Gui Qian's expression was calm as he stood there.
Wang Dashuai kept trying to persuade him, but the prince refused to leave.
Wang Dashuai helplessly looked at Junior Progenitor Planet, hoping that the seniors there would chase the prince away. However, there was no movement from the planet.
Gui Qian was strong enough, but no one from the Ghost Abyss dared to let him follow them.
Even Yu Chen had not invited him, which showed how wary she was of him.
Wang Dashuai was still trying to persuade him when his expression suddenly froze. He helplessly said, "Prince Gui Qian, Junior Progenitor invites you."
Gui Qian turned around and walked towards Junior Progenitor Planet in an orderly manner. He was neither fast nor slow, as if everything was under his control.
Wang Dashuai gritted his teeth; where had this person come from?
On Junior Progenitor Planet, Lu Yin was absorbing star energy within the dark red magma. Liquid star energy dripped from the top of his head and turned into a gas that was absorbed by him. His entire body was being scorched and roasted.
With a normal person's total amount of star energy, they would be able to break through very quickly if they used this shortcut to cultivate. However, Lu Yin was different; his total amount of star energy was more than two hundred times that of a normal person. In other words, if a normal person could use this shortcut to break through in a single day, it would take him two hundred days.
If he really needed that much time to break through to the next cycle, both Long Tian and Long Xi would be able to tell that something was wrong.
Thus, Lu Yin used his body to absorb star energy while using the Heavenfire Stone to absorb the magma.
He needed to absorb enough fire and then cultivate in the Time Stop Space to forcefully shorten the time needed to break through.
His cosmic ring contained a few million star essence, which he had obtained from this planet. It was just enough for him to break through to the next cycle. Even though he was quite wealthy, he would try his best not to spend his own money when he could spend other people's money.
A few days later, Lu Yin opened his eyes and endured the high temperature. He raised his hand and his die appeared; it was time to break through to the seventeenth cycle. Otherwise, he would be discovered sooner or later.
He placed his cosmic ring to the side and tapped the die, causing it to spin until it finally stopped at six pips. His eyes widened as the scene before him changed and he appeared in that mysterious space. He saw many balls of light, and without hesitation, he fused with the closest one. This ball of light was dim and did not belong to anyone close to him. He did not have the time to look at other people's lives for fear of being discovered.
As the scene before his eyes changed again, he appeared in a martial arts arena. His body was half-squatting on the ground, and blood was flowing from his arm. In front of him, there was a long sword pointed at his throat.
Lu Yin was speechless. What was going on?
Memories rushed into his mind, and his gaze turned from confusion to calmness.
"I already said that you're no match for me. Now you should give up," the man with the sword mocked Lu Yin. He held his sword in an elegant and unrestrained manner, and many people gasped in admiration.
The person that Lu Yin had fused with was an old man from a small family that was located beneath the Bifrost Bridge. Because of the distribution of resources, this old man had been forced to compete with a rival family, and he had lost to a descendant of the rival family. However, that was not the most important thing, as Lu Yin did not care about the disputes between these small families. This old man had just broken through to the Enlighter realm.
What he cared about were the old man's memories. Since he had fused with this person's body, the first thing he did was search for any memories related to the surname Lu.
The man in front of him pointed his sword at his throat and looked at the old man strangely. Why did this old man look like he was in a daze?
However, he immediately felt relieved. An old man who had cultivated for hundreds of years was no match for him, who had cultivated for three years.
It was normal for young people who had lived for more than ten years to be affected.
"If you know the difference, then step down. This mine belongs to my family," the young man shouted arrogantly.
The old man's confused gaze suddenly turned deep, and then red, as if he had seen something inconceivable. He spat out a mouthful of blood, and his entire head exploded, splattering the young man's face with blood.
The young man was stunned. He had not done anything!
It was over. This old man was dead, and neither side would let this matter rest. A war was unavoidable.
The matters of these small families had nothing to do with Lu Yin. The scene in front of him changed, and he appeared in the dark red magma underground. His eyes were filled with unprecedented shock.
What's going on?
He had only wanted to read the memories related to the surname Lu, but the moment he did so, he felt a splitting headache, as if something had been triggered. The more he tried to understand the memories, the worse his headache became. In just an instant, the old man that had fused with Lu Yin's memories died. Lu Yin once again felt the sensation of death, and the death aura in his body fluctuated, growing slightly.
What was going on?
Why had the memories of the surname Lu caused that old man to die?
Could it be that his memories were sealed by something?
However, the old man's other memories were complete. Even though it had only been a short time, Lu Yin had still seen many of the old man's memories, but the memories related to the surname Lu were vague. Before the old man had died, he had only seen one scene: red petals falling from the sky, covering the entire Astral Tree.
This was the only memory Lu Yin had obtained, and it was precisely because of this scene that the old man's head had exploded.
Lu Yin lowered his head and fell into deep thought. This had to be related to the surname Lu. When the surname Lu had appeared in the old man's memories, Lu Yin had clearly felt the old man's soul tremble and submit. Something huge must have happened in this region of space.
