Chapter 4405: Star Chart

Old Man Hehe chuckled. “Child, you owe me your life, remember?”

Lu Yin did not deny it. On the battlefield, life and death were impossible to predict, and Old Man Hehe had truly saved Lu Yin’s life once. If Old Man Hehe had not wanted to act at that time, no one could have forced them to.

“Of course I remember.”

“Hehe, good. As long as you do not deny it. Then complete your mission.”

Lu Yin frowned. “Mission?”

“The mission that Ba Se assigned you.”

“The one to capture a branch of the River of Aeons?”

“That’s right.”

“What does that have to do with you?” Lu Yin did not understand.

Old Man Hehe replied, “Obscura will not explain everything, but there are certain things that you can figure out for yourself, such as the rules.

“Obscura does not consist of Ba Se alone. There are also all of us. Since Ba Se can assign missions, then so can we.”

Lu Yin was surprised by this revelation. Could other members also issue missions? Wait, he finally understood. It seemed that the mission of capturing a branch of the River of Aeons had been put up by Old Man Hehe, who had then made Ba Se assign it. That was why Ba Se did not care whether it was completed yet still said that the mission had to be accepted.

Lu Yin had already found that discrepancy strange. Saying that it was a mandatory mission made it look urgent, but he had not been given a time limit. That was a contradiction in and of itself, and there was finally an explanation for it. “So you’re the one who had Ba Se issue that mandatory mission to me.”

Old Man Hehe laughed. “Paying a price in exchange for a mandatory mission is within Obscura’s rules. It just depends on whether you can think of the possibility.”

“Are you also responsible for the mandatory mission of creating the star chart?”

“Creating a star chart? That has nothing to do with me.”

“What if I refuse to complete your mission?” Lu Yin asked back.

Old Man Hehe said, “You do remember that you owe me your life, right? During the war against the Plume Immortals, you agreed to seal Gao Tian because Ba Se forced you to accept that mission and also because you would receive a five-star mission reward from Obscura, not because of me. In truth, if you had immediately agreed to help me seal Gao Tian back then, you would have not only repaid the life debt you owe me, but I could have also helped you complete that five-star mission, while the reward would have still been yours. Such a pity.”

Lu Yin did not find it a pity at all. He had clearly intended to refuse back then, only he had not expected refusal to be impossible. “Old Man Hehe, is one branch of the River of Aeons really worth the life debt that I owe you? Capturing a branch shouldn’t be all that difficult, should it?”

“It is not difficult, but I cannot do it. The moment I move, the main stream of the River of Aeons will sweep me away. I can draw upon the main stream, but the main stream is also watching me. That is why I can only have Ba Se assign this mission,” Old Man Hehe explained.

Lu Yin understood. “Why not find someone else?”

“Using you is the cheapest,” Old Man Hehe bluntly replied.

It was not a matter of being cheap, but rather of being completely free. Old Man Hehe did not need to pay anything. All they needed was for Lu Yin to acknowledge that they had once saved his life.

Even between enemies, there still had to be a bottom line. Some rules had to be observed. Lu Yin could not act shamelessly in a matter like this, or else he would completely lose all standing.

Lu Yin found it strange. “You only lack one branch of the River of Aeons?”

“I lack many. As long as you are willing, this mission can continue without limit.”

Lu Yin smiled faintly. “To keep issuing mandatory missions without limit, what kind of price did you pay?”

“That is confidential.”

“Fine. I will help you capture branches of the River of Aeons when I can,” Lu Yin agreed, “By the way, do you know how to contact Second Furball?”

“Why are you looking for it?” Even Old Man Hehe found this request strange.

“There is something I want to ask it.”

“What is it?”

“Hehe.”

Old Man Hehe was left speechless.

“There is no need for you to look for Second Furball. Even if you find it, it will not speak with you. You should already have seen its true form,” they finally said.

Lu Yin nodded. “I have to say, the fact that even a shield can join Obscura is still rather unbelievable.”

“The owner of that shield died in the war of the Nine Ramparts.”

A flash passed through Lu Yin's eyes. “Killed by human hands?”

“Hehe.”

Lu Yin rubbed his head. There was nothing more that he could do about that. He had been wondering why Second Furball was so hostile toward him, targeting him every time it spoke. So this was the reason.

That meant that Second Furball was also an enemy.

“Child, human civilization has far more enemies than you can imagine. Capture a few more branches of the River of Aeons. Believe me, you will need my help, hehe.”

Lu Yin looked out at Vestigium. This seemed to make sense, but would helping Old Man Hehe really be enough? Who said that Old Man Hehe themself was not an enemy of humanity? They might have saved Lu Yin earlier, just to kill him later. Who could say for sure?

He certainly had to capture a branch of the River of Aeons and treat it as repaying the life debt, but as for capturing several more, Old Man Hehe was dreaming.

“Ba Se.”

“I am here.”

“I want to buy a star chart.”

“There are none, and purchasing is not offered.”

So they can’t be bought? Lu Yin had simply gotten the idea from what Old Man Hehe had mentioned, and he had decided to try buying something from Obscura. If it was not possible to buy it, then so be it. He had only been testing things out.

Creating a star chart was a mandatory mission, and it had been requested by a specific member of Obscura. Even if Lu Yin wanted to buy it, Ba Se was not the one to ask.

As he thought of this, Lu Yin smiled. He had figured out how to expose another member of Obscura by identifying who had issued the mission of preparing the star chart.

After leaving Vestigium, Lu Yin entered the Mirari Realm, where he began frantically deducing additional layers of the Mirrorlight Art. These were not for himself, but rather for others. He was performing the necessary calculations in reverse so that others could increase their range of vision. He had no time to survey the cosmos surrounding the Trio, but others had plenty of time to do so. Especially since some members of the Lu family were also able to teleport. This was a task best entrusted to them.

