Chapter 325: Borrowing Money (1/2)

Many were roused and looked at Lu Yin with sympathy in their gazes before leaving one after another.

Han Chong turned to Lu Yin. “Brother Lu, don’t overthink. Just prepare well.”

Beside him, Grandini Mavis shook her head helplessly. “Even I feel luckier than you since they won’t make such obvious comparisons.”

Lu Yin was left speechless.

“Seventh Bro, are you confident? Actually if you use your Secret Sidestep, you’ll be able to easily deal with any one of them’s attack, but to win against these people is way too difficult. No one knows the upper limits of Tian Hou’s resistance, and that woman, Yun, is way too weird. Even you humans’ Starsibyl seems to be disgustingly strong.” The Ghost monkey seemed to take joy in Lu Yin’s current predicament.

Lu Yin released a breath and immediately screened the monkey off before leaving the Lifeseek Realm.

Lu Yin opened his eyes atop the trial zone mountain. This time, there were no students of Astral-10 surrounding him. They wanted to give Lu Yin some peace and quiet to rest since he was about to face off against one of those three freaks.

Lu Yin stepped out from the trial zone mountain, bowed to the Trialmaster, and then headed for the space station, hoping that the beautiful Madam Nalan was still there.

The mentor watched Lu Yin’s figure disappear; this kid had done very well, but he was still just a shade weaker than the remaining participants. If he could truly reach the level of strength that the Ten Arbiters had attained while they were in the Astral Combat Academy, Lu Yin would be able to face anyone and even suppress everyone. The title of “Ten Arbiters candidate” was just a bit of flattery, as the only Limiteers in the younger generation who could truly qualify to be a Ten Arbiters candidate were still only those three.

The Nalan family’s spacecraft was still docked at Astral-10’s space station.

Lu Yin entered and saw the stunning Madam Nalan.

This time, she wore an even more enticing set of clothes that complemented her already enchanting figure. Lu Yin felt heated at the sight, growing rather embarrassed.

“The semi-finals are tomorrow, so why has Student Lu come to seek me out today?” she asked curiously as she poured Lu Yin a drink.

Lu Yin felt awkward, but when he thought of those three freaks, he decided to speak up. “Madam Nalan, could I borrow some money?”

She was astonished by his request. “Borrow money?”

Lu Yin nodded. “It’s very embarrassing, but honestly, I am urgently in need of money right now.”

Madam Nalan smiled faintly as she pursed her lips. “Very well. How much?”

She nodded. “So not much.”

Lu Yin’s heart skipped a beat. Not much? When he had been at his wealthiest, he had only possessed ten star essence, which was the equivalent of one million star crystals. And now, when he asked for two million, it was “not much?” No wonder she was the Outerverse’s wealthiest widow—she was just too rich!

Not long after, a Mavis Bank crystal card was delivered to him.

Lu Yin hurriedly asked, “Madam Nalan, do you have the actual goods? I need the actual crystals.”

She clasped her forehead and smiled. “My mistake. Since you urgently need money, you will naturally require the physical form.” She then instructed someone to deliver twenty star essences to Lu Yin. “I don’t have two million star crystals on me, so are these essences alright?”

Lu Yin nodded. “Thank you, madam. Oh right, how much is the interest?”

“Hehe, Student Lu, do we have to calculate interest even with our relationship?” She beamed at Lu Yin.

Lu Yin felt embarrassed. He hurriedly stood up and bade farewell to Madam Nalan.

Her lips quirked up as she watched Lu Yin leave. This youth was very interesting. While two million star crystals were not much, it was still not an amount that just anyone could borrow. As an investment in this youth, two million star crystals was indeed not much.

More than half a month had passed since Lu Yin last rolled the die, which was a considerably long time. Lu Yin found a secluded area and hoped to roll three pips: Enhance. But before he began, he placed his cosmic ring to the side.

The more time that passed, the greater the probability of rolling a good number. If he rolled six pips: Possession, then he would lose all hope of being able to upgrade the strengthening fruit this time around since Possession could use up all of his star crystals in the blink of an eye.

He raised his hand, and the die appeared over his palm. He tapped on it, causing it to quickly spin. When it finally stopped, the surrounding scenery changed for a moment before returning to normal.

Lu Yin let out a pent up breath; this was the sensation of rolling Possession. He had expected to roll this, and fortunately, he had placed his cosmic ring to the side, or else all of his hard-earned star crystals might have already been consumed.

Possession was useful, but currently, his best chance of improving his strength was by upgrading the strengthening fruit. Possession was a gamble, as he might Possess the body of a powerhouse and greatly increase his own power, or he might just as likely Possess someone like Wu Xia. He could not afford to gamble at this time.

He used a cube of star crystal to restore the die and tapped it again. He also picked up his cosmic ring in case he rolled Time Stop.

As the die slowly came to a stop, Lu Yin’s breathing quickened, and he saw the rolled number. He was rather moved as it was three pips: Enhance. He had actually rolled it already! Sure enough, the more time that passed between each roll, the higher the chances of rolling something good.

As he watched the two screens appear, Lu Yin took out a strengthening fruit and threw it on top of the upper light screen along with one star essence.

As the strengthening fruit underwent a repeated chain of upgrades, it started to change just like the previous one.

After four star essences were consumed, this strengthening fruit’s upgrade slowed down a bit compared to the previous time Lu Yin had upgraded a fruit. Although a star essence’s energy was of much higher quality than a normal star crystal, that did not mean that they held the same amount of energy. But Lu Yin was helpless to do anything about it. He could only retrieve another star essence and continue upgrading this strengthening fruit to the same extent as the previous one.

Five star essence was valued to be the same as 500,000 star crystals, and it had all been used to upgrade a single strengthening fruit.

As he watched the strengthening fruit release ripples that started distorting the void, the star energy started automatically circulating through his meridians.