Four Points of Talent

Granny shook her head, "No, the planet we were supposed to trial on is quite far from Earth."

Lu Yin hadn't expected this piece of information. Earth's evolution wasn't brought about by the Great Yu Empire, but originated internally. A fugitive, Neptune, could it be that corpse?

"What was the fugitive's identity?" Lu Yin asked.

Granny coughed a few times, "No, I don't know. His identity is top secret. No one knows his appearance or name."

"Then how did you find him?" Lu Yin asked.

Granny replied, "That's the mission. Trial missions can't be simple."

"Even if you found the fugitive, could you capture him with the strength of you students?" Lu Yin asked curiously.

"He fled from the inner universe to the outer universe and was already severely injured. It's impossible for him to still retain strength beyond the Integrating Realm. Furthermore, everything on him was destroyed, and he lost his means of survival," Granny replied.

Ten minutes later, Granny was released. Lu Yin had people take her to bathe and receive treatment.

Granny didn't appear before Lu Yin for an entire day. It wasn't until the afternoon of the second day that Granny and Lu Yin met.

Although the half-month had been painful for Granny, her injuries had healed, except for her right shoulder. This was the power of the Universe's special healing medicine.

Upon meeting again, Lu Yin brought Granny to a spacious grassy area at Zhong Mountain. "Except for your shoulder, you've recovered. How about it? Want to try defeating me and let me taste the pain of being imprisoned too?"

Granny glared hatefully at Lu Yin, still bound by chains on her hands and feet.

Lu Yin chuckled, "Stop pretending. With your strength, these things can't hold you."

With a clang, Granny broke free from the chains. A sharp pain shot through her right arm, and her face turned pale. She let out a breath, "I said I would help you."

Lu Yin took out Teres's gun from his waist and threw it on the ground. "Without this Energy Gun, you shouldn't be afraid anymore, right?"

Granny looked in surprise at the Energy Gun Lu Yin had thrown on the ground. This gun was Teres's life-saving item, capable of threatening Probe Realm experts. It was also the reason Granny was wary of Lu Yin. Now, Lu Yin was voluntarily giving it up?

"Come on, you can try to defeat me. If you win, Jinling is yours, and you can get revenge. How great is that?" Lu Yin provoked.

Granny's eyes lit up. She flicked her long hair and charged at Lu Yin. She was going to use her Full Power. Even with only one arm, she was confident she could at least fight him to a draw, if not defeat him easily. She was no mere Probe Realm fledgling.

As she neared Lu Yin, Granny's feet scraped the ground, creating sparks. Her left palm swept out, condensing the sparks. "Flame Palm!"

Lu Yin watched Granny's Flame Palm attack and easily dodged it with his Roaming Step. He casually threw a Flame Crystal, "A little bit of fire isn't enough. Let's add more."

Granny was surprised but didn't hesitate. Since she had attacked, she would go all out. The Flame Crystal shattered, creating towering flames. Granny crossed through the flames, her left palm rotating. The flames seemed to gain sentience as they were gathered, and a deeper flame was born in her palm. She struck at Lu Yin.

Lu Yin's eyes sharpened. He retreated half a step and raised his right palm. As his palm extended, stars appeared, and he struck towards Granny's Flame Palm.

Bang!

The airwaves cracked the Ground, heatwaves surged, and flames swept towards the High Altitude before erupting into countless sparks.

A powerful blast erupted between the two. Immediately after, Granny spat out a mouthful of blood and was sent flying backward, crashing heavily onto the Ground, spitting out more blood.

Lu Yin remained in his original position, his expression unchanged.

When he was still in the Gaze Realm, he could still heavily injure Teres with the Heavenly Star Palm. Now that he was in the same Probe Realm as Granny, their combat power was not much different. The power of the Heavenly Star Palm had increased again. He had held back by not killing Granny with that single palm strike.

Granny lay limply on the Ground, staring at Lu Yin in shock. "How is this possible?"

She knew the power of this person's Battle Skill. He had defeated her Flame Palm shortly after breaking through to the Probe Realm, but she had been injured then and couldn't exert her full strength. But just now, she had used her Flame Palm with Full Power, and she couldn't even make this person take a step back.

The Xing Camp Army quickly rushed over but were yelled at by Lu Yin to retreat.

Lu Yin walked step by step to Granny's front. "Do you still want to resist?"

Granny's lips were bleeding, and her beautiful face was deathly pale. "What Battle Skill?"

Lu Yin sneered, "Triple -- Wave Palm."

