Star Odyssey

Lu Yin made no attempt to hide. Leader Hong had unleashed a truly terrifying attack after consuming Planet Red to raise the power of his attack. However, no matter what the master of the Blaze Realm did, he could not compensate for the fact that he had been seriously injured, and even the temporary increase in strength did not raise the attack to his former peak.

However, Lu Yin's universal armor was able to defend against Envoys' attacks now.

Upon seeing that his attack was useless, Leader Hong shouted, "Lu Yin, I am on Planet Red, and you can't kill me! Will you still be able to endure after I recover from my injuries? You can't just ignore the sylvan dragon clan or the Ross Empire either. Pull your troops out of my Blaze Realm and leave, and I can still pretend that none of this ever happened."

Lu Yin did not respond, and he quietly stared at Leader Hong.

Leader Hong shouted again. "Did you hear me? Lu Yin, leave my Blaze Realm!"

Lu Yin still did not speak.

Leader Hong stopped shouting, and Planet Red trembled. It was obvious that he was preparing something.

"Leader Hong, Madam Lan will soon die," Lu Yin suddenly stated.

Leader Hong answered in a low voice, "She isn't dead yet, and she won't die so easily."

"Why would you say that? Is it because of this?" Lu Yin took out the ball that he had stolen from Madam Lan.

The flames writhed above Planet Red, revealing Leader Hong's agitation. "Junior, do you really want to fight with me inside of the Blaze Realm? Let me tell you, my Blaze Realm and I have survived in the universe for many years. We have countless disciples, and my Blaze Realm even has people within the Hall of Honor. I know that you have powerful supporters behind you, and as long as you give up on this attack, you and I will have nothing to do with each other from now on. Otherwise, the disciples of my Blaze Realm will sooner or later destroy you."

Lu Yin was listening quietly, and so Leader Hong continued speaking. "As long as you retreat, the Blaze Realm can be considered to be your ally from now on."

Lu Yin's eyes lit up. "Are you willing to form an alliance with my Great Eastern Alliance?"

"Of course," Leader Hong replied.

Lu Yin considered this for a while and then slowly descended onto Planet Red. "You won't seize the opportunity to attack me?"

"Of course not. Alliance Leader Lu, please leave. The Blaze Realm has a strong foundation, but your Outerverse is not truly united and is just a loose alliance. Thus, my Blaze Realm can also join your Great Eastern Alliance," said Leader Hong.

Lu Yin seemed to be considering this matter.

In front of him, flames condensed around Leader Hong and formed an armor around him. It had a crude shape but excellent defense, and the master of the Blaze Realm approached Lu Yin step by step. "Alliance Leader Lu, if my Blaze Realm joins your Great Eastern Alliance, then its power will spike as my Blaze Realm is much stronger than that trash from the Outerverse. All you need to do is pull back."

Lu Yin stared at Leader Hong. "Were you poisoned?"

A trace of resentment flashed across Leader Hong's eyes, but he quickly hid it. "How could mere toxins affect me? What is Alliance Leader Lu thinking?"

Lu Yin looked down at Leader Hong's feet. "At this distance, are you certain that you can kill me?" After speaking, an astral chessboard appeared beneath Lu Yin's feet as he moved away.

As his body disappeared, a wisp of flaming sword qi shot into the sky from where he had just been standing. This attack split space apart, and it almost severed the entire Blaze Realm. This was Leader Hong's power, as he truly wanted to kill Lu Yin.

Lu Yin did not fight back, and he actually rushed back down to the planet.

Leader Hong's eyes revealed his overwhelming murderous desires. "You've come to Planet Red yet you still want to escape? You're asking to die!"

As he spoke, Planet Red trembled, and the temperature of the planet shot up as Leader Hong tried to burn Lu Yin alive.

Suddenly, black and white colors flashed before Leader Hong's eyes, and he was stunned by a spiritual energy attack. This was one of the Daynight clan's battle techniques.

An old man had appeared above Planet Red. He had both black and white hair on his head, and he stared at Leader Hong with a solemn expression. "Daynight Channeling."

Leader Hong looked up at the old man. "Are you from the Daynight clan? Then you must be a Dayking traitor."

The old man's name was Duane Daynight, and he was the elder in the Daynight clan's ancestral grounds who had activated the protective sourcebox array around the stone plaque in order to stop any of those elders from rescuing Nightking Zhenwu. He had been the one to attack Leader Hong.

