"You, kneel down and kowtow to the army to atone for your sins." Lu Yin suddenly stopped and released Hua Wudao.
Huawu blinked. "Brother Lu, what do you mean by kneeling?
Atonement? "
Lu Yin replied, "You betrayed the Corps, so of course you have to atone for your sins."
"Didn't you ask me to betray you?
I'm on your side! "Huawu exclaimed.
Lu Yin replied, "That's not a reason for you to betray the Corps. Since you've joined the Corps, you should have followed it to the end."
Hua Wu felt as if he had seen a ghost, and his mind was a mess. He couldn't understand what Lu Yin was trying to say. Wasn't helping him the right thing to do?
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have betrayed you. I'm so sorry …" Lu Yin forced him to kneel before the army.
By the time Huawu looked up, Lu Yin was already gone.
He cursed as he stood up and looked around. Then, he decided on a direction and quickly ran away. They were all crazy.
Lu Yin rode the Caged Wyrm towards the Innerverse. First, he went to the Daynight clan and entered the Frozen Immortal Sect's space. He used the Frozen Immortal Pond to enter the underground world and once again confirmed Progenitor Hui's seal. After that, he ordered the area to be sealed and then headed towards the Blazing Mist Flowzone.
When he arrived at the Blazing Mist Flowzone, he confirmed the location of the Royal Frost Continent and entered it.
It had been a long time since he last came to the Royal Frost Continent.
The frigid weather did not change, and Lu Yin saw Extreme Ice City in the distance. His domain spread out and enveloped the entire Royal Frost Continent.
The Ice Empress suddenly raised her head.
He walked out of Arctic City and saw Lu Yin standing high in the sky. He took a deep breath, stepped forward, and slowly bowed. "Greetings, Dao Child."
At this moment, Che Han walked out and bowed excitedly. "Greetings, Your Highness." This was Lu Yin's status in the Great Yu Empire as the Royal Regent.
Lu Yin nodded. "I was just passing by, so I came to take a look."
The Ice Emperor didn't believe that Lu Yin was just passing by. They had known each other for a long time and knew each other well enough to know that Lu Yin wouldn't come here for no reason. However, he couldn't figure out what Lu Yin was doing here.
To him, the power of the Royal Frost Continent was dispensable.
Right, the Ice Empress remembered. Could it be because of that seal?
"Is the seal alright?" he asked.
As expected, the Ice Empress thought to herself, "It's fine. Everything is normal."
"Has anyone checked the seal since I left?"
"Only President Geoffrey has come here a few times."
Anyone who knew that Hui Zu's seal was here would not be able to ignore it. Geoffrey came to check it out to make sure nothing went wrong.
Only Geoffrey had been here, which meant that Hen Xin and the others did not know about the seal. Otherwise, they would have come to check it out.
"Got it, you guys go about your business." Lu Yin waved them off.
The Ice Empress and Che Han looked at each other and bowed once more before returning to the Extreme Ice City.
Lu Yin arrived above the glacial mountain range and looked down. He saw Ancestor Hui's symbol again, and if not for Geoffrey, he would not have been able to recognize it.
His body descended and sank into the glacier.
At this moment, inside the Extreme Ice City, the Ice Empress was worried.
"Don't worry, His Highness won't touch the seal," Che Han said.
The Ice Emperor sighed, "Not in the past, but now …" He was worried that Lu Yin would be too arrogant and think that he could control everything. That was why he wanted to move the seal and find out what was inside.
It was undeniable that Lu Yin was now in control of the Fifth Continent and had repelled Ancestor Realm experts.
He had also received the respect of a Progenitor, but the more he was like this, the easier it was for him to get carried away.
In the Ice Empress' heart, the Hui Ancestor was a true Progenitor, someone who had left his mark in history. If Lu Yin wanted to compete with the Hui Ancestor, then he would definitely remove the seal. What would happen to Extreme Ice City then?
The Ice Emperor was overthinking things. Even if Lu Yin was a Half-Ancestor or even a Progenitor and had the power to fight Bai Wangyuan and the others head-on, he would not remove the seal.
This was because Hui Zu had left it behind. Hui Zu was a wise man that Lu Yin respected the most. No matter how strong he was, his contributions to humanity were unparalleled. Without him, there would not be the Fifth Continent today, nor would there be the Astral Tree. He might not have been an invincible Progenitor, but he was definitely a Progenitor worthy of respect.
Lu Yin would not touch a seal left behind by such a senior, regardless of whether the item under the seal was a threat to him.
Lu Yin had come to confirm the safety of the seal and also to take a look at it. This seal was formed by a sourcebox array, and he wanted to see how far he was from Hui Zu in terms of lockbreaking.
In the end, he saw that it was infinitely far away.
This result made him both impressed and dejected. He believed that he was infinitely close to being an Origin Heavenly Master, but even so, he could not understand Hui Zu's vast lockbreaking methods.
Just as Geoffrey had said, he could not understand it.
Geoffrey was also infinitely close to being an Origin Heavenly Master, but he could only repair it slightly. It was like patching up the surface of a spacecraft, and he could not understand its structure at all.
Hui Zu had walked too far on the path of lockbreaking, to the point that even an Origin Heavenly Master could not see his back.
In the current era, perhaps only Heavenly Master Gu Yan could attempt to understand it.
After two days, Lu Yin left. There was no need for him to stay, and he did not even bid farewell to the Ice Emperor.
He wanted to go back and cultivate the Nine Clones Technique. He had been eyeing this technique for a long time, but he had not been able to cultivate it. Now, he could temporarily not go to the Astral Tree. It was more stable, and the Four Way Scale would be more at ease. He could use this opportunity to cultivate it.
