The Apex Palace was not as magnificent as Lu Yin had imagined, and it did not even match the height of the spirit tree. Even so, it was where the High Seraph ruled the entire Spirit Nidus.
This was the location that was closest to the High Seraph.
In Lu Yin’s mind, he reviewed the thirty-seven years of the River of Aeons’ branch stream that had been rolled back. He remembered the invincible expert who had single-handedly slaughtered the Heavens Sect, silenced the Tianyuan Megaverse, and forced Lu Yin to revert time, using the restart that he had been given by Destiny.
Lu Yin had simulated countless battles against the High Seraph. Despite that, he had to admit that, even at the present moment, he was still no match for the High Seraph. However, it would not be as easy for the High Seraph to defeat Lu Yin as before.
The moment had finally arrived. This would be their first official meeting after the battle that had ended with time rolling back by thirty-seven years. Despite that, they had already clashed with each other multiple times.
Lu Yin had thrown the Spirit Nidus into chaos. This was the moment that he had been waiting for.
Lan stopped walking and turned back to look at Su Shidao. "Brother Su, Lord High Seraph wishes to see the Third Boss alone."
Su Shidao frowned. "Alone?"
Lu Yin stared off into the distance, his gaze piercing the mist to see a pair of familiar eyes. "Alright."
Su Shidao cautioned him, "Be careful."
Lu Yin shrugged. "I’m here to become a Seraph. The High Seraph won’t kill me right now, will he? Lead the way."
Lan smiled and then led Lu Yin towards the Apex Palace.
They soon arrived at a place that was entirely built in the Spirit Nidus’s classic architectural style. There, Lu Yin saw the High Seraph.
That face, those eyes, that aura, Lu Yin would never forget any of them for the rest of his life.
Lu Yin had led the Heavens Sect to its peak, surpassing even the ancient era. He had defeated Aeternus and united the Tianyuan Megaverse.
At the peak of the Heavens Sect’s glory, the High Seraph had arrived. The Immemorial Citadel had been stained with blood, and the Heavens Sect had been slaughtered. No matter what move the High Seraph made, he had been utterly unstoppable. His power had been supreme and invincible, the Everstone sequence base making his will unshakable and his sequence particles impossible to disperse. He had been the representation of ultimate strength as he had singlehandedly wiped out the Heavens Sect.
Had Lu Yin not been pushed to despair, he might not have chosen to revert time.
When Boundless had first set off for the Spirit Nidus, Lu Yin had already prepared himself to fight the High Seraph to the death.
The man was strong, to the point of being considered invincible.
Dong.
Dong.
Dong.
Each footstep closed the distance as the High Seraph slowly walked towards Lu Yin. Every step caused the universe to grow quieter.
Clouds descended upon the Ascendant Hall, and the spirit tree stopped swaying. The beautiful maids stood to the side, and an imperceptible tremor ran through the Morrow Behemoth. Far away, halfway across the Spirit Nidus, above Boundless, in the Hundred Grasses Domain, the Origin Progenitor stepped out. His eyes were open, and he looked over in the direction of the Ascendant Hall. His vast, endless aura touched the Ascendant Hall, as a warning to the High Seraph.
The High Seraph stopped when he was a hundred meters away from Lu Yin. A smile appeared on the man’s lips as he looked in the direction of the Hundred Grasses Domain. "That’s a familiar energy... He’s the one I suppressed in the Tianyuan Megaverse."
After a moment, the man’s attention returned to Lu Yin. "Do you know that, when I fought in the Tianyuan Megaverse, I killed everyone else but spared him? I did so because he bore witness to my invincibility as I suppressed your megaverse. Leaving him alive was a demonstration of the ultimate limit that your megaverse can reach.
"As long as he lives, no one can surpass me.
"He is your Tianyuan’s Origin Progenitor, yet he is also the cage that confines your megaverse."
Lu Yin stared into the High Seraph's eyes. "If the megaverse’s limit is considered a cage, then what lies inside and what lies outside of those bars?"
The High Seraph laughed heartily. "As expected, you understand karma in a way that others cannot. Do you believe that he can expand the cage to imprison me instead?"
Lu Yin smiled. "It’s not a matter of understanding, but a simple fact. If not for that, why would you have been so concerned about my Tianyuan Megaverse? Why would you have sent Yuan Qi to act against the Origin Progenitor and ally with traitors to the Tianyuan Megaverse to fight the Heavens Sect?
"Even then, you still failed to suppress the Tianyuan Megaverse."
The High Seraph clasped his hands behind his back. "You’re quite confident. Is that what gave you the courage to come here?"
"You are the one who gives me the confidence to come here, High Seraph."
"Me?"
"Have you really not acted against me just because of the Lesser Spirit Megaverse?" Lu Yin asked bluntly. There was no need to be coy or to keep secrets. Lu Yin’s opponent in the game between megaverses was the High Seraph.
The man smiled at Lu Yin. "What do you think?"
"Clearly not."
"Master Qing Cao," the High Seraph suddenly stated.
Lu Yin’s focus sharpened as he continued to stare at the High Seraph as the man let slip a sigh. "I’m willing to tell you that I haven’t dealt with you because of Master Qing Cao. If it were up to me, I would do my best to eliminate someone like you, someone who has comprehended karma. Not even the threat of the Lesser Spirit Megaverse is enough to stop me."
As the man continued, his eyes grew cold. "Especially since your comprehension of karma has progressed too far. The fight at the Bifrost Palace... even then, your mastery of karma had progressed too far and become dangerous.
"Unfortunately, Master Qing Cao needs your comprehension of karma to break his own limitations. If not for that, Boundless would not exist."
Lu Yin’s eyes flickered as he stared at the High Seraph. "Master Qing Cao... is he the invincible being?"
The High Seraph turned around and walked over to the edge of the Apex Palace to stare off into the distance. "There are people in the Spirit Nidus who claim that I fabricated the existence of the invincible being. Do you really need an explanation? No one else has ever been qualified to demand an explanation from me. You are the first, Lord Lu.
"As the ruler of the Tianyuan Megaverse, given enough time, I’m certain that you can reach the Immortal realm. However, your fate has already been determined. Even if I let you go, you could never escape from Master Qing Cao."
He smiled and said, "Comprehending karma protects you, but it will eventually destroy you."
Lu Yin studied the other man, unable to tell if he was spouting lies or not.
It certainly sounded true.
Master Qing Cao had a chain of karma. At least, that was the conclusion that the Tianyuan Megaverse’s powerhouses had reached. Such a thing also fit with the explanation that the Immortal needed Lu Yin’s comprehension of karma to remove the limits imposed upon him by the chain of karma.
Master Qing Cao was far stronger than the High Seraph. There was no contradiction in the High Seraph obeying Master Qing Cao’s orders.