Star Odyssey

Chapter 695: Ambition And The Beginning

This battle between Lockbreakers had opened up a new window of understanding for Lu Yin. If he could improve his star energy control to the same level as these two, then even Hunters would no longer be his opponents. Those with impregnable defenses like Aden would also have all of their star energy stripped away from them and be forced into a disadvantage. 

As the Outerverse Lockbreaker Society’s Vice President, Saul had nurtured many Lockbreakers throughout the years, and he also had many aides. The fact that he was adamant in taking action suggested that the society would fracture, and a battle between Lockbreakers erupted. 

Felynn was first attacked by Mr. Jun, but Yi Feng helped Felynn block the attack. Multiple Perceptive Intermediate Lockbreakers joined the fray at that point as a chaotic battle between Lockbreakers unfolded on Sourcepeak Planet. 

Saul was not a fool either. Although he still did not know that Felynn had plotted with other groups such as the Wei family, he had definitely made preparations beforehand since he wanted to become the president. This could be seen by how he had dealt with the Lockbreakers that could have threatened Deng Pu’s victory in the Lockbreaker Competition. He also had quite a considerable number of Lockbreakers and cultivators on his side, and it would not be easy to wear him down. 

From a distance, Wei Rong saw Sourcepeak Planet quivering, and he exclaimed, “So this is a battle between Lockbreakers—even Enlighters would be at a disadvantage against them.” 

At this moment, Angie approached, and she looked at Wei Rong. “Begin.”

Wei Rong nodded. Then, he issued an order into his gadget, “Begin immediately.”

In the sky, cultivators walked out of the numerous spacecraft that belonged to Endless Borders. They then exited the space station and flew towards the Hall of Insight. 

At the same time, a batch of cultivators with unknown origins appeared on Sourcepeak Planet, and they also all surged towards the Hall of Insight. 

Beneath the altar, all Lu Yin could see was a chaotic battle. Saul only had a few people on his side, so they quickly fell to a disadvantage. However, Saul himself was too powerful. In Lu Yin’s eyes, Fiend Li’s rune lines were quite lacking compared to Saul’s. The older man could hold off his opponent for a short period of time, but not for long. 

Aden appeared beside Lu Yin. “Let’s go, it’s too dangerous here. This planet might even collapse soon.” 

Lu Yin’s eyes flickered, but then he suddenly recalled something. He looked around for Deng Pu. True Insight was still in Deng Pu’s possession. 

Suddenly, Lu Yin’s scalp went numb and a chill enveloped him that caused his hair to stand on end. He subconsciously used Secret Sidestep and shifted his body, and a thin strand of radiance streaked by him to tear through the void. It shot through many cultivators and Lockbreakers some distance away, and they vanished from sight. 

Lu Yin suddenly turned to look at his right, where he saw a Lockbreaker coldly staring at him. Lu Yin recognized this person, as he had been one of the sixteen finalists in the Lockbreaker Competition. He had been eliminated long ago, but now, he was acting against Lu Yin. Also, the sharpness of his attack caused Lu Yin to feel a chill. That thin strand of radiance’s rune lines were not much inferior to an average Enlighter’s, and the attack had come from the Lockbreaker’s left eye. 

Aden did not have a chance to react yet when the Lockbreaker’s right eye changed as well. Lu Yin’s pupils shrank. Not good, the second attack’s about to come.

As the thought flashed through Lu Yin’s mind, that thin radiance once again tore through the void and shot towards him. He waved a hand, activating the Yu Secret Art to divert the radiance into the planet’s atmosphere, where it left a black spatial streaking across the sky. 

Aden was shocked, and he immediately released his thunder shield to protect Lu Yin. “Who’s attacking?” 

Lu Yin pushed the Hunter aside and walked towards the Lockbreaker. This person had already died, as his rune lines had completely vanished. Lu Yin saw dark eyeholes where the man’s eyes should have been. He pressed a hand against the skull, but then his expression changed. When Lu Yin exerted a bit more force, a sharp crack rang out as the skull shattered. There was no fresh blood; instead, a shattered chip fell out, which disintegrated into powder in mere seconds as it spilled all over the ground. 

