Lu Yin quickly found out, and he looked at Bai Shui on the screen. Her face was deathly pale, and there was blood at the corner of her mouth. His gaze swept past Bai Shui, and he saw the dried corpse behind her that was destroying the spacecraft. His eyes flickered; this dried corpse had actually appeared again.
"Alliance Master Lu, that corpse has the power of an Enlighter! Your allied army won't be able to stop it!" Whitewater shouted as she hugged Xiaodie tightly.
Lu Yin's eyes narrowed. "My people are protecting you, but you still need to act. Don't worry, the people who will save you will be here soon."
Whitewater turned around and gritted her teeth before using her Wind God battle technique.
With a bang, the corpse smashed the spacecraft apart and broke through the army's blockade to grab Whitewater. "Target confirmed. Kill!"
Whitewater hurriedly retreated, as her attacks were useless against the corpse.
Lu Yin frowned. If he had known earlier, he would have given Whitewater something to protect herself. He had given her a super flash tear gas bomb, but it was obviously useless against the corpse.
Fortunately, Nightking Yuanjing had arrived in time to destroy the corpse and save Whitewater.
Whitewater had been lucky, as the Great Eastern Alliance had sent an army to the Daynight Flowzone to prepare to enter. Otherwise, without the allied army's delay, she would have died.
"What happened?" Lu Yin asked.
Within the screen, Whitewater panted heavily, as her injuries were quite severe. "I don't know. This thing came to kill me out of nowhere and said that it had discovered an ancient bloodline."
Lu Yin's gaze turned cold. An ancient bloodline? A primeval surname?
Who would want to kill someone with a primeval surname?
Lu Yin remembered that the corpse had once slaughtered a Corpse King, so it should not be a product of the Neohuman Alliance. However, who could be sure? Besides the Eternals, who else would attack someone with a primeval surname?
At this time, En Ya reported that many corpses had been massacred within the Outerverse's Great Eastern Alliance and the Innerverse. Some of the victims were cultivators, while others were ordinary people.
Lu Yin's expression changed, and he immediately contacted the Sea King to ask the Sea King to send some elders to Earth.
There were too many primeval surnames on Earth, and if the corpse found Earth, the consequences would be unimaginable. The entire planet would be destroyed.
In just a few days, corpses had appeared everywhere.
Lu Yin contacted the Hall of Honor and asked about the origins of these corpses, but Elder Chan did not have the time to answer him.
Outside the Ross Empire's fortress, a dried corpse appeared. "Ancient bloodline detected. Target confirmed. Kill." The corpse was smashed to pieces by a giant as soon as it finished speaking. Chen Jian looked at his hand. "What the hell?"
In a small flowzone in the Innerverse, a spacecraft was trying to escape into the distance, but it was smashed to pieces by the desiccated corpse. Inside the spacecraft, a middle-aged man's eyes were filled with malevolence. "No, I don't want to die! I can't die! My family's inheritance cannot be severed!" He roared as he raised his blade, causing a blade shadow to streak through the air. In an instant, the blade shadow formed a strange mountain and river diagram that possessed an indescribable power. It carried an aura that could tear through the void as it slashed towards the desiccated corpse.
However, the man was only a Cruiser, and no matter how exquisite his blade techniques were, he was unable to resist the mummy's attack and was shattered by a single palm. The man did not have a primeval surname.
On a small island in Universe Ocean, flames soared into the sky. A mummy walked out of the sea of flames, looked at the woman lying on the ground, and raised his hand.
The woman despaired. She was just a normal person, and she did not know why things had turned out this way. A jade pendant on her chest glowed brightly, and when the Corpse King's palm landed, the woman died a tragic death. The jade pendant shattered, and a grain of Fatesand fell out, sinking along with the island.
In the Neoverse, a desiccated corpse appeared in Astral City. This corpse had a power level of over 400,000, and it battled with the city lord for an hour. In the end, it relied on its physical body to kill the city lord, and it landed in the courtyard of a family within the city.
This family's ancestor had been an Enlighter who had once served as a guard.
The city lord's bodyguard was now just a normal person.
The appearance of the desiccated corpse was a disaster for them, and aside from a young boy who was hiding in a corner, everyone else had died a tragic death.
The young boy looked at the desiccated corpse in horror as it raised its hand. Despair enveloped him, and he closed his eyes in fear.
After waiting for a while, what awaited him was not the desiccated corpse's slaughter, but rather a fragrant wind. He opened his eyes in fear, but the desiccated corpse had disappeared. Only a woman was there, and she gently looked at him. "Child, don't be afraid. Everything's fine now."
The young boy wept loudly as he gripped a piece of jade tightly in his hand. Perhaps he had used too much strength, or perhaps he had been too afraid, but his fingernails had dug into his flesh. Blood dripped down his palm onto the jade, and the jade shone brightly before disappearing into the boy's mind.
Although it had been quick, the woman still saw it, and she stared at the boy.
The boy's gaze was sluggish for a moment, but he soon recovered and wiped away his tears.
"Child, did you learn something just now?" the woman asked as she looked at the boy curiously.
The boy wiped away his tears and nodded. "Yes, a small person taught me some moves."
"What moves?" The woman was surprised, as this was an inheritance of a battle technique.
The boy thought for a moment and then made some moves. However, they were just movements, as he did not cultivate and did not have any star energy, so the woman could not see anything.
"Tell Auntie, what's the name of this move?" the woman asked.
The boy replied, "Di … Ksitigarbha Needle."
