The Immortal Lord simply ignored Astral Anura’s question, but the toad was unwilling to let things go and cursed several more times.
Lu Yin casually tossed a pathfinding stone out, and Astral Anura folded his arms in admiration. “Lord Lu, your stone-throwing technique is getting more and more refined.”
Lu Yin smiled at Astral Anura. “You can call me Seventh Bro.”
Astral Anura blinked in surprise, delighted. “Yes, Seventh Bro!”
“Lu Yin, every time I drop a Nest, you toss a stone. What is the meaning of this?” the Immortal Lord asked.
Out of pure reflex, Astral Anura snapped, “It’s none of your damn business! My Seventh Bro just can’t bear to see me feeling sick. Every time I see you toss out a Nest, I get nauseous, and Seventh Bro here takes pity on me. He throws out stones in that impossibly handsome way of his to help me forget the disgusting scene of you flinging your Nests about. Got a problem with that?”
The Immortal Lord’s voice dropped low. “You damned toad! Watch your mouth or else I will tear it off.”
“Come then! Come! I, Astral Anura, am right here waiting!” Astral Anura taunted, even as his body literally shrank in size so that he could hide behind Lu Yin.
Lu Yin lifted his eyes and looked toward Qing He. “Where is your humanoid Verdant Sage?”
The moment Lu Yin spoke, Astral Anura quickly lowered his head.
“Dead.”
Lu Yin chuckled. “No they’re not.”
“What do you know?”
“I know everything that I should know.”
“Did Luo Chan tell you?”
“I have comprehended karma,” Lu Yin calmly stated.
The Immortal Lord pondered for a moment. “They are undergoing a third transformation. They may one day recover, but that will mean nothing to your human civilization. Their enemies will never be humans again.”
“Then why did you destroy the Third Rampart back then?” Lu Yin asked.
“There was no reason. We saw it, so we destroyed it. It’s quite simple,” the Immortal Lord replied, “In the Aevum Inch, destruction is the one thing that needs no reason.
“Your human civilization has destroyed other civilizations as well.”
Lu Yin said, “I’m not trying to argue with what you did. I’m merely curious about how you even found the Third Rampart.”
“It was a coincidence.”
“Is that so?”
“I constantly scatter Nests about. Some will drift through the Aevum Inch for countless years before eventually encountering a megaverse. Other Nests might arrive in a Thread of Heaven. No one knows where they will end up. That is where coincidence comes in. But you, why are you scattering those stones about?”
Lu Yin gave a faint smile. “I would rather not answer.”
The Immortal Lord then fell silent.
Time continued to flow by, and in what felt like no time at all, several more years had passed. One day, the three saw light shining far ahead of them.
Lu Yin immediately had the Immortal Lord rush towards the light to investigate. With the Immortal Lord’s presence, Lu Yin had nothing to fear. The Immortal Lord was unquestionably a top powerhouse among Immortals.
“It should be a megaverse that is about to be reset. It has already been destroyed, so there is no point in going to see it,” the Immortal Lord stated, clearly not wanting to go.
“Let’s go take a look,” Lu Yin insisted.
The Immortal Lord hesitated for a moment longer, but then they headed towards the megaverse.
It was not long before they saw it, and it was indeed a megaverse in the midst of being reset. Strange-looking creatures within the megaverse were howling in despair as they confronted the hopeless situation of their megaverse being reset.
The reset could no longer be avoided.
Lu Yin did not know if he should consider it good luck or something else. If the reset of the megaverse had not produced a burst of light that had drawn their attention, they would not have noticed the megaverse, even if they had passed close by. The fact was, they were still a great distance away.
There were no foreign creatures outside the megaverse, which made it seem like the reset was not due to any sort of war between civilizations, but rather something due to internal causes.
If the Immemorial Citadel had been destroyed and the Tianyuan’s sequence strings snapped, then the Tianyuan would have also been reset in a similar manner.
Every megaverse had its own struggles and conflicts. This was perfectly normal.
This megaverse had been destroyed by its own hands.
Lu Yin stepped off of the green stalk and entered the megaverse. He looked at the burning Mother Tree, whose flames filled the sky and ashes covered the earth. He placed a hand upon it. “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”
Bang.
The Mother Tree shattered, vanishing into smoke.
Outside of the megaverse, the Immortal Lord watched on in confusion. They could not understand what Lu Yin was doing or why he had gone out of his way to destroy the Mother Tree.
After destroying the Mother Tree, Lu Yin simply stood where he was without moving. In the Immortal Lord’s eyes, the young human did nothing at all, and he was just standing there inexplicably.
Only once all of the green specks of light had entered his body did Lu Yin leave. Strange looking creatures charged at him, savagery twisting their eyes as they released eerie, piercing cries.
Lu Yin vanished, only reappearing once he was in outer space. Above him, a collapsing parallel universe appeared, but he just raised a hand and clenched his fingers. Immortal matter appeared.
He was certainly not lacking in Immortal matter. Greater Sancte Green Lotus and the other Immortals had given Lu Yin more, but after he developed his Tri-Azure Sword Intent’s Hidden Sword, he had found himself lacking sufficient in Immortal matter once again. This was especially true given that Extremes Must Be Reversed could be used to strengthen his body and allow Lu Yin to infuse even more Immortal matter into the Tri-Azure Sword Intent.
He longed for the day when the Tri-Azure Sword Intent’s Hidden Swords would blanket an entire universe, resulting in a power no weaker than Obscura’s Sword Planting.
No one in the entire megaverse was competing with Lu Yin for the Immortal matter. He continued to grab more and more of it, moving at tremendous speed.
Even so, as fewer and fewer parallel universes remained, the Immortal matter that he could seize reduced accordingly. Soon, the Immortal Lord urged him to hurry up and leave.
The megaverse held absolutely no value whatsoever for the Immortal Lord. None of the creatures inhabiting the place possessed any traits that the Immortal Lord was interested in.