Angie walked behind Wei Rong and started massaging him.
Meanwhile, Ah Mu walked in and silently stood to the side, his expression calm.
“What a bunch of imbeciles. If not for me, then Lu Yin wouldn’t even need to exert any effort to capture the central weaves,” Wei Rong said in exhaustion.
Angie replied, “Back then, I never thought that an unassuming student from Astral-10 would actually reach the heights that he has now.”
Wei Rong laughed. “Everything is variable. Ever since he stepped into the universe, this universe was fated to change. However, nobody could have expected it to happen so fast, and the Outerverse has actually become a battlefield between the two of us.”
“You don’t seem to care too much about others,” Angie commented.
Wei Rong took a deep breath. “Many have stood at the peak, but they were destined only to fall and never climb up again. There is limited space at the top, and there are only a few people who are able to continue climbing upwards. Those who are truly capable of standing at the top are only Lu Yin and me.
“I initially thought that I was the sole trailblazer along this path, but it turns out that he was treading it even earlier than me. This person is very difficult to deal with.”
“Has the Dark Phoenix family really agreed to cooperate with you?” Angie asked.
Wei Rong smiled. “They have to work with me. How else can they move against Lu Yin from such a vast distance? Taylor Phoenix was the Dark Phoenix patriarch’s favorite son, and he was also ranked fourteenth on the Top 100 Rankings. The hopes of the Dark Phoenix family were all pinned on him, and now that he was killed by Lu Yin’s hands, the entire Dark Phoenix family must be going crazy.”
“Was Taylor really killed by Lu Yin?” Angie asked.
“Does it even matter anymore? The important thing is that their heir died, which means that someone has to assume responsibility for his death. It’s either Sall Phoenix, Millions City, or Lu Yin. So who do you think is the most appropriate scapegoat?” Wei Rong laughed.
Angie nodded. “Lu Yin is just really unlucky then. He’ll be unquestionably doomed when the Dark Phoenix family moves.”
Wei Rong’s eyes flickered. Unquestionably doomed? Not necessarily. He still had the Hall of Honor behind him.
Wei Rong did not know why the Hall of Honor supported Lu Yin so staunchly, but as long as that group intervened, even the Dark Phoenix family would hesitate. Even if the Outerverse was currently isolated from the Innerverse, Wei Rong did not believe that the Hall of Honor would fear the Dark Phoenix family one bit. They had concealed their strength too deeply and for too long.
To gain the upper hand against Lu Yin, Wei Rong would have to make the Hall of Honor abandon him. This would be the most difficult task, but it was not impossible.
In the corner of the room, Ah Mu looked at Angie, who was being embraced by Wei Rong. He then slowly returned to his own room. He activated his gadget, and a voice was heard from it. “Ah Mu?”
Ah Mu respectfully replied, “Seventh Bro, it’s me.”
Ah Mu was calling Lu Yin, who had not expected Ah Mu to suddenly contact him. They had shared their contact information when they had coincidentally run into each other on Sourcepeak Planet, but this was the first time they had actually talked since then.
“What’s the matter?” Lu Yin asked.
Even through the gadget, Ah Mu’s voice was tinged with a deep exhaustion and melancholy. “I wish to make a deal with Seventh Bro.”
Lu Yin’s eyes flashed. “Continue.”
“Wei Rong has contacted the Dark Phoenix family, and they plan to use Armament Weave as a springboard to launch a war to invade the Great Eastern Alliance,” Ah Mu said.
Lu Yin was astonished. He had expected Wei Rong to approach the Dark Phoenix family for cooperation, but he had never thought that Wei Rong would move this fast.
“It’s not just that. Wei Rong also wanted to use pirates to infiltrate the Great Eastern Alliance and gather information, but recently, some huge changes took place within the pirate community. He gave up on them and even ordered the central weaves’ pirates to be driven out…” Ah Mu informed Lu Yin of many matters while Lu Yin silently listened on.
More than ten minutes passed before Ah Mu stopped speaking.
After Ah Mu finished, Lu Yin calmly responded, “I got it. So, what is it that you want for telling me all of this?”
