Star Odyssey

Chapter 3225: A Sword

Lu Yin had met Ancestor Lu Yuan, Hongyan Mavis, Gu Yizhi, and even Wu Tian. Despite all of that, only the God of Death’s death energy made him feel an unparalleled sense of awe. That shock was not simply because Lu Yin had cultivated death energy. Rather, it stemmed from how death energy innately produced an inexorable fear. This power was rooted deep in the bloodlines of countless astral beasts and fed by the deaths of innumerable creatures. As the name implied, death energy was the breath of death.

Tian Feng stared in astonishment as the God of Death's scythe fell. How could this be? How could the boy still possess so much power? Where had this come from? Just how many different powers had the child cultivated?

No one would be able to offer an answer. Even Mister Mu had been amazed by the incredible variety of powers that Lu Yin cultivated, let alone Tian Feng.

The manifestation of the God of Death was entirely due to Tian Feng's own Threefold Absolutes Array. Without the addition of the death energy from that sourcebox array, Lu Yin's own death energy would not have been enough to bring forth the God of Death.

The attack was from the God of Death.

The sharp sound echoed clearly in everyone's ears. Right after that, darkness filled the sky, forming a black torrent that shattered half of the ground of the Second Scourge. The sky above was completely dark.

Death energy had replaced the sky, much to the shock of everyone.

Even Tian Ci was shaken. He was forced to remember something from ages past when he had fought against the God of Death. At that time, Tian Ci had felt a despair so chilling that it had haunted him ever since.

Thankfully, the God of Death was already dead. He had died.

Above the black Mother Tree, True God looked up to stare at the sky with a conflicted expression.

He had once cooperated with the Boundary Guardians to fight against the Heavens Sect. That had been an extremely difficult time. They had to avoid the Three Realms and Six Daos while also plotting against and ambushing them. Aeternus’s actions at that time had been quite similar to how the modern Heavens Sect had dealt with the Three Pillars and Six Skies, except Yong Heng had faced even greater challenges.

In the past, all Three Realms and Six Daos had been peak Sequence Progenitors, any one of whom could have broken through at any moment to become an Ortuser.

The battles of that era remained vivid in Yong Heng’s memory.

There was no doubt that the God of Death had been the most difficult opponent of them all. During that battle, even True God had been shaken. The scene in the Second Scourge was so familiar... the overflowing, earth-shattering death energy... There was enough to bury everything, even the sequence particles that filled the universe. If not for...

Fortunately, everything had ultimately ended, and, after everything, the God of Death had died.

Yong Heng looked back across the Scourge. This attack would finish Tian Feng.

At the base of the black Mother Tree, the Great Sovereign casually looked across the Scourge, reminiscing about Blackie. How nostalgic.

Slowly, the darkness started to dissipate, but it would take time for the death energy to fully fade away.

Everyone stared up at the sky. They saw Lu Yin, as well as another figure. It was a long-haired woman who was hidden by bandages that completely covered her. Even her face was hidden. Aside from her long, flowing hair and bright, glistening eyes, nothing about the woman really be seen. In contrast, her aura was unmistakable and unique. There was a purity that transcended her veiled appearance.

"Flora." Hongyan Mavis's eyes grew bloodshot as she tightly clenched her fists.

There were grim expressions on both Wu Tian and Lu Yuan’s faces.

There was no mistake. This was certainly Garan Zhiluo, who had just been freed from Tian Feng.

However, the Garan Zhiluo they were looking at was nothing like her appearance in the past. Once, she had been the most beautiful of all, renowned as the Beauty of the Luo River.[1] She had stayed away from the rest of the world, showing contempt for everyone. Even her master had said that her beauty was a gift from the heavens.

At present?

She had been flayed and disfigured. Tian Feng deserved to die.

Both Lu Yin and Garan Zhiluo stood with their backs to the rest of the battlefield, staring forward.

Tian Feng’s figure was exposed as the darkness continued to recede. The patterns covering its surface started to crack, like a spiderweb spreading out from a single point.

Tian Ci's expression fell.

Tian En's voice lost its constant gentleness. "Humans, going against Tian Feng means that you will now face extinction!"

Tian Feng staggered backward, trying to retreat as it let out a piercing scream. "Humans, you are doomed! Your entire species will be wiped out! You will be annihilated!"

