Star Odyssey

Chapter 2970: A World With Limitations

The blue-haired man explained in a low voice, "Mu Ji possesses the waning good, which represents evil and the calamity that will befall. He is able to see the evil in people's hearts and then use that evil to control them."

Lu Yin's flickered. "He just came to see me."

"Yes, he came here to see how evil you are," the blue-haired man replied.

Lu Yin frowned. "He can see evil?"

The blue-haired man let out a breath. "Everyone has different abilities and innate gifts, and there are many laws of the universe that can be seen. A senior once told me that evil is also a law, and Mu Ji is able to see it."

"Is he a sequence powerhouse?" Lu Yin was surprised.

The pink-haired woman shook her head. "Of course not, but that’s not the only way to observe evil. There’s never only one solution, and since evil can be a law of the universe, it can naturally be an innate gift as well."

Lu Yin now understood that Mu Ji was able to see the Law of Evil as a manifestation of his innate gift. It was no wonder why he had suddenly come to see Ye Bo.

Did Lu Yin have any evil thoughts or desires? He laughed at the thought; of course he did. Anyone without such desires would be a saint. How could any human have no evil?

"Even if he can see evil, how can he control people?" Lu Yin asked.

The blue-haired man nodded. "Mu Ji is quite impressive. He did not originally cultivate divine energy, but he is even more difficult to deal with than those of us who have. Not even you or I can guarantee retaining our sanity after being dropped in that lake, and yet he succeeded at just that."

Lu Yin was very wary of Mu Ji. No matter how he looked at it, a person who had never cultivated divine energy to remain sane after being submerged in a lake of divine energy for hundreds of years was a startling accomplishment.

"I heard that he also has a second innate gift, which is called the Roulette of Life and Death. Maybe that’s what allowed him to remain normal," the blue-haired man mentioned.

This was a surprise. "A second innate gift?"

Wait, Mu? A second innate gift? Could it be an acquired innate gift from the Arboreal Sanctuary?

"Where is Mu Ji from?" Lu Yin asked.

The blue-haired man replied, "I’ve heard that he’s someone from the Sixverse Association’s Arboreal Realm. He supposedly left his name on the Arboric Scripture and was a disciple of the ruler of that universe."

Lu Yin's face twitched slightly. Mu Ji had been a disciple of Mu Shen and had left his name in the Arboric Scripture, just like Seruzen. This man was a traitor from the Sixverse Association.

"We came by to warn you so that you do not fall under his control. Don't bother thanking us—we just don’t want to have to worry about both him and you when we’re out on a mission." The blue-haired man then turned to leave.

Before the woman left, she waved at Ye Bo. "Don't die soon. I’ve lost all of my playmates recently. It's a pity."

Playmates? Lu Yin watched Dual Bladeform leave. The two were not humans, but knives. They had taken on human form, but they were from a very strange universe, from what Lu Yin understood.

They were not human, which meant that they were not traitors.

Right after Dual Bladeform left, before Lu Yin even had a chance to return to his tower, a distant white figure caught his eyes. Progenitor Xi?

He started walking towards the woman.

Progenitor Xi was standing beside a river of divine energy. She seemed to prefer being close to a source of divine energy.

"Don't worry about Mu Ji. If he does it again, his punishment will be death. He wouldn’t dare."

Lu Yin nodded. "Can he really control us with evil?"

Progenitor Xi smiled. "Every power has its own advantages and disadvantages. You might just counter him."

Lu Yin shook his head. "I can’t be sure."

After a moment of silence, Progenitor Xi looked over at Ye Bo. "Yu Huo is dead. What are your thoughts?"

Lu Yin calmly asked, "What do you mean, Progenitor Xi?"

"Are you sad? Regretful? Anything like that?" Progenitor Xi stared into Ye Bo’s eyes, but they remained cold.

