Chapter 2951: The Ice Spirit Tribe
Shao Yin looked down at Qi You. "You, come with me."
Qi You"s expression changed drastically. This was terrible. Being conscripted by a powerhouse like this man definitely meant going to a fierce battlefield. Thinking of this, Qi You instantly wanted to refuse. "Senior, this junior has just recently fought on a battlefield and is still injured. This-"
A dangerous gleam appeared in Shao Yin"s eyes as his aura descended, instantly crushing Qi You to the ground. "I didn"t ask if you wanted to come with me."
Qi You was terrified, as this pressure undoubtedly belonged to a sequence powerhouse. In all of Aeternus, there were only a handful of such people, and all of them surpa.s.sed the True G.o.d Guard Captains.
Qi You did not dare to refuse again. "Understood. I’ll follow you, Senior."
Shao Yin retracted the pressure.
Qi You gasped and got back to his feet. "Might I ask if you are still short of people, Senior?"
Shao Yin frowned. "There’s no shortage."
Qi You"s expression changed, and he glanced at the distant form of Lu Yin. The man quickly suppressed the thought of dragging Ye Bo down with him.
"However, it doesn’t matter if a few more join. That way, I won’t have to do anything," Shao Yin continued.
Qi You was overjoyed to hear this, and he pointed at Lu Yin. "That person over there is named Ye Bo, and he has just joined Aeternus. If you need more people, Senior, taking him with you would be seen as helping Aeternus to grow."
Shao Yin looked over.
Lu Yin lifted his head and looked back at Shao Yin with cold and emotionless eyes.
The two men stared at each other.
"Come here." Shao Yin did not waste any time.
Few people in all of Aeternus could become sequence powerhouses. They exceeded the strength of even the True G.o.d Guard Captains, and they were regarded as second only to the Seven SkyG.o.ds themselves.
After learning of Shaman G.o.d’s death, Shao Yin was eager to take the newly open SkyG.o.d position for himself. This was why the man was uncharacteristically putting in a great deal of effort to complete a task. If not for this, Shao Yin would be entirely focused on recovering his strength.
Lu Yin obediently walked over.
"You’ve just been drafted. Let"s go." Shao Yin stated directly.
Qi You glanced at Lu Yin, thinking to himself, If I have to be unlucky, then we might as well both be unlucky. If I hadn’t seen you, I wouldn’t have come out and been seen by this man. It’s all your fault that I got drafted.
"Where are we going?" Lu Yin asked.
Shao Yin frowned. "Just follow me."
"What if I refuse?" Lu Yin challenged.
Shao Yin"s eyes turned cold, and a chilling aura surrounded him. Lu Yin knew that the man was using his sequence particles. Just a thought from Shao Yin would cause Lu Yin to be affected by the Law of Rot.
Seeing that Lu Yin still did not move, Shao Yin lifted his head and announced, "There is a clear hierarchy within Aeternus. If you refuse my orders, I can just kill you."
Qi You was thrilled to hear this.
Lu Yin continued to stare at Shao Yin.
Shao Yin was completely unfazed. After all, why should he be at all concerned about someone who had not even comprehended a law of the universe?
Suddenly, Progenitor Xi appeared. "Sovereign Shao Yin, you cannot order this man."
Shao Yin was surprised to see Progenitor Xi appear.
Qi You quickly bowed. "Greetings, Senior Progenitor Xi."
Lu Yin offered a slow bow of his own. "Progenitor Xi."
"Why not?" Shao Yin felt puzzled. Progenitor Xi certainly had a very high status within Aeternus, but Shao Yin’s status was not low either, which meant that he did not have to bow to the woman. He already considered himself as a new member of the Seven SkyG.o.ds.
The Seven SkyG.o.ds were second only to the True G.o.d, so Shao Yin could not see any reason to pay much attention to this steward of the Scourge.
Progenitor Xi was not bothered by Shao Yin"s att.i.tude. "He is a new True G.o.d Guard Captain. The True G.o.d Guard only obey the True G.o.d’s orders."
Qi You was startled, and he turned back to look at Lu Yin. Was this man really a True G.o.d Guard Captain? Why had he not just said so himself? What was he trying to do?
