"Let's begin," Grandmaster Gu Yan said.
The four Array Grandmasters sat around Lu Yin and began explaining everything they knew about opening sourcebox arrays.
Lu Yin did not expect them to be able to help him open the Four Locks Array, but gaining insights from their lockbreaking expertise would still be valuable.
Given his current strength, there was not much experience that Lu Yin needed to glean from others.
Several days passed as the four grandmasters shared their knowledge and experience before Lu Yin finally opened his eyes. He looked down at his hands and feet.
"Is there a way?" Grandmaster Gu Yan asked.
Lu Yin shook his head. “It’s not enough to break this Four Locks Array.”
Grandmaster Xiu Ming’s expression turned heavy. “It’s possible that only Progenitor Hui can undo this array. Using a person’s own abilities in place of a sourcebox’s danger zone to seal that same person… Who came up with such an array? Even the Origin Progenitor was unable to avoid it.”
"Absolute power won’t be enough to break it either. If that were attempted, the process would shatter your own abilities, Dao Monarch," Grandmaster Li interjected.
Grandmaster Gu Yan stared at Lu Yin’s hands. “If all else fails, I’ll attempt to break through to the Progenitor realm myself. Then, I’ll see if I can solve it.”
Lu Yin glanced at the man. “Without opening your three meridian points, it’s impossible for you to become a Progenitor.”
Grandmaster Gu Yan knew that this was accurate and let out a helpless sigh.
As the men spoke, Grandmaster Qiu Ling did not dare to utter a word.
Lu Yin rose to his feet and looked at Grandmaster Qiu Ling. “When did you become a Redback?”
This question startled both Grandmaster Gu Yan and Grandmaster Xiu Ming. A Redback?
They both turned to stare at Grandmaster Qiu Ling.
Grandmaster Li showed no sign of surprise. When Lu Yin had asked the man to keep an eye on Grandmaster Qiu Ling, he had already started to suspect her.
The woman’s face turned pale, and she dropped to her knees. “Dao Monarch, I wasn’t willing! Please, spare me, Dao Monarch!”
Lu Yin looked at the kneeling Array Grandmaster without any hint of pity.
Even if he disregarded the damage that she had done to humanity as a whole as a Redback, the way that she had schemed against Lu Yin himself in the past was something that he would never forgive.
As he had once told Little Lian and those with her, if his past self appeared, would he forgive those who had wronged him?
Lu Yin’s current self did not have any right to forgive what had been done to his former self.
As one walked down the path of cultivation, every step was fraught with danger. A single misstep could lead to complete ruin.
There was no reason to forgive those who had harmed him.
Grandmaster Qiu Ling died, and her death surprised no one. No one begged for her life. All Redbacks had to die.
There were still many matters that needed to be dealt with. While Aeternus’s most powerful experts were all trapped within the Six Paths of Reincarnation Realm, they were not dead.
On top of that, both Tian Ci and Tian En needed to be found and dealt with as well.
True God’s comments left Lu Yin uncomfortable. Just how powerful was the megaverse that Tian Ci had come from?
Logically, they should not have the strength to overwhelm Lu Yin’s megaverse, or else they would have already done so. However, they were also foreigners from another megaverse. What would happen if they did arrive? Lu Yin needed to consider the possibility.
First, he needed to figure out how to resolve the Four Locks Array. If he could not do that, he would forever remain a half-formed Progenitor.
In the Perennial World, Lu Yin arrived at the Wang family’s continent.
This floating continent was part of the Origin Progenitor’s hand. Since the Origin Progenitor had also been sealed by the Four Locks Array, Lu Yin wanted to see if that array still existed at his hand.
The floating landmass was completely desolate. Everyone who used to live here had either fled or been captured and imprisoned beneath the Middle Ocean.
After it became public knowledge that Wang Fan had betrayed humanity, the hunt for other members of the Wang family had greatly intensified.
The Wang family had produced Wang Miaomiao, who was one of the Seven Skygods. There was also Wang Xiaoyu, who had triggered the war between the Fifth and Sixth Mainlands, which had led to her becoming one of the most infamous Redbacks in human history. Finally, Wang Fan had also come from that same family.
No one trusted the Wang family anymore.
As for the Wang family’s floating continent, it was currently being managed by the Lu family, and it essentially belonged to them.
When Lu Yin arrived, the present members of the Lu family quickly bowed to him.
He waved them off and proceeded to walk across the continent alone.
While the land was desolate, it was not completely uninhabited. Most of the people still living there were not members of the Wang family, but rather fortune seekers who were there because of the Wang family’s past as one of the four ruling powers.
As he strolled along, Lu Yin saw quite a few cultivators.
The Lu family had not stopped these people.
Every cultivator hoped to get lucky, even if there was danger associated with such opportunities.
Of course, there were specific places that these wandering cultivators were not allowed to enter. One such region was the Tri-Petal area, which was where the Wang family’s youths had once trained. That particular area was off-limits, not because of the Lu family, but rather because Wang Jian had sealed it off.
Despite the total collapse of the Wang family, there were still specific people that the Lu family had not touched, such as Wang Jian and Wang Miaomiao.[1]
There were rumors throughout the Perennial World that Wang Miaomiao had had an affair with Lu Qi, and thus no one dared touch her. While Lu Yin knew about these rumors, he had not said a word.
For many years, Lu Qi had refused to accept Wang Miaomiao’s affections, due to his powerful feelings for Lu Yin’s mother, even if Lu Qi did not show it.
Lu Qi was a complete person who lived his own life, and Lu Yin did not interfere with his father’s affairs.
Wang Jian was only able to live in the Tri-Petal area thanks to Wang Miaomiao. If not for her, even if the Lu family had not done anything to the man, he would have been sent to the battlefield and died there long ago.
The other place that off-limits was restricted because of the Lu family, and that was the mines.