Lu Yin descended and walked in front of Rather, "Pour out everything in your cosmic ring, don't force my hand."
Rather's face twitched, "You must be the strongest student in some school. Why are you robbing me instead of completing your mission?
You'll lose points. "
Lu Yin's gaze turned cold and he raised his hand, causing the air to distort.
"Don't, don't do anything! I'll pour, I'll pour!" Rather poured out everything from his cosmic ring in an aggrieved manner. Lu Yin took the star crystals and a few other useful items and left immediately after.
"Hey, what's your name?" Rather shouted.
Lu Yin ignored him.
Rather cursed loudly at the bastard's stupidity. Suddenly, he remembered something and hurriedly opened his gadget, only to see the words "Rather has been defeated" floating at the top of the map.
Rather coughed up blood again. There was only one possibility for the name not to be revealed; that bastard's gadget wasn't his, but had stolen it.
Far away from Tong City, Lu Yin looked at the network and nodded in satisfaction. The people monitoring Earth's trial must have known his name, but they had kept it hidden. Who would be next?
Lu Yin stared at the map, "You're next!" He rushed out.
Over the next three days, Lu Yin robbed more than a dozen students who had hidden themselves safely in Huaxia. They were all at Jeraldine's level and only wanted to peacefully occupy a place to harvest some resources so that they could survive until the end of the trial. They had no intention of getting involved in anything else, but they were all targeted by Lu Yin. He was in dire need of star crystals, and even a mosquito was meat.
Lu Yin sorted through his cosmic ring in the clouds. It had a lot of space, but it still wasn't enough. There were too many random resources and herbs, and he had no choice but to throw them away one by one. These students hadn't been able to find anything good, so he didn't feel bad about throwing them away. The only thing that annoyed him was that they were too poor; he had only managed to gather two cubes of star crystals after robbing so many.
In reality, the students who dared to take part in the trial were all elites of their respective academies, and they were much wealthier than the average student. Even if he robbed a hundred or even a thousand ordinary students, he still wouldn't be able to gather enough star crystals.
These crystals were hard currency in the universe, and they were equivalent to gold on Earth. Even students from wealthy families were reluctant to use them to increase their cultivation speed, preferring to save their lives at critical moments. Thus, most students simply absorbed the free star energy in the universe step by step, unlike Lu Yin who wanted to take a shortcut.
"Looks like I'll have to rob Veron, the strongest student in the academy," he muttered to himself. Even if he didn't think that way, he'd already done all he could. News of his exploits had spread across the network, and it was said that an interstellar bandit had infiltrated the ranks of the trial students.
Thanks to Eddy's suggestion, more and more students gathered in India. While Lu Yin had been robbing, more than thirty students had already gathered, including ten of the academy's strongest students.
Those who dared to pursue the fugitive were at least the top three experts in the academy. The gathering of thirty such experts made the whole of India tremble.
On the fifth day, Eddy announced that he would be leaving for the capital so that the other students wouldn't have to come to India.
The network was in an uproar; Eddy had finally declared war on the capital.
Back in Hidden Peak, Lu Yin stood up, "Has it begun?
I'm going to start hunting as well, "he said as he soared into the sky.
Two days later, a notification popped up on the network: "Ian has been defeated."
Many students' hearts sank; they'd seen the same notification more than ten times before. Rumor had it that it was the interstellar bandit who'd stolen his gadget, making it impossible to confirm his identity.
Many students had thought that the bandit only dared to rob ordinary students, but Ian's loss caused their hearts to clench; he was the academy's strongest student.
On a barren land, a man coughed up blood, his face ashen as he stared into the distance. Lu Yin had used his blood to easily open the man's cosmic ring, and his eyes lit up as he looked at the items inside. "Not bad, not bad. There's quite a lot of good stuff. As expected of the strongest student in the academy."
"Who the hell are you?
Which academy are you from?
Leave your name! "Yi En roared. Just now, he had encountered this person, and this person had used the Spacerend Palm to stun him. By the time he had reacted, he had been hit by another palm. The Spacerend Palm had at most injured him, but the second palm strike was the key. It had knocked him to the ground and seriously injured him.
