Star Odyssey

Chapter 2399: Slapping

Big Sis watched from the side while trying to recall everything that she knew about Wu Xing in order to find some sort of flaw, but how could she? His innate gift Drifting was simply too difficult to overcome.

In the Dominion Realm, Mu Xie heaved a sigh of relief when he saw the Python Ancestor in the Lower Realm. There was a Progenitor-level corpse king that Mu Xie was fighting against, and he could not break away to go help Lu Yin.

At this moment, the Mother Tree itself swayed, and cracks appeared in the sky.

Bai Wangyuan’s head snapped up. "Not good! The Outer Realm is being attacked now! Who’s missing?"

"Liu Yue!" Xia Shenji yelled.

More and more cracks began to appear above the Perennial World.

Far below, in the Lower Realm, Progenitor Liu was horrified at what he saw up above. "This is bad!"

Without another word, he stepped across the sky and vanished.

Lu Yin looked upwards. Had something happened to the Outer Realm as well?

"That old bastard just ran away? What are we supposed to do here?" Big Sis was frustrated, but it was obvious that Progenitor Liu’s sudden departure had to have been instigated by an emergency.

Lu Yin stared at Undying God. The Skygod had regained his lazy demeanor. "Go on and leave. I'm going to sleep now. You can’t hurt me since Liu Yue’s gone."

"It would be great if we could get him back to the Fifth Mainland and Aeternus Nation," Lu Yin muttered to himself. In that place, he could use the sea of death energy that lay beneath Aeternus Nation to release an attack from the God of Death.

The only way that Lu Yin could still potentially harm Undying God was with the jiao. The beast’s claws were incredibly sharp.

This was an exceptionally rare opportunity to have Undying God pinned and trapped. Lu Yin had no idea if another such opportunity would ever present itself.

Battle raged on in the Dominion Realm as the Aeternals did everything that they could to get Undying God back. The Python Ancestor might have trapped Undying God, but Lu Yin was certain that the Aeternals would eventually be able to free him once again, and having such a powerful enemy free would cause countless sleepless nights. Each Skygod was an absolute monster, and killing even one of them would be an amazing achievement.

As long as Undying God's innate gift Drifting could be overcome, the gap between him and Progenitor Liu was not something that could not be overcome.

"Well, you can’t take him away, so do you want to keep trying?" Big Sis asked.

Lu Yin looked over at her. "The Python Ancestor has him trapped, but it didn't kill him. The only reason why is that the Python Ancestor can’t kill him. The Aeternals are frantically attacking the Perennial World just to save him. Big Sis, you should leave."

"What about you?" Big Sis nodded.

Lu Yin frowned. "I'm going to try again."

He then shot upwards towards the Middle Realm and went to the jiao. Lu Yin threatened the beast with the slipper, but it was no use. The jiao was just too terrified of the Python Ancestor to get any closer to the snake.

There was no chance of getting the jiao to approach Undying God, so Lu Yin had no choice but to abandon that option.

He returned to the Lower Realm, only to find that Big Sis had not left. "Even if the Aeternals want to rescue him, they won’t be able to get here any time soon, and the Python Ancestor won’t just let him go. So, we’re safe enough for now."

Lu Yin knew that it would be impossible to convince Big Sis to leave, so he left her alone.

The Champions’ Stage appeared, and Lu Yin also pulled out the broken scythe so that he could use death energy to summon E Chi. The champion should have wielded a jagged saber, but Lu Yin replaced it with his needle-like weapon. He already knew that the needle could hurt a Progenitor, as Progenitor Smoke had once used it to break the chains of Shenwu's Sky’s defensive sourcebox array.

In E Chi’s other hand, he held a slipper.

When Big Sis saw the slipper, she scratched her head and rubbed her eyes, certain that she was seeing things.

An evil sea of blood surged towards Undying God, but the Skygod completely ignored E Chi. "An ordinary Progenitor has absolutely no chances of hurting me."

"Little Seven-"

Big Sis wanted to say something, but Lu Yin stopped her. "Big Sis, do you remember the Roots of Intelligence?"

Big Sis was caught off guard. "Progenitor Hui's Roots of Intelligence?"

Lu Yin grew solemn. "A Root of Intelligence can be used to give a person heightened intelligence and enlightenment. While they don’t last for very long, they are incredibly effective. Using one should allow me to understand how to use Extremes Must Be Reversed to overcome his innate gift."