"You're seeking death! I will eliminate all of you traitors to the Nightking clan!" Leader Hong shouted as he raised a hand. The flames above Planet Red covered the sky and took on the shape of a flaming giant. This was Fire Spirit, the Blaze Realm's ultimate technique, and it had also been Monster Chi's specialty.

Duane Daynight had a dignified expression on his face, but he continued to bombard Leader Hong with spiritual energy attacks. Fortunately, Leader Hong had already been seriously injured, so he was unable to use his full strength as an Envoy. Otherwise, Duane Daynight would not be qualified to participate in this battle, as Leader Hong was normally on an entirely different level of power from him.

Although Leader Hong was an Envoy, his weakness was spiritual energy, which caused him to be suppressed by Duane Daynight several times.

The Fire Spirit still raised its fist and threw a punch at Duane Daynight.

Duane Daynight's face flushed red as his body was smashed away by the Fire Spirit. He had gone up against an Envoy, and even a seriously injured Envoy was powerful enough to kill Duane Daynight.

The Daynight elder had only come in order to repay Lu Yin for saving Zhuo Daynight as well as the entire Dayking clan.

However, Duane Daynight had already reached his limit, which was stalling Leader Hong for nearly half a minute.

Half a minute was enough for Lu Yin to travel into the depths of Planet Red.

Leader Hong was just about to continue attacking Duane Daynight when his expression suddenly changed drastically. He looked down at the ground, and a startlingly high temperature raged out in all directions as the Envoy shouted out, "Lu Yin, how did you know that that thing was hidden within Planet Red?"

He had discovered Lu Yin's intention, but it was already too late.

Lu Yin's eyes revealed his excitement, and he waved a hand to use the Yu secret technique once more, causing an irregularly shaped crystal to appear in his hand. There was a flame flickering within the crystal. This was the Karmic Flame.

The Blaze Realm's most powerful battle technique could only be used in conjunction with the Karmic Flame. This crystal was Leader Hong's greatest trump card, as even if he was terribly injured to the point where he could not exert the power of an Envoy, the Karmic Flame Sword would still allow him to kill an Envoy in seconds. Even if one was not an Envoy, the Karmic Flame Sword could still let them pose a danger to an Envoy. This was Leader Hong's ultimate power, and it had fallen into Lu Yin's hands at this moment.

Within the furthest depths of Planet Red, a cloud of smoke suddenly disappeared. It was Smoker.

Lu Yin had kept Leader Hong talking all in order to buy Smoker time to find the Karmic Flames, as it was only possible for Lu Yin to use the Yu Secret Art if he knew the location of what he was swapping. After that, it had simply been a matter of getting within range of the center of the planet.

The center had been a bit too far for Lu Yin to use the Yu Secret Art from the surface, which had been why he had raced underground.

Everything had gone smoothly.

When Leader Hong saw that Lu Yin had stolen the Karmic Flame, the Envoy's eyes burned red. The overwhelming anger aggravated his injuries, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood.

At first, he had thought that Lu Yin had been fleeing in panic, but the scene before Leader Hong's eyes meant that Lu Yin had been planning this move for a long time, to the extent where he had even asked an elder from the Daynight clan to help him buy time. However, how had Lu Yin known that the Karmic Flame was being kept in the depths of Planet Red? How had he even managed to learn of it to plan this robbery?

Then, Leader Hong suddenly remembered a certain person: Smoker. That assassin had attacked Leader Hong multiple times before, but they had always managed to escape to safety. Only that assassin was capable of moving around Planet Red without Leader Hong's notice.

He suddenly realized that he had miscalculated.

Lu Yin had utilized all of the power that he could muster to launch the strongest attack possible against Leader Hong.

Leader Hong was furious. He had thought that he was the one manipulating Lu Yin into traveling to Planet Red, but he had actually been played by Lu Yin.

Leader Hong let out a roar, and Planet Red itself cracked open as endless flames were sucked into his body, causing his stomach to start glowing.

Off in the distance, Elder Tan was horrified to see the Realm Master go insane.

Lu Yin looked up from within the depths of Planet Red and watched as Leader Hong absorbed the planet's flames. Surreptitiously, Lu Yin sprinkled some poison that had been upgraded twelve times into the flames.

