Star Odyssey

Chapter 2822: Cyclic Tribulation

Lu Yin looked around in shock. He was clearly able to see with Heaven’s Sight that the city was composed solely of Extreme Yin power.

Overhead, the dark clouds dispersed to reveal a full moon, which radiated a beam of light that fell upon the entire city.

Lu Yin and Bai Xian'er wanted to escape, but they were trapped in a quagmire of Extreme Yin power. It was difficult for them to even move.

If they were surrounded by nothing more than Extreme Yin power, Lu Yin could simply absorb it and create another star in the sky of his personal universe. However, the Extreme Yin City consisted of not only Extreme Yin, but also Rotting the Heavenly Dao and the related Rot Particles. Neither Lu Yin nor Bai Xian’er dared to make even the slightest bit of contact with the sequence particles.

At the same time, both Lord Wei’s manifested thought and Mu Ke’s blade attacked, trying to destroy the Extreme Yin City.

Sovereign Shao Yin sneered. "There are no living creatures in my Extreme Yin City. All that live there are formed from the power of Extreme Yin and Rotting the Heavenly Dao. I’ve reinforced the city with sequence particles for so many years, so how could you break it so easily?"

Mu Ke’s blade could only slice two-thirds of the way through the barrier, and it failed to break through Extreme Yin City. Lord Wei’s manifested thought fared no better.

Mu Shen, Lord Xu, Great Elder Shan Gu, and the others had no time to concern themselves with the Extreme Yin City.

While resisting Sovereign Shao Yin, Lu Yin was constantly thinking about the Heavens Sect, and he felt incredibly torn.

Aeternus had launched a massive attack, and Sovereign Shao Yin had openly exposed himself as a spy. All of this could only mean one thing: the Aeternals were utterly confident in their victory. In that case, it should be impossible for one person to change things, unless the Origin Progenitor himself returned to overwhelm True God Wei Yi. Even if humanity could receive the help of someone as powerful as the Seven Skygods, it might not prove to be enough.

The Sixverse Association, the Endless Frontier, the Heavens Sect, and the tea ceremony—war had erupted everywhere!

No one knew just how long the Aeternals had been preparing for this exact moment, but Lu Yin was certain that they would not give humanity any chance to rise back up. They must have prepared for every variable they were aware of, such as the Lord of Lightning and other powerful outsiders, not to mention Sovereign Dou Sheng and other such powerhouses.

The Sixverse Association would not be able to save itself from this attack, and Lu Yin himself was facing a truly desperate situation. He looked at Sovereign Shao Yin on the other side of the Extreme Yin City, and he saw the excitement in the man’s eyes.

Lu Yin turned to look at Bai Xian'er, only to see that the woman was not the slightest bit flustered and was only a tiny bit pale. Regardless of what she was personally capable of, there was an impassable chasm between her strength and Sovereign Shao Yin’s. There was no reason for Bai Xian’er to be so relaxed.

When she noticed Lu Yin’s gaze, Bai Xian'er met his eyes, and the two stared at each other.

"Do you have any way?" Lu Yin asked.

Bai Xian'er shook her head. "No."

"I do."

Bai Xian'er looked surprised, but then she simply smiled. "I knew that Brother Xiaoxuan would not disappoint me."

Lu Yin looked away and stared off into the distance. "Sovereign Shao Yin did not immediately attack us with his Progenitor’s world, even though he could have. Besides that, just a full-powered burst of his Rotting the Heavenly Dao should have been enough to end us."

"Is that what you saw with Heaven’s Sight?"

"I’m saying that we could die at any moment."

"You just said that you have a way."

"The price is rather high."

Bai Xian'er's smile never left her eyes. It looked as though Lu Yin claiming to have a way was all the assurance that she needed to know that she would not die. "What price do I need to pay?"

Lu Yin turned back to look at the woman. "The Book of Destiny."

Bai Xian'er was taken aback. "The book’s been burned. Why do you still want it?"

"That’s my business."

Bai Xian'er stared at Lu Yin for a moment and then took a step forward. She removed the half-burned Book of Destiny from her cosmic ring and tossed it over to Lu Yin. "If Brother Xiaoxuan wants it, I'll give it to you."

Lu Yin took the Book of Destiny, excitement briefly lighting up his eyes.

Got it! He had already tested it out before, and he therefore knew that the Books of Destiny could be restored with his die’s Enhance. While the cost was exorbitant, he knew that it was at least possible to repair the books.

