Star Odyssey Chaptere 3280: Severing

Chaptere 3280: Severing

A few days later, Lu Yin left the Heavens Sect to return to the Immemorial Citadel and meet with the Origin Progenitor.

The Immemorial Citadel was still standing, as the powerhouses defending the city had all returned shortly after visiting their own universes.

Such experts were too powerful, and they had no one in their own universes who could speak with them as equals. They preferred to return to the Immemorial Citadel, where they could live as people once again, rather than remain isolated by their elite status.

Furthermore, it was necessary for someone to be protecting the Origin Progenitor. For a time, the Three Realms and Six Daos had taken on that task, but with additional powerhouses returning to the Immemorial Citadel, there was no longer a need for the Three Realms and Six Dao to fulfill that task.

Lu Yin arrived deep below the Immemorial Citadel and met with the Origin Progenitor.

“Pillar, you’re back,” the Origin Progenitor greeted.

Lu Yin’s visit had been prompted by several questions that he needed answered. "Why did you take over the Mirari Realm back then?"

Many events stemmed from the fact that the Origin Progenitor had worked with others to anchor the Mirari Realm to the Tianyuan Megaverse.

The Boundary Guardians regarded humanity as rebellious, and that mostly came from how excessive the Origin Progenitor and his allies had been in anchoring the Mirari Realm to a single megaverse.

When Progenitor Xi had first arrived in the Tianyuan Megaverse, she had restrained from revealing anything about her Consciousness Megaverse to the Origin Progenitor because she had learned that they had seized the Mirari Realm, which had made her hesitant.

The Origin Progenitor looked upset by the question. "Pillar, are you also blaming me? I wasn’t the only one involved. All of us had a hand in that."

"Who else was there?" Lu Yin asked, curious.

"Me." Mister Mu appeared.

Lu Yin turned around and bowed. "Master."

Mister Mu responded with a slight nod. "For you to bring up the Mirari Realm so suddenly, is this because many events were instigated by our seizing of the Mirari Realm?"

Lu Yin nodded. "Yes. I want to understand why the Mirari Realm was anch.o.r.ed to this megaverse. It couldn’t have just been to give the Three Realms and Six Daos a place to cultivate, right? Too high a price was paid for that. Even now, with my current strength, I still can’t find a way to restrict the Mirari Realm like you have."

The Origin Progenitor chuckled. "Pillar, you can thank your master for that. One of his greatest achievements in his entire life, aside from accepting you as his disciple, was helping us to seize the Mirari Realm."

Lu Yin gave Mister Mu a questioning glance.

Mister Mu sighed. "There was nothing honorable about what I did, as it was truly unfair to the other megaverses, but there was no other choice. If not for that, we could have never created the brilliant Heavens Sect or opened up any sort of possibility to defeat that being. Whether we were right or wrong will be for future generations to judge—if there are future generations, that is."

He looked at Lu Yin. "We anch.o.r.ed the Mirari Realm to this place in order to give rise to as many powerhouses as possible, especially those capable of breaking into the Origin realm. The Three Realms and Six Daos were among those, but unfortunately, things quickly went wrong with Tai Chu. If not for that, there would have been many more."

Lu Yin immediately understood. The Mirari Realm had been anch.o.r.ed to their megaverse to give them a chance to resist the being they referred to as the Fated One.

Mister Mu's megaverse had been destroyed, and beings capable of destroying an entire megaverse most likely possessed a similar level of strength as the Fated One. That was why Mister Mu had helped the Origin Progenitor anchor the Mirari Realm to the Tianyuan Megaverse: to create experts. However, they had not antic.i.p.ated that the megaverse already had such a being in it, and that had led to the Origin Progenitor being ambushed. Mister Mu had been left with no choice but to intervene, which had eventually led to the war between the Immemorial Citadel and Aeternus.

This was not a matter that could be said to be right or wrong. Mister Mu had misread the Tianyuan Megaverse and failed to determine the existence of the Fated One. The Origin Progenitor had suspected such a being’s existence, but for his efforts to strengthen the Three Realms and Six Daos, he had chosen to overlook the matter.

The ancient Heavens Sect had been destroyed because of the Mirari Realm, but the Mirari Realm had also given rise to the current Heavens Sect, and even to Lu Yin.

