nagpurpolice Chapter 2429: Fathers Power
Chapter 2429: Fathers Power
Chapter 2429: Father's Power
All eyes were fixed on the Investiture of the Gods that illuminated the sky above the entire Yishan District.
Lu Yin’s pupils shrank as a figure emerged from the scroll. A Progenitor had truly been within conferred to this scroll. Who was it?
The summoned figure had one hand behind his back, while the other held several scroll-like objects close to his chest as he calmly stood in midair.
Despite only being a summon called by a manifestation, the figure radiated a scholarly demeanor that was readily apparent to all who saw him.
Wait a moment, a scholar?
Lu Yin was struck with a strange feeling.
Wang Fan’s mouth hung open in astonishment. “That’s Progenitor Wen! That’s Lu Qi!”
Bai Wangyuan and all the other Progenitors watching did not know how to feel about this revelation. Was Lu Xiaoxuan really facing a manifestation of his own father?
In the Outer Realm, on Broken Star, Liu Yue stared in stupefaction at the manifestation of Progenitor Wen. Progenitor Liu had actually been present when Lu Qi had first worked up the courage to confer Progenitor Wen. Naturally, Liu Yue could recognize the figure summoned by the tribulation’s Investiture of the Gods. He would recognize the aura anywhere. What the heck? Are we really watching a father thrash his son? Or is this more like a son thrashing his father?
Mu Xie also recognized the summoned figure, and a conflicted look covered his face as he looked at Lu Yin. Should he tell him?
While Lu Yin had never met, or felt Progenitor Wen’s aura before, the silhouette bore a strong resemblance to the images of Progenitor Wen that Lu Yin had seen before. In fact, this figure looked exactly like the portrait of the Progenitor that Lu Yin had once seen in Virtue Archives.
The identity of the humanoid tribulation had been confirmed to be none other than Lu Yin's own father, Lu Qi.
Lu Qi was the only member of the Lu family to ever have conferred Progenitor Wen, but it was known to have only happened after Lu Qi became a Semi-Progenitor. However, the humanoid tribulation that Lu Yin was facing was only a peak Envoy.
Lu Yin felt a lump in his throat upon realizing that he had been unwittingly attacking his own father.
“Junior Brother, be careful!” Mu Xie cautioned Lu Yin. It was clear to the man that Lu Yin had realized who he was facing by the changes in the young man’s expression.
Lu Yin let out a long breath as a bitter smile appeared on his face. The identity of his humanoid tribulation did not matter; he could not afford to lose.
His greatest challenge at this moment was not the humanoid tribulation, but rather the summoned copy of Progenitor Wen.
Despite his confidence in his own strength, Lu Yin knew that facing a Progenitor solely with his own strength was absolutely impossible. This was not nearly as simply as crossing realms to challenge a stronger opponent. There was a fundamental, qualitative difference between Lu Yin and a Progenitor.
“Even if you can’t defeat the Progenitor, you can still deal with the humanoid tribulation,” Progenitor Smoke transmitted to his ear.
Lu Yin nodded. He had also realized that this was his only possible chance to pass this tribulation.
In the Outer Realm, Xia Shenji burst into hysterical laughter. “How ironic for a father to kill his own son. Hahahaha!”
Bai Wangyuan’s previously tense expression relaxed. “It no longer matters what sort of ridiculous abilities Lu Xiaoxuan might possess. With Progenitor Wen as his opponent, this tribulation is already guaranteed to end in failure.”
Wang Fan, Progenitor Long, and all the other Progenitors in the Outer Realm were thinking the same thing. Some felt despair, while others mocked Lu Yin. Still, more than anything else, everyone felt a chill strike their hearts as they understood just what the true universe was capable of doing.
If a truly impossible trial could appear during Lu Xiaoxuan's stellular tribulation, then what did that signify for everyone else? Was it possible that they would also be forced to face a comparable trial during their own tribulations?
Who could possibly manage to defeat a Progenitor as a six-tribulation Envoy?
Perhaps the real question was, just what was Lu Xiaoxuan cultivating that had triggered such an excessive reaction from the true universe?
If Lu Yin truly wanted to guarantee passing his sixth stellular tribulation, he could abandon his breakthrough and then dissolve three of his four stellular energy vortices. After that, he would be regarded as just another ordinary cultivator, and he would thus face a much easier stellular tribulation.
