Star Odyssey

Chapter 2984: Fascinated

Wang Wen sighed heavily. "I really don't know what sort of pill the Aeternals gave you to make you so loyal. The other three are all the same."

"Three?" The blue-haired man was surprised.

Wang Wen usually waved his hand, and the death energy opened up to reveal a large area. Three figures could be seen in three different directions. One was wearing black armor that covered even his face, hands, and legs. The other miserable man was the Chiliagonist. He had collapsed to the ground, though his eyes were moving about, clearly indicating that he was still conscious. The last one was Lu Yin, disguised as Ye Bo. His hands and feet were both bound with death energy, and he looked like he was in agony.

Since the death energy had created barriers separating them, none of them had known about the others’ existence, despite the close proximity.

"Ye Bo?" the pink-haired woman exclaimed.

Lu Yin lifted his head to look over. "Dual Bladeform? Were you also captured?"

"Were you captured too? How were you beaten so badly?" The blue-haired man was shocked.

Lu Yin complained in a bitter tone, "I was captured by the Heavens Sect’s powerhouses. I have no idea who betrayed us, but none of Aeternus’s attacks on the six different universes were successful."

"Are you the new True God Guard Captain? How pathetic for you to be beaten to such a state. Look at me, I'm fine! I told you before that there’s never any shame in wearing more armor. Look at me, I was clearly right," Chong Gui spoke up from the distance.

The blue-haired man looked over at Chong Gui. "You still aren’t dead?"

"Hey, hey, hey, what's that supposed to mean? Do you want me to die? I was only hit once by Lu Tianyi's attack. That’s not such a big deal. Look- cough." He spat out a few mouthfuls of blood.

Dual Bladeform looked at the Chiliagonist, who was lying on the ground. "Hey, Chiliagonist, are you still alive?"

Lu Yin spoke up in Ye Bo’s hoarse voice, "He isn’t dead. He’s even still conscious. Chiliagonist, please speak."

The Chiliagonist gritted his teeth. The rage he felt nearly overwhelmed him. This bastard, Ye Bo, was clearly a spy that the humans had sent into Aeternus. Ye Bo had attacked the Chiliagonist, forcing him to be captured, and yet the bastard was actually pretending to also be a captive. What was his goal? The Chiliagonist was incapable of speaking even a single word because of this bastard.

"Hey, Chiliagonist, you shouldn’t be dead, right?" Lu Yin said a bit more.

The Chiliagonist was practically spitting blood.

The blue-haired man spoke up. "Forget it. It seems that he was seriously injured."

Clap, clap, clap???????????.

Wang Wen applauded. "Everyone, are you happy chatting here? Would you like to keep talking?"

"There’s no need for the bullshit! We won’t betray Aeternus!" Lu Yin spoke up first.

The Chiliagonist nearly cracked his teeth when he heard Ye Bo’s response.

Wang Wen shook his head in a mournful manner. "What a pity. I had wanted to let you chat for a bit so that you could gain a tacit understanding to betray Aeternus and help my Sixverse Association. Since you are unwilling, then we’ll just go with our original plan and torture you all to death, especially you, Ye Bo."

Looking at Ye Bo, Wang Wen’s expression changed drastically, growing incredibly cold. "With the crimes that you’ve committed in the Perennial World, not even executing you 10,000 times would be enough. You’ll be given to the Lu family to suffer their unimaginable punishment. "

Ye Bo responded by mocking Wang Wen. "If we betray Aeternus, our punishment will be even worse. You humans are destined to lose sooner or later! You can’t comprehend the strength of Aeternus."

Wang Wen casually waved his hand, and the curtain of death energy fell back down, isolating everyone except for the Chiliagonist.

As soon as the barriers reappeared, Lu Yin let out a breath and removed his mask, returning to his true appearance. The Chiliagonist stared in utter shock as Lu Yin slowly walked over to him.

