The Heavens Sect had not garrisoned the Sixth Scourge with many powerful cultivators, but the Aeternals had not made any attempt to reclaim it either. This fact had made Lu Yin realize something: the Six Scourges were not very important to Aeternus.
Perhaps the Scourges were simply a part of True God's obsession, some kind of desire to compare himself to the Origin Progenitor.
However, all six of the Origin Progenitor’s Mainlands had contained a core of Primaldust.
The myriad paths of cultivation were all different, and even when they might appear to be similar, they were not the same.
The Sixth Scourge did not have any foundation reminiscent of Primaldust. While it was possible that the lakes and rivers of divine energy had once served a similar function, all divine energy had been drained from the Scourge.
Step by step, Lu Yin approached the black Mother Tree. He needed to find the Primaldust that lay at its roots.
The closer he moved to the black Mother Tree, the closer he drew to the Six Paths of Reincarnation Realm.
The moment the Great Sovereign had fused into the Six Paths of Reincarnation Realm, Lu Yin had not said a word to the woman.
When he arrived just outside the columns of light, Lu Yin saw that the Great Sovereign’s back was facing him.
"Are you confident?"
The Great Sovereign did not answer. Her obsession, her tribulation for overcoming Dukkha, was True God. Only by killing him could she hope to overcome Dukkha. All of her hope had rested on Sovereign Shao Yin, who had been the only one who could make her Six Paths of Reincarnation Realm work. For the sake of her plans, no matter what he had done, the Great Sovereign had refused to touch Shao Yin or let anything happen to him. The higher he had risen within Aeternus, the greater the likelihood of her Six Paths of Reincarnation Realm succeeding.
In the end, her plan had indeed succeeded. The Six Paths of Reincarnation Realm was her personal battle against True God. True God’s power was constantly being sapped away, as the Great Sovereign was using her own vitality to suppress her opponent.
As long as she could completely strip all of True God's power from him and kill him, she would overcome Dukkha, which would enable her to become the first person in the history of the megaverse—or at the very least, the first known human—to achieve Immortality.
Lu Yin looked back up at True God, whose expression was still as calm as still water.
Had True God’s words been intended for Lu Yin, or for the Great Sovereign? If it was really impossible for humans to achieve Immortality in this megaverse, then the Great Sovereign's fate was already sealed.
Could this have some sort of connection to that blood-red figure?
The mysterious figure had appeared when Tian Fa had died, and it had been so powerful that both Hongyan Mavis and Astral Anura had been rendered completely helpless. Neither of them had ever experienced such despair before that moment. The experience had instantly caused everyone involved to think of the legendary Immortal realm.
It was possible that Immortals had lived in the megaverse for eons, simply hidden.
That figure’s appearance had weighed heavily on Lu Yin ever since he had returned from the Mirari Realm, and it had started to hinder his cultivation. In particular, when it came to dealing with the Boundary Guardians, Lu Yin constantly felt as though he was also facing something beyond the Origin realm, someone invincible from the fabled Immortal realm.
The Heaven’s Sect military declaration had given countless people confidence, but the appearance of the Boundary Guardians had shaken Lu Yin's.
In some ways, it was similar to what he had felt when he had first seen the six Scourges from the top of the black Mother Tree. Initially, Lu Yin had truly felt a sense of despair, but he had managed to overcome it. But at this moment, that despair had returned.
Even for people renowned for creating miracles, miracles did not recur endlessly.
“What are you afraid of?” The Great Sovereign’s voice entered Lu Yin’s ears. He looked over, but the Great Sovereign was facing the First Scourge and her back was to him. “You’ve done well, child. I never thought that you would make it so far. Since you’ve managed to reach this place, what are you still afraid of?”
Lu Yin did not respond.
“I owe your Lu family nothing.”
Lu Yin's expression turned cold. "You don't need to say anything."
He had heard this same phrase more than once in the past. The Great Sovereign had repeatedly stated that she never owed the Lu family anything at all.
"I have my path, while the Lu family has their own, and humanity has one as well. My goal is the same as the Lu family’s and everyone else’s, which is to eradicate Aeternus. That is why I have faith that my path is correct, and it is also why I am confident that I can destroy Yong Heng. Child, if the day comes when your path requires you to sacrifice some people in order to proceed further, will you do it or not?"
Lu Yin stared at the woman’s back. "There are countless paths. If one doesn't work, I'll simply choose another."
"While there are countless paths, you may not be able to find the right one. You need to simply continue moving forward. Your Lu family was exiled because of the seeds that were sown in the past—they deserved it. The consequences have already been borne, so what are you afraid of now?
"The moment the Lu family returned, you were already reborn. The seeds you sow will determine what fruits you will reap. Karmic cause and effect will never disappear."
Lu Yin did not understand anything the Great Sovereign was saying. "Crazy woman, are you really confident about destroying Yong Heng?"
“Insanity is nothing more than a matter of perspective, child. The day will come when someone will call you mad as well.” The Great Sovereign was clearly irritated. If not for the fact that she was trapped in the Six Paths of Reincarnation Realm Realm, she would have slapped Lu Yin. He had caused an insult to become her moniker.
Lu Yin stared at the Great Sovereign’s back. "I firmly believe that, when my path is blocked, I will be able to forge a new one."
He then turned around and left.
He had entered the Scourge to explore beneath the black Mother Tree. However, when he drew close to the Six Paths of Reincarnation Realm, he found that there was no way to access the tree’s roots from the Sixth Scourge, which meant that he would have to approach from another Scourge.
The Fifth Scourge was Arrow God’s domain. The woman commanded five sequence powerhouses who were known as the Five Elders.
Of the six Scourges, the Fifth Scourge had been regarded as the second most powerful one, right behind the First Scourge, as they had possessed the most sequence powerhouses.
However, at the moment, there were only three of the Five Elders left, as two had died.
A figure appeared in the sky, emerging from a cosmic door. They casually tore through the void and allowed a gigantic figure to pass through; it was Supreme.
The figure who had first appeared was Ye Wu.
Behind him, The Abandoned revealed himself.
Countless corpse kings throughout the Fifth Scourge roared at the sky and flung themselves upwards, only to be slaughtered by Supreme’s sword. The ground was stained with blood.
The Magician, Wen Huan, and Jie looked up at the sky in shock.
"Let’s go! Just abandon the Fifth Scourge! Without Arrow God, there's no way we can stop the Heavens Sect."
"They’re all part of the Outer Eight Paths! Lu Yin is definitely on his way."
None of the three hesitated to flee from the Fifth Scourge.
In the First Scourge, Arrow God learned that her Fifth Scourge was being invaded, but she did not move. Most of Aeternus’s top powerhouses had already gathered in the First Scourge to defend it from any assaults from the Heavens Sect.
No one could predict what Lu Yin might do next.
Already, there were many times when everyone had believed a battle was over, only for Lu Yin to treat it as the beginning. The Aeternals had suffered from such situations more than once before.