Star Odyssey

Chapter 1990

Serati Phoenix’s words caused Ku Lei to sneer. "So that's how it is. In addition to the barriers here, there’s also you people working as the trials in this Tower of the Fifth."

As he spoke, he glanced at the people behind Serati, and then over at Ye Gui. “So who are these people? More from the Great Eastern Alliance?"

"Ku Lei, if you want to get an inheritance of the Tower of the Fifth, you must pass the trials in place. Are you confident that you can defeat me?" Serati answered indifferently.

Ku Lei remained as disdainful as ever. "Lu Yin is such a hypocrite! While he puts on a show of using the inheritances in this tower to improve the strength of humanity, he has you people here to stop us from getting anything. Why didn’t he just send out the Second Nightking to stop me?"

Serati shook his head. "All prizes must be paid for. There will be people who benefit from the inheritances in this Tower of the Fifth, and there will be others who leave with nothing. This is perfectly normal. In particular, people like you who aim for the top floor alone, you’ll be forced to pass more difficult challenges than normal."

"You want to stop me by yourself? Just try!" Ku Lei roared and lightning erupted, shooting straight for Serati Phoenix.

A smile spread across Serati’s face as his flames surged through the air and clashed with the lightning.

Just outside the Abyss of the Sea, Lu Yin was observing everything on the display. There were certain people who wanted to demand fairness, but fairness never existed anywhere. The Tower of the Fifth was no different. There would be lucky people who would be able to easily grab an inheritance while strolling along, while others would not be able to get one no matter how hard they tried. Ye Gui had actually attacked just because he did not like the looks of Ku Lei. Lu Yin had not given any specific orders to the man.

The Tower of the Fifth operated under its own rules to give out its inheritances, but it was clear that Ku Lei wanted to break those rules. Thus, he needed to be driven out.

If the middle-aged Envoy had attempted to charge straight for the ninth floor, someone would have appeared to stop him as well. However, the Envoy had proven himself to be quite smart, and he had remained wandering about the first floor. If he was lucky, he would eventually find the stairs to the second floor, and this was why no one would show up to stop the man from ascending.

However, once a person rose to the sixth floor or higher, things changed. At those levels, a price needed to be paid for anyone to obtain an inheritance.

Lu Yin was able to observe a few weaknesses of the Lu Elite Troops through the brief exchange with Ku Lei. While the soldiers were able to cross realms to challenge average cultivators with greater strength, geniuses who had received excessive resources, such as Ku Lei, remained untouchable.

The defensive capabilities of the universal armors needed to be further improved, as it should take at least an Envoy to break them.

Wang Wen had done quite well, as this was excellent training for the troops.

While Lu Yin was examining the Lu Elite Troops' weaknesses, he was ignorant to the fact that Ku Lei was feeling extraordinarily frustrated at this moment.

Who was Ku Lei? He was one of the top geniuses of the Neoverse! He was a direct descendant of the Seven Courts’ Ku family! He had been able to ignore even the Ten Arbiters. He stood above almost everyone in his generation and could crush all, aside from his few peers.

However, he had not been able to quickly defeat an average Enlighter, albeit with an odd innate gift, and five Explorers! They had even been able to counter attack during the brief battle! Such a situation would have always been impossible to even consider, and yet he had just experienced such a fight.

More importantly, Ku Lei had not merely seen manufactured Realmbreakers, but the possibility of doing such on a massive scale. All five of those people had worn the exact same universal armor and had released the exact same attacks. What if there were not just a few people given such equipment, but dozens, hundreds, or even thousands? Who would be able to fight against the Great Eastern Alliance?

The Great Eastern Alliance would be absolutely invincible beneath a certain level of individual power.

Despite being in the middle of fighting Serati Phoenix, Ku Lei was growing increasingly curious about his former opponents.

Finally, he went ahead and asked.

"The Lu Elite Troops?" Ku Lei pulled back a full thousand meters, utterly shocked. Troops? An army?

Flames spread out behind Serati Phoenix. "That's right. They’re soldiers from the Lu Elite Troops, which is an army composed entirely of cultivators at the Explorer realm or above. They’re one of the Great Eastern Alliance’s strongest armies."

