Star Odyssey

Chapter 2157: Heavens Corps

As it turned out, Nong Laohan had already dismissed everyone else from the Sixth Mainland before Jiu Yao even made a decision. The old man had known that things would not play out favorably for him, and that was because Lu Yin was involved. He was the only person capable of suppressing every living creature in the entire Fifth Mainland by himself.

"My Sixth Mainland has no one who can compare to Lu Yin." Jiu Yao sighed as he disappeared.

Nong Laohan heaved a sigh of relief. He simply wanted to enjoy a comfortable life, and the Fifth or Sixth Mainland meant nothing to him. In fact, the stronger Lu Yin became, the safer humanity would be.

...

Still on Zenyu Star, Lu Yin had not yet learned anything about what had just happened in the western reaches of the Outerverse.

He opened his eyes to look over at Wendy Yushan, and he saw that she was still training with her eyes closed. Not once had he managed to sense the power of time, let alone control or use it.

His left hand was still gripping Wendy’s right hand. After not being able to sense anything for so long, Lu Yin could not help himself from shifting in place, and his movement roused Wendy.

She opened her eyes and looked over at Lu Yin. "How did it go?"

"I didn't feel anything." Lu Yin was disappointed.

Wendy Yushan replied, "Me neither."

Lu Yin was caught off guard. "You didn’t sense anything either?"

Wendy Yushan shook her head. "There was a trickle of time when we first started, but it quickly disappeared, and I wasn’t able to sense anything afterwards. I’m not able to use time every time I train. If I could, I wouldn’t be just this strong."

Lu Yin smiled wryly. "If you weren’t able to sense time, there’s no way I’d be able to feel anything. Maybe when you’re having a smooth training session one day, I’ll be able to pick something up."

"En." Wendy had already considered the same thing.

At this moment, the two of them both looked down at their hands that were still holding each other.

Lu Yin unconsciously twitched again, and Wendy snatched her hand back like lightning, her face slightly red. "I'm going to train on my own, so you can do your own thing."

She then immediately left.

Lu Yin coughed. "I'm heading out as well."

Right then, his wireless jincan twitched. He looked down, saw the message, and quickly got excited. "Time to go!"

He tore through the void and vanished from Zenyu Star.

His resources had finally been delivered from the Technocracy. 200 billion! 200 billion star essence! This was an astronomical sum. The most money that Lu Yin had ever managed to accumulate at one time was 100 billion, which made this his largest windfall ever.

Lu Yin raced back to the Heavens Sect as quickly as possible. He then ended up waiting for another half a day before Little Bear and his group of androids arrived.

The androids were not overly impressed by the majestic construction of the Heavens Sect. In the end, they were androids, and their thought process was fundamentally different from a human’s.

"Alliance Leader Lu, these are the promised resources." Little Bear delivered more than 200 cosmic rings over to Lu Yin, each of which held 1 billion star essence.

These cosmic rings were all rather small, as it would have only taken two rings with the capacity of Lu Yin’s to contain all this wealth.

He excitedly received the delivery, checking each cosmic ring in turn as Little Bear calmly watched on. "Thank you! Many of the Human Domain’s unused resources will be shipped over to the Technocracy, and you’re also welcome to use the Perennial World’s goal of hunting me down and killing me to get more from them, though that will naturally have to wait until the New Corridor’s repaired."

"We’re already aware of all this," Little Bear replied.

"Right, what about the researchers? Is Little R1O coming?" Lu Yin asked. He had not asked the Technocracy for only resources, and truthfully, the star essence was an unexpected bonus. Rather, Lu Yin had requested them to send him engineers and researchers for the microarray technology research.

"Little R1O and the others all refused."

"Why?" Lu Yin felt puzzled.

Little Bear explained, "Because none of them want to move too far away from the Technocracy. However, you can rest assured that we will set up a secure connection between your researchers and my Technocracy to allow for collaborative research. This is actually quite easy, as without the Aeternals threatening things, our cooperation won’t be impacted by distance at all."

