Yi Nan could sense the killing intent in Lu Yin's voice, "The Sky's Hand and Zhikong Domain support your ascension to Sang Tian, but they will not participate in any operations against the Tian Yuan Universe. This is against the will of Yu Sang Tian. This is more than enough sincerity."
"You should know the Sky's Hand's integrity."
Lu Yin raised his hand and waved it at Yi Nan. Canyang: "I have long since passed the point where I need to compromise. The heavens of this spiritual universe will change for me."
Canyang, burn your martial arts.
Yi Nan's seven orifices bled, and his bony hand could no longer hold steady. He spat out a mouthful of blood and his face turned red. "Calamity."
He opened his bony hand and an indescribable power gathered. It was the power of thought.
"Let me experience the calamities of the mortal world. You asked for it."
Yi Nan pointed his bony hand at Lu Yin.
Thoughts were also a type of power that could not be seen clearly, but if his thoughts were being altered or robbed, then he could still avoid them. However, if he was faced with a collision of thoughts, then it would be very difficult for him to immediately avoid it. For example, he was currently facing Yi Nan, and he knew that Yi Nan would take action.
Yi Nan's calamity also collided with Yi Nan the moment Lu Yin knew about it.
This sort of collision wouldn't cause any harm. How could a person's thoughts cause harm?
Unless they could cause their cultivation to go berserk.
At Lu Yin's level of cultivation, he had a strong will. How could his thoughts cause his cultivation to go berserk?
However, Yi Nan's calamity came from the countless years of suffering that he had seen in the mortal world. This was also the reason why he had created the Sky's Hand.
How much suffering could a person experience in their lifetime?
Some people had very little while others had a lot. What about two, twenty, two, twenty, twenty, two hundred million? Or even more?
This suffering was instilled in a person, and that person would experience it for the rest of their life.
In that instant, Lu Yin experienced it as soon as his thoughts collided with hers.
It was an indescribable pain that caused his will to crumble. It was as if his loved ones had died at the hands of his enemies. It was as if everything he had was taken away from him. It was as if he was enduring the most painful torture. It was as if …
It was an indescribable pain that countless people had experienced. Lu Yin had no choice but to use Flash to reverse Yi Nan's situation.
First Calamity was also a clash of thoughts. This was the greatest drawback of this technique. Since it was a clash of thoughts, the person bearing the calamity would have to face it, and the person releasing it would also have to face it.
For countless years, he had endured the suffering brought about by the calamities of the world. Even for someone like him, it was difficult to bear. He had tried again and again, countless times, before he had a chance to act.
Lu Yin's will was instantly crushed by the suffering of the world, but he could still hold on for a few seconds. He was confident that those few seconds were enough to crush anyone's will, and even Yu Sang Tian might not be able to withstand it.
This was the terrifying aspect of thinking. It was completely different from consciousness, essence, energy, and spirit. He wanted to become the founder of the path of thinking in the spiritualized universe.
At this moment, his confidence swelled like never before. Perhaps he could fight Yu Sang Tian, as long as Yu Sang Tian could withstand the clash of minds.
Lu Yin's ability to rewind time by one second was nothing in Yi Ugan's eyes. So what if he rewound time by one second?
No matter how much time flowed backward, he could just keep attacking. The countless years of suffering he had endured allowed him to persevere. This was the pain he had endured for countless years. This person had to bear it as well. In the universe, anyone who wanted to be his enemy had to bear it.
In that one second, Lu Yin was drenched in sweat.
His will had collapsed in an instant, and he knew very well that he could not bear it any longer. What kind of person could bear the suffering of countless people?
He definitely could not do it.
His heart was like a boulder.
This was the strength of the master of the Celestial Hand's First Calamity. None of the powerhouses who had survived the calamities were easy to deal with. In comparison, the Startoad was simply adorable.
All of the powerhouses in the spiritualized universe had their own trump cards.
The skeletal hand pointed at Lu Yin, and the First Calamity's eyes turned red. The calamity continued.
Lu Yin raised a hand, and the karmic spiral formed into a karmic wheel.
Calamity originated from the suffering of the world, from the people who had endured it. Some came from the body, while others came from the spirit. However, no matter what kind of suffering one experienced, there was always a cause and effect. No one in the universe could escape karma. Since there was karma, then this karma had to be negated.
The skeletal hand pointed at Lu Yin, and their thoughts collided.
The karmic wheel spun in front of Lu Yin, and their thoughts collided.
First Calamity was overwhelmed. How was this possible?
His calamity was being continuously canceled out?
He stared at Lu Yin in disbelief. This person was not doing anything and was just standing there, but his calamity was constantly being canceled out. He could not use his thoughts to clash with this person. Impossible, no one could do this. Not even Yu Sang Tian could do this. Such a thing did not exist.
Even if someone could endure or avoid the calamity, how could they cancel out the calamity?
This was the suffering of the world that he had grasped over countless years. It was a type of experience, a type of life. Even the power of time should not be able to cancel it out. The only way to do so was to use the power of time to go back to the time before the suffering occurred and prevent it from occurring.
But even so, the amount of suffering he seized wasn't just one portion, but countless portions. Could it be that this person had erased the long river of time?
Had he made time meaningless?
This was something that Lu Yin could not figure out.
The power of karma was not inferior to that of time. Yu Sang Tian had attacked the Tian Yuan Universe because he had sensed that Lu Yin had cultivated the Dao of Karma. This was a power that even someone like him, who had a small spiritual universe and could step into the Eternal Realm, feared.
