Star Odyssey

Chapter 3105: Usurping Consciousness

Lu Yin watched Kong Tianzhao. The sight of the white-clad swordsman gave Lu Yin a surge of confidence as Kong Tianzhao wielded his white sword. This man was strong enough that even Ancestor Lu Tianyi had noticed him. Kong Tianzhao was nearly as famous as the Lord of Lightning, Jiang Feng, and he was one of the guardians of Whitecloud City. There was no doubt about the swordsman’s strength.

While Kong Tianzhao might not be able to single-handedly defeat one of the Three Pillars and Six Skies, he could certainly hold his own for a period of time, much like Sovereign Dou Sheng.

With Kong Tianzhao’s arrival, Lu Yin’s desire to kill Xu Jin was reignited.

It was not impossible to kill Xu Jin. True God's Natural Art could not be used indefinitely, or else Xu Jin would not have waited for Arrow God to arrive.

True God was being kept occupied by the Great Sovereign and Lu Yuan, which offered Lu Yin a rare opportunity. Gritting his teeth, he decided to take the risk and attempt to kill Xu Jin.

His hand rose, and his die appeared. He tapped it with a finger, hoping for Possession. Possession! Give me Possession!

By the lake of divine energy, Ye Wu was being besieged by Progenitor-level corpse kings.

Lord Xu and Mu Shen were dealing with the Star Devourer together, while Sovereign Dou Sheng was still putting up with Arrow God. Dozens of arrows riddled the man’s body, yet he refused to die. His persistence made Arrow God’s expression fall.

Kong Tianzhao stood at the center of the battlefield. His presence overshadowed even Sovereign Dou Sheng’s impressive battle.

The Magician’s face grew pale. This man's swordsmanship was terrifying, and it contained some sort of incomprehensible power. The Magician had already been injured during his time on the Immemorial Citadel’s battlefield, and the slightest mistake would mean certain death.

However, the Magician had survived the Divine Selection and spent time on the Immemorial Citadel’s battlefield, both of which were accomplishments that were beyond even Wang Fan. While the Magician was not on par with the Seven Skygods, he was qualified to fight them. He would not immediately fall to Kong Tianzhao’s sword.

While on Lu Yuan’s Champions' Stage, Lu Yin was very safe at this moment. The Second Scourge’s Progenitor-level corpse kings had arrived, as well as several human peak powerhouses who had betrayed their own species, but none of them could reach Lu Yin.

He stared at his die as it slowly came to a stop: Timestop. He entered his Timestop Space.

Lu Yin then spent more than six months recovering before he finally managed to fully heal from his injuries.

During this time, Lu Yin succeeded in gaining a bit of understanding about True God's Natural Art. He had realized that he had not been injured by the Natural Art itself, but rather by himself.

It had taken him six months to figure this much out.

True God's Natural Art seemed to have completely erased Lu Yin’s cultivation methods and battle techniques, and by doing so, he had suffered a backlash from losing them. While Lu Yin could not understand how any technique could accomplish this, it made sense for one of True God's ultimate techniques to surpass the limits of ordinary techniques.

Mister Mu had created Origin Tracer and the Ninesuns Cauldron Transformation. One harnessed the power of time, while the other was simply unfathomable.

The Great Sovereign possessed the power of reincarnation, which allowed her to even bestow power upon others and raise ordinary cultivators into peak powerhouses.

True God possessed three ultimate techniques, and it was no surprise that they possessed incomprehensible power.

It was simply bad luck that their target, Xu Jin, was able to use True God's Natural Art.

If it had been Corpse God, Xu Jin would have already died.

As the scenery around him shifted, Lu Yin returned to the Second Scourge, where only a single second had passed.

A fierce looking man was standing in front of Lu Yin, and he glared at the young man while attacking repeatedly.

The man was a traitor, and he possessed a powerful physique.

"Kid, get out here and die!" The man sneered at Lu Yin, assuming that the young man was severely injured to the point where he could only hide within the Champions' Stage.

Lord Xu and Mu Shen had clearly been heavily injured, and they were barely able to hold the Star Devourer back.

Ye Wu was struggling against the Progenitor-level corpse kings swarming around him.

