Lu Yin moved with Inverse Step, traveling parallel to time, but a casual wave of Yuan Qi’s hand caused the void to ripple and forced Lu Yin out of his movement technique. The power of time had no effect on the old man.

Lu Yin was already in front of Yuan Qi, and he lashed out with a palm. His inner universe lit up as collisions appeared with Infinity, letting Lu Yin unleash the ultimate strength of the Tianyuan Megaverse.

Yuan Qi's eyes blazed fiercely. "Child, in the Spirit Nidus, I am also renowned for my palm strikes! Veilparter!"

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Collisions rang out as Lu Yin and Yuan Qi’s palms clashed, shattering the nearby void. More and more of the Hollow was exposed, and it spread across the universe like an ink blot.

However, the universe quickly recovered as Lu Yin’s inner universe overlapped it. Stars rained down upon Yuan Qi without pause. Lu Yin’s attacks were fierce and endless. Yuan Qi was forced to simultaneously defend against both the powerful palm strikes and the crashing stars.

Unable to endure, Yuan Qi spat out blood, which shocked him. "Child, this power?"

𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

Yuan Qi had not seen True God or those who followed him since the battle at the Immemorial Citadel. The Spirit Nidus denizen had fled from the Immemorial Citadel before Lu Yin completed his Progenitor’s tribulation. While he had met with Forgotten Ruins God, who had entered the Rivers and Mountains Painting, Yuan Qi had never heard anything about how Lu Yin had chased after the Ossis Ark. What the old man knew about Lu Yin was only what he had seen during the battle at the Immemorial Citadel.

Yuan Qi knew that Lu Yin was exceptionally powerful, but no matter how strong Lu Yin had become since that battle, it should have been impossible for him to have surpassed Yuan Qi's Veilparter technique. This palm strike was something that had been passed down within the Ascendant Hall, and it had been developed by one of the Spirit Nidus’s greatest powerhouses. Even if Lu Yin could block one of the palm strikes, it should have been impossible for him to do so a second or third time.

Despite that, Lu Yin had managed to meet Yuan Qi’s attacks dozens of times, and cracks had even formed on Yuan Qi’s hands. In contrast, Lu Yin showed no signs of weakening.

How was this possible?

Lu Yin’s palm grazed Yuan Qi, even as the old man desperately dodged and then quickly retreated.

Lu Yin was taken aback. Doesn’t he know about Verdant Eternity? Right, he was always fighting against Mister Mu at the Immemorial Citadel, while the Origin Progenitor stayed underground and never participated in any of the battles. Even if the Origin Progenitor had the chance to join a fight, it still wouldn’t have mattered since Tian Feng had already sealed Verdant Eternity.

This meant that Yuan Qi knew nothing about Verdant Eternity.

It was a terrifying technique that allowed all energy and power to be reused indefinitely. This technique alone meant that, so long as Lu Yin’s attacks reached a certain level of strength, he would be able to defeat anyone. He could no longer grow exhausted.

Still, Yuan Qi’s Veilparter had stunned Lu Yin. Very few creatures in the entire megaverse were capable of withstanding Lu Yin’s power. It was beyond the abilities of both the Pridebeast and the Megalith. Yuan Qi had not demonstrated this level of physical strength during the battle at the Immemorial Citadel.

Despite his various thoughts, Lu Yin did not hesitate to continue attacking. His power was endless.

As long as Yuan Qi was within Lu Yin’s inner universe, he would have to deal with the fact that Lu Yin’s energy reserves were truly endless. The old man had to either overpower Lu Yin with pure strength, or he would be defeated by Lu Yin.

Yuan Qi kept flitting about, using a strange movement technique that was in no way inferior to Inverse Step. It also incorporated the power of time.

The power of time could not affect Yuan Qi, but by the same token, whenever the old man tried to use the time on Lu Yin, it was equally pointless.

After successfully dodging several times, Lu Yin finally landed a palm strike on Yuan Qi’s shoulder, sending him flying.

Lu Yin stepped forward. "Where is your Dao Bell?"

While fighting at the Immemorial Citadel, Yuan Qi’s strongest weapon had always been his Dao Bell. Whenever that bell tolled, it had influenced the entire battlefield. If not for being countered by Mister Mu's flute music, the Immemorial Citadel would not have been able to defend itself against that bell. However, during the final battle, Yuan Qi had shattered his Dao Bell while trying to escape from the battlefield and help True God's Ossis Ark. This was why the man had started to look old, as well as why he had been weakened.

If not for this, Lu Yin would have had no confidence of being able to defeat Yuan Qi.

