Star Odyssey

Chapter 1292: Making A Reputation

When the pair of green eyes appeared, Lu Yin became sluggish for a moment. This was the Mavis family’s innate gift of control.

Not everyone could be controlled by a member of the Mavis family, and this was also true of Yuhua Mavis. She had managed to briefly seize control of the Ten Arbiters’ Unseen Light and almost caused him to injure the White Knight, but she had not been able to exert enough control to accomplish that goal. At the present moment, the sky and ground had both turned green from her power, and her eyes had filled Lu Yin’s vision for a moment, and at that moment, Lu Yin’s eyes glazed over.

Yuhua Mavis raised both of her hands, and the grass grew frantically as it formed dozens of huge green fists that smashed at Lu Yin. This was Yuhua Mavis’s only chance.

Dozens of fists fell down.

Ku Wei shouted, “Seventh Bro, be careful!”

Xin Nü’s eyes grew sharp.

Wang Yi looked on solemnly.

Shang Qing watched carefully.

Countless people watched the broadcast on their screens with wide eyes, especially the people from the Great Eastern Alliance, or even more so, the people of Earth. They were all holding their breaths at this moment and nervously watching the battle unfold.

The instant the green fists struck, Lu Yin’s eyes returned to normal, and he tightly clenched his right fist before throwing a punch at the sky. His nine lined battle force shot into the sky, and numerous stacks shattered the green fists. Lu Yin then tore through the void as he charged at Yuhua Mavis.

Yuhua Mavis’ pupils instantly constricted, but she had no time to respond. All she could do was try to counter with her own fists, but her green sleeves were shredded apart while she was blasted away, vomiting blood as she fell down the mountain.

The situation had changed too quickly, and most people had not had any time to even react. By the time they had processed the events, everything was already over.

Yuhua Mavis fell to the foot of Zenith Mountain, but without any serious injuries.

Lu Yin had won.

Zenith Mountain fell silent for a moment before many people began to cheer. They were all from the Great Eastern Alliance, and they were cheering for their leader.

“Seventh Bro, you’re so awesome!” Ku Wei shouted. He was extremely excited at this moment. “You bastards dared to compete with my Seventh Bro? Do you dare? Even the Mavis family has been defeated, and yet you bastards still aren’t groveling and submitting to him.”

Not far away, Ling Gong stared at Lu Yin with a complicated expression. Yuhua Mavis had revealed an overwhelming physical strength, and she definitely qualified to be one of the ten finalists. There had been a few people who had dared to claim that Yuhua Mavis would end up taking the title of Pinnacle Youth, but she had actually just lost. And not just that—she had lost to a person who had been too intimidated to even try to run away from Ling Gong the first time they had met.

How strong had Lu Yin become? What he had just revealed in that fight definitely was not his full power.

Shang Qing smiled. After all, no matter how physically strong Lu Yin was, he would never present a threat to Shang Qing. Rather, this fight meant that there was now a chance that two of the Hall of Honor’s Honor Chosen would enter the top ten, which would be very glorious for the Fifth Mainland.

Wang Yi looked at Lu Yin, and for the first time, he showed a bit of interest.

Yao Xuan frowned. The task that the astral beast participants had been assigned seemed to be far more difficult than anticipated.

Bu Kong was stunned. He had been stuck in his first impression of Lu Yin from the battle in the Cosmic Sea. Back then, Lu Yin had been nothing more than a trickster, but now, he had become powerful! It was no wonder why he had been qualified to be a gatekeeper.

Zhi Yi’s fingers twitched uncontrollably. The situation was becoming very tricky. Lu Yin had previously shown that he could ignore Vitality Qi. When that was combined with the monster-like strength that he had just demonstrated, Zhi Yi would have a very difficult time defeating Lu Yin.

On the second layer, Gu Xiao’er grew proud. “That’s our friend! You get it, old man?”

At the foot of Zenith Mountain, Coco cheered loudly, “Big Brother Lu won! He won!”

There was a complicated expression on Lulu Mavis’s face; even Sister Yuhua had lost?

Long ago, a few people had left Earth at the same time. Back then, Lu Yin had been the weakest among them, but he had already become the strongest, and by a huge margin at that. When they had left Earth back then, Sister Yuhua had stood at a height that Lu Yin could not have even imagined, but she had just lost to him.

Who could have imagined that such a day would arrive.

