Chapter 24

Yego laughed and said, "I know a bit more than you. I can barely get some information about that circle. Willow has teamed up with our academy's strongest, Paris, and Baley. They are now investigating the cause of this planet's evolution. Perhaps they have already gone to the capital. That place is not where we can set foot. I just need to occupy a region and find a mine to be satisfied. There's no need to fight those monsters."

"Bailey? The Bailey from the third gravity planet?" Granie exclaimed, her face pale.

Yego's gaze was serious, "That's right, Bailey, the one who is renowned among the young generation of the Great Universe Empire, the one who almost joined the Great Universe Youth Council. His combat power is three thousand, at the peak of the Exploration Realm."

Lu Yin was surprised. He didn't expect that these students were not unprepared; they had already quietly divided the tasks. Only the top-tier strong would go to complete the mission. Astar and Aldon belonged to the lowest tier, Granie barely counted in the tier of Tres and Yego. The top-tier strong were not in Su Province but near the capital, where the most brutal trials took place.

"According to what I know, there are three top teams in the Chinese region of this planet. One is Bailey's team, and I don't know who the other two are, but they are definitely the top-tier strong from various academies. They are monsters capable of competing with the second batch of trial students. Their goal is not the planet trial but the legendary—Territory Trial. This is just a warm-up for them," Yego said solemnly.

Granie was silent. She knew too little, and her level was too low.

"Alright, I've told you everything I should. It's time," Yego suddenly said.

Granie was puzzled, "What time?"

Yego grinned, "The time to make you happy."

Granie looked at Yego's smile, her heart sinking. She looked at the teacup, "Did you put poison in the tea?"

"Of course not. Poisoning isn't that easy. Personal terminals can detect material components to some extent. What I put in is something good, a Power Boost Powder," Yego took out a crystal bottle from his Condensation Ring, which had three green leaves on it.

Granie exclaimed, "Three-leaf Grass Company's potion, what is Power Boost Powder?"

Yego was smug, "You can try to drive the energy in your body."

Lu Yin placed a hand on Granie's shoulder, "Don't move recklessly." Then he looked at Yego, "Power Boost Powder is a potion for Fusion Realm strong to instantly control all the star energy in their body and burst with great power. Using it in the Exploration Realm will lead to star energy depletion and severe injury due to backlash. I'm not wrong, am I?"

Yego was surprised, "You actually know? Right, you said your grandfather is the principal? It seems you have some background."

Lu Yin's gaze was cold, "Cultivators below the Fusion Realm who take Power Boost Powder cannot mobilize star energy. What do you want to achieve by using such a valuable potion?"

Yego put away the crystal bottle and said proudly, "Jinling is a great place. It has a unique status in this country. Occupying Jinling will make my achievements even more glorious. Besides," he said, his greedy gaze sizing up Granie, "I've long wanted to taste the beauty of the Imperial Military Academy."

Granie stepped back, her face pale, and angrily said, "Despicable."

Yego laughed, "Despicable? How can you say that? I gave you a tonic. It's just that you can't handle it."

In the corner, the two students from Blue Mountain Academy were writhing and making noise.

Yego's gaze swept over them, and he frowned, "Useless things, I have to save you." He waved his hand, and a gust of wind tore apart the chains of the two students.

The two students shouted urgently, "Senior, be careful!"

Yego turned his head, his eyes narrowing. A strong impact and intense pressure sent him flying out of the military camp, directly smashing into the wasteland behind it. Lu Yin leaped out, raised his hand, and the air rippled. With a single palm press, a terrifying wave of air struck the ground. Yego, lying on the ground, was hit again. He barely raised his hands to block, but was still slammed into the ground, his arms broken, and he spat out a mouthful of blood, fainting immediately.

Lu Yin landed, coldly looking at Yego. The Ripple Palm and the Sky Splitting Palm could be used with just physical strength, without needing to use star energy.

Outside the military camp, countless Evolvers surrounded, staring in shock at the half-dead Yego, not daring to move.

Lu Yin coldly glanced at them, then looked at the two students from Blue Mountain Academy. The two students were pale and obediently stayed in place.