Garan Zhiluo spread her arms out wide as she summoned a white spear. She stepped forward as she raised the weapon, only to smash it down upon Tian Feng. "We’ll destroy you first. Then we can talk."

Suddenly, her body froze. She was held in place by the Skyrender Glyph Array.

Lu Yin put the God of Death’s left arm and scythe away, and his body returned to its normal appearance. Even his skin’s withered condition had faded away. While the shackles remained on his hands and feet, Lu Yin had mastered far too many abilities. If he was unable to use four, then he would simply switch to others. Extremes Must Be Reversed was used as the Champions' Stage appeared. At the same time, the stars in his inner universe quivered. Voidforce energy, the power of Arboreal Realm, monarch essence, and other energies surged out. All of them were aimed at Tian Feng.

The stone was dumbfounded. So many powers? Who could have cultivated such a hodgepodge of powers? This was impossible. It had to be a trick, or some kind of illusion.

Even while trapped by a Skyrender Glyph Array, Lu Yin summoned Mo Shang, the Purple Emperor, the Seven-Star Mantis, Kong Ji, and seventeen other peak powerhouse champions. All of them charged at Tian Feng like an army.

The countless people watching were rendered speechless by the sight.

Lu Yin was clearly just one person, and yet he had summoned a host of powerful experts to attack his enemy. This was the Lu family’s innate gift, and it was freakishly terrifying.

More Skyrender Glyph Arrays appeared, trapping one powerful champion after another.

In the past, Tian Feng would not have cared about the attacks from such weaklings, as they could not pose any threat to it. Unfortunately, with the patterns covering its surface already shattered and its stone body cracking, Tian Feng could not afford to suffer any further damage.

The Seven-Star Mantis unfurled its wings and moved at the speed of time itself as it flew towards Tian Feng and swung a blade down.

Without sequence particles, Tian Feng had no advantages. In fact, the stone would rather face sequence powerhouses.

There was a ringing clang as the mantis’s blade struck Tian Feng, and the stone staggered back.

From a distance, Kong Ji threw a Vacuum Palm that slammed into Tian Feng and pushed the being back yet again.

The Purple Emperor had possessed immense power, and it had even been comparable to Sovereign Dou Sheng himself. Mo Shang was the first Sequence Progenitor that Lu Yin had ever met, but that did not mean the man had been a weakling. He had been just as strong as Ye Wu and the Abandoned. Old Mo had been a true expert.

Seventeen summoned champions were unable to cause the slightest bit of harm to Tian Feng, but four were continuously causing the cracks to grow.

Tian En flapped her wings, as the butterfly wanted to save Tian Feng.

Tian Ci also pushed forward.

Both were blocked and held back.

During this one battle, Dual Bladeform had died, Di Xia had died, the last of the Five Elders had died. But all of those together were not enough. Di Qiong had died, but even that was not enough. Tian Feng had to die.

Garan Zhiluo managed to dispel the Skyrender Glyph Array binding her, and then she swung her spear. It smashed into Tian Feng’s body and widened the already-present cracks.

Lu Yin also successfully broke free from the sourcebox array imprisoning him, and he charged at Tian Feng.

Tian En shouted, "Humans, do you really wish to fight us Boundary Guardians to death?"

Hongyan Mavis snorted with open disdain. "You want to beg for mercy now? It’s too late! Let me make things clear: Tian Fa was killed by Astral Anura, while we helped. Tian Fa’s death is also related to us. What can you do about this?"

Tian En was startled. "Astral Anura? That’s impossible."

"What’s impossible about it? Do you think that he’s an ordinary toad?" Hongyan Mavis scoffed. Even at this moment, despite the fact that the Boundary Guardians were so disadvantaged, the woman would not miss an opportunity to drag Astral Anura into the mess.

Tian En no longer cared about how Tian Fa had died. All she wanted to do was save Tian Feng.

But she could not do it. Neither could Tian Ci.

"Yong Heng, Tian Feng cannot die!" Tian Ci addressed True God for the first time, the youthful-looking man’s expression terrifyingly grim.

The experts attacking Tian Ci gave him no chance to help Tian Feng at all.

