Star Odyssey Chapter 3233: Fated One

Chapter 3233: Fated One

Lu Yuan stared at Lu Yin, "Little Seven, do you really think that you can master Verdant Eternity?"

Lu Yin's eyes lit up with excitement. "Possibly."

"Then go train. It will definitely help you," Lu Yuan encouraged.

Lu Yin took a deep breath and looked down at his hands. The Four Locks Formation was still sealing his abilities, but that would not prevent him from learning Verdant Eternity. What he lacked was enough of the Yellow Springs.

While it was possible to train with what he had, he was afraid of running out at a critical moment. With enough of the Yellow Springs, he could always inhale more of the scent from the Root of Intelligence’s fruit and gain further inspiration.

He needed to make sure that he had more than enough of the Yellow Springs before he started.

A short time later, Lu Yin, Lu Yuan, and Garan Zhiluo arrived at the w.a.n.g family's floating continent.

They were visiting not only to obtain more of the Yellow Springs, but also to investigate the Four Locks Formation.

While they knew that the Four Locks Formation had sealed the Origin Progenitor's hands, they needed to find the sourcebox array itself to try to remove it. By doing so, the Origin Progenitor's hands could return to him.

Every time Lu Yin thought about how the Origin Progenitor had lost his hands and was biting down on the megaverse’s sequence strings, his heart ached.

Such a person should not be forced to endure such pain.

In the past, Lu Yin had resented the Origin Progenitor and the glory of the ancient Heavens Sect era. Lu Yin had believed that, if the Origin Progenitor had properly understood the threat of Aeternus, many tragedies could have been prevented. Lu Yin’s thinking had been quite similar to how the Sixverse a.s.sociation viewed the Origin Universe, treating the universe as they had once done to the Heavens Sect.

But as time pa.s.sed, Lu Yin had come to understand that not even the Origin Progenitor had been free to act as he pleased.

It was not easy to accurately judge the past. Rather, he needed to focus on protecting the Immemorial Citadel, defeating Aeternus and the Boundary Guardians, and restoring peace to humanity.

Regardless of whether there were absolutes in the megaverse, or what sort of beings they might encounter, it was necessary to fight. There was no other choice.

Lu Yin thought about the Lost Clan and how their greatest powerhouses across the ages had stepped out, only to be defeated after their final battle. Their feelings at the time must have been similar to Lu Yin’s own in the present.

They had been willing to sacrifice everything.

The w.a.n.g family's continent trembled, and as it slowly settled downwards, stones fell from it.

Lu Yuan took action, shattering the countless layers of stone and debris that had acc.u.mulated over the eons to reveal the w.a.n.g family's continent’s true form.

A ma.s.sive hand floated in the air, encircled by the Yellow Springs.

Lu Yin stared in awe. The Origin Progenitor's body might not have been huge, but his hand was enormous. It looked like it might have been the Origin Progenitor’s battle form.

The man had been capable of growing to a ma.s.sive size.

"Let's go," Lu Yuan said in a low voice. He then led Lu Yin and Garan Zhiluo onto the Origin Progenitor's hand. It was easy for them to find the Four Locks Formation.

Lu Yuan had known for some time that the w.a.n.g family’s continent was the Origin Progenitor’s hand, but he had a.s.sumed that the man was dead and that the hand had simply broken off of his corpse. He had never thought to investigate the matter further, which he had come to deeply regret.

If Lu Yuan had realized the truth sooner, regardless of whether the Four Locks Formation could be unlocked, then at least the w.a.n.g family would not have been able to banish the Lu family.

As for the w.a.n.g family, they had never dared to restore the hand to its original condition, as doing so would have made it impossible to keep the truth hidden.

At the very least, they would have been rendered incapable of hanging onto the source of the Yellow Springs.

The w.a.n.g family had been extracting the Yellow Springs for countless years, greatly depleting the amount present, but a small portion still twined between the hand’s fingers.

Lu Yin and the other two stepped onto the wrist of the hand, which was where the Four Locks Formation was located.

The sourcebox array was exactly like the Four Locks Formation that sealed Lu Yin's wrists and ankles, only much, much larger.

