Star Odyssey

During Ying Han’s first time challenging the Grandmaster's Trial, he had thought that his footstep was very shallow. However, when the other Spirit Treasure Grandmasters saw it, and especially for Grandmaster Yu Ran, they had known that Ying Han would fail.

And sure enough, he had failed his first attempt.

For his second challenge, his footprint had been even shallower, but Grandmaster Yu Ran had still said that he would fail.

Ultimately, she had been correct yet again.

When he had challenged the Grandmaster's Trial for the third time, he had thought that his footprint was as shallow as possible. Grandmaster Yu Ran said that he could succeed, but it was only a possibility.

He had been lucky and just barely managed to succeed. If his luck had been even slightly worse, he would have failed.

After becoming one of the Spirit Treasure Society’s Spirit Treasure Grandmasters, Ying Han had asked Grandmaster Yu Ran how absolute success could be ensured.

Grandmaster Yu Ran had then personally stepped onto the first step, demonstrating the enormous gap between their abilities. It was only then that Ying Han realized just how deep his first footprint had been; before, he had thought that it was incredibly shallow. In comparison, Grandmaster Yu Ran’s footprint had been barely even distinguishable.

One’s first step on the Grandmaster's Trial could easily reveal whether or not they had the potential to become a Spirit Treasure Grandmaster.

Everyone knew that one’s ability could be judged by the depth of the footprint left behind by the first step on the Grandmaster's Trial, but almost no one understood what the standards were.

At this moment, Grandmaster Ying Han had some understanding.

Grandmaster Yu Ran understood much more.

Lu Yin raised his foot and took a step to move onto the second step.

As he moved, his footprint for the first step was revealed.

There was nothing.

Everyone was stunned. Many people reflexively rubbed their eyes. Huh? Nothing? How is there no footprint?

Grandmaster Ying Han rubbed his eyes hard, thinking he had to be seeing things.

Lu Yin then raised his second foot, moving both of his feet onto the second step.

At this moment, no one was paying any attention to the man himself, as they were all staring at the first step.

Even Old Tao and the others in Lu Yin’s entourage were doing the same. They were aware of the legends regarding the Grandmaster's Trial’ first step.

How could there be no footprint at all? That was simply impossible.

Ying Han refused to believe his eyes. It was impossible to not leave any footprint at all. He had never even heard of such a thing.

Grandmaster Yu Ran was beyond stunned, and she stared at Lu Yin in a daze. No... footprints? How could this be? Could it be real?

Many years ago, she had asked Senior Su Shidao the same question that Grandmaster Ying Han had asked her. As a demonstration, Senior Su Shidao had stepped onto the first step, but he had left no footprints behind. This was something that the Spirit Treasure Society had no records or even rumors about.

How did he do it? Could he be a Spirit Treasure Master on the same level as Senior Su Shidao?

No, that’s impossible. Absolutely impossible.

He did it with brute strength. He used his raw power. If we can’t see a footprint, then he must have influenced the step with enough strength to rival the Seven Seraphs. There’s no other option.

He used overwhelming strength to defile our Spirit Treasure Society!

Grandmaster Yu Ran clenched her hands into fists as she glared at Lu Yin.

No one could be allowed to insult the Spirit Treasure Society in such a manner. Even if every last member of the Spirit Treasure Society had to die, they would restore their society’s dignity.

“I’ll fight you!” A member of the Spirit Treasure Society charged forward, rage flushing his eyes bright red as he prepared to strike Lu Yin. However, the others nearby quickly held the man back.

“He used his strength to suppress the first step! Those are the nine steps of the Grandmaster's Trial! The first step measures one’s skill as a Spirit Treasure Master. He is humiliating our Spirit Treasure Society and insulting all Spirit Treasure Masters!

“We won’t let him get away with this!”

“Restrain yourself! He’s still on the Grandmaster's Trial. You don’t want to destroy the stairs, do you?

“We’ll deal with him when he comes down...”

Grandmaster Yu Ran was still glaring at Lu Yin. When he descended again, she would immediately activate the protective spirit treasure formation. Even if that caused every last one of them here to fight to the death, she refused to allow this Third Boss to insult them in such a manner.

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The trembling of Old Tao’s heart grew stronger and stronger as he fell into despair. “Third Boss, you’re really pushing them too far. They already didn’t like us, but things have gotten so much worse. Now, they utterly hate us! Why do this? Why make things harder on yourself?”

Even if you aren’t afraid of death, you can’t become a Spirit Treasure Grandmaster by doing this.

