Within the Consciousness Megaverse, Yue Ya turned to look in the direction of the boundary gate. He might not have a body any longer, but his manifested thought had condensed into the form of a human. He adopted the same middle-aged appearance, and a smile tugged at his lips. “So, have they finally arrived? Very well. In that case, let the hunt begin.”
At the same moment, far away on Boundless, Lu Yin and the Origin Progenitor both sensed something dangerous arrive. In particular, Lu Yin felt some intangible warning, and it sent a chill down his spine.
He hurried over to the Origin Progenitor and asked the old man to hide Boundless in a parallel universe.
“I can also sense the danger, though it’s hard to describe. You should hide as well,” the Origin Progenitor urged, but Lu Yin shook his head.
“I need to know what this threat is. I can’t hide forever.”
“Theoretically, it should be Yue Ya,” the Origin Progenitor said.
Lu Yin had the same thought. At the moment, Yue Ya was the only one fixated on Lu Yin, as the being of manifested thought was determined to seize both Lu Yin’s body and his consciousness.
The Spirit Nidus’s four battleships were Lu Yin’s bargaining chips for negotiating with the Nine Odysseys Megaverse, but they could not be used to threaten Yue Ya. According to the High Seraph, Yue Ya was no longer a Lesser Sancte. Yue Ya had repeatedly committed grave crimes, and he was currently risking everything while ignoring the consequences of failure.
“Senior, Boundless must leave. The feeling of danger is increasing,” Lu Yin pressed, his expression suddenly changing.
The Origin Progenitor did not hesitate, and he immediately ordered Chu Yi to direct Boundless and the other battleships into a parallel universe while the Origin Progenitor himself remained behind.
“Pillar, don’t forget that you still haven’t surpassed this old man,” the Origin Progenitor stated.
Lu Yin did not argue. The situation had just changed, and the danger felt even greater than when he had fought against the High Seraph and Yong Heng in the Willbound Spire. This danger might as well be a ringing alarm bell. Rarely had Lu Yin ever sensed such intense danger, and the few times he had, his life had been at great risk.
He found it difficult to imagine that anyone other than an Immortal could still threaten his life, given his strength.
Not only did he possess a consciousness as powerful as a peak Dukkhan, but he also had many techniques and abilities. Just the fact that Lightstream could reverse time by one second had saved Lu Yin on multiple occasions. Despite that, he still felt an overwhelming sense of danger. Just what was going on with Yue Ya?
Just half a day after Boundless and the other four battleships left, a dark-gold cloud appeared.
“I found you.” Yue Ya’s expression turned vicious. He stepped forward, moving straight for Lu Yin.
Behind him were those who had arrived on the green lotus.
Lu Yin stood in the middle of outer space, far away from Yue Ya. Consciousness erupted from his body, spreading across the megaverse to summon the High Seraph. As long as he cooperated with the Origin Progenitor, Lu Yin refused to believe that the High Seraph and Yue Ya could truly put him in danger, not unless Yue Ya had brought several peak Dukkhans with him.
Space warped, and Yue Ya emerged. He was accompanied by an old man and four other individuals. Each one of the five was a Dukkhan.
Lu Yin’s expression changed. How could there be so many Dukkhans?
Only a handful of such experts had risen up in the Tianyuan Megaverse, and even in the Spirit Nidus, while there were certainly more Dukkhans present, it would be difficult to gather so many at once.
Dukkhans were certainly not as common as cabbages.
Then, Lu Yin understood; this was the result of Seed Transfusion.
The greatest advantages of the Nine Odysseys Megaverse were twofold. First, the external cultivation of spirit seeds essentially granted cultivators a second life. The second was the inheritance system of Seed Transfusion.
Powerhouses could release their spirit seeds before dying, leaving them for future generations. Any cultivator who accepted such a spirit seed would gain the cultivation of the person who had cultivated it originally, though they would never be able to cultivate again and would be stuck at that level.
Every organization in the Nine Odysseys Megaverse had accumulated many of these inheritances through the ages. This meant that, regardless of the era, it possessed the full strength of their predecessors.
That was what truly made the Nine Odysseys Megaverse terrifying.
It was only a slight exaggeration to say that any given faction from the Nine Odysseys Megaverse could produce more top-tier experts than the entire Tianyuan Megaverse; they might even be able to match the full power of the Spirit Nidus.
Yue Ya, as a former Lesser Sancte, almost certainly secretly controlled some organizations in the Nine Odysseys Megaverse.
This explained everything. Yue Ya had been waiting for these people to arrive.
In particular, the old man felt particularly threatening to Lu Yin. This was someone who was undoubtedly at the High Seraph’s level. Even if the man was not truly a peak Dukkhan, he was quite close. His combat strength might be equal to Lu Yin’s own.
For the first time ever, Lu Yin was directly facing the terrifying power produced by the Nine Odysseys Megaverse’s cultivation system.
“Take him.”
The Voidheart Mirror that covered the starry sky suddenly dropped down towards Lu Yin like a meteor. At the same time, Yue Ya reverted to his cloud form and shot towards his target.
Beside the dark-gold cloud, the old man stared at the Origin Progenitor. The elder took a step forward, unleashing the Nine Heavens. The Origin Progenitor replied in kind, and two terrifying auras clashed with enough force to move even the stars.
Lu Yin’s inner universe exploded from within him, and he shoved the star of consciousness up to smash into the approaching cloud.
During their previous exchange, Lu Yin had been suppressed, but that was no longer the case.
Manifested thought clashed against consciousness to produce a tangible, unstoppable storm that swept out in all directions. Even the Dukkhans who had arrived to assist Yue Ya were blasted back by the maelstrom, and they stared at Lu Yin in shock.
The Nine Odysseys Megaverse had no shortage of incredibly powerful youths, but most of those people had achieved their power from inheritances, by accepting another’s Seed Transfusion. In contrast, Lu Yin’s strength was entirely his own.
This was the second time that the two were competing with their manifested thought and consciousness. Previously, the High Seraph had helped Lu Yin attack Yue Ya, but this time, Yue Ya had allies and was the one besieging Lu Yin.
The four Dukkhans surrounded the battlefield and attacked in perfect unison. In front of each one of them, a ruler engraved with the number nine appeared. When the weapons spun, space warped, and even the stars started to distort.
“Nine-Rulers: Heaven-Defying Art,” the four intoned in unison as they charged at Lu Yin.
As Lu Yin continued to fight against Yue Ya with consciousness, he also faced an assault from the four Dukkhans.
Four palm strikes shot out in quick succession, an inexorable force driving back the attackers. They exchanged startled looks and glanced at their rulers.
Each one showed a measurement that was nearly at its limit.
“Strength that reaches the limit...”
“What a monster!”
“We can’t take another attack like that.”
“Attack!”
The four Dukkhans attacked again. The mark of the four rulers dropped back to the bottom as they worked in unison, using the Nine Heavens Transformation to unleash a power that could threaten even Lu Yin, let alone the fact that there were four of them.