Star Odyssey

Chapter 1801: Wandering Corpse

What Lu Yin had witnessed at the tea hills filled him with dread towards Burial Garden, and he became very cautious with every step he took.

In Blazing Mist Flowzone, one of Burial Garden’s gates was smashed apart by Emperor Luo. The planet’s army was gathered in the distance, watching.

"Such an incredible opportunity is gone, just like that. The Great Eastern Alliance is too oppressive! They’re taking this chance away from us!" While the man who was complaining was not a powerhouse, he was still someone who ranked within the middle to upper ranks of the Great Eastern Alliance. However, since Lu Yin had personally ordered this gate to be destroyed, the man was powerless to intervene.

"General, are we just going to watch?" an angry young man asked from behind the general. Hatred filled the young man’s eyes as he stared at Emperor Luo.

Suddenly, Emperor Luo's gaze swept over, and the young man felt his heart skip a beat. He quickly dropped his head.

Also, the young man was not the only one to react in such a manner, as the general, who was a Cruiser, also did not dare to meet Emperor Luo’s eyes.

Emperor Luo looked away. He did not care at all about what this planet’s residents thought. Although they believed that a lucky opportunity was being stolen from them, they were actually being saved. Just how many people in the entire universe had entered one of Burial Garden’s gates? Just the Great Eastern Alliance alone had many powerhouses, and there were many experts above the Cruiser realm. This was not even taking into account the Cosmic Sea, Neoverse, or the Sixth Mainland.

If an expert who was hostile towards the Great Eastern Alliance emerged from the gate, the planet would be devastated. This was something that the people of this planet did not even realize.

Suddenly, Emperor Luo received a call request. "Emperor Luo, Burial Garden’s gate on Mudwall Planet has just been confirmed to be an exit. Someone has just come out, though the situation is currently under control."

Emperor Luo checked the coordinates that he was sent and quickly moved out to make his way towards Mudwall Planet.

Lu Yin had passed down an order that the Great Eastern Alliance could only keep three exits. The gate that Emperor Luo had just destroyed was the fourth exit that had been discovered, which was why it had been destroyed. The Great Eastern Alliance did not have enough powerhouses to protect more than three exits.

Lu Yin wanted stability, and as far as he was concerned, not even Emperor Luo was strong enough to defend an exit on his own.

When Emperor Luo arrived at Mudwall Planet, he was met by the scene of a shattered planet and countless people in mourning. Many spacecraft were still nearby, though most were also broken. There were corpses floating through space, all of which belonged to the Allied Forces’ First Division. Most shocking of all was the sight of a dead colossal giant whose corpse was drifting through space.

The average strength of the Great Eastern Alliance’s experts was too low, so Lu Yin had sent out the colossal giants to help out in various places. Any giant who qualified to be deployed had to be an Enlighter. Despite that, the Enlighter Colossal Giant had still been killed.

Emperor Luo's expression changed drastically, and he quickly approached the shattered pieces of the planet. He soon discovered that Burial Garden’s gate remained unharmed, though it was also floating through outer space.

It took at least an Envoy to destroy one of Burial Garden’s gates.

A powerhouse’s attack had clearly destroyed Mudwall Planet, and it seemed quite obvious that it had been from someone who had exited the gate. Emperor Luo’s eyes flashed, and he started investigating. The greatest concern was that the culprit had gone back inside Burial Garden, as then there would be no way to track them down.

It was not long before Emperor Luo started moving away. He had already found some clues. The attacker was an Enlighter, and given the fact that they had killed a colossal giant, they had to have a power level of about 300,000. There were still some traces from the attacker’s assault.

Emperor Luo had submitted a report to the Great Eastern Alliance while he was investigating the rubble of the planet. Blazing Mist Flowzone was instantly sealed off, and people were sent to rescue the survivors from Mudwall Planet.

The alliance could not afford to treat the giant’s death and the destruction of the planet as a minor incident. Lu Yin planned to look into this matter further.

Half a day later, Emperor Luo landed on a meteorite to the south of Mudwall Planet. There was a man on the meteorite with a sallow complexion who was excitedly examining something in his hand. It was an irregularly shaped piece of metal that looked like a shard from a broken weapon. The man looked completely amazed as he stared at the shard. "Fantastic workmanship! It’s practically supernatural! Even just this fragment still retains the complete sourcebox array. If this weapon was actually complete, I have no idea just how many sourcebox arrays it would contain. I don’t dare even to imagine, but the power of the ancients is truly amazing."

As the man spoke, his eyes grew even more heated as he stared at the weapon shard.

He had been lucky enough to pick up this shard in Burial Garden, and he had actually used it to kill someone at the same level of strength as him. There had been no grudge or reason for the attack, as the Enlighter had just wanted to test out the sourcebox array on the weapon shard.

He had been quite happy with the results. No, he was actually quite excited, as the sourcebox array on the shard allowed the piece of metal to move about without any trace. In fact, the Enlighter himself could not track the shard, and he was only able to designate a target.

"With this thing, I can even fight against that old freak with a power level of more than 400,000! I might be able to use this to improve my Lockbreaker rank and maybe even join the upper ranks in the Lockbreaker World, hahahaha!" the sallow-faced man excitedly spoke to himself, "The Great Eastern Alliance actually wants to arrest me and confiscate my possessions—in their dreams! My, Shan Kun's belongings aren’t anything those pathetic people can take!"

The Enlighter still had not realized that Emperor Luo was actually less than five meters behind him as he was speaking.

Shan Kun excitedly put the weapon fragment in his cosmic ring and stared off into the distance. Suddenly, he felt a chill, and he whirled around to see a pair of red eyes. A corpse king? No, was this an android?

"So you’re the one who destroyed Mudwall Planet and killed the giant there," Emperor Luo stated coldly.

