But if that was the case, then why were there still three eyes left?
With those questions in mind, Lu Yin reached out to touch the eye again. A crack rang out as most of his body was turned around, but because he had used the green lights to forcibly anchor himself in place, he ended up cracking his body.
He had not expected that result.
Lu Yin rubbed his waist. Such an injury would recover quickly. He had also just confirmed that the motes of green light were indeed effective against this ability, though not fully effective. Most likely, he simply did not have enough of them yet. If he did, he could hold his body completely steady. The reason why his bones had broken was because only a portion of him had been locked in place. If he could stabilize his entire body and touch with the eye, he might be able to obtain the innate gift.
This ability should be called Crow Reversal. Just that thought felt eerie. In the middle of a fight, making someone suddenly turn around would stun anyone.
Lu Yin realized he was going farther and farther down the path of an Aberrant.
In the distance, Master Qing Cao had also figured out the nature of the Divine Crow’s ability. He looked at Lu Yin strangely. “Why does every ability feel so strange once it’s in his hands?”
Forcing someone to turn around was both ridiculous and unsettling. It could easily leave lifelong psychological scars. Qing Cao could not understand how the Rampart Wardens of the Nine Ramparts had once defeated the Ten-Eyed Divine Crow.
Despite already knowing that he did not have enough green lights, Lu Yin kept trying. Every attempt ended with broken bones, but he refused to give up. As long as there was even the slightest chance of obtaining this ability from the Divine Crow, it was worth the time.
Several months later, Master Qing Cao's voice suddenly rang out, "Obscura is calling you into Vestigium."
Lu Yin looked over. He thought for a moment and then simply laid down within the coffin and entered Vestigium. "Ba Se, were you looking for me?"
"It is time for you to receive a mission."
Lu Yin then remembered that his earlier three-star mission, capturing the Jade Thread of Heaven, had been cancelled. Later, because he had been drafted into the war against the Plume Immortals, he had not accepted another mission. One could say that he had rested for a while. It had already been more than ten years since that war had ended, so it really was time for him to accept another mission.
"Please choose the difficulty of the mission that you wish to receive."
"Three stars." Lu Yin did not hesitate.
"Do you have a preference?"
"What do you mean?"
"Destroying a civilization, capturing a lifeform, or something else."
"Anything is fine."
Ba Se did not continue with that line. "Very well. Three-star mission: capture a branch of the River of Aeons."
Lu Yin was surprised. "A branch of the River of Aeons? You want that?"
"The more branches of the River of Aeons, the better," Ba Se replied.
Lu Yin did not understand. "Every megaverse has its own flow of time, which means every one has a branch of the River of Aeons. Given Obscura's abilities, why do you need me to capture one? Not only that, but Old Man Hehe can even draw down the main stream of the River of Aeons itself, so what need is there for these branches?"
"No comment."
Lu Yin felt that something about this mission was off. Was capturing a branch of the River of Aeons really deserving of a three-star mission?
While he had indeed earned many mission rewards recently, including even a six-star mission reward, that had only been possible because of the war. Even in wartime, he would have never succeeded without his ability to teleport. He could have died at any moment.
On the battlefield, even a five-star mission could easily cause his death. Outside of war, that was far more true.
One of Obscura’s four-star missions was destroying a civilization with ten Immortals, while a three-star mission corresponded to destroying a civilization with at least five Immortals. That was clearly not as difficult as capturing a branch of the River of Aeons.
Even back when the Tianyuan had not possessed even a single Immortal, there had still been a branch of the River of Aeons, which would have been easy to capture. This mission should not be so difficult.
Obscura was not foolish, and neither was Lu Yin. There had to be more to this mission than he was being told.
Right, to capture a branch of the River of Aeons, it seemed that one needed to completely destroy a megaverse, rather than merely reset it. That changed things entirely. The reason why the Great Master had once been taken to the Nine Odysseys Megaverse was because her megaverse had been completely destroyed, and Greater Sancte Blood Tower had just so happened to arrive at that time. Because of that incident, she had not merged back into the main stream of the River of Aeons and had instead joined the Nine Odysseys Megaverse.
From the perspective that the complete destruction of a megaverse was required, then the difficulty level of a three-star mission might indeed make sense.
Ba Se said nothing further, and Lu Yin left Vestigium. He took Master Qing Cao and went back to the Trio, where he found Blood Tower. Lu Yin needed to ask about capturing branches of the River of Aeons. Fortunately, he had not yet accepted the mission.
"You want to capture a branch of the River of Aeons?" Blood Tower asked in surprise.
At his side, the Great Master also stared at Lu Yin. She had been called over as well, since she had once been a ferryman of the River of Aeons.
"It is not that I want to capture one, but rather that Obscura wants one," Lu Yin emphasized. He glanced at the Great Master. "Every megaverse has its own time, so the real difficulty in capturing a branch of the River of Aeons should be the complete destruction of a megaverse. But that would match the difficulty of one of Obscura’s three-star missions."
"That is not all," the Great Master said.