Star Odyssey

Chapter 1001: Skybreaker

Lu Yin stared intently at Nightking Zhenwu’s right hand, as it was already impossible for him to escape. If he could escape from an unrivaled battle technique that easily, then it would never have been known as unrivaled. 

Nightking Zhenwu’s face was calm, and he was currently looking at Lu Yin as if he were staring at a dead person. No one could survive his Skybreaker. Nightking Zhenwu was confident that this technique could even defeat the other nine Arbiters let alone Lu Yin. 

Some people preferred to avoid tasks or situations that were not their forte, and this was definitely true of Nightking Zhenwu. Against Bu Kong, the Nightking had focused on keeping himself alive, not using his Skybreaker or his nine lined battle force even once. Of course, there was no guarantee that he would have been able to defeat Bu Kong with his battle force and unrivaled battle technique, but the Daosource Three Skies absolutely would have treated the Arbiter more seriously if he had. 

Nightking Zhenwu had actually greatly desired to test out Skybreaker on the Daosource Three Skies. 

However, he had never imagined that the first time he would use this technique in battle would be against Lu Yin, though the Nightking simply decided to treat this as an experiment. In fact, he had only recently mastered the technique. 

He slowly lowered his right hand, but there was not a single fluctuation within the void. This palm attack seemed like an ordinary movement, but in Lu Yin’s eyes, Nightking Zhenwu’s rune lines that had originally pervaded the entire area suddenly gathered into a single point that shot out. At that moment, Lu Yin’s entire body was paralyzed, and a sense of extreme danger washed over him. He watched as the rune lines tore through the void towards him. At that moment, Lu Yin’s eyes suddenly went wide, and he decided to take a 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…” He began to silently recite the Stonewall Scriptures.

The Daynight clan was famous throughout the entire universe, and every battle technique that they possessed was related to spiritual force. Lu Yin was gambling that this unrivaled battle technique from the clan would be no different. Night’s End, Daybreak used spiritual force to forcefully pull people into an illusion that they would be immersed in for eternity. While Lu Yin did not know Skybreaker’s effects, since it was a Daynight clan battle technique, it seemed likely that it would use spiritual force in an extreme manner. 

And if this was a spiritual force attack, then Lu Yin’s greatest protection against it was the Stonewall Scriptures. 

A single palm from Nightking Zhenwu cleaved down, and Skybreaker flitted past Lu Yin. For a single moment, there seemed to be no change, but in the next second, the space some distance away from the Champions’ Stage began to shatter. The power level of this attack had obviously been restrained to remain under 200,000, but the power that it exhibited was unimaginably terrifying. 

Nightking Zhenwu had a cold expression. Nobody could possibly block his Skybreaker. Although a person’s body might not appear to be injured, their spiritual force would be eliminated beyond a shadow of a doubt. 

In the distance, Zhuo Daynight’s face had gone deathly pale. She understood just how fearsome Skybreaker was; it was just as frightening as Night’s End, Daybreak since they were both equally famous. She did not believe that Lu Yin would be able to block this attack.

Nightking Zhenwu had already disregarded Lu Yin as dead, and he turned to look at Zhuo Daynight with icy eyes. “Who gave you the courage to participate in my battle? Kneel!”

Ever since the Innerverse and Outerverse had been separated, Zhuo Daynight had been abandoned by Nightking Yuanjing, and she had become Zhenwu’s caged bird. 

Zhuo Daynight’s body trembled. She turned to look at Nightking Zhenwu, and her eyes were filled with terror, hatred, helplessness, and multiple other emotions. In the end, only one remained: despair. 

Ever since she had comprehended Night’s End, Daybreak, her Dayking bloodline had gained some hope of resisting the Nightking bloodline. However, Nightking Zhenwu had similarly comprehended Skybreaker, which nobody had done in countless years. Before this moment, Zhuo Daynight had been ignorant of this development, but she was left in absolute despair upon learning of the truth. 

“I said… kneel!” Nightking Zhenwu barked at Zhuo Daynight.

Zhuo Daynight’s body trembled, and her red sword clattered to the ground as her legs slowly bent while she closed her eyes.

“Who are you forcing to kneel? Are you talking to me?” A mocking voice rang out.

Zhuo Daynight looked over in ecstasy; Lu Yin was not dead!

Nightking Zhenwu’s expression completely reversed, and he slowly turned around to see Lu Yin’s beaming smile. The Nightking asked in disbelief, “How is this possible?” 

