But how could he achieve that?
That Devouring Heaven aura in his chest was just his spirit, and without a stage to display it, he would still be an ant.
A stage?
He needed a stage to display his spirit and devour the heavens.
Lu Yin stood there quietly as the days passed. No one disturbed him, and he forgot about his surroundings and everything else. He forgot that he wanted to cultivate the Starry Fist and the Astral Fist Manual. The only thing in his mind was the universe's civilizations that he had seen through the Mirroring Technique and the coordinates of the civilizations that Lu Yuan and the others had drawn up.
He felt his body sinking into the star chart. The coordinates of the civilizations were clearly close, but they seemed so far away to him. They were unimaginably far away, as if he would never be able to get close to them.
He felt like he was being swallowed into some sort of vortex.
Suddenly, Lu Yin opened his eyes. No, he shouldn't be being swallowed. It wasn't him that was being swallowed, but rather the entire world, the star chart, and the various civilizations that he had seen.
He looked up and spread out his arms. It was as if he was floating in a vast sea of stars. He slowly raised his arms and fiddled with the universe, causing ripples to ripple out and shake the heavens. It was as if the various civilizations were shaking as well.
At that moment, the Tian Yuan Universe was swaying.
Countless people panicked, not understanding what was happening.
Fortunately, Mister Mu had appeared in time and asked the Above Heaven Sect to calm everyone down.
They knew that Lu Yin had done it, but they didn't know what exactly he was doing.
It felt as if the Tian Yuan Universe — no, the three universes — had become a small boat that was drifting on the ocean.
Lu Yin's palm moved horizontally, causing ripples to spread out. He looked at them and saw that they were like shooting stars. They were very familiar, as if he had seen them on Earth before.
These shooting stars continued to travel into the distance, constantly moving towards the civilizations that were just inches away. However, it was not enough. Heaven and Earth were different, and his heaven and earth could not reach the civilizations' heaven and earth. Even if he could destroy civilizations, he could not be their equal. He was still a living being.
Since he could not be their equal, then he would make his civilization equal.
Around him, Lu Yin's body rippled as he released his willpower and combined it with the Tian Yuan Universe. An incomparably huge silhouette of Lu Yin appeared in the Tian Yuan Universe. Many cultivators were familiar with this scene, as it had appeared when the insectoid hive had attacked.
The huge silhouette seemed to have grasped the Heaven's Origin Universe in its palm. It was a colossus that lay horizontally.
Using the Power of Will to fuse with the universe, oneself as the civilization, and in the distance, the civilization as the stars, the map of the stars as the chart, and the distance as the Star Fist Manual.
What he needed to light up was not the stars, but the civilizations.
Sirius Gong could not connect to civilization, but willpower could.
The Constellation Atlas expanded infinitely and then shrunk infinitely. Stars floated in the sky, representing civilizations. It was exactly the same as the distance of the three-hundred-year-old Eternal Life Stage experts that Patriarch Lu Yuan and the others had drawn with the three universes as the center.
With the power of will as the link and the star chart as the guide, they formed the Starry Fist that only Lu Yin could cultivate.
Progenitor Chen used the Tian Yuan Universe as his blueprint to light up the endless stars. Therefore, he felt that it was narrow. The Tian Yuan Universe was only so big. Even if he lit up all the stars, he would still be in a cage.
However, Lu Yin was different. His Astral Fist Manual could be as large as his Core Space.
The first star that Lu Yin lit up for his own civilization was the spiritualized universe.
He understood spiritualized universes all too well, and with a single punch, the spiritualized universe in the Astral Fist Manual went from dim to bright. The entire process seemed very fast to Lu Yin, but he did not know that this process lasted for a very long time. This was because what he wanted to light up was not just a spiritualized universe, but all the endless stars within it. In the end, the endless stars would replace the spiritualized universe in being lit up.
It was not only the civilization stars that were lit up, but it was also the civilization stars that were lit up.
Next was the Nine Heavens Universe.
Lu Yin punched out once again.
This punch lasted for two years, which was much slower than lighting up the spiritualized universe because the Nine Heavens Universe was much larger and more complicated.
After that was the consciousness universe, which was much faster and lit up in less than half a month.
After that was the spirit universe.
Within the three universes, there was more than one universe that had been rebooted. These universes were all included in the Astral Fist Manual and had to be lit up one by one.
Lu Yin's fist intent did not affect the three universes, but anyone who faced it directly would feel a terrifying fist force that was even stronger than the Big Dipper Fist Intent.
The Big Dipper Fist Intent was a dead fist intent that had lost the person who had lit it up.
On the other hand, Lu Yin's Starry Fist was a living fist intent that was constantly boiling and expanding. It crossed an endless distance, and its power continued to skyrocket.
Unknowingly, thirty years had passed.
During these thirty years, Lu Yin had been striking out with his fist intent, lighting up the civilizations that had once been destroyed in the three universes. When all the civilizations in the three universes had been lit up, Lu Yin struck out with his final punch.
This punch traversed the three universes and hit the starry sky. It pushed the void horizontally and shattered inch by inch.
Mister Mu, the Ancient God, Shangyu of the Wonder Gate, and the other Eternal Realms were shocked and looked into the distance.
They all felt the power of this punch.
Ba Rong was dumbfounded. This punch gave him the illusion that he would be beaten into a dried fish. He knew very well that he would not be able to withstand this punch. It was too terrifying.
That monster.
He was clearly not even an Eternal Realm, but he was actually able to strike out with such a terrifying and violent punch.
