Lu Yin stood before the Unknown Portal. He looked up at the starry sky, then toward the Thousand Machine Strange Performance's abyss. Finally, he sat cross-legged and remained still.
Thousand Machine Strange Performance wasn't surprised. He doesn't plan to leave?
It was probably because he wasn't sure what lay beyond the portal.
As a creature from the Death Universe, he might know something about the Unknown. Beyond that portal could be an unfamiliar starfield—or the Unknown's lair. Anyone who went there would surely die.
He was better off staying put.
But how could he face a powerful enemy after the battle ended if he stayed put?
Thousand Machine Strange Performance pondered Lu Yin.
Lu Yin was pondering it, too.
What exactly was Thousand Machine Strange Performance after? He clearly couldn't escape. Either the Butterfly Ancestor or Da Mao could kill him.
If it didn't help him, that meant it was content to watch him die.
Or did it really think he could hide well enough to take down those two beings?
Even his true self had never been thought so highly of.
All Lu Yin could do now was wait for the battle in the starry sky to end.
The Butterfly Ancestor had revealed its true form and used techniques it hadn't employed against Lu Yin. Da Mao, too, had revealed a second invisible world—Transforming into Cyan Heaven.
Lu Yin watched the cyan heaven's gears turn above the firmament. The four Colorful Butterflies kept retreating, terrified of being ground to death.
The cyan gear's power was immense. Even his true self would have to take it seriously. That was the full might of Da Mao's combat strength.
But power was one thing. The Colorful Butterflies had clearly overestimated Da Mao. Even if it could kill one or two Eternal Life