Chapter 2844: Outsiders
In the past, when the Progenitor-level corpse king had attacked them, the White Dragon Clan had nearly been destroyed, and Long Ke had died during the battle. At that moment, Ni Huang had clearly seen the future of the White Dragon Clan. He understood that they really did need to descend to the Lower Realm, as not even the Middle Realm was right for them.
Lu Yin agreed to the request. The 100,000 currents were actually safer than the Lower Realm. At least in the 100,000 currents, there was no need to worry about being killed by the endless creatures that inhabited the Lower Realm.
However, the White Dragon Clan still needed to be carefully investigated to determine if any of their people had persecuted the members of the Lu family. Those who had would suffer the same fate as the other three ruling powers.
Boom!
Dragon Mountain was pressed down by the Lu Sanctum, and the mountain slowly sank from the Higher Realm.
Once Dragon Mountain had completely disappeared from the Higher Realm, the Perennial World officially entered the era of the Lu family once more.
The golden light shone across the Perennial World, illuminating the Mother Tree.
The Lu Sanctum had arrived. Many people had been waiting for this day for too long.
In Middle Realm, an old man lowered his hoe and laughed.
Some children altered their appearance and leaped up to join the Lu family.
Some people appeared in a dark corner and then bowed to the sky while shouting wildly.
People who had hidden themselves in the Middle Realm but been loyal to the Lu family revealed themselves.
Although Lu Yin had revealed his true ident.i.ty, the Perennial World had never left the control of the four ruling powers, and many people had not dared to expose themselves. At this moment, all of those people stepped out into the light.
Adventure King, Zhuo Si, and even Yan Yu and the others from the Misty Rain Pavilion started making their way towards the Lu Sanctum.
They were going to pay their respects at their master’s house.
The Perennial World was about to suffer a storm. Not only had people from the four ruling powers persecuted the Lu family, but many people loyal to the four ruling powers had also taken similar actions. Those people had often been even more excessive in their actions, but Adventure King and many others had made a record of those people and their actions. No one would be able to escape.
Lu Yin personally went to visit Seed Garden, and then Virtue Archives before he made his way to the Lu Sanctum.
At the moment, he was not very sure about what was happening in the Sixverse a.s.sociation, and his alias as Xuan Qi had become useless. If he visited the Sixverse a.s.sociation again in the future, he could only do so as Lu Yin.
The Heavens Sect and the Lu family had taken control of the Fifth Mainland. Even though there was no conflict between the two due to Lu Yin, they still needed to get along.
For the moment, Lu Yin went to speak with Ancestor Lu Yuan. There were too many questions that needed to be asked.
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Two months later, Lu Yin was sitting on the mountain behind the Heavens Sect, holding a fishing rod while staring at a calm lake. No one knew what he was thinking of at this moment.
Mu Xie walked over. "Junior Brother, I heard you were looking for me?"
Lu Yin replied, "Senior Brother, I’m surprised that you kept this hidden from me."
Mu Xie grew puzzled. "Hidden from you?"
Lu Yin set his rod down and turned to look at Mu Xie. "You inherited the Mountain and Sea that’s in Virtue Archives."
Mu Xie just laughed. "That’s not a big deal."
Lu Yin smiled bitterly. "Not a big deal? That was Ancestor Tianyi’s Mountain and Sea. If he hadn’t told me himself, I would have never known that you had inherited it, Senior Brother."
Mu Xie smiled. "You understand Master"s extreme standards for his disciples better than anyone. Whether it"s me, you, Qing Ping, or Brother Mu Ke, all of us possess a level of talent that’s completely different from all others. The Nine Mountains and Eight Seas are very powerful in our Fifth Mainland, but it is a power that can be regarded as an inheritance from our predecessors. Such a thing might not be too important to people like us.”
"Once my Origin Tracer and your Ninesuns Cauldron Transformation reach a certain level, it is possible to transcend."
Lu Yin grew confused. "Transcend?"
Mu Xie looked at Lu Yin. "Did Ancestor Lu Yuan not tell you? He should know about Master’s origins. Truthfully, I myself don"t understand what it means to transcend, but Master once mentioned it. I thought that you would have learned about that from Ancestor Lu Yuan and gotten some answers.”
Lu Yin looked away. "Master comes from outside the universes we know."
Mu Xie looked at Lu Yin"s back. "Did Ancestor Lu Yuan tell you that?"
