Chapter 984: Bu Kong

Zhi Yi stared down at the Champions' Stage below her while wondering what sort of material it was made from. It could not be destroyed, which suggested that it was made out of some sort of remnant material from an ancient era. Unfortunately, not much of this material had been available, and only the outer layer had been constructed from it.

“The two of us joining forces is enough to topple the Whitecliff Region,” Bu Kong proclaimed loudly with a haughty expression.

Zhi Yi calmly retorted, “Just wait a bit longer to ensure that everything is in order.”

“It’s just the Fifth Mainland. What could they possibly throw at us that we would need to prepare for?” Bu Kong absolutely disdained this place.

Zhi Yi could not be bothered to explain the situation to this youth. He constantly grew more and more arrogant, and it was even possible that he no longer viewed her as anyone important anymore.

“Did you come here so quickly because the thunder region was defeated?” Bu Kong suddenly asked.

Zhi Yi frowned. “So what if that happened? The Ten Arbiters are not easy to deal with, and there are many other experts who are in no way inferior to the Ten Arbiters on this battlefield. Don’t be careless.”

Bu Kong sneered. “The Ten Arbiters? They’re nothing much.”

“Thieves, give up the Champions' Stage!” A loud cry sounded out from below the two Daosource Three Skies, originating from a group of ten cultivators who charged at Bu Kong as one. They used a coordination battle technique and shook off numerous Sixth Mainland cultivators as they charged straight at the Champions' Stage and Bu Kong.

Bu Kong’s eyes narrowed, and he took a single step forward. “Know your place.”

He then vanished from sight as he shot past the approaching cultivators. After Bu Kong moved past them, the ten youths suddenly stopped in place. Their bodies then began to rapidly decompose until they utterly disappeared.

Zhi Yi’s expression changed slightly. Whenever she saw Bu Kong fight, she would feel overwhelmed. The youth’s talents and battle techniques were almost unbelievable, and even her Sky Dipper might not be able to completely withstand his attacks. Although he was young, he truly was able to look down upon all others.

Right when Zhi Yi was being overwhelmed by Bu Kong’s abilities, the void in the distance was sliced open, and a formless attack descended. She did not even bother moving and calmly allowed the attack to fall down upon her Sky Dipper that was surrounding her body. She had assumed that her Sky Dipper would be able to easily withstand the attack, but she was actually pushed back several steps by the attack. When she recovered, she looked up in shock to see a serene-looking young man standing before her.

“On this entire battlefield, there are no more than three people who would dare to allow me to attack them freely. It’s no wonder why you’re one of the Daosource Three Skies,” the serene man commented in a deep voice.

Bu Kong looked over and mentioned to Zhi Yi, “This guy’s an Honor Chosen of the Hall of Honor. He’s called Shu Jing, and he’s not bad. He can almost match up to me.”

Zhi Yi’s eyes narrowed, as that evaluation from Bu Kong meant that this person was more than merely “not bad.” There were almost no youths who were capable of pushing her back, and the only ones who could were on the level of the Ten Arbiters and the Realmlings. This Honor Chosen might be just as strong as Unseen Light.

“One should behave honestly,” Shu Jing calmly stated. He then tapped out with a finger, splitting the void open once again. This attack caused Zhi Yi’s expression to change, and she responded by raising her hand, causing her Vitality Qi to form a long sword that slashed out in response. The two attacks collided within the void, and the resulting aftershocks swept out towards the white sea, dividing it in two.

Countless were overwhelmed by the fearsome shockwaves, and everyone did their best to evade them.

At that moment, a massive figure shot towards the Champions' Stage from above, and Bu Kong turned around with arched brows. “So it’s you again.”

This person was at least three meters tall, and he had enormous earlobes along with a square face. This was the Ten Arbiters’ War King.

“Fighting with you is very interesting, so let’s go again!” The War King grinned as he slapped out with a massive palm.

Bu Kong snorted. “You’ve already been defeated once, so you must simply be tired of living.”

An Undying Bird soared over from the distance while Sword Scholar wandered about the void, his movements harmonizing with the movements of his sword as he flew about the battlefield.

Even further away, a great deal of smoke invaded the area as a rain of arrows fell down, only to be quickly enveloped by the thick smoke cloud once again. This thick smoke was something caused by the Neoverse’s Smoke Eater Peaks’ Young Master Gu Xiao'er, and his opponent was the Realmling of the Progenitor of Secret Arts’ East Realm, Little Arrow Saint.

