Chapter 411: A Strange Space (1/2)

Since ancient times, few people had ever managed to return alive after being swallowed by a storm of Tempest Flowzone. Of course, some survived, but everyone experienced different things. Some said that they fell into a bottomless abyss while others had ended up in a sealed space. Some had landed in a forest, and even more had dropped into a golden ocean. But when they were asked how they returned, everyone was the same: no one could answer, as if their memories had been erased.

However, with the passage of time, people had come to discover one commonality shared by everyone who had survived falling into a storm; they were all good people.

It was not possible to definitively quantify what made a person “good,” but everyone who had survived and escaped from a storm had kind hearts, and almost none of them had ever killed before. Not all good people would come out alive, but all those who did were good people.

Lu Yin would not call himself a good person, so he had tried everything in his power to escape the storm. But in the end, he had still ended up being swallowed by the storm.

When he came to his senses, Lu Yin saw a forest all around him. The trees in this forest were not very tall, only about two meters in height. Lu Yin had never seen such a forest before, and he rubbed his temples. He had grown too careless after becoming famous throughout the universe, and he no longer had the prudence and caution that he once possessed. With his previous caution, he would have never used that route even if the chances of encountering a storm were one in a billion.

Still, at least he was alive.

He looked around, noticing that it was completely silent. He then looked up to see a light shining in the distance. He did not know if he was looking at the sky or outer space, because the light was simply too bright, and it was even a golden color as well.

The golden radiance shining in the distance extended to cover the entire forest.

Lu Yin stood up and tried to talk to the monkey, but he received no response. The stupid monkey was silent once again; its defenses must have been too pathetic.

Lu Yin tried to fly into the sky, but he immediately realized that he was unable to. There was a suppressive force directed downwards, preventing him from rising more than half a meter up from the ground. He was unable to fly in this place.

And since the trees in the forest were between two and three meters tall, that meant that he could not rise above them.

Then, was the forest forced to grow like this because of this peculiar pressure?

He didn’t walk for long before the trees ahead started to sway. A wide section of the trees were pushed to either side as a panicked man appeared in front of Lu Yin, and the two stared at each other.

The man looked at Lu Yin with delight and frantically pointed behind him. “The- there’s a ghost!”

Lu Yin felt nervous. “A ghost? Are you sure?”

The man nodded and looked behind him again. He hurried around Lu Yin and continued desperately running away.

Lu Yin turned around, and his expression changed. Could it be a war spirit? War spirit, war spirit… Yes, it’s definitely a war spirit. If war spirits exist here, then could this be a part of the Astral Combat Academy’s trial zones? No, that’s impossible. That man was clearly middle-aged and wouldn’t be allowed in the trial zones. Not to mention that he’s just a Seeker. That man hasn’t even set foot on the path of cultivation, so there’s no way he could enter the Astral Combat Academy.

If this place was not a part of the trial zones, then where was he? Why were there war spirits present?

The war spirit only had the strength of a Scout, so Lu Yin simply waved his hand and caused it to vanish into lines of runes.

The nearby man looked on at the scene and was stumped. He then stared in disbelief at Lu Yin. “You killed the ghost?”

Lu Yin simply replied, “It’s not a ghost. Alright, tell me. Where are we?”

The man was afraid. “Inside the storm.”

Lu Yin frowned. “Inside the storm? And there’s a forest?”

With a pale face, the man shook his head. “I don’t know! In any case, I was swallowed by the storm, and I woke up in this damned place. I haven’t seen anything else besides that ghost.”

The man looked at Lu Yin’s cosmic ring and hopefully asked, “Do you have anything for me to eat? There’s really nothing here, and I’ve been starving for a few days.”

Lu Yin nodded, but just as he was about to take something out for the man, an earth-shattering pressure swept across then that caused Lu Yin’s expression to change. He instinctively used the Invisible Aura Technique to conceal his strength and then used his domain to merge into the surroundings. However, the man in front of him was directly smashed into a puddle of blood by the pressure.

Lu Yin forced himself to remain silent and motionless.

Not too far away, a war spirit streaked by without pausing.

Lu Yin didn’t dare to even look at it, as its pressure far surpassed a Hunter’s. A Hunter realm war spirit; this place was definitely not the trial zones. So, this place was actually inside of the storm? A formation of runes made up a war spirit, so was this place related to the Rune Technology Civilization?

Lu Yin sighed as he looked at the blood on the ground. If there were Hunter realm war spirits here, then it was possible that even more powerful war spirits would appear. He was in danger, and he had to be extremely careful.

As he pondered his situation, he started heading in the direction of the dazzling gold radiance.

He did not know how far this forest went on for, but it was beyond the limits of his sight, and he could not see its end.

Lu Yin walked through the forest for two days, encountering some war spirits every now and then. Fortunately, not many of them could threaten him, and those that could threaten him, he hid from.

However, he did not meet a single living person.

Given the storm’s speed, a Hunter might be able to outrun it, but a Cruiser would find it challenging to do so. Hence, there should be very few cultivators at the Hunter realm and above who had been swallowed by a storm, or it might have been an accident.

Lu Yin also saw a few spacecraft of all different sizes within the forest. One large spacecraft was covered in signs of recent kills, as fresh blood stained the ground, seeping into the forest.

The biggest difference between this place and the trial zones was that if someone died here, they would truly die, unlike the trial zones, where you would simply vanish.

Lu Yin casually eliminated a war spirit and looked at the corpse on the ground. This person was only a Melder, and he had not died that long ago. A corpse normally would not be enough to attract Lu Yin’s attention, but this person was from the small spacecraft that he had fought with right before being sucked into the storm.

Lu Yin could still remember some unique characteristics of these people’s clothes, which meant that it must have been specially made for their organization. If this person had appeared here, then it meant that the others from their vessel could not be too far away.

Bloodlust filled Lu Yin’s eyes. If not for those two Cruisers, he would not have been stranded here. He had to take revenge for this.

Anyone who fell into this forest would start heading towards the golden light, so Lu Yin believed that these people were no exception.