Star Odyssey

Time after time, Lu Yin spat out blood as he was sent flying. Eventually, Extremes Must Be Reversed was not enough to endure the blows, and the limits of the technique were overcome. Cracks opened up across Lu Yin’s body, and numerous serious injuries appeared.

The Megalith was locked onto Lu Yin, and it relentlessly pursued him.

However, if Lu Yin did not want to be hit, then the Megalith could not touch him.

Inverse Step was enough for Lu Yin to easily avoid the Megalith\'s attacks. He did not even need to move at the speed of time, just quickly enough.

Lu Yuan watched as Lu Yin received injury after injury. The old man’s heart was in his throat.

At some point in time, Wu Tian arrived, and he watched the scene with admiration. “I never imagined that the Lu family would be able to produce such a descendant.”

“Are you saying that I can\'t put up with a bit of struggle?” Lu Yuan retorted.

Wu Tian replied, “I’m saying that you never had his kind of talent.”

Lu Yuan was in no mood to talk to Wu Tian. The man was focused solely on Lu Yin, worried that he might be badly hurt.

Wu Tian watched Lu Yin. “This child might end up being a turning point in human history. Whether or not fate can be overcome will depend on him. Protect him, Loam. Anyone else can die, but not him.”

With that, Wu Tian left.

Lu Yuan shook his head. “Always stating the obvious.”

As Lu Yin dodged the Megalith, he rolled his die. He watched it slowly stop spinning and land on four pips. Timestop was the perfect roll at this moment.

The scenery changed before his eyes as Lu Yin entered his Timestop Space. Blood continued to leak from his body as he sat down. Every last part of his body radiated pain. His injuries were indeed quite serious, but fortunately, they were all external injuries and would not take too long to heal.

One year. Just one year would be enough.

Lu Yin closed his eyes and started to slowly recuperate.

After almost a year, Lu Yin left his Timestop space. For the rest of the universe, only a second had passed.

The Megalith was still charging at Lu Yin from afar, and it grew bewildered when Lu Yin had vanished for that one moment, but just as quickly, Lu Yin reappeared.

At this moment, Lu Yin was fully recovered. No matter how severe his injuries may have been, for someone with his level of strength, they had not been a big deal.

Ming Yan’s vitality had been stolen, and Progenitor Ku had basically died once. Those sort of injuries needed a very long time to heal from, even with time manipulation. Progenitor Ku had been working to recover the moment he had woken up.

During Lu Yin’s confrontation with the Megalith, while his injuries seemed severe at first glance, it was actually relatively easy to recover from them.

“Come!” Lu Yin shouted as the physical pain was driving him slightly mad. The more his body hurt, the clearer his mind became. This was exactly what he needed.

Without pain, how could one draw forth their inner strength?

Boom!

The deafening sound from another impact tore the void open in all directions as Lu Yin was sent flying by the Megalith yet again. As expected, his level of physical strength had no effect on the beast. Cracks opened up across his body once more as Extremes Must Be Reversed reached its limit. The Megalith roared in rage as it charged at Lu Yin again.

Lu Yuan clenched his fists. He had never seen Lu Yin in such a miserable state before.

Given everything he was capable of, Lu Yin could defeat the Megalith, or at the very least, the Megalith could not defeat Lu Yin. However, in a contest of pure physical strength, the Megalith was forcing Lu Yin to experience agony that no one else could understand.

After being injured again, Lu Yin rolled his die. Once. Twice. On his third roll, he finally managed to get Timestop again, and he used it to recover.

As the scenery shifted around him, Lu Yin returned to the universe, once again fully healed. Again, the Megalith beat Lu Yin, though he used speed to drag the fight out for ten days. After that, he rolled his die again. He recovered, fought again, got injured again, recovered. Again…

The Megalith let out a deep growl. It had been repeatedly provoked and antagonized by Lu Yin, and an indescribable fury had built up in the beast. It was so enraged that it no longer cared where Lu Yin was, and it simply attacked randomly in all directions, shaking the entire universe. It knew that, as soon as Lu Yin recovered, he would appear before the Megalith yet again to resume their battle of brute strength. There was no need for the beast to search for the human.

