"Why the capital?
It's the same everywhere, "Zhou Shan didn't understand.
Lu Yin didn't mention anything about the mission, only saying, "I want to find the truth about the Apocalypse and that corpse."
Zhou Shan shook his head, "There's no need for that. The explosion turned everything within ten kilometers of the capital to dust. Even though the Apocalypse descended, there were still people who rushed to the scene to investigate, but they didn't find anything. Do you think it'll be useful after so long?"
"I don't care if it's useful or not, I'm going."
Zhou Shan sighed and looked out of Nanjing with a complicated expression, "I can't stop you if you want to go, but I hope that you can return to Nanjing if you don't find anything."
Lu Yin nodded, "I will."
Zhou Shan took out a document, "This is the document I use in the national army, and it's also my token. The Seven Sages made an agreement that seeing this is the same as seeing the real person. Take it to the capital and find Zhang Dingtian, he'll help you."
"Zhang Dingtian?
One of the Seven Sages? "
Lu Yin was puzzled, as he didn't know much about the Seven Sages. Their communications during the Apocalypse had been intermittent, and his attention had been focused on Liu Tiange. If he hadn't come to Nanjing, he wouldn't have even known that the Executioner was called Zhou Shan.
Zhou Shan's face lit up at the mention of Zhang Dingtian, "Lu Yin, I know that you're very strong and can even suppress the aliens, but I still have to tell you that you shouldn't underestimate the Seven Sages. Don't judge them by my strength, especially the Three High Sages. Zhang Dingtian is one of them, and he's publicly acknowledged as the leader of the Seven Sages."
Lu Yin was stunned, the leader of the Seven Sages?
That wasn't a normal title.
Zhou Shan said solemnly, "Ever since that corpse was brought back to Earth, Huaxia secretly selected countless people in an attempt to inherit some of the legacies. In the end, the Seven Sages succeeded, and Zhang Dingtian was recognized as the strongest of them all. His blade could suppress everything. Those students were very strong, but I don't believe that anyone at the same level could defeat Zhang Dingtian. Even the arrogant Luo Sheng Bai Xue couldn't compare herself to Zhang Dingtian. Many people call him the Sword Sage, but his full name is the Frenzied Blade Sage.
As he listened to Zhou Shan's words, a blade and a domineering man suddenly appeared in Lu Yin's mind. One man and one blade had suppressed the entire capital.
"How are you compared to him?" Lu Yin asked. He wanted a direct comparison.
Zhou Shan smiled wryly and raised a finger. "Other than the Three High Sages, everyone else can only deal with him with one strike."
Zhou Shan's true strength surpassed Orton and Jeraldine's, and he could even fight Terence. This meant that Zhang Dingtian could defeat someone at Terence's level with a single strike. According to Jaeger, he should be one of the strongest students in the various academies. How could there be someone like him on Earth?
Lu Yin believed that if he used the Spacerender Palm or Sirius Palm, he would be able to defeat Zhou Shan in one move. So, who was stronger between him and Zhang Dingtian?
Zhou Shan had done him a favor in hopes that Lu Yin would return to Nanjing in the future, but Lu Yin was destined to disappoint him. His future lay in the heavens.
There were still two months before the second batch of trialtakers would arrive, and Lu Yin hoped to find the corpse and confirm its identity within those two months. He was in a hurry.
"What?
You want me to go to the capital with you?
Impossible! "Jeraldine exclaimed, refusing at once.
"You don't have the right to refuse."
"Didn't you hear what Jaeger said?
Those going to the capital are all the strongest students, and they're freakishly strong. I saw Veron crush Terence with my own eyes. He's not someone who can be defeated with a sneak attack. "
"I told you, you don't have the right to refuse," Lu Yin said.
Jeraldine was speechless and implored helplessly, "Yata, no, Lu Yin, you don't understand what it means to be the strongest student in the academy. Terence was heavily injured by Veron during the Inter-Academy Tournament. The difference is too great."
"Jaeger was also heavily injured by me," Lu Yin said.
