The Stygian Immortal Prison Bone had paid the price for its actions.
Thousand Trickery might have other test subjects as well.
Lu Yin was not used to placing his hopes on others, he could only rely on himself to find a way to escape. At the very least, he had to walk to Thousand Trickery and let it know that he was not crippled.
Crack.
A soft sound rang out and Lu Yin looked over. The abyss was dark, but it did not affect him.
He saw white bones crawling in the distance. There were countless white bones in the abyss, and not all of them could move. Some could.
Lu Yin retracted his gaze and put his body back together first.
It was easy to distinguish which bones belonged to him and which belonged to other bones.
He didn't know if he was lucky or unlucky, but when an existence like the Black Immortal Prison Bone attacked, it could easily cover a large area. When it threw him here, it also peeled off the space around him. His body and bones were all in that space, and should have fallen into the abyss.
He first connected the white bone fragments that he could identify as his and then expanded his search area.
His arms, legs, and other white bone fragments stuck together, as if he was trying to reconstruct his body.
This feeling was very uncomfortable.
While he was reconstructing his body, he was also absorbing the power of the deathly stillness. When the last white bone fragment was connected, Lu Yin sighed. Suddenly, the originally sticky white bone fragments all fell to the ground. Lu Yin looked down. How could this be?
He stared at his body in shock. This should not be, it was just some white bone fragments. At his current level, even if his body was crushed, he could still recover. How could he not be able to repair his white bone clone?
In his mind, the words that he had heard in a daze rang out again.
"It's already crippled. Pay the price.
I will pay. "
"Just treat it as if it doesn't exist."
Crippled? How could it be so easily crippled? This was Lu Yin's thought. He thought that the crippled Stygian Immortal Prison Bone was referring to time. He needed a long time to recover, and Thousand Trickery would not give him that time.
But now, it seemed like that was not the case.
The time he needed to recover was much less than he had expected. Stygian Immortal Prison Bone was one of the Seven Great Abyss, how could his foresight not compare to Lu Yin's?
The crippled Stygian Immortal Prison Bone meant that he could not recover.
Lu Yin did not believe it and once again connected all the white bone fragments together. It had taken some time to find them, but this time, he did not need to find them and connected them together quickly.
But then, they fell off again, as if they could not be connected.
Why was this happening?
Lu Yin slowly sat down and stared at the bone fragment in front of him. There had to be something wrong.
He stared at the first bone fragment floating in the air, then the second, the third, and so on. All of the bone fragments floated around him, and he looked at them one by one in great detail. However, he couldn't make out anything.
It was impossible that there was no problem.
Lu Yin checked every single fragment and the cracks on his body, but he still couldn't find any problems.
He refused to believe it.
He took out a piece of bone and cast Mirror Light.
The Light Mirror Technique could be used to see far away, but in another way, it could be used to magnify. This was a way of using light. Everything that could be seen had light.
Unless the Black Immortal Prison Bone had injected some sort of invisible energy into his body.
This was something not even the invisible world could do. It had to be within a certain range.
Suddenly, Lu Yin saw a fish floating in the cracks of the shattered bones. It was very strange.
It was very, very small. Even with his current realm, he could not see it. He could only rely on the Mirror Light Technique.
This was the microscopic world of the microscopic world.
Fish after fish floated in the cracks of the broken bones. It was these fish that prevented his broken bones from reconnecting.
Lu Yin tried to erase these fish, but he couldn't do it. These fish were not living creatures, but more like specimens. They were stuck to the broken bones, and even the Deathly Stillness couldn't erase them.
He tried to grind the fish away at the cracks, but it was useless.
No matter how much the broken bones were worn away, the fish were still there, as if they were deeply imprinted on them.
Lu Yin's bone clones didn't have many methods, and each of his attempts ended in failure.
This was what the Black Immortal Prison Bone meant when it said that he was crippled.
This was the energy that it had left in his body, preventing him from recovering.
It was truly despicable. It seemed that the Black Immortal Prison Bone had placed great importance on the Golden Wing, or else it wouldn't have done this to him.
The Black Immortal Prison Bone could have directly erased him, but it didn't. Instead, it threw him into the abyss of the Thousand Trickeries. Perhaps Lu Yin could hear their conversation on purpose, and the goal was to make him despair. He was already in the abyss of the Thousand Trickeries, but he couldn't climb out.
Lu Yin looked around. If he was like this, then these bones definitely weren't. They were probably thrown down by the Black Immortal Prison Bone.
How pitiful.
Lu Yin's body was shattered, and his bones were scattered everywhere. There were three pieces of black armor embedded in his body. Even his main body didn't seem to be in such a miserable state.
Above the abyss, light would occasionally sweep across.
Lu Yin looked up and then lowered his head again, trying to erase these fish. He couldn't stay here forever.
Crack!
Crack!
Sounds came from all around, and the bones stood up shakily. Some walked, while others did something unknown.
Then, they fell down again.
Days passed, and in the blink of an eye, several years passed. During these years, Lu Yin had been trying to erase these fish, absorbing the Deathly Stillness energy, but he couldn't do it.
