His attack method was simple yet brutal. Lu Yin used Void Flash to dodge. In his original spot, the Giant King was blasted out from underground by this one punch. Originally severely injured and fainted, it was even woken up by the blow, its body pierced through, splashing a large amount of blood.
The black-robed man's punch missed. He turned his head to stare at Lu Yin, his crimson vertical eyes making one's hair stand on end, and rushed over again.
Lu Yin's eyes burned with passion. The Neo-Human Alliance was the great enemy of all humanity. He wanted to test how strong these cultivated Corpse Kings were. With this thought, he also threw a punch. He still didn't know the limit of his own body, so he would use this Corpse King in front of him to test it.
Boom!
The entire swamp shook for no reason, followed by a terrifying shockwave that overturned the swamp from end to end, almost devouring the sky. Everyone, including the Giant King, was swept away by this force and thrown into the distance.
Amu's legs trembled. The vibration from this force made him unable to move. He couldn't imagine what kind of battle was taking place underground. He had seen the Limiteer Realm experts of the Butterfly Shadow Race fight before, but it was not this terrifying.
The black-robed man, having fully revealed his Corpse King form, had a body that was perversely tough. However, this one punch still shook him, and he even had a feeling of seeing a ghost. He had been pushed back.
Lu Yin stood in his original spot without moving, his expression strange. It seemed this guy in front of him couldn't force out the limit of his own body.
In the Realm Spirit War, he had tried several times to use experts to force out the limit of his physical body but had never succeeded. The Realm Spirit War focused more on battle records. Generally, once an opponent discovered his terrifying body, they would use other methods of attack. Very few were willing to clash with him head-on. As a result, Lu Yin's body had never been severely injured, only his internal organs had been shattered by opponents quite a few times.
"You are from the Neo-Human Alliance," Lu Yin probed.
The black-robed man's crimson vertical eyes stared at Lu Yin. Hearing this, the killing intent in his eyes soared, and he rushed out again, sweeping out a leg. The immense force distorted the void and once again brought out a trace of a crack. Lu Yin's eyes narrowed. He had no interest in fighting anymore. Outside the swamp, that White Night clan woman had appeared beside the Giant King, seemingly wanting to steal something.
Lu Yin opened his right hand. Originally, eight stars shone, and then, the ninth star faintly appeared, forming a perfect star system diagram. He struck out with a palm at the black-robed man. This one palm was completely different from before. If the eight-star Heavenly Star Palm was still within the scope of the Melting Realm, then the nine-star had broken through the category of the Melting Realm and belonged to a blow of a Limiteer Realm prodigy.
The black-robed man was hit by Lu Yin's palm, opened his mouth, and spat out a mouthful of blood. His sturdy muscles tore, and his whole person seemed to be disintegrating. He was wretchedly blasted into the ground, and then spat out another mouthful of blood. His crimson eyes were dim and lightless. He had been thoroughly and severely injured.
Lu Yin walked to the man's side, wondering if he should kill him. A Corpse King did not belong to the category of humanity. Each one not only had a terrifying body but could also devour natural crystals to obtain talents, walking another path of evolution, and was abnormally powerful. The Ten Arbiters Council had once issued a decision that anyone who killed a member of the Neo-Human Alliance could receive a great glorious reward.
The glorious reward was very important and could provide a certain degree of help anywhere in the universe. But this reward was not important to Lu Yin because he had the identity of a Decipherer, which was no worse than a glorious reward. But from the perspective of humanity, he should deal with this Corpse King.
Squatting down, he took the spatial ring from the man's hand and used his blood to open it. Apart from a few hundred cubic meters of Star Crystals and a pile of black crystals emitting a cold aura, there was also a pile of unknown things. Among them, one item attracted Lu Yin's attention. It was a ring, black with a gray-silver edge, with soaring wings and a sword carved inside, surrounded by ten dark shadows. This was... the Ring of Authority of the Outerverse Youth Council.
The Ring of Authority of the Ten Arbiters Council was black with a white-silver edge, while the Ring of Authority of the Outerverse Youth Council was black with a gray-silver edge. This Corpse King had actually joined the Outerverse Youth Council? How ironic. Had no one discovered it?
Apart from this Ring of Authority, he also saw a familiar object. It was a crimson vertical eye, exactly the same as the one he had gotten from Yin.
It really was the Neo-Human Alliance. Lu Yin let out a breath, his gaze sweeping over to the personal communicator in the man's hand. At the bottom of the messages, he saw a familiar name—Buyou.
'Go to the Butterfly Shadow territory and get the third eye of the Giant King—Buyou.' This was the order the black-robed man had received. Seeing this order, Lu Yin's eyes lit up. This person was actually Buyou's man. In other words, Buyou was also from the Neo-Human Alliance? No, that shouldn't be. If Buyou were a member of the Neo-Human Alliance, he wouldn't so blatantly issue him a mission, nor would he accept him. It was meaningless; two members of the same organization together was completely unnecessary. In other words, if this person was really Buyou's subordinate, there was only one possibility: Buyou did not know his true identity.
Lu Yin's eyes glinted. Buyou was the person behind Barzel. The reason Barzel had humiliated him so much before was very likely on Buyou's orders. This person would be his great enemy. In that case, this person could not be killed.
Letting this Neo-Human Alliance Corpse King continue to follow Buyou, he didn't know what the scene would be like when they met again in the future. The dignified councilor of the Outerverse Youth Council had taken in a Neo-Human Alliance Corpse King. This gift, he hoped Buyou would like it. The corner of Lu Yin's mouth lifted.
