Chapter 262: Initial Encounter (1/2)
Arikar frowned, but he still followed behind Cang Yu and soon saw Lu Yin.
Lu Yin also noticed Arikar and smiled at him. “Are you the only one from the Blaze Realm who’s participating in this trial?”
Arikar had once dared to challenge a Realm Master, but when he faced Lu Yin now, there was not a single trace of arrogance on his face. Apart from some slight distaste, his expression was rather calm. “Just me.”
“Jared isn’t coming?”
“No.”
Lu Yin did not ask more questions. Although his conflict with the Blaze Realm was not as deep as the one that he had with the Daynight clan, it was by no means superficial either. However, this was not the time to provoke them, as the Great Yu Empire was already facing the assault of the Ross Empire. It would be troublesome if the Blaze Realm got involved as well.
For his part, Arikar similarly did not want Lu Yin to take revenge against him in the Shenwu Continent, so he stopped speaking as well.
Actually, the two of them did not have any conflicts between them, as Jared was the one who had started the dispute with Lu Yin. Arikar had been sullen about this, and he had cast countless curses upon Jared, hoping that the idiot’s grudge with Lu Yin would not end up implicating him.
Cang Yu saw that the two were not conversing, so he brought them to a room with transparent walls near the edge of the space station. “Could the two of you remove your gadgets and put on the clothes of the Shenwu Continent? We’ll leave once there are five people.”
Lu Yin and Arikar quickly donned the clothes. The long gowns had an ancient feel to them, and the two trialtakers would have had a very scholarly demeanor if they had had a fan.
It was Lu Yin’s first time wearing such antique-looking clothes, and it felt rather novel.
Arikar seemed to be quite preoccupied with something, and he glanced at Lu Yin from time to time. He felt like a mouse that was trapped within the same room as a cat. He did not have the courage to resist Lu Yin, a freak of unknown origins who had five-lined battle force.
The time that they spent waiting for the others to come was not pleasant, and the space station did not allow the trialtakers to enter and leave as they pleased either. Thus, Lu Yin could only sit down, cross-legged, and begin to meditate.
Half a day later, someone else arrived and was stunned when they saw Lu Yin and Arikar. They recognized the two of them, but did not speak much and went to their own corner.
Another person arrived soon after; it was a girl with average looks and a large figure. She seemed rather detached, and only glanced briefly at the others before sitting down to meditate as well.
Amongst the four people present, only Lu Yin felt this sensation from the youth, as Arikar and the rest did not pay too much attention to this youth.
“Lord Thalia will soon send the five of you to the Shenwu Continent. Let me give you all a final reminder; the Shenwu Continent is very dangerous and holds many experts. Although most of them are concentrated near the five sealing planets to defend them, you should not be careless. Countless trialtakers have died on this continent over the past thousand years, and we are not an unknown existence to the people there.” After Cang Yu finished speaking, he installed the dust-sized cameras for the five people before leaving.
Lu Yin kept observing the youth who had arrived last throughout this whole time, as he felt a slight bit of fear from this person.
The youth sensed Lu Yin’s gaze and turned around to face Lu Yin. His colorless eyes stunned Lu Yin; was this why was this expression and aura felt so familiar? His eyes was eerily similar to the Corpse King’s from the Neohuman Alliance that Lu Yin had encountered on the giant planet.
The youth casually glanced at Lu Yin before turning away again.
Lu Yin frowned. Was this person really a part of the Neohuman Alliance? They already had someone in the Outerverse Youth Council, so why would they attempt to send another person in? Logically, he couldn’t be from the Neohuman Alliance. And after all, there were many organizations in the universe whose members had similarly cold emotions to the Neohuman Alliance’s members. There were many techniques that could cause one to develop the same demeanor as well. Also, some people were just naturally very cold, and Lu Yin could not rely on just their aura to determine if someone was from the Neohuman Alliance.
At this point, the transparent room trembled slightly as a great strength descended. The five trialtakers’ hearts jumped; it had begun.
Outside the halo, a crack appeared. It was small but enough to accommodate a few people. “Go in now,” someone’s voice barked at them.
Arikar charged in without hesitation, as he was unable to remain patient. Lu Yin and the rest followed closely behind. Lu Yin only felt an intense tearing force when his body went inside the spatial crack. Truthfully, he was not fond of entering in this kind of manner due to the inherent dangers, but they had no other options.
Suddenly, a palm appeared in the void and swatted towards the trialtakers. The five people’s pupils shrank; a terrifying powerhouse had just arrived and they were suddenly thrust into a dreadful crisis.
“Ming Zhaotian, you can’t block me,” an angry howl sounded in the void. From Lu Yin’s side, a palm appeared and slapped against the first palm. At that instant, the void distorted, and one of the five youths was crushed in a flash. Lu Yin was also affected, as none of the five were powerful enough to withstand the blow.
“I can’t take this anymore! I’m going to go into hibernation for now. Be careful with yourself! Don’t die and drag me down with you,” the Ghost Monkey’s voice sounded out in his head.
A shockwave swept out when the two palms met. As it rippled outwards, it scattered Lu Yin and the rest apart and fractured the void into multiple cracks. No one knew which one was safe, but regardless, they had no choice which one they were thrown into. They couldn’t even lift a finger before the frightening shockwave separated them and they were helplessly swallowed by the spatial cracks. Before he vanished, Lu Yin managed to see an imposing man. He was the current emperor of the Shenwu Empire, Shenwu Emperor Ming Zhaotian.
Lu Yin temporarily lost consciousness when he passed through the spatial crack. As his consciousness returned, he opened his eyes. Is this water? There was a brilliant white scenery before him. Is this a person? Lu Yin lifted his head and was immediately stunned when an exquisitely beautiful face came into view. He became utterly immersed within the entrancing visage. He did not know if any artist could preserve this face, though it would be an everlasting regret if it could not be preserved.
Within the room, in a tub with soft petals sprinkled about, one man and one woman exchanged gazes. Both were stunned.
The man was enraptured in the woman’s beauty.