No matter how Qiu Shi thought about it, she could not figure out how Lu Yin had done it. What shocked her even more was that the half of Lu Yin's body that had been on the verge of collapse had actually recovered.
Lu Yin used the Plan Secret Art twice in a row to surpass Qiu Shi. He then turned around and waved goodbye.
He could still use the Plan Secret Art one more time to escape.
Qiu Shi's eyes trembled. "Lu Yin, have you heard of my Sirius Sect's secret technique?"
Lu Yin paused and turned around.
"Celestial Star Secret Technique, Big Dipper Rotation — Stellar Shift." Her body vanished as soon as she finished speaking, only to reappear where Lu Yin had been. Lu Yin, on the other hand, had appeared where she had just been.
Lu Yin was shocked. What kind of secret technique was this?
Had they exchanged positions?
Qiu Shi smiled, and the stars around her began to revolve, increasing her speed.
Lu Yin gritted his teeth, and the Star Chessboard appeared beneath his feet. He wanted to leave, but in the next moment, a claw mark emerged from the ground. It was the Skybeast Claw, and an ancient beast roared as if it had transcended time itself.
When the beast roared, Lu Yin's Star Chessboard was actually shattered. The Skybeast Claw had displayed an incomparably tyrannical might, and it was able to forcefully resist a secret technique. In Lu Yin's memory, there was only one battle technique that could forcefully resist a secret technique, which was a Progenitor battle technique. For example, Nightking Zhenwu's archery technique. Was the Skybeast Claw also a Progenitor battle technique?
Regardless of whether or not the Skybeast Claw was a Progenitor battle technique, Lu Yin could only endure it. He did not even have time to use the Yu Secret Art.
Fortunately, he still had his Fatesand and nine-lined battle force.
He curled up his body, and his nine-lined battle force soared into the sky and imprinted itself onto his entire body. There was a loud bang, and Lu Yin was sent flying like a ball. His back had taken a direct hit, and his Fatesand had retreated back into his body. His nine-lined battle force had also cracked. This attack's power had definitely exceeded 300,000 or even 350,000. Fortunately, it was still within his tolerance range, and the Skybeast Claw had not been used at full strength.
Blood trickled down the corner of Lu Yin's mouth, and he used the Skybeast Claw's might to fly out of the city. Qiu Shi was in another direction.
Lu Yin thought that there would be no more spiritual force left behind after the Skybeast Claw, but when he turned around, he saw that there were still countless gray spiritual forces chasing after him. One of them raised its hand again, and it was the Skybeast Claw.
His expression changed drastically, and he forced himself to use the Plan Secret Art once more. His body moved a great distance away until he was outside the city. Less than a hundred meters away, the tearful lady was staring at him in astonishment.
............... Xiao Xiao Bai.......................
The Tearful Lady thought that Lu Yin was going to attack her, but Lu Yin passed by her. Not only did she not relax, but she also became even more vigilant. Soon after, she saw an endless number of grey figures rushing towards them.
Even with the Crying Girl's mental state, she felt a bit of a mental breakdown when she saw so many gray figures. She immediately ran away without thinking.
Lu Yin passed by her and some other cultivators outside the city, including Tai Yishen. He then rushed to Xiao Bai's side. "Let's leave the Inner Stele World."
Not only were the two girls fast, but they also reacted quickly. They knew that Lu Yin was in trouble, so they immediately took out a stele and pressed their hands on it. Their bodies were sucked in.
Tai Yishen and the others saw the endless gray figures rushing towards them after Lu Yin passed by them. They cursed, "F * ck this bastard!" They ran as they cursed. Some took out steles and left, while others ran off into the distance.
Tai Yishen was one of those who ran off, as he hadn't found a stele yet.
Coincidentally, he saw Lu Yin's group leave the Inner Stele World, and he felt aggrieved.
Suddenly, he saw Qian Zou.
As a habitual escapee, Qian Zou had a habit of thinking of his escape route. Thus, when he arrived at the Inner Stele World, the first thing he did was to get rid of Lu Yin's group. The second thing he did was to go to a brothel to feast his eyes. The third thing he did was to find a stele to leave the Inner Stele World.
He had done the right thing. Qian Zou looked at the endless gray figures in the distance and raised his brows. He calmly cursed Lu Yin and sighed at his foresight. He pressed one hand on the stele and looked at it proudly. I don't care how many ghosts you have, I'm leaving.
But the next moment, a hand appeared on his shoulder just as he was about to disappear. Tai Yishen had arrived. "Brother, let's go together."
Qian Zou was speechless. Why was he always the unlucky one?
The scene in front of them changed, and Lu Yin, Xiao Hei, and Xiao Bai appeared at the bottom of the sea. This was where they had captured Qian Zou and entered the Inner Stele World.
Tai Yishen had used Qian Zou to leave the Inner Stele World, but when he came out, he was still at the same place he had entered.
Qian Zou appeared right after the three of them. When he saw Lu Yin's group, he almost cursed out loud, but when he thought about his own strength, he held himself back.
Lu Yin's actions were truly hateful. The cycle of the Inner Stele World had turned into a war, and all sorts of battle techniques had appeared in a city that was beneficial to many people. However, because of Lu Yin, many cultivators had been forced to flee. There were too many people cursing him.
Lu Yin knew that he had caused trouble, but he had no other choice. He couldn't just take those gray figures away. He had to survive, and these people could only count themselves as unlucky.
