Star Odyssey

Chapter 1490: Headquarters

How many people would dare to go head-to-head against a transformed corpse king? This was something that only Lu Yin was capable of doing. When he had first become a Hunter, he had fought against Corpse Beast, who had possessed the strength of an Enlighter, undergone a red-eyes corpse king transformation, and then boosted even further by death energy. Lu Yin's current strength completely eclipsed his previous limits, and this was his first time using it against a corpse king.

The gray-eyed corpse king struck Lu Yin's palm with one fist. The creature used its full strength to try to break past Lu Yin's hand, but Lu Yin's face remained calm, and his hand did not even twitch. Even the corpse king felt confused.

Suddenly, Lu Yin's eyes snapped wide open, and he pressed his hand forward. There was a snap, and the corpse king's arm burst apart.

The old man was stunned by what he saw, and it was as though everything that he had known to be true was instantly shattered. How could a human have enough strength to overwhelm a corpse king?

Lu Yin clenched his right hand into a fist and threw a punch at the corpse king's stomach. At best, this creature had a power level of 400,000, which was something that Lu Yin had been capable of facing when he was just a Hunter. There was no need to even mention his current strength.

There was a snap as Lu Yin struck the corpse king and smashed its head in. Lu Yin pulled his hand back and opened his fingers. He calmly turned to face another corpse king off in the distance and unleashed a Vacuum Palm.

There was a boom, and the corpse king shattered. The cultivator who had been fighting against that corpse king turned to stare at Lu Yin in horror; that palm attack had saved his life.

"There's no need for thanks," Lu Yin said. He looked up in time to see a woman smashed out of the true universe, and she crashed into the ground in front of him. Half of her body had been crushed, and she was completely helpless.

The void twisted, and a corpse king with the strength of an Envoy emerged. Its slitted, scarlet eyes locked onto Lu Yin, and the corpse king flew towards the ground while letting out a ferocious roar. It moved so quickly that Lu Yin could not even clearly see the creature's movement, and it clearly had an innate gift related to speed.

This was the greatest advantage that corpse kings had over humans. Each one could obtain innate gifts by consuming natural treasures, such as energy crystals. This was something that was beyond a human's capabilities.

Lu Yin was not able to track the corpse king's speed, and he reflexively put on his universal armor. He was unwilling to take any risks.

A powerful blow landed on Lu Yin's back, and it pressed him to the ground. The corpse king continued its assault, and without the universal armor, Lu Yin would have been severely injured, even if his strength was comparable to the creature's. After all, this corpse king's strength was comparable to an Envoy's. Still, any injury that Lu Yin suffered would quickly heal since he had already opened his upper meridian point.

The void was sliced open some distance away, and sword qi fell down as a powerful Envoy moved out to rescue Lu Yin.

The corpse king waved a hand to disperse the sword qi, but its body disappeared.

Lu Yin gasped heavily and stepped forward. He saw a man some distance away. The man was wielding a sword, but he was only able to defend, as the corpse king was too fast for him.

An astral chessboard appeared beneath Lu Yin's feet, and it spread out to envelop the corpse king, the swordsman, and the nearby battlefield. Lu Yin then surprised everyone by moving the corpse king, after which he grabbed ahold of the creature with both hands. "ATTACK!"

The swordsman was startled, but he managed to react very quickly.

The corpse king tried to break free of Lu Yin's grip, but Lu Yin possessed an unbelievable level of physical strength, and his golden battle force twined around his universal armor and lit up the corpse king's face, illuminating its hideous and terrifying features.

The sword edge sliced into the corpse king's neck, and the creature roared defiantly at the sky. It raised a leg and kicked at Lu Yin, but the youth simply mirrored the motion. There was a bang, and then the corpse king's right leg twisted in an unnatural direction.

The swordsman was absolutely stunned. It was already incredible for an Enlighter to physically overpower a corpse king, but that last kick had been anything but slow. The corpse king's neck was sliced apart in the next moment, and the swordsman slashed out once more. Half of the corpse king's head was cut off, and what remained dangled from the neck. It was a truly horrifying scene.

Lu Yin released his grip and struck forward with both hands to let loose dual Vacuum Palms.

