Star Odyssey

Chapter 2119: The Mirror

Long ago, Lu Yin and a group of his classmates from Astral-10 had fought against Feng Mo in order to save Big Pao and Little Pao. Feng Mo was the reason why they had entered the Starfall Sea, and also why Lu Yin had participated in the competition to become the Sea King’s son-in-law.

Feng Mo had vanished after learning about Lu Yin’s victory in the competition, and when Lu Yin had next seen the man, Feng Mo had been inside Ling Que's spaceship. At that time, Feng Mo had been pretending to serve Ling Que, but after being discovered by Lu Yin, the man’s meridians had been crippled. Lu Yin had wanted to simply kill Feng Mo, but Ling Que had wanted to deliver him to the Lingling Clan. In the end, Lu Yin had stayed his hand.

Unexpectedly, Feng Mo had escaped again.

After more than twenty years, Lu Yin had run into Feng Mo for the third time. Surprisingly, the man had even been in the middle of attacking Madam Nalan and Luo Shen when Lu Yin arrived.

Feng Mo trembled as he looked at Lu Yin. How was this possible? Meeting Lu Yin was the worst luck possible.

Lu Yin stared at Feng Mo. "I’m genuinely surprised to see that you were able to escape from the Lingling clan’s vessel even after your meridians were destroyed. Before that, you also managed to escape from that man from the Specter Clan, which also couldn’t have been easy. I want to see how you pulled that off, so go ahead and try to escape from me now."

Feng Mo's eye twitched, and his muscles locked up. Escape? True, if he wanted to live, he had to escape. If he failed to do that, he would definitely die. However, was escape even possible? Lu Yin was the one standing in front of Feng Mo. When they had first met, Lu Yin had been nothing more than a stray dog that Feng Mo had been sent to hunt down. The second time, Feng Mo had been crippled without even being able to fight back. For this third meeting, Feng Mo could not even imagine how powerful Lu Yin had become.

Feng Mo had kept his true identity a secret while hiding with the Nalan family for over twenty years, and during this time, he had learned too much about Lu Yin and his accomplishments. The young man was a living legend. Forget Feng Mo, could even Semi-Progenitors escape from Lu Yin with his current abilities?

This realization sent a fresh burst of panic surging through Feng Mo. He did not want to die. The fear that sprang up from his heart consumed him in an instant, and he dropped to his knees, quivering as he begged mercy. "Lu- Alliance Leader Lu, please don't kill me! Please spare me! Give me any task you wish, Alliance Leader Lu! Please, please, please, please…"

Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed. "I'll give you one chance to try and escape."

Feng Mo had succeeded in escaping from the Lingling clan even after Lu Yin had crippled the man. That was something that would likely be beyond even Lu Yin’s abilities.

Clearly, Feng Mo had some bit of capability.

The man continued to just beg for mercy. He was unable to see any hope of successfully escaping, or even surviving this encounter.

Lu Yin glanced over at Madam Nalan and Luo Shen. Luo Shen was fine to look at, as she was wearing normal clothes, but Madam Nalan was wearing a silky black negligee that was trimmed with white lace. The outfit revealed snow-white skin that dazzled Lu Yin eyes and caused his heart to flutter. He could not help licking his lips. Time had not left a single mark on this woman, though it had only been twenty years, and that time had passed in a flash.

Lu Yin waved a hand and used Truesight to erase the effect of the drugs in the two women’s bodies. They quickly got up from the bed and straightened out their clothes while glaring at Feng Mo.

"Alliance Leader Lu, do you know this man?" Madam Nalan asked. She was an experienced woman, and she had recovered very quickly.

Lu Yin softly answered, "He’s an old enemy."

Feng Mo stayed on his knees, begging for mercy. "Alliance Leader Lu, please forgive me! I’m not your enemy! It’s been more than twenty years, and I, Feng Mo, never once thought of acting against you! I have been hiding within the Nalan family's forces. I haven’t killed a single person once all these years! Please, forgive me!"

Madam Nalan spoke up, angry to hear the man’s claims. "You killed so many people outside this room, and yet you still have the gall to claim that you haven’t killed anyone?"

