In the past, Lu Yin would have been worried if he hadn't known that Mu Xie was his senior, but even without this relationship, Mu Xie would not have helped him.
Mu Xie was facing Xia Shenji, an ancestor who had survived from the Daosource Sect and was of the same generation as Nine Mountains and Eight Seas. He was one of the peak powerhouses of humanity, but what about Mu Xie?
He had become a Progenitor in the Astral Tree Realm, and he did not have such a deep foundation. He was even younger than Wen Zu, so how could he fight against Xia Shenji?
But now, Lu Yin was not worried at all, as Mu Xie was his senior and a disciple that Mister Mu had acknowledged. That was enough.
Mister Mu's ridiculous request for a disciple was something that few people in human history had ever been able to fulfill.
Anyone who had been able to do so had been extraordinary, such as Qing Ping and Lu Yin himself.
Since Mu Xie had been acknowledged as a disciple by Mister Mu, he was naturally one of them. Lu Yin was not worried about such a person facing off against Xia Shenji.
"Mu Xie?"
Xia Shenji looked at him in confusion. "Why are you here?"
Mu Xie calmly looked at Xia Shenji. "Ancestor Xia, I want to protect this person."
Xia Shenji's expression changed, and his face turned cold. "Are you joking with me?
Do you know who he is? "
"I know, but I don't need to know. No matter who he is, I'll protect him," Mu Xie said casually, as if he were drinking water.
Xia Shenji's expression turned ugly. "He's Lu Xiaoxuan, a direct descendant of the Lu family. He's a mortal enemy of the Four Cardinal Scales. You want to protect him?"
Mu Xie smiled. "I told you that you don't need to know his identity. I'll protect him."
Xia Shenji's eyes narrowed. "What's the reason?"
"I don't want to say," Mu Xie replied.
Lu Yin felt strange, as his senior's reply was enough to infuriate Xia Shenji. As an ancestor of Shenwu Plane, no one dared to disobey him, let alone talk back to him. However, his senior's every word was rebuttal, and even Xia Shenji could not stand it.
Xia Shenji panted. "It seems that the Four Cardinal Scales' indulgence of the Humble School has made you arrogant. Mu Xie, don't think that we can't do anything to you just because you're a Progenitor. Many humans' Progenitors have died in history, and if not for the Humble School, you would have been thrown into the Outer Realm long ago."
Mu Xie smiled. "I won't die. You can't kill me."
Xia Shenji opened his eyes wide. The Divine Martial Sword Domain that enveloped the Upper Worlds suddenly exploded. The wind and clouds suddenly changed. Countless blades slashed towards Mu Xie. Everything that Xia Shenji breathed and saw turned into blades. The air and the invisible Qi turned into Divine Martial Sword Qi and turned into chains that tried to bind Mu Xie.
This was the first time Lu Yin had seen a Progenitor erupt with such power. It was as if the heavens and earth were shaking, as if the world was about to be destroyed.
Under this kind of power, all of his methods seemed laughable. Even external objects that had been raised to the level of ancestor realm could not protect him. This was another level of human beings, a level that had stepped into the realm of gods. This was a god, a supreme expert to cultivators.
The difference between a normal person and a cultivator was one's body and star energy. The difference between a normal cultivator and an Emissary was one's astral source, which could dissolve all types of star energy. The difference between an Emissary and a Half-Progenitor was one's inner world. Once one's inner world was unleashed, an Emissary's methods would not be able to escape, and they could be directly suppressed. There was no such thing as an insurmountable distance between cultivators, but at this moment, as he sensed Xia Shenji's Ancestral World, Lu Yin finally understood what it meant to be insurmountable.
He could challenge powerhouses above his realm, but he could not.
Xia Shenji could change the entire Astral Tree Domain and turn it into his domain. If Lu Yin wanted to resist, it would be the same as making an enemy out of the entire universe. He did not even know how to fight against Xia Shenji, let alone whether he could defeat Xia Shenji or not.
This was a Progenitor, a true Progenitor. It was similar to Progenitor Chen's Sirius Chen and the Rune Progenitor's rune lines. The Astral Tree Domain's sky was covered by Xia Shenji's Divine Martial Sword Domain.
The heavenly might was unfathomable, but beneath the boundless heavenly might, there was a single pebble that blossomed with a dazzling radiance that dispelled the heavenly might that could not be resisted.
Xia Shenji stared at Mu Xie. "Let's see if your Evil Sarira can withstand my Divine Martial Sword Domain's pressure."
Mu Xie calmly replied, "Although it's called a sarira, it's actually just a pebble. Pebbles need to be polished, and the harder you press them, the smoother they become."
"How arrogant." Xia Shenji raised a hand, and countless blades replaced the sky as they slashed downwards. From a distance, it looked like rain, a rain formed entirely of blades.
Lu Yin looked up fearlessly. He could not resist Xia Shenji's Progenitor's World, nor could he resist the heavenly might. However, he was not afraid. So what if he died? Even if he died, he would see these blades and the Divine Martial Sword Domain clearly.
Mu Xie's lips curled up, and the light from the Evil Sarira suddenly converged beneath his feet before transforming into words that revolved around the sarira as if they had a life of their own. They continued to revolve around the sarira, and their range continued to expand. Countless blades slashed down, but the words remained motionless, allowing the blades to slash at them. The entire space was collapsing, unable to withstand the tearing of Progenitors. Lu Yin saw a black color that could devour everything. It was not a black hole in outer space, and there were no strange phenomena. It was just pure black.
The collision of Progenitors tore through the void, and behind every crack in the void was that same black color.
It was so dark that no one dared to approach it. It was like the mouth of an abyss.