Outside the Sky Sect, the Ancestral Turtle turned around and saw the enormous Hellwyrm approaching. It rolled its eyes and shrank back into its shell.
The Hellwyrm had been eyeing it from afar, and it was only satisfied when it saw it shrink back into its shell. It raised its claws a little higher.
Lu Yin had the Hellwyrm wait beside the Sky Sect, and his figure flashed to the location where the Nine Clones Technique was located. He then took out Progenitor Chen's blood from his cosmic ring. There were ten buckets in his ring, and each one was as large as a person. Even Progenitor Chen would be stunned by this, as he did not have that much blood himself.
Lu Yin looked at the scales on the bottom of his feet. They did not look any different from the other scales, but once he touched them, they would turn blood-red, and he would be subjected to a bloodline backlash.
He could withstand a bloodline backlash, especially now that he had mastered battle force to the Palm Realm. With the tyrannical strength in his heart that could dissolve everything, he could even ignore the backlash. However, the real problem was learning the Nine Clones Technique.
The last time he had checked, he had clearly seen the state of the Nine Clones Technique, and he had a general understanding of how to cultivate it. However, whether or not he could succeed would have to wait until he started cultivating it.
As he thought about it, Progenitor Chen's blood spiraled up from one of the buckets and covered Lu Yin's arm. His arm turned blood-red, and he squatted down and pressed his hand against the scale. Suddenly, his mind went into a trance, as if he saw a drop of blood fall from the void at the same location. Then, just like the last time, he saw a small person split up and then fuse back together.
Lu Yin stared at this.
This was the key to cultivating the Nine Clones Technique.
At the same time, the Xia family's bloodline backlash appeared. Lu Yin's gaze turned cold as the purplish-black substance of his Palm Realm battle force spread to his arm and hid under the layer of Progenitor Chen's blood. With the appearance of his Palm Realm battle force, the bloodline conflict that had easily torn his hand apart was no longer important. In his heart, the stars of Sirius shone, making Lu Yin look incomparably divine.
The Caged Drake turned around, its large eyes looking straight at Lu Yin. However, Lu Yin was at the corner of its mouth and moved along with its head, so it couldn't see him at all.
Lu Yin's Palm Realm battle force and the power in his heart both caught the Caged Drake's attention. Giant beasts had sharper senses than humans, and these two powers made the Caged Drake wary.
Opposite him, the Ancestral Turtle's head was also staring at Lu Yin from within its shell. Compared to the Caged Drake, it looked at Lu Yin with a more familiar gaze. This was because it was originally a pet of the Lu family, and it had only stayed behind because of the Mavis Divine Tree's fruit.
Progenitor Chen's blood spiraled above the Caged Drake's head and covered Lu Yin's arm. It was also constantly being consumed, and Lu Yin was able to see it for longer and longer.
At first, he only saw one figure split up and fuse back together, and he saw the gas line connecting the nine figures. Later on, he gradually saw the nine figures fuse together, and the changes in the body of the single figure became clearer and clearer.
He didn't know how long it would take for a direct descendant of the Xia family to cultivate the Nine Clones Technique. They didn't have any bloodline conflicts, so they could watch for as long as they wanted. However, Lu Yin was different. There seemed to be ten buckets of Progenitor Chen's blood, but it would be consumed very quickly.
Lu Yin regretted that he hadn't prepared more.
A day passed, and half a bucket of Progenitor Chen's blood had been consumed. Based on his calculations, the blood would only last for twenty days at most.
Would he be able to cultivate the Nine Clones Technique in twenty days?
Lu Yin wasn't sure.
But for now, he could only continue cultivating.
Ten days passed in the blink of an eye, and half of Progenitor Chen's blood had been consumed. Lu Yin had long since immersed himself in cultivating the Nine Clones Technique, and the purplish black substance formed from the Mastery Realm battle force was also constantly being consumed. It constantly clashed with his bloodline, and it wasn't limitless. Henxin's purplish black substance had also been used up quite a bit while helping Lu Yin cultivate.
Fifteen days passed, and Lu Yin was still immersed in cultivating the Nine Clones Technique.
After sixteen days, seventeen days, eighteen days, Lu Yin suddenly opened his eyes and retracted his hand. He turned around and saw that there was only one bucket of Progenitor Chen's blood left. As for the Nine Clones Technique, he had already seen through it.
After collecting Progenitor Chen's blood, Lu Yin returned to the Above the Sky Sect and immediately went into seclusion.
He raised his hand, and his die appeared. He tapped it and removed his cosmic ring at the same time.
He couldn't roll Enhance or anything like that right now, as he needed to cultivate when he was at his deepest.
The die slowly spun and finally stopped at three. Lu Yin immediately rolled it again. Two, again. Four, Time Stop Space.
After entering the Time Stop Space, he took out the Mist Ancestor's Wisdom Root and brewed some tea.
If he didn't use it now, when would he use it?
Even though he still had two Wisdom Roots left, he still needed to use them.
After using them all up, he only had one left.
He took a sip of the Wisdom Root Tea and exhaled. He closed his eyes and truly began to cultivate the Nine Clones Technique.
Two months later, Lu Yin's face contorted in pain. The seal on his back that was preventing him from breaking through had appeared, and he was panting heavily. His original state of cultivation had been completely suppressed.
After thinking about it, he rested for a day and tried again, but after only a month, the seal on his back appeared again, preventing him from cultivating the Nine Clones Technique.