Chapter 305: Battle Force (1/2)
Across the surface of his body, Lu Yin’s veins bulged out like wriggling worms as his body went through a transformation that seemed to alter even his veins.
Lu Yin drew a single ragged breath and grit his teeth before he started reciting the Stonewall Scriptures.
Some time later, the pain finally subsided. He opened his eyes, and it looked like he had just been dragged out of a pool of water; his entire body was drenched in sweat. He looked down at his hands, clenched his fists, released his strength according to the Overlaying Stacks Path, and felt an explosive bang in the void.
Some time later, Lu Yin sighed. Thankfully, he hadn’t endured all that pain for nothing. His limit before ingesting the fruit had been Fifteen Stacks, but now, he had just used Seventeen Stacks without any complications at all, and it didn’t even feel like he had touched his limit. His physical limits had been expanded once again, and he was able to move even faster now.
As he eyed the other four strengthening fruits, Lu Yin carefully stowed them away. Before he could obtain better natural treasures, these strengthening fruits would be good enough to enhance his strength.
He raised his hand, causing the die to appear once again, and Lu Yin sighed in admiration at it. Every time he saw his die, it astonished him. Others would have needed to spend excessive amounts of effort to get an ingredient like the strengthening fruit he had just consumed, but all he needed to do was throw money at it. While it had cost him quite a bit, it meant that anything was possible.
Based on what the Sandmaster had said, a strengthening fruit needed to be at least 50,000 years old before it would be useful for a Limiteer. Many large organizations could not wait that long, but he had managed to obtain one for merely 400,000 star crystals. He was much luckier in comparison.
After his body was strengthened once more, Lu Yin was now heavily anticipating the Tournament of the Strongest. He wondered what kind of expression Nightqueen Yanqing and the others would have when they saw him use Fifteen Stacks. When he defeated her, he had used less than Thirteen Stacks. Actually, he had only used Nine Stacks, Seventeenfold Shockwave Palm. He was clearly much stronger now than before.
Lu Yin took a few days to rest and then left the Time Stop Space. When he breathed in the outside air for the first time in a long while, Lu Yin felt incredibly refreshed.
After Lu Yin removed the screen on the monkey’s senses, it tiredly spoke up, “We share the same body, Seventh Bro. You shouldn’t go so far.”
Lu Yin was currently in a very good mood. “From what you know, what kind of power should the strongest Limiteer possess?”
The Ghost Monkey was baffled. “The strongest? What do you mean?”
“I’m talking about the strongest Limiteer since ancient times,” Lu Yin clarified.
The monkey thought it over and then replied, “I don’t know. Those monsters on the Skymender List were already unimaginably powerful when they were Limiteers, but you humans’ Ten Arbiters were basically the strongest since ancient times as far as Limiteers are concerned. There’s no question about that. They’re the result of the advancements made in the universe.”
“How do you know about all this?” Lu Yin was surprised.
“It’s obvious. Rather, is there anything that I don’t know? I”ll tell you this as well—the Ten Arbiters were not all born during the same time period. Some of them were frost-sealed and only released when there was a huge change in the universe. Those ones are the worst,” the monkey explained.
Lu Yin paid no mind to that last bit. He was now incredibly confident in his abilities, so all he wanted to do was fight the strongest Limiteer around. He wanted to know if anyone was willing to take on his most powerful attack.
Actually, no. His current level was still far from enough. The Ten Arbiters’ Divine Fist had been able to use Thirty Stacks while in the Limiteer realm. Lu Yin’s current strength still wasn’t enough. He then contemplated earning more money so that he could upgrade the rest of the strengthening fruits until he could use Thirty Stacks.
However, this wasn’t the time for that. That had to wait until after the tournament. He looked around himself before deciding to head to the Sand Ocean in an attempt to upgrade his battle force.
When he arrived, Lu Yin found out that there were only seven levels beneath the Sand Ocean. The seventh level corresponded to five-lined battle force, which meant that this place would no longer be of much help to him anymore.
For a student, five-lined battle force was practically the maximum that one could achieve. When the Ten Arbiters had attended the Astral Combat Academy, they had only raised their battle force to five lines as well.
“Battle force corresponds to its wielder’s aura. It can be upgraded through experience in battles as well as by cultivating in certain areas. However, even without those, a person’s spirit can achieve the same results,” the Sandmaster earnestly told Lu Yin.
Lu Yin was confused. “A person’s spirit?”
The Sandmaster grinned. “Amongst the younger generation, the Ten Arbiters possess the boldest spirit, as they want to control the next generation of the universe with the power of ten people. That requires a tremendous amount of tenacity. Even I don’t have such ambition. That is what we call “spirit,” and it can upgrade your battle force. Back then, the Ten Arbiters had no more than five-lined battle force, but nobody knows how far they’ve gotten now. Nobody can predict how large the spirit of someone who can surprise the universe in such a manner is.”
Lu Yin could feel his excitement surging. After all, it made sense. What sort of spirit must ten people who desire to rule over an entire generation of people possess? It was to the extent where they were even able to affect the universe! He started becoming excited just thinking about it. With such spirit, how could one’s battle force not be upgraded? The best way to understand it was that one’s spirit alone could take over the universe.
They were unspeakably strong because they were the Ten Arbiters, and they were the Ten Arbiters because of their strength. This was a tenacity that only humans could have.
While the Astral Beast Domain had the Butian List and although the individuals on the list were said to be comparable to the Ten Arbiters, Lu Yin was absolutely certain that they were not comparable in the slightest. The Ten Arbiters were a product of the universe’s changes, and nobody knew how powerful they actually were.
However, it was impossible to estimate how powerful the Ten Arbiters were just from their battle force alone.