Star Odyssey

Chapter 2120: Wei-Induction Technique

Madam Nalan was lucky to have saved Lu Yin all those years ago. At the time, Lu Yin had just been a student, but at present, he had risen to become the most important person in the entire Fifth Mainland. This was the return on Madam Nalan’s initial investment.

Still, it was a pity. If Lu Yin had been tempted by Madam Nalan all those years ago, she might be the one laughing at this moment. Just thinking of the way that Lu Yin had looked at her all those years ago made Madam Nalan chuckle.

Elsewhere on Planet Aegis, Lu Yin was studying the mirror.

It was truly odd that this thing could perfectly reflect an exact replica of an attack.

Lu Yin occasionally attacked the mirror, and each time, the mirror would perfectly replicate and reflect the attack back at Lu Yin.

After a few attempts, Lu Yin realized that the replicated attacks were all formed from fog, which further verified his earlier guess that the mountain and sea in the pocket dimension where the mirror had been found might be related to Progenitor Smoke.

Progenitor Smoke, also known as Progenitor Fog,1 had been a very peculiar Progenitor. There were no records of the powerhouse anywhere, but they had controlled one of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas.

Despite there being no records of the Progenitor, she had left behind various inheritances, such as Smoke-Eater Peaks, the bridge on Eversky Island, and the Smokecloud Sect in the Perennial World, which had received several unique battle techniques. Smoke Incarnations and quite a few other techniques had all come from Progenitor Smoke.

Lu Yin had long since been very curious about her.

If Progenitor Ku had been a low-key powerhouse, then Progenitor Smoke had possessed no presence whatsoever.

At the very least, Lu Yin had never heard any actual mention of the Progenitor.

During the Daosource Sect era, the masters of the Nine Mountains and Eight Seas had been quite bizarre. There were Progenitors like Progenitor Chen who had shone bright enough to illuminate the entire universe like a blazing sun, but there had also been Progenitors like Progenitor Ku who had been quiet and were relatively unknown. As long as the proper opportunities were seized, any kind of person could become a Progenitor.

Lu Yin held the mirror and touched it. His body suddenly leaned forward for a moment before he stopped himself. He found himself in a strange location, surrounded by white fog. Next to him, he saw a floating mirror that was formed from fog as well. It was the mirror that he had been just now.

Lu Yin looked around. Where was he?

He looked over at the fog mirror and saw that the surface did not reflect him or his surroundings, but rather showed Planet Aegis. He stretched out a hand to grab the mirror and move it around. He saw that in the outside world, the mirror actually moved, and extremely quickly at that.

On Aegis Planet, Madam Nalan and Luo Shen were having a conversation when the mirror shot right between the two women, startling them.

Lu Yin was speechless. He was in a dimension within the mirror itself. This should be a hidden world. It was no wonder how Feng Mo had managed to escape successfully. It was even possible that he had not actually escaped, but had rather simply hidden within the mirror. Who would care about a mirror?

Lu Yin let go of the fog mirror after toying around with the mirror’s movements in the outside world. He looked around and saw that the entire place was filled with fog. He could not even determine the size of the pocket dimension or hidden world that he was in.

He walked towards the fog, and the fog mirror next to him moved with him. It stayed close to him at all times.

Lu Yin walked right up to the fog and raised a hand to touch it.

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It was soft to the touch and felt just like cotton.

This was Lu Yin’s first time coming into physical contact with any kind of fog or smoke. When he had encountered the smoke from Smoke-Eater Peaks or on the bridge on Eversky Island, there was no physicality to the smoke.

Lu Yin exerted a bit of his strength. He wanted to part the fog so that he could see into the depths of this space. However, it was impossible. He used more force and tried again, but he still could not open the fog.

This was quite strange.

Lu Yin glanced around. He walked to the other side of the open area and tried to part the fog there with even greater strength, but he still could not do anything to the fog. It was shockingly robust.

Lu Yin finally raised a hand and released a Vacuum Palm.

The invisible palm struck the fog, and a palm print appeared in it, but it was only went about a centimeter deep.

