Star Odyssey

In the past, Hongyan Mavis had not been bothered at all, as she had been confident that Lu Yin’s strength would only have a chance to surpass hers when he became a Sequence Progenitor. At that point, they would both stand on the same level, so even if Lu Yin surpassed Hongyan Mavis’s strength, there would be no shame in it.

However, the current situation was very different. Lu Yin had simply transformed Infinity into a Progenitor’s world. His strength had undergone a metamorphosis, and Hongyan Mavis was very curious to see if the young man had managed to catch up to her.

Lu Yuan did not allow the Megalith to escape. He preferred to play things safe and let Little Seven deal with the Pridebeast alone first.

Lu Yin was not bothered, and he looked at the Pridebeast in an antagonizing manner. "Let’s go, monkey."

The Pridebeast grew enraged. It hated being called a monkey. It was the name that Hongyan Mavis had always used to infuriate the beast when they had fought in the past, and Lu Yin was copying her.

The Pridebeast leaped at Lu Yin with both hands raised high before dropping them down in a vicious double punch that was aimed at Lu Yin’s head.

Lu Yin looked up. He had already merged with his newest Progenitor's world, and in doing so, his source of strength resembled the Megalith, but it was also quite similar to the Pridebeast’s strength.

As the Pridebeast’s fists came crashing down, Lu Yin bent his legs and leaped upwards. Right when he drew close to the ape, Lu Yin flipped over and kicked at the beast.

Bang!

Space shattered, and the darkness of the Hollow swept over the universe like ink spilled over the dark starry sky.

Everyone watched as the Pridebeast was sent flying backwards until it crashed into the Megalith.

The Megalith had no time to dodge before the Pridebeast slammed into it, and they were both sent flying.

Lu Yin stood tall, excitement lighting up his eyes. Yes, this was strength. This was exactly the kind of strength that he had been pursuing.

In the current megaverse, when it came to pure strength, there was none who could match him. Not a single creature.

Lu Yuan and the others were all stunned. This… this…?

Even Hongyan Mavis was shocked. There was no doubt that Lu Yin’s strength exceeded her own. This was his strength as a Progenitor. This was Lu Yin’s level after transforming his inner world into a Progenitor’s world.

Garan Zhiluo swallowed nervously. There was no denying that this young man stood above all others throughout history.

In the Origin Universe, the two individuals who had boasted the greatest physical strength had been Hongyan Mavis and Yellowy, but neither could compare to what Lu Yin had just achieved.

With just his physical might, the young man could simply crush many of the most powerful cultivators in the megaverse, and that included sequence powerhouses.

Actually, just how many could even fight against Lu Yin any longer?

Lu Yin exhaled, very satisfied with himself. It was an exhilarating feeling.

Far away, the Megalith shoved the Pridebeast aside before angrily glaring at Lu Yin and then charging at him.

Lu Yin smiled. "Good timing. You’ve slammed into me so many times earlier. It’s about time I thanked you."

The Megalith continued to hurl itself towards Lu Yin. As it crashed into him, Lu Yin simply raised his right hand and used that alone to stop the blow.

Boom!

Shockwaves rippled out, and Lu Yin’s hair was blown back.

The blow pushed him back dozens of steps, but he eventually held firm with only one arm raised, and he even managed to pin the Megalith in place.

The beast’s two massive eyes revealed human-like disbelief.

"Be careful," Lu Yuan warned.

The Pridebeast stepped on the Megalith in order to punch at Lu Yin again. The ape refused to accept defeat. When it came to strength, it was sure that it could never lose.

Lu Yin looked up, and while holding the Megalith with one hand, he raised his left arm to grab the Pridebeast.

The Pridebeast’s fist struck Li Yin's palm. Despite the vast difference in size between the two, Lu Yin’s comparatively tiny hand managed to block the punch, and his body was only pushed slightly downwards.

The Megalith growled and exerted more force, while the Pridebeast’s eyes blazed with a vicious light as it raised its other fist to deliver another punch.

At the same time, Lu Yin let go. He kicked the Megalith, flipped around, and then kicked the Pridebeast as well.