Undying God stared at Lu Yin. "Ku Jie and Hui Wen’s stuff? Interesting theory. Give it a try."

Lu Yin took out a Root of Intelligence and prepared some tea. He took a sip and then spent a moment considering things. Suddenly, his eyes snapped open, and he lashed out with a palm strike while E Chi began bombarding Undying God with attacks from both the slipper and the needle-like weapon.

The same moment that Lu Yin’s palm struck, the slipper landed as well.

No one had any idea what Undying God experienced at that moment, but as Big Sis stared on incredulously, Undying God was stunned by a single attack from the slipper. It was an exact replication of what had happened to the jiao in the past.

Lu Yin was ecstatic; it had actually worked! He had not used a real Root of Intelligence to make the tea, but rather some of the fakes that he had received from the Hui family. Everything had been done to trick Undying God.

Out of all the powerhouses of the Daosource Sect era, Undying God had feared Progenitor Ku the most by far, but he had also been very wary of Progenitor Hui.

Given that the initial threat of Progenitor Ku's Extremes Must Be Reversed had caused Undying God to stop Drifting out of fear, Lu Yin suspected that the threat of Progenitor Hui might trigger the same reaction once.

Lu Yin’s guess had been spot on, and Undying God had undone his innate gift the moment the attack had fallen.

E Chi had managed to land a solid strike with the slipper, and he had immediately started a frantic assault. At the same time, the needle was thrust forward, and Undying God was not given even a single moment to react.

Big Sis was completely dumbfounded. Was this for real?

Throughout all of history, battles that involved Progenitor-level combatants had always been serious affairs, terrifying and exciting. Given eons of precedent, why was Big Sis witnessing something so bizarre? Since when were a needle and a slipper weapons?

From Lu Yin's perspective, the form his weapon took did not matter, as long as it was useful.

The slipper had caused the Ancestor Tortoise to cry, and it had also allowed Lu Yin to tame the jiao like a puppy. However, neither of the beasts had ever suffered the torment that Undying God was experiencing.

Lu Yin had Enhanced the slipper once, and he no longer understood just how powerful it was. He had wanted to test it out on the jiao, but the beast’s pitiful pleading look had changed Lu Yin’s mind. Finally, Lu Yin was able to see the power of the slipper by testing it out on Undying God head.

Undying God was unbelievably powerful. In fact, the combination of Progenitor Liu, the jiao, and Lu Yin had been helpless to do anything against the Skygod. Undying God had managed to force his way through the Dominion Realm and enter the Perennial World, which had incited an attack from the Python Ancestor. Even so, Undying God remained a Progenitor, and so long as the slipper struck, it would leave him stunned for at least a moment.

The slipper rose and fell while the needle kept stabbing forward. Even Undying God was being beaten into a miserable state. His hair was in disarray, blood covered his entire body, and half of his head had been torn open. He looked as though he had been stomped on by a giant.

It took Undying God several breaths before he was able to react, by which time, he had already been struck dozens of times with the slipper, and also stabbed dozens of times by the needle-like weapon.

An ordinary Progenitor, or even someone like Progenitor Liu, would be at death’s door by this point in time, or possibly even dead. However, Undying God managed to activate his innate gift and drift away from the attacks, rendering all of Lu Yin’s efforts useless.

Lu Yin felt rather frustrated, as well as once more shocked by Undying God’s impressive strength.

The jiao had been stunned by the slipper even before Lu Yin had Enhanced it, and after upgrading the slipper, Lu Yin had thought that it would be capable of almost instantly killing Undying God, as long as a direct hit landed. However, Lu Yin had been proven wrong.

Despite Lu Yin’s failure, Big Sis was stupefied. From her memories, had Wu Xing ever been reduced to such a miserable state before? Even if the Heavens Sect era was ignored, Undying God was one of the Seven Skygods, and it should not be possible to harm him so badly. Was this something that Bai Wangyuan, Xia Shenji, or any of the others could do?

Half of Undying God's head had been shattered. He stared at Lu Yin through unfocused, bloodshot eyes. The other half of the Skygod’s face was unharmed, and he looked dead.

Suddenly, he started to laugh. He sounded happy, very happy.

