Chapter 2397: Drifting
"That's right! Is that really the Python Ancestor's tail?" Progenitor Liu was horrified.
Lu Yin and Big Sis stared blankly at the hole in the ground. From where they were standing, they could see into the Lower Realm. There, they saw a gigantic python, and there was no end in sight to its body. It was the Python Ancestor. The Python Ancestor—was awake.
"The Python Ancestor attacked Undying God?" Lu Yin never imagined such a thing would happen. The Python Ancestor had been in a deep sleep, but it had suddenly just attacked.
Lu Yin looked back up at the Dominion Realm. He must have just heard the cry of the legendary eagle that supposedly lived in the Dominion Realm.
In the Perennial World, there was an eagle perched high above in the Dominion Realm, while the Python Ancestor wrapped around the Mother Tree in the Lower Realm. They were both legends of the Perennial World.
According to even more ancient legends, the Origin Progenitor had always been portrayed with an eagle on his shoulder and a large python around his waist. The Origin Progenitor himself had been the master of the two beasts.
Lu Yin looked back down and saw the Python Ancestor moving in the Lower Realm. He still had no idea how to deal with Undying God. Lu Yin was not sure what to do at all. "Big Sis, didn't you say that no one can hurt Undying God? The Python Ancestor just smashed him with its tail."
"Is it human?" Big Sis snapped back.
Lu Yin was speechless. It was true, Big Sis had said that no human could harm Undying God, and the Python Ancestor was not human.
"I just got to see the big guy show his power again. Wu Xing is in trouble now. It’d be best if the Python Ancestor beats him to death." As Big Sis spoke, her eyes lit up. "Come on, Little Seven, let’s go down and take a look."
Lu Yin grew a bit excited. "Alright."
Progenitor Liu suddenly appeared nearby, and he was staring straight at Big Sis. "How did you know that no human can hurt this Skygod? Who are you?"
The jiao landed right behind Lu Yin, and it brandished its fangs and claws at Progenitor Liu.
Lu Yin did not want any misunderstanding with Progenitor Liu. "She’s one of the people from the Heavens Sect era who was frozen and recently awakened. She’s seen Wu Xing before, and she even took his test back then and visited the Wu Stele. Right, it’s called the Sword Monument now."
"How do you know I took his test?" Big Sis gave Lu Yin an odd look.
Lu Yin had wanted to deceive Progenitor Liu, but had not expected Big Sis to expose his lie immediately.
Progenitor Liu’s sword rose up and pointed straight at Lu Yin. "Lu Xiaoxuan, I don't have time to waste talking to you. Explain who she is clearly. While my Liu family may have been close to the Lu family, your growth has been too ridiculously fast, and it’s not impossible that the four ruling powers’ suspicions are correct—you might really be colluding with the Aeternals."
Lu Yin frowned. "Senior, do you really believe that I am working with the Aeternals?"
"I don't want to believe it."
"If I were cooperating with the Aeternals, Undying God would not have tried to kill me, I would never have tried to expose Liu Song's true colors, and my sister would never have warned you that Undying God cannot be hurt."
Progenitor Liu quietly said, "When my Fifth Mainland fought the war against the Sixth Mainland, Progenitor Chen started the war, but the entire thing was orchestrated by Aeternus. We humans cannot afford to underestimate the intelligence of the Aeternals. You have already impersonated both Long Qi and Yu Hao to create all kinds of trouble for the four ruling powers. I won’t trust any words based on deduction.”
Lu Yin understood the man’s reasoning. This was also a big reason why both the Liu and Nong families had been unwilling to agree to Wang Wen's proposal; they had their own doubts. Even if Lu Yin had once been Lu Xiaoxuan, and even if he was willing to fight to the death against the Aeternals, it would never be enough to completely alleviate the families’ doubts. Humanity had suffered too greatly from the deceptions of the Aeternals.
In fact, if Lu Yin were anyone other than himself, he would also question Lu Yin’s loyalties.
