Published at 21st of September 2026 6:25 am

Chapter 4529: Encounter

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Right now, Lu Yin could move very fast, to the point where his speed defied all imagination. He could move far faster than an ordinary Immortal. This speed was made possible by the Abyssal Displacement.

He could also move very slowly, to the point where he proceeded forward just one step at a time as he moved toward the end of the distant road.

He sometimes swept swiftly across a stretch of the cosmos, only occasionally stopping to observe things. He was experiencing the Abyssal Displacement and sensing the vastness of this Stillness. The more he sensed it, the less clearly he could grasp it. It was like an ordinary person falling into the sea, unable to know just how deep the ocean truly was.

The feeling of this Stillness far surpassed all the torrents of Stillness that Death's Dominion had unleashed at their peak.

In truth, this was to be expected, as Death's Dominion had only been one of the seven Abyssals, while the Stillness of the Abyssal Displacement came from all seven Abysses, as well as from the Death Megaverse itself.

Lu Yin suddenly stopped and touched his surroundings. Darkness spread out from his fingertips. Was this the power of a single living being or the power of an entire megaverse? Could a single creature truly manifest so much Stillness, to the point where even he, at this moment, could not fathom it?

However, if this power originated from a megaverse, how had it given birth to this power?

Lu Yin peered ahead. This road was not truly walked; it was endured. Only by withstanding the pull of the Stillness could one traverse this road. However, for the beings who were competing for the position of Abyssal, enduring this Stillness was merely the beginning.

Lu Yin was also enduring the Stillness. Across his white bones, the Cosmic Art continued to circulate, and the individual stars that had originally been forcibly suppressed within his bones by his main body were now beginning to emerge and become distinct.

Once they emerged, the bone clone simply could not press them back in on its own.

However, if he wanted to absorb this vast amount of Stillness, this was the only way.

The stars of the Cosmic Art rose to the surface, one after another. If magnified, one would discover that they were stars of Stillness that had been arranged according to Cosmic Art, and they were each constantly rotating, madly devouring the nearby Stillness. By doing so, they were continuously spreading out and gaining further depth. With a single movement of Lu Yin's finger, the stars could leap off of his bones and hover in outer space. The could even expand to form a universe that was centered on the skeleton clone, entirely surrounding it with stars of Stillness that spun wildly.

It was fine for him to completely expose the Cosmic Art in this place. To begin with, no one could monitor the entire Abyssal Displacement. Secondly, Thousand Machinations had already learned the Cosmic Art and did not care about it. It was possible that the other Abyssals would not care either.

Those capable of becoming the Death Megaverses Abyssals were all supreme powerhouses; each was incomparably proud. They might not necessarily take notice of such a cultivation art. Thousand Machinations had only done so because it focused on deducing battle techniques.

The Cosmic Art continued to expand. With Lu Yin's breathing, the number of stars continued to increase, one after another. He had previously devoured the Stillness from Death's Dominion's shattered crystal, combining that with the Stillness that he had already possessed. The current influx of Stillness was pushing him close to his limit.

It could be said that this skeleton clone was already close to the maximum amount of Stillness that it could absorb. The Cosmic Art had no limit, but the individual did. Only by transforming himself could Lu Yin keep up with the Cosmic Art's infinite potential.

It was no different from his main body, which had resonated with the cosmic law of Universe as Self. Guided by the beliefs of Revelation Sect, and with the proof of his own inner universe, Lu Yin had managed to succeed in comprehending such a law.

The Cosmic Art had not transformed with his main body because that body possessed Lu Yins inner universe, which had also been born from the Cosmic Art. After all, that was not the original Cosmic Art either.

At this moment, however, these stars of Stillness were the Cosmic Art itself, and the only way to increase the amount of Stillness that he could absorb was to rely on the Cosmic Art. Otherwise, the skeleton clones body itself simply could not contain so much Stillness.

