As he followed the underground river, he occasionally saw strange creatures spying on him from the bottom of the river.
Above him, there were countless strange creatures that looked like bats hanging upside down, emitting horrifying screeches.
There were also piles of bones on both sides.
A normal person would have been scared to death here, not to mention those strange creatures. Just Lu Yin himself was enough to scare someone to death.
A skeleton rowing a boat was a strange sight.
Not long after, the current carried the boat into a dark and empty canyon. This should be the interior of a large mountain, as the walls were thick enough to fill a star. One could only imagine how large this place was.
Lu Yin walked through the dark canyon, which reminded him of the underground abyss that he had seen in the Thousand Trickeries. The only difference was that the underground abyss had been filled with bones, while this place had long since been covered in water. There was very little land and some strange plants that bloomed from the bottom of the river.
Lu Yin looked at the bottom of the river and saw a black shadow swimming past, quickly disappearing into the distance.
He casually waved his hand, causing the water to flow backward. Many underwater creatures struggled at the bottom of the muddy river, but without the water, they could not move.
Lu Yin looked around the canyon and suddenly stared at a corner. His figure disappeared, and when he reappeared, he was already there.
He floated in the air and looked down from above. He raised a hand and pushed aside the mud to reveal a rock that had been covered by the water for an unknown amount of time. However, there were some traces on its surface that had not been completely erased. He could vaguely make out that it was a sourcebox array.
He had found the sourcebox array.
He waved his hand again, causing the ground to sink down and reveal pieces of stone as well as cube-shaped boxes. These were sourceboxes.
Lu Yin was excited, as he had finally found it.
He looked at the sourceboxes in front of him and realized that they were different.
These sourceboxes felt different from the ones that the old man had given him. Good.
It felt like he had lost something.
Lu Yin opened one of the boxes, but it was completely empty. He opened the other sourceboxes, but there was still nothing inside.
These sourcebox boxes had definitely never been opened before, so there should have been sourcebox arrays sealed within.
But now, they were all gone.
Lu Yin looked at these sourcebox boxes and saw that the aura of ten thousand metals had been absorbed from them.
Lu Yin had come to the Progenitor Butterfly Continent in search of the Tai Qing civilization's remnants because he wanted to find the Origin Scroll. The Origin Scroll could seal sourcebox arrays because of the material it was made of. The Origin Scroll was a key item that the Dead Universe had wanted to help Li Luochen conceal the limits of his power. Similarly, the Progenitor Butterfly Continent's Rainbow Butterfly was also the source of Swallow Ten Thousand Metal Qi.
He should have thought of this earlier. Since Cai Die could swallow the Ten Thousand Gold Qi, why couldn't she swallow the Ten Thousand Gold Qi of the original scroll?
One by one, the Origin Scrolls became useless.
It's fine if it's useless. It's not like I can't complete the mission.
Lu Yin surveyed his surroundings and saw traces of sourcebox arrays everywhere. This was probably the site of the battle between the Tai Qing Civilization and the Progenitor Butterfly Continent. He looked through the traces of the sourcebox arrays one by one until he finally fixed his gaze on the centermost sourcebox array trace. It was the deepest and largest, and he also noticed that all of the sourcebox arrays were arranged around this one. He wondered what this sourcebox array was used for.
As an Origin Array Heavenly Master, Lu Yin had not given up on the path of lockbreaking.
Combat and lockbreaking were both his forte.
He landed on the largest sourcebox array trace and carefully observed it.
At the same time, the thick rock wall trembled, and a pebble fell into the muddy soil. This did not attract Lu Yin's attention, as he was already immersed in this sourcebox.
Within the sourcebox array.
The Tai Qing Civilization placed more emphasis on lockbreaking, as they believed that lockbreaking was unraveling the mysteries of the universe.
Their focus on sourcebox arrays was secondary, but even so, they were still the strongest in the field of sourcebox arrays.
This sourcebox array caused Lu Yin to be immersed in it, and it opened up a new path for him.
Regardless of whether it was the Tian Yuan Universe, the spiritualized universe, or the Nine Firmaments Universe, their sourcebox arrays were essentially the same. Even the Nine Firmaments Universe's void carving technique was based on sourcebox arrays, and the essence of sourcebox arrays had not changed.
However, the Tai Qing Civilization's sourcebox arrays had changed their essence.
The three universal sourcebox arrays used the danger of sourceboxes as a combination. As one's understanding of this path deepened, they could use their own strength to transform the danger of sourceboxes into a sourcebox array. This was something that only an expert could accomplish. For example, Heavenly Master Gu Yan, the Su Shidao, and many others could accomplish this.
However, Lu Yin could not understand the Tai Qing Civilization's sourcebox array. It was not as simple as just the danger of sourceboxes, but it also included lockbreaking.
It was just like lockbreaking within a sourcebox's danger zone. There would be many traces of the lockbreaking, but what could one unlock within a sourcebox's danger zone?
How would one unlock it?
The Tai Qing Civilization placed the most emphasis on lockbreaking, but they would not go so far as to require lockbreaking while setting up a sourcebox array.
Lu Yin was completely immersed in this sourcebox array, and he did not notice that more and more pebbles were falling down from above.
A white skeleton was constantly walking around a giant rock within the muddy soil. From time to time, it would stand there and study something, and then it would walk away again.
The sound of pebbles crashing down could be heard in the deep, dark underground.
At first, Lu Yin did not pay much attention to it, but when a pebble smashed into his head, it woke him up. He looked up, and the first thing he saw was a dark rock wall. The second thing he saw was a pair of butterfly wings.
A butterfly?
A flower appeared in front of Lu Yin's chest, and at the same time, a myriad of gold energy pierced down from above.
