Star Odyssey

Chapter 3259: Redemption

The Fifth Mainland had once fought against the Sixth Mainland by using Boundless, and that had tricked the Aeternals into believing that Boundless was just another warship. Only later had they realized that Boundless was more like Burial Garden.

What had emerged from the Hollow and knocked the Ossis Ark aside was none other than Boundless.

Boundless, like the Ossis Ark, could travel through the Hollow.

The spacecraft was carrying Lu Yin and the other experts from the Heavens Sect, and terrifying auras shot into the sky.

Lu Yin turned to look at the black Mother Tree. “Yong Heng, I’ve kept you waiting.”

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The survivors from the Immemorial Citadel were all shocked. How could the spacecraft be carrying so many powerful individuals?

Blackless God’s mouth gaped open in disbelief. That’s impossible! How could they have broken through my Endless Path? Impossible!

Immediately, Lu Yuan, Hongyan Mavis, Wu Tian, Garan Zhiluo, and many other experts charged out from Boundless to attack the Aeternals.

The Three Realms and Six Daos, the Three Suns and Six Rulers, and both the Outer and Inner Eight Paths had arrived. There were more than ten sequence powerhouses, as well as several Progenitors. All of them left Boundless, charging at the Immemorial Citadel. More than twenty peak powerhouses had arrived as reinforcements.

Lu Yuan instantly locked onto Ancient God. “Leave Musclehead to me. We still haven’t decided a winner.”

Hongyan Mavis, Garan Zhiluo, and Wu Tian all looked beneath the Immemorial Citadel. All of them were thinking about their master.

The Origin Progenitor saw his disciples, and relief filled his eyes. They’ve finally arrived. It’s good that they survived.

Above the Immemorial Citadel, Zhan Yan and Mu Zhu looked over. So many experts?

The Abandoned, Ye Wu, and others finally understood that the Immemorial Citadel truly was the greatest battlefield in the megaverse. Not even the battle in the Second Scourge could compare.

Supreme suddenly charged at Corpse God, the mecha’s sword slicing down. It was currently being piloted by Yi.

E’ Nan’s eyes blazed fiercely. After E’ Ji’s death, E’ Nan had become the Scourge Occupation’s chief, as well as one of the Outer Eight Paths.

Mimina raced to the Immemorial Citadel, shouting, “Mentor Babal! Where are you?”

Of the Aeternals, the resurrected Shaman God was stunned. When he died, the Heavens Sect had not nearly had so many experts. Where had all of these people come from?

Feng Bo’s expression turned vicious as he saw Lu Yin. “Kid, I’ve found you!”

The man abandoned Progenitor Chen and charged straight at Lu Yin.

Lu Yin stood atop Boundless’s bow and surveyed the battlefield of the Immemorial Citadel. They had succeeded in making it just in time.

Blackless God’s Endless Path had stopped them from reaching the Immemorial Citadel, but at the crucial moment, Boundless had appeared. The vessel was piloted by Xi Wei, one of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas.

Not only had the woman brought Boundless, but she had also provided the location of the Immemorial Citadel to them.

Boundless was just a tool, and it was not nearly enough to allow them to reach the Immemorial Citadel. The one who had truly guided the Heavens Sect’s powerhouses to the Immemorial Citadel was Progenitor Hui.

Progenitor Hui had always maintained contact with Xi Wei through Progenitor Smoke’s mist.

Xi Wei's mist was not really mist, but rather the result of her Wei-Induction Technique. Anyone who cultivated with Progenitor Smoke’s method could manipulate the resulting mist to form different shapes, such as letters. This meant that another person who was familiar with the technique could interpret a message.

The Wei-Induction Technique had allowed Progenitor Hui to communicate with Xi Wei. Of course, their communications had been quite infrequent. Xi Wei had gone to the Sixverse Association not just because of Long Er’s death or her disillusionment with the Origin Universe’s internal conflicts. In fact, she had done so primarily in order to establish contact with Progenitor Hui. She was not one of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas for nothing.

Xi Wei had brought Boundless to Lu Yin and the others because she had been guided by Progenitor Hui’s plans. Boundless's timely arrival had not been a coincidence, but a single part of a larger plan.

Blackless God had pretended to defect to Lu Yin and the Heavens Sect, and they had not seen through the man’s true loyalties. The Skygod had seemingly fooled everyone with his false betrayal, but it was impossible to deceive Progenitor Hui.

Lu Yin had tolerated Blackless God's presence in order to learn what the man’s intentions were. There was no question that Blackless God was part of True God's schemes, so until those plans were exposed, the hidden threat would always remain. Merely exposing Blackless God as an enemy would not have been enough to stop anything. Only by revealing the entire plan could the threat be neutralized.