When one first started cultivating with the Cosmic Art, each additional star would double their cultivation speed. Such efficiency was meaningless to the skeleton clone at the moment because it could easily draw Stillness into its bones. What Lu Yin lacked was sheer capacity.

Lu Yin thus released the stars of the Cosmic Art as he headed for the end of the path.

The Aevum Inch had no end, but this path did.

When the final star condensed, the Cosmic Art mastered by the skeleton clone reached its peak. The stars had spread so far into the distance that they even exceeded the range of the Stillness. They moved with Lu Yin as he charged towards the end of the path at his fastest speed.

No matter how long he remained within the Abyssal Displacement, he would no longer be able to increase his reserves of Stillness.

The end of the road was broken. It should have been linked to Death's Dominion's Stillness, so the Abyssal candidates were required to use their own Stillness at the broken portion to pave a new path, extending the Abyssal Displacement to connect to where Death's Dominion had last used it. Then, they were to report their success to the Death Megaverses remaining six Abyssals. Only by doing so would their task be considered complete.

Suddenly, Lu Yin stopped and looked ahead in surprise. There were actually fluctuations in the Stillness, as though an attack had just been used.

He used the Mirrorlight Art to peer into the distance, searching one direction after another. His main body had already deduced many layers of the Mirrorlight Art for this clone. Without that technique, he would simply be like a blind man stumbling about the Aevum Inch.

Suddenly, Lu Yin shrank back. What is that?

Far away, an entire megaverse was collapsing and tilting in one direction. Lu Yin was extremely familiar with this scene: Cosmic Shear. This was the result of the technological fishing civilizations attack, Cosmic Shear.

He stared into the distance and saw a huge ovoid light gradually moving away. It was a king vessel. It was the same size as the largest ovoid light that had once headed toward the Trio.

The technological fishing civilizations vessels had multiple tiers: astral vessels, stellar vessels, king vessels, and the strongest ones, imperial vessels. This was something that he had learned when he forced the technological fishing civilization away back then.

Of those various ships, imperial vessels did not typically appear, and they were only used to protect their native megaverse.

Star vessels were already capable of unleashing Cosmic Shear. The vessels that Lu Yin had goaded out in the war at the Seven-Treasure Anuras seven-colored land against the Blacklight Civilization had been star vessels. The king vessels stood above the star vessels, but Lu Yin had only ever seen a king vessel unleash Cosmic Shear, never any other type of attack.

However, a kin vessel had to possess even more terrifying weapons. That had been Lu Yins thought at the time.

However, judging by the current situation, perhaps that was not the case. The Cosmic Shear that had just been released had clearly been fired by the king vessel, and yet it was retreating after unleashing a single strike, using no other powerful attacks. Was it possible that the king vessels did not possess any attacks more terrifying than what star vessels possessed?

The Abyssal Displacement used Stillness to cross the Aevum Inch, so naturally, it could affect any megaverses that it encountered. However, the Death Megaverse did not care about such effects.

Similarly, although the technological fishing civilization did not possess cultivation, its offensive means were quite formidable, so it was not surprising that they were able to affect Stillness.

The king vessel had already left, and Lu Yin did not pursue it. It appeared that the technological fishing civilization was not too far from where he currently was. He had been wary before, but it was possible that his main body currently possessed the ability to communicate with this civilization.

It would not be good to keep things hanging forever. A technological civilization was absolutely not weak.

The Abyssal Displacement could instantly send beings from one Abyss to another, which was why Lu Yin was able to control his own speed. It did not take him long to arrive at the break.

The path of Stillness was broken. He peered ahead. Was that the direction to continue in? If so, it was time to start paving the path.

Through the Cosmic Art, one star released Stillness, linking to the Stillness currently beneath Lu Yin's feet, before extending into the distance. Immediately after that, more stars of Stillness were released, and Lu Yin proceeded to move forward at a rapid pace.

If he did not move along with the extending path of Stillness, his progress would not count.