He did not rush up. He did not know where the third eye of the Giant King was. He didn't know, but this Corpse King and Zhuo Baiye very likely did. This was also the reason he had let Zhuo Baiye approach the Giant King.
Above the swamp, Zhuo Baiye observed the Giant King for a while, and finally, she stabbed her sword into the back of its head and took out a white, crescent-shaped crystal. She glanced at the ground and shot off into the distance.
Lu Yin's eyes lit up, and he forcefully rushed out, using Void Flash to rush at Zhuo Baiye.
When Zhuo Baiye saw Lu Yin come out, she frowned and was about to flee at high speed. But her speed was far inferior to Lu Yin's. Lu Yin's Void Flash was theoretically limitless. Before, the Mentor of the Sea of Sands had used his Void Flash to tear through the void. He quickly caught up to Zhuo Baiye.
Zhuo Baiye's longsword swept across and slashed at Lu Yin. As soon as she attacked, it was the White Void Sword.
Lu Yin was not polite. His Battle Qi covered his palm, and he slapped the body of the sword, pushing Zhuo Baiye back. Her internal organs were shaken. She had originally been injured by the black-robed man, and now she was hit by Battle Qi. She spat out a mouthful of blood and retreated a few steps, her face pale.
Lu Yin stood in front of Zhuo Baiye and extended his hand. "Hand it over."
Zhuo Baiye's gaze was cold, with a few traces of helplessness. "This thing is useless to you. I can pay a high price to buy it. You're very short of Star Energy, right?"
"Extremely short. But this thing is useful to me. Give it to me," Lu Yin's tone was much colder.
Zhuo Baiye gritted her teeth, her eyes glinting for a moment, and helplessly took out the white crystal and threw it to Lu Yin, then turned to leave.
"Wait a minute," Lu Yin said, still blocking Zhuo Baiye's path.
Zhuo Baiye stared at Lu Yin, her tone icy. "What else do you want?"
Lu Yin held the white crystal. "This thing... what does it do?"
Zhuo Baiye's eyes narrowed. "I don't know."
Lu Yin sneered. "You don't know? You, a member of the White Night clan, came all the way from the endless distance of the Innerverse to the Butterfly Shadow territory just for this thing, and you're telling me you don't know what it does? I don't like people lying to me. Speak."
Zhuo Baiye gripped her longsword, pondered for a moment, and said in a low voice, "This is the third eye of the Giant King. The Giant Race on this planet has no intelligence, but the Giant King awakened its intelligence with it. The elders in the clan asked me to bring it back for research, saying that it might be possible to study the origin of human intelligence."
Lu Yin frowned. He didn't believe it, but... it sounded very reasonable. For many years, humanity had been studying the origin of its own intelligence. Why could they think? Why could they create? All of this had puzzled humanity. To say it was for research was not wrong. He thought for a moment and let Zhuo Baiye leave. Anyway, this was what Elder Cai wanted. He didn't intend to ask too much about what it did. Moreover, he couldn't interrogate this woman. She was a member of the White Night clan. Although he didn't like the White Night clan, he had to admit that this race was powerful.
Outside the starry sky, in the observation room, the images of each trial-taker were mostly normal. But the image of the top group of trial-takers in the swamp had been interrupted once. When everyone could see clearly again, they found that the Giant King was dead, and the one who had killed it was unknown.
Those trial-takers all claimed to be responsible for the death of the Giant King, but no one could prove it. In the end, the trial mission of the 'Great Superstar' territory ended, and everyone failed. And the one with the best performance was Amu. After all, it was he who had provided the whereabouts of the Giant King.
Amu had never dreamed that he could get the highest achievement. He had originally just wanted to get by, and now he still felt like he was in a dream.
He glanced at the calm-faced Lu Yin beside him, his eyes showing adoration. "Seventh Bro, let's be friends."
Lu Yin was speechless and patted Amu's shoulder. "Live well. We'll have a chance to meet again in the future."
Amu nodded.
Before long, the two returned to the spaceship. Lu Yin didn't say much to Amu and directly piloted the Aurora spaceship away. He was also afraid of being discovered by the supervisor of the territorial trial. Although they wouldn't do anything to him, it would be very troublesome. After all, he had ruined their territorial trial and had also extorted quite a few people.
Today, he had a total of over five thousand cubic meters of Star Crystals in his spatial ring, all of which had been extorted. A pity it was still too little. He didn't feel safe until he reached ten thousand cubic meters. Otherwise, rolling a six would be a loss. This was also the reason he hadn't rolled the die.
He had been away from the Canglan territory for nearly two months, and it had been three months since he had left the Tenth Academy. It was time to go back.
This trip out had been quite fruitful. Not only had he become a one-star Bright Pupil Initial Level Decipherer, but he had also faintly circulated the ninth star. He had also found a backer in the Trial World, Karon. He was a little looking forward to seeing that person's expression.
Watching Lu Yin's Aurora spaceship leave, Amu let out a breath. He took out an irregular object emitting a faint green light from his spatial ring. This was what the Giant King had taken from the center of the Giant tribe. The ant swarm had been looking for the Giant King because of this thing, and he had gotten it. Lu Yin also didn't know.
"This thing is useful to me. Seventh Bro, sorry, I can't give it to you." With that, Amu swallowed the object in his hand in one gulp. A trace of ambition appeared in his eyes, and he roared in his heart, "Butterfly—Shadow—Race!"
How big the universe was, no one knew. The so-called Innerverse and Outerverse were just divisions made by humanity for the places they had explored. And the Four Great Star Domains were the same. How much was there beyond the Four Great Star Domains, humanity was currently unable to explore.