Mu Ji continued, "We're working together. There are three True God ultimate techniques hidden under the river. If you help me, it's the same as me helping you. Don't you want them?
Haven't you heard of the legend?
You've cultivated divine power, so the True God's ultimate techniques will be much more helpful to you than to me. "
Lu Yin pretended not to hear the last part of Mu Ji's words. Instead, he was more interested in the legend. "Someone in the Seven Celestial Skies obtained a True God's ultimate technique?"
Mu Ji shook his head. "No. According to the legend, the only True God has three ultimate techniques. Cultivating any one of them will allow one to transcend and become the strongest since ancient times."
Lu Yin coldly replied, "Not interested."
"You don't believe me?"
"If the True Gods were the strongest since ancient times, the Six-Direction Association would have ceased to exist a long time ago."
"It's not only the True Gods that can transcend. You know that humans are the best at creation, and they also have methods to transcend. Right now, it's a competition of who's faster. I want to participate as well. My innate gift is destined to be extraordinary, and I was revived by the Ancestor's sword. That sword, tsk, tsk, was ruthless enough."
Lu Yin looked at Mu Ji. "Not interested."
Mu Ji was speechless. "Do you have anything else to say other than that?"
Lu Yin turned to leave. He had already decided to return to the Above Heaven. Whether or not Mu Ji confirmed his identity, he could not take the risk.
"Eh … Huiwu, have you heard of this name?"
Lu Yin suddenly stopped, his eyes flashing.
"Wang Hou is also problematic. She's not evil. Hehe, how interesting. A captain of a True God's guard, one of the greatest traitors in the history of the Fifth Mainland, is actually not evil. Brother Yebo, don't you find it ironic?"
Lu Yin looked back at Mu Ji. "This has nothing to do with me."
Mu Ji's lips curled up. "I'm afraid of offending people. Why don't you tell the Ancestor about this?"
Lu Yin stared at Mu Ji, and the smile in Mu Ji's eyes grew wider.
"It has nothing to do with me," Lu Yin replied.
Mu Ji was speechless. "What's the point of jumping around with four words?"
"Who's Huiwu?"
"Wu Hou's name."
"Is there a problem?"
"No problem."
Pausing for a moment, he slapped his head: "That's right, I almost forgot, after the Six Direction Association attacked the Calamity Region, Wu Hou went out once. Others don't know, but I do, hehe, not long after, the Corpse God almost died."
"The Corpse God is a member of the Seven Skygods. He was almost killed by the Six-Direction Society, but he also caused a commotion in the First Zone of Calamity. Because of this, the Ancestor of the Ancients contacted the other Zones of Calamity, and those of us who were injured were also thrown out of the First Zone of Calamity to prevent any misfortune."
"Brother Ye Bo, don't you think there's a connection?"
"It has nothing to do with me."
Mu Ji chuckled and moved closer to Lu Yin, whispering something into his ear before leaving.
Lu Yin remained where he was, dumbfounded. Mu Ji had just scolded the One True God right beside his ear, and her words had been rather sharp.
He looked at Mu Ji's back. Mu Ji's back was facing him, and he waved his hand. "The observation platform."
Scolding the One True God didn't mean that Mu Ji wouldn't expose Lu Yin, nor did it give Lu Yin any leverage. After all, Lu Yin had no proof that Mu Ji had scolded the One True God. The biggest implication of this action was that Mu Ji didn't belong to the Eternals.
No one who cultivated divine power would dare to scold the One True God.
It was just like how an ordinary person would never scold the god they believed in, even if they believed that the god didn't exist.
Mu Ji was one such example.
He had scolded the One True God, and his words had been sharp and vicious. Lu Yin felt like his worldview had been refreshed. This guy was ruthless.
What was wrong with this Mu Ji?
He had betrayed Mu Spacetime. Senior Woodcarving had said that this was true. After joining the Eternals, he had tried to use Evil to control the Central Plate. In the end, he had been thrown into the divine power lake, but he had come out unscathed.
It wasn't likely that he was a spy planted by the humans in the Eternals. It was too obvious. The Ancestor of the Ancients wasn't stupid. How much had Huiwu sacrificed to infiltrate the Eternals?
Mu Ji definitely couldn't compare to him, but if he had really betrayed the humans and joined the Eternals, then he had constantly courted death and even dared to scold the One True God.
He hadn't told the Ancestor of the Ancients about Huiwu. Once he did, Huiwu would be finished.
Also, he hadn't said anything about Wang Xiaoyu and his own speculations. What was this guy trying to do?
Was he really trying to get the True God's ultimate skill?
Lu Yin was confused.
Dual Blade walked over. "Ye Bo, are you stupid? Mu Ji must have said something to you. Be careful of him, he's a villain."
Lu Yin agreed. "He is indeed a villain."
"What did he say?" The pink-haired girl was curious.
Lu Yin said, "He mocked us for being caught."
"Bastard."
At this moment, Lu Yin heaved a sigh of relief. If Mu Ji wanted to harm him, he could have done so now. He would have told Di Qiong that Lu Yin had been captured by Di Qiong before he showed himself. Mu Ji did not do so. Although Lu Yin could not see through Mu Ji's intentions, at least he would not be so nervous that he would be exposed.
There must be a reason why he didn't expose him now. What Lu Yin needed to do now was to understand Wu Tian's situation as soon as possible.
