s three treasures.

Everything that hung from the tree was a mirebound artifact.

What were mirebound artifacts?

At the birth of the omniverse, everything had been pure and untainted. That was when the River of Aeons had been born. However, the purer something was, the more easily it was tainted. Within the River of Aeons, there were some things that could travel upstream, and they carried with them objects from the future that tainted the purity. That taint was known as mire, and these objects were known as mirebound artifacts.

What was the connection between the tree that appeared after Lu Yin’s breakthroughs and things that could swim up the River of Aeons? Lu Yin had no idea. All he knew was that, if there really were so many mirebound artifacts in existence, then where was the real tree? Also, why did it appear as a phenomenon for his breakthroughs?

The Immemorial Citadel was different from other places. It was the home of a great number of extremely powerful experts, and at least half of the population knew about mirebound artifacts.

The sight of Lu Yin's phenomenon left all of those people stupefied.

They felt as though they were witnessing the creation of a mirebound artifact.

The phenomenon slowly disappeared, but the shock it gave them was something that would never disappear from their memories.