It took Xin Wu several days to reach the Corpse King Monument and see Ye Bo there. He was standing at the very front of the crowd, facing the monument.
"Is Ye Bo really cultivating the Corpse King Transformation?" the pink-haired woman exclaimed in surprise.
The blue-haired man watched from a distance, puzzled by Ye Bo’s possible intentions.
Chong Gui yelled, "Get him away from there! Get him away!"
Xin Wu moved closer to the Corpse King Monument. After being injured by Shao Yin, he was nursing a good bit of resentment towards the First Scourge, and he scoffed at the thought of someone from that place trying to cultivate the Corpse King Transformation at the monument.
Just as Xin Wu was about to reach Ye Bo and disrupt his cultivation—a move he felt entitled to make given his status in the Third Scourge—someone nearby suddenly shouted, "The rankings changed!”
The lesser giant turned in surprise and looked at the list. The rankings for the Corpse King Monument had not changed in many years. Even when Zhong Pan had gone to the First Scourge, Xin Wu had not been able to surpass him. Why had it suddenly changed?
Everyone's eyes shifted to look at the rankings.
They saw that a new name had appeared at the bottom of the list. "Ye Bo" had replaced the previous name listed there.
The man who had been explaining things to Lu Yin immediately turned and looked at him. While the man did not recognize the name "Ye Bo," it clearly referred to the unknown man. No other unknown peak powerhouses had visited the monument recently. There was only one person whom the man did not recognize.
But how was that even possible? How could this man have entered the rankings in such a short time? This had to be a joke.
Xin Wu was stunned, and he stared at Ye Bo. It was simply too shocking for someone to enter the rankings within such a short amount of time.
The lesser giant had intended to disturb Ye Bo’s cultivation, but he could no longer do so.
Xin Wu could not afford to interfere with the cultivation of anyone on the rankings list for the Corpse King Monument, as Di Qiong would never allow such a thing to pass.
Suddenly, another shout rang out.
Xin Wu looked over, only to see that the rankings had changed yet again. The name "Ye Bo" was steadily moving up. It was replacing one name after another, and the progress shocked the entire Third Scourge.
Xin Wu could not believe what he was seeing, as it should be impossible. How could anyone improve so quickly? What’s more, Ye Bo had only spent a short amount of time cultivating the Corpse King Transformation so far.
The man who had been speaking to Lu Yin was completely dumbfounded, and when he thought back to what he had been saying earlier, his face flushed with embarrassment.
In the mental space of the Corpse King Monument, Lu Yin let out a breath. He now intimately understood what this technique did.
The Corpse King Transformation bound a body's tissues at the microscopic level, which instantly increased the body’s strength tenfold. While it was a technique, it could also be regarded as a different cultivation method.
However, the drawback of the technique was that the binding not only involved physical muscles, but also emotions.
Human emotions originated from their bodies’ tissues, and binding those tissues meant binding everything together.
While the binding strengthened the body, the process erased an individual’s emotions. This was the greatest drawback of the Corpse King Transformation.
For Aeternus, this was not actually a drawback, but rather an advantage, as corpse kings did not need emotions. However, Lu Yin needed his emotions.
He could not erase his emotions to cultivate the Corpse King Transformation, as doing so would transform him into something that was neither human nor corpse king.
For Lu Yin, mastering the Corpse King Transformation was relatively easy.
He easily grasped the microscopic structure of human tissues, having already reached the Creation level of stellar energy control. That previous accomplishment allowed him to easily adapt to the Corpse King Transformation, and he quickly advanced to the level of the Specter Eye Transformation. If he wished, he could have even pushed to the Pupilless Transformation.
However, everything that Lu Yin was doing was with the body of a corpse king. If he was unable to cultivate the technique with his own body, he would not be allowed to stay in the Third Scourge.
He needed to find a way to undergo a Corpse King Transformation with his own body, which would draw Di Qiong’s attention and secure Ye Bo’s stay in the Third Scourge.
Lu Yin had already stopped training in the Corpse King Transformation and had shifted to thinking. He needed to find a way to successfully use the Corpse King Transformation with his own body.
For other people, the moment that Lu Yin had mastered the Specter Eye Transformation with the Corpse King Monument, he had moved up to fifth place on the ranking list. He was directly beneath Xin Wu.
Xin Wu had been stunned. How had this happened so quickly?
The corpse kings and all the other various creatures that surrounded the Corpse King Monument were utterly silent at this moment.
Dual Bladeform felt terribly confused.
Chong Gui was dancing about animatedly, but he said nothing. He was clearly quite shocked as well.
Days passed, and Lu Yin's consciousness returned to his own body. He had decided to give the technique a try.
When he turned around, he discovered that countless eyes were staring at him. Directly behind him loomed a shadow. "Xin Wu?"
Xin Wu looked intently at Ye Bo. "What do you think about the Corpse King Transformation?"
Lu Yin nodded. "It’s pretty impressive. I decided to try it for real."
Xin Wu's face twitched. Try it? This person made it sound as unremarkable as making a trip to the market to buy groceries. Who would dare claim that it was easy to master the Corpse King Transformation?
How long had Xin Wu spent to master the Pupilless Transformation? How many in all of Aeternus were able to reach that level?
Besides, this was not the way the Corpse King Monument was supposed to be used.
Who was able to master the Corpse King Transformation in the Corpse King Monument all at once without having ever practiced it with their own body? Such a thing had never happened before.
Typically, everyone would visit the Corpse King Monument to train. They might go dozens, hundreds, thousands, even tens of thousands of times. They would use those visits to familiarize themselves with the technique before returning to practice on their own. They would go back and forth countless times until they succeeded. Even after that, many people would return to the monument to try to gain a higher level of mastery in the Corpse King Transformation.
That was the proper way to use the Corpse King Monument.
That was what Xin Wu had done, and it was also what both Fei and Di Xia had done. So just what was going on with Ye Bo? After his very first visit to the Corpse King Monument, his mastery had already nearly matched Xin Wu’s own. What’s more, this had been done without Ye Bo even once trying to use the technique for real?
Xin Wu stared at Lu Yin for a long time. "Di Qiong has ordered me to take you back to the First Scourge."
Lu Yin refused. "I’m not going."
Xin Wu frowned. "You don’t want to return to the First Scourge?"
"I want to master the Corpse King Transformation."