Star Odyssey

Chapter 1502: Going All Out

With two corpse kings at the cusp of reaching the Envoy level targeting him, Lu Yin wasted no time in taking out the power vessel that looked like an aquatic plant. After binding the two creatures, he lashed out with a barrage of palm strikes that pierced through both corpse kings' bodies, destroying them, and then continuing on to almost hit a nearby human Enlighter.

The Enlighter was horrified, and he stared at Lu Yin in a daze. He could not fathom how Lu Yin could unleash such a terrifying attack at such a young age.

Lu Yin was like a lion that had suddenly leaped into the midst of a flock of sheep. If there were no Envoy-level enemies to stand up to him, there was no one who could stop him. All alone, he cleared out an entire region, which caused a large number of people to stare at him in awe.

Meanwhile, Hua Beibei had nearly reached the point of tears. He stuck close behind Lu Yin, constantly begging the other youth to protect him. However, Lu Yin held back nothing in his attacks, which terrified Hua Beibei with the possibility that the showy moves would only attract even more formidable enemies.

"Master! Master, please slow down! Take it easy! There'll still be a lot of enemies left over, so don't be so eager to kill everything." Hua Beibei tried to hold Lu Yin back.

Lu Yin grew annoyed by the prattle, so he picked Hua Beibei up and tossed him to the side.

Lu Yin's conspicuous entrance did indeed manage to garner the attention of a corpse king with the strength of an Envoy, and not just an ordinary Envoy at that. In terms of humanity's power measurements, this corpse king had the power of an Envoy who had survived two stellular tribulations, which meant that it was comparable to an expert with a power level of more than 600,000.

Lu Yin was caught off guard by a sudden attack from this corpse king's massive warhammer, and the terrible impact was enough to leave Lu Yin dizzy. Luckily, he was wearing the protective Cloudguard Robes, so this full-powered attack from a corpse king with a power level of more than 600,000 left Lu Yin virtually unharmed.

This corpse king was three meters tall, and it emotionlessly raised its warhammer and smashed it down at Lu Yin again.

The warhammer was five meters long, and while it looked unbalanced and crude, the attack was shockingly fast. The sneak attack had caught Lu Yin completely by surprise since the corpse king had launched it from the true universe.

However, as the warhammer fell down, it suddenly disappeared. This corpse king was simply too fast, and it had already returned to the true universe, attacking Lu Yin from there. In response, he lightly stepped out and also entered the true universe, only to be immediately met with an attack from the huge warhammer. An astral chessboard appeared beneath his feet, and he moved.

The warhammer smashed down into the ground. The impact shattered the nearby void, and small spatial tears spread throughout the area like flickering sparks as a shockwave rippled out.

Many combatants were struck by the shockwave, and its sheer force left many feeling disorientated. Even Master Song and the other Lockbreakers who were trying to repair the sourcebox array some distance away were affected, and they involuntarily turned to look towards the source of the shockwave.

Lu Yin appeared behind the tall corpse king and retaliated with his own full-powered attack: a 350 Stacks Vacuum Palm reinforced with his golden battle force.

Bang!

Lu Yin's strike caused a half-inch deep palm print to appear on the corpse king's body, but that was all. The creature immediately whirled around and slammed its warhammer into Lu Yin. The youth attempted to block the blow by raising his arms, but he was still sent flying like a pebble, and he violently crashed into a piece of metal in a random section of the second forward basecamp. The metal structure was struck so fiercely that it cracked.

The structure that Lu Yin had crashed into was actually a part of the teleportation device. A group of people had been studying the damaged device, scratching their heads to try to come up with a means of repairing it, when Lu Yin had suddenly flown over and completely destroyed the structure entirely before they could come up with any ideas.

The group turned to look over where Lu Yin had been sent flying from, and there, they saw the three-meter-tall corpse king raise its warhammer high into the air before violently slamming it down once again. The void was completely shattered, and a massive spatial crack snaked through space at them, devouring everything that was nearby.

The team that had been attempting to repair the teleportation device were frozen from fear, as they all knew that they were doomed.

Suddenly, Lu Yin leaped forward with a hand raised as he set up a Channeling Diagram.

Golden battle force twined around his arms, and the Channeling Diagram appeared before him, protecting him. The warhammer's attack slammed down, only to be dissipated by the Channeling Diagram, which redirected the force in all other directions. Throughout the sky and the ground nearby, the void fractured into spiderweb-like spatial tears.

Lu Yin had his back to the teleportation device as he stared intently at the corpse king. This creature was a true monster if it could even disregard his full-powered Vacuum Palm. Lu Yin thought that Long Kui might not be able to directly receive a full-force Vacuum Palm, and yet this corpse kind had done so despite technically being weaker than Long Kui. The creature's robust physique had allowed it to ignore the attack, as that was the only explanation.

Wait, if this corpse king had such an impressive body, then did that mean that this creature was capable of undergoing a corpse king transformation?

