Chapter 3914: Invitation

Bai what? Is he from the Bai family? The Celestial Frost Sect’s Bai family in the Tianyuan Megaverse?

Lu Yin’s brow furrowed. His intuition said that the secret that Feng Bo had tried to share was truly important. However, if it was about a connection between Yong Heng and the Celestial Frost Sect, then how important could it possibly be? The Bai family’s patriarch had already died at the Immemorial Citadel, and Bai Xian’er had also died, eliminating any ties to the Bai family. What kind of earth-shattering secret could there still be?

Even if Yong Heng really was a member of the Bai family, even if speculation was taken to the extreme and the Bai Mu who had died at the Immemorial Citadel had been a fake and Yong Heng was the real Bai Mu, so what? How would that affect Lu Yin? Could that information change anything about the current situation in the various megaverses? Not at all.

Not even the entire Tianyuan Megaverse could influence things very much, let alone the Bai family alone.

In that case, did “Bai” even refer to a surname?

Images from the past flickered through Lu Yin’s mind as he tried to find some clue. Unfortunately, he could find nothing.

Ah! Jiu Xian.

Lu Yin passed back through the Skyward Gate and took out the spirit cloudstone that he had used in the Spirit Nidus and called Jiu Xian.

Time passed, but he received no response.

It was probably because the woman had returned to the Nine Odysseys Megaverse and thus no longer needed a spirit cloudstone. Lu Yin took out his communication device and called Qing Yun.

He had met the young woman on more than one occasion while traveling with the Seventh Night Pillar, and they had exchanged contact information at that time.

In the Frightened Sparrow Terrace, Qing Yun stared at the image of Lu Yin that appeared before her. “Mr. Lu, what do you need?”

Standing behind her, Granny Yin was extremely nervous, and she stared intently at the image. That brat! He really did manage to get the young lady’s information. He can’t be allowed to meet her alone.

Lu Yin replied, “I want to speak with Jiu Xian.”

Qing Yun was caught off guard, and she turned to look at Granny Yin.

The old woman stepped closer. “Jiu Xian? What do you want with Jiu Xian?”

Lu Yin said, “We met in the Spirit Nidus, and I have a question for her.”

Granny Yin wanted to refuse, but after giving the matter a bit of thought, agreed to Lu Yin’s request. No matter how wary she was of the man, his strength was still terrifying. It was even possible that he might eventually become an Immortal. Even if he never broke through to that realm, he was already stronger than anyone in the Nine Odysseys Megaverse, aside from the Greater Sancti. It would be best not to offend him unnecessarily, so long as the young lady was not involved, of course.

After receiving Jiu Xian’s contact information, Lu Yin ended the call and immediately reached out to Jiu Xian.

It did not take long for the woman’s image to appear on the display.

“Mr. Lu, you need something from me?”

“I have a question for you,” Lu Yin replied.

Jiu Xian shook her head. “I have no questions to trade with you, Mr. Lu.”

Lu Yin looked past the woman in the image. “Are you in the North Domain?”

“How did you know?”

“I can tell. The Mother Tree is behind you, and the Rift of Suffering is in front of you. You left the East Domain... because of Lan?”

Jiu Xian sipped her wine. “You mentioned that both Lan and Feng Bo serve Yong Heng, so naturally, I needed to go to Skyward Gate. I’ve heard she’s leading those Spirit Nidus cultivators.”

Lu Yin shrugged. “In that case, you’re too late. She’s already dead.”

Jiu Xian’s expression changed, and her eyes locked onto Lu Yin. “You killed her?”

“I need to resolve the trouble in the Spirit Nidus. Since I already knew that she was scheming something behind the scenes, of course I couldn’t let her go.”

Jiu Xian’s expression grew solemn.

“Feng Bo is also dead.”

Jiu Xian was startled by that revelation, and her gaze returned to Lu Yin. “You also killed Feng Bo?”

Lu Yin shook his head. “I didn’t kill him. He was only alive because he was resurrected by Eternal Decree, so he was probably killed by Yong Heng. I still had questions for him, which is why I called you.”

Jiu Xian clenched a fist, her eyes flickering with a terrifying amount of killing intent. She took another swig of her wine, and her face flushed red.

A long time later, she tossed the gourd of wine aside. “If Yong Heng could resurrect him once, he can do it twice, right?”

She looked at Lu Yin hopefully.

