Chapter 2902: Crises At The Borders
Lu Yin now understood what Shang Zheng meant. The Law of Darkness was very powerful no matter how one looked at it. Old Mo could not be given even the slightest reprieve to recover.
However, since Old Mo had already escaped, he definitely would not keep hiding in the Endless Frontier, which meant that it would be extremely difficult to find him.
Proximity soon received the news.
The fourth battalion had officially purged the Umbral Universe, and the master of that universe, Old Mo, had been seriously injured before escaping. It was likely that the man would defect to the Aeternals.
w.a.n.g Wen solemnly commented, "Senior Sage Bodhi, please ask the Sixverse a.s.sociation to do their best to find Old Mo. That man attacked our Heavens Sect when we were being attacked by the Aeternals, and his actions harmed us greatly."
Sage Bodhi stared at w.a.n.g Wen for a long moment. She was quickly realizing that the four people that Lu Yin had sent to Proximity had not merely been sent to uncover spies, but also to deliver Lu Yin’s orders to the Sixverse a.s.sociation.
This did not mean that Sage Bodhi could not accept the orders that Lu Yin was giving, as the two orders that he had given—drafting all members of the Sixverse a.s.sociation currently on the Endless Frontier into the crusade and searching for Old Mo—were both acting for the overall benefit of the Sixverse a.s.sociation.
However, if too many such orders were given, they would silently increase Lord Lu’s influence throughout the Sixverse a.s.sociation.
I’ve still underestimated him. Lord Lu isn’t only fighting a battle on the Endless Frontier, but also waging a war of influence within the Sixverse a.s.sociation.
Could Sage Bodhi refuse? No. She was the Endless Frontier’s General solely because she had instant access to all the information of the battlefield, not because she was qualified to give orders to all the people fighting on the Endless Frontier.
When she was asked to convey orders or information from the Endless Frontier to the Sixverse a.s.sociation, it was extremely difficult for the Sage to refuse, as long as the request was reasonable.
The Great Sovereign was in seclusion, which meant that there was no one around who could stop Lu Yin.
More than a month pa.s.sed after the battle in the Umbral Universe, and during that time, the four battalions had green lit seventeen parallel universes. It was an unprecedented accomplishment.
The entire Sixverse a.s.sociation was watching the crusade.
At this juncture, even if the crusade ultimately failed, just the accomplishment of having purged seventeen parallel universes was enough to shock countless people.
An uncountable number of Aeternus’s corpse kings had been slaughtered, including dozens at the Semi-Progenitor level and no less than five at the Progenitor level. Additionally, eleven spies had been uncovered, some of whom were from the parallel universes of the Endless Frontier, with others from the Sixverse a.s.sociation.
Just as Lu Yin had wanted, the four battalions were sweeping across the Endless Frontier, leaving it clean in their wake.
Never before had the Endless Frontier seen such activity. The crusade inspired confidence in many of the Endless Frontier’s universes.
However, Lu Yin and the others were not at all happy about their progress. The seventeen parallel universes that they had purged were only the most ordinary and average of the universes that made up the Endless Frontier, and only the Umbral Universe had been somewhat remarkable. Without Old Mo, a Sequence Progenitor, the Umbral Universe would not rank among the top fifteen most dangerous universes. And even with him in it, the universe would never be ranked any higher, not unless Old Mo defected to Aeternus or allied with the Sixverse a.s.sociation. The battalions had not met any of the true challenges on the Endless Frontier yet.
At the Cyclic Universe’s Wall of Purity, Arrow Sage was reviewing the reports that had been sent back from the Endless Frontier as shock filled his heart.
Lu Yin might have acted overly arrogant and overbearing in the Cyclic Universe, but he was finally doing something extremely satisfying.
Many people had objected to the crusade to conquer the Endless Frontier, but Arrow Sage had not been one of them. As Lu Yin had said, why should the Aeternals be the ones to decide when and how the war was fought?
Arrow Sage had also wanted to launch an attack against the Aeternals, but he lacked the necessary strength.
There were currently four battalions sweeping across the Endless Frontier, each of which had five peak powerhouses, including a sequence powerhouse. Such a force was something that not even the Aeternals would dare to take lightly. This was how humanity should be behaving, by boldly seizing the initiative.
Arrow Sage let out a breath. He wanted to join those four battalions, but someone had to protect the Wall of Purity.
Still, Lu Yin was performing quite satisfactorily.
An alarm suddenly rang across the entire Wall of Purity.
The Sage’s expression changed, and he looked into the distance, his face growing pale. No way.