Hongyan Mavis arrived, and she stared at the scene in a daze. She thought back to the Mirari Realm and how Lu Yin had repeatedly challenged Feng Bo there. "He will definitely get what he wants."

Lu Yuan had completely calmed down. As long as the Megalith was unable to outright kill Lu Yin, things were good enough.

Blackless God had already left.

Lu Yuan continued watching. Other people came and went, watching bits and pieces of Lu Yin\'s fierce battle with the Megalith. Though no word of the battle spread outside, all who saw a bit of it were overcome with admiration and amazement.

Lu Yin had reached his current level not merely because of his natural talent, mirebound artifact, and background, but also because of his own hard work and diligent efforts.

For his battle against the Megalith, no one could help Lu Yin, not even Lu Yuan who remained closeby.

Thirty-eight times. Lu Yin fought against the Megalith thirty-eight times. Each time, he suffered brutal injuries. Finally, he had come to understand the essence of the Megalith\'s strength.

Blackless God had once mentioned that the Megalith had been born from the megaverse itself, and its physical might was essentially a sort of law of the universe. This was why, when Tian Fa had clashed with the Megalith, it had thought that the Megalith\'s strength would not be able to affect it, due to it being an Ortuser.

Tian Fa had been forced to retreat after seeing that not even its chains made from the passage of time could restrain the Megalith.

However, when Lu Yin had later asked Lu Yuan about the incident, the older man had replied by saying that he had not seen the Megalith use any sequence particles at all.

However, how could the laws of the universe be used if there were no sequence particles?

If there were no laws of the universe, then how could the Megalith\'s strength have not harmed Tian Fa?

Logically, the Megalith\'s strength should be based on the laws of the universe.

The phenomenon reminded Lu Yin of Corpse God, who had kept his sequence particles within his body, which had rendered him practically immortal. If not for the damage that Ye Zhang had done to the Skygod, Lu Yin and his group would have never been able to kill Corpse God.

Since Corpse God had possessed that sort of power, could the Megalith\'s strength have a similar foundation?

If the Megalith hid its sequence particles within its body, there had to be a method to it, and that was precisely what Lu Yin needed to figure out. If the beast was not relying on sequence particles, it would be even better. Lu Yin was eager to determine the source of the Megalith\'s terrifying physical might.

Only someone at Lu Yin’s level could hope to understand this. While it seemed as though the creature’s strength came from its body, after physical might reached a certain level, all creatures would have to use some method to store their power. To achieve such a level of strength was not possible through natural means.

The Megalith was at the highest tier of physical strength in the megaverse. This was not simply due to its size. If that were possible, Ancient God would have made himself the largest creature in existence long ago.

The Megalith clearly had its own method of storing power.

Also, Lu Yin had finally found that method.

He saw how the Megalith utilized its strength; there was a series of nodes throughout its body that were interconnected by a unique force.

If one could clearly perceive the nodes of strength and the way the unique force connected them together, then they would see that the nodes were so tightly linked that there were no gaps. Even if its body were placed under a magnifying glass and magnified countless times over, there would be no gaps between the nodes. This was the essence of the Megalith\'s strength.

Living creatures were peculiar. It was impossible for them to perceive the internal structure of their own bodies, and yet those internal structures could be incredibly intricate.

The Megalith had not consciously stored its strength in such a fashion; its power was simply so immense that it had instinctually developed this method.

Lu Yin needed to develop the same instincts.

Being severely injured thirty-eight times had allowed him to understand the Megalith’s power. Lu Yin pulled back, bit by bit to open up some distance between himself and the creature.

Megalith remained where it was, staring solely at Lu Yin while not moving.

Lu Yin made the Megalith uneasy. The creature clearly understood that it was the stronger of the two and that it could easily send Lu Yin flying. However, each time that happened, Lu Yin would reappear, completely unscathed. This was very odd to the Megalith, and its instincts made it hesitate to approach Lu Yin again.