Right as this possibility occurred to Lu Yin, the color of the tall corpse king's eyes changed from scarlet to gray. Lu Yin watched as the void around the creature's body broke apart, no longer able to contain the corpse king's passive strength, and spatial tears appeared around it. An unfathomably powerful physical strength had appeared on the battlefield. The corpse king let out a loud growl, and the soundwaves of its angry roar shattered the void as they traveled towards Lu Yin.

Lu Yin's scalp went numb, and he finally experienced for himself just how frustrating it was to face off against an opponent with an overwhelmingly superior physical body. He finally realized how painful it had been for his old opponents to go against his own freakish physique. The Channeling Diagram was unable to resist the soundwaves, and Lu Yin was pushed back bit by bit.

Someone standing behind him shouted in a panic, "Bro, you have to hold out! This is the teleportation device, and if it's completely destroyed, we're all done for!"

Lu Yin gritted his teeth. "I'd like to hold out too!"

He glanced behind him and saw that the group of people who were attempting to repair the teleportation device were all just Explorers. With no other choice, Lu Yin used the power vessel that looked like an aquatic plant to trap the corpse king and restrict all of its attacks to a smaller area.

Lu Yin had Enhanced the power vessel to the point where it was capable of defending against attacks from experts with a power level of about 700,000. However, the corpse king's strength had definitely surpassed a power level of 700,000 after transforming. Even though he had no other choice, Lu Yin was questioning whether or not his power vessel would be able to hold out.

As the creature growled, the corpse king ruthlessly slammed its warhammer down at the power vessel, cracking it open. Lu Yin's pupils constricted, and he brought out the dagger that he had taken from Wang Su. Finding an opening, he stabbed the dagger into the corpse king's body through the crack that had opened up in the defensive power vessel before dragging the knife to the side, slashing open nearly half of the corpse king's body.

The dagger was capable of unleashing attacks that possessed a power level of around 800,000, which made it the most powerful offensive power vessel in Lu Yin's inventory. Despite the corpse king's powerful physical strength, and its boost from transforming, it still was unable to resist the power of the knife.

Lu Yin raised the dagger once more and stabbed at the corpse king's neck. The creature kicked at Lu Yin in response, which caused the youth to shoot an angry glare at the beast as he clenched a fist and punched out with a full 350 Stacks and his battle force to counter the corpse king's kick.

There was a deafening boom, and the ground itself shattered. Lu Yin was knocked back more than ten meters by the collision, and he crashed into the metal remnants of the teleportation device again. Lu Yin's head was left spinning by the forces. If not for the presence of the teleportation device, he would have never been willing to directly face off against such a powerful corpse king.

Everyone around Lu Yin who witnessed the exchange was left completely stunned. The fact that an Enlighter was able to go against a corpse king of that level was unimaginable to them all. This battle had destroyed everyone's worldview.

The knife had sliced open half of the corpse king's body, and it glared fiercely at Lu Yin. the creature then charged towards Lu Yin once again, completely devoid of any sense of pain or fear of death.

Lu Yin threw the dagger at the corpse king in an attempt to wound the creature again, but the corpse king was not completely brainless, and it deflected the dagger to the side with its warhammer. All of a sudden, Lu Yin waved a hand and used the Yu Secret Art, diverting the dagger to brutally stab the corpse king right in the side of its neck. The creature released an angry growl as it grabbed the dagger. But by then, an astral chessboard had already appeared beneath Lu Yin's feet, and he instantly moved behind the corpse king, which allowed Lu Yin to grab the knife's hilt at the same moment as the corpse king.

In Lu Yin's eyes, the movement of the corpse king's hand reaching for the dagger slowed down countless times over because of the effect of the inheritance that he had received from the Sword Monument. At this moment, Lu Yin was able to see through the corpse king's every move, as well as its strength. Stars revolved around Lu Yin's body, and many of them suddenly exploded beneath the corpse king's hand, momentarily delaying its movement. Lu Yin took advantage of this timing to grab the dagger first and shove it deeper into the corpse king's neck.

Almost the full length of the knife blade had been stabbed into the neck by now. The corpse king reached back with its other hand at Lu Yin, but the youth had already fled with the Teleportation Formation. Lu Yin then took advantage of the situation to smash a Vacuum Palm into the corpse king's forehead, smacking it back a few steps.

This flurry of attacks had badly wounded the corpse king, but just as Lu Yin went to attack again, the corpse king tilted back its head and roared at the sky as its eyes changed color yet again.

Lu Yin's mouth fell open wide. No- no way! Was it really still able to transform?

He watched on in shock as the corpse king's eyes turned green. Once the transformation finished, the creature's strength would increase by another tenfold. Lu Yin was certain that, at that point, nothing he did could do anything to the transformed corpse king. Even his knife, his Desolate Array sourcebox, and everything else would do absolutely nothing to this corpse king. Its body completely exceeded the level of any of Lu Yin's power vessels.

After completing this second transformation, the corpse king's strength would be a hundred times greater than its original strength, which had already been comparable to an Envoy's.