Lu Yin’s gaze grew solemn, and he looked at the powder without understanding what had just happened. 

“What’s going on?” Aden asked.

Lu Yin shook his head as he did not know either. This person had inexplicably tried to assassinate him, and he had actually unleashed an attack that could rival an Enlighter’s. He hadn’t even been at the Hunter realm, and just how many Enlighters were there in the Outerverse? Despite that, this person had been able to unleash such a deadly attack. Also, the man’s brain had been replaced with a chip. Were these methods actually something from the Technocracy? 

While Lu Yin was studying the corpse of the Lockbreaker who had tried to assassinate him, Ku Wei was staring at him from a distance. His eyes lit up when he saw Lu Yin’s move. “The Yu Secret Art, the Yu Secret Art! I found it! It looks like those old fogeys did not guess wrong, and the Yu bloodline really is hiding in the Outerverse. It’s too bad that the Outerverse is isolated from the Innerverse. This guy won’t be easy to deal with.” 

There was a rumbling as the ground of Sourcepeak Planet began to split apart, the epicenter still in the distance. 

Countless people turned around, as the rumbling was coming from the direction of the Hall of Insight. 

In the sky, Saul and Fiend Li turned around as one. “The Hall of Insight is being attacked. Someone wants to take advantage of this chaos to touch it!” Fiend Li barked. 

Saul’s face turned ugly. “Fiend Li, there are treasures within the Hall of Insight that have been gathered over countless years. Nothing can be allowed to happen to it!” 

Fiend Li looked down. “Yi Feng, go and protect the Hall of Insight!” 

Yi Feng flew away without any hesitation. 

Felynn looked towards the Hall of Insight as her expression changed several times, though it was always very unsightly. She knew that she had been tricked; the ultimate goal of her supposed allies like the Wei family was not to promote her to the position of president. Instead, they were focused on looting the accumulations that the Lockbreaker Society had gathered over countless years and use them to create another society. 

But knowing their goal was just one aspect, and she could not give up on the current situation. Saul had to die, and only by sitting in the president’s seat would she then be able to slowly settle the debts with the Wei family and the others. 

“Fiend Li, why don’t we take care of the outsiders first? Nothing can be allowed to happen to the Hall of Insight.” Saul was flustered. 

Fiend Li coldly replied, “With the sourcebox array’s protection and Yi Feng’s support, nothing will happen to Hall of Insight. Saul, the greatest threat at this moment is still you. Admit to your crimes and resign from your position as vice president. Only then can you still remain on Sourcepeak Planet. Stop being lost in your fantasies.” 

“How brazen, just by yourself?” Saul remained indignant as he continued to fight. 

Below them, Xi Qi was hiding in a corner and looking around apprehensively. “What should we do?”  

“Find that familiar two-legged beast and get him to protect you.” The fish swatted its tail and pointed its fin towards Lu Yin. 

Xi Qi was lost. “Familiar? Who?”

“How can Lord Fish remember the code names that you two-legged beasts use? Just find him!” the fish shouted.

Xi Qi acknowledged his orders, and she then charged towards Lu Yin.

Near them, Straight Metallic Man, Serpent Queen, and Tong Mi’er had surrounded a Perceptive Intermediate Lockbreaker. Deng Pu had long since disappeared, and Cai Jianqiang had left the planet the moment he had been eliminated during the third stage of the competition. 

In the distance, a group of cultivators appeared inside the Hall of Insight, and a battle erupted as soon as they set foot inside. 

The Hall of Insight had the protection of the sourcebox array, which meant that its star energy was fixed and that these cultivators had to seize any star energy they wanted to use in battle. Any cultivators that entered the Hall of Insight would immediately be thrown into a disadvantage as they would not be able to overcome a Lockbreaker in terms of seizing star energy. However, these cultivators did not rely on battle techniques or arts; instead, they took out firearms and relied upon physical strength. They fought like maniacs, and they were from Aegis. 

To a mercenary organization like Aegis, there were too many places in the universe where star energy could not be used, and so, they had long since made preparations for such situations. They did not lack for freaks who cultivated their physical bodies or specialized in firearms. 