The battle in the Whitecliff Region had never ceased, and the Arbiters, Realmlings, and even Daosource Three Skies had been constantly fighting each other. The Champions' Stage was the focus of both sides, but no one had been able to reclaim it from beneath the feet of Bu Kong and Zhi Yi so far.

In another part of the Cosmic Sea, in the thunder region, a group of four shot towards the Whitecliff Region. Lightning occasionally rained down from the sky and illuminated their faces, but in the next moment, the sky would clear up once again. This demonstrated just how capricious the weather in the Cosmic Sea was and how freak phenomena could occur anywhere in the sea.

It did not take long for the small group to draw near the border of the thunder region. Once they did, a radiant, white sun rose up from the bottom of the sea along with Shang Rong. There was a sinister look on his face as he stared at the four youths. “I knew that you guys would want to reinforce the Whitecliff Region. You can just die here.”

The white sun then tumbled down and illuminated their terrified faces.

The four were destroyed without any form of resistance.

Nan Yanfei rose up from the seabed with a strange look on his face as he surveyed the area where the four people had disappeared from. “Something’s not right. They aren’t that weak.”

Shang Rong’s eyes flashed. “We’ve been tricked! These four were a decoy, and the real reinforcements have already left.”

“Forget it. There’s no way we can deal with them at this point. We’ll be fine as long as we stay here and keep those two Arbiters occupied,” Nan Yanfei replied.

Somewhere not too far from the two Realmlings, Lu Yin’s group of four were headed towards the Whitecliff Region. Starsibyl had foreseen the earlier incident, and as a result, she had captured four cultivators from the Sixth Mainland and then used some strange method to cause the four to silently fly towards the Whitecliff Region.

Lu Yin did not know what had happened to those four people, but regardless, his group had successfully exited the thunder region.

“Seventh Bro, the route to the Whitecliff Region will get a bit more dangerous from here on out. I recommend that we regularly have Starsibyl perform divinations,” the short man from Leon’s Armada suggested.

Lu Yin did not say much, but Tai Yuanjun, who was standing next to him, became upset. “Do you think that you can order Starsibyl about? Stop your nonsense!”

The short man just looked at Tai Yuanjun.

Tai Yuanjun’s brows rose. “What? Are you not happy?”

He was aware that the short man was someone from Leon’s Armada, but those people were just a bunch of pirates in his eyes. Tai Yuanjun clearly looked down upon such people.

“Kid, this is the Cosmic Sea, so reign in your arrogance from being number two on the Top 100 Rankings,” the short man said in an eerie voice as his eyes grew cold.

Tai Yuanjun sneered. “You really know how to talk despite just being an Explorer.”

Lu Yin arched his brow. “Please speak more politely. Otherwise, I don’t have a problem with teaching you how to behave properly.”

Tai Yuanjun stared at Lu Yin. “Teach me to behave? Just by yourself?”

Lu Yin raised a hand. “Just tell me when it hurts, and I’ll lighten up.”

Tai Yuanjun was about to step forward and attack Lu Yin, but Starsibyl growled, “Alright, is this really the time for us to be infighting?”

Tai Yuanjun’s expression instantly changed, and he shot a big smile towards Starsibyl. “Yes, yes, yes. At a time like this, we really need to unite against external threats. I won’t bicker with this trash.”

The short man reflexively pulled out a knife, wanting to attack, but Lu Yin pressed a hand on the man’s shoulder. “Just ignore it and forgive him. Such one-sided love can be quite scary.”

They did not know if Tai Yuanjun had heard Lu Yin’s comment, as he continued to smile at Starsibyl in a rather creepy manner.

Starsibyl had no choice. Tai Yuanjun had been annoying her for a long time, but she could only ignore everything and continue on her way.

One day later, the four of them encountered a giant storm sweeping across the sea, and even with the strength of Lu Yin’s small group, the four were still nearly blown away. This was still not considered a very serious event, as next, they ran into a hailstorm. Each piece of icy hail raining down from the sky was as large as a mountain. Lu Yin had never seen anything like this before, and the falling hailstones covered the entire sky. It was a mystery as to where these hailstones had even come from.

Ice constantly fell down from the sky, but not even the sea was stable. Waterspouts that shot up into the sky randomly appeared, carrying a few strange creatures whenever they did so. Some of these creatures were not that weak, with some even surpassing an Enlighters’ strength. For some reason, these beasts were not erased by the cosmic phenomenon, as it seemed that the Rune Progenitor’s phenomena only targeted humans. As a result, people from the Beast Tamers’ Flowzone held the advantage in this environment, though the group had not run into anyone from the Beast Tamers Flowzone anywhere at all.

