Chapter 113: Old Lunatic (1/2)
Clothes soaked with sweat, Lu Yin continued to stare at the ground and recall the scene he had just witnessed, that foreign heaven, the giant ancient battleships, and that jade finger.
“Go down. The Stargazing Deck shows you the stars, your gratitude and grudges, the world through the ages, the cycle of causality, and a part of the heavens that belongs to you,” the tutor’s voice rang out again.
Lu Yin looked up before bowing slowly, “Tutor, might I ask a question? The Stargazing Deck can look into the past, but can it also look into the future?”
“Causality dictates everything,” the Starmaster said dully, “If you see the cause, there will be an effect.”
“And what does a part of the heavens that belongs to me mean? I clearly saw some foreign space.”
“Ask yourself what you witnessed; there have been many changes since ancient times. Go down, I will not answer you further.”
Lu Yin had many questions as he walked down the Stargazing Deck. He still was at a loss; if no one saw the exact same thing, what did his vision represent? His innate gift and the Stargazing Deck had both shown him that jade finger. Whose finger was it? Why did it crush him? Why did he feel so angry?
Ever since arriving at Astral-10, Lu Yin had only experienced one thing: insignificance. Unmatched as a Sentinel? That was just a joke, and only in the Great Yu Empire. A person’s strength didn’t just depend on their relative strength in the same realm; how many people in the Innerverse were younger yet much more powerful than him? Unequalled in the same realm, fair fights… those were all false glory. Like Bazeer had said, no one limited themselves in an actual battle. Star energy was a definitive part of power, proved by the ported battles. He hadn’t met any Sentinels in five battles; the powerful believed in crushing victories, not fairness.
He would never forget the humiliation that Wendy Yushan had wrought upon him. She hadn’t even canceled their engagement in person, looking down from a high vantage point with disdain. Muttering to himself, he raised his head and headed back to the Rain Observatory. That was the place everyone who passed the assessment had been sent to first, which had to be intentional. Perhaps that would be the right place to begin.
The dark green skies suddenly felt strangely familiar this time. He looked around and leaped into the sky, crossing one tree after several minutes of flight. The entire forest looked a little scary from the skies; as Big Pao had said, each treetop had its own limestone platform. He spent two hours on the journey before settling on one he liked, sitting down cross-legged and staring silently at the raindrops.
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Great Yu Empire, the second ring around the Zenyu Star. A blade sliced through the air and chopped down a flying beast, drawing cheers from a man nearby, “You’re back to a Sentinel, amazing!”
“Brother Zhang, let’s have a friendly duel to see how strong your realmbreaking power is,” the man walked over excitedly.
Zhang Dingtian refocused and gripped his sword, “Alright.”
Not long after, the two of them parted. The man was a powerful Melder while Dingtian was just a Sentinel; the outcome had been decided quite quickly.
“So powerful, you just recovered as a Sentinel and have the power of a Yu Academy elite. No wonder they made an exception for you to remodel, and you even have the Captain’s favor,” the man exclaimed. Seeing the Bladesage just wipe his sword in disappointment, he continued, “Right, I heard you know the Zishan King?”
Zhang Dingtian nodded silently, and the man was stunned, “Tell me, is he really such a genius? He’s one of the four people from the Empire that enrolled into Astral-10. I heard he was unparalleled as a Sentinel and even defeated Melders from Yu Academy.”
“I’m not sure,” Zhang Dingtian growled.
The man tutted, “So stupid. If you could use your connection to the Zishan King, you could have walked alongside him and decided the future of the Great Yu Empire. His title might have been empty before, but now that he’s entered Astral-10, everything is indifferent. He might be able to enter the Innerverse just like Princess Wendy in the future, and she might not hate our Empire anymore.”
Zhang Dingtian’s gaze flickered and he gripped his blade with resolution, swearing to himself that he, too, would walk out of the Great Yu Empire to find Qingyu Daynight and Liu Shaoge for vengeance.
Elsewhere on the second ring, Bai Xue was panting heavily as she stared straight ahead. Her body suddenly vanished and reappeared a few meters away.