Lu Yin tossed the ring to Ian, "Call me Seventh Bro."
Yi En was infuriated as he watched Lu Yin leave.
In the westernmost part of China, Qinghai, Eddy, Hayden, and more than ten other students had solemn expressions on their faces.
"Ian was robbed, and the guy called himself Seventh Bro. Eddy, we should deal with this before heading to the capital. There's still fifteen days before the second batch arrives, so we have enough time," someone suggested.
"That's right, leaving that rat alone will only ruin things," another said with a gloomy expression. His junior had been robbed as well, and that bastard had even dared to rob a girl.
Eddy and Hayden looked at each other, "Alright, we'll work in pairs and search the capital's surroundings. We'll gradually close the area and find all the gadgets. If you see someone who's acting alone and has the power of the strongest in the academy, attack immediately. It's better to kill the wrong person than to let them go."
"It's a pity that the LAN doesn't allow image transmission, or we'd know who's behind this," someone complained.
The group then scattered and left.
Lu Yin looked at all the gadgets on the map, "So they're working in pairs. Interesting, one of them must be the strongest in the academy. Let's go."
Half a day later, Lu Yin was standing in the clouds when two students appeared in the distance and looked at their gadgets. "Only 1,700 power, trash," one of them said disdainfully, glaring at Lu Yin as he spoke.
The other waved at Lu Yin, "Kid, come over here."
Lu Yin calmly flew in front of them, his gaze indifferent.
"Kid, have you seen the person who robbed you?" one of them asked.
Lu Yin nodded, "Yes."
"Draw a picture of that person," the other said.
Lu Yin shook his head, "I've never studied drawing."
"Are you an idiot? Connect to your gadget and you'll be able to draw anything you want," the other man raged.
"Actually, there's no need, the person is right here."
"Where?" the two were shocked.
Lu Yin pointed at himself, "It's me." He then sent out a Shockwave Palm that caused the air to distort as it slammed into their bodies. One of them immediately fainted, but the other managed to hold on and roared, "So it's you! You're courting death!" He pulled out his sword and slashed at Lu Yin.
This person was the strongest in the academy, and although he wasn't as strong as Veron and the others, he was still much stronger than Terence and the others. However, he was still no match for Lu Yin's Sirius Palm, breaking his sword and sending his body crashing to the ground.
Lu Yin easily succeeded in his second robbery, causing the LAN to explode once more.
Eddy's face darkened; how long had it been since someone had been robbed? Where had this bastard come from?
"Remember, don't approach strangers," Eddy sent a message to everyone, but there was no need for him to do so; all the students instinctively stayed away from strangers regardless of their strength.
Lu Yin looked at his cosmic ring, "There's about one and a half cubes worth of star crystals here. I can absorb them now." He took off his gadget and tossed it into the mountain stream before rushing to the other side. He found an abandoned farm, crushed the star crystals, and used the Cosmic Art to absorb them.
Far away in the capital, Zhang Dingtian and the rest stared at the LAN in silence for a long time.
"I'm sure it's Lu Yin," Bai Xue said confidently.
"Why?" Zhang Dingtian was curious.
"Who else could it be?" Bai Xue explained how Lu Yin had robbed Parlie and Veron.
Zhang Dingtian's expression turned strange; this Lu Yin seemed like a normal person, but who would've thought he'd be so extreme? He'd robbed more than fifteen people, including several of the strongest in the academy. Just what was he planning?
If Bai Xue could guess that it was Lu Yin, so could Jeraldine. She was even more shocked than Zhang Dingtian and the rest; when she'd first met Lu Yin, he'd only been a Seeker and hadn't even been a match for her. Who would've thought that he'd become so powerful in such a short time?
While Lu Yin was leisurely absorbing star energy in the farm, Eddy and the other students were frantically searching for him. They had searched for five days without a single clue, and in the end, they found an ownerless gadget in a mountain stream.
"Keep looking. If you can't find him in seven days, we'll head straight to the capital. The second batch of trialtakers will arrive in ten days, we can't afford any mistakes," Eddy said darkly.