Chapter 144: Enhance (2/2)
After leaving the mountain, Lu Yin passed through the invisible screen and reappeared at the trial zone entrance.
The Trialmaster looked up and glanced at Lu Yin. “You died already? So you still weren’t good enough to survive. It seems that a hundred victories is too little. I should increase the number.”
Lu Yin was speechless. Increase the number? If it got out that he was the reason why the number to enter the Three Daos Six Realms had increased, then he’d definitely become the common enemy of the other Astral-10 students. “Um, Sir, you can’t blame me. An Area Master attacked me.”
The Trialmaster was surprised. “An Area Master? You’re pretty good at causing trouble, kid! Even an Area Mastor wanted to kill you.”
Lu Yin was at a loss for what to say. “I may have offended a lot of people in the past.”
“That makes sense. You look like the type,” the Trialmaster mumbled.
Lu Yin’s face twitched a little as he answered, “I’ll be off then.”
The Trialmaster just ignored him.
A similar scene occurred in the treasury. Old Cai looked at Lu Yin as if he were judging a piece of trash. “You got killed that quickly after you went in, huh. Don’t ever tell anyone that you’re the leader of Astral-10. It’s too humiliating.”
Lu Yin rolled his eyes in annoyance. It really wasn’t his fault! The number of people who could contest an Area Master within the entire Astral Combat Academy was too few. There probably wasn’t even anyone in Astral-10 who could do so!
“Enough. Go replenish your star energy. There’s a huge difference between someone who just became a Melder and someone at the peak stage,” Old Cai said in disdain.
“Yes, Sir,” Lu Yin said before turning around to leave.
“Wait, do you have any star crystals? It’ll take ages for you to reach the peak stage with the stray bits of star energy in the universe,” Old Cai said.
Lu Yin’s eyes lit up and he immediately looked at Old Cai excitedly. “No.”
The man nodded and did not say a word.
Lu Yin blinked before repeating, “I said, I don’t have any, sir.”
Old Cai shouted, “If you don’t, then go earn some! Why are you wasting your time talking to me? Do you want an old man like me to do it for you?!”
Lu Yin immediately fled. He knew this infinity-bearded man couldn't be trusted. Why would he ever think that this old man would be generous enough give him some crystals?
After finding an isolated area, Lu Yin placed a circle of natural energy crystals around him and began to absorb the star energy. He wanted to use Time Stop to do this, but he decided against it in the end. Absorbing star energy took time, and if he became a peak Melder in less than a second, then even an idiot would suspect that something was off. He also couldn’t be sure that no one would see him. Thus, he could only cultivate normally like everyone else.
Lu Yin took out over a thousand cubes of star crystals and crushed them in his hand. As he felt the turbulent star energy wash over him, he activated his Cosmic Art. The effects of a seven-fold increase in his absorption rate was very obvious, and the star energy was sucked in as if he were a tornado. He rapidly absorbed everything.
There was a large difference between a Melder and a Sentinel, but the most apparent difference was the amount of star energy that one could store. It could be said that a Sentinel contained enough star energy reserves to satisfy their needs, even if one’s needs were relative. A Melder’s reserves, however, were more like a vast sea.
Over the next seven days, Lu Yin absorbed star energy at seven times the standard speed. He used up a hundred thousand cubes of star energy, but it still wasn’t enough to bring him to the peak of the Melder realm.
Lu Yin opened his heavy eyes and felt a wave of fatigue wash over him. Absorbing so many impure elements meant that it would be difficult to remove them. He had never expected his cultivation to require so much star energy, where even a hundred thousand cubes wasn’t enough for him at this level. Most people didn’t need that much. A hundred thousand was quite a terrifying number. If Xi Yue hadn’t caused so much trouble for him, then Lu Yin wouldn’t have been able to gather such a large quantity in such a short period of time. But despite his vast stores, it had all disappeared in an instant.
He still had twenty thousand star crystals stored in his cosmic ring and another two hundred and fifty thousand in the form of a Mavis Bank crystal card… He should find some time to withdraw some.
For now, though, Lu Yin raised his hand and looked at the die in his palm. It was time to roll it again. The skin that he’d retrieved before had scared the wits out of him, but hopefully, he’d be luckier this time and roll three pips. He still had no idea what that roll could do.
He ended up being pretty lucky. On his first roll, the die stopped on the “three” that had never appeared before.
Lu Yin’s breathing turned rough as he watched two golden rays of light appear; one on top and one on the bottom, like two golden screens. They were very dazzling and, a moment later, he discovered their use. He could place items on top of one of the screens and raise its “level.”
As soon as the information on what this roll did appeared in Lu Yin’s mind, his breathing became even more ragged, and his eyes shone like never before. He first thought about his Cosmic Art—if it was possible to upgrade the crystal for Cosmic Art, then what would have happened? He also had battle techniques, weapons, materials, potions, and much more. Right, and there was also the formcast model…