There were two explosions that sent echoing shockwaves radiating through the universe as the Hollow was ripped apart. Both of the giant creatures were sent tumbling back from Lu Yin’s kicks. After taking a firm stance, he took a step forward, and then rushed at the Megalith with a raised fist. “You deserve this.”

The punch struck the Megalith’s forehead. As the attack landed, the Pridebeast clenched its fists up above the Megalith before slamming them downwards. Lu Yin looked up and unleashed an uppercut.

The battle of raw strength was a simple yet thrilling experience. The three strongest creatures in the entire megaverse were fighting, and no one could interfere in their battle.

While it might be possible for Hongyan Mavis to join the fight, she would not be able to last to the end. If Lu Yuan tried to step in, not even his Champions’ Stage could guarantee that he would be able to keep up with the other three.

With just his own physical strength, Lu Yin was single-handedly dealing with both enormous beasts. Garan Zhiluo watched with growing excitement, and her eyes started gleaming.

Lu Yuan laughed happily. Lu Yin’s power had completely transformed after another one of his inner worlds had reached the Progenitor level.

Previously, Lu Yin had needed to rely on various methods to fight against opponents as strong as the Seven Skygods, but he had always been missing something. After he transformed Dust World into a Progenitor's world and completed his first Progenitor breakthrough, that gap had disappeared. After breaking through again, just one hit from his fists would leave those same opponents in a very difficult position.

This was the limit of physical strength. The megaverse had tried to stop a human from reaching such an extreme, but Lu Yin had succeeded anyways.

Hongyan Mavis was shaken. "I tried to take this step in many different ways, but I couldn't do it. But after seeing Little Seven’s transformation, I finally understand.

"It's not that I couldn't take that step, but that I was limited by my species.

"Little Seven gives off a feeling that’s very similar to the Pridebeast. He used the essence of both the Pridebeast’s and Megalith’s strength, while I focused on only the Divine Tree and on transforming my own strength."

Lu Yuan looked over at Hongyan Mavis with a stunned expression.

Hongyan Mavis was puzzled. “What?”

Lu Yuan automatically asked, “Why didn’t you ever try learning the Pridebeast’s way of utilizing power?”

Hongyan Mavis shook her head. “I just never thought of it. I understood the essence of its strength, but I always placed my own strength as having greater value.”

Lu Yuan looked away. He looked rather conflicted. "I might finally understand why Yellowy grew away from the rest of us."

Hongyan Mavis stiffened, as she understood what was being suggested.

Garan Zhiluo sighed. She understood as well.

It was truly difficult to overcome or change the barriers between species. After completing their training with the Origin Progenitor, the Three Realms and Six Daos had all made names for themselves. With the brilliance of the Heavens Sect that they belonged to, all of them had unconsciously developed a bit of prejudice towards astral beasts. Yellowy, being an astral beast himself, had been able to feel this.

This was why, after their training had ended, they had drifted apart.

Could humans really have stopped enslaving astral beasts during the ancient Heavens Sect era, as the Origin Progenitor had hoped? Impossible. Humanity’s greatest glory had been a brilliant light that had hid endless darkness. Yellowy had been able to see that darkness, but the rest had not.

During Lu Yin’s era, however, humanity had been too weak to enslave the astral beasts.

This led to a fundamental difference in mentality between modern humans and the humans from the Heavens Sect era.

The Fourth Mainland had shattered, but even if it had been deliberately planned by Yellowy, he may not have been wrong to do so. To the astral beasts, both humans and the Aeternals had been the same.

The Aeternals might have even been a slightly better option, simply because corpse kings would not enslave astral beasts.

Far away, Lu Yin punched the Pridebeast’s forehead, forcing the creature down. At the same time, the Megalith’s head was kicked, leaving it dazed.

The two giant beasts looked at each other, questioning their very existence.

Lu Yin looked at the two behemoths before him, and felt invigorated. "Again!"

The Pridebeast glared at Lu Yin.

The Megalith raised its tail up high and let out a howl as it charged at Lu Yin in an attempt to body check him.