No one could say for sure what the future of cultivating the Dao of Karma would be.
Even Yu Sang Tian and a grass grandmaster were afraid of this power.
Lu Yin's current understanding of karma was enough to see through the threads of karma. He could use the karma spiral to trace back to the source, and he could use the karma wheel to cancel out the karma of events. If he was given more time, he did not know what level he would reach.
At the very least, this was something that Lu Yin could not figure out.
Tears of blood flowed from Lu Yin's eyes. He was unwilling to accept this. He had endured the pain of the calamity for countless years, and he did not even dare to leave the Southbound Realm. He had given up on fighting for Sang Tian's position many times. Otherwise, how could Meng Sang Tian, Bao Qi, and the others have become Sang Tian?
He had sacrificed too much for the Calamity technique. Why should it be canceled out?
Why?
Lu Yin had imagined Yu Sang Tian as an enemy, and not only had he created the Calamity technique, but he had also imagined that Yu Sang Tian had used his Heart of Boulder to withstand the calamity. For this reason, Lu Yin had specially thought of another technique, Reverse Calamity. This technique would use the enemy's life experiences and willpower to resist the calamity as a foundation, negating the calamity to negate the opponent's experiences. It was as if he had reversed the enemy's life in order to defeat Yu Sang Tian.
Even though this technique had not been completed, Lu Yin was certain that it could be realized. Given enough time, he could even defeat Yu Sang Tian with a sneak attack. He was an assassin.
Why was this happening?
No matter how much he thought about it, he could not have predicted that someone would be able to cancel out the calamity.
He would never have guessed it.
Lu Yin could not have guessed it either.
Lu Yin had imagined Yu Sang Tian as an enemy and wanted to create a technique that could deal with Yu Sang Tian.
There were too many geniuses in the universe, and some had walked out while others had not.
Yu Sang Tian was a genius among geniuses, and he should not be underestimated. It was a pity that he had met Lu Yin.
Lu Yin had once been trapped in the consciousness of the Fifth Mainland's Technocracy's ancestor, Hui Zu. He had faced Mister Mu and raised his doubts. Lu Yin had cultivated too many different powers, and he did not know what his future path would be.
At that time, Mister Mu's words were still fresh in his mind.
All he had to do was walk to the end of each path.
This was the goal that Mister Mu had set for him.
He had to walk to the end of each path.
There were millions of paths to cultivation in the universe, but humans were still humans, and all of their paths would eventually converge. Lu Yin alone had cultivated the paths of many others, and they had all converged to reach the end.
He was the nemesis of countless people.
It was just like how this spiritualized cultivator could not figure it out.
Only Mister Mu had pointed out his future path.
However, even Mister Mu had not thought that he would be able to walk to the end of these paths. Lu Yin looked at Yi Nan through the karmic wheel and saw tears of blood flow from Yi Nan's eyes. He struck out with a palm, and Yi Nan fell into a state of confusion due to the disaster he had endured.
A voice suddenly traveled to Lu Yin's ears.
"I'm giving this person to you to resolve your grudge against the Zhikong Domain. I hope that Master Lu can see my sincerity."
Endless illusions appeared before Lu Yin's eyes. This was a sequence technique, the Second Image. It was ranked fifth out of the eighty-eight sequence techniques, and Lu Yin had encountered it before.
The endless illusions seemed to flow through time and space, and Lu Yin almost could not tell the difference between reality and the past.
A sword appeared from behind him. "Reason in Clarity, Sword of Calligraphy Wild Grass."
Lu Yin grabbed the sword's edge and exerted force, causing the blade to bend. A terrifying force vibrated along the curved blade and forced Mister Li back.
Mister Li suddenly attacked Lu Yin.
Lu Yin reversed the blade and slashed at Mister Li.
The thirteenth sword.
Mister Li's gaze turned cold. This person knew swordsmanship?
The air around him transformed into a longsword again, and he slashed out again and again. Sword of Calligraphy Wild Grass.
Lu Yin's thirteenth sword slashed out. This sword did not attack the human body, only the emotions.
The sword flashed past, and Mister Li spat out a mouthful of blood.
Lu Yin suddenly twisted his sword again, causing a flash of light that silenced everything. Silence reigned as the Silent Sword slashed out a bloody wound. Another flash of light followed, and yet another bloody wound appeared on the man's shoulder. Then, Lu Yin's Autumn Flower Sword Intent, Lightning Sword Technique, Calm Heart Sword, and Karmic Flame Sword all combined into one. Sword light pierced through the man's shoulder, causing blood to spill onto the ground.
The sword flashed continuously, coming from the various sword techniques that Lu Yin had experienced at the beginning of his cultivation.
These sword techniques were actually very ordinary, and they were not enough to be used on a battlefield of this level. However, in Lu Yin's hands, they had transformed into terrifying sword techniques that could injure Mister Li.
This was not only because of Lu Yin's own strength, but also because he had seen Wu Tian's Celestial Vault and received guidance from Wu Bei.
He was using the Celestial Universe's sword techniques to slash at Mister Li.
More than a dozen wounds appeared on Mister Li's body, causing him to bleed profusely. He did not block at all, allowing himself to be slashed by the sword light. His own sword fell down, and a "grass" character formed from sword qi fell down towards Lu Yin.