Chapter 178: Astral River and Flowzones (1/2)

Lu Yin laughed. “I didn’t say that I’d do it by myself. Although Astral-10 only has a few students, each one has obtained a hundred victories in the teleportation battles. We aren’t inferior to the other students at all.”

Schutz ruefully shook his head. “Those people won’t bother helping you. Aside from Meng Yue and myself, everyone else already has their own backers. They have their own training grounds, so they won’t feel any need to stir up trouble.”

“I’m Astral-10’s student leader, and I naturally have my own ways to get them to help me.”

“Alright, if this is what you want, then I’ll join you. Besides, it’s not like I can actually die.”

“That’s more like it! That’s the Great Yu Empire’s younger generation’s number one powerhouse, Schutz, in my memories! Be fearless! I still vividly remember that scene of you challenging the Outerverse Youth Council,” Lu Yin marvelled as he reminisced about the past.

Schutz laughed bitterly; he had been too ignorant back then. Like Lu Yin had said, they could not even comprehend the vast difference that existed between the Outerverse Youth Council and themselves back then. Looking back, Ghostfire was just a failed examinee who could not even enter Astral-10, but he had still forfeited his Hall Master position at Yu Academy without any hesitation. The man behind him, Bazeer, was even an Explorer. While he wasn’t an Explorer of the Astral Combat Academy, his strength shouldn’t be too far off from one since he had joined the Outerverse Youth Council. Their vision had truly been too limited before.

“So which Dao are we headed to?”

Lu Yin unhesitatingly replied, “The Dao of Purgatory, Whitebones Gorge.”

“Whitebones Gorge’s Area Master is Charon, your backer, right?” Schutz asked in shock. Charon had announced that Lu Yin was under his protection, shocking many. To the public, Lu Yin was someone who had taken liberties with Xi Yue, beaten up other academy students before extorting and threatening them, and also completed the most difficult Sentinel mission. He was not some random unknown character, but rather the leader of Astral-10’s students.

At the mention of Charon, Lu Yin laughed again. “He’s my brother, a very good brother.” No one in the universe knew Charon better than Lu Yin did.

Schutz nodded acceptingly. “I was just killed inside. You enter first, and I’ll look for you after I’ve recuperated.”

Lu Yin walked up the trialzone mountain and looked into the distance. He vaguely saw Xia Luo’s figure, who was sitting in a rather careless position. The rest had looked for secret spots to hide themselves even though their physical bodies would be protected after they entered the trial zones, but Xia Luo obviously did not care about that at all.

When it sensed Lu Yin’s arrival, the war spirit immediately acted, materializing a black sword. The blade trembled, causing countless shadows to rush out from the sword in a hundred meters radius around it.

Lu Yin was shocked. He knew that war spirits were powerful as they were remnant memory impressions of former powerhouses who had battled in the trial zone, but he had never imagined that the one before him would be this powerful. Its attack did not lose out to Zhuo Daynight’s Alabaster Apparition Blade in the slightest, and it was also able to mimic a domain. He believed that, when this war spirit’s powerhouse had been alive, he had definitely grasped a domain.

Lu Yin was about to act when his expression suddenly changed. He dodged aside with Flash and reappeared a hundred meters away. Three students suddenly appeared and looked at the war spirit with delight. “Charge! Leave the last strike for me,” one of them shouted while the other two attacked the war spirit together.

Lu Yin’s eyes flashed: spirit hunters. Though he had not browsed through all of Charon’s memories during his Possession, he had still seen some. Those select memories meant that this spirit hunter team was not completely foreign to him.

Although he understood what spirit hunters were, he still did not understand why they existed. While the leaders of the spirit hunter team may not be top-tier powerhouses, they definitely had a respectable background. Clearly, some of these elites would rather organize these hunting teams than compete for the status of an Area Master, and they would even insist on delivering the last blow. It was very strange and there were all sorts of rumors as to their motivation.

The spirit hunter team before him was a bit different from those in Charon’s memories. The hunters that Charon knew were all very powerful, as all of the team captains were at least as strong as an Area Master. Otherwise, they would not dare to hunt war spirits. However, none of the trio before Lu Yin seemed impressive, and they would rank at the bottom of Astral-10’s students at best.

WIth a loud bang, the black ground shattered as the two students pincer-attacking the war spirit were heavily injured and thrown back. Their faces paled as they said, “Gu Er, this war spirit is too strong. It can even use a domain. We can’t handle this one.”

That leading student grew flustered as he continued to evade the war spirit’s blade. He saw Lu Yin and immediately shouted, “Hey you! Come over and help us kill the war spirit, but remember, leave the final blow to me.”

Lu Yin raised his brows. “Why should I listen to you?”

Gu Er snorted derisively. “You either kill this war spirit with us, or we abandon it and kill you. Make your choice.”

Lu Yin’s expression turned from one of fury to ridicule. This man was using such a domineering form of intimidation when he wasn’t even that strong himself. This guy really knew how to sink his own ship.

Lu Yin considered the situation some more, and then moved to join in on the attack against the war spirit. This wasn’t because of Gu Er’s threat, but rather because he wanted to kill the war spirit. This captain badly wanted to deliver the killing blow, and Lu Yin simply wanted to see why.

Gu Er truly believed that his threat worked and secretly had the other two to retreat. He wanted Lu Yin to act as bait while they waited for an opportunity to counterattack.

After fighting against Zhuo Daynight, Lu Yin now knew the signs of an incomplete domain. He immediately used his Nine Stacks Shockwave Palm technique, causing nine explosions to ring out. It first shattered the war spirit’s black sword, and then it directly exploded against the war spirit, completely destroying it.