Chapter 50: Corridor (2/2)
Jenny Auna and the girl in green kept quiet, but Xia Luo smiled warmly, “That’s right. Lu Yin, do you know where this stone is from?”
Lu Yin answered, “No.”
Xia Luo continued to smile, “Then we can talk about it. This stone is the inheritance of a powerful clan in the Innerverse. It is rumored that one can learn the battle techniques of that clan from this stone, which is the reason why Qingyu is wanted. Since you didn’t know the function of this stone, I’ll tell you the method of using it and let’s try it out together. What do you think?”
The girl in green looked at Xia Luo in surprise, “You know how to use it?”
Xia Luo smiled, “I know a bit. This stone isn’t useful to anyone other than the people of that powerful clan because no one else can use it. This is also why the clan didn’t bother to retrieve it themselves—in which case the entire Frostwave Weave would have been done for—so there’s no reason to fight over this thing.”
The girl in green looked at Lu Yin as well, “What do you think?”
Lu Yin looked at the three people before him. He was only confident in a battle against Jenny, which also meant that no one in the entire capital could stop them. “Fine, we can study it together, but you can’t take the stone away.”
Xia Luo nodded, “No problem. And if you have friends who want to study as well, they can join us. The method is very easy; blood can activate the stone. It’s up to each person individually whether they can get the inheritance, but I’ll tell you now that it’s almost impossible for us to succeed.”
Lu Yin glanced at Xia Luo and immediately contacted Bai Xue and Zhang Dingtian, who soon arrived along with Zhou Shan and Wu Sheng. Jenny frowned arrogantly while the Sages looked at the outsiders warily; these three people were very powerful and two were at least equal to Munoor; it would be a disaster for Beijing if a fight broke out.
“Don’t worry, we mean no trouble and only wish to study the stone together. I’ll go first,” Xia Luo gestured. Lu Yin tossed him the stone, and he pricked a finger and allowed a drop of blood to drip down. The stone absorbed it and started floating, exerting pressure on everyone in the room as they saw hints of many battle techniques flashing past their eyes. Accompanying those techniques was something terrifyingly vile, but Xia Luo sat down and gazed up at the stone in contemplation.
The girl in green was the second to start, dripping her own blood and sitting down as well. Soon, all of them were sitting in a circle around the sixteen-faced stone. Lu Yin snuck a peek at Xia Luo before starting, although everyone looked defenseless right now, he was certain that they all had their ways to protect themselves and that it wouldn’t be a good idea to attack. He finally dripped some of his own blood onto the stone and watched as it was absorbed, suddenly seeing a primordial fist punching towards his face.
Puff! Wu Sheng suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, color draining from his face. A while later, Zhou Shan joined him in failure. Like a chain reaction, Bai Xue, Jenny Auna, and Zhang Dingtian all failed one after the other, staring at the stone with awe on their pale faces. Meanwhile, Lu Yin saw the fist drawing closer and closer, surrounded by a boundless darkness and the river of time. Countless people had died to this punch that could change day to night.
He subconsciously gritted his teeth, biting his lip as he used the Cosmic Art. The approaching fist started to slow down and he could now see it more clearly; although it covered the entire sky and turned day to night, there was still a way to avoid it.
‘Wait, why avoid it?’ He opened his eyes and three stars revolved around his body, a fourth suddenly appearing as well. The stars exploded into the fist, dissipating it just as it was about to strike it.