Lu Yin secretly heaved a sigh of relief, as he had won his gamble; Skybreaker indeed focused on manifesting spiritual force before striking at a single point to raise the power of the attack multiple times over. Even if it were someone from the Sixth Mainland’s Daosource Three Skies taking the attack, they might not be able to emerge unscathed. Also, the Sixth Mainland’s cultivators cultivated imprints, so they would never stop improving their spiritual force, and the Daosource Three Skies were an extreme case of this. 

If even the Daosource Three Skies were in danger of succumbing to Skybreaker, the might of this technique could be imagined. In the entire Innerverse and Outerverse, there were extremely few individuals who could receive this attack without a scratch. 

It was even unknown how many of the Ten Arbiters would be able to block such a technique.

Unfortunately, this attack was not very effective against Lu Yin. The Stonewall Scriptures allowed him to block spiritual force attacks up to a certain strength without exception, and Truesight allowed him to eliminate the rune lines of his opponents’ attacks no matter what kind of attack it was. 

Against spiritual force attacks, Truesight complemented the Stonewall Scriptures perfectly, and this combination was what Lu Yin had relied upon to block Skybreaker. 

At this moment, nobody could understand what emotions Nightking Zhenwu was experiencing. The technique that he had assumed to be invincible had just been blocked, and his opponent had not even been injured. This was completely contrary to the Nightking’s expectations. 

Zhuo Daynight heaved a sigh of relief. As long as you’re not dead.

“How did you do it?” Nightking Zhenwu asked sharply. He had already completely forgotten about Zhuo Daynight. Currently, Lu Yin was the only thing on the Nightking’s mind.

Skybreaker was a technique that should be invincible, and it should not have been possible for Lu Yin to block it. 

Lu Yin mocked the Arbiter, replying, “What do you mean, ‘how did I block it?’ That attack wasn’t very impressive.” 

Nightking Zhenwu stared intently at Lu Yin. “I’ll give you one last chance. Tell me, how did you block Skybreaker?”

Lu Yin’s lips curled upwards. “How arrogant.”

Nightking Zhenwu tightly clenched his fists. “You really must want to die.”

His figure then vanished before reappearing at Lu Yin’s side. The Nightking lashed out with his leg, and there was a bang as a shockwave shook the Champions’ Stage once again.

Zhuo Daynight looked at the two men battling intensely, and she slowly crouched down. She could no longer even stand up. 

Although Lu Yin appeared to have escaped from Skybreaker completely unscathed, in reality, he had truly been heavily injured by the technique, and his mind was still trembling. After receiving that attack, the best that he was capable of was delaying Nightking Zhenwu and surviving his frenzied attacks until someone else arrived. 

One minute passed, then two. Soon, five minutes had passed. 

Lu Yin used all sorts of methods to protect himself. 

Nightking Zhenwu once again shouted, “Do you really want to die? The day the Outerverse reconnects to the Innerverse is quickly approaching. You’re from the Outerverse, and I can make you the number one person in the Outerverse Youth Council, and you will be able to command the entire Outerverse’s youths! It won’t be hard to help you unify a weave or even several. I, Nightking Zhenwu, can speak for the Daynight clan and offer you the greatest protection.” 

Lu Yin had a bizarre look on his face upon hearing this—unify several weaves in the Outerverse? He was already essentially the king of half the Outerverse! Command the Outerverse’s youth? Wrong! He could already command the powerhouses of the older generation.

“Are you going to speak or not?” To no surprise, Nightking Zhenwu was extremely concerned about how Lu Yin had blocked Skybreaker. The Nightking had paid a steep price to successfully cultivate the technique, but the first opponent he had used it against had simply shrugged it off. This had dealt him a heavy mental blow. 

In fact, Nightking Zhenwu was completely unaware that Zhi Yi had experienced something similar during her battle against Lu Yin. Lu Yin had essentially ignored her Vitality Qi, which had dealt a huge blow to Zhi Yi. 

“Do all the people from your Daynight clan like to give their techniques names that cause others to vomit? Nightking Punch, Nightking Finger, Nightking’s Body, Daynight Restoration Technique, and now there’s some Skybreaker. I feel embarrassed for all of you,” Lu Yin ridiculed. 

Nightking Zhenwu’s expression grew exceptionally cold. “Are you really not going to tell me?”

