Mu Ji spun the pointer on the roulette without even looking at the approaching sword. Looking would not make any difference. He did not have the ability to survive on his own. Only his Roulette of Life and Death could possibly save him. Come on! Come on! I just need one chance. Luck! Be a lucky spin!
The sword did not drop quickly, as Progenitor Xi was not trying to kill Mu Ji, but rather test him.
If he was not a traitor and was being honest about his innate gift, then he would be extremely useful to Aeternus. As soon as he comprehended sequence particles, he might even be able to compete for a place as one of the Seven Skygods. Mu Ji was someone even Mu Ke wanted to kill, and Progenitor Xi wanted to make use of this.
The arrow landed on Return From Death.
Mu Ji’s mouth fell open, but he did not move. The edge of the sword sliced through his body, pierced his chest, and pinned him to the ground. His upper body bent backwards in an odd manner. He was completely defeated by this one strike of Progenitor Xi’s sword.
His expression showed his agony at the pain of death.
Progenitor Xi watched calmly and saw that Mu Ji had already dead.
Zhong Pan and Marquis Wang both stared at Mu Ji. They could clearly see that the arrow had stopped on Return From Death. Could Mu Ji really still be alive?
As the three people watched, Mu Ji's clearly dead body twitched. The blade of Progenitor Xi’s sword disappeared, and Mu Ji's body collapsed to the ground. His enraged expression changed, and he coughed several times while clutching at his chest. He gasped loudly as his pupils dilated. It took him some time to recover.
When he looked up, he saw the surprised expressions of Progenitor Xi and the other two, and a cold light flickered through Mu Ji’s eyes. If he had not been lucky with his spin, Progenitor Xi’s sword would have really killed the man. Even if he had been lucky enough to survive, he would need a very long time to recover from being stabbed in the chest.
Not even Mu Ji’s battle with Mu Ke had wounded him so badly. This woman...
"Your innate gift is quite impressive." Progenitor Xi rarely gave out any form of praise.
Mu Ji gasped, "Do you believe me now?"
Progenitor Xi did not answer and instead looked over at Marquis Wang. "Was Qing Ping able to defeat you?"
"He’s broken through and become a Progenitor," Marquis Wang calmly reported.
This caught Progenitor Xi by surprise. "Didn't he fail his tribulation?"
Wang Xiaoyu shook her head, as she knew nothing of this matter.
A short time later, Progenitor Xi once again reviewed the information that she had received from the Origin Universe. There was information that had been transmitted to the Scourge after Qing Ping succeeded in his breakthrough, but Progenitor Xi had not read it at the time. As she finally looked at it, her expression changed. “How is this possible? He failed his stellular tribulation, only to immediately take another path and succeed? He truly is worthy of being his disciple. This man never truly failed, as he was unwilling to attack the people from Burial Garden. Such resolution is not a good thing for our Aeternus. "
Progenitor Xi looked up at the cosmic doors in the sky. The seven surviving True God Guard Captains had all been targeted while out on a mission. Clearly, there were traitors within Aeternus. Their all-out war would not achieve the desired results.
...
In the Lightning Spirit Tribe’s universe, Lu Yin pulled his hand back. He brought out his Champions’ Stage and began to anoint a champion.
He had just eliminated another frenzied corpse. So far, he had dealt with the frenzied corpses that had been sent to the Ice Spirit Tribe, the Earth Spirit Tribe, and the Fire Spirit Tribe. He had also just taken care of the frenzied corpse sent to the Lightning Spirit Tribe, which meant that his next goal was the Wood Spirit Tribe’s universe.
Through his efforts, the dark-red star in the universe in his chest had absorbed a tremendous amount of divine energy from the frenzied corpses. This divine energy had corrupted peak powerhouses for decades, centuries, or even longer. Each one had been steeped in much more divine energy than what any of the True God Guard Captains had ever managed to absorb.
Additionally, Lu Yin had anointed four more Progenitor-level champions to his Champions’ stage from the bodies of the powerhouses who had been transformed into frenzied corpses. In addition to Qi You, the old woman, and the Cyclops King, Lu Yin’s Champions’ Stage now had more champions than his Investiture of the Gods’ summoned gods. He had not even noticed.