Lu Yin nodded. "Ancestor didn"t go into too much detail, though he might not know himself. Mister Mu once drank tea with the Origin Progenitor and offered guidance to the Three Realms Six Dao. The Origin Progenitor told them that Mister Mu is an outsider in a different manner from what we understand."
As he spoke, Lu Yin grew melancholic. "Ancestor also mentioned that while we humans are able to receive help from powerful outsiders, the Aeternals are capable of the same."
Mu Xie"s face grew solemn at this news. These words opened up a concept of a larger megaverse to all who heard them.
Everyone knew that the Aeternals were a unique race, but even then, they were just one race. Joining Aeternus meant either becoming a corpse king, or being a human traitor.
No one had considered the idea of Aeternus having their own allies.
Who could ally with the Aeternals? Weaker people could only become corpse kings, while stronger individuals, such as Gu Yizhi, became the Seven SkyG.o.ds. They were able to speak with the Aeternals on an equal footing and were at least on the level of the Three Realms Six Dao, possibly even on the same level as the Great Sovereign herself.
No matter how many allies the Aeternals might have, even one was enough to create terrible problems for humanity.
Lu Yin thought of Old Mo. That old man had attacked at the same time as when Aeternus had attacked the Heavens Sect, and so had Luo Shan. If such people joined Aeternus, they would certainly not be weaklings. They were more powerful than the captains of the True G.o.d Guard, though this was something only known to Lu Yin.
This was also why he had been spending some time fishing. He wanted to contemplate.
In the end, they still did not know their true enemy.
As long as such powerhouses did not partic.i.p.ate in a battle, who could know where they were or what sort of power they might possess?
Bi Rong and the Lord of Lightning were both similar powerhouses, and neither of them had revealed themselves. Even if Lu Yin had defeated the four ruling powers earlier, as long as he did not make contact with the Sixverse a.s.sociation, he would have never known about those experts.
Mister Mu was an outsider and helped humanity, but Aeternals seemed to also have outsiders helping them.
This meant that they might be from a parallel universe beyond the known megaverse.
"Where is Ancestor Lu Yuan?" Mu Xie asked.
Lu Yin replied, "He went to visit the Lost Clan."
Mu Xie knew little about the Lost Clan, so he did not pursue the matter. On the other hand, Lu Yin knew that the Lost Clan possessed powers that were completely alien to the Origin Universe. That Primeval card that he had seen exceeded the bounds of the Progenitor realm.
That thought reminded him of what Mu Xie had just said about transcending. Those had been Mister Mu’s words, so did that Primeval card correspond to transcending?
Over the last two months, Lu Yin often sought out Lu Yuan to speak with the man. Lu Yuan had been told everything concerning Lu Yin, and he had shared a great deal of knowledge with Lu Yin. The comment about Mister Mu had been but one such matter.
Lu Yin had also asked about the Immemorial Citadel.
As for that place, Ancestor Lu Yuan had only shared two words: sequence strings.
Lu Yin had wanted to ask more questions about the Immemorial Citadel, but Patriarch Lu Yuan had stopped talking about the matter. He had simply said that only after Lu Yin understood what sequence strings were would he be qualified to learn about the Immemorial Citadel.
It would not be good for Lu Yin to learn about certain matters too early.
Lu Yin had also taken Ancestor Lu Yuan to see Zhao Ran, asking the ancient powerhouse to check if the girl was Destiny, but Ancestor Lu Yuan had not been able to give an answer.
Lu Yin had also asked about Wu Tian and the G.o.d of Death.
Ancestor Lu Yuan had knowledge of many details from the Heavens Sect era, but little about the Nine Mountains and Seas of the Daosource Sect era, or what had happened just before the Lu family’s exile. Lu Yin could only learn about those matters from Lu Tianyi or Lu Qi, who had been active during those periods.
One of the issues that Lu Yin was most concerned about was the seal that had been placed on his back.
That seal had served as both an obstacle and a shield that the Lu family had left for Lu Yin. If he had not successfully broken the seal, it would have been very difficult for him to bring back the Lu family. But on the other hand, the seal would also prevent him from dying easily. This was something that the Lu family had arranged, so why had Bai Xian"er been able to sense it?
Lu Yin knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bai Xian"er had been aware of the seal. When the Lu family had been exiled, Bai Xian"er had been nothing more than a junior. No matter how powerful she might have been for her cultivation level, she could not have been involved with the Lu family"s exile. However, not only had she been involved, but she also had some sort of connection to the seal, which left Lu Yin terribly confused.
