Star Odyssey

Chapter 1342: True Universe

Fortunately, Lu Yin had finally found a method to replenish the energy that powered his death transformation, but it seemed that it really was necessary for him to experience death in order to increase this energy.

Also, where had he just been? Lu Yin thought for a while, but he could not come up with an answer. He restored his die and rolled it again. Wait, how much star essence had he just used? This could be a very serious problem. Lu Yin took a quick look and let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he had only used a bit more than 50 million star essence, which was an acceptable amount. He could take it.

He continued rolling. This time, he got a one: Pilfer. A gadget appeared, but it was just an ordinary model, which was useless. After throwing it to the side, he continued.

He rolled another one: Pilfer, and another gadget popped out. Lu Yin was speechless as he looked at it. It was still completely worthless, but was he only going to get useless things this time? Still, it was better than the woman’s underwear that had appeared that one time.

Again.

Luckily this time, Lu Yin rolled three pips: Enhance.

Lu Yin watched as the two screens of light appeared. This was the result that he had wanted the most.action

Lu Yin immediately tossed his universal armor onto the top screen before frantically throwing out star essence.

This universal armor had already been upgraded ten times, and the last upgrade had taken more than fourteen million star essence.

The star essence continued to disappear into the light screens. After consuming nearly thirty million star essence, the universal armor finally fell through the bottom screen. It had been upgraded eleven times now. Lu Yin was not concerned by the amount he spent, and he continued.

For the twelfth upgrade, Lu Yin used almost sixty million star essence.

The next one would take nearly ninety million star essence, which started to concern Lu Yin a bit, but he nonetheless continued.

However, his efforts were useless. The screens did not accept the star essence. The universal armor could not be upgraded anymore, as this was the limit of its materials.

Lu Yin stared at the armor’s impressive number of rune lines. It had now reached a level where it could stand up to an attack that had a power level of at least 700,000, which meant that Lu Yin would be safe against Envoys with power levels of 700,000 if he wore this armor.

He felt a little sad as he stared at the armor, as it would have been nice to upgrade it a few more times.

Although the armor’s rune lines represented a power level of about 700,000, it would not be able to easily resist an attack from an Envoy with such a power level.

However, he would need to gather better materials and then either recast the armor or fuse those materials into his current one to improve his defensive abilities.

If he decided to recast the universal armor, then all the money that he had dumped on upgrading it would be gone. No, it would be better to pass this armor on to someone else, either Wendy Yushan or Ming Yan.

The next thing that Lu Yin intended to upgrade was some gemspring water.

He had actually wanted to Enhance some gemspring water for a long time. He had upgraded some when he had first gotten it. When he used the upgraded drops, his star energy control had been immediately increased to the Divine Gaze realm. He did not know how far the gemspring water could be upgraded, but he hoped to use it to clearly observe the universe, as the universe was very mysterious. There was a saying that the end of the microscopic was the macroscopic, and he was looking forward to seeing this.

He still had eighteen drops of gemspring water left, and of them, he had upgraded five drops fourteen times so far. So, he took out a drop and began to throw out large amounts of star essence.

It had only taken 560,000 star essence to upgrade a drop fourteen times. To the current Lu Yin, that amount of money was negligible. It was only 560,000 star essence after all.

Fifteen. Sixteen. Seventeen.

Each time the gemspring water was upgraded, it grew more transparent, giving Lu Yin a strange feeling. When he stared at the upgraded gemspring water, he felt like he was looking at another world through a keyhole.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the world within the drops of gemspring water looked truly magical, but Lu Yin had already reached the Worldliness realm of star energy control. In other words, he was able to observe the microscopic realm of star energy.

Eighteen. Nineteen. Finally, after twenty times, the gemspring water could no longer be improved anymore.

As he looked at the practically invisible drop of gemspring water, Lu Yin took a deep breath. Even if he did not place the drop in his eyes, he was still able to feel the drop’s coolness. As he peered through the gemspring water, Lu Yin was able to see a different universe, one layer after another. This was different from what he was normally capable of seeing, or even what humans were normally capable of seeing.

This was a sight that could only be seen with the upgraded gemspring water.

Lu Yin carefully picked up the drop. He thought for a while and then put the drop in his eyes. He had wanted to try this for a while, as there was no way that this would harm him.

As the gemspring water fell into his eyes, his mind cleared, and his thoughts emptied away. When he opened his eyes, they were bright and clear, like a clear spring. All of his surroundings were reflected in his eyes.

At this moment, Lu Yin’s vision completely changed. In addition to where he was physically located, he also saw another space. This strange area was hidden behind the void and was invisible to the naked eye.

He saw dust floating about and incredibly tiny creatures moving around. This scene was completely different from what he was capable of seeing with his naked eyes. Was it possible that he was seeing the true universe that he had heard so much about?

Fights between Envoys could not even be seen by ordinary people, and it was said that Envoys fought each other in the true universe. Thus, what Lu Yin was currently looking at might be that true universe. Did this mean that he would be able to observe a fight between Envoys in this state?

He looked around, but the universe that he saw looked bleak. He looked out into space, but the other universe had no sources of light or any sort of larger creatures. It was a universe with only microscopic details.

After about a minute of observation, the gemspring water lost effect, and the new universe that Lu Yin had been observing was no longer visible.

He rubbed his eyes, but there were no aftereffects. If his guess was right, then this really would allow him to observe a battle between Envoys, which meant that he would no longer be forced into a passive stance against Envoys in the future.

His universal armor was able to protect him from attacks that exceeded power levels of 600,000, but Lu Yin had no desire to just be a punching bag. Normally, he could not even see when an Envoy attacked him, but now, he had the means to do so.

