Star Odyssey

Chapter 2056: The Limit To Endurance

Heluo Mavis answered in a cold and arrogant manner, "That was five attacks. Adding in my first punch, that’s six moves from me to your one."

"What if he can't stand up any longer?" Chu Yuan asked.

Heluo Mavis shrugged. "He managed to knock me back with that first palm strike, but I was able to stand back up. If he can’t fight after this, then we’ll wait until he can continue for your turn. I still have four more attacks left. Ten moves is ten moves, and while extra attacks aren’t allowed, I also won’t accept any fewer moves."

"So then, will the two of us fight each other next?" Chu Yuan laughed.

Helo Mavis’s brow rose. "Scared?"

A smile spread across Chu Yuan's face. "Are you sure that those five attacks actually landed?"

Heluo Mavis hesitated, and she reflexively looked down at the ground.

Lu Yin was not there. At the last moment, he had used a Teleportation Formation to escape from the five attacks.

"How?" Heluo Mavis was shocked, and she turned to look into the distance where Lu Yin was patting some dust off of his clothes.

Lu Yin waved an arm and calmly asked, "Surprised? You didn’t attack me, but him."

Heluo Mavis’s eyes snapped back to Chu Yuan. "You interfered with that invisible power!"

Chu Yuan smiled. "I already said that I’d defeat him in five moves, so I can’t allow him to be crushed by you.”

As he spoke, Chu Yuan turned to look at Lu Yin. "I didn't expect you to be able to escape on your own. That’s a pretty good sourcebox array you just used."

Heluo Mavis' eyes froze as she finally understood: the descendant of the Lu family had escaped with a sourcebox array while Chu Yuan had used his invisible power to receive the attack. The two had accidentally worked together, and the final result had deceived Heluo Mavis.

"Don't forget, you’re down to just four moves now, the same as me." Chu Yuan's index finger shattered the twig binding it.

Heluo Mavis snorted disdainfully. "Four moves is plenty."

Lu Yin found this exchange amusing, and he rubbed his wrist. "I’ve met countless people as I’ve trained, but there have been very, very few as arrogant as the two of you. Four attacks, huh? Sounds good. I’ll use four attacks as well. Let’s see if that will be enough to crush both of you."

Chu Yuan smiled. "Your era has made no progress since our time, and all you can use is the strength of our era. We stood at the very top during that time, so how can you possibly win?"

Lu Yin answered solemnly, "Are you so proud of your era that you think that you can look down on ours? Alright, I’ll use the power that our heroes created to face you for a bit."

At that moment, Lu Yin’s entire body visibly dried up. This was Progenitor Ku’s battle technique: Extremes Must Be Reversed.

Chu Yuan and Heluo Mavis stared at Lu Yin in amazement. What sort of battle technique was this?

Lu Yin soon looked like a desiccated corpse. He pressed a hand down, and 80,000 stars instantly appeared and filled the nearby area, transforming it into a region of outer space.

Heluo Mavis snorted contemptuously. "What a mess!"

Her eyes then flickered green This was the Mavis family’s innate gift: Rhythm of Life. She stared at Lu Yin, trying to seize control of him, but all of her attempts proved useless as Lu Yin remained standing firmly in place. However, his body began to recover a bit.

Lu Yin stared at Heluo Mavis. Clearly, there were differences between her innate gift and Yuhua Mavis’s as Heluo was able to use her innate gift to actually harm Lu Yin.

Heluo Mavis was badly startled by the outcome. How could her innate gift be useless?

Chu Yuan waved a hand and grabbed at the nearby stars. Suddenly, all the stars gathered together, giving the appearance of the entire universe collapsing. In an instant, Lu Yin appeared right in front of Chu Yuan with a Cosmic Palm.

Chu Yuan's gaze turned cold, and he took a step back. The Cosmic Palm was only a meter away, but it was unable to get any closer. However, Chu Yuan also found that he was unable to move any further away.

Lu Yin’s eyes went wide; at this moment, he was finally able to see that Chu Yuan's entire body was covered with an invisible power. It was both formless and invisible. The stars from Lu Yin’s Cosmic Art passed through the invisible barrier without any issue, but they were also unable to harm Chu Yuan in any way. It was no wonder why this invisible power was believed to be capable of dissolving any battle technique.