Granie sighed in relief, even more shocked. Although she knew the power of the Sky Splitting Palm, she didn't expect it to crush Yego so easily. Lu Yin's physical strength alone was enough to fight the top three strong from various academies, and his progress was too fast.

"I ask you, is the Gale Crystal real or not?" Lu Yin asked the two students. Before, he had asked them, and their answers were the same as Yego's, but now he didn't believe it.

The two students exchanged glances and said in a low voice, "The Gale Crystal does exist, but the mutated bird flock is not easy to deal with. There is a huge bird, possibly at the Fusion Realm, and one of our classmates died under its claws."

Granie glared at Yego with hatred. She didn't want to provoke a Fusion Realm strong.

"The effects of the potion will wear off in half an hour. Then take these people back to Jinling," Lu Yin said to Granie, then walked out of the military camp.

Feng Hong and several other battalion commanders were already waiting outside. A group of Evolvers were controlled, and they were from Anhui, under Yego's control. These Evolvers didn't mourn Yego's death but were relieved. Yego's rule over them was entirely based on his strength.

"Release them. Those who are willing to join the Punishment Camp can stay; those who are not can leave," Lu Yin said.

Feng Hong nodded and immediately made the arrangements.

After a while, Feng Hong returned and said softly, "Sorry, Saint Yin, for you to save us."

Lu Yin smiled, "The opponent is a Heaven-level strong. There was no choice. Tell me how the cleanup around here is going."

"Yes, from Jinling to Yuxiang, the zombies have been almost completely cleared, and a batch of mutated beasts have been cleared, but not all. The mutated beasts are too strong, so we can only mark their territories on the map as a warning. Further west is Anhui, and the Heaven-level strong came from the west," Feng Hong reported.

Lu Yin listened for a while and dismissed Feng Hong.

He realized he had misjudged the direction. During the thermal weapon bombardment of the city, he saw Liu Tiange's eyes filled with strong ambition. Before the students arrived, Liu Tiange didn't understand the starry sky, and his ambition was limited to this land. But now, with the increasing frequency of student arrivals, he understood the situation in the starry sky. Would his ambition still be limited to Earth?

Lu Yin was certain that someone like Liu Tiange wouldn't easily submit to others. The city marked in blue had a 90% chance of being the same as Jinling. He suppressed the students and understood everything about the starry sky. He probably had little interest in China or Earth. His ambition would shift to the starry sky, while Lu Yin was still thinking of using the Punishment Camp to strike his city, which was too narrow-minded.

For the Punishment Camp to reach Wuhan in Hubei through Anhui would take too long and would definitely result in significant sacrifices. By then, everything would have changed. The arrival of the second batch of trial students would bring great variables, and nothing would proceed as he imagined. Liu Tiange might not even be able to withstand the attack of the second batch of trial students.

Lu Yin sighed, his gaze looking west. He decided to temporarily put aside his hatred for Liu Tiange and focus on the corpse. He needed to complete the mission. The students' mission could also be the mission of Earthlings. Once he completed the mission, combined with his previous layout, entering the Tenth Academy of the Starry Sky was not impossible.

Half an hour later, Granie dragged Yego and the other two out. The two students were tied up again, and Yego was even worse off, his internal organs severely injured by Lu Yin, making it difficult for him to move.

Lu Yin unceremoniously took Yego's Condensation Ring, using his bloodline password to unlock it and pour out everything inside.

Yego was just a student and didn't have many good things. There were only a few Gale Crystals, some unknown potions, and dozens of star energy crystals. Lu Yin took all the useful things, "Let's go back to Jinling."

Granie nodded and obediently followed Lu Yin.

Most of the students who descended around Jinling were from the Great Universe Empire's First Military Academy and Blue Mountain Academy. They were either dead or captured, and one was recruited by Lu Yin. Before the second batch of trial students arrived, Jinling should be fine.

The only thing Lu Yin was worried about was the silver-haired man. That person made Lu Yin feel a chill of danger for the first time and was the first to completely block the Heavenly Star Palm. His strength far exceeded Yego and Tres.

Lu Yin had probed Granie to see if she recognized that person, but Granie was clueless.

In Jinling, Lu Yin formally proposed to Zhou Shan that he wanted to go to the capital.