Lu Yin did not want to hear this response. "That’s not what I was hoping to hear. Without the team being physically together, issues in the research process will definitely emerge."

Little Bear replied, "In that case, I’m happy to ask again when I return, but I don’t see it being very likely. No one wants to stay far away from home. Little R1O and some others might be willing to visit the Human Domain as guests. However, there’s no chance that any of them will be willing to stay here."

Lu Yin had no choice but to agree. "I understand. In that case, I’ll have to rely on you for this."

There was no need for Lu Yin to waste time on small talk with the Technocracy’s representatives, as it was something that they simply did not understand. The androids left after delivering the resources to Lu Yin.

Lu Yin grew increasingly excited as he stared at the 200-plus cosmic rings in front of him. Once again, he had money, and he could even be considered exorbitantly wealthy, but this money did not belong to him alone. All of this star essence belonged to the Human Domain, and he intended to use it to improve and strengthen the Human Domain.

He had already contemplated how he would use the new funds, and the first thing on his list was to create the invincible army that he had long envisioned. He intended them to be truly invincible, as long as the top powerhouses on the enemy side were kept in check by those on his. In such a situation, the army he envisioned would prove invaluable in securing victories.

Their value lay in more than just the battlefield, as the existence of such an army would be a powerful deterrent that would maintain order within the Human Domain. There was no downside to creating such a force.

Lu Yin’s wireless jincan trembled once more. It was a message from Wei Rong, informing Lu Yin of what had happened in the western weaves.

Lu Yin was completely unconcerned. He felt that such a trivial matter was not worth his attention, even if Jiu Yao had been involved.

Lu Yin was essentially a god in the Fifth Mainland at this time, and he could arbitrarily determine the life and death of anyone in the Human Domain.

Lu Yin was impatient to enter seclusion after receiving the star essence, as this was the first step towards elevating the Heavens Sect to the level that he had dreamed of.

The reason why the Heavens Sect had risen to such heights in the past, as well as why humans had been so prosperous, had not only been because of the power of the masters of the Three Realms Six Dao and the Nine Mountains and the Eight Seas. The Twelve Heavenly Gates below those powerful Progenitors, as well as the powerful Envoys and Enlighters who had been members of the Heavens Sect, had all contributed greatly.

While it appeared impossible for humanity to return to its former glory, given enough time and resources, it might not be completely impossible.

Since the Three Realms Six Dao and the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas could not be restored for the time being, then he would first become invincible.

When Lu Yin had first received the Technocracy’s promise to deliver 200 billion star essence to him, Lu Yin had arranged to have the best possible bodysuit armors, Money Bombs, microarrays, and other equipment delivered to him, and he had received all of the raw material half a month ago.

He raised a hand and reached out with a finger. His die spun around before slowly coming to a stop. His first roll landed on Timestop, and he instantly entered his Timestop Space.

Right after entering the gray space, Lu Yin pulled out everything that he intended to Enhance and then proceeded to roll his die again. It took three tries for him to roll Enhance. This was a roll that was only worth getting if Lu Yin had enough resources to take advantage of it.

He felt like it had been a very long time since he had Enhanced anything at all.

The first thing that he upgraded were the bodysuit armors. While the quality of the materials were somewhat lacking compared to what had been used to create his own years ago, it was still perfectly acceptable.

He tossed the first bodysuit armor onto the upper screen of his Enhance and then started throwing out massive amounts of star essence.

After burning through 100 million star essence, the bodysuit armor reached its limits. Lu Yin touched it and was quite satisfied. It had reached a level where it could block attacks that had a power level of almost 700,000, which was quite impressive. When the people from the Heavens Sect era had been released from the sourcebox twenty years ago, the number of human powerhouses had increased substantially, but even then, how many Envoys had power levels of over 700,000?

The entire Innerverse had originally only had a select few, while the Cosmic Sea had only had four. Even though the Neoverse had been home to more, there were fewer than thirty such Envoys within the entire Human Domain.

