Despite feeling like she was facing an insurmountable power, Progenitor Xi did not dare to try to avoid the spiral of karma. She stood in place, unmoving.
Suddenly Lu Yin’s pupils shrank as he stared at Progenitor Xi. He saw a single character appear on her forehead: Slave.
It was the same character yet again, but Lu Yin had never imagined that Progenitor Xi would also be under its control.
Ye Zhang and the four Boundary Guardians had all been controlled by the same character. Lu Yin had assumed that Progenitor Xi was unrelated to that matter, but the same character had just appeared on her forehead as well.
No, it was impossible for this character to have a connection to Master Qing Cao. Why would that man have sent Progenitor Xi to seek the Tianyuan Megaverse’s aid?
Once again, things did not add up.
When Tian Ci had claimed that the “Slave” character was from Master Qing Cao, Lu Yin had already felt that something about the matter was wrong.
Suddenly, his spiral of karma snapped. Lu Yin retreated several steps as another character rose above Progenitor Xi’s head: “Heaven.” As soon as it rose, it descended once again.
Boundless shuddered, and everyone’s attention was drawn over.
In front of Lu Yin, Progenitor Xi disappeared entirely. Nothing at all was left behind, not even her consciousness.
Lu Yin stared on in a daze. Progenitor Xi was dead.
The Origin Progenitor, Chu Yi, and others all appeared, looking to Lu Yin for answers. “What happened?”
Lu Yin’s mood soured. Just who was responsible for those “Heaven” and “Slave” characters, and how many had been left behind? Progenitor Xi had been on Boundless for a great deal of time; did that mean that the one behind the characters had been constantly observing the battleship? Had they seen everything that Lu Yin had done? There was no chance that the person was Master Qing Cao. It was impossible.
Abnormal behavior had exposed Progenitor Xi as a chess piece. Lu Yin glanced around Boundless. Could there be other chess pieces present as well?
Was this matter directed at Lu Yin? It might not have originally been so, as Progenitor Xi’s odd behavior was not at all recent. However, as Lu Yin rose to power, various chess pieces seemed to have closed in on him, and that realization left Lu Yin momentarily breathless.
He felt that whoever was behind the “Heaven” and “Slave” characters was even more terrifying than the Nine Odysseys Megaverse’s three Greater Sancti.
Wait, could it be one of the three Greater Sancti?
“Pillar, what exactly happened?” the Origin Progenitor asked.
Lu Yin exhaled. “That character appeared again.”
The Origin Progenitor twitched. “Slave?”
Lu Yin nodded.
“On who?”
“Progenitor Xi.”
The Origin Progenitor’s face fell. “We need to find out who is behind this.”
“Master, even if we find them, we can’t do anything to them,” Chu Yi protested in a bitter tone.
The Origin Progenitor sighed. “They must be an Immortal.”
Immortal. A single word caused everyone’s hearts to grow burdened.
At this moment, they realized that it was impossible to clearly see the true state of the megaverses without entering the Immortal realm.
Lu Yin felt more urgency than ever before to reach the Immortal realm, even if only his combat power reached that level.
The Origin Progenitor had been weakened, and Mister Mu’s power had been restricted. The God of Death had disappeared long ago, and Destiny was still hiding. Countless peerless geniuses who had been born in the Tianyuan Megaverse had lost their future because of this hidden hand. This individual was their megaverse’s true greatest enemy.
Staring at the empty space in front of him, knowing that Progenitor Xi was dead, Lu Yin remembered the look in her eyes just moments before. She had likely never understood the reason for her odd actions.
Even the Boundary Guardians had been aware that they had been controlled, yet Ye Zhang and Progenitor Xi had both been ignorant of the fact. That was more terrifying than anything else.
What unsettled Lu Yin even more was that the mastermind was aware of everything about him, and yet they had never intervened. This indicated that they were fully confident that they could control him.
When would he become an Immortal?
Lu Yin rolled his die. Before he had realized anything, danger had already drawn so close to him.
He had believed himself impressive after gaining enough strength to no longer fear the High Seraph, establishing a tenuous balance with other apex powers like Yong Heng and Yue Ya, and he had even had a chance to shatter that balance. Lu Yin had never realized that the true peril had been hiding in the dark behind him all along.
Had he not noticed Progenitor Xi’s odd and illogical behavior, Lu Yin would still be watched.
Six pips: Possession. Luck was on his side. Lu Yin’s mind entered the dark space, and he quickly moved about as he searched for the brightest sphere of light.
Before long, Lu Yin left Boundless again, having located a Celestial-realm conscient that he quickly devoured.
That done, he resumed rolling his die.
A bit more than a month flashed by. One day, just as Lu Yin dealt with yet another Celestial-realm conscient, he was struck by a sudden chill. Far away, a pair of eyes opened, and a hand rose to point out with a single finger. A dazzling light appeared, and Everlasting Will sliced across the megaverse, instantly reaching him from the hand to pierce Lu Yin’s body.
Everlasting Will pierced him, and then Boundless, Yuan Qi, the Megalith, and Bian Ji. All of them were attacked along the same line.
Everlasting Will had skewered four people in total after being released from somewhere far behind Boundless. All in its path was erased.
The sudden calamity caught everyone completely off guard.
Lu Yin focused on Everlasting Will as Lightstream flickered around him. Time was reversed by one second, and Everlasting Will vanished. The Celestial-realm conscient was flung away, and the very next moment, when Everlasting Will reappeared, it destroyed the conscient instead. The attack passed by Boundless before vanishing into the distance.
Everything occurred within the span of a single second.
Yuan Qi, the Megalith, and Bian Ji had not had time to react. Their bodies that had been destroyed by Everlasting Will had already been restored, and none of the three had any idea of what had happened.
Lu Yin’s expression turned grim; the High Seraph was plotting against him.
The High Seraph’s Everlasting Will was able to ignore both time and space when it was unleashed, though there also appeared to be specific conditions. In the Willbound Expanse, the man had successfully attacked Yong Heng by coordinating with Lan Huifeng. This time, Lu Yin had been pierced when Mo Shang had taken advantage of a Celestial-realm conscient.
The conscient certainly had not been cooperating with the High Seraph. After all, the attack had destroyed the conscient as well.