Star Odyssey

Chapter 1367: Luck

Bai Shaohong was still only a disciple at the Celestial Frost Sect, but given that he was also a Junior Progenitor, he enjoyed an enormous influence. His maid felt comfortable being rude to the sect’s elders, and Mo Gaohe could not come close to comparing to an elder.

Mo Gaohe had never expected Miss Yu Chen to ever contact him, and her call left him so excited that he could not even speak.

“Yu- Miss Yu Chen, if you need anything at all, I’m willing to die to get it done!” Mo Gaohe excitedly offered as he stared at the girl with a heated expression. She was the Junior Progenitor’s personal maid, as well as the girl that many people within the Celestial Frost Sect dreamed of.

She smiled gently at Mo Gaohe. Her entire attitude was completely different from when she had spoken with Elder Qing Xing. As she smiled, she said, “Senior Brother Mo, I’ve admired what I’ve heard about you for a long time.”

The young man lost his breath as he stared at Yu Chen’s beautiful and innocent looking face. Such a contradiction of her features had left her as the most desirable woman of her generation in the Celestial Frost Sect. “This Mo Gaohe is greatly honored to have Miss Yu Chen calling me.”

Yu Chen continued to smile at him. “Senior Brother Mo, would you be able to do something for me?”

“Please let me know anything you need, Miss Yu Chen,” Mo Gaohe loudly stated as he made his position clear.

Yu Chen’s mouth curled up into a bigger smile. “Linjiang Yi is a new arrival to the Yinshan District. He was previously known as Long Qi…”

…

In a dark and barren land devoid of all people, there were strange creatures that would occasionally rush up from beneath the ground, only to burrow back down once again. There were strange black birds flying through the sky in flocks as they released piercing cries.

This wasteland was within the Yinshan Mountains. The mountain range was massive, and this wasteland was only a small part of it.

The peaceful wasteland was suddenly disrupted by the appearance of a person. It was a young man who had his eyes closed as he walked across the dark, damp ground.

Suddenly, a massive worm burst up from beneath the ground and shot countless tentacles towards the man. His body seemed to shake, and he easily evaded all of the approaching tentacles. It was as if he was able to predict the worm’s attacks

The creature let out a strange hiss that created a jagged shockwave that swept towards the man and tore up the ground as it rushed forward.

This sonic attack was one of the worm’s abilities, but nothing seemed to give the creature an advantage. Its new attack was also useless against the man.

The man lifted his head a bit and turned to face elsewhere. “Someone’s coming.”

The worm shot out countless tentacles once again, and they lunged towards the man, their numbers hiding the sky.

At this time, a group of people were approaching. They rode atop a large flying beast, and they were led by Mo Gaohe.

Although the Yinshan District was a place for wealthy wastrels to be sent, there Humility’s Gate still had tasks that the members had to fulfill, such as patrolling.

This was the area that Mo Gaohe was responsible for.

“Captain, look, someone’s over there!” one person exclaimed.

Mo Gaohe looked down and saw a man with his eyes closed. Eh? His eyes are shut?

The worm’s tentacles filled the sky, but Mo Gaohe and the others did not have any intention of taking action. They were not altruistic men and women, and they simply wanted to watch the fun.

The man with closed eyes stood in place, but then a peerless domain shot out from his body and froze the tentacles in place before lifting the worm and crushing it.

A sticky green liquid scattered across the sky, but there was no change to the man’s expression as he remained standing quietly where he was.

In the sky some distance away, Mo Gaohe’s eyes narrowed. That was a powerful domain, and the man was actually a Hunter.

“Who are you? Why are you here in the Yinshan District?” Mo Gaohe asked. The group of more than a dozen people stayed behind him, and they all locked wary eyes onto the man. They had all seen what he had just done, and it left them a bit frightened since he was clearly much stronger than all of them.

“I want to join Humility’s Gate,” the man said.

Mo Gaohe’s gaze grew sharp. “You can’t just join Humility’s Gate because you want to.”

The man said, “I know, but I want to try.”

