Chapter 1346: Jiang Chen
Within the crowded stadium, Zuocheng Daynight occasionally glanced around. For a while, he had felt someone staring at him, but he had a sense of being both hidden and exposed, which made him uncertain.
Common sense said that he was an Enlighter with a power level of 360,000, and so there should be no one in such a remote place capable of observing him without being noticed, so where was this feeling of being stared at come from?
He was currently searching for Liu Shaoge. Even before ZENITH had started, the Daynight clan had sent someone out to the Outerverse to look for Liu Shaoge, but they had not been able to find him, so Zuocheng Daynight had been forced to personally go out. The Daynight clan’s stone of inheritance was too important to the clan, and they could not afford to lose it.
However, the Outerverse belonged to Lu Yin. Even if Zuocheng Daynight had a power level of more than 300,000, he still did not have the courage to reveal himself in the Outerverse. At this time, he had simply been observing the Jinlin Military Academy to see if Liu Shaoge could be found, but unfortunately, that had not been the case.
Earth was Liu Shaoge"s hometown, and Zuocheng Daynight firmly believed that Liu Shaoge would eventually return to the planet, and it should be soon.
Zuocheng Daynight had decided to remain on Earth to wait for Liu Shaoge.
He was not able to scan the entire planet with his star energy, so all he could do was go to populated regions and check it over in a wait-and-see manner.
The feeling of being watched reappeared, and Zuocheng Daynight"s eyes narrowed. Someone was staring at him. He looked around. Who could it be? He was certain that a powerhouse had appeared.
"Hey, make some room, please. Make some room." The young man in the hat finally squeezed himself in next to Zuocheng Daynight.
Zuocheng Daynight"s eyes narrowed and flashed with a killing intent.
The young man set a hand on Zuocheng Daynight"s shoulder, and Zuocheng Daynight clenched a fist and said, "Brother, let go."
The young man shoved Zuocheng Daynight, but the man did not budge at all. The young man looked at Zuocheng Daynight in surprise. "You’re still chasing after celebrities at your age? Enough should be enough."
Zuocheng Daynight took a step back.
The young man smiled brightly. "Thank you."
He then continued to squeeze his way forward, still with a straw in his mouth.
Zuocheng Daynight frowned as he watched the young man"s back disappear into the crowd. He then glanced around again, but could not find anyone observing him.
He had stood guard at the Daynight clan’s ancestral monument for too long, and he had forgotten how to be vigilant. Zuocheng Daynight dismissed all hesitation, and he turned around and left the stadium, and then even left Earth.
Suddenly, the feeling of having eyes on him returned ten times stronger than before. Zuocheng Daynight whirled around and saw a young man enter his sight. It was Lu Yin.
Zuocheng Daynight"s pupils instantly shrank the moment he saw Lu Yin, but they only shrank for a moment before returning to normal. Zuocheng Daynight was in disguise, so it was impossible to know that he was from Daynight clan. On top of that, he had not fought against Lu Yin during the battle on Nightking Planet, so this should be their first meeting, and Lu Yin should not know the Enlighter.
"Where is Senior from?" Lu Yin asked as he stared at Zuocheng Daynight.
Zuocheng Daynight"s eyes remained as placid as possible as he smiled. "This old man wanders about the universe. I don’t call any specific place home."
"Well, why Senior visit Earth?" Lu Yin continued to press.
Zuocheng Daynight smiled and replied, "I was just pa.s.sing by. I heard that Luo Shen was performing a dance, so I thought to take a look as I pa.s.sed through."
"Then why follow the students?" Lu Yin asked.
Zuocheng Daynight"s eyes flashed. "I hope to find an excellent child who qualifies to receive my inheritance.”
Lu Yin snorted. "This junior feels that his talent is pretty good, so how about you give me your inheritance? This junior is willing to support Senior."
Zuocheng Daynight laughed. "Little Brother must be joking; I can"t even see your strength despite being an old man. Don’t tease the elderly."
Lu Yin"s face sank. "I don"t want anyone to make trouble on Earth. Senior is an unknown expert, and you also were following students. How can I feel comfortable letting you simply leave?”