Regardless of whether it was the Rune Progenitor’s phenomena or the weather in the Cosmic Sea, everything that the four people encountered was quite strange.

Along the way, Tai Yuanjun only focused on fawning over Starsibyl, and he completely ignored Lu Yin. Though Lu Yin himself could not be bothered with such nonsense.

At very regular intervals, Starsibyl would make a divination, though they did not know if her efforts were useful. Still, they took frequent detours, and many days later, they finally saw a boundless white shape off in the distance. They had arrived at the Whitecliff Region.

The four people grew excited, as they were finally about to arrive.

They had somewhat forgotten that they were not touring around the Whitecliff Region, but had rather come to reinforce the defenders there. However, they were immediately reminded of their true purpose when the sky was slightly torn by a bit of sword qi.

The face of that short man from Leon’s Armada turned pale in an instant. “Sev- Seventh Bro, you guys go ahead. I won’t go with you.”

Lu Yin’s expression was quite solemn, as the rune lines that he had seen from that sword qi were very close to the power level limit of 200,000. On top of that, it had carried a battle force that, although suppressed, had still been extremely powerful as well as an invisible strength, meaning that the attack’s level had reached that of a Realmling.

Even further ahead of the small group, more rune lines pervaded the skies with countless runes covering the sea and everything that Lu Yin could see.

There was the battlefield in the Whitecliff Region, the most intense battlefield in the Cosmic Sea.

“Seventh Bro, don’t ever fall into the water here. This water’s extremely corrosive, and not even a corpse will remain if you fall in,” the short man cautioned as he left. He did not even dare to get remotely close to the Whitecliff Region’s battlefield.

Tai Yuanjun no longer had the capacity to fawn over Starsibyl, as the battlefield was looming ahead of them in the distance.

Soon after, Lu Yin’s trio drew close to the battlefield.

Lu Yin had planned on acting as an ordinary reinforcement while waiting to see if he could find a convenient opportunity to seize back the Champions' Stage back with the Yu Secret Art.

However, he had underestimated his own fame. Since Zhi Yi had announced the bounty on Lu Yin all across the entire Cosmic Sea, no matter if they were from the Fifth Mainland or Sixth Mainland, everyone recognized him.

The moment Lu Yin appeared, an entire group of Sixth Mainland cultivators became so excited that they immediately ambushed Lu Yin’s group at first chance.

Lu Yin had to deal with one batch of attackers after another. He had known beforehand that he would have to deal with a lot of trouble since he had also seen Zhi Yi’s bounty for his capture. However, he did not want to alter his appearance. Since he was in the Innerverse, he did not want to lose the chance to chase after the Astral Tower’s inheritance, especially since his position as an Honor Chosen had qualified him to participate in that fight. Still, he needed some other opportunities to increase his reputation, and he also needed more military achievements.

When he had been weaker, he had only been able to ward off powers like the Blaze Realm by socializing with the likes of Nightking Yuanjing. He had also joined the Lockbreaker Society and become a student at Astral-10 for similar reasons. From the very beginning, Lu Yin had realized the importance of having a sufficiently strong background. Thus, he had always strived to find more powerful backers while simultaneously building up his personal power.

At this time, military contributions were equivalent to fame, and fame meant background. Nobody dared to act recklessly towards those who had impressive contributions.

Lu Yin needed to receive a title from the Champions' Stage—King at the very least, but hopefully Arbiter.

However, that was too dangerous at the moment. Although Lu Yin could still handle the various attacks for the moment, as soon as a Realmling targeted him, he would have no choice but to avoid them by altering his appearance.

Currently, Lu Yin was like a vortex, continuously devouring the Sixth Mainland’s cultivators as they approached him. As a seemingly endless horde moved to attack Lu Yin, quite a few people from the Fifth Mainland naturally followed behind him, and wherever Lu Yin moved to, the battle would become more intense.

Above him, sword qi fell straight down towards him, and Lu Yin hurriedly evaded it as he looked up. He then exchanged glances with a scholarly looking man.

“That’s Sword Scholar, the Sage Martial Realm’s Realmling,” said a female voice from next to Lu Yin. He looked over, and his expression instantly changed. “Miss Qing?”

Miss Qing smiled at Lu Yin. “It’s been a long time, Deafmute Bro.”

Another acquaintance had appeared, and Lu Yin laughed. “I never thought that you’d be on this battlefield as well.”