Lu Yin kicked again, and his foot stopped the Megalith's charge, though Lu Yin was pushed back several steps. Right at that moment, the Pridebeast attacked again, but Lu Yin punched it away. In front of him, the Megalith swung its body around to slam its tail into Lu Yin.

In the past, this tail swipe had always left Lu Yin severely injured.

This time, he simply snapped his foot out with another kick, blocking the blow. Following that, another kick lashed out, slamming into the Megalith’s side and sending it flying.

Lu Yin was stronger than both the Megalith and the Pridebeast. He was able to suppress one of them with a single hand, but subduing both at the same time still took a bit of effort.

However, that only meant that he needed a bit of time.

These two enormous creatures could certainly take a beating, but after transforming Infinity into a Progenitor’s world, Lu Yin’s own resilience had increased significantly as well.

Transforming his physical strength had also transformed his entire body. He was not at all the same person that had participated in the battle of the Second Scourge.

An even more intense battle followed, as all three creatures exchanged blows while testing their strength.

The fight dragged on.

Neither the Megalith nor the Pridebeast showed any signs of giving up, and they continued to work together to fight against Lu Yin.

Lu Yin had no intention of letting the fight end easily. If the two beasts wanted to be beaten, then he would beat into submission. He refused to believe that it was impossible to conquer the two beasts.

Lu Yuan and the others were also in no rush, and they simply watched.

They understood Lu Yin’s thinking. It was clear to them that he wanted to conquer the two beasts.

"Conquer them? I've thought about it before. While it can’t be done if any other form of power is used, it might be possible if someone beats them with pure strength," Hongyan Mavis commented.

Garan Zhiluo was amazed. "Yellowy really should see this."

Lu Yuan sighed. "Even if he wanted to use other powers, he can’t. Little Seven’s only managed to undo a single seal of that Four Locks Array."

"He should be able to release the rest on his own. With his current strength, he can do it," Hongyan Mavis stated.

If Lu Yin broke the seals made with his own abilities with his own strength, it would be possible to undo the Four Locks Array.

It was just a question of when Lu Yin would choose to do so.

There was another loud bang as the Pridebeast was again slammed into the Megalith before the two beasts were sent flying.

Lu Yin was breathing heavily as he chased after his opponents. He refused to believe that any beast could not be conquered. There were only people who lacked sufficient will.

The Megalith pushed the Pridebeast aside and opened its mouth to bite Lu Yin.

As its mouth opened, the last of Lu Yin’s Time Poison ran out, and he felt his energy being consumed by the Megalith. It was a strange sensation, and it simply felt like his energy consumption was being accelerated.

The fatigue that built up from jumping ten times in a row was completely different from what would build up after jumping a hundred times in a row.

The Megalith made Lu Yin feel as if he had jumped a hundred times when he had only jumped ten times.

His energy was being depleted ten times as fast, and this was why the Megalith was so confident that it could fight against Lu Yin. The beast had been certain that, given enough time, it could outlast Lu Yin and force him to the brink of exhaustion.

The Pridebeast noticed the Megalith’s plan and, much to the shock of Lu Yuan and the others, the ape gave the Megalith a thumbs-up.

Lu Yin was stunned. Was this… a compliment?

This Pridebeast was too… human-like.

The Megalith’s eyes rolled around. It was clearly confused by the Pridebeast’s gesture.

Lu Yin’s expression suddenly changed. A thumbs-up was not a universal gesture across universes; it was something specific to Earth.

While it was not impossible for other universes to have developed the same gesture, could things really be so coincidental?

Lu Yin stared at the Pridebeast. Could this creature have a connection to Earth?

How was that possible? The Pridebeast’s universe had never had any contact with the Origin Universe. From what Hongyan Mavis had said, during the Heavens Sect era, she had been the one to seek out the Pridebeast to challenge its strength, but it had been very difficult to find the Pridebeast.

On top of that, the ape had truly lived for countless years, while a thumbs-up was a gesture that had only developed on Earth within the last few hundred years, at most.

If the Pridebeast’s gesture really was connected to Earth, then the only possible link was Whitecloud City.

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Translated By: OMA

Edited By: Neshi/Nyxnox

TLC'ed By: OMA

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