Chapter 4185: Kill Him

The sword crept closer, and Hui’s silver eyes locked onto Greater Sancte Awe Gate. They might not want to use the power of Obscura, but there was no denying how terrifying that power was.

You can’t take this strike!

Greater Sancte Awe Gate retreated slower than the sword fell, but she was also not alone.

The entire void abruptly froze. Lu Yin looked down at the bottom of the rifts. A finger rose, and he unleashed the power gathered by Extremes Must Be Reversed: Willforce Wave.

Gray light shot past Greater Sancte Awe Gate as it blasted towards Hui. In response, Hui brought the silver sword down, intending to cleave the beam in the same stroke as they split Awe Gate’s body.

But that strike was blocked.

Silver lit up the universe, illuminating Hui’s stunned expression.

How is this possible?

The sword slash and the gray light tangled together. Seizing the opening, Greater Sancte Awe Gate thrust Awecloud at Hui.

The spear tore Hui’s body open, the spear piercing into the void behind them. But as the silver being stood, Hui seemed to be unaware of their wounds. They were simply staring at where their sword had collided with the gray light.

Impossible. How could a mere Aberrant stop my blow? Impossible...

Lu Yin was panting heavily, his expression grave.

Hui’s sword contained as much power as the Immortal Lord’s full-force blow when destroying the Allsense Megaverse. At that time, the Immortal Lord had been trying to capture Lu Yin and also save Luo Chan, and thus they had not held back at all. Hui’s slash had split Awe Gate’s rift apart while aiming for her. The Greater Sancte was extremely strong, and the attack had been intended to kill her. Consequently, Hui had likewise not restrained themself either.

With the overall destructive power being essentially equal to what he had faced before, Lu Yin had once again countered with a Willforce Wave.

He had not thought that he would be able to release a Willforce Wave of that power a second time before breaking into the Immortal realm.

After all, his Willforce Wave grew more powerful when he faced stronger opponents.

Boom

.

The drum rang out once again. Greater Sancte Awe Gate and Lu Yin both spat out blood at the same time. They had been ambushed.

Hui did not only have a sword, but also a mirebound artifact.

Hui was finally treating Lu Yin as a serious opponent. Clenching the silver sword, they swept it sideways, tearing the light of the Willforce Wave apart. The silver being’s eyes were locked onto Lu Yin. “Human, what’s your name? Who are you, and what is your relationship to that man?”

Lu Yin cleaned the blood from the corner of his mouth as he met the silver gaze. “He is my master.”

The silver figure nodded. “I didn’t anticipate a pack of stray dogs fighting their way back. Do you even know anything about Obscura?”

“Nonsense,” Greater Sancte Awe Gate replied in a cold voice, clenching Awecloud. Her bloodlust remained sharp.

The silver gaze swept over to Mister Mu in the distance. The silver sword slowly rose up, and then it was released.

The blade pierced the void. Ripples spread out as the sword gradually vanished.

Lu Yin arched a brow. “Sword Planting. Be careful.”

Hui frowned.

He even knows about Sword Planting? Right, after Lan Meng was wounded, they claimed that it was at the hands of a karmic expert from that human civilization. When they fought, Lan Meng must have used Sword Planting, exposing it

.

The silver sword vanished entirely. The next instant, silver blades erupted from the void in every direction, slicing at Lu Yin and Greater Sancte Awe Gate.

They had been prepared to face this technique again since long ago.

Multiple Awe Gates appeared and opened. Lu Yin passed through a gate, disappearing, as did Greater Sancte Awe Gate. Some of the silver swords pursued them through the gates, while others sliced through the void. However, none could find their targets.

Lu Yin’s expression abruptly changed. He looked over at Obscura’s gate. There was a silver sword there, slashing right at the gate.

Shan Barrens met the silver sword, only to be immediately knocked aside. The silver sword continued forward to cleave at the gate.

A smile slowly appeared on Hui’s lips. Their goal for Sword Planting had not been to kill Lu Yin or the others, but rather to open Obscura’s gate.

