The initial space would last for three days, and if he wanted to use more star crystals to increase his time, the cost would be huge. A fist-sized star crystal would only increase his time by five seconds, and a cubic star crystal would only increase his time by eighty minutes, which was equivalent to twenty minutes per hour.
His cultivation, battle techniques, weapons, energy sources, dice, time, and so on … He realized that he needed star crystals for everything, and his premonition was growing stronger. Perhaps he would need to do something bad in the future for star crystals, such as robbing people?
Interstellar pirate might be a good career.
Lu Yin looked around; he had to stay here for three days, which was a rather awkward time. He didn't have enough time to train in the Sirius Palm, and he had no star crystals to absorb.
As for other things, he could only train in one battle technique: the Spacerender Palm.
The Spacerender Palm was an advanced version of the Shockwave Palm. It was also a common battle technique, but it was far more demanding on the physical body than the Shockwave Palm. There weren't many Melders who could use the Spacerender Palm, but it was perfect for Lu Yin. He had no energy, and he was confident in his physical body.
The Spacerender Palm was stronger than the Shockwave Palm, and more importantly, it was a long-range attack that could make up for Lu Yin's shortcomings.
Although Lu Yin hadn't trained in it, he had never stopped training his body. Fortunately, the Shockwave Palm didn't have a high star energy requirement, or he wouldn't have been able to kill Vesta with it.
Star energy filled the entire universe, but every planet had its own ecosystem that was different from star energy. A battle technique like the Shockwave Palm that relied on the physical body was even rarer. It was a pity that many people didn't have access to powerful battle techniques, but they didn't know that most of the time, such techniques couldn't be used at all.
The numbers in the Timestop Space dwindled, and Lu Yin continued to sweat profusely. Three days passed by quickly.
When the countdown ended, the scene in front of Lu Yin's eyes changed, and he reappeared in the training room. His surroundings hadn't changed at all, but he quickly checked the time. Indeed, only one second had passed after three days of hard work.
Lu Yin took a shower and rested for the rest of the day before meeting Jeraldine again the next day.
At this moment, Jeraldine was looking at Lu Yin with a hint of dread.
"Do you know your duty?" he asked casually.
"Your bodyguard," she whispered.
"Let's go, the Executioner should be waking up soon."
Zhou Shan had been receiving intensive treatment all this time, and his injuries were far worse than Jeraldine's. If not for Lu Yin's intervention, he would have been killed by Orton, and before that, he had been attacked by Terence.
After half a month of treatment, Zhou Shan lost a lot of weight.
When Lu Yin brought Jeraldine out of the room, Feng Hong hurriedly stood up, "Brother Lu, no, the Executioner is awake."
He didn't want to be called the Hidden Sage, especially when the second batch of students was about to arrive. It would be easy for him to become a target, but now that Nanjing was being called that and he was already in the Realm of Sky, he couldn't refute it.
"Got it. You guys stay outside, I'll go in," Lu Yin said indifferently as he walked past Feng Hong and the others into the ward.
Feng Hong looked at Jeraldine warily. This woman was an alien.
Jeraldine didn't care about Feng Hong. To be more precise, she didn't care about anyone other than Lu Yin. If Lu Yin hadn't come from outer space, it would have taken some time for her dignity to submit to him.
Other than Zhou Shan, Qin Xuan was also in the ward.
The moment she saw Lu Yin enter, she stood in front of Zhou Shan with a wary expression.
Lu Yin found it funny, "I'm just talking to the Executioner, you don't mind, right?"
Qin Xuan muttered to herself.
"Qin Xuan, move aside," Zhou Shan said weakly.
Qin Xuan hesitated, but in the end, he stepped aside and stood to the side.
Lu Yin looked at her, "You can leave first."
Her expression changed as she looked at Zhou Shan.
Zhou Shan nodded and allowed her to leave.
Qin Xuan left reluctantly.
"I'm sorry, she's too worried about me," Zhou Shan said softly, gesturing for Lu Yin to sit.
Lu Yin sat beside the bed and smiled, "She's afraid that I'll hurt you."
Zhou Shan smiled, "If you wanted to hurt me, I wouldn't be alive now. I heard that you've given up on the northern frontlines and decided to focus on Nanjing and the west?"
