Star Odyssey

Why did Lu Yin get such a feeling from this old man?

The old man walked over and looked at Lu Yin in a satisfied manner. "Everyone who sees me shows that same expression. Don't be surprised. My civilization is beyond anything you can comprehend, which is why you have that feeling."

Lu Yin felt puzzled. "Senior Feng Bo, are you not from the Origin Universe?"

Feng Bo clasped his hands behind his back. "Of course not. Don't bother trying to guess. I am from neither the Origin Universe nor Aeternus. Basically, you can’t even imagine my origins. If you become fortunate enough to become my disciple, your future will not be limited to this place."

Lu Yin wanted to ask more and learn about Feng Bo's past, but the man switched topics and started to talk about the Lu family.

Nothing that was mentioned was a secret. Aside from Nutjob Lu, the Lu family had nothing disgraceful to keep hidden, and Feng Bo merely wanted to ensure that Lu Yin gained Hongyan Mavis's trust.

Lu Yin interrupted Feng Bo, "Senior, I have a plan that might lure Hongyan Mavis out."

Feng Bo was extremely irritated, and a dangerous light flashed through his eyes. "No one interrupts me!"

Lu Yin quickly bowed. "I was unaware. Please forgive my transgression."

Feng Bo’s eyes narrowed, and a hint of killing intent entered in his gaze. He looked over at the River of Time. "Speak."

Lu Yin feigned fear. "Senior wants to kill Hongyan Mavis, but she wants to kill you just as badly. Actually, since the Second Mainland was destroyed, she might want you dead even more. Since that’s the case, why not create the illusion that you might die in order to draw her out?"

Feng Bo scolded, "How stupid! Do you think that that woman is as much a fool as you? How could I die? What could happen to cause that? An accident? Or someone attacking me? Who? You?"

Lu Yin quickly added, "By having your cultivation deviate."

Feng Bo let out a roar of laughter. "How absurd! At our level, we have already reached the peak and are struggling to take that final step. How could we experience a deviation while cultivating? If there was truly a path to take that could lead me to madness, I wouldn't waste my time here. You are too foolish. Don't use your ant-like perspective to try to understand us! We are not creatures that an ant like you can comprehend!

"All you need to do is follow my instructions! Nothing more! If you try, I will rip out your bones and extract your marrow. You will wish for death. Do you understand?"

Lu Yin pretended to be terrified. "But I already told Hongyan Mavis that I would try to kill you. She said that, if I do, she will intervene."

"What? You-" Feng Bo started, but before he could finish speaking, Lu Yin suddenly attacked. A fist was thrown at Feng Bo while he released Infinity. The lines of strength started to collide, creating an infinite burst of power. As that happened, Lu Yin’s arm instantly withered.

The fist was not fast, but Feng Bo was furious. This attack had disrupted the old man’s plans. He had finally managed to establish contact with Hongyan Mavis after so long, but he would need to wait even longer for the next opportunity.

The child had become entirely useless.

At this thought, Feng Bo raised his own hand. As a powerhouse at a level that almost no other had reached, his palm strike was something that even the Three Realms and Six Daos would be threatened by, let alone an average sequence powerhouse.

Even so, the old man had underestimated Lu Yin. Feng Bo had been isolated in the Mirari Realm for a very long time, and he was thus unaware of anything that had happened outside of it.

Before he entered the Mirari Realm, when Lu Yin had used the power of time to confine a hundred punches into a single attack, he had been able to wound sequence powerhouses. Even Corpse God had been wary of Lu Yin’s attack. After he transformed Infinity and learned to collide the lines of strength within Infinity, Lu Yin could only endure his own inner world by employing Extremes Must Be Reversed.

Lu Yin’s fist not only contained as much of the power of Infinity as his body could handle, but it also carried the damage that Extremes Must Be Reversed had absorbed.

This punch was the strongest attack that Lu Yin was capable of unleashing at the moment.

Even so, Feng Bo was initially unconcerned by the approaching attack.

Despite his lack of concern, since Feng Bo had already decided to end Lu Yin, the old man held nothing back with his own palm strike.

Fist met palm, and the void shattered at the point of impact. Feng Bo felt four of his fingers break as a tremendous power traveled up his arm, startling him. How could a mere child possess such terrifying strength?

Lu Yin's punch shattered Feng Bo's arm, and the force of the blow continued on towards the old man’s head.

At such a time, even an idiot would realize that there was a problem. It became clear that Lu Yin was genuinely trying to kill Feng Bo. Suicidal fool!

Feng Bo glared as the power of Lu Yin's fist moved forward, but just as it was about to reach the man’s head, everything started to reverse. This was Feng Bo's innate gift: Reverse. Lu Yin's eyes narrowed. This was the moment he had been waiting for. Lightstream appeared, and time reversed by one second.

You reverse, I reverse. With both men reversing time, everything returned to normal.

Feng Bo watched in disbelief as Lu Yin's punch struck his head, smashing the old man into the ground.

If they were not in the Mirari Realm with the strange mist, Lu Yin would have aimed his punch forward, in order to maximize the power.

Even with the current limitations, Lu Yin’s punch was far more powerful than anything he had ever unleashed before entering the Mirari Realm.

This punch was as powerful as a slap from the slipper after Lu Yin had Enhanced it a single time, and those attacks had been powerful enough to threaten Undying God.

Lu Yin had finally reached the level where his own strength was enough to threaten the Seven Skygods.

Feng Bo was slammed into the ground. The earth of the Mirari Realm was incredibly robust, as anything less would fail to support the River of Time.