“Call for more Lockbreakers to defend the Hall of Insight!” called out a two star Perceptive Intermediate Lockbreaker who was guarding the Hall of Insight. He was President Geoffrey’s trusted aide, and he had not left the Hall of Insight at all during this period, as he had been specially tasked to protect this place. At this time, his hands were stained with the fresh blood of dozens of people, but more Aegis mercenaries were charging over by the second. Of course, the Lockbreakers were unaware that these people were from Aegis. 

Aside from Aegis, there were naturally also attackers from the Wei family, some from the Umbral Butterfly Tribe, as well as an individual from Suna Weave’s Shadowsword Sect. 

The Shadowsword Sect was a sword sect that was equally as famous as the Moke Sword Sect in Suna Weave. The sect’s sword techniques were strange and unpredictable, and the members of the sect seemed eerily reminiscent of ghost-like shadows. They were very difficult to fight against, especially since many of the sect’s sword techniques did not require star energy. The sect was known even in the surrounding weaves. 

This time, the Shadowsword Sect was cooperating with the Wei family and the Umbral Butterfly Tribe, and they had plotted together to seize the Lockbreaker Society’s treasury with relics accumulated over countless years. 

That Perceptive Intermediate Lockbreaker placed five fingers together, and his star energy suddenly formed a gale that tore through the air and shredded dozens of mercenaries in front of him, sending a gruesome spray of blood splattering across the ground. 

Above the battle, a cultivator descended. A shadow spun out of his palm, but it was repelled by the Perceptive Intermediate Lockbreaker. The attackers’ star energy had already been weakened, and all of their battle techniques were proving ineffective against this Lockbreaker. “Who are you people? Aren’t you afraid of death? How dare you act against the Lockbreaker Society?!” 

Nobody answered the man. Now that the Innerverse and Outerverse had been separated from each other, regardless of if it was the Lockbreaker Society or the Outerverse Youth Council, neither one of them had any support. Approximately two years had passed since then, and now, all of their former prestige had disappeared only to be replaced by the image of a giant cash cow in the eyes of countless Outerverse powers. 

Not too far away from the Hall of Insight, Wei Rong smiled. “Previously enormous organizations will be felled by time. What a magnificent sight. Miss Angie, did you ever think that you would one day see Sourcepeak Planet crumble from this close a vantage?” 

Angie’s face was solemn, as this was the Lockbreaker Society’s Outerverse headquarters, and in the past, none of them would have dared to offend even a single Lockbreaker out of fear of retaliation. Now, they were brazenly attacking the society’s headquarters, which was something that had been unimaginable just two years prior, but they were actually doing it today. 

“Nobody expected that the grand Lockbreaker Society would face such an imminent collapse,” Angie said. 

Wei Rong smiled. “This is just the beginning.” 

Angie was lost. “The beginning?” 

Wei Rong’s lips rose. “Have you ever thought about how many of the Outerverse’s enormous organizations rely on their relationships with the Innerverse and Neoverse powers to act tyrannically? They have accumulated too many resources and hold too many secrets. These organizations have become colossal creatures that the Outerverse’s seventy two weaves don’t dare to offend, but we have crushed the Lockbreaker Society’s Outerverse headquarters today. Do you think that everyone will still be apprehensive of the remaining organizations after this?” 

Angie’s face changed. “So this was your objective all along.” 

Wei Rong laughed. “Shamrock Enterprise, Mavis Bank, the Outerverse Youth Council, and Aurora Enterprises. All of these mammoths have exploited the Outerverse for countless years, and their tentacles extend into every corner of the Outerverse. Even children who were only recently born will know of them, and now, we want to break them down and take their resources to strengthen ourselves. In the future, the connection between the Innerverse and Outerverse will recover, but by then, the Outerverse will no longer need to fear the Innerverse powers. Instead, we will stand on equal footing with them.” 

Angie stared at Wei Rong in shock. The extent of a person’s ambition showed the potential of their future. At this time, Angie was able to acutely feel Wei Rong’s boundless ambition, and ripples fluctuated through her heart as the way she looked at Wei Rong changed. 

Wei Rong smiled and looked over at Angie. He reached out to cup her chin. “Tell me, if we can crush all of these organizations, how strong can we become? Do you think we can unify the Outerverse?”