Chapter 3766: Lu Yin And The Meteorite

Everyone felt heavy-hearted. How could it ever be easy to face off against an Immortal?

"We couldn’t even get close," Ancient God commented.

Wu Tian sighed. "If you hadn't appeared, our megaverse most likely would have been reset."

"The truth is that Master Qing Cao isn’t wrong." Jiang Feng’s expression fell as he turned to meet the others’ gazes. "If the full force of the Nests’ civilization is brought here, we won't be able to stop them."

Everyone understood this to be true, but they refused to go so far as to sacrifice the entire megaverse just to eliminate the Nest civilization’s ability to locate them.

Mister Mu spoke up, "The Tianyuan has its own path. To use Master Qing Cao's words, your timely breakthrough is the Tianyuan’s own luck. It might not be impossible to obstruct the Nest civilization.

"Still, as a precaution, we need to prepare a group to leave this megaverse, so that a seed of our civilization will be preserved."

Lu Yuan said, "We've already started repairing the Ossis Ark. Even if the proper materials are hard to find, it is the only vessel we have that can be used to send people away."

Jiang Feng’s expression grew heavy. "We can’t deal with the Nest civilization on our own. If those other megaverses want our megaverse to serve as their torch, they need to at least send us some wood."

"What do you want to do?" Wu Tian asked.

Jiang Feng’s rise to power was quite similar to Lu Yin’s. Both had started from the bottom, and they had climbed up step by step with their own power to eventually command billions. Neither man was solely a cultivator.

Jiang Feng’s eyes glinted, and a ruthless smile tugged his lips a bit upwards as he slowly said, “We need to deliver a Nest to the Spirit Nidus.”

...

In the Consciousness Megaverse, Lu Yin returned to

Boundless

. Everstone was keeping his chaotic consciousness suppressed, but it would still take him longer to fully master his new strength.

Time was not something that Lu Yin was short on.

He immediately started rolling his die.

More than a month later, Lu Yin lowered the die. He had already spent nearly three years cultivating in his Timestop Space. This time had enabled him to suppress his reinforced consciousness even without the sequence base.

Even so, Everstone was destined to be broken down by Lu Yin’s inner universe.

There were still four battleships behind

Boundless

, and the people aboard those vessels stared at

Boundless

in awe. The results of Lu Yin’s battle with the High Seraph had deliberately been shared with the captives, and they all knew that Lu Yin had won.

The High Seraph had always been regarded as invincible within the Spirit Nidus, but now, he had actually lost to Lu Yin. The faith of all cultivators from the Spirit Nidus had been shattered. They no longer even thought of resisting and accepted their fates.

No one even considered the fact that the people from

Boundless

might be lying, as there was no reason for them to do so.

Lu Yin stood at the bow of

Boundless

, his arms moving. His consciousness, karma, and physical strength had all undergone a transformation in the Consciousness Megaverse, and he could not help but wonder how far he was from the strength of an Immortal.

Earlier, there had been a messy, uneasy balance between the different factions in the Consciousness Megaverse. However, the High Seraph had fled after suffering a complete defeat, Yue Ya had been scared off, and Yong Heng had vanished, likely leaving the megaverse entirely. As for the Thirteen Luminaries, they had all been exterminated. The only entity in the megaverse that Lu Yin was still concerned about was that meteorite with the eye.

As for Che, he was not worth Lu Yin worrying about.

The meteorite... is right there.

A few days later, Lu Yin left

Boundless

yet again to go after the meteorite.

The stone was in a Broken Realm, its eye continuously blinking and darting about, as if it was searching for something. Lu Yin’s arrival did not draw any attention at all.

"Che came to see you, didn’t he?" Lu Yin asked as he stared at the meteorite.

The eye briefly froze, and then it swiveled to look at Lu Yin.

"Just what are you? What’s your relationship with the Starforged Sword and Che? What are you doing here? I want to know everything," Lu Yin stated.

The meteorite stared at him for a while before simply ignoring him and returning to blinking and darting about. The eye’s movement seemed to serve some special purpose.

Lu Yin’s voice dropped low. “If you refuse to speak, I’ll just take a look for myself.”

