Wang Dashuai had nowhere else to go, so he decided to stay in the Above the Sky Sect.
As for Long Xi, she wanted to stay with the sapling.
Lu Yin replied, "The sapling will stay here to absorb the astralsource. You can stay here if you want."
He knew what she was thinking, but he wasn't Lu Xiaoxuan; he was Lu Yin.
"Where's my father?"
Long Xi asked.
Lu Yin replied, "He went back. He's safe."
Long Xi nodded and didn't say anything else.
The sapling was very close to her, and she had always been the one to take care of it in Mount Supreme.
Not long after, a strand of astralsource was pulled towards the Above the Sky Sect.
Many people noticed that the Daozi had started to steal the astralsource again.
Only a few knew that it was the sapling that was stealing the astralsource.
Lu Yin spent the next few days drinking tea in the sect while waiting for Big Sis to deliver the half Gou Lian. Long Xi was the one who accompanied him.
Half a month later, the half Gou Lian was delivered.
The moment Lu Yin grabbed it, the black and white comma in his heart spun wildly, and the remaining death energy in his body flowed towards it. He quickly let go; he didn't have much death energy in his body, and if this Gou Lian could absorb death energy, it might really be the Death God's weapon. He left the Above the Sky Sect and headed towards the Strange Sect on Planet Aegis.
He quickly reached Aegis and went underground to find the Strange Sect's stone. He touched it and entered a hidden space.
He looked up and saw the black sun hanging high in the sky. It was much smaller than the first time he had seen it; the death energy wasn't limitless.
Lu Yin didn't immediately take out the Gou Lian. Instead, he soared into the sky and began to absorb the death energy.
Soon, the sky was split apart by a black torrent, forming a surging river of death energy. One end was in the black sun, while the other was in Lu Yin's heart.
About a year ago, he had also come here to absorb the aura of death, and had also created a black torrent. However, this time, it was much more spectacular than the last time. Back then, he had seen the Grim Reaper and comprehended the Grim Reaper's Mudra. This time, he had seen the Grim Reaper again.
He sat there alone with the Gou Lian beside him.
This time, Lu Yin focused on the Gou Lian. The more he looked, the more similar it seemed to him. The Death God's Gou Lian and the half Gou Lian in his hand were almost identical. Were they really the same weapon?
Who could destroy Death God Gou Lian?
The black torrent continued to pour into Lu Yin's heart, and the black-and-white comma had nearly doubled in size. This was something that Lu Yin hadn't expected; he hadn't cultivated much, so how could the comma have grown so large?
Due to the expansion of the black and white comma, the power in his heart was able to contain more death energy.
The black sun had shrunk visibly. It was about one-fifth smaller than the first time he saw it.
Although it was only one-fifth, it was still very exaggerated. This was one of the force fields left behind by the Grim Reaper. If he guessed correctly, any one of these force fields might be able to create an existence that used death energy to become an ancestor.
One-fifth of the black sun he had absorbed was equivalent to a Half-Martial Ancestor.
Gradually, the black torrent receded. The black and white commas in his body rotated, becoming more vivid and profound.
Since his body couldn't absorb any more death energy, he took out the remaining half of Gou Lian. In that instant, the black sun shuddered, and then a torrent of death energy surged into Gou Lian. Lu Yin held onto Gou Lian, which not only absorbed the black sun's death energy, but it also absorbed the death energy within Lu Yin's body.
Gou Lian itself.
Lu Yin couldn't figure out how a weapon could absorb so much death energy.
As the death energy surged in, the holes on Gou Lian's surface actually healed. Lu Yin took out the weapon fragments he had obtained from the Burial Garden, and together with the one that Big Sis had given him, he now had a total of eight fragments.
The moment the weapon fragments appeared, they all floated up and were then guided by the death energy towards Gou Lian's blade. Finally, they turned into black streaks of light that merged into Gou Lian's body. Gou Lian's blade extended slightly.
Lu Yin's eyes widened. This Gou Lian could be restored! He was excited. This should be the Grim Reaper's weapon, which meant that he could use these fragments to restore the Grim Reaper's weapon.
The Grim Reaper's weapon was definitely an ancestral weapon.
A vast pressure swept through the void, almost sending Lu Yin flying. Half of Gou Lian flew out of his hand and floated high up in the air. At that moment, a blurry figure seemed to appear beside Gou Lian, and then it became clearer and clearer. It was the Grim Reaper.
Lu Yin stared at the Grim Reaper, and the Grim Reaper stared back at him. The Grim Reaper opened his mouth and spoke, "Immemorial City."
Immemorial City?
Lu Yin's mind trembled. Immemorial City again? Mister Mu had mentioned it before.
Lu Yin stared at the Grim Reaper. The Grim Reaper was still speaking, but Lu Yin could not hear a single word.
The Grim Reaper was definitely trying to express something by borrowing the Grim Reaper's weapon, but Lu Yin could not hear a single word. He grew anxious, but then he suddenly thought of something and retrieved the Grim Reaper's left arm from his cosmic ring.
The moment he grasped the arm, the death energy within the black sun surged once more and transformed into a rainbow that surged into the arm. Lu Yin finally heard two words: the hanging coffin.
The Grim Reaper's figure disappeared from beside the half of Gou Lian, and Lu Yin stepped forward to grab it. There was no more Grim Reaper's figure around them. The Grim Reaper had spoken a few words from the moment it had appeared to the moment it had disappeared, but Lu Yin had only heard the beginning and the end, which were about Immemorial City and the hanging coffin.