After seeing Leader Hong absorb the flames that had been tainted by poison, Lu Yin waited for the poison to take effect, but Leader Hong just sneered. "The flames may have been poisoned, but it doesn't matter how much you put in there. Did you think that I wouldn't see your despicable behavior?"

After speaking, he pressed down with a hand and caused Planet Red itself to start squeezing down upon Lu Yin.

Lu Yin grew angry with himself; he had miscalculated and wasted a bottle of poison.

He burst out of the ground and raced up from the surface with a raised hand as he launched a Vacuum Palm at Leader Hong.

Leader Hong's expression immediately changed, and he evaded the attack. Even though he was an Envoy, he still needed to avoid Lu Yin's Vacuum Palm, which showed how powerful the attack was. It also demonstrated how severe Leader Hong's injuries truly were; if he was at his full strength, then a Vacuum Palm would only be able to knock him two steps back, but it would not be able to deal any damage to him at all.

Lu Yin's eyes lit up. It was good to see that Leader Hong was afraid of the Vacuum Palm, as Lu Yin had been concerned that his attacks would not be able to do anything to the wounded Envoy.

Leader Hong stretched his hands out and caused his flames to condense into the shape of a sword that then slashed at Lu Yin.

This was not any sort of sword skill, but rather an attack that possessed an indescribable heat that just happened to be in the shape of a sword. Lu Yin was forced to endure the attack, and he was knocked back as the heat baked his armor. Although the heat did not cause any damage to Lu Yin, he still felt the searing heat.

The temperature had already reached an ineffable level.

At this moment, Leader Hong swung the flame sword again, but this time, Lu Yin's pupils transformed into runes, and he erased a number of the attack's runes while simultaneously unleashing a spiritual force attack: "Daynight Praises."

Daynight Praises was the most powerful spiritual force-based battle technique that Lu Yin had learned, and it could also be called the Daynight clan's best spiritual force technique.

After all, Daynight Praises was when Lu Yin used Night's End, Daybreak to create an irresistible illusion while simultaneously using Skybreaker to attack. This was the first time that Lu Yin had used Daynight Praises on a living target, and he unleashed it on the seriously injured Leader Hong.

Leader Hong was stunned, and right when he was about to swing his sword of flames for the third time, his vision changed. He saw a powerhouse standing high above all who looked as though he could incinerate the universe. The moment Leader Hong saw this man, his pupils abruptly shrank. "No way! You can't still be alive!"

The man in front of Leader Hong raised a hand. "You scoundrel! You sneak attacked your teacher to snatch away the seat of the Realm Master. Make way for your teacher now."

The man's right hand rose while his left hand fell.

The words "make way" caused Leader Hong to suddenly sober up. He thought of the Purge and Lu Yin and realized that he had fallen into an illusion. After Leader Hong realized what had happened, he did not resist the man's attack and instead swung his sword around him in an attempt to destroy the illusion.

As far as Leader Hong was concerned, everything around him would disappear beneath his sword.

However, when the man slapped Leader Hong's forehead, Leader Hong reacted as if he had been struck by lightning, and his brain went blank. He was not able to resist spitting out blood, and he stared at the man in utter disbelief; how could this be? This had to be an illusion, but what illusion was terrifying enough to create real attacks? Leader Hong's eyes turned red.

"Scum! How dare you resist!" the man shouted as his hand fell down once again.

Leader Hong roared, and the flames shrouding his body exploded outwards and shot towards the man, incinerating everything close by Leader Hong.

The next moment, Leader Hong saw his vision change once more; he had returned to Planet Red. In front of him, a puff of white smoke appeared out of nowhere and wrapped around his neck. His face went pale, and his eyes went bloodshot as blood leaked from his mouth. "Lu- Yin! I will kill you!"

As the man spoke, Planet Red shattered as flames from the planet's core enveloped Leader Hong once more.

The white smoke continued to burn. Although Smoker had attacked Leader Hong many times, it had never amounted to anything. Leader Hong was not someone who Smoker could deal with, and in truth, Leader Hong was not even remotely concerned with Smoker.

Lu Yin panted heavily, as Daynight Praises was too exhausting to use, and he could not properly support the technique yet. His muscles trembled as a dizzy and nauseous feeling overcame him.