Shang Qing clearly knew Lu Yin, and Lu Yin became excited at what he had just received. A white bank card was only inferior to the Mavis Bank’s gray crystal cards. “How much?”
“I don’t know.”
Lu Yin eagerly took the card.
The two suddenly looked up at the same time, only to see that someone was trying to leave the palace carried by the wandering corpse, but they were summarily swatted out of the air by the massive corpse.
Suddenly, the wandering corpse stopped and no longer moved.
Lu Yin and Shang Qing glanced at each other, as this wandering corpse had never stopped moving before.
Suddenly, the entire palace was tilted as the wandering corpse straightened and stood upright. Many things fell out of the palace, though most of them were corpses.
Lu Yin and Shang Qing were blown away. Was it stretching? Could corpses even stretch?!
The giant astral beast corpse took its time stretching for a while and then continued on its staggering walk. Many things were left on the ground behind it.
Lu Yin and Shang Qing shot forward. Someone nearby was looking up at the wandering corpse as it staggered by. The figure stood quietly before turning around and began to leave. It was at this moment that Lu Yin’s domain covered the area the person was standing on. Sensing this, the figure turned back around.
Lu Yin had been in the middle of picking through the items that had fallen from the palace, but this person’s appearance startled him, and he instantly entered the true universe and disappeared.
Shang Qing was taken aback; what could possibly cause Lu Yin to stop picking up free treasure? He knew Lu Yin well enough to know that something important must have happened, and Shang Qing wanted to chase after Lu Yin, but after glancing around, Shang Qing realized that he had absolutely no idea which direction Lu Yin had even gone in.
Some distance away, a person was staring up at the enormous wandering corpse as Lu Yin emerged from the true universe next to them. “You’re actually still alive?
This person was Starsibyl. Many people had thought that she had died when the Starsibyl Sect was destroyed, so Lu Yin had not expected to run into her in Burial Garden.
Starsibyl turned to look at Lu Yin and gave him a small smile. “Brother Lu, we meet again.”
Lu Yin stared at Starsibyl’s smiling face. “I thought that you were dead.”
Starsibyl continued to smile as she replied, “The Neohuman Alliance needs us to find something for them, so how could they kill us?”
“So, was the Starsibyl Sect destroyed by you guys?” Lu Yin asked.
A breeze blew by and pulled a strand of hair across Starsibyl’s face. She reached up and tucked it behind her ear, revealing her snow-white neck. “It was the only way we could manage to avoid being captured by the Neohuman Alliance.”
“Why not just ask the Hall of Honor for help?”
“Brother Lu, do you actually think that the Hall of Honor can protect us? Or that Arch-Elder Zen himself would step out for us? Even if my Starsibyl Sect has a bit of influence, it’s far from enough to ask Semi-Progenitors to protect us. We aren’t as important as Brother Lu, who was protected by Highsage Grandmaster himself after ZENITH. You really are able to turn your bad luck into good luck.” Starsibyl was clearly envious.
“Where are you staying now?” Lu Yin asked.
Starsibyl gave a small bow. “The Aeternals are too powerful, and even if Brother Lu is able to protect himself, you probably still don’t have the strength to protect my Starsibyl Sect. Please don’t ask any more questions. Give us some peace and just wait for the Starsibyl Sect to reappear. One day, when Brother Lu needs me, I’ll offer you the full support of my Starsibyl Sect, so please don’t forget about our previous agreement.”
Some time ago, when Lu Yin had asked Starsibyl Sect for a divination, she had asked Lu Yin to promise that, when the day came that humanity faced a great crisis, he would preserve a trace of the Starsibyl Sect. That had been Lu Yin’s promise to the Starsibyl Sect.
“I haven’t forgotten, but what is the catastrophe that you’ve predicted?” Lu Yin was quite curious about this.
Starsibyl shook her head. “I don’t actually know, but that catastrophe will definitely appear. As for what it is, that’s something that I can’t see.”
“Then why do you believe that I can preserve a trace of your Starsibyl Sect? I might not even be able to protect myself,” Lu Yin said.
Starsibyl looked at Lu Yin with bright eyes. “Brother Lu, do you still remember the Astral Combat Academy’s Astral Combat Tournament and the Tournament of the Strongest?”
Lu Yin nodded. “Of course.”
Those two competitions had been the start of Lu Yin’s fame, so how could he forget them? In particular, the Tournament of the Strongest had been where Lu Yin had first fought Wang Yun, and that meeting had led to him being exposed in the Perennial World.
Starsibyl’s mouth curled up into a beautiful curve. “I first wanted to conduct a divination for Brother Lu, but I wasn’t able to see you in any of my divinations, so I instead predicted the most probable outcome, and I used that to see into Brother Lu’s future.”
Lu Yin was surprised. “See my future? What did you see?”
Starsibyl shook her head. “It’s hard to explain, but I was able to divine something.”
“Back then, it should have been the Starsibyl who was my classmate in the Astral Combat Academy who performed the divination. She was the student leader of Astral-1.”
“She’s one of my clones.”
“Are you saying that you see me as someone whom you can place your hopes upon?” Lu Yin found this quite strange, and his tone expressed his doubt.
Starsibyl gave a small smile. “Of course not. This is just one detail, or rather, a variable. I want to perform further divinations regarding your particular variable.”
“But you also helped Nightking Zhenwu,” Lu Yin countered.
Starsibyl stared at Lu Yin. “When you fought him back then, I told you that that day was either going to be the most glorious moment of his life or the darkest nadir. I also told you that I could not see his future beyond that day.”
Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed. “So back then, you weren’t only using me as an anchor to perform your divinations, but also Nightking Zhenwu?”
“More accurately, I conducted a second divination with you as the anchor and Nightking Zhenwu as a reference point because I can’t directly divinate anything regarding you,” Starsibyl said.
Starsibyl’s words did not make any sense to Lu Yin, but he did know that Starsibyl had tried to perform many divinations on him. However, she had never been able to directly divine anything concerning Lu Yin himself. Rather, she always had to infer details by divining his enemies or other such methods. This was also why she had gotten close to Nightking Zhenwu.
“Your first divination on me was based on probability while the second used Nightking Zhenwu as a vantage point. What about the third time?” Lu Yin asked. He did not like having his future looked at, but Starsibyl had never been able to see Lu Yin’s future. He alone seemed to be immune to divination, which he found rather odd.
Starsibyl bowed once more. “That divination is something that I can’t explain. Brother Lu, I have never done anything against you, and I have helped you and entrusted you with the future of my Starsibyl Sect. We will absolutely support you with everything we have, and I hope that you will treat us in kind.”
Lu Yin contemplated the matter for a moment. “Help me divinate a particular word.”
“Brother Lu, please tell me,” Starsibyl encouraged.
“Murkiness.”
Starsibyl felt confused. “Murkiness? What do you mean?”
Lu Yin replied, “Just that word: Murkiness. Please perform a divination on that, and ask Senior Zhu to come out to tell me the results of the divination.”
Starsibyl nodded. “Alright. If that’s all, I’ll take my leave now. Also, Brother Lu, Burial Garden’s gates are very dangerous, and the Neohuman Alliance will definitely try to destroy them. Burial Garden is something that involves ancient secrets and even ancient inheritances. Aeternus will not allow this place to endure, so Brother Lu, you must be careful.”