Chapter 335: The Unfamiliar Ten Arbiters (1/2)

The monkey was rendered speechless. “This is the first time I’ve ever received such a request, but I’ll satisfy you.” He then lunged at Lu Yin, continuing to jabber on even while attacking. Lu Yin vaguely heard, “For screening me!” “For bullying Junior Jiu!” “For not allowing me to reunite with Junior Jiu!” “For…”

Lu Yin’s pain was slightly ameliorated by each one of the monkey’s frantic attacks, but it was not enough. The Ghost Monkey’s attacks were much too weak compared to Yun’s. “Use more strength!”

The monkey was furious. “You’re looking down on me!” He started using his battle techniques and attacking Lu Yin more seriously. As time passed, the monkey started feeling shocked and flabbergasted, as Lu Yin was completely unharmed, and all of his attacks were completely ineffective. This human’s physical defenses were too tough; no wonder he could fight against Tian Hou.

Compared to their first encounter at the border warfront, Lu Yin’s progress had since far outstripped the Ghost Monkey, to the point where he could not even imagine the difference separating them. Although Lu Yin could not yet compare to the Ten Arbiters when they were Limiteers, he could absolutely rival those on Skymender’s List when they were Limiteers. For example, Yao Gu was definitely not as outstanding as Lu Yin when he was merely a Limiteer.

Thump thump thump!

Within the Time Stop Space, Lu Yin endured the monkey’s beatings as his pain gradually dulled. The monkey’s initial venting eventually turned into helplessness, and then deteriorated to sullenness after that. The Ghost Monkey felt an unspeakable agony tearing at it and wanted to stop beating Lu Yin, but it could not reject the human’s orders. Lu Yin’s order had forced the tamed astral beast to beat him. “If you don’t hit me, then I’ll hit you!”

This sentence ignited the monkey’s fury once again, and it beat at Lu Yin for a few days until it was completely exhausted.

Lu Yin laid down with a bang, breathing heavily. Although his body still hurt, it had reached roughly the same level as when he had consumed the previous strengthening fruit, which meant that he could at least walk now.

He looked down at his two hands and kneaded them contemplatively, feeling that he was much stronger now.

“Seventh Bro, this should be enough now. I- I’m too tired, and I can’t hit you anymore.”

Lu Yin grit his teeth and continued using more stacks until he reached Twenty Seven Stacks, which is when the void started distorting and splintering. The energy visibly spread out, making for quite the stunning sight. This was the effect of the strengthening fruit, which had pushed his physical limits to the point where he could now use Twenty Seven Stacks. He had not completely absorbed the fruit, either, but once he did, he would definitely be able to withstand Thirty Stacks.

Lu Yin was delighted, as the full force of Twenty Seven Stacks was much stronger than that of Twenty Stacks. He had improved by leaps and bounds in just a few days.

The Ghost Monkey was very curious, and he asked, “Seventh Bro, I want to ask—where are we? This place doesn’t feel quite right.”

Lu Yin’s eyes flickered. “A training room within Astral-10.”

“A training room? Where?”

“It’s none of your business.” Lu Yin grew impatient.

The monkey mumbled, “Biting the hand that feeds you.”

Lu Yin did not want the monkey to discover the secret of his Time Stop Space and thus blocked off his senses again, causing the monkey to become so angry that he was speechless.

Lu Yin had two days left to spend in the Time Stop Space, so he warmed his body up. He then used some star essence to increase the gravity within the space. His previous limit after the Astral Combat Tournament had been 130 times the normal gravity, and he wanted to discover his current limit with his newly strengthened body.

Just like the Overlaying Stacks, it became more difficult to raise one’s resistance to increased gravity the higher the gravity was. Lu Yin directly increased the gravity to 130 times, and his body slightly sank into the ground as he took a breath. It felt alright, so he continued to increase the gravity in small increments. Lu Yin only felt the pressure on his internal organs increase with each step. 135, 140, 145… Finally, the gravity was increased to 170 times the normal amount. This level of gravity caused him to feel an ache that reduced his suffering from the strengthening fruit.

Beads of sweat ran down his body in small rivulets, but Lu Yin did not move and continued to sit there, experiencing the doubled anguish from both the increased gravity and the strengthening fruit. Time slowly ticked by.

Two days later, Lu Yin opened his eyes and no longer saw the scenery of Time Stop Space. Instead, Astral-10’s ruins appeared before him.

He finally exited the space, and the agony from consuming the strengthening fruit had been significantly alleviated. He stretched his hand out, clenched his fist, and violently lashed out at the air. Layers of ripples spread out before the void ruptured as a visible burst of energy pounded against nothingness and twenty seven loud booms roared out. Then, one final loud explosion rang out as the void completely shattered.

Lu Yin smiled. Twenty-eight Stacks—he had improved quickly. Once the suffering from the strengthening fruit completely faded, he would definitely be capable of unleashing Thirty Stacks.

He looked forward to seeing how strong Thirty Stacks would be, as he believed that it would have been enough to surpass the limits of Tian Hou’s defense and allow him to truly rival the strength of the Ten Arbiters when they had been Limiteers.

Furthermore, he had not even reached the peak of the Limiteer realm yet; there was still room for improvement.

Perhaps he would actually surpass the Ten Arbiters’ accomplishments one day.

Each and every record that the Ten Arbiters had left behind was extraordinary, such as the Divine Fist’s Thirty Stacks. Lu Yin had to rely on his innate gift that was the die to catch up. Regular cultivators and astral beasts would not be able to ever reach such a standard on their own. The Ten Arbiters’ records were great accomplishments that stood unparalleled throughout the entire universe.

“It’s time to leave Astral-10,” Lu Yin mumbled to himself as he pulled out his star chart. He was twelve weaves away from East San Dios, which would take less than ten days to travel there. There were eleven days left until Yan Feng and Jenny Auna’s wedding, so there was still enough time.

Without wasting any more time, Lu Yin boarded his personal spacecraft and left Astral-10, heading towards East San Dios.

At this same moment, in East San Dios, decorations had been put up in the corner of the floating city in preparation for the wedding.

In theory, Yan Feng’s status did not qualify him to hold his wedding in the floating city, but Puyu had given special permission, which made Yan Feng extremely excited.