This last attack sent the corpse king flying and tore its body apart. It was already past the point of being dead.

The swordsman turned to look at Lu Yin and exclaimed, "Who are you?"

"We'll talk later," Lu Yin quietly replied before rushing away. No fewer than a hundred corpse kings were participating in this raid on the second base of the sourcebox array, and while this was not a massive number, many cultivators had already died tragic deaths. None of the attacking corpse kings were weak.

The swordsman watched as Lu Yin left, admiration in his eyes. The man then hefted his sword and moved out in another direction.

The battlefield could be a wonderful place. While there were many life-and-death crises, there were also strong and weak opponents. No one was concerned by the strength of their opponent; only the strong were respected. While Lu Yin was only an Enlighter, he was strong enough to earn the swordsman's respect despite the man being an Envoy.

Lu Yin slaughtered five corpse kings one after another, but this drew the attention of a green-eyed corpse king. More than ten people had already fallen to this transformed corpse king, and one had actually been an Envoy.

Envoys were difficult to encounter back in the Fifth Mainland, and even though the Perennial World had many Envoys, it was still hard to come across a group of Envoys. Despite that, it was very common to see such a thing on the battlefield, and it was even common to see an Envoy die.

In addition to the dead Envoy, there were numerous dead Enlighters beneath the green-eyed corpse king's feet. The short man who had tried to recruit Lu Yin to his team upon Lu Yin's entry to the battlefield would actually despair if he saw one of those dead Enlighters, as that man had once been the Red Alliance Leader.

A shout swept through the region as the green-eyed corpse king rushed towards Lu Yin. This corpse king was as strong as an Envoy, and it had even undergone a green-eyed corpse king transformation. This creature was one of the strongest corpse kings to assault the base at this time.

Lu Yin suddenly felt a terrible sense of danger, and he was worried that his universal armor would not be able to withstand the incoming attack. As he tried to think of a way to deal with the approaching corpse king, a cone-shaped sourcebox emerged from the ground and floated in the air. Suddenly, the cone turned towards the corpse king and shot forward, piercing through the corpse king. Simultaneously, at least ten more such cone-shaped sourceboxes appeared nearby, and they all shot forward, piercing through one corpse king after another.

They were a part of the sourcebox array that protected the headquarters of the second array base.

Lu Yin let out a sigh of relief. He was on a battlefield, and there was no need for him to finish the fight on his own.

The green-eyed corpse king was struck by one of the cone-shaped sourceboxes, and it was forced back more than ten steps. After that, it was struck by another sourcebox. In just a few seconds, the corpse king had taken no less than twenty attacks. Most of the corpse kings that were participating in this attack had instantly died to the barrage of attacks from the sourceboxes, and even corpse kings with the strength of an Envoy could not endure it.

At this moment, another corpse king's body swelled. It grew to two meters, three meters, five meters, ten meters, until it finally reached a height of 100 meters and emanated a terrifying aura.

The cone-shaped sourceboxes frantically attacked it, but the body of this particular corpse king was like a swamp. The attacks were useless while the corpse king possessed a level of strength that left everyone trembling.

This was not Lu Yin's first time seeing a corpse king of such titanic proportions, as he had already encountered one on Shenwu Continent.

The enormous corpse king raised a hand and slapped a palm down, shattering the ground. The impact of the hand left hundreds of cultivators as nothing more than splatters of blood.

The giant then raised its head and brought down its other hand.

"You're seeking death!" A person arrived from the distance and raised his own hand in retaliation. He emerged from the void and landed on the tree, smashing into the enormous corpse king and knocking it down. After that, countless trees that connected the ground to the sky fell down, smashing into the corpse king.

"Colonel Chun's arrived!" someone excitedly shouted.

Lu Yin looked over; was that the colonel of this region?

There was a sudden flash of brilliant light, and sword qi shot out from the distance. It brushed past Lu Yin's cheek and shot past him as the swordsman from before shouted, "Watch out!"

Lu Yin turned to see that the sword qi had landed on the green-eyed corpse king's body. However, the attack did nothing more than make the corpse king pause for a moment, after which it began to frantically attack Lu Yin.

