Emperor Luo glanced at Master Red. "You don't trust us, but we can't retreat either. Let's enter the Royal Frost Continent together."
Master Red's eyes flickered, as if he was thinking about something.
Emperor Luo suddenly asked, "How's the portal plan?"
Master Red's tone was gloomy. "It's been suppressed by Lu Yin. Didn't I tell you?"
"How exactly did he suppress the portal plan?" Emperor Luo asked.
Master Red snorted and gave a simple explanation.
Dragon Master clenched his fists. "That brat is quite powerful. The Sword Sect and Lingling clan were intimidated by him just like that?"
Master Red replied, "There aren't many in the younger generation who can fight him, and the only ones who can definitely beat him are the geniuses from the Neoverse or Liu Tianmu, who used the Thirteenth Sword. The rest basically have no chance. It won't be difficult for him to kill one of them."
"Is the Supreme Astral Tournament really that important?"
Dragon Master asked. The sylvan dragons were in an awkward position in the Human Domain. They were traitors of the Astral Beast Domain, but they were also considered a foreign race to the Human Domain. Thus, they were ill-informed, which was why they had sought refuge with the Daynight clan, even if it meant becoming their mount. Unfortunately, Lu Yin had foiled their plans.
The sylvan dragons' hatred for Lu Yin was no less than the Blaze Realm's.
The enmity between the Ross Empire and the Great Yu Empire had started when Lu Yin had first entered the Astral Combat Academy, and it had continued to this day.
No one answered Dragon Master's question, as Master Red also looked down on the sylvan dragons. If not for the fact that they were powerful, he would not have allowed them to live in the Blazing Mist Flowzone.
Outside the spacecraft, the sylvan dragons roared and emitted a strange smell.
Among the cultivators from the Blaze Realm, some despised them, while others were fervent. They all hoped to obtain a sylvan dragon as a mount, as that would be impressive.
As for the Ross Empire's army, they did not make a single sound. They were truly an army, unlike the Blaze Realm's Skyfire Army, where cultivators were more important than soldiers.
An hour later, Master Red, Dragon Master, and Emperor Luo rushed out of the spacecraft and headed towards the spatial tear on Planet Guk. They had decided to explore the Royal Frost Continent together.
Within the continent, Lu Yin felt uneasy, so he asked again, "Senior, the top experts of the Blazing Mist Flowzone's three top powers are about to attack. Can you really stop them?"
From the very beginning, this plan had been based on the assumption that the Royal Frost Continent would be able to withstand the Blazing Mist Flowzone's three great powers and that the Innerverse would not covet their secret technique.
Lu Yin had a way to prevent the Royal Frost Continent from being coveted because of the secret technique, but he did not have any confidence in the Ice Emperor. For the Blazing Mist Flowzone to be able to stand tall, the three great powers were not to be underestimated.
The Ice Empress' expression was calm. "I can't win, but I can stall him."
Lu Yin pursed his lips and touched his cosmic ring. Delaying them was not his goal. If he did not weaken the three great powers, then all of his efforts would have been for naught. Originally, he had hoped that the Blaze Realm would directly send their troops and experts over, and that the Ice Empress would destroy them. If that did not work, then the Ice Empress would heavily injure Lord Red.
But in the previous battle, although the Red Master was defeated, he did not suffer any heavy injuries. He knew that he had underestimated the Red Master and overestimated the Ice Monarch. If there were no accidents, the Ice Monarch would be able to hold back the three of them, but he would not be able to achieve his goal. It would be equivalent to a farce. At most, he would be able to help the Royal Frost Continent. Moreover, could the Ice Monarch really hold them back?
But even if the Ice Empress could not hold them back, Lu Yin still had external items. Besides, with his background, Lord Red and the others might not actually dare to make a move against him.
Lu Yin knew that background was very important, and he had sought out many forms of protection from the very beginning. The most effective was Leon's Armada, which was nearby and unreasonable.
Unfortunately, Leon's Armada had a terrible reputation, and they were constantly being watched by the Hall of Honor. They could take revenge, but it would be troublesome if they attacked a certain Flowzone.
Right now, Lu Yin had to consider how to weaken the three great powers. He glanced at the spatial tear and then placed his cosmic ring to the side. He opened his hand, and his die appeared and began to spin slowly. He was going to take a gamble.
The die slowly came to a stop at four pips. Lu Yin immediately retrieved his cosmic ring, and the scene before him changed as he appeared within the Time Stop Space.
Everything had gone smoothly, and as long as he could enter this place, Lu Yin would be at ease.
He continued to roll his die.
He would definitely be able to roll three pips in the Time Stop Space, but it would depend on how many times he rolled.
Lu Yin currently had a lot of star essence, so he hoped to roll three pips the most.
The only problem was that there were many external items that could not be further upgraded due to insufficient materials. For example, the giant's right arm, the single-sided mirror, and the Smothering Cannon. However, there were two items that Lu Yin cared about the most right now. One was the universal armor, and the other was the poison.
Of his offensive weapons, the Owl Arrow and the war arrow could be further upgraded, but Lu Yin was not very proficient with arrows, so he was not as proficient with the poison. However, the Owl Arrow did not necessarily need to be used as an arrow, and a transparent object like this would be best.
The universal armor had not been upgraded to its limit yet, as it had consumed too many star essence in the past. Lu Yin estimated that this universal armor, which had been made from materials from the Technocracy, would be able to reach a power level of 600,000 to 700,000 rune lines.
