Lu Yin tossed out star essence and watched as the needle dropped bit by bit. He was speechless. Although this thing was not as exaggerated as the slipper's upgrade, it still required close to a hundred billion star essence. Since this needle had been able to break through a half-step Progenitor's inner world, would it be able to threaten a Progenitor after being upgraded?
He wasn't sure, and he wanted to test it out, but then he remembered the slipper.
Even if this needle could reach the level of the slipper's destructive power after being upgraded, the slipper's damage to the fog had already reached its limit. Even if the needle was upgraded, the damage it could cause to the fog would not increase. In other words, it would be useless to release the Fog Ancestor.
Lu Yin shook his head and put the needle away. He then checked his collection. The Time Withering Wood could be upgraded, and so could the River Styx, but the cost would not be small. There was also the metal from the Myriad Beasts' Cage, which was Gluttony, which had once brought disaster to the Fourth Mainland.
Upgrading it had cost him nearly six billion star essence, which had given Gluttony the ability to devour flesh and blood. Its destructive power had reached the level of an Emissary's, and Lu Yin believed that if he released it and did not deal with it in time, it would cause another disaster.
If he upgraded it, he would not even need to devour flesh to make it terrifying.
He would definitely give this thing to someone in the future, but he did not need to upgrade it just yet.
Right, he had almost forgotten about it. It was a corpse.
Lu Yin sized up the corpse that he had obtained from the burial garden. It had been able to withstand the last Origin Tribulation that he had attracted, which meant that the power of that tribulation had been unimaginable. Just who was this corpse?
Would the Fog Ancestor recognize it?
Or would Third Uncle and the others recognize it?
Lu Yin put the corpse away, as he planned to let them identify it after he left.
Finally, he took out something: a candle.
He looked at the candle in his hand and recalled what Zu Mie had said. He had snuck into the Candle God's place of seclusion, but he had not seen the Candle God. All he had seen was this candle. The Mirror God had also said that the Candle God's innate gift was candles. Lu Yin guessed that this candle was the Candle God, who had cultivated the True Scripture of Eon Evolution and eventually lost himself.
"It can't really be the Candle God, right?" Lu Yin looked at it for a while before gritting his teeth and tossing the candle onto the upper screen. It didn't matter if it was the Candle God or not, he would see if it could be upgraded. Candles might not be useful elsewhere, but they were very useful on the Fifth Mainland.
He immediately tossed out a hundred million star essence, and some of the candles fell off. Lu Yin was delighted, as they were useful. He began to frantically toss out more star essence. One billion, ten billion, twenty billion … When he had tossed out thirty billion star essence, the candles fell onto the lower layer of the screen.
At this moment, the candle was actually melting.
Lu Yin's heart sank. It can't be, right? If it melted after the upgrade, then wouldn't the candle be useless?
Spending thirty billion Crystal Essences was no joke.
The more he thought about it, the more apprehensive he became. He stared at the candles on the lower screen, his lips parched.
The candle slowly melted, like a pool of red oil passing through the lower layer of light and dripping to the ground. What was strange was that the red oil didn't scatter. After dripping to the ground, it gathered together and finally formed a person. It was as big as the candle and could be held in the palm of one's hand.
Lu Yin stared blankly at the tiny figure formed from the melted candles. It had eyes, ears, a mouth, a nose, and four limbs. Aside from the fact that its skin was the same color as the candles, the rest of it was no different from a normal person.
However, his eyes were lifeless, just like a dead person's.
"You can't be the Candle God, can you?"
The candle person didn't respond. Lu Yin approached and subconsciously reached out to touch it.
Suddenly, the candle person exploded. Red dots of light scattered in all directions and enveloped Lu Yin. Lu Yin subconsciously retreated. These red dots covered the entire Time Stop Space, but they didn't harm him.
Lu Yin looked around. Are these rune lines?
He could see that the entire Time Stop Space was filled with rune lines. Lu Yin's eyes turned into runes, and he saw numerous rune lines. He also saw numerous tiny figures cultivating the Aeon Evolution True Scripture. Countless tiny figures that cultivated the Aeon Evolution True Scripture hovered in front of him. He looked even further away and saw even more tiny figures cultivating.
This was Eye Opening, this was Spiritual Perception, this was Knowledge, and this was?
Lu Yin looked in a certain direction, where a tiny figure was continuously experimenting. The rune lines around it were constantly changing. This was the Unbounded Realm. The Aeon Evolution True Scripture — Unbounded Realm.
Lightning flashed through Lu Yin's mind as he stared fixedly at the tiny figure cultivating. There were many tiny figures here, but they all seemed to be the same person. Aside from cultivating the Aeon Evolution True Scripture, they also had many other experiences. If the candle was the Candle God, then this might be the Candle God's entire life of cultivation.
The one that Lu Yin cared about the most was the tiny figure cultivating the Aeon Evolution True Scripture.
To him, that was the most valuable thing.
He immediately took out the Root of Wisdom to brew tea from his cosmic ring and took a sip. His mind became clear, and he looked at the tiny figure again. He was completely immersed in it, and he unconsciously began to cultivate the Aeon Evolution True Scripture with the tiny figure.
Time slowly passed, and after an unknown amount of time, the tiny figures that filled the Time Stop Space slowly disappeared. Or rather, they slowly condensed back together. Lu Yin's body trembled, and the tiny figure that he had seen cultivating the Aeon Evolution True Scripture also disappeared. All of the red dots of light gathered back together, forming the candle-sized figure once again.
Lu Yin's eyes were unfocused, and his pupils turned into runes that constantly recalled what had happened. All sorts of rune lines appeared around his body, and he casually waved his hand to unleash an Emptiness Palm. Then, with another wave of his hand, the Emptiness Palm disappeared.
