"She died because of a celestial phenomenon. She could have lived as long as I did, or even longer. But she died. At that moment, my heart turned cold."
"I have descendants, but they are not Xixi."
"So many years have passed. I left Earth and went to the Above Heaven Sect. I've seen the splendor of life, and I have no regrets. That's why I can face death and wait for the final moment. But this moment is a luxury for you."
"You will never be able to wait for a natural death. Lu Yin, I'm sorry."
Lu Yin laughed. "What's there to be sorry about?"
Zhou Shan closed his eyes. "We are all under your protection, but you can't even choose your own death. We can die of old age. It's unfair to you."
Lu Yin took another sip of tea. "You think too much. Who wants to die if they can live?
Immortality is everyone's goal. "
Zhou Shan put down his teacup. "I'll try my best to live. As long as you need me, I'll hold on until the day you don't want to see me anymore."
"Hahaha." Lu Yin laughed.
Zhou Shan laughed as well. "Come, have a taste. This is the dessert I made. See if it's the same as Miss Long Xi's."
"Long Xi came here before?"
"She sent me desserts."
"Let me try. Hmm, it's not the same. It's not as good as Long Xi's."
"Really?
I think it's about the same. "
"Much worse."
"This was made by Long Xi. I couldn't bear to eat it last time and kept it until now."
Lu Yin: "…"
Not long after, Bai Xue came as well. She was the last person Zhou Shan could talk to on Earth. She also brought Shang Qing.
Lu Yin looked at Shang Qing and then at Bai Xue. He was not surprised.
They chatted for a while and mentioned Zhang Dingtian and the rest.
"Old Zhang and the rest went to Jupiter and never came back. It's been a long time," Zhou Shan said.
Lu Yin was surprised. "Jupiter?
Why did they go there? "
Zhou Shan shook his head.
Bai Xue said, "My sister went there too."
"And that Liu Shaoge," Shang Qing said.
Lu Yin was surprised. "Bai Qian is back?"
Bai Xue nodded.
Bai Qian was an unforgettable name. Although she hadn't appeared many times, Lu Yin had always remembered her in his heart.
They had worked together to scheme against Hyperspace, but she had been captured by the Eternals. She had used the corpses of Eternal Realm cultivators to protect herself, and she had eventually disappeared without a trace. Even Lu Yin had not been able to find her back then.
He didn't expect her to come back.
Zhang Dingtian, Bai Qian, and Liu Shaoge had all gone to Jupiter?
And they had all gone missing.
"How do you know that they're missing?" Lu Yin asked.
Zhou Shan said, "I contacted the Sect Above the Heavens, but they couldn't find him."
Lu Yin looked at Jupiter and stood up. "It's time for me to leave. I'll go take a look."
Zhou Shan and the rest also stood up to bid Lu Yin farewell.
After he left, Bai Xue looked at Zhou Shan, "You've changed."
Zhou Shan smiled and said, "I have to find a time to go to the Above Heaven Sect and ask for some resources so that I can live longer."
…
Lu Yin teleported to Jupiter and saw a familiar altar. The only difference was that the stone on the altar had cracked.
There were footprints in the surroundings, which probably belonged to Zhang Dingtian and the others.
Why did they come here?
Lu Yin walked around the altar but couldn't find the reason.
The altar is dedicated to Chaos. It was created before human civilization.
Chaos had been the master of the Tian Yuan Universe, and Earth had been destroyed every once in a while because of Chaos' power. Earth had also been the place where Chaos lived.
Now, Lu Yin didn't know where Chaos was.
Lu Yin had used the sphere to suppress Chaos' power and solve the problem of Earth's continuous destruction. Logically speaking, this matter should have come to an end.
Unless Chaos returned.
But now, the sphere had cracked and Zhang Dingtian and the others had gone missing. What was the connection?
Lu Yin pressed one hand on the altar and waved it casually. The starry sky trembled and the power of Chaos dissipated.
In the past, he had needed the sphere to suppress Chaos' power, but now, he could directly disperse it.
It wasn't an exaggeration to say that even if Chaos faced him, it would be difficult for him to threaten his life unless he had the strength of three universal laws.
He wasn't afraid of Chaos, let alone this power that had been left behind for countless years.
After looking at the altar for a while, Lu Yin looked around the Tian Yuan Universe and at the same time looked at the parallel universes, trying to find Zhang Dingtian and the others.
After more than half a month, Lu Yin withdrew the sphere and couldn't find them.
Zhang Dingtian and the others shouldn't be in the Tian Yuan Universe, but where could they have gone?
Jupiter had once been able to bring people to the Cosmic Tree because of the sourcebox array, but the Cosmic Tree was also a part of the Tian Yuan Universe. Lu Yin could see that with a single glance, and Zhang Dingtian and the others' disappearance had nothing to do with the array.
Could it be that this altar had the ability to send people to a certain place?
He hadn't thought about it before.
The sphere shattered, and whatever ability it contained disappeared.
Lu Yin left Jupiter. Everyone had their own destiny, and he didn't force it. When it was time to appear, it would appear.
A few years later, a string in the Tian Yuan Universe vibrated. Lu Yin looked over and saw that Progenitor Chen had stepped into the realm of Bitter Adversity.
He relaxed and didn't ask what Progenitor Chen's Bitter Adversity was. After Progenitor Chen stabilized, Lu Yin brought him into the mirage domain to continue cultivating the Starry Fist.
This time, Progenitor Chen's attainments and speed of the Starry Fist were completely different from before. He constantly lit up stars, which stunned Lu Yin. He had thought that Earth's speed of lighting up stars was already fast enough, but now, Progenitor Chen was still continuing.