"We were never friends, just two people using each other. I helped him escape from the Origin Universe, and he brought me to the Scourge to give me the opportunity to get revenge on the Origin Universe. There was nothing more to it. As for his death, that’s entirely on him.”

Progenitor Xi looked away. "Then, what would you think if I asked you to destroy Yu Huo’s species?"

Lu Yin was taken aback. "Destroy his species?"

Progenitor Xi continued to stare at the river of divine energy. "There are some races that only exist because a single member is valuable. Once that one is gone, the race no longer holds any value."

Lu Yin stared at Progenitor Xi’s back and unhesitatingly said, "I understand. I'll do it."

"Yu Huo’s race is not simple. Do you need me to find another captain to help you?"

"I'll try on my own first. If I can’t do it, I'll ask another captain for help."

Yu Huo had been a fish that could transform into a snake. He was from the same species as the Python Ancestor. Even though Lu Yin had already known this, when he entered the parallel universe and saw countless giant pythons coiling throughout space, it gave him chills.

It was an indescribable feeling that reminded him of what it must feel like to fall into a serpents’ nest.

Fortunately, the enormous snakes were not particularly powerful. Looking around, Lu Yin did not see any that had the strength of a Progenitor.

In addition to the pythons, the most common creatures in this universe were fish. They looked practically identical to Yu Huo’s fish form. However, while Yu Huo had mimicked humans by standing upright most of the time, these fish swam about. Many of them were large, but they lacked any of Yu Huo’s more human aspects.

All of the living creatures in the universe were either snakes or fish, but most of them were not sapient and relied purely on their innate instincts. Lu Yin saw that even the Semi-Progenitor-level snakes lacked intelligence. It seemed possible that these creatures would only attain sapience at the Progenitor level.

After spending some time observing the universe, what stood out to Lu Yin was that most of the creatures were fighting each other. Giant pythons devoured other giant pythons, fish devoured fish, and giant pythons also devoured fish. This was a cruel universe, and Lu Yin understood why Yu Huo had not wanted to return to it when he had been badly wounded. The creatures in this parallel universe gained strength through devouring others, and the stronger the creature that was devoured, the greater the benefits.

Also, Lu Yin received another surprise; it had an accelerated flow of time. The time in this universe passed twenty times faster than in the Origin Universe, which Lu Yin had not noticed before arriving. It was only after he looked at the spatial lines that he noticed the difference.

Such universes were rare, so Lu Yin was in no hurry to destroy it. He started thinking about how he could gain the recognition of this universe.

After taking some time to think, Lu Yin remembered that he still had some of the soil with the Python Ancestor's saliva. He had been given some by the White Dragon Clan, but he had barely used it. In fact, he had only ever used it in the Astral Beast Domain and the Lower Realm, so he still had a bit remaining.

The Python Ancestor’s aura had never appeared in this universe before.

Just as Lu Yin was prepared to try it out, a massive form appeared behind him and overshadowed him.

He looked back and saw a blood-stained mouth and cruel reptilian eyes that radiated rage, malice, and killing intent. A Progenitor-level creature was trying to bite him.

He quickly dodged, but as the giant python passed over his head, its tail whipped out fiercely to strike him.

Lu Yin casually lashed out with a palm strike, blocking the tail. Lu Yin had the physical strength to fight against a Progenitor-level corpse king that had undergone a Red Eyes Transformation. The snake could not come even close to matching that level of strength. After all, not even Yu Huo had been able to deal with Lu Yin’s physical power.

The enormous snake roared in pain, and then spun around to snap at Lu Yin again. At this same time, multiple pairs of reptilian eyes opened in the far-off distance. They stared at Lu Yin, seeing nothing but prey.

However, these massive snakes were only as strong as a Semi-Progenitor at best.

When a snake’s head drew near, Lu Yin frowned and moved along the spatial lines to appear at the python's head, where he took out the bit of dirt.

The snake froze in place, fear blossoming in its cold eyes.

