Star Odyssey

Chapter 2271: Shocking The Universe

There were countless species in the universe, and Lu Yin lived the lives of one after another. The most common experience that he encountered was life and death, while the scariest was the flow of time. Sadness was just an emotion, and happiness was the same.

Given the countless experiences that he lived through, Lu Yin could not be certain that his memories of Lu Yin would still remain the foundation of his existence. He just felt lucky that he was able to endure the feelings of life and death as another creature.

Heartless people tended to look down on emotions, but they were also often unable to see past life and death. People who experienced powerful love tended to look down on life and death, but they could not forget their emotions. Lu Yin did not need to see through anything, as his mind was already clear.

He took only two steps to cover the last 1,000 feet of the Sky Beyond the Sky trial. Each step covered 500 feet, which meant that Lu Yin was right beneath the canopy of clouds. They looked soft and beautiful, and he automatically reached up to touch them.

Down on the ground, Wu Yao's eye started twitching as “Yu Hao” touched the clouds. He touched the clouds! He actually touched the clouds!

As soon as word of this leaked out, it would shock the Perennial World. Even the Progenitors would look down and pay attention. Wu Dao looked up. The rest of the world would not sit still after this.

The more a person understood the Sky Beyond the Sky trial, the more they would understand just how shocking “Yu Hao’s” accomplishment really was.

Lu Yin touched the clouds, but he felt nothing. They looked soft and beautiful, but were more like a dream. His hands met nothing as they stretched into the clouds. Lu Yin looked down, and he saw the shocked expressions on Wu Yao and many others, as well as the look of encouragement in the eyes of the God of Food. Bai Weiwei's expression was filled with shock and admiration, and the faces of Nong Siniang and many others had heated obsession.

Lu Yin took a deep breath, and then took another step. It was time to enter the clouds.

Wu Yao’s eyes were locked onto “Yu Hao” as he took the last step. Touching the clouds was an achievement on its own, but being able to ascend past the clouds was what qualified one to receive the title of immortal. Only eight people had fully passed the trial throughout all of time, and they were qualified to look down on everyone else. It should be impossible for this young man to succeed!

Everyone stared as Lu Yin's eyes glazed over again. He saw a grasshopper, and then he was the grasshopper. The moment his consciousness became that of the grasshopper, the bug was instantly trampled to death.

He had been stomped on.

Lu Yin saw a grasshopper, and then, he was the grasshopper. He was in the exact same location that he had started in the last time he had become a grasshopper.

Lu Yin was aware of what was happening, but he had the mind of a grasshopper. He had appeared in the middle of a busy street filled with countless people walking in all directions. The first time, he had been stepped on instantly, but the second time, he managed to avoid that first foot. Relying on the experience of the grasshopper that had just died, the insect jumped about, avoiding the place where it had been squashed as well as death. However, the grasshopper could not avoid all the feet.

It was an incredibly congested street, and from the grasshopper's perspective, the street was filled with giants, each of whom was trying to stomp on him. As far as a bug could see, the sky was collapsing and falling down on him.

The grasshopper was almost instantly crushed again, only to restart the cycle at the beginning. It seemed to be an endless loop.

No matter where the grasshopper leaped, it was impossible to avoid being stomped. He managed to jump five times, but was crushed after the sixth.

He had no knowledge of how to escape from the street. All the grasshopper knew of its life and existence was the street, being stepped on and crushed, and then being resurrected. Eventually, after completing seven jumps, he looked up and saw the face of one of the pedestrians. The grasshopper jumped again, landing on the man’s foot, but it was kicked away. The force of the kick rattled the insect’s body, shattering it. At the moment of death, the grasshopper managed to get a look at several other people’s faces, but each face was the same; all of them were the same man.

The grasshopper was stomped to death again and again, and it tried to escape from the street again and again. The cycle repeated countless times, but the insect was never able to escape. It was also unable to truly die, and the face of the man on everyone in the street became branded into the grasshopper’s mind, filling its consciousness like the sky above.

Every time Lu Yin saw the man's face, the grasshopper's movements momentarily froze. It was as though the man wanted the insect to be stepped on, hoping for it to die.

