After an unknown amount of time, Lu Yin heard the sound of water dripping, as well as a strange noise that sounded like an insect's wings rubbing against each other.
He slowly opened his eyes and saw a strange insect. He subconsciously wanted to swallow it, but he licked his chapped lips. They were too dry, and he wanted to drink some water.
At that moment, the insect flapped its wings and flew away.
A dark red ray pierced towards him, and Lu Yin closed his eyes. When he opened them again, he saw a skinny old man in front of him.
When he saw the old man, Lu Yin's expression changed, and he hurriedly tried to get up, but he couldn't feel his entire body. Wait, he couldn't feel anything?
It couldn't be gone, right? He looked down at his body, but thankfully, it was still intact.
There was a thump, and a large piece of roasted meat was tossed in front of Lu Yin. "Eat. You haven't eaten in a month."
Lu Yin stared at the meat in front of him and swallowed, but he couldn't find any saliva. He resisted the urge to take a bite and looked at the old man.
The old man laughed strangely. "Relax, it's not white meat."
Lu Yin's eyes narrowed, and his gaze flickered.
The old man shook his head and moved aside. Behind him was a huge insect that was three meters long. Several of its legs had been cut off, and he could vaguely see tendrils of flesh.
Lu Yin confirmed that it wasn't white meat and immediately took a bite out of it. He swallowed it without even chewing, and the large piece of meat was quickly devoured. What followed was the discomfort of dehydration.
The old man raised a finger, and the water droplets that were dripping from the wall slowly flew into Lu Yin's mouth. Lu Yin had finally found some rain after a long drought, and it took him a long time to recover. He licked his lips and asked in a hoarse voice, "Why did you save me?"
The old man sat in front of Lu Yin. "I didn't save you for nothing."
"What are your conditions?" Lu Yin asked in a low voice.
The old man smiled, and the smile on his skeletal face sent chills down Lu Yin's spine. "I want you to help me bring some things to the Neoverse."
"The Neoverse?" Lu Yin was confused.
The old man replied, "You don't need to know about it right now. Once you have the ability to go to the First Flowzone of the Innerverse, you'll naturally know everything about the Neoverse."
Lu Yin smiled bitterly. "Do you think I have the ability to go to the Innerverse?
I can't even leave this planet. "
"There's no rush, there's no rush. There'll be a way," the old man said slowly. Then, he seemed to recall something. "I almost forgot. In order to ensure that you keep your promise, I placed a layer of hidden energy on you. Only the person that I asked you to meet can remove this hidden energy. No one else, including Hunters, can remove it. If you don't believe me, you can ask them to try, hehe."
Lu Yin didn't care. He wasn't far from death, so why would he care about some hidden force?
"Where are we?" Lu Yin asked.
"Driftcharge Planet. It's a dead end planet that's about to be destroyed," the old man replied. He then raised his hand and used his star energy to carve something into the stone wall.
Lu Yin looked at it for a while with a strange expression on his face. He could understand the old man's carvings, but he could only understand the words and not their meaning.
After half an hour, the old man finally stopped and exhaled. He looked at the stone wall with a complicated expression before looking at Lu Yin. "Memorize it."
Lu Yin was stunned. "What?"
"I told you to memorize it," the elder said in a low voice, his tone extremely unpleasant.
Lu Yin was speechless. "You've been writing for half an hour and you want me to memorize it?
How long do I have to memorize it for? "
The old man stared at Lu Yin. "Either you memorize it or you go out and become white meat."
Lu Yin was helpless. "Fine, I'll memorize it, but don't blame me if it takes too long."
"You can't be fast even if you want to," the old man sighed, but then he lost interest in talking and walked out of the cave.
Lu Yin lay on the ground, unable to move. He looked up at the wall, "To be able to communicate with people is not allowed by the Dao of Heaven. To leap through the starry skies is to lie down. To be given by the Dao of Heaven, to leap through the boundless expanse is to lie down.
Lu Yin's strength as a Melder had greatly improved his body in all aspects, so memorizing this passage wasn't difficult. What was difficult was that the passage was very strange. He felt a sense of oppression as he memorized it, as if something was staring at him. It wasn't obvious, but after twenty minutes or so, he felt dizzy and fell asleep again.
The old man stepped into the cave and glanced at him. "If I hadn't messed it up for you to memorize, you wouldn't have been able to memorize even one sentence." He then looked at the stone wall. "I hope this can really be passed down."
Half a day later, Lu Yin woke up with a splitting headache. What's going on?
Why does my head hurt from memorizing something? What is it?
"Continue," the old man said from nearby.
Lu Yin looked at the old man. "Can I ask what's the point of memorizing this?"
The old man replied, "Go to the Neoverse and copy this down for the person I want you to meet."
"Alright," Lu Yin agreed.
The old man glanced at him. "Memorizing this is good for you. Don't you feel that the more you memorize, the more pressure you'll feel?"
Lu Yin frowned, even though his eyebrows had been burned away. "What's the point of being stressed?"
The old man looked up. "Humans are divided into physical and spiritual forces. Some powers target the physical body, while others target the spiritual force. Stress will temper your spiritual force so that you won't have any weaknesses."