He discovered something strange. The bones around him had a logic to their actions.
At first, he thought that these skeletons were just moving around casually, just like the skeletons outside Music City. They would listen to the music of Music City's Withered Skeletons and lie down obediently. Some of the skeletons were still lying there, never moving.
But later, he discovered that the bones around him would repeat their actions at fixed intervals, and they weren't randomly scattered around. Lu Yin discovered that there was a pattern to their scattering.
Even though he couldn't figure out what the pattern was.
Thus, Lu Yin focused on observing these bones, staring at their every move. He recalled all of their actions over a period of time, including their movements and the Deathly Stillness energy. These bones were also absorbing the Deathly Stillness energy, but the amount they contained was so little that Lu Yin had overlooked it.
Now that he was observing them, Lu Yin gradually discovered that these bones' movements seemed to be a technique. He couldn't tell from a single skeleton, but when he combined a series of movements from scattered bones into a single movement, he discovered that each movement was a technique. Furthermore, it was a technique that Lu Yin had seen before: Worldly Annihilation.
Even though it didn't have any power, this technique was exactly the same as the one that Boss Zhou had seen Le Gujin use: Worldly Annihilation.
Humans had their own ways, and rats had their own ways.
Le Gujin's Worldly Annihilation had defeated Boss Zhou in one move, causing the universe to shake.
The Worldly Annihilation from the bones below the abyss corresponded to the power of the Deathly Stillness and their own battle strength. Even though it wasn't obvious, its might was still there.
Strength was already a huge leap for these bones.
Lu Yin stared at the bones in the distance. Why was it Worldly Annihilation?
These bones would actually die to a technique from the Brink Codex.
This discovery caused Lu Yin to reevaluate this abyss, and it seemed that things weren't that simple.
He began to focus on observing these bones, and he noticed that they were repeating their movements over and over again. If he hadn't been paying close attention, he wouldn't have noticed it. Now, Lu Yin noticed that, aside from Worldly Annihilation, he also saw Death's Descent.
This was a technique that controlled the Samsara Realm.
It seemed that Death's Descent also came from the Death's Brink Codex.
Legend had it that the Death's Brink Codex was derived from the Thousand Trickeries, and every abyss had studied it to find a battle technique that they were proficient in.
In that case, could these bones below the abyss be the test subjects of the Thousand Trickeries' deduction of the Death's Brink Codex?
Back then, it had valued Lu Yin because it believed that his talent surpassed Le Gujin's, and it had used him as an experiment to see how far he could go.
Since there were test subjects, there must be a place where they were abandoned, and Lu Yin seemed to have fallen into such a place.
That made sense, as he was also considered a test subject by the Thousand Trickeries. Since he had been abandoned, this place was the most suitable.
However, no one would have thought that he was just a clone. Even if this clone died in the end, his consciousness would still return to the main body, and everything that he saw below the abyss would still exist.
This meant that if these bones could repeatedly use the Death's Brink Codex's battle techniques, then he would be able to learn them all.
Lu Yin grew excited at this thought, and he stared at these bones. He even stopped trying to erase the fish at the broken bones, as it was impossible to do so.
The Stygian Immortal Prison Bone's confidence made Lu Yin realize that at least his clone couldn't recover.
Time passed.
Lu Yin saw Worldly Annihilation a hundred times and Death's Descent a hundred times, but he didn't see anything else. This shouldn't be the case. He thought about it for a moment. If there were only Worldly Annihilation and Death's Descent around him, then there must be something else in other areas.
Lu Yin scanned the entire abyss with his Mirroring Technique, but he didn't find any bones that were using other battle techniques. Could they be asleep?
Or was it that the time interval between these actions was longer?
Walking down the abyss was like a stone falling into a calm lake, stirring up the world.
More and more bones stood up. Perhaps because they had been decaying for too long, some of the bones' movements were not coherent, as if they had been woken up from a deep sleep. They were very confused, but they would recover after a while.
Lu Yin had seen a new trick up his sleeve.
These moves didn't have much power against these bones, and he couldn't use them himself. However, he was very sure that if his skeleton clone used them at its peak, they would definitely be very strong. These were all moves from the Death's Brink Codex.
In the blink of an eye, three hundred years passed. In these three hundred years, Lu Yin saw no less than twenty moves. However, some of them didn't look like much, and should have been created by a failure. Some of them were very strong, and gave him a feeling that they far surpassed Worldly Annihilation.
In particular, there was one move that required far more bones to use than the others. Lu Yin didn't know what that move was called, but he knew that it was very terrifying. This was because it was the only move that could produce fluctuations with such weak deathly still energy.
None of the previous moves could cause any fluctuations in this abyss, except for that one move.
Furthermore, it took twenty years for White Bones, which had the most number of White Bones, to execute this move.
It seemed like that move was very simple.
That was because it fused all the bones into one and used the deathly still energy to form a triangle. However, it was that triangle that caused the fluctuations.
And this was only in this abandoned abyss. If it was in the outside world, he didn't know how much of a shock it would cause.