“You can try asking me a few more times. Maybe then I’ll spit it out,” Lu Yin replied.

Nightking Zhenwu felt insulted. “If that’s how it is, then you can just die!”

Suddenly, his actions stopped. “If the heart is willing, then anything can become an arrow. Have you heard of the Arrow Progenitor’s secret technique?” 

Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed, and his scalp tingled, feeling like it was about to explode. He hurriedly retreated 100 meters back, as he realized that he had forgotten about Nightking Zhenwu receiving the Sixth Mainland’s Arrow Progenitor’s battle techniques. There was even a possibility that the Nightking had received the Arrow Progenitor’s complete inheritance. Since Progenitors were able to develop secret techniques, then it would make sense that Nightking Zhenwu had also received the Arrow Progenitor’s secret technique. 

A secret technique was an exceptionally mysterious technique. What’s more, there were some secret techniques that, even once used, were impossible to understand. The Yu Secret Art was no exception; even though Lu Yin had learned it himself, he did not understand the logic behind it. He seldom encountered enemies who had cultivated secret techniques, and typically, those who did were from the Sixth Mainland’s Progenitor of Secret Arts’ territory who used the Resurrection Technique, Time Reversal, and Power Transfer. These three techniques were all secret techniques, and each one was exceptionally mysterious. 

However, all of those secret techniques had telltale signs when they were activated, whereas when Nightking Zhenwu used his secret technique, there had been no trace of anything. 

Lu Yin kept a wary eye on Nightking Zhenwu, as Lu Yin would have completely forgotten about this secret technique if the Nightking had not said anything. He was one of the Ten Arbiters as well as the future patriarch of the Daynight clan; how could he possibly not have a secret technique? 

A single secret technique could change everything.

Nightking Zhenwu stared at Lu Yin. “You’re on guard against my secret technique?”

Lu Yin did not deny the allegation. “Did you receive the Arrow Progenitor’s secret technique?”

Nightking Zhenwu slowly answered, “Actually, I truly admire you. If we were able to cast aside our different viewpoints, then your future would be no weaker than ours. Among the Ten Arbiters, there are two who are already over forty, and they no longer belong to the younger generation anymore. With your strength, in just a few more years, you’d be able to fill their seats.”

“I can take their seats now,” Lu Yin retorted.

Nightking Zhenwu shook his head. “Under the suppression of this cosmic phenomenon, we all have to restrict our attacks. Without this phenomenon, we would be that much stronger. Don’t think that it’s easy to replace the Ten Arbiters just because we abdicate. We are the Ten Arbiters! Our name is a synonym for invincibility, and we are not limited to any terms.

“The Ten Arbiters are the Councilors of the Universe Youth Council, but not all Universe Youth Councilors have become members of the Ten Arbiters. The Ten Arbiters only appeared during this generation, and I don’t know if there’ll be any Arbiters in the future. At the least, at this moment, neither you, Xia Tian, or Tai Yuanjun are qualified to fill the seats of the Ten Arbiters.” 

Lu Yin listened on in silence.

“To become an Arbiter, first, one of the current Arbiters has to abdicate. Then, there’s another condition: you must receive the approval of the other Ten Arbiters. Otherwise, we can challenge a nominee with a life or death battle,” Nightking Zhenwu explained.

Lu Yin’s brows rose. “You want to use the position of one of the Ten Arbiters to tempt me?”

Nightking Zhenwu nodded. “That’s right. As long as you tell me how you blocked my Skybreaker, then not only can I guarantee that you will become an Arbiter, but I can also help you obtain anything you want in the Outerverse.”

“There’s no longer the requirement for me to follow you?” Lu Yin countered.

Nightking Zhenwu frowned. “No.”

Lu Yin nodded. “Alright then, I’ll propose my condition. As long as you can complete it, I’ll tell you.”

Nightking Zhenwu’s eyes flashed. “Speak.”

Lu Yin answered firmly, “Help me unite the Outerverse and become the Outerverse’s king.”

Nightking Zhenwu’s eyes narrowed. “Are you joking?”

“You can’t do it?”

“Nobody can. The Outerverse’s seventy two weaves have existed for countless years, and no one has ever united them. The Hall of Honor won’t allow such a thing to happen, and even if they weren’t in the picture, the various great powers of the Innerverse wouldn’t allow such a thing to happen. Whoever attempts to do such a thing will become everyone’s enemy.”