Normally, a man like the one trying to attack Lu Yin would not dare to approach such a battlefield, but at this moment, he believed that he had a good chance of killing Lu Yin, which would be an amazing contribution for the Second Scourge.

Lu Yin raised his hand and lashed out.

The man sneered, and his arm underwent a strange transformation as he punched at Lu Yin. He could already envision Lu Yin’s arm shattering.

However, the man’s expression suddenly changed dramatically, and he let out a scream of pain.

Lu Yin had shattered the man’s arm with a single palm strike, while also destroying half of the man’s body.

Another traitorous peak powerhouse was approaching the Champions' Stage to attack Lu Yin, but the sight of Lu Yin’s power terrified the man, and he turned to flee.

Lu Yin's eyes were glacial as they fell upon the man. "Traitors deserve to die."

"Wait! Senior, we’re willing to defe-" The man tried to beg for mercy, but Lu Yin casually executed him. Lu Yin’s strength could overwhelm an ordinary peak powerhouse.

He rolled his die again.

This time it landed on three pips: Enhance. He continued, only to get Timestop again. He kept going, and finally, he succeeded: Possession.

At this moment, divine energy rose up from the Second Scourge, once again forming the floating lanterns that slowly started to drift through the sky.

The sight left Lord Xu trembling. "Run! We won’t have another chance."

Mu Shen agreed and immediately tried to tear through the void to escape, but a powerful force pulled at them from the front. The Star Devourer’s sequence particles prevented Mu Shen and Lord Xu from escaping.

Beneath the lake of divine energy, Xu Jin's eye rolled about. Lu Yin had guessed correctly, and it was not easy for Xu Jin to use True God's Natural Art. Each time the eyeball used it, it would suffer a severe backlash.

Xu Jin had first been severely wounded by Kakawen’s nine-star technique, Restart, and the backlash from True God's Natural Art had pushed it to its limits. However, using it once more would mean pushing the invaders back, or even killing several of the humans.

At worst, Xu Jin would be forced to go into seclusion for a long time.

Suddenly, its eye stopped moving and confusion filled it briefly before a bit of clarity returned. At this moment, Xu Jin was no longer Xu Jin, but rather Lu Yin.

Lu Yin had used divine energy to roll his die, so when he entered the strange dark space, he had seen several orbs of light. One of them had been particularly bright, and Lu Yin had initially wanted to merge with that one, but then he had remembered Arrow God’s presence on the battlefield.

True God was not even a consideration. If a ball of light appeared that represented True God, it would likely be bright enough to illuminate the entire dark space.

The bright sphere of light dazzled Lu Yin for a moment. The comparative brightness indicated that the individual represented by the ball was far more powerful than Lu Yin, and there was no doubt that they were at the same level as the Seven Skygods.

On the current battlefield in the Second Scourge, the strongest individual Lu Yin could Possess through divine energy should be Arrow God, followed by Xu Jin, who had been heavily injured.

Lu Yin hesitated briefly before choosing another orb of light to merge with.

The sphere that he had chosen was also quite bright, but it was a bit dimmer than the brightest orb. There were several other balls of light around, but they were much dimmer, signifying a substantial difference in strength.

Gritting his teeth, Lu Yin rushed towards his chosen sphere of light. He was gambling, but if he won, he might be able to kill Xu Jin. If he lost, the brightness of the sphere indicated that it belonged to a peak powerhouse capable of using divine energy. Lu Yin considered the Magician, but even if he Possessed the Magician, it would be possible to buy a bit of time.

Everything depended on luck.

Lu Yin's luck proved to be decent, and he successfully Possessed Xu Jin.

Xu Jin was not a human, and it was literally nothing more than an eyeball. While the eye looked like it had come from a human, not even Xu Jin knew its own origins.

It was as if the eyeball had gained consciousness, cultivated, and trained before eventually being discovered by True God and brought into Aeternus.

Consciousness was both Xu Jin’s power and innate gift. His sequence particle was the Law of Intent, and the greatest power he could manifest was True God's Natural Art.

The moment Lu Yin Possessed Xu Jin, the Natural Art stopped.

Across the Second Scourge, Lord Xu and the other humans had all started to despair. They were unable to escape, which meant that they had no choice but to wait for the lanterns to shatter once again, which would severely injure them. They might not be lucky enough to survive this next bout of attacks.