Lu Yin's heart ached as he pulled out the sourcebox array with the Void Rip battle technique that he had taken from Bai Shaohong. There were four Void Rip attacks sealed within it, and two of them had already been used, which meant that Lu Yin only had two attacks remaining.

He treated this sourcebox as his prized possession. Using something so distinct on this battlefield was very risky as this attack was easily recognizable. And yet, Lu Yin had no other choice. He glanced around, feeling a bit guilty, but then he aimed the sourcebox array straight at the corpse king. Two dots were connected by a black line that was the Void Rip, and the line shot forward.

The corpse king was still holding onto its warhammer, and its terrifying aura seemed to stir up the winds and the clouds. It finished its Green Eyes Transformation, but then all of its movements suddenly ceased, and its head fell to the ground.

The Void Rip battle technique was not as powerful as the dagger that Lu Yin had used earlier, but the corpse king had already been badly wounded by Lu Yin's knife, which allowed Void Rip to neatly end the creature's life along with the battle.

Lu Yin waved his hand the moment the attack passed by the corpse king, using the Yu Secret Art to divert what remained of the Void Rip towards the ground, as he was worried that someone would notice what he had just used.

Up in the sky, Colonel Zuo was still having his standoff with Marquis Green Bamboo when the local commander suddenly felt the horrifying aura of the tall corpse king as it underwent its Green Eyes Transformation. The commander's face paled, and he looked down to check what was happening. Though, he looked down just in time to see the corpse king lose its head. Even more shockingly, in front of the corpse was a young Enlighter.

Colonel Zuo felt utterly stunned; what in the world had just happened?

No one had the time to explain anything to the commander due to the chaotic battlefield that changed every moment. Even Envoys had to be careful on the battlefield. Everyone had their own opponents, and the rest of the battlefield was nothing more than a massive blur, making it hard to understand what was happening anywhere. The team attempting to repair the teleportation device had long since fled from the area to avoid the aftershocks of Lu Yin's battle against the corpse king.

Lu Yin took some time to recover his ragged breath as he stared at the still standing body of the corpse king. The body was headless, and fresh blood flowed down from the severed neck. A terrifying aura still emanated from the dead body.

Lu Yin felt that it was a terrible pity that corpse kings did not carry cosmic rings. Otherwise, he would be able to gain a huge harvest from killing such a powerful corpse king.

This single battle had cost him a great deal, as he had lost both the power vessel that looked like an aquatic plant, as well as one of his remaining Void Rips.

The three meter tall corpse king had displayed a terrifying strength, but regardless of the creature's power, its battle against Lu Yin had only occupied a minuscule corner of the battlefield. A single person's victory would not end this slaughterfest.

It did not take long for Lu Yin to run into another corpse king, though his new opponent did not have the strength of an Envoy, but rather that of an Enlighter. This change gave Lu Yin some time to recover, and he took his time while fighting to recuperate a bit. After all, an Enlighter level opponent was much easier to deal with.

There were many Enlighters among humanity's powerhouses on the battlefield, but while such experts could be found everywhere, it was hard to find any who could take a break while fighting against an Enlighter level corpse king.

In the sky, Colonel Zuo kept the broken sword pointed straight towards Marquis Green Bamboo, not allowing his guard to drop for even an instance.

Across from the commander, Marquis Green Bamboo did not have even the slightest bit of anxiousness on his face. In fact, he even took out a scroll to read and began talking to his opponent. "The greatest wealth that humans possess is actually wisdom. That's the aspect of humanity that I admire the most. You all are able to use your wisdom to create anything. If not for that, the weak bodies of you humans would have led to all of you being eliminated long ago."

Colonel Zuo frowned. Two days had already passed, so why had the general not arrived yet? On top of that, it felt very odd to see Marquis Green Bamboo behaving in such a relaxed manner. Could the enemy be planning to break through the second forward basecamp before the general could even arrive?

On the ground below, the sourcebox array had already been repaired, and it began to slaughter the corpse kings on a massive scale. However, the destruction only lasted for half a day, as a giant corpse king appeared and blocked the sourcebox array from continuing its rampaging.

Lu Yin stared at the almost hundred meter tall corpse king standing in the distance. This reminded him of the corpse king that had managed to break into the second formation base's headquarters. Were these oversized corpse kings specially created to deal with sourcebox arrays?

The second forward basecamp's defensive sourcebox array used a red light to slaughter enemies indiscriminately, and when the red light swept the battlefield, it had managed to exterminate nearly a third of the corpse kings. However, the moment the enormous corpse king appeared, the red light faded when it made contact with the creature.

In an effort to test out his thoughts, Lu Yin launched a Vacuum Palm at the oversized corpse king, only to see that the creature showed no reaction at all.

Lu Yin silently retreated. The giant creature was even more formidable than the Envoy level corpse king that he had recently dealt with. Even if he unleashed everything in his entire arsenal, he most likely still would not leave even a scratch on the massive creature. Lu Yin felt that he would be more useful by moving away than inviting trouble by trying to fight the thing.