"I'll do it," Garan Zhiluo announced. She brought out a long spear and thrust it at the Four Locks Formation.

Lu Yuan and Lu Yin watched carefully as the attack was deflected by the sourcebox array. The spear was completely ineffective.

Lu Yuan stepped forward. "If it were that easy to break the Four Locks Formation, Master would have never been trapped."

As he spoke, he struck the Four Locks Formation with a palm.

Just like Garan Zhiluo's attack, the palm strike was useless.

The woman sneered. "Is that all that breaking into the Origin realm gets you?"

Lu Yuan snorted. "The biggest difference is that Ortusers have taken that vital step, showing our qualifications to strive for Immortality. As for the strength of Ortusers, that is something that can only truly be understood when we fight against others."

Garan Zhiluo did not argue. The biggest advantage that Ortusers enjoyed in combat was the fact that they could not be touched by the laws of the universe.

Sequence powerhouses could not affect Ortusers with their laws of the universe, which rendered most of a sequence powerhouse’s strength useless. On the other hand, Ortusers could freely use their own sequence particles, which led to a twofold disparity between sequence powerhouses and Ortusers.

The sole exception to this was Lu Yin. He was only a Progenitor, and yet he possessed the raw power to defeat sequence powerhouses. He was the only person capable of fighting against Ortusers without suffering any sort of suppression.

No one else could match that.

This was why Lu Yin had been able to kill both Di Qiong and Tian Feng, while others had all struggled greatly.

Time pa.s.sed, and both Lu Yuan and Garan Zhiluo continued attacking the sourcebox array. They even sent others to stand guard over the Six Paths of Reincarnation Realm so that both Wu Tian and Hongyan Mavis could try attacking, but none of them could break the Four Locks Formation.

"It’s useless. This sourcebox array sealed Master with his own power. There’s no doubt that Tian Feng used one of Master’s strongest abilities to seal him. To break this is to destroy one of Master’s ultimate techniques, probably Verdant Eternity. Are any of you confident that you can overpower Verdant Eternity?" Wu Tian said with a sigh.

Hongyan Mavis shrugged. "Verdant Eternity, how nostalgic. Each of us charged into that palace and fought our way through it to earn our t.i.tle as one of the Three Realms and Six Daos. Even so, the truth is that none of us were ever able to overcome Verdant Eternity."

Lu Yuan frowned. "Even if all nine of us fought together, we were never able to defeat Verdant Eternity. Master’s ultimate technique is just too overwhelming."

"Is there no other option?" Lu Yin could not help asking.

Wu Tian glanced at Lu Yin’s hands and feet. “No. The most straightforward way to undo this sourcebox array is for Master to do it himself. The only other way is to find a way to break Verdant Eternity. If you haven’t experienced Verdant Eternity for yourself, then you won’t be able to understand how infuriating that sort of infinite power is to face.

"However, we can try to break your Four Locks Formation. Would you like us to try?"

Lu Yin instantly shot down the suggestion. If he wanted to try, he would have already asked Lu Yuan for help. This was not because Lu Yin did not trust the Three Realms and Six Daos. Rather, it was a matter of personal conviction.

Breaking the Four Locks Formation would mean shattering his four strongest abilities, and doing so would impede Lu Yin’s future progress. It would be like planting a seed of failure.

There was no denying that Tian Feng's Four Locks Formation infuriated everyone.

This was why Lu Yuan had also never offered to break the Four Locks Formation for Lu Yin.

A powerhouse’s conviction was of vital importance.

Lu Yin needed to resolve the sourcebox on his own.

"Senior Wu Tian-"

Lu Yin started to speak, but he was immediately interrupted. "Call me Big Thug."

Lu Yin was momentarily taken aback.

Wu Tian looked at Lu Yin and smiled. "You've met Master, haven’t you? Then you should have been given your own nickname."

That comment caused Garan Zhiluo to instantly focus on Lu Yin as well.

Lu Yin’s face betrayed nothing. "No."

Garan Zhiluo laughed mockingly. "Impossible. That habit of Master’s has never changed. Go on, tell us. Don’t be shy. Getting a name means that Master’s acknowledged you."

