This shocking turn of events completely stunned the people of the Spirit Palace. There were still hidden peerless fighters in the Great Eastern Alliance.
"Deal with it as soon as possible."
Following his command, the starry sky's sword qi swept out. A beam of sword qi cut off the Mountain Deity, another beam severed Ling Qiu's arm, and another beam injured Ling Taizu. It was Emperor Liu's sword qi. His strength far surpassed these people.
There was no one in the Innerverse who could match Emperor Liu's innate gift. Even the Second Nightking would need time to make up for it; otherwise, he would not be Emperor Liu's opponent.
Seeing that Spirit Taizu and the others had been defeated, those from Spirit Palace turned pale. They couldn't believe what they were seeing.
Everything happened too quickly, too suddenly.
Lu Yin turned off the screen and looked at the people from Ling Gong. "Was this show good?"
The imperial palace was silent. They had all witnessed the defeat of the Innerverse's Eight Great Flowzones, and they had also witnessed the Great Eastern Alliance dominating the Innerverse.
Actually, Lu Yin had not expected that the war with the Eight Great Flowzones would end in such a manner. However, it was such a coincidence that Yuan Miaomiao's report had allowed Lu Yin to gain control over the Divine Venomous Dynasty. Liu Qianjue's betrayal had also left the Lingling clan and the other powers powerless to resist, and they were naturally suppressed by the Great Eastern Alliance.
From then on, the Innerverse no longer had the power to resist the Great Eastern Alliance.
There was no power to resist, but the power of the Sovereign was watching.
Mr. Right immediately contacted the Board of Directors and informed the entire Hall of Honor.
When the Great Eastern Alliance had unified the Outerverse, the Hall of Honor had not paid much attention to it, just like how no one had cared when Lu Yin had headed to the Neoverse as an Outerverse Master. However, unifying the Innerverse was different.
There was a fundamental difference between the Innerverse and the Outerverse.
There were about ten Light Emissaries in the entire Innerverse. Even the behemoths in the Neoverse did not have that many Emissaries on their own. The Hall of Honor only had this many Emissaries on the surface.
The Great Eastern Alliance had unified the Innerverse, which meant that Lu Yin's power had reached a level that could rival the behemoths of the Neoverse. This did not even include the powers behind him, such as Leon's Armada or Liu Yefei, who had mysteriously helped him.
The Innerverse and Outerverse belonged to the Great Eastern Alliance, which meant that Lu Yin had the right to speak up in the Fifth Mainland. He also had the right to bargain with the Three Dark Hands and the Hall of Honor. Their statuses were worlds apart.
No one had expected Lu Yin to act so quickly and so unexpectedly. Mister You had witnessed the entire process. There had been no warning at all from the very beginning, and it had been the enemy who had taken the initiative to attack the Great Eastern Alliance to unify the Innerverse.
Lu Yin did not stop Mister You from informing the board of directors, as he wanted to contact Elder Chan himself. If Elder Chan was unwilling to allow the Great Eastern Alliance to unify the Innerverse, then everything that Lu Yin had done would have been for naught.
That might not be the case. Lu Yin's gaze turned cold. He still had Kui Luo, so it wasn't as if he didn't have the qualifications to compete.
"Please return to your residences," Lu Yin said as he swept his gaze across the crowd.
Everyone he saw lowered their heads. Little Mountain God, Wen Yao, and even Mister Right didn't dare to look him in the eye.
Ling Gong stared at Lu Yin stubbornly, but Lu Yin ignored her as she was dragged away by Ling Que.
Yuehua Mavis was the first to leave, followed by Balsam and the others. Gradually, only the people from the Divine Venomous Dynasty were left in the dilapidated imperial palace.
Lu Yin activated his gadget and contacted Elder Chan.
Not long after, Elder Chan's voice was heard. "Congratulations."
Lu Yin's expression was solemn. "If Senior does not wish for the Innerverse and Outerverse to be unified, then this junior can immediately dissolve the Great Eastern Alliance."
Elder Chan replied, "The Hall of Honor has its own concerns. With its strength, it can easily control everyone in the Innerverse and Outerverse, but it cannot do so. The Hall of Honor is too tyrannical, and the Interstellar Arbitrators represent judgment. To everyone, the Hall of Honor is like a blade that can fall at any time.
"The Great Eastern Alliance is different. It seems like a loose alliance, but because of their own interests, they have joined together. It is not just for you, Lu Xiaoxuan, but also for themselves.
"They joined the Great Eastern Alliance because the Great Eastern Alliance can bring them benefits, not because they fear death. The Great Eastern Alliance is not a hegemony. It is an alliance. This is the purpose of the Great Eastern Alliance's establishment. If there comes a day when they realize that the enemy they are facing is undefeatable, will they still firmly support you?"
Lu Yin lowered his voice. "Senior, this junior has already said that I will not lead the Great Eastern Alliance to become enemies with the Cosmic Trees for my own selfish desires. I will not let the Eternals benefit."
Elder Chan sighed. "After the Autarch Tournament, the Hall of Honor decided to fully support you. Whether it is unifying the Outerverse, the Innerverse, the Cosmic Sea, or even the Neoverse, as long as you have the ability, the Hall of Honor will not stop you. In fact, we will even help you. That is because you are Lu Yin. Do you understand?"
Lu Yin suddenly asked, "Can this junior ask Senior a question?"
"Speak."
"Did the primeval surnames really abandon the Fifth Mainland?"
There was no response from the other end of the gadget.
Lu Yin was not in a hurry, so he waited patiently.
After a while, Elder Chan finally spoke. "Why do you ask?"
Lu Yin sighed. "Because the upper three gates are located at the battlefield behind the Cosmic Trees. That's because there is a battlefield behind the Cosmic Trees."
