Chapter 2704: The Breath Of The Universe

Chapter 2704: The Breath Of The Universe

"That's right." Dragonturtle stood on Jiang Qingyue's shoulder as he stared at Lu Yin. "Young man, you are incredibly unlucky. Not everyone is qualified to have the Aeternals scheme against them like this. If not for us, you would have definitely died just now."

Lu Yin solemnly replied, "Yes. I will need to be very careful in the future."

"The Aeternals have never been fools, especially the despicable and shameless bastards like Cheng Kong, who are much, much worse than the others. However, there’s something quite strange—when you were all inside my shell, why didn't Cheng Kong attack at full power? That bastard is second only to the Seven Skygods, and if you had been attacked by their full strength, not even I could have protected you," Dragonturtle commented.

Lu Yin also found this strange, and the only explanation that he could come up with was the 100,000 year promise that he had received from Blackless God. It had been both a promise and a deadline.

However, if Cheng Kong had not wanted to kill Lu Yin, then why had he been trapped and prevented from escaping?

"Are you heading back?" Lu Yin asked.

Dragonturtle replied, "We never expected to get into so much danger on this excursion. We need to return, and I need to report this incident to the Lord of Lightning."

Jiang Qingyue told Lu Yin, "We’ll meet again when we have a chance."

Lu Yin nodded. "We’ll definitely meet again. Please take care of Jiang Chen for me."

Right before they left, Jiang Qingyue remembered something, and she turned back to Lu Yin. "It seems like you’ve never felt aura energy."

Lu Yin was caught off guard. "What aura energy?"

Dragonturtle spoke up in a warning manner. "Little Yue..."

Jiang Qingyue glanced at Dragonturtle. "Father never said that I couldn’t tell others."

Dragonturtle shrugged. "It's not that you can't tell others, but that doing so will lead him astray from his path. We have taken shortcuts with our cultivation, but those shortcuts won’t benefit others, and they need to avoid them." This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

His explanation confused Jiang Qingyue, so Dragonturtle explained, "Aura energy is the comprehension of everything that exists in our universe, including form and consciousness. In other words, it is a shortcut developed by Master to allow mortals to conquer the heavens. Master was not even the first to find this path, as he learned it from his master before reaching the peak himself.

"Once a person understands their full potential, their combat strength will increase greatly, and for that reason, Master has shared this information with a few people when traveling among various parallel universes. However, none of those people have ever succeeded. Master doesn’t know the reason why, but he has guessed that it has to do with people’s differing levels when they learn it. Because he learned to practice aura energy before he was even able to travel the universe. It was his first stage of cultivation. If aura energy is learned after the initial level, then it seems that it will become forever impossible to harmonize with aura energy.

"On top of that, practicing aura energy has caused many people to stall with their original cultivation method, and some have even even been led astray by aura energy, which has caused their cultivation to suffer backlash. If you carelessly tell him, not only will you not be around to guide him, but you may even harm him."

Jiang Qingyue was stunned. "Father never told me any of that."

Dragonturtle gave a bitter smile. "Master never thought the day would come when you would take the initiative to share such things with another. He has apparently given up on finding a man for you."

Dragonturtle’s last words caused Jiang Qingyue to look quite irritated.

Lu Yin understood. "Was that how you were able to find Cheng Kong?"

"Yes."

Lu Yin was surprised. This aura energy sounded a bit like spiritual force or a domain, but also different. He believed that he had achieved a very high mastery of both spiritual force and domain, but he had not been able to catch a shred of Cheng Kong. Cheng Kong also had not been hiding in the void or a layer of space, as Lu Yin definitely would have been able to find the Aeternal there. Instead, Lu Yin had not been blind to Cheng Kong’s presence, while Jiang Qingyue could sense Cheng Kong’s breathing; was it entirely due to this aura energy?

"You see, if this young man is interested in aura energy, he will be led astray by it, if he is not careful." Dragonturtle shook his head and sighed. It seemed that he had already seen the same situation many times before.

Lu Yin smiled. "It doesn't matter. I'm not afraid of losing my path."

The power in his chest was already incredibly complex and chaotic, to the point where even Mister Mu had been surprised by it. What difference would one more type of energy or power make?

Dragonturtle retorted, "You don't understand the consequences of being led astray."

"Third Uncle, are you saying that your fear of Destiny stems from an ancestor of our Lu family?" Lu Yin felt he understood.

Lu Buzheng nodded. "I am only a Semi-Progenitor, and I am unable to see through Destiny. All I can do is follow the guidance of our ancestor. My only advice is to not casually antagonize Destiny."

Lu Yin understood this, as Destiny had killed countless people by redirecting the karmic backlash from her divinations. As soon as Lu Yin learned that Destina had used that method to protect herself during her divinations, he understood Destiny a bit better. If at all possible, he would prefer to keep his distance from such a callous person. "By the way, Third Uncle, have you heard of aura energy before?"

Lu Buzheng looked confused. "Aura energy? What’s that?"

Lu Yin was unsurprised by this reaction. "Forget it if you don't know."

"Tell me a bit more. Maybe I heard our ancestor mention something back then." Lu Buzheng was interested.

Lu Yin replied, "Some people say that universes are alive and can breathe, which they refer to as aura energy."

Lu Buzheng exclaimed, "Ancestor also said something like that!"

Lu Yin was surprised. "An ancestor from our Lu family?"

Lu Buzheng nodded. He rubbed his chin while thinking back to what he had heard before. "I remember hearing our ancestor mention something, and it stunned me at the time. A universe is the space where we live, and it encompasses everything within it. No matter how you look at things, it’s impossible for a universe to be alive. Who mentioned this to you?”

"No one you would know."

Lu Buzheng grunted in response.

"By the way, did that ancestor ever mention anything else?" Lu Yin asked.

Lu Buzheng shook his head. "No, Ancestor only said a few words when he was upset. He might have drank too much, and I really didn’t understand much of what he said. If Dao Chosen Tianyi were there, he might have understood a bit more, as the ancestor shared many things with him, though that also proved to be a bit counterproductive at times."

Lu Yin felt a flash of envy. He wished that there was someone like that ancestor who would give him some advice. Mister Mu was unquestionably Lu Yin’s master, but the man never shared much information with Lu Yin. He would need to ask about this topic the next time he saw Mister Mu.

As Lu Yin considered the matter, he realized that this was not the first time he had heard this topic before. Someone else had made a similar comment before, but who? He could not remember.[1]

When Jiang Qingyue had introduced aura energy, Lu Yin felt as though he had heard something about the breath of the universe before.

It was not long before Destina and the others arrived.

Lu Yin led them to the mountain behind the Heavens Sect before asking them to try to find the two missing pearls.

Starsibyl was also present, and she appeared quite calm.

Lu Yin has no intention of paying any attention to her for the moment.

Destina and Skymender did not waste any time, and they immediately started the divination with the eleven pearls in Lu Yin’s possession.

Lu Yin did not cultivate Destiny’s power, which meant that he was unable to sense anything about what was happening. At this moment, he felt that it was possible that Destiny’s power was not as miraculous as people believe, but instead similar to runes or voidforce energy as only those who had cultivated the energy could detect or observe it. To those unexperienced with the power, it would appear truly magical.

However, such energies were not easy to gain access to, and few people had cultivated Destiny’s power even during the Heavens Sect era.

Lu Yin had never considered cultivating Destiny’s power, as he was already entangled enough with her. If he also cultivated her power, he feared that Destiny would directly target him.

For those reasons, he just calmly watched on.

1. Here's that old reference: Chapter 1757. ?