Lu Yin did not know if the people of his megaverse would one day be able to resist the Fated One. As someone who had benefited from the Mirari Realm being anch.o.r.ed to the Tianyuan Megaverse, he had no right to judge whether the decision had been right or wrong.

After all, he had already benefited from the anch.o.r.ed Mirari Realm.

“Master, how was the Mirari Realm anch.o.r.ed here?” Lu Yin asked, quite curious about this, as he had not been able to come up with any possibilities.

Mister Mu clasped his hands behind his back. "Origin Tracer."

"Origin Tracer?" Lu Yin was taken aback. "Isn’t the technique used to find a specific moment in the past?"

"A moment that doesn’t belong to the Mirari Realm’s River of Aeons," Mister Mu explained.

Lu Yin had already known this much. He had even considered asking Mister Mu why he had created Origin Tracer. Lightstream devoured time that was not part of the River of Aeons, and Lu Yin felt that Origin Tracer might have been created to achieve the same purpose.

Mister Mu continued his explanation. "A single moment of time that isn’t part of the River of Aeons can be found with Origin Tracer. If there are enough of those ‘droplets,’ then they can build up across the river, essentially acting like a dam and blocking the flow. What do you think the results would be?"

Lu Yin was stunned. "Is that even possible?"

"As long as enough time builds up, a dam can certainly be found," Mister Mu replied.

Lu Yin was badly shaken.

From what he understood, Mister Mu was essentially saying that they had collected enough time that was not a part of the River of Aeons that they could use it to block the river and stop its flow.

While such a thing sounded possible in theory, in reality, it seemed impossible.

Where would one even find so many “droplets” that were not part of the River of Aeons? That much time was inconceivable.

However, Mister Mu had done just that. Lu Yin had thought that he was close to understanding his master’s true power, but at this moment, he was forced to realize that he had still been underestimating Mister Mu.

Just the fact that Mister Mu had traveled from his own destroyed megaverse to the Tianyuan Megaverse was already proof enough of the man’s capabilities.

The Lost Clan’s most powerful card had done the same thing, carrying its people so that they could escape their original megaverse. That card was so powerful that just a corner of it had been enough to break True G.o.d’s Dominion, which had been a demonstration of unmatched power.

Mister Mu had accomplished the same achievement as that card. Did that mean that Mister Mu was about as strong as that card? Just how powerful was the man?

"Pillar, your master is the most ruthless person," the Origin Progenitor’s voice rang out.

Lu Yin could not agree more.

Mister Mu was as calm as ever. "Tai Chu, be careful of what you say, or else you might drop your sequence strings."

Lu Yin looked over at Mister Mu. "Master, how did you develop the Ninesuns Cauldron Transformation?"

Mister Mu stared straight at Lu Yin, his expression more somber than ever. "Cultivate diligently."

It was only two words, but they weighed heavily on Lu Yin. The Ninesuns Cauldron Transformation was one of Mister Mu’s ultimate techniques. The man had only ever pa.s.sed two of his techniques on to his disciples. However, of all of the man’s disciples, only Lu Yin had received the Ninesuns Cauldron Transformation. The others, including Mu Zhu, Mu Ke, Mu Xie, and Qing Ping, had received Origin Tracer.

Lu Yin emerged from the depths beneath the Immemorial Citadel and looked over to where a large tree had rooted itself in the city’s flames. It was the big tree that loved to run away.

He went over to the tree and examined it.

When he first met the tree, it had been delivered to him to serve as Sapling’s playmate. Who could have imagined that the tree had witnessed the entirety of human history and also changed its course?

"Sapling misses you," Lu Yin told the tree.

The branches swayed, but the tree’s meaning was unclear. All that could be seen clearly was the flames swirling around the tree.

Right. Lu Yin suddenly remembered Big Face Tree, who was with the Nong Family. That tree had also witnessed human history and was knowledgeable of many things that had taken place during the Heavens Sect era. What was that tree’s story?

He quickly made his way to the Perennial World and to the Nong family’s estate.

Nong Yi noticed Lu Yin’s arrival and hurried out to greet the Dao Monarch. The man was followed by Nong Ya, Nong Sanniang, Nong Lie, and many others.

"Greetings, Dao Monarch."

