Star Odyssey

Chapter 1793: Tracked By Something Unseen

Even though luck was needed to encounter opportunities, strength was also required. Lu Yin did not intend to allow people to freely enter and exit Burial Garden’s gates within the Great Eastern Alliance’s territory. This was his territory, and he could be as domineering as he wished.

Lu Yin also made plans to enter and explore Burial Garden himself.

There were no restrictions regarding one’s cultivation level to enter Burial Garden. As long as a person found a gate, they could enter.

Lan Si was part of the first group of people to enter the gates. During the few days that he had been in Burial Garden, he had been doing his best to avoid a wooden hammer striking his head.

He wanted to curse someone. After entering Burial Garden, he had inexplicably found himself in a concave field. Before he was even able to observe his surroundings, a wooden hammer had fallen, aimed straight at his head. He had been lucky enough to react in time and avoid being struck. However, he soon saw that the place where the hammer had struck had numerous cracks, and he realized that he could not afford to be struck, as it would absolutely kill him.

The wooden hammer was the size of an entire planet, and it smashed down at the ground again and again. The void was crushed every time the hammer struck, and Lan Si believed that only a giant could wield this weapon. Based on the size, the giant would have to be much bigger than even Chen Huang, as it would have to be large enough to hold an entire planet in one hand.

Although Lan Si did his best to evade the hammer, his efforts were fruitless. The hammer was just too big, and he was not able to escape from its range before it fell again. His only option was to try to take advantage of the cracks in the ground caused by the hammer’s previous blows if he wanted to avoid being hit.

Fortunately, since the wooden hammer was the size of a planet, the cracks that it left in the ground were as wide as an entire mountain. As long as Lan Si did not try to run around, he would be safe if he didn’t move.

This was how he survived the first day, but on the second day, he noticed that there was an odd pattern to the rhythm that the wooden hammer struck the ground. He became excited because he noticed that while this rhythm was similar to the Overlaying Stacks Path that he practiced, it was actually different.

The Overlaying Stacks Path was based on the premise of layering one’s strength again and again. Vacuum Palm was a technique that was the culmination of the Overlaying Stacks Path as it was a palm strike that exhibited the Overlaying Stacks Path’s greatest strengths. The rhythm in which the hammer struck the ground was different; the strength seemed to be erupting all at once to release an explosion of power that was dozens of times more powerful.

This sort of technique actually demanded an even more exquisite level of control over one’s strength than even Vacuum Palm.

Lan Si was very excited, and he lost all desire to leave. He was happy to remain right where he was.

Despite not being able to see who was wielding the hammer and beating the ground, Lan Si wanted to learn this technique and improve his strength, as he was certain that this was the best technique for him.

While Lan Si was not able to see who was wielding the wooden hammer, Ling Que was able to see from off in the distance.

One of Burial Garden’s gates had also opened up in the Lingling clan’s territory, and Ling Que had just arrived in Burial Garden. He had not wanted to enter the gate, but his foot had slipped, and he had fallen through.

He would absolutely never admit that Ling Gong had kicked him through the gate…

As soon as Ling Que entered Burial Garden and his feet met the ground, he was almost scared to death by a powerful tremor. He then looked up and saw the corpse of a giant slamming a wooden hammer into the ground.

The sight almost caused Ling Que to piss himself in fear. Never before had he seen such a large giant, let alone one that was a moving corpse. How was this corpse even moving? With its size, even if the giant never cultivated, it could still instantly kill Ling Que with a single slap.

Ling Que held his breath and tried to sneak away.

Fortunately, the giant did not care about the young man in the slightest, and it never once stopped smashing the ground with the wooden hammer. Ling Que had no idea what the giant was trying to do, but it simply slammed the hammer into the ground again and again. Each pit caused by the hammer’s fall was the size of a planet.

“If anyone was unlucky enough to fall into one of those pits, they’d be smashed to death," Ling Que said to himself as he fled. He had to escape, as this place clearly was not safe.