Once they were fully recovered, he would have all three Books of Destiny. Then, he would be able to see the truth concerning Zhao Ran. Additionally, while Lu Yin did not personally cultivate Destiny’s power, the continent in his chest was formed from Destiny’s fatesand.

Right, fatesand.

Lu Yin quickly looked back at Bai Xian'er. "Also, I want your fatesand."

Bai Xian'er was startled by this demand, but before she could react, the Extreme Yin City underwent a drastic change.

Sovereign Shao Yin was finally making his move. When he saw that Lu Yin and Bai Xian'er were simply chatting with each other in his Progenitor’s world, and even exchanging gifts, the Sovereign felt as though they were ignoring him and his Progenitor’s world. "Rot them all and imprison them!"

The moment the man spoke, the sequence particles related to Rotting the Heavenly Dao all surged towards Lu Yin and Bai Xian'er.

Instantly, the two were facing their greatest danger yet. The moment they were enveloped by the sequence particles, they would be completely rotted.

Sequence particles were the fundamental power of changing the universe, and Lu Yin had very few options to even try to deal with this power. Additionally, at this moment, escape was impossible.

He took a deep breath. "You still owe me that fatesand, so don't forget it."

He then looked upwards. "It's time to become a Semi-Progenitor."

No one knew when it happened, but there was an indistinct pressure in the sky. It came from a stellular tribulation.

Before the tea ceremony, Lu Yin had not been entirely certain if it was possible for him to undergo a breakthrough in the Cyclic Universe. While Bai Xian'er had claimed to have done it while speaking to Lu Yin, he still had not been entirely certain.

However, after the Extreme Yin City appeared and Lu Yin realized how difficult it would be for him to escape, he had tested to see if he could trigger his Semi-Progenitor breakthrough. As it turned out, he had discovered that it was indeed possible.

He could not say why that was the case, as he was clearly in the Cyclic Universe, and even though the people of the Cyclic Universe also cultivated with stellular energy, they did not seem to experience stellular tribulations. Why could he have a breakthrough in this place?

The only possibility was what Bai Xian'er had mentioned. ‘If there was no connection, how could the energies be inverted?’

Were the Cyclic Universe and the Origin Universe truly connected? They were clearly two different parallel universes.

However, this was not the time to be thinking about such things. Lu Yin’s Semi-Progenitor tribulation had already been triggered.

Sovereign Shao Yin’s head suddenly snapped up, his expression changing. What was going on?

Everyone present at the tea ceremony instinctively froze and looked up at the sky, feeling a strange pressure descending. The people of the Cyclic Universe did not suffer stellular tribulations. The Three Sovereigns and Nine Sages were granted their cultivation by the Great Sovereign, and they had no idea what they were looking at. On the other hand, Bai Xian'er's eyes lit up. Was Lu Yin finally going to have a breakthrough?

"Little Lu Yin, are you going to break through to become a Semi-Progenitor?" Forgotten Ruins God was surprised.

Mu Shen looked up. "The Origin Universe’s breakthroughs: stellular tribulations. I haven't seen one of these in a very long time."

Lord Xu frowned. "This stellular tribulation is not quite right."

He had been friends with Wu Tian, witnessed the Heavens Sect era for himself, and naturally seen many people’s stellular tribulations. However, there was something wrong with Lu Yin's Semi-Progenitor tribulation.

Lord Wei was caught off guard. "The Cyclic Universe doesn’t give stellular tribulations, so why can the child trigger one here?"

The sight of the stellular tribulation up above left everyone confused. However, regardless of their thoughts, there was no denying that the tribulation had appeared.

The stellular tribulation’s black hole appeared, along with a roar and a tremendous amount of pressure. While the sound was faint, it caused the hearts of all who heard it to tremble.

"No! No one can approach a stellular tribulation! Retreat!" Lord Xu suddenly remembered something and fled back from the tribulation.

The Seven Skygods, Mu Shen, and all the other powerhouses did the same.

The Extreme Yin City disappeared, as Sovereign Shao Yin had also pulled back. He did not understand what a stellular tribulation involved, but he was able to feel the threat of death.

When he had been standing beneath the stellular tribulation, a chill had swept over his entire body, and he had felt that he could die at any moment. It was a terrifying sensation that had made him want to immediately flee.

Bai Xian'er also fled.

At this moment, no one dared to approach Lu Yin.

The battle continued between the Seven Skygods, Mu Shen, Lord Xu, and all the rest, just further away.

