Chapter 172: Presen (1/2)
The Corpse King’s attacking pattern was simple yet brutal. Lu Yin avoided it by Flashing away, while the Giant Emperor was pushed even further underground. It had been knocked out previously, but this new round of beating awakened him again. Its body was also pierced through, causing blood to gush out of its wounds.
The black-garbed man’s attack was fruitless. But he merely turned around to stare at Lu Yin with his chilling scarlet eyes and slitted pupils before rushing at him again.
Lu Yin’s eyes also burned with rage; the Neohuman Alliance was the greatest enemy of the human race. He wanted to test the strength of a trained elite Corpse King. With that intent in mind, Lu Yin swung his fist in reply. He still didn’t know his own physical limits, and this Corpse King was a great opponent to test his limits against.
Bang!
The entire swamp trembled as a terrifying shockwave that rocked the entire swamp erupted from the bottom of the swamp and nearly covered the entire sky. Everyone, including the Giant Emperor, was swept away by the force and thrown into the distance.
Amu’s legs were so numbed by the shockwave that he was rendered immobile. He could not even begin to fathom the level of the battle taking place below the ground right now. He had once witnessed a battle between Limiteers of the Butterfly Tribe, but even that had not been as terrifying as this.
The black-garbed man had exposed his identity as a Corpse King. He had an extremely strong physical body, but even so, Lu Yin’s punch stunned the Corpse King. It was so powerful that the Corpse King felt like he was being sent to hell as he was forced back.
Lu Yin had a strange expression on his face as he remained standing in his original spot, having not moved an inch. It seemed that this bastard was actually not capable of pushing Lu Yin’s physical abilities to their limits.
In the ported battles, he had always wanted to test his physical limits with his opponents, but he had always been unsuccessful. Since the ported battles only valued the ultimate result, once Lu Yin’s opponent sensed the terror of his physical body, they would generally change their method of attack as few were willing to go head to head against him in terms of physical strength. Even now, Lu Yin’s physical body had yet to be severely injured and only his internal organs had been slightly rattled.
“You’re from the Neohuman Alliance,” Lu Yin called out, trying to probe into this person’s background.
Lu Yin opened his right hand, causing eight stars to sparkle while the vague image of a ninth appeared as well. They revolved around his palm to form the image of a perfect galaxy, which he then slammed towards the black-clothed man. This attack was on a completely different level from the previous attacks. If an eight star Cosmic Palm was still an attack that belonged in the Melder realm, then this pseudo nine star Cosmic Palm was freakish enough to belong in the Limiteer realm.
Lu Yin’s palm landed squarely on the man’s body, and his mouth dropped open as he spat out a mouthful of blood. His tough and sturdy muscles tore apart like paper, and his entire body seemed to be on the verge of disintegrating into dust. He fell onto the ground miserably and coughed out another mouthful of blood. His scarlet cat eyes lost their fire, and he seemed to be completely defeated.
Lu Yin walked beside the man and carelessly wondered if he should finish the Corpse King off. A Corpse King was not a human as every one of them had a terrifying physique, and they could also swallow elemental energy crystals to obtain Innate Gifts. They walked a completely different path of cultivation and could become abnormally strong in their own right. The Ten Arbiters Council had also declared that anyone who killed a member of the Neohuman Alliance would receive a great amount of glory as a reward.
Honor and glory were very important to Lu Yin, and they would greatly help him regardless of what region of the universe he was in. But for Lu Yin, this reward wasn’t the most compelling incentive. With his status as a Lockbreaker, he did not lack for any amount of glory. But when he considered it from the perspective of the human race, he really should dispose of this Corpse King.
Lu Yin crouched down, took the fallen Corpse King’s cosmic ring from his hand, and then accessed it by swiping some of the defeated man’s blood onto it. There were a few hundred star energy crystals and a bunch of black crystals that emitted a biting coldness. There was also a heap of unrecognizable items, but there was really only one item that attracted Lu Yin’s attention: a ring. The ring was pitch black with an inlaid center of silvery grey metal. Engraved onto the silvery metal inlay was a delicately carved pair of flying wings and a sword with ten shadows around it. This was an Outerverse Youth Council member’s ring.
The Ten Arbiters Council’s ring was a black border with a silver-white center inlay while the Outerverse Youth Council’s was a black border and a grey-silver center inlay. This Corpse King actually joined the Outerverse Youth Council? What a joke. How could no one notice it?
Aside from the ring, Lu Yin found another familiar item; it was an artificial scarlet eye identical to the ones from the skull he had taken from Silver.
This Corpse King was indeed from the Neohuman Alliance. Lu Yin breathed out heavily and he looked at the gadget on the man’s hand. There was a familiar name attached to the bottom-most notification—Puyu.
‘Go to the Butterfly Weave and obtain the third eye of the Giant Emperor—Puyu.’ These were the black-garbed man’s orders. Lu Yin’s eyes brightened when he saw this message as it meant that this Corpse King was actually Puyu’s subordinate.
Does this mean that Puyu also belongs to the Neohuman Alliance? No, that can’t be right. If Puyu really was a member of the Neohuman Alliance, then he wouldn’t have brazenly given this Corpse King a mission, and he definitely wouldn’t have admitted him to the Outerverse Youth Council. It would be meaningless to have two members from the same organization in the same location. That meant that, if this person really was Puyu’s subordinate, then the only possibility was that Puyu did not know his true identity as a Corpse King.
Lu Yin’s eyes flashed as he pondered over the ramifications of this new discovery. Puyu was Bazeer’s backer, and the humiliation that he had suffered from Bazeer could only have been ordered by Puyu. That made Puyu a great enemy of Lu Yin’s, and if that was so, then he could not simply finish off this Corpse King.
Lu Yin didn’t know how his future interactions with Puyu would go if he allowed this Neohuman Alliance Corpse King to continue working with Puyu. So the majestic Outerverse Youth Council member had actually roped in a Neohuman Alliance Corpse King. Lu Yin hoped that Puyu would like this present, and a smile appeared on Lu Yin’s face as he anticipated that day’s arrival.
Lu Yin was in no hurry to rise up from the bottom of the swamp. After all, he didn’t know where the Giant Emperor’s third eye was. However, there was a high probability that both the Corpse King and Zhuo Daynight knew, which was why Lu Yin had left the girl alone when she tried to surreptitiously approach the Giant Emperor’s corpse.
Back above the swamp, Zhuo Daynight carefully observed the Giant Emperor before finally thrusting her sword into the back of its head. After digging around for a few seconds, she retrieved a white, half-moon shaped crystal. She glanced beneath her and then dashed off into the distance without any hesitation.
Lu Yin’s eyes brightened and he charged out, instantly Flashing next to Zhuo Daynight.