Lu Yin looked around in shock. He was clearly able to see with Heaven’s Sight that the city was composed solely of Extreme Yin power.
Overhead, the dark clouds dispersed to reveal a full moon, which radiated a beam of light that fell upon the entire city.
Lu Yin and Bai Xian'er wanted to escape, but they were trapped in a quagmire of Extreme Yin power. It was difficult for them to even move.
If they were surrounded by nothing more than Extreme Yin power, Lu Yin could simply absorb it and create another star in the sky of his personal universe. However, the Extreme Yin City consisted of not only Extreme Yin, but also Rotting the Heavenly Dao and the related Rot Particles. Neither Lu Yin nor Bai Xian’er dared to make even the slightest bit of contact with the sequence particles.
At the same time, both Lord Wei’s manifested thought and Mu Ke’s blade attacked, trying to destroy the Extreme Yin City.
Sovereign Shao Yin sneered. "There are no living creatures in my Extreme Yin City. All that live there are formed from the power of Extreme Yin and Rotting the Heavenly Dao. I’ve reinforced the city with sequence particles for so many years, so how could you break it so easily?"
Mu Ke’s blade could only slice two-thirds of the way through the barrier, and it failed to break through Extreme Yin City. Lord Wei’s manifested thought fared no better.
Mu Shen, Lord Xu, Great Elder Shan Gu, and the others had no time to concern themselves with the Extreme Yin City.
While resisting Sovereign Shao Yin, Lu Yin was constantly thinking about the Heavens Sect, and he felt incredibly torn.
Aeternus had launched a massive attack, and Sovereign Shao Yin had openly exposed himself as a spy. All of this could only mean one thing: the Aeternals were utterly confident in their victory. In that case, it should be impossible for one person to change things, unless the Origin Progenitor himself returned to overwhelm True God Wei Yi. Even if humanity could receive the help of someone as powerful as the Seven Skygods, it might not prove to be enough.
The Sixverse Association, the Endless Frontier, the Heavens Sect, and the tea ceremony—war had erupted everywhere!
No one knew just how long the Aeternals had been preparing for this exact moment, but Lu Yin was certain that they would not give humanity any chance to rise back up. They must have prepared for every variable they were aware of, such as the Lord of Lightning and other powerful outsiders, not to mention Sovereign Dou Sheng and other such powerhouses.
The Sixverse Association would not be able to save itself from this attack, and Lu Yin himself was facing a truly desperate situation. He looked at Sovereign Shao Yin on the other side of the Extreme Yin City, and he saw the excitement in the man’s eyes.
Lu Yin turned to look at Bai Xian'er, only to see that the woman was not the slightest bit flustered and was only a tiny bit pale. Regardless of what she was personally capable of, there was an impassable chasm between her strength and Sovereign Shao Yin’s. There was no reason for Bai Xian’er to be so relaxed.
When she noticed Lu Yin’s gaze, Bai Xian'er met his eyes, and the two stared at each other.
"Do you have any way?" Lu Yin asked.
Bai Xian'er shook her head. "No."
"I do."
Bai Xian'er looked surprised, but then she simply smiled. "I knew that Brother Xiaoxuan would not disappoint me."
Lu Yin looked away and stared off into the distance. "Sovereign Shao Yin did not immediately attack us with his Progenitor’s world, even though he could have. Besides that, just a full-powered burst of his Rotting the Heavenly Dao should have been enough to end us."
"Is that what you saw with Heaven’s Sight?"
"I’m saying that we could die at any moment."
"You just said that you have a way."
"The price is rather high."
Bai Xian'er's smile never left her eyes. It looked as though Lu Yin claiming to have a way was all the assurance that she needed to know that she would not die. "What price do I need to pay?"
Lu Yin turned back to look at the woman. "The Book of Destiny."
Bai Xian'er was taken aback. "The book’s been burned. Why do you still want it?"
"That’s my business."
Bai Xian'er stared at Lu Yin for a moment and then took a step forward. She removed the half-burned Book of Destiny from her cosmic ring and tossed it over to Lu Yin. "If Brother Xiaoxuan wants it, I'll give it to you."
Lu Yin took the Book of Destiny, excitement briefly lighting up his eyes.
Got it! He had already tested it out before, and he therefore knew that the Books of Destiny could be restored with his die’s Enhance. While the cost was exorbitant, he knew that it was at least possible to repair the books.
Once they were fully recovered, he would have all three Books of Destiny. Then, he would be able to see the truth concerning Zhao Ran. Additionally, while Lu Yin did not personally cultivate Destiny’s power, the continent in his chest was formed from Destiny’s fatesand.
Right, fatesand.
Lu Yin quickly looked back at Bai Xian'er. "Also, I want your fatesand."
Bai Xian'er was startled by this demand, but before she could react, the Extreme Yin City underwent a drastic change.
Sovereign Shao Yin was finally making his move. When he saw that Lu Yin and Bai Xian'er were simply chatting with each other in his Progenitor’s world, and even exchanging gifts, the Sovereign felt as though they were ignoring him and his Progenitor’s world. "Rot them all and imprison them!"
The moment the man spoke, the sequence particles related to Rotting the Heavenly Dao all surged towards Lu Yin and Bai Xian'er.
Instantly, the two were facing their greatest danger yet. The moment they were enveloped by the sequence particles, they would be completely rotted.
Sequence particles were the fundamental power of changing the universe, and Lu Yin had very few options to even try to deal with this power. Additionally, at this moment, escape was impossible.
He took a deep breath. "You still owe me that fatesand, so don't forget it."
He then looked upwards. "It's time to become a Semi-Progenitor."
No one knew when it happened, but there was an indistinct pressure in the sky. It came from a stellular tribulation.
Before the tea ceremony, Lu Yin had not been entirely certain if it was possible for him to undergo a breakthrough in the Cyclic Universe. While Bai Xian'er had claimed to have done it while speaking to Lu Yin, he still had not been entirely certain.
However, after the Extreme Yin City appeared and Lu Yin realized how difficult it would be for him to escape, he had tested to see if he could trigger his Semi-Progenitor breakthrough. As it turned out, he had discovered that it was indeed possible.
He could not say why that was the case, as he was clearly in the Cyclic Universe, and even though the people of the Cyclic Universe also cultivated with stellular energy, they did not seem to experience stellular tribulations. Why could he have a breakthrough in this place?
The only possibility was what Bai Xian'er had mentioned. ‘If there was no connection, how could the energies be inverted?’
Were the Cyclic Universe and the Origin Universe truly connected? They were clearly two different parallel universes.
However, this was not the time to be thinking about such things. Lu Yin’s Semi-Progenitor tribulation had already been triggered.
Sovereign Shao Yin’s head suddenly snapped up, his expression changing. What was going on?
Everyone present at the tea ceremony instinctively froze and looked up at the sky, feeling a strange pressure descending. The people of the Cyclic Universe did not suffer stellular tribulations. The Three Sovereigns and Nine Sages were granted their cultivation by the Great Sovereign, and they had no idea what they were looking at. On the other hand, Bai Xian'er's eyes lit up. Was Lu Yin finally going to have a breakthrough?