Chapter 2383: Consciousness
"Hey, get over there and get on your knees. Bow to the Soldier Crew. You need to pay for your crimes." Lu Yin suddenly stopped and released Hua Wu.
The man blinked. "Brother Lu, what are you talking about? On my knees? For what? What crimes?"
Lu Yin replied, "You betrayed the Soldier Crew, so naturally you need to face your punishment."
"Didn't you ask me to betray them? I'm on your side!" Hua Wu exclaimed.
Lu Yin replied, "That doesn’t mean that you didn’t betray the Soldier Crew. Since you joined them and became one of them, you need to keep your word to them."
Hua Wu felt as though he had just seen a ghost. Confusion overwhelmed him, and he could not understand Lu Yin’s intentions. Why was Lu Yin not helping him?
Still, with Lu Yin’s prodding, Hua Wu bowed to the members of Soldier Crew. "I'm sorry! I shouldn't have betrayed you! I'm sorry…"
After he finished speaking, Hua Wu lifted his head, only to see that Lu Yin was already gone.
The man rose to his feet while cursing. He then ducked his head and glanced around. He found a path and quickly slipped away. All these lunatics.
Lu Yin rode the jiao into the Innerverse. He first went to Daynight Flowzone, where he entered the pocket dimension that held the ruins of the Celestial Frost Sect. He quickly passed through the Celestial Frost Pond and checked on Progenitor Hui’s seal that was in the underground treasury to reconfirm for himself that the seal belonged to Progenitor Hui. That done, he ordered the entire place to be sealed off before making his way towards Blazing Mist Flowzone.
As soon as Lu Yin arrived in Blazing Mist Flowzone, he went to the pocket dimension that held the Royal Frost Continent and entered it.
It had been a very long time since Lu Yin had last visited the continent.
The cold weather of the continent was the same as ever. Lu Yin saw the distant Subzero City and immediately released his domain, enveloping the entire Royal Frost Continent.
The Frost Emperor suddenly lifted his head. This power?
The man stepped out of Subzero City, and he saw Lu Yin high in the sky. The Frost Emperor took a deep breath, stepped forward, and offered a slow bow. "Greetings, Dao Chosen."
Suddenly, Che Han appeared as well, and he excitedly offered a bow as well. “Greetings, Your Highness.”
Che Han still addressed Lu Yin as the regent of the Great Yu Empire.
Lu Yin nodded. "I was just passing through and thought that I’d take a look."
The Frost Emperor did not believe that at all. He had known Lu Yin for quite a long time, and he felt that he had a good understanding of the young man. There was no way that Lu Yin would visit the Royal Frost Continent without a good reason, but the Frost Emperor could not figure out what it might be.
For Lu Yin, the full might of the Royal Frost Continent was negligible.
Wait, the Frost Emperor suddenly remembered something. Could he be here about the seal?
"Is the seal still fine?" Lu Yin asked.
The Frost Emperor secretly felt that his suspicions had just been confirmed. "It's perfectly fine. Everything’s been completely normal."
"Has anyone checked on the seal since my last visit?"
"Only President Geoffrey stopped by a few times."
There was no way that anyone who knew that the seal formed by the incomprehensible sourcebox array had been created by Progenitor Hui could simply ignore it. Geoffrey had occasionally stopped in to confirm that there were no issues with the seal.
If only Geoffrey had visited the Royal Frost Continent, it meant that Hen Xin and his people did not know about the existence of the seal, as there was no way that man would have ignored such a thing.
"I see. I’m sure that you’re busy, so I’ll leave you to your work." Lu Yin dismissed the two with a wave of his hand.
The Frost Emperor and Che Han glanced at each other before offering another bow and returning to Subzero City.
Lu Yin moved through the sky and arrived above the frozen mountains that held the seal, and he looked down, once again gazing at Progenitor Hui's emblem. If not for Geoffrey, Lu Yin would have never noticed this symbol.
He dropped down and descended into the glacier.
At this moment, back in Subzero City, the Frost Emperor grew worried.
"Don't worry, his highness won't touch the seal," Che Han said.
The Frost Emperor sighed. "He wouldn’t have before, but now…"
The man was genuinely worried that Lu Yin might have become arrogant enough to believe that he could handle anything and everything and that he wanted to open the seal and find out what it kept hidden away.
There was no denying that Lu Yin was the current master of the Fifth Mainland. He had already forced back enemy Progenitors, which had not only shocked the entire Fifth Mainland, but also greatly encouraged them all. Lu Yin had earned a level of respect normally reserved for Progenitors. However, the more powerful he became, the easier it would be for him to lose his sense of caution.
In the Frost Emperor’s heart, Progenitor Hui was a truly elite Progenitor who had altered human history. If Lu Yin wanted to compare himself to Progenitor Hui, he would definitely remove the seal, but how?
Fortunately, the Frost Emperor was overthinking things. Not to mention the fact that Lu Yin was only a four-tribulation Envoy, but even if he became a Semi-Progenitor or a Progenitor and reached a level of power sufficient for him to face Bai Wangyuan and the others head-on, he still would not break any of Progenitor Hui’s seals.
There was no reason for Lu Yin’s hesitation aside from the fact that the seals had been left by Progenitor Hui. Progenitor Hui was the person whose intelligence Lu Yin admired the most. No matter how powerful the man became, his dedication to humanity had remained unmatched. Without Progenitor Hui, the Fifth Mainland would have ceased to exist long ago, and the Perennial World would have never existed at all. While the man might not have been an invincible Progenitor in terms of combat, Lu Yin felt that no other Progenitor deserved more admiration than Progenitor Hui.
Given the fact that the three seals had been left behind by Progenitor Hui, Lu Yin would never willingly open the seals, regardless of whether what lay beneath posed a threat to him.
Lu Yin had only visited the Royal Frost Continent to verify that the seal was safe and secure. On top of that, he had also wanted to examine the seals themselves, as they consisted of multiple sourcebox arrays. Lu Yin was curious to see how far behind his own lockbreaking abilities were compared to Progenitor Hui’s.
From what he could see, there simply was no comparison at all.
Realizing this both frustrated and motivated Lu Yin. He believed himself to be at the cusp of becoming an Array Grandmaster, and yet his lockbreaking skills did not allow him to understand anything about Progenitor Hui’s work.
Lu Yin was in the exact same position that Geoffrey had been in when the man had first seen the seal: absolutely nothing could be understood.
Geoffrey was another Lockbreaker who was at the cusp of becoming an Array Grandmaster, but he had not been able to do anything more than the slightest of repairs to the seal in the Royal Frost Continent. According to Geoffrey’s analogy, he had repainted a spacecraft, but that did not mean that he knew anything about how the vessel worked or what was inside of it.
Progenitor Hui had proceeded too far down the path of lockbreaking, and his mastery had reached such a profound level that even Array Grandmasters could scarcely see Progenitor Hui’s back.
It was possible that, in the current era, Grandmaster Gu Yan alone might be able to understand anything from the seals.
Lu Yin left after studying the seal for two days. There was no reason to spend any more time on the Royal Frost Continent, and he did not even say goodbye to the Frost Emperor before leaving.
He wanted to resume training in the Nine Clones Secret Technique. Lu Yin had coveted this secret technique for a very, very long time, but he had been repeatedly blocked from learning it. He was not able to return to the Perennial World for the time being, as things needed to stabilize, and he wanted the four ruling powers to relax a bit. It would be best for Lu Yin to use the opportunity that had opened up to train himself.