Everyone was dumbfounded. This was Erde, a powerhouse who had specially entered the Martial Hall, recognized by everyone as the strongest, and someone who could contend with Zhang Ding Tian. Yet, he was crippled by a single palm strike.
Zhang Ding Tian was equally shaken. This person was much stronger than he was some time ago. That palm strike, he wasn't even sure he could have blocked it.
Lu Yin looked at his right hand. The third star spun out. It seemed unexpectedly powerful.
The Heavenly Star Palm wasn't a simple attack of exploding stars. Each exploding star叠加叠加 (diéjiā diéjiā -疊加疊加 means to overlap or accumulate, but here it implies compounded damage) the damage. The three-star Heavenly Star Palm was far beyond the two-star version.
Lu Yin once speculated that when the third star spun out, he might be comparable to Zhang Ding Tian. But at this moment, he knew that he wasn't just comparable, but had already surpassed Zhang Ding Tian.
In the distance, a student tremblingly looked at his personal terminal, "Three… 3700 combat power, Cross-Realm combat power."
All the students felt their scalps tingle. Cross-Realm powerhouses were definitely monstrous geniuses, something only those with extraordinary talent in the universe had ever achieved. Today, a remote border planet had unexpectedly produced two Cross-Realm powerhouses, unbelievable. And there was also a prodigy of cultivation beside them. Was this really an ordinary planet?
Granny was stunned. This bastard had actually become so strong.
Lu Yin cracked his knuckles, his eyes sweeping across all the students. He grinned, and then fiercely pounced towards one of them.
That student was also among the strongest in the academy. The moment Lu Yin rushed over, he was so scared that his soul flew out of his body. He didn't even have the thought to resist and immediately fled. Unfortunately, Lu Yin grabbed his shoulder. His palm exerted force and even crushed the battle armor ring. "Honestly wait for me," Lu Yin whispered, and punched the student in the forehead, directly knocking him unconscious. Then, he continued to pounce towards other students.
The scene at this moment was very strange. Lu Yin was like a lion jumping into a flock of sheep. The Heavenly Star Palm made him invincible. The attacks of the numerous students were useless against him. That battle armor protected him tightly, leaving the students helpless.
When Lu Yin knocked out eight students, everyone immediately dispersed. They weren't playing anymore. They couldn't fight him, couldn't defend against him, so what was the point?
Hai Di An was the first to flee, but Bai Xue, who had been watching him all along, entangled him.
"Get lost, woman!" Hai Di An roared. He didn't want to be knocked unconscious. He didn't need to think to know that this bastard definitely had a purpose for knocking out the students. Remembering the fate of Bailey and Willow, Hai Di An gasped. Wasn't this bastard trying to kidnap all the trial students?
Whoosh! Just as Hai Di An broke through the ice trying to escape, a terrifying slash swept across the ground, forcibly stopping him. In front, Zhang Ding Tian held a long blade, coldly staring at Hai Di An, "Did I say you could leave?"
Hai Di An froze for a moment, and then a sharp pain hit the back of his head, and he lost consciousness.
Bai Xue withdrew her hand, her eyes slightly excited. It seemed that doing this was very enjoyable.
Zhang Ding Tian stared blankly at Bai Xue. This was the first time he had seen Bai Xue use a bludgeoning weapon. He had to say, Lu Yin's method was very stimulating.
Further away, Gules and Ballaro stared dumbfounded at the capital city, their faces twitching. "Am I seeing things? That shameless bastard is capturing students?" Ballaro smiled wryly, "You're not seeing things. He really is capturing students. The dignified trial students, the elites of all the major academies in the starry sky, are being caught like rabbits. This is a first in the history of the trials."
In any trial, the students were like lofty gods, capable of overlooking all living beings. Their only opponents were themselves. But today, all the trial students, or rather, the strongest among them, were being captured one by one, as frightened as rabbits. In the end, less than five managed to escape.
When the capital city returned to calm, besides the ruins left everywhere, there were also 19 unconscious students, lying miserably on the ground.
Lu Yin wiped his sweat, exhausted. Finally okay. A few who escaped were very fast, their footwork battle skills were slippery, and he couldn't catch them. Oh well.
"Here are nineteen people, adding Bailey and Willow makes twenty-one. Oh, Zhu Shan brought those two from Blue Mountain Academy too? That's twenty-three students, not bad," Lu Yin counted, his hands not slowing down as he looted them one by one.
Zhang Ding Tian and Bai Xue watched silently. His movements were too practiced.
Erde wasn't dizzy, he was just seriously injured. Seeing this scene, his eyes widened. "You are simply the path of the starry sky."
