Lu Yin glanced at the second box. He had the time to grab it, but decided to leave it behind. As his right foot moved to take a step, an astral chessboard appeared beneath him, as he was about to use the Ce Secret Art.
Once this chessboard appeared, everything became a chess piece. Lu Yin, Bai Shaohong, Long Tian, even the walls, the stones on the ground, and the air became chess pieces. This was the power of a secret technique.
Activating the secret technique, Lu Yin moved.
He shifted himself far away, and made sure that he avoided Bai Shaohong and Long Tian’s line of sight. The very next moment, the two Junior Progenitors rushed into the hidden room from two different directions, and they both instantly saw the box that had been left behind.
Bai Shaohong’s eyes narrowed. He pressed a hand down. “Cloud Fall.”
This was another secret technique, and it covered everything within 100 miles. Clouds fell, and Lu Yin looked up. Bai Shaohong’s reaction speed shocked Lu Yin, and he raced away. Still, it was impossible for Lu Yin to instantly escape, as he was still within the secret technique’s effective range.
Clouds descended, and Lu Yin was frozen as they passed over his body.
Bai Shaohong waved a hand, and a surge of star energy swept through the hidden room, smashing the walls and pillars as it blasted out in the direction Lu Yin had fled. As soon as all obstacles were removed, the two Junior Progenitors would be able to see who had stolen from them.
Lu Yin could never allow such a thing to happen. The cold was so powerful that there was no way that he would be able to escape in time, so he was left with no choice but to take something out of his cosmic ring that he then threw towards the two Junior Progenitors. It was one of the flash-bombs that he had not used in a long time. This one had been made from materials from the Technocracy that Lu Yin had received from Brother Hui, and Lu Yin had then Enhanced the flash-bomb until it was strong enough to effect even Enlighters with power levels of nearly 300,000.
Bai Shaohong and Long Tian were each far more powerful than such an Enlighter, but the flash-bomb was still powerful enough to cause them to momentarily lose their sight, and that moment was all that Lu Yin needed.
The flash-bomb exploded, and a dazzling light instantly illuminated the entire region of the Voidsoul Palace.
Bai Shaohong and Long Tian had never dreamed that anyone would employ such a diversion, particularly Bai Shaohong, who had already guessed that someone had taken part of the inheritance from the room a single step ahead of him. His secret technique Cloud Fall should have left anyone completely trapped, and after that, Bai Shaohong had attacked in the direction of the escaping person. However, his attack did not meet a person, but a flash-bomb, and it had left him almost entirely blind for a moment.
Lu Yin used a hand to smash the ice from the Cloud Fall secret Technique that had trapped him, and he used the Ce Secret Art once more to escape far away.
When Bai Shaohong was next able to view his surroundings, Lu Yin had already escaped far away.
He could scarcely believe that someone had used such a method, and he showed a rare display of anger. “Who? Who would use such a despicable method? Who was it?”
After this, he turned around, only to see the final box in Long Tian’s hands.
If that box had not been left behind, the two youths absolutely would have chased after the thief who had fled, but one box had been left behind, and they both wanted it.
While rumors claimed that Bai Shaohong and Long Tian had an inseparable relationship, only the two of them were aware that their relationship was nothing more than a matter of trading benefits.
Bai Shaohong was from the Celestial Frost Sect, which was the leader of the four ruling powers. Due to this status, he was able to easily suppress the other three Junior Progenitors.
As for Long Tian, he had a cold personality and was ruthless in his dealings, which meant that he was also disliked by Xia Shenfei and Wang Su. This meant that Long Tian and Bai Shaohong had been left with no choice but to present the impression that they had an excellent relationship to keep the other two Junior Progenitors from growing too bold.
However, at this moment, there was no one to see the two of them.
“Brother Long, do you have any guess as to who that person was just now?” Bai Shaohong asked, calming himself down from his momentary rage.
Long Tian refrained from storing the box in his cosmic ring. If he did so, Bai Shaohong would have to be a perfect saint in order to happily give up on the remaining prize. The most important detail at this moment was whether or not the contents of the box were worth fighting over. Bai Shaohong made Long Tian nervous, and the White Dragon Clan was wary of the Celestial Frost Sect.
