Lu Yin arrived back at the entrance of the palace and swept his domain across all of Burial Garden. This place could no longer hide anything from Lu Yin, and most of the wandering corpses were gone. Without them, certain areas, such as the mountains of tea bushes, looked quite beautiful.
Lu Yin’s domain instantly exposed everything useful to him.
Scythe fragments, humanoid sourceboxes, and other items all surfaced.
Soon, Lu Yin held all of the fragments of the God of Death’s scythe in his hands.
A black light swept over Burial Garden, carrying the cold bloodlust that was unique to death energy. All of the creatures that felt the energy shuddered.
Even the people who were outside of Burial Garden or in the Immemorial Citadel sensed the energy.
Lu Yuan and his companions looked towards Burial Garden in surprise, and then excitement covered their faces as they all entered Burial Garden together, where they found Lu Yin.
"Little Seven, is that Blackie's weapon?" Lu Yuan asked.
Faced with several of the Three Realms and Six Daos, Lu Yin just nodded silently and handed the God of Death's scythe to them.
The God of Death had taught Lu Yin, and he had even saved his life, but for the Three Realms and Six Daos, the God of Death was part of their family. It was more fitting for them to keep his weapon.
Far below the Immemorial Citadel, the Origin Progenitor's eyes looked up at the scythe in Burial Garden, and he sighed. "All of them are such good children."
There was a complicated expression on Lu Yin’s face. He had expected to find the God of Death’s remains in Burial Garden. Someone had once claimed that the God of Death’s body had been dismembered and scattered throughout Burial Garden, but Lu Yin had not been able to find anything.
He really wanted to see the God of Death again. Lu Yin looked at Lu Yuan and the others, who were all muttering among themselves. He knew they were even more eager to learn that the God of Death had survived than Lu Yin.
Later, the scythe was returned to Lu Yin, as he had cultivated death energy. He had inherited the God of Death’s power, which meant that it was better for him to use the scythe rather than bury it.
After leaving Burial Garden, Lu Yin went to visit the black Mother Tree.
The Megalith and the Pridebeast were still holding onto the tree.
When they saw Lu Yin, both of the behemoths gave him simultaneous thumbs-ups.
"Good job," Lu Yin complimented.
Both beasts grinned widely, revealing bright white teeth that shone in the light.
However, as soon as the Megalith started grinning and bared its teeth, its energy-devouring ability activated, which created a small stir near the Immemorial Citadel, though things quickly calmed back down.
When the creature saw Lu Yin’s disapproving look, it quickly and frantically gave him another thumbs-up.
The Pridebeast joined in with its own frantic thumbs-up. The two creatures were clearly supporting each other.
Lu Yin had no time to bother with the two and simply started absorbing divine energy from the black Mother Tree.
According to True God, the black Mother Tree was from the Spirit Nidus. Yong Heng had injured himself in order to move the tree to the Immemorial Citadel’s battlefield before starting the final battle. This demonstrated that the tree had to have a significant purpose.
The more the Aeternals wanted to protect something, the more Lu Yin wanted to destroy it.
Destroying the tree was the right choice.
Besides, Lu Yin was in dire need of more divine energy.
He released his inner universe and started to absorb the black Mother Tree’s divine energy.
The process was much, much faster than in the past. The black Mother Tree withered visibly, and its branches started to fall off, one after another, as cracks opened up along the trunk.
There was a loud crack, and the Pridebeast looked down at its hand, which had sunk into the tree’s trunk. The beast had not even used any strength; how could the tree have become so weak?
On the other side of the tree, the Megalith plunged headfirst into the black Mother Tree, with only its tail left wagging outside.
The Pridebeast moved over and pulled the Megalith out. The two enormous creatures exchanged bewildered looks.
The star of divine energy in Lu Yin’s inner universe spun, growing larger, darker, and redder as it expanded and took up more of the universe.
From the distance, Wu Tian and the others watched.
"Absorbing divine energy like that won’t hurt him, right?"
"It shouldn’t."
"Pillar is already able to fight Yong Heng directly. How could Yong Heng’s power affect him?"
Deep beneath the Immemorial Citadel, the Origin Progenitor watched as Lu Yin absorbed the divine energy. "Old Mu, you're not going to stop him?"
"He is following his own path," Mister Mu replied.
The Origin Progenitor remained concerned. "If he absorbs too much of Yong Heng’s power, it might affect him."
"No power can escape the limits of the megaverse," Mister Mu replied.
"You’re really laid back."
Bark continued to flake off of the black Mother Tree. Its branches had already all fallen off. There was a loud crash as the massive tree split in two, revealing a hollow trunk that should have been filled with divine energy.
At this moment, the star of divine energy in Lu Yin’s inner universe had grown far larger than any of the other stars. It was a massive, dark-red giant.
Lu Yin’s eyes turned blood-red, and he dropped his head low as murderous thoughts ran rampant in his mind. He felt a rising desire to slaughter everyone, and it threatened to consume him.
He took a deep breath. Currents of power swirled around the star of divine energy. On the landmass down below, the ocean of stellular energy stretched up into the starry expanse to form a vast river through the universe that suppressed the star of divine energy.
How could a single star in Lu Yin’s own universe possibly influence him?
A long time later, the bloodlust gradually subsided.
Lu Yin stood up. It was time for him to rest for a while. Not only did he need to suppress the newfound bloodlust introduced by the divine energy, but he also needed some time to adjust to his new strength and abilities after becoming a true Progenitor.
He had merged his four Progenitor’s worlds into his inner universe, but it would take some time before he could fully integrate them.