At this moment, two black dots flew over from afar, and two more people arrived, both men, quickly descending.
Seeing the newcomers, Erde exclaimed excitedly, "Senior Las, I'm here, Senior Las!" BA~ With a sound, Lu Yin slapped Erde on the head again, "What are you shouting for? Who arrived?"
Erde glared fiercely at Lu Yin and said, "Your doomsday has arrived. Senior Las is a Martial Hall expert, you can't possibly be a match for him. Release me quickly, and I can help you plead for leniency from the academy."
Lu Yin looked at the two men who had just arrived, his expression serious. The Martial Hall? The official elite training ground of the Great Yu Empire, also considered an academy, specializing in nurturing top young experts.
Outside the capital city, the first man who had arrived still stood on the ground, assessing his surroundings. The two men who appeared later hovered in the air, overlooking Lu Yin and the others. One of them stepped forward, looking down arrogantly, "Erde, you really know how to bring honor to our Martial Hall. To actually be captured by natives, useless trash."
Erde's expression was unpleasant as he gritted his teeth and stared at the man, then lowered his head.
The other man waved his hand and calmly looked down, "Who captured Erde? Release him, and I might spare his life."
"Is that the Senior Las you mentioned?" Lu Yin asked.
Erde said excitedly, "Yes, Senior Las is no ordinary Martial Hall expert. His father is even the Vice Minister of Finance of the Great Yu Empire, Sika. Lord Sika has collected various battle skills for Senior Las, and Senior Las's strength is unparalleled among his peers even within the Martial Hall, second only to Fusion Realm experts."
Lu Yin's eyes lit up, "Vice Minister of Finance? His family must be very rich?"
Erde was slightly startled. That wasn't the point!
Lu Yin looked at Las with intense eyes. He was extremely short on Star Energy crystals. The students earlier had contributed eight cubic meters of Star Energy crystals to him, far from enough. This Las might give him a surprise. As for the strength Erde mentioned, Lu Yin wasn't too concerned. The feeling Las gave him was much more benign compared to the first man who appeared; that person was the truly dangerous one.
"That person's aura has changed," Zhang Ding Tian suddenly said.
Lu Yin turned his head and looked at the man still standing on the ground. His eyes changed. That person's aura now felt very ordinary, extremely ordinary, just like a common person, completely lacking the danger from when he had just appeared. This person had changed the moment Las and the others approached.
In the air, Las raised an eyebrow, "What? You don't intend to release him? Or do you think you can侥幸 (jiǎoxìng - luckily) hold onto this place?"
"Senior Las, the escaped criminals have something that fell into this city. As long as you control this place, the escaped criminals will definitely come," Erde shouted. His defeat and the arrival of the second batch of trial participants completely shattered his hopes of completing his mission. He might as well curry favor with Las, and maybe he'd have some backing in the future.
Las's eyes brightened, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "Really? Looks like my luck isn't bad. I can encounter good fortune no matter where I randomly land."
At this moment, the man standing behind Las looked to the other side, his eyes sweeping over the spaceship. He whispered a few words in Las's ear. Las's gaze then turned towards the first man who had appeared here, "Friend, my name is Las, let's get to know each other."
On the ground, the man squatted down, picked up some dirt, and brought it to his nose to smell, "The smell of blood."
In the air, Las's expression darkened, "Friend, let's get acquainted. My name is Las, the son of Sika, the Vice Minister of Finance of the Great Yu Empire."
The man stood up, raised his head to look at Las, revealing a faint smile, "Xia Luo, a nobody, wouldn't dare to climb too high."
Las frowned. Xia Luo? He had never heard of this name.
Lu Yin said to Zhang Ding Tian, "We can't let them chat. Once they reach a consensus, it'll be troublesome. I'll go capture Las, you keep an eye on Xia Luo."
Zhang Ding Tian nodded and gripped his long blade tightly.
Erde heard him and looked at Lu Yin as if he had seen a ghost. Capture Las? Was he crazy? Not to mention Las's strength, just his background alone would deter all trial participants from touching him. This guy was absolutely insane.
Lu Yin gazed at the starry sky. This was just the beginning. He had waited so long, finally getting close. Thinking of this, Lu Yin peng sound took off and flew towards Las. Amidst everyone's shocked gazes, he raised his palm and struck, the air directly distorting.
Las was still pondering Xia Luo's identity, not expecting Lu Yin to attack directly. Before he could even make a move, the man behind him stepped forward angrily, "Bold! How dare you attack Young Master Las?" Saying this, his probing palm transformed into a claw, and an invisible beast roared into the void. Lu Yin seemed to see a giant claw covering the starry sky. This feeling was similar to Erde's Beast King Fist, but with an added layer of authority.
