Lu Yin spat out the blood in his mouth, his face ashen, "This is troublesome. This old thing won't let me off. Senior, I might not be able to hold on much longer. Let's go back to the wooden house. If I can't hold on any longer, I'll have to leave. Don't worry, I'll find a way to save you."
"Kid, there's no need to save me. If you leave, I'll leave too. We'll fight outside, and I'll make sure you suffer," Fengbo spat out.
Lu Yin shook his head and exchanged glances with Hongyan Mavis. They could see the smiles in each other's eyes as they walked back to the wooden house.
Hongyan Mavis didn't know why Lu Yin had purposely lured Candle over, but she knew that it was useless against him.
Of course, Lu Yin wanted to do that. Without Candle, how could Flowing Light devour time? He wanted Flowing Light to devour time, which would increase Flowing Light's retrospect time. This was equivalent to cultivating Flowing Light while he cultivated True God's Freedom Technique.
Fengbo wasn't stupid; Lu Yin had truly been injured. That blood had come from a mistake while cultivating True God's Freedom Technique.
This injury was even more severe than the one he had suffered in the battle with Fengbo, so how could Fengbo not believe him?
This situation was similar to how Hongyan Mavis had confirmed that Lu Yin wasn't acting because his battle with Fengbo had been too intense.
Lu Yin had also taken advantage of the situation when he was injured; otherwise, he wouldn't have known how to lure Fengbo into attacking him and giving him Candle.
This old man's Candle had saved Lu Yin a lot of time.
Lu Yin returned to the wooden house, where Fengbo couldn't attack Hongyan Mavis even if Lu Yin wasn't around. Lu Yin could cultivate without any worries while devouring Candle's time.
True God's Freedom Technique was very difficult to cultivate, and Lu Yin kept trying. Every time he cut down the lantern, he would spit out blood, which made Fengbo think that Lu Yin had been seriously injured by Candle.
Hongyan Mavis even thought that Lu Yin had been seriously injured by Candle; otherwise, why would he spit out so much blood?
After cultivating for a long time, Lu Yin opened his eyes, exhausted.
Hongyan Mavis was apprehensive, "How are you?"
Lu Yin was helpless, "There are some problems that I don't know how to solve."
"Tell me about it. Maybe I can help you," Hongyan Mavis said.
Lu Yin looked at her, "Senior, have you heard of the only True God's three ultimate techniques?"
Hongyan Mavis was surprised: "Are you practicing the Eternal Battle Skill?"
Lu Yin nodded. "I disguised myself and entered the Eternals. I unintentionally obtained a True God's ultimate skill. This time, I want to practice the True God's ultimate skill to deal with Windmaster."
Hongyan Mavis frowned. "Nonsense. How could you possibly cultivate an Eternal Battle Skill? Eternal Battle Skills are based on divine power. Let's not talk about whether or not you have divine power. Even if you do, the characteristic of divine power is emotionless. Can you be emotionless?"
"Cultivating a battle skill on the basis of Ruthlessness is only a possibility. If it were that easy to cultivate an Eternal battle skill, there would be only a handful of Eternals who could do it."
"Back when my second continent was destroyed and the Eternal Race fought against the Primordial Space, I never saw anyone from the Eternal Race use the Eternal Battle Skill."
Hongyan Mavis recalled that decisive battle and was still shocked to this day. "In that decisive battle, no one was able to hide their strength. If anyone had an Eternal battle technique, they would have used it long ago …"
When he saw that Hongyan Mavis had started to pour her heart out, Lu Yin felt helpless. She had sunk into her memories again, and the more she experienced, the more memories she would have.
This reminded Lu Yin of the Primogenitor and the big-faced tree.
The tree continued to tell Lu Yin about the Third Continent's war, and Hongyan Mavis began to talk about the Second Continent's war. What Lu Yin wanted to know the most was how the First Continent had been destroyed.
At the time, the First Continent had been the first to be destroyed, and it had been the time when the Above Heaven was at its peak. The Three Realms and Six Daos were all present, so how could it have been destroyed by the Eternals? The Primogenitor had suppressed everything, but who had suppressed the Primogenitor?
Unfortunately, even Hongyan Mavis did not know how the First Continent had been destroyed.
Everything had happened too quickly.
Ignoring her, Lu Yin continued to cultivate.
The True God's Freedom Technique required one to abandon their ideals and live as long as the heavens and the earth. Was he really unable to cultivate it?
A long time passed, and one day, Candlelight suddenly disappeared.
Lu Yin opened his eyes and shook his head. Had Fengbo noticed?
Fengbo was not stupid. Although Lu Yin frequently vomited blood, he had not died and had even persisted for so long. No matter how he looked at it, there was something wrong. Fengbo was not sure if Candlelight had harmed Lu Yin, so he had taken it away.
If Candlelight had not harmed Lu Yin, and if Lu Yin had deliberately allowed Fengbo to use it, the final outcome would have been beyond Fengbo's imagination.
Candlelight had already disappeared, and Lu Yin traveled through the stream of light to check the time.
2,375 seconds. A full 2,375 seconds had passed, and Lu Yin was pleasantly surprised. This was twice as long as when he had first met Fengbo, and nearly four times as long as when he had first entered the mirage domain.
Back then, Lu Yin had wanted to try transforming Flowing Light within a thousand seconds, but he had been interrupted by Fengbo. Now, it was time.
Hongyan Mavis watched Lu Yin cultivate curiously.
At her level, she could tell at a glance that Lu Yin's cultivation was not something she could guide; he had his own path of cultivation.