Zuocheng Daynight frowned. "Isn"t Little Brother being a bit too tyrannical? This old man was just pa.s.sing by Earth and harmed no one. I followed those students hoping to find a disciple. There’s been no malice, and yet because of my actions, Little Brother wants to take action against an old man? Are outsiders not even allowed to visit Earth?”
Lu Yin stared at Zuocheng Daynight. "Anyone who clearly states where they’re from is allowed to enter. Old man, you most likely did not enter the planet through acceptable methods."
Zuocheng Daynight"s eyes flickered as he looked at Lu Yin. After a while, the old man nodded. "It seems that Little Brother has no intention of letting this old man leave in peace. In that case, you can check things."
Tension left Lu Yin"s eyes, and he smiled. "Senior, I’ll have to inconvenience you.."
Zuocheng Daynight returned to Earth while Lu Yin kept an eye on the man. Lu Yin wanted to find out where this old man was from, as he did not know why the old man had been on Earth. It was possible that he had just wanted to find a disciple. After all, there were simply too many independent cultivators who roamed the universe. Still, it was very easy for an independent Enlighter to find a disciple, and this claim had aroused most of Lu Yin’s suspicions.
Still, so long as the Enlighter meant no harm to Earth, Lu Yin would not do anything to the old man.
Zuocheng Daynight landed back on Earth, his feet touching down on the stadium in Jinlin City. Luo Shen’s performance had continued.
Suddenly, star energy erupted and the Enlighter shot through the void to enter the stadium.
Lu Yin"s eyes went wide; this old man was looking to die! The only reason Lu Yin had been willing to let the old man return to Earth had been because he was an Enlighter with a power level of only a bit more than 300,000. Lu Yin had his Vacuum Palm and Daynight Praises, and so he had no fear of the old man fleeing into s.p.a.ce.
Zuocheng Daynight appeared in the stadium and took another step to appear directly in front of Luo Shen. Neither Luo Shen nor anyone in the entire audience reacted to the old man’s appearance.
Zuocheng Daynight had watched Lu Yin’s battles during ZENITH, and so he was very cautious of the youth, so he took the initiative and unleashed Night Advent.
Lu Yin was shocked; this old man was from the Daynight clan? Lu Yin had already seen from the man’s runes that his power level exceeded 300,000. This was not good.
Zuocheng Daynight"s spiritual force was strong enough for Daynight Praises to not be very effective. He would certainly be dragged into the illusion, but given his combat power, and especially the time he had spent meditating and training the Daynight clan’s beneath the clan’s stone tablet, so his spiritual force was incredibly st.u.r.dy, and was not much weaker than Yao Xuan"s.
A split second after being dragged into the illusion, Zuocheng Daynight broke out of it. The rest of the world had only taken a single greath, but a long time had pa.s.sed within the illusion, and Zuocheng Daynight had been attacked several times by Skybreaker. His brain had been jostled, and blood spilled from his seven orifices. Fortunately, he had succeeded in breaking out of the illusion, as he had not expected Lu Yin"s spiritual force to be so terrifying. That attack had to have been the Nightking clan’s Skybreaker. Then Zuocheng Daynight remembered a legend about how the Dayking and the First Nightking had worked together to unleash a battle technique that no one had managed to cultivate after their deaths.
It was no longer a surprise that Lu Yin’s spiritual force had been powerful enough for him to fight against Yao Xuan. Zhocheng Daynight was an elder of the Daynight clan; someone who specialized in spiritual force and who had long stood guard at the Daynight clan’s ancestral tablet, and yet he had barely been able endure Lu Yin’s spiritual force attack. Out of the entire Daynight clan, there was not a single person beneath the Envoy realm who would be able to ignore Lu Yin’s spiritual force.
A single breath had been enough for Zuocheng Daynight to grab a hold of Luo Shen, and, by the same token, a breath was also enough time for Lu Yin. His hand moved, and a Vacuum Palm shot through the void and struck Zuocheng Daynight on his back.
His physique was not st.u.r.dy enough to withstand Lu Yin’s Vacuum Palm, and even if this attack had not been reinforced with nine lined battle force, it was still too much for Zuocheng Daynight. He pulled out a power vessel, and it helped him withstand Lu Yin’s Vacuum Palm. The old man’s hand stretched out once more to grab Luo Shen, and his fingers were only a few centimeters away from her.