What a pity. Was the Grim Reaper dead or not?
If he wasn't, then where was he?
Was that an illusion left behind by history, or was the Grim Reaper using the half of Gou Lian to speak to him across the distance?
Lu Yin did not understand. He held the Grim Reaper's left arm in his left hand and the Gou Lian in his right. In front of him, the black sun grew smaller and smaller until it completely disappeared.
The moment the black sun disappeared, the entire Strange Sect shattered and turned into specks that drifted away.
Lu Yin looked around at the entire space. The Strange Sect was gone.
The black sun was gone, and there was no more death energy here that he could replenish.
There was none here, but there was in other places. With the half of Gou Lian and the left arm, would he be able to hear the Grim Reaper's words again?
Lu Yin thought about it and decided that it was not impossible.
Immemorial City, the hanging coffin, and what exactly was the Grim Reaper trying to say?
What was the connection between Immemorial City and the hanging coffin?
What did the hanging coffin represent?
Lu Yin left the Strange Sect and would never come back here again.
He looked around and then headed towards Kun's Swamp. He wanted to see if he could use the half of Gou Lian and the Grim Reaper's left arm to hear the Grim Reaper's words.
The moment he stepped out of the Strange Sect, a pair of deep, dark eyes looked over at him. Three pitch-black lines overlapped to form a star-shaped pattern, and at the same time, the void around Lu Yin was cut apart. The three black lines passed through each other, leaving only the empty triangle in the middle. Lu Yin was right in the middle of this triangle.
He was shocked. "Hei Wushen?"
The person who had appeared in front of Lu Yin was Hei Wushen, one of the Seven Skygods. This was also the first Seven Skygods that Lu Yin had come into contact with.
Hei Wushen walked out of the void and looked at Lu Yin with deep eyes. "We meet again, Your Excellency."
Lu Yin looked at the familiar figure in front of him. "You dare to appear in front of me, Hei Wushen?"
Hei Wushen calmly looked at Lu Yin. "I have no intention of attacking Your Excellency. Would Your Excellency allow me to finish speaking?"
"Alright, go ahead," Lu Yin said. In the Fifth Mainland, unless one surpassed Progenitor Chen, no one could be Lu Yin's opponent.
Lu Yin did not know if the Seven Skygods' true cultivation could surpass Progenitor Chen's, but their Half-Progenitor bodies definitely could not.
Lu Yin was invincible in the Fifth Mainland.
"Do you still remember the first time we met? At that time, Your Excellency was preparing to unify the Outerverse, and the condition we offered Your Excellency was to become one of the representatives of the Neohuman Alliance in the universe. Do you still remember?"
Hei Wushen slowly spoke.
Lu Yin laughed. "Why bring that up?
Don't tell me you still want to cooperate with me. "
"Of course. With Your Excellency's status and cultivation, why wouldn't we cooperate?"
Hei Wushen replied matter-of-factly.
Lu Yin's lips curled up. "Interesting. Then, what conditions do you have that would attract me?"
"It's still the same condition, but we can remove one of the conditions and make Your Excellency the Neohuman Alliance's representative in the universe."
Anyone who heard Hei Wushen's words would think that he was crazy. Lu Yin controlled the Fifth Mainland and had many Half-Progenitors under his command. No one dared to disobey his orders, so why would he need the Neohuman Alliance to make him the representative of the universe? However, Lu Yin did not think that Hei Wushen was crazy.
There was no one in this universe who was stupid, and even those who were mentally retarded had their own worldview. In their worldview, normal people were fools, and those who treated others as fools were the real fools themselves.
Hei Wushen's words meant that he had complete confidence in taking over this universe.
"This is just a condition, and it's one that only qualifies you to be able to take over this universe. However, what makes you so confident?"
Lu Yin retorted.
Hei Wushen calmly replied, "During the era of the Above Heaven, the Progenitor was in the sky and illuminated the human race. The Nine Mountains and Eight Seas were overseen, and Progenitors were endless. Even so, the entire Above Heaven was defeated by us, and the human race was on the brink of extinction.
"If you had the ability, then the Astral Tree Domain would not have lasted for so long," Lu Yin retorted.
Hei Wushen's deep eyes stared at Lu Yin. "I do not agree with the Sorcerer God's overt scheme. I told Your Excellency the first time we met that I hate people who kill for no reason. That only creates panic and does not help the situation. Your Excellency's identity as Lu Xiaoxuan will indeed lead to a war with the Four Scales, but looking at Your Excellency's history, you are not an impulsive person.
"I believe that Your Excellency has been thinking of ways to deal with the Sorcerer God's overt scheme. Since that is the case, why not directly rope Your Excellency in?"
"But you don't have the qualifications or ability to truly attract me," Lu Yin said.
Hei Wushen replied, "The human race will eventually perish, and a new civilization will be born. This is the cycle of reincarnation, and it will never change. No one can change it, but Your Excellency has the opportunity to transcend this cycle of reincarnation. I will give Your Excellency a chance. Once you truly understand the truth of the universe, you can come find me. I will reserve this opportunity for you for a hundred thousand years."
After he finished speaking, the three black lines that had trapped Lu Yin began to burn. Lu Yin was horrified, as he knew that he would be burned to death. He subconsciously stepped onto the stars, causing them to explode behind Hei Wushen, completely tearing apart his Half-Progenitor shell. The burning black flames also disappeared.