Lu Yin’s fingers brushed his cosmic ring as he prepared to bring out the Sky Pillar and make one final push forward with the help of the human Semi-Progenitors. As long as Corpse God did not make a move, it was very possible for them to seal off the Starfall Sea.
Suddenly, without any warning, the royal scepter appeared in Lu Yin’s hand.
His pupils shrank to pinpricks the moment he saw what he was holding.
Ni Huang quickly yelled, “Get rid of it!”
Lu Yin immediately tried to do so, but it was stuck to him like an extra limb. “How?”
Kui Luo and the other Semi-Progenitors all felt their scalps go numb. This royal scepter was the thing that had grievously wounded Ni Huang.
Lu Yin quickly blasted the scepter with the runes from the candle, hoping to counter the scepter’s runes.
“Are you worthy to hold the royal scepter?” A melodious voice entered his ears.
Lu Yin felt his blood run cold as he stared at the scepter in his hand like it was some sort of deadly beast. He felt as though he was reliving the scene of Ni Huang being pierced through by that bright light. Even one of the most powerful Semi-Progenitors alive had been badly wounded by this thing. Was this the end for Lu Yin? He had never expected Marquis Wang to somehow be able to ignore the egg’s protection. She truly deserved to be one of the Twelve Marquises.
The Semi-Progenitors could already see the scepter splitting open in Lu Yin’s hand and destroying his body.
Lu Yin himself was picturing the scene as well. He even tried using the Yu Secret Art to get rid of the scepter. It was too late to relight the candle. Were these really his final moments?
Everyone watched as the scepter started to emit a certain radiance that formed a stream of light that shot into Lu Yin’s body.
Lu Yin felt time slow to a crawl as he waited for the attack to pierce through his body. His die appeared in his hand as he got ready to try to enter the Timestop Space where he could use Extremes Must Be Reversed to survive whatever injuries he was about to suffer.
Strangely enough, his body remained perfectly fine. Not only was he uninjured, but an indescribable and terrifying power started to accumulate within his body. It was unlike anything that Lu Yin had ever felt before. He stared down at his hand in amazement, and he felt as though he could even kill the Second Nightking with a single slap.
Marquis Wang’s expression turned to complete shock as she watched Lu Yin’s reaction. How was this possible?
Ni Huang and everyone else stared intently at Lu Yin, waiting to see what would happen to him.
“Boy, how are you?” Kui Luo asked hoarsely. His mouth had gone completely dry. He was terrified that Lu Yin was about to die.
Lu Yin swallowed and continued to examine his condition for a bit. “I feel good. Better than ever, actually.”
“Have you gone nuts?” Lan Xian could not stop herself from asking. Even if Lu Yin died, she wanted to take back some of his blood for research.
Ni Huang was stunned. “You feel fine?”
“Yeah. I actually feel better than ever, and much, much stronger.” Lu Yin turned to look back at Xia Ji. “I feel like I could kill you with one punch.”
Xia Ji’s eyelid twitched from his sudden fury.
“I understand… Most of the people on this battlefield believe that you hold the qualifications to rule over them as king!” Ni Huang exclaimed.
His words were met with blank stares.
Ni Huang explained, “It’s not a mistake. Marquis Wang was the Heavens Sect era’s gatemaster of the Rainflower Heavenly Gate, and her innate gift was Void Scepter. No one knows how that scepter forms, but it can sense the thoughts of everyone within a certain area. If the majority acknowledges the person holding the scepter as someone qualified to be a king and rule over them, then the scepter will grant that person the strength that this innate gift truly holds.
“But if the person holding the scepter is not recognized by the majority, then it will strike them down instead. This is the power of Rainflower Heavenly Gate’s gatemaster. Out of everyone who has ever been given this scepter by the gatemaster, few people have ever received such recognition, even going back to the very first records.”