Lu Yin was confident in his own strength, and he believed that he had the situation under control. Zuocheng Daynight was an exceptionally cunning man, and he had prepared himself for Lu Yin’s various techniques, which had given the Daynight elder and path to survival. As long as he managed to catch Luo Shen, he would be able to force Lu Yin into letting him go, and he would be able to return to Daynight Flowzone.
The old man had not expected a young man like Lu Yin to be so terrifyingly powerful. Even if Zuocheng Daynight had taken extreme precautions against Lu Yin, he had still been severely injured. His spiritual force had been shaken, rattling his brain, and he was bleeding from his seven orifices. His body had been cracked from being struck by Lu Yin’s Vacuum Palm, but fortunately, Zuocheng Daynight had finally succeeded. This woman was his lifeline.
As his hand drew closer and closer, Zuocheng Daynight saw Luo Shen"s terrified eyes.
Behind him, an astral chessboard appeared beneath Lu Yin"s, and just as he was about to move Luo Shen, a young man wearing a hat and with a straw in his mouth walked out next to the dancer. Lu Yin had not seen any movement, but Zuocheng Daynight’s hand touched the young man, and the sound of lightning exploded. The lightning tore through the void, and shot into s.p.a.ce from the stadium. Up in outer s.p.a.ce, the force exploded repeatedly, tearing through layers of s.p.a.ce.
Lu Yin"s pupils shrank. He has seen a large number of lightning-based battle techniques, or cultivators who had innate gifts of lighting, but the power of this lighting was the most terrifying that Lu Yin had ever seen. The number of runes that he saw absolutely exceeded a power level of 400,000, and Lu Yin felt a sense of danger from it.
There was a smile tugging at the corners of the young man’s mouth. He was handsome, and his hat was c.o.c.ked off to the side as he used lightning to seize control of the void.
Zuocheng Daynight had been very close to Luo Shen, extremely close, but the moment the young man appeared, it was as though Zuocheng Daynight had been moved to the horizon.
When the lightning disappeared, Zuocheng Daynight"s whole body was revealed to be charred black. He collapsed to the ground. He had been zapped to a piece of charcoal.
The young man flicked the straw in his mouth and turned to face Luo Shen. He gave her what he thought was a charming smile. "I"m Jiang Chen. It"s nice to meet you, cutey."
Luo Shen"s body disappeared, as Lu Yin had used the Ce Secret Art to move her to his side.
Luo Shen was pleasantly surprised to see Lu Yin. "Your Highness!"
Lu Yin nodded to her, but looked at the young man named Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen also looked at Lu Yin. There was a smile that touched the corner of his mouth. He had bright eyes, as well as a domineering yet quiet temperament. He stood there in a relaxed manner that was quite rea.s.suring, and his entire demeanor reminded Lu Yin of when he had first met Wu Taibai. This person seemed casual and carefree, but when compared to Wu Taibai, Lu Yin felt that this person was even more mysterious.
Lu Yin did not know how to describe what he was feeling.
Regardless, he did not feel hate for this person.
"I saw you before. That compet.i.tion was really exciting." Jiang Chen smiled happily as he looked at Lu Yin.
Lu Yin carefully appraised Jiang Chen. "Thank you. Where are you from?"
"Earth," Jiang Chen instantly answered, though apparently he felt this was wrong right after speaking. “Well, not far from Earth."
Lu Yin"s eyes flashed. This did not sound right. This person had clearly said that he was from Earth, but it was impossible for Earth to give birth to such a powerhouse, unless… Hidden Earth Society.
Could Jiang Chen be from the Hidden Earth Society? That seemed likely.
Jiang Chen jumped off the stage. The lights shone down on him, while also illuminating Zuocheng Daynight, who had turned to charcoal.
"This isn’t any place to talk, so let"s go somewhere else," Lu Yin told Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen did not particularly care, but he looked at Luo Shen with bright eyes and asked expectantly, "All together?"
Luo Shen softly replied, "I want to end my dance."
Jiang Chen was left disappointed.
Lu Yin said, "She’ll come with us after her dance, so let"s find a place to talk for now."
Jiang Chen waved his hand. "It doesn"t matter."
OMA"s Thoughts
Translated By: OMA
Edited By: Neshi/Nyxnox
TLC"ed By: OMA
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