Chapter 4449: Walking Books

It was no wonder why You Che could never find it. After entering Manifest City, he had become a fish, not a human. How could a fish possibly open its heart to the residents of the city? How could it possibly see the characters within them? Those characters were not carved upon the people’s bodies. Instead, the people were born from those characters. What was born was not a person, but an experience, a kind of inheritance.

It was no wonder why no one had been able to find it thus far. This was something that only Tuo Lin could discover.

This was the legendary invincible technique of the Fifth Rampart. If it could be cultivated, who knew what it would be like?

"Tuo Lin, open your heart and talk with them," Lu Yin encouraged.

Tuo Lin nodded eagerly and excitedly replied, "Your disciple understands, Master. Your disciple really enjoys this feeling.

"Your disciple has read many books. Books are written by people, and every book contains the thoughts of the one who wrote it. Reading books can lead to understanding, while talking with these people can lead to understanding as well."

Lu Yin asked, "Are you saying that these people are like walking books?"

Tuo Lin agreed, "Yes, everyone is a walking book. Some people may not even be able to recognize a single character, yet their life experience is still a book. Your disciple once believed that no two books could be exactly the same, but here I have seen it. A single character represents a book, and it also represents a person's entire life. Your disciple really wants to see what the lives of everyone here are like and what it would mean to read all of their characters. Your disciple truly hopes to do that."

Lu Yin encouraged him yet again, "Then go and do it. Your master will wait for the day when you can understand everyone."

"Thank you, Master."

"Mm, take Little Ruyu back."

Tuo Lin was very reluctant, wanting to talk with Lu Yin a little longer, but someone in the distance had woken up in the middle of the night and called out loudly, so Tuo Lin had no choice but to return to the tent to rest.

Watching him leave, Lu Yin turned to Hui Can. "Protect your senior brother well. Nothing can be allowed to happen to him. What he is currently seeing represents the former glory of humanity."

Hui Can was caught off guard. "The former glory?"

He was no fool. On the contrary, he was quite clever, and Lu Yin had no need to hide anything from Hui Can.

Everyone entered Manifest City to find a way to take control of it. Tuo Lin was the only one who had entered as a human, and he was also the only one who could see the life experiences of the residents of Manifest City. This was why Hui Can was able to guess that Tuo Lin had very likely found the method to controlling Manifest City.

Lu Yin continued, "Your senior brother's opportunity lies in this place. Protect him well, and in the future, he will help you find your own opportunity."

Hui Can nodded. "Understood, Master."

Lu Yin looked at his disciple. "You are very clever and are naturally suited to the world of cultivators, but you are also too clever. Because of that, you have missed many things. Stay with your senior brother more often. What he sees is different from what you see. Your future may not necessarily lie with your master. It could very well lie with your senior brother."

Hui Can respectfully acknowledged Lu Yin’s words.

Lu Yin was not trying to deceive him. Tuo Lin's heart was pure, and what he saw was different from everyone else. Hui Can was the opposite. Even though he held no evil intentions, he was a ruthless and scheming person who was constantly calculating. There were far too many cultivators with the same kind of mindset. Lu Yin could give Hui Can a powerful inheritance, but he could not give him one equal to Heartbond Nonduality.

Some people's opportunities could only be obtained by themselves.

Lu Yin hoped that Hui Can could also obtain a powerful inheritance. After all, he was a descendant of Progenitor Hui, and that man had sacrificed far too much for human civilization. Without Progenitor Hui, there would be no Lu Yin.

As for Heartbond Nonduality, Lu Yin did not necessarily have to learn it. It was impossible for him to master every powerful technique and ability in the omniverse. It would be best if Tuo Lin could learn it. No matter how one looked at things, Tuo Lin was the one most suited to heart techniques because he had read many books.

After leaving Manifest City, Lu Yin returned to the Tianyuan and entered the Mirari Realm. He wanted to cultivate the Star Fist.

The Star Fist could theoretically be cultivated to a level of supreme invincibility, where a single punch could destroy a fishing civilization. He had to admit that this feat had moved him quite greatly. Training this fist technique might take time, but time was the one thing that he lacked the least.