Given the outcome, Lu Yin pulled the Cosmic Palm back, and the stars returned to their original positions. Heluo Mavis tried to punch Lu Yin’s side, and her first contained an energy that twisted and burned the void. It was aurelian force.

This was Lu Yin’s first time seeing someone so young capable of using aurelian force. The pinnacle form of battle force was invincible, and Lu Yin was scared of being touched by even a single punch. During his tribulation to become an Envoy, he had faced a punch that had been reinforced with aurelian force, and he had countered it with the visualization method of the Immovable Heavenly King Elephant. Lu Yin felt that the same thing would work at this moment as well, but his visualization method was something that belonged to the Lu family. It was not a technique that had been created by any of the heroes of the current era.

If Lu Yin wanted to prove the strength of the current era, he could not rely on the Lu family’s visualization method. All he could do was endure the punch.

Heluo Mavis struck Lu Yin's chest with a terrifying punch, and as her attack landed, the 80,000 stars coalesced to form a sword. This was the Celestial Sword Technique, and Lu Yin lashed out at both Heluo Mavis and Chu Yuan with the Sword Sect’s Fourteenth Sword.

While Lu Yin had no idea which era had given birth to the Thirteen Swords, it should not be from the Heavens Sect era. Even if he were wrong about that, he had just used the Fourteenth Sword, which had been created by Liu Huang.

At this same moment, Chu Yuan attacked. He did so by pointing a finger at Lu Yin’s abdomen in an odd manner. The finger strike looked like nothing special, but as the stars continued to revolve around Lu Yin, the finger somehow evaded every single star. In this short amount of time, Chu Yuan had already seen through the stars’ movements.

Heluo Mavis’s punch landed on Lu Yin’s chest. This time, he did not try to dodge, as it was impossible for him to do so anyways. He was smashed into the ground, at which point Chu Yuan's finger struck home. Lu Yin suffered two attacks back to back without a single moment to recover.

At this moment, Lu Yin's Fourteenth Sword struck both Heluo Mavis and Chu Yuan.

The Fourteenth Sword was a very odd attack, as it did not cause any external wounds, but rather destroyed a person from within. The Thirteenth Sword’s premise was that a sword could be formed from any emotion in existence, while the Fourteenth Sword used suffering to form a blade. This was based on the suffering Liu Huang had endured while being imprisoned, but every living creature would suffer at some point in time.

When the sword struck, neither Heluo Mavis nor Chu Yuan felt anything, and they glanced at each other. Even if Lu Yin was nowhere close to being their equal, it was still impossible for his sword strike to do absolutely nothing after hitting them.

A single moment later, Heluo Mavis felt a terrible agony well up within her body. She felt as though someone had slashed her with a sword from the inside, and she did not even notice that she let out several coughs. Across from her, Chu Yuan suffered in the exact same manner.

The two glanced at each other in shock. "An alternative method of swordsmanship."

"I didn't expect that anyone in this era would be able to comprehend such a method of swordsmanship. Clearly, the way of the sword has not completely weakened," Chu Yuan commented in surprise.

Heluo Mavis replied, "It’s incredibly difficult for anyone to be the first to comprehend such a method, but once one person succeeds, others will be able to follow their path. This is why the way of the sword hasn’t weakened. Still, very few people from the Lu family train with swords."

Chu Yuan looked at the ground. "Either way, there’s no way he’ll be able to stand back up after taking both of our attacks at once."

Heluo Mavis was unbothered. "He does live up to being a descendant of the Lu family after all, given that he was able to actually injure us at all. I’m down to two moves."

She had just used her innate gift, Rhythm of Life, as well as a punch with aurelian force, which were regarded as two attacks.

Chu Yuan answered with a smile. He had only used a single attack after seeing through the movement of the stars. "I have three."

"I still have two attacks left." Lu Yin spoke from the ground, startling both Heluo Mavis and Chu Yuan. How could he possibly be fine?

Off in the distance, the people from the Sixth Mainland continued to nervously watch the events play out. This battle between Lu Yin and the other two people had pushed the group further and further away, and they were no longer able to clearly see what was happening. Lu Yin had disappeared from their sight when he had been smashed to the ground. Lu Yin was actually just suppressed?

