Chapter 2902: Crises At The Borders
Lu Yin now understood what Shang Zheng meant. The Law of Darkness was very powerful no matter how one looked at it. Old Mo could not be given even the slightest reprieve to recover.
However, since Old Mo had already escaped, he definitely would not keep hiding in the Endless Frontier, which meant that it would be extremely difficult to find him.
Proximity soon received the news.
The fourth battalion had officially purged the Umbral Universe, and the master of that universe, Old Mo, had been seriously injured before escaping. It was likely that the man would defect to the Aeternals.
Wang Wen solemnly commented, "Senior Sage Bodhi, please ask the Sixverse Association to do their best to find Old Mo. That man attacked our Heavens Sect when we were being attacked by the Aeternals, and his actions harmed us greatly."
Sage Bodhi stared at Wang Wen for a long moment. She was quickly realizing that the four people that Lu Yin had sent to Proximity had not merely been sent to uncover spies, but also to deliver Lu Yin’s orders to the Sixverse Association.
This did not mean that Sage Bodhi could not accept the orders that Lu Yin was giving, as the two orders that he had given—drafting all members of the Sixverse Association currently on the Endless Frontier into the crusade and searching for Old Mo—were both acting for the overall benefit of the Sixverse Association.
However, if too many such orders were given, they would silently increase Lord Lu’s influence throughout the Sixverse Association.
I’ve still underestimated him. Lord Lu isn’t only fighting a battle on the Endless Frontier, but also waging a war of influence within the Sixverse Association.
Could Sage Bodhi refuse? No. She was the Endless Frontier’s General solely because she had instant access to all the information of the battlefield, not because she was qualified to give orders to all the people fighting on the Endless Frontier.
When she was asked to convey orders or information from the Endless Frontier to the Sixverse Association, it was extremely difficult for the Sage to refuse, as long as the request was reasonable.
The Great Sovereign was in seclusion, which meant that there was no one around who could stop Lu Yin.
More than a month passed after the battle in the Umbral Universe, and during that time, the four battalions had green lit seventeen parallel universes. It was an unprecedented accomplishment.
The entire Sixverse Association was watching the crusade.
At this juncture, even if the crusade ultimately failed, just the accomplishment of having purged seventeen parallel universes was enough to shock countless people.
An uncountable number of Aeternus’s corpse kings had been slaughtered, including dozens at the Semi-Progenitor level and no less than five at the Progenitor level. Additionally, eleven spies had been uncovered, some of whom were from the parallel universes of the Endless Frontier, with others from the Sixverse Association.
Just as Lu Yin had wanted, the four battalions were sweeping across the Endless Frontier, leaving it clean in their wake.
Never before had the Endless Frontier seen such activity. The crusade inspired confidence in many of the Endless Frontier’s universes.
However, Lu Yin and the others were not at all happy about their progress. The seventeen parallel universes that they had purged were only the most ordinary and average of the universes that made up the Endless Frontier, and only the Umbral Universe had been somewhat remarkable. Without Old Mo, a Sequence Progenitor, the Umbral Universe would not rank among the top fifteen most dangerous universes. And even with him in it, the universe would never be ranked any higher, not unless Old Mo defected to Aeternus or allied with the Sixverse Association. The battalions had not met any of the true challenges on the Endless Frontier yet.
At the Cyclic Universe’s Wall of Purity, Arrow Sage was reviewing the reports that had been sent back from the Endless Frontier as shock filled his heart.
Lu Yin might have acted overly arrogant and overbearing in the Cyclic Universe, but he was finally doing something extremely satisfying.
Many people had objected to the crusade to conquer the Endless Frontier, but Arrow Sage had not been one of them. As Lu Yin had said, why should the Aeternals be the ones to decide when and how the war was fought?
Arrow Sage had also wanted to launch an attack against the Aeternals, but he lacked the necessary strength.
There were currently four battalions sweeping across the Endless Frontier, each of which had five peak powerhouses, including a sequence powerhouse. Such a force was something that not even the Aeternals would dare to take lightly. This was how humanity should be behaving, by boldly seizing the initiative.
Arrow Sage let out a breath. He wanted to join those four battalions, but someone had to protect the Wall of Purity.
Still, Lu Yin was performing quite satisfactorily.
An alarm suddenly rang across the entire Wall of Purity.
The Sage’s expression changed, and he looked into the distance, his face growing pale. No way.
As for asking the rulers of the various universes to emerge from seclusion, that was completely impossible.