Yuhua Mavis’s loss not only shocked the universe, but it also caused many of the gambling houses throughout the universe to go bankrupt, especially the ones that had opened up short-term bets.

Before the match between Yuhua Mavis and Lu Yin, many bookmakers had happily placed odds for short-term bets on who would win or lose, how long Lu Yin would be able to last, and other statistics. However, very few people had believed that Lu Yin was capable of winning.

The main reason was because the Mavis family had been a great power in the universe for far too long. Even if Lu Yin had been a gatekeeper and had tossed Yuhua Mavis through the checkpoint, it had not been nearly enough to overcome eons of intimidation.

Given the battle’s final results, many bookmakers would go bankrupt, and many people had also just made a fortune.

Above the first layer, Lu Yinju looked down at Yuhua Mavis, who had just fallen to the bottom of the mountain. He lifted his head and let out a long breath. He had won.

Basking in victory, he thought back to his time in the Mountain and Seas Zone. At that time, Lu Yin had been defeated by seven punches from Yuhua Mavis, and Lu Yin had realized that Yuhua Mavis had not used her full strength against him—most likely because of his relationship with Lulu. Instead, she had somewhat guided Lu Yin with those punches.

The frustration, helplessness, and unwillingness that he had experienced at that time had all been let go.

Lu Yin was predicted to end up in thirteenth place in ZENITH according to the most accepted leaderboard despite him being a gatekeeper. He had given others the impression that this had not bothered him, but how could that be true? Now, he had personally destroyed that forecast of finalists as he had defeated Yuhua Mavis, who had been expected to come in sixth place.

He had defeated Yuhua Mavis, one of the most powerful experts within the current younger generation. He had established a fearsome reputation for himself.

Lu Yin disappeared, and he next appeared above the first layer of Zenith Mountain, at the bottom of one of the ten staircases. From this position, he was able to see the remaining contestants on the first layer as well as the other victors of the current round: Liquor Hero, Wang Yi, and Shang Qing.

Xia Jiuyou stared at Lu Yin, his fear had been proven accurate. Lu Yin was indeed one of the most powerful participants in ZENITH.

Xia Jiuyou was very familiar with Yuhua Mavis, and when it came to combat strength, he firmly believed that she was more powerful than even the Sixth Mainland’s Daosource Three Skies. Lu Yin had defeated Yuhua Mavis, which meant that he was a threat inferior only to Shang Qing.

At the foot of Zenith Mountain, Yuhua Mavis coughed up blood once again. She looked up, bitter at her unexpected defeat.

Historically, the Mavis family’s Treeheart Descendants had almost never failed, and only during the times of the Rune Progenitor and Progenitor Chen had the Treeheart Descendants been overshadowed.

However, the current era had Lu Yin.

Yuhua Mavis suddenly disappeared, only to reappear on the first layer of the mountain, back in her original position.

All around her were people with strange expressions. Yuhua Mavis had revealed a level of power that they could not even understand, but she had still lost. This had terrified many of the remaining contestants.

Xiao Tao was one such frightened person. She had only made it to the first layer through sheer luck, and after the last battle, she felt that it would be better to be smart and simply give up the moment she ran into a true expert. Besides, there was no shame in such actions. After all, she was just an Explorer, so if she ran into one of the Daosource Three Skies, she could give up since they were both from the Sixth Mainland.

As this thought passed through her mind, Xiao Tao glanced over at Yuhua Mavis. This woman was amazingly strong, and yet she had just been forced to the point of vomiting blood. Xiao Tao could not even endure the sound from the impact of those fists as they had truly been terrible. Fortunately, Xiao Tao had not been forced to go up against Yuhua Mavis.

The more Xiao Tao thought about things, the luckier she felt. She patted her chest, feeling relieved. And then she suddenly appeared on the battlefield.

Had she been stupidly looking around when it was her turn?

When Lu Yin saw Xiao Tao appear in the arena, he was further convinced that while this current round appeared to be random matches, they were actually being deliberately organized to eliminate those who had reached this stage through luck. Cool Sis was one of those lucky few.

Just as Lu Yin thought of Cool Sis, she also appeared on the battlefield.

Lu Yin was left speechless.

The battlefield held Cool Sis, Xiao Tao, and Yōu Ye’er.

There were three women in this match.

Upon seeing Yōu Ye’er, Xiao Tao’s face went completely white; how could she be up against this woman?