However, he stumbled after just a few steps. When he looked down, he saw a rope on the ground that was right at the edge of one of the hammer pit. He felt curious, so he pulled the rope up. Something was on the other end, but the rope was being a bit stubborn. Still, Ling Que had become curious, so he used a bit more strength and continued pulling. Finally, he pulled up a sourcebox. It was actually a humanoid sourcebox, and when he looked further, he saw that the rope was tied to an entire series of humanoid sourceboxes!

Ling Que was stunned; what in the world was this?

Sourceboxes on strings? Also, were these really all humanoid treasures? He had never seen so many humanoid sourceboxes in his entire life.

He quickly dismissed the matter from his mind. No matter what, sourceboxes were still treasures. Ling Que quickly put all of the sourceboxes into his cosmic ring and then ran off. He had completely neglected the fact that not a single one of the humanoid sourceboxes had a danger field.

Not too many people had entered Burial Garden at this point in time, but once some people started to leave, information regarding Burial Garden started to spread, and more and more people started to pass through the gates.

Lu Yin entered through the gate that had appeared in the middle of the sea on the Ross Empire’s mobile fortress.

What he had heard from Shi San had led Lu Yin to suspect that Burial Garden might be the place where he had Possessed the corpse and seen Progenitor Chen. This was something that he had to verify.

From some of the guesses that he had made after hearing about Shi San’s experience, Lu Yin believed that he would appear in a random location within Burial Garden. This was because, based on the location where Shi San had entered Burial Garden, it should have been impossible for him to reach Yima Planet in just a few days.

Lu Yin entered with the Second Nightking as a precaution, but when he looked around after entering, the Second Nightking was nowhere to be seen. They had been sent to random locations.

Lu Yin appeared atop a shattered boulder. He glanced around and saw there was similar rubble in all directions. Everything looked as though it had been shattered by powerful blows. No matter where Lu Yin looked, all he could see was similar rubble as far into the distance as he could see.

The boulder that he had appeared upon was absolutely massive, and it was actually comparable in size to a star. In fact, it was possible that it was a shattered star rather than a stone.

Lu Yin chose a random direction and started traveling. His goal was the sea.

After traveling for a while, he suddenly stopped and stood still. His pupils transformed into runes, and he looked around.

He had a feeling that something was following him, but he could not find anything even after releasing his domain and his spiritual force.

Lu Yin clenched his hands into fists but still continued moving forward. After a bit, he stopped again. Yes, something was definitely following him.

"Come out!" Lu Yin shouted. His head whipped around, but there was nothing there. He focused more intently and spread his fingers out. The air swayed as a shockwave swept out, but there was still nothing to be seen.

Lu Yin remained standing in place for a while, but there were no fluctuations in the air. He could only continue on, but he immediately stopped again, as he clearly felt that something was following him. Just what was it?

"Which senior is toying with this junior? Please show yourself," Lu Yin loudly requested.

Still, there was no movement.

Lu Yin snorted and then suddenly took off, rushing far away. As he fled, an astral chessboard appeared beneath his feet. He moved and instantly disappeared.

There were a few spatial cracks where Lu Yin had vanished, but the distortions soon vanished as everything calmed down.

Lu Yin reappeared some distance away, and he immediately looked back. He still could not see anything, but the feeling of being followed had disappeared. He let out a breath of relief; just what had been following him?

He was not too worried, as the invisible tracker had not attacked him, and even if someone had made a move, Lu Yin should be able to survive even a surprise attack. His bodysuit armor was able to defend against attacks with power levels of almost 900,000, so he would have to be terribly unlucky to suffer an attack that could instantly kill him.

After glancing back, he continued forward.

Far ahead of Lu Yin was more rubble, no different from what he had seen so far. However, one of the shattered stones that looked no different from any of the others was different when viewed from the front. From a specific angle, they would discover that the shattered stone portrayed a battle technique through a series of clearly defined movements. It looked as though someone had carved their battle technique into this stone.