"Hey, you don't look very friendly," Xiao Hei taunted as he stared at Qian Zou.
Qian Zou blinked and forced a smile. "If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave. See you later."
Lu Yin smiled and watched Qian Zou leave.
He was very interested in Qian Zou's speed battle technique, but he couldn't really rob him. There were so many seniors watching. Forget it, there would always be a chance to learn a good speed battle technique in the future.
Furthermore, the Plan Secret Art made up for the lack of speed to a certain extent.
Lu Yin thought of Qiu Shi and the Sirius Sect's secret technique, Stellar Transposition. It was a good technique.
"Let's go. We'll continue looking for Hai Liu," Lu Yin said. There was no time limit for the Star Tower contest, and the standard was the number of people on the golden screen. If there were people on the golden screen, then it meant that the time for the final contest had arrived. However, there wasn't a single person on the golden screen right now, so it was possible that most people hadn't climbed the mountain yet.
Lu Yin didn't want to become a target for everyone to attack. The Tear Lady was an Enlighter, and the Shangqing Sect must have reached that level as well. What about the others?
He didn't know how many Enlighters were here, and he didn't want to stand out.
There were inheritances in the sea, and there were inheritances in the mountains as well.
Many people were searching for inheritances in the sea, while others were climbing the mountains.
The mountains were so tall that ordinary people couldn't climb them. Back in the golden ocean space, Lu Yin had needed to borrow the power of the Stonewall Scriptures to climb that mountain. Fortunately, the mountains here weren't like the ones in the golden ocean space that could make people disappear.
The five mountains here were very difficult to climb, but those who could participate in the Star Tower contest were not simple people.
At the bottom of one of the mountains, several cultivators were struggling to climb it.
This mountain was created by a Progenitor, and there was a pressure that was not released on purpose. It was the might of a Progenitor, and those with poor spiritual force could not even approach the mountain, let alone climb it.
The difficulty of climbing each mountain was different, and the obstacles one would encounter were different as well.
Boulders would often roll down this mountain, but they weren't real stones. Instead, they were condensed from star energy that resembled boulders. If one was struck by one, the consequences would be dire.
The higher one climbed, the larger the boulders would be.
These cultivators had been climbing for more than ten days, but they hadn't even reached a fifth of the way up.
"If I'd known this would happen, I wouldn't have climbed the mountain. It would have been better to ride the Hai Liu in the sea. Maybe we could have entered the Monument Inner World and seen the ancient scenery," one of the cultivators complained.
Not far away, a woman sneered, "You didn't object when we decided to climb the mountain together. What's the point of saying all this now? Keep climbing. There's definitely more inheritances on the mountain than in the sea."
"That's right. Keep up your attitude and continue climbing," a calm man at the top said.
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Roughly two hours later, a boulder crashed down, and several cultivators worked together to shatter it. Below, a figure was quickly climbing up, and the boulder did not affect him at all.
The cultivators looked at him in shock. "It's Xia Jiuyou from the Xia family."
"He's one of the top heirs. No wonder he's so fast."
Soon, Xia Jiuyou overtook them and climbed to the top of the mountain.
As he watched Xia Jiuyou leave, the complaining cultivator snorted. "What's there to be proud of? Who knows how many people he's been beaten up by since he entered the Mountain and Sea Realm? Even those from the Seven Courts look down on him. He's a disgrace to the Xia family."
Although the others did not say anything, they all had the same thought.
Since ancient times, the heirs of the Seven Courts' Xia family had always been the top. Even if they couldn't compare to the Prime Clear lineage, who cultivated the Three Yang Ancestral Qi, they were at least comparable to the second strongest. They were not inferior to the heirs of the Sirius Sect or the Mavis family, but this Xia Jiuyou was too weak.
Just as they were thinking about this, another figure flashed past, and three streams of energy surrounded him as he chased after Xia Jiuyou.
The cultivators were shocked. "It's the Three Yang Ancestral Qi, the Prime Clear lineage."
"The Prime Clear lineage is here?"
Even higher up, Xia Jiuyou looked down helplessly and saw the streams of energy coming at him. "Brother Prime Clear, there's no enmity between us. There's no need to chase me."
The Prime Clear lineage waved his hand, and the streams of energy whistled past. Xia Jiuyou dodged with great difficulty. "The Seven Courts have no part in this competition. Back off."
Xia Jiuyou dodged the streams of energy with great difficulty. His reaction speed was not slow, and his physical strength was not weak. He also had many battle techniques, but in the end, he was unable to avoid the attacks. He was hit in the chest and fell down the mountain.
The Prime Clear lineage watched Xia Jiuyou fall and shook his head. This generation's heirs were too weak. They hadn't even mastered the Xia family's secret technique.
The Xia Secret Word, Void Transformation, was the most tyrannical secret technique of the Seven Courts. If Xia Jiuyou couldn't master it, then he didn't deserve to be surnamed Xia.
Outside the Mountain and Sea Realm, a group of experts from the older generation was watching a screen in front of them. The screen showed many scenes of the competition for the Star Tower, and most of them were related to the top heirs.
Elder Yuan Ke of the Sirius Sect, Sheng Shenwei of Everlasting Sky Island, Mu En of the Hall of Honor, Qin Mavis of the Mavis Family, and so on. In this small region of space, there were several cultivators with power levels over 500,000, and there were even some with power levels over 900,000. Among them was Xia Meng of the Xia family, a goddess who had once been popular in the Neoverse.