Chapter 844: The Start Of The Counterattack

Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed. “Pyrolyte’s too destructive.”

“We’ve already considered that as well,” Qiong Xi’er answered. “We should gather everyone, attack Technocracy, and then detonate it in their territory.”

Lu Yin thought about it, as it wouldn’t be easy for the Human Domain to retaliate.

“Actually, it’s very easy to launch a counterattack.” Wei Rong smiled confidently as he continued, saying, “We just have to let the Sixth Mainland know that we intend to retaliate against them.”

“Rather, the hardest part will be ensuring that the Arrow Mountain Elder can safely return and that our forces avoid Ancestor Mojiang before we detonate the pyrolyte,” Qiong Xi’er explained.

Lu Yin understood what they meant. “I’ll speak to the Arrow Mountain Elder and the Hall of Honor.”

Wei Rong and the others soon left.

Zhu San glared at Lu Yin angrily before leaving as well.

Lu Yin considered their plan some more, as it wasn't a great plan. It was actually quite a predictable method to use in a normal battle. However, this was a battle that involved countless people from all parts of the Outerverse, and even the Hall of Honor would be wary of incurring any excessive losses. Thus, they might not have even thought of retaliating as they wouldn’t be able to withstand the losses if the attack failed.

The outcome of a failed attack would be devastating, and the person who suggested the attack could very well become a huge sinner in all of the defenders’ eyes. Hence, most people wouldn’t even dare to propose such an idea.

Only people like Wei Rong, who had never spent any time at a border war, would suggest such a move.

There was no perfect plan in the universe, and all plans had a possibility of failure. What mattered was whether or not one was able to withstand the consequences of failure.

Lu Yin took a deep breath, as was time for him to meet with Yuan Shi.

However, he first had to upgrade the poisons. If they were able to use his upgraded poisons during this possible counterattack, then the plan would definitely be more effective.

Lu Yin returned to the same secluded place as before and went back to rolling his die. There was a new innate gift on Gift Copy now, and the image was that of a pair of hands. This was Qiong Xi’er’s innate gift: analysis. It was similar to Huan Sha’s innate gift, though not entirely the same.

Lu Yin didn’t pay much attention to the new innate gift. This time, he remembered to set his cosmic ring aside so that he wouldn’t enter that dark space if he rolled Possession again. He would still have enough time to pick up his cosmic ring even if he rolled Timestop.

He rolled Pilfer on his next attempt, and a sword fell from the sky. Lu Yin exerted a bit of force, snapped the sword in half, and angrily threw it away as it was worthless. He took his die out and activated it once again, hoping that he would be able to succeed since this would be his final roll for now.

Luckily, Lu Yin managed to roll Enhance. He was ecstatic, and he quickly took out the poisons that he had obtained from Elder Wu.

Now that he had experienced more of the universe, Lu Yin was no longer as intimidated by Elder Wu’s poisons. This was especially true from the perspective of the current battlefield as these poisons couldn’t cause much harm to Imprinters. He had to upgrade these poisons to the point where their rune lines reached a power level of around 400,000 before they would have any effect on Imprinters.

He placed a poison on the upper light screen and dumped a large amount of star essence out.

He still had twelve bottles of poison, and he upgraded the first bottle eight times with 600,000 star essence. This upgraded the poison to a horrifying level, and Lu Yin didn’t even want to touch the vial with his bare hands anymore.

He wasn’t sure about what effect the poison would have, though he guessed that it would be very scary.

Even Hunters might not be able to amass 600,000 star essence throughout their entire lifetime, but Lu Yin had spent such an amount on just one bottle of poison.

He almost went on to continue upgrading a few more bottles, but he decided to wait until after he tested this upgraded poison out before upgrading any of the other vials.

However, he didn’t want to waste this opportunity since he had rolled Enhance, and he took out ten natural treasures.

These ten natural treasures had been gifted to him by Shamrock Enterprises when he had become the leader of the Great Eastern Alliance. They were each ten thousand years old, but they had not reached the point where they instinctively avoided danger yet.

He only needed to spend a few hundred star essence each to upgrade them to the point where they would instinctively avoid danger.

He rifled through his cosmic ring and also found five grams of pyrolyte, though pyrolyte couldn’t be upgraded. He then noticed the Arrow of Valiance which already had rune lines equivalent to a power level of 250,000. He wanted to upgrade it and then let the Arrow Mountain Elder use it. However, since he had obtained the Arrow of Valiance from Neo-Vestige Sect’s Arrow Mountain, he would definitely be exposed if he gave the upgraded arrow to the Arrow Mountain Elder, and he didn’t want to risk exposing his greatest secret.

There was nothing else in his ring that was worth upgrading.

Suddenly, Lu Yin noticed the poison from the Neohuman Alliance: Regression No. 91.

Elder Wu’s poisons were still treatable as the man had just been a normal Enlighter. However, this poison from the Neohuman Alliance had no antidote, and even Mister Mu had been unable to cure it as it directly drained away at a person’s life force. When Ming Yan had been poisoned, Mister Mu had only been able to save her by using a secret technique, and even that had resulted in her having a split personality.

Lu Yin paused for a moment, but then ultimately decided to upgrade the poison.

He placed the poison on the light screen and quickly threw out another handful of star essence. The bottle only descended about a tenth of the way after 10,000 star essence were consumed.

Lu Yin was stunned; how could this be? This meant that a complete upgrade would require spending at least 100,000 star essence, but why did this poison require such a massive sum? This poison didn’t have that many rune lines either.

Since he had already started upgrading the poison, Lu Yin didn’t want to give up. He took a deep breath and threw 100,000 star essence onto the screen. But after that, the bottle was still a slight bit away from the bottom screen.