Lu Yin’s eyes narrowed. While it had been possible and reasonable to trick Undying God once, a second time would be impossible.

In that case…

Lu Yin pulled out the real Root of Intelligence. It was the last one in his possession. "I guess that I have to use it after all."

"Is it a real one this time?" Undying God stared at the Root of Intelligence that Lu Yin held. The moment Lu Yin had seen the slipper strike true, he had tossed the false Root of Intelligence tea aside, and Undying God had seen it. Naturally, he knew that Lu Yin had tricked him.

Lu Yin looked at Root of Intelligence, clearly reluctant to use it. "It's real. My last Root of Intelligence is for you."

"Hahahaha!" Undying God started laughing in a crazed manner. He sounded utterly insane, and given his miserable condition, hearing him laugh was quite confusing.

Lu Yin had no idea what was so funny.

Undying God glared at Lu Yin through frenzied eyes. "Come on! If you can kill me, then kill me! I want to die. I always have, but even after so many years, no one has managed to kill me."

"Then stop resisting, and we’ll be happy to grant your wish." Big Sis could not resist speaking up.

Undying God continued to laugh even as his roars echoed throughout the Lower Realm. "I'm talking about someone killing me with your own strength! Do it, if you can! This is your best chance. My Progenitor’s world is completely occupied with countering this beast, so kill me now, or else you’ll never have another chance. I’m called ‘undying,’ but all I want is to die. Come on! Kill me! Hahahaha!"

Lu Yin was startled. Was this a third personality?

Undying God's first personality was his lazy self that looked as if he had just woken up. His second personality was arrogant, aggressive, and oozed bloodlust. This third personality was begging to die, though only to be killed with dignity.

What the hell? Wu Xing had once been a human. Had he become like this after joining Aeternus? Seeing the Skygod’s crazed reaction gave Lu Yin the chills, and he feared Aeternus more than ever.

Lu Yin stopped hesitating. He formed some water in his hands and steeped the Root of Intelligence. He took a sip of the tea, closed his eyes, and started thinking hard.

Undying God was right, this was indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. His Progenitor’s world and the Python Ancestor were each restraining the other, and Undying God’s body had been trapped by the massive serpent. As long as Lu Yin could bypass the Skygod’s innate gift, it would be possible to kill him. With the slipper, there was indeed a possibility of success. Lu Yin just needed some time. Even a few seconds would do.

After taking a sip of the Root of Intelligence tea, Lu Yin immediately understood many new insights into Extremes Must Be Reversed, and his comprehension only continued to improve. Thousands of thoughts flitted through his mind as countless possibilities occurred to him.

His eyes snapped open, and he struck at Undying God with a palm, once again using Extremes Must Be Reversed.

Failure. Still not enough. Lu Yin could not target Undying God’s drifting state. He needed to try again.

E Chi kept attacking with the slipper and the needle. There was nothing that Big Sis could do to help, so she simply watched from the side.

Soon, Lu Yin’s eyes opened again, only to have his attack fail yet again. This time, he had managed to target the drifting state, but he was unable to target Undying God. Both the individual and the state of drifting had to be targeted at the same time with Extremes Must Be Reversed in order for there to be any effect.

There was one sip of tea left.

Lu Yin downed it in one gulp. Further understandings of Extremes Must Be Reversed instantly appeared in his mind. He slapped out a hand once again, this time with his eyes still closed.

This time, the attack struck true.

Extremes Must Be Reversed managed to remove Undying God from his drifting state. Not only that, but being struck by the slipper badly wounded him yet again.

The same scene from before repeated, leaving Big Sis completely dumbfounded. She could not understand what Lu Yin had done.

Lu Yin stared at Undying God. Was it possible to kill the Skygod this time? It should be possible. Even the Seven Skygods could not endure an attack that could subdue even the jiao. After all, the jiao’s defenses were so impressive that not even Forgotten Ruins God had been able to harm it. Xia Shenji had been left with no option but to use Xia Chan's broken saber to trap the jiao in Shenwu's Sky, and Progenitor Smoke had also struggled greatly against the jiao.

Besides, Lu Yin had recently Enhanced the slipper as well.

Kill a Progenitor… Just the thought of such a possibility left Lu Yin a little short of breath. No matter what, Undying God was still one of the Seven Skygods, an ancient powerhouse from the Heavens Sect era.