Star Odyssey Chapter 3263: The Answer

Chapter 3263: The Answer

"Musclehead once followed the Delivery Shrub to the Immemorial Citadel. Even at that time, there was already a battlefield here at the Immemorial Citadel. Yong Heng seemed to not fully trust Musclehead yet, so he hadn’t been brought here. What the Aeternals never knew was that Musclehead had already come here earlier, met me, and learned the truth.

"However, it was already too late. He was already under Yong Heng’s control. Not even I could undo that, and neither could Old Mu. Besides, Musclehead didn’t want to be freed. He wanted to find the Fated One."

Lu Yin understood. "Senior Gu has always wanted to find out who hurt you, Origin Progenitor. Regardless of whether it was Aeternus or Fated One, he wanted to know the truth."

The Origin Progenitor's eyes dimmed. "I don’t want him to. Once he does, it will be the end.

"The Fated One is an Immortal."

Lu Yin's pupils instantly shrank. This was the first time that he was being definitively told that the Immortal realm was real. He finally understood that it was a real realm of cultivation that people could achieve.

Fated One… an Immortal. Such power really did trigger feelings of despair.

Not even the Origin Progenitor or Mister Mu could fight against such an expert. Escape was the only option.

Lu Yin felt confused. "There’s no way this Fated One doesn’t know about the Immemorial Citadel, so why leave it... why not deal with it?"

The Origin Progenitor chuckled. "Why leave us be, you mean?"

Lu Yin remained silent.

The Origin Progenitor looked lost. "I’ve considered that exact question for a very long time, and I still don’t have an answer. I thought that I might never find an answer, but your appearance has suggested one."

Lu Yin was puzzled.

The Origin Progenitor looked him in the eye. "If humanity is defeated by Aeternus, the answer will disappear forever, but you can let us win. You can lead humanity forward. Then, one day, the Fated One will appear. Even if that being wants to kill us, I will at least be able to learn the answer, won’t I? Heh."

Lu Yin felt a sudden chill. While the Origin Progenitor’s words sounded teasing, they felt like the deep abyss of death that was going to drag Lu Yin down.

Lu Yin felt as if he was hearing, “We’re going to die anyways, so everything we’re doing is just so that we can get answers."

"Are you scared, Pillar?" The Origin Progenitor smiled at Lu Yin.

Lu Yin took a deep breath. "A little."

"Don’t be afraid. If we die, we’ll die together, so at least you won’t be alone, heh." The Origin Progenitor chuckled.

Lu Yin could not hold back a laugh. "Your hands… One is Burial Garden and the other is the w.a.n.g family's floating continent, right?"

"The w.a.n.g family’s floating continent? Oh, did it end up in the hands of the Fifth Mainland’s w.a.n.g family?" It sounded like the Origin Progenitor was hearing this for the first time. �

Lu Yin asked, "How can we break the Four Locks Array? Also, I have your six bits of Primaldust with me. I want to return them to you, along with your sword."

The Origin Progenitor immediately stopped Lu Yin from continuing. "No, while we might be destined to die together in the end, I don’t want to meet our end so quickly. If I regain my full strength, the Fated One will immediately come after me."

"Senior Wu Tian also imprisoned himself in the Aeternals’ Third Scourge because he was afraid of being targeted by the Fated One," Lu Yin said.

The Origin Progenitor sighed. "That child is too direct. Why would the Fated One target him? He isn’t even an Ortuser, let alone someone trying to overcome Dukkha. Still, from his perspective, he wasn’t wrong. He felt the Fated One’s attention, and I also know that feeling. He was afraid of drawing the Fated One’s attention towards humanity, and he knew that they would have no chance to resist. Despite the terrible cost, he imprisoned himself within Aeternus.

"Even if it was only a one-in-a-billion chance, he wanted to ensure that humanity was able to resist. In that way, he’s a lot like you, Pillar. The first time you saw the Aeternals’ Six Scourges and understood their full strength, you must have also felt despair. And yet, you still chose to go against them."

Lu Yin stared at the Origin Progenitor. After a moment, he understood the man’s earlier comment. The pressure from the being known as the Fated One was so overwhelming that certain things could only be said indirectly.

