Ten days passed in the blink of an eye before Lu Yin once again tapped the die with a finger, rolling it.
During the last few die rolling sessions, he had rolled Timestop multiple times and had managed to fully decompose the Rivers and Mountains Painting. That sequence base no longer existed.
He watched as the die slowly stopped spinning, landing three pips. Again, two pips. Finally, six pips again. Lu Yin’s consciousness entered the strange dark space once more, only to find nothing.
Lu Yin looked over at the Tower of the Fifth. He was certain that something was off. The chances of him finding absolutely nothing five times in a row were simply too low.
He entered the Tower of the Fifth and found the young prodigies from the Spirit Nidus, who were very busy at the moment.
Ever since the war between the Tianyuan and the Spirit Nidus had been publicly announced, the Tianyuan Megaverse had seen a fresh wave of enthusiasm among its cultivators. Countless people swarmed the Tower of the Fifth, wanting to learn more about the Spirit Nidus. The captives who had been left in the tower barely had any time to rest, given the number of people who had lined up to spar with them. The young prodigies were all in constant agony.
If not for the fact that the captives’ cultivation had been restricted to the level of Melders, Limiteers, and Explorers, almost no one from the Tianyuan Megaverse who entered the Tower of the Fifth would have been the captives’ match.
They were young elites who had been officially recognized by the Spirit Nidus and then accompanied the invasion’s vanguard to the Tianyuan. There was no denying that the captives were the best of their megaverse.
“Take my blade!” a young woman shouted. She was wielding a sword that was even larger than her own body, and it sliced at Lu Yin.
He was left speechless. He gently flicked a finger, which sent the enormous sword flying from the girl’s grasp before it stabbed into the ground.
She took a few steps back, excitement dancing in her eyes. "As expected, you're strong! Let’s go again."
"Why are you attacking me?" Lu Yin asked.
The girl snorted and raised a fist. "You’re an enemy outsider! Everyone has a duty to kill you invaders!"
"I'm not an invader."
The girl blinked. "You’re not from the Spirit Nidus?"
Lu Yin shook his head.
A young man raced over from the distance and placed himself between the girl and Lu Yin. "Brother, I’m so sorry! My sister was mistaken—she believed that you were an enemy from the Spirit Nidus. You have our apologies, truly."
Lu Yin dismissed the matter with a wave of a hand.
The young man immediately started pulling the girl away, but she kept trying to break free. "Brother, my sword! My sword!"
"Be quiet! You’re getting reckless! You dare to provoke anyone now!"
"I thought that he was an enemy from the Spirit Nidus."
"Even if he was, he’s not someone we can handle! Did you even get a good look at his face?"
"Hmm, actually, no. Let me go back and check."
"Go back? We weren’t even able to get a clear look at his face! If he is from the Spirit Nidus, he’s definitely a powerful enemy that we should leave to those monsters. If he’s not, then he’s one of our Tianyuan Megaverse’s best prodigies. Either way, he’s way out of our league."
"Oh... But my sword is still over there."
"From now on, no more swords."
"Then what am I supposed to use?"
"Needles."
"Huh?"
"Go home and learn embroidery."
"I don’t want to! Brother!"
Lu Yin watched the two from a distance, amused by the siblings’ antics.
Since his entrance into the Tower of the Fifth had attracted a bit of attention, he caused himself to vanish. At the same time, a man in the distance threw a punch, but his fist hit nothing except air. His target had dodged by moving at incredible speed, and the attacker was confused. He tried to continue his barrage with a kick, but missed again. He leaped up and unleashed a flurry of attacks towards the ground, but he was still unable to find his opponent. The man was left horribly confused. Just where had his opponent from the Spirit Nidus gone?
Lu Yin appeared outside of the Tower of the Fifth. He was holding an unconscious man from the Spirit Nidus. A hand landed on the man’s shoulder, and Lu Yin channeled a bit of power. As he did, his expression showed a bit of surprise. So, that’s how it is...
He had realized why it was impossible for him to find anyone from the Spirit Nidus who had cultivated Cloudflow’s power. It was because the power that the Spirit Nidus youths had cultivated had transformed.
The Spirit Nidus cultivators experienced a Spirit Rebirth once in their lives. It marked the time when their spirit seed fully matured and replaced the cultivator’s body. This meant that a person was no longer their original selves; rather, by merging with their spirit seed, they had become entirely new life forms. Any power they cultivated after that would be altered as soon as it entered their bodies; it would be optimized for their new body.
If peak powerhouses were able to alter the universe, then the Spirit Nidus’s Spirit Rebirths altered the cultivator themselves. Essentially, they embodied their own universe, which would automatically adapt to be best suited for cultivating specific energies. A Spirit Rebirth altered both a person’s body and their energy.
This allowed their cultivation speed to be exceptionally fast, and it also gave them access to laws of the universe before they were sequence powerhouses or even peak powerhouses. This was essentially an early determiner of if they would be able to master sequence particles or not.
This was exactly what Yuan Qi had described; the Spirit Nidus wasted no resources. Their path was clear, and a single glance would reveal who could walk a path and who was incapable of moving any further.
Lu Yin tossed the man back into the Tower of the Fifth, his expression darkening. His die’s Possession ability was completely ineffective against this enemy.
Originally, Possession had let Lu Yin Possess any lifeform in the entire Origin Universe. There was no restriction regarding the energy that the target cultivated, as stellular energy permeated the entire Origin Universe.
But in order to Possess lifeforms from other universes, it was necessary to empower the die with the energy that the target cultivated.
Even though the Spirit Nidus youths had cultivated Cloudflow’s power, Lu Yin was unable to use that power to Possess them. The moment the energy entered their bodies, it would transform, which meant that Lu Yin’s Possession could not be used.
This had disrupted Lu Yin’s plans.
He had intended to use his die’s Possession to learn more about the Spirit Nidus and use that against them, just as he had done with all his enemies in the past, such as the four ruling powers. This latest discovery rendered all of those plans moot.
Every cultivator from the Spirit Nidus was completely unique. Their Spirit Rebirth was shaped by their own cultivation and will. Unless Lu Yin was able to walk the exact same path as a specific the Spirit Nidus cultivator, he would not be able to Possess anyone from that megaverse.
He stood outside the Tower of the Fifth, lost in thought as he stared intently at his die.
It was impossible to Possess anyone from the Spirit Nidus, which meant that many of Lu Yin’s plans would have to be adjusted.
Back in the Heavens Sect, there was a region that was completely filled with death energy that had been harvested from the Sixth Mainland.
Lu Yin had specifically brought this death energy to the Heavens Sect to serve as a prison for captured experts.