Everyone was stunned; that was Eddy, a powerhouse who'd entered Yu Academy as an exception and was publicly acknowledged as the strongest. He was someone who could fight Zhang Dingtian head-on, but he'd been crippled with a single palm strike.
Zhang Dingtian was just as shocked; this person was so much stronger than before that even he wasn't confident in being able to take on that palm.
Lu Yin looked at his right palm, where the third star had appeared. It seemed to be more powerful than he'd expected.
Sirius' Palm wasn't just a simple starburst attack; each star would stack the damage, and a three-star Sirius' Palm was far more powerful than a two-star attack.
Lu Yin had once guessed that he'd be able to match Zhang Dingtian when the third star appeared, but now he knew that he'd actually surpassed the other man.
In the distance, a student stared at his gadget in shock, "3,700 power level, a realmbreaker!"
Everyone felt their scalps go numb; realmbreakers were freakish geniuses that only the most gifted geniuses in the universe could reach. It was inconceivable that two of them had appeared on a fringe planet, and there was even a cultivator with an innate gift next to them. Was this really an ordinary planet?
Jeraldine was stunned; this bastard had actually become so strong!
Lu Yin clenched his fists and scanned the students, grinning as he charged at one of them.
That student was one of the strongest in the academy, and he was scared out of his wits when he saw Lu Yin charging towards him. He didn't even think of resisting and immediately tried to escape, but Lu Yin grabbed him by the shoulder and crushed his ring armor. "Stay put," Lu Yin growled, punching the student in the forehead and knocking him unconscious. He then continued to charge towards the other students.
The scene was strange; Lu Yin was like a lion charging into a flock of sheep. Sirius' Palm made him invincible, and the attacks of the other students were useless against him.
After Lu Yin knocked out eight of them, the rest dispersed in a hubbub. They couldn't fight him, and they couldn't defend against him either.
Hayden was the first to flee, but Bai Xue had been keeping an eye on him the entire time.
"Get out of my way, woman!" Hayden roared. He didn't want to be knocked out, and it was obvious that the bastard had a motive for doing so. Thinking back to the fate of Parlie and Veron, he sucked in a breath of cold air. Was the bastard planning to kidnap all of the trial students?
Whoosh! Just as Hayden was about to break through the ice and escape, a terrifying slash streaked across the ground, forcefully stopping him in his tracks. In front of him, Zhang Dingtian wielded his saber and stared coldly at Hayden. "Did I say you could leave?"
Hayden was stunned for a moment. Then, he felt a sharp pain in the back of his head and lost consciousness.
Bai Xue retracted her hand. Her eyes were filled with excitement. It seemed that doing this was very satisfying.
Zhang Dingtian stared blankly at Bai Xue. This was the first time he'd seen Bai Xue use a club, and he had to admit that Lu Yin's actions were quite provocative.
Further away, Gerlaine and Balaror stared blankly at the capital, their faces twitching, "Are my eyes playing tricks on me? That shameless bastard is capturing students?"
Balaror smiled wryly, "You're not, he really is capturing students. This is probably the first time in the history of the trial that something like this has happened."
No matter which trial it was, the students were like gods standing high above the masses, able to look down on the masses. Their only opponent was themselves. But now, all the students participating in the trial, even the strongest batch, were being captured one by one. They were as terrified as rabbits, and in the end, less than five of them managed to escape.
When the capital finally regained its calm, there were nineteen unconscious students lying on the ground in a pitiful state.
Lu Yin wiped the sweat off his brow; he was exhausted. The ones who'd escaped were too fast, and their movement techniques were too good for him to catch.
"Nineteen here, twenty-one if you include Parlie and Veron. Eh, Zhou Shan brought those two from Blue Mountain Academy?
That's twenty-three students, not a small number, "Lu Yin calculated, his hands moving quickly as he plundered them one by one.
Zhang Dingtian and Bai Xue were speechless; Lu Yin's movements were too practiced.
Eddy hadn't fainted, only heavily injured. His eyes went wide, "You're that interstellar bandit?"
Lu Yin glanced at him, "Don't spout nonsense, these are my spoils. I can't fight for nothing."
Eddy was furious.