“What’s your name? Where’re you from?” Mo Gaohe asked.

The man turned to face Mo Gaohe as he replied, “I’m called Unseen Light, and I’m an independent cultivator.”

…

A few hours later, Unseen Light stood with Mo Gaohe near Humility’s Gate’s Yinshan District base. “Remember, as long as you help me deal with this, I promise I’ll get you in the Celestial Frost Sect, and then there’ll be no reason for you to join Humility’s Gate.”

Unseen Light kept his eyes tightly sealed shut. “I hope you keep your word.”

Mo Gaohe picked his head up higher. “I’m a disciple of the Celestial Frost Sect, so it’s no problem for me to recommend someone to take an entrance exam. You’re already strong enough to join the sect, and if this task was given by the Junior Progenitor, accomplishing it will make him happy and he might even pay attention to you. Countless people hope to get such an opportunity, so you’re pretty lucky. You can think of this as taking one step to reach heaven.”

“Thank you so much.” Unseen Light smiled.

Mo Gaohe looked even happier than before. During his earlier call, Miss Yu Chen had told Mo Gaohe what the Junior Progenitor was needing done, but since that fatty knew Mo Gaohe’s people like the back of his own hand, it would be impossible for Mo Gaohe to hide any actions taken by his own people. However, he had luckily met an independent cultivator who was very powerful. This person was absolutely much stronger than that Long Qi who had hidden himself as Linjiang Yi, and Unseen Light was even willing to join the Celestial Frost Sect instead of Humility’s Gate, which was just perfect.

If not for the fact that Unseen Light was interested in joining the Celestial Frost Sect, Mo Gaohe would have assumed that Miss Yu Chen had sent an assistant to complete the task at hand.

This person’s arrival had provided the best opportunity for Mo Gaohe to complete the task he had been given.

As they approached the Yinshan District’s base, Mo Gaohe left Unseen Light alone and led the rest of the team back. Mo Gaohe made sure that all of his subordinates understood they were forbidden from mentioning Unseen Light to anyone, and they were to act as if they had never seen him before.

Alone, Unseen light looked around at Humility’s Gate’s Yinshan District base. He had not expected it to be so simple.

If he could get the opportunity, he had been told to absolutely follow one of the Junior Progenitors, as the Junior Progenitors were able to lead a person to the Dominion Realm.

Over the course of countless years, the Fifth Mainland had sent numerous people to the Perennial World, but very few had been successful, as success was not easy. Too many people had been discovered and executed. It took luck for this endeavor, but Unseen Light had been quite lucky this time.

As soon as he had entered the Yinshan District, he had headed towards the nearest city and sought the information he needed.. He had found out that there were two powerhouses from Humility’s Gate who were performing missions in this area, so he had planned to look for them and follow them back to Humility’s Gate and join. Then, Unseen Light intended to use this status from Humility’s Gate to approach the Celestial Frost Sect and gain the recognition of the sect’s Junior Progenitor. He had not considered that he might be able to join the Celestial Frost Sect without even needing to enter Humility’s Gate.

It was very difficult to determine a person’s luck, but Unseen Light felt that his luck had been quite good ever since he had arrived in this universe, at least until he met the target that Mo Gaohe had given him. The person was supposed to be Long Qi who had disguised himself as Linjiang Yi. My luck isn’t that good after all! This guy’s the lucky bastard. Long Qi? Bullshit! That’s Lu Yin.

Lu Yin stared blankly at the man in front of him who claimed to be one of the Linjiang clan’s distant relatives. What the hell? That’s Unseen Light! How did he get into the Perennial World? Wait, could he have been added to ZENITH’s top ten after I disappeared? If I’m right, then this Perennial World is probably the opportunity that we were competing for during ZENITH.

If so, did that mean that the Linjiang family was an insider placed by the Fifth Mainland to help out their people in this place?

Numerous thoughts flashed through Lu Yin’s mind, and the joy of meeting an old acquaintance while in a foreign place was almost instantly replaced by curiosity and speculation.