If Bai Shaohong had been the one to grab the box, he would never have hesitated to keep it.
“Brother Bai was not able to get a clear look?” Long Tian asked back.
Bai Shaohong’s voice grew cold. “That person might have used sneaky methods, but they are still quite strong. Not only were they able to break free of my Cloud Fall secret technique, they were also able to escape both of our sights. It had to have been a secret technique, but neither of us were able to get a clear look at the technique. It might have told us who that was.”
“Anyone who’s able to visit the Dominion Realm is a powerhouse, so it’s not unusual for anyone here to have a secret technique. However, there’s something else that I would like to remind Brother Bai about.” Long Tian’s voice dropped low and his expression turned serious. “There are trespassers mixed in with our numbers.”
Bai Shaohong’s eyes suddenly went wide. “Are you certain?”
“Of course. I already ran into someone from the Mavis family,” Long Tian said.
Bai Shaohong sneered. “I guess there’ll always be trespassers. The Mavis family? They’ve sneaked in here before, and now they’ve shown up once again.”
“I remember that there’s also someone on your team with a murky background. Have you thoroughly vetted them?” Long Tian asked.
Bai Shaohong replied, “That person’s from Nest, so Brother Long doesn’t need to worry about him at all. However, I’m quite curious about what’s in the box. Can Brother Long open it up?”
Long Tian clenched his spear. “Things here always belong to those who manage to grab them.”
“And I can grab that.” Bai Shaohong lifted his head and disappeared in a flash. At the same time, Long moved with the Roving White Dragon. The two started a fight in the confines of the small hidden room that others would not be able to clearly track. Spatial cracks appeared and spread out.
Some distance away, Lu Yin turned back before letting out a sigh of relief. He was not being chased. Sure enough, it had been the correct choice to leave a box behind. Otherwise, he would have been chased by two Junior Progenitors, and he might not have been able to make a clean escape.
His gains from this venture were not small. He had grabbed a pillar of tribulation crystals that was about the same size as the one that Long Ding had used to open his lower meridian point, and Lu Yin would be able to use it towards opening his own second meridian point. Also, there was the box he had grabbed.
Remembering it, Lu Yin pulled out the box and opened it. He saw what looked to be a piece of jade inside, and he reached in and pulled it out. Instantly, his mind was flooded with information. His body went stiff, and he nearly collapsed. Fortunately, he was able to recover in time to catch himself. He moved his right foot forward and stabilized his body.
The piece of jade in his hand shattered into pieces.
Lu Yin stood there, his eyes flickering. He closed his eyes to go over what had just happened before opening them once more.
Unexpectedly, the piece of jade had held Progenitor Ku’s battle technique. This particular technique was called Extremes Must Be Reversed. Rather than a battle technique, it seemed more like a cultivation method. More accurately, it was a method of treating one’s body.
With this Extremes Must Be Reversed, once a person reaches their peak strength, they would be overcome with weakness, while when they become weak, they would suddenly become strengthened.
Practicing this method would cause a person to become completely dried up, just like the desiccated creatures in this part of the dominion realm, and the person would only be able to recover their strength after being attacked. However, they would also be able to voluntarily enter a dried up state once more, and this process was intended to be repeated in a manner that would allow a person to accumulate their strength.
This was the battle technique that Progenitor Ku had left behind, and it was an amazing technique. Not only could a person dry themselves up, but they would also become capable of doing the same to others, which would allow them to rebuild the ancient Voidsoul Army that Wen Diyi had mentioned to Lu Yin.
Lu Yin could not determine how powerful this technique had been in the hands of Progenitor Ku, but Lu Yin did know that this was not a technique that he could use.
By becoming desiccated, a person would be left unable to do anything. This was a technique that was highly suitable for those freaks who focused exclusively on cultivating, such as the fanatical cultivators who constantly remained in seclusion. When thinking of such people, Lu Yin instantly thought of Seruzen, who had left his right arm held up high for twenty years. That man had been left dried up and deformed long ago, and his entire body had become bronzed and skinny, looking much like a mummy. Seruzen was the ideal person to use this sort of technique.
Lu Yin felt rather helpless; if only he had grabbed the other box instead.