Lu Yin had 100 sets of bodysuit armor in front of him, which meant that he could equip an army of 100 soldiers. This meant that 100 people would be able to survive an attack from Envoys with power levels of 700,000, and this was just the beginning. As time passed and Lu Yin acquired materials from the Perennial World, these bodysuit armors could be improved until they were able to defend against attacks with power levels of over a million.

If Lu Yin could mobilize an army of 100 cultivators that could fight on the level of monsters with power levels of over a million, no one beneath the Semi-Progenitor level would be able to stand up to them.

This was Lu Yin’s first step towards that goal. First, he would create an army of invincible Enlighters. Next, he would do the same with Envoys, before eventually moving on to Semi-Progenitors. Lu Yin felt absolutely confident that, given enough time and resources, he could restore the ancient glory of the Heavens Realm and completely crush Aeternus.

After Enhancing all the bodysuit armors, Lu Yin moved onto the Money Bombs. Twenty years ago, he had asked Old Cai to look into improving the power of his Money Bombs, and the man had not stopped his efforts even after Lu Yin’s death had been publicly accepted. He had researched a lot and had produced a great number of Money Bombs. Still, it was understandable that the research had not resulted in too much of an improvement for the Money Bombs. But since they were made with better raw materials, Lu Yin was able to Enhance them further than in the past.

A Money Bomb landed on the upper light screen as Lu Yin started throwing out star essence.

The Money Bombs did not burn through nearly as much star essence as the bodysuit armors, and it only took about ten million star essence to reach the limits for each Money Bomb. At this point, they could erupt with as much power as a new Envoy. This was not really sufficient for Lu Yin’s purposes, but this defect was compensated for with sheer numbers. For Lu Yin’s 100-man army, each soldier would be given twenty Money Bombs. This was enough to subdue the entire Human Domain without raising a finger.Lu Yin had gone through about ten billion star essence upgrading all of the bodysuit armors, and with twenty Money Bombs for each soldier, Lu Yin spent twenty billion star essence Enhancing the Money Bombs. His final step was to improve the combined microarrays. Lu Yin intended to equip every single one of these 100 elite soldiers with a five-piece microarray. This was the most powerful combined array that had been researched so far, and each one could launch attacks with a power level of 700,000. Fully equipped, every last soldier in this army would be able to stand up to an Envoy with a power level of 600,000 to 700,000. This would truly be an invincible army.

Lu Yin also wanted to incorporate the smoke from Smoke-Eater Peaks into the equipment, and he had asked Progenitor Smoke about the possibility. She had been generous enough to teach Smoke-Eater Peaks novel methods to improve their smoke that she had developed during her endless years of captivity. Lu Yin was confident that the improvement would be substantial.

He was eager to see the appearance of his 100 man army, and he had even picked out a name; they would be the Heavens Corps.

100 soldiers was also just the starting number. He could see this army becoming a 1,000 soldiers, or even tens of thousands. On top of that, the average strength of the soldiers would continue to rise.

The modern era had nowhere near as many powerhouses as during the Heavens Sect era, so Lu Yin first needed to spend resources to supplement his forces. With time, he might be able to raise his forces to compare to that of the original Heavens Sect.

It had taken Lu Yin less than 40 billion star essence to fully equip his Heavens Corps, which left him with about 240 billion star essence in his possession.

He silently pulled out the slipper.

He held it in one hand, feeling rather nervous. Still, there was no denying that this slipper was incredibly powerful.

He set the slipper on the upper screen of light and then tossed out 100 million star essence. As he watched, the slipper dropped down just the tiniest bit. It was such an insignificant drop that it could barely even be noticed.

Lu Yin pursed his lips as he put the slipper away. He simply did not have the necessary funds to Enhance the slipper, and it made more sense to do one full upgrade when he could.

Since he could not Enhance the slipper, Lu Yin instead pulled out the needle-like weapon. This weapon had already performed a few miracles for Lu Yin in the past, and it remained extremely useful.