"Chu Yuan and the rest are back?
When? "
Lu Yin asked.
Xi Yue replied softly, "I don't know. Ever since I came to the Astral River, I've lost track of news from the outside world."
Lu Yin looked up at the sky. It seemed that Chu Yuan and the rest had returned earlier than him. In the river of time, a single mistake could take years or even decades. They were sure that he was dead because that sword had pierced through his chest.
"Please tell me about the current situation," Lu Yin said.
Xi Yue pursed her lips and slowly told him everything that she knew about the Fifth Mainland over the past twenty years.
Lu Yin listened quietly. These twenty years had been a time of great change for the Fifth Mainland, bringing both danger and opportunity.
The silver light was gradually replaced by the glaring sunlight, signaling the beginning of a new day.
Inside the wooden house, Xi Yue swallowed some medicine and her injuries healed at a visible rate. Even her battle force stabilized, but the scars on her face remained the same.
"Why didn't you restore your appearance?"
Lu Yin was curious.
Xi Yue's voice was no longer hoarse, "I'll restore my appearance when I avenge my people."
"If you want to avenge your people, why don't you look for the Lu Tianmen Sect?"
Lu Yin asked. According to Xi Yue, the Great Eastern Alliance was the current Lu Tianmen Sect. The Souldream Tribe had also joined the Great Eastern Alliance, so the Lu Tianmen Sect should be the one to take revenge.
Xi Yue's tone was gloomy. "This isn't an era where you can take revenge just because you want to. The half-step ancestors have divided the Heaven's Gate to deal with the Eternals, and internal strife is not allowed on the surface. The Heaven's Gate doesn't care about a nobody like me, and it's also impossible for the other Heaven's Gates to attack us because of the Souldream Tribe."
"Souldream Tribe?
Who's your enemy? "
Lu Yin was puzzled. From what Xi Yue said, her enemy must be someone important, and the Lu Tianmen Sect could easily cause chaos if they acted.
Xi Yue didn't elaborate and looked at Lu Yin, "What do you plan to do?"
Lu Yin gripped his sword tightly.
Twenty years was a short time, but the changes were too great. Just like when he had unified the Innerverse and Outerverse, the Fifth Mainland had also undergone great changes in that short time.
In other words, the Fifth Mainland had changed over the past forty years because of him, those ancient powerhouses, and the Everlasting Tribe.
"Is there any way to contact the outside world?"
Lu Yin asked.
Xi Yue said, "Right now, we can only rely on wireless Gu to communicate with the outside world. We can get the wireless Gu, but we need to find the other wireless Gu ourselves."
Lu Yin understood that it was just like a gadget; without finding the other person's contact information, two people would not be able to contact each other.
He originally had wireless Gu, but before his closed cultivation, he had given it to Lu Buzheng and the rest to keep in contact with Old Chan. He did not have any other wireless Gu on him.
"You're leaving?"
Xi Yue asked.
Lu Yin shook his head. "I'll stay here for now."
Xi Yue didn't understand why he was here, but she didn't ask any further. This person was clearly dead, and yet he had reappeared. Who knew what he would bring?
It wasn't that Lu Yin didn't want to leave, but the power in his body was very strange. He didn't have enough astral sources to replenish it, and he couldn't use death qi. It would be troublesome if he ran into an expert. Furthermore, twenty years had passed, and according to Xi Yue, there was a battle with the Eternals on the outside, while the other half-ancestors were divided internally. It would be fine if Kui Luo and the others found him first, but he didn't know what would happen if the other half-ancestors found him, especially Stue Yi.
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Xi Yue's understanding of the situation was that the Fifth Mainland had formed a complete system of resistance against the Eternals.
There were many half-ancestors among the humans, but because they lacked astral sources, Old Chan and the others' strength had been greatly reduced. They did not attack unless necessary and relied more on Hen Xin and Jue Yi. These ancient powerhouses had recovered the title of Above the Heavens and united the humans of the Fifth Mainland. They wanted to rebuild the Above the Heavens and restore the Twelve Heavenly Gates.
For example, Hen Xin was the leader of the Three Ultimates Heavenly Gate. The entire sect had several half-ancestors, the Xia family, and many other powers.
Jue Yi had also restored the Undying Heaven Gate, and the Spectres had openly joined them, becoming the orthodox inheritor of the Death God's inheritance.
The Sixth Mainland had established the Blood Heaven Gate mainly because of the Blood Ancestor. All of the Sixth Mainland's cultivators belonged to the Blood Heaven Gate.
Old Chan, Supreme Sage Heavenly Master, and the other half-ancestors of the Fifth Mainland had established the Glory Heaven Gate.
Lu Buzheng and Kui Luo had also established a Heaven Gate called the Heavenly Gate of Lu.
Currently, the humans of the Fifth Mainland were under the control of these Heavenly Gates. They used sourcebox arrays to teleport and support each other. They also used battle force, domains, spiritual force, and death qi to fight against the Eternals. Not only that, but the greatest change in this era was microarray technology and pyrolyte.
Lu Yin had never expected that pyrolyte would be mined from the Astral River. This substance had caused the Innerverse and Outerverse to fight over it, and if not for the fact that there was so little of it, it would have attracted the Neoverse as well.
A single gram of pyrolyte could explode with a destructive power level of 10,000, and there was no upper limit. This was the most terrifying aspect of all.
Pyrolyte had been mined and used in microarray technology, which had become the greatest symbol of the past twenty years. The humans had mastered a new weapon that used microarray technology as its foundation and pyrolyte as its raw material. Even a normal person could use this weapon to kill an Explorer. This was the new weapon that the humans relied on to deal with the Eternals.
