Chapter 283: Seal (2/2)

Doro from the Bard Territory was shocked. “Are you trying to call for help?”

An Shaohua was struck speechless by his assumption. “Of course not! My hometown, the Watermoon Villa, has a unique battle technique that can amplify sound. My brother is hidden somewhere within the capital, and after I amplify my voice with this instrument, I’ll be able to ask him to help and work together with us from the outside. He’s an Explorer, and he’s definitely powerful enough to break the seal.”

Everyone was surprised. This was quite an interesting battle technique.

Lu Yin was astonished as well. It seemed that all kinds of strange things existed in the universe; after all, even a battle technique like this had been developed.

“As we discussed before, you’ll take care of any Explorer realm powerhouses that appear. Right, Han Chong?” An Shaohua asked Han Chong as he glanced over.

Han Chong appeared quite solemn. “If the seal is destroyed, I’ll deal with any Explorers that come here.”

“Alright then. Here I go.” An Shaohua took a deep breath, and under everyone’s shocked look, blew hard into the trumpet.

A booming sound phased through the seal of materialized energy. It wasn’t some kind of offensive soundwave, but rather just pure sound. In other words, it was extremely loud. Even Lu Yin was startled.

The monkey was furious. “He scared the crap out of me!”

Outside the tower, as those trumpet “toots” rang out, the surrounding troops were just as surprised as the trialtakers, and they began to carefully observe the tower.

Meanwhile, a thousand meters away from the Tower of Resonating Light, a man who was lying atop a tree heard the sound, and his eyes flashed. He quickly opened his mouth and made the same sound in response. However, unlike what happened when An Shaohua made the sound, this time, an immense martial power swept through the sky and violently slammed into the Tower of Resonating Light.

In the imperial palace within the capital, Ming Hao’s expression changed. He then abruptly stood up and violently flung the cup in his hand at the floor. However, instead of smashing into the ground, it instead tore a hole through space and appeared right outside of the Tower of Resonating Light, heading straight for the man atop the tree.

The man paid this teacup no mind as the soundwaves mixed with his martial power before vigorously slamming against the materialized energy seal. There was a huge crash sound as the entire tower shook.

Lu Yin took several steps back as he looked at the point that had been struck in shock. The others did the same and focused on the seal, but the point of impact barely had a mark on it.

An Shaohua’s expression changed drastically. “How is this possible?”

“Do it again,” Han Chong stated. “We’ll attack at the same time, hitting it from both sides this time.”

“Okay!” An Shaohua answered.

Tooot!

Outside the tower, the man had been struck by the thrown cup, causing him to cough out a mouthful of blood. When he heard another “toot” come from inside the tower, he grit his teeth and responded in kind once again. His martial power swept out for a second time, this time taking the shape of a tornado that could be seen by the naked eye as it struck the Tower of Resonating Light.

Within the palace, Ming Hao snickered. “What an idiot.” This time, he flung a chopstick away.

Boom!

The Explorer had coordinated his attack with Han Chong and the rest of the trapped trialtakers, causing two immense forces to strike the exact same point on the energy seal. At this moment, Lu Yin grew slightly worried. Han Chong was definitely not weaker than an Explorer, and right now, he was also being helped by Yue Xianzi and the other trapped trialtakers. That meant that there were at least two attacks at the Explorer level striking coming from within the tower. With the attack from outside added in, there were essentially three Explorers attacking the seal at the same time. It was impossible to tell if the seal would be able to hold on.

Crack!

The seal cracked.

Lu Yin raised his eyebrows. It made sense that such a powerful combination attack would be able to crack the seal, but Ming Hao still hadn’t appeared, allowing that Explorer on the outside to attack. That was proof that he still had other cards hidden up his sleeves.

All of a sudden, five odd-looking sculptures rose into the air above the fifth level. Actually, they were right above Lu Yin.

The five sculptures were linked together, and they suddenly connected to the energy seal and repaired it, making it far more durable and powerful.

Lu Yin’s pupils shrank. This made him recall the five sealing planets. Could this seal be the same formation as the five planets seal? Those five statues are sourceboxes, which means that… Lu Yin suddenly came up with a terrifying idea. Could those five planets be five terrifying sourceboxes?! But that was impossible. How could a sourcebox of such a monstrous size exist, let alone five of them?

But before Lu Yin could consider this idea any more, the seal was fully mended, crushing Han Chong and the others’ hopes of escaping. Meanwhile, the Explorer outside had been impaled by a chopstick through his stomach. He crumpled to the ground and was quickly captured. He was nothing more than an ordinary Explorer and was even weaker than Ming Hao. Even without being physically present, Ming Hao was still able to finish off this man.

However, before the man was taken away, Long Yun appeared and rescued him. Ming Hao didn’t stop him, because the Tower of Resonating Light was the most important objective at the moment.

When he saw how everyone’s combined force was still unable to break the seal, Lu Yin sighed in relief and glanced down at the trialtakers.

Coincidentally, Yue Xianzi looked up at the same time and caught his gaze. After seeing him smiling, she felt her heart drop. What a bastard! she thought to herself. He’s delighted that we’re stuck in such a terrible situation.

“We can start discussing terms now, Lu Yin,” Han Chong kindly informed him, as if what had just happened was not a big deal.

An Shaohua pursed his lips. “Why him? Do you actually think that he can break the seal?”

Han Chong earnestly answered, “I believe that he can.”

Han Chong had spoken very sincerely. It wasn't just the other trialtakers; even Lu Yin himself was surprised by his candor. Before the five statues had repaired the seal, he had been quite sure that he could open the seal himself, but now, he wasn’t quite as sure anymore. However, Han Chong seemed to be even more confident than Lu Yin in his own abilities at the present moment.

“I’ve said this before. I’d like all of you to help me with something in the future. That’s my sole condition,” Lu Yin told them.

Shi Sandao from the Suna Territory’s Moke Sword Sect looked up. “What would this help entail?”

“Rumors in the Astral Combat Academy have it that you don’t have a good relationship with the Daynight clan, not to mention the fact that you just beat up Zhanlong Daynight and some other clan members. If you want to influence the organizations that we belong to into attacking the Daynight clan, I can tell you right now with absolute certainty that that’s impossible,” Ah Fangsuo from the Chaos Flowzone’s Xiangxing Mountain apathetically stated.

Lu Yin smiled. “I naturally won’t ask you to do that. How about this—I will have you all do something for me that is possible for the organizations you represent. Does that work? Of course, I’ll need you to swear by it.”