In the blink of an eye, three years passed. During these three years, Lu Yin constantly searched for True God and the other Aeternals, but he never found them.
Progenitor Xi also failed. It was as though True God, Yuan Qi, and the others had disappeared into thin air.
Even if they had found the megaverse’s boundary, the Tianyuan Megaverse was still incredibly vast, and it was practically impossible to search every universe in it.
For three years, the Heavens Sect oversaw various parallel universes and made the most progress it had ever seen. Materials were automatically refined and sent to the Heavens Sect. Whenever new substances were discovered, they were immediately analyzed and then reported on to the Heavens Sect.
Energy converters, mechas, microarray weapons, and other tools were all in high demand. People had initially believed that they would struggle to fulfill the assignments that Lu Yin had given. But as more and more materials appeared, confidence spiked.
Resources were gathered from countless parallel universes, and there were so many that even Progenitors were astonished. In particular, as more and more parallel universes were explored, all of them were immediately scoured for resources.
There was no universe that was capable of standing up to the Heavens Sect. The entire megaverse had a simple goal: gather resources, and then gather even more.
If Spirit Nidus was able to raise countless powerful cultivators due to their unified cultivation system, then the Tianyuan Megaverse would deplete all the resources from the various parallel universes to resist their terrifying enemy.
While this was a bit like draining a pond to catch the fish, they had no other choice. If the Tianyuan Megaverse lost the upcoming war, the megaverse would be reset, and everyone would die. There was no need to even consider the megaverse’s resources.
One day, shortly after returning to the Heavens Sect, Lu Yin received a report that the Sixverse Academy had been massacred. Rivers of blood flowed through the school.
This news exploded in the Heavens Sect.
The Sixverse Academy was no longer a mere academy. It had become the place where the Heavens Sect trained its cultivators. When the Sixverse Association was ruling the megaverse, there were already a large number of young elites attending the academy.
As soon as Lu Yin received the report, he headed to the Sixverse Academy.
Scarlet rivers ran through the entire Sixverse Academy. Everyone in it had been slaughtered, and a bloody stench filled the air.
Lu Yin stared at Xu Xiangyin’s corpse, and his expression grew darker than ever.
Many people had gathered, though none of them dared to even breathe loudly.
In front of Lu Yin, Food Sage was down on one knee, gritting his teeth. The man’s face was flushed, and his veins were bulging.
"Why did you leave?" Lu Yin's voice was glacial.
It was necessary to always have a peak powerhouse overseeing the Sixverse Academy, and that responsibility had fallen to Food Sage. However, he had been absent when the massacre had occurred.
The man clenched his fists. "Lord Lu, my son was grievously injured, so I returned to check on him."
A casual wave of a hand sent Food Sage flying. He soon slammed back into the ground.
The man spat up blood as he struggled to get back up. However, he rose no further than one knee. There was no trace of resentment on his face.
Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed as he scanned the entire Sixverse Academy. There were absolutely no survivors. "Who did this?"
"I don’t know." Just answering the question caused Food Sage to cough up more blood.
Lu Yin then glanced at the people surrounding him.
No one had an answer.
A boat appeared beside Lu Yin as he brought out Lightstream. He entered the boat and sailed along the River of Aeons. He wanted to see who had slaughtered everyone in the Sixverse Academy. It could not have been True God, Yuan Qi, or any of those people. They would not have bothered with such a small place like the Sixverse Academy. If they wanted to slaughter the Heavens Sect’s people, they would have targeted some place with multiple peak powerhouses. On top of that, Food Sage certainly would not have been spared.
Various scenes flashed by. Lightstream was no longer limited to looking a few simple seconds into the past; Lu Yin could even use the Progenitor’s world to traverse the River of Aeons now.
One scene after another flashed by, but suddenly, Lu Yin focused on one particular image.
In that image, a student was being killed.
The scene only revealed a beautiful swirl of jade. It took the student's head, and the air was then filled with blood.
More such scenes appeared, and Lu Yin calmly watched them all. Every scene was gruesome and grisly, and the only constant as Lightstream sailed was the jade-colored streak that remained pristine even through all the blood.
Suddenly, Lu Yin saw Xu Xiangyin.
The man stood in the Voidforce Academy, positioned so that his back was to Lu Yin. The jade-colored streak flashed by, and the man slowly crumpled to the ground, dead.
Lu Yin waved hand, and Lightstream continued along the River of Aeons as Lu Yin focused on a particular scene.
What he saw kept moving forward and backward as Lu Yin reviewed it multiple times.
A young man had used the jade-colored streak to slaughter everyone in the Sixverse Academy. The first person to die had been Xu Xiangyin.
Xu Xiangyin had been a Void Morphora, equal to a Semi-Progenitor, and his life-bound voidforce puppet had been a corpse bug. The young man had not defeated Xu Xiangyin directly, but rather killed the man in a sneak attack. After that, the student had proceeded to slaughter everyone in the entire Sixverse Academy.
Lu Yin’s expression was terrible as he stared at the young man in the image.
"That’s Yu Leng," someone announced. They had been an instructor in the Sixverse Academy, but they had left two years prior. The man immediately recognized the student.
"I remember now! That kid was a talented Explorer who appeared during the Sixverse Association’s last tournament. After that, he entered the Sixverse Academy to cultivate there. He progressed quickly at first, but he was also a cold person who was frequently bullied. Senior Xu Xiangyin helped him on several occasions," someone else added.
Lu Yin silently listened. He wanted to learn everything he could about this Yu Leng.
However, from what Lu Yin was hearing, Yu Leng had not even managed to reach the Hunter level, so how could he have killed Xu Xiangyin? Even with Food Sage absent from the Sixverse Academy, several Semi-Progenitors had been at the academy, and yet they had all died.
There had been four people with the strength of Semi-Progenitors, including Xu Xiangyin.
This was the worst massacre that the Heavens Sect had suffered since the war with Aeternus had ended. The strangest part was how a single young man had succeeded in slaughtering everyone in the Sixverse Academy.
That jade-colored streak had to be the reason.
Lu Yin kept reviewing the scenes he pulled from the River of Aeons. He watched them all repeatedly, as everyone else waited.
As Lu Yin watched the past, Xu Wuwei arrived, and then Arrow Sage as well.
It needed to be mentioned that Bai Wangyuan had fled from the Cyclic Universe. He had vanished during the final battle with Aeternus in the Second Scourge. The Progenitor understood that Lu Yin would never let him go.
Lu Yin had ordered the Heavens Sect to hunt Bai Wangyuan down, dead or alive.