Blackless God’s innate gift had indeed made things difficult for Lu Yin and the others. Lu Yin had not expected Blackless God’s innate gift to allow him to block all of the Heavens Sect’s top experts from finding the Immemorial Citadel. This was not merely a matter of strength. The Endless Path worked as though Blackless God had manipulated countless parallel universes. While the Megalith would have eventually reached the Immemorial Citadel, by the time it did, it would have been far too late.

This had been the final part of Blackless God’s false defection, but fortunately, everything had been accounted for, and Boundless had arrived in time.

The entire incident had caused Lu Yin to break out in a cold sweat. He realized that he had been careless and had greatly underestimated Blackless God.

However, Yong Heng had also underestimated humanity. Just as the Great Sovereign had sacrificed everything to trap True God in her Six Paths of Reincarnation Realm, Lu Yin also intended to deliver a gift to Yong Heng through Blackless God.

Upon arriving on the Immemorial Citadel’s battlefield, the first thing that Lu Yin did was search for Progenitor Hui, who had to be somewhere on the battlefield.

Progenitor Hui had shared the Immemorial Citadel’s location with him, which must have made it easy for the Aeternals to target him.

Suddenly, Lu Yin looked at the city’s crumbling walls. “Big Sis!”

He instantly vanished.

Feng Bo suddenly appeared in the same spot where Lu Yin had just been standing on Boundless. "Where is that kid?"

The timely arrival of the Heavens Sect’s powerhouses had once again reversed the tide of battle, and the Aeternals were suddenly the ones being suppressed. There were simply too many humans.

Just a short while earlier, several Aeternals had been ganging up on each human powerhouse, but that situation was now reversed.

On the Immemorial Citadel’s crumbling walls, Big Sis was gasping for breath. The image of her Abyssal King had disappeared long ago. She was at her limits. She had managed to kill two corpse kings from the Ossis Ark, both of which had been sequence powerhouses. The battles were grueling, and yet more powerful corpse kings continued emerging from the Ossis Ark.

The triangular-headed corpse king in front of Big Sis was one of the five most powerful creatures from the Ossis Ark.

The triangular-headed monster had the strength of a sequence powerhouse. As soon as it stared at her, Big Sis felt as though her body was being stripped away. A pain beyond words spread throughout her entire being. Despite being physically unharmed, the agony that she experienced was quite real.

This was the law of the universe that the corpse king's sequence particles contained: Flesh Stripping.

The corpse king could strip away the surface of any living creature it stared at, transforming them into another form, or rather, whatever form the corpse king envisioned. Once they were fully stripped in the corpse king’s mind, a creature’s surface would be removed, killing them.

It was an extremely cruel law of the universe.

There was an agreement among the people of the Immemorial Citadel: whenever this triangular-headed corpse king appeared, no matter the cost, it had to be killed.

Unfortunately, despite the passing of many years, every attempt had failed. The corpse king was one of the five most powerful creatures in the Ossis Ark, and only a few from the Immemorial Citadel could face the monster. It had killed many over the years.

This corpse king was the one that the Immemorial Citadel wanted to see dead the most.

At the moment, Big Sis was suffering the agony of Flesh Stripping. It was enough pain to make her soul tremble.

At this moment, Lu Yin appeared behind the corpse king, and he placed a hand on the creature’s shoulder. The corpse king's sequence particles surged towards Lu Yin. The corpse king was going to strip Lu Yin’s body as well. His eyes flared, and an indescribable force slammed down. The corpse king was instantly shattered, and blood spilled across the ground.

Big Sis stared at Lu Yin in shock. One move? Just one move?

How did Little Seven become so powerful?

When Big Sis went to the Immemorial Citadel, Lu Yin had not yet broken through with even Dust World. His strength was completely different from what Big Sis was familiar with.

“Big Sis, take a break. Leave the rest to me,” Lu Yin said with a somber expression. The Investiture of the Gods appeared above his head, and a wave of his hand summoned Hongyan Mavis and Wu Tian. The Pridebeast leaped off of Lu Yin’s shoulder and raced away towards Corpse God.

At the same time, the Megalith charged into the Immemorial Citadel.

At this moment, Feng Bo arrived. “Die, brat!”

A tower-shaped sword slashed down at Lu Yin. Lu Yin looked up and asked, “If you die again, will you still revive?”

He raised a hand, and a spear of earth shot up to slam into the tower sword. There was a resounding crash, and the sword shattered. Feng Bo’s pupils shrank in shock. How was this possible?