Lu Yin had not expected that a rainbow butterfly would appear here, and it was an Eternal one at that. This was the tenth rainbow butterfly that had been hidden. Was it actually hiding here?
Lu Yin dodged the myriad of gold energy, and the ground was pierced through. Below the rock wall, the butterfly fluttered in the air. Just as Lu Yin was about to move, he was struck in the chest, and his body was sent flying. He crashed into the rock wall, shattering the mountain as he was pushed into outer space by a tremendous force.
This butterfly was clearly much stronger than the previous ones, and it was an existence that had reached the pinnacle of the laws of the universe.
At the same time, he felt his consciousness grow hazy.
Not good, his spirit has been absorbed.
The Butterfly Love Flower would absorb one of the three types of spiritual force. Previously, Lu Yin had only been drained of his strength, but this time, it was his consciousness.
The moment Lu Yin's body was sent into the heavens, the other rainbow butterflies discovered him, and they all rushed towards him.
How unlucky! He had actually run into that hidden rainbow butterfly.
Lu Yin steadied himself and charged downwards, but his chest suffered another heavy blow. This rainbow butterfly had not absorbed his strength, but its strength was even greater than the one that had absorbed his strength. However, he had been prepared for this, and he was not sent flying.
Countless streams of energy pierced towards him. It was a myriad of gold energy.
At the same time, Lu Yin shot out Yama's First Needle.
Since you've absorbed my consciousness, I'll beat you until you become an idiot.
Streams of gold energy pierced through the void, and only one of them shot out in the opposite direction, piercing towards the shattered mountain.
Lu Yin clenched his fist and punched out. His body endured the force of Butterfly Love Flower, and he only swayed a little. His fist was like a sharp blade, and it directly dispersed the gold energy.
At the same time, that stream of energy, which was Yama's First Needle, pierced the rainbow butterfly's body under the stone wall.
The rainbow butterfly was stunned for a moment, and Lu Yin took the opportunity to descend. He raised his hand and grabbed the butterfly's wings, and with a sudden force, it disappeared.
Lu Yin was shocked. At this moment, the rainbow butterfly had inexplicably appeared on his right side. What was going on?
At this time, the rainbow butterfly woke up, and it looked at Lu Yin with a puzzled expression. However, it did not hesitate to attack, and the gold energy shot towards Lu Yin's face. Above the heavens, Eternal Realm butterflies appeared one after another, surrounding Lu Yin from all directions.
Lu Yin faced the rainbow butterfly in front of him, ignoring the gold energy, and struck out with his palm. At the same time, the Sirius Art's countless stars revolved and exploded.
The same scene appeared once again, and the power of deathly stillness filled the world.
The rainbow butterfly was stunned for the second time, but this time, Lu Yin did not take the opportunity to attack. Instead, he landed at the foot of the shattered mountain and arrived at the center of the sourcebox array left behind by the Taiqing civilization. The power of deathly stillness flowed into the sourcebox array.
Although he had only studied this sourcebox array for a short period of time and could not see it clearly, with his knowledge of sourcebox arrays, it was not a problem for him to activate it. After all, this sourcebox array was still intact.
With the power of deathly stillness as the sourcebox's killing intent, Lu Yin wanted to see just what secrets this sourcebox array held.
Streaks of black light shot into the sky, piercing through the darkness of deathly stillness. Lu Yin stood amidst the shattered rocks and looked up. Numerous colorful butterflies danced in the sky as countless amounts of gold energy descended from the heavens.
On his body, there were two more flowers.
His body trembled, and at this moment, the three flowers continuously bombarded him with energy. His consciousness and strength were constantly being drained away as they were absorbed.
Suddenly, the deathly stillness that filled the sourcebox array suddenly changed. It was as if it was being controlled, and the same deathly stillness was being stripped away, layer after layer.
Lu Yin watched on. So that was how it was. He finally understood why there were traces of lockbreaking within the sourcebox's killing intent. Lockbreaking was the true source of the sourcebox's killing intent.
The Taiqing civilization had taken a strange path, and they had used lockbreaking to continuously release layers of sourcebox's killing intent. Each layer of sourcebox's killing intent was a sourcebox array, and when a sourcebox's killing intent was unlocked, a new sourcebox's killing intent would appear, followed by a new combination. A sourcebox's killing intent could be unlocked multiple times, and each time, there would be a different combination. This meant that a sourcebox array could have many combinations. Although it was just a sourcebox array, it could contain two, three, five, or even more sourcebox arrays.
Lu Yin was an absolute genius.
It was unknown who had first thought of this, but no one in the three universes had thought of this.
Lu Yin could not figure it out either. If he had not used his own lockbreaking skills to forcefully awaken this sourcebox array, he would never have been able to figure it out.
This method was simple if one could understand it, but if one could not, then they would never understand it.
Of course, this so-called "simple" only meant that one could understand it. Setting it up was extraordinary. Not only did one need to have extremely high attainments in the art of sourcebox arrays, but one also needed to integrate lockbreaking into the sourcebox array and seal off the killing intent of the sourcebox before using other sourcebox's killing intent to release it.
Just thinking about it made things complicated.
In Lu Yin's eyes, the Taiqing civilization's sourcebox array was like a blooming lotus that constantly bloomed and released its own radiance.
In the sky, the colorful butterflies hurriedly dodged.
The colorful butterfly that had just exchanged blows with Lu Yin let out a shrill shriek, as it recognized this sourcebox array. The Taiqing civilization had been at war with them before, so it recognized it.
It could have dodged, but it did not. Instead, it charged into the array.
It charged at Lu Yin from within the array.
Lu Yin was stunned. It still dared to come?