With that, his Karmic Dao was released into the nearby sky. Naturally, it fell over the meteorite as well. The Wordless Heavenly Book radiated a gentle light that connected it to the Investiture of the Gods.

The meteorite instantly moved back, its eye warily looking at Lu Yin. It was bloodshot and radiated aggression. There was no doubt that it was giving Lu Yin a warning.

The warning was completely ignored. Lu Yin had already fought the meteorite on more than one occasion. If it dared to attack him, he would show it true despair.

He was not at all the same as before.

There was a whoosh as the meteorite suddenly charged at Lu Yin. He slowly raised a hand as he was struck by a tremendous impact.

The meteorite’s strength seemed to be in constant flux. When it was at its weakest, even an Envoy could repel it. At its strongest, it was able to smash universe-class battleships apart and leave even a Seraph-level expert like Su Shidao completely helpless. It was capable of exerting truly overwhelming power.

At this moment, the meteorite’s strength was at its peak. It slammed into Lu Yin’s hand, fully confident that the human would be driven back. However, the actual results left the stone stunned. Disbelief filled its eye as it stared at Lu Yin.

Lu Yin had stopped the meteorite with just one hand, and he had not taken so much as a single step back.

At that moment, an image appeared on the Investiture of the Gods, created by Lu Yin’s Karmic Dao. As the image appeared, Lu Yin’s karma started to drain, and the rate of consumption was far faster than when he had seen Cai Keqing’s life. The sudden expenditure left his eye twitching.

As he kept on hand pressed against the meteorite, Lu Yin stared at his Investiture of the Gods.

The meteorite's eye looked Lu Yin up and down, almost humanlike disbelief readily visible in its depths. The shock was so intense that it even managed to overshadow its rage and madness. The stone trembled violently in a struggle to push Lu Yin away, but no matter how the meteorite tried, it could not even budge the human.

Lu Yin calmly continued to stare at the Investiture of the Gods. The image was still of the endless darkness of the Aevum Inch. He had no idea how long the same image would continue on for, nor how many long years the meteorite had spent in the Aevum Inch.

He had been able to see all of Cai Keqing’s life rather quickly.

The drain on his Karmic Dao left Lu Yin feeling as though his heart was bleeding, but he could not do anything about it. If he wanted to learn about the meteorite, this was the only method. In the worst case scenario, he would simply spend some time harvesting some karmic bricks.

Just then, the image on the Investiture of the Gods changed, and Lu Yin saw a section of a starry sky. The Aevum Inch had disappeared, and in its place was a civilization and evidence of intelligent life. He saw... destruction.

Lu Yin’s pupils shrank sharply as he stared at the scene playing out, shaken by what he saw.

He watched the annihilation of a bizarre, non-human species. He saw planets be destroyed and space warp and compress. Their megaverse was being reset.

Also, Lu Yin saw the Starforged Sword sweeping through universes, casually slaying countless creatures and filling the parallel universes with blood and bringing despair to the entire civilization.

It was like rewatching when the High Seraph had previously forced his way into the Heavens Sect, slaughtering everyone in his path. No, what Lu Yin was seeing was worse than what he had personally experienced. The bloodshed that he observed weighed heavily on his heart. No creature was able to escape. It was total annihilation.

Numbers meant nothing. The massive Starforged Sword swept past stars, each pass shattering countless planets.

Sequence strings were constantly being torn apart, and parallel universes crumbled to dust, one after another.

Madness and rage filled Lu Yin's heart. Even his eyes changed. Within his inner universe, the star of divine energy started to spin, gradually moving faster and faster.

At that moment, his hand suddenly felt light, and the image disappeared from the Investiture of the Gods. The meteorite had moved away.

The madness faded from Lu Yin’s eyes. He turned to see that the meteorite had moved far away. He glanced down at his hand and then back up at the Investiture of the Gods. He could not understand how the meteorite had managed to break free, as there was no trace of any movement or resistance.

The meteorite's eye stared at Lu Yin for a moment, and then it shifted as the stone left in another direction.

Lu Yin watched it go, momentarily unsure of what to do.

