There was a loud bang, and a spatial tear spread out from the point of impact. The shockwave spread out in all directions, causing cracks in the void that radiated far beyond Zenith Mountain and affected all of the nearby planets.
The fused Progenitor Chen was cut and forced back by Lu Yin’s scythe; half of its body had been wounded.
At this moment, the summoned Progenitor Hui appeared behind Lu Yin, and the sourcebox array As If Closed sealed him in.
Lu Yin’s eyes were still dark and cold as he observed the twisted void that enveloped him. This array had previously trapped him and prevented him from escaping. As a result, he had been terribly injured by the fused Progenitor Chen.
However, would this sourcebox array still be able to do that?
The black cloud of energy behind Lu Yin churned about like a nebula, and it resisted the array before finally shattering it.
The summoned Progenitor Hui spun one of its hands around and pulled at the black energy, trying to take control of it with its Creation realm of star energy control. Lu Yin whirled around and attacked with his scythe, but the summoned Progenitor Hui simply disappeared. The attack slashed through the void, continuing on past Zenith Mountain.
Everyone down below the mountain looked up and stared blankly at the shattered void high above them. The power of this attack left their scalps numb.
Progenitor Hui and Progenitor Chen had indeed been truly powerful, but Lu Yin was not facing Progenitors that had been suppressed to the Enlighter realm, but rather Enlighters who had eventually become Progenitors.
It was not impossible to win against these two powerhouses who were still his peers.
In his current state, Lu Yin was suppressing the Progenitors.
Shang Qing had not expected that both the fused Progenitor Chen and the summoned Progenitor Hui would suffer a loss. After all, they had both suppressed Lu Yin individually and as a team just a few moments ago. Shang Qing fell back, shuddering with excitement.
Lu Yin’s pitch black eyes swept the area. Then, he raised the scythe high and slashed it down.
The summoned Progenitor Hui reappeared right next to Shang Qing and brought the youth away, once again traveling through the shattered void.
No one had expected the invincible Shang Qing to suddenly be overpowered by Lu Yin, or more importantly, for both Progenitor Chen and Progenitor Hui to be suppressed. It was indescribably incredible for someone to suppress both Progenitor Chen and Progenitor Hui!
If one looked through both the past and present, who was confident in defeating both of these two powerhouses?
In the Neoverse, Arch-Elder Zen stood up as he stared at his screen, his face incredibly solemn. Back when he had been fighting for that opportunity, he remembered that he had heard of a black and white energy in that place. Along with it had been mention of a scythe and black eyes that seemed dead yet still held a spark of life. This was the power of one of the most ancient Progenitors: the God of Death.
Highsage Grandmaster also remembered those same details, and his expression kept changing. This power should have disappeared long ago, so how had someone in this age actually inherited the power of the God of Death?
In Aeternus Nation, Silver stared at his screen with a powerful excitement in his eyes. This was the power that his Specter clan had been searching for for countless years! Anyone who could receive this power would become the king of the Specter clan. Captain, please take care of me in the future!
At the top of Zenith Mountain, the fused Progenitor Chen was forced back yet again. A portion of his body was sliced off, and it transformed back into a strand of ancestral qi that merged back into the summon’s body. On the other side, the summoned Progenitor Hui tried his best to disturb Lu Yin’s star energy, but Lu Yin was not using any star energy at this moment, rendering the summon’s efforts futile.
Shang Qing finally made a move at this point. This was his first time taking action; up to now, he had relied solely on the summons of Progenitor Chen and Progenitor Hui to do all of the fighting for him, and the two had been able to suppress all of his opponents until they had no room to maneuver.
Someone finally noticed something truly terrifying; Lu Yin had not moved a single step ever since he had transformed. He had not needed to dodge or evade, as none of the attacks had been powerful enough to threaten him.
The summoned Progenitor Hui reappeared behind Lu Yin while at the same time, Shang Qing made his move. “Secret Technique: Banishment.”
Lu Yin’s massive scythe slammed onto the ground, and the black energy behind him surged up from below, becoming a torrent that blocked Shang Qing’s secret technique. Upon seeing this, Shang Qing was shocked to the core; how was Lu Yin able to block a secret technique?
Shang Qing did not know that Lu Yin was using the power of the God of Death. That person had been an ancient Progenitor, and Lu Yin was currently using the battle techniques of one of humanity’s most ancient powerhouses.
