Chapter 19

Granny shook her head, "No, the planet we were supposed to undergo our trial on is quite far from Earth."

Lu Yin didn't expect to get this information. The evolution of Earth wasn't brought about by the Da Yu Empire but rather emerged internally. Fugitive, Neptune, could it be that corpse?

"What is the fugitive's identity?" Lu Yin asked.

Granny coughed a few times, "I don't know. His identity is top-secret. No one knows his appearance or name."

"Then how do you find him?" Lu Yin asked.

Granny said, "That's the mission. The trial mission can't be easy."

"Even if you find the fugitive, can you catch him with the strength of these students?" Lu Yin asked in surprise.

"He escaped from the inner universe to the outer universe, already severely injured. It's impossible for him to retain more than the Fusion Realm's strength. Moreover, everything he had was destroyed, losing his means of survival," Granny replied.

Ten minutes later, Granny was released. Lu Yin had someone take her to bathe and treat her injuries.

For a whole day, Granny did not appear before Lu Yin. It wasn't until the afternoon of the next day that Granny and Lu Yin met again.

Although the half-month made Granny very painful, her injuries, except for her right shoulder, had healed. This was the power of the universe's special healing medicine.

When they met again, Lu Yin took Granny to an open grassland in Zhongshan, "Except for your shoulder, you have recovered. How about it? Do you want to try and defeat me, so I can taste the pain of being imprisoned?"

Granny glared at Lu Yin with hatred, still bound by iron chains on her hands and feet.

Lu Yin laughed, "Don't pretend. With your strength, these things can't bind you."

With a bang, Granny broke free from the iron chains. A sudden, bone-chilling pain shot through her right arm, and her face turned pale as she exhaled, "I said I would help you."

Lu Yin pulled out the gun from his waist, the one belonging to Tres, and threw it to the ground, "Without this energy gun, you shouldn't be afraid anymore, right?"

Granny looked in surprise at the energy gun Lu Yin had thrown to the ground. This gun was Tres's means of survival, capable of threatening a Probe Realm expert, and the reason why Granny was wary of Lu Yin. Now, Lu Yin was actually giving it up voluntarily?

"Come on, you can try to defeat me. If you win, Jinling is yours, and you can take revenge. How great is that?" Lu Yin taunted.

Granny's eyes widened. She shook her long hair and charged at Lu Yin. She was going to use her full strength. Even with only one hand, she was confident that she could at least match this person, as she was no novice in the Probe Realm.

As she approached Lu Yin, sparks flew from her feet rubbing against the ground. Her left palm swept over, and the sparks condensed, "Flame Palm."

Lu Yin watched as Granny's Flame Palm attacked, easily dodging with a fluid step. He casually threw a flame crystal, "That bit of fire isn't enough, let's have more."

Granny was surprised but didn't hesitate. Since she had decided to attack, she would go all out. The flame crystal shattered, producing a towering inferno. Granny crossed the flames, her left palm rotating, and the flames seemed to have a will of their own, gathering in her palm to form a deeper, more intense flame. She struck at Lu Yin with a palm.

Lu Yin's eyes narrowed, stepping back half a step. He raised his right palm, and as he did, stars appeared, striking against Granny's Flame Palm.

Bang

A shockwave shattered the earth, heat waves surged, and the flames swept toward the sky, then exploded, countless sparks blooming.

A powerful shockwave erupted between the two. Granny spat out a mouthful of blood, her body flying backward and slamming into the ground, spitting out more blood.

Lu Yin remained in place, his expression unchanged.

Even at the Horizon Realm, he could still severely injure Tres with the Celestial Star Palm. Now, both he and Granny were in the Probe Realm, and their combat strength was not much different. The power of the Celestial Star Palm had increased, and he had spared her with that palm strike.

Granny lay on the ground, stunned, looking at Lu Yin, "How is this possible?"

She knew the power of this person's palm technique. He had defeated her Flame Palm when he had just broken through to the Probe Realm, but at that time, she was injured and couldn't use her full strength. But just now, she had used her full strength with the Flame Palm, and it wasn't even enough to make him take a step back.

The surrounding prison troops quickly rushed over but were driven back by Lu Yin.