He finally understood the meteorite’s true nature. It was one of the sapient creatures from the megaverse that Lu Yin had just seen be destroyed, the species that had been exterminated. The creature had merely donned a meteorite shell that boasted incredible defenses, which had allowed it to escape the destruction of its own megaverse. However, while the creature had survived, the rest of its species had been annihilated. It had survived the reset of its megaverse.

Also, the one who had reset that megaverse and destroyed the creature’s species had been the Starforged Sword, or more accurately, the master of the sword: Che, the seemingly polite man who had even offered Lu Yin a bit of guidance.

It was hard to believe that such a man could have reset an entire megaverse, erasing an entire civilization.

Lu Yin remained rooted in place, lost in his thoughts for a long time before he finally chased after the meteorite.

It had already entered another Broken Realm, its eye again blinking incessantly.

"You... are you searching for those invisible spots of light?" Lu Yin’s voice rang out. There was nothing else in the Broken Realms that could possibly attract the meteorite’s attention.

The fact that not even Lu Yin or the Origin Progenitor could normally see the spots of light was a clear indication that they were not normal items.

The meteorite ignored Lu Yin, its eye simply blinking and darting about as it roamed the Broken Realm.

Lu Yin had no intention of attacking the meteorite again. He had been lucky. By reversing time, he had managed to spare his megaverse from total calamity, obtaining a chance to save his home. The meteorite had not been nearly so fortunate.

Its entire species had been erased, and it was the sole survivor in existence. Just the mere thought was suffocating.

Also, Lu Yin still could not understand just how the meteorite had escaped from him while he had been observing its past.

He watched as the meteorite’s eye blinked repeatedly. It constantly changed locations, repeating the same actions over and over.

Lu Yin did not interfere, and the meteorite did not leave. Both remained within the same Broken Realm.

Soon, several days passed. One day, the meteorite’s eye suddenly flared, as though it had found what it was looking for. It blinked again, and as Lu Yin carefully watched, he could barely make out ripples moving across the eyeball. It appeared that something had entered the eye.

The next moment, the Broken Realm vanished.

Lu Yin silently considered what had happened, though it was about what he had expected. Before, when he had moved a spot of light with the broken shard of the Starforged Sword, the Broken Realm had moved with the spot of light. That indicated that the Broken Realms were connected to the spots of light. The meteorite must have absorbed that light and thus destroyed the Broken Realm.

But just how had it absorbed the spot of light? And what kind of substance was that light?

The meteorite immediately moved on to the next Broken Realm.

A few days later, that Broken Realm similarly disappeared. That done, the meteorite moved on to the next.

On average, it took the meteorite five days to make a Broken Realm disappear. However, the meteorite had only visited small Broken Realms of average danger levels. None of them had been large enough to contain even a single planet. Five days would not be enough for the meteorite to search through any of the larger Broken Realms.

In fact, the meteorite avoided the larger Broken Realms that it encountered.

"What was your civilization called?" Lu Yin asked.

The meteorite ignored him.

"How long did your civilization develop?"

The meteorite still gave no response.

"Why did the Starforged Sword reset your megaverse? Was it to achieve Immortality?"

Still there was no reaction from the meteorite.

"Did Che reset your civilization’s megaverse as a stepping stone to enter Immortality?"

The meteorite continued as though Lu Yin did not exist.

It refused to respond to anything he said. So long as Lu Yin did not interfere with the meteorite’s activities, it would not attack him. It was likely that it had assaulted him before due to a bout of frenzy or madness, but given how much of its consciousness had been devoured by Lu Yin, the madness had been suppressed. As long as the being in the meteorite remained in control of its own mind, it would not cause trouble for Lu Yin.

Lu Yin watched as the meteorite’s eye continued to blink, searching for the points of light in the Broken Realms. Slowly, he said, “I don’t belong to this megaverse. This place is called the Consciousness Megaverse. There are two others nearby: one is called the Spirit Nidus, and the other is the Tianyuan Megaverse. I’m from the Tianyuan Megaverse.

“That megaverse is my home, and it’s where my people are—my family, friends, loved ones...”

Lu Yin slowly shared some details regarding life in the Tianyuan Megaverse.