Ah Mu apologetically said, “I’m sorry, Seventh Bro. You helped me out on Giant Planet, and you even rescued me. I really shouldn’t be trying to make a deal with you. It should be a given that, after all that, I would tell you all this. However, I really don’t have a choice.”
“You already warned me to leave Sourcepeak Planet before anything happened, and the favor you owed me from Giant Planet was repaid in full with that. Tell me, what is it you want?” Lu Yin said gently.
Ah Mu fell silent for a moment and then seriously answered, “Angie.”
Lu Yin was astonished. “The Umbral Butterfly Tribe’s young mistress? That Angie?”
“Yes, I wish to obtain Angie. Seventh Bro, please help me.” Ah Mu emotionally shared his desire with Lu Yin.
Lu Yin was surprised. “You like Angie?”
“Ever since I was young.” Ah Mu’s voice was downcast. “But now, she’s being embraced by Wei Rong, and I can’t take it. Seventh Bro, please help me.”
Lu Yin nodded. “Alright, I can promise you this: as long as Wei Rong can be dealt with, Angie will be yours.”
“Thank you, Seventh Bro.” Ah Mu was delighted.
Lu Yin felt puzzled. “Are you so certain that I can help you get Angie? What if I fail?”
Ah Mu answered with conviction, “That’s impossible. Wei Rong has never treated anyone as seriously as he does you, and it’s actually slightly confusing. Seventh Bro, you’ll definitely be able to unite the Outerverse.”
Lu Yin smiled at Ah Mu and then ended the call. Ah Mu was extremely confident in Lu Yin’s abilities, and there was a saying that the worst enemy was someone who truly understood themselves. Wei Rong’s attitude towards Lu Yin had influenced Ah Mu, and Lu Yin had to pay attention to this. He definitely could not allow himself to become confused. Otherwise, not only would Lu Yin himself fall into chaos, but the same fate would befall his followers as well.
Ah Mu had given Lu Yin a great deal of information, as everything that he had said were secrets that Wei Rong had shared with the Umbral Butterfly Tribe. Lu Yin had paid particular attention to the information regarding the pirates, as this showed just how wary Wei Rong was of Lu Yin.
Just because the Shadowsword Sect’s people had lost contact, Wei Rong had decisively abandoned the pirates. This person’s thinking was too meticulous.
Lu Yin quickly called Thousand Eyes and had the pirate captain order his people to go into hiding. In the near future, the central weaves would put great effort towards driving all of the pirates in their territories out, and the pirates would not have an easy time.
After ending his call with Thousand Eyes, Lu Yin received a message from Wendy Yushan.
Lu Yin leaped to his feet upon seeing this. Wendy Yushan and Ku Wei had vanished for a period of time, and Lu Yin had sent out people to search for them ever since they had disappeared. However, he hadn’t expected one of them to suddenly call him.
The message was very simple, as it was just a set of coordinates.
Lu Yin immediately called Wendy, and her clear voice responded from his gadget. “Meet me at that location.”
“Where are you?” Lu Yin asked.
“I’m at the coordinates that I sent you,” Wendy Yushan replied.
“Where’s Ku Wei? Have you guys found any traces of the Yu bloodline?” Lu Yin urgently asked.
Wendy Yushan answered, “You’ll understand everything when you get here. The Yu bloodline still exists, but it also doesn’t.”
She then abruptly ended the call.
Lu Yin stared at his gadget and fell deep into thought. After a moment, he no longer hesitated and input the coordinates that he had received into his spacecraft, heading straight there.
No matter what, Wendy Yushan was there, and he had to take her back. Even if there was some powerhouse from the Yu bloodline in that place, he still had to make the trip.
Truthfully, after facing the energy blast from the cannon in Millions City, Lu Yin’s horizons had expanded yet again. More importantly, he had seen Mister Mu extinguish Blackless God’s spiritual force with a single palm with his own eyes, which meant that there was likely nobody in the Outerverse who could withstand Mister Mu’s power.
The coordinates that Lu Yin received from Wendy Yushan corresponded to a location in Frostwave Weave that was not too distant from Zenyu Star, and it was also in the weave’s first filament.
After a few days of travel, a pale, blue planet appeared on the screen. This planet was what Wendy’s coordinates had led Lu Yin to, which meant that she was on this planet.