However, now was not the time to think about that black color. Lu Yin stared above his head, where the words continued to revolve and the blades continued to collide, forming a cycle of the void shattering. Once the words could not withstand it, he would die. However, he was not worried, as Mu Xie would not lose.
Xia Shenji's expression turned ugly. They did not know much about Mu Xie. This person had not made any outstanding achievements since he had first appeared, nor had he done anything earth-shattering. Not to mention them, even the Lu Family had not paid much attention to him. When he had become a Half-Ancestor, they had all thought that he was just a wandering Half-Ancestor. Mu Xie had never displayed any shocking strength, so he had been ignored from the beginning.
It was only when he had crossed the Progenitor Origin Tribulation that he had truly attracted the attention of the Lu Family and all the major powers in the Astral Tree Domain. Unfortunately, it was already too late. He had smoothly crossed the Progenitor Origin Tribulation and become an Progenitor. It had been very, very smooth.
After becoming an Progenitor, the first thing he had done was to establish the Humble Class. He had vowed to eradicate the Redbacks, rejecting the Lu Family and other families' attempts to rope him in. His original intention and purpose for establishing the Humble Class had won the Lu Family's admiration and support.
The current history of the Astral Tree Domain stated that the Humble Class had been established by the Four Cardinal Scales, but that was actually a glorious history that the Four Cardinal Scales had fabricated for themselves.
The Four Cardinal Scales had appeared after the Lu Family had been exiled. The Humble Class had been established long before the Lu Family's time, but because the Lu Family had been too prosperous, the Humble Class had not been famous. Even so, the Humble Class had still operated with the Lu Family's support, eliminating many Redbacks. It had just not been as high-profile as it was now.
Everyone thought that the Lu Family had supported the establishment of the Humble Class as a means to rope in this person, but that was not the case. After so many years, the Lu Family had never taken the initiative to rope in Mu Xie. Mu Xie had been working hard to eliminate the Redbacks, but because too much time had passed, gradually, no family had tried to rope in Mu Xie.
After the Lu Family had been exiled, the Four Cardinal Scales had tried to probe Mu Xie once, but Mu Xie was still unwilling to be roped in. He only wanted to eliminate the Redbacks. In the end, the Four Cardinal Scales had given up. Moreover, because the Humble Class had captured the Redbacks, the Astral Tree Domain had indeed suffered a lot of losses. In the end, the existence of Mu Xie and the Humble Class was tacitly acknowledged, and they had great power.
As for Mu Xie's strength, because he had been eliminating the Redbacks in the Astral Tree Domain, these Redbacks were at most Half-Ancestor, so no one could force him to use his true strength. Even when facing the Eternal Ancestor in the Sovereign World, he had attacked after Bai Wangyuan and the others, so he did not show too much strength.
Xia Shenji had never thought that Mu Xie could fight against him. It was impossible. Only the three of them were truly at the top of the Astral Tree Domain. Even the Dragon Ancestor was not qualified to stand side by side with them. Mu Xie's behavior now seemed arrogant to him. Did he really think that the Four Cardinal Scales had not touched the Humble Class because they were afraid of him?
Xia Shenji was already considering how to deal with Mu Xie.
But as time passed, he found that his Divine Martial Sword Domain could not suppress Mu Xie. This should not be. Thinking about it, the Divine Martial Sword Domain's power skyrocketed. Countless blades merged strangely, turning into a blade that pointed to the sky. It wrapped around the Divine Martial Sword Domain's Divine Martial Sword Domain and slashed.
The moment this blade took shape, the Top Realm started to crack. It was obvious that it could not withstand such a powerful attack from Xia Shenji.
Xia Shenji's slash paused. If this attack was unleashed, then regardless of whether or not Mu Xie could block it, the Top Realm would be in trouble. At least ten percent of its people would die, and countless cultivators' minds would crumble. This was not something that the Four Cardinal Scales wanted to see. "Mu Xie, I'll give you one last chance. Retreat."
Mu Xie's expression turned serious. "This attack is indeed powerful, but it still can't kill me."
Xia Shenji's gaze turned cold. He could not help but want to attack, but after thinking about it, he decided against it. The Top Realm was the Four Cardinal Scales' territory, and it represented the Four Cardinal Scales' supreme authority in the Astral Tree Domain. If the Top Realm was destroyed, they would be the ones to lose, not Mu Xie.
Xia Shenji sighed. "It seems like you really want to protect Lu Xiaoxuan. Then, I'll kill him right in front of you. The Humble Class's responsibility is to capture Redbacks, so I hope that you won't go against your original intentions."
Lu Yin's heart suddenly raced as a bone-chilling sense of danger appeared in his mind. He hurriedly took out the corpse and looked around, but the sense of danger didn't lessen even after he took out the corpse. Instead, it grew even stronger. It was like a knife was pressed against his neck, making it hard for him to breathe.
Where did he come from?
Xia Shenji's clone?
Or something else?
Where did he come from?
He suddenly thought of something, and his eyes turned into runes as a miniature candle god appeared on his shoulder. Rune lines scattered in all directions, and he tried to use them to sense the danger.
He saw it. Lu Yin looked at the bottom of his foot, and a line of rune lines suddenly disappeared. It was a line that extended from the bottom of his foot. "Senior Brother."
This was the first time Xia Shenji had heard this name, and he was astonished.
Mu Xie was Lu Xiaoxuan's senior brother?
"Mu Xie, are you from the Lu family?"
Xia Shenji barked. Lu Xiaoxuan had called him senior brother, so he had to be from the Lu family. Otherwise, why would Mu Xie help him? This person was actually a remnant of the Lu family.