Lu Yin climbed to his feet within the hole in the ground and then slowly rose up back to the surface.

He had used Extremes Must Be Reverse to transform his body and given himself a desiccated appearance, but when he revealed himself once more, his body had mostly recovered. Well, he had at least become recognizable once again.

Heluo Mavis and Chu Yuan both stared at Lu Yin in utter confusion. What the hell was going on?

Without learning Extremes Must Be Reversed, it was impossible to understand the miraculous ability that this technique granted.

As long as Heluo Mavis and Chu Yuan were unable to launch attacks that surpassed the upper limit of Lu Yin’s endurance, any and all attacks would simply help Lu Yin to recover. At the same time, it would give him power that he could then use for his own attacks.

Who had said the current era had fallen? The Heavens Sect era had seen humanity become incredibly powerful, and there were an endless variety of battle techniques, cultivation arts, and cultivation methods. People had not been limited to only using stellular energy to cultivate. However, the current era had also given rise to truly outstanding figures, such as the Rune Progenitor, Progenitor Chen, and Progenitor Ku. Any one of them had possessed a level of power that would have made them dazzling figures even in the Heavens Sect era.

Chu Yuan stared at Lu Yin in amazement. "What sort of technique are you using? If I’m seeing this right, you’re using the power of our attacks to restore yourself."

Lu Yin grinned. "Smart. I might as well tell you that if you want to beat me, you need to use an attack that exceeds the limits of what I can endure. Anything beneath that limit will only help me recover. Can you do that?"

Chu Yuan was impressed. "That’s a good technique. There was nothing like that in our era. While this era is truly weak, there will always be a few outstanding people. You said that you are Lu Yin? I will acknowledge your strength. If you can remain undefeated with my five attacks, you can truly be regarded as the Dao Chosen of this era and qualify to stand next to the rest of us."

Heluo Mavis let out a long breath. "What a load of shit! What's so difficult about landing an attack that surpasses his limits?"

She stared at Lu Yin. "Don't blame me if this kills you."

Lu Yin clenched his fists. "You two aren’t capable of beating me!"

Once again, his body dried up. He was using Extremes Must Be Reversed again.

Heluo Mavis's face twisted, and a massive tree appeared behind her. Its green color became spots that moved to merge into her body, which caused her aura to spike. Even though there were no runes to see, Lu Yin was still able to sense that Heluo Mavis had just become far, far stronger.

This was another technique that was nothing new to Lu Yin. This was a technique that was quite similar to the Lu family’s visualization method, and Yuhua Mavis had used it during ZENITH. If Lu Yin was remembering correctly, she had referred to this technique as Infinite Power. She had even said that this was the true version of Infinite Power.

Snap!

The ground cracked open, and Heluo Mavis looked up and locked onto Lu Yin. Her right hand clenched into a fist, and even that simple action caused the void to tremble as waves of power swept out. At this moment, her strength surpassed what space could endure, and she could shatter space without even moving.

What made her attack even more exaggerated was the fact that the surrounding void had started warping and burning. She was using the invincible power of aurelian force in tandem with Infinite Power.

Heluo Mavis started to move, and the void was forced back one layer after another. It almost looked as though she was approaching infinity.

This punch was insanely powerful. Not only did it carry the Mavis family’s Infinite Power, but it was also further reinforced by the pinnacle of battle force. Even a four-tribulation Envoy would most likely be killed by this attack.

Lu Yin opened his fingers that had been clenched into a fist, and he slapped out at Heluo Mavis. He was still using Hollow Palm, and there was nothing special about this particular one.

Before, a single Hollow Palm had been enough to knock Heluo Mavis back, as Lu Yin’s Hollow Palms were incredibly powerful. However, that level of power was not enough to even touch Heluo Mavis at this moment. Lu Yin’s palm strike was shattered by her attack before it could get close to her, and then the terrifying punch landed on Lu Yin’s body.

Heluo Mavis had expected her punch to send Lu Yin flying through the air and for it to far surpass the level of attack that he could endure. However, Lu Yin remained standing where he was. The only change that could be seen was that his desiccated body recovered at a rate that could be noticeably seen.

Extremes Must Be Reversed would block all attacks from a person, as long as the attacks did not surpass the person’s physical limits. Just what were the limits of Lu Yin’s body at this time? He did not even know himself.