Star Odyssey

Lu Yin was speechless. "Big Sis, that’s not what I meant at all! Come on, you haven’t even recovered your full strength yet."

"Do you think that cultivation is all that matters? I can absolutely do it! Forget one of Xia Shenji's Progenitor-level clones—even if one of the masters of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas themselves come, I can still find whoever I want! Not even that clone of Xia Shenji’s that was trying to run could escape me."

Lu Yin straightened up. "In that case, I’ll have to ask you for a favor, Big Sis. Make some trouble for him."

"Which one?"

"The clone who was being chased, of course. Make some trouble for him. I don’t want Liu Shaoge to be able to make any trouble."

Big Sis understood. "I can do it, but I don’t want to. It sounds exhausting."

Lu Yin suddenly grew solemn. "Big Sis, I always believed that you are the greatest goddess in the entire universe!"

Big Sis felt her face twitch. "You’re disgusting. Just wait a bit."

She looked up and stared in a specific direction. She licked her lips, and took off.

Plop!

Lu Yin turned his head and blinked. Apparently, the fish had just pulled Zhao Ran into the lake, which embarrassed the girl quite badly. She swam out of the lake and sadly stated, "Your Highness, the fish got away."

Lu Yin laughed loudly and reached over to pull her out of the water. "If it got away, then it got away this time. Just keep fishing."

"Well, I need to catch a big fish so that I can stew some herbal tea for you, Your Highness."

Lu Yin arched a brow. Fish? Stewed into an herbal tea? How was there even a connection between the two?

He glanced over at the strange cup of tea that sat nearby. It was clear that Zhao Ran’s concoctions were becoming increasingly disturbing.

***

In the Perennial World, beneath the Cloud Shuttle, the stuttering man from the Cosmic Sea appeared stunned. Big Sis didn’t want him around anymore?

Eh??He looked around and saw that many people were still dazed by what had happened, including the people who had been transporting the stellular liquid.

The stutterer mustered his courage and rushed over. He grabbed the cosmic ring and fled. He even remembered to break their fingers for blood to open the ring.

Many people saw what he did, but not a person dared to stop him, as they were all scared that something else would happen.

As for the man who had first taken action against Big Sis, he saw the stuttering man fleeing and wanted to attack the young man, but he could only watch him get away. Lu Yin had once relied on the stuttering man to escape because of his speed. The man was so furious that a mere Enlighter had escaped from him after stealing the stellular liquid under his protection that the powerhouse spat out blood and passed out.

As for the stutterer himself, he had no idea just how dangerous his actions were. If not for Big Sis’s powerful attack injuring her opponent so badly, a mere flick of the man’s fingers would have been enough to instantly kill the stutterer.

Far away, two people were carefully picking their way through a forest. One of the two was Liu Shaoge.

"He won't chase after you?" Liu Shaoge asked. He sounded perfectly calm, and not even the slightest hint of distress could be heard in his voice.

His companion answered in a hoarse voice, "No. I inflicted harm to myself and attacked him through the Nine Clones Secret Technique. I may have suffered multiple injuries, but so has he."

"Good."

"Thank you. If you had not warned me that I could not afford to fight against that woman, I might not have been able to escape if I had delayed even a single second more." As the man spoke, he lifted his head, and the dim light of the forest revealed a face that was a perfect copy of Xia Shenji's. However, this man’s face had a much darker demeanor compared to Xia Shenji. This man’s eyes concealed a ferociousness and incredible age.

Liu Shaoge replied, "She’s one of Lu Yin’s people. I only warned you because I don't want you to be found by Lu Yin. That would create a lot of trouble."

"Lu Xiaoxuan?"

"That’s right."

"Oh, so the child from back then was able to rise so high? Even if the Lu family had not been exiled, he should have never been able to rise so far. I never thought that he would be able to start replacing the banished Lu family. He abandoned you in Shenwu’s Sky—do you not hate him for that?"

Liu Shaoge laughed. "Why would I hate him for that? We were never friends."

"That's the right attitude. That’s the way of life for cultivators. There is no right or wrong, so there is no need for any resentment. All that exists is success and failure." As the man spoke, he stared upwards towards the Higher Realm. "We cannot remain in the Perennial World any longer. We need to find a way to leave."

