Lu Yin then quickly left the area.
The Sea King snorted contemptuously. As if Lan Xian needed to hide her attacks!
When Lu Yin returned to the flagship, he was met by Elder Jiu Shen. Shock could still be seen within the old man’s eyes.
The Cosmic Art formed the very foundation of the Cosmic Sect, and the Cosmic Art had been created by Progenitor Chen. However, Lu Yin had just defeated Progenitor Chen while both of them were at the Enlighter realm, which was beyond shocking to Jiu Shen.
Still, the most startling piece of information was that Progenitor Chen had actually started developing the Cosmic Art while only an Enlighter. This was something that no one had known about before.
“It’s time for you to improve your mastery of the Cosmic Art. Fighting Progenitor Chen should have greatly aided your understanding of the cultivation art,” Elder Jiu Shen said.
Lu Yin nodded. “Progenitor Chen was absolutely amazingly talented. It’s unbelievable that he managed to create the Cosmic Art while only an Enlighter, and his mastery of the art also far surpasses my own.”
“Brown-noser.” Elder Jiu Shen rolled his eyes. “Hurry up and achieve mastery of the Cosmic Art and then return my Cosmic Sect’s inheritance to us. This war should be over now, and the Sixth Mainland will take over things from here.”
Lu Yin blinked. “Senior, do you want to go back?”
“I had nothing to do with this in the first place,” Elder Jiu Shen growled. He was completely fed up with being led around by the nose by Lu Yin, but the inheritance that was on the bottom of Lu Yin’s foot was too important to ignore.
“Senior, please wait a bit longer, and this junior will soon give you an answer,” Lu Yin said.
Elder Jiu Shen left.
Lu Yin wanted to call Xu Qing next. Lu Yin had a comprehensive strategy for this war, and things had finally entered the final stage. The hardest part of his plan had been for the Great Eastern Alliance to endure through the early stages of the war.
Since Lu Yin had managed to accomplish that, he had gained the initiative.
Before Lu Yin could make the call, he received a call request from Arch-Elder Zen.
“Senior,” Lu Yin instantly called out in a very respectful tone as he answered the call.
Arch-Elder Zen was clearly in no rush, and the call remained silent for a while before the old man spoke. “Progenitor Chen is an incredibly difficult opponent.”
Lu Yin had already known that Arch-Elder Zen was calling because of Lu Yin’s stellular tribulation. The Semi-Progenitor would not be the only one to do so either, as everyone who knew Lu Yin and learned of his battle with Progenitor Chen would try to call him. “It was a very difficult fight. I almost lost.”
“Throughout all of human history, going back to the beginning of time, there have been too few who were capable of facing Progenitor Chen. I’m not convinced that even the Ancient Progenitors would have been able to defeat Progenitor Chen at the same cultivation realm. Your victory over him in the same realm of cultivation is something that deserves to be recorded down in history,” Arch-Elder Zen declared.
Lu Yin quickly and humbly answered, “This junior was merely lucky.”
Arch-Elder Zen smiled at that. “How is the war going? Can you continue?”
Lu Yin decisively replied, “Yes.”
This caught Arch-Elder Zen off guard. According to what he knew of Lu Yin, this should have been the time when Lu Yin started complaining and finagling to gain the Hall of Honor’s support. Why in the world was Lu Yin answering so bluntly?
“Do you need any assistance? Perhaps some supplies?” Arch-Elder Zen asked very gently. He was treating Lu Yin in the exact same manner that he had before Lu Yin’s identity as Lu Xiaoxuan had been exposed.
Lu Yin clearly sensed this shift. No matter what, even if Arch-Elder Zen was the leader of the Fifth Mainland’s Hall of Honor, he was still a pragmatic person. Lu Yin had defeated Progenitor Chen during his stellular tribulation, and if Lu Yin eventually became a Progenitor, he would be truly invincible in the entire universe. This was the reason behind the change in Arch-Elder Zen’s behavior.
As for the offered support, even though Lu Yin was already an Envoy, his die still needed star essence, and an endless supply at that. “Supplies would be of tremendous assistance.”
Arch-Elder Zen gave a small smile, but his tone almost immediately changed after that. “This was merely your first stellular tribulation to become an Envoy, and yet you faced Progenitor Chen and also absorbed a hundred times more stellular energy than an average Envoy. Do you understand the implications of that?”
Lu Yin became confused. “What are you saying, Senior?”
Arch-Elder Zen solemnly explained, “It means that it will be incredibly difficult for you to continue cultivating.”
Lu Yin’s eyebrows rose, but he remained silent.
Arch-Elder Zen then continued, “An Envoy needs to absorb stellular energy in order to progress, but stellular energy is not the same as star energy. It is nowhere near as easy to absorb, and it also takes a great deal more time. The time it takes to absorb more stellular energy is typically measured in years, and you may not survive long enough to reach your next breakthrough. Even if you do reach that breakthrough, you will face more after that. If you try to absorb stellular energy too quickly, you could easily draw the attention of the true universe. What’s more, this is not something that can be completely avoided through the use of curios, as you need far too much stellular energy.”
This was not an issue that Lu Yin had considered before his stellular tribulation, but his heart sank lower and lower as he listened to Arch-Elder Zen’s explanation. It was completely true; he needed far too much stellular energy.
Before his breakthrough, his reserves had contained about 200 times more star energy than that of an average Enlighter at his cultivation level. That was why Lu Yin had scrounged around for star essence and had used heat sources to speed up his cultivation, as the combination had given him a shortcut to quickly improve his cultivation with.
However, were there any similar means to accelerate his cultivation speed now that Lu Yin was an Envoy?