Chapter 4446: The Crimson Sword

Xue Zhan was just as excited as anyone else. It had been more than 2,000 years since his last meeting with Lu Yin, which was when Lu Yin had first created the Nirvana Tree Path. Now, Xue Zhan had managed to become a sequence powerhouse, and he could break through to the Origin realm at any time. However, Lord Lu had already become invincible within their human civilization.

While everyone said that those who slept in the Scion Spire were prodigies, compared to that man, they were far too ordinary. It was even to the point where they gave no thought of comparing themselves to Lu Yin at all.

When Xue Zhan and the others left, Lu Yin looked ahead and said, "This must be where Lan Meng used to live. It actually left behind a few protective methods."

As he spoke, he stepped forward. He did not teleport but rather walked forward one step at a time.

An invisible power was destroying the sky and earth. The farther in he went, the stronger that force became. At first, it could easily erase Progenitors, but it quickly grew strong enough to wipe out even Dukkhans.

But in Lu Yin's eyes, it might as well not even exist. Even if Lan Meng itself were present, it would be impossible for it to even escape.

Lu Yin raised a hand and lightly tapped out with a fingertip. The void split open, revealing a parallel universe.

When this parallel universe appeared, the void throughout the entire Bluebright Realm began to continuously shift. One parallel universe after another split open, revealing countless withered tree-like creatures hidden inside. The people of the Trio were shocked; they had not expected there to be so many creatures.

Lu Yin looked up, and his eyes narrowed. He had to admit that, since the Bluebright Realm had continuously produced Immortals as powerful as Lan Meng, this civilization truly had some ability.

While they had lost their Immortal, they had still accumulated strength over the course of countless years. That, combined with the creatures’ natural abilities, meant that the megaverse’s overall combat power exceeded that of the Human Trio cultivators who had been sent to fight this war.

In that case, it was time to deploy the Mind Manor.

Lu Yin did not make any move himself. Above his head, his Investiture of the Gods shone brilliantly, and one consciousness body after another rushed out to join the human cultivators in slaughtering the tree-like creatures.

Lu Yin could easily eradicate these creatures, but it was better to let the cultivators fight. Civilizational wars would not be only up to him to fight in the future, and human civilization needed more powerhouses to rise up.

As for Lu Yin himself, he entered the parallel universe that had been hidden.

None of the native creatures were left in the universe. It had been Lan Meng's private cultivation land, and it also contained many things that it had collected.

Lu Yin’s gaze casually swept the area, only to suddenly stop on two different items. One was a group of black armor plates. There were actually four of them in this place.

Lan Meng had actually hidden four of the black armor plates. Instead of keeping them in a spatial ring, it had stored them in the Bluebright Realm. They had been hidden very well. After all, when Lan Meng ambushed Ancestor Shan, the One-Hundredth Seal had just been scattered apart by the ancient toad. It was not strange that Lan Meng had managed to collect four of the plates.

The other thing that drew Lu Yin's attention was a sword, a crimson sword that belonged to the Path of Dispassion.

The moment his eyes fell upon that sword, Lu Yin felt a tremor in his heart. It was as if he could see the sword's edge, and it felt so sharp that even he would find it difficult to withstand. Could it be...?

He teleported to the crimson sword and slowly reached out to touch it, only to suddenly withdraw his hand. This was the Path of Dispassion’s sword intent. This really was a sword of the Path of Dispassion, and it should belong to Hong Shuang.

If not her, then whose Path of Dispassion’s sword intent could leave Lu Yin as shaken as this?

Hong Xia might be one possibility, and Jiu Wen could only reach half this level. Despite that, neither man’s sword intent was enough to incite such a feeling within Lu Yin. Only Hong Shuang, the Rampart Warden of the Second Rampart and the founder of the Path of Dispassion, could.

Had that woman’s sword actually been with Lan Meng all this time?

Lu Yin remembered that Lan Meng had once said that its father had fought in the war that had destroyed the Nine Ramparts. Specifically, he should have fought against the Second Rampart. Its father had personally seen Hong Shuang enter a branch of the River of Aeons, the branch that currently belonged to the Tianyuan. It was not impossible for Lan Meng’s father to have obtained Hong Shuang's sword.