Shao Yin glanced at Lu Yin in surprise. "A True G.o.d Guard Captain? Fair enough, I can’t order them about. Still, I have enough. Progenitor Xi, I’ll leave now."
Progenitor Xi nodded.
"Wait a minute." Lu Yin suddenly spoke up, surprising the other people present. He asked, "Senior Progenitor Xi, may I ask how long it will take for the captains to gather?"
Progenitor Xi considered the question for a moment. "Even if Yu Huo quickly recovers his strength, we will still need to wait for the other captains to complete their current tasks. It will be at least a few years."
Lu Yin continued in the same respectful manner, "In that case, I will accompany this senior to complete his mission."
Progenitor Xi was caught off guard. "You want to go?"
Shao Yin also had not expected this new captain to show any interest.
Qi You found the decision even stranger. Just what was this man thinking?
Lu Yin said, "Since I’ve joined Aeternus, I should do something to help my new organization.”
Lu Yin felt compelled to follow Shao Yin. The former Sovereign was a sequence powerhouse, and he had a very high status within Aeternus. Whatever task Shao Yin had been given had to be something extremely important to the Aeternals. Besides, if Lu Yin remained in the Scourge, he would likely be targeted and drafted eventually. And next time, he might be forced to attack other humans. If that happened, Lu Yin could not say how he would react. Following Shao Yin was for the best.
Progenitor Xi was impressed. "It"s rare for someone to have such loyalty. In that case, go with Shao Yin and help him with his mission."
Shao Yin also complimented Ye Bo. "The other True G.o.d Guard Captains are rather lazy, but you are different. Don"t worry, I will keep an eye on you and make sure that nothing happens to you.
"Progenitor Xi, I’m leaving."
The woman nodded and watched as Shao Yin led Qi You and Lu Yin away.
There were many cosmic doors hanging in the sky, and Shao Yin led Lu Yin and Qi You to an inconspicuous one. "The enemies we will face this time are not at all simple. Restrain your aura to avoid being discovered by them for now."
Lu Yin and Qi You quickly did as they were told.
Shao Yin glanced at the two men and then pa.s.sed through the cosmic door.
Just as Lu Yin was about to follow after Shao Yin, Qi You sent him a message, "Brother—no, Senior, I was wrong before. Please forgive me, Senior. Shao Yin is a strong sequence powerhouse, and any enemy he is sent against is more than what I can handle. I ask that you forget my earlier words on this mission and for the two of us to work together to try to survive."
Lu Yin looked back at Qi You. "Alright."
Qi You was thrilled. "Thank you, Senior!"
After pa.s.sing through the cosmic door, they encountered a cold that pierced straight to the bone. This parallel universe was filled with ice and snow.
The megaverse was vast, and there were all different kinds of parallel universes, but frozen ones were rare. This was Lu Yin’s first time seeing such a universe.
As he glanced around, he saw that everything in outer s.p.a.ce was completely white. Snow and ice seemed to have replaced everything that was normally present in a universe, and all of the planets were frozen.
Qi You emerged from the cosmic door and looked around. What he saw caused his pupils to shrink. When a particular thought occurred to him, his face suddenly turned pale.
Shao Yin led the other two to a nearby planet. It was completely frozen, and no soil could be seen at all. They could only find pure ice.
When they arrived, they found someone was already present on the planet. It was the old woman who had betrayed humanity and caused countless cultivators to be captured and brought to the Scourge.
The old woman looked terrible. She was clearly still injured, not having recovered from her wounds yet. She had merely changed her clothes.
When she saw Shao Yin descending, the woman quickly bowed. "Greetings, Senior."
Shao Yin merely grunted.
Lu Yin and Qi You arrived right behind him, and the old woman nodded to them. She tried to appear as friendly as possible.
The two of them were indifferent to her efforts, and they stopped paying attention to the woman after merely glancing at her.
"Senior, this junior"s injuries are too serious. Might I-?" The old woman addressed Shao Yin, but she was interrupted before she could finish speaking.
"Don"t worry. This mission is very simple, and you won’t even need to fight."
Shao Yin looked at the three people. "This is the territory of the Ice Spirit Tribe. Have you heard of them?"
