Chapter 2413: Resentment

Chapter 2413: Resentment

The second star’s explosion sent Yi Ren hurtling backwards, coughing up a mouthful of blood as he flew. His eyes opened while he was still tumbling through space, and one of them took on a blood-red color. At this moment, Yi Ren looked exactly like when Yang Yi had seen him underground.

But this time, fluctuations started to ripple within the blood-red eye. Suddenly, a tentacle tore out of the eye and shot towards Lu Yin. At the same time, more tentacles wrapped around Yi Ren’s body, binding him within a tight cocoon.

Lu Yin hurriedly dodged the tentacle. What the hell were those things?

The tentacles were a muddy brown color, and they were also covered in a disgusting layer of slime. The near endless number of runes that Lu Yin observed from the tentacles were in no way inferior to Yi Ren’s own.

Lu Yin looked over at the Progenitor of Bloodlines and saw the old man’s confused expression. “I’ve never seen Yi Ren display an ability like this.”

Lu Yin continued to detonate one star after another while simultaneously manipulating runes to erase Yi Ren’s power.

Yi Ren's power was continuously weakened by the Progenitor-level runes, and due to that, the explosions that struck his body had the ability to severely injure him. His strength was merely comparable to Progenitor Xia Shenji's clone’s. However, the revolting tentacles were never completely destroyed, despite the force of the various explosions, as they were able to regenerate after breaking apart. On top of that, their resilience was remarkable, and often endured the force of the explosions.

Everyone gaped at the cocoon of tentacles. How did a Progenitor end up looking like such a freak?

The disk suddenly broke free from the restraints of the Progenitor-level runes. Within the slimy mass of tentacles, one of Yi Ren’s arms reached out and grabbed hold of the disk. The tentacles began to unwrap from his body.

As soon as Yi Ren was exposed, everyone who saw him shuddered in horror as a cold chill ran down their spines.

A squirming, wriggling mass of tentacles stretched out from one of his eyes.

Si Xiao’er felt her stomach heave, and she vomited on the ground within the Aeternus Kingdom. The grotesque sight left her stomach churning in revulsion.

Other onlookers were overcome with the same inclination to empty their stomachs’ contents.

Yang Yi’s face grew pale from fear. Master, what has become of you?

Bu Kong’s face had a similarly ugly expression. He clenched the shaft of his spear so tightly that his knuckles turned white.

Yi Ren fixed a death glare at Lu Yin. The Progenitor was fully aware of just how nauseating his appearance was, but there was no other way. The strength that Lu Yin could unleash by borrowing Progenitor Chen’s power meant that Yi Ren had to exert his full strength.

He shoved his hand into his eye socket, grabbed it, and ripped the scarlet eye out. The tentacles were rooted within the eyeball itself. “This is called Decaying Diablo. Heaven only knows where Shaman God found it, but regardless, he gave it to me. With this, I’m strong enough to fight against Xia Shang! It might look disgusting, but it’s rather useful, as well as very obedient.”

With the eyeball removed, Yi Ren no longer had such a hideous appearance. He was just a man who was missing an eye.

Of course, that was also assuming that he did not replace the eyeball.

“I never expected that a junior who once competed with my own disciple would one day force me to such a point.” Yi Ren stared at Lu Yin. “Since you are able to use Xia Shang’s power, then killing you means that I’ll finally avenge my Yi family!”

The eyeball then turned around so that the pupil faced Lu Yin. Swarms of tentacles surged out, converging upon Lu Yin.

Lu Yin was well and truly grossed out by this point in time. He accessed his cosmic ring, retrieved the slipper, and then tossed it to E Chi. The champion stood with a serrated blade in one hand and the slipper in the other. Both weapons lashed out at the approaching tentacles.

The moment the slippers came into contact with the tentacles, even though they were durable enough to withstand the multiple star explosions, they instantly shattered.

Yi Ren’s remaining eye bulged out of its socket from shock. Impossible! That’s impossible!

E Chi continued to attack with the slipper, and he completely smashed all of the approaching tentacles.

At the same time, Progenitor-level runes continued erasing Yi Ren’s power while the jiao clawed at the Progenitor from behind. Besieged from three different directions, even someone like Xia Shenji would struggle, much less Yi Ren.

He raised his disk over his head, and it rapidly expanded. The might of a Progenitor surged out to encompass the entire Starfall Sea. The waves grew, and the water became turbulent.

The Progenitor of Bloodlines looked back down. “Are you sure that you don’t want to settle things here first?”

Just as Lu Yin was about to reply, he suddenly focused on a single location. E Chi, who had not yet been unsummoned, stepped into the void and lashed out with the slipper. His target was Bu Kong.