"The Fated One looks down from up above, indifferent to the ants below. Those ants also need to do everything they can to avoid even the slightest chance of being noticed. The truth is that all of us are just ants."

The Origin Progenitor smiled again. "Don’t bother trying to help me regain my hands or return Primaldust to me. I’m the only one with a chance of becoming an Immortal in this megaverse. The other Dukkhans, such as Yong Heng and Wei Nu, can’t reach the Immortal realm in this current megaverse. That’s why Yong Heng wants to destroy all the sequence strings and reset the megaverse."

Lu Yin's eyes flashed. "So, that really is his goal."

The Origin Progenitor was taken aback. "You actually figured that out already? Very impressive, Pillar. That’s why you arrived just in time. If you had been any later, I would have had no choice but to take back my hand from Burial Garden, which would have risked drawing the Fated One’s attention towards me, and that might trigger them to enter this war. You need to understand. If the Fated One’s attention turns to us, then no matter how this war ends, humanity will be doomed. I can’t do anything until the very last moment, but not because I can’t recover.

"You need to understand that it’s not that I'm unable to recover. This old ancestor is very powerful! Incredibly so."

Lu Yin pressed his lips. "I know how strong you are. There are a few questions I’d like to ask."

"Is this really the time? Pillar, we should first deal with Aeternus. We have a rare opportunity right now. Once everything is settled, we can chat to our hearts' content for as long as it takes."

Lu Yin inexplicably shuddered. Chat with the Origin Progenitor to his heart’s content? Just the thought was terrifying.

Still, it was true that this was not the time for a conversation. The most important things had already been said. Lu Yin rose up from beneath the Immemorial Citadel and silently examined the battlefield, taking count.

Did Feng Bo die again? Lu Yin looked up at True G.o.d and saw that there were two seeds in front of the man. Hongyan Mavis had killed Feng Bo.

Of the people who had been resurrected by True G.o.d's Eternal Decree, only Di Qiong, Xu Jin, Undying G.o.d, and Shaman G.o.d still lived. They could not afford to let them die again.

Lu Yin looked up at the sky, and manifested his Dust World once more. Black dots appeared in the sky. They were countless dirt spears, and there were so many that they blocked out the stars.

Ancient G.o.d looked up, his expression solemn, yet also unnervingly calm.

In front of the man, Chu Yi roared, "Musclehead, have you still not come to your senses?"

Ancient G.o.d looked down at Chu Yi. "Aeternus will not lose."

Chu Yi was furious. He was enraged by Musclehead's refusal to repent for betraying humanity and their master.

Arrow G.o.d, Forgotten Ruins G.o.d, Di Qiong, and all the others saw the earthen spears that blotted out the sky. More and more were constantly appearing. They never stopped.

The more spears that appeared, the stronger the terrifying chill that people felt.

Shaman G.o.d's face grew pale. Who could have imagined that the child from the past would rise so far so fast? It was incomprehensible that he was capable of single-handedly dominating the entire battlefield.

Far away, Yuan Qi, the ancient powerhouse, carried his bell. Each time it tolled, an earth-shattering sound would ripple through s.p.a.ce. The man was trying to destroy the dirt spears.

Mister Mu reacted first, and he blocked the bell. "Yuan Qi, isn’t it a bit unseemly for someone as old as us to attack children?"

Yuan Qi stared at Mister Mu. The man’s previous arrogance was nowhere to be seen. Yuan Qi had been certain that the Immemorial Citadel would fall, and yet the tide of battle had reversed so quickly.

Zhan Yan and Mu Zhu stood facing each other. The pair of women formed a striking contrast on the battlefield.

The moment Zhan Yan had joined the Ossis Ark, her opponent had always been Mu Zhu. Whenever one had appeared, the other had as well.

"It looks like this battle is finally about to end," Zhan Yan looked away from the battlefield to stare at her opponent. "Mu Zhu, you and I still haven’t determined a winner."

Mu Zhu's aura remained cold and isolating. "You aren’t from Aeternus. Where do you come from?"

