The Ossis Ark revealed itself from where it had been hidden in the Hollow. Lu Yin now understood how a corpse king had suddenly appeared behind the old woman; it had left the Hollow, as it had been on the Ossis Ark.
Humanity had the Immemorial Citadel, while the Aeternals had the Ossis Ark.
Three of the Immemorial Citadel’s sequence powerhouses had just fallen, and Shao Yin and Wang Fan took advantage of the opening given by the Ossis Ark’s arrival to retreat. Lu Yin also did not dare to linger, and he raced away to an area that seemed to hold fewer sequence particles.
However, he was soon targeted once again.
Right as Chen Laoguai disappeared into the Hollow, more people appeared from the Immemorial Citadel, and they rained attacks down on the Aeternals.
One of the newcomers focused on Lu Yin, and he chased after him relentlessly.
This pursuer had bluish skin and hard scales on his face that looked like lime flakes. While he did have a human form, it was clear that prolonged exposure to a specific environment had completely transformed his appearance.
The man’s pupils were slightly smaller than normal, and when those eyes locked onto Lu Yin, chills ran down his spine.
However, Lu Yin’s attacker was unable to keep up with Lu Yin's speed. As Lu Yin pulled away, the pursuer stopped chasing. At that moment, Lu Yin felt as though everything around him had been transformed into a map, with his pursuer at the center. A star appeared before Lu Yin’s eyes. This was not a planet, but a star, a bright point of light like one would see from a great distance.
"Road's End: Andromeda." A deep voice echoed in Lu Yin's ears, and he was suddenly overcome by a wave of weakness. His entire body was dragged towards the star.
He tried to escape, but he could not summon any power. The star was not pulling him with its gravity, but rather sapping his strength away. He was weakened and unable to exert any strength or speed.
Behind him, the blue-skinned man threw a powerful palm strike. Trapped between the pulling force in front of him and the terrifying attack from behind, Lu Yin was in a dire situation.
Once again, he unleashed his divine energy, straining to resist the star's pull while also deflecting the attack.
The bluish-man was visibly surprised, though not by Lu Yin’s ability to block the palm strike. Rather, Lu Yin’s resistance to the pull of Road's End: Andromeda was what shocked the man.
That was the man’s Progenitor’s world, and he had not expected Lu Yin to be able to overcome it.
The man had gained a rough understanding of Lu Yin's strength, which was why the man had chosen to pursue Lu Yin. The bluish man did not want to die while trying to fight against Ji Luo.
Surprisingly, Lu Yin had been able to resist.
As for Lu Yin, he had not anticipated the star's energy-draining ability to be this formidable. It had depleted most of his strength. This was not the strength that he revealed as Ye Bo, but Lu Yin’s true strength. At this moment, he was unable to exert his full power.
He turned to look back. At this moment, divine energy isolated Lu Yin from all external forces. The blue-skinned man continued his assault, but while none of the palm strikes were particularly powerful, they each carried a unique pressure related to the law of the universe the man had mastered, and it seemed to be a law related to some sort of oppression.
Suddenly, Lu Yin's mouth fell open from shock and he stared off into the distance.
What was that he had just seen? The Magician had been smacked away by a slipper.
A slipper?
Lu Yin stared at the slipper as it flew through space until it arrived at the feet of a man who was picking his nose while looking around with blatant contempt.
The slipper belonged to the man, but he was only wearing one slipper, and his other foot was bare.
Lu Yin stared in bewilderment. Did his own slipper belong to this man?
Lu Yin’s gaze intensified.
The man was rather average looking, but had a very arrogant demeanor, and he looked around with absolute indifference. His right hand picked his nose, while his left hand scratched his head. He appeared to be rather frustrated. Everything about the man’s appearance screamed that he was a rascal, though his most striking feature was his clothes, as all of the cloth bore a chessboard pattern.
It was Ce Wangtian.
Despite never seeing so much as a picture of the man, Lu Yin instantly knew that he was looking at Ce Wangtian. Who else could he be?
A rogue who loved to play chess and whose face people wanted to punch by simply seeing it. There was no one else quite like Ce Wangtian.
Had Lu Yin really Pilfered Ce Wangtian's slipper? Lu Yin suddenly felt an indescribable sense of irritation.
Big Sis had seen Lu Yin hit many people with that slipper, so why had she never recognized it?
His slipper belonged to Ce Wangtian. Really?
The pressure was still building behind Lu Yin. The blue-skinned man's eyes grew cold. "You dare to look elsewhere while fighting me? You are certainly confident."
The man was able to see Ye Bo’s face beneath the black robe. In fact, Xu Jin and Arrow God had also seen his face. However, it was possible that they had not recognized Ye Bo’s face, but even if they had, neither would have cared. Ye Bo had been eliminated from the Divine Selection, while Di Xia had passed the first assessment. Di Qiong's decision to replace Di Xia with Ye Bo had nothing to do with the rulers of the two Scourges.
In fact, they would be happy to see a failure replace a victor.
Lu Yin looked away from Ce Wangtian and refocused on his own, blue-skinned opponent. Lu Yin gathered his thoughts and attacked: Setting Sun.
It was already known that many human powerhouses who were presumed dead were actually at the Immemorial Citadel. It should not be surprising to encounter anyone on this battlefield, and for the moment, Lu Yin needed to deal with the immediate threat before him.
The sliver of a setting sun appeared in the darkness, and the sight of a horizon shocked the blue-skinned man. As Lu Yin's arm moved, the man's understanding of strength was erased, and his mind went blank. He felt himself lose control of his own body, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. His Progenitor’s world vanished, and then he was sent flying by Lu Yin's palm strike.
Lu Yin turned and left without pressing his sudden advantage.
Once Lu Yin had moved away, the blue-skinned man vigorously shook his head and then cleaned the blood from his lips. Shock filled his eyes. "Was that a comprehension technique?"
At that moment, a shadow appeared behind the man. It was a ten-meter-tall corpse king. The monster clenched its fists and punched down at the bluish-skinned man. The man turned to face the blow directly, and after grabbing hold of the corpse king's fist, he used the momentum of the attack to hurl the corpse king away.
The blue-skinned man reluctantly looked over at where Lu Yin had escaped to, turned around, and left.
The blue-skinned man's name was Qing Hui, and those who knew him knew of his formidable defenses.
Lu Yin had just experienced it for himself. He had managed to land a palm strike on Qing Hui, hitting the man’s skin, but failing to break it. In fact, Lu Yin’s attack had caused absolutely no injuries. While Lu Yin was relieved that he had not harmed one of the Immemorial Citadel's powerhouses and had subsequently held back with his Setting Sun, he had still been shocked by the strength of a random powerhouse from the Immemorial Citadel.
This was the strength of the Immemorial Citadel. This was the final destination of humanity’s greatest cultivators, as they never left this place.
Going to the Immemorial Citadel required immense willpower, as established individuals were essentially asked to forsake their positions, their families, and everything they knew to fight and die at the Immemorial Citadel. It was the site of the fiercest battlefield that humanity knew.
Qing Hui returned to the Immemorial Citadel, and when he arrived at the city wall, he saw Bai Mu, Ce Wangtian, and Chu Yi. Beneath the wall, flames burned brightly.
"The Aeternals have sent the largest group ever for this Divine Selection, and they’re also the strongest," Chu Yi stated solemnly. "Jian An and the others are already dead."
Bai Mu took a sip of wine. "Even if the Immemorial Citadel is constantly at war, deaths here are not that frequent. If they were, how could we endure? The deaths of Jian An and the others have created a gap in this section."