The red petals that had filled the sky were flowers that Lu Yin had never seen before. They were beautiful and bewitching.
After a long moment of contemplation, Lu Yin looked up. Even though he had seen the scene of red petals filling the sky, he had not obtained any other memories related to the surname Lu. But that did not matter, as he would find out sooner or later. He was now certain that the surname Lu had existed in this region of space, and someone had submitted to it.
Lu Yin exhaled and forcefully suppressed his complicated thoughts. He continued to roll his die, as increasing his strength was the most important thing right now.
The last roll of six pips had consumed nearly ten million star essence, but it did not matter since it was all from this planet. He could try again.
As the die slowly came to a stop, Lu Yin was left speechless. Six pips again? Was his luck that good?
Just as he was thinking about it, the scene in front of him changed again.
Lu Yin already knew from experience that the later he fused, the more star essence he would consume. Even though the energy consumed would not be his, if the person he was fusing with was too far away, then it would not be of any help to him.
Lu Yin looked at the balls of light around him and immediately rushed towards the brightest one, instantly fusing with it.
His body shook, and before he could even open his eyes to look around, he felt that something was wrong. This body was very strange.
When he opened his eyes, he looked around and saw a giant tribulation crystal pillar that was at least a hundred meters tall.
Lu Yin's jaw dropped, and his mind felt as if it had been struck by lightning. He stared at the scene in front of him in disbelief; it really was a tribulation crystal pillar. How could it be so big?
The tribulation crystal pillar in front of him was ten times the size of the one Long Ding had used to break through. Lu Yin had just experienced the old man's skull shattering, and now, he was actually seeing such a huge pillar. His heart could not take it anymore.
He lowered his head and looked at his hands.
Lu Yin's pupils shrank. No, something was wrong with this body. There was no sign of life, and there was no star energy circulating within it. There was no energy aura, and the organs were all empty. This was a corpse, but how could a corpse be fused with?
Hold on! Suddenly, Lu Yin thought of the most important question. Where were his memories?
This body had no memories.
He looked around, but everything was dark. With the structure of this body, he could not see anything clearly, and he did not even have any memories. The only thing he could see was the tribulation crystal pillar. Hmm?
Was that a leaf on the pillar?
It was a giant tribulation crystal pillar that was at least a hundred meters tall. In this dark, deathly space, there was a single leaf, which was very strange. Lu Yin wanted to control this body, but it was not under his control. This was the first time something like this had happened.
What was going on?
The scene in front of him changed again, and Lu Yin was dragged back to that strange place. He saw many balls of light that fused into his body, and when he looked down, he saw that the star essence he had brought to the underground lava had all been used up.
He had rolled six pips twice in a row, and both encounters had been very strange. The second time, in particular, he had seen such a huge tribulation crystal pillar. If he was exposed, it would shake the scales of the universe.
If only he could find that place. Lu Yin sighed inwardly, but it was a pity that he could not control this body.
If he could not control it, then that meant that this body did not have any self-awareness. However, if he could fuse with it, then the only possibility was that it was being controlled by someone else, just like when he had fused with the mechanical ants in the Technocracy.
There were too many secrets in this region of space, and Lu Yin scratched his head regretfully. He looked up again and continued rolling the die.
He would go out and get more star essence after he broke through the seventeenth cycle.
This time, he did not roll the die smoothly. He rolled one, and before he could even see what it was, it was burned to ashes by the extreme heat.
Lu Yin pursed his lips. Again.
He tapped out, and the die spun until it finally stopped at four pips.
Lu Yin heaved a sigh of relief; it was finally the Time Stop Space.
There was nothing to be anxious about at this point, and Lu Yin directly increased the time limit by half a year. He then took out the Heavenfire Stone and started the seventeenth cycle.
Even if he could continuously break through in the Time Stop Space, he could not do so as it would easily alert Long Tian.
When he reached the seventeenth cycle, Lu Yin clenched his fists. He had broken through the lower threshold and absorbed the dragon saliva. Now that he had broken through the seventeenth cycle, he was much stronger than he had been during the Sovereign Tournament. With his current strength, he could completely suppress people like Wang Yi and Wu Taibai even without using the Grim Reaper Transformation.
However, it was unlikely that he could defeat the Prime Clear's Three Yang Ancestral Qi, and this was only the Prime Clear from the Sovereign Tournament. The current Prime Clear had definitely improved by quite a bit.
There was still some time left in the Time Stop Space, and Lu Yin had already decided on what to cultivate: battle force, golden battle force. He had never faced such a power before.
…
There was a thump as Lu Yin leapt out of the dark lava. His star energy surged, indicating that he had completed the seventeenth cycle.
He looked around, but there was no one around. He then used the Cloudconnect Stone to contact Long Tian.
"I've broken through the seventeenth cycle," Lu Yin said.
Long Tian did not mind. "Continue." He then ended the call.
Lu Yin did not care about Long Tian's attitude, but since Long Tian was so indifferent, it was obvious that there was already an expert that he was satisfied with.