It would not be easy to break through these pieces of metal, so Lu Yin did not use his Emptiness Palm to test it out. No matter how powerful the woman was, this seal would definitely be weaker than Hui Zu's Seemingly Sealed Seal. His Emptiness Palm might be able to shake it or even break it, but once it was broken, it would be a huge problem. He did not want to attract too much attention.
It was better for him to just be a normal Hunter. At least for now, he would not be in any danger.
It was a pity that he could not see rune lines in this space. Otherwise, he would be able to more accurately judge the woman's strength and the strength of the White Mountains.
The sky quickly darkened as red clouds covered the White Mountains. Above them was a boundless starry sky filled with countless twinkling stars. At the very top was the Top Realm that Shou Sheng and the others had mentioned.
A continent was pressing down on another continent, and there was actually a starry sky in the middle. It was a wonderful world.
After a few hours, when the sky was completely dark, Long Xi arrived at the bamboo house.
The moment he saw her, Lu Yin squeezed out a smile and tried his best to appear humble. "Ahem, Princess. My attitude was bad before, but I won't do it again."
Long Xi frowned. She did not know why, but she felt that there was still something wrong with this guy's attitude. She could not feel the sincere respect he had for the White Dragon Clan, especially for her, the princess. However, the time had come, and she did not want to delay any further. "Correct your attitude and don't say anything. Just follow me."
"Yes, Princess," Lu Yin answered softly.
Long Xi's expression improved slightly. Although she still did not like Lu Yin, there would be plenty of opportunities in the future to slowly teach him.
Lu Yin did not want to get married, but he could not risk fighting the White Dragon Clan for this. One of the Four Libras was not simple, and there were definitely powerhouses with power levels over a million. He did not want to die, and he still wanted to find out about his origins.
He had thought that the marriage of the princess of the White Dragon Clan would be sensational and lively, but he had not expected that it would just be to pay respects to the ancestors in the ancestral hall. Long Xi had not even changed her clothes; this was too sloppy!
There was only one elder around, Elder Long Kui. Of course, he did not know if anyone else had seen him.
Lu Yin wanted to ask, as this was the first wedding of his life.
However, when he saw Long Xi's cold expression, he rationally chose not to ask.
He was now thinking about the most important thing, the wedding night. In this starry sky civilization, it was called the wedding night. Thinking about it, he was quite nervous. He had not even reached this step with Ming Yan.
When he thought of Ming Yan, he felt guilty. He didn't know how she was doing, where she was, or how she had managed to obtain information on Ah Lu.
"Right now, it's just a ceremony. My White Dragon Clan has three steps to a marriage. The first step is to pay respects to our ancestors, the second step is to pay respects to the Ancestral Mang, and the third step is to register our names in the clan records. Only then will we truly get married. At that time, we will invite guests from all over. As the princess of the White Dragon Clan, I will naturally get married in the Top Realm," Long Xi explained.
Lu Yin understood that this was not a real marriage. It was just a ceremony to make the Frigid Immortal Sect give up.
"Even if I didn't complete the third step, I'm already your wife." Long Xi looked at Lu Yin seriously. Lu Yin could see his own reflection in her amber eyes.
"From now on, even though we won't be husband and wife, we will still be husband and wife in name. I'll use you to get through this crisis, so I won't let you down. In this life, I, Long Xi, will only be your wife," Long Xi said indifferently, as if she was talking about something unrelated to her.
Lu Yin felt a little depressed. He looked at Long Xi and saw that her eyes were filled with sorrow and even a bit of despair. What was going on?
Did she have someone she liked?
"Do you know why I'm willing to marry you?" Long Xi asked.
"To get through this crisis."
Long Xi's eyes dimmed. "Because you're seven as well." She then extinguished the candle. "Stay away from me."
Lu Yin looked at Long Xi's back. She was so beautiful, but also so bleak. She definitely had someone she liked.
It was the wedding night, but he couldn't do anything in front of such a beauty. Lu Yin was speechless. Life was full of mysteries.
The stars twinkled, and the speckles made it look like a painting. Silver light shone into the room.
Lu Yin was resting obediently when he suddenly smelled a familiar fragrance. He opened his eyes and saw Long Xi standing in front of the window with her back to him.
Long Xi turned around and looked at Lu Yin, her eyes bright and beautiful under the night sky. She raised her hand and made a cut with her delicate fingertip, shooting a drop of essence blood towards him.
Lu Yin didn't understand, but Long Xi said, "This is my essence blood. If you absorb it, your true identity won't be discovered. It can also increase your strength."
When he heard that it could increase his strength, he didn't reject it. Essence blood wasn't poison, and he allowed it to fuse into his body.
Long Xi looked at him deeply and then left the room. Even if she didn't like this person, he would be her husband in the future. She would do her best to help him. Even if she didn't reach great heights, she would at least be worthy of his efforts.
To a woman, her husband was the most important person. No matter how she felt about Lu Yin, she had to slowly accept him in the depths of her heart.
Lu Yin did not have the time to care about what Long Xi was thinking. Ever since the essence blood had fused with his body, his blood had been boiling. This was not the blood of an ordinary White Dragon, but the purest essence blood of a White Dragon princess. As the essence blood entered his body, an indescribable power descended. Behind Lu Yin, a giant python appeared out of nowhere.
The python was like an illusion, but it was also like an imprint. It appeared behind Lu Yin and slowly expanded.