Yuan Qi coughed up blood before looking up, whereupon he saw Lu Yin approaching him. The old man gritted his teeth, his blood staining his clothes. "Child, do you really think that you can keep me here?"

"Those who rely on their more advanced age to succeed don’t usually meet a good end." Lu Yin’s palm struck Yuan Qi in the abdomen again, causing the old man to spit up blood as he flew backwards. Yuan Qi wanted to escape into his Rivers and Mountains Painting, but he had not been able to move any closer to the painting once he had decided to fight Lu Yin instead of retreating.

Yuan Qi was in Lu Yin’s universe, which only Lu Yin could control.

Yuan Qi had never imagined that he would one day be completely suppressed by Lu Yin. This was beyond infuriating! His Dao Bell had been shattered, and his sequence particles were impossible to use. On top of that, he could not get even a single step closer to the Rivers and Mountains Painting. Infuriating! Simply Infuriating!

Pfft!

Lu Yin struck out yet again, his palm meeting Yuan Qi’s hand. There was a cracking sound. Yuan Qi’s arm was broken, and the attack continued on to strike Yuan Qi’s head, He was almost knocked unconscious.

In the distance, the Rivers and Mountains Painting suddenly flew away. There was someone inside it, controlling it. They were trying to get away from Lu Yin.

Lu Yin grabbed hold of Yuan Qi and used Inverse Step to chase after the Rivers and Mountains Painting.

Hatred filled Yuan Qi's eyes. "I am one of the Seven Seraphs! How could I end up in such a pitiful state? Zhan Yan, hurry up and save me! Rivers and Mountains Painting, come back to me!"

No matter how Yuan Qi shouted, the Rivers and Mountains Painting continued to fly away from him.

Lu Yin raised a hand, ready to suppress the painting.

Within the Rivers and Mountains Painting, Zhan Yan, Forgotten Ruins God, and Wang Xiaoyu all looked up.

"While this person is not an Ortuser, he’s still capable of holding back the laws of the universe. We can't stop him. Hurry up and help me," Zhan Yan said with a grim expression.

Forgotten Ruins God was surprised. "Aren’t we going to save Yuan Qi?"

“He won’t survive,” Zhan Yan instantly replied.

Yuan Qi was not facing an ordinary opponent, but rather one of the most powerful individuals in the entire Tianyuan Megaverse. While Lu Yin might not be a match for True God or the Origin Progenitor at their peaks yet, dealing with a weakened Yuan Qi was no issue.

If they tried to save Yuan Qi, the three women would only be dragged down with him.

Zhan Yan was able to see this quite clearly, as she had already fought against Lu Yin when he had attacked the Ossis Ark.

Despite that, she had not shared anything that she had learned about Lu Yin with Yuan Qi.

"Zhan Yan! Zhan Yan!" Yuan Qi roared, calling for the Rivers and Mountains Painting to help him.

Lu Yin's landmass pressed down, which caused the Rivers and Mountains Painting to shrink. A surge of sequence particles shot upwards, forming a visible beam of light that held back the continent. While the sequence particles were being repelled by Lu Yin’s inner universe, their pure quantity made it difficult for the sequence particles to be fully held back.

From within the Rivers and Mountains Painting, Zhan Yan’s voice called out, "Yuan Qi, you can no longer escape. Don’t disgrace the Seven Seraphs or humiliate the Spirit Nidus. Otherwise, your descendants will suffer beneath the High Seraph."

Yuan Qi’s eyes narrowed. He glared at the Rivers and Mountains Painting.

Lu Yin’s eyes glinted as he raised a hand. He was about to use Flipping the Sky.

Boom!

The universe rumbled. It sounded as though heaven and earth were collapsing. Lu Yin grabbed Yuan Qi with one hand and pressed his other downwards. He was determined to prevent the Rivers and Mountains Painting from escaping.

Suddenly, Yuan Qi started to shout while he was held aloft by Lu Yin, "I won’t disgrace the Seven Seraphs! Zhan Yan, protect my descendants and allow one of them to ascend to become a Seraph. I’ll help you this one last time."

As the old man spoke, a bell appeared. Despite its broken and battered appearance, it still produced a deafening sound when it rang.

Lu Yin grew dizzy, and his hold of Yuan Qi automatically loosened.

Yuan Qi spat out blood as he shot a fierce glare at Lu Yin and rang the bell yet again.

Lu Yin used his fingers as a sword, pointing them forward. The attack pierced the bell, which let out a final whine. At the same time, the Investiture of the Gods appeared, and Hongyan Mavis and Wu Tian stepped out to pursue the Rivers and Mountains Painting.