The woman's name was Yuan Miao, and she was a Lockbreaker Elder from the Sirius Sect. She had accidentally saved the boy and brought him to the Sirius Sect to report the matter of the mummy's pursuit, which had attracted the attention of the entire Sirius Sect. When Elder Gong heard the words "Ksitigarbha Needle," he was shocked and immediately went to meet the boy.
"Child, do that action again," Elder Gong said softly.
The boy raised his hand and extended it with his palm facing down. He looked up and saw that this move was very ordinary, but it was definitely not ordinary in Elder Gong's eyes. This was the Ksitigarbha Needle, an ultimate technique of the Lu family.
Back when he had snuck into the Astral Tree Domain, he had also competed with the Lu family's experts. The Lu family's Ksitigarbha Needle had left a deep impression on him, as a single gray needle could expel poison and even injuries from the body.
"Child, what's your name?" Elder Gong asked.
The boy replied, "Er Qi."
Er Qi?
Elder Gong was astonished, as it was a very strange name. It was actually not a surname of Lu. He looked at the boy for a while and then asked Yuan Miao to help him settle down. "Help me contact Lu Yin."
Lu Yin had been having a headache over the past two days, as the Great Eastern Alliance's territory was too vast. More than ten mummies had appeared within this region, and they were inexplicably slaughtering people. It would be fine if these people were powerful cultivators, but some of them were just ordinary people.
However, Lu Yin had also found a way to deal with the situation, which was for the others to not attack the mummies, as the mummies would not take the initiative to attack.
This made Lu Yin sullen, and he sent out all of the powerhouses under his command. Only Enlighters and above were allowed to attack the mummies. However, some of the mummies were not as simple as Enlighters, and there were also differences in strength between Enlighters. The most powerful mummy that had been discovered so far had killed Elder Ling Shen of the Lingling clan, who had a power level of 450,000. This had infuriated Ling Qiu, and she had personally gone to search for that mummy.
The Hall of Honor did not remain idle either, and they continuously sent out experts to hunt down the mummies.
Many people guessed that these mummies had been released by the Neohuman Alliance, but they were different from the Corpse Kings.
Fortunately, no Emissary level mummies had been discovered yet.
Lu Yin's gadget beeped, and he looked over to see that it was Sirius Sect Master, Yuan Qiong.
"Sect Master, what's the matter?"
Lu Yin opened his gadget and asked directly. He was not overly courteous, and he did not show the reverence that a disciple would show to a sect master.
Yuan Qiong did not make a fuss about it, as Lu Yin was not a disciple of the Sirius Sect. If not for the diagram on his feet, the Sirius Sect would not have bothered with him. "Elder Gong is looking for you."
Elder Gong appeared on the screen with a grim expression. "Yuan Qiong, you can leave for now."
Yuan Qiong was astonished. Even he had to leave?
Lu Yin's eyes flashed, as he vaguely guessed at something.
After Yuan Qiong left, Elder Gong looked at Lu Yin. "Lu Xiaoxuan."
Lu Yin smiled bitterly and bowed deeply. "I'm sorry, Elder. I lied to you."
Elder Chan knew of Lu Xiaoxuan's identity, and he would naturally inform Elder Gong, the Sage Heavenly Master, and the others. Lu Yin had been waiting for them to contact him, but they had not.
He had not expected Elder Gong to contact him at this time.
"Let's not talk about this. Do you know about the Ksitigarbha Needle?"
Lu Yin was puzzled, but he shook his head. "No."
Elder Gong looked at Lu Yin for a while and then sighed. "It seems like you really have forgotten."
Lu Yin raised his brows. "Is it related to the Lu family?"
"The Ksitigarbha Needle is an ultimate technique of the Lu family."
Lu Yin felt bitter. "I've forgotten all about it, but since it's an ultimate technique, I should have learned it before. I'll have to start over from the beginning, and this has nothing to do with me."
Elder Gong earnestly explained, "Today, a child who was being chased by a corpse learned the Ksitigarbha Needle and obtained this inheritance."
Lu Yin was shocked. "Isn't the Ksitigarbha Needle an ultimate technique of the Lu family?"
"That's right. Outside of the Lu family, no one else can obtain this technique. However, this child used his blood to unlock the inheritance and obtained the Ksitigarbha Needle."
"Are you saying that this child has the bloodline of the Lu family?" Lu Yin was shocked.
Elder Gong did not understand. "It may or may not be so. The Ksitigarbha Needle has always been an ultimate technique of the Lu family, but it may not have been created by the Lu family. Perhaps the Lu family learned it from somewhere else. Although the inheritance requires a bloodline to unlock, it can be taught to outsiders."
"Elder, why are you telling me this?" Lu Yin was puzzled.
Elder Gong's expression was solemn. "The corpses are hunting down people with ancient bloodlines. Ancient bloodlines do not necessarily represent primeval surnames. Anyone who is being chased must have an extraordinary ancestral bloodline that is enough to trigger a hunt. This is an era gap, and now, these corpses have connected the era of ancient bloodlines to the current era. The future is about to change."
Lu Yin fell into deep thought.
"As the corpses chase after the corpses, more and more ancient inheritances will appear. This child's father and grandfather never learned the Ksitigarbha Needle, but now they have. When he grows up, this ultimate technique will shine brightly in the universe. This will be the case for the other ancient inheritances as well, but there will definitely be some that will be completely wiped out."
Lu Yin looked up. "Elder, what do you mean?"
"Do your best to protect those who are being chased. You can also obtain some secrets from the ancient era through them, as long as you are lucky," Elder Gong said.
Lu Yin understood. If the mummies were chasing after someone with an ancient bloodline, then the mummies were their targets. Anyone who was being chased by the mummies might have an ancient inheritance, even if it was possible that those inheritances were already gone.
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