When Lu YIn saw the teeming fury of the crowd from the Spirit Treasure Society, he revealed a confused expression. What’s going on? Didn’t I simply step up?

There was a nearly indiscernible material covering the first step, hidden in the void. It was a substance that could only be sensed the moment a person’s foot made contact with it, and this was how their skill as a Spirit Treasure Master was evaluated.

Lu Yin had solved the issue instantly. Shouldn’t these people be surprised, or maybe even struggling to believe what I did? Why are all of them so angry? It looks like I’ve stepped on their tails.

Because of their different perspectives, people would think about things differently.

For the members of the Spirit Treasure Society, and even all the cultivators in the Spirit Nidus, it was impossible for them to believe that Lu Yin could handle a formation so quickly and so perfectly. Such a level of skill was comparable to Senior Su Shidao’s.

Without a satisfactory answer, people naturally came to their own conclusions based off of their own assumptions.

At the moment, to them, the most reasonable explanation was that Lu Yin had overcome the challenge with brute force.

The Spirit Treasure Society was about to explode. Everyone was on edge.

This was the situation as Lu Yin stepped onto the second step, staring at a stone in front of him. It was unremarkable and was nothing more than a stone.

While the stone was ordinary, it was enveloped by a danger zone of a sourcebox, or as the Spirit Nidus called them, a spirit treasure.

This test required one to unlock a sourcebox.

According to Lu Yin’s understanding of sourceboxes, he was looking at a one-star Boundless Advanced sourcebox, which was quite a challenge.

He looked up. Already, he could see that the nine steps of the Grandmaster's Trial would not be easy to overcome. A Boundless Advanced sourcebox had appeared on just the second step.

Everyone stared as Lu Yin slowly approached the stone, seemingly unaware of the danger zone that shrouded it.

He moved closer and closer.

The members of the Spirit Treasure Society collectively held their breath. Currently, they were worried that, once the Third Boss entered the spirit treasure’s danger zone, he would mistakenly believe it to be an attack from the Spirit Treasure Society. Then, in the worst case scenario, the subsequent battle would destroy the Grandmaster's Trial.

While there was no doubt that every member of the Spirit Treasure Society would fight the Third Boss to the death, none of them wanted the Grandmaster's Trial to be destroyed.

At this moment, even Grandmaster Yu Ran’s heart was taut from the suspense.

Finally, Lu Yin stopped right when he was right in front of the sourcebox’s danger zone. He was almost touching it. Then, to everyone’s complete and utter disbelief, he lifted a hand and reached into the danger zone from an odd angle. For anyone incapable of unlocking sourceboxes, the movement looked odd, but for people like Grandmaster Yu Ran, Grandmaster Ying Han, and the other members of the Spirit Treasure Society, they felt as though they were seeing a ghost.

Lu Yin’s movement was proof that he had accurately seen through the spirit treasure’s danger zone and had found the precise angle to enter and resolve it.

After sensing a sourcebox’s danger zone, the simplest and quickest way to unlock it would be to find that danger zone’s thread. It was like finding a loose thread in a tangled knot. If the correct thread could be found and pulled, the sourcebox’s danger zone would instantly dissipate.

Lu Yin praised, “What a good idea. While it looks complicated, it’s really just a test of perception. Excellent.”

Without so much as turning his head, he stepped past the stone and continued up to the third step.

At this moment, the atmosphere throughout the Spirit Treasure Society underwent an abrupt change. Everyone was stunned and dumbfounded.

A moment ago, the atmosphere had been so tense that it had been hard to breathe. But now, it suddenly grew relaxed.

The man who had been stopped from charging at the Grandmaster's Trial by those around him stared blankly ahead. What is going on? Is he really a Spirit Treasure Master?

No one could make sense of what they were seeing. The Third Boss had actually unlocked a spirit treasure. It had even been left on the second step of the Grandmaster's Trial, which meant that it had to be more difficult than others of the same level.

It had not actually been a spirit treasure at all. The danger zone had been man-made. The more complex something was, the more complicated it became. For someone with sufficient understanding and perception, they would be able to unravel the puzzle in an instant, but for someone who was lacking, they would need a year or more to solve the puzzle. Even with overwhelming strength, a person could only destroy the puzzle, not solve it.

Ying Han remembered spending several days thinking before finally finding the solution and solving the puzzle.

And yet, had the Third Boss really done the same in an instant?

How was that possible?

Grandmaster Yu Ran was similarly stunned. Is this real? On the first step, he left no footprints. On the second step, he instantly solved the puzzle. He was never disgracing the Spirit Treasure Society by using his overwhelming strength. He is a true Spirit Treasure Master.