"How is that possible? It's not Wave Palm at all," Granny said weakly.

Lu Yin smiled and picked up the Energy Gun. "Haven't you heard a legend? A powerful being once shattered stars with a hundredfold Wave Palm. Defeating you with a triple Wave Palm is effortless."

Granny was still immersed in shock and disbelief. A person who could easily suppress her before had now easily defeated her, making it hard for her to accept.

"Go heal yourself. From now on, you are my personal bodyguard," Lu Yin said with a smile, glancing at Granny before turning to leave.

Granny felt bitter and spat out another mouthful of blood. No wonder this scoundrel had asked her to attack. He wanted to subdue her.

Returning to his residence, Lu Yin felt excited. Although his combat power was only 1,500, with the Heavenly Star Palm, even Teres using Full Power wouldn't be his opponent. He finally had the capital to protect himself.

Lu Yin had Xu San guard the outside and announced he was going into seclusion.

He took out a Star Energy Crystal in the internal closed training room of Zhong Mountain and crushed it directly. He didn't absorb it but took out the dice.

Ever since the last time he used it, the dice had been dim and lusterless. Lu Yin had observed it several times and found that its light was gradually recovering, albeit very slowly. He guessed that it might need Star Energy.

As soon as the dice were taken out, the Star Energy filling the training room surged towards it and was absorbed. The dim light on its surface gradually recovered. Lu Yin took out Star Energy Crystals one by one, and the light on the dice's surface continued to recover. Finally, when only the last Star Energy Crystal remained, it recovered to the state it was in when it first appeared.

It was enveloped in a hazy starlight.

Lu Yin wiped his forehead. This thing required too much Star Energy. He calculated that the Star Energy Crystals Granny and Teres had stored, plus the Star Energy it had absorbed and recovered on its own over these days, would amount to nearly half a cubic meter if converted into Star Energy Crystals. This didn't even include the burst of energy it received when he broke through to the Probe Realm. If all of it were included, it might require one cubic meter of Star Energy Crystals.

One must know that the Star Energy Crystals Teres brought for the trial were already his limit. Even a wealthy student couldn't obtain a cubic meter of Star Energy Crystals, which showed its preciousness. This thing consumed one cubic meter of Star Energy Crystals every time it was used.

Lu Yin felt that he might be very poor in the future and would have to find a way to get rich, otherwise, he wouldn't be able to afford to play with it.

He would never give up the dice. The first time he used it, it gave him the heaven-defying Heavenly Star Art. Who knew what it would bring him in the future. The key point was that there were no side effects, and no one knew he stole it, no, took it. This thing was a cheat device for countless people.

Let alone one cubic meter of Star Energy, even ten or a hundred cubic meters, he would use it. He'd resort to robbery if necessary.

Lu Yin stared at the dice floating in mid-air, swallowed, and rubbed his hands together. "Come on, the moment to test my luck has arrived. I hope it brings me something good this time." As he spoke, Lu Yin lightly tapped the dice as if in reverence. Instantly, the dice spun rapidly, and the pips on five of its faces disappeared, leaving only one—a four.

"Four?" Lu Yin was puzzled. Before he could think further, the environment around him changed drastically. The training room was gone, Zhong Mountain was gone. He saw an endless gray-white space with no end in sight. Looking up, he saw endless darkness. Beneath his feet was ground made of an unknown material, appearing quite solid. Behind him, a set of numbers slowly changed: 259200, 259199, 259198...

The purpose of this space inexplicably appeared in Lu Yin's mind. This was the Time Stop Space.

Lu Yin was shocked. This was unbelievable! Time stop? He had only heard of this name in legends. Did his dice actually have this function? Four points meant he could stay in the Time Stop Space for three days. The numbers behind him represented the seconds, meaning he could stay here until the last second, and no time would have passed in the outside world.

Watching the slowly changing numbers, Lu Yin let out a breath. Was his Talent a bit... too terrifying?

Shaking his head, he dismissed the distracting thoughts. He raised his hand, and the dice reappeared, but this time, it was once again dim and lusterless.

Lu Yin now understood why using this thing consumed so much Star Energy. At this moment, he felt that the Star Energy consumed might have been too little, considering the space he had obtained.

Lu Yin took out his last Star Energy Crystal and threw it towards the set of numbers. Instantly, the Star Energy Crystal turned into a stream of light and disappeared, while the numbers increased by five seconds. Lu Yin's face twitched. Five seconds? That was too little. He was quite speechless.