Star Odyssey

Chapter 1167: The Second Innate Gift

Lu Yin’s body was still falling into the deep pool of blood, and it was unclear just how far down the pool went.

However, he was in no mood to care about such things, as he was currently suffering from an excruciating pain that started from his back. Lu Yin had experienced the same feeling when he broke through to the Melder realm and the Explorer realm. Now that he was breaking through to the Hunter realm, it had appeared once again.

Behind Lu Yin, multiple seals filled with an arcane runic script appeared in the form of chains that pierced his body, abruptly stopping him from moving past his ninth cycle as they worked to stop him from breaking through.

At the same time, Lu Yin’s formcast model melted and seeped deep into his bones, unleashing a pain so intense that he felt as though his body had been crushed to pieces and then built back up molecule by molecule.

He had suffered through this experience in every major breakthrough so far, but it was particularly strong this time.

Not just everyone was able to break through to the Hunter realm with a formcast model. After all, just how many six-stage formcast models could exist in the entire universe?

Part of the reason why Yuhua Mavis, Shang Qing, and a few others were so powerful might precisely be because they had broken through with six-stage formcast models. However, how many of the Ten Arbiters had been able to use a six-stage formcast model?

Lu Yin gritted his teeth in silence. He wanted to break through and become a Hunter, but the excruciating pain from his back was a constant reminder that it would be impossible for him to succeed.

Back when he had broken through to the Melder realm, Astral-10’s crazy headmaster had helped him break the seal.

Then, the desiccated corpse had helped break the seal during his breakthrough to the Explorer realm.

But at this moment, there was no one around who could help Lu Yin with his breakthrough.

The ninth cycle gradually stalled after the seal manifested, and Lu Yin’s heart sank. He tried to circulate the death energy in his body, hoping that they would break the chains, but it was to no avail. The seal was not something that he could break.

Lu Yin had benefited from many lucky encounters thus far, and he had also mastered numerous battle techniques and skills, including even two secret arts. But at this moment, there was simply nothing that he could do about his situation.

Lu Yin yearned endlessly to see Mister Mu, Yuan Shi, or even one of the Neohuman Alliance’s Seven Skygods at this moment. Those people were definitely strong enough to help him break this seal.

His ninth cycle gradually ground to a halt, and Lu Yin was left with a helpless feeling. He had failed.

At this moment, his body fell to the bottom of the pool of blood. There, a distinct ball of crimson blood floated in the midst of the blood, and it constantly emanated a mighty aura. The pressure coming from this blood sphere felt like it came from a massive giant roaring in space. This was Progenitor Chen’s blood.

Lu Yin’s body fell right on top of Progenitor Chen’s blood, and this drop of blood came into direct contact with the seal on his back.

Right when Lu Yin’s ninth cycle came to a complete halt, the seal on his back touched the drop of Progenitor Chen’s blood. The mighty aura of a giant fiercely punching out landed on the seal. Somewhere, far away in outer space, a pair of beautiful eyes opened and sparkled, the owner clearly shocked. “The strength of a Progenitor?”

Behind Lu Yin, a giant formed from blood and the seal on his back wore each other down by consuming the other’s strength.

The moment after Lu Yin gave up, the chains shattered.

As if the floodgates had opened, death energy burst out to circulate through Lu Yin’s body in the blink of an eye instead of star energy. Lu Yin’s eyes suddenly shot open, and a terrifying aura rose up from the bottom of the pool, and along with it, a phenomenon appeared.

When Lu Yin had broken through to the Explorer realm, a phenomenon had also appeared, and at this moment, another phenomenon manifested as he broke through to the Hunter realm. This time, the phenomenon was less ethereal than before and seemed to be even more complete.

At the bottom of the pool of blood, the void fluctuated as a small sapling slowly grew out from the top of Lu Yin’s head. It quickly flourished and grew past the pool of blood before overshadowing the guardian giants’ various stone huts. Still, the tree continued to grow until it spread across the entirety of Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum, and even beyond that. Eventually, the tree broke through the void and appeared in the space outside the tomb.

What the hell? The patriarchs of the Seven Courts were all stupefied.

