Star Odyssey

At this moment, Ce Jiu appeared at Silver's side with a forcefield shaped like a giant ruler and slammed it down on Silver.

Silver casually waved a hand to destroy Ce Jiu's forcefield, sending the youth fleeing backwards. The next moment, Xia Jiuyou appeared and unleashed the first will blade.

Silver's body flashed as he rejoined Lu Yin. "Captain, take care of them."

Lu Yin was still putting on an act. So, as he turned to receive Xia Jiuyou's attack, death energy flowed out from his body to take the form of a sickle that hacked at the will blade.

After breaking through and becoming a ninth cycle Cruiser, Lu Yin's strength had increased once again. The hacking motion of his sickle managed to stop Xia Jiuyou's attack, rather surprising him as he slashed out with the second will blade.

Lu Yin once again used the sickle to block. Suddenly, lightning shot down from over Lu Yin's head. Ku Lei had made a move against Lu Yin.

More death energy flowed out from Lu Yin's body. Not only did he manage to block Ku Lei's attack, but Lu Yin also took Xia Jiuyou's will blade head on. However, Xia Jiuyou did not wait to see if Lu Yin had blocked his second blade; he immediately whirled around to unleash the third blade.

The third blade was the strongest attack in the Xia family's Triple Blade Will, and it was multiple times stronger than the first one. This blade was something that even Lei Nu feared, and it was the same attack that had broken Ling Gong's Skycastle. Its strength was to be feared.

Lu Yin's power had grown after he had absorbed so much death energy, and he had become strong enough to fight a twice but not thrice transformed Beast. Xia Jiuyou's third blade was rather threatening to Lu Yin, and he knew that he was not yet as durable as Beast. Although Lu Yin was still putting on an act, since he had made it to Progenitor Chen's Mausoleum, there was no longer much more of a need to continue with these pretenses.

As the third blade drew close, the death energy left Lu Yin's eyes, and an Astral Chessboard appeared beneath his feet. Ce secret technique: Astral Chessboard.

Silver had been watching Lu Yin, and his eyes went wide as Xia Jiuyou's attack neared Lu Yin.

If Lu Yin had been successfully remodeled, then he would have faced the attack head on, no matter his chances of success, not even if it meant him dying.

When the death energy left Lu Yin's eyes, Silver felt rather exasperated. So it was all just an act after all.

Lu Yin vanished, and the third blade missed its target.

Silver slowly turned to his right, where Lu Yin had reappeared. Silver grinned and said, "Captain, congratulations on leaving hell!"

Lu Yin looked back at Silver and answered, "I'll have to thank you. Without you, I wouldn't have made it out."

Silver's smile reached his eyes as he continued, "Captain, have you ever wondered why, even when I suspected that you were putting on an act, I still brought you here?"

Lu Yin's expression changed. "You're confident in taking me back."

"Maybe." Silver smiled in a disturbing fashion as his gaze swept past Lu Yin. Silver then raised his hands, and a puppet appeared in his grasp.

Lu Yin's scalp tingled the moment he saw the puppet, Shaman God?

There was probably no one present aside from Lu Yin who had seen the real Shaman God before.

At the same moment that Silver took out Shaman God's puppet, Lei Nu attacked Silver.

Lu Yin roared, "Be careful! That's one of the Seven Skygods!"

Before Lei Nu could react, Silver moved the puppet in front of her face. Lei Nu instantly dropped to the ground, and no one knew what had happened except for Lu Yin. Lei Nu's senses had been mixed up. This was the power that Shaman God possessed: loss of sensation.

Silver looked at Lu Yin. "Captain, come with me."

Lu Yin shivered and waved a hand. Silver was immediately thrown into the distance.

Silver had a backup plan, but so did Lu Yin. When Xia Jiuyou had attacked Lu Yin, Silver had dodged the attack and hidden behind Lu Yin. At that moment, Lu Yin had set up the Teleportation Formation. Although he had not had enough time to make one that could teleport Silver too far away, a hastily made one still had its uses when timed correctly. At this moment, it had given Lu Yin a chance to catch his breath.

Silver was launched towards the Giant Emperor.

The Giant Emperor was focused on chasing after Beast, as the corpse king was the only one who had been able to do any physical damage to the giant so far.

Silver slammed into the Giant Emperor's back, and the Giant Emperor shivered before turning around to smack Silver away.

Silver did not move while Beast leaped up to punch at the Giant Emperor's hand, causing the giant's hand to divert from its course.

At the same time, Yōu Qin attacked Lu Yin and slashed at him with her blade. "Soulsplitter."

Lu Yin evaded the attack and glared at her. "Don't hit me! We're on the same team."

"Who's on the same team as a monster like you?" Yōu Qin felt rather insulted and began to assault Lu Yin with even more powerful attacks.

Lu Yin remained patient, and 726 orbiting stars appeared around his body before exploding. The force of the explosion sent Yōu Qin staggering back as she coughed up blood. She was not even at Ku Lei's level, let alone Lu Yin's.

Ku Lei's lightning flashed towards Lu Yin once again.

Lu Yin held back when retaliating against Yōu Qin, but against Ku Lei, he used a Vacuum Palm straight away, who crashed into the stone pillars that made up the fence.

Xia Jiuyou stared at Lu Yin. "Were you controlled?"

Lu Yin was growing rather exasperated. "Do I look like I am?"

Xia Jiuyou felt rather confused at this point. Nobody had ever managed to remain the same after being captured by one of the Seven Skygods.