He thought for a moment and then nodded. “It’s possible.”

Feng Bo was Jiu Xian’s greatest enemy. She had gone to the Spirit Nidus just to find him. She was a Dukkhan, and it seemed possible that her Dukkha was actually Feng Bo himself.

If the man died but was not killed by Jiu Xian herself, she might suffer a terrible blow.

Lu Yin did not deny Jiu Xian hope, as it gave her motivation to continue forward.

“What do you want to ask me?” Jiu Xian plopped herself down on the ground.

Lu Yin asked, “What caused the grudge that you have against Feng Bo? How much do you know about him?”

Jiu Xian grew puzzled. “My grudge with Feng Bo... What’s it to you? It has nothing to do with Yong Heng either.”

“I just want to know.”

Jiu Xian barked a laugh. “Fine, if you want to know, I’ll tell you...”

Shortly after that, Lu Yin put his communication device away. He still had not found any clues.

The matter that had sparked Jiu Xian’s hatred of Feng Bo was very simple: he had annihilated her entire family.

Feng Bo had once been a guest of Jiu Xian’s family. For unknown reasons, he had wiped out her entire clan while she had coincidentally been away traveling. She had only barely escaped her family’s massacre. At that time, Feng Bo had been far stronger than Jiu Xian.

Later, Yong Heng had taken Feng Bo to the Tianyuan Megaverse, where the man’s cultivation had only slowly improved. Jiu Xian, on the other hand, had been driven by her hatred and had cultivated rapidly in the Nine Odysseys Megaverse. Not only had she become an Ortuser, but she had even entered Dukkha.

She had searched the entire Nine Odysseys Megaverse for Feng Bo but had never found him. That was why she had gone to the Spirit Nidus.

The cause of her hatred was clear. The only unknown was why Feng Bo had destroyed her family, but that was something that Jiu Xian had never managed to uncover.

Lu Yin let out a breath. The trail had gone cold. If he wanted to pursue things further, it was necessary to wait for Yong Heng to resurrect Feng Bo yet again. Would he even do that? If Yong Heng had already retrained his Eternal Decree, it was possible. That was the only way the secret might be exposed.

Lu Yin stopped dwelling on the matter. He nodded in greetings to the people from the Rift of Suffering and then left the Skyward Gate, heading towards the Spirit Nidus.

His top priority for the moment was to eliminate the threat facing the Tianyuan Megaverse.

Lu Yin deliberately searched for the location that connected Heavenspire to the Spirit Nidus. As he stared at the connection, he recalled that this was where he had led the Immortal monster into Heavenspire.

He had assumed that leading the monster into Heavenspire would have been the end of the connection. It was a surprise to learn that the connection still persisted.

Why had Master Qing Cao left the connection intact?

This connection was precisely what had let people from the Spirit Nidus access Heavenspire. That suggested that Master Qing Cao had most likely contributed to the unrest in the Spirit Nidus, even if he had not been present in the megaverse at the time.

Already, people had returned to the Spirit Nidus through Heavenspire, delivering the terms that they had agreed upon with Lu Yin.

Su Shidao, Shi Xiu, and the others were surprised to see Lu Yin return from the Skyward Gate, though they were not surprised to learn that he had subdued the entire group who had gone there.

The current Spirit Nidus was completely different from what it had once been.

Ever since Boundless’s arrival, nearly half of the Spirit Nidus’s top experts had either died or been captured, while still more had defected to Boundless. Less than a third remained now. The High Seraph had gone missing, and of the Seven Seraphs, one had sealed his entire family off, cutting themselves off from all outside affairs. At the moment, the Spirit Nidus was so pitiful that it might be even worse off than the Tianyuan Megaverse. How could they possibly stand against Lu Yin?

It was not just that Lu Yin was strong, but also that he employed undefeatable strategies. The Spirit Nidus could only surrender to his control.

Lu Yin had returned to Spirit Nidus. More than thirty years had passed, but he had finally returned.

As he looked out at the familiar universe, Lu Yin actually felt himself relax a bit. Was it because there were no beings in this megaverse who were stronger than him? Or was it because he had spent so much time in the Spirit Nidus that he had grown attached to it?

Lu Yin could not say. Even if his strength made him invincible, he was still a man, an ordinary, flesh-and-blood human. There were also times when his emotions ran deeper than most people’s.

Despite being an enemy megaverse, it was a place where Lu Yin had left too many legends behind.