The face was burned into the grasshopper’s memory and mind, replacing and overwhelming everything else until nothing was left.

It was at that moment that whispered words echoed across the street. "When the Dao of Heavens is bestowed, devour the hundreds of rivers, and the reflection of the ancient lands is the way of the sage. When the Dao of Heavens is not present, gather the energy inwards… Leap into the cosmos and crouch… Harmonious with the common people… Devour the hundreds of rivers… Leap into the boundless skies and crouch…”

When the whisper started, it was barely noticeable, but as time passed and the grasshopper was stomped to death repeatedly, the whispers grew louder and louder. Finally, three words appeared in the grasshopper's mind: Origin Progenitor’s Sutra.

At that moment, the grasshopper’s mind became clear. He was no longer the grasshopper, but Lu Yin. He knew who he was, and he understood that he was experiencing another portion of the Sky Beyond the Sky trial. He was not a grasshopper.

A shadow fell upon Lu Yin. A foot was about to crush the grasshopper again.

Lu Yin reacted instantly, and the grasshopper escaped. It leaped away from the person who had been about to crush it. Without any hesitation, it leaped all over the man’s body. As Lu Yin moved around, the man’s hand stretched out to slap the insect with a seemingly massive hand. The hand moved incredibly quickly, and the massive difference in size made the hand appear to cover the entire sky.

However, Lu Yin was still able to avoid the hand. The whispers of the Origin Sutra grew louder and louder until the entire street was shaking.

Lu Yin moved the grasshopper’s body around, and he even jumped onto people’s foreheads. He looked around and saw the countless identical faces on the people walking by in a hurry. Beneath their feet lay the corpses of countless crushed grasshoppers, yet not one person seemed to care as they hurried along without any hesitation, completely filling the entire street.

Lu Yin jumped up and landed atop a person’s head. They wanted to stomp on the grasshopper, but he intended to step on them.

Very soon, people watched in utter disbelief as “Yu Hao” rose into the clouds and disappeared. He soon emerged from the clouds and found himself high in the sky. He had completed the Sky Beyond the Sky trial, becoming the ninth person in all of history to do so. He had joined the ranks of those known as immortals.

Everyone stared upwards in a daze.

At this moment, even Wu Yao and the God of Food were looking up at “Yu Hao” as he took the final step to become an immortal.

With this extra step, it was the difference between heaven and earth.

Everyone saw “Yu Hao” in a different light, no matter if they were from the Celestial Frost Sect or Virtue Archives.

Humanity had existed for countless years, and there were countless seemingly impossible achievements that people had managed to accomplish. One of those was passing the Sky Beyond the Sky. Countless people had challenged the trial, and while their results varied, there was one thing that remained constant: none of them had completed the challenge.

Each era seemed to be endless, and many eras had passed. As far as most people were concerned, it was impossible for anyone to complete the Sky Beyond the Sky. When Bai Xian’er had done so in the current era, she had already been regarded as an impossible legend. She had drawn the attention of a Progenitor during her first stellular tribulation to become an Envoy, and she had even caused Aeternus to launch an attack. She was someone who existed on a different level from others and was essentially seen as a goddess.

However, “Yu Hao” had also just completed the Sky Beyond the Sky trial, which rendered the entire Celestial Frost Sect silent. Every elder and disciple, even Semi-Progenitors like Wu Yao and the God of Food, were silent as they stared upwards at “Yu Hao.”

Bai Su was actually the first person to recover, and he ordered the sect to be sealed. No one would be allowed to leave, and no one was allowed to communicate with the outside world. The acting sect master intended to lock down news of Yu Hao passing the Sky Beyond the Sky trial and confine it to just within the Celestial Frost Sect. Yu Hao could not be allowed to leave. He had to remain within the Celestial Frost Sect, as he had just proven that he would become a Progenitor.

Suddenly, Bai Su remembered that Yu Hao was also a Realm Array Master, and his master was Grandmaster Gu Yan. This meant that Yu Hao was not simply destined to become a Progenitor, as he was also well on his way to becoming the youngest Array Grandmaster in human history! He was a true genius who would become both a Progenitor and an Array Grandmaster. This man was a monster who could compare to Bai Xian'er!