Lu Yin glanced at him, "Don't talk nonsense. These are spoils of war. Can't let all this effort go to waste."
Erde felt suffocated.
Granny also came out at this time to help Lu Yin deal with the spoils.
Lu Yin didn't blame her. This woman was also a trial student. It was already good enough that she didn't help attack the capital city.
This battle was very tiring. Although Lu Yin relied on his battle armor to offset a lot of attacks, his internal organs had also been shaken and needed some rest. Zhang Ding Tian and Bai Xue were even more so, not wanting to move at all. Zhu Shan and Wu Sheng were seriously injured. Lu Yin asked Granny to treat them a little, and then they were taken back to the capital city by the Flower Corps for rescue.
The Flower Corps' entire evolutionary force mobilized to clear the ruins.
Two hours later, all the knocked-out students woke up one after another, only to find themselves tied up together. They glared at Lu Yin angrily.
But when they discovered they had been robbed, they were so furious they almost vomited blood.
"You are the path of the starry sky, just like that robber Yan!" someone shouted.
Next to him was Yan, "Hey, don't use me as an example, it's embarrassing."
"It must be you, the robber Yan, you even dare to rob us now! You bandit, you brigand!" another person shouted.
Yan was speechless.
Lu Yin sneered, walked up to these people, raised his hand to slap, causing the students to panic even more and hurriedly shut their mouths.
Lu Yin lowered his hand, about to say something to Zhang Ding Tian and the others, when his eyes suddenly contracted, looking towards the sky. At the same time, all over Earth, countless people looked up. The sky was filled with falling meteors.
Streaks of meteors streaked across the horizon.
Lu Yin was shocked. This was the arrival of the second batch of trial participants.
"How could it be so early?" Lu Yin wondered, looking at Granny.
Granny said, "It's rare for trials to have a second batch. I don't know either." "It should be calculated from the moment they received the notification," Bai Xue came over, her expression solemn.
Zhang Ding Tian looked at the sky, his eyes narrowed. He saw three meteors flying towards this direction.
Lu Yin immediately shouted, "Bring all these people back to the capital city, quickly!"
Not long after, a distant explosion was heard. In the capital city, countless survivors were terrified. The despair they faced today was comparable to the day of the apocalypse. Not only had more than a dozen Heavenly-level powerhouses engaged in a chaotic battle, but now even meteorites were falling. Was humanity truly at the end of its rope?
The steel walls turned into ruins. Lu Yin and the others stood on the ruins, looking towards a meteor that had fallen. It was only a few thousand meters away from the capital city's base. They could even see an extraterrestrial spaceship enveloped in flames.
Boom!
The earth shook again, and huge cracks spread towards the capital city. Zhang Ding Tian waved his hand, and his qi劲 (qìjìn - internal force) tore open the earth, blocking the cracks.
The next moment, a scorching heat wave swept over, carrying boundless dust, passing through the capital city. Everyone felt the pressure descending.
Soon, when the dust settled, what appeared before everyone was a circular spaceship with a diameter of three meters, very small, identical to the one Yasta had used before. It was a one-person spaceship.
The ground was smashed into a huge cone-shaped pit.
Distant explosions were heard again.
Lu Yin narrowed his eyes. Three meteors had fallen, all landed. This was the second batch of trial participants, heading for the tenth academy in the starry sky, wanting to achieve results in the trial.
Erde was captured to the side, his eyes fixed on the spaceship, a look of excitement in his eyes. Come on, let these natives see what a monster is, what true power is!
Click.
The circular spaceship's hatch opened, and heat formed white smoke. A hand reached out, holding onto the edge of the spaceship. Then, a figure stepped out into the sunlight, and looked up.
Appearing before everyone was a handsome man with a smile in his eyes.
The man stepped out of the spaceship, slowly floated up, landed on the ground, not looking at Lu Yin and the others, but scanning his surroundings, a hint of scrutiny in his eyes.
Looking at the man, Lu Yin's eyes narrowed. Dangerous, extremely dangerous. This person gave him an extremely dangerous feeling. He lowered his head to look at his personal terminal, combat power 3000, peak of the Exploring Realm. It was clearly the same combat power, but why did this person give him such a dangerous feeling?
Not only Lu Yin, but Zhang Ding Tian, Bai Xue, Granny, and even Erde, felt an extreme sense of danger the moment they saw the man. This gentle-looking man seemed to hide a suffocating pressure.
"Who is he?" Lu Yin patted Erde's head and asked.
Erde stared blankly at the man, shook his head, and said confusedly, "I don't know."
Lu Yin narrowed his eyes. That man hadn't even looked at them yet, completely ignoring them? This was an invisible arrogance, ingrained in his very being, indescribable.