Chapter 3102: Battle On All Fronts
Lu Yin suddenly fell back. Every time Xu Jin evaded an attack, it circled behind Lu Yin. It might be due to his instincts, or it might be because it could only dodge within a certain range. If the latter was true, then they needed to attack the entire area.
Lu Yin secretly conveyed his guess to Ye Wu and the others.
All three men attacked as one, targeting both Xu Jin and the surrounding area. All of the attacks intended to break the universe and reveal the Hollow.
This time, the attacks did not brush past Xu Jin, and the dark cloud was instead dispersed, much like it had with Ye Wu"s initial attack, though on a much larger scale.
Xu Jin"s eyeball then appeared far away.
"That’s it! Again!" Lu Yin shouted.
They attacked once more, and this time, Lu Yin also used Lightstream.
When the attacks drew near to Xu Jin, the eyeball looked stationary, and yet it still avoided the attacks. In that moment, Lu Yin used Lightstream to reverse time by one second, and he saw the direction in which Xu Jin had escaped. Lu Yin was repeating the strategy he had used to defeat the Seven-Star Mantis.
It did not matter how far Xu Jin fled, but rather how soon it stopped fleeing.
Lu Yin attacked the direction in which Xu Jin had dodged, using a hundred confined punches.
The void split open, and a dark streak opened up in the sky above the Scourge.
The corpse kings down below looked up at the spatial tear, but no matter who or what they faced, they knew no fear.
In contrast, the peak powerhouses who had betrayed humanity felt lost and confused as they looked upwards.
Aeternus’s Scourge had been invaded, and Xu Jin was being overpowered.
Among the human powerhouses was a woman in white standing behind a shattered tower. She stared at Lu Yin from the distance. She was Bai Qian.
When the Aeternals had invaded the Transcendent Universe, Bai Qian had vanished, and while Lu Yin had searched for her, he had not been able to find any clues.
He had never imagined that Bai Qian would have gone to the Second Scourge.
Bai Qian had no intention of meeting Lu Yin, and instead, she turned and left.
Lu Yin’s attack shot across the sky and struck Xu Jin head on, eliciting a scream from the eyeball as it was deformed by the impact.
As long as a creature was alive, it could be killed.
No matter how bizarre Xu Jin"s power might be, there would always be some means to counter it.
If Restart was able to severely injure Xu Jin, then so too could Lu Yin and his allies.
After being struck by the hundred confined punches, the eyeball turned pale and bloodshot. Xu Jin turned to glare at Lu Yin, madness filling the eye. "I’m going to kill you, Lu Yin! I will kill you!"
"You won"t have the chance," Lu Yin retorted. Behind him, Ye Wu, Lord Xu, and Mu Shen all attacked again, destroying the dimension around Xu Jin.
Lu Yin continued to use Lightstream.
Xu Jin could do nothing under this barrage. It needed to escape from the destroyed portion of the universe, but as soon as it did that, it would fall into Lu Yin’s ability to reverse time by a second. While it would try to stop in a position that Lu Yin could not see through, it unfortunately simply did not have enough time.
While a single second might seem long, it was only enough time for Xu Jin to evade the destroyed region of the universe.
Speed and strength were not Xu Jin"s fortes.
If Xu Jin possessed Di Qiong’s physical strength, Lu Yin would not be able to damage the eyeball with his attacks.
None of the Three Pillars and Six Skies were invincible, and neither were the Three Realms and Six Daos. Each had their own individual strengths and weaknesses.
Qingluo Jiantian had exposed the Lu family’s weakness, and while they had then tried to compensate for that weakness with the Origin Progenitor’s Sutra, they never been able to gain an advantage over Qingluo Jiantian.
Xu Jin’s strength was its bizarre abilities, but with its weaknesses exposed, the eyeball had become an easy target. Of course, the prerequisite was that someone with the strength of a sequence powerhouse was attacking; ordinary peak powerhouses simply lacked the necessary strength to harm Xu Jin.
Another hundred confined punches struck Xu Jin’s eyeball, distorting its body even more grotesquely. Lu Yin’s confined punches could compare to Zhong Pan’s physical attacks after he had undergone a Pupilless Transformation. With just a few more such attacks, Xu Jin would no longer be able to endure.