Outside the room, Long Xi wasn't surprised. Her essence blood had triggered the power of the Ancestral Mandala, which was enough to increase a person's cultivation. As for how much it increased, it depended on how much that person could bear.
The power of the Ancestral Mandala wasn't something that an ordinary body could bear.
Elder Blue Apricot, who was outside White Mountain, saw everything that happened here. Elder Blue Apricot was furious. This phenomenon clearly meant that Long Xi had already given her essence blood to that brat. To the White Dragon Clan, this was equivalent to their first night. In other words, the moment this phenomenon appeared, it officially meant that Long Xi was no longer a young girl, but a married woman.
The Frigid Immortal Sect's plan had failed, and Elder Green Apricot left with an ashen expression. The Junior Ancestor would not let this matter rest.
Long Xi watched as the Ancestral Mandala grew larger and larger, and her gaze dimmed. She naturally knew what this meant. From today onwards, that figure would disappear forever. No, that wasn't right. He had already disappeared, and he would never appear again.
The colossal python phenomenon appeared quickly and disappeared just as quickly.
In the distance, Long Kui sighed. Beneath his feet, the Envoy-level beast's entire head was buried in the ground as it trembled. The Ancestral Mandala's power terrified it, and it didn't even dare to look at it.
Within the room, the Ancestral Mandala didn't disappear. Instead, it turned into a current that rushed into Lu Yin's body and replaced his star energy circulation. In the blink of an eye, Lu Yin reached his fourteenth cycle as a Hunter, but he didn't stop there.
As the Ancestral Mandala's power entered his body, Lu Yin's body began to bear a terrifying pressure. Even though his eyes were closed, he could still see an incomparably large python that stretched from the heavens to the earth. The higher he looked, the more he couldn't see the top, and the greater the pressure on his body.
After his fifteenth cycle as a Hunter, Lu Yin's body tensed up, and his veins popped out. Traces of blood seeped out of his body and dyed the ground red.
In the blink of an eye, the sixteenth cycle ended, and his body began to crack. He couldn't bear it any longer.
Suddenly, he heard an earth-shattering roar in his mind. It was the Ancestral Mandala's roar, and Lu Yin spat out a mouthful of blood. His right hand pressed against the ground as the Ancestral Mandala's power disappeared from his body.
Lu Yin looked at the bloodstains on the ground in disbelief.
He had worked so hard on his cultivation in the Fifth Mainland, thinking of all sorts of ways to increase his cultivation speed and enduring the pain of being tempered by flames. Here, he had actually used a single drop of essence blood to increase his cultivation by three minor realms. This was too fast.
The power that had helped him increase his cultivation level was the power of a Progenitor. There was a Progenitor in this space, and if Lu Yin's guess was correct, it should be the incomparably large python that he had seen earlier.
A python had cultivated to the Progenitor realm?
In that case, could this so-called White Dragon Clan borrow the Ancestral Mandala's power because it was a descendant of the Ancestral Mandala?
The Progenitor realm was beyond the Fifth Mainland's reach. The Sixth Mainland had three Progenitors, but Lu Yin had never seen them before. He had only sensed their vast power. However, in comparison, he felt that the Sixth Mainland's Martial Progenitor might not be as powerful as this Ancestral Mandala, as the aura it gave off was completely different.
The White Dragon Clan had this Ancestral Mandala and could borrow its power. In that case, the Frigid Immortal Sect, which was suppressing the White Dragon Clan, must also have a Progenitor.
This was terrifying, as there were four scales in the Top Realm. Did this mean that there were at least four Progenitors?
Moreover, all of them were not inferior to that Ancestral Mandala?
The more Lu Yin thought about it, the more terrifying it became. This region of space far surpassed the Fifth Mainland and even the Sixth Mainland. Where exactly was this place?
Lu Yin suddenly recalled the incident that had caused the Innerverse and Outerverse to be separated. The Sea King had broken through the upper three gates, so could this be the place behind the upper three gates?
There was the sound of footsteps as Long Xi walked in. She looked at Lu Yin with a curious gaze.
Lu Yin stood up and coughed twice. "Thank you."
Long Xi sized him up. "How is it?"
Lu Yin replied, "I'm a sixteen-cycle Hunter now." It was strange, as the realms here were exactly the same as those in the Fifth Mainland. Lu Yin increasingly felt that this place was related to the Fifth Mainland.
Long Xi frowned. "Your body can't take it anymore?"
Lu Yin nodded honestly.
Long Xi was disappointed, as the White Dragon princess' essence blood was enough to raise a cultivator who had just become a Hunter all the way to the peak of the Hunter realm unless their physical body was too weak. After all, they had borrowed the power of the Ancestral Mandala, which was the power of a Progenitor.
However, this person's body had only improved by a small amount, and his physical body could not take it anymore.
Some people could challenge those at a higher realm, while others could not even defeat a powerhouse at the same realm. From her point of view, Lu Yin was clearly the latter.
"Pay more attention to your physical body's cultivation in the future. It's not enough to just increase your realm," Long Xi said.
She thought that Lu Yin had focused all of his previous cultivation on increasing his realm, but then she thought about the 150 Stacks that Lu Yin had displayed during the day. The Overlaying Stacks Path had very high physical requirements.
When she thought about this, she looked at Lu Yin strangely. If this person's physical strength was not too weak, then why had he only improved by a small amount?