Zhan Yan replied with a small smile. "Does it matter? We’re all going to die here anyway."

She pointed upwards. "Your young Dao Monarch doesn’t seem like he intends to let me go."

As Zhan Yan spoke, the countless earthen spears started raining down.

Their targets were perfectly clear. The individuals who had been resurrected, such as Shaman G.o.d, and the most powerful cultivators who could not be touched, like Yuan Qi, were ignored, and every other Aeternal was targeted by the spears.

Darkness enveloped the Immemorial Citadel battlefield as the black rain completely replaced the earlier golden rain.

The void was torn apart, and the Hollow was exposed almost everywhere.

This was the most powerful attack that Lu Yin was capable of unleashing with Dust World, and it was also able to cover the entire battlefield.

The b.u.t.terfly was the first to suffer from the attack. She had been fighting against Progenitor Ku and Garan Zhiluo. While Tian En was an Ortuser, she had a relatively weak presence on the current battlefield. She did not possess an incredible power that allowed her to slaughter her way across the battlefield, and she was not the most hated enemy of humanity. She drew far less attention than the Aeternals.

However, in some ways, the Boundary Guardians were even more detestable than the Aeternals. The Boundary Guardians were the claws of the Fated One. They had served as the stumbling blocks that had hindered humanity’s rise. They were the true culprits who had attempted to supplant humanity.

The b.u.t.terfly flapped her wings, but dozens of soil spears rained down from overhead. Progenitor Ku grabbed one of the b.u.t.terfly’s wings, resisting her illusions with Extremes Must Be Reversed technique.

Garan Zhiluo used her Eight-Star Garan innate gift to immediately copy Progenitor Ku’s Extremes Must Be Reversed, and she grabbed the b.u.t.terfly’s other wing.

The situation startled Tian En, and she was forced to endure the barrage of dirt spears. Multicolored light exploded from her body, similar to how a human would bleed.

The Purgatory seal appeared above Ancient G.o.d, and it blocked the soil spears. There was a resounding clang from each impact.

Wu Tian stepped back as a vast area in front of him was completely shredded by the dirt spears. It was the location of Whiteless G.o.d.

Even at this point in time, no one had laid eyes on Whiteless G.o.d’s true form, but that no longer mattered. She was not able to reverse the situation. She was not even strong enough to completely block the dirt spears. As they rained down on her, combined with Wu Tian’s Progenitor’s world, Whiteless G.o.d’s white mountain and sea was completely destroyed. A hint of red spread through the void as her aura weakened. Finally, a human figure could be seen. She raised her head and looked at Lu Yin in the distance.

She was Luo Shen.

As he surveyed the battlefield, Lu Yin saw Luo Shen, but he was not surprised.

He had suspected her long ago. The most suspicious thing that she had done had been to travel to the Perennial World via Jupiter.

Jupiter was not a place just anyone could enter. At the time, Luo Shen had only been a Melder, so how could she have possibly followed Lu Yin to the Perennial World through Jupiter? Even if she had managed to enter the Perennial World, how could her appearance have been so coincidental that she was rescued by Lu Yin? The chances were ridiculous.

Later on, Lu Yin had devised a plan to lure out Whiteless G.o.d. At the time, he had ordered people to monitor everyone, especially Luo Shen.

However, the woman had not shown even a hint of abnormal behavior, and Whiteless G.o.d had still appeared.

At that time, Lu Yin had hesitated.

Afterward, Luo Shen had still not revealed any oddities. Other than that one instance with Jupiter, Lu Yin had never had any reason to suspect her. Still, that one time had been enough.

While he was not able to prove that Luo Shen was Whiteless G.o.d, discovering that it was true was not a shocking revelation.

In hindsight, many things made more sense, such as Zi Rong.

One time, when Zi Rong had tried to absorb Bai Xue’s innate gift, the incident had been exposed because of Luo Shen. Luo Shen had deliberately caused Zi Rong to be exposed, which had led to Lu Yin interfering and him ultimately fighting against Zi Rong.

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Translated By: OMA

Edited By: Neshi/Nyxnox

TLC'ed By: OMA