Lu Yin nodded and walked to the window, looking out at the chaos in Nanjing, "Zombies are the most abundant in the first half of the year, but they aren't very aggressive and don't do much damage to cultivators. Mutated beasts are different; the longer the time passes, the stronger they become. If the frontlines of the camp are stretched too long, it'll collapse."
"It's precisely because the apocalypse has only been going on for half a year that I want to contact the others as soon as possible and work together to reclaim China. This is also why Zhao Yu took the risk to come to Nanjing."
Lu Yin turned back to look at him, "How many casualties do you have every day?
How long can you open up?
I had Luo Yi report to you that a Zombie King has appeared in your so-called safe passage. The Zombie King has intelligence and can evolve. It can even devour strange things to produce a different kind of attack. It's not something a captain can deal with. Can you go to the frontlines personally?
How far can you go?
Can you guarantee that there won't be any Realm of Sky mutant beasts? "
Zhou Shan fell silent for a moment before bitterly replying, "I know, but I have to get through the capital. I want to know what happened back then, and perhaps find the root of the apocalypse."
Lu Yin's eyes narrowed, "The root of the apocalypse?"
Zhou Shan looked at Lu Yin solemnly, "Back then, China brought back a corpse from Neptune and obtained some information. We used this information to get ahead of everyone else and became the Seven Sages after the apocalypse. However, there was something wrong with that corpse; the Science and Technology Department detected an unusual substance that could cause cells to mutate. I'm guessing that the apocalypse came from that corpse."
"What happened after that?" Lu Yin asked.
Zhou Shan said bitterly, "The Science and Technology Department can't control those extraordinary substances at all. That's why Number One ordered the corpse to be transported away. At the same time, the seven of us were separated to guard various parts of China. Perhaps Number One had already guessed something at that time, but on the day the corpse was transported away, the end of the world came."
Lu Yin stared at Zhou Shan.
Zhou Shan stared blankly at the ceiling, "We don't know what happened, only that the world changed in an instant. The researchers of the Science and Technology Department, Number One, and many others died in an explosion. We tried our best to contact them, but we didn't know what happened. Even Zhang Dingtian in the capital didn't know."
"What about the corpse?"
Lu Yin hurriedly asked. The corpse was the most important thing to him; it contained a formcast model, and it was likely to be the fugitive from the Innerverse that the students had been searching for.
Zhou Shan shook his head, "I don't know, there was only a crater filled with lava at the scene. All information was lost in the explosion, and it brought about the apocalypse."
Lu Yin turned around and saw that Zhou Shan wasn't lying; he had worked hard to find the corpse and had even traveled all the way from Hubei to Nanjing, but even the Seven Sages didn't know where it was. It seemed that he had to make a trip to the capital.
"Have a good rest, I'll be leaving," Lu Yin said.
"You're leaving Nanjing?" Zhou Shan asked.
Lu Yin looked at Zhou Shan, "Do you want me to leave?"
"Of course not, Nanjing can only be defended if you stay. I can sense that you're very strong; you were able to injure the strongest alien when you were only in the Realm of Earth. Now that you're in the Realm of Sky, you're definitely stronger than me. I want you to stay. The camp will listen to your orders, and even I will listen to them," Zhou Shan said solemnly.
Lu Yin was surprised, "Why?
Even if I leave, Nanjing will still be your world, and you'll still be the Executioner. "
Zhou Shan laughed bitterly, "Do you think we want that title?
I'm only protecting Nanjing because No.1 ordered me to. I'm a soldier, and I'll carry out my orders regardless of whether Glory exists or not. The survival of the millions of people in Nanjing is more important than anything else, so I want you to stay and protect them. "
Lu Yin stared into Zhou Shan's eyes, and Zhou Shan met his gaze without backing down.
After a while, Lu Yin nodded, "I'll stay for the time being," and walked out of the ward.
Zhou Shan heaved a sigh of relief and looked out the window; the battle half a month ago had left an unforgettable impression on him. The so-called Executioner was nothing more than an ant, and the pressure of protecting the lives of millions of people was too great. He sincerely hoped that Lu Yin would stay; only by living would there be a future.
Everything he had told Lu Yin was top secret, but it was also a sign of his sincerity.
Qin Xuan hurried in after leaving the ward.
Lu Yin nodded to Feng Hong and left with Jeraldine.
A soldier was a heavy term that represented a sense of responsibility. This responsibility was too great, and Lu Yin didn't want to shoulder it. He respected Zhou Shan, but that didn't mean that he would stay and help him forever.