Chapter 112: Image (2/2)
Lu Yin was shocked by Darkvoid’s win rate, while Hui Baiye was flabbergasted as well. This person was far stronger than himself.
“Seven victories, how powerful,” a male stranger appeared about ten metres away from Lu Yin and gazed at Darkvoid in wonder. Lu Yin looked at him with suspicion, but he smiled back, “Let me introduce myself. I’m Little Pao, you can call me Senior Little Pao.”
Lu Yin felt strange, “Little Pao? You’re with Big Pao?”
“That’s my older brother,” Little Pao replied.
Lu Yin nodded, as the two brothers had rather convenient names, “Senior Little Pao, there’s something I would like to ask. We’ve been here for three days, but why has not a single other senior appeared?”
Little Pao felt embarrassed, “They all left. Outside of the tutors themselves, we’re the only two remaining.”
“What? All of them left?” Lu Yin was stunned.
Little Pao nodded and sighed, “Astral-10 was once in the Innerverse, but we were sent to the Outerverse. All the other students tried to enter the other academies or just left. No one wants to come to the Outerverse.”
Lu Yin hadn’t imagined that Astral-10’s situation would be so poor. No wonder he couldn’t see a single other student. He bid farewell to Little Pao and left the trial zone entrance, heading for the Sand Ocean that Big Pao had introduced them to before. The others had all left over the past three days.
The Sand Ocean was one of three great landscapes of Astral-10 with the Rain Observatory and Stargazing Deck. Their specific uses were not really introduced to him, but given that the Rain Observatory could polish their star energy, he guessed that the Sand Ocean would help with the physical body or battle techniques. The teleporter only had a few options anyway, and the ripping force quickly left him in a wide expanse of yellow sand.
From Big Pao’s basic introduction, the Sand Ocean was far larger than the Rain Observatory. Dangerous sandstorms swept across the region on occasion, and after seeing the yellow desert that stretched as far as the eye could see, Lu Yin stepped back into the teleporter and headed for the Stargazing Deck. He wanted to look at all three major landscapes once, and the Stargazing Deck was the most mysterious of them all. This was the one landscape that all ten Astral Combat Academies possessed.
According to Big Pao’s introductory message, everyone saw something different on the Stargazing Deck. Some saw their past, some saw a smear of the heavens, and some saw powerful battle techniques. It was said that some even glimpsed a hint of the future; Lu Yin could not believe this, but those rumors did go to show how mystical this place was. It was actually just an octagonal wooden building with many layers, but it wasn’t more than a hundred meters tall and the top was a leveled terrace. The entire thing looked quite average, but there were just too many rumors about it.
Xia Luo walked out of the Stargazing Deck just as Lu Yin arrived, and the two bumped into one another.
“How many times have you tried the ported battles?” Xia Luo asked. He had left after his first defeat.
“Five.”
He smiled, “We’re in early stages still; we can’t challenge the Innerverse powerhouses just yet.”
Lu Yin nodded and pondered over it, changing topics, “You know Silver?”
Xia Luo was taken aback, “Why do you ask?”
Lu Yin laughed, “I’m not blind. You treat him completely differently with the way you treat others.”
Xia Luo shook his head, “I don’t know him, but I hate the smell on his body.”
Lu Yin thought of the Neohuman Alliance and their Corpse Kings from the planetary trial. Silver didn’t actually look like one, but he just let the conversation die. Xia Luo left for some other location, and he slowly stepped onto the Stargazing Deck. The place seemed just as normal on the inside as on the outside; even at the top, the scenery he saw and the sensations he felt were nothing out of the ordinary.
“Close your eyes, meditate, and feel,” a voice rang beside his ears. Lu Yin understood that this was a tutor, and he thought no further before slowly closing his eyes. A short while later, he entered a strange sleep where he felt like he was still awake. His gaze flitted past the Stargazing Deck into the starry heavens, entering a foriegn space that was flooded with a desolate aura. Further away, he saw titanic ancient battleships sailing through the stars, each one so large that their ends could not be seen. They almost seemed to embrace the galaxies they floated across, and an ancient warsong played in his ears. There was one word he saw in front of the frontmost vessel—Boundless.