Lu Yin was surprised by the beast’s behavior. Was it not charging him anymore? He had planned to enter the Timestop Space to study the creature’s strength, but if the Megalith stopped attacking, that was also fine. He needed to wait ten days to roll his die again anyways.

Infinity appeared.

The moment the Megalith saw the lines of Infinity, it became enraged again. Every time Lu Yin attacked the creature, it had been with Infinity. Upon seeing the inner world, the beast thought that Lu Yin was about to attack again, so the Megalith charged out first.

Lu Yin quickly dodged. It’s attacking me again? Then I’ll just forget it and wait ten days to roll the die to enter the Timestop Space.

In the distance, Lu Yuan smiled. Little Seven must have realized something, as he had stopped recklessly attacking the Megalith. This was good, as Lu Yuan’s heart had seized up every time Lu Yin had clashed with the Megalith, even if the old man had gotten used to it over time.

Next to him, Garan Zhiluo commented, "I’ve come to admire him a bit."

“It’s not easy to earn your admiration. Back when there were nine of us, you only admired Blackie,” Lu Yuan teased.

Garan Zhiluo replied, “Blackie’s death energy is so powerful that even Master was in awe of it. He said that, whenever Blackie became an Ortuser, no one in the entire megaverse would be able to match his combat ability, not even Master himself.”

“And yet he still lost.” Lu Yuan sighed.

Garan Zhiluo asked curiously, “How did he lose?”

Lu Yuan shook his head. “I don’t know. It’s just like how we had no idea how you just disappeared.”

Garan Zhiluo fell silent for a moment. “I don’t believe that he’s dead. Death energy is produced from death. To him, both life and death are forms of power.”

“Let’s hope so.”

Ten days later, Lu Yin rolled his die four times, but not once did he roll four pips. He was forced to dodge the Megalith for another ten days before he could try again, and only then did he finally manage to roll Timestop.

Upon entering his Timestop Space, Lu Yin used Infinity. This time, the lines of strength did not collide with each other in a chaotic manner.

He had been inspired to induce chaotic collisions between the lines of strength after witnessing the destruction of a universe while fishing in the River of Aeons. He could replicate that chaotic chain reaction with Infinity’s lines of strength, producing more lines that what Lu Yin could absorb. Each collision produced more lines of strength, so the chain reaction truly led to potentially infinite strength.

While the potential was real, there was a limit to how much strength Lu Yin could absorb from Infinity. That limit was determined by how much damage his Extremes Must Be Reversed could absorb. If Lu Yin exceeded that limit, there would be no way for him to handle the power of his own strength, and he would suffer grave injuries even if his enemy did not attack.

Seeing the essence of the Megalith’s strength had given Lu Yin an idea on how to take the final step in perfecting Infinity.

He needed to make the strength generated by his inner world truly infinite, but he also needed to improve his own ability to utilize that strength to an infinite level. Only then would Infinity become a complete inner world, or rather, transform into a Progenitor’s world.

Lu Yin started trying things out.

It was a long and arduous process, as he needed to change the way in which he used physical power. This was a process that was no less challenging than creating a new cultivation method or battle technique. While he had seen the essence of the Megalith\'s incredible strength, trying to apply that same method to a human body was extremely difficult.

Infinity’s lines of strength needed to intertwine with the strange binding force, but the slightest mistake would cause things to misalign. Whenever that happened, the raw power he was channeling would strike Lu Yin’s body.

While one or two mistakes were perfectly manageable, as the number of lines of strength increased, so too did the damage that was inflicted upon his body.

After six months of repeated attempts to condense the lines of strength, Lu Yin had finally managed to fill his hand and his wrist with nodes of power. From there, he was able to slowly spread the effect through the rest of his body.

However, just completing one hand had taken six months, and during that time, Lu Yin had failed countless times. His hand had been repeatedly struck by the backlash from misaligned lines of strength. As he progressed further and further, there were more and more lines of strength, and any mistake would result in increasingly severe injuries.

OMA\'s Thoughts

Translated By: OMA

Edited By: Neshi/Nyxnox

TLC\'ed By: OMA