Xu Jin went berserk, releasing sequence particles that spread towards Lu Yin and the others. At the same time, consciousness hammered against Lu Yin’s brain, as well as against the minds of Ye Wu, Lord Xu, and Mu Shen.
All of them spat out blood and grew dizzy.
However, as a result of these attacks, Xu Jin’s eyeball dilated significantly. It was not easy for it to use its consciousness, and the heavy injuries that Restart had inflicted had left it greatly weakened. If not for that, the four humans would have had no chance at all to team up against Xu Jin, as its consciousness would have rendered them all unconscious.
Lu Yin gritted his teeth and fought off the dizziness. "Again!"
“Just give me the direction,” Ye Wu replied.
Lu Yin’s eyes flashed as he regained his composure.
Lord Xu and Mu Shen both simultaneously attacked Xu Jin, once again destroying a region of the universe.
Lu Yin used Lightstream to reverse time by one second, and then attacked in a particular direction. Ye Wu raised both of his arms, as he had restored his severed arm, and they both moved in a circular motion.
Xu Jin’s eyeball appeared, and the moment it did so, Lu Yin was attacked by its consciousness, though Lu Yin’s hundred confined punches also struck the eyeball.
Lu Yin spat out a mouthful of blood and nearly collapsed. His consciousness, which had been as st.u.r.dy as a rock in the Chiliagonist’s perspective, was unable to endure Xu Jin’s attacks.
The eyeball was also pushed back, and it grew a bit paler.
Suddenly, the eyeball spun to look upwards, as a furnace had suddenly appeared both in the sky and on the ground. It was Heaven’s Furnace.
Lord Xu and Mu Shen did not seem to recognize it, but Lu Yin was briefly stunned. He even thought that he might have started hallucinating due to Xu Jin’s consciousness attack. Lu Yin rubbed his eyes and looked a second time, and his expression dramatically changed. “Heaven’s Furnace?”
Ye Wu frowned. Once again, this innate gift had been recognized.
Before, when he had attacked the Fourth Scourge, someone who had worn the Hollow had recognized this innate gift, and when he attacked Xu Jin’s eyeball, Lu Yin had recognized the furnace as well. Had the owner of this innate gift been someone amazingly famous?
Lu Yin stared at Ye Wu, wanting to ask why the man could use Progenitor Chen’s innate gift. Lu Yin already had a guess, but this was not the time to ask.
Now that Heaven’s Furnace had manifested, Xu Jin was no longer able to evade the men’s attacks. It had been trapped within Heaven’s Furnace, and no matter how it tried to escape, it could not leave.
A terrifying pressure mounted, and the eyeball glared ferociously as Xu Jin continuously slammed against the sides of Heaven’s Furnace.
Given Lu Yin’s knowledge of Progenitor Chen, he understood that it was practically impossible to escape Heaven’s Furnace without some hidden trump card.
Lu Yin had faced Heaven’s Furnace during his first stellular tribulation when he had been attempting to break through to the Envoy realm. At that time, he had been overwhelmingly more powerful than any of his peers, but he had still nearly fallen to Heaven’s Furnace. If not for Extremes Must Be Reversed, Lu Yin might have failed his first tribulation.
By comparing Lu Yin’s superiority over his peers as a peak Enlighter to his current superiority over other Semi-Progenitors, he was somewhat able to determine Progenitor Chen’s true strength.
Progenitor Chen had been able to fight at the same level as Lu Yin at his current strength, which meant fighting against sequence powerhouses.
This meant that Progenitor Chen might have been able to fight against Sequence Progenitors as a Semi-Progenitor. If that was true, then the man had absolutely deserved his reputation of being invincible.
However, Ye Wu was not using Heaven’s Furnace from when Progenitor Chen had been a Semi-Progenitor, but rather the innate gift of a full Progenitor. This Heaven’s Furnace could theoretically obliterate even sequence powerhouses.
Xu Jin had not surpa.s.sed the level of a sequence powerhouse, which meant that it could certainly be obliterated by Heaven’s Furnace.
If Ye Wu had attempted to use Heaven’s Furnace to destroy Xu Jin at the beginning of the battle, it would have most likely failed. However, given the injuries that had acc.u.mulated, even if Heaven’s Furnace was not successful, it would at least force Xu Jin to reveal its final trump cards.
Within Heaven’s Furnace, the eyeball frantically slammed against the sides, quickly turning bloodshot.
