Just like the Daynight Clan, the Mavis Clan, and the Phoenix Clan, they had all inherited the outstanding bloodlines of their ancient ancestors.
Human inheritance passed down from one generation to the next, and everything from the previous generation was stored in the genes of the cells that multiplied. Descendants who retained the genes of their ancient ancestors could easily obtain great power. This inherited power was also a type of innate gift that could be developed together, just like the Phoenix Clan's immortal bird. This Umbral Butterfly Clan was clearly in the same category, but they could not compare to a powerful Innerverse clan like the Phoenix Clan.
Many powerhouses waited until they were at their strongest before reproducing. This was so that they could preserve as much of their own power as possible so that the next generation would have a better starting point. Countless years later, a powerful clan might be born.
"Your Umbral Butterfly Clan has preserved the bloodline of some ancient powerhouse and then reproduced with that bloodline as the core, right? That means that you're not really related by blood," Lu Yin said.
Ah Mu shook his head. "No, we're related by blood. As long as we inherit the ancient bloodline, our own blood will be replaced. Our entire Umbral Butterfly Clan is the closest blood relative." At this point, Ah Mu suddenly lowered his head and sadly said, "Except for me."
"Why?" Lu Yin was puzzled.
Ah Mu's tone was gloomy. "My mother was chosen to be a member of the Umbral Butterfly Clan. Because of a mistake, she was pregnant with my bloodline. The Umbral Butterfly Clan only chooses pure young girls, but my mother made a mistake and gave birth to me. That's why I'm the only male in the Umbral Butterfly Clan, and I'm not a pure bloodline member."
Lu Yin patted Ah Mu's shoulder sympathetically. He could imagine how miserable this guy had been in the Umbral Butterfly Clan. He was basically being used as a negative example by an entire clan. "What about your mother?"
"She passed away not long after I was born," Ah Mu said in a low voice. It was obvious that he did not want to talk about this matter.
Lu Yin did not ask any more questions and instead looked around.
After a while, Ah Mu said, "Sorry, I told you something unrelated."
Lu Yin casually replied, "The Umbral Butterfly Clan must be very strong for them to be able to name this weave."
Ah Mu's expression changed, and he nodded. "Very strong. They can absorb the power of nearby plants to strengthen themselves, which is equivalent to stacking a lot of power onto themselves. Every member of the Umbral Butterfly Clan is very difficult to defeat at the same level. The more plants there are, the stronger the Umbral Butterfly Clan members."
"Cheating!" Lu Yin exclaimed.
Ah Mu smiled wryly. "This is the Umbral Butterfly Tribe. Their weaves are named after their tribe, and no one dares to challenge them. Even the surrounding weaves don't dare to provoke them." Ah Mu then looked at Lu Yin. "I remember that your spacecraft has the symbol of Astral-10 carved on it. What a coincidence, the Umbral Butterfly Tribe's strongest young mistress, Angie, is in Astral-7. You two are classmates."
Lu Yin raised an eyebrow. Was he imagining things?
He could clearly see Ah Mu's gloating eyes.
But then again, the Astral Combat Academy was truly a gathering of freaks. Not only were there geniuses from the various powerful clans and organizations of the Innerverse, but there was also the strongest descendant of an organization like the Outerverse's Umbral Butterfly Tribe. Although it was rare for the Outerverse's seventy-two weaves to produce geniuses that could not be understood, it was still normal for a few geniuses to appear. These geniuses were already troublesome enough, but with the addition of those from the Innerverse, the Astral Combat Tournament was going to be very lively.
"Honestly, I don't believe that the Umbral Butterfly Tribe's ability to absorb plant energy has no upper limit. If that's the case, then they can even invade the Innerverse," Lu Yin said.
Ah Mu was helpless. "That's the truth. Of course, they can't absorb all plants. They can't absorb plants that are too strong, but this limit doesn't make much of a difference. After all, there are only a few powerful plants, and as the Umbral Butterfly Tribe grows stronger, they will eventually be able to absorb plants as well. The further they grow, the greater their potential will be."
What a troublesome tribe. This was Lu Yin's impression of the Umbral Butterfly Tribe.
Half a day later, the two of them saw smoke coming from a tall forest. Smoke meant that there were people nearby, and the two of them quickly rushed over.
Not long after, they passed through a huge forest and saw a tribe of giants. Ah Mu almost peed his pants when he saw a scene. More than ten giants were tearing apart trialtakers, and the two of them arrived just in time to see a male trialtaker being torn apart by a giant. Blood splattered all over the ground.
That man was one of the trialtakers they had met earlier. There had been four men and one woman, but now, they only saw the woman being toyed with by a small giant. The rest of the trialtakers had long since been buried in the blood-soaked soil. The air was filled with the stench of blood.
Ah Mu trembled in fear, and his face paled.
Lu Yin's gaze was cold as the small giant viciously pinched the woman. She could no longer scream, and her expression was one of extreme pain. Just as the small giant was about to crush the woman, his head fell off, and his huge body slowly toppled over as blood gushed out like a waterfall. Lu Yin appeared high up in the sky and disappeared with Flash, reappearing right in front of another giant.
The giant didn't even have time to react before his skull was shattered by Lu Yin's palm. The giant's eyes widened and then turned ashen as he died.
Roar!
The other giants furiously attacked Lu Yin. One of them was a Limiteer, and he viciously swatted at the void, causing a huge shockwave to sweep out for a thousand meters. Even Ah Mu was sent flying.