Lu Tianyi could not give an answer, as he also did not know about this.
The man was only certain of one thing, which was that Bai Xian"er had absolutely nothing to do with the seal.
This confused Lu Yin even more. He was absolutely certain that breaking a layer of the seal had drawn Bai Xian"er"s vicious attention to him in the Fifth Mainland. Bai Xian"er had to have some sort of connection to the seal.
Aside from the seal, Lu Yin also learned a great deal about the Daosource Sect era from Ancestor Lu Tianyi, including details about the Fifth Mainland’s war with the Sixth Mainland. Lu Yin had specifically asked about Progenitor Chen and whether he was alive or dead, but not even Ancestor Lu Tianyi could say if Progenitor Chen was still alive.
While Lu Tianyi had been acknowledged as the most powerful of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas, that was only because of his Invest.i.ture of the G.o.ds. Without that, Lu Tianyi was not confident that he could defeat either Progenitor Chen or Progenitor Ku. In other words, there were individuals who were capable of achieving things in a short amount of time that others could not accomplish even with an infinite amount of time.
Clearly, both Progenitor Chen and Progenitor Ku were such people. Their talent was too excessive, and it was difficult to determine just how powerful they had been at their peak. Lu Yin was a more extreme version of this, as nearly all that he had accomplished was unprecedented in recorded history.
Of course, this did not mean that Progenitor Chen and those like him had surpa.s.sed Lu Tianyi. Rather, they had never truly tested each other’s strength. In large part, this was due to the fact that Lu Tianyi had been the others’ senior and could not take action against Progenitor Chen and the others as their senior.
As for the Rune Progenitor, he had been a person who was both wise and foolish. He was someone who might be recognizable one day, and then completely transform the following day.
The person Lu Tianyi was most concerned about was Progenitor Hui. Lu Tianyi claimed that Progenitor Hui could not be dead. Even if everyone watched the man die, Lu Tianyi still would not believe it. Even so, Lu Tianyi could not say where Progenitor Hui had gone or what he was doing.
Bai w.a.n.gyuan had been one of the easiest to see through during the Daosource Sect era, much like Progenitor Smoke. Even though Bai w.a.n.gyuan had done well to keep his strength hidden, he had been easy to see through.
The most cunning of all had been w.a.n.g Fan, which perfectly coincided with what Lu Yin had heard from Xia Shenji.
w.a.n.g Fan was completely insidious. No one could guess what he might do. According to Lu Tianyi, w.a.n.g Fan was the type of person who would harm others even when it brought him no benefits. The man would take action against people, just to eliminate those he could not see through, and he would even eliminate his own allies to do so.
w.a.n.g Fan bound himself to a rule, but it was a rule that he had put in place himself. He would strictly follow this rule, even if it violated nature.
He was a man who appeared calm, but was actually an extremist.
Also, Lu Yin had asked both Ancestor Lu Yuan and Ancestor Lu Tianyi one question, which was if they had known that Nutjob Lu was a Redback.
Lu Yuan had remained silent, and so had Lu Tianyi. Neither man had given Lu Yin an answer, but that was in a sense an admission.
If the Lu family had ever done anything to harm mankind, it had been to keep Nutjob Lu alive. Lu Yuan himself had admitted this.
It was right after saying that, Lu Yuan had left and gone to visit the Lost Clan. However, Lu Yin knew that visiting the Lost Clan was merely an excuse. Lu Yuan’s true destination was the Cyclic Universe. He intended to ask the Great Sovereign to give someone to him. No matter what the situation might be, Nutjob Lu was still a member of the Lu family, and the traitor needed to be turned over to the family.
Lu Yin spent three days fishing on the mountain behind the Heavens Sect. He never caught any fish, but after that time, Lu Yuan arrived.
The man was furious. "That crazy woman is completely unreasonable!"
Lu Yin set his rod down and asked Zhao Ran to make a cup of tea for Lu Yuan. "Ancestor, the Great Sovereign refuses to let him go?"
Lu Yuan ground his teeth. "The woman told me that Nutjob Lu is the person that she has acknowledged as the current Sage Stone. d.a.m.n it! She just wants to infuriate me with Nutjob Lu."
Lu Yin asked, "What is Nutjob Lu’s story?"