Above the black Mother Tree, True God’s eyes narrowed. "I can do nothing."

Whiteless God had already appeared, having been forced out, and she was currently fighting against Lu Tianyi. Unless the last of Aeternus’s Three Pillars appeared, there was no way to reverse the current situation.

Lu Yin remained on guard for the last of the Three Pillars to appear, but that individual never showed themselves. Their absence puzzled Lu Yin.

The longer the mysterious person waited to appear, the warier Lu Yin became.

"Humans, you are committing an unforgivable sin! You will regret this! You cannot strike me down! This is rebellion!" Tian Feng kept dodging attacks.

Garan Zhiluo’s spear slammed down upon Tian Feng’s form, sending the stone crashing into the ground and creating a massive crater.

Lu Yin rode atop the Seven-Star Mantis, chasing after Tian Feng and stomping on the Boundary Guardian. The sword that Lu Yin had received from Undying God and used to kill Mo Shang was held in one hand as he stated, "More than one person has accused me of rebellion, and yet I eventually crushed them all. Who stands at the top, and who stands below? If anything, humanity is standing above you."

With that, the sword was driven down.

Tian Ci’s eyes bulged as he stared at the execution.

Tian En screamed, "Dao Monarch Lu, show mercy!"

She was too late. Lu Yin’s sword skewered Tian Feng, and with a crisp crack, Tian Feng completely shattered apart.

Lu Yin stared downwards, curious to see what Tian Feng had truly been. The being had appeared to be a sourcebox, but if that were the case, then something should have been sealed within.

Did killing Tian Feng count as unlocking it?

This might have been the most challenging lockbreaking session in history.

The battle froze as everyone turned to stare at Lu Yin’s feet.

Was Tian Feng dead?

Had a Boundary Guardian, an Ortuser, really just died?

This was the first Ortuser that anyone could remember dying.

Tian Feng had been in the Origin realm, and it had even attacked the Origin Progenitor and cut off the man’s hands. At the moment, everyone felt as though they were bearing witness to the end of a legend. It was like watching a myth fade away.

The fall of one legend would inevitably herald the rise of another.

At this moment, Lu Yin’s figure was etched deep into everyone’s memories, including even Tian Ci’s.

The man’s expression looked terrifyingly calm as he stared at Lu Yin. At this moment, Tian Ci was not alone, as he represented the gazes of everyone from his own megaverse.

At some point in the past, someone had done something similar, but things had ended in the worst of tragedies.

The higher Lu Yin rose and the greater his legend became, the more tragic his ultimate fate would be.

This man had broken the shackles of the heavens.

Tian Feng was different from all others.

Tian Fa could die, as could Tian En. Even Tian Ci himself could die, but Tian Feng could not. Unfortunately, it was too late.

Lu Yin looked down. Tian Feng’s body had shattered to reveal a sword. It was an oddly shaped, blood-red sword.

The moment he laid eyes on the sword, Lu Yin’s pupils shrank to pinpricks.

He had seen the sword before, back in the Mirari Realm. When Tian Fa had died, a blood-red figure had appeared. There had been both a figure and a sword. That figure had been capable of slaying both Hongyan Mavis and Astral Anura without either of them fighting back at all. Lu Yin had also been cut down by a single slash of the sword, which had cleaved his body and bones. At that moment, he had been overcome with despair, as that blood-red figure had simply toyed with him.

If not for Lightstream, Lu Yin would have most likely died at that moment.

That blood-red figure’s sword had looked exactly like the one before Lu Yin.

Lu Yin stared blankly at the sword as an uncontrollable chill rose up across his entire body, freezing him in place. His eyes shot up to the sky, as though he could see a pair of eyes opening to look at him and give him an odd smile while gesturing for silence.

Something moved at his feet, and when Lu Yin looked back down, the sword was gone.

1. A classical Chinese reference: the goddess Luo Shen embodies an idealized version of feminine beauty and grace, symbolizing purity and perfection. The Luo River itself is often portrayed as a sacred or mystical place, a boundary between the mortal world and the divine realm, making it a powerful metaphor for unreachable beauty or the fleeting nature of life. Thus, having the Luo River in a name like this is a connotation of not just physical beauty, but also a deep, almost divine grace and elegance that stands apart from the ordinary. ☜