At this moment, two black dots flew from afar. Two more people arrived, both men, descending rapidly.
Seeing the newcomers, Ede became excited. "Senior Ras, I'm here! Senior Ras!" With a snap, Lu Yin slapped Ede on the head again. "What are you shouting about? Who's here?"
Ede glared fiercely at Lu Yin. "Your Doomsday has arrived! Student Ras is a master from Yu Tang. You can't possibly be a match for him. Let me go quickly, and I can help you plead with Senior."
Lu Yin looked at the two men who had just arrived, his expression solemn. Yu Tang? The true elite of the Great Yu Empire. It could be considered an academy, a place dedicated to cultivating the top young experts.
Outside the Capital City, the first man to descend remained standing on the ground, surveying his surroundings. The two men who appeared later looked down at Lu Yin and the others from the air. One of them stepped forward, looking down arrogantly. "Ede, you really bring honor to our Yu Tang, getting captured by a native. Useless thing."
Ede's face turned ugly. He gritted his teeth and glared at the man, then lowered his head.
Another man waved his hand and calmly looked down. "Who captured Ede? Release him, and I can spare his life."
"Is he the Senior Ras you were talking about?" Lu Yin asked.
Ede excitedly replied, "That's right! Senior Ras isn't just any ordinary Yu Tang master. His father is even the Deputy Minister of Finance of the Great Yu Empire, Sika. Sir Sika has procured all sorts of Battle Skills for Senior Ras. Even within Yu Tang, Senior Ras's strength is unrivaled among his peers, second only to Integrating Realm powerhouses."
Lu Yin's eyes lit up. "Deputy Minister of Finance? Is his family very rich?"
Ede froze. That wasn't the point!
Lu Yin's gaze turned fervent as he looked at Ras. He was desperately short of Star Energy Crystals. Those students just now had given him eight cubic meters of Star Energy Crystals, which was far from enough. This Ras might give him a pleasant surprise. As for the strength Ede mentioned, Lu Yin didn't really care. Ras gave him a much gentler feeling than the first man who appeared. That person was the truly dangerous one.
"That person's feeling has changed," Zhang Ding Tian suddenly said.
Lu Yin turned his head and looked at the man still standing on the ground. His eyes changed. That person now gave him a very ordinary feeling, extremely ordinary, like a common person. He was no longer dangerous as he had been upon arrival. This person had changed the moment Ras and the others approached.
High in the sky, Ras frowned. "What, you're not going to release him? Or do you think you can get lucky and keep this place?"
"Senior Ras, the fugitive has something in this city. As long as we control this place, the fugitive will definitely come," Ede shouted. His defeat and the arrival of the second batch of trial-takers had completely extinguished his hope of completing the mission. He might as well curry favor with Ras and have a backer in the future.
Ras's eyes lit up, and a smile played on his lips. "Is that so? It seems I'm lucky. I landed randomly and found a good place."
At this moment, the man behind Ras looked to the other side. His gaze swept over the spaceship, and he whispered a few words into Ras's ear. Ras looked at the man who had appeared here first. "Friend, my name is Ras. Let's get acquainted."
On the ground, the man squatted down, picked up some dirt, and brought it to his nose. "The smell of blood."
High in the sky, Ras's expression turned grim. "Friend, let's get acquainted. My name is Ras, son of Sika, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Great Yu Empire."
The man stood up, looked up at Ras, and revealed a faint smile. "Xia Luo, an unknown nobody. I wouldn't dare presume."
Ras frowned. Xia Luo? He hadn't heard this name before.
Lu Yin said to Zhang Ding Tian, "We can't let them talk. Once they reach an agreement, it'll be trouble. I'll go capture Ras, and you keep an eye on Xia Luo."
Zhang Ding Tian nodded, gripping his long saber.
Ede heard this and looked at Lu Yin as if he had seen a ghost. Capture Ras? Was he crazy? Not to mention Ras's strength, just his background alone made all trial-takers afraid to touch him. This guy was definitely insane.
Lu Yin glanced at the starry sky. This was just the beginning. He had waited for so long, and he was finally getting close. With that thought, Lu Yin flew towards Ras with a bang, and under everyone's horrified gazes, he raised his palm and struck. The air directly distorted.
Ras was contemplating Xia Luo's identity when Lu Yin unexpectedly attacked. He didn't make a move himself. The man behind him stepped forward, enraged. "How dare you attack Young Master Ras!" he exclaimed. With that, he transformed his palm into a claw. An invisible beast's roar echoed in the void. Lu Yin seemed to see a giant claw covering the starry sky. This feeling was similar to Ede's Beast King Fist, but it carried a greater imposing aura than Beast King Fist.