Standing along the banks of the River of Aeons, Lu Yin closed his eyes, the Starfist Manual appearing in his mind.

The Dipper Fist was only one part of the full technique. He had already ignited the Dipper Fist, but in the vast scope of the entire Starfist Manual, that one fist intent was as tiny as a firefly.

What he needed to do was ignite every fist star until the entire constellation was illuminated and then use the power of those stars to unleash the supreme Star Fist. Countless stars equated to a sky full of stars. Only with that could the true Star Fist be mastered.

The path of cultivating this technique was clear, and the method was also simple: comprehend fist intent and continue illuminating each star. Each star was unique, and every profound intent was also different.

Lu Yin stood by the River of Aeons for a full 100 years. Of course, no time had passed in the outside world, but he was keeping track of the time he experienced.

During that century, he ignited three stars, which meant comprehending three different fist intents under the Starfist Manual. But there were countless stars in the sky, and the farther along that Lu Yin progressed, the longer it would take for him to comprehend each new fist intent. He suddenly opened his eyes, sweat dripping from his forehead.

No, this is wrong.

He reexamined the Starfist Manual and extinguished the three stars that he had ignited.

He had ignited them, and he could indeed unleash the Star Fist with those three stars, but the fist intent that had ignited those three stars was founded on the profundity of the Dipper Fist. He had comprehended this fist intent from the profundity of the Dipper Fist. In that case, had he truly comprehended the fist intent himself, or had it been comprehended by the one who had created the Dipper Fist?

Even if Lu Yin trained the technique in this manner until he eventually ignited all the stars, the ultimate Star Fist that he unleashed still would not be his own Star Fist. From the very beginning, it had all belonged to someone else.

He could actually accept that. When considering all the battle techniques he had mastered, not all of them had been created by him. Many had been created by others, and he had merely learned them.

What he could not accept was that comprehending the profundities of fist intent from the foundation of another’s took far too long. It was like a person doing something he enjoyed and excelled at. The time needed would be short, and the results would be excellent. However, if that same person did something that someone else excelled at, the results would not necessarily be the same. Even with the same amount of time, the efficiency might not reach even half of the first scenario, and even half was already an optimistic estimate.

As for igniting all the stars, forget doubling the time—even if it was just an extra fifth or an extra tenth, it would still be unbearably long.

Not to mention the quality of the final results.

Lu Yin stared out at the flowing River of Aeons. In the distance, Zhao Ran quietly rowed her boat by, not disturbing him.

Although Lu Yin’s eyes were open, he was still lost in his own thoughts.

After some time, he released his inner universe. One star after another began to revolve. He was using the Cosmic Art.

He had long felt some similarities between the Star Fist and the Cosmic Art. One was a fist technique that had been the cultivation path of an entire civilization. It did not emphasize raw power, or at least, that was how Lu Yin saw it. Similarly, the Cosmic Art also did not emphasize raw power, but instead cultivation speed and range.

The Star Fist and the Cosmic Art were both based on a sky full of stars. He did not know if the Cosmic Art might be of any help when it came to training the Star Fist.

He continued his training. Time continued to flow, and Lu Yin did not know how much time had passed. When he opened his eyes next, he felt a bit of surprise, but not much.

The Cosmic Art did indeed accelerate the training speed of the Star Fist. Within the range of the Cosmic Art, he was able to observe every inch of the stars’ positions, no matter how far away they were from him. Back when Lu Yin had first merged with the stars left behind by Progenitor Chen’s Cosmic Art, he had overwhelmed a powerful enemy and rescued the Progenitor of Bloodlines. At the time that Lu Yin had saved the man, his own power had not nearly reached that level. He had only succeeded by relying on the Cosmic Art.

While training with the Star Fist, he was similarly using the Cosmic Art as a reference, examining a multitude of stars and immersing himself within them.

There was some improvement, but the rate was still not satisfying.

After thinking things over, Lu Yin decided to seek Progenitor Chen's help.

The Cosmic Art had been created by Progenitor Chen, and the man’s talent when it came to developing new battle techniques was unmatched. Not even Lu Yin would dare to claim that he could surpass Progenitor Chen’s talent for creating battle techniques.

