Star Odyssey

as he had been cut by the sword of death energy, which meant death energy had already invaded Leaf King’s body.

It was at this moment that Lu Yin finally understood just how terrifying death energy could be.

In the past, he had only ever used death energy to perform the God of Death Transformation, but that always quickly consumed Lu Yin’s reserves of death energy, which made the technique nothing more than an explosive burst of strength.
However, the battle had quickly shifted when Lu Yin tried utilizing death energy instead of stellular energy in his battle techniques, and the death energy was completely suppressing Leaf King.

It was not as simple as death energy being superior to stellular energy.
Rather, Leaf King had no means with which to resist this unique form of energy.

If Qing Ping were to face the same situation as the Leaf King, there was no guarantee that the death energy would have any advantage whatsoever.
After all, any advantages that Lu Yin enjoyed from using death energy all depended on the abilities of the person facing it.

Leaf King had already been branded with death energy, and he knew that he would not be able to defeat Lu Yin regardless of what happened now.
At the same time, the tree that imprisoned the Second Nightking some distance away started to crack.
Lu Yin’s eyebrows rose.
Had the Second Nightking really been trapped? When Lu Yin had been pushed back by Leaf King, there had been no sign of the Second Nightking breaking free, but once Lu Yin seized the advantage, the Second Nightking had started to move, which strengthened Lu Yin’s doubts.

Leaf King ’s face contorted into an ugly expression.
The Second Nightking must have noticed that Leaf King had no hope of winning, so the old man was breaking free.
Seeing this made Leaf King want to escape from his hidden world and run to Mt.
Microcosms.
Only there would he be safe.
He had donated countless pills and medicines to the Hall of Honor over the years, and he had also contributed greatly to the development of Mt.
Microcosms.
As long as Leaf King could escape to Mt.
Microcosms, he was confident of surviving.

A crack appeared in the sky of the hidden world, and Leaf King shot through it and disappeared.

At the same moment, the Second Nightking broke free of the tree and stepped out.

A cold glint flickered across Lu Yin ’s eyes, and an astral chessboard appeared beneath his feet.

The crack in the sky suddenly disappeared, and Leaf King seemed to be dragged back by some invisible power.
The Ce Secret Art’s Board Manipulation was simply too terrifying.
It was no wonder why no one from the Ce family had been able to comprehend the power even after so many years.
Their secret technique surpassed that of an ordinary Progenitor, and the ability to revert space to a previous state reminded Lu Yin of the miraculous power of Progenitor Ku’s Extremes Must Be Reversed.

Even though the two techniques used completely different concepts, they were both similar in how unbelievable they were.

Leaf King was dragged back into the hidden world with the Ce Secret Art, and the Second Nightking quickly took action and pointed a finger at the other man.

Leaf King no longer had the strength to stand up to the Second Nightking, and the finger knocked Leaf King out of the sky and pressed him against the ground.
His entire body was covered with cracks, but there still was no blood.

Lu Yin landed on the ground and looked down at Leaf King, who was lying on the ground.
Leaf King glared back at Lu Yin and the Second Nightking.

There was no path to escape anywhere in the entire hidden world for Leaf King.

The man slowly lifted his head to stare at Lu Yin.
The man’s entire body was falling apart.
”You- you can ’t kill me! I’ve made countless contributions to the Hall of Honor! I’ve supported your Great Eastern Alliance! I’ve never been your enemy. ”

”Forget you, I even dared to hold Xia Yi prisoner.
You tried to take advantage of Yu Mu’s betrayal to give me a stellular energy pill to use against me.
If I hadn’t happened to produce Sapling, I would still be ignorant about the danger that those pills hold.
Tell me,” Lu Yin asked as he studied Leaf King, ”Just what the hell are you? ”

Leaf King panted for breath as his eyes darted about.

Lu Yin sneered at the man.
”Consider your words carefully, because if I don’t buy them, you’ll suffer a worse fate than death.
You know the Hui family’s inherited technique, the Hall of Honor’s secret techniques, and even the Lingling clan ’s inherited battle technique.
On top of it all, you even know the truth of the history behind the primeval surnames and the Lu family’s Champions’ Stage.
You better give me a story I believe, as otherwise I’ll teach you the meaning of despair. ”

Leaf King stared at Lu Yin and gritted his teeth.
”If I tell you, will you let me go? ”

Lu Yin squatted down to look at Leaf King from up closer.
”That depends on whether or not keeping you alive has any value. ”

Leaf King ’s eyes went wide.
”Of course it does! I can use the stellular energy pills to help you monitor the locations of everyone who has one, and I can even cause the pills to explode.
Even if the target is as strong as you, they’ll definitely die from the explosion.
This is how I killed Yu Mu. ”

Lu Yin nodded when he confirmed what had caused Yu Mu ’s death.
”That’s quite useful.
Keep going.
Also, let me just remind you that Balsam is still in this hidden world, and while I’m not sure how much she might know about you, if your stories don’t line up, you’ll be the one to suffer. ”

Leaf King ’s expression changed yet again.
Finally, he let out a long sigh.
”The techniques from the Hui family, the Hall of Honor, the Lingling clan, and even Truesight are all things that I’ve learned over the years because of my innate gift. ”

This was an unexpected answer.
”Your innate gift? ”

Leaf King explained in a bitter tone, ”I really am human, or at least I was.
My innate gift is absorption, and it allowed me to transform my body by absorbing a certain substance from the Mother Tree.
My absorption ability is also what allows me to use the Lingling clan’s inherited technique.
I obtained various inherited battle techniques and also acquired other techniques with this ability, and it even allowed me to raise my mastery of Shangwu’s Technique to a level that surpasses Yuan Shi’s.

”The stellular energy pills are actually seeds made from my current body.
They aren’t even pills, but rather a condensation of my own power, and they retain a trace of me in them.
This means that I can locate every single one of the stellular energy pills.
I sent Balsam after you to tempt you with more pills because I lost control of one of the pills that you were given.

”Honestly, I started off as nothing special.
The only reason why I know about the primeval surnames and your Lu family is because I lived during the Daosource Sect era.
Back then, I was just a new, weak cultivator who had just started training.
That was when I managed to obtain a piece of the Mother Tree’s bark, and I absorbed it, which led to the transformation into my current state.
However, it took many, many years to complete that process.
If not for that process taking so long, I would be far stronger than I am now.
I would have a power level of at least a million, or might have even become a Semi-Progenitor by now.
Transforming my body has provided me with unlimited potential, but it also greatly slowed the speed of my cultivation, I… ”

Lu Yin quietly listened to Leaf King ’s story without interrupting.
He said nothing at all until Leaf King had completely finished speaking.
”What kind of tree did you use to trap the Second Nightking? ”