As for the strength of Lu Yin’s summons, his most powerful summoned god from his Investiture of the Gods was Xia Shenji. It was possible that Arch-Elder Zen’s summon was more powerful after it used the Tri-Yang Ancestral Qi Technique to summon Lu Tianyi, but that power was very difficult to use. As for Lu Yin’s champions, he had the Cyclops King, which was shrouded in the Hollow and was capable of fighting against a sequence powerhouse. In some ways, the Cyclops King was similar to the frenzied corpses, as it did not have access to sequence particles, but was still capable of fighting against a sequence powerhouse.
This was the power of the Lu family. If the Investiture of the Gods and the Champions’ Stage were used in unison, Lu Yin could summon a total of twelve Progenitor-level experts. This was absolutely freakish.
Even Lu Yin felt that it was a bit excessive.
Even so, it was not enough strength, not even close.
When Lu Yin had been an Explorer, he had felt that there were not very many Explorers in the entire universe. When he had become an Enlighter, he had felt the same way about Enlighters. After gaining the strength to fight against Progenitors, Lu Yin needed his summons in the Investiture of the Gods and Champions’ Stage to at least be at the Progenitor level, or even possibly at the Sequence Progenitor level.
This was how one person became as strong as a nation, how one person could lord over all. At this level of strength, there was no point in obtaining more summons, not unless they were as strong as a Progenitor.
Lu Yin needed to keep moving. Next was the Wood Spirit Tribe.
...
The universe shook. The violent power of voidforce energy was pulled over by a pot and forced forward.
Marquis Wu coughed up blood and tried to attack, only for his arm to be frozen in midair. If Lu Yin were present, his Heaven’s Sight would be able to see the sequence particles that twined around Marquis Wu's arm. These were Xu Wuwei’s sequence particles, the Law of Blocking. This sequence particle could block anything, be it an exit or a path. At the moment, Xu Wuwei had blocked Marquis Wu's ability to defend, and that resulted in the Marquis being continuously assaulted by voidforce energy.
If not for the fact that Xu Wuwei’s sequence particles had no offensive ability, Marquis Wu would have been killed long ago.
Xu Wuwei was a cautious man, and he wondered why the Marquis had not used his divine energy yet. Against a sequence powerhouse like Xu Wuwei, what possible reason could there be for one of the True God Guard Captains to not use divine energy? However, throughout the entire battle, Marquis Wu had never once used any divine energy.
Given the situation, Xu Wuwei used his Spiral Domain.
Each line isolated the void, and the domain shrank down.
Marquis Wu suddenly looked up, a terrible chill appearing in the depths of his eyes. He raised a hand, bent his fingers, and then pressed down.
Up above, red spots appeared, each one accompanied by a dark-gold light that flickered in outer space. They looked like meteorites falling, and the Spiral Domain twisted as it was torn apart.
Xu Wuwei’s eyebrows rose. Finally, his opponent was using his divine energy.
However, why was this divine energy not in the man’s body?
Marquis Wu’s head rose, and his mouth opened wide. More and more red spots appeared up above, each one accompanied by the same dark-gold light. Meteorites appeared, and they rained down, striking everything.
Xu Wuwei was dumbfounded. How were there so many? He willed his pot to grow larger and placed it over his head. Sequence particles surged into the sky, blocking the rain of meteors.
Constantly, the divine energy countered the sequence particles.
Seizing this opportunity, Marquis Wu fled.
It was not that Xu Wuwei did not want to stop the Marquis, but rather that there were simply too many meteors falling down from the sky overhead. He had never seen anyone use divine energy in such a manner. Could it be a trap? Why else would there be so many meteorites in this universe?
Lu Yin arrived in the Wood Spirit Tribe’s universe, and he saw the frenzied corpse that the Wood Spirits had trapped. They had used a very similar method to the Ice Lord, continuously consuming sequence particles to trap the monster.
Lu Yin’s head rose, and he looked in another direction. He felt someone familiar in that direction. It was Big Sis.
A step forward, and Lu Yin easily dealt with the frenzied corpse. He anointed it as a champion and then headed to the other region of the universe.