Lu Yin raised his palm, and a ninth star vaguely appeared. Sirius's nine stars merged into one, forming a star system. The palm tore through the shockwave created by the Limiteer giant and slammed into the giant's chest. The void distorted and then collapsed as the Limiteer giant was torn in half by Lu Yin's palm. It died on the spot, and its blood splashed into the forest like a tsunami, extinguishing the flames.
The other giants fled in fear, but Lu Yin didn't let them go. He flashed continuously, killing a total of more than ten giants.
Lu Yin could tolerate the weak being killed, but seeing them being toyed with made him feel stifled. Humans were the wisest of all creatures, and their dignity couldn't be trampled on.
Ah Mu vomited; he didn't want to stay in this place for even a second longer.
Lu Yin stepped on the blood-soaked soil and walked over to the woman's side, squatting down.
The woman's injuries were too severe, and her body had almost been crushed. She had no hope of surviving, and when she saw Lu Yin, she painfully said, "According to the diagonal directions of the stone house, I can, I can, find the Giant Emperor. The Giant Emperor is in the center of all the tribes. Please, kill me."
Lu Yin casually waved his hand, and the woman was killed, ending her pain.
Lu Yin stood up and looked around. The stone house that the giants lived in was huge, and it looked very crude. There were many white bones hanging from it, and the main doors weren't facing the same direction. Instead, they were spread out in a fan shape, with all the corners facing southeast. Lu Yin formed a diagram in his mind. With the Giant Emperor as the center, all the giants spread out in a circle. The way to find the Giant Emperor was to follow the diagonal directions of the stone house.
The giants didn't have much intelligence, and they mostly acted on instinct. This method was simple.
Ah Mu peeked out from behind a large tree, and when he saw Lu Yin standing in the blood-soaked soil, he suppressed his disgust and shouted, "Let's go."
Lu Yin waved at him and then rushed towards the southeast.
Ah Mu hurriedly followed.
If Ah Mu had wanted to separate from Lu Yin before, then he didn't want to leave Lu Yin at all now. It was too terrifying, and the fate of those people had completely terrified him. They had been his classmates, and now, they would never be able to return.
In the distance, a huge crater appeared in one of the giant tribes. The spacecraft had fallen and crashed into the tribe, killing several giants. Inside the spacecraft, the trialtaker stared at the power level displayed on his gadget in fear. Several Limiteers had appeared around him, and he didn't dare to go out.
The giants were also terrified of the spacecraft, and they didn't approach it either.
Time passed, and just as the giants were about to dig out the spacecraft, several trialtakers appeared out of nowhere and attacked them. Those who dared to participate in the weave's trial were all at least Melders, and one of them was even a Limiteer student. He killed two Limiteers by himself and wiped out the entire tribe.
Inside the spacecraft, the trialtakers still didn't dare to come out. They glanced at each other with disdain, observed the direction of the stone house, and then flew off into the distance.
The giant planet was huge, and the giants were just one of many species. All of the trialtakers' spacecraft landed in the giants' territory, and it didn't take long for the entire place to descend into chaos as the giants and trialtakers began to madly clash.
From a bird's eye view, the entire giant territory was in chaos. The central region, where the Giant Emperor resided, was no exception.
A few unlucky spacecraft crashed right in front of the Giant Emperor. The Giant Emperor's terrifying peak Limiteer strength and intelligent eyes almost scared the trialtakers to death.
Ordinary giants didn't have intelligence, but the Giant Emperor did. Having intelligence and not having intelligence were two completely different concepts.
The trialtakers' spacecraft were very sturdy, and even Limiteers couldn't damage them. The moment they saw the Giant Emperor, those unlucky fellows decided not to leave until the trial ended.
However, they had underestimated the Giant Emperor's intelligence. He grabbed a spacecraft and shook it with all his might, shattering the trialtakers inside into pieces. This scene caused the other trialtakers' souls to leave their bodies, and they immediately opened the doors to escape. Unfortunately, they were easily killed by the Giant Emperor, one slap for each.
The Giant Emperor's eyes flickered as he looked at the spacecraft on the ground.
The battles between the trialtakers didn't stop either. For example, Ah Mu had somehow managed to survive until now. He was ridiculed by every trialtaker he met, and his situation was a hundred times worse than Lu Yin's when he had first entered the trial zones. This time, he had even attracted murderous intent.
Three trialtakers surrounded Lu Yin and Ah Mu. They didn't speak, but the icy killing intent in their eyes couldn't be concealed.
They were all Melders, but their strength couldn't compare to Gerbach's. Lu Yin didn't mind, but he was curious as to why Ah Mu attracted so much hatred.
When he saw Lu Yin's strange gaze, Ah Mu bitterly replied, "I've already said that I'm different from the rest of the Umbral Butterfly Tribe. Many people in the tribe want me to disappear, and they think that I've insulted the tribe."
With a whoosh, the three attacked at the same time, avoiding Lu Yin and directly attacking Ah Mu.
Ah Mu was very weak, and he couldn't even compare to Lu Yin when he had activated five stars. He was only slightly stronger than an elite Sentinel from the Great Yu Empire's Yu Academy, so he couldn't block the three's attacks. He didn't even plan on resisting.
The three attacked quickly, but they retreated even faster. Lu Yin easily tossed them aside. "Let's go."
Ah Mu nodded silently.
Over the course of ten days, the two of them discovered several tribes and encountered more than ten trialtakers. It was just like the teams of the strongest students from the academies during Earth's trial. At this moment, most of the trialtakers who dared to head towards the Giant Emperor had formed teams, and they were all powerhouses. Lu Yin had even discovered more than ten Melders who were comparable to Yu Academy's Hall Masters.
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