Ku Lei's eye twitched. "How many are in the army?"

A smile appeared on Serati's face. "Ask them yourself."

There was no reason to bother hiding the Lu Elite Troops. Making the army more well known was actually another of Wang Wen's goals, as their fame would work as yet another deterrent to the various powers in the Fifth Mainland, while also encouraging more people to enlist.

The entire focus of the Lu Elite Troops’ participation in the Tower of the Fifth was both training and recruitment.

Lu Yin had no interest in watching the battle between Ku Lei and Serati Phoenix. The two had similar levels of strength, though Ku Lei might hold the edge in a fair fight. However, Serati Phoenix had also been outfitted with a universal armor that included the standard white smoke, Money Bomb, microarray attacks, and more. There was no chance Ku Lei would be able to win.

Lu Yin had made the right decision to have Ban Jiu create the battle simulator after learning that the microarray technology had been perfected in Aurora Fortress. The simulator had allowed the Lu Elite Troops the opportunity to practice with the armors so that they were able to effectively use them as soon as they obtained their new equipment. There was no need for a lengthy training program to adjust to the new equipment.

Instead, Lu Yin’s attention was drawn elsewhere.

He focused on a scene from the first floor of the tower, where someone had already found an inheritance.

There were numerous inheritances throughout the Tower of the Fifth, as how would the tower help to enhance the strength of humanity itself if there were not enough opportunities available?

Lu Yin had been extremely generous. On the first floor alone, there were tens of thousands of copies of the information about battle force, as well as thousands of copies providing 30 Stacks of the Overlaying Stacks Path. Still, the most common things that could be found on the first floor of the tower were hundreds of thousands of information packets that provided an introduction to the existence and importance of tribulation crystals, Aeternus, and various details regarding the history of humanity. As long as one’s luck was not terrible, nearly everyone who entered the tower would encounter these information packets.

At this moment, the first person lucky enough to run into an actual inheritance had appeared, and they had even stumbled upon the first level of the Cosmic Art.

The core inheritance on the first floor of the Tower of the Fifth was nothing less than the full first level of the Cosmic Art, which would allow a person to simulate up to eight stars at full mastery. This exact cultivation art had been what Lu Yin had relied on the most when he had first started cultivating. There was no denying that he had benefited greatly over the years from learning the Cosmic Art.

This cultivation art could be useful to anyone who obtained it, even Hunters or Enlighters.

There were only a few hundred copies of the Cosmic Art scattered across the first floor of the tower, and yet one of them had been found so quickly despite requiring a truly odd means of finding it: digging in the dirt.

There was a man with a simple and honest looking face on the first floor of the Tower of the Fifth, breathing heavily. He kept glancing down at a jade slip on the floor, and then in front of himself.

He was the lucky person who had discovered the first copy of the Cosmic Art by digging in the dirt. In front of the man was a soldier from the Lu Elite Troops.

"Well, I dug that up, so let me have it, alright?" The simple-looking young man scratched his head as he looked at the armored figure.

In front of him, the soldier was rather speechless. He was supposed to act as one of the inheritance trials, and he was responsible for guarding this copy of the Cosmic Art. The copy had been stored on a slip of jade that would move about randomly beneath the ground, and the soldier remained hiding beneath the slip of jade. His task was to challenge and attack whoever found the jade.

Not all of the inheritances actually had trials that needed to be passed. Was the man who had found the first copy of the Cosmic Art lucky or unlucky? The soldier could not decide.

It was unbelievable that the man had been able to find an inheritance by randomly digging in the ground, which could only be seen as lucky, and yet there was no possibility of the man passing the trial to actually obtain the inheritance. Was this lucky or unlucky?

"Just leave. You can’t get this inheritance," the soldier said rather sympathetically.

The simple-looking young man shrugged. He possessed a rather impressive level of strength for his age. He was already an Explorer, and had even managed to be ranked within the top fifty of the current Top 100 Rankings. This was the strength that had allowed him to travel to the Tower of the Fifth.