Lu Yin was not careless. As his palm went out, stars appeared. Two stars spun and directly erupted with a peng sound. The two collided in mid-air, and the resulting shockwave expanded in an arc. Then, an invisible force crushed the earth, and the man was pushed back a hundred meters by Lu Yin's palm, spitting out a mouthful of blood. He looked at Lu Yin with shock.
His strength was similar to Erde's. Lu Yin's full-power Heavenly Star Palm had crippled Erde. A two-star Heavenly Star Palm was enough to injure this man.
Las narrowed his eyes, "No wonder he could capture Erde, he does have some strength." Saying this, he raised his right hand, his probing palm also transforming into a claw. However, compared to the man earlier, this claw strike from Las was much stronger. A phantom of a giant claw actually appeared in the void, as if stepping through the universe to grab Lu Yin.
Lu Yin's eyes changed. Erde, the man earlier, and Las all used battle skills with the same origin, each one stronger than the last.
Below, Xia Luo's eyes brightened, "The Martial Hall's ultimate battle skill, Heavenly Beast Claw, with one hundred and eight inherited forms. Although this person only grasped five, it's still enough to crush most Exploring Realm cultivators. Not bad, this battle skill."
Behind him, Zhang Ding Tian's eyes widened. Bai Xue, Granny, and the others were shaken. They had never even heard of such a battle skill. It was terrifying. This was the foundation of the Great Yu Empire.
Lu Yin's palm had two spinning stars, then a third star appeared. It collided with Las's claw strike. Everyone's eyes changed drastically as a massive shockwave swept across all directions. The three stars simultaneously exploded. In an instant, the叠加 (diéjiā - stacked) terrifying impact force shook Las. The phantom above his claw shattered directly. Las's eyes contracted, and his figure disappeared. Lu Yin simultaneously used the Flowing Body Technique, and their figures instantly vanished in the air.
The next moment, the two appeared simultaneously. Lu Yin once again threw out a palm strike. Las was wary. His Heavenly Beast Claw had been broken and couldn't block, so he dodged sideways, crushing a Gale Crystal. His left index finger was wrapped in a grey whirlwind, and he pointed a finger towards Lu Yin. This was his strongest battle skill -- Yin Wind Finger, a skill Sika had spent a huge price to obtain for him.
Lu Yin sensed danger. Las's finger made the area around him ice-cold, unlike the cold of frost, this was a bone-chilling coldness, as if it could freeze Star Energy. Lu Yin's expression was stern as he circulated the Heavenly Star Skill. Three faint stars appeared around him. The grey tornado on Las's Yin Wind Finger was continuously weakened the moment it approached Lu Yin's body. Las was shocked. How could this be?
Lu Yin easily dodged the Yin Wind Finger and placed his left hand on Las's abdomen. "Rending Sky Palm," he said, and a huge force slammed Las fiercely into the ground. He didn't even have time to put on his battle armor ring.
Not far away, the man who had followed Las shouted sternly and once again rushed towards Lu Yin, attacking with a claw strike. Lu Yin's eyes flashed, and the Heavenly Star Skill around him circulated again. The moment the man's claw approached Lu Yin's body, it suddenly became slow, so slow that Lu Yin could clearly see all the changes in this battle skill. Lu Yin used the Flowing Body Technique to dodge, raised his right hand, his probing palm transforming into a claw. Then, in everyone's astonished eyes, he grabbed the man with a claw strike. With a peng sound, the man's right shoulder was injured, and his body fell to the ground.
Erde stared blankly at this scene. What had he seen? That person had actually used the Heavenly Beast Claw! That was the ultimate battle skill inherited by the Martial Hall! Only by joining the Martial Hall could one learn it through the stone tablets. That person had actually used it. How was that possible?
It wasn't just Erde who was surprised; everyone was shocked, including Lu Yin himself.
Before he defeated Erde and captured the numerous students, he had faced countless attacks. Although he had the Gules battle armor for defense, his body had still been injured. It turned out that at that time, when he circulated the Heavenly Star Skill to recover his Star Energy, he had inadvertently discovered another use for the Heavenly Star Skill. Not only could it accelerate the absorption of Star Energy, but it could also form a strange defensive field around his body, weakening the enemy's attacks.
He originally thought that this was the most powerful aspect of the Heavenly Star Skill, but at this moment, he realized that he still didn't fully understand this skill. This skill was not only defensive but could also perfectly display the opponent's battle skills before him. As long as he was willing, he could learn them. This was something even he hadn't expected.
Lu Yin clenched his fists, his eyes excited. The Heavenly Star Skill, even when he had first obtained this skill, he knew it was very heaven-defying, but at this moment, he felt he had still underestimated this skill. Not just heaven-defying, it was practically non-existent in the natural order. This was a skill that mimicked the workings of the universe, extremely powerful.
On the ground, Xia Luo's eyes showed surprise, then the corners of his mouth curved up, "Interesting."