Before long, just as Lu Yin was extending the path of Stillness, he felt an inexplicable chill approaching. His head snapped around, and he looked into the distance with the Mirrorlight Art. A glance revealed an afterimage flashing by. Just an instant later, sharp bone talons appeared before his eyes, sweeping past his skeletal cheek and tearing open the void.

"Huh? You actually dodged it?"

Lu Yin retreated step by step, and a star of Stillness exploded, annihilating the space ahead of him.

Bone talons swung at him again, tearing through the explosion of Stillness to grab at Lu Yin's skull. He saw things clearly this time. He was being attacked by a bird, or rather, a skeleton of a bird. Although it was not enormous, it arrived with a terrifying chill. This was a powerhouse.

He retreated again.

The bone bird's sharp talons tore through the Stillness, constantly reaching for Lu Yin's skull. "You are not even an Immortal being, and yet you can dodge my attacks. You must be an Aberrant.

"You are truly bold. A mere Aberrant actually dares to dream of competing to become an Abyssal?"

As the bird spoke, its bone talons continued to sweep past again and again, moving faster than what ordinary Immortals could keep up with. Each swipe not only tore through the void, but also made time pause. The gray power flowed through the slashes, yet they still failed to catch Lu Yin. He said nothing. He had expected powerful enemies to appear, though not so quickly.

It was just as Zhou had expected; powerful enemies would first travel down the paths of other Abysses and clear out those Abysses paths.

Clearly, this bone bird had gone in the direction of Withered Requiem's Abyss and had been pursuing Lu Yin from behind all along.

However, he had not moved particularly fast. If this bird had wanted to catch up to him, it could have done so long ago. It must have also been absorbing Stillness. The fact that it had caught up to him meant that it had already absorbed enough Stillness. Or rather, like him, it had reached the limit of what it could absorb.

While thinking of such things, Lu Yin dodged the bone talons again and again.

The bone bird was surprised. How can he still dodge my attacks?

It started moving faster and faster, faster and faster. Lu Yin started to struggle. After all, his clone could not teleport, and he had gotten used to teleporting to avoid most attacks, which caused his movements to seem somewhat sluggish at this moment.

He immediately circulated the stars, bombarding the bird with the Cosmic Art, one star after another.

The bone bird was definitely a peak one-law powerhouse. Lu Yin could sense that it was roughly equal to Mister Mu. Lu Yin had encountered more than one such Immortal before, but every time, it had been his main body fighting such opponents. This time, it was just a clone, and many of his normal abilities were unavailable.

The impacts of Stillness formed by star after star exploding finally slowed the bone birds offensive. The bone bird was surprised. This is some kind of cultivation art. You used a cultivation art to absorb Stillness. You have an interesting idea, but youve gone down the wrong path. Stillness will always be best suited to the self, not to an external cultivation art.

"Consider this my guidance before your death." After saying this, the bone talons bent. They clearly did not move, and yet Lu Yin felt as if disaster was about to fall upon him. He stared ahead fixedly. The stars of the Cosmic Art spun, and Stillness spread. Every attack within the range of the Cosmic Art was clearly reflected in his eyes as his enemy's movements slowed. In reality, the enemy had not changed; Lu Yin had simply stretched out time.

He saw it clearly; the bone talons had already fallen.

Lu Yin gritted his teeth. He had known that the powerful enemies he encountered during the competition to become an Abyssal would be formidable, with each one possibly being comparable to Lan Meng. Even so, he had not expected his first opponent to be this powerful, suppressing him to the point where he momentarily found it difficult to even fight back.

Stars gathered at his palm: Cosmic Palm. When this palm was used, stars appeared. Stars circled one after another, turning the bone hand pitch-black. That was the power of Stillness.

Bang!

Talons met that palm. Surging Stillness swept out in all directions from the collision, even causing the path of Stillness to ripple.

Lu Yin retreated once more as cracks appeared on the bones of his hand. This bone bird was truly terrifyingly powerful, and it was strong enough to threaten his skeleton clone.

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