How could a palm technique that he had unleashed just mysteriously disappear? He had used the Aeon Evolution True Scripture to cause the Emptiness Palm's rune lines to disappear.
That's right, after reaching the Unbounded Realm, Lu Yin had discovered that he could use rune lines even within the Time Stop Space. It was as if he had absorbed the Symbol Progenitor's power into his body, but it also seemed to have transformed his own power into runes. In short, even if he left the Fifth Mainland's Human Domain, Lu Yin could still use the Aeon Evolution True Scripture.
This power was similar to astral source cultivation, and it did not necessarily have to be on the Fifth Mainland to be able to use it.
He had broken through some sort of restriction and reached the Unbounded Realm of the Aeon Evolution True Scripture.
If the Symbol Progenitor's Aeon Evolution True Scripture could only be used in the Fifth Mainland's Human Domain, then those who cultivated the Aeon Evolution True Scripture would be useless once they left. How could the Symbol Progenitor create a power that would harm his own people?
This was the true Aeon Evolution True Scripture, a power that could only be used after reaching the Unbounded Realm.
There were only a few people in the universe who had reached the Unbounded Realm, and Lu Yin was one of them.
Cultivating the Aeon Evolution True Scripture was not easy. Although there were only a few realms, each breakthrough was a transformation. Lu Yin did not know how mystical the deeper realms of the Aeon Evolution True Scripture would be.
As soon as he thought of this, Lu Yin immediately dismissed the idea and looked at the small candle person.
The red dots had condensed, and the last thing he had seen was an incomprehensible scene. He had seen a person suddenly turn into a candle, and that person had been standing not too far away from the small person cultivating the Aeon Evolution True Scripture.
Although Lu Yin had been staring at the Unbounded Realm of the Aeon Evolution True Scripture …
He had seen the small person from the Aeon Evolution True Scripture, and he knew that the person furthest away had not moved at all. He had just stood there for a long time, and then he had turned into a candle.
Lu Yin looked deeply at the small candle person in the distance. Bi Mie had been right; the candle was the Candle God, and he had cultivated himself into a candle. He was cultivating an even deeper level of the Aeon Evolution True Scripture, and that realm was called Creation.
Lu Yin's next realm was Creation.
The Creation True Scripture would definitely be even more mystical, and it would have an even more unfathomable power. However, Lu Yin had a shadow in his heart, and the Candle God's fate had made him panic. He temporarily dismissed the idea of cultivating the Aeon Evolution True Scripture. Actually, the Unbounded Realm was not bad, and it was quite good.
The Aeon Evolution True Scripture was mystical to both those who had seen it and those who had cultivated it. Now, Lu Yin felt that it was even more mystical. Cultivating the Aeon Evolution True Scripture had turned him into a candle. Was there anything more mystical or terrifying than this?
A candle was the Candle God's innate gift. How could a person become an innate gift?
Suddenly, Lu Yin thought of something. A person, an innate gift, and a General Appointment Platform?
Right, the General Appointment Platform. That was the General Appointment Platform. How could an innate gift materialize? Elder Chan, Lu Yin, and even Lu Buzheng could not figure it out. What was the origin of the General Appointment Platform that Lu Tianyi had left behind for the Fifth Mainland? No one even knew how to use it.
No one had ever thought that the Lu family's innate gift was related to the Symbol Ancestor's power, but now, Lu Yin had connected the dots.
Since the Candle God had cultivated the Creation Stage's Universe Yan True Scripture and turned himself into a Talent Candle, could it be that the Lu Clan also had a disciple who cultivated the Symbol Ancestor's Universe Yan True Scripture and turned himself into a General Appointment Platform?
It was not impossible.
After all, the Lu family's disciples could not only cultivate the Lu family's power. For example, Lu Yin himself had not only cultivated the True Scripture, but he had also cultivated the Death God's power. Even now, he still did not know what his Fatesand was.
When he thought of this, Lu Yin's breathing quickened. If his guess was correct, then the General Appointment Platform could be used, and he would need to rely on the True Scripture of Eon Evolution.
However, that did not seem right either. The powers left behind by Progenitor Chen, the Symbol Ancestor, and the Hui Ancestor were enough to deal with Progenitors. The General Appointment Platform that Lu Tianyi had left behind should be able to do the same. If that was the case, then that meant that the owner of the General Appointment Platform had the power of a Progenitor. If that was the case, then how could he have turned himself into a General Appointment Platform?
Lu Yin did not believe that a Progenitor from the Lu family's direct line of descent would be so much weaker than the Symbol Ancestor that he had cultivated the True Scripture of Eon Evolution to the point that he had lost himself.
Strange, strange. Lu Yin could not figure it out, so he decided to ask the Fog Ancestor after he left.
Now, Lu Yin continued to look at the small candle person. He should be the Candle God, but his eyes were completely lifeless. Had he lost his mind?
"Can you understand what I'm saying?"
Lu Yin asked.
The candle person did not respond.
"Senior Candle God, stop pretending. I can take you out," Lu Yin continued.
The candle person still did not respond.
Lu Yin said many more things, either threatening or enticing the candle person, but the candle person still did not respond. It was as if he really did not have a mind of his own.
The Time Stop Space was about to end. Lu Yin had not expected that he would spend an entire year cultivating the Unbounded True Scripture of Eon Evolution and use up a wisdom root. Time had passed too quickly.
Lu Yin's eyes turned into runes as he looked at the candle person. At that moment, the candle person reacted and jumped onto Lu Yin's shoulder. The number of rune lines that it had was actually very compatible with Lu Yin's.
Lu Yin stared blankly at the candle person on his shoulder. What was the meaning of this?
The candle person still did not respond.