Elder Chan remained silent.
Lu Yin's eyes narrowed. "Although I lost my memories, I more or less understood the Lu family during my time in the Cosmic Trees. The Lu family is very popular there, and at least the Liu family, the Nong family, and Memory Idler Academy are not willing to become enemies with the Lu family. Countless people are looking forward to the Lu family's return, and they would rather die than submit to the Four Way Scales. I don't believe that the Lu family would abandon their ancestral lands.
"I am both Lu Yin and Lu Xiaoxuan. Neither Lu Yin nor Lu Xiaoxuan are people who would abandon their ancestral lands. That means that the Lu family will not do so either."
"The truth is that the Fifth Mainland was indeed abandoned by the Sixth Mainland. The Lu family is the only one who has the ability to take away the Mother Tree and abandon the Fifth Mainland," Elder Chan said in a low voice.
"If there is no battlefield behind the Cosmic Trees, then the Fifth Mainland and the Sixth Mainland would not be able to resist the Eternals, and the Fifth Mainland would not even be able to resist the Twelve Marquises. Can I understand that the Cosmic Trees are helping the Fifth Mainland block the Eternals?" Lu Yin asked.
"It's one thing for the primeval surnames to abandon the ancestral lands, but it's another thing for them to block the enemies for the ancestral lands. Even if there is a battlefield behind, it cannot erase the fact that they caused the ancestral lands to be swapped. If the Progenitors from the Lu family, the Four Way Scales, and the other families had stayed behind, the Sixth Mainland would have been defeated without a doubt. Progenitor Chen would not have had to fight alone, and the Symbol Ancestor would not have died helplessly while carrying the civilization on his back. The Fifth Mainland would not have been without a Progenitor," Elder Chan said sternly.
Lu Yin understood the resentment that Elder Chan and the others felt towards the Cosmic Trees. It was not just them; their seniors and seniors had all produced Half-Progenitors, but because their skies had been swapped, they had not been able to produce a Progenitor. Lu Yin could fully understand the grievances of dying without even having the chance to break through to the Progenitor realm.
This was what it meant that no matter what the Cosmic Trees did for the Fifth Mainland, it could not offset the fact that the Fifth Mainland's skies had been swapped and abandoned.
However, Lu Yin's conversation with Elder Chan also confirmed that the Cosmic Trees had indeed helped the Fifth Mainland block the Eternals. Their past might not have been the truth that everyone knew.
The current truth was something that those who had remained behind had imagined due to the blurring of time. The Fifth Mainland was like this, and so was the Cosmic Trees. They all believed from the bottom of their hearts that the Fifth Mainland had been abandoned.
After understanding this, Lu Yin's heart suddenly brightened, and he no longer felt guilty.
Even if Lu Yin could forcefully lead the Great Eastern Alliance to rebel against the Four Way Scales, if his heart was filled with guilt towards the Fifth Mainland, then that would eventually become a weakness. But now, that weakness had been fixed.
The Lu family did not owe the Fifth Mainland anything. On the contrary, they might have actively blocked the Eternals for the Fifth Mainland.
Now, he needed the Fifth Mainland's strength to help the Lu family return. This was the truth that he had to believe.
As for the truth that Elder Chan and the others believed that the Fifth Mainland had been abandoned, Lu Yin chose not to believe it. He wanted to make up for his flaw, and this was the only way. If he succeeded in the end and the Lu family returned, then he could do something based on the truth of the past. However, the prerequisite was that the Lu family had to return.
After clarifying his heart, Lu Yin let out a long breath and stopped arguing with Elder Chan.
"The Innerverse and Outerverse have been unified, and you now have the qualifications to speak directly with the Hall of Honor. That's why I'm telling you all this. I also want to confirm with you that we will not fight with the Four Way Scales and not let the Eternals off. This is everyone's bottom line. Everyone's bottom line."
Lu Yin's eyes flashed. "What if the Four Way Scales send someone to kill me?"
Elder Chan was silent for a moment. "They can't do that."
Lu Yin's eyes widened. He had thought that Elder Chan would say that they would try their best to protect him or even abandon him. He had not expected Elder Chan to say such a thing. Where did he get the confidence to say such a thing?
The Four Way Scales!
Lu Yin felt that something was wrong, as Elder Chan's tone was very certain. The Four Way Scales could send more than one Half-Progenitor to the Fifth Mainland to kill him, and even a Progenitor would appear. Elder Chan did not have the qualifications to say such a thing, but he had still said it.
Lu Yin thought back to how Elder Chan had protected him on the Realm Mountain, and how helpless Elder Chan had sounded when he had first learned that Lu Yin was Lu Xiaoxuan. Elder Chan definitely knew something, and the most likely person was Mister Mu.
"Senior, have you heard of Mister Mu?" Lu Yin suddenly asked.
Elder Chan fell silent again, and after a while, he said, "I've heard of him and met him before."
Lu Yin's eyes widened. As expected, Elder Chan had protected him so much because of Mister Mu. Otherwise, with the Hall of Honor's attitude, they would not have looked into the matter when Lu Yin had been taken to the Eternal Kingdom to be modified. They had even removed the Unaging Elder's authority because of this.
As expected, it was all because of Mister Mu.
"Senior, do you know of my relationship with Mister Mu?" Lu Yin asked.
Elder Chan replied, "There's no need to ask. You won't be able to get anything out of me. If you have the time, why don't you ask your senior?"
"Head Inquisitor?"
"If he's willing to talk, then so be it. If he's unwilling to talk, then it has nothing to do with me. In any case, even if you are master and disciple with that mister, you cannot shake the Fifth Mainland's bottom line. The Eternals are humanity's greatest enemy, and you must remember this." Elder Chan ended the call.