Lu Yin casually stepped forward and passed by Feng Bo. The man panicked and expanded time in order to avoid Lu Yin's attack.

Despite the man’s efforts, his body shattered the very next moment. Lu Yin did not even glance back as he raced away. He rushed over to Hui Wu, who was standing in place with a river of divine energy flowing behind him.

True God's gaze fell upon Hui Wu. "So, it’s you."

Hui Wu had stopped moving the moment Blackless God had appeared. This was because he had been silently communicating with Xi Wei.

It was difficult to communicate with the outside world from the Immemorial Citadel’s battlefield. It was beyond Hui Wu’s capabilities, but Progenitor Hui could do it.

Long ago, Progenitor Hui had foreseen many future events. He had plotted against Shaman God, which had led to the Skygod’s tragic demise. Progenitor Hui had also schemed against the Sixth Mainland and Aeternus. Out of pure curiosity, he had even meddled with the Wang family and their Yellow Springs. However, the man’s focus had always been primarily on the Immemorial Citadel, and it had remained the crux of his calculations.

In order to communicate with the outside world from the Immemorial Citadel’s battlefield with its endless sequence particles, Progenitor Hui had devoted his life to designing a sourcebox array. This array had allowed him to contact Xi Wei, who had then brought Boundless at the last moment. The spacecraft had crashed into the Ossis Ark and saved the Immemorial Citadel.

However, in doing so, Progenitor Hui had also exposed himself.

True God had been keeping an eye on the entire battlefield, which made it impossible for him to not notice Hui Wu's unusual behavior.

Hui Wu looked up at True God.

"Yong Heng, I told you long ago that if someone could compensate for humanity’s lacking strength, I would fill that gap with my wisdom. I’ve won."

True God’s expression fell. He had miscalculated by one step, and it was the step that had always been within Hui Wen’s control.

Long ago, True God had tried to recruit Hui Wen, valuing the man’s intelligence. Hui Wen had refused, even turning down repeated invitations. Not only had Progenitor Hui refused, but he had even made a bet with True God, saying something memorable.

Those words were why True God had continued to tolerate Hui Wu's existence.

Despite suspecting that Hui Wu might be a part of Hui Wen’s grand plan, True God had still tolerated the man’s presence in Aeternus. Yong Heng’s confidence had stemmed from the fact that he was True God, the strongest being in the megaverse, unmatched in both strength and intellect.

He had firmly believed that he could never be defeated by humans.

Thus, even after Hui Wu was exposed as a spy, he had not been killed. Instead, he had been thrown into a lake of divine energy to be transformed into a frenzied corpse. Everything had been done on True God's orders, as he refused to tolerate Hui Wen’s arrogance. Yong Heng had wanted Hui Wen’s son to personally witness the restarting of the megaverse, which was why the man had been kept so close, even when the Aeternals had escaped from the Scourge.

Yong Heng had never thought that Hui Wu would actually be Hui Wen. More accurately, Hui Wu was Hui Wen’s son, but a son whose existence was to be exposed.

From the very beginning, Hui Wen had never believed that Hui Wu would actually be able to deceive Aeternus or successfully scheme against them.

Even if some measure of success was possible, what sort of threat could Hui Wu pose to True God or Aeternus as a whole?

Hui Wen’s plan had truly started only after Hui Wu was exposed. The Progenitor had deliberately made a bet with True God to ensure that Hui Wu would be kept alive. Every step of the scheme had been carefully calculated. If even one detail had gone wrong, the current battle would have played out very differently.

Despite everything, Hui Wen had remained confident in his success.

Just as predicted, Hui Wu had been kept alive. Even after he was outed, he had only been thrown into the lake of divine energy to become a frenzied corpse.

The moment Hui Wu had fallen into that lake of divine energy, Hui Wen’s plan had succeeded. He had informed Lu Yin of Primaldust’s location, and he had also made sure that Boundless could reach the Immemorial Citadel.

Everything that Progenitor Hui had done had been for this one moment.

He had succeeded. True God had been completely outwitted. Aeternus had failed at the very last step. Hui Wen had completed his task, and he could step back. He was satisfied.

True God was amazed. “You abandoned your own son.”

Progenitor Hui’s expression grew dark. “Throughout my life, while I’ve done right by humanity, I failed Little Wu. Even at a young age, he was never able to experience the joy that his peers did. His entire life was consumed by my schemes. The moment he was thrown into that lake of divine energy, his consciousness ceased to exist. I replaced him.

“While I am his father, I owe him a great debt.”

The man then looked at the approaching Lu Yin and smiled. “Lord Lu, things are up to you from this point on.”