Both of Hui’s opponents were top-tier experts. It would be a tremendous challenge to take either of them down quickly, but if one or two more of Obscura’s experts arrived, everything would change, and all enemies would die.

There was no time. Hui stood between the gate and Lu Yin and Greater Sancte Awe Gate. Even if the two humans could catch up to the sword, they would not be able to get past Hui.

Humans, you are doomed!

Lu Yin felt helpless. He had not wanted to reveal his ability to teleport so soon. As soon as Hui felt that it was not possible to overpower the two humans, the silver creature would fight them to the death, and that was not something that they wanted to force just yet.

Unfortunately, there was no other choice.

Lu Yin glanced at Hui and saw the smile.

You’re smiling? I’ll make you cry in a moment.

Teleportation.

Hui was gloating, waiting to see Lu Yin and the others give in to despair, but Lu Yin suddenly disappeared.

Hm? Gone? Where did he go?

Hui whipped around. They saw Lu Yin in front of Obscura’s gate, already pushing the silver sword aside with one hand. He glanced back at Hui, smiling as he asked, “Are you having fun?”

Hui stared at Lu Yin in a daze. The expression on the silver figure was more solemn than ever before. “Te-le-por-ta-tion.”

Lu Yin smiled. “Wrong. It’s just speed.”

Hui looked at Lu Yin in a completely different manner from before.

Teleportation? How could a human possibly have that ability? That is unique to

those

creatures, and it is the exact ability that allowed them to rise and become a fishing civilization.

It should be impossible for a human to gain the ability to teleport.

So why could Lu Yin do so?

Speed? That was an absurd excuse. Speed still necessitated that one cross space. Only teleportation completely bypassed that requirement.

Could a human move fast enough that Hui could not even see them? Of course not.

He’s still trying to stall.

Hui knew that Lu Yin had been trying to buy time all along. He clearly possessed the strength to fight against Hui, and yet he had tried to keep that strength hidden. If Obscura’s gate had not almost been activated, he would have never exposed his ability to teleport.

This was a problem. With the ability to teleport on their side, it would be very hard to stop the man from breaking into the Immortal realm.

“Senior Awe Gate, why don’t we just kill him?”

“I agree,” Greater Sancte Awe Gate replied.

Lu Yin vanished again, reappearing directly behind Hui. Merging back with the will of the megaverse, he threw another palm strike.

Silver light surged around Hui, blasting Lu Yin back. They raised a hand, and the silver sword instantly reappeared in their grip. With a single sweep, the sword slashed all around the figure. Awecloud was knocked aside. Hui said nothing, but their aura condensed. They were taking this confrontation completely seriously at this moment.

The drum continued to ring out.

Lu Yin attacked again and again, teleporting around, but he was unable to harm Hui at all. He could not overcome Hui’s defenses. At best, Lu Yin could only maintain a stalemate.

Hui was a supreme powerhouse, an absolute expert even among Immortals. No matter what abilities Lu Yin revealed, he posed little threat to Hui. However, Hui also found it hard to outright overpower the two humans.

The clashes echoed across the universe without stopping as the battle raged on.

Far away, Kang Tian was shaken. It remembered the first time it had faced Lu Yin. At that time, the young human had slaughtered the Tricolor Skybornes, but he had been nowhere near this strong. How had his power risen so much so fast?

Not only could Lu Yin directly block Hui’s attacks, but he could also teleport and occasionally unleash absolutely terrifying attacks of his own.

This human is only an Aberrant, and yet...

The snail glanced back at Mister Mu. Breaking into the Immortal realm, and especially the stage of overcoming Dukkha, did not have any sort of fixed duration. It might take a long time, or it might happen quickly.

When Kang Tian had broken through, it had used the resetting of a megaverse to do so, but it had still needed to overcome Dukkha.

No one could guess how long the man might need to break through.

Even so, judging by the situation, Lu Yin and Awe Gate could hold out by working together.

Well, so long as this is Hui’s full strength.

The moment that thought occurred to the snail, the universe suddenly changed. There was no warning as silver covered the endlessly dark sky. Lu Yin and Greater Sancte Awe Gate instantly pulled back, wary of whatever Hui was trying to do.

𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

But in the next instant, the silver vanished once more. The universe returned to its previous state: dark and profound.

What was going on?

Lu Yin felt uneasy. Something was off. Hui would not use that burst of silver just to scare them.

He remembered when Lan Meng had released their unique world. It had possessed an immense range. Hui was not any weaker than Lan Meng, so was it possible that they had already fallen into Hui’s world?

Huh

.

It was a gentle sound, but the entire entire universe was instantly covered by silver.

Lu Yin, Greater Sancte Awe Gate, Kang Tian, who was farther away, and even Mister Mu, who was still inside his cauldron, were all shrouded by the silver.

From outside, it would look like a gigantic silver ovoid filling the megaverse. The boundaries of the two were exactly the same shape.

The silver had completely shrouded the megaverse.

Lu Yin was startled, and he instinctively lashed out at Hui.

The blow pierced through the silver figure, but there was only flowing silver liquid.

Where is Hui?

Lu Yin instantly reappeared beside Obscura’s gate, whereas Greater Sancte Awe Gate rushed for Mister Mu. The silver that filled the entire megaverse had to be Hui’s world, but how would they attack next?

Their worst fear was that not even teleportation would be enough to prevent Hui from activating the gate.

If that gate was opened, everything would be ruined at the very last step.

But even after they waited for quite a while, nothing happened.

Lu Yin grew suspicious. He stared across the universe, focusing mostly on Mister Mu. Hui’s top goal at this moment was to stop Mister Mu’s breakthrough.

But aside from the silver that covered everything, nothing happened.

Suddenly, Lu Yin felt his strength draining away. At that same moment, cracks started to appear in the stars in his inner universe. His consciousness, Heartrift power, and everything that he had ever cultivated, even the distant sight that he relied on for teleportation, started to grow blurry.

This was bad. It was expulsion. Their powers were being driven out from their bodies.

Greater Sancte Awe Gate was alarmed. “Lu Yin, it’s forcing our power out from within us!”

Kang Tian grew uneasy. “We should withdraw.”

Lu Yin frowned. This was more than what he had expected Hui to be capable of. The endless silver had no other function; it only forced power out from those within the silver realm. However, that expulsive force was terrifyingly strong, as it was even able to force out Heartrift power.

Teleportation was not possible without being able to see clearly. Even karma was being expelled.

Any power that had been cultivated within their bodies was being driven out.

“My Nirvana Tree Path is destabilizing. The spirit seed from Mi Jin is going to fall away,” Greater Sancte Awe Gate said.

Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed. Hui had either vanished or fused with the silver world. All they wanted to do was continuously expel their various powers. This was a truly frightening world.

Mister Mu’s breakthrough was not particularly affected, but if too much of Lu Yin or Awe Gate’s strength was drained away, they would not be able to hold on when Hui struck again.

This move showed that Hui had also reached their own limits.

This move made everything a contest of time. If Mister Mu managed to overcome Dukkha and become an Immortal before Hui expelled too much of their powers, then Hui’s tactic would fail. The silver being was betting that Mister Mu needed more time that his allies would be weakened greatly. Then, Hui would strike.

“Senior Awe Gate, is your world not able to counter Hui’s?” Lu Yin asked.

Every Immortal had their own world. While Lu Yin had fought against Immortals before, he did not truly understand their unique worlds.

Greater Sancte Awe Gate shook her head. “My world is about opening gates, gates as countless as sparrows. The very nature of my world differs from Hui’s. But you...” She looked at Lu Yin. “Your world may actually be able to resist.”

“Me?” Lu Yin froze. “I don’t have a world.”

“Your Karmic Dao is already very close to being a world.”

“But it probably can’t affect this silver world,” Lu Yin replied. His Karma Dao merely served to expand the range at which he could manipulate karma. It did not grant absolute control within its range, unlike the Heavenly Karmic Macrocosm.

He waved a hand, and Shan Barrens appeared. The card was actually another world as well: Shan Barrens had Infinite Darkness.