This tree had drooping branches, but it distorted the void and exuded a strange gaseous substance that seemed capable of creating anything and everything. Beneath one branch, there was an orb, and under another branch, there was a sword. Under yet another branch, there was some four-sided object. The observers could even see a card along with many other items…

It seemed that this tree was the source of everything as more and more things were birthed under this tree that had come from Lu Yin. As it grew, the tree gradually covered the starry sky. Even with its size, the phenomena was still clearer than when Lu Yin had broken through to the Explorer realm.

Everyone stared at the scene developing in front of them, dumbfounded.

Hui Zhi was surprised. “It’s a phenomenon caused by someone breaking through. Who could it be?”

Xia Yi solemnly stared at the scene. Breakthroughs with phenomena were extremely rare, and though the inheritors of the Seven Courts all enjoyed bountiful resources and powerful inheritances, they were not guaranteed to generate phenomena when they broke through. Given the aura of this phenomena, it seemed that the person breaking through was a Hunter. However, just who was becoming a Hunter? Everyone who had gone in had already become Hunters. Actually, that second boy from the Ku family had not been a Hunter.

Mu En was surprised that someone was breaking through to the Hunter realm within Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum and that they were capable of creating a phenomenon that seemed to cover the entire starry sky. This was simply too unbelievable.

The tree was still growing, and it eventually reached a size that covered nearly half of the Seven Courts’ territory.

The shock stirred up by this phenomenon was simply too astounding.

Even if the Seven Courts had powerhouses with power levels that exceeded a million, people were still stunned by the sight of this phenomena.

Above the Great Abyss, the old man in the rowboat lifted his head. “An absolute talent.”

An old man within the Xia family’s territory opened his eyes and looked in the direction of Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum. “Whose child is that? For them to generate such a phenomenon, they will be unrivaled throughout the universe.”

Everyone was stunned upon seeing the phenomenon, and that even included the Giant Emperor, who was, at this moment, staring at the pool of blood in stupefaction. The Giant Emperor was very intelligent, but his intelligence was not enough to comprehend what was happening within the pool. The only thing that the giant was certain of was that this phenomena had something to do with Progenitor Chen’s blood. However, in his eyes, nobody had entered the pool, and all of the intruders were right before him.

Silver stared at the pool intently; Lu Yin had broken through and become a Hunter.

With just the strength of a Cruiser, Lu Yin had already been fighting on par with many of the Neoverse’s top talents, and he had even stepped upon the Astral Tower and fought against Yuhua Mavis with his pitiful cultivation realm, shocking everyone. However, he had just broken through to the Hunter realm, and at this moment, not even Silver could judge just how powerful Lu Yin had become.

Silver’s eyes showed his excitement as he licked his lips. A breakthrough! The stronger the better!

The stronger Lu Yin became, the greater Silver’s harvest would be. In the entire universe, this person had the best potential to become the perfect weapon.

The Giant Emperor had even forgotten to attack as he stared at the pool of blood, slack-jawed. But despite his vulnerability, no one moved to attack him, as they all seemed to be waiting for something to emerge from the blood pool.

At the bottom of the blood pool, Lu Yin’s body glowed; he had finally broken through and become a Hunter. His power had been drastically enhanced, and when he unleashed his domain, it instantly exceeded the limits of the blood pool as it enveloped the city and even spread beyond the city walls. It continued to spread further and further away, to the point where not even Lu Yin could judge how far its range was.

For a moment, Lu Yin felt as though he was in control of everything.

Death energy was still circulating through his body, but even this tremendous amount was not able to affect Lu Yin at this moment.

Lu Yin started circulating the Daynight Restoration Technique, which restrained the death energy and concentrated it into a ball of black and white mist that stayed within his heart. At this moment, there was only a small amount of star energy left in Lu Yin’s body, and he needed to absorb more to complete a cycle.

Right now, the biggest difference that Lu Yin could feel was that he seemed to have activated a new innate gift.

That’s right, an innate gift! He now had a second gift.