But why should he do that?
Lu Yin lifted his head and braced himself as he was once again struck by the ancient characters. Blood completely soaked his clothes. Why should a stellular tribulation mark the end of his current path?
His mind raced as he tried to find a possible solution to his predicament.
His Wielder-realm battle force was instantly shattered the moment he used it, and his physical body was in rough shape. Even the power he cultivated within his chest was incapable of standing up to Progenitor Wen’s Progenitor’s world.
Lu Yin glared at the humanoid tribulation. Screw it, it’s all or nothing.
An Astral Chessboard appeared beneath his feat, and it stretched out far into the distance. Lu Yin tried to swap positions with the humanoid tribulation, but he was blocked by a series of ancient characters.
Xia Shenji chuckled coldly. “What a joke! Using a secret technique against a Progenitor?”
The Astral Chessboard exploded, and Lu Yin’s eyes filled with determination. His attempt to change positions had been thwarted. “Astral Chessboard: board manipulation.”
You might be able to block my path, but I can still manipulate the board!
Lu Yin had influenced space with his attempt to change positions, while Progenitor Wen had also influenced space by blocking the attempt. Lu Yin had then used board manipulation to undo Progenitor Wen’s spatial influence, which allowed Lu Yin to successfully move to the position of the humanoid tribulation, as he had originally intended.
This was the entire reason why he had used the Ce Secret Art’s board manipulation.
Lu Yin had tried to swap positions, been thwarted, and then after that, space had stabilized once again. Throughout the entire series of events, his body had experienced a blur of changes, and it began to break down from the spatial pressure.
Board manipulation allowed Lu Yin to successfully get close to the humanoid tribulation.
Mu Xie, Progenitor Smoke, and everyone else just stared, wide-eyed at what Lu Yin had accomplished.
Just as Lu Yin was about to appear right next to the humanoid tribulation, he looked away from this target. Ancient characters had appeared yet again, and they blocked his path once more.
It was impossible for Lu Yin to successfully use any of his battle techniques or other abilities against a Progenitor. Not even the mysteriousness of the Ce Secret Art was or its ability to revert space to a previous state was enough. The reason for this was simple: Progenitors stood at the pinnacle of cultivation.
Bai Wangyuan and the four ruling powers’ other Progenitors had never felt the slightest bit of worry, as they were well aware of Progenitor Wen’s strength.
Lu Yin would never be able to break free from Progenitor Wen’s Progenitor’s world, no matter what methods he employed.
Cracks appeared all over Lu Yin’s entire body, and the distance between him and the humanoid tribulation started to grow. No, he refused to let things end at this point.
He raised a hand and aimed an attack at the ancient characters, rather than the humanoid tribulation. He used Extremes Must Be Reversed.
Extremes Must Be Reversed was able to affect any extreme state or phenomena, such as time or the Undying God’s drifting state.
At the precise moment that Progenitor Wen stopped Lu Yin from using board manipulation, space was no longer being suppressed, and it returned to its normal state. In other words, space was no longer being controlled by either individual, which could be considered an extreme state and was precisely what Lu Yin had been waiting for. The state of the space suppressed by Progenitor Wen’s Progenitor’s world was extreme in the exact same manner as how the Withered Bark that Lu Yin had Enhanced had been in an extreme state of time.
As soon as Extremes Must Be Reversed was used, the suppression that was preventing space from recovering, which was an extreme state, was stopped.
Extremes Must Be Reversed was not a secret technique, but rather a Progenitor’s battle technique that Progenitor Ku had created. Even Undying God had been unable to prevent himself from being forced out of his drifting state, and Progenitor Wen could have never hoped to compare to Undying God.
When Extremes Must Be Reversed collided with the ancient characters, the space that had been suppressed returned back to normal. ?Lu Yin instantly appeared next to the humanoid tribulation. There was no time for anyone at all to react, aside from Lu Yin himself.
He mustered all of his strength and slammed a palm into the humanoid tribulation’s back.
From when Lu Yin had first used the Ce Secret Art to the moment his attack landed upon the humanoid tribulation, less than a single second had passed. Everything played out in a blur, and Lu Yin’s body was almost torn apart from the myriad spatial forces pulling at him. Only when Lu Yin’s hand landed on the back of the humanoid tribulation was Bai Wangyuan and the rest able to see what Lu Yin had been trying to pull off.