“Brother Linjiang, he’s claiming to be one of your distant relatives, and he asked someone outside the base to bring him to you and that you’d recognize him when you saw him,” the pale-faced fatty said.

Lu Yin coughed. “You’re part of my clan? How can you prove it?”

Unseen Light silently took out a certificate he had been given by Mo Gaohe. Before Lu Yin even had a chance to read it, the fatty snatched it and carefully examined it before passing it on to Lu Yin. “There’s no problem.”

Lu Yin seriously checked the document and blinked. “It’s true.”

It seemed that the Linjiang clan really had been established as a support in the Perennial World for people from the Fifth Mainland. This was just like how different powers had established hidden supports in Shenwu Continent.

“Okay, since he’s someone from your Linjiang clan, we’ll let him stay here for now. I’ll check with fourth uncle to see if we can let this guy join Humility’s Gate. The kid was just standing at the door and say hi to everyone he saw, and if I hadn’t found him earlier, he probably would have been dead if Mo Gaohe had been the one to find him.” The fatty was quite excited by everything.

Lu Yin quickly thanked the fatty. This was actually how the man was to all of his people; he would never refuse to help any of them, and there were rumors that it was for that reason that he had been sent to the Yinshan District. His attitude was not suitable for a member of one of the ruling powers.

After the fatty left, Lu Yin sat down across from Unseen Light.

“You took my place in the top ten?” Lu Yin asked.

Unseen Light responded with a question of his own, “You impersonated Long Qi?”

Lu Yin’s eyes flashed. “You know about Long Qi? It seems like someone is trying to kill me and they just happened to find you. I guess I was wrong. The Linjiang family wasn’t set up by the Fifth Mainland. Who put you up to this?”

Unseen Light smiled and said, “Mo Gaohe.”

Lu Yin was not surprised. “How soon does he want you to deal with me?”

“Huaiyuan is to the south of the Yinshan Mountains, and there is also a Humility’s Gate base there. There’s a family there with the surname Zhu, and they are supposed to be traitors to humanity, part of what’s called spies. Mo Gaohe told me to share this with you as a gift for the main family. The hope was that this gift would be enough to allow me to join the Yinshan District Humility’s Gate.”

Lu Yin was puzzled. “What’s supposed to happen with you telling me about the Zhu family? Am I supposed to turn them in?”

“That seems to be it,” Unseen Light replied.

Lu Yin said, “However, if the information about them is wrong, I’ll offend them. Still, they’re a small family and there’s no reason to worry about offending them. But if the information is true, then Mo Gaohe should already know, and the upper levels should absolutely know about it, so why has nothing happened to the family? There must be some reason they haven’t moved against them. They must be leaving the family alone in order to catch a bigger fish.”

Unseen Light smiled lightly. “Huaiyuan.”

Lu Yin nodded. The Zhu family was in Huaiyuan to the south of the Yinshan Mountains, and there was also a Humility’s Gate base in that place. “If Humility’s Gate in Huaiyuan really has deliberately left the Zhu family alone to use as a piece of a larger play, then I shouldn’t expose it, as doing so would instantly get me in hot water with Humility’s Gate in Huaiyuan. However, it would only offend them, and since a traitor to humanity would indeed be caught, there would only be an achievement without any blame.”

“There has to be a second step to the plan, but I don’t know what it is. He wouldn’t share everything at once, but clearly offending Humility’s Gate in Huaiyuan is nothing more than the start. If this plan is successful, you’ll probably end up killed by Humility’s Gate in Huaiyuan,” Unseen Light suggested.

Lu Yin tapped a finger on the table; the Huaiyuan Humility’s Gate. He knew that they were led by someone named Guan Tong, who was a ruthless person with many achievements to his name. He was basically the polar opposite of Zhuo Si, but even more importantly, Guan Tong had two brothers: Guan Hai and Guan Yun. Together, they were known as the Three Heroes of Huaiyuan. Guan Tong and Guan Hai were also both Envoys, which made their base one of Humility’s Gate’s strongest in the Middle Realm.