In the end, he managed to fully upgrade the poison after expending 120,000 star essence in total.

Lu Yin was astonished, as the amount of star essence required to upgrade an item would increase with how rare the item was. However, Lu Yin had never upgraded anything that required such a large amount of star essence. He had only used 15,000 star essence to upgrade his universal armor to the point where it could defend against attacks with a power level of 300,000.

This poison was on a completely different level.

However, it made sense that it would require such a large amount of star essence as even Mister Mu had been unable to overcome this poison.

This was Regression No. 91, and Lu Yin suddenly recalled that Ming Yan had been poisoned by Regression No. 88. The severity of the poisons became stronger as the numbers decreased, and if even Regression No. 91 required such a staggering amount of star essence, then what about Regression No. 1? Lu Yin didn’t even want to think about it. Would even powerhouses with power levels of a million be able to withstand such a poison?

He then spent 300,000 star essence to completely upgrade the poison a second time.

Lu Yin didn’t plan on upgrading it any further, as doing so would leave him broke again.

Lu Yin contemplated whether or not he should pass the poisons over to the Arrow Mountain Elder, as it might be useful to the powerhouse. However, Lu Yin definitely wouldn’t give such a thing away for free.

Black clouds covered the sky as numerous androids descended upon the Greatwood Lavazone.

Wei Rong, Qiong Xi’er, and Zhu San immediately started searching for a hiding spot. They had initially wanted to look for Lu Yin, but they quickly realized that all of Lu Yin’s opponents would at least be at the Hunter realm, and they wouldn’t be able to withstand even the shockwaves from such a battle.

Thus, they had no choice but to look for a safe hiding place elsewhere.

Lu Yin was quickly attacked by two Hunter level androids, and it seemed as if he had stumbled into an android nest since he was surrounded by a swarm of these technological beings. However, these androids weren’t able to harm him.

Initially, he had wanted to quickly eliminate the batch of androids, but he ended up being forced to help out with other battles occurring throughout the area. Akira had been heavily injured, but he was still battling against two Enlighters from the Sixth Mainland.

Moreover, there were Enlighter level androids that were blasting at the Greatwood Lavazone’s mainland. Fortunately, Millions City was also present, and the mobile fortress would fire energy blasts across the sky from time to time.

Lu Yin shoved Akira towards the dark lava and held back the two Enlighters.

He wouldn’t be able to defeat them, but he would definitely be able to stymie their assault. He also wasn’t worried about being captured by Enlighters with his current equipment.

Yan Cheng looked down upon the Greatwood Lavazone from far above. He had heard reports that the Greatwood Lavazone was planning on launching a counterattack and destroying their forces in the Technocracy to give themselves a period of respite and recovery.

This was an incredible opportunity for Yan Cheng, as he had been waiting for the Fifth Mainland to attempt to retaliate.

Half a month passed, and the battle continued on without letting up for this entire time, leaving many of the reinforcements completely exhausted.

Lu Yin was used to these long, grueling battles as similar ones often had occurred in Ironblood Weave. This was a border warfront, which was the cruellest battlefield for humans.

After resting for a period of time, Yan Cheng had almost fully recovered. He then launched an attack that shattered the sky.

The Arrow Mountain Elder used his star energy to form an arrow that he shot into the sky in retaliation. It pierced through the Triple Palm that had enveloped the entire Greatwood region.

Nobody was able to interfere in a battle between such powerhouses, as their power levels were over 500,000.

Thus, everyone could do nothing more than watch the battle in awe.

Even Enlighters couldn’t withstand the shockwaves from such a battle.

Everyone had believed that the Sixth Mainland would hold the advantage in this battle, but a sudden burst of black flames changed the situation. Yen Phoenix had appeared in the Greatwood Lavazone, and he attacked Yan Cheng together with the Arrow Mountain Elder.

Yan Cheng was surprised by the appearance of a new opponent, and he promptly retreated. However, he had already been surrounded by a swathe of black flames and was unable to avoid being burned by the flames. Additionally, he still had to deal with the Arrow Mountain Elder’s arrow as well as an energy blast from Millions City. Everyone could see how desperate Yan Cheng’s situation was.

The cultivators from the Sixth Mainland quickly pulled back.

The Arrow Mountain Elder gave the command, “Greatwood Lavazone, attack!”

Tens of thousands of disciples from the Neo-Vestige Sect roared as various powerhouses took control of the Technocracy’s spacecraft and made their way towards the Technocracy’s territory.

The Arrow Mountain Elder moved the quickest, and he chased Yan Cheng into the Technocracy.

This region had belonged to Endless Weave in the past, but at the moment, half of what had used to be Endless Weave had been taken over by the Technocracy.

The Arrow Mountain Elder was immediately attacked the moment he entered the Technocracy’s territory, and multiple androids tried to force him back out.

The Arrow Mountain Elder shouted, “Imprinter, don’t run.”

Yan Cheng spat out a mouthful of blood. He looked back and said, “You natives will soon be wiped out by us, and I will definitely eradicate your civilization! I will send everyone in the Fifth Mainland back to the stone age!”

The Arrow Mountain Elder was furious. “I’ll kill you!”

He then formed an arrow with his star energy that pierced through the void and tore space apart to reveal a dark void. The arrow disappeared into the void and subsequently reappeared in Yan Cheng’s back.

Yan Cheng tried to dodge aside, but he was still injured by the arrow, and the attack caused his imprint to weaken a great deal.

“You natives will die horribly!” Yan Cheng bellowed as he hurried to make his escape.

The Arrow Mountain Elder anxiously chased after the Imprinter.

In the Greatwood Lavazone, Lu Yin narrowed his eyes as he waited for a certain moment to arrive.