The Chiliagonist could have never imagined that Ye Bo was actually Lu Yin in disguise. When the two of them had tried to escape from the Neoverse, Ye Bo had thrown a palm strike to block the Chiliagonst and stop him from leaving. But even then, the man had never suspected that Ye Bo was Lu Yin in disguise.

Only at this moment did the man learn the truth.

The revelation was so shocking that the man had a feeling that everything he knew must be fake.

Lu Yin, the Dao Monarch of the Heavens Sect and the ruler of the Origin Universe, had actually risked his life to sneak into the Scourge and had even cultivated divine energy. How had he accomplished this?

The Chiliagonist was completely stunned as he stared at Lu Yin’s approaching figure.

Lu Yin squatted down in front of the True God Guard Captain. "Surprised?"

The Chiliagonist was finally able to speak, though he still stared at Lu Yin in shock. "Dao Monarch Lu, I have to admire you."

Lu Yin gave a small smile. "The Aeternals can't detect me."

"Because you’ve cultivated divine energy." The Chiliagonist said this because he could not believe it himself, despite knowing it to be true.

Lu Yin nodded. "Yes, I’ve cultivated divine energy. As far as the Aeternals are concerned, cultivating divine energy means that you can never betray them and will always obey True God. However, I am an exception to that."

"You are no exception. Your time simply has not yet come," the Chiliagonist growled through gritted teeth.

The two men stared at each other. "You people can never betray True God, can you?"

The Chiliagonist said nothing and simply stared at Lu Yin.

"In that case, there is no reason to keep any of you, especially you. You are aware that I have Ye Bo as an alias and that I’ve infiltrated the Scourge," Lu Yin casually mentioned.

The Chiliagonist’s pupils shrank. "Sooner or later, you will become just like the rest of us. True God is our god, and Aeternus is our home. You will not be any different."

Lu Yin’s hand suddenly rose up and then slammed down.

The Chiliagonist glared at Lu Yin when he saw that Lu Yin was about to attack. However, Lu Yin’s hand abruptly stopped.

A strong wind blew by, chilling the Chiliagonist.

He stared at Lu Yin in shock.

"The taste of death must be unpleasant," Lu Yin said lightly.

The Chiliagonist stared at Lu Yin in a daze. "Why don't you kill me?"

Lu Yin stood up. "I need you alive so that I can put on a show, though not yet. Just sit here and wait for death. It will come for you eventually."

After saying those words, Lu Yin left.

The greatest value that the Chiliagonist held for Lu Yin was his consciousness. The Chiliagonist was capable of using his consciousness to control others. Lu Yin had no idea if the man’s ability was an innate gift or a battle technique, but he wanted the ability. It might even be possible to turn Possession into an ability that Lu Yin could control freely.

This was why Lu Yin had threatened the Chiliagonist with death. Despite the fact that none of the True God Guard Captains would ever betray Aeternus, the fear of death was innate to all living things. This had nothing to do with whether or not the Chiliagonist would betray the Aeternals. Lu Yin simply hoped that he could learn something from the Chiliagonist during his next visit. After all, that man held what Lu Yin wanted.

This was the same method that Lu Yin had used to wear down Monarch Mu's will bit by bit.

Lu Yin did not think that he was a charming person, and it was impossible for him to convince people to join him after he had captured them. Only an idiot would expect such an outcome. Lu Yin knew that he could only do things step by step.

The Chiliagonist was breathing heavily. He had genuinely thought that he was about to die, and he had felt true desperation at that moment.

If he was not afraid of death, he would not have been in such a hurry to return to the Scourge from the Neoverse.

No living creature did not fear death at least somewhat, not unless they were entirely mindless like the corpse kings.

The Chiliagonist did not want to die, but it was absolutely impossible for him to betray the Aeternals.

What did Lu Yin want from him?

Elsewhere, Dual Bladeform was having a conversation.

"Ye Bo’s going to have a terrible time," the pink-haired woman muttered softly.

The blue-haired man replied, "He’s from this universe, and there’s an implacable hatred between him and these people. He won’t have a good end."

"What a pity. I actually quite enjoyed him, even if he is a frigid person."