This is way, way too much. The woman could not even verbalize what she was seeing.

Throughout her life, she had never cursed anyone, but at this moment, she really wanted to swear a bit. Was there still any fairness left in the megaverse? This Third Boss was so young, and yet he was already strong enough to challenge the Seven Seraphs. On top of that, he was a practically peerless Spirit Treasure Master. This was someone who had truly been blessed by the heavens.

In the plaza, Old Tao let out a long sigh. So that’s how it is. The old man smiled. “Third Boss, you should have said something earlier! You made me worry for so long!”

Palace Master Yao and Cai Keqing were both quite confused. Was Lu Yin also a Spirit Treasure Master? While such expertise did not conflict with being a cultivator, both endeavors required tremendous amounts of time. Usually, successful Spirit Treasure Masters did not accomplish much as cultivators. The most exceptional Spirit Treasure Master was Su Shidao, who was both a Dukkhan as well as the Spirit Nidus’s foremost Spirit Treasure Grandmaster.

However, Su Shidao had not become a Spirit Treasure Grandmaster first. He had first achieved strength as a cultivator, and only then had he become a Spirit Treasure Master. He was also quite old, as he was from the same generation as Yuan Qi, Emperor Wu, and their peers.

How had the Third Boss managed to reach such a level with his apparent youth?

No one could provide an explanation.

In a very short amount of time, the Spirit Treasure Society had been repeatedly jerked about by various surprises. This was something that had never happened before. It was such an exceptional event that some people even began looking forward to seeing what shocking and extraordinary thing the Third Boss would do next.

At this moment, Lu Yin was standing atop the third step. There was another sourcebox in front of him, but this one was not a stone with a danger field. This was a genuine sourcebox, and it would have been considered a five-star Boundless Advanced sourcebox in the Tianyuan Megaverse. This was the highest level a sourcebox could reach.

All sourceboxes were unique. Some five-star Boundless Advanced sourceboxes could not be unlocked by a five-star Boundless Advanced Lockbreaker, and there were even some that could not be opened by an Array Grandmaster. It all depended on the sourcebox itself.

Lu Yin was looking at a seemingly complex sourcebox, yet it appeared simple to him.

He immediately started unlocking the sourcebox.

While the items sealed within the Spirit Nidus’s sourceboxes were different from those of the Tianyuan Megaverse, the unlocking method was still the same. Once the correct path was found, the sourcebox could be unlocked.

According to Grandmaster Yu Ran’s knowledge, the spirit treasure on the third step was complicated enough that a challenger normally took three days to unlock it. When Grandmaster Ying Han was at the third step, he had spent ten days unlocking a similar spirit treasure. However, Lu Yin succeeded in just one day.

Grandmaster Yu Ran released a sigh of utter relief. The Third Boss was undoubtedly a Spirit Treasure Grandmaster on the same level as Su Shidao. If not, he could never have succeeded so quickly.

Upon realizing this, the woman was able to relax.

There was no longer any need to fight the Third Boss to the death.

This was someone who genuinely possessed the qualifications to challenge the nine steps of the Grandmaster's Trial. He had not been insulting the Spirit Treasure Society, so all their hatred completely vanished.

While the Third Boss had not yet joined the Spirit Treasure Society, that did not matter. Joining was a mere formality.

Given the Third Boss’s reputation, Grandmaster Yu Ran would prefer to not have him as an enemy if possible. She was not foolish enough to chase after death.

Destroying the entire Spirit Treasure Society would also be meaningless.

The other members of the Spirit Treasure Society similarly relaxed once they came to this realization. Their expressions kept changing as they stared at Lu Yin. Was he an enemy? No, he was one of them.

They admired the Third Boss for being such an accomplished Spirit Treasure Master.

In one corner, the people who had tried to stop Lu Yin from entering the Spirit Treasure Domain were utterly stunned. The stunning woman in the group even revealed a bit of admiration for the Third Boss. She was drawn to powerful cultivators who were also Spirit Treasure Masters. This Third Boss was absolutely incredible.

On the third step of the nine steps of the Grandmaster's Trial, Lu Yin unlocked the sourcebox. Inside, he found an insect, and it was even one that he recognized.

A carrion bug?

Lu Yin had not expected to find a carrion bug sealed within the sourcebox.

Carrion bugs had once been ranked second on the Celestial Beast List in the Tianyuan Megaverse’s Origin Universe. They belonged to the Astral Beast Domain, were incredibly rare, and were said to only come from the corpses of peak powerhouses. Supposedly, due to their origins, carrion bugs could ignore all physical defenses.