Chapter 159: Sourcebox Catalog (1/2)

Not long after Lu Yin arrived at the residence, Peach arrived with a tortured expression.

Lu Yin could already guess what had happened.

“I’m sorry. I lost your friend,” Peach sincerely apologized to Lu Yin, her face extremely cute.

Lu Yin smiled as he consoled, “Peach, Bai Xue is an adult and is responsible for her own behavior. Getting lost is her fault and not your responsibility.”

Peach obstinately said, “I don’t even know what happened. She just vanished mysteriously. I didn’t even sense anything when she disappeared.”

Lu Yin was shocked since he assumed that she had lost track of Bai Xue when Yu Academy had fallen into chaos when the second prince, Duke Yushan, defected. A portion of Yu Academy had left the academy grounds at that time, and it was very possible that Bai Xue had been taken out as well since she had an innate gift. But now it seemed that there might be other matters at play. “How?”

Peach didn’t know either. “I really don’t know.”

“Didn’t she go in the first round?”

Peach shook her head. “No, she went missing in the Sixth Imperial Squadron’s encampment. A super powerhouse should have been the one to take her away, but I couldn’t feel any trace of remnant star energy. I’ve reported this to His Majesty, and he said that only a Hunter or above powerhouse could have accomplished such a thing. And it must have been no ordinary Hunter, either, as the emperor couldn’t sense anything either.”

Lu Yin was shocked to hear Peach’s words. For someone to be able to hide their movements from Undying Yushan, they were definitely a super powerhouse. But why Bai Xue? And Zhang Dingtian, Seruzen, Xu San are all missing as well. Could their disappearances all be related to this mysterious super powerhouse? They were all very ordinary and their only commonality lay in their shared origin of Earth. But Earth should be a very ordinary planet without any connections to any super powerhouses.

Lu Yin felt helpless as he could not make sense of what had happened either. He told Peach, “It’s unrelated to you, so don’t blame yourself.”

Peach nodded with a gloomy face. She liked Bai Xue, but the woman had gone missing on her watch.

Peach left soon after, but before she left, she told Lu Yin that Wendy had brought her many snacks from the Innerverse. Lu Yin knew what she was hinting at, but he really had no more snacks and so could only gently push her away.

Torry Auna arrived shortly after Peach left.

“King Zishan, Your Highness, this is the Auna clan’s welcome gift for you. Please accept our good wishes,” Torry Auna said as he passed an information chip to Lu Yin.

Lu Yin received the chip and smiled at Torry Auna. “Please convey my thanks to Xueshan Auna.”

Torry Auna nodded and slowly left.

This list of names was rather similar to Silver’s; it was more detailed, but the two lists were essentially identical.

This list represented the Auna clan’s sincerity in dealing with Lu Yin. If not for Silver’s gift, Lu Yin would have been extremely excited to receive this gift, but since it was just a copy of information that he already had, this gift held no practical value to him. Even money would have been better…

Lu Yin crushed the chip into dust and looked at his gadget, recalling something.

Master Wusheng had given Lu Yin several instructions before he left Astral-10. One was to wait for the network to finalize his approval as a Lockbreaker. Lu Yin did not know if it had finished yet, but he went ahead and entered the code that Master Wusheng had given him. The registration interface immediately popped up on his display.

After Lu Yin entered his serial identification number for the Lockbreaker Society and went through several rounds of authentication, a message finally appeared that stated, “Congratulations, Lu Yin, for successfully being verified as a Lockbreaker. Please choose a pseudonym and begin your great, lockbreaking journey.”

Lu Yin’s eyes gleamed and immediately entered a pseudonym—Seventh Brother.

A moment later, the display changed to a general interface. There were various guides and rules concerning Lockbreakers, and there was also a flashing icon in the bottom-right hand corner. Someone was trying to contact him.

Lu Yin curiously opened the icon, only to receive a flood of congratulatory messages from all over the universe. The senders included various empires of the universe, clans, companies, institutions, and even research organizations. The congratulatory messages were so numerous that they nearly overwhelmed him.

While he had known that Lockbreakers held a high status, he had never known that it was to this extent! He was just a new member with no accomplishments to his name, but so many people had already rushed to reach out and congratulate him. This was just too unbelievable! He was sure that even the Great Yu Empire was one of the well wishers.

Lu Yin immediately closed the messaging program. There’s too many. I don’t have the time to view them all.

An icon close to the messaging icon flashed on the display with the description, “Sourcebox Catalog,” below it.

Lu Yin’s eyes lit up. He had read through Master Wusheng’s books and now had some cursory knowledge about lockbreaking. For example, objects that required lockbreaking were called “sourceboxes.” Over the countless years of the universe’s existence, innumerable treasures had been birthed into existence before being covered in dust and sealed away. These were sourceboxes, and lockbreaking was the only method that could restore them to pristine condition.