Lu Yin looked over, but there weren’t many rune lines to be seen from the planet. Did that imply that the Yu bloodline was located somewhere else?
The native civilization of the pale, blue planet was still in the feudal ages, and they practically didn’t even have any technology; the natives had not even invented paper yet. Instead, they wrote on bamboo slips.
Lu Yin asked Cai Jianqiang and Cool Sis to remain aboard the spacecraft, and he only took Yan Yan down with him. He unleashed his domain, and it didn’t take him long to find Wendy. She was in a village surrounded by several mountains.
This area had been cut off from the rest of the world, and the civilizations outside the mountains were unable to intrude upon this place.
Lu Yin stood atop a mountain as he looked down at the village. Aside from the rune lines belonging to Wendy Yushan and Ku Wei, there was no other existence that possessed rune lines in this place.
Wendy Yushan and Ku Wei had both sensed Lu Yin’s domain, and they appeared in the open.
Lu Yin led Yan Yan over to them.
Wendy Yushan had become a bit thinner, though Ku Wei’s smile was still asking for a beating.
“Bro, I have one piece of good news and one piece of bad news. Which do you want to hear first?” This was the first thing that Ku Wei said to Lu Yin.
Lu Yin looked right past Ku Wei and focused on Wendy Yushan. “You don’t look too good.”
Wendy Yushan’s expression was complex. “This is where the descendents of the Yu bloodline are.”
Lu Yin was astonished.
Ku Wei again asked, “Bro, which do you want to hear first?”
“The good news.”
Ku Wei smiled. “Nobody will try to take the Great Yu Empire from you. The Yu bloodline still exists. The Great Yu Empire really was established and built up by them, and that sourcebox array was even created by them, but their bloodline has grown weak. Now, aside from a half-dead old man, most of the family members have never even left this planet, and the family has completely fallen apart.”
Lu Yin’s eyes flashed. “Then what’s the bad news?”
Ku Wei’s face turned solemn. “You won’t be able to obtain any help from your in-laws.”
“What do you mean?” Lu Yin was completely lost.
Ku Wei pouted, and then looked over at Wendy Yushan. “When you eventually marry her, won’t the Yu bloodline become your in-laws? It’s a pity that they won’t be able to help you, so isn’t that bad news?”
Lu Yin was left speechless, as he had thought that Ku Wei would say something about Undying Yushan.
The fall of the Yu bloodline indeed allowed him to relax, but they could not have completely fallen, right? He looked back at Wendy Yushan.
Wendy Yushan walked back into the village, and they soon arrived outside the centermost thatched cottage. “Elder, Lu Yin is here.”
Lu Yin frowned and looked at the cottage. Elder? The person inside should be one of the Yu bloodline’s elders, but this person actually had no rune lines.
“Bring him in,” an aged voice called out.
Lu Yin followed Wendy Yushan into the cottage, though Ku Wei and Yan Yan waited outside.
It was very musty inside, and the cottage was furnished extremely simply, as there was only a wooden bed and some basic furniture. A wizened elder sat on the bed, and at first glance, Lu Yin even thought he was a dried corpse. The ancient man’s eyes were murky but shoen with experience. He really looked to be half-dead, and his body even emitted a cold air.
Could the old fellow that Ku Wei had been referring to be this old man?
“Junior Lu Yin pays his respects to the elder,” Lu Yin greeted the old man respectfully.
The wizened elder studied Lu Yin and then nodded in satisfaction. “You are very outstanding, and you are also compatible with Wendy.”
Wendy Yushan lowered her head, but she did not speak.
Lu Yin glanced at her. “Elder is mistaken. Junior and Wendy are friends and also family.”
The elder hoarsely said, “I heard that you’ve only cultivated for a bit over seven years.”
Lu Yin nodded. “Junior has indeed cultivated for just over seven years.”
The elder marvelled at this. “In a little over seven years, you have cultivated to such a high realm and have even surpassed those of your generation. Your talent can even compare to the Cosmic Five.”
Lu Yin was lost. The Cosmic Five? What is that?
He looked over at Wendy Yushan, but it seemed like this was also her first time hearing this term. “Elder, who are the Cosmic Five?”