However, the lanterns started to slowly dissipate without ever shattering.

Arrow God and the Magician were both left quite perplexed. What was happening?

Lord Xu and Mu Shen stared down at the lake of divine energy, similarly confused.

The eyeball suddenly shot out from the depths of the lake, aiming straight for Lu Yin.

Ye Wu attacked out of reflex, but Lu Yin had already been prepared and reacted with consciousness.

Ye Wu had been gravely injured by the Natural Art, and he felt the world around him spin and collapse.

Lu Yin could not afford to worry about the man. Possessing Xu Jin would only last for a very short amount of time. This had nothing to do with the amount of divine energy that Lu Yin had, but was instead related to the fact that Xu Jin's cultivation was much greater than Lu Yin’s. The moment that Lu Yin’s Possessed started, he had barely had enough time to look through even just a few memories before charging up from the lake of divine energy.

Everyone watched as the eyeball crashed against the Champions' Stage. At this moment, Xu Jin was within five meters of Lu Yin.

Lu Yin's consciousness returned to his own body, and Xu Jin regained control of its eye. It was dazed when it saw how close it was to Lu Yin and the Champions' Stage. Pain throbbed through the eyeball due to crashing against the Champions’ Stage. Lu Yin had not been gentle when he had slammed Xu Jin’s body into Lu Yuan’s Champions’ Stage, as he had wanted the impact to prevent the eyeball from immediately retreating.

Lu Yin used his consciousness to Possess the eye again, but this Possession had nothing to do with Lu Yin’s die, as it was simply because Xu Jin was within five meters of him.

Lu Yin’s goal was to devour Xu Jin's consciousness, just as he had once devoured the Chiliagonist’s consciousness.

Normally, such an attempt would be impossible, but by Possessing Xu Jin, Lu Yin could prevent Xu Jin from resisting with his own consciousness. This was the only way in which Lu Yin could hope to succeed.

As Lu Yin Possessed Xu Jin, he made the eye’s consciousness flow into the universe within Lu Yin’s chest. There was a star of consciousness in that universe, and as Lu Yin Possessed Xu Jin and controlled his consciousness, the star started to spin and absorb Xu Jin's consciousness. The star quickly started to grow.

Lu Yin's mind returned to his own body again. He could not maintain the Possession for very long.

Xu Jin regained awareness, and its gaze locked onto Lu Yin. It knew that it was being controlled, and the eyeball tried to escape.

However, before Xu Jin could move, Lu Yin Possessed the eye again. There was a limit to how long Lu Yin could Possess Xu Jin each time, but during that time, Xu Jin's consciousness was being continuously devoured and absorbed by Lu Yin’s star of consciousness. Every time Xu Jin recovered and tried to escape, Lu Yin would Possess it once again.

The cycle kept repeating, and it drove Xu Jin to despair.

Others were watching, but the situation was too bizarre for them to make any sense of it.

It looked like Xu Jin was attacking Lu Yin, but Lu Yin was inside the Champions' Stage, where it should be impossible to harm him. In that case, what was Xu Jin doing? Actually, what was Lu Yin doing?

Lord Xu, Mu Shen, and everyone else watching could not understand what they were seeing, and they also lacked the ability to interfere in this unseen battle.

After Ye Wu barely managed to recover a bit, he watched from the distance. He saw both Xu Jin’s eyeball and Lu Yin, separated by the Champions' Stage. Ye Wu was also unable to make sense of what he was seeing.

No one could comprehend what was happening. Only Lu Yin and Xu Jin knew the truth.

Lu Yin was devouring Xu Jin's consciousness, and after the third round, Xu Jin managed to get out a scream of anguish. "Help me!"

Arrow God's eyes went wide, and she shot an arrow at Lu Yin.

However, Sovereign Dou Sheng intercepted the attack.

The Sovereign appeared to be invincible. Golden blood stained his entire body, but he still wielded his cudgel fiercely. He was unyielding and unrelenting as he attacked Arrow God.

No one but Arrow God was able to help Xu Jin. But at this moment, Arrow God was being stopped by Sovereign Dou Sheng.

Near the black Mother Tree, the four most powerful individuals in the Second Scourge were engaged in a chaotic battle that was impossible for anyone else to make out clearly.