Feng Mo's face turned pale.

Lu Yin slowly raised a hand. "I’ve allowed you to live for all these years, but today you can finally find peace."

As he spoke, Lu Yin’s hand descended very slowly.

Feng Mo stared at the floor, and then his eyes suddenly started to blaze. He looked up at Lu Yin's palm and then abruptly pulled out a mirror and pointed it at Lu Yin.

The hand slammed into the mirror, and then something bizarre unfolded: a hand perfectly identical to Lu Yin’s appeared from the mirror, and it struck Lu Yin.

Lu Yin was caught off guard, and he stepped to the side. Feng Mo took this chance to leap out of the spacecraft into outer space in a desperate attempt to escape.

Lu Yin just shifted his domain, and Feng Mo's body was sent crashing back faster than he had left the room. He slammed into the floor, and every one of his meridians shattered once again.

The man screamed as he vomited blood.

Lu Yin had deliberately attacked very slowly, just so that he could see what sort of tricks Feng Mo possessed. He was an assassin from the Relentless Slayers, and it was only natural for him to have many means to stay alive. Facing an inevitable death, there was no way that Feng Mo would not use his most reliable means of survival.

The mirror became inert when Lu Yin held it, and his pupils transformed into runes to observe it, but he saw no runes at all.

"Where did this mirror come from? What does it do?" Lu Yin asked.

Feng Mo lay on the floor. There were times when living could be worse than dying. He opened his eyes to look at Lu Yin, and he answered in a hoarse voice, "If I tell you, can you let me live?"

Lu Yin thought that his question was funny. "That depends on whether or not this mirror is worth more than your life."

Feng Mo's eyes instantly went wide. "That mirror is what Bo Senior and Bo Junior gave me for hunting you down."

Lu Yin was caught off guard. "Bo Senior and Bo Junior from the Deep Crimson Hall?"

"That’s right. When I was hired to hunt you down, that mirror was my payment. Those two had no idea about that mirror’s true value, but I knew that it came from a pocket dimension. I happened to see a description of it in an ancient record, and it’s definitely something that was left behind by some ancient powerhouse. I learned about it in the record that I stumbled upon that spoke about that the pocket dimension," Feng Mo replied.

"What kind of pocket dimension?" Lu Yin was curious. There were many pocket dimensions throughout the universe, as well as hidden worlds.

"It was a place with a mountain and a sea."

Lu Yin’s pupils shrank as he stared at Feng Mo. "A mountain and sea?"

Feng Mo panted. "That's right, a mountain and sea, but I don’t know where that pocket dimension is. I only learned about this mirror through someone else, and when I wanted to find it, the Deep Crimson Hall had already acquired it. From that time onward, I tried to get the mirror. I was lucky that when your classmates tried to get revenge on Deep Crimson Hall, you went to rescue them and caused all sorts of problems for Deep Crimson Hall in the process.”

"I just took advantage of the situation and asked for the mirror as payment.”

"While I don’t know where that mountain and sea are hidden, that place is definitely not simple. I've checked the Relentless Slayers’ records a bunch of times, and while there were mentions of that pocket dimension, no one ever managed to find it again."

Lu Yin grew increasingly curious. "How can you be so sure that the mirror from the pocket dimension is the same mirror that was mentioned in the Relentless Slayers’ ancient records? What if it isn’t? Also, even if it is the same, is it really that valuable?"

Feng Mo’s voice grew bitter. "Alliance Leader Lu, you are so high up above people like me that you can’t understand how difficult it is for us to cultivate. For people like me, no matter how small an opportunity might be, as long as there is the smallest chance, we won’t let go of it. I knew from the beginning that it wouldn’t be easy, but I still did everything that I could to get a hold of it.”

Lu Yin stared at Feng Mo. "Where is that dimension with the mountain and sea?"

Feng Mo shook his head. "I never managed to find it, and the location wasn’t mentioned in any of the records that I found. If it were, that place would have been stripped bare a long time ago. The person who first told me about the mirror was also never able to find the place a second time. He claimed that the pocket dimension disappeared and that I wouldn't be able to get in even if I found the original location."

"What did that person experience inside the pocket dimension?"

