Granny shook her head, "No, the planet we were originally supposed to conduct our trial on is quite far from Earth."
Lu Yin didn't expect to receive such intelligence. Earth's evolution was clearly not brought about by the Great Yu Empire, but was self-generated. The fugitive, Neptune... could it be that corpse?
"What's the fugitive's identity?" Lu Yin asked.
Granny coughed a few times, "I, I don't know. His identity is top secret. No one knows his appearance or name."
"Then how will you find him?" Lu Yin asked.
Granny said, "That's the mission. Trial missions can't be simple."
"Even if you find the fugitive, with the strength of you students, can you capture him?" Lu Yin asked, puzzled.
"He fled from within the cosmos to beyond it, already severely injured. There's absolutely no way he could still possess strength beyond the Fusion Realm. Moreover, everything on his person has been destroyed; he's lost all means of self-preservation," Granny replied.
Ten minutes later, Granny was released. Lu Yin had someone take her to bathe and treat her wounds.
For a full day, Granny didn't appear before Lu Yin. It wasn't until the afternoon of the next day that Granny and Lu Yin finally met.
Though the half-month had been very painful for Granny, her injuries, except for her right shoulder, had all healed. This was the powerful effect of cosmic-grade healing medicine.
Meeting again, Lu Yin led Granny to an open grassland on Zhongshan. "Aside from your shoulder, you've recovered. How about it? Want to try to defeat me and let me experience the pain of being imprisoned too?"
Granny glared at Lu Yin with hatred, her hands and feet still bound by iron chains.
Lu Yin smiled, "Don't pretend. With your strength, these things can't bind you."
With a clang, Granny struggled against the iron chains. A chilling pain suddenly shot through her right arm. Her face paled, and she exhaled, "I said I'd help you."
Lu Yin pulled out Tres's energy gun from his waist and tossed it to the ground. "Without this energy gun, you should have no reservations, right?"
Granny stared in surprise at the energy gun Lu Yin had thrown to the ground. This gun was Tres's life-preserving item, capable of posing a threat to Contemplation Realm experts, and it was also why Granny was wary of Lu Yin. Now, Lu Yin was actually willingly giving it up?
"Come on, you can try to defeat me. If you win, Jinling will be yours, and you can get your revenge. It'll be great," Lu Yin provoked.
Granny's eyes blazed. She tossed her long hair, her body shifting as she lunged at Lu Yin. She wanted to go all out. Even with only one arm, she was confident that even if she couldn't easily defeat this person, she could at least fight him to a draw. She wasn't a novice in the Contemplation Realm.
As she approached Lu Yin, Granny's feet scraped the ground, creating sparks. Her left hand swept out, the sparks condensing. "Blazing Fire Palm!"
Lu Yin watched Granny's Blazing Fire Palm attack. He casually dodged with his Flowing Body Steps, then casually threw out a Flame Crystal. "That's not enough fire. Again!"
Granny was surprised, but didn't hesitate. Having made her move, she would go all out. The Flame Crystal shattered, generating towering flames. Granny glided through the flames, her left hand spinning. The flames seemed to have a life of their own, gathering, and then a deeper, more profound flame was born in her palm, striking towards Lu Yin.
Lu Yin's eyes sharpened. He stepped back half a body length, raised his right hand, and manifested the Star Manifestation Palm, striking towards Granny's Blazing Fire Palm.
Bang!
The shockwave tore through the ground. Heatwaves surged, and blazing flames swept into the sky, then erupted, countless sparks scattering.
A powerful shockwave erupted between the two. Immediately after, Granny spat out a mouthful of blood, her body sent flying, hitting the ground hard, and spitting out another mouthful of blood.
Lu Yin stood motionless in place, his expression not even changing a bit.
When he was in the Gaze Realm, he could still severely injure Tres with his Heavenly Star Palm. Today, both he and Granny were in the Contemplation Realm, with not much difference in combat power. The power of the Heavenly Star Palm had increased again. The fact that one palm strike didn't kill Granny was because he held back.
Granny lay limply on the ground, staring at Lu Yin in shock. "How is this possible?"
She knew this person's palm combat technique was powerful. He had just broken through to the Contemplation Realm and had already defeated her Blazing Fire Palm, but at that time, she was still injured and couldn't exert her full strength. But just now, she had used her Blazing Fire Palm with all her might, and yet, she couldn't even make this person take a single step back.
The surrounding Xing Camp soldiers quickly rushed over, but were yelled back by Lu Yin.
Lu Yin walked step by step to Granny's front. "Still want to resist?"