Bu Kong was completely frozen as he watched the attack close in. The might of a Progenitor rendered both him and Yang Yi completely immobile, unable to even attempt to react. Bu Kong’s only thought was that Lu Yin was about to kill him, though he also thought that it was overkill to use a Progenitor’s power for him.

However, Lu Yin was not actually aiming to kill Bu Kong. His target was actually Yi Ren.

Lu Yin had been preparing this attack the moment that Yi Ren had fled. From what the Progenitor of Bloodlines had said to Yi Ren, Lu Yin had heard about how the Heng family and Yang family had been Yi Ren’s benefactors. That was why the Progenitor had taken Bu Kong and Yang Yi along with him when he had decided to betray humanity. No matter which side the Progenitor of Secret Arts stood on, Bu Kong and Yang Yi were people whom he cared about. Lu Yin was betting that Yi Ren would return to save his two disciples.

The lack of hesitation to abandon his disciples and the decisiveness of the man’s escape was something that Lu Yin had taken note of.

By conversing with the Progenitor of Bloodlines and maintaining a certain distance from the Aeternus Kingdom, Lu Yin had been deliberately giving Yi Ren an opportunity.

If Lu Yin’s expectations were met, Yi Ren would return to save Bu Kong and Yang Yi.

Yi Ren moved fast, but Lu Yin was already one step ahead. He had made preparations well in advance, and runes permeated the entire region. The moment Lu Yin sensed something abnormal, he had not hesitated to attack with the slipper. Regardless of whether Yi Ren was the one making a move, Lu Yin intended to strike first and ask questions later.

Tentacles emerged from the void, reaching for Bu Kong and Yang Yi in an attempt to take them away. However, all of the tentacles were instantly destroyed by the slipper. The eyeball fell from the void, and standing behind it was Yi Ren. He brought out his disk and slammed it against the slipper that E Chi was wielding. There was a crack, and a portion of the disk crumbled. Yi Ren spat out blood as he once again suffered from the slipper’s terrifying power. He gave one last glance at Bu Kong and Yang Yi, turned around, and left. He did not even stop to collect the eyeball that had fallen.

Everything happened in an instance. No one was able to react in the slightest.

Lu Yin finally made his way down to the Aeternus Kingdom, E Chi behind him. Overhead, the jiao blotted out the sky with its colossal body.

Lu Yin stared at the eyeball lying on the ground. On one hand, he was tempted to smash the thing to pieces, but on the other, he felt that it was wasteful to simply destroy something so powerful.

There was no way in hell Lu Yin would ever use it himself, but it was still a Progenitor-level treasure.

The Progenitor of Bloodlines landed beside him and noticed Lu Yin staring at the eyeball. “What is it?”

“Do you have any interest in it, Senior?”

Goosebumps appeared on the Progenitor’s arms. “No.”

Lu Yin chuckled. “Whether you are interested or not, we’ll talk about it later, after we test it. It seems that it won’t attack without someone controlling it.”

Without waiting for a reply, Lu Yin disappeared as he made his way to the eastern city.

This Aeternus Kingdom was split into two cities, and the eastern city was inhabited by humans while the western city was populated by corpse kings.

Just a short while later, the western city had been razed to the ground. Within the eastern city, humans nervously waited around for the hammer of judgment to fall.

As soon as the Human Domain launched an assault on the Starfall Sea, Yang Yi had quickly sent out a mandatory conscription order for all cultivators. The city master looked upwards. Who still had the courage to defend the city?

After the eastern city surrendered, Lu Yin instructed everyone to remain where they were and to await trial by the Interstellar Supreme Court. Then, he pulled out Yang Yi, Bu Kong, Fan Chen, and Fan Yu.

These four did not qualify for a trial; they had been traitors from the very beginning.

Fan Chen’s face was ashen. Fan Yu stared up at Lu Yin, despair and fear written across his face. Bu Kong seemed unwilling to accept his fate. Yang Yi appeared to be at peace, as though he had already come to terms with death.

“Senior, I’ll leave the Fan family’s punishment to your Sixth Mainland,” Lu Yin said.

The Progenitor of Bloodlines was still studying the strange eyeball. Looking at it from up close made him nervous, but just as Lu Yin had said, as long as no one was controlling it, the eyeball would not attack on its own. At the moment, the Progenitor was attempting to control it.

Although the thing was quite grotesque, it was also a highly effective weapon. It had already proven itself to be durable enough to withstand even exploding stars. The only object that had been able to damage the tentacles was the slipper.