Lu Yin’s pupils shrank to pinpoints, and he pulled out the large ring the size of a hand that he had obtained from Grandmaster Gu Yan. The old man had once said that the power vessel contained the full power of one of his attacks.
Cloud Fall descended, and the large ring disappeared from Lu Yin and passed by the old man.
Without a single sound, the old man’s face turned gray, and his body was split in two. He slowly tumbled down into the mountains.
The burgeoning secret technique, Cloud Fall, slowly disappeared at the same time.
Everyone remained silent as they blankly stared on. A powerhouse of the Celestial Frost Sect who had passed through four stellular tribulations and had even mastered a secret technique had died so simply. In fact, there had not even been any buildup leading up to his death.
Everyone stared at Lu Yin in fear.
Lu Yin did not have any time to feel anything as he continued to rush towards the Cloud Shuttle. He wanted to get far away from the old famer, as well as any of the other Lu family’s former vassals or retainers who wished to help him. He just wanted to escape far away.
As Lu Yin fled, the old farmer looked up with bloodshot eyes. “Run away! You must live! Hope will only exist as long as you live.”
One day later, another powerful Envoy appeared in front of Lu Yin. He used the knife that he had acquired, as well as a secret technique to fight. With the further assistance of the Enhanced puppet, he managed to severely injure the three-tribulation Envoy and resume his escape to the east.
However, the puppet was recognized, and Shenwu’s Sky sent out a powerhouse after Lu Yin as well.
Finally, after another two days, Lu Yin ended up trapped within a mountain range. Someone had used a sourcebox array to trap him: Master Deng Guo.
Lu Yin murderously glared at Master Deng Guo, and Master Deng Guo stared back at the youth. “All members of the Lu family should be punished.”
“What created your hatred with the Lu family?” Lu Yin asked coldly.
Master Deng Guo remained unflustered. “The Lu family were the ones who moved the Lockbreaker Society’s headquarters to the rear battlefield. The Lu family is the enemy of all Lockbreakers!”
Lu Yin responded with a brilliant smile even as blood leaked from the corner of his mouth. “Thank you for sharing with me how great my Lu family is.”
Master Deng Guo suddenly looked saddened. “It’s a pity that your talent ends here. Die!”
He had set up a simple sourcebox array in the mountains just ahead of Lu Yin’s arrival, but it was not the sourcebox array that protected the second array base with the conical sourceboxes. Master Deng Guo was a Array Master, which naturally meant that he had mastered more than a single sourcebox array.
Lu Yin looked at the countless points surrounding him. Each point shone like a star, and they suddenly swarmed his puppet. None of the points of light launched a powerful attack, but each one possessed a restraining force that was difficult to break through.
Regardless of if he used a secret technique or an item, there was no way for Lu Yin to break free. The sourcebox array encompassed almost half of the mountain range.
All around Lu Yin, more and more people from the four ruling powers appeared.
The White Dragon Clan still had not acknowledged Lu Yin’s identity as someone from the Forsaken Land. With the entire matter becoming so public, the White Dragon Clan had to maintain a degree of self respect, but at the same time, they wanted to kill Lu Yin more than anyone else. The only way Lu Yin could settle the chaos for the clan was by dying.
“Is that how the Lu family maintained their authority over the Perennial World? Were they only capable of using power vessels?”
“They were nothing more than a family of trash that were taken out. Just look at him! You can see that the Lu family must have had too many power vessels all along.”
“That’s certainly true.”
…
“Hey, Lu bastard, do you have nothing but power vessels? You must have killed Young Master Bai with a sneak attack from a power vessel, right?” someone loudly called out.
A disciple from the Celestial Frost Sect glared at Lu Yin. “So, is it true or not? Your Lu family is so despicable and shameless!”
“A shameless family.”
“Shameless.”
…
Lu Yin stood above the mountain range and looked all around. He was surrounded by people who had been sent out to capture him. Among them he saw that Xia Taili, Nong Lie, and others had already arrived, along with the Purple-Gold family’s Jin Feiyuan. Lu Yin was blatantly mocked and ridiculed for being too arrogant and walking straight into a trap. While Lu Yin did not care about any of these people on an individual level, there were just too many of them, and he would not be able to escape unless Mister Mu arrived to save him.
“Long Qi, that puppet belongs to my big brother, so how did you get it?” Xia Taili had specifically come here to ask Lu Yin this question, as the people of Shenwu’s Sky could not wait for an answer. How had Lu Yin gotten a hold of their Junior Progenitor’s puppet?
Lu Yin just glanced over at her. “I picked it up.”
Xia Taili grew furious. “Bullshit!”
Lu Yin glanced around at everyone. He really, truly was unable to escape from this situation. He noticed that there were also several Envoys in the surroundings, which meant that he could not even approach the Cloud Shuttle with his own strength.
In that case, since escape was impossible, it would be better to accomplish something. For example, redeeming the Lu family’s name.
“Bai Shaohong? He was nothing more than trash,” Lu Yin commented quietly. However, his voice still managed to echo through the area, and it even reached the nearby city.
The people from the Celestial Frost Sect all grew enraged. “You’re nothing but some trash who managed to escape by relying on your power vessels! How dare you insult our Junior Progenitor! What can you do?”
Lu Yin looked up at them. “I, Lu Yin, was able to defeat all four of the Junior Progenitors on my own.”
Silence reigned in the area for a moment, but it was quickly broken by booming, sarcastic laughter.
Xia Taili frowned; was Lu Yin insane? Even though Xia Taili had been upset earlier because she had no desire to marry Lu Yin, she did not actually have a bad impression of him as a person. So, why would he go and say such a thing?
Nong Lie just shook his head and let out a sigh.
Jin Feiyuan shouted loudly, “You Lu bastard, you want to face all four Junior Progenitors at once? You couldn’t even hold your own against Elder Shi, and even he was not able to defeat Junior Progenitor Bai. He would have replaced Elder Shi to become the truly invincible first-tribulation Envoy! How could you compare?”
A smile slowly spread across Lu Yin’s face. “Why don’t you come find out? One strike’s enough to deal with you.”
Jin Feiyuan snorted derisively, though he showed no inclination of continuing the conversation with Lu Yin. However, the people nearby started mocking him, especially Nong Lie. “Jin Feiyuan, go give it a try.”
“Com’on, Jin Feiyuan. Go try.”
“The members of the Purple-Gold family can’t be that cowardly.”
“Arrogant.”
Jin Feiyuan had no way to hold onto any reputation with this ridicule. He really did not want to step forward, as Lu Yin truly did qualify to stand on the same level as the Junior Progenitors. He had also gone to the Dominion Realm whereas Jin Feiyuan had been defeated by both Shang Qing and Yao Xuan. Those losses had left behind a mental trauma, and he had come to absolutely hate the people from the Forsaken Land. This was why he had been so eager to chase after Lu Yin and insult him.
Jin Feiyuan was completely unconcerned with Lu Yin’s status as someone from the Lu family. Instead, he was completely certain that Lu Yin was from the Forsaken Land, and thus, Jin Feiyuan had come to see Lu Yin in the exact same light as Shang Qing and Yao Xuan.