He tapped his die, and it was six pips. Useless.
Lu Yin calmly sat down and silently recited the Stonewall Scriptures. At the same time, he increased the gravity within the Time Stop Space to a level that even he found difficult to bear in order to temper his body.
Ten days quickly passed. He rolled his die again, and it was one pip. Still no use.
He rolled it again, and it was five pips. Still no use.
He rolled it again, and it was three pips. Lu Yin's eyes lit up; he had succeeded.
He looked at the two screens and took a deep breath. It had been a long time since he had used three pips to upgrade an external item. He missed this feeling, but he also looked forward to it.
External items, external items. They were not external items. He could not unify the Outerverse, as they had been destroyed when the Innerverse and Outerverse had been separated.
As he thought about this, he tossed the most important universal armor onto the upper screen and then frantically tossed in star essence. One million, two million, three million … the universal armor dropped.
Lu Yin felt his heart ache, as he had spent three million star essence just to upgrade it once. He had used up 1.5 million star essence to upgrade it seven times, so it was normal for him to use three million star essence for the eighth upgrade.
This was three million star essence! Three million star essence! Lu Yin was about to cough up blood, as he had used up far too much energy.
He had been the leader of the Great Eastern Alliance for eight years, but he had only received a little more than thirteen million star essence. Now, he had used up nearly a quarter of that.
Lu Yin felt that he was spending money at a rate comparable to the great powers of the Innerverse's Eight Great Flowzones. It was comparable to the expenses of an entire organization and countless disciples.
Lu Yin gulped as he looked at the universal armor that had been upgraded eight times. He touched it, and the seventh time, the armor had nearly 500,000 rune lines. Now, it had surpassed 500,000 rune lines, which was enough to resist an Emissary's power level.
Lu Yin had spent more than six million star essence to break through an Emissary's barrier, and this was under the premise that he had obtained the precious materials from the Technocracy. If the cost of those materials was factored in, he would not have been able to obtain them even if he had spent more than ten million star essence.
Now, the question was whether or not he should upgrade it again.
Lu Yin gulped as he looked at the universal armor. He decided to wait and upgrade his poisons first.
He was a little flustered, as he was afraid that he would not have enough poisons to upgrade it again.
Why was it that money was becoming less and less valuable as he upgraded it?
Lu Yin was a little depressed.
Lu Yin felt that poisons were rather mystical, as if they had no limit, or perhaps they had not reached their limit yet.
These poisons had all come from Elder Wu, who was an Enlighter who specialized in poisons. Elder Wu was the first and only Enlighter that Lu Yin had encountered. The Neohuman Alliance's vitality poison did not count, as Lu Yin would not have dared to use such a poison even if he had been given one.
There were still seven bottles of Elder Wu's poisons left. They had been upgraded eight times, and their limit had nearly reached 400,000 rune lines. Now, Lu Yin tossed one of the bottles onto the upper screen and continuously tossed in star essence.
He tossed it three times and used up more than 1.3 million star essence, which should be close to 500,000 rune lines. This was because the fourth upgrade was very slow, and it also consumed a lot of star essence.
Two million star essence. Lu Yin had spent a total of two million star essence to upgrade this bottle of poison. He estimated that the rune lines now exceeded a power level of 500,000, which meant that this bottle of poison was enough to pose a threat to an Emissary.
It had not been easy, as a single bottle of poison had been upgraded twelve times and had consumed nearly four million star essence. Even though it was one-third less than the universal armor, it was still quite ridiculous.
Lu Yin's heart ached once again, but he had no other choice. He had to upgrade what he needed, and one bottle was clearly not enough. As he thought about it, he upgraded another bottle.
Lu Yin looked at his cosmic ring and closed his eyes. He still had more than seven million star essence left, and he had used up nearly half of it in such a short period of time to upgrade three external items.
It had not been easy for him to calm down, but he would have more in the future. Money could be earned again after spending it, and he would have more soon.
Lu Yin comforted himself as he placed the universal armor on the upper screen and then tossed in star essence to upgrade it again. Otherwise, it would not be safe.
6.25 million star essence was the price to upgrade the universal armor for the ninth time. Lu Yin looked at the less than a million star essence left in his cosmic ring and sighed. Although he had lost his money, his life was now safe. It was worth it, worth it, worth it!
There were still two months left in the Time Stop Space. Lu Yin sensed his Fatesand and found that he had fused with another two grains. They had not grown much, but they were still unable to conceal the black and white fog. There were still twelve grains left.
What exactly was this black and white fog?
He could test it out in this place.
…
The scene in front of him changed, and Lu Yin returned to the Royal Frost Continent.
Even the Ice Emperor, an Envoy-level powerhouse, did not know that Lu Yin had been in this space for several months. Time existed, but it was illusory and had nothing to do with one's strength.
The only organization in the entire universe that dared to claim that they were sensitive to time was the Starsibyl Sect. Of course, Lu Yin had always thought that they were bragging.
Even so, he did not dare to enter the Time Stop Space in front of the Starsibyl Sect.
"Your aura?"
The Ice Emperor asked as he looked at Lu Yin suspiciously. In that instant, he had felt that Lu Yin's aura had changed greatly. How should he describe it?
It was a very strange feeling.
Lu Yin asked, "Senior Ice Emperor, if the leaders of the Blazing Mist Flowzone's three powers split up and one person held you back while the other two charged towards Arctic City, what would you do?"