"Can the Executioner last three hours?" Qin Xuan asked, glaring at the doctor.
The doctor nodded, "Yes."
Soon, all the soldiers in the surrounding camp retreated.
There was no one around, and Jeraldine heaved a sigh of relief. Three hours was just an insurance number; she only needed two hours to fully recover, and without a Sentinel around, no one would be able to stop her.
Jeraldine glanced at Terence and then at Orton. Hmm?
Wait, where's Orton?
Jeraldine's expression changed, and she wanted to get up to check on him, but the slightest movement caused intense pain throughout her body. She sat down helplessly, but there was no need to rush. Even if Orton wasn't dead, his injuries would definitely be worse than hers. That Yata also had to be taught a lesson for daring to attack her.
A thousand meters away from Jeraldine, Orton's corpse lay quietly on the ground. Lu Yin panted heavily; his injuries were severe as well, but the formcast model was the most important thing right now. The formcast model could heal him to a certain extent.
After observing for a while, Lu Yin cut off five of Orton's fingers before finding the formcast model chip.
"This is the moment!" Lu Yin was excited as he fused the formcast model into his body. Intense pain immediately engulfed his entire body as he once again experienced that supreme power. All of his cells were being reorganized and refined, and the surging power seemed to overlook the heavens as it brought a tiny ant like him out of Earth.
Pfft!
He spat out a mouthful of blood. The cell reconstruction was painful, but it was also a blessing. He could feel his body evolving and becoming more compatible with the stars.
An hour passed, and Jeraldine's complexion recovered slightly. "Give me another hour, and I'll be able to move," she said excitedly. She had no intention of leaving; controlling Nanjing would give her a bargaining chip to negotiate with even stronger powerhouses in the future.
Although the blue zones were protected to a certain extent, not everyone followed this rule. It was fine for ordinary planets to evolve, but now that Astral-10 was about to appear, everyone wanted to shine in the trials. This time, Earth's trials were destined to be brutal.
What worried her the most was the arrival of the second batch of trial takers in two months.
Their batch of trial takers had already been determined long ago. At that time, news of Astral-10 had just been released, so there hadn't been many people who had joined the trial. However, the second batch was completely different. The second batch of students had all come for Astral-10. Lanny didn't know which personalities would appear, but she had a premonition that unimaginable geniuses would appear.
She didn't plan on monopolizing Jinling. That wasn't realistic. She wanted to use Jinling to rely on certain people in exchange for better results. This was her goal, and it should also be Terence's goal.
Another half an hour passed, and Jeraldine felt that she had recovered slightly. Just as she was about to get up and look for Orton, she sensed a surge of star energy not too far away. Jeraldine looked over in shock. What was this?
A thousand meters away, the pain in Lu Yin's body gradually subsided. He clenched his fists and felt the strength in his body. Now, he could be considered to have truly stepped into the world of cultivation and had the qualifications to look up at the stars.
Jeraldine tapped on his gadget to test his combat power. Beep, beep, beep, beep. The sound kept ringing. His final combat power was 1,080. Jeraldine was puzzled. 1,080?
Did he just break through to the Sentinel realm?
Who?
Yata?
A thousand meters away, Lu Yin pushed aside the rubble and walked out to look at Jeraldine.
Jeraldine was shocked, her heart sinking as her eyes flashed, "You broke through to the Sentinel realm?"
Lu Yin approached her step by step and smiled, "Didn't you detect it?"
Jeraldine frowned, but her tone was gentle, "I'm sorry, Yata. I shouldn't have pushed you out to block the enemy's attack, but you have to believe me. It was an instinctive reaction, I didn't do it on purpose."
Lu Yin walked a dozen meters away from her and smiled, "Of course I believe you. You're an elite of the academy, and you've experienced life and death situations. It's normal for you to have such instinctive reactions."
Jeraldine smiled, "That's good. Yata, Terence, and Orton are all dead, and this native is heavily injured. From now on, Jinling is ours. If we work together, no one will be able to take it away from us."
"That's right. Before that, can I borrow something from you?" Lu Yin smiled at Jeraldine.
Jeraldine's expression changed, but she forced a smile, "What?"
"Nothing, just some energy crystals."
Jeraldine's gaze turned sharp, "What did you say?"
Lu Yin stared at her, "Let's put it this way, hand over your cosmic ring."