There was a puff, and the attack failed. Lu Yin had been prepared the moment the sword qi swept by. An astral chessboard appeared beneath his feet, and the corpse king's attack missed. Then, Lu Yin appeared behind the green-eyed corpse king, and his golden battle force shone out as he attacked with a full powered 350 Stacks Vacuum Palm.

There was a tremendous bang as the green-eyed corpse king was knocked back by the Vacuum Palm. Lu Yin seized this opportunity to unleash a torrent of Vacuum Palms, each one striking the green-eyed corpse king true. The void shattered, and no one dared to approach the area.

Even the swordsman's sword qi was torn apart by the shockwaves created by the barrage of Vacuum Palms.

The green-eyed corpse king's body started to crack, but it was still a corpse king that had transformed, and it was even a hundred times stronger than before. On top of that, it originally possessed the strength of an Envoy, so Lu Yin's dozens of Vacuum Palms could not kill the creature.

The green-eyed corpse king stood back up. Although it had not been killed, it had been badly injured, and not in a way that a mere Enlighter could do.

Off in the distance, the enormous corpse king suddenly broke free from the trees that had trapped it, and the trees were thrown in all directions.

The green-eyed corpse king proved to be terribly unlucky, as it was instantly struck by one of the trees. Lu Yin's eyes focused as he stared at the green-eyed corpse king's worst injury. He took out the small knife that he had taken from Wang Su and stabbed it into the corpse king's wound. The knife easily penetrated the creature and instantly killed it.

At the same instance that the corpse king died, Lu Yin returned the knife to his cosmic ring, making sure that no one ever saw it.

The swordsman still some distance away was horrified; the youth had just killed a corpse king that had undergone a green-eyes transformation that was at the Envoy realm! Who was this kid?

The battlefield that had broken out at the local headquarters was smashed apart beyond recognition by the endless rain of falling trees. The cone-shaped sourceboxes were still deep inside the body of the massive corpse king, but they could not be activated, which left Master Chun temporarily helpless.

At this moment, a long spear appeared out of nowhere, and it stabbed into the giant corpse king's head before continuing to pierce down into the creature's body, pinning it to the ground. Cracks radiated out from the point where the spear had stabbed into the ground.

Lu Yin raced to dodge aside. One of the cracks in the ground raced beneath his feet, and it radiated a terrible energy that he did not dare to come into contact with. The energy felt very familiar, and it had to belong to someone from the White Dragon Clan.

The spear had instantly slain the giant, and its body collapsed to the ground. An old man emerged from the void and approached the spear. He stretched out a hand, grabbed the spear, and then took a light step to reenter the true universe.

Lu Yin took out some gemspring water from his cosmic ring and used it.

He was able to peer into the true universe, and there, he saw the red-eyed corpse king that had led the assault fighting against the middle-aged man. The corpse king was being pressured and beaten back by the middle-aged man, but it also recovered very quickly. The creature's physical strength was too overpowering, and occasionally, it was able to launch a fearsome counterattack.

Lu Yin had guessed correctly; the middle-aged man was Xia Yan, the general of the second array base. The red-eyed corpse king was currently going toe-to-toe against Semi-Progenitor Xia Yan. If one judged the two in terms of absolute strength, Xia Yan far surpassed his opponent, but he found it truly difficult to kill the creature.

The old man who had killed the giant corpse king reentered the true universe and stabbed at the red-eyed corpse king.

Lu Yin's vision returned to normal, and he was no longer able to see the true universe. Still, it did not matter. That old man was confident enough to interfere in Xia Yan's battle, which meant that he should also be a Semi-Progenitor powerhouse. From what Lu Yin had seen, the old man was most likely a Semi-Progenitor from the White Dragon Clan. Lu Yin had heard Qing Chen mention such a person, and his name seemed to be Long Laogui.

The sky suddenly exploded, and a figure plummeted from out of nowhere. It spat out blood, and half of its body had been crushed. It was the red-eyed corpse king. It was quickly followed by another figure who thrusted a spear forward, rendering the corpse king no more.

The dim sky of the battlefield turned red, and then an indescribable darkness blocked the red light. This darkness was a hand, and it smashed through a planet to grab hold of the red-eyed corpse king.