Lu Yin reached out with his left hand, moving out to grab Shang Qing. Shang Qing hurriedly evaded, but a chill ran across his spine as he looked into Lu Yin’s pure black eyes. A moment of panic filled him as Lu Yin’s right hand dropped down, slashing the scythe down upon Shang Qing’s body.
The slash tore open an arc in the void, and the summoned Progenitor Hui appeared to take Shang Qing away, but there was no place they could go that was out of Lu Yin’s scythe’s attack range.
The summoned Progenitor Hui was instantly cut open by the attack, and it reverted to a strand of qi. At the same time, Shang Qing had suffered a nasty cut across his abdomen that blood poured out of.
Shang Qing’s face went pale. Secret Technique: Discipline.
The same wound appeared on Lu Yin’s waist. This was the power of Discipline. If Shang Qing was injured, then Lu Yin would suffer the same injury.
However, no blood spilled out from Lu Yin’s wound, only more black energy. It swirled around Lu Yin’s body before the wound healed itself—even the cloak around Lu Yin’s waist recovered to its previous state.
Despite the lack of blood, Lu Yin still felt the pain, and the pain seemed to aggravate his violent urges. His pure black eyes sparkled as the enormous scythe in his hand slammed the ground while he addressed all of Zenith Mountain. He raised a hand and crooked a finger. “All of you, come.”
Throughout ZENITH, Lu Yin had not been very arrogant, but he was barely able to control himself in this current state. After being injured, his violent urges had taken over, and it had reached a point where he either needed to end his current state, or sate his urges. However, if Lu Yin did not use this black and white power, he would not be able to win.
Shang Qing alone was not enough to satisfy Lu Yin’s current urges, so he needed to provoke everyone.
Wang Yi attacked without any hesitation. His body disappeared in a flash. “Four Arts: Celestial Blade.”
Lu Yin flicked his left arm, causing the white shield to turn and block the Celestial Blade. The impact of the scythe forced Wang Yi back a hundred meters.
This horrified Wang Yi; had his speed been suppressed?
On the other side, Wu Taibai covered his face with a hand as the strange energy boiling over from his body gathered above the palm of his hand and then shot out towards Lu Yin.
At the same time, Xia Jiuyou’s Triple Blade Will and Qiu Shi’s Celestial Sword both attacked at the same time.
Everyone at the top of Zenith Mountain were among the most powerful members of their generation, and they were all very decisive. Since Lu Yin was antagonizing them, they did not hesitate.
It was clear that every attack was extremely powerful, and both the Triple Blade Will and the Celestial Sword were amazing attacks from ZENITH’s top ten finalists. But despite their obvious power, nothing was able to break through the black energy protecting Lu Yin’s body.
Wu Taibai landed back on the ground and threw a punch. This was the punch that had once suppressed Yuhua Mavis.
Lu Yin raised his hand and grabbed at Wu Taibai. The invisible energy covering Wu Taibai’s body was immediately entangled by the black energy before being broken through, one layer at a time.
No one was more surprised by this than Wu Taibai, though Wang Yi was almost as stunned.
There was a bang as Wu Taibai was thrown away.
The summoned Progenitor Chen stabbed at Lu Yin’s head, but Lu Yin simply raised his left arm again. There was another bang, and the resulting impact released a shockwave that left both Xia Jiuyou and Qiu Shi trembling at the bottom of the stairs.
There was a howl as Yao Xuan attacked. As his terrifying spiritual force crashed down, it felt as if the sky itself was collapsing.
However, and the eyes formed from the black energy flashed and the spiritual force attack disappeared as soon as it approached Lu Yin. Both star energy and spiritual force were useless against the energy that Lu Yin was currently using.
Yao Xuan gritted his teeth. Whether or not he would be able to complete Skymender’s mission all depended on this battle. At this point in ZENITH, it was clear that no one individual could compare to Lu Yin, so Yao Xuan looked down below the ten staircases. “Attack.”
With a roar, Star Devourer returned to his normal massive size, and he raised a paw up high before smashing it down.
When it came to pure strength, there was no one in ZENITH who could compare to Star Devourer. Even in Lu Yin’s current condition, Star Devourer was still confident that he would win in a battle of pure strength.