"Really, I never got one," Lu Yin answered somberly. He then pointedly glanced over at Hongyan Mavis and Lu Yuan.

They were the only two who had heard about Lu Yin’s nickname of Pillar, and Lu Yin felt that acknowledging the name out loud would be undignified.

Hongyan Mavis said, "Alright, stop making things difficult for him. Pillar, what were you about to say?"

"Pillar?"

"I see. A good name."

Lu Yin was completely speechless, and he stared at Hongyan Mavis, aghast.

She just coughed. "Sorry, a slip of the tongue."

Lu Yuan laughed. "Alright, it's no big deal. Little Seven, what were you about to say?"

Helpless, Lu Yin turned back to Wu Tian. "I wanted to ask, Senior, why didn’t you leave the Third Scourge? Just what is the ‘fate’ that you mentioned?"

Lu Yuan and the others fell silent, all of them turning solemn.

Wu Tian straightened up. "When the First Mainland was destroyed, on the same day that something happened to Master, I arrived before everyone else. I personally witnessed the final portion of the confrontation between the Boundary Guardians and Master.

"Master cut off his own hands and then forced the Boundary Guardians back. When he noticed me, he gave me a warning."

Wu Tian stared at Lu Yin in a very serious manner. "‘My speculations are right.’"

Lu Yin could not make any sense of the statement.

Lu Yuan spoke up, “Master once speculated that, when anything in the megaverse approaches its limit, it will transform into another kind of creature, one that the megaverse cannot tolerate. Thus, the megaverse will seek to dominate it. It might have been some insight that Master gained from his own Dukkha, but when a creature triggers such an event or phenomenon, it is known as the Fated One.”

Wu Tian’s voice dropped low. "If master’s speculation about the Fated One is correct, then given the fact that the Boundary Guardians secretly ambushed Master, ‘fate’ might be either be the Boundary Guardians themselves acting once one reaches a certain limit. Or, it could be something else that stands behind them.

"Regardless, at that moment, I knew that the Fated One is real, and I felt a chill fall upon me. It felt as though something was watching me."

At this point, Wu Tian’s expression turned grim. "There was definitely something watching me at that time, and that something prevented me from going after Master. Master knocked me away, and I don’t know what happened after that. I have no idea how Master ended up at the Immemorial Citadel, or what that even is.

"All I know is that, in the battles that followed, as each Mainland was destroyed, I always felt like something was watching me. Each Mainland was destroyed, and yet I was powerless to do anything about it. When I learned that Aeternus’s Divine Commandment was about to end, I allowed myself to be captured by them and imprisoned in the Third Scourge. In doing so, I drew the Fated One’s attention to the Aeternals instead of humanity.”

"This is a secret known to only a select few of us. The existence of the Fated One is something that only Master could have suspected," Lu Yuan finished.

Lu Yin understood. It was no wonder why Wu Tian had been unwilling to leave the Third Scourge. The man had possessed the ability to leave at any time, and he had even instantly restored his own strength when he had joined the battle in the Second Scourge. He had never needed anyone's help.

"So you joined the battle in the Second Scourge because the Boundary Guardians showed up?" Lu Yin asked.

Wu Tian nodded. "The Boundary Guardians represent the Fated One. Since they’ve already declared war on humanity, then there’s no longer any reason for me to remain in the Third Scourge."

"Do you still feel the Fated One’s attention on you?" Lu Yin suddenly asked.

Lu Yuan, Hongyan Mavis, and Garan Zhiluo all turned to look at Wu Tian. This was a very important question.

The man let out a breath. "Not for now."

Sighs of relief escaped from everyone.

However, they then exchanged glances, noting the helplessness in each other’s eyes.

It did not matter if they could not sense it for the moment, as the Fated One would certainly return. In the past, only the Origin Progenitor had been able to detect the presence of the Fated One, but what about in the future?

Lu Yin was not sure if there was some unfathomable being in the megaverse, or if everything that was happening was connected to them.

The fall of the Heavens Sect, the way in which the Boundary Guardians had continually weakened humanity, and even the rise of Aeternus might all be tied to that same being.