Lu Yin didn't dare to be careless. As his palm struck, stars appeared. Two stars revolved and erupted directly. With a bang, the two collided in mid-air. The shockwave spread in an arc, and then an invisible force crushed the ground. The man was repelled a hundred meters by Lu Yin's palm, spitting out a mouthful of blood, looking at Lu Yin in shock.
His strength was similar to Ede's. Lu Yin's full-power Heavenly Star Palm had disabled Ede. The Heavenly Star Palm with two stars was enough to injure him.
Ras narrowed his eyes. "No wonder you could capture Ede. You have some strength." With that, he raised his right palm, also transforming it into a claw. However, compared to the man just now, Ras's claw was much stronger. A giant claw phantom truly appeared in the void, as if descending from the universe to grab Lu Yin.
Lu Yin's expression changed. Ede, the man just now, and Ras all used Battle Skills from the same origin, but each one was stronger than the last.
Below, Xia Luo's eyes lit up. "The top Yu Tang Battle Skill, Heavenly Beast Claw, with one hundred and eight forms. Although this person has only mastered five forms, it's enough to crush most Probe Realm cultivators. A decent Battle Skill."
Behind them, Zhang Ding Tian's eyes widened. Bai Xue, Granny, and the others were shocked. They had never even heard of such Battle Skills. They were too terrifying. This was the foundation of the Great Yu Empire.
The two stars in Lu Yin's palm revolved, and then a third star appeared. It collided with Ras's claw strike. Everyone's eyes changed dramatically. A massive shockwave swept in all directions. The three stars exploded simultaneously. In an instant, the superimposed terrifying impact force shocked Ras. The phantom on his right claw shattered directly. Ras's pupils contracted, and his figure disappeared. Lu Yin simultaneously used Roaming Step, and the two figures vanished in mid-air.
The next moment, they both reappeared. Lu Yin struck again with his palm. Ras was wary; his Heavenly Beast Claw had been broken, and he couldn't block it. He dodged sideways, crushed a Gale Crystal, and wrapped his left index finger with a gray whirlwind. He pointed at Lu Yin. This was his strongest Battle Skill – Yin Wind Finger, a skill Sika had obtained for him at a great cost.
Lu Yin felt a sense of crisis. Ras's finger strike made him feel icy cold all over. It wasn't the cold of ice, but a bone-chilling, Yin coldness, as if it could freeze Star Energy. Lu Yin's eyes became stern. Heavenly Star Art circulated, and three stars vaguely appeared around him. The gray hurricane on Ras's Yin Wind Finger was continuously weakened the moment it approached Lu Yin's body. Ras was shocked. How was this possible?
Lu Yin easily dodged the Yin Wind Finger and pressed his left palm against Ras's abdomen. "Void Splitting Palm," he said. With that, a massive force slammed Ras heavily onto the ground. He hadn't even had time to put on his Ring Armor.
The man following Ras not far away let out a stern cry and charged at Lu Yin again, attacking with a claw. Lu Yin's eyes flashed. The Heavenly Star Art circulated around him again. The moment the man's claw approached Lu Yin's body, it suddenly slowed down, so slowly that Lu Yin could see all the changes in his Battle Skill. Lu Yin used Roaming Step to evade it, raised his right palm, transformed it into a claw, and then, to everyone's astonishment, grabbed the man with his claw. With a bang, the man's right shoulder was injured, and he crashed to the ground.
Ede stared blankly at this scene. What was he seeing? That person actually used Heavenly Beast Claw? That was a top-tier Battle Skill inherited by Yu Tang. One had to join Yu Tang to learn it from the stone wall. How could that person use it?
It wasn't just Ede who was surprised; everyone was shocked, including Lu Yin himself.
Previously, after defeating Ede and capturing many students, he had endured countless attacks. Although the defense of Gu Leisi's armor protected him, his body still suffered injuries. It was at that time, while circulating Heavenly Star Art to recover Star Energy, that he inadvertently discovered another use for it. Not only could it accelerate Star Energy absorption, but it could also form a peculiar defensive force field around him, weakening enemy attacks.
He originally thought this was the most powerful aspect of Heavenly Star Art, but now he realized he still didn't understand this cultivation method. This method could not only defend but also perfectly display the enemy's Battle Skills before him. If he wished, he could learn them. This was something even he hadn't expected.
Lu Yin clenched his fists, his eyes excited. Heavenly Star Art. When he first obtained this cultivation method, he knew it was heaven-defying, but now, he felt he had underestimated it. It was more than heaven-defying; it shouldn't even exist. It was a cultivation method that mimicked the operation of the universe, extremely powerful.
On the ground, Xia Luo's eyes showed surprise, then the corners of his mouth curved. "Interesting."
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