Chapter 194: Stonewall Scriptures (1/2)

He slowly opened his eyes and saw a strange bug in front of him. He thought of eating it, but he ended up licking his parched lips that were as dry as sand. He needed to drink water. But at that moment, the insect flapped its wings and flew off.

Rays of deep red light blinded him, causing Lu Yin to instinctively close his eyes. When he reopened them, the emaciated elder had appeared before him yet again.

Lu Yin’s eyes changed when he saw the elder, and he tried to stand, but he couldn’t feel his entire body. Wait, no sensation… Could it be gone?! He strained to look down at his body, and to his relief, found that it was fortunately still intact.

A large chunk of roasted meat was thrown in front of Lu Yin. “Eat. You haven’t eaten anything in a month.”

Lu Yin stared at the meat in front of him and tried to suppress his saliva but found that he had none. He resisted the urge to take a bite and continued staring malevolently at the elder.

The elder laughed strangely. “Relax, it’s not white meat.”

Lu Yin squinted, his eyes flickering with indecision.

The elder shook his head and moved to the side. Behind him there was a giant, three meter long insect. It was missing several legs and traces of meat being cut out could be vaguely seen.

After Lu Yin ascertained that the roasted meat was not white meat, he immediately bit down. He swallowed the meat without chewing and quickly devoured the giant piece of meat, but an unbearable thirst soon followed.

The elder raised a finger, causing some of the trickling water droplets on the wall to slowly fly into Lu Yin’s mouth. This was a welcome shower after a long drought, and Lu Yin slowly drank the water for a long time. He then licked his lips and in a hoarse voice, asked, “Why did you save me?”

The elder sat down before Lu Yin. “It’s not for charity.”

“State your terms.”

A chilling smile crept into his skeletal face, “I need you to take some things to the Neoverse.”

“Neoverse?” Lu Yin was at a loss.

“You don’t need to know what that is for now. When you are able to reach the first Flowzone of the Innerverse, you will naturally know everything about the Neoverse.”

Lu Yin forced a smile onto his face. “Do you really think that I can enter the Innerverse? I can’t even get off of this planet.”

“There’s no rush. Where there’s a will, there’s a way,” the elder replied before he suddenly recalled something. “I nearly forgot—in order to ensure that you’ll uphold your end of the bargain, I’ve placed a dark seal on you. Only the person that I’m sending you to can remove it. No one else, not even Hunters, can help you. You can let them try if you don’t believe me, hehe.”

“What is this place?”

“Driftcharge Planet. It’s a planet in its final moments, and one that’s about to be destroyed,” the elder replied. He then lifted a hand and began carving something into the stone wall with star energy. Lu Yin watched for a moment before a strange expression appeared on his face. The old man was carving words, and while he recognized the words being carved, he did not understand their meaning.

Half an hour passed before the elder finally stopped and let out a breath. He looked at the stone wall with a complex expression before turning to Lu Yin. “Memorize it.”

Lu Yin was dumbfounded. “What?”

“I’m making you memorize it,” the elder barked with an unkind tone.

Lu Yin was speechless. “You wrote for an entire half an hour, but you want me to memorize it all? How long do you think I’ll take?”

The elder stared at Lu Yin. “You can either memorize it, or you can go outside and become white meat.”

Lu Yin did not have a choice. “Alright, but don’t blame me if I take too long.”

“It wouldn’t be quick even if you wanted it to.” The old man sighed again, no longer in a mood to continue conversing. He soon left the burrow.

Lu Yin lay on the floor, motionless, and stared at the wall. “To be good at communicating, the Dao of Heaven refuses. To jump and lie in the heavens, the Dao of Heaven accepts. To jump and lie in the horizon, to condense gas, to swallow rivers…”

After Lu Yin had reached the Melder realm, all aspects of his body had been greatly upgraded, and memorizing a segment of words was not difficult for him at all. But this text was strangely difficult, and he even felt a sense of oppression while trying to memorize it. It almost felt as if something was staring at him in the dark. It wasn’t obvious, but his head grew dizzier as he read it over and over, and after twenty minutes he fainted.

The elder stepped into the cave and looked at the unconscious youth. “If it wasn’t dismantled for you to memorize, then you wouldn’t be able to remember even a single sentence.” He then gazed at the stone wall. “I really hope that this can truly be inherited.”

Lu Yin woke up with a splitting headache after spending half a day knocked out. What happened? What was that text? Did it actually give me a headache just from me memorizing it?

“Continue,” the elder commanded from where he was sitting nearby.

“May I ask what’s the point of memorizing this text?”