The last three words he left were, "Observation Platform?"
What did that mean?
The little giant Xinwu also left. He seemed to have only come to teach the heavy ghosts a lesson and wasn't interested in Dual Blade or Lu Yin.
A few days passed. Lu Yin shook off Dual Blade and the heavy ghosts and headed into the distance alone.
He already knew where the Observation Platform was.
There were eighty-one Eternal Kingdoms in the Third Zone of Disaster. They were arranged in a circle. Outside the Eternal Kingdoms, the Corpse King Tablet was in the direction of the Black Mother Tree. The Corpse King Tablet went straight to the Eternal Kingdoms and reached the center of the eighty-one Eternal Kingdoms. That was where the Observation Platform was.
Lu Yin walked past one Eternal Kingdom after another, and the further he went, the weaker the Corpse Kings became. He saw several Eternal Kingdoms that were completely different from the Fifth Mainland's Eternal Kingdom. No one had been slaughtered by the Corpse Kings here, and it seemed as if the two races were truly living together.
To be honest, Lu Yin didn't believe that humans and Corpse Kings could coexist. He carefully observed every Eternal Kingdom that he passed by and found that the humans and Corpse Kings did indeed coexist, but they had their own way of coexisting.
Just like the Eternal Kingdoms that had been modified by the Sea King's Dome, humans and Corpse Kings lived on opposite sides of the Eternal Kingdoms. Although they interacted with each other, they both had their own misgivings. This superficial harmony was maintained because the Corpse Kings no longer attacked the humans, and because the people here didn't fear them.
The first batch of people who had been captured and brought to the Eternal Kingdoms to coexist with the Corpse Kings must have been terrified. The more terrified they were, the more the Corpse Kings would want to kill them. Now, almost all of these people had been born in the Eternal Kingdoms, and they knew that the Eternal Kingdoms were their home. The Corpse Kings were also a type of human, so they naturally didn't fear them.
Lu Yin's heart sank. What were the Eternals trying to do?
Building the Eternal Kingdoms meant taking drastic measures to erase the sense of belonging that humans had to their own race. What would they gain from that?
To put it bluntly, wouldn't it be better to transform these people into Corpse Kings?
More square?
So they could use them?
What was their goal?
There were too many things that Lu Yin wanted to understand, and the answers to these questions could only be obtained from the Eternals.
The path ahead suddenly opened up, and Lu Yin walked to the end of one of the Eternal Kingdoms. Further ahead was the center of the eighty-one Eternal Kingdoms, where there was an observation platform.
Mu Ji had definitely mentioned the observation platform for a reason.
Soon, Lu Yin saw the platform, and his pupils shrank. He stood there, his mind blank. Was that … the observation platform?
In the center of the 81 Eternal Kingdoms, there was a cylindrical platform. On the platform, there were chains connected to nothingness. The chains bound a man, a man in ragged clothes, who looked extremely wretched.
The man had been bound for an unknown period of time, and the chains and the platform were filled with the decay of time. Crows circled high up in the sky, letting out mournful cries.
What truly stunned Lu Yin was that the chains that bound the man formed a single word: Wu Tian.
This person was Wu Tian?
Lu Yin's limbs went cold, and he was completely stunned. Wu Tian? This man was Wu Tian?
So that's what the viewing platform was. That person was Wu Tian. That person was Wu Tian.
Lu Yin approached the platform step by step, and people rushed over from time to time. There were old people, children, Corpse Kings, and all sorts of strange creatures.
These people walked around the platform, and they were already used to it. None of them even glanced at the platform, and everyone avoided it with disgust.
The stench around the platform assailed Lu Yin's nostrils.
Lu Yin couldn't see anything other than that man. Was he really Wu Tian?
Laughter rang out, and a child bumped into Lu Yin, fell down, and cried, attracting the adults.
"Who are you?
Don't you see the child?
Don't you know how to support him? "
"Kid, are you asking for a beating? Turn around and look at me."
"I'm talking to you. Answer me."
"Kid …"
Lu Yin approached the platform step by step, completely ignoring the shoving of the man behind him.
"Forget it, you're crazy. Let's go."
"Wait," Lu Yin said, his back facing them.
"What, are you looking for a beating?"
Lu Yin asked, "Who is this person?"
"Wu Tian. Can't you see him?"
"Do you know him?"
"Who knows him?
The higher-ups said that he's a sinner who wants to destroy the peace of the Eternal Kingdom. Kid, who are you?
Don't you know?
You're not from the Eternal Kingdom, are you? "
Lu Yin's eyes flickered. Don't you know him?
Human history had long disappeared in the Eternal Kingdom, and history had been forgotten. Are they still the same as me?
No one can blame them. They were born in the Eternal Kingdom, and they knew nothing. They could only blame those who failed to protect the human race.
What was the reason for people to cultivate?
To transcend?
To live forever?
No. The purpose of cultivation was simple: to protect history and the race. That was all.
The people of the Eternal Kingdom avoided the viewing platform. Clearly, the viewing platform was a dirty place in their hearts. Their gazes towards the viewing platform were filled with disgust.
Only Lu Yin stood below the observation platform. He wasn't worried that Di Qiong would see him, as his divine power was the best guarantee.
A person who cultivated divine power would not be suspected.
At least for now.