"Such people are all too common in Aeternus. Just forget about him. I don’t want to talk about this anymore."

"I'm sorry, brother."

"Here we go again..."

...

On the mountain behind the Heavens Sect, Lu Yin sipped some tea that Zhao Ran had prepared. It was a new blend that she had come up with, and it had an emerald color. It looked nice, but the taste was a bit glassy.

More than half a month had passed since Lu Yin and Wang Wen had put on a show before Dual Bladeform and the other captains. All the frenzied corpses in the Sixverse Association had already been dealt with. In addition to the Cyclops King, Lu Yin had anointed another seventeen Progenitor-level experts to his Champions’ Stage.

This was a terrifying number, and it perfectly portrayed the power of the Lu family. As long as they were given the chance, they could quickly go from having nothing to more than ten powerful champions.

Since Lu Yin could do it, then so could Lu Tianyi and the others. They simply had not encountered very many Progenitor-level opponents who could be anointed as champions.

The Sixverse Association had gained a clear advantage across all parts of the Endless Frontier, and they had gathered their forces outside of the Three Purgatories after suppressing the Aeternals in the other parallel universes.

Even the Star Devourer, who had been left behind to defend the Giants’ Purgatory, had left. He had gone back to support the Scourge at one point, but no one knew where the beast had gone after that.

Despite the optimistic-looking situation, no one suggested an attack on the Scourge. No one aside from the Great Sovereign or Lu Yin would dare to make such a decision.

As for the two people who were capable of making that decision, one did not care, and the other knew that a loss was inevitable.

For this reason, Sovereign Dou Sheng alone remained at the entrance of the Scourge, acting as the gatekeeper to the Sixverse Association.

Wang Wen continued to think and plan, trying to find a reasonable excuse to send Ye Bo back to the Scourge.

Wei Rong also joined in, and the two met in a corner of the Heavens Sect to plot and scheme. Whenever the two were together, Lu Yin always felt like that area grew darker.

He was testing out Inverse Step.

Undying God had added new aspects to Inverse Step, allowing the movement technique to not merely create a field of chaotic time and space, but also to skip time. Lu Yin had seen that aspect of the technique very clearly.

He understood what was possible, but if he wanted to reach that level of mastery himself, it required both comprehension and time.

Along the way, Lu Yin remembered the disciple that he had accepted and called the Second Nightking over.

"How has Tuo Lin been doing lately?"

The Second Nightking gave Lu Yin an odd look. "Dao Monarch, he- he’s become a bit obsessed."

Lu Yin felt confused. "What's his obsession?"

"The history books that I gathered for him. He seems to be fascinated by the books. He continues to read all of them and won’t respond even when people shout at him," the Second Nightking explained.

Lu Yin was surprised. Had things really developed in this manner?

He had just been making things up, trying to ensure that Tuo Lin did not give in to despair. It was nothing more than a test that was intended to take an exceptional amount of time to complete. Why had Tuo Lin become obsessed with his task?

After thinking of this, Lu Yin went to where Tuo Lin was staying, and he found an entire courtyard piled high with books there. In fact, the books not only filled Tuo Lin’s courtyard, but also all of the surrounding area and even the nearby hilltop.

Many of these books were clearly precious volumes that had been preserved through special methods.

"Where did all of these books come from?" Lu Yin asked.

The Second Nightking explained, "Many people learned that the Dao Monarch was collecting books concerning the history of the Fifth Mainland, and they voluntarily sent these over. Your servant has had to refuse a good number of them. But even so, there are an incredible number of them. There are even more still waiting to be delivered.

"In fact, this matter has even created a new administration department, the Book Transport Department."

Lu Yin was left speechless. A few casual words from him had actually instigated the creation of an entire bureaucratic branch.

He looked inside the courtyard between the books and saw Tuo Lin flipping through a book as though in a trance. The pages were turning incredibly quickly. Was this still reading?

After watching for a time, Lu Yin left. He had clearly seen that Tuo Lin had no intention of stopping. It did not matter, as there was no harm in reading more books.