Lu Yin thought of the Daynight clan. Their battle techniques were very unique. For example, the will-o '-the-wisp was immune to all physical attacks, but it couldn't block the Daynight Punch. This was because the Daynight clan's battle techniques seemed to have the effect of injuring the soul. This was their weakness.
"Alright, continue reciting," the old man said in a low voice after giving him a taste of his own medicine.
Lu Yin exhaled, looked up at the stone wall, and began to memorize.
This time, it took him nearly half an hour before he fainted, which was a few minutes longer than the previous time. However, he only managed to memorize a small portion of the wall's contents.
Before he knew it, half a month had passed. During this time, Lu Yin had been constantly memorizing the words on the stone wall. He had fainted after just twenty minutes, but now, he was able to persist for an hour. In the elder's words, if he could one day completely memorize the words on the stone wall, then no one under the Hunter realm would be able to harm his spirit.
Lu Yin knew that the old man was encouraging him, but he still accepted the advice. It was truly effective, and he could feel that his spiritual force had become more resilient. The most obvious example was that he could endure hunger better.
In half a month, Lu Yin had memorized half of the Stonewall Scriptures. Although he had been reprimanded by the old man for not having any talent, Lu Yin was already satisfied. Others could not understand the pain that he had endured. He had to memorize the scriptures every day when he woke up, and then he fainted the moment he did. These days were very painful, but fortunately, his body had recovered quite a bit.
That beam of light had almost torn his body apart, but for some reason, he had recovered slightly after falling onto this planet. Now, he could move his arms again.
"Your body is very strange. It's very strong," the old man said. This was the first time he had spoken in half a month. Every day, aside from monitoring Lu Yin's memorization, he went out to do other things, and his mood was even worse when he returned.
Lu Yin glanced at him. "Strange?"
The old man replied, "Very few people can survive injuries like yours. Whether it's the Outerverse, the Innerverse, or the Neoverse, such injuries should have killed you. It's a miracle that you managed to survive."
Lu Yin's heart skipped a beat. He had always felt that his body was very strange, and this oddity had only appeared after he had become a Melder. His body had become somewhat terrifying, and it had continued to strengthen. Even the Sandmaster had been amazed by it. When he had first gone to the Dao of Purgatory, Frankfurt's spear had not pierced through his body, but had instead shattered his organs. During the ported battles, only Explorers had been able to harm his body; no one else had been able to harm him.
Breaking through to the Melder realm should not have caused such a drastic change, and Lu Yin did not know what he had experienced.
"You can tell that my body is strange?" Lu Yin asked expectantly.
The old man shook his head. "Keep memorizing."
Lu Yin helplessly looked up at the stone wall.
The old man lowered his head, but his gaze continued to sweep over Lu Yin. This person's body was even stranger than he had described. Either he had eaten some incredible natural treasure, or he had an innate gift from some powerful clan that had allowed him to survive such injuries. Such a clan should not exist.
The old man thought about it for a moment before withdrawing his gaze and smiling wryly. He did not have the ability to spy on others right now, and all he needed to do was preserve that sliver of hope.
In the blink of an eye, another half a month had passed. Lu Yin had memorized all of the words on the stone wall, but he could only memorize part by part. It was impossible for him to memorize everything.
When he saw the old man leave, Lu Yin's expression changed, and he slowly sat up. He could move now. He casually wiped his body, and a piece of skin fell off. This was the skin that he had shed. His injuries had allowed his body to regrow, and all of the dead skin from before had been shed.
He touched his head; it was still bald, but there was a layer of almost invisible hair roots. He should be able to regrow hair soon.
Lu Yin's gaze turned cold as he put down his hand. The attack at the pirate port had been unforgettable. His experiences during this time had been even crueler than the trials on Earth, and he had almost been turned into white meat.
Lu Yin walked out of the cave and looked up at the sky.
Thick, dark red clouds had accumulated, and lightning streaked across the sky. It was a scene of the end of the world. Thick smoke spewed out of the ground, and violent tremors could be heard from time to time.
Lu Yin looked at the ground and followed the footprints to find the old man.
At this moment, the old man was sitting in front of the protruding ground, crying and complaining incessantly.
Lu Yin listened for a while and realized that the old man's grandson was buried there.
The old man went out every day to hunt, and he also came here to cry and complain.
"Grandpa knows it's cold down there. Don't worry, Grandpa will be with you soon. You won't be lonely," the old man said as he slowly climbed to his feet.
Lu Yin immediately left.
When he returned to the cave, the old man still hadn't returned. He had probably gone out to hunt some bugs. Lu Yin absorbed the drifting star energy, but it was too little. He unconsciously activated the Sirius Art, and nine stars revolved around him.
Nine stars meant that he could move at nine times the speed. No matter how little drifting star energy there was, it could still sweep over like a whirlpool, even though this whirlpool still looked very thin.
The old man dragged the giant bug's corpse towards the cave, but he sensed that something was amiss. He let go of the carcass and walked into the cave. His expression changed when he saw Lu Yin, "This is the Sirius Art?"
Lu Yin didn't know that the Sirius Art that he had been using to recover his strength had been discovered, and he was still absorbed by himself.