There were very few people in the universe who were able to develop an innate gift, and there were many different kinds of gifts. Some allowed one to transform into a giant beast, control ice and fire, or even give mutated vision or hearing. Generally speaking, innate gifts could be divided into three categories: natural gifts, acquired gifts, and mysterious gifts.

Lu Yin’s die belonged to the mysterious gift category.

Only one out of countless people would be able to awaken an innate gift, and out of the few people who were able to awaken their innate gifts, only a tiny percentage of people possessed two. In short, such people were extremely few and far between.

But at this moment, when Lu Yin broke through to the Hunter realm, a second gift had appeared. Additionally, it was a gift that seemed so familiar that he was shocked and unable to comprehend it—the Champions’ Stage.

That’s right, the innate gift that Lu Yin awakened was none other than the Champions’ Stage.

He had not expected to awaken a second innate gift, and what’s more, he definitely had not expected to receive the Champions’ Stage as his gift.

When the Sixth Mainland had invaded the Fifth Mainland, in order to inspire their youths to fight to the death, the Hall of Honor, had revealed the Champions’ Stage and conferred titles upon the most outstanding youths. Those who had received a title of King had also received the right to join the contest for the Cosmic Five.

At that time, everyone’s eyes had been focused on those handful of talented individuals who had received titles, and no one had paid any attention to the Champions’ Stage itself. In fact, Lu Yin had been the same. He had only thought of the stage as a very tough artifact.

However, at this moment, his second innate gift had awakened, and it was actually identical to the Champions’ Stage, which was incomprehensible to him. Was this thing actually a weapon? Or was it a construct? Just how was this an innate gift?

After looking at the Champions’ Stage for a moment, Lu Yin’s expression slowly changed from one of confusion to one of pure excitement. Even though he did not know if his innate gift of the Champions’ Stage that he had just awakened was the same as the Champions’ Stage that the Hall of Honor had used, Lu Yin had an understanding of what his innate gift did. Thus, he knew that it was powerful—very powerful—and that it was also very suited for him.

Although he was still at the bottom of the blood pool at this moment, Lu Yin was perfectly aware of everything that was happening outside. His domain had undergone a complete transformation, and it was possible that it was no longer inferior to Unseen Light’s!

Xia Jiuyou and the others outside the pool were all rather perplexed. Was this feeling a domain? Several people present had comprehended a domain, and the one who used it the most was Ce Jiu. However, this domain clearly did not belong to Ce Jiu, so who could it belong to? Even scarier, this domain was actually making Xia Jiuyou feel a bit pressured.

Xia Jiuyou was not the only one pondering this question, as Ku Lei had also reacted. He looked around but could not see Lu Yin anywhere. Where is he?

Everyone present had impressive vision, but none of them could find Lu Yin, and so, they finally focused on the pool of blood. Could he have fallen in? If so, then did that mean that the phenomenon just now had been real? Had Lu Yin broken through to the Hunter realm within the blood pool?

The Giant Emperor was still staring blankly at the blood pool. Since he had been born and raised in Progenitor Chen’s Mausoleum, he did not have any knowledge of battle techniques or even cultivation realms.

At the bottom of the blood pool, Lu Yin clenched a fist. It was now time for him to come out. With one smooth motion, he moved up and leaped out of the blood pool. I wonder how strong I am now. Maybe I even stand a chance against Beast.

Everyone present saw as Lu Yin emerged from the blood pool, including the Giant Emperor. The Giant Emperor’s pupils immediately constricted as he grew enraged with crimson flushed eyes. Progenitor Chen’s blood was gone! This intruder had absorbed Progenitor Chen’s blood!

The giant was unbearably furious as he roared at the sky and reached out to slap Lu Yin.

Lu Yin’s eyes focused. His feet tapped, and the void rippled as his body disappeared. He had easily avoided the Giant Emperor’s attack, and as for the shockwave from the passing hand, it had no effect on Lu Yin.

At that instant, Beast appeared behind Lu Yin and punched at him

This was an order from Silver, as he wanted to probe Lu Yin’s strength after his breakthrough. And if possible, Silver wanted to recapture Lu Yin in one move.

Lu Yin turned around, clenching his right fist. His nine lined battle force glowed as he met Beast’s punch with one of his own.