Back when Lu Yin had faced off against Leader Hong, the man had luckily been injured by the Frost Emperor, making Leader Hong unwilling to risk using his full power as an Envoy. Otherwise, no matter what means Lu Yin might have had at his disposal, he would have simply died.

Lu Yin could not help but be grateful for his own foresight.

Even an average Envoy was not someone that Lu Yin could deal with. Even after he became an Enlighter, or even after he reached a power level of 300,000 or 400,000, he still might not be able to cross realms and challenge Envoys. That was the power of a different level, and it had to do with the transformation of human life from the macroscopic to the microscopic.

Lu Yin stared at the rest of the gemspring water with fervent eyes. This thing was far too useful, but it also was incredibly expensive to upgrade. The single drop that he had just used had cost about 40 million star essence to make, which was truly too much, especially since the effect only lasted for about a minute.

Lu Yin sighed. Still, it was impossible for others to see the true universe, so even if it was expensive, its effect was absolutely worth 40 million star essence. That was how much seeing an Envoy’s battle was worth.

There were four drops of pre-upgraded gemspring water remaining, so Lu Yin immediately upgraded all of them to the limit, which cost him a total of 140 million star essence. In the blink of an eye, more than 100 million star essence had disappeared.

There were still thirteen drops of unenhanced gemspring water. After gritting his teeth, Lu Yin upgraded every single last one of them to the limit. His future opponents would not be limited to just the Enlighter realm.

The thirteen drops of gemspring water cost him a total of 520 million star essence to upgrade.

Before Lu Yin's recent windfall, he would have never even considered spending this much money on just gemspring water. He had spent nearly 700 million star essence, which was terrifying.

He had originally had 1.7 billion star essence, but after rolling six pips: Possession, upgrading his universal armor, and also upgrading the gemspring water, Lu Yun only had a bit more than 850 million star essence left. His left eye began to twitch; this was just too expensive.

Lu Yin once again felt like he was still poor, and he once again envied the Mavis family.

Before rolling his die, he had been proud of his wealth, but at the moment, it was time to restrain himself again.

He urgently needed to upgrade some powerful attacking weapons. He had quite a few candidates power vessels, such as the walnut-shaped power vessel, the Arrow of Valiance, the poisons, the Desolate Array sourcebox array, the orb treasure that he had stolen form Madam Lan, the giant mechanical right arm, and the Sealed Cannons. However, the only thing that could really be Enhanced seemed to be the Karmic Flame.

The walnut-shaped power vessel could not be upgraded, and while the poisons could be upgraded a few times, there was no way they would ever reach the level where they could threaten an Envoy.

The mechanical right arm and the Sealed Cannons were both limited by their materials, and they could not be upgraded any further either.

He looked at the Karmic Flame, and although he could upgrade it, was there any reason to do so? Lu Yin did not know the Karmic Flame Sword battle technique, and he had not trained in any of the Blaze Realm’s best techniques either. It was unrealistic for Lu Yin to use the power of this flame.

Lu Yin felt a bit stressed. It would be wonderful if he could get an offensive weapon that he could improve indefinitely.

Actually, he also had the Skyblaze Stone, which could be upgraded, but Lu Yin did not dare to do so. He had no idea if the fire dragon might reappear, and he still needed to use the stone to cultivate. Thus, he did not want to risk losing the stone.

As for the fire dragon, that was of no use to Lu Yin.

His time in seclusion did not last very long, mostly because he had not rolled a four and entered the Timestop Space. Lu Yin also had no interest in prolonging his seclusion.

He had rapidly improved his cultivation realm in preparation of ZENITH, and as long as the Skyblaze Stone managed to absorb flames and heat, Lu Yin would be able to quickly raise his cultivation, but there was no need to hurry such a thing.

What he desperately needed right now was a means of attack that he could upgrade without limit.

As soon as he emerged from his secluded room, he checked his gadget and saw that many people had tried to call him. Out of everyone, Madam Yōu had been the most persistent.

He immediately called her back.

She soon appeared on his screen, clearly angry. She glared at Lu Yin, and her anger leaked into her voice as well. “Alliance Leader Lu, is it fun to pull pranks?”

Lu Yin apologetically answered, "I'm truly sorry for my delay, Madam Yōu. I’ll head straight for Southside Weave, so why don’t we still have our meeting?”

Madam Yōu's chest heaved from her fury. Lu Yin was ignoring what she actually meant. He had deliberately told her they would meet in Southside Weave so that she would pass on that information to the Xia family. That was the main reason why Xia Jiuyou had been willing to go to Astral-10. Without the information from Madam Yōu, Xia Jiuyou would not have suffered that accident.

Although no one blamed her, she had been used by Lu Yin, and the Xia family would not treat her kindly in the future.

Also, she could not even mention this matter to Lu Yin, as doing so was equivalent to informing him that she was still in touch with the Seven Courts. Also, what would she say? That she had given away his whereabouts to them?

The more she thought about the situation, the more aggrieved Madam Yōu felt. She had lived for many years, and she had always kept in contact with the Seven Courts while being watched by the Sword Sect without being discovered. She had never suffered such a frustrating experience in her entire life.

Upon seeing Lu Yin's apologetic expression, Madam Yōu’s expression changed. She was not able to even begin to hazard a guess as to whether or not Lu Yin had deliberately used her to pass along the information. It actually was possible that he had not remembered their appointment and that he had simply gotten caught up with other events and been delayed. She could not read this youth at all.

OMA's Thoughts

Translated By: OMA

Edited By: Neshi/Nyxnox

TLC'ed By: OMA