Throughout the entire ordeal, while Lu Yin believed himself to be alone, someone had been observing everything: Crown Prince Gui Qian.
While Crown Prince Gui Qian had not killed as many corpse kings as Lu Yin or the other two, he had still slaughtered enough to be shown the entirety of the Voidsoul Palace by the Voidsoul Umbrella, and he had also seen the location of the secret room. He had watched as Lu Yin had taken the tribulation crystals and one of the two boxes. The two Junior Progenitors had not seen anything, but Crown Prince Gui Qian had seen Lu Yin act the thief.
At this moment, Crown Prince Gui Qian was searching for Lu Yin.
All of the corpse kings in the Voidsoul Palace had already been wiped out. The Voidsoul Umbrella seemed to have completed its mission, and it had begun to slowly shrink before it ultimately fell and broke through the roof of the Voidsoul Palace and dropped to the floor. Close to where it fell, the twins who were on Bai Shaohong’s team were startled, as they had not expected to see the Voidsoul Umbrella fall.
The two looked at each other. They both instantly wanted to grab the umbrella. After all, a major motivation to visiting the Voidsoul Palace was precisely this power vessel.
However, just as Dong Shan was about to grab the Voidsoul Umbrella, a stream of qi wrapped around the Voidsoul Umbrella and pulled it away.
The twin brothers looked up into the distance where they saw Shang Qing holding the Voidsoul Umbrella in a hand. He looked quite calm.
“Shang Qing, give it back to us!” Dong Shan shouted fiercely. Behind him, Dong He simply charged forward. The twins had already been upset at Shang Qing’s presence on the team, as without him, there would have been one more person from the Celestial Frost Sect with them.
Dong He never even considered being polite to Shang Qing. “Wind God Slash.”
A violent attack swept forward to cut Shang Qing in half. This was part of the Celestial Frost Sect’s Wind God battle technique. The sect’s forte was unarmed combat.
Shang Qing had shown no hint of surprise when facing the Four Arts, or the Wind God Slash. As far as he was concerned, neither of the twins could compare to Wang Yi’s strength during ZENITH.
The Wind God Slash was a dangerous attack, and it shot straight for Shang Qing, but he easily evaded it. Dong He suddenly appeared behind Shang Qing, moving at the same speed as the previous attack. He struck a palm at Shang Qing. Both of the twins had already opened their lower meridian point, so neither of them could compare to an ordinary Enlighter, so they both considered themselves to be at least one level superior to Shang Qing.
However, the palm attack was useless against Shang Qing. He let the palm strike his chest, and then looked up at Dong He. A stream of qi shot forward and struck Dong He’s right shoulder, forcing him back while breaking his shoulder.
Dong Shan jumped forward. Shock filled his eyes, and Shang Qing raised a hand. The same stream of qi short forward, but Dong Shan just waved a hand. “Yu Secret Art. Void Transfer.”
The stream of qi was diverted elsewhere.
Shang Qing was stunned; the Yu Secret Art? If Shang Qing remembered correctly, that was Lu Yin’s secret technique, and yet the Celestial Frost Sect also had the Yu family’s secret technique.
There was another Wind God Slash, this time from Dong Shan, and at the same time, Dong He pointed a finger forward to release a Celestial Being Shows the Way. The twins were teaming up to fight Shang Qing.
Shang Qing’s expression remained as calm as ever. These twins wanted to join forces? During ZENITH, Lu Yin and Wang Yi had teamed up to deal with Shang Qing. Shang Qing would never fear being ganged up on, but things were a bit difficult at this moment, as he could not use the full power of the Tri-Yang Technique.
Suddenly, he remembered something, and he pulled out the Voidsoul Umbrella. He swung it forward like a stick, and it instantly shattered the Wind God Slash and the Celestial Being Shows the Way. A shockwave erupted from the impact, and it blasted Dong Shan and Dong He back a thousand meters. Both brothers coughed up blood.
The two were furious that their opponent had just used the Voidsoul Umbrella against them.
Shang Qing was pleasantly surprised. He did not know how to use the true power of the Voidsoul Umbrella, but the item itself was naturally powerful, and it could allow him to easily defeat the twins.