At the moment, there was a middle-aged man standing right in front of the shattered stone, and he was staring at the series of movements that were displayed on the stone, and his body unconsciously followed the movements.

There were sixty nine movements shown on the stone, and as the man moved through them, his movements grew faster and faster until there was a second image of the man.

Also, there was a corpse on the ground beneath the man’s feet. This was not one of the mobile corpses that roamed across Burial Garden, but rather a fresh corpse belonging to someone who had just died. Apparently, they had been killed by the middle-aged man.

There were also people hiding off in the distance. One of them was an old man who was afraid to even look at the middle-aged man’s back. The old man’s eyes blazed with killing intent, and he was clearly plotting something. The other person was a girl with a fish on her head. She was Xi Qi.

Xi Qi was desperately keeping the fish’s mouth covered in order to prevent it from revealing their location. The fish kept flapping its fins, as it had been smothered for a long time. It had to speak! If it did not manage to do so, it felt like it would die by holding its words in.

After watching for a while, they saw that the middle-aged man was becoming more and more proficient in the battle technique’s series of movements.

Finally, the old man could not restrain himself any longer, and he stepped forward. His body moved into a strange posture as the void warped around him, and he shot forward, a finger pointed ahead. He struck the middle-aged man with a fierce attack.

The man suddenly whirled around. "I've been waiting for a long time, you little rat!"

As the man spoke, a circular weapon appeared in his hand that turned towards the old man. The attacker bent his fingers and lashed out with his right leg. "Get out of my way!"

"You’re asking to die, old man." An imprint appeared behind the middle-aged man, and he easily blocked the old man's foot. The younger man then struck out with his left hand, and his palm turned green as it shot forward. The old man’s reactions were extremely quick, and he pulled out something from his cosmic ring that looked like a shield.

There was a bang, and the old man's body was sent flying through the air, but the middle-aged man was also forced back. The two were of equal strength.

Xi Qi stared at the men. Both of them were powerful Enlighters, and she could not help but hope that both of them would be injured, as that was the only way for her luck to not run out. She did not think that the two would not be able to find her.

"Are you from the Sixth Mainland?" The old man was intimidated.

The middle-aged man sneered. "What of it?"

The old man snapped back, "Burial Garden belongs to my Fifth Mainland! Does the Sixth Mainland want to start a war?"

The middle-aged man was unbothered. "Burial Garden’s gates didn’t only open in the Innerverse. They also opened in the Outerverse, so why can’t people like me from the Sixth Mainland enter? Quit talking about stupid things and get lost."

Right as he finished speaking, the middle-aged man raised his hand towards the old man. Surprisingly, this was the same movement that was shown on the surface of the stone.

The old man's pupils constricted tightly, and he turned and fled. Cultivators from the Sixth Mainland enjoyed an innate advantage when fighting against people from the Fifth Mainland. The old man’s most powerful protection was the shield that he had just used, and it had been bent from the force of the middle-aged man’s attack. It was clear that the old man would not be able to endure the next attack.

"So you want to run now?" The middle-aged man charged forward, his movements crushing the nearby stones. Several afterimages appeared as he moved, but they soon started to overlap and throw out simultaneous palm attacks. The old man grew desperate when he saw this attack, and he shot over towards Xi Qi, trying to redirect the attack towards her.

Xi Qi screamed, and although she wanted to escape, it was impossible for her to get away from Enlighters with her level of strength.

Xi Qi was instantly captured by the old man, and he threw her behind him. Her face turned white.

As far as the middle-aged man was concerned, it did not matter who faced his attack, as both Xi Qi and the old man were about to die. His attack slammed forward. He was absolutely confident that this attack would not only strike the woman, but also continue on and kill the old man. The middle-aged man knew at this moment that his future had changed. He was now able to join one of the more powerful organizations, such as a World Imprinter’s family or maybe even the Daosource Sect.

Xi Qi watched as the middle-aged man's palm drew closer and closer. The fear of death made it hard for her to even breathe.