Star Odyssey

his strength.

As soon as he received the message, Lu Yin directed his ship to the nearest Mavis Bank.
Just in case, he intended to immediately withdraw the money.

It would be unrealistic to withdraw one billion star essence from a single branch of the Mavis Bank.
Even if the Mavis Bank was incredibly wealthy, it was impossible for all its branches to have so much star essence.
Forget one branch, even ten combined would not have that much.

Lu Yin was left with no choice but to slowly withdraw his funds from one branch at a time.
In the end, he withdrew the final bit of his billion star essence from the thirteenth branch that he visited.
After that, he arrived at Blazing Mist Flowzone.

Lu Yin rubbed his cosmic ring.
At the moment, his liquid assets amounted to 1.712 billion star essence; what a terrible number! Right now, Lu Yin did not merely stand on the same level as other wealthy individuals as he held an amount of wealth that even the masters of the eight great flowzones would have trouble putting together.

If there was a list of the most wealthy, then Lu Yin felt that he would likely be on it.

After getting so much money, it was time for Lu Yin to upgrade his items.

Back in the Blaze Realm, Lu Yin ignored everything and immediately went into seclusion.

In the Outerverse, in Shenwu Continent’s imperial palace, there were two groups of people facing off against each other.
One was composed of natives from Shenwu Continent who were protecting the imperial palace while the other group was composed of people from the Great Yu Empire who had been stationed on Shenwu Continent.
Things were turning ugly.

“I’ll tell you again—get out of our way! We must see the empress today!” a woman shouted.
She was a Hunter, and her power caused the palace to start crumbling.

Across from her, the faces of the people from Shenwu Continent grew pale.
None of them were Martial Gods and were thus unable to compare to this woman.
If not for the face that the woman was giving to the empress by not forcing matters, there was no way that they would have been able to block her path.

Bei Hong walked up to the palace, looked at the Hunter, and then looked back at the imperial palace.
“Get out of the way.
The empress hasn't shown herself for a long time, and if this continues, then no one will be able to control the situation.”

Upon hearing this, the palace guards helplessly stepped back.

The Hunter rushed to the imperial study, but she found no traces of Ming Yan.
All she found was a trembling maid.

The Hunter’s face went pale.
It was over, the empress was not there.
How had she gotten out? Unless one was an Explorer and had a Hunter open a path for them, there was no way to leave Shenwu Continent.

This was the main reason why the Hunter had never been concerned about Ming Yan not showing herself, but the worst possible situation had occurred.

Bei Hong also had not expected for Ming Yan to leave Shenwu Continent.

The Hunter stared at Bei Hong.
“If His Highness finds out about this, we will all die.”

Bei Hong solemnly replied, “I know, which is why I can't tell His Highness.
Send someone to get in touch with the space station outside right now to see if the empress was picked up.
If not, it means that she must not have left Shenwu Continent.
We need to figure this out right away.”

The Hunter nodded.
She had started to panic, so she could only listen to Bei Hong.

Bei Hong's heart kept sinking further and further.
He thought of Ming Zhaoshu's death and how Ming Yan had been held hostage at that time, which had led to her being poisoned and almost dying.
Were any of the people related to that incident still alive? Could they have taken action against Ming Yan? That would be bad.

They would not be able to keep this matter hidden for long.

In the Blaze Realm, in Lu Yin’s secluded room, he raised a hand, and his die appeared, slowly rotating.
He tapped it and rolled six pips: Possession.

There was no limit to how much star essence could be consumed with Possession, so as soon as Lu Yin appeared in the strange space with the orbs of light, he instinctively searched for the brightest light and immediately merged with it.

As the scenery changed before his eyes, he appeared in the middle of a battlefield in outer space.
Pain racked his body, and Lu Yin looked down to see that his body had already been hacked to pieces.
There was a figure in front of him with a pair of scarlet eyes that had slitted pupils.
They were cold, ruthless eyes devoid of all life.
The figure reached out with a hand to grab at Lu Yin.

He reflexively wanted to use the Ce Secret Art to evade, but this was not his body, so he could not use such a revealing technique.
The attacker’s hand stabbed into Lu Yin’s neck, and blood dripped down the back of his hand and off the fingertips.
The blood quickly formed a stream.

Lu Yin had not expected to Possess an Enlighter with a power level of more than 300,000 only to immediately die.
There were too many other dead bodies floating around in outer space, and the entire area was painted red.

His eyes went dark, and Lu Yin's consciousness returned to his own body.
His eyes snapped open, his pupils mere pinpricks.
He had just died.

Once again, he had experienced the sensation of dying.
It was a feeling that everyone could only experience once, but Lu Yin had experienced it multiple times.

Suddenly, the black and white mist in his heart throbbed.
It then slowly churned, as if pulling at something, before actually growing slightly.

During the last fight of ZENITH, Lu Yin had used the power of this black and white mist to transform.
After that fight, the dual-colored mist had become much thinner, being reduced to around half of what it had originally been.
Lu Yin felt that if he transformed once more, the black and white mist might disappear entirely.

Lu Yin had been worrying about this power disappearing, and he had wanted to find some place that naturally had death energy, but how could such a place be easy to find? He had never thought that this mist could be replenished by experiencing death himself.
Even though it had only been a small amount, he had learned something very useful: it was not entirely necessary to absorb only dead energy.

Lu Yin did not know if he should be happy or depressed, as experiencing death was a horrible sensation.
He had only deliberately killed himself during a Possession when confronting Ling Que as a last resort while this most recent death had been due to him failing to react in time.
Even just the idea of purposely experiencing death was enough to cause him to panic slightly.

However, there was no other way.
If Lu Yin wanted to keep the power of his death energy transformation, then this was just what he had to do.