The armored figure before the young man was smoking, and though he did not know what that smoke meant, the person in the armor seemed powerful, and their absolute confidence was disturbing.

He could not afford to give in to fear, as there was an inheritance right in front of him! If he did not fight, he would regret it for the rest of his life.

"I want to try." The young man shot towards the soldier while taking out a large net from his cosmic ring that was thrown forward. The net was absolutely covered with what looked to be shellfish. The young man had picked this net up at an auction, and each of the shells could release a powerful suction force that made it very difficult to escape the net once a person fell into its range. If someone was caught within the net, how would they be able to fight back?

The net was massive, but the result surprised the young man. He had used this same trick many times before, and it was extremely difficult for Explorers to break free of the net.

However, the soldier did not even want to run away. When he saw that the net was about to fall on him, his white smoke filled the air before him and stopped the net. The soldier then took a few quick steps, moving so quickly that the young man was not even able to see where the soldier had gone.

The young man was startled; this person was so fast?

This was the speed provided by the newly designed universal armor. They allowed the users to move at a speed that Explorers could not even track, even if they were in the top fifty of the Top 100 Rankings.

Boom

The honest-looking young man was caught off guard when a punch landed on his back. It even carried three Stacks, as many of the soldiers in the Lu Elite Troops had trained in the Overlaying Stacks Path.

The blow sent the young man to the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood as he fell. He felt as though his body was about to break apart.

The soldier stood quietly where he was. "I already told you that you can’t get this inheritance."

Outside the Abyss of the Sea, Lu Yin's eyes were blazing. He had already found out who that young man was as he had checked as soon as possible.

This exchange proved that not even the talented youths in the top fifty of the Top 100 Rankings were able to fight against the Explorers in the Lu Elite Troops, which was very reassuring for Lu Yin to see.

The young man bared his teeth as he looked up at the soldier from the dirt. He had been defeated without this armored figure even using any battle techniques. "Who are you? You’re someone with a high status in the Great Eastern Alliance, right? To think that an elite from the Lu Elite Troops was sent to guard this inheritance. Your leader is certainly excessive."

A cold light glinted in the eyes of the soldier. "Don't talk about our leader so flippantly. I’m just a soldier; one of the basic grunts."

The young man sneered at this answer; A grunt? Who’d believe that! You’re clearly an expert, probably a hidden one, and your cultivation is definitely more than being an Explorer. Given your strength, you might even be one of the heirs from a big sect or something. However, I’m not weak!

At this time, three people appeared some distance away, making their way closer. The young man saw the people, and he quickly called out to them, "Hey, you guys! Get over here! There’s an inheritance!"

The three far-off people had simply been curious about the fight, but after hearing the young man’s words, they glanced at each other and hurried closer.

There were two men and a woman, all Cruisers. These people were not youths, but did not seem to be very old, either.

The moment they saw the jade slip on the ground, their eyes lit up.

"That's the inheritance! The first floor’s core inheritance! We can get it if we work together to defeat this person." The young man was no idiot, and he immediately tried to get the three people to attack the armored figure.

The two men and the woman all warily measured the soldier from the Lu Elite Troops. "Who are you?"

Despite being confronted by three Cruisers, the soldier was still fearless. "I’m the guardian of this inheritance. It will only be yours if you can defeat me." action

"Attack!" one of the men yelled, without any hesitation. These three were from the Neoverse, and they believed themselves to be superior to people from other regions of the Fifth Mainland. They were already dismissing the young man who had called them over, and the three of them planned to take the inheritance for themselves after defeating the soldier.

The universal armor increased the soldier’s speed to a level that even the three Cruisers struggled to keep track of their opponent. Still, they had much better success than the young man. At the very least, they would not go down easily.

Lu Yin watched everything, becoming more and more invested in the situation. An Explorer from the Lu Elite Troops was using his new armor to battle three Cruisers. Obtaining a victory would not be difficult, as the armor included microarrays and Money Bombs, but those sorts of attacks were too powerful to use in the current situation and would cause casualties. Lu Yin was eager to see the effectiveness of the armor in a battle without all of the provided boosts.