The old man sank just half a meter into the ground, his head deformed by the fist that had struck it. He felt as though the world was spinning, and a sharp ringing filled his ears. Feng Bo was dazed by Lu Yin’s punch.

Lu Yin immediately followed through with another punch.

Suddenly, the space before him blurred, and his fist seemed to enter a region of space that had been stretched out, causing it to slow down. Without Hongyan Mavis's warning, Lu Yin would not understand what was happening.

This was the result of Feng Bo's sequence particles. Without Heaven’s Sight, Lu Yin was unable to see sequence particles, so he was lucky to understand what he was facing.

Feng Bo had comprehended the Law of Expansion, which allowed him to extend time and subsequently slow down Lu Yin's punch. Feng Bo looked up. To him, Lu Yin's fist was moving extremely slowly.

It was this ability that had allowed Feng Bo to manipulate the power of time and develop his battle technique, Wind and Cradle.

By expanding time, Feng Bo was able to deliver his attacks faster than his opponents could react.

Lu Yin was already prepared for this. The moment he saw time expand, he used Inverse Step to move at the speed of time.

Expanding time could only delay actions by stretching out time itself. On the other hand, moving at the speed of time essentially caused time to freeze entirely.

Feng Bo released a battle technique in front of himself, confident that his attack was faster than Lu Yin’s, as the young man had been trapped in a region of expanded time.

Despite that, Feng Bo’s attack missed.

The old man’s pupils shrank as Lu Yin's fist appeared before him again, and Feng Bo’s head was smashed yet again. He was driven even deeper into the ground.

No matter how much Feng Bo expanded time, Lu Yin was able to counter the effect with Inverse Step. Being struck by another punch left Feng Bo questioning reality. He could not understand why his innate gift had failed to stop the young man’s first punch, and why expanding time had failed to stop the second punch.

What on earth had the boy done?

Receiving two consecutive punches from Lu Yin left Feng Bo bleeding from all seven orifices, and the ground was stained red beneath him.

A third punch descended, and Feng Bo's eyes flared with panic. A flicker of candlefire appeared on Lu Yin's shoulder as the candle instantly burned down to nothing, but it accomplished nothing. Lu Yin continued moving forward with Inverse Step, and Feng Bo's pupils constricted as he focused on a particular direction, where he expanded the universe once more.

This expansion was different from the previous use of sequence particles. Even with Inverse Step, Lu Yin felt that Feng Bo was out of reach.

From where he lay on the ground, Feng Bo had expanded time infinitely in every direction. After that, he took the opportunity to release another palm strike.

Lu Yin was unable to avoid this attack, as it was impossible to determine which direction Feng Bo’s attack was coming from. Without first determining this, Lu Yin could only brace himself with Extremes Must Be Reversed.

The palm hit Lu Yin in the abdomen, and the attack pierced into the void behind him. He spat out a mouthful of blood as numbness ran through his body. This attack exceeded the limits of Extremes Must Be Reversed, but Lu Yin was still able to use Lightstream to rewind time by a single second, which allowed him to dodge the attack.

After just barely surviving a near-fatal injury, Lu Yin was able to make out Feng Bo's attack as time reversed.

Feng Bo stared in utter shock as he saw Lu Yin reverse time. “Who exactly are you?”

“Lu Yin,” Lu Yin replied as he moved about with Inverse Step. He waved his hand, using Setting Sun.

An exquisite sunset appeared over the River of Time, drawing Feng Bo’s eyes to it. At the same time, Hongyan Mavis looked over from within the bamboo forest.

The woman had been watching the battle at the riverbank. She had initially believed it to be a ruse to lure her out, but this battle seemed too intense to be fake. It was impossible for Feng Bo to be suppressed by Xuan Qi. There was no reason for the old man to be overwhelmed, especially since Xuan Qi was merely a Semi-Progenitor. However, the boy also possessed the ability to reverse time and even move at the speed of time.

Just who was the young man?

When the sunset appeared, Hongyan Mavis’s expression changed. She recognized it as a comprehension technique.

To people at her level, a comprehension technique was not something impossible to achieve. While it was extremely difficult to create one, they did not possess an overwhelming power that was coveted.

Still, the existence of a comprehension technique indicated that a person had a profound understanding of a particular area. Could such a person really be controlled by Feng Bo?

At that moment, Hongyan Mavis’s suspicions regarding Lu Yin wavered slightly.

No, she could not afford to doubt her suspicions. The boy had undoubtedly been sent by Feng Bo to lure her out. That old man had used every means possible to infiltrate the Mavis family and gain her trust. If not for that, her Divine Tree would have never been entrusted to his care. That had caused the Divine Tree to be stolen and destroyed. Hongyan Mavis had been deceived by Feng Bo once, and she refused to let it happen a second time.

The battle she was watching had to be a ruse.

Lu Yin’s Setting Sun shone with the light of dusk.

As the sunset faded, Feng Bo’s understanding of martial arts disappeared. He no longer knew how to use his own techniques, his innate gift, or even his sequence particles. At that moment, his mind was completely blank.

Puff!

Blood spewed from Feng Bo’s mouth. He suffered backlash after forgetting his battle techniques and everything else. Taking advantage of this, Lu Yin delivered a third punch.

Feng Bo’s eyes grew bloodshot as he glared at Lu Yin. “Just who exactly are yo-?”

Lu Yin's fist struck Feng Bo’s neck, interrupting the man’s words. His body shattered at the junction of his neck and shoulder, and blood splattering across the ground.

“I am Lu Yin,” Lu Yin stated again. He moved with Inverse Step, preparing to deliver a fourth punch.

OMA's Thoughts

Translated By: OMA

Edited By: Neshi/Nyxnox

TLC'ed By: OMA