As soon as he arrived in the Spirit Nidus, his first priority was to eliminate the Nest.

He had no idea why a Nest had been taken to the Spirit Nidus. If it were not for the fact that he needed to rely on the Spirit Nidus to eliminate the Nests in the Tianyuan, Lu Yin would have preferred to leave the Nest where it was. The Spirit Nidus wanted to use the Tianyuan as a shield? Ridiculous.

Since Lu Yin was leading all of the Spirit Nidus’s cultivators to the Tianyuan to deal with the Nests there, the threat had to be eliminated from their megaverse as well.

All Nests had to be eradicated.

Whatever was hiding in the Aevum Inch was unimaginable to those who had not experienced it for themselves. The fact that Lu Yin had found an inert Nest in the Cheng family’s secret records suggested that the Nest Civilization was not far from the human macrocosm. Neither the Spirit Nidus nor the Tianyuan could be exposed.

That said, the Nest could not have appeared in the Spirit Nidus without cause. Could someone from the Tianyuan have brought it over?

Anything that Lu Yin could think of, so could his seniors. It was possible that he had underestimated their cunning.

He wondered how the messenger who had delivered the Nest was faring.

His consciousness swept across the Spirit Nidus’s universes, eradicating swarms of bugs. The Spirit Nidus had not cared about the creatures at all, which had allowed them to multiply rapidly. Luckily, the Spirit Nidus had cultivators spread across many interconnected parallel universes, which made it easier to locate the Nests than in the Tianyuan.

At the same time, he searched for Aeternals, which posed another major threat.

As Lu Yin did so, the Spirit Nidus’s cultivators gathered at the universe-class battleships. It was exactly the same as when they had prepared to invade the Tianyuan Megaverse.

Countless cultivators were excited to set out. They were excited because Lu Yin had made them a promise: the people from the Spirit Nidus who helped to save the Tianyuan Megaverse would one day have a chance to train in the Nine Odysseys Megaverse. That promise was what motivated the vast majority of people.

Lu Yin had laid out a path forward for them.

This was not just about Immortality; as long as they could enter the Nine Odysseys Megaverse and cultivate there, they would be able to escape the torment of having their spirit seeds being taken away. They could not see any hope of resisting the Nine Odysseys Megaverse, which made most of the Spirit Nidus cultivators want to join that megaverse instead.

Some wanted to stand up to the Nine Odysseys Megaverse and reclaim their freedom, while others wanted to join it. Lu Yin had succeeded in uniting nearly everyone from both camps.

Given that there was no limit on how many people could join the expedition, everyone who wanted to go did so, and the Spirit Nidus nearly boiled over with excitement.

After half a year, in the Spirit Treasure Domain, Su Shidao lowered his fishing rod. There was a bitter expression on his face as he looked back. “I am not your subordinate.”

“Of course not,” Lu Yin replied nearby. He was staring up at the stars, seemingly lost in thought.

“Then why are you still forcing me?”

“It’s just a bit of fun. It will be more interesting if everyone goes.”

“Before, you forced me to become a Seraph. Now, you’re forcing me to go to the Tianyuan Megaverse. Do I owe you anything?”

Lu Yin smiled at Su Shidao. “I’m not forcing you—I’m inviting you. I’m inviting you on behalf of the Tianyuan Megaverse.”

Su Shidao’s expression turned grave. “Be honest with me. What exactly are you planning? The Nine Odysseys Megaverse will never tolerate the Spirit Nidus knowing the truth. Our megaverse is too important to them.”

Lu Yin thought for a moment. “Originally, the Nine Odysseys Megaverse intended to wipe out three generations of the Spirit Nidus’s cultivators in order to bury the truth.”

Su Shidao’s eyes instantly grew sharp. He reflexively did not want to believe such a claim, but after thinking about it, what remained in the Spirit Nidus that was worth still caring about? Most of their experts were dead or crippled. Even if several generations disappeared, it would not be too high a cost.

“I fought for this opportunity to have all who know the truth move to the Tianyuan Megaverse. The truth can be passed down within the Tianyuan Megaverse, but it can never be spread in the Spirit Nidus,” Lu Yin continued.

Su Shidao stared at Lu Yin. “Is that true?”

Lu Yin let out a small laugh. “For the Nine Odysseys Megaverse, there are many ways to resolve this, but this is the only option that doesn’t harm my interests while still resolving things.”

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