Lu Yin still remembered when he had first met Xia Luo during Earth’s apocalypse. Back then, he had given Lu Yin an indescribable feeling that he was both mysterious and immeasurable. At this moment, Lu Yin still had that same feeling.
A primeval surname from the Court of Seven Names; this was the Xia family.
“Do you still remember the first time we met?” Lu Yin asked.
Xia Luo thought about it. “You want to reminisce on our youth?”
Lu Yin laughed. “Why not?”
“Then we can’t skip one person.”
“Silver?”
Xia Luo nodded. “I’ve already told you that I feel a strange hostility towards him and that it’s a terrible feeling.”
Lu Yin said, “So do you know why now?”
Xia Luo looked at Lu Yin. “It’s very simple. It’s because he belongs to the Neohuman Alliance.”
Lu Yin was not surprised that Xia Luo knew this, as Silver was indeed a part of the Neohuman Alliance, and Lu Yin had also known for a long time. “But he’s not a corpse king.”
“He’s worse than a corpse king,” Xia Luo said.
Lu Yin grew curious. “How so?”
Xia Luo shook his head. “I don’t know, but the feeling that he gave me was something very treacherous, indescribably so. It was pure evil, and I have a foreboding feeling that we’ll meet again sometime in the future.”
“Perhaps it’ll be this time,” Lu Yin said.
Xia Luo was stumped, but he then looked seriously at Lu Yin, “Perhaps.”
“Do you really think that he’ll come to the Mountain and Seas Zone?” Lu Yin had only been joking, but it seemed that Xia Luo was not.
Xia Luo calmly answered, “Brother Lu, I know that you don’t really believe it, but trust me—Silver’s evil is so dark that it makes me want to vomit. This is absolutely true, so be careful. We’re currently at the highest stage of the entire Human Domain, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he does appear.”
Lu Yin nodded. “You evaluate him very highly.”
Lu Yin had cultivated for over twelve years now, and he had met Xia Luo at the beginning of that journey, as well as Silver. The destinies of this trio were interwoven, and Lu Yin had always felt that these other two were very mysterious. Now that Lu Yin’s status had risen and his understanding of the universe had broadened, he had gradually come to understand Xia Luo a bit better, but Silver was still a complete mystery to him.
Although Lu Yin had been slightly surprised to see Xia Luo, he was rather happy about it as Xia Luo was a friend of more than ten years.
Xia Luo was also happy, and he chatted with Lu Yin for a whole day.
In the afternoon of the following day, the Mountain and Seas Zone suddenly quivered. Then, golden screens rose up from the five mountains in five directions, one after another.
Lu Yin looked around, as these golden screens seemed to be setting up the final stage; they had formed a tower-like structure that illuminated the entire Mountain and Seas Zone with a golden hue. Wherever people looked, it was golden.
“This is the Astral Tower.” Xia Luo sighed, his gaze fervent.
Lu Yin observed the area; so this was the Astral Tower?
“Brother Lu, do you see that final stage? If you can ascend there, then as long as you can stand at the highest stage, you’ll be one of the Cosmic Five, but five is simply the highest number. In the past, there’ve been three, two, or even one sometimes. If only one person ascends to that stage, then there won’t be a Cosmic Five, but rather a single person standing at the pinnacle of the Human Domain’s younger generation. It’s rumored that one of the seniors in the Hall of Honor has done it before,” Xia Luo said.
Lu Yin clenched his fists and looked up. This was the Astral Tower contest, and it represented the highest stage of the Human Domain’s younger generation. The golden screen at the top was where everyone wanted to reach, and standing on it meant rising above everyone else.
“There’s no need to hurry to ascend the screens, as the Mountain and Seas Zone is focused on the inheritances. The seas are not easy to cross, and the mountains are not easy to climb either. Take it slow, Brother Lu. I’ll go first,” Xia Luo said.
Lu Yin looked at him. “Not together?”
Xia Luo’s lips curled upwards, and he turned to look at the final golden screen. “We can meet up there.”
Lu Yin looked at Xia Luo in a serious manner. “Alright, I’ll wait for you.”
“Perhaps I’ll be the one waiting for you.” Xia Luo waved a hand as he left.
Lu Yin stared at the distant mountains and seas; mountains that were difficult to climb and seas that were difficult to cross?
At that moment, a black and a white figure sped over from the distance. “Lu Yin! It’s Lu Yin! Little Lu, we’re here!”
Lu Yin rolled his eyes as Black and White flashed over to his sides. Lu Yin grabbed hold of one of them with each hand. “Don’t call me Little Lu. Call me Seventh Bro.”
White’s lips curled up. “No.”
Black groaned.
Lu Yin smiled. “You won’t? Fine then, I won’t take you two around to play.”
Black and White’s eyes lit up, and they looked at him with bubbling excitement. “Play? Play what?”
Lu Yin’s lips bent upwards, and he pointed at the distant mountains. “We’ll cross the seas and climb the mountains to seize the inheritances.”
Black and White immediately became excited. “Seventh Bro!”
“Seventh Bro!”
Lu Yin laughed as he grabbed a hold of the two girls and leaped up. He jumped towards the center of one of the seas.
Before he had arrived at the Mountain and Seas Zone, Cosmic Sect Elder Yuan Ke had mentioned that the contest for the inheritances would be very difficult and that it was not possible to fly over the seas. After all, this place held the Mountain and Seas inheritances, and regardless of if it was the mountains or the seas, any of them could hold an ultimate inheritance.
Since they could not fly over the seas, the only ways to cross them were to either swim across or use star energy to form a small boat and sail across.
When Lu Yin had first heard of this, he had been immediately reminded of the Astral Combat Academy’s trial zones, and specifically, of the Dao of Heaven’s Ocean of Death. Back then, Lu Yin and some others had used their star energy to cross the sea, but the seawater had constantly corroded their star energy.
This place should be quite similar, though the star energy corroding water would not affect them that much and was much more like ordinary seawater.
Lu Yin wondered if there was some connection between the Ocean of Death and this place.
The five mountains were located in five different directions, and those who were participating in the Astral Tower contest would separate and set off towards these five mountains.