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Although Celestial Master Qiu Ling was an Original Formation Celestial Master, her cultivation only reached the peak of the Star Envoy realm, far from half-Ancestor. Unless she fell out with Lu Yin and set up an Original Treasure Formation to fight him, she had no chance of evading him. And Lu Yin had caught her by surprise, leaving her no opportunity to set one up.
Lu Yin hadn't expected it to go so smoothly. He'd even been ready to smack her with his Slippers, thinking she might be carrying a triggered Original Treasure Formation. As it turned out, she wasn't.
Lu Yin slipped into her body without a hitch. As for the Ancestor Realm enemy that had suddenly appeared, Prison Dragon and E Chi could handle it. E Chi's arrival conveniently gave him an alibi; otherwise, the time missing from Celestial Master Qiu Ling's memory—time during which he had merged with her—would have been his biggest mistake.
Before coming here, he'd considered how to distance himself from that blank stretch of time. Celestial Master Qiu Ling had used the Eternal Clan to lure him away, which had worked out perfectly for him.
Without wasting time, Lu Yin hurried to search her memories for her experience with deciphering formations and began merging with them.
By absorbing someone's memories, he could quickly acquire their skills. That was what gave Lu Yin the confidence to compete with Mu Shang. If he hadn't merged with Celestial Master Qiu Ling before, he might not have agreed to the contest.
From driving back Xia Shenji and the others in the Fifth Continent to the Three Slaps of the Starry Sky, and then protecting Yixian Academy, everything Lu Yin had done in the Tree Starry Sky had gone smoothly. He didn't want this time to be