Lu Yin was still standing in the same place as Star Devourer’s massive shadow covered Lu Yin, the enormous astral beast towering high above. In response, Lu Yin grabbed the black energy surrounding him, causing it to become something like a chain in his left hand, which he then flung out and wrapped around Star Devourer. Lu Yin was using the black energy to bind the astral beast.
Suddenly, the void around Lu Yin was cut off, and he was surrounded by darkness. This was another secret technique: Black Coffin. Unseen Light had attacked.
The next moment, the coffin sprouted spikes.
Everyone stared to see what had happened to Lu Yin.
However, after the black coffin disappeared, it revealed Lu Yin, completely unscathed.
Unseen Light felt bitter; could even secret techniques not do anything to Lu Yin anymore?
Bai Mai turned towards Lu Yin with an open mouth, and the corpse bug bit at the black energy.
As a species that could even parasitize Progenitors, Bai Mai was able to bite through anything, and its only weakness was being trapped, which was why Liquor Hero’s wine had been the bug’s nemesis.
However, when Bai Mai bit the black energy, its mouth froze. While it was stunned, Lu Yin grabbed the bug with a hand before exerting pure strength and crushing Bai Mai.
Yao Xuan’s pupils constricted sharply; how was this possible?
Xu Ling had wanted to sneak attack Lu Yin, but the moment the Void Wanderer saw what happened to Bai Mai, he panicked and turned to flee.
Bu Kong attacked with a Reversal Cycle, and his palm shot towards Lu Yin.
However, before Bu Kong’s palm could touch Lu Yin, the black chain shot out of the void, wrapped around him, and tossed him aside just like Star Devourer.
An image of green leaves appeared on Yuhua Mavis’s forehead, and at the same time, God Taiyi stared at Lu Yin from a distance and erased a portion of Lu Yin’s runes.
Yuhua Mavis released her punch.
Lu Yin’s left hand shot out, and Yuhua Mavis was forced back down to the first layer of Zenith Mountain.
Wu Taibai and Wang Yi both looked at each other. “I didn’t expect that we would need to team up while in this starry sky.”
Wang Yi felt helpless as well. “It’s just that neither of us can win on our own. This guy is just too much of a monster, and he can even compare to those people.”
Wu Taibai laughed. “I have to admire him for forcing out such a compliment from a descendant of the distinguished Wang family.”
Wang Yi did not bother with any further nonsense, and he charged at Lu Yin. “Four Arts: Bear Stalwart.”
On the other side, Wu Taibai also rushed out with the Progenitor of Combat’s imprint behind him. The overpowering aura swept out, and a martial print even appeared on the back of Wu Taibai’s hand as he punched out.
These two fists represented two unparalleled powers as they smashed into the ground and shuttled through the void.
Lu Yin’s right hand slashed across horizontally, and he sighed as dazzling rays of light shone out. The edge of his scythe destroyed the void, and the attack shot out into the space beyond Zenith Mountain.
Fortunately, the Chief Justice arrived in time. Otherwise, this attack would have simply annihilated everyone in that one direction.
Wang Yi and Wu Taibai had both been forced back by a single attack, and they were even injured in the exchange. Blood fell, and all of their fingers on their attacking hands were mangled. They looked quite miserable.
A breeze blew by, and Lu Yin’s eyes flickered—the Thirteenth Sword.
Liu Tianmu had made her move. Once again, she was using the Thirteenth Sword: Emotion. The attack bypassed the black energy and directly attacked Lu Yin himself.
But just like before, the Thirteenth Sword was useless against Lu Yin.
Liu Tianmu went pale; was it still useless?
Starsibyl was shocked. There was no need for her to even attempt a divination, as Lu Yin still had not moved a single step!
Even when everyone worked together, they could not get Lu Yin to move a single step. What kind of power was he using? How was it so overwhelming?
Ku Wei and the others had gotten so excited that they were about to faint.
Black and White kept jumping up and down while shouting about how handsome Lu Yin had become.
Above Xi Qi’s head, the fish was actually silent as it stared at Lu Yin with a strange expression. This, what was this? It felt so familiar. What the hell was going on?
No one could articulate the shock and chill that they felt from seeing Lu Yin’s power.
The strength that he had revealed at this moment was truly incomprehensible, and everyone was even more shocked than when Progenitor Chen and Progenitor Hui had appeared and revealed their power.