Along with this weapon, Hen Xin's name spread throughout the universe.
The leader of the Three Ultimates Heavenly Gate had taken control of the Aurora Corporation and forcefully taken control of microarray technology. He stood at the forefront of this era and became the leader of humanity.
All of this should have belonged to Lu Yin.
At this moment, the area they were in belonged to the Three Ultimates Heavenly Gate.
Lu Yin exhaled. Hen Xin. This person had been able to climb all the way from a normal person to the position of Sect Master of the Elysium. It was not without reason that he had been highly regarded by Ancient Path Master. The first time they had met, Lu Yin's greatest impression of him was that he had been able to tell that Lu Yin could make the decisions of those Half-Ancestors. Compared to Lu Buzheng's head-butting, Hen Xin knew how to use his brain.
He had perseverance and knew how to use his brain. It was not surprising that this person had been able to reach this point.
However, that was also because Lu Yin had disappeared for twenty years. If he had not disappeared, then it would have been impossible for Hen Xin to steal microarray technology.
Wang Wen, Wei Rong, and the others did not know what had happened either.
However, the Three Ultimates Heavenly Gate had the most Half-Ancestors, and because of Ni Huang and the others, they would definitely target the Lu Tianzong. In the face of absolute power, no matter how smart Wang Wen and the others were, they might not be able to withstand the pressure of the Three Ultimates Heavenly Gate.
Also, wasn't the Aurora Corporation supposed to be under the protection of Elder Gong?
How had it been snatched away by Hen Xin?
Lu Yin needed to wait for his strength to recover, but he also needed to obtain information from the outside world. Without anyone to contact, perhaps monitoring the tidal flats would be a way.
Xi Yue still knew too little.
"If you want to stay here, you'll have to gather pyrolyte like us. However, you're too unfamiliar. The one guarding this place was the Xia family's patriarch, Xia Yi. He's very strong."
Lu Yin was surprised, "Xia Yi?
Why is he here?
He's the patriarch of the Xia family. "
Xi Yue shook her head, "I don't know."
Lu Yin was not afraid of Xia Yi. With his third tribulation origin cultivation, he would not be afraid of even a powerhouse with a power level of a million, let alone Xia Yi. However, he could not use his full strength. He could use his physical strength to deal with Xia Yi, but if Xia Yi wanted to escape, it would be very difficult to catch him.
"How about this, you disguise yourself as Blackie. He just died, and he's also here. No one will suspect anything," Xi Yue said.
Lu Yin was confused, "Here?
Where? "
"He's dead," Xi Yue said.
Lu Yin looked around.
"He turned into specks of light and disappeared because of your sword," Xi Yue said as she looked at the sword in Lu Yin's hand.
Lu Yin understood, "He touched the sword hilt?"
Xi Yue nodded silently.
"Draw that person's face for me to see. No one will be able to see through my disguise, including Xia Yi," Lu Yin said. But then, he suddenly remembered that he couldn't use his own death aura. How could he use his death face to disguise himself?
He could only use normal methods to disguise himself, and Xia Yi might be able to see through it.
Xi Yue didn't know what Lu Yin was thinking. She couldn't use her astral source or star energy, so she could only draw on the ground, "This is Blackie, one of the stronger pyrolyte collectors. He's also very arrogant and good at currying favor. Don't be too low-key if you disguise yourself as him."
Lu Yin raised his brows and looked at the Blackie on the ground, quickly completing the disguise.
"Why is he here?"
Lu Yin asked after he disguised himself as Blackie, looking at Xi Yue strangely.
Xi Yue looked at Blackie in disgust and turned away, "It's none of your business."
Lu Yin felt strange, but he didn't ask any more questions. Outside, people walked out of their wooden houses and headed towards the Astral River. Pyrolyte could only be harvested during the day, as powerful creatures would devour flesh at night.
"Pyrolyte is located at the bottom of the Astral River. Back then, that hand tried to grab the Daosource Sect's main hall, but it failed. In the end, the mind net was torn apart, and the resulting shockwaves caused the Astral River to split open, revealing the pyrolyte within. After being washed away by the river and guided by the various half-ancestors, the current tidal flats were formed," Xi Yue explained as they walked.
Lu Yin walked on the tidal flats. This wasn't ordinary sand, but rather sand from the Astral River. Looking around, there seemed to be an invisible force pulling impurities towards the tidal flats.
"The pyrolyte is in the sand at the bottom of the Astral River and can only be found with the naked eye. I know you've mined pyrolyte before, but the pyrolyte in the Astral River is different from the one in the Astral Wilderness. It's more compressed and doesn't explode as easily. It also doesn't spread throughout the air," Xi Yue explained in a low voice.
"You don't have any mining equipment?"
Lu Yin was surprised.
Xi Yue shook her head, "No, you can only inspect each grain with your naked eye."
Lu Yin looked at the Astral River; they were only in one direction. According to Xi Yue, they should be near the Northline Flowzone's Astral River. How much sand could be washed up by the entire Astral River?
It would be useless even if someone tried to inspect it for billions of years.
Thump.
Cultivators jumped into the Astral River one after another. These cultivators originally cultivated star energy, but because the astral source universe had been devoured, they could only cultivate battle force.
Some didn't succeed and were annihilated. At most, they would become powerful ordinary people, but if they succeeded, they would join the team that mined pyrolyte. As long as they mined enough, they could head to the Neoverse and climb up the ladder.