Qi You"s face grew even paler, but he said nothing. Just like Lu Yin and the old woman, Qi You acted ignorant.
Lu Yin was not putting on an act this time.
The old woman also had no idea who they were facing.
Shao Yin calmly explained, "The Ice Spirit Tribe possesses a treasure known as Iceheart. Our mission this time is to steal that Iceheart while also exposing ourselves as humans. Of course, we will only do that after we have stolen the Iceheart.
"However, the Iceheart is protected by the Ice Lord, who is the leader of the Ice Spirit Tribe. He does not always stay near the Iceheart, and he occasionally leaves. The next time he does sso will be our chance. It might take a few years, or even a few hundred years, but the Ice Lord will eventually leave. I will tell you when that happens.”
"A few hundred years?" The old woman was surprised.
Qi You bowed. "Senior, isn"t a few hundred years too long? Can we return to the Scourge for a bit?"
Shao Yin coldly replied, "Time in this universe pa.s.ses quicker than normal. Even if we wait hundreds of years here, only a few years will pa.s.s in the Scourge. How is that too long?"
Lu Yin was stunned. Several hundred years was equal to just a few years pa.s.sing in other universes? Could time really pa.s.s a hundred times faster in this parallel universe?
He became very excited, as this universe was exactly what Lu Yin needed most. This mission fit him perfectly.
The old woman was stunned. "Time pa.s.ses about a hundred times faster here? That’s highly unusual."
"You are lucky to have come here for this mission, as it gives you a hundredfold more time to cultivate. If you are lucky, you might even have a breakthrough. Cherish this opportunity." At that point, Shao Yin suddenly turned to look at Lu Yin. "Ye Bo, given that you are a new True G.o.d Guard Captain, have you cultivated with divine energy yet?"
Lu Yin answered, "Not yet."
Shao Yin said nothing more about the matter and instead a.s.signed people to different locations.
Qi You secretly sneered at Shao Yin. It was true that this universe where time flowed a hundred times faster was good for cultivating, but there was no denying that one also aged a hundred times faster. There was no way around this. Additionally, all of them were peak powerhouses. For people like them to break through, more than just time was needed. Shao Yin’s words were nothing but a joke.
Despite Qi You’s thoughts, he did not dare to reveal anything.
Shao Yin quickly a.s.signed the three to different locations. All four people settled into places very far from each other, and they maintained communications with communication crystals. For the moment, they could not be exposed as humans. Given their cultivation level, this was nothing difficult, as long as they did not run into anyone of similar strength.
As soon as Shao Yin was certain that the Ice Lord had left, they would all take action.
At the center of the Ice Spirit Tribe’s universe lay the Ice Spirit Domain. That was the Ice Lord’s realm, who was a sequence powerhouse. Shao Yin had been clear about several details, and they all understood that they could not take the Iceheart away by force. In addition to the Ice Lord, the Ice Spirit Tribe had two other Progenitor-level powerhouses.
Qi You and the old woman were tasked with luring away those two powerhouses, while Ye Bo was given the task of actually stealing the Iceheart once Shao Yin lured the Ice Lord away.
The most important detail of this mission was Lu Yin’s task of stealing the Iceheart and taking it away. This made him quite uneasy, as the Iceheart was the Ice Spirit Tribe’s most precious treasure. Shao Yin had originally claimed that he had had enough people for this mission, and that had been before Ye Bo had volunteered to join. But now, Ye Bo had been given the critical task of stealing the Iceheart, which made it clear that something was very wrong with this mission.
However, none of them could question Shao Yin.
There was a mountain covered with heavy snow, and Lu Yin sat atop it, staring at the distant Ice Spirit Domain. Despite the cold that filled this parallel universe, Lu Yin felt rather excited.
The Ice Spirits were not humans. Rather, they looked like round snowmen. They had white eyes, white noses, and white arms, but no legs. The snowmen glided atop the ice and snow, and there were many of these beings.
The Ice Spirit Domain had various cities that had been built from ice and snow. The Ice Spirit Tribe had their own celebrations and means of trade and commerce. Initially, things appeared quite strange, but after observing for a time, it became clear that the creatures were sapient and had all the characteristics of a developed civilization.