“Stop!” Lu Yin shouted, killing intent blazed in his eyes.
Yue Ya frowned as he met Lu Yin’s gaze. “That’s a good look. Remember this feeling. It’s important to not be too emotional. Their deaths will allow us to deal with Mo Shang and will also serve to temper your will, removing your attachments. Only then will you be able to climb higher and farther. Once you truly understand the Nine Odysseys Megaverse, you will thank me.”
The man then glanced at Boundless. “So, there’s yet another true expert. How can I leave him uncontrolled? Mo Shang will die today, so let these people be buried with him.
“Lu Yin, you should be thanking me.”
The Voidheart Mirror continued to drop down. It was like the universe itself was collapsing as the dark-gold light swept towards the Origin Progenitor.
Lu Yin’s expression was terrifying to see.
The Origin Progenitor’s voice reached his ear. “This is manifested thought, but I’ve never seen one so powerful before. I’ll try to restrain our people. That must be Yue Ya, the one who slaughtered the family of Lesser Sancte Ru.
“To counter manifested thought, you can either endure it with pure willpower or attack in some manner that your opponent doesn’t understand.”
Staring at Yue Ya, Lu Yin released the full power of his consciousness in a thunderous surge. The universe shook hard enough to cause the megaverse to quake. His consciousness spread across the universe like an enveloping sky that pushed the dark-gold canopy up.
Everyone was stunned by the sight. Yue Ya, the High Seraph, and even the Origin Progenitor were all shaken.
Emperor Slayer was dumbfounded. What the...? He’s overturning reality! I’ve never seen such a terrifying consciousness before.
The Origin Progenitor had already known that Lu Yin’s consciousness had greatly improved recently, but he had not been aware that Lu Yin had devoured Wu Wei. The combination of the Luminary’s consciousness and that of all the other conscients that Lu Yin had devoured in recent months meant that his consciousness far surpassed anyone else’s, including even Old Chief’s. There was no doubt that Lu Yin possessed the strongest consciousness in all the three megaverses.
All of that terrifying consciousness was being fully unleashed at this moment.
The High Seraph’s eyes glittered. So I guessed right. He really can consume consciousness.
There was no other explanation for how Lu Yin’s consciousness had improved so quickly.
Even Yue Ya was astonished. He stared as his Voidheart Mirror was raised up by nothing but consciousness. While initially amazed, excitement blossomed and grew in his eyes. This is far stronger than I had imagined! Wonderful! I must seize this man! Taking him means taking the position of Greater Sancte!
“Yue Ya, withdraw your Voidheart Mirror, or don’t blame me for lashing out,” Lu Yin warned.
Forcing down his excitement, Yue Ya met Lu Yin’s gaze. “I’m helping you. Useless emotions will only hold you back. Without these people, you can roam free, and no one will be able to touch you. Right now, they are your weakness.”
Bloodlust overflowed from Lu Yin’s eyes. “Enough! This is your last warning—withdraw your Voidheart Mirror.”
Yue Ya stared intently at the young man. “Very well, I’ll remove it.”
The dark-gold light peeled away from Boundless’s experts one thread at a time before drifting upwards.
Lu Yin glanced over and let a sigh of relief slip out.
“Be careful!” the High Seraph shouted. The blazing light of his Everlasting Will instantly shot out. Lu Yin turned and saw a dark-gold curtain spread out before him, radiating from Yue Ya and positioned to envelop him.
However, the curtain was pierced straight through by Everlasting Will.
Yue Ya had not expected the High Seraph to spoil his surprise attack. Theoretically, it should have been impossible, but it appeared that the High Seraph’s attack was able to ignore time entirely.
Even more surprising to Yue Ya was the fact that Lu Yin had anticipated everything.
He had purposely turned his head, both to invite Yue Ya’s attack and to give the High Seraph the chance to intervene.
The High Seraph would never allow Lu Yin to fall, and so his intervention was guaranteed.
The mastery of the power of time that the High Seraph had demonstrated when climbing the cliff in the Willbound Spire ensured that the man could attack however he pleased.
Events unfolded precisely as Lu Yin had expected. He quickly flicked out a spiral of karma, attacking Yue Ya while the High Seraph’s Everlasting Will was still striking the dark-gold curtain.
It was always difficult for Lu Yin to strike a true expert with a spiral of karma. While the power of karma was invisible to even Dukkhans, all true powerhouses could sense the power and evade it. Those at the level of the High Seraph were even capable of briefly resisting the power of karma, and Yue Ya was no exception.
It was only when an opening appeared that Lu Yin could strike with karma.
He had used himself as bait to create such an opening.
Everlasting Will stabbed through the dark-gold curtain while Yue Ya himself was struck by a spiral of karma.
Even if nothing had been planned with the High Seraph, Lu Yin had still accounted for their coordination and set things up.
Yue Ya was still stunned by the High Seraph’s sudden interference when he was struck by the spiral of karma. Terror appeared on the man’s face; just what had struck him?
Lu Yin’s eyes were locked onto Yue Ya, who was wondering why the man was staring at him. The spiral of karma allowed Lu Yin to witness multiple scenes of the Nine Odysseys Megaverse, though nothing provided him with any answers.
The spirals of karma did not read memories, and neither was karma omnipotent. While Yue Ya had been struck, that success did not guarantee that Lu Yin would receive any answers.
Still, it was the best that he could do.
It was difficult enough to land an attack on a peak expert like Yue Ya. All that could be said was that Yue Ya had been unlucky.
He was startled beyond all compare at that moment. “The power... of karma?”
So far, only a handful of individuals, such as the High Seraph and Yong Heng, were aware that Lu Yin wielded the power of karma. Even experts in the Spirit Nidus like Old Yu had merely sensed that Lu Yin controlled a power that they could not see. While they might have some suspicions, they had no proof.
At this moment, Lu Yin’s power of karma had been fully exposed to Yue Ya.
Lu Yin no longer cared about keeping such things hidden. The people who had been on top of the cliff in the Willbound Spire were all from the Nine Odysseys Megaverse, and they had already seen Lu Yin controlling the power of karma. It was bound to be reported, so Yue Ya’s knowledge changed nothing.
The man stared at Lu Yin in disbelief. “You actually control the power of karma as well?”
Lu Yin glanced into the distance. The dark-gold aura had disappeared from Boundless’s experts, indicating that they were no longer being controlled.
At this moment, they were all warily eying Yue Ya.
Even if none of them feared death in battle, Yue Ya had silently taken control of all of them. It was a truly terrifying ability.
Boundless’s experts were terrified of Yue Ya’s manifested thought.
As for Yue Ya, he was even more shocked to learn that Lu Yin controlled karma.