Lei Nu regained her senses and panted heavily. She looked at her surroundings and soon focused on Lu Yin. What's going on? He warned me earlier.

A black figure hurtled towards Lu Yin from the distance. It was Beast, who had been slapped away by the Giant Emperor.

Even after being attacked by the Giant Emperor, Beast had not been injured very seriously. It turned around and threw a punch at Lu Yin.

Lu Yin's left hand moved as he activated the Yu secret technique to divert Beast's punch while his right hand launched a Vacuum Palm to attack Beast. His Vacuum Palm was powerful enough to threaten the others here, but it could not do much to Beast. At best, it could stall the creature for a brief moment.

Lu Yin did not actually want to fight against Beast.

At this moment, the Giant Emperor leaped into the sky before landing while punching at the air before him. This attack was targeting everyone due to the size of the Giant Emperor's fists.

Everyone scrambled to flee, and Lu Yin immediately used the Astral Chessboard to escape. However, he caught sight of Ce Jiu and noticed that the Ce family scion had not used the Ce secret technique to evade. Lu Yin's heart immediately sank.

Boom!

The Giant Emperor hammered the ground with his fists and caused the earth to explode. Lu Yin had used the Ce secret technique to turn everyone within its range into chess pieces, even the Giant Emperor. However, the secret technique was not invincible, and the Giant Emperor's strength exceeded the limits of a chess piece. Hence, the Astral Chessboard was destroyed by one blow from the Giant Emperor's fist.

Everyone else had tried to retreat by relying on speed, but Lu Yin had relied on the Ce secret technique, only for it to fail. This meant that Lu Yin was the closest to the giant, and he was struck by the fist's strongest aftershocks.

The Giant Emperor glared lividly at Lu Yin. The shockwave had torn space apart and opened cracks in the void.

Lu Yin only felt a surging sensation in his chest, and he was unable to stop himself from spitting out a mouthful of blood as he went flying into the pool with a splash.

No matter how intense the battle had become, the Giant Emperor had always kept an eye on the pool. He would never let anyone get anywhere close to it at all. However, when he attacked Lu Yin just now, Silver had also attacked the giant with the Shaman God puppet. Silver had been worried that the Giant Emperor would be able to kill Beast in one blow, so he had borrowed Shaman God's strength to overload the Giant Emperor's senses.

The power of Shaman God's puppet was similar to a strong power vessel, and the Giant Emperor had not been able to resist its effects. After attacking Lu Yin, the giant's senses were scrambled, and he gradually collapsed.

This happened right before Lu Yin fell into the pool, which was why the Giant Emperor did not notice Lu Yin falling in.

Everyone else had been sent flying by the shockwave, so none of them had noticed Lu Yin either.

Only Silver saw what had just happened. Lu Yin was even more useful to Silver than Beast, and Silver had been attentively watching as Lu Yin fell into the pool.

After the Giant Emperor's punch, a deafening boom rang out as dust filled the sky. Everyone seemed to be injured to some degree, so Silver took advantage of this opportunity to move towards the pool in a bid to deal with Lu Yin.

However, at this moment, the Giant Emperor regained his senses, stunning Silver. How can he regain his senses so quickly?

The Giant Emperor roared in rage when he saw Silver moving towards the pool. He immediately slapped out, releasing a fierce gust of wind that swept Silver off of his feet and sent him tumbling through the air.

Nobody could get close to the pool, as that was the Giant Emperor's territory.

Silver retreated a thousand meters and stared intently at the pool that he believed held some of Progenitor Chen's blood. Forget it. If Lu Yin can get Progenitor Chen's blood out of there, then I'll take both of them away.

Silver believed that he was invincible inside Progenitor Chen's Mausoleum as long as he had Shaman God's puppet. However, he had failed to take into account the fact that the Seven Courts' inheritors also had power vessels of their own.

Lu Yin was the only one who had taken a direct attack. Everyone else had managed to pull out their power vessels in time. For example, Yōu Qin had a water stream that allowed her to instantly move more than ten kilometers away. Ku Lei, after being struck by Lu Yin's Vacuum Palm, had encased himself within a Withered Bark.

Lu Yin's cosmic ring had been taken away before he had entered the Mountain and Seas Zone, and he had not managed to get it back. However, everyone else had recovered their rings, and the inheritors of the Seven Courts did not lack extraordinary power vessels.

Lu Yin had no idea what was happening in the outside world. After being struck by the Giant Emperor, the black and white mist within Lu Yin's body that was formed from death energy and the Daynight Restoration Technique trembled. After that, the previous equilibrium shattered, and death energy surged out of his heart and into his veins, following along the path that his star energy had once cycled through.

To others, death energy was similar to a poisonous drug, but Lu Yin was able to cultivate with death energy as if it were star energy.

The massive amount of death energy that he had absorbed before and had stored in his heart was suddenly released, and it replaced star energy as it cycled through his body. In just an instant, Lu Yin completed his ninth cycle.

When Lu Yin opened his eyes, he noticed that there were traces of blood at the corner of his mouth, but he did not care about that at all. He could tell that he was about to break through, and since he had completed his ninth cycle, it meant that his formcast model was going to melt. He needed to break through.

Originally, he had planned to raise his formcast model one more grade before breaking through to the Hunter realm. Still, things could not always go according to plan.

Nobody had expected Lu Yin to use death energy as a replacement for star energy. The flood of death energy that had been unleashed had instantly rocketed him to the verge of breaking through, forcing him to go along with it. He either had to act immediately or fail.

Lu Yin had no other choice. He gritted his teeth, determined to break through here and now.