Unfortunately, they were too late. The Rivers and Mountains Painting, which was formed from an overwhelming number of Near and Far sequence particles, had escaped with that slightest opening.

The Dao Bell shattered entirely. Yuan Qi clutched his heart as he slowly collapsed.

Lu Yin gazed into the distance. The Rivers and Mountains Painting had escaped. What a pity.

"Cough, cough. I never thought, especially after all those years of fighting with that old bastard Mu, that I would lose… to his disciple." Yuan Qi barked a bitter laugh, his face ashen.

Lu Yin looked back at Yuan Qi. "Without your Dao Bell, you were never a match for me. Didn’t Zhan Yan warn you?"

Yuan Qi’s eyes flared. "Are you the one who injured her?"

A smile spread across Lu Yin's face. "It seems that while your Spirit Nidus has a unified cultivation method, you still aren’t able to escape from human nature. She had a chance to warn you, which would have prevented you from fighting me directly, and yet she chose not to. I would guess that that has something to do with your title of Seraph?"

Yuan Qi's eyes blazed with hatred, but the fire quickly died down again as he let out a sigh of defeat. "The young are truly formidable. I've roamed wherever I wished my whole life, and yet I ended up being outwitted by two children. What a joke."

Lu Yin stared at Yuan Qi. "Your strength without your Dao Bell is incomparable to how strong you are with it. The people of your Spirit Nidus follow a unified cultivation method, which leads you to comprehend specific sequence particles and allows you to build sequence bases. However, the flaw of such a method is also clear—you rely on it too much, which leads to a decline in personal strength.

"Your Dao Bell was a product of your Spirit Transformation, and using it allowed you to fight against my master, Mister Mu. But how many creatures in your Spirit Nidus are able to undergo Spirit Transformation? Most are only at the Spirit Rebirth stage, aren’t they?"

The laws of the universe that the Spirit Nidus cultivators comprehended, as well as their sequence bases, were both products of their unified cultivation method. Those cultivators were also able to undergo an incredible metamorphosis, which was called a Spirit Transformation.

Only a few individuals were able to undergo a Spirit Transformation, which was a second transformation above the Spirit Rebirth. Only by undergoing a Spirit Transformation could one create a unique weapon or innate gift. One example was Tian Ci’s Three-Foot Edge, which Garan Zhiluo had mistakenly believed to be a mirebound artifact. The reality was that the sword was the result of Tian Ci’s Spirit Transformation, which Lu Yin had since learned from Progenitor Xi.

Yuan Qi’s Dao Bell and Zhan Yan’s Jintian Painting were both the results of their Spirit Transformations.

If a cultivator’s Spirit Transformation weapon was destroyed, the owner would suffer even worse than if they had been defeated.

Sequence particles, sequence bases, and the Spirit Transformation were the foundation for the Spirit Nidus’s confidence in being able to fight against both the Consciousness Megaverse and the Tianyuan Megaverse. Their confidence was truly not without justification. Without his Dao Bell, Yuan Qi was nothing more than a fairly powerful Ortuser, and he was on a completely different level than Mister Mu, who was one of the most powerful experts in the entire megaverse.

The fact that Lu Yin had managed to defeat Yuan Qi meant that the old man was only about as strong as the Boundary Guardians.

However, with his Dao Bell, Yuan Qi became a true monster. If he also used the Rivers and Mountains Painting, he would have been even more formidable. It was possible that not even Mister Mu would have been able to stop Yuan Qi.

A Spirit Transformation effectively elevated the strength of the Spirit Nidus cultivators to a higher level. When combined with their sequence bases, the potential of the megaverse was readily evident.

Yuan Qi gave Lu Yin a mocking look. "Even if you belittle the cultivators of our Spirit Nidus, so what? The power that we gain through our various means still surpasses what your Tianyuan Megaverse is capable of. Since you know about our Spirit Transformations, you clearly know quite a bit about us. You must also know about our Limits and Sanctis, Ascendant Hall, and our ten all-powerful sequence bases. These are powers that you cannot defeat. If you spare my life, I promise that you will be able to live. Your family, your friends, and everyone you care about can also survive. You simply need to join the Spirit Nidus.

"With your talent, if you join the Spirit Nidus and cultivate our sequence particles, it’s not impossible for you to obtain a sequence base and become one of the Seven Seraphs."

Translated By: OMA

Edited By: Neshi/Nyxnox

TLC'ed By: OMA