At first, calculating the layers of the Mirrorlight Art on his own had been exhausting for Lu Yin, but after he made eye contact with Ni Bieluo, who had shattered his Mirrorlight Art, he had been forced to recalculate the shattered layers. In the process of doing so, Lu Yin had realized that repeating the calculations he had already performed was very easy. So, he simply kept repeating his previous calculations.

A range equivalent to twenty years’ travel was enough. Lu Yin did not need to go too far.

When Ancestor Lu Yuan emerged from the Mirari Realm and peered into the distance, he took away the people beside him, one after another, teleporting them all away.

With the Trio as the center, they all spread out in every direction, fully exposing the Trio’s surroundings. This project would take a great deal of time, and Lu Yin could not afford that time, but others could.

The people assigned to this task were Dan Jin, Ming Zhuo, and others who had reached the pinnacle of strength beneath the Immortal realm through the Nirvana Tree Path.

With Ancestor Lu Yuan's ability to teleport, the people moved about like a machine. Given enough time, they would inevitably fully grasp the region around the Trio.

In the past, Lu Yin had managed to see just a rough outline. This time, he intended to prepare a star chart.

At this time, more than one member of the Lu family was capable of teleporting. For the moment, Ancestor Lu Yuan was personally taking the lead, as this could be considered a trial run. Next, others would try.

Results appeared very quickly. Wilderness God was the first to find Lu Yin, saying that he had already discovered a megaverse.

For a long time, Wilderness God had been the one suppressing the Tianyuan’s sequence strings, but as Lu Yin steadily advanced further and further, obtaining a level of strength comparable to an Immortal and eventually greatly surpassing ordinary Immortals, the astral beast no longer had to do that.

At this time, no one could snap the sequence strings of any of humanity’s three megaverses, let alone reset the Tianyuan. Even if a powerful enemy wanted to reset the Tianyuan, it would not be necessary to go to such trouble.

The Plume Immortals had easily managed to reset the Consciousness Megaverse.

This meant that Wilderness God had been idle recently, and like Hongyan Mavis and the others, he had simply cultivated on his own.

When Lu Yin had gathered experts to prepare a star chart, Wilderness God had joined the effort, saying that he wanted to do something. Cultivation could not be accomplished overnight, and sitting within the Aevum Inch could sometimes lead to deeper insights. Staring into the distance along the way was not a bad thing either.

Lu Yin teleported to the coordinates that Wilderness God had given him and looked ahead. Sure enough, there was a megaverse there.

This megaverse was not actually that far from the Trio, being just a bit over ten years’ distance for an ordinary Immortal. It was only because the area was so vast that no one had paid attention to this particular area.

Furthermore, Lu Yin had never said that humanity should search for other megaverses.

This megaverse did not have even a single creature capable of entering the Aevum Inch. No, there was not even a single creature with the strength of a Progenitor, or any Mother Tree. Perhaps Green Lotus was aware of this place but had ignored it because it held no significance.

After observing for a while, Lu Yin left.

He had originally wanted to capture the branch of the River of Aeons from this megaverse, but it was too close to the Trio. He feared causing an accident that could affect his human civilization. It was better to choose a more distant universe.

Right, the Starfall Megaverse. Lu Yin suddenly thought of that possibility. Since all humans had already moved out of the Starfall Megaverse, he could now capture that megaverse’s branch of the River of Aeons.

But before doing so, Lu Yin still had to confirm certain things with Chen Jian.

“You want to capture a branch of the River of Aeons?” Chen Jian was surprised.

Lu Yin nodded. “This is a mandatory mission from Obscura, and I also need to complete it to repay a debt.”

Chen Jian said, “That works as well. We still have some debts to settle with our ferryman of the River of Aeons.”

“What happened?” Lu Yin asked curiously.

Chen Jian's gaze darkened, and his voice turned cold. “The ferryman of the River of Aeons for the Starfall Megaverse has always been hostile to us humans. My masters mentioned that we arrived from another megaverse and occupied the Starfall Megaverse. While that is true, it has nothing to do with the ferryman of the River of Aeons. Ever since we took over the Starfall Megaverse, that ferryman has constantly tampered with time, slowing our cultivation progress, and at many critical moments, even causing certain geniuses to suffer cultivation deviation.

“If not for certain concerns, my masters would have dealt with them long ago.”

A chill entered Lu Yin's eyes, and the corner of his mouth curled upward. “Good. Then we’ll settle that debt.”

“Mr. Lu, dealing with that ferryman is not difficult, but losing that ferryman will bring about trouble.”

“The main stream of the River of Aeons?”

Chen Jian nodded. He was not surprised that Lu Yin knew. It was also the reason why his own masters had held back. “My masters wanted to deal with our ferryman back then, but they said that if attacked, they would bring down the main stream of the River of Aeons to bury the Starfall Megaverse.”

Lu Yin did not understand. “How would the main stream of the River of Aeons bury the Starfall Megaverse?”

Chen Jian shook his head. “I do not know, and neither did my masters. That is why they never dared to act.”

“Since you had that concern, did you ever think of leaving the Starfall Megaverse? Also, what’s the story with that Shattered Dipper? Since the Starfall Megaverse wasn’t your original megaverse, where did the Shattered Dipper come from? Was it an original aspect of the Starfall Megaverse?” Lu Yin asked.

Chen Jian said, “The Shattered Dipper arrived in the Starfall Megaverse together with us humans. It is also why we could not leave that megaverse. The Shattered Dipper can no longer be moved; no one has the necessary fist intent to shift it, and it is also continuing to shatter. If we left without a destination, we would lose our very path of cultivation.”

Lu Yin understood. If not for seeing the Trio with their own eyes, they would have never agreed to leave.

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