Lu Yin stared at the beast and then turned around. The soil in his hand had been contaminated by the Python Ancestor's saliva, and the aura it gave off frightened the Semi-Progenitor-level pythons that had started to gather. They retreated further and further, as did the fish. Not even the Semi-Progenitor-level beasts were an exception, even though they had initially regarded Lu Yin as prey.

The soil had frightened all of the nearby beasts away.

Lu Yin looked at the lone Progenitor-level python beneath his feet, wondering if he could frighten it as well.

The results disappointed Lu Yin. Although the Progenitor-level snake beneath Lu Yin’s feet was frightened, it did not cower before mere saliva. It curled up and shrank, transforming from a giant python. Lu Yin was forced to move away from its head, and he watched the python transform into something that looked very similar to Yu Huo, somewhere between a bipedal fish and a large. normal-looking fish.

The fish stared at Lu Yin, unwilling to give up. It wanted to eat Lu Yin.

Lu Yin’s voice was cold. "You are asking to die."

The big fish shook its broken tail as it continued to stare at Lu Yin. It felt an incredible amount of danger from Lu Yin, but it also did not want to be seen flinching. This was the beast’s instincts; in its universe, creatures either ate or were eaten. Even if the beast had obtained sapience, it could not suppress its instincts.

Lu Yin let out a breath. While the soil he had could drive back any creature beneath the Progenitor level, he would simply deal with the Progenitor-level beast personally.

He took a step forward and instantly appeared right before the big fish. A terrifying amount of power gathered before a palm strike was released. No one else from Aeternus was present, which meant that Lu Yin could use some of his real power, even if he had to hold back to avoid attracting attention.

There was a bang, and the big fish exploded. Lu Yin watched the corpse fall. He wanted to anoint it as a champion, but he held himself back. He could not guarantee that he was not being observed by Aeternus. Since he was disguised as a Ye Bo, then he had to become Ye Bo for the time being. Otherwise, it would be too easy to make a mistake, and then there would be no way for him to escape from the Scourge.

Besides, while the fish had been at the Progenitor level, that did not mean much. Lu Yin actually wanted to erase all the champions that he had anointed beneath the Progenitor level, as they were completely useless at his current level. Only Progenitor champions could offer him any strength.

After Lu Yin first left the Origin Universe, he had visited many parallel universes, and he was now aware that Progenitor-level experts were not terribly uncommon.

While there might be few or no peak powerhouses in any given parallel universe, there were countless parallel universes filled with myriad races and species. There were plenty of experts for him to anoint as champions.

In the past, the Lu family had been confined to the Origin Universe, but Lu Yin had gone far past that. His Champions’ Stage might already be the most terrifying in the history of the Lu family.

The only thing that Lu Yin did not know was whether Ancestor Lu Yuan had ever dealt with peak powerhouses from other universes during the ancient Heavens Sect era. During that era, the Heavens Sect had represented the ultimate power in the megaverse, and thousands of people had submitted to the Heavens Sect. In the past, Lu Yin had assumed that the Heavens Sect’s 10,000 races had all been from the Origin Universe, but he had since come to understand that that number most likely represented countless races from many parallel universes.

In the past, Lu Yin’s vision and understanding had been too limited, but his understanding had expanded and his perspective widened after visiting numerous parallel universes.

There was no lack of peak powerhouses, and that meant that Lu Yin would have plenty of opportunities to anoint more champions.

After his first battle in the universe, Lu Yin went to search for more Progenitor-level giant pythons to eliminate. Anytime the creatures noticed Lu Yin, they would attack him and attempt to eat him. Nothing was ever said, and there was no consideration of morality. These battles were the most primitive fights for survival. The law of the jungle reigned in this universe.

Half a year passed, but less than ten days had gone by in the Origin Universe. Lu Yin had already eliminated all the Progenitor-level beasts in the universe. There had not been many, just four or five, and none of them had comprehended sequence particles. He did not understand why Progenitor Xi had warned him that these beasts were not simple. What could she mean?