Wei Rong realized that he had spent a lot of effort trying to outsmart Lu Yin, but if Lu Yin stepped into the ranks of the top powerhouses, then all of his efforts would vanish.
This person had a very high chance of stepping into the ranks of the top powerhouses.
Perhaps Wei Rong had guessed wrongly from the very beginning. It was not that the Hall of Honor wanted to support this person, but rather that they had to. This person's future was unpredictable.
After watching Lu Yin's battle, Wei Rong recognized many problems, and many of his previous plans were overturned.
Aside from Lu Yin, the reinforcements from the various Boulder Districts had basically all arrived. The Damu Cliff District had suddenly gained dozens of Hunters, which temporarily stabilized the battlefield.
The battle ended just as quickly as it had started. The Sixth Mainland and the Technocracy's forces had temporarily retreated.
Countless people sighed in relief.
Lu Yin had experienced the Erudite Flowzone's border war and the Ironblood Weave's war, so he was no stranger to border wars. However, the tragedy of the Damu Cliff District still shocked him.
As far as the eye could see, no less than twenty Hunters had died. It was too tragic, and the entire Great Yu Empire did not have so many Hunters.
There were even more Explorer corpses floating in outer space.
At present, the commander of the Damu Cliff District was the Arrow Mountain Ancestor. The previous commander, Master Cao, had died long ago, and Lord Egret had also died. Ahke had managed to survive and become the only remaining Enlighter in the Damu Cliff District with a power level of over 200,000, but he had also been severely injured.
Lu Yin met the Arrow Mountain Ancestor.
The Arrow Mountain Ancestor had changed greatly. Back in Taimo Palace, he had been a leisurely old man, but now, he reeked of blood, and his gaze was filled with dignity and oppression.
Lu Yin had originally thought that the Arrow Mountain Ancestor's power level would be around 400,000 at most, but after arriving at the border, he had discovered that the Arrow Mountain Ancestor was actually an Envoy-level powerhouse who could kill an Imprinter with a single arrow.
"We meet again so soon, kid," the Arrow Mountain Ancestor said gently as he looked at Lu Yin with admiration.
Lu Yin bowed. "Senior, are you well?"
The Arrow Mountain Ancestor sighed. "I'm a little injured, but it's not a big deal. How's Little Peach?"
"She's in Frostwave Weave, and she's doing well."
The Arrow Mountain Ancestor nodded with a complicated look in his eyes. "The intensity of this battle exceeded my expectations, and things aren't looking good."
Lu Yin frowned. "Senior, what have you noticed?"
"The sixth continent's Bloodburn Realm has a power level that surpasses Patriarch Mo Jiang's."
"How does Senior know?" Lu Yin was puzzled.
Ancestor Arrow Mountain looked up into the sky. "Their imprints are all supreme powerhouses, and Ancestor Mo Jiang, who fought against Master Yuan, also has an imprint. He's an old man, and that old man should be the true supreme powerhouse of the Sixth Mainland. Many cultivators from the Sixth Mainland have mentioned that old man's name in order to shake our morale — Old Man Cangqiong."
Lu Yin wasn't surprised, as he had heard of Old Man Cangqiong. He was a Celestial Imprinter.
The Ancestor of Arrow Mountain sighed. He was rather tired. "The Hall of Tai Mo has passed down three arrows since ancient times. This time, we might not be able to keep them. I've already lost one."
Lu Yin was shocked. "Senior, did you use one of these arrows to kill the Imprinter?"
The Ancestor of Arrow Mountain nodded. "Grandmaster Bei's arrow was stolen by an Imprinter from the Sixth Mainland. It was my fault."
He subconsciously looked down at his cosmic ring; he still had an arrow in his hand. What was this old man trying to do?
Could it be that he knew that the arrow was on his body?
Lu Yin remained silent.
"Archery is different from ordinary battle techniques. If you had a divine arrow, your archery skills would be infinitely more powerful. What a pity." The Ancestor sighed again and then looked deeply at Lu Yin. "If sacrificing us old fellows could protect you all, then it would be worth it. But this time, no one will be able to escape. Kid, I know that you're smart, so do your best to protect yourself. Perhaps the Innerverse and Outerverse will turn things around, but of course, it might also bring about despair."
Lu Yin bade farewell to the Ancestor of Arrow Mountain and continued to ponder over the old man's words. Either the Ancestor knew that the arrow was with Lu Yin, or he had guessed something else, such as the divine arrows that had been auctioned off in the mainland.
The Hall of Tai Mo paid the most attention to arrows. Lu Yin had sold three arrows at the mainland's auction house, and the buyer had been the Hall of Tai Mo. It was not strange for the Ancestor of Arrow Mountain to know, as the old man probably hoped that Lu Yin could provide the divine arrows.
Lu Yin had no problem providing the divine arrows since he could improve them, but he had thought of something better.
Within a fort in the Technocracy, Autumnfrost Qing was shocked. "Ren Tu died?"
Someone in front of him reported, "Yes. The attack on the Damuyan District has ended, but Ren Tu has not returned."
Autumnfrost Qing was puzzled. "With Ren Tu's strength, only a peak Hunter could kill him. If he wanted to escape, then even a Hunter wouldn't be able to catch up to him. That guy's life-saving methods aren't weak, unless he ran into an Enlighter. However, there seems to only be one Enlighter in the Damuyan District. Could he have been killed by a hidden powerhouse?"
"The exact situation is unclear, but Ancestor Yan has instructed that Young Master be careful and avoid entering the Fifth Mainland's territory. There might be some hidden powerhouses in the Fifth Mainland."