"You want to go to the Lower Realm?"

"The Forsaken Land."

Liu Shaoge shook his head. "Going there will only make the two of us into Lu Yin's prey. I’d rather deal with the four ruling powers than him, as he’s a much greater threat to the two of us than they are."

"Someone is pursuing us." The man shoved Liu Shaoge away as he said, "Stay back!"

The man then turned around. A blade appeared in his hand, and it pointed straight along the path that they had just traversed.

Big Sis suddenly appeared, rushing towards the man while sneering. "How dare you ruin things for me! Stay here!"

As she spoke, she attacked with a Thundering Hammer. The impact was enormous, and the shockwave sent Liu Shaoge flying.

He smashed into the ground and coughed before wiping the blood from his mouth. Just how had Big Sis chased after them? Not even Xia Shenji’s Progenitor-level clone had been able to track them down!

Suddenly, Liu Shaoge’s wireless jincan trembled. He looked down and let out a sigh. Sure enough, Lu Yin had discovered him. 𝘣𝘦𝑑𝘯𝘰𝘷𝑒𝘭．𝑛𝘦𝘵

Liu Shaoge did not hesitate to answer the message and send a response to Lu Yin.

"You’re with one of Xia Shenji's clones?" Lu Yin sent from the Heavens Sect in the Fifth Mainland. At the moment, Big Sis was still fighting against the clone.

"That's right." Liu Shaoge looked up, only to see that, while Xia Shenji's clone was too occupied to do anything to help Liu Shaoge, Big Sis was throwing him an occasional glance.

It was clear that Lu Yin had sent Big Sis after the two men.

"What's going on?" Lu Yin demanded.

Liu Shaoge replied, "I was imprisoned in Shenwu’s Sky, and while there, I happened to meet this clone, so I escaped with him."

"You know that that’s not what I’m asking."

Liu Shaoge sent back, "Remove the seal from me, and I'll tell you everything that you want to know."

"Are you trying to negotiate with me?"

"What I can tell you is worth more than having me under your control."

"Is it that big?" Lu Yin had only reached out to Liu Shaoge to find out more about Xia Shenji's clone. Lu Yin had merely been curious about whether one of Xia Shenji’s clones had betrayed his main body. After all, there was no way for Lu Yin to deal with Xia Shenji for the time being, and even if there was, they had a truce in place.

Surprisingly, Liu Shaoge claimed to have information that was far more valuable than that for Lu Yin.

A smile spread across Liu Shaoge's face. "Brother Lu, this clone is connected to the Lu family’s exile."

Lu Yin’s pupils shrank. "The Prison Lock secret technique?"

"It seems that you already know about that little detail, Brother Lu. In that case, I believe that my request isn’t too much to ask," Liu Shaoge replied.

Lu Yin started thinking.

"Take your time, Brother Lu, but you won’t lose out from this agreement." Liu Shaoge was confident that Lu Yin would agree, so he simply ended the conversation and put his wireless jincan away before fleeing from the battle.

When Big Sis noticed that Liu Shaoge was running away, she wondered whether she should capture him, but even if she wanted to, it would not be easy. The clone was just as strong as her, and neither of them could defeat the other.

"Woman, get out of my way!" Xia Shenji’s clone roared in his hoarse voice.

Even while speaking, the hammer in her right hand smashed downwards while a blood-red lotus appeared in her left hand. Xia Shenji's clone looked incredibly somber, and he instantly sealed the attack with a secret technique.

The moment that Big Sis’s attack was sealed, the clone turned around and immediately fled.

Big Sis’s dark purple power swirled around her body and her head. It looked beautiful and mysterious, and she quickly shattered the chains that had blocked her attack. She looked around, but the clone had already fled and taken Liu Shaoge with him.

The woman let out a contemptuous snort and pulled out her wireless jincan to send Lu Yin a message. "Little Seven, what do you want to do?"

Lu Yin stood up and stretched. "Can you still find them, Big Sis?"

