Chapter 406: Finger (2/2)
In the end, only he was left. The Ocean of Death really wasn’t easy to cross.
Lu Yin wasn’t sure if that would be the most difficult hurdle of the journey, but he had a feeling that it wouldn’t. From the many generations of students that had attended the Astral Combat Academy, there must have been a time when the ten Realm Masters had teamed up to cross the Ocean of Death, but even they had been defeated. This line of reasoning proved that the Ocean of Death was dangerous enough to extinguish the combined strength of ten Realm Masters.
The combined strength of ten Realm Masters from the Astral Combat Academy might even be enough to compete against that of an expert on the Top 100 Rankings. However, the danger of that previous encounter had not yet reached that level.
Lu Yin thought for a bit, and a war spirit slowly appeared before him.
Lu Yin trembled, and he suddenly grew very wary as he stared at it. This war spirit was extremely powerful.
The spirit approached Lu Yin step by step while carrying an umbrella formed from star energy in its hand. It leisurely walked atop the Ocean of Death in this manner, stepping out from the dark yellow fog. It then lowered the umbrella when it was about a hundred meters away from Lu Yin and pointed the tip at Lu Yin. One after another, strange bugs shot out from the umbrella towards Lu Yin.
The bugs looked like centipedes that were enlarged by more than a hundredfold. They were frightening and malevolent, and even the void that they traveled through was ripped apart.
Lu Yin’s scalp turned numb, and he instinctively waved his hand, unleashing a powerful wind that pushed the approaching bugs aside. He then raised his head as a giant umbrella suddenly appeared above him, enveloping the entire area. On the other side of the umbrella, there was a submerged bug over a kilometer long, and there was actually five-lined battle force emanating from it.
Whoosh!
The giant worm charged at Lu Yin as the layers of its body rotated grotesquely. It was trying to draw Lu Yin and the surrounding void into its maw.
Lu Yin suddenly felt light-headed. Poison! He did not remain careless and avoided the attack with Flash before slamming a single palm against the worm’s body that contained a Thirty Stacks Fortyfold Shockwave Palm. His attack split the worm into two; not even the five-lined battle force surrounding its body could withstand this strike.
The war spirit with the umbrella ferociously charged at Lu Yin and struck out with both hands. The star energy covering its palms changed in a strange manner, as if it had been compressed.
Lu Yin raised an elbow to forcefully block it, and the void transformed into waves that swept out from the collision point. Lu Yin only felt his arm hurt. What a powerful palm strength! And that was especially so for the suppressive force that had reduced his star energy to the Twenty Stacks level. The person who had birthed this war spirit must have been one of the strongest Realm Masters in the history of the Astral Combat Academy. Of the current batch, perhaps only Starsibyl could compare to this spirit.
This ferocious attack had also targeted Lu Yin’s spiritual force, but it was a pity that such attacks were useless against him.
A submerged bug approached Lu Yin once again, covering both the war spirit and Lu Yin with a strong poisonous gas that caused Lu Yin to feel dizzy.
He did not hesitate and stretched both of his hands out: one for the war spirit and the other for the bug.
The two palms caused both the worm and the war spirit to completely collapse, and they turned into lines of runes that then dissipated into the Ocean of Death.
It was truly difficult to find someone in the Astral Combat Academy who could match Lu Yin, even if one sifted through the long gone previous generations.
It was a pity that Feng Shang and the others had died, or they might have actually been able to identify who had birthed that war spirit. It had some very distinct characteristics such as its umbrella, worms, and five-lined battle force.
Just as Lu Yin was considering taking a rest, the entire Ocean of Death surged. This time, it wasn’t just one region that started boiling, but rather the entire ocean.
Lu Yin’s face turned deathly white, and he immediately leaped up into the sky. He endured the pressure and gazed into the distance, both in front and behind him. The entire Ocean of Death was flaring up, and endless lines of runes flew up into the sky before converging.
Lu Yin landed back in the star energy boat. He gritted his teeth as he looked at this foreboding scene. How had this happened? Almost the entirety of the Ocean of Death’s rune lines were attempting to force him out. Given the intensity of this strength, how had anyone ever made it through to the end? How had that one Arbiter done it?
Just like back at the Sky Platform, Lu Yin once again sensed that the Ten Arbiters’ strength lay beyond their published records; their true strength still exceeded his scope of understanding.
“Seventh Bro, why do I feel like you’re afraid? Is something terrifying about to leap out?” The monkey started to panic.
Lu Yin’s eyes flashed. The whole Ocean of Death was churning, and even the students back on the coast stared at the Ocean of Death in fear as it had actually started surging.
But the bystanders could not see the even more terrifying scene that Lu Yin was witnessing. From the bottom of the ocean, endless rune lines poured out, filling up the entire area. All of these rune lines represented power, and Lu Yin was being rejected by the entirety of the Ocean of Death at this moment.
It’s unstoppable, definitely unstoppable, Lu Yin continuously repeated in his heart. It was impossible to stop the strength of this Ocean of Death, or rather, the strength of the Dao of Heaven.
“Seventh Bro, what’s going on? I feel like I can’t breathe!” On Lu Yin’s right arm, the monkey’s tattoo shouted with alarm.
Lu Yin gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and then opened them wide once again as he sat down cross-legged. Since he could not block this strength, then he would gamble! “To be good at communicating, the Dao of Heaven refuses. To jump and lie in the heavens, the Dao of Heaven accepts. To jump and lie in the horizon, to condense gas, to swallow rivers…”
“Why the hell are you chanting right now? Let’s escape!” the monkey shouted desperately, but Lu Yin simply ignored him. From the start, he had never been able to completely recite the Stonewall Scriptures all the way through, and even now, he could only recite them bit by bit. The amount that he could recite at once had gradually increased, but there was always a limit. Once he passed that limit, he would faint.
Since he was facing the Ocean of Death’s full strength right now, he decided to use the limits of the Stonewall Scriptures to withstand it. The Ocean of Death possessed a destructive, corrosive power towards spiritual force, while the Stonewall Scriptures coincidentally negated such forces. All that he could do now was see if the Stonewall Scriptures’ limit could overcome the Ocean of Death’s strength.
All around the boat, the water of the Ocean of Death started rising up, filling the entire space, drop by drop.
Gradually, the runes lines in the sky formed an attack. This attack was actually a single finger. This finger engraved itself into Lu Yin’s memory the moment it appeared. It was something that he would never forget and would never be able to break away from, but was also strangely unable to remember—a singular finger.
[1] Just a reminder, ”arrogant” is pronounced the same as Kuang Wang's name.