Jeraldine wanted to retort, but she suddenly realized that he was right. She had always placed herself below Terence, and this had unknowingly lowered her evaluation of Lu Yin's strength. But now that she thought about it, he was also a freak. A Seeker had heavily injured Terence, and Jaeger had been heavily injured without being able to use star energy. Jeraldine took a few steps back and sized Lu Yin up. She suddenly felt that he might really be comparable to the strongest student in the academy.
Lu Yin had never used his full strength against Jeraldine, so she didn't understand his true strength. Even so, the few things he had displayed were enough to shock her.
"I'll leave tonight for the capital," Lu Yin said indifferently before leaving, not giving her any room to refuse.
Jeraldine was helpless; the universe was boundless, and there were countless academies. Even the Great Yu Empire had many, and these so-called trial missions weren't something she could handle. But now, she was being forced into a different circle, one that was known as the strongest.
In Hebei Province, in the vast mountains, the color of blood soared into the sky like smoke signals, dyeing the mountain streams red. Blood covered the rivers, and the pungent smell attracted more and more mutated beasts. In the blink of an eye, all the beasts were slaughtered.
The stream was dyed red, and a short man stood in the water as he washed his body. The scars on his back had long since scabbed over, and his sturdy muscles bulged.
On the shore, a man and a woman quietly sized him up, "Parlie, there won't be any more mutant beasts in these mountains if we let you play."
The short man glanced at the shore, "There are two Melder beasts I didn't provoke, I'll kill them when we get back."
The woman replied, "It's time to go to the capital, we'll have the best chance of finding the fugitive there. The corpse this planet brought from Neptune might be the fugitive's."
Parlie's eyes flashed coldly, "Veron, where are the other two teams?"
The man on the shore was Veron from the First Military Academy, while the woman was Borise from Blue Mountain Academy. These three were the elites that Jaeger knew of.
Veron replied, "Gerlaine's team is in the grasslands, north of the capital. Eddy's team is in Shanxi, not far from the capital."
Parlie walked ashore, energy rippling out from his body as his body instantly dried up, "Let's go to the capital."
The three left, leaving behind the corpses of countless mutant beasts, including quite a few sky beasts.
North of China, the endless grasslands swayed in the wind. From above, it looked like green waves dancing under the sun, exceptionally beautiful.
On the grasslands, a woman raised her hands and breathed in deeply, "It's so fresh, this is the smell of the grasslands."
Not far away, a two-meter-tall man with green skin glanced at her, "What's so good about the smell of feces? You're sick."
"Balaror, what did you say?" The woman's ears were sharp, and she immediately glared at him.
The green-skinned Balaror smiled, "Nothing, it smells good, it smells good."
The woman was pleased, "At least you know your place. Let's go to the capital, I heard that the people of this planet found a corpse from a primitive planet. It should be a fugitive."
"Alright," Balaror replied, looking up as the endless grass ahead suddenly parted, as if it had a mind of its own.
In Shanxi, two people wrapped in black robes slowly walked through the endless yellow earth. From time to time, strange and ferocious mutant beasts would charge out of the soil and disappear.
Under the black robes, one of the men with scales on his forehead had a cold gaze. With every step he took, the yellow earth became incomparably dry, as if all the moisture had been sucked away. After a hundred meters, the ground he had walked through had cracked and turned into dust. All the mutant beasts inside had been sucked away, leaving only their skins behind.
"I don't like this place, we should've landed in the ocean."
"There's no other way, we have to come to the capital to complete the mission. I know you were born at the bottom of the sea, but get over it. We can leave soon."
"I've sacrificed so much, anyone who dares to stop me from completing the mission will be killed. Even if all the natives of this planet die, they can't stop me."
"Of course, no one can stop us."
In the northeast, snow and ice covered the horizon, and the white world stretched as far as the eye could see.
In this endless white, a pair of red boots slowly stepped forward. Her back was facing the wind and snow, revealing a devastatingly beautiful face. Her eyes were as bright as the stars, and they almost melted this frozen world.
She was Bai Xue, the Luo Sheng of China, the Luo River.
This was the Blue Camp, the Luo Sheng's Blue Camp.
On the snowy ground, three figures were kneeling on the ground. Their faces were twisted, and they seemed to be in extreme pain. One of them forced himself to raise his head and look at the beautiful woman before him in fear. His lips trembled as he asked, "You, a mere native, how can you be so strong?"