True God and the Seven Skygods had all retreated into seclusion to heal their wounds. Similarly, the Great Sovereign and Ancestor Lu Yuan, who had fought against the Aeternals in that massive battle, had done so as well. If humanity’s most powerful individuals were not allowed to heal and recover, humanity would face a disadvantage in the future when they faced the Aeternals most powerful members, which would be an even worse catastrophe.
Lu Yin's crusade to conquer the Endless Frontier could already be regarded as successful, but the price was going to be steep.
If the four battalions were forced to abandon the crusade to rescue the Sixverse Association, humanity’s invincible blade would lose its magnificence.
Fortunately, before launching the crusade, the Heavens Sect had already taken such a move into consideration.
Lu Yin's fourth battalion instantly split apart. He led some people to the third battalion’s location, while Leng Qing took some people to join the second battalion.
The four battalions had been following a predetermined route across the Endless Frontier, and they were never too far away from each other. At every point in time, there were never more than two parallel universes separating the battalions from their nearest neighbors, and this served to ensure that they could always support each other.
It had already been decided that, the moment the Sixverse Association was threatened, the fourth battalion would break apart, and the four battalions would become three. Each battalion would retain the same strength as before, which would allow all the peak powerhouses of one battalion to go reinforce the Sixverse Association.
Shan Zheng immediately returned to the Lost Clan’s universe.
Lu Yin joined the third battalion. There, Shao Chen, who had been with them, moved to the Transcendent Universe to support them, and he was joined by Leng Qing and Chen Le.
The Transcendent Universe was simply too weak, and it required a number of peak powerhouses to save it.
Xia Qin led her forces to join the second battalion, and Bureau Director Gan then left the second battalion to return to the Arboreal Realm.
The fourth battalion merged with two of the other three battalions, while the first battalion remained unchanged. In the second battalion, Xia Qin replaced Chen Le, and in the third battalion, Lu Yin and the jiao had replaced Shao Chen, which strengthened that battalion dramatically.
In the Transcendent Universe, people moved quickly to transfer a bestowal art carrier to the border.
Wen Shi, Zuo Lao, and Qiu Zhan worked together with their black energy converters to hold back Greenridge. The three men were still at a disadvantage, and they risked being overpowered at any moment.
On their own, the three men could only handle the most average Progenitor-level corpse kings, and they were completely outmatched by the True God Guard Captain. This individual was on a completely different level, and if one of the True God Guard Captains went to the Origin Universe, they would be capable of defeating anyone who was not a Sequence Progenitor. They were all experts at the same level as Xia Shenji.
With just black energy converters, there was no way for the Transcendent Universe’s experts to measure up to someone like Xia Shenji.
Greenridge casually waved a hand, and a wave of leaves flew out, which Qiu Zhan only narrowly managed to evade. This was the same attack that had killed Cong Si when Greenridge had first arrived.
The seemingly soft leaves were powerful enough to break past their black energy, and not even the bestowal art carrier was able to eliminate anything. These leaves were moving due to pure physical power, and the bestowal art carriers were only able to absorb energy.
"If not for Lord Wei, this universe would have been wiped out long ago." Greenridge's long hair ruffled in the wind. There was an icy expression on his face and a frigid glint in his eyes as ripples visibly radiated from his body and spread across the nearby area.
Qiu Zhan and the other two were all shocked. "Is that aurelian force?"
Sure enough, Greenridge was using aurelian force, the second most powerful level of battle force. With the boost of aurelian force, even if Greenridge did not use the Corpse King Transformation, his physical strength would still reach an extremely terrifying level.
"You can all die now." Greenridge charged at Qiu Zhan.
The three men all released their black energy at the same time. Each black energy converter had enough raw power to compare to a Progenitor, but not even all three combined were able to have any effect on Greenridge. All three bursts of black energy passed right through Greenridge when the attacks approached him.
The three men had no idea how, but Greenridge was able to disable all of their attacks.
Aurelian force swept out, and the pressure alone was almost enough to make the three humans cough up blood. Greenridge appeared right in front of Qiu Zhan. Even when facing an endless bombardment of the Transcendent Universe’s attacks, Greenridge’s eyes did not waver in the least. It was impossible for any of these people to hurt him.
Suddenly, Greenridge turned his head and looked in a particular direction. From that direction, a saber attack shot out. It was extremely sharp, and the black energy attacks were not even comparable.
"Here comes a real expert."