Beyond the Wall of Purity, an endless horde of corpse kings with several Progenitor-level corpse kings approached. The horde was being led by a True G.o.d Guard Captain, Zhong Pan.
At the same time, at the Arboreal Realm’s border, an endless wave of corpse kings also appeared, which were led by another True G.o.d Guard Captain.
The Lost Clan’s universe’s border was attacked en ma.s.se as well.
Lu Yin was leading four ma.s.sive battalions across the Endless Frontier. They were strong enough that even the Aeternals were unwilling to directly face the armies. Even if all of the True G.o.d Guard Captains gathered together, they might not be able to stop the battalions. Thus, Aeternus had abandoned the Endless Frontier and moved their forces to directly a.s.sault the Sixverse a.s.sociation.
There was a tacit agreement that humanity and Aeternals would use the Endless Frontier as their primary battlefield, and whichever side managed to break through the Endless Frontier would be free to directly attack the other by pa.s.sing through the Endless Frontier.
The Aeternals had not willingly abandoned the Endless Frontier, but Lu Yin’s threatening army had forced them to abandon the main battlefield. For that reason, they had decided to directly attack the Sixverse a.s.sociation’s member universes. The Aeternals might’ve lacked the forces to stop Lu Yin’s sharp blade, but they were still strong enough to threaten the rest of the Sixverse a.s.sociation.
At the Wall of Purity, every arrow that Arrow Sage fired was shattered by Zhong Pan. It only took a single punch for the corpse king to deal with each arrow. The Sage’s Seven Divine Arrows used emotions as weapons, which meant that they were rather ineffective against the Aeternals. Arrow Sage felt that Zhong Pan gave off the same sort of invincibe aura as Lu Yin.
Zhong Pan did not try to break through the Wall of Purity, but instead continued targeting Arrow Sage with all of his attacks.
From far away, Food Sage raced over. "Let me!"
Arrow Sage heaved a sigh of relief. He was not particularly effective against physically powerful opponents, but such opponents were precisely where Food Sage shone the brightest.
Boom!
The impact of the two fists resulted in a deafening noise, but Food Sage was sent flying backwards, his entire arm misshapen. In front of him, he saw that Zhong Pan’s eyes had turned red from a Corpse King Transformation.
Food Sage"s true form was a Taotie, and he was extremely powerful, but not even he could measure up to Zhong Pan’s strength after a Red Eyes Transformation.
Zhong Pan charged at Food Sage, punching at him again.
Food Sage gritted his teeth and transformed back into his Taotie form. He roared at the sky as Arrow Sage released another arrow. Food Sage was unable to endure on his own.
At this moment, another Progenitor-level corpse appeared in the distance.
The Transcendent Universe was also facing a terrible crisis.
The Aeternals had attacked the Transcendent universe’s border as well, and the universe was in terrible jeopardy.
Lu Yin looked down on people who used black energy converters, which was why he had rejected Qiu Zhan and Cong Si’s requests to join the crusade.
However, the Aeternals looked down on people who used energy converters in the exact same manner as Lu Yin.
There had been a time when the black energy converters had been enough to fight against ordinary Progenitor-level corpse kings. However, as soon as a True G.o.d Guard Captain appeared, the whole Transcendent Universe was thrust into immediate danger.
As soon as the True G.o.d Guard Captain appeared, Cong Si was killed. This captain had green hair and was known as Greenridge.
No matter what kind of attacks Cong Si had used, they had been as effective as a breeze against Greenridge; Cong Si had been completely unable to harm the enemy in any way.
Not only was Cong Si killed, but the bestowal art carrier at the Transcendent Universe’s border was also destroyed.
Greenridge stared off into the distance. "If we can"t win on the Endless Frontier, then we’ll just change the battlefield. If we can"t beat the Heavens Sect, then does that mean that we can"t beat you?"
Far away, Wen Shi and Qiu Zhan heard the comment, and their faces fell. They had already heard of Cong Si"s death, and the news had shocked them.
Their universe was in grave danger.
All of the rulers of the member universes of the Sixverse a.s.sociation were in seclusion, and without any sequence powerhouses to take action, the humans were doomed to be wiped out by the Aeternals.
Lu Yin had already received an update from Sage Bodhi, who had asked the four battalions to reinforce Sixverse a.s.sociation wherever they were needed. If the Sixverse a.s.sociation was defeated, then a victory on the Endless Frontier would still be meaningless.
As for asking the rulers of the various universes to emerge from seclusion, that was completely impossible.
