Chapter 4528: How To Put It?

Zhou was even more excited. They had won. It had defeated Withered Requiem in music. Although it was only in music, winning was enough.

The vengeance of Revolution Planet could never be repaid, but winning once was enough.

"May I ask Lord Withered Requiem, now that we have won, what happens next?" Lu Yin asked.

The atmosphere fell silent at once. All eyes focused on Withered Requiem. Even the other three members of the Death Band looked at the green-hatted skeleton.

One of the bandmembers was even an Immortal, but aside from music, it never spoke about anything else.

Withered Requiem stared at Lu Yin, lifted a foot, and then approached him one step at a time.

Lu Yin calmly stood in place, simply watching Withered Requiem. The Abyssal stood before Lu Yin, lifted the fallen sunglasses, and sized the human skeleton up. The Abyssal slowly grew larger, and dark waves of Stillness surged out of the skeleton like black smoke. A strange laugh entered Lu Yin's ears and then the ears of the many other skeletons in the castle before finally spreading across all of Joy City to be heard by all the skeletons.

At this moment, Lu Yin felt pressure. It was a kind of pressure that was difficult for his skeleton clone to resist. Even though this clone also possessed vast amounts of Stillness, he still struggled.

Withered Requiem was connected the Stillness of the Abyssal Displacement. In a daze, Lu Yin seemed to see a surging ocean of death. It was the strange, terrifying Death Megaverse.

No one dared to stop Withered Requiem, not even Zhou.

Fishbone simply collapsed to the floor. It was all over. It had known that the rumors could not be trusted. Not even a guarantee from Thousand Machinations could be trusted. This was the end.

The terrifying pressure formed a huge black shadow that continuously pressed down upon Lu Yin. Just when he thought that Withered Requiem truly intended to attack, the Abyssal instantly returned to their original state. They turned around and walked to the door. "Yo, yo, you’ve won. From now on, Joy City will listen to you. Yo, yo, wherever you say to go, we will go."

The other three members of the Death Band followed Withered Requiem out.

The Abyssal was still draped in Stillness and connected to the Abyssal Displacement. It looked like a black ribbon with a neverending length.

The Death Band did not leave the castle and simply went down to the next level. Only the master of Joy City could remain on the top floor.

Fishbone finally let out a sigh of relief. So the rumor was true.

Yong Heng, Zhu, and even Zhou all turned to stare at Lu Yin at this moment. Although Zhou was the strongest being present, the one who had led the Dream Band from beginning to end had always been Lu Yin.

As the wooden door closed, Lu Yin looked away from it to peer outside the castle.

Did Joy City now listen to him? Although he had cheated, a win was still a win.

"Brother, does Joy City listen to us now?" Fishbone asked.

Lu Yin nodded. "Yes, it listens to us now."

"The Building Blocks, can I take it back now?" Fishbone asked again.

Lu Yin was startled. "Listening to us is one thing, but whether you can get your mirebound artifact back or not is something that you need to ask Withered Requiem on your own."

"Can I ask?"

"Of course. You are also a member of our band."

Fishbone did not dare to ask. That earlier pressure had made it believe that everything was over.

Lu Yin turned and walked towards where the Death Band often performed. "Since we’ve won, we need to announce our victory to all of Joy City. Come, let’s begin our first performance as the masters of Joy City."

Zhou immediately followed him to the balcony. The castle had an open-air balcony at the top, and it was visible to all of Joy City. The Death Band had conducted every performance there.

No one knew how long it would last, but at least for the time being, this place belonged to the Dream Band.

Their first performance for Joy City declared them as the new masters of the place, but they did not incite any cheers. In truth, everyone understood that Withered Requiem could never be replaced. Music was everything in Joy City, but strength was everything in the Aevum Inch.

Withered Requiem was one of the Death Megaverse’s seven Abyssals, and that would never change.

All Lu Yin wanted to do was tell all the skeletons of Joy City that they had won, nothing more.

After their performance ended, he left the top floor and immediately went to find the skeleton with the plate of armor. As the skeleton warily and fearfully stared at him, Lu Yin stretched out his hand. "Give it to me."

"Mine!"

"I am the master of Joy City. What is yours is mine."

The skeleton was completely unwilling and even wanted to resist, but in the end, it did not dare to fight back. It gave the armor to Lu Yin.

He placed it over his own skeleton and went to find Withered Requiem again.

"Yo, yo, you want to participate in the competition for the Abyssal position?" Withered Requiem's voice revealed that they were even more incredulous than when they had lost to the Dream Band. At the same time, they eyed the armor that Lu Yin was wearing. This was quite a thorough preparation.

Lu Yin said, "That is right. I ask for your permission, my lord."

Withered Requiem sized up Lu Yin. "All who participate in the struggle are Immortal beings. Yo, yo, human bones, do you understand that?"

"I know, but I am also an Aberrant. I want to at least try," Lu Yin answered confidently as he rattled the armor on his bones.

Withered Requiem looked at the Abyssal Displacement and then at Lu Yin. In particular, the Abyssal stared at the human skeleton for a peculiarly long while.

Lu Yin grew uneasy, afraid that Withered Requiem would notice that he had devoured a vast amount of Stillness. Had they perhaps already noticed?

He would not underestimate Withered Requiem. Withered Requiem may have released all of their constraints, but that did not mean that they were stupid. The Abyssal was certainly not weak.

No matter how many preparations Lu Yin made, even with Thousand Machinations’ help, this clone was still not Lu Yin’s true body. Even when his true body had been an Aberrant, he could not have defeated someone as powerful as Withered Requiem, who was a peak two-law powerhouse. There was no need to even mention doing so with a mere clone.