In the Tianyuan Universe, Progenitor Chen laughed. He knew that Lu Yin had finally embarked on his own cultivation path of the Starry Fist. It was only a matter of time before the Starry Fist became extremely powerful.
He would definitely be inspired by this and expand the narrow Starry Fist.
At the top of the Mother Tree, Lu Yin stood still and looked at the starry sky calmly.
This punch was currently the strongest punch he could unleash. Its power might be close to the Tricolor Godly Power Transformation. The Starry Fist was filled with infinite possibilities. He was not wrong. This was the power of civilization, a fist of inheritance. However, inheritance did not mean that one could not be invincible.
The stronger the civilization, the stronger the individual. With the Mind of Square Inch, one would naturally be invincible.
Although it would take a long time to light up one civilization after another, there would eventually be a day when one would be invincible.
In theory, the Starry Fist could really reach the level of invincibility.
He thought of the ancestor who had destroyed a fishing civilization with a single punch. Did that ancestor also use the Mind of Square Inch to create the Starry Fist Manual?
How long had he been cultivating?
He really wanted to see the power of that punch.
The Starry Fist belonged to the Sixth Stronghold. In theory, it was invincible. Then, he suddenly remembered that You Wu had said that the Fifth Stronghold had an invincible technique called Heart Affinity. Did that mean that there were similar invincible techniques in the other Strongholds?
Since it was called an invincible technique, it was also theoretically invincible.
The Starry Fist could do it, but the others could not. Otherwise, the Ninth Base would not have been destroyed.
If someone could recreate the Ninth Base's invincible technique and pass it down, humans would really be able to dominate the Mind of Square Inch.
He smiled at the dark starry sky. He was thinking too much. Even the Ninth Base could not do it, let alone now.
Human civilization should be at its lowest point in history. The upper limit was locked, and enemies were everywhere. He had to stabilize himself first.
Lu Yin closed his eyes and stood quietly on the Mother Tree. He calmed his heart and was as still as a mountain.
One day, a few years later, Patriarch Lu Yuan suddenly came looking for him. "An Eternal Realm from the Divine Realm civilization is coming toward us."
Lu Yin opened his eyes. "Let's see."
Not long after, he and Patriarch Lu Yuan stood in the Mind of Square Inch and looked into the distance. Beyond the speed of an Eternal Realm expert, a ball of light was rushing toward them at the speed of an ordinary Eternal Realm expert.
It was a ball of light with dots and lines. The dots of light were constantly rotating like balls of thread.
That was a creature from the Divine Realm civilization.
At first glance, creatures from the Divine Realm civilization looked similar to the battleships of technological civilizations, but they were far smaller.
Others did not know the characteristics of creatures from the Divine Realm civilization, but Lu Yin knew that they were fundamentally different from the light of technological civilizations.
"There are fifteen gods in the Divine Realm civilization. This should be an existence that reached the Eternal Realm with absolute means. Its strength is not strong," Lu Yin said.
Patriarch Lu Yuan nodded. "But it's heading in our direction. That's not right."
Lu Yin thought for a moment. "I previously guessed that the Divine Realm civilization had never moved in our direction before because it was unknown. But this guy came over to prove that I guessed wrong. If it was because it was unknown, they still shouldn't be coming over now."
"You mean?"
"Patriarch, other than us, who else is in this direction?"
Patriarch Lu Yuan blurted out, "The Seven Treasures Heavenly Toad?"
Lu Yin nodded. "The Seven Treasures Heavenly Toad clan's territory is moving, but it's moving very slowly. It's probably in this direction. In the past, I didn't think of it because the Seven Treasures Heavenly Toad clan's territory was very far from here when it was destroyed. But now that I think about it, perhaps the Divine Realm civilization had planned to move in this direction back then, but they happened to encounter the Seven Treasures Heavenly Toad clan, so they stopped."
"Now, they're suddenly here again because the Seven Treasures Heavenly Toad clan's territory has been destroyed. They should have been monitoring the Seven Treasures Heavenly Toad clan all this time."
Patriarch Lu Yuan frowned. "What about the unknown?"
Lu Yin said, "This Divine Realm civilization definitely knows about the unknown, but they don't understand it. They're also a civilization that uses the unknown."
"Of course, these are all guesses. It's actually meaningless. Now, we have to deal with this guy. From the looks of it, its destination is very likely where the Seven Treasures Heavenly Toad clan used to be, not us."
"But the Seven Treasures Heavenly Toad clan is not far from us," Patriarch Lu Yuan said. For an Eternal Realm expert, 50 years passed in the blink of an eye.
Lu Yin looked into the distance. To them, this pseudo Eternal Realm expert was very weak. In terms of strength, it was at most similar to the hexagonal monster they had encountered for the first time. But that was compared to them. If it was compared to most civilizations without an Eternal Realm expert, this guy would be a disaster.
The reason why the Divine Realm civilization could become a fishing civilization was because they had forcibly brought out more than ten pseudo Eternal Realm experts with absolute means. This was a very exaggerated number. Unless they encountered a rogue like Lu Yin, whose strength could crush a pseudo Eternal Realm expert, even if they encountered an unknown, the unknown would not want to deal with them. Karma Binding was not a joke.
They were similar to the Muddy Kingdom. One was a designated Karma Binding, while the other was a Karma Binding that relied on quantity. In any case, they were both disgusting to a true Eternal Realm expert.
But they were not disgusting to a rogue.
(End of this chapter)