Chapter 149: Undying Manual (1/2)
“Just remember this. No matter how hard you people from Astral-10 work, it’s impossible for you to ever match up against the other combat academies from the Innerverse. At best, you might become as powerful as Astral-9. The Astral Combat Tournament isn’t about showy battle techniques or concealing your abilities, but rather demonstrating your true power,” Liu Ju said. She already considered herself as a part of Astral-6.
Her words only made Lu Yin extremely confused; she seemed a little crazy to him.
Soon enough, Mr. Wusheng smiled, walked over to Lu Yin, and extended an emblem to him with a serious expression. “I would like to officially ask you if you are willing to join the Lockbreaker Society and become a Junior Lockbreaker.”
Lu Yin took a deep breath and, with a fervent look in his eyes, replied, “Yes, sir. I’m willing to dedicate the rest of my life to the Lockbreaker Society.”
Ju was rendered speechless by his act. This guy was saying the exact same things as Xia Luo. Had they rehearsed it?!
Mr. Wusheng froze for a brief moment but then chuckled as he handed the emblem over to Lu Yin. He patted Lu Yin on the shoulder and exclaimed, “Great. From now on, you’re officially a registered member of our Lockbreaker Society. However, you currently have zero merit points, which you can only obtain by successfully breaking locks. When others wish to ask Lockbreakers for help, they mostly choose based on how many merit points the Lockbreaker has earned, so please work hard.”
“Yes, sir.” Lu Yin was very excited with his membership. He mainly wanted the Lockbreaker Society’s backing, so he didn’t really care about these merit points.
Mr. Wusheng sighed before saying, “Xia Luo has Elder Tan to teach him, so there won’t be any problems there. You just joined the society, however, so you really don’t know anything, and it’s not like you can suddenly start breaking locks. How about this; I’ll give you a few books. Also, you must promise me that once you start officially breaking locks, you’ll contact me first.”
So Xia Luo also joined the society? It seems that this person came here just to recruit Xia Luo. and Elder Tan must be the Trialmaster! All of these mentors seem to be hiding something. Meanwhile, Lu Yin nodded earnestly and took the books. They were all from the society and were invaluable.
Liu Ju glared at Lu Yin. “Make sure that you take care of them and don’t lose them. Those books are worth more than your life.”
“Don’t spout nonsense, Liu Ju. No matter how valuable these books are, they can only pass their knowledge down to others while people are the ones to create the knowledge that is held within the books. The two can’t be compared,” Mr. Wusheng said sternly.
After being scolded again, Liu Ju pursed her lips and chose to remain silent.
However, even if he used his newly acquired identity of a Lockbreaker, it would still be difficult to find a backer for the trial zones. No one would acknowledge him, not even if he showed them his emblem. Only power was relevant there. Lu Yin had a feeling that he needed to first successfully break a lock before he would be able to use his Lockbreaker status to find protection in the trial zones.
After boarding his own Aurora spacecraft, Lu Yin prepared to fly over to the Irven Merchants’ meeting point, which was a one day journey from Astral-10. Given the speed of his universal spacecraft, the meeting location was pretty far, but it was still within the Frostwave Weave’s territory.
Before Lu Yin started the spacecraft up, he checked to see if it needed a power source, but he couldn’t find anything. With how advanced modern technology was, this spacecraft worked in a way that he could not understand. Whatever it was, it did not need any additional power source.
This was good news for Lu Yin, as otherwise, this would just be another thing that required large amounts of money. While the Aurora spacecraft was already a money-devouring monster, it was good to save wherever he could.
He selected his route, set the spacecraft to autopilot, and then took out the books that Master Wusheng had given him. He then began to carefully peruse them.
Back within Astral-10, Xia Luo was leisurely walking around while he played with the starburst orb in his hand. Within the blink of an eye, he removed the thick metal layer covering it. Star energy trembled within it, and a moment later, all of the rampaging star energy was calmed down.
If Master Wusheng had seen this, then he would have definitely been shocked speechless. People with outstanding ability like Liu Ju were already able to neutralize the energy within three seconds, and there were few people among the young generation of the Lockbreaker Society who could do this. Those who could neutralize the energy in less than three seconds were much rarer, and it was nearly impossible to find someone who could do so instantly. Liu Ju had done everything she could in order to shorten her time by even one second, but for Xia Luo, it seemed to be as easy as breathing!
“The test for the Junior Lockbreakers, huh? How childish,” Xia Luo mused as he nonchalantly crushed the orb in his hands. Then, he looked up, his eyes shining with a profound light that nobody could understand.
A day later, Lu Yin’s spacecraft started beeping. He opened his eyes and found that there were quite a few spacecraft surrounding him. He had landed at the space station of a blue planet, with the surrounding spacecraft landing one after another.
Lu Yin had fallen asleep due to sheer exhaustion after studying the books for over ten hours. And surprisingly, by the time he woke up, he had already arrived at his destination.
His time spent studying was not in vain, as his understanding of what a Lockbreaker actually was had expanded greatly. These books had also helped him understand why the universe prized Lockbreakers so much. If the universe was said to contain countless treasures, then Lockbreakers were the guards who held the keys to those treasures. In one of the books, it had listed out a few examples of why Lockbreakers were so important.
The example that had been deeply imprinted into Lu Yin’s memory was the Daynight clan’s ancient inheritance stone. It turned out that the stone had been unlocked by a powerful Lockbreaker from that clan, and that unlocked inheritance stone was the start of the Daynight clan’s history of possessing unparalleled battle techniques.
Another memorable example was the Ross Empire, which was one of the three great powers that had attacked during Astral-10’s exam. The ancient technology that they had inherited had been unlocked by a Lockbreaker.