Lu Yin's expression grew serious. Even though he had only used a Vacuum Palm without putting much effort into it, that attack had still been powerful enough to kill an Enlighter with a power level of over 300,000. And yet, it had only left a tiny mark on the fog.

This was quite interesting, so Lu Yin got ready to release another attack.

Right before he did so, a stone flew out of the fog and landed on the ground with a heavy thud.

Lu Yin was startled. "Who?"

There was no movement.

Lu Yin stared into the fog, and his pupils transformed into runes as he scanned the entire area. However, there were no runes inside the mirror, so he was unable to see anything.

"What the hell? Who’s playing tricks?" Lu Yin yelled before smashing out with a Hollow Palm. He did not hold back with this attack, and it was powerful enough to take out a three-tribulation Envoy.

This attack managed to leave a palm print several centimeters deep in the fog.

Lu Yin's eyes flashed. He had expected to leave a mark at least a meter deep or more, but his attack only managed to penetrate a few centimeters into the fog.

He had never heard of any fog that was so durable.

Another object flew out of the fog. It carried a faint aura and had a slight white glow to it.

Lu Yin reached out and grabbed the item. It was an extremely sharp sword. However, it was also rather flexible, and there were strange patterns etched onto the blade. It continued to glow with a hazy white halo.

It was clear that it was not an ordinary sword. The pattern on the blade and the glow that it radiated indicated that it contained some kind of power.action

Lu Yin’s hand twitched, and the stone that had flown out from the fog before flew over to him. Was it a piece of ore? He squeezed it a bit, and it cracked. Sure enough, it was ore, and it could withstand an Enlighter’s attack.

Ore had fallen out of the fog after he launched a Vacuum Palm, and a Hollow Palm had caused a sword to appear. Lu Yin's eyes glinted as he looked back at the fog. He needed to try again.

Soon, another object flew out of the fog. This time, it was a transparent bead, and there was something that looked like a sword slowly rotating inside the bead.

Lu Yin pressed one hand against the fog mirror next to him, and he left the pocket dimension to study the bead.

He immediately saw that the bead had as many runes as a four-tribulation Envoy.

Lu Yin felt that his earlier suspicions were correct; the power of his attacks determined the item that would come out of the fog. This lined up with the ore, the sword, and the bead.

This was intriguing. Was there someone in the fog conducting this exchange, or was the whole thing a pre-programmed response?

Lu Yin pressed his hand against the mirror to return to the pocket dimension. He took a deep breath and released a Hollow Palm. It was a powerful attack, but lacking when compared to his last Hollow Palm.

Even after Lu Yin waited a long time, the fog remained silent.

Apparently, only a more powerful attack than before would result in the fog giving out any rewards.

It was only at this moment that Lu Yin finally noticed that there were some tiny marks in the fog next to the print left by his Vacuum Palm. These marks were practically invisible due to how faint they were.

He stared at the marks. Could they have been left by Feng Mo? That seemed possible, though it could have been someone else as well. The marks were certainly not left by Bo Senior or Bo Junior, as they would have never parted with the mirror if they had learned of its secrets. And they definitely would not have used it as payment for Feng Mo.

Lu Yin stared at the fog for a long time before continuing his attacks. If he needed to use increasingly powerful attacks to receive rewards, then he would not hold back.

In the outside world, on Planet Aegis, Luo Shen occasionally looked around, clearly disappointed that Big Brother Lu had not visited her.

Madam Nalan lowered a hand. "The ship’s almost here."

Luo Shen acknowledged the news with a small grunt.

Madam Nalan felt that she needed to say something. "As his cultivation improves and he grows stronger, his training sessions will only take longer and longer…"

She trailed off, as she did not know what else to say. Lu Yin had only said a few words to the two women after rescuing them, and he had almost immediately started training again.

One day later, one of the Nalan family's vessels landed on Planet Aegis. Madam Nalan led Luo Shen onto the ship. "I left a message behind, so he’ll know where we went when he ends his training session."

"I hope that Brother Lu will be fine." Luo Shen was worried.

Madam Nalan laughed. "Who alive is able to even threaten him? Don’t worry."