During the last round of ZENITH, Yōu Ye’er had killed Bai Ling with a blood-colored lotus, and Xiao Tao would never forget that scene. She was from the Grand Martial Realm, and Bai Ling had been that realm’s Realmling. Xiao Tao’s own Realmling had been killed, and the sky had fallen for Xiao Tao.

Yōu Ye’er was the person who Xiao Tao feared the most in all of ZENITH. She had not expected to run into her, and she was too afraid to do anything: her opponent was Yōu Ye’er.

Yōu Ye’er had not reverted back to her former appearance of a child. Instead, she maintained her mature look that had a noble and indifferent mien akin to a blooming black rose.

“I- I give up,” Xiao Tao said in a trembling voice, afraid to even look at Yōu Ye’er.

No one was surprised at this, as they were all able to see Xiao Tao’s cultivation.

Everyone looked at Cool Sis; would she also admit defeat?

Cool Sis had no intention of just giving up, and she kept a cautious eye on Yōu Ye’er.

Cool Sis was actually much more well known than Yōu Ye’er. When Yōu Ye’er had been a youth, she had not even been able to enter the Top 100 Rankings.

Who could have imagined that Yōu Ye’er had been hiding herself this entire time and that she was actually as strong as the Ten Arbiters. Her abilities had been revealed when she had killed Realmling Bai Ling.

This woman had hidden herself very well.

At the bottom of one of the staircases, Lu Yin frowned. Cool Sis was not Yōu Ye’er’s match as Yōu Ye’er was no longer restricted by the need to hide the Yōu Secret Art. She had revealed her considerable power, particularly that blood-colored lotus that not even Lu Yin had been able to see through.

“You can admit defeat,” Yōu Ye’er stated coldly.

Cool Sis’s expression grew even colder. Her innate gift was icy crystallization. “Let’s fight.”

After she spoke, ice crystals covered the nearby contestants, and Yōu Ye’er’s Encompassing Lockdown Array also appeared.

Lu Yin watched the two women start fighting in the arena. Both the icy crystallization innate gift and the Encompassing Lockdown Array were quite impressive. He did not know when Cool Sis had become a Hunter, but Yōu Ye’er’s strength was much more terrifying.

It did not take long for Cool Sis to be trapped within the Encompassing Lockdown Array.

Even Bai Ling had been trapped by this array, so Cool Sis had not stood a chance.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Cool Sis was about to lose. Although she was not weak and was even qualified to challenge the Ten Arbiters after becoming a Hunter, she had not yet reached the level where she could match up to Yōu Ye’er.

Lu Yin watched Cool Sis from the bottom of a staircase. Others were ignorant, but Lu Yin knew that Cool Sis had a special battle technique that was extremely powerful. It had even made Lu Yin’s heart race when he had first seen it due to him being threatened by it. This technique could raise Cool Sis’s power to another level.

There was nothing that Cool Sis could do after she was trapped within the Encompassing Lockdown Array. Yōu Ye’er was just about to win when Cool Sis’s eyes suddenly changed. Her pupils went white, and an indescribable sensation spread out from her as a strange image that looked like a vast field of ice appeared behind her.

Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed; this was it.

“Iceform Sutra.” Cool Sis looked up. The terrible cold from the ice field froze the Encompassing Lockdown Array. From where she was standing, Yōu Ye’er was stunned to see that Cool Sis had managed to break through her array. Yōu Ye’er suddenly realized that Cool Sis was not weak, and Yōu Ye’er had no intention of wasting any more time. A blood-colored light shone as a blood-colored lotus appeared beneath Yōu Ye’er’s feet. “Heart-killer Lotus, come to the world.”

Everyone’s expressions changed. They all remembered Yōu Ye’er’s last fight with Bai Ling. Yōu Ye’er had clearly been at a disadvantage, but the moment the Killing Heart Lotus had appeared, Bai Ling had died to a single attack, instantly reversing the tides of battle and securing a victory. Everyone felt envious about this blood-colored lotus.

Shang Qing, Wang Yi, Bu Kong, Zhi Yi, and others were all staring at the blood-colored lotus at this moment.

God Taiyi’s pupils transformed. He saw such a terrifying number of rune lines, to the point where not even he dared try to go up against this lotus. What sort of phantasmal battle technique was this?

At the bottom of a staircase, Lu Yin’s expression changed the moment he saw the lotus appear. Cool Sis could not stop this.