Jeraldine came out at this time to help Lu Yin deal with the spoils.
Lu Yin didn't blame her; she was also a trial student, and it was already good enough that she hadn't helped him attack the capital.
The battle had been tiring; even with his armor, his internal organs had been shaken up and he needed to rest. Zhang Dingtian and Bai Xue didn't even want to move. Zhou Shan and Wu Sheng were heavily injured, so Lu Yin had Jeraldine treat them before he was brought back to the capital by the Chinese camp.
All of the cultivators from the Chinese camp moved out to clean up the ruins.
Two hours later, all of the students who had been knocked unconscious woke up one after another. When they realized that they were all tied up, they all glared at Lu Yin angrily.
They glared at Lu Yin, especially when they found out that they had been robbed.
"You're that interstellar bandit, the one who robbed Ian!" someone shouted.
Beside him was Ian, "Hey, don't use me as an example, it's embarrassing."
"You must be the one who robbed Ian, and now you're robbing us? You're a bandit!" someone else shouted.
Ian was speechless.
Lu Yin sneered and walked in front of them, raising his hand. The students jumped in fright and quickly shut their mouths.
Lu Yin retracted his hand and was about to say something to Zhang Dingtian and the rest when his eyes narrowed and he looked towards the sky. At the same time, countless people across Earth looked up and saw meteors streaking across the sky.
One after another, they streaked across the horizon.
Lu Yin was shocked; this was the second batch of trial takers.
"Why so early?" he asked Jeraldine in confusion.
"It's rare for a second batch to appear, so I don't know."
Bai Xue walked over with a solemn expression, "It should have started from the moment we received the notice."
Zhang Dingtian looked at the sky and narrowed his eyes when he saw three meteors flying towards them.
Lu Yin immediately shouted, "Bring these people back to the capital, quick!"
Not long after, a loud explosion rang out in the distance. Countless survivors in the capital were terrified; today's despair was comparable to the apocalypse. Dozens of Realm of Sky powerhouses had appeared, and now even meteors were crashing down. Was humanity really in a desperate situation?
The steel city walls had been reduced to rubble, and Lu Yin's group stood atop the rubble and watched as a meteor crashed down. It was only a few thousand meters away from the capital, and they could even see the alien spacecraft surrounded by flames.
Boom!
The ground shook once more as a huge crack spread towards the capital. Zhang Dingtian waved his hand, and a shockwave tore through the ground to block the crack.
The next moment, a scorching heat wave swept across the capital, bringing with it an endless amount of dust. Everyone felt the pressure descend upon them.
When the dust settled, a circular spacecraft with a diameter of three meters appeared in front of everyone. It was very small, exactly the same as Vesta's, and could only fit one person.
A huge cone-shaped crater had appeared in the ground.
Another explosion rang out in the distance.
Lu Yin's eyes narrowed as three meteors crashed down. This was the second batch of trialtakers who had come for Astral-10, hoping to do well in the trials.
Eddy was held to the side, his eyes glued to the spacecraft with excitement. Come, let these natives see what it means to be a monster, and what it means to be strong.
Crack!
The circular spacecraft's hatch opened, and hot air spewed out into white smoke. A hand reached out and grabbed the edge of the spacecraft, and a figure walked out into the sunlight.
A handsome man with a hint of a smile appeared in front of everyone's eyes.
He walked out of the spacecraft and slowly floated to the ground. He didn't look at Lu Yin's group, instead scanning his surroundings with a probing gaze.
Lu Yin's eyes narrowed as he looked at the man; he was extremely dangerous. He looked down at his gadget and saw a power level of 3000, a peak Sentinel. They were clearly on the same level, but why did this person give off such a dangerous vibe?
It wasn't just Lu Yin; Zhang Dingtian, Bai Xue, Jeraldine, and even Eddy felt an extreme sense of danger the moment they saw the man. This gentle-looking man seemed to hide a suffocating pressure.
"Who is he?" Lu Yin asked, patting Eddy's head.
Eddy stared blankly at the man and shook his head, "I don't know."
Lu Yin's eyes narrowed; this man hadn't even looked at them. Was he looking down on them?
This was an invisible arrogance that was engraved in his bones and indescribable.
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