"He said that the whole place was an illusion, filled with all kinds of illusory attacks. Also, all that could be seen was fog."

Lu Yin's eyes flickered. Fog? Was it possible that this mountain and seas was one of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas?

Lu Yin suddenly laughed at the thought. Such a thing was practically impossible. How could it be so easy to come across one of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas? Even if this story was true, how could anyone at Feng Mo’s level of strength pick up a treasure from one of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas?

Fog, a mountain, a sea, and the mirror.

Lu Yin stared at the mirror in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Feng Mo struggled through his agony to again beg for mercy. "Alliance Leader Lu, I've already told you everything I know. Can I go?"

Lu Yin finally looked down at the man. A hand rose, and a finger pointed forwards. Death energy swirled around Lu Yin’s fingertips, forming a seal that etched itself into Feng Mo's body as he watched on in terror.

The man trembled, as he could not understand what Lu Yin had just done to him.

"You can go," Lu Yin said indifferently.

Feng Mo instantly became nervous. "Really? I can go?"

"What? Do you want me to invite you to tea?" Lu Yin retorted.

Feng Mo quickly left the ship again and hurried into outer space. His meridians had been destroyed, and he was a cripple, but while surviving in outer space would be difficult, it was still far better than staying on the spacecraft, waiting for Lu Yin’s judgment.

Not once throughout the entire conversation did Madam Nalan or Luo Shen say a word.

Lu Yin looked outside the ship at Feng Mo floating off into the distance. A cold glint flickered through Lu Yin’s eyes.

Death energy suddenly swept through Feng Mo's body. There was a bang, and then not even bones remained.

"I never said that his information was worth his life," Lu Yin muttered to himself. How could he possibly let Feng Mo go yet again? Lu Yin had simply wanted to test the Death Seal that he had just comprehended. He could not do anything with the seal alone, and he needed to actually use it to see the effects. If he wanted to experiment with the power of the seal, he needed to use it on a true powerhouse.

Neither Madam Nalan nor Luo Shen were surprised to see Feng Mo’s fate. How could the man be allowed to go free?

"Are you all right?" Lu Yin asked, looking back at the two women.

Madam Nalan ran a hand through her hair. "I'm fine, but Sister Luo Shen might be in shock. Alliance Leader Lu, I'll leave her here with you while I go prepare some food for you."

The woman gave Lu Yin a smile before leaving the room.

Luo Shen wrapped her arms around her knees. Her face was both pale and flushed at the same time.

Lu Yin felt rather embarrassed. Everyone was aware of the feelings that Luo Shen held for him, but he really could not afford to give much thought for the woman. "Um, are- are you okay?"

Luo Shen hummed. "I'm not as weak as Sister Nalan makes me out to be. I’ve lived through many things over the years."

Lu Yin nodded. "You’re certainly very brave."

Luo Shen looked up at Lu Yin in confusion, but Lu Yin did not elaborate. "Let's find a planet to rest on for a bit. I also want to study this mirror."

Luo Shen nodded "Thank you, Brother Lu."

"There’s no reason for you to say ‘thank you’ to me." Lu Yin walked out of the room.

Not long after, the vessel landed on Planet Aegis. The ship was full of corpses, which made it unsuitable for resting.

Madam Nalan and Luo Shen stepped out onto the planet and looked around at the endless frozen landscape. "He's finally back. You were right—he wouldn’t die so easily."

Luo Shen just stared out at the frozen field in a daze.

Madam Nalan was also staring into nothing. "There are times when you need to fight for what you want."

Sadness decorated Luo Shen’s features. "Brother Lu won't ever have feelings for me."

"How can you know if you don't fight for it? You’re truly beautiful." Madam Nalan laughed.

Luo Shen smiled wryly. "They’re just my feelings."

Madam Nalan sighed. "We’re both lucky that he showed up, or else we’d have suffered a very miserable fate right about now."

Determination filled Luo Shen’s voice. "I would have killed myself."

Madam Nalan was taken aback. If Luo Shen would have taken her own life, what about Madam Nalan? If the bottom line that she had protected for so many years were crossed, would she be able to live with herself?