At this realization, Bai Su quickly roused Wu Yao from his daze.

It was not that Wu Yao's will was weaker than Bai Su's, but rather that, as a Semi-Progenitor, Wu Yao had a much clearer understanding of what it meant for Yu Hao to have ascended beyond the clouds. At this moment, Wu Yao was seeing the young man in the same light as he would a Progenitor.

The moment Bai Su managed to break Wu Yao’s stupor, the Semi-Progenitor instantly sealed the Celestial Frost Sect.

Unfortunately, he was already a step too late.

The weaker the cultivator, the less they would understand the significance of passing the Sky Beyond the Sky trial. So naturally, they recovered quicker.

As soon as Lu Yin had risen beyond the clouds, a Melder who had recently joined the Celestial Frost Sect shared a video of the scene.

Each of the four ruling powers had their own spies placed within the others, as did Seed Garden, the Liu family, and even Specter Abyss. This was why it was impossible to hide certain matters, as many different organizations had spies within the Celestial Frost Sect.

The moment Yu Hao completed the Sky Beyond the Sky trial, the entire Perennial World exploded.

The Wang family received the news first, as the Melder was their spy and had sent them the video.

Semi-Progenitor Chai instantly appeared before Wang Nian, badly startling the Array Master, though his expression quickly changed from frightened to annoyed. "Senior Chai, these are my private quarters, and you cannot just barge in here like this!"

A Realm Array Master had no need to act submissive to Semi-Progenitor Chai, as they both had equal statuses within the Wang family.

Semi-Progenitor Chai nervously asked, "Has the family spoken to Yu Hao? Have any conditions been offered?"

Wang Nian arched a brow. "Why do you ask?"

Semi-Progenitor Chai was clearly anxious. "If not, reach out to the ancestor right now! We need to find a way to win Yu Hao over. He must join us! He just passed the Sky Beyond the Sky trial in the Celestial Frost Sect."

Wang Nian did not initially register or understand what was being said, but once he made the connection, he was startled. "The Sky Beyond the Sky? He just became an immortal?"

"That's right. So, have you spoken to the ancestor about recruiting Yu Hao? What sort of conditions were offered? I need to discuss this matter further with the ancestor so that we are guaranteed to recruit Yu Hao."

Wang Nian was still lost in a daze. Throughout all of history, only eight people had ever completed the Sky Beyond the Sky trial. Of those eight, five had become Progenitors, and two had died. Then, there was Bai Xian'er. No one questioned whether or not she would become a Progenitor, as it was a sure thing. Yu Hao was the ninth person to pass the trial.

"The ancestor has already spoken with him," Wang Nian said.

Semi-Progenitor Chai nervously asked, "We need to take this very seriously! This not only concerns a future Progenitor, as don’t forget that, before the young man completed the Sky Beyond the Sky trial, he was also a Realm Array Master. As the family’s resident Lockbreaker, you are able to reach out to the ancestor."

Wang Nian's expression changed, and he swallowed before saying, "A genius Lockbreaker just completed the Sky Beyond the Sky trial… Is he going to become the next Bai Xian'er?"

Thinking of this, Wang Nian immediately called the ancestor again. "I will speak to the ancestor now. We absolutely must have this young man join the Wang family."

Elsewhere, the White Dragon Clan received the news as well, and it caused Long Tian's eye to start twitching. There was someone else? Had someone else other than Bai Xian'er actually completed the Sky Beyond the Sky trial?

Long Tian had never challenged the trial. This was because Long Xing, the heir of the White Dragon Clan’s previous main family, who had also been one of the Seven Heroes, had said that the Celestial Frost Sect would never allow people from the White Dragon Clan to challenge the trial. However, Long Tian had long since desired to face the trial.

The four Junior Progenitors were referred to as future Progenitors, but they knew that they simply had a higher chance of reaching that level. If it took ten points to qualify to become a Progenitor, then the Junior Progenitors had three points at best. However, anyone who completed the Sky Beyond the Sky trial could be considered to have nine points. There was a massive difference between three points and nine points.