Big Sis raised her head proudly. "That’s no problem at all! I can find anyone I’ve faced before."

"Good. I'll head over to join you, and then we can find them together." Lu Yin untied the cloak and bamboo hat that he always wore while fishing, and then he put the wireless jincan away. He had been in seclusion for a year, and it was time to take a little walk.

For the past year, he had been in seclusion. Some of his time had been spent training, and at other times, he had been fishing and relaxing. As Kui Luo had described it, Lu Yin had been lazy.

An Envoy could easily go into seclusion to train for hundreds or even thousands of years without any trouble, while Lu Yin had taken breaks during his one year of seclusion to go fishing. Just what kind of secluded training had he been carrying out?

However, only Lu Yin knew that he had used Timestop no less than twenty times in the past year, and he had also rolled six pips on his die six different times. Unfortunately, not one of the Possessions had targeted anyone of any real worth or importance, so Lu Yin had only ended up wasting a tremendous amount of money.

Twenty instances of training in the Timestop Space was equivalent to twenty years while only twenty seconds would have elapsed in the outside world.

During his numerous visits to the Timestop Space, Lu Yin had improved his number of simulated stars from 110,000 to 200,000. While he was still 180,000 stars away from mastering the Cosmic Art’s sixth level, he had closed the gap tremendously.

He had also greatly condensed his Wielder realm battle force.

He had also spent his time in the Timestop Space practicing the Origin Sutra, Inverse Step, his visualization method, Truesight, Flipping the Sky, and various sourcebox arrays. All of his abilities had seen varying levels of improvements.

For this upcoming visit to the Perennial World, Lu Yin intended to disguise himself in order to minimize his chances of being attacked by Nutjob Lu. Regardless of the potential danger, there were various pending tasks in the Perennial World, and there were certain tasks that Lu Yin had to see to himself. No matter how smart Wang Wen was, there were certain things that only Lu Yin could take care of.

Hidden in the true universe, Sapling was happily swaying its branches and waving its green leaves as it absorbed more and more stellular energy.

Sapling was thrilled when it noticed Lu Yin’s visit, and a branch reached out to touch Lu Yin's chin.

At first, Lu Yin had been worried that Sapling would get lonely while absorbing stellular energy without any company, but he had come to learn that Sapling did not feel lonely at all. Instead, it greatly enjoyed the process of absorbing stellular energy and growing and was quite content to do so.

This caused Lu Yin to think of the Mother Tree.

Given the fact that Sapling clearly possessed some level of sapience, Mother Tree should as well. And yet, Lu Yin had never heard of anyone communicating with the Mother Tree.

"If I didn’t come see you, and someone else did instead, would you communicate with them?" Lu Yin muttered to himself as he stroked Sapling’s branches.

Sapling’s branches and leaves all started drooping, and the tree looked incredibly depressed.

Lu Yin smiled. "Don't worry, I’ll come visit you often."

Sapling instantly cheered up, and its branches started shaking. After a moment, some crystal clear stellular liquid was squeezed out, and Lu Yin quickly gathered it up.

There was a great deal of stellular liquid this time. It was several times more than what Lu Yin had been able to provide to Qing Ping.

"Will giving away this much stellular liquid hurt your growth?" Lu Yin was quite worried. It was well known that harvesting stellular liquid from the Mother Tree like the four ruling powers did harmed the Mother Tree, according to the Lu family. Naturally, Lu Yin was worried about hurting Sapling.

Sapling quivered in a happy manner. As long as it was able to help Lu Yin, it was more than willing to do so.

Lu Yin smiled. "Thank you for your hard work."

Right as he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something. He turned back to look at Sapling. “You really liked that big tree that ran away, didn’t you? Don't worry, I’ll find it for you some day. When I do so, I’ll bring it back so that you can play with it again."

Sapling grew even happier, as it really did like that big tree.

A few days later, a very ordinary looking man whose only defining feature was a large mole on his face arrived at the New Corridor in the Technocracy. There was a scraggly beard on his chin, and his clothes appeared rather expensive. There was a small creature on his shoulder that resembled the jiao, and there was also something similar to a Champions’ Stage behind the man.

He was Lu Yin.