When Chu Jian awoke, he was being dragged away by someone. He had been too close to the stellular tribulation, and given that he was one of the Great Sovereign’s disciples, no one wanted him to die.

Because of the Great Sovereign’s tea ceremony, a great number of people across the Sixverse Association were watching the decisive battle brought about by the Aeternals’ attack, and so they also witnessed Lu Yin’s stellular tribulation. Stellular tribulations were unique to the Origin Universe, but at this moment, the Sixverse Association was bearing witness to one.

Lu Yin was still wearing the same white clothes as he stared upwards. Something felt off. There was something wrong about this stellular tribulation.

He had survived a number of tribulations in the Origin Universe, and each one had been exceptionally massive. However, while Lu Yin’s current tribulation was very large, it was not the same size as his sixth stellular tribulation, nor even as large as his first. What was going on?

Arrow Sage dodged Corpse God’s arm as it swung by. The Sage looked at Lu Yin and exclaimed, "I never thought that I would be able to personally witness a Cyclic Tribulation in my lifetime."

"What is a Cyclic Tribulation?" Sage Jiang asked in confusion.

Arrow Sage solemnly replied, "Ancient records state that, while the Cyclic Universe does not have tribulations as a whole, there is one that can be triggered—the Cyclic Tribulation. All of us have received our cultivation from the Great Sovereign, but some people, even if they have been granted power, or possibly because they are strong enough, will trigger retaliation from the Cyclic Universe itself. That retaliation is known as the Cyclic Tribulation.

"My ancestor witnessed a Cyclic Tribulation, and the one who overcame it was Sovereign Dou Sheng."

Sage Jiang was taken aback. "Sovereign Dou Sheng survived a Cyclic Tribulation?"

"How would he have been a Sovereign otherwise??" Arrow Sage retorted.

"What nonsense are you two talking about? Be careful, or else you’ll be slapped to death." In the distance, Mu Tao's mustache was trembling. His eyes never left Corpse God, and he regretted leaving the Endless Frontier. While there were certainly massive battles currently being fought across the Endless Frontier, preventing the powerhouses there from reinforcing the Cyclic Universe, Mu Tao would rather fight on the Endless Frontier than face the Seven Skygods.

Arrow Sage was not the only one who knew about the Cyclic Tribulation, as both Sovereign Ninth Lotus and Sovereign Shao Yin remembered it as well.

Sovereign Shao Yin's eye twitched. He remembered the Cyclic Tribulation, which was exactly what he was seeing. Somehow, Lu Yin had triggered a Cyclic Tribulation.

If Lu Yin succeeded and received power from the Great Sovereign, he would become a second Sovereign Dou Sheng.

No, another person like Sovereign Dou Sheng could never be allowed to appear in the Sixverse Association.

Aeternus had paid a steep price to trap Sovereign Dou Sheng on the Endless Frontier. If another such powerhouse appeared, it would require the Seven Skygods themselves to deal with them.

"Child of the Lu family, that is a Cyclic Tribulation, which is unique to the Cyclic Universe. You must take care!" Lord Xu called out.

Due to how long ago the last Cyclic Tribulation had occurred, it had taken some time for people to remember that possibility.

Lu Yin felt confused. "What in the world is a Cyclic Tribulation?"

"Past powerhouses of the Cyclic Universe will appear. You will be confronted with the most powerful attacks of those cultivators when they had the same cultivation as you do now. That is the Cyclic Tribulation, and the Cyclic Universe itself has sent it to you. There is no stopping it. The only option is to fight each cultivator who appears to the death," Bai Xian'er spoke up in answer.

Lu Yin looked over. "Did you also face the Cyclic Tribulation?"

Bai Xian'er smiled, but she did not say anything more. Instead, she pointed upward.

She was not alone, as everyone else instinctively looked up. They saw a round cylinder of light whose end slowly connected to the other to form a ring. Within that ring, various scenes flashed by. It truly did look like the cycle of reincarnation.

Lu Yin saw it as well and stared intently. He had seen such scenes before. It was when he had stepped onto the Stargazing Deck with the Book of Destiny. At that moment, he had witnessed the river of time that connected the past and the present.

He had clearly triggered his Semi-Progenitor tribulation, and yet he was somehow facing a Cyclic Tribulation.

Countless eyes stared at the Cyclic Tribulation. No one knew who might appear.

The Cyclic Universe had existed for countless years, and it had even existed concurrently with the ancient Heavens Sect. No one could say how many powerhouses had been born throughout the existence of the universe, as some had not even been recorded down in history.