True G.o.d and the Seven SkyG.o.ds had all retreated into seclusion to heal their wounds. Similarly, the Great Sovereign and Ancestor Lu Yuan, who had fought against the Aeternals in that ma.s.sive battle, had done so as well. If humanity’s most powerful individuals were not allowed to heal and recover, humanity would face a disadvantage in the future when they faced the Aeternals most powerful members, which would be an even worse catastrophe.
Lu Yin"s crusade to conquer the Endless Frontier could already be regarded as successful, but the price was going to be steep.
If the four battalions were forced to abandon the crusade to rescue the Sixverse a.s.sociation, humanity’s invincible blade would lose its magnificence.
Fortunately, before launching the crusade, the Heavens Sect had already taken such a move into consideration.
Lu Yin"s fourth battalion instantly split apart. He led some people to the third battalion’s location, while Leng Qing took some people to join the second battalion.
The four battalions had been following a predetermined route across the Endless Frontier, and they were never too far away from each other. At every point in time, there were never more than two parallel universes separating the battalions from their nearest neighbors, and this served to ensure that they could always support each other.
It had already been decided that, the moment the Sixverse a.s.sociation was threatened, the fourth battalion would break apart, and the four battalions would become three. Each battalion would retain the same strength as before, which would allow all the peak powerhouses of one battalion to go reinforce the Sixverse a.s.sociation.
Shan Zheng immediately returned to the Lost Clan’s universe.
Lu Yin joined the third battalion. There, Shao Chen, who had been with them, moved to the Transcendent Universe to support them, and he was joined by Leng Qing and Chen Le.
The Transcendent Universe was simply too weak, and it required a number of peak powerhouses to save it.
Xia Qin led her forces to join the second battalion, and Bureau Director Gan then left the second battalion to return to the Arboreal Realm.
The fourth battalion merged with two of the other three battalions, while the first battalion remained unchanged. In the second battalion, Xia Qin replaced Chen Le, and in the third battalion, Lu Yin and the jiao had replaced Shao Chen, which strengthened that battalion dramatically.
In the Transcendent Universe, people moved quickly to transfer a bestowal art carrier to the border.
Wen Shi, Zuo Lao, and Qiu Zhan worked together with their black energy converters to hold back Greenridge. The three men were still at a disadvantage, and they risked being overpowered at any moment.
On their own, the three men could only handle the most average Progenitor-level corpse kings, and they were completely outmatched by the True G.o.d Guard Captain. This individual was on a completely different level, and if one of the True G.o.d Guard Captains went to the Origin Universe, they would be capable of defeating anyone who was not a Sequence Progenitor. They were all experts at the same level as Xia Shenji.
With just black energy converters, there was no way for the Transcendent Universe’s experts to measure up to someone like Xia Shenji.
Greenridge casually waved a hand, and a wave of leaves flew out, which Qiu Zhan only narrowly managed to evade. This was the same attack that had killed Cong Si when Greenridge had first arrived.
The seemingly soft leaves were powerful enough to break past their black energy, and not even the bestowal art carrier was able to eliminate anything. These leaves were moving due to pure physical power, and the bestowal art carriers were only able to absorb energy.
"If not for Lord Wei, this universe would have been wiped out long ago." Greenridge"s long hair ruffled in the wind. There was an icy expression on his face and a frigid glint in his eyes as ripples visibly radiated from his body and spread across the nearby area.
Qiu Zhan and the other two were all shocked. "Is that aurelian force?"
Sure enough, Greenridge was using aurelian force, the second most powerful level of battle force. With the boost of aurelian force, even if Greenridge did not use the Corpse King Transformation, his physical strength would still reach an extremely terrifying level.
"You can all die now." Greenridge charged at Qiu Zhan.
The three men all released their black energy at the same time. Each black energy converter had enough raw power to compare to a Progenitor, but not even all three combined were able to have any effect on Greenridge. All three bursts of black energy pa.s.sed right through Greenridge when the attacks approached him.
The three men had no idea how, but Greenridge was able to disable all of their attacks.
Aurelian force swept out, and the pressure alone was almost enough to make the three humans cough up blood. Greenridge appeared right in front of Qiu Zhan. Even when facing an endless bombardment of the Transcendent Universe’s attacks, Greenridge’s eyes did not waver in the least. It was impossible for any of these people to hurt him.
Suddenly, Greenridge turned his head and looked in a particular direction. From that direction, a saber attack shot out. It was extremely sharp, and the black energy attacks were not even comparable.
"Here comes a real expert."