Shan Kun’s eyes narrowed as he stared at Emperor Luo. Fear filled the Enlighter’s eyes. This person was an absolute powerhouse! This person had moved so close, and yet Shan Kun had not noticed a thing. "Your Excellency?"

"The Great Eastern Alliance’s Emperor Luo."

Shan Kun's heart dropped to the nadir. He pulled the weapon shard back out while saying, "So you’re the former emperor of the Ross Empire. Your Excellency was once in charge of an entire empire. How could you have possibly willingly surrendered to some pathetic ant like Lu Yin and help him?"

Emperor Luo's expression never changed at all. It was impossible to discern his emotions. "Give me what you picked up in Burial Garden and return with me to the Great Eastern Alliance."

Shan Kun lifted his head. "I'm a Perceptive Intermediate Lockbreaker from the Lockbreakers World in the Neoverse! I’m a member of the Lockbreakers Society! Your Great Eastern Alliance wants to arrest me? You want to confiscate my possessions? Your Lu Yin is part of the Lockbreakers Society just like me. Go and ask him if he actually dares to do this!"

The Lockbreakers Society always protected their own. Attacking one would lure out an entire group. Lu Yin had previously used the Lockbreakers Society as a form of protection, and the Enlighter’s words were enough to cause even Emperor Luo to be hesitant. "For now, return with me to the Great Eastern Alliance."

Shan Kun sneered. "I’m not doing that. I’m going back to the Lockbreakers World right now. If Lu Yin has something to say, he can come speak to me himself through the Lockbreakers’ network."

Emperor Luo repeated, "Return with me to the Great Eastern Alliance now."

Shan Kun became furious. "Emperor Luo, while I may respect you for being an Envoy, don’t think that the Lockbreakers Society is afraid of you! Let me tell you, my Lockbreakers Society has more than one Envoy, and you can’t do a thing to me!"

Emperor Luo had no desire to waste time arguing with the Enlighter, so he simply reached out to seize Shan Kun. The Enlighter’s expression grew dark, and he lifted a hand to release the weapon fragment. It disappeared from his sight, and he could not even find any trace of it. The only thing that the Enlighter knew was that he had attacked Emperor Luo with the weapon shard.

However, Emperor Luo was able to see that the fragment had broken into the true universe to attack him. He stretched out a hand and grabbed the shard, and as he did, there was the sound of his palm being cut, and sparks flew as the Envoy’s hand was sliced open.

Shan Kun was horrified; if Emperor Luo did not die from this, he was done for!

Emperor Luo stared at the weapon shared that he held in shock. What sort of metal could be so hard?

"Emperor Luo, give that back to me!" Shan Kun shouted angrily, though he did not dare to try to attack. He was only an Enlighter with a power level of around 300,000. He had actually used the weapon shard to sneak attack the colossal giant as well.

Emperor Luo put the metal fragment away and grabbed hold of Shan Kun. The two started to make their way back to the Ross Empire’s mobile fortress.

"Emperor Luo, release me! Are you trying to start a war with the Lockbreakers Society? Not even Lu Yin has the guts to do that!" Shan Kun screamed at Emperor Luo, only to be stunned by a fist from the Envoy.

It was not long after this that someone exited one of Burial Garden’s gates in the Sword Sect’s territory. This person was rather unlucky, as he was instantly captured by the Sword Sect. He was stripped of even his clothes, and everything was examined. The man wanted to cry, but he had no tears.

Similar events occurred all across the universe. Someone was standing guard at every single one of Burial Garden’s exit gates. Some of the guards were wiped out by the people who exited the gates.

Things were becoming increasingly chaotic because of Burial Garden’s gates, but the dried up corpses had not yet stopped targeting people with ancient bloodlines. It appeared that nothing involving the desiccated corpses had been affected by the opening of Burial Garden.

The whole universe had gone from a period of calm to a period of great excitement.

Just a few days after Lu Yin returned to Burial Garden through the gate in the Cosmic Sea, a report was spread regarding Burial Garden that shocked the entire universe.

This report claimed that there was a massive ancient corpse roaming about Burial Garden and that they had a palace on its back. This corpse would drop many protective treasures, weapons that were suitable for Enlighters, and even cultivation arts that were inheritances.

It seemed impossible to track down the source of this report, but it spread like wildfire across the entire network, though it completely disappeared after an hour.

It was possible for a truly powerful organization or person to intervene and block information from the entire network, but only people who truly stood at the top of the Human Domain were capable of such. In other words, only Neoverse powers could do such a thing, and it was at least 90% certain that only the Hall of Honor would make such a move.

However, this only lent greater credibility to the accuracy of the information.

Many major powers started to send their people into Burial Garden to search for the ancient giant.

A few days later, Lu Yin was standing atop a mountain range, staring into the distance in a daze. He was looking at an incomparably enormous figure that was staggering along. The figure was hunched at the waist, and every step that it took left footprints the size of a city. Each step caused the mountains and the ground to tremble. Even the clouds only reached the giant’s waist, and through them, Lu Yin could see that the giant was carrying an even larger palace.

After the terrifying scene that he had witnessed at the hills of tea, Lu Yin had developed a radically different opinion of Burial Garden. Despite that, he still felt a bit of disbelief as he stared ahead. Was that really a giant with an entire palace on its back?

Lu Yin's eyes flashed as he stared at the giant walking along. Although the giant appeared to be tired and faltered with each step that it took, it also had a massive stride, and it did not take long before the figure began to disappear into the distance.

Lu Yin quickly gave chase. No matter what, that palace carried on its back held an incredible draw, and if Lu Yin was seeing things correctly, the giant was one of Burial Garden’s mobile corpses. Such a corpse already had a coined name: they were wandering corpses.