Lu Yin saw someone in red, holding a red umbrella. Step by step, that person ascended into the sky, and then knelt before the Plume Immortal that stretched across the firmament.
He stared at the man, who was kneeling before the bird. Lu Yin seemed to hear the Plume Immortal's joyful cry.
He watched the red umbrella fall, crushing countless Crimson Starshade cultivators to death in their own megaverse. One person after another charged upwards in desperate struggle, only to be killed in grief and fury, their blood raining down across the sky and earth. He seemed to hear countless wails.
The scene quickly vanished.
Lu Yin stared at Rang Yu. "Who was the one who knelt to a Plume Immortal?"
Rang Yu was surprised. "You even know about the Plume Immortals?"
"Who?"
Rang Yu smiled. His grin was eerie beyond measure. "Are you sure you want to know?"
That person was clearly a traitor, given that he had knelt to a Plume Immortal and killed their own kind, but he was not Jiu Wen.
"Who is he?" Lu Yin asked through clenched teeth.
Rang Yu bared his teeth. "Get me out, and I'll tell you."
Lu Yin stared at him.
Rang Yu smiled in obvious delight. "That person betrayed the entire Crimson Starshade Civilization and betrayed Hong Shuang, the Warden of the Second Rampart, which led to the civilization's defeat and the loss of our mirebound artifact.
"That person took the enemy as his master, transforming the Second Rampart into the fundamental reason for the collapse of the Nine Ramparts, hahahaha! Without him, how could the Nine Ramparts have such a miserable ending?
“With groups of people sent out as bait, the Nine Ramparts could have endured, at least that's what I heard. But at the critical moment, that person betrayed all of humanity. Do you know how many Crimson Starshade cultivators he suppressed and killed back then?
"The Path of Dispassion also distinguishes between right and wrong, but that person's Path of Dispassion has no such thing, only survival. Hahahaha! Get me out, and I'll tell you who he is. He is the greatest traitor to you humans, the greatest traitor to the Nine Ramparts, hahahaha!"
Lu Yin stared blankly at Rang Yu. Humanity’s greatest traitor?
At that exact moment, in a distant corner of the Crimson Starshade Megaverse, someone opened their eyes, suddenly feeling uneasy. Where had this sense of unease come from?
Their gaze turned out, sweeping across the starry sky and scanning the entire megaverse.
Suddenly, their gaze locked onto Baiquan Mountain. They pierced through the sourcebox array to peer inside.
At that instant, Lu Yin's back grew cold, and a sense of dread crawled across his skin. He had felt such a sensation before, and more than once. Most recently, it was during Ancestor Shan’s final battle and again during Lu Yin’s visit to the Longevity civilization. It was the feeling of being observed by an unparalleled powerhouse.
He whirled around. Who?
"Run! You've been marked. You can't save me right now. Go, now!" Rang Yu shouted sharply.
Far away from Baiquan Mountain, Jiu Wen abruptly froze in place. The universe shook as a thundering voice rang out, "What are you doing? Go to Baiquan Mountain at once and kill that child!"
Jiu Wen looked up in shock. "Who?"
"Lu Yin!" The thunderous voice caused everything to tremble.
Jiu Wen's expression changed drastically as he whipped around and rushed back to Baiquan Mountain. He arrived an instant later, stepping forward with an upraised hand, pushing across space. Ji He was startled. "Jiu Wen, you dare?"
The man threw a punch. Interstice Drive Fist. The void layered upon itself like flowing gray streams as fist imprints merged together. It was as if the punch was going to pierce the entire universe.
Jiu Wen raised his hand and directly took the punch, not retreating so much as half a step. Even so, his attempt to open the sourcebox array was blocked.
Ji He's fist pressed down as he glared at Jiu Wen. "You dare to touch this place?"
"Get out of the way!" a harsh shout rang out, shattering the void.
Ji He's mind was thrown into chaos as he stumbled back multiple steps. He lifted his head, an expression of horror on his face. Master?
Jiu Wen opened the sourcebox array and rushed to get inside, only to be met by Lu Yin’s punch.
It was the second punch thrown at the man, and having just accepted Ji He's punch head on, Jiu Wen reflexively raised his hand to meet Lu Yin's as well. However, this punch sent the man flying.
Jiu Wen was strong, exceptionally so, but at that moment, as he hurried to enter Hong Xia's sourcebox array, he was blown away by Lu Yin's punch that contained pure physical strength.
The force of that fist shot through the entire universe. Even Ji He was stunned by its power. Just what had happened?
Lu Yin then suddenly appeared before the man. Such speed?
Before Ji He could even react, Lu Yin said, "I'll take you to my civilization."
Ji He instinctively sensed that something was very wrong. Terrifying power shook the entire universe. Lu Yin abruptly appeared behind Ji He and pressed down with a hand. Ji He was not weak, but if they were exchanging blows, how could they not make contact with each other? Lu Yin was not trying to defeat Ji He in one strike, but simply to touch the man.
Ji He had no idea that mere contact would allow Lu Yin to carry him away with teleportation. He spun around and threw a punch at Lu Yin. At the same time, an indescribable feeling appeared. It was an Immortal’s world.
Lu Yin watched as everything around them turned gray; it was the power of time. This was Ji He's power.
But no matter how Ji He's power worked, his punch was caught by Lu Yin.
The young man shouted sharply, "What are you doing? We're on the same side!"
Jiu Wen harshly ordered, "Ji He, by Ancestor Hong Xia's order, kill!"
As he spoke, Jiu Wen turned his wine gourd toward Lu Yin. A single drop of wine fell, spreading to cover the heavens: moon within the wine, heaven within the gourd.
But the strike missed. Lu Yin and Ji He had both vanished at the same time.
Teleportation. Lu Yin had disappeared from Baiquan Mountain while holding Ji He's fist.
The man himself was horrified. "Teleportation? The Plume Immortals’ ability?"
Lu Yin kept a tight grip on Ji He's fist, but just as he was about to teleport again, the sky of the cosmos itself changed, as if it had suddenly come alive. It was filled with a sense of oppression and savagery, and it came from a single point in the cosmos.
Lu Yin felt his entire body go ice cold. He had never actually faced such a powerhouse before. This was the terrifying power of someone who resonated with at least two laws.