Autumnfrost Qing nodded. "Got it." Just as he was about to say something, he suddenly thought of someone: Lu Yin. If there was anyone who could kill Ren Tu, then Lu Yin would be one of them. Furthermore, Lu Yin was only an Explorer, so it would not be easy to be wary of him. Could he have gone to the Damuyan District?
Regardless of whether or not Lu Yin had gone to the Damuyan District, Autumnfrost Qing did not plan on taking action. The battlefield was still too dangerous.
Ren Tu had a great reputation in the Sixth Mainland, and his death had caused quite a stir. Many powerhouses were also terrified.
From the beginning until now, their sense of superiority over the Fifth Mainland had been growing lower and lower. The Fifth Mainland was not as easy to defeat as they had imagined.
It was no wonder why the invasion of the Fifth Mainland's Innerverse had been so intense.
In the Damuyan District, Lu Yin had been assigned a defensive position.
Currently, his position in the Damuyan District was enough to rank him in the top three. Even Ahk's position might not be higher than his.
Lu Yin sent the others away and found a secluded place. He raised his hand, and his die appeared. It was time to upgrade something that could change the outcome of the battle. Lu Yin thought of many things, and he decided to use poison.
Once poison was used on a large scale, its effects would be terrifying.
Ordinary poisons would not work, and even poisons that could threaten Enlighters would not work. The Sixth Mainland and the Technocracy had no lack of detoxification methods, but if it was a poison that could threaten powerhouses with power levels of 300,000 or even 400,000, then things would be different.
Even if the poison could not harm the imprinter, the imprinter would not be able to easily detoxify the poison.
If possible, Lu Yin did not want to use poison, but he had no other choice. The war had already reached this stage, and if he lost the border, then the Outerverse would suffer a great calamity. This was something that he could not accept no matter what.
As he thought about it, he tapped his die, causing it to slowly spin. Then, it stopped and revealed a six.
Lu Yin knew that something was wrong, as he had forgotten to place his cosmic ring aside. Just as he thought about it, the scene in front of him changed, and he appeared in a dark space. He saw balls of light around him.
Lu Yin was afraid that he would use up too much star essence, so he casually fused with one of the balls of light. The scene in front of him changed again, and he saw a giant Flowzone ark.
At the same time, memories flooded into his mind. Lu Yin was speechless, as he had fused with another cultivator from the Sixth Mainland. This one was a Cruiser, and he was currently besieging someone with other experts. That person was an old acquaintance of Lu Yin's, Ling Que.
This was a tributary of the Astral River that connected Chaos Flowzone and a smaller Flowzone. Traveling between the two Flowzones depended on the giant Flowzone ark.
When the Innerverse and Outerverse had been separated, the Astral River had expanded, and this tributary had also separated the two Flowzones. However, a powerhouse with a power level of 400,000 from Chaos Flowzone had taken action and forcefully broken through the energy barrier, allowing the two Flowzones to reconnect.
This was a common practice among the Innerverse's major Flowzones. There was no lack of super powerhouses, and it was easy to reconnect.
The Sixth Mainland had attacked, and the Innerverse had joined forces to resist. The battle between the Martial Ancestor and Progenitor Chen's remnant spiritual force had caused the Innerverse's weather to change greatly, and it had put an end to attacks with power levels above 200,000. Now, the Innerverse was filled with battles between Enlighters, and even Enlighters had to control their power levels below 200,000.
This was exactly what Lu Yin had heard in the ruins of the Daosource Sect.
The Innerverse had brought out the General Appointing Platform, and anyone who performed meritorious deeds would be given titles such as General, Marquis, King, and so on. This was the Innerverse's way of encouraging cultivators to resist the Sixth Mainland. The Sixth Mainland had also targeted the General Appointing Platform and had set up a reward system. Anyone who killed a titled powerhouse would be rewarded handsomely.
The high rewards attracted countless people from the Sixth Mainland, and even the Daosource Sect's ruins were not visited.
In front of Lu Yin was a scene of a dozen cultivators from the Sixth Mainland surrounding a titled powerhouse. The person that Lu Yin had casually merged with was one of the attackers, and he was even the strongest one. This person was the one who had led more than a dozen people to participate in the siege, and the one being surrounded was Ling Que, a titled Spirit General.
Lu Yin looked up and saw a cultivator from the Sixth Mainland clutching his neck as he slowly fell to the ground.
Ling Que was panting heavily, and his arm hung down unnaturally as he stared at the person that Lu Yin had merged with. His eyes were filled with killing intent, and his hair was stained with blood. He had a sword stuck in his abdomen, but he could not pull it out. The Que's Mighty Slash revolved around his body as it sliced through the void.
Lu Yin sighed, as he had not expected to encounter Ling Que in such a situation.
Through his memories, Lu Yin knew that Ling Que was rather famous on the battlefield. He had once killed a powerful expert from the Sixth Mainland's War Martial Realm and had even escaped from a cultivator who was second only to a Realmling. That cultivator had been on the same level as Autumnfrost Qing and Ren Tu, which was why he had been conferred the title of Spirit General by the General Appointing Platform.
Ling Que had originally been one of the strongest Limiteers, and after breaking through to the Explorer realm, his strength had increased by leaps and bounds. With the Lingling clan's innate gifts and battle techniques, it was not strange for Ling Que to be able to reach this level.
Ling Que's current strength was equivalent to the top forty of the Top 100 Rankings.
The three cultivators that Ren Tu had instantly killed in the Daosource Sect's ruins had all been around the sixtieth rank of the Top 100 Rankings. However, anyone who could enter the Daosource Sect's ruins had to possess a futon, and those who possessed one either had a powerful background or had obtained a great opportunity. This had led Lu Yin to misunderstand and believe that the average strength of the Sixth Mainland was only that high.
In reality, the cultivators that Lu Yin had seen from the Sixth Mainland were all elites among elites.