Star Odyssey

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”That ’s right.
You’re one of the best on this entire tidal flat, and one of the people who’s most likely to get battle force training from Team Resolution.
Don ’t let yourself be held back. ”

”Hahahaha. ”

Behind Lu Yin, Xi Yue ’s face flushed red.
These bastards were looking at her while addressing Lu Yin, and their eyes were full of ridicule and amusement.
It was like they were seeing through her with their eyes.

If she was with the real Old Hei, she would not be bothered at all, but Lu Yin was the one standing in front of her.

She suddenly remembered how she had gotten tangled up with Lu Yin in the Sand Ocean in Astral-10, and the memory caused her to blush.

A short time later, the two approached Xi Yue’s shack.

”Don ’t follow me.
That’s Old Hei’s shack. ” Xi Yue pointed to the side before entering her place without a backwards glance.

Lu Yin was confused; so what if that was Old Hei’s home? What did that have to do with Lu Yin? He simply followed Xi Yue.

She blushed and buried her head in her knees as she sat down in a corner of the room.

Lu Yin walked into the shack.

”Didn ’t I tell you not to follow me? ” Xi Yue scolded.

Lu Yin pursed his lips.
”I ’m not Old Hei. ”

Xi Yue stopped talking and just hung her head.
It was impossible to know what was running through her mind.

Lu Yin took the Origin Progenitor’s sword out from his cosmic ring and examined it.
The energies within his body were a complete mess, and he had no idea how to stabilize them.
The different energies had gotten tangled together, and they were locked up in a way that made it impossible to move any of the energies.
It was quite the headache.

”Why are you staying here? ” Xi Yue asked.

”I’m just taking a few days’ break. ”

Xi Yue’s head stayed down.
”Actually, there’s an opportunity here.
Hen Xin, gatemaster of the Three Fatalities Heavenly Gate, once publicly announced that aurelian force is not the peak of battle force, which he will teach to people if they train hard enough. ”

This did not surprise Lu Yin.
During the major battle between humanity and the Aeternals, when Hen Xin and Ancient God had fought, neither had used aurelian force.
Instead, their bodies had been covered with some strange purplish-black substance, which should have been Ancient God’s power.

Lu Yin had spoken about this with his third uncle, Lu Buzheng.
He had learned that the ancient Dao Monarch of the Third Mainland had created a cultivation method that led to the pinnacle of body cultivation, while also creating the race of colossal giants.

That man had created battle force while blazing this particular path.

Hen Xin had been trained in the usage of battle force by the ancient Dao Monarch, so his mastery of battle force should be the highest out of any human in the current universe.

Lu Yin ’s eyes flickered.
Could he learn the highest level of battle force from Hen Xin?

”Is everyone here from the Three Fatalities Heavenly Gate? ” Lu Yin asked.

”They’re the ones inspecting the pyrolyte. ” Xi Yue looked at Lu Yin.
”Old Hei didn’t originally know battle force, but after he was taught in an open training session by someone from the Three Fatalities Heavenly Gate’s Team Resolution, he managed to learn battle force and was sent here.
With that sort of background, using his identity shouldn’t be a problem. ”

Lu Yin looked away.
This was interesting information, as it meant that he could use his identity as Old Hei to accomplish something.

As for Lu Yin’s disguise being seen through, he had actually forgotten that he still had the bones that he had received from Tian Dou in his cosmic ring.
Those bones had been processed according to the Xie family’s methods, and there was a lot of death energy in them.
Thus, Lu Yin could use that to use the Mask of Death.

Lu Yin intended to do just that, so he pulled out a bone and extracted some death energy as Xi Yue watched in confusion: nothing at all happened.
Lu Yin looked exactly the same as before, but only he knew that he had switched to using the Mask of Death to alter his appearance.
No one would be able to see through his disguise of Old Hei.

At one point in time, Jue Yi had managed to use the Mask of Death to hide himself from even Forgotten Ruins God, and Lu Yin himself had succeeded in escaping a search conducted by Semi-Progenitors.
As long as Lu Yin did not come into close proximity with a Semi-Progenitor, his Mask of Death would not be seen through.
Just how far would Lu Yin be able to go with Old Hei’s identity?

Several days passed as Lu Yin calmly collected more pyrolyte from the Astral River while disguised as Old Hei.
He said nothing about collecting pyrolyte, though he turned in much less than a single gram.

At night, he also went out to catch the fish that were supposedly from the Heavens Sect era that Hen Xin had placed in the Astral River.

However, the guards generally did not allow the people who gathered pyrolyte to casually go fishing, as they were worried that the people would be eaten by creatures in the Astral River, which would lower the tidal flat’s productivity.

… 

A bonfire flickered on the tidal flat as Lu Yin leisurely grilled some fish.
There were more than a dozen fish still lying next to him, and Xi Yue was sitting across from him.
She stared at him, stunned.
”This is being too high-profile! ”

”Didn ’t you tell me that Old Hei made a point of standing out? This should be fine, ” Lu Yin answered indifferently.

Xi Yue rolled her eyes.
Fine? This many fish on display was no longer simply standing out.
Old Hei had gotten excited after catching just two fish.
Not even the tidal flat’s guards were able to catch so many fish at once.

Some distance away, greedy eyes watched from the wooden shacks, eager to try to steal some fish.

Someone finally made an attempt, but they were smacked down into the gravel and tossed aside by Xi Yue.

Her four lined battle force was not something that other people in this area could compete with.

Suddenly, another person moved and emerged from the void.
They were wearing the uniform of a servant of the Three Fatalities Heavenly Gate, and there was a solemn expression on their face as they stared at Lu Yin with cold eyes.
This person was the supervisor of this region of the tidal flat.
He was a Hunter.

”Old Hei, did you catch all of these? ” the supervisor shouted.

Lu Yin looked up and smiled at the supervisor.
”That’s right.
Do you want to eat some with me? ”

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The supervisor glanced at more than a dozen fish and grew slightly jealous.
Still, he had his own standards that he felt he needed to maintain.
”How high has your battle force reached? ”

Lu Yin had asked about what level battle force Old Hei had mastered, but it had only been two lines.
Still, that had been enough to make the man one of the strongest people on the entire tidal flat, as most people only possessed one lined battle force.

”Four lines, ” Lu Yin replied as he raised a hand.
Purple battle aura gradually shrouded his hand, though it looked a bit unstable.

The supervisor was taken aback.
”You actually reached four lined battle force? When did you make this breakthrough? ”