She then turned to speak with an old woman who stood behind the departing pair. "Make sure that all of Mo Feng's people are captured and dealt with as traitors."

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The old woman whispered, "Yes, Madam. This disaster is my fault."

Madam Nalan immediately refuted the old woman. "This had nothing to do with you. This was all because I didn’t allow you to come with us and gave Mo Feng a chance."

The old woman remained somber. "Such things cannot be allowed to happen again in the future. No matter where you go, Madam, this old one must stay with you."

Madam Nalan smiled. She sent a backwards glance at Planet Aegis, and then left in the ship.

Still on the planet, Lu Yin had actually emerged from the pocket dimension half a day ago, but he had not really wanted to meet with Luo Shen, so he had waited for the women to leave.

He had received more than twenty rewards from the mirror, two of which were exceptionally valuable. One was a Root of Intelligence that he had received after releasing an attack that broke a power level of a million. The true Root of Intelligence was a delightful surprise to Lu Yin.

The Root of Intelligence had already been a tremendous surprise, but when Lu Yin had used the Immovable Heavenly King Elephant visualization method, as well as his aurelian force to unleash an attack that would leave even experts with power levels of over a million feeling nervous, Lu Yin had received a battle technique: Wei-Induction Technique.

The name did not give anything away about the technique, but after looking through it, Lu Yin realized that this was the cultivation method for Progenitor Smoke’s unique, self-created power. The fog that he saw, as well as the smoke from Smoke-Eater Peaks, was not actually smoke or fog. Rather, it was a unique energy known as wei. It took on the form of what looked like fog or smoke, but it was actually a unique power similar to the runes that the Rune Progenitor had created. This was Progenitor Smoke’s unique energy.

This was yet another cultivation method that did not rely on stellular energy.

Furthermore, this Wei-Induction Technique was literally the introduction to cultivating Progenitor Smoke’s power.

This information was not shocking to Lu Yin. He was already aware that Progenitors could alter the universe, and he simply did not understand why the Sixth Mainland’s three Progenitors had never tried developing their own unique energy. All he knew was that not every Progenitor was capable of doing so.

Progenitor Chen had left behind stars and planets throughout the Fifth Mainland. The Rune Progenitors had left countless runes behind. The God of Death had left death energy. Destiny had left behind the concept and practice of divination. As for Progenitor Smoke, they had left behind wei.

Lu Yin learned Wei-Induction Technique, but he had no real interest in it. He already possessed too many different cultivation methods, and even if Mister Mu had said that every power could be trained to the pinnacle, it was impossible to do so if one took on too much.

Of the masters of the Three Realms Six Dao, Lu Yin had already received inheritances from several of them: the God of Death’s death energy, Destiny’s fatesand, Wu Tian’s mastery of weapons, battle force from Ancient God, who had been the Dao Monarch of the Third Mainland, and the innate gift and visualization method of his own Lu family. From the more modern eras, Lu Yin also had received Progenitor Chen’s power and the Rune Progenitor’s power.

Lu Yin had also focused on cultivating stellular energy and lockbreaking, which both came from the Origin Progenitor himself. Lu Yin really had too much on his plate, and the addition of Progenitor Smoke’s power would not be of much benefit at all.

After a bit of thought, Lu Yin pulled out his wireless jincan and sent a message to Smoke-Eater Peaks.

"Is this Alliance Leader Lu?" Gu Laogui asked.

Lu Yin smiled as he replied, "It's really me. How are you, Senior?"

Gu Laogui also smiled as he sent a response, "Congratulations, Alliance Leader Lu, on becoming the Dao Chosen and taking control of the Heavens Sect as you represent the heavens."

"Senior, you’re being too formal."

"Haha, I'm not just being polite. You just don’t understand, Alliance Leader Lu. During the twenty years that you disappeared for, old people like myself have not been having a good life. The cultivators who have awoken in our era, especially the people from the Three Fatalities Heavenly Gate, give us no face at all. So, your return has given us a great deal of relief." Gu Laogui was still smiling. Anyone could tell that the man was genuinely happy.

[1] Given more recent context and explanations, Progenitor Smog has been updated to Progenitor Fog. Old chapters have been updated. ☜