"You want to rob me?" she shouted.
Lu Yin shrugged, "Don't make it sound so dark, I'm just taking a look."
Jeraldine stood up and glared at him, "Don't think that you can suppress me just because you've healed some of your injuries, Yata. You haven't fully recovered yet, and I've also healed some of my injuries. If we really fight, it's hard to say who will win. Don't forget, you just became a Sentinel with a power level of 1,080."
Lu Yin's lips curled up, "Is that so? If you really believed in my power level, why would you waste so much time talking to me?"
Jeraldine's gaze flickered, but she didn't reply.
Lu Yin continued, "Power level is just the influence of one's star energy on the outside world. It doesn't represent one's true strength, isn't that the first sentence of the academy's textbooks?"
"Wrong, the textbooks just don't want to discourage commoners. The stronger one's power level, the stronger their star energy. It has a suppressive effect on those with lower power levels. Why else do you think Terence is stronger than me?
The difference between our power levels is almost double, and no battle technique can make up for it, "Jeraldine said coldly.
Lu Yin raised his foot and approached her once more, "Make your move, if you're confident."
Jeraldine's gaze turned fierce as she stared at the approaching Lu Yin. She took out a flame crystal from her cosmic ring and crushed it, causing flames to soar into the air. "Blazing Palm," she was forced to use. Even if she could defeat Lu Yin, she would be injured again, but she had no choice.
Seeing Jeraldine's palm strike coming at him, Lu Yin raised his hand, the moon revolving around his palm as he unleashed the Cosmic Palm without hesitation. The moment they made contact, the moon exploded with a terrifying force that completely destroyed the flames, sending Jeraldine flying a hundred meters away. Her arm was broken, and she fell to the ground in a sorry state as she stared at Lu Yin in disbelief.
She had never imagined that Lu Yin would be able to injure her so severely with a single palm. What battle technique was that?
It definitely couldn't have been the Shockwave Palm; it was no match for the Blazing Palm. Their power levels were almost double, and ordinary battle techniques couldn't make up for it.
Lu Yin looked at his right palm with a burning gaze; this was the Sirius Palm. After reaching the Sentinel realm, the Sirius Palm's power had increased once again. Stars would appear in his palm, and they would explode with enough power to crush everything. And this was just one star, what if there were two?
Ten?
Twenty?
How powerful would it be?
Lu Yin didn't even dare think about it.
This battle technique couldn't be leaked.
The commotion attracted Qin Xuan and the rest, but when the army reappeared, they only saw Lu Yin standing on the ground.
"Brother Lu?" Feng Hong was shocked.
Qin Xuan and the rest were shocked as well; they had all retreated far away during the battle and hadn't seen anything.
"Lock that woman up and save the Executioner," Lu Yin said.
Jeraldine was quickly taken away by the army, and Zhou Shan was rushed to the treatment room by the doctors.
"Wait," Zhou Shan called out weakly.
Everyone gathered around.
Zhou Shan looked at Lu Yin, "I'll leave Nanjing to you while I'm treated, please."
Lu Yin nodded, "Don't worry."
"Thank you," Zhou Shan said before fainting.
Today's battle had caused great damage to Nanjing, and Lu Yin ordered the army to rebuild the destroyed colony and pacify the survivors. He also ordered Luo Yi and the rest to rush back to Nanjing.
There were many things that Lu Yin didn't have to worry about as the camp had its own way of dealing with them. He went to the lowest level of the prison to find Jeraldine.
Her limbs were tied up, and there were many high-tech weapons hidden around her. If she made any strange movements, they would immediately shoot.
Lu Yin dismissed the guards and walked over to her. He took her cosmic ring and cut her finger, using the genetic code in her blood to unlock the ring and pour out everything inside.
Cosmic rings were very precious, and not many people could afford them. Vesta and Orton didn't have them, and only Jeraldine and Terence did. Terence's ring had been taken by Lu Yin, and he'd gotten quite a few good things.
"Who are you?" she asked.
Lu Yin smiled, "What do you think?"
"You're definitely from outer space, you're definitely not from Earth," Jeraldine said with certainty as she glared at him.
Lu Yin nodded and took all the energy crystals. He put the rest of the undergarments into the ring and returned it to her.
Without the genetic code, the ring was useless, and there was no need for him to steal it.