Lu Yin finally understood what had happened. He shot Marquis Wang an odd look. The woman had truly slapped herself in the face by trying to use this innate gift against him while he was in the Fifth Mainland. Every single person in the Fifth Mainland viewed Lu Yin as the person leading humanity in this war. Even if one considered his enemies from the Sixth Mainland or Xia Ji, who absolutely hated Lu Yin, it did not change the fact that he was their commander at this moment.
Most of the humans on the battlefield came from the Fifth Mainland, and everyone in the entire Fifth Mainland had heard Lu Yin’s name be mentioned countless times before, whether they had wanted to or not. This had only intensified after the Tower of the Fifth’s completion. There was no way to deny Lu Yin’s influence.
That essentially meant that as long as Lu Yin was in the Fifth Mainland, he was Marquis Wang’s natural nemesis.
With that thought, Lu Yin lifted his head up high. “Let’s continue. Leave her be. She can’t do anything to me.”
Kui Luo shouted, “Go!”
The group of Semi-Progenitors responded instantaneously, and they resumed their push towards the passage to the Starfall Sea.
Suddenly, Herb Immortal froze. A sourcebox array had appeared around his body at some point in time, trapping him. Right after that, Lan Xian, Jiu Chi, Xia Ji, and all of the other Semi-Progenitors were trapped by similar sourcebox arrays.
A figure stepped then appeared right in front of Lu Yin and raised a hand that pressed against the eggshell.
Lu Yin’s pupils constricted sharply. “Whiteless God.”
Once again, Whiteless God had appeared right when everyone had forgotten about her. Besides her, all the other incarnations of the Seven Skygods that had been in the Fifth Mainland had died when they attacked Burial Garden, which had led to the place being sealed off. Whiteless God was the only one of the Skygods who had not taken action at that time, which had allowed her to avoid being killed or trapped when Burial Garden had closed. Since that time, she had kept the Fifth Mainland’s people in a state of constant fear by appearing at critical junctures. Each time, she had managed to tip the balance into Aternus’s favor.
Lu Yin had thought that by ignoring Marquis Wang, he would be able to carry the Sky Pillar all the way through. Then, he could use the restriction arranged by Progenitor Hui to push Corpse God aside and seal the passage to the Starfall Sea. Unfortunately, Lu Yin had still been too naive.
Whiteless God was the final obstacle between them and the passage to the Starfall Sea. By using sourcebox arrays, she had managed to trap Kui Luo and all the other human Semi-Progenitors at the same time. This was something that not even Marquis Wang or Ancient God had been able to accomplish.
Boom!
The scenery in front of Lu Yin suddenly raced away from him at a shocking speed. Thanks to him being protected by the egg shell, he remained unscathed, but he was still sent flying at an unbelievable speed by Whiteless God.
All of the humans’ earlier efforts had been countered in a single instant.
All of humanity’s Semi-Progenitors felt their hearts drop. This was the end.
At that moment, the royal scepter reappeared, but this time it was in Xue Laogui’s hand. At the same moment, he heard a voice. “Are you worthy to hold the royal scepter?”
All of the color drained from Xue Laogui’s face. He moved his hand and desperately tried to shake the scepter off, but everything was in vain. Not even Ni Huang had been able to get rid of the scepter, so there was no way for Xue Laogui to remove it.
The royal scepter in his hand then turned into a beam of light that shot through the man’s head.
A powerful, respected Semi-Progenitor was dead before he could even react.
If he had been able to release his inner world in time, he would not have died from a single attack, but rather just seriously injured and trapped within the manifested thoughts.
Xue Laogui’s death caused every single Semi-Progenitor present to go stiff. Each of them suddenly looked at Marquis Wang with fear.
Kui Luo subconsciously balled his hands into fists, afraid that the scepter would suddenly appear in his own hand next. None of them here could ignore that item.
After Whiteless God’s slap, Lu Yin struggled to steady himself, but he was already far, far away from the passage to the Starfall Sea.