Lu Yin walked step by step to Granny, "Do you still want to resist?"

Granny's mouth was bleeding, her beautiful face pale, "What technique is that?"

Lu Yin sneered, "Triple--Wave Palm."

"How is this possible? It's not the Wave Palm," Granny said weakly.

Lu Yin laughed, picking up the energy gun, "Haven't you heard the legend? A powerful expert once shattered a star with a hundredfold Wave Palm. Defeating you with a triple Wave Palm is easy."

Granny was still in shock and disbelief. A person she could easily suppress before had now easily defeated her, which was hard to accept.

"Go heal yourself. From now on, you are my personal bodyguard," Lu Yin smiled at Granny and turned to leave.

Granny felt bitter, spitting out another mouthful of blood. No wonder this bastard let her attack; he wanted to subdue her.

Returning to his residence, Lu Yin was excited. Although his combat strength was only 1,500, with the Celestial Star Palm, even Tres at full strength wouldn't be his match. He finally had the means to protect himself.

Lu Yin had Xu San guard outside and announced that he would be in seclusion.

In the sealed training room inside Zhongshan, he took out a star energy crystal and crushed it. He didn't absorb it but took out the dice.

Since the last use, the dice had been dim. Lu Yin had observed it several times and found that its light was gradually recovering, but very slowly. He guessed it might need star energy.

As soon as the dice was taken out, the star energy in the training room surged and was absorbed by it. The dim light on its surface gradually recovered. Lu Yin took out one star energy crystal after another, and the light on the dice's surface continued to recover. Finally, when only one star energy crystal was left, it returned to its original appearance when it first appeared, enveloped in a hazy starlight.

Lu Yin wiped his forehead. This thing required a lot of star energy. He calculated that the star energy crystals stored by Granny and Tres, plus the star energy it had absorbed over these days, if converted into star energy crystals, would be close to half a cubic meter. This didn't include the burst of energy he had gained from breaking through to the Probe Realm. If all of that was included, it might need a full cubic meter of star energy crystals.

Tres had brought the maximum amount of star energy crystals he could for the trial, and even a wealthy student couldn't get a cubic meter of star energy crystals, showing how precious they were. This thing consumed a cubic meter of star energy crystals each time it was used.

Lu Yin felt he might be very poor in the future and needed to find a way to get rich, or he wouldn't be able to afford it.

He would never give up the dice. The first use had given him the Celestial Star Technique, a powerful cultivation method. Who knew what it would bring him in the future? The key was that there were no side effects, and no one knew it was stolen, no, taken. This thing was a cheat code for countless people.

He would use it even if it cost ten or a hundred cubic meters of star energy crystals. If necessary, he would rob.

Lu Yin looked at the dice floating in the air, swallowed, and rubbed his hands, "Come on, the moment to show my luck has arrived. I hope this time it brings me something good." As he said this, he gently tapped the dice, and it quickly spun. The numbers on five of its faces disappeared, leaving only one face—four.

"Four points?" Lu Yin was puzzled. Before he could think more, the environment around him changed. The training room and Zhongshan were gone. He saw an endless gray-white space with no end. Looking up, he saw endless darkness, and under his feet was a ground of unknown material, quite solid. Behind him, a set of numbers slowly changed: 259200, 259199, 259198...

A mysterious understanding appeared in Lu Yin's mind. This place was a—time-stopped space.

Lu Yin was stunned. It was unbelievable. Time stopped? He had only heard of this in legends. His dice actually had this function? Four points, he could stay in the time-stopped space for three days. The numbers behind were seconds, meaning that if he stayed until the last second, time in the outside world would remain unchanged.

Looking at the slowly changing numbers, Lu Yin exhaled. Was his talent a bit too terrifying?

Shaking his head, he dispelled his thoughts. He raised his hand, and the dice reappeared, but this time, it was dim again.

Lu Yin now understood why using this thing required so much star energy. At this moment, he felt that the star energy consumed might be less compared to the space he had obtained.

Lu Yin took out the last star energy crystal and threw it at the numbers. Instantly, the star energy crystal turned into a stream of light and disappeared, and the numbers increased by five seconds. Lu Yin's face twitched. Five seconds, too little, he was quite speechless.