Chapter 415: Envoy (1/2)

The Black Blazes Palm smashed Wu Pa beneath the ground, causing him to spit out a mouthful of blood.

Although Wu Pa’s power level had nearly reached 50,000, he was actually just an ordinary Explorer and could not compare to elite Explorers. Big Pao and Little Pao were also Explorers, but they were elites who had graduated from the Astral Combat Academy and received direct guidance from Astral-10’s mentors. Thus, their strength was not represented fully by their power levels. When the two brothers joined forces, they easily overwhelmed Wu Pa.

A gunshot echoed as a bullet from the Firesoul Gun pierced Wu Pa’s forehead and caused a giant fissure to emerge along the ground, moving towards the city.

“Run!” Little Pao growled, and the two of them immediately fled the scene.

Not long after the two left, the entire city was sealed, and an expert from Deep Crimson Hall was dispatched to search for the assassins. News of Wu Pa’s murder was immediately reported to the Deep Crimson Hall Master—Bo Senior.

Deep Crimson Hall had two Hall Masters, who were nicknamed the Bo Duo. They were both from the Bo clan and were called Bo Senior and Bo Junior. They were both Hunters, and they had established Deep Crimson Hall along with almost ten Cruisers in the fringe territory of Chaos Flowzone. When Bo Senior learned about Wu Pa’s death, he was furious, and he immediately ordered Deep Crimson Planet to be put on lock down until the enemy was found.

Big Pao and Little Pao had not left the region after their assassination. Instead, they had hidden themselves inside the city.

Although Deep Crimson Planet was large, it was a simple task for a Hunter to scour the entire planet. There were not many people who were strong enough to kill Wu Pa, and since the brothers were afraid of being found, they had chosen to hide inside of the city.

“Wu Pa’s the first. Aside from the Bo Duo, we should be able to deal with everyone else,” Big Pao said gravely.

Little Pao looked at the list of the experts in Deep Crimson Hall and shook his head. “They have some Cruisers whose power levels are over 70,000. It’s still dangerous for us to try and deal with them with our current strength.”

Big Pao inhaled deeply. “Old Cai only gave us two Money Bombs, and those are meant for the Bo Duo. We’ll have to come up with some other way to take out the others on our own.”

“There’ll be a way. We need to hurry up and take revenge for back then,” Little Pao coldly replied.

Meanwhile, the golden ocean remained peaceful as ever, seemingly entirely devoid of any living creature.

From his position and altitude, he felt like he could leap into the forest with but a single bound.

He looked up again, but the summit was still out of sight.

“Seventh Bro, why do I feel like you’ve recently been spending your time either crossing oceans or climbing mountains. Did you offend the Rune Progenitor somehow?” The monkey was miserable.

Lu Yin was speechless, as the monkey was right. Lu Yin had ascended the Sky Platform, crossed the Ocean of Death, and he was now climbing this mountain, and all of these things were related to the Rune Technology Civilization.

“Monkey, tell me what you know about the Rune Progenitor.”

“I don’t know anything more than what I’ve already told you. Progenitors are secret existences in and of themselves, so only a few people even know about them. I’m not some archaeologist, so I can’t get access to information about all of them.”

“How many years did the Rune Technology Civilization exist for?”

“I’ve said that I don’t know, but based on some records by a powerhouse, it was short. Very short.”

“A flash in the pan?”

“Somewhat. Anyway, that powerhouse’s journal described the Rune Technology Civilization in one sentence—one sky covering another sky.”

One sky covering another sky? What does that mean? Lu Yin could not understand the words’ meaning, but he was suddenly reminded of the island on the other side of the Ocean of Death where the ancient voice had mentioned the sky had changed from five to six. Could it be related to that?

“Rune Progenitor? How much do you know about him?” Lu Yin asked again.

The monkey grudgingly responded, “I don’t know. The Rune Progenitor lived in a bygone age long ago, and their civilization’s even extinct. It’s already pretty good that we have any records of them at all. You’ll probably have to find a Neoverse power, such as the Three Dark Hands or the Hall of Honor to get more information than that.”

“How long can a Progenitor live for?” Lu Yin did not give up, and he continued on the same line of questioning.

The monkey didn’t immediately answer and muttered to himself for a while. “I don’t know. Logically, even the Third Nightking has lived for a long time and still won’t die anytime soon. A Progenitor should probably live forever.”

“But in this part of the universe, there’s no mention of any Progenitor’s existence,” Lu Yin interrupted.

The monkey did not reply.

“Could it be that all the Progenitors have already died?” Lu Yin guessed.

“I don't know. Seventh Bro, don’t dwell on this so much. Even after a thousand years, you still won’t be able to reach the level of a Progenitor. No, it should be ten thousand—no, a hundred thousand years. Anyway, it’s not realistic to dream about reaching the level of a Progenitor in your lifetime. Let’s just aim to reach the level of an Envoy.”

“Envoy?” Lu Yin was stumped, as he had only ever heard of this term. Right, the monkey had mentioned visiting an Envoy’s grave.