But there were also many things that Lu Yin could do nothing about. What had to be done still had to be done. At the very least, he was unquestionably a skeleton at the moment, and all that he had kept hidden could be explained away by Withered Requiem themself.

After staring at Lu Yin for quite a while, Withered Requiem reminded him, "Yo, yo, if you die, the Dream Band will no longer be able to beat my Death Band. The master of Joy City will be me again. You have only just become the master of Joy City. Are you willing to accept that?"

Lu Yin maintained a respectful tone, "Where Joy City goes has always been for you to decide, my lord. This subordinate simply obeys your command and wishes to challenge the way of music as much as possible. I will never interfere with Joy City's orders."

Withered Requiem was very satisfied with Lu Yin's answer. "Good! Then go. If you need anything, tell me. Although you can’t possibly win, don’t die too quickly."

Lu Yin was grateful. "Many thanks, my lord."

If he had not defeated Withered Requiem with music, how could it possibly be so easy to talk to the Abyssal?

As for whether Lu Yin would win, that could be determined when the time came. If there was something that might affect the Trio, he certainly would not hold back.

He connected the other plates of black armor to the one that he was already wearing. This way, it would not be too conspicuous.

On the top floor of Joy City, Fishbone was shocked, "You really want to fight for the position of Abyssal?"

Zhou quietly stated, "I will go with you."

Lu Yin refused, "This competition is only something that I want to check out. Don’t worry, I won’t go to the goal. As long as I don’t reach the finish line, I’ll face no danger."

"So you want to absorb as much Stillness as possible along the way?" Yong Heng understood.

Zhu exclaimed in admiration, "A clever idea."

Zhou interjected, "That is wrong. You will still be in danger because there are many paths that lead to the same destination."

As they spoke, Zhou took out a piece of white bone and started to draw on the floor. "Let us say that the middle is the Death Megaverse. The Abyssal Displacement uses the Death Megaverse as a node to connect the seven Abysses. The Abysses can connect to each other, but they can also remain unconnected. Since this is a competition for the position of Abyssal, I believe that they will definitely be connected."

In other words, experts from the other Abysses might pass through the Death Megaverse to reach the goal. That was the most direct path for most, but two Abysses were closer to the destination than the Death Megaverse.

Yong Heng interjected, "There are two Abysses closer to the direction of Death's Dominion's Abyss."

Zhou agreed, "Correct. When Withered Requiem asked me to participate in this competition, I was reminded that we are definitely one of the two closest Abysses. In other words, experts from the other Abysses may very possibly come through our Abyss. At the very least, there is a very good chance that the Abyss closest to us will do just that, especially any competitors who are fully confident in their own strength and want to eliminate competitors in advance.

"That is why your path may not be yours alone. You may encounter powerful enemies."

Lu Yin nodded. "So that is how it is."

Zhou said, "Let me go with you. Revolution Planet only has us left. I don’t want anything to happen to you."

Lu Yin smiled at Zhou. A skeleton's smile was rather sinister. "There’s no need. At worst, I simply won’t go. I’ll just stay at the entrance and absorb Stillness there."

Zhou was taken aback. "As simple as that?"

Lu Yin solemnly stated, "In Joy City, no matter how I try to absorb Stillness, my efforts are still limited. It’s completely impossible to absorb the Stillness underground, so cultivating here is too slow. However, if I can step onto this road, I can absorb Stillness without restraint. I also want to break through to the Immortal realm as soon as possible. That way, my Revolution Planet will be reborn in another form."

Zhou felt ashamed. "I never thought of it that way. I am sorry. I am clearly the master of Revolution Planet, and yet you are the one doing so many things."

Lu Yin reassured the other skeleton, "Boss Zhou, you are already an Immortal being. You don’t need to think about such things, but I am different."

It took a long time for him to calm Zhou down. Lu Yin did not want to take the Immortal along with him. He was already certain that he would expose himself, and he was utterly unwilling to eliminate Zhou. This fellow had treated Lu Yin quite well, despite having been deceived.

There was no need to mention the others. Yong Heng and Zhu would never step forward, and Fishbone was even more averse to such risk.

Before long, Lu Yin returned to Withered Requiem, the black Stillness still extending from the Abyssal’s feet. "Yo, yo, it is still not too late for regret."

"Thank you, my lord. I won’t regret this."

The next moment, his body was dragged away by the Stillness, taken along the dark and terrifying Abyssal Displacement.

Behind Withered Requiem, the Immortal member of the Death Band spoke up. "My lord, I cannot see through his strength."

Withered Requiem laughed. "Yo, yo, he contains an enormous amount of Stillness. He also relied on a special method to defeat me in music. That human skeleton is very strange."

"After all, he is a human skeleton."

"Yo, yo, let them think about those things. In any case, Thousand Machinations also cares about him."

***

The cosmos was deep and vast. Everything in sight seemed to be the end because everything in sight was the same. But nothing that was seen was truly the end because one could never reach the bottom.

Pure black split the boundless Aevum Inch in two, as though it was building a road of even deeper darkness across the dark sky. This road traversed one megaverse after another. It was unseen by those megaverses, yet it was still able to affect them.

Beneath Lu Yin's feet, the cosmos itself spread out, stabbed through by the pure blackness of Stillness. The path snapped a set of sequence strings, causing an entire megaverse to be reset, and yet the power of a megaverse’s destruction was incapable of causing even the slightest bend to appear in the road of Stillness.

Without stepping onto this road, Lu Yin would have never known that Stillness could be so terrifying. It truly was like an abyss.