"Greetings, Dao Monarch..." the Nong family members all bowed low.

Lu Yin just nodded as his gaze swept past Nong Sanniang and the others before him. Once, they had been his peers, but they were currently on completely different levels. They were no longer anywhere close to standing on the same level as Lu Yin.

Even Nong Sanniang was still only an Envoy.

"Nong Yi, stay. The rest can leave," Lu Yin commented. Nong Ya and the others immediately excused themselves.

Nong Sanniang looked at Lu Yin with a bit of curiosity. She could never fathom how this person had risen to become the leader of humanity.

From what she had heard from an elder in the Nong family, Nong Sanniang was not even close to being qualified to go to the battlefield at the Immemorial Citadel. It was a place for sequence powerhouses alone. Despite that, not only had Lu Yin gone there, but he had also dominated the battlefield and even fought against the Aeternals’ True G.o.d. Lu Yin stood far, far above Nong Sanniang and the others.

No matter how close Nong Sanniang and Nong Lie had once been with Lu Yin, or how the woman had once teased him, at the moment, everyone in the Nong family was quite anxious.

Lu Yin understood the pressure that others felt from his current status and strength. He had no intention of lowering himself to their level in order to restore old friendships. It was impossible to keep such things with effort alone. It would be too fake. If Nong Lie and the others were able to become Sequence Progenitors, or even Ortusers, then his interactions with them would not be nearly so strained.

Time was a valuable commodity. The higher one rose, the slower their progress became. Eventually, those who had been surpa.s.sed would catch a glimpse of a figure in the distance, and when that happened, things would be different.

"Senior Nong Yi, where did Big Face Tree come from?" Lu Yin asked directly.

Nong Yi was puzzled. "Big Face Tree? Why do you ask about that, Dao Monarch?"

The two were walking towards the tree as they chatted.

"Truthfully, I’m not sure myself. Going back to the very beginning of my Nong family’s records, Big Face Tree has always been present. It's truly ancient, and it enjoys sharing stories from the Heavens Sect era, though not many can really make out what it's saying..." Nong Yi explained.

The two men soon arrived at the tree. It had not changed at all. Lu Yin had visited the tree several times in the past, and he had learned many details about the battle at the Third Mainland’s Turtledove River, as well as many other events. However, it took an unimaginable amount of time to hear the tree’s whole story.

Bai Xue approached from a short distance away, and she bowed to Nong Yi. "Senior."

Nong Yi nodded to acknowledge her.

Bai Xue then looked at Lu Yin and offered a slow bow. "Greetings, Dao Monarch."

Nong Yi was aware that Bai Xue and Lu Yin were old acquaintances, so he stepped away to offer them a bit of s.p.a.ce to talk.

Lu Yin looked at Bai Xue. "It's been a while."

The woman offered a small smile. "Even if we haven't seen each other, word of everything that the Dao Monarch has done spreads like wildfire. You’re a legend."

Lu Yin chuckled. "That's exaggerating."

"Not in the slightest. Dao Monarch Lu, you have led humanity to defeat Aeternus. I, Bai Xue, truly admire you for that."

Lu Yin's eyes moved past Bai Xue to look at a distant figure. This person was wearing all white and possessed an ethereal aura. It was Shang Qing.

"He's truly persistent," Lu Yin commented. He was aware of Shang Qing’s feelings for Bai Xue, but he had not expected the man to run straight back to the Nong family after being trapped in Burial Garden for so many years. It was clear that he was seeking the family’s permission to pursue Bai Xue.

Bai Xue let out a helpless sigh. "If possible, Dao Monarch, please take him back with you."

Lu Yin replied, "That’s your business."

He had no intention of getting involved in such matters.

"After spending so many years with Big Face Tree, have you learned any valuable history?" Lu Yin asked as he turned to look at Big Face Tree.

Bai Xue thought for a moment. "I’ve learned a great deal about wars that took place during the Heavens Sect era, but that history probably doesn’t hold much value for you, Dao Monarch. You could ask the Three Realms and Six Daos themselves for more information about those matters."

"Has Big Face Tree ever mentioned its origins?" Lu Yin asked.

Bai Xue shook her head. "No, not at all."

Lu Yin moved forward and went towards Big Face Tree.