Flowing Light continued to travel through the stream of light, and Lu Yin kept a close eye on the time as he tried to change Flowing Light's form. There was no reaction the first time, and there was still no reaction the second time. The fifth time, the tenth time, and all the way until the thirtieth time, Flowing Light changed.
Lu Yin's eyes lit up, and he began to cultivate Flowing Light's path of transformation.
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Lu Yin cultivated in the mirage domain for a very long time, transforming his limitless inner world. He then met Fengbo and fought a great battle. Now, he was transforming Flowing Light again. If converted to the outside world's time, it would take at least a few hundred years.
However, the mirage domain did not touch time, so to the outside world, not much time had passed since Lu Yin had been taken away by Mister Mu in the Second Disaster Zone.
However, in this short period of time, news of Lu Yin's death had already spread throughout the Six Direction Society. It had spread so quickly that even the Lu family, Wood Deity, and the others had not expected it.
It was as if there was a hand pushing for this news to spread.
Lu Yin's importance to the Six Direction Society was indescribable. He had come into contact with the Six Direction Society, and his influence was only second to that of a Grand Empyrean.
During the Grand Empyrean Tea Party, his Half-Progenitor Origin Tribulation had greatly shocked the Six Direction Society.
If not for the Grand Empyrean's abnormally high cultivation, no one in the Six Direction Society would have been able to suppress Lu Yin.
When such a person was alive, nothing had happened, but once he died, all of the dissatisfaction and resentment towards him erupted.
When news of Lu Yin's death spread throughout the Six Direction Society, no one said anything on the surface, but many people were secretly happy. For example, some of Lotus Reverend's disciples, some of the cultivators from the Reincarnation Space-Time, and even some from the Genesis Space had been dissatisfied with Lu Yin, but they had not dared to voice it out. Now, they were happy.
But for now, they were only happy in secret. They still did not dare to voice it out. Lu Yin's influence was too great, and while there were some who were dissatisfied with him, the majority still respected him. If not for Lu Yin, the Endless Battlefield and the Six Direction Society's border warfront would have been filled with endless slaughter, and many people would have died. These people were truly grateful to Lu Yin.
There was no need to even mention the Genesis Space. The fact that Lu Yin had been accepted by the Fifth Mainland and obtained the Wordless Heavenly Tome's inner world was the best proof.
When news of his death spread, countless people grieved and cursed at the sky, but even more people did not believe it. Everyone's gazes gathered on the Above the Heavens Sect, waiting for someone to speak up and for Lu Yin to appear.
At the back mountain of the Above the Heavens Sect, there were several stargates erected beside the stone table where Lu Yin had stayed all year round. These stargates were the ones that led to the Expedition of Calamity and the ones that led to Ye Sheng.
On this day, outside the Above the Heavens Sect, figures with dark red auras appeared and charged towards the Above the Heavens Sect. They were the berserk corpses.
Although there were no more berserk corpses in the First Zone of Calamity, the Eternals had gathered all of the berserk corpses in the other zones. This was because this was a divine commandment, and it was an all-out war.
The Above the Heavens Sect's alarm went off, and Elder Chan and the other experts all stepped out and attacked together.
No one had expected the Eternals to suddenly attack the Above the Heavens Sect. It had only been a few days since news of Lu Yin's death had spread, and the Eternals had acted too quickly.
While the battle outside the Above the Heavens Sect broke out, a group of people had also gathered at the foot of the mountain where the stargates were located. These people were not Corpse Kings, but rather humans. They were spies of the Eternals. The fact that they could remain in the Above the Heavens Sect meant that they had been thoroughly investigated. Even so, they were still spies because the Eternals had never used them. They were the most secretive spies that the Eternals had left behind in the Fifth Mainland.
These spies did not have very high cultivations, but they were still able to enter the Above the Heavens Sect. This was their value.
When the berserk corpses attacked the Above the Heavens Sect, the area outside the Above the Heavens Sect had been turned upside down. These spies had also acted, and their target had been the stargates.
Leng Qing was the one guarding the stargates, but even a Progenitor could not protect them. The stargates belonged to the Eternals.
These spies had not acted to deal with Leng Qing, but rather to destroy the stargates.
The moment she released her divine power, the stargates were no longer under Leng Qing's control.
The battle in the Above the Heavens Sect had ended with Lu Tianyi's arrival. The berserk corpses had all been killed, and the human spies who had attacked the stargates had also died. They had not planned on staying alive from the moment they had attacked, and the stargates had been destroyed.
Lu Tianyi stood on the mountain peak with an ugly expression as he stared at the shattered stargates.
Elder Chan sighed. "I was too careless. I did not expect the Eternals to target these stargates."
Leng Qing tightened her grip on her blade. "It's my fault."
Lu Tianyi glanced at them. "No one is to blame. The Eternals have been watching the Above the Heavens Sect for too long. Those spies have existed since before the Above the Heavens Sect was established, and even before Little Seven stepped onto the path of cultivation. None of you are to blame."
Not far away, Wang Wen arrived and looked at the shattered stargates. He clutched his head. "This is troublesome. The stargates are no longer here. Although those civilizations can find us, we can't find them. Since the Eternals have chosen to attack the stargates, they will either attack us in the shortest amount of time possible, leaving us isolated and helpless, or they will attack those civilizations."
"Who do you think the Eternals will attack?" Elder Chan asked.
Lu Tianyi also looked at Wang Wen. He had never underestimated Wang Wen because of his cultivation. Wang Wen had helped Lu Yin too much. In the Above the Heavens Sect, Wang Wen's cultivation was at the bottom, but his status was comparable to Elder Chan and the others.
Wang Wen did not hesitate. "Us."