Lu Yin could have never imagined that Furball was a giant, let alone a cooking giant. However, that also did not seem quite right. The giant’s features kept twisting in a blurry distortion that looked like paste. Upon closer examination, even the entire body was a bit hazy. It was as if this was not a solid entity.
Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed as he understood. This creature was not truly a giant; he was seeing a passively manifested form.
There were beings in the cosmos that lacked a fixed form. Whatever form a viewer held in their mind was the form that they saw. One example of this were the conscients of the Consciousness Megaverse; some had adopted fixed forms while others maintained a passive form that each person saw differently. However, the scale of what was seen remained consistent.
There were also beings that could actively adopt a form. For example, Che, when requesting to enter within range of the Heavenly Karmic Macrocosm, had taken on the appearance of a human.
Lu Yin’s level of strength meant that he could usually see through most species’ passive forms with nothing more than a glance, but this was Furball, a member of Obscura. Such a powerhouse was not someone whom Lu Yin could see through with a single look.
“How did you find me?” Fury filled Furball’s voice as they raised the spatula again to smash down upon Lu Yin.
He sharply shouted, “You want to break Obscura’s rules?”
Furball paused, maintaining a tight grip on the spatula as they stared down at Lu Yin, and he stared back.
Neither spoke. The cosmos remained silent, aside from the flickering of the flames.
Even now, Lu Yin could not accept what he had just seen. Was Furball, a member of Obscura, really cooking? Had they built a massive stove in the Aevum Inch in order to cook? This violated any sort of common sense. No matter how he considered the matter, it felt like a dream. He did not even know what to say. Words failed him. “Does it taste good?”
Furball roared in fury, “How did you find me?”
Lu Yin coughed once. “If I said that it was a coincidence, would you believe me?”
Furball was livid. “Don’t force me to kill you! I’m not trash like Hong Xia! He may not dare to act against you, but I do!”
Lu Yin doubted that. He had felt even greater pressure from Hong Xia than from Furball. While this being should be quite powerful, given that they had crushed a Plume Immortal, they did not give off the impression of a being who resonated with three cosmic laws. Lu Yin did not feel the same suffocating aura that he had from Ancestor Shan.
“Don’t get so worked up. I’m just dropping by. We’re both part of Obscura, so we should get acquainted. We’re not enemies. Look, every time, it’s always you and me chatting in Vestigium with nobody else able to get a word in. I’d say that that counts as friendship.”
Furball’s voice rattled the cosmos. “You’re courting death!”
As they spoke, they swept the spatula down and grabbed the pan to hurl it at Lu Yin. A massive spatial tear was ripped open in the cosmos, and flames blasted out in all directions.
Lu Yin quickly teleported far away, and he only returned several breaths later, discovering that Furball was searching for him. “Don’t get worked up, or else I’ll really go back to Vestigium and complain.”
“Do you think I’m afraid of you? Don’t make me eat your human civilization!”
“Hong Xia gave me this location’s coordinates,” Lu Yin immediately announced.
Furball sneered. “I knew it was him! He betrayed his own civilization, and now he wants to use me to eliminate his enemies.”
Lu Yin nodded. “Absolutely. I said that I wanted to know where to find Old Man Hehe, and he gave me these coordinates.”
Furball was furious. “Hong Xia! I won’t let him off!”
“Neither will I,” Lu Yin agreed. He did not want to fight Furball; there was no point. That would only change if Lu Yin learned that Furball was truly an enemy.
Hong Xia alone was already enough trouble.
As for the one manipulating things from behind the scenes, Lu Yin felt that they did not seem like Furball. This being’s temper was too explosive, and they did not give off the impression that they could pull such a thing off.
The reason why Hong Xia had given Lu Yin Furball’s location might be because this creature was connected to the hidden manipulator. It was possible that some suspicion had made Hong Xia focus on Furball. Lu Yin could not deny that possibility because he did not know enough about Furball to judge solely by their temperament. Another possibility was that Hong Xia was only aware of Furball’s location and knew nothing about any of the other Obscura members.
There was also a third possibility, which was what Furball had just said: Hong Xia wanted to use them to eliminate Lu Yin.
Since he had first joined Obscura, the one who had shown the most hostility towards Lu Yin was Furball. Even the nickname was one that Furball had coined.
As for whether Furball wanted to kill him, Lu Yin was absolutely sure that they did.
Furball lowered the spatula. “Get lost.”
Lu Yin looked at Furball. “You’re... cooking?”
Furball could not be bothered with Lu Yin. “Get lost, or I’ll butcher you first.”
Lu Yin frowned. “We’re both members of Obscura, but that isn’t a friendly attitude. Watch yourself, or else I’ll drag your stove away.”
Furball’s aura instantly spiked, causing the entire visible cosmos to turn green. “Do you really think that I don’t dare to pay a visit to your human civilization?”
“I can tell. You’ve got more guts than Hong Xia,” Lu Yin praised.
Furball sneered. “You wouldn’t talk like this in Vestigium!”
Lu Yin’s expression turned solemn. “Hong Xia said that you’re the same kind.”
Furball erupted in fury. “As him? I’m like him? A mere traitor thinks he’s worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as me?”
“But both his strength and cultivation surpass yours,” Lu Yin retorted.
Furball barked, “He said that?”
“No, but when he talked about Old Man Hehe and then talked about you, his attitude wasn’t the same. He sounded very wary of one, while towards the other...” Lu Yin did not finish, and yet Furball still flew into a rage.
If Lu Yin had claimed that Hong Xia had simply told him so directly, Furball would not have been fooled. Despite their explosive temper, they were clever. However, with the way that Lu Yin had chosen to phrase things, Furball could not be quite sure.