Divine energy erupted from the ground, forming cyclones that shot towards Heaven’s Furnace.
Lu Yin, Lord Xu, and Mu Shen all moved to block the divine energy and prevent it from touching Heaven’s Furnace.
Xu Jin was injured and surrounded by the rulers of several universes. It was a dire situation, as he was facing the same level of power that had trapped and killed both Shaman G.o.d and Undying G.o.d. These men were fully capable of killing Xu Jin as well.
Bang!
A soft sound rang through the air.
Lu Yin turned his head to see someone emerge from the void. They had crimson hair that blew with the wind, and a bow rose up to release another arrow.
Arrow G.o.d had arrived.
Xu Jin had been buying time for Arrow G.o.d.
Due to its injuries from Kakawen’s Restart, Xu Jin was unable to defeat Lu Yin and the others. So, it had stalled for time so that Arrow G.o.d could arrive and provide support.
One arrow, two arrows, three arrows. Attacks continued to strike Heaven’s Furnace.
Ye Wu remained focused on Xu Jin, as he knew that these arrows were not powerful enough to break Heaven’s Furnace.
However, Lu Yin was more aware of just how formidable Arrow G.o.d’s arrows could be.
As soon as Arrow G.o.d arrived, Lu Yin took out a cosmic door from his cosmic ring and activated it. “I’ll leave this to you, Senior.”
A broad-shouldered figure emerged from the cosmic door, radiating golden light as he swung a large golden cudgel at his distant opponent. “Woman, I’m still your opponent.”
Sovereign Dou Sheng had arrived. He alone could withstand Arrow G.o.d’s arrows by employing Extremes Must Be Reversed.
Even though Lu Yin and the others had managed to see through Xu Jin’s power and even though it had been injured even before their a.s.sault, success would take a very long time. On the other hand, Arrow G.o.d’s attacks remained a mystery to Lu Yin and his allies. For the time being, Sovereign Dou Sheng would have to hold the woman off.
In the future, they would need to steal more cosmic doors. They were the tools that the Aeternals had used to easily conquer countless parallel universes.
Arrow G.o.d’s eyes grew more focused as she shot an arrow at Sovereign Dou Sheng. The Sovereign protected the outside of Heaven’s Furnace and prevented Arrow G.o.d from rescuing Xu Jin.
At this time, two more figures appeared from different directions, both of whom were sequence powerhouses. Lu Yin even recognized one of them: the Magician. He had, unfortunately, managed to return from the Immemorial Citadel alive.
The other individual was unfamiliar to Lu Yin, but due to the timing of their appearance, he knew who they were.
This man was another one of the Fifth Scourge’s Five Elders: Thousand-Hand Seal.
This was someone whom Leng Qing had encountered in the past.
However, not even the arrival of two more sequence powerhouses was enough to save Xu Jin. At this moment, Ye Wu, Lord Xu, Mu Shen, as well as Lu Yin, were all free to take action.
A chaotic battle erupted, and it shook the Second Scourge’s very foundations. The shockwaves alone shattered one Aeternus Kingdom after another.
This battle was unprecedented throughout the entire history of the Second Scourge.
A similarly intense battle was ripping through the Third Scourge at the same time. Lu Tianyi was leading the Origin Universe’s Progenitors while holding Di Qiong off.
Blackless G.o.d had returned to the Fourth Scourge, worried that it would also be attacked, given that the Second and Third Scourges had already been invaded.
At this moment, only Jue Luo and a few of Aeternus’s other experts, such as Shao Yin, were still attacking the Nine-Star Civilization.
Twice in the past, Divine Commandments had gathered the full power of Aeternus’s six Scourges to destroy the scattered human civilizations. However, for the third Divine Commandment, the Aeternals were not facing scattered enemies.
Humanity refused to forget history and had instead learned from it.
Mister Mu had traveled throughout the megaverse, visiting the Fifth Mainland as well as many other parallel universes. In doing so, he had planted the seeds of a united humanity, and he had succeeded before someone like Lu Yin appeared. Lu Yin had both the talent and the desire to unite all of humanity against the Aeternals.
By the time Aeternus realized what had happened, they were already too late.
Divine Commandments were intended for Aeternus to utterly defeat humans, but this time, it was being turned against them by humanity.
Aeternus no longer held the same overwhelming advantage.