How could anyone who had lost their memories and family background manage to rise up to dominate the entire Fifth Mainland and even stand against the four ruling powers? Such a story was too unreasonable.
There had been plenty of invincible powerhouses who had risen to power throughout human history, but all of their paths could be tracked and were recorded. Too much of Lu Yin’s progress could not be explained.
There were six sides to Lu Yin’s die that was his innate gift, and each of the die’s abilities were incredibly useful. Many people with unique innate gifts had appeared throughout human history, but Lu Yin could confidently say that his innate gift was one of a kind and incomprehensible, as not even Progenitors could explain its abilities.
Furthermore, if Lu Yin really dug into his past, then he would not have a clear conscience, as he had interacted with Shaman God. Only with the Aeternals’ assistance had Lu Yin been able to escape from the Perennial World the first time. He had indeed been protected by one of Aeternus’s conspiracies
Boom!
A vibration rang throughout the entire Perennial World. Lu Yin and the other two looked down into the Lower Realm. The Python Ancestor's body was still moving, and occasionally, it slammed into the Mother Tree. At the same time, the sky of the Lower Realm changed. It became yellow, rotten, dead, and lifeless. It was Undying God’s Progenitor’s world, and it had appeared because he was fighting against the Python Ancestor.
Countless creatures that lived in the Lower Realm were terrified by the clash, and they did not dare to move, even if doing so caused them to be splattered into smears of blood by the Python Ancestor.
And at this moment, unusually intense battles raged in both the Dominion Realm and across the entire rear battlefield.
All five of the array bases were inundated by endless waves of corpse kings that rose up from below as the monsters tried to climb upwards. Sourcebox arrays immediately activated, and Lockbreakers appeared one after another to help protect the five array bases.
Nearly all of Aeternus’s Twelve Marquises had been mobilized for this attack.
On the second array base, Xia Yan stared blankly at a scepter in his hand. He heard a cold voice ask, "Do you qualify to hold the king's scepter?"
The scepter transformed into a beam of light that pierced Xia Yan's body. The Semi-Progenitor’s face grew pale, and he spit out blood. His inner world had been badly shaken.
Long Laogui was startled, but just as he was about to go help, an odd face appeared right in front of him. He gritted his teeth. "Marquis Xiang."
Elsewhere, a teacup appeared above the first array base. It was large enough to fill the entire sky, and everything that appeared within the teacup, whether it be human, corpse king, or other, all became tea.
A strange laugh rang out at the third array base. It echoed out, and the sound caused countless people to howl. Somehow, the laughter manifested into reality, creating countless strange human faces that appeared in the sky above the third array base. Each face belonged to a dead person, and they all rushed down towards the third array base.
Marquis Lan appeared at the fifth array base, and at the same time, so did Marquis Midday. "You’re here too? Don’t you need more time to recover?"
Marquis Lan coldly answered, "Undying God risked death to enter the Perennial World, and no one knows the outcome. How could I not appear?"
"Two of the Twelve Marquises are here? Are you looking down on my fifth array base?" Kuang Yan shouted as he charged out and glared at Marquis Lan and Marquis Midday.
Marquis Midday gave Kuang Yan a cold glance and then said, "It's time to destroy these five array bases."
With that, the marquis’s figure disappeared as he went to fight with Kuang Yan.
On the fourth array base, which was the strongest on the entire rear battlefield, not only were the defenders fighting off three of the Twelve Marquises, but the leader of the Twelve Marquises had also appeared: Marquis Wu.
Marquis Wu looked no different from an ordinary human, but as soon as he fought, any who faced him would feel the pressure.
Yao Di’s body crashed into the array base.
Marquis Wu stood high in the sky and stared down at the fourth array base. "Too weak."
He then stepped forward, but as he did so, snow suddenly fell on his head.
"Snow drifts through the world: A Thousand Calamities." Arch-Elder Zen had taken action, and he had already summoned Xue Wuqing with the Tri-Yang Ancestral Qi Technique.