That moment must have been right after Hong Shuang was betrayed by Hong Xia, and before that, she had fought a decisive battle against Qiu Huang, Furball's master. Both of those incidents had caused her to suffer severe injuries, so it would not be surprising if her crimson sword had been dropped or seized.

Fortunately, humanity had found the Bluebright Realm. Otherwise, no one knew when the crimson sword and the four black armor plates might have come to light.

Lu Yin took a deep breath before picking up the sword and the plates. With that, he left. Aside from these two things, everything else that he found was worthless. Lan Meng had taken away anything else of value, and all that remained were things either too precious to move or of no value at all.

Now, they had all fallen into Lu Yin's hands.

For their human civilization, the Bluebright Realm was actually a very valuable conquest, which was the reason why they had launched a civilizational war. This megaverse had managed to produce multiple Immortals, which meant that they had abundant cultivation resources. On of that, the bodies of the tree-like creatures were also extremely valuable, and they would enable the research and development of new weapons.

Consciousness bodies would not die, and once the countless consciousness bodies swept across the Bluebright Realm, the war neared its end. No matter how many native creatures were hiding in the megaverse’s parallel universes, they could no longer turn the tide.

Half a month later, the war in the Bluebright Realm ended, and Lu Yin returned to the Crimson Starshade Mmegaverse to meet with Jiu Wen.

"Senior, if you obtained Rampart Warden Hong Shuang's weapon, would you be confident against Hong Xia?" This was the first thing that Lu Yin said upon seeing Jiu Wen. His voice was soft, yet the impact that his words had on Jiu Wen was enormous.

He stared at Lu Yin in a daze. "Her guardian artifact?"

Lu Yin shook his head.

Jiu Wen's eyes flickered. "Her sword."

Lu Yin met Jiu Wen's eyes, waiting for the man’s answer.

Jiu Wen was agitated. He had not expected Lu Yin to obtain Rampart Warden Hong Shuang's personal sword. As a cultivator who followed the Path of Dispassion, Jiu Wen was very clear on the meaning of Sorrow Without Heart, Forged as a Sword and how sword intent merged with the Path of Dispassion. This sword could have an enormous impact on any cultivator of Path of Dispassion, and it could even point out a clear path for them.

"Give it to Chu Songyun," Jiu Wen said.

Lu Yin was surprised. "Senior, you do not need it?"

Jiu Wen offered a bitter smile. "It would be useless even if I received it. When I stepped into the Immortal realm, my path became fixed. I can never reach the height of Rampart Warden Hong Shuang, but Chu Songyun is different. In the past, he was merely talented, but now, after his discipleship ceremony, his heart has become firm, and he also possesses a uniquely blessed advantage when it comes to cultivating the Path of Dispassion. This, Mr. Lu, you know very well."

Lu Yin nodded. Of course he was aware of that. On the day of Chu Songyun’s discipleship ceremony, the man had solidified his own Path of Dispassion, and that event had shaken even Lu Yin. That was why he had said that Chu Songyun should become humanity’s blade and also why he held such high expectations for the man.

It could be said that, the moment Hong Xia betrayed humanity, the Path of Dispassion had been split between two different eras: one that belonged to Hong Shuang, and one that belonged to Hong Xia. As for Chu Songyun, he was the person who Lu Yin believed was capable of starting a third era. The war against the Plume Immortals had only strengthened that belief.

Chu Songyun had carried Jiu Wen's red umbrella and desperately endured the attacks of a two-law Plume Immortal. Although the man had been severely wounded time and time again, he had never fallen. He had already fully adapted to Jiu Wen's personal red umbrella.

Chu Songyun's talent in cultivating the Path of Dispassion was simply too high.

Lu Yin took a long look at Jiu Wen. "I hope that he will not disappoint your expectations, Senior."

Jiu Wen smiled. "He will not. To have met you, Mr. Lu, is his good fortune, as well as the good fortune of the Path of Dispassion. Jiu Wen thanks you for this."

As he spoke, the old man slowly bowed to Lu Yin, but Lu Yin instantly teleported away, refusing to accept the bow.