Granny's mouth was bleeding, her beautiful face pale. "What combat technique?"
Lu Yin smirked, "Triple — Wave Palm."
"How is that possible? It's not Wave Palm at all," Granny said weakly.
Lu Yin smiled and picked up the energy gun, saying, "Haven't you heard of a legend? A strong individual once shattered a star with a hundred-fold Wave Palm. A triple Wave Palm defeats you easily."
Granny was still immersed in shock and disbelief. Someone she could once easily suppress had now easily defeated her, which was very hard for her to accept.
"Go heal yourself. From now on, you are my bodyguard," Lu Yin smiled at Granny, then turned and left.
Granny's face twisted bitterly. She spat out another mouthful of blood. No wonder this bastard told her to make a move; he originally intended to subdue her.
Returning to his residence, Lu Yin was excited. Although his combat power was only fifteen hundred, he now had the Heavenly Star Palm. Even if Tres went all out, he would not be Lu Yin's opponent. Finally, he had the capital to protect himself.
Lu Yin had Xu San guard outside, declaring he was going into seclusion.
Inside the sealed training room on Zhongshan, he took out a Star Energy crystal and crushed it directly. He didn't absorb it but took out the dice.
Since its last use, the dice had been dim and lifeless. Lu Yin had observed it many times afterward and found that its glow was gradually recovering, but at a very slow pace. He speculated that it might need Star Energy.
As soon as the dice were taken out, the Star Energy filling the training room surged and was absorbed by it. The dim glow on its surface gradually recovered. Lu Yin took out Star Energy crystals one after another, and the glow on the dice's surface continued to recover. Finally, when there was only one Star Energy crystal left, it returned to its appearance when it first emerged.
Enveloped in a hazy starlight.
Lu Yin rubbed his forehead. This thing demanded too much Star Energy. He calculated: Granny's and Tres's accumulated Star Energy crystals, plus the Star Energy it had absorbed from its own recovery over many days, if converted into Star Energy crystals, would be close to half a cubic meter. This didn't even count the explosive energy it gained from his breakthrough to the Contemplation Realm. If everything were included, it might require a cubic meter of Star Energy crystals.
One must know that the Star Energy crystals Tres brought for the trial were already his limit. Even a wealthy student couldn't obtain a cubic meter of Star Energy crystals, which showed its preciousness. This item consumed a cubic meter of Star Energy crystals every time it was used.
Lu Yin felt that he might be very poor in the future. He had to find a way to get rich, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to afford playing with this.
He would absolutely not give up the dice. Its first use had brought him a heaven-defying cultivation method like Heavenly Star Art. Who knew what it would bring him in the future? The important thing was that there were no side effects, and no one knew that he "stole"—no, "took" it. For countless people, this thing was a cheat device.
Forget one cubic meter of Star Energy; even ten, or a hundred cubic meters, he would use it. At worst, he'd just rob people.
Lu Yin looked at the dice suspended in mid-air, swallowed, and rubbed his hands together. "Here we go, the moment of showing off my luck has arrived. I hope this time it brings me something good." With that, Lu Yin, like a pilgrim, gently tapped the dice. Immediately, the dice spun rapidly. Finally, the numbers on five of its faces disappeared, leaving only one face — four.
"Four points?" Lu Yin was puzzled. Before he could think much, his surroundings drastically changed. The training room was gone, Zhongshan was gone. What he saw was an endless gray-white space, without end. Looking up, there was endless distant darkness. Under his feet was a surface of unknown material, seemingly very solid. Behind him, a set of numbers slowly changed: 259200, 259199, 259198...
An understanding of this space's function inexplicably appeared in Lu Yin's mind: This was — the Time Stasis Space.
Lu Yin was shaken. This was truly ghostly! Time Stasis? He had only heard this name in legends. His dice actually had such a function? Four points meant he could stay in the Time Stasis space for three days. The numbers behind were the seconds. In other words, he could stay here until the last second, and time outside wouldn't change.
Looking at the slowly changing numbers, Lu Yin exhaled. Was his talent a bit... too terrifying?
Shaking his head, he discarded the distracting thoughts, extended his hand, and the dice reappeared. However, this time, it was dim and lifeless again.
Lu Yin now understood why using this thing consumed so much Star Energy. At this moment, he felt that the Star Energy consumed might be little, compared to gaining this space.
Lu Yin then took out the last Star Energy crystal and threw it towards the set of numbers. Immediately, the Star Energy crystal transformed into a stream of light and vanished, and the numbers increased by five seconds. Lu Yin's face twitched. Five seconds! That was too little! He was a bit speechless.