Progenitor Chen's Astral Fist encompassed the entire Outerverse, and at this moment, he had practically lit up all the stars in the Outerverse.
But it was still not enough.
Halfway through, he left the mirage domain and incorporated the Innerverse and Neoverse into the Astral Fist Manual, continuing to light up stars.
Lu Yin stood within Progenitor Chen's Astral Fist Manual and continuously moved towards the lit stars, hoping to find his own path. Time continued to pass, and they didn't know how long they had stayed in the mirage domain. Perhaps it was a hundred years, or perhaps a thousand years.
On this day, Progenitor Chen used his own Starry Fist and circulated the Astral Fist Manual. Starry fist intent gathered as he punched towards Lu Yin.
Lu Yin looked at Progenitor Chen's fist and didn't dodge. He allowed Progenitor Chen's fist to hit him, and he remained unscathed.
Progenitor Chen didn't use the Nirvana Tree's technique to attack. His current Starry Fist was at most comparable to the peak of power below Eternal Life. If he used the Nirvana Tree's technique, he would be able to reach the level of a rogue, which was in line with Lu Yin's speculations.
Furthermore, compared to Qing Xing and the other experts who had used the Nirvana Tree to reach the level of a rogue, Progenitor Chen had more space.
His Starry Fist was far from perfection, and he had just stepped into Bitter Adversity.
Once he reached the peak of Bitter Adversity or even the peak of power below Eternal Life, his strength would definitely surpass that of ordinary Eternal Life Realm cultivators. He would become an existence that was close to Lu Yin's.
"How is it?" Progenitor Chen asked. He was using this fist to enlighten Lu Yin.
He hoped that he could help Lu Yin find his own path.
Lu Yin shook his head. He had seen Progenitor Chen's Starry Fist, and he could use the Sirius Art. However, he always felt that it wasn't his own.
If Progenitor Chen could find his own path, why couldn't Lu Yin do the same?
The Starry Fist and the Astral Fist Manual were their foundations, and Progenitor Chen had used them to find his own path. Lu Yin had achieved his goal. He had seen how Progenitor Chen had found his own path, which had been his original goal. He wanted to use Progenitor Chen's innate gift to see how this path worked.
Now, Progenitor Chen had walked out.
He was still in the same spot.
"Perhaps you and I are fundamentally different," Progenitor Chen said.
His tone was low as he looked at Lu Yin. "I created the Sirius Art. You want to use the Sirius Art, but you also want to use me to find your own Starry Fist. In that case, you will only obtain my understanding of the Starry Fist, not yours."
"I told you that the Starry Fist I comprehended is too narrow. It's so narrow that I can't breathe."
"Obtain the inheritance, learn the inheritance, and break the inheritance. I did it, and you can do it too."
Lu Yin and Progenitor Chen looked at each other. "Narrow?"
Progenitor Chen nodded, his gaze heavy. "Yes, narrow. This is how I feel about my Starry Fist. It's like being trapped in a cage. Although the cage is huge, there is an upper limit."
Lu Yin's eyes widened. A cage, an upper limit. He took a step out and left the mirage domain. He stepped into the Tianyuan universe and looked at the sky and the stars.
That's right, this was a cage.
Who said that the Starry Fist needed to light up the stars?
The Big Dipper Remnant Star had given Lu Yin the Astral Fist Manual, allowing him to see the path of the Starry Fist. It needed to light up the stars, but the stars might not necessarily be the stars.
He thought of Patriarch Shan's Startoad Star Plucking Hand. It plucked the stars, but it could use civilization as the stars. It plucked the square inch and unleashed a terrifying attack that could overturn everything.
In that case, could he use civilization as the stars? Lighting up civilization was lighting up the stars?
There was an upper limit to the universe, but there was no upper limit to the square inch.
They had told themselves countless times that the square inch was vast and that they must know their limits. However, they had forgotten that this vast civilization could also be used by them.
Thinking of this, he teleported to the top of the Mother Tree and looked at the square inch. Since using the universe as the Astral Fist Manual was very narrow, then he would use the square inch as the Astral Fist Manual. Who could say that there was an upper limit to the boundless square inch?
If he could really reach the upper limit, then he himself would have become the upper limit.
Within the mirage domain, Progenitor Chen sighed. Lu Yin's cultivation talent was definitely not below his own, and he had been able to comprehend the way out with just a few words. This was also the reason why he had asked Progenitor Chen to help him cultivate the Astral Fist.
This child's talent was extremely high, and he had a good eye for people. He was vicious and merciless, but he was also responsible. Perhaps the calamities that human civilization had experienced had been waiting for such a person to appear.
Progenitor Chen had opened up a path for Lu Yin, and he hoped that the path that Lu Yin walked would help him gain enlightenment.
The Mother Tree was huge and tall, but no matter how tall it was, it could not surpass the entire Tian Yuan Universe.
Lu Yin stood on the Mother Tree and used his Mirroring Technique to look at the square inch in the distance, but he could not take it into his heart.
The Astral Fist Manual was the fist manual of the stars, the fist manual of the heart.
The bigger one's heart was, the wider the world was. This was not a technique of the heart, but of the heart's spirit. It was boldness and fearlessness.
Even if it was impossible for an ant to swallow the heavens, the heart's spirit would still surpass the heavens. If the heart's spirit could be used one day, then it would shake the world.
At this moment, Lu Yin's heart's spirit wished to transform into the Astral Fist Manual. He wanted to take the countless civilizations within the square inch into the Astral Fist Manual.
Even if he was an ant, he still wanted to reign over the world.