Jiu Wen had also sacrificed a great deal in order to deal with Hong Xia. Although what he had done was unfair to the current cultivators of Crimson Starshade because an incorrect path of cultivation had been passed down to them, Jiu Wen had also always intended to sacrifice himself and his own future. It could only be said that each person made different choices.

This man was different from Master Qingcao and Chen Jian; there was a kind of all-or-nothing resolve in Jiu Wen.

Lu Yin left Crimson Starshade and returned to the Tianyuan, where he found Chu Songyun.

"Master." Chu Songyun bowed. He had been gravely injured during the war against the Plume Immortals, and he had only managed to recover after spending a long time recuperating in the Mirari Realm.

Lu Yin looked at his disciple. "When can you break through to the Immortal realm?"

Chu Songyun thought for a moment. "I do not know."

"You should understand the Path of Dispassion quite well."

"The more I understand it, the less I know. The path of the Path of Dispassion is vast. Emotion itself is the most complex part of the human heart, and dispassion is just as complex as emotion."

Lu Yin extended his hand and brought out the crimson sword. Chu Songyun looked at it. The moment it appeared, he felt as if his entire being was connected to it. This was the essence of the Path of Dispassion. That was the Path of Dispassion.

He looked at Lu Yin in astonishment. "Master, this is...?"

"Don’t bother asking. Just sense it for yourself. Accept it, or don’t," Lu Yin calmly replied.

Chu Songyun's eyes fell to the sword, and he stared at it intently. After a long while, he bent down and stretched out both arms. "Your disciple accepts this sword."

Lu Yin placed the sword into Chu Songyun's hands. The man trembled, and his eyes grew clouded in an instant. It was as if countless emotions were intertwining and struggling within him. He shuddered yet remained motionless, frozen in the position of accepting the sword.

Lu Yin frowned. Hong Shuang's sword affected cultivators of the Path of Dispassion even more deeply than he had expected. Or perhaps this was because Chu Songyun's talent in the Path of Dispassion was too high. Lu Yin just hoped that this sword would show him a path rather than an abyss.

As he slowly sat down, Long Xi poured some tea for Lu Yin. He took a sip and waited calmly.

Long Xi glanced at Chu Songyun before leaving.

One day, two days, three days. A full ten days passed before Chu Songyun awoke. Lowering his arms, he looked at Lu Yin. "Master, whose sword is this exactly?"

"How does it feel?"

"Vast, as if it contains everything in the Path of Dispassion within it, and yet it also feels as if it has lit a lighthouse for this disciple amid the stormy sea of the Path of Dispassion."

"Master, whose sword is this?" This was his third time asking this question.

Lu Yin still did not answer. He only said, "Cultivate well. There is no need to rush your breakthrough to the Immortal realm. Allow it to happen naturally. Our human civilization does not lack for ordinary Immortals. What we lack is a guide for the Path of Dispassion."

He looked at Chu Songyun. "The glory of the Second Rampart must be restored by your hands."

Chu Songyun's pupils constricted. He vaguely guessed at something as he bowed lower to Lu Yin. "Your disciple understands."

Soon, Chu Songyun went into seclusion.

Lu Yin then took the four armor plates to the Seven Treasure Anuras’ Twenty-Fifth to ask them to translate the messages.

Twenty-Fifth was no longer in the Consciousness Megaverse. That megaverse had been reset, so the toad had moved to the Tianyuan.

Seeing Lu Yin arrive with four armor plates at once, they were quite surprised. "Wait a moment. No rush. Let me take a look first. After all, I am very reliable."

Twenty-Fifth accepted the four plates and began examining them seriously.

Lu Yin waited quietly, and as he did so, he observed Twenty-Fifth.

The toad examined the four armor plates, one after another, and the expression on their face kept changing; it was sometimes sorrowful, sometimes astonished, sometimes disbelieving, and sometimes hesitant. The richness of the toad’s expressions filled Lu Yin with greater anticipation regarding the messages recorded on the four armor plates.

After quite a while, Twenty-Fifth finally said, "I will not paraphrase anything and will translate the entire thing for you. Even though some parts do not need to be translated, I am worried that there may be some sort of hidden code, so it will be better if I translate everything. I am very reliable, which is why Old First left me behind."

Lu Yin nodded. "Thank you."

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