After leaving the Mirari Realm, Lu Yin merged with the will of the Tianyuan and used that to quickly find Progenitor Chen.

The man had never given up on searching for Wang Xiaoyu. Previously, while searching for her, Progenitor Chen had been defeated by a single sword strike from Obscura’s Transparent, the Keeper of Balance. If not for the Lifespring within him preserving a sliver of his vitality until Lu Yin had arrived to use the Nirvana Tree Path to revive the man, Progenitor Chen would have died then and there.

However, that disaster had brought about an unexpected fortune, as it had led Progenitor Chen's combat power to soar to a new level under the Nirvana Tree Path, and he was now approaching the power of a peak Dukkhan. Even now, he was still searching for Wang Xiaoyu.

Even Lu Yin admired Progenitor Chen's fearlessness in the face of death. He similarly wanted to devote himself entirely to finding the Keeper of Balance, but even if he did find them, what then? It was possible that he would face the same fate as Progenitor Chen, cut down by a single sword strike.

Progenitor Chen's persistence might appear foolish, but that was simply who he was. Without that persistence, there would be no Progenitor Chen who had fought across the universe, peerless and unmatched, no Progenitor Chen who had guarded Burial Garden alone for countless years just to comprehend a battle technique that could defeat Yong Heng.

"The Star Fist?" Progenitor Chen asked in confusion.

Lu Yin explained, "It is an absolutely invincible fist technique that once destroyed a fishing civilization with a single punch."

Progenitor Chen was astonished, but he simply did not believe Lu Yin’s words. He was persistent but not stupid. A single punch that had destroyed a fishing civilization? How could that be possible?

The better one’s understanding of fishing civilizations, the more that they understood just how unrealistic that claim was.

When considering all the fishing civilizations that the human civilization had fought against, which one could possibly be destroyed by a single punch? The Blacklight Civilization? Their One-Hundredth Seal had trapped even Ancestor Shan. The Mudwater Dominion? Ni Bieluo’s strength still inspired lingering fear. The Plume Immortals? Those birds would have escaped long ago with teleportation. Obscura? What a joke. Just their Keeper of Balance had left humanity feeling helpless, and that was only one member of Obscura. That group was truly unfathomable.

Perhaps only the technological fishing civilization could be destroyed by one punch, but even that was predicated on the condition that the entire civilization could be located and that it had no hidden supreme weapon.

Progenitor Chen was very clear on the power of fishing civilizations, which was why he did not believe Lu Yin’s claim.

Lu Yin continued in a helpless tone, "At first, I didn’t believe that either, but Ancestor Shan said it, and I also verified it with Obscura, so the story should be true."

Progenitor Chen's eyes lit up. "Good! Then let us study it."

He temporarily put aside his search for Wang Xiaoyu. The truth was, he had no clues concerning her whereabouts at all, and his search was guided solely by intuition.

In the Mirari Realm, Lu Yin released his inner universe and sketched out the Starfist Manual within that.

Progenitor Chen stood within Lu Yin’s inner universe and studied the Starfist Manual. Around him, he also released the Cosmic Art. He could also sense the similarities between the two techniques.

Farther away stood Chen Jian, who had also been brought into the Mirari Realm. After all, he was the Star Fist’s heir, and it was possible that his presence could be of some help.

Day after day passed. Progenitor Chen moved from initial confusion to later closing his eyes in contemplation. After several dozen years, he opened his eyes and looked at Lu Yin, shaking his head. "The Star Fist cannot be comprehended with just this alone."

Lu Yin looked at Chen Jian. "Is there any other way?"

Chen Jian shrugged. "Even I failed to comprehend the true Star Fist or access the Starfist Manual. If he had talent like yours, Lord Lu, then perhaps another Shattered Dipper could help to awaken his understanding, but the Shattered Dipper is already gone."

Lu Yin's eyes lit up. "His talent is even higher than mine."

Chen Jian was taken aback. Is that so?

Lu Yin thought for a moment. A Shattered Dipper? That could be arranged.

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