Chapter 177: The Tournament Approaches (1/2)

Lu Yin exerted more strength through his arm and forced Hui Daynight’s entire body to the ground. His voice was cold as he said, “Remember, don’t challenge me again. Otherwise, I’ll cripple you the next time.”

He unceremoniously tossed Hui Daynight aside, sending him crashing heavily into the wall.

Hui Daynight clutched his finger in pain as he stared at Lu Yin in shock. How was it that every time he faced Lu Yin, he wasn’t strong enough to even retaliate? He was a member of the Daynight clan. This was not how things should be!

Lu Yin calmly walked to the teleportation device, but stopped when he recalled something. He turned to Hui Daynight. “In your clan, is there a woman named Zhuo Daynight?”

Hui Daynight replied through his pain, “I don’t know.”

Lu Yin’s gaze turned cold. “I don’t like it when people lie to me.”

Hui Daynight snorted. “I can’t be bothered to lie about this.”

Lu Yin studied his face for a while, but didn’t say anything more before he stepped into the device and headed directly to the treasury to see Old Cai.

Old Cai beamed with joy as he fiddled with the Giant Emperor’s third eye. “Not bad. This emperor’s third eye is a great lockbreaking tool.” He then tossed it back to Lu Yin as he said, “Take it. It’s very suitable for you.”

Lu Yin caught it and stored it in his cosmic ring, but he was still puzzled. “Mentor, how did you know this thing is a lockbreaking tool? It appears that the Daynight clan and Buyou also knew, which is why they sent their underlings, though the people of the Butterfly Weave did not know. If they had, I doubt that they would have set the trial’s mission objective as the Giant Emperor’s death.”

Old Cai stroked his massive mustache. “There are many useful things in the universe, but they might not always be mature when we discover them, just like this Giant Emperor’s third eye. Do you think that it’s easy for this treasure to develop? This thing has been passed down for many generations of Giant Emperors, and it was immature when we first discovered it. Even if it was useful at that time, it hadn’t reached the level of being a lockbreaking tool. It worked out well for you that it matured this generation.”

“There was a Giant Emperor who became an Explorer and tried to break through the Butterfly Weave’s blockade but was killed. So how was this thing still passed down to the next Giant Emperor?” Lu Yin was curious.

“No wonder the Giant Emperor was the first to escape when the trial takers descended,” Lu Yin murmured as he suddenly realized what had happened, causing a shiver to run down his spine. While the giant tribe wasn’t sapient, the intelligence of the Giant Emperor could not be underestimated.

Old Cai slowly said, “The meaning of life is simple, and its existence is logical. There is only ever one Giant Emperor in the giant tribe, and the third eye is pivotal to their understanding of the meaning of life. Keep it safe. It must not have been easy to snatch it from the Daynight clan and the Outerverse Youth Council.”

Lu Yin nodded obediently. “Old Cai, what should I do next?”

He looked at Lu Yin and burst into a weird laughter that lasted for so long that Lu Yin felt afraid. “Astral-10 has been quiet for too long. The mentors will give you a mission, so to go to the trial zones and snatch up a training ground.”

The look in Lu Yin’s eyes changed. “Snatch up a training ground?”

Old Cai’s lips quirked up. “That’s right. Go on and grab a training ground for yourself.”

Lu Yin was momentarily struck speechless. “Old Cai, do you really think that I can go against those Area Masters?”

He studied Lu Yin with a steady gaze. “I don’t know. But just try it since you won’t really die anyways.”

“They may have helpers.”

Old Cai rolled his eyes indifferently. “And you don’t? Kid, don’t you know the meaning of being the student leader of Astral-10? You’re the leader of all the students here, so you’re qualified to lead them.”

“They may not listen to me.”

“That’s your problem, but the academy will close an eye to your actions due to your status as the student leader.”

Lu Yin’s eyes lit up as the idea of the academy closing an eye sounded very appealing. He immediately thought of what had happened with Hui Daynight; if he didn’t listen, then Lu Yin would simply beat him into submission. As long as the mentors did not intervene, it was acceptable!

“Right, I also need to remind you to finish this mission quickly. The Astral Combat Tournament is quickly approaching. Those old fogies even got the Ten Arbiters to round up a bunch of sponsors, and they’ve pushed the date forward greatly to implement the universal network.”

Lu Yin frowned; just the knowledge of Liu Shaoqiu was already rather pressuring, but now, the timing of the tournament had been pushed forward as well. How troublesome. However, it didn’t seem logical to mobilize so many people and use so many precious resources to finish the universal network for a mere Astral Combat Tournament. He had already guessed this before, but perhaps things were even more complicated than he had initially assumed.

He was just about to leave the treasury when he suddenly thought of something. He looked back at Old Cai. “I remember that the list of missions had quite a few lockbreaking missions. Are those Sourceboxes in our academy?”

“Clear those thoughts away and go to the training grounds first.”

Lu Yin thought Old Cai’s response was strange, but he still turned around to leave.

Old Cai rolled his eyes. “What a joke. If those Sourceboxes were still in our academy, then that trial zone fellow would have unlocked them long ago. You wouldn’t have had even a chance to look at them.”

Lu Yin left the treasury and headed to the trial zone entrance. There was no one under the teleportation stone, and he only saw Little Pao there, chewing a blade of grass, with a bored to death expression.

“Senior Little Pao, it’s been a while,” Lu Yin greeted.

Little Pao’s eyes gleamed. “Lu Yin, you’re back! I haven’t seen you for a few months. You’ve grown stronger.”

Lu Yin smiled. “Senior Little Pao, what are you doing here?”