Chapter 2885: The Die  

As Lu Yin raised his hand, the die appeared. In the Lu Sanctum, he did not need to worry about anyone spying on him. He had not felt such a sense of security in a very long time.

A finger tapped the die, and it started slowly spinning.

It had not been very long since Lu Yin last rolled the die in seclusion. It would not be easy to roll Possession again, but Lu Yin was not in a hurry. He decided to roll the die while waiting for someone to arrive from the Transcendent Universe. Eventually, he would roll six pips.

A month soon passed, and Lu Yin finally rolled Possession on his twelfth roll. It really was not easy to get six pips to appear.

As his consciousness entered the strange dark space, he started searching.

If Ye Bo was a consciousness, then the orb of light that represented it in the dark space might have a different appearance from the other ones. All Lu Yin could do was try to find it.

As he looked around at the nearby balls of light, he saw nothing special. He quickly left and resumed searching, but he could not find anything different. He kept going…

He continued to search, even though he was not certain where to search for the consciousness known as Ye Bo. It was possible that Ye Bo was not even in the Perennial World any longer. Still, Lu Yin needed to keep going…

He had never spent this much time in the strange dark space before. Lu Yin could not even guess at how much star essence he must have consumed while searching. Lu Yin grew a bit nervous, mostly at the unknown cost of his actions.

Suddenly, he focused in one direction. Inexplicably, he felt as though there was something in that direction staring at him, but how could that be possible? The dark space was filled with nothing but balls of light representing the minds of different beings, and yet one of those consciousnesses was staring at Lu Yin. Who could it be?

Lu Yin headed in the direction where he sensed attention.

As far as he knew, the only person who had cultivated consciousness had been Progenitor Hui. No, Progenitor Hui had cultivated manifested thought. Consciousness was something different. Well, there was another who had cultivated consciousness, which was the Chiliagonist. In fact, the Chiliagonist was the one who had made Lu Yin confident that it was possible to cultivate consciousness.

In the Umbral Universe, the Chiliagonist had tried to control Lu Yin with the power of consciousness, but Lu Yin had broken free. Compared to how many times Lu Yin had Possessed other minds from the strange dark space, the Chiliagonist’s attempts at control meant nothing.

Lu Yin had no idea if his own consciousness was strong or weak. He was only certain that the Chiliagonist could not compare to him in terms of consciousness. However, Lu Yin was unable to freely wield his consciousness when not using his innate gift.

Lu Yin’s consciousness shot through the space towards where he sensed something staring at him. He found a small ball of light. It was not very bright, and it was hiding behind another orb. If not for the attention on him, Lu Yin would have never noticed this ball of light.

Ignoring the details, Lu Yin rushed over and merged with the orb.

The small ball of light was unable to hide, and Lu Yin’s mind easily slammed into it, merging with it.

At that instance, countless scenes flashed through Lu Yin’s mind. He opened his eyes as memories continued to pour in. His expression changed when he saw two sets of memories. One belonged to the body he had just Possessed, which belonged to an Explorer. In the scope of the Perennial World, this cultivator was quite weak. He lived in an ordinary region of the Middle Realm, and his entire life was perfectly very ordinary. The other set of memories belonged to Ye Bo.

Lu Yin had indeed Possessed Ye Bo's mind.

Ye Bo really was a consciousness, but what surprised Lu Yin was that Ye Bo was an independent consciousness. Ye Bo only needed a host, though it did not matter if the host was a human or some other creature. As long as the host possessed consciousness, Ye Bo could possess it in the same manner as Lu Yin’s Possession ability from his die.

The difference between the two was that Lu Yin needed to consume resources to Possess another, whereas Ye Bo had to rely on their own innate gift.

Ye Bo had once been a human who lived in the Fifth Mainland. The person had been extremely talented but he had also possessed an extreme personality. He had believed himself invincible among his peers, and after being antagonized one time, he had taken the initiative to challenge the Celestial Frost Sect, the Xia family, and even the descendants of Lu family. In the end, he had been miserably defeated. Even so, Ye Bo had firmly believed that his opponents had relied on their families’ resources to gain their strength and that their true, individual strength could not compare to his own. He had found himself surrounded by bastards who continuously antagonized him. That, combined with his already extreme personality, led to him suffering from cultivation deviation, and he had died as a result.

Normally, death was the end of a person, and no one would have cared about Ye Bo’s death, aside from possibly treating it as a joke.

What no one knew was that Ye Bo had possessed an innate gift of consciousness that used resentment and hatred as fuel. Upon dying, his consciousness had devoured the enemy who had provoked Ye Bo, as well as many others whom he had been familiar with, gobbling up the hatred and resentment that Ye Bo had felt towards the descendants of the powerful organizations. He had continued to possess one person after another while each constituted to carry out his will.

Due to Ye Bo’s unique innate gift, his consciousness was able to take control when he possessed a person, and he could direct them like a puppet. The person would not even realize that there was another one directing their actions, as Ye Bo would influence people’s subconscious into doing as he wished.

This was why, no matter how hard the Lu family and the Celestial Frost Sect had searched over the years, they had never been able to find Ye Bo. It was also why they had thought that Ye Bo was a team.

Many of Ye Bo’s hosts had been killed, but none had been the current host of the true Ye Bo. As time passed, Ye Bo had become a shadow that hung over the Perennial World.

However, an innate gift could not last forever. At the moment of Ye Bo’s death, his innate gift had powered his consciousness with his burning resentment and hatred, but that fuel had slowly depleted as the years passed. Without Ye Bo being able to cultivate the power of consciousness, it was impossible for his consciousness to increase in strength. Instead, his consciousness was very similar to Sage Yuan’s Grafting innate gift that had activated upon his death. The Sage’s innate gift had caused his spiritual force to latch onto Chu Jian, which had been depleted as Chu Jian used it to strengthen his attacks.

Ye Bo's consciousness was on the verge of disappearing, and he was unable to do anything to harm humanity.

At this point in time, he could at most use his consciousness to cause a puppy to bite someone, and even then, it could only be an ordinary human.

The various memories went by in a flash. It was clear that Ye Bo was no longer a problem.

Suddenly, Lu Yin was startled by something. In the memories, he saw a familiar figure. Was that Bai Xian'er?

In Ye Bo's memories, Lu Yin saw Bai Xian'er..

Disbelief caused Lu Yin’s eyes to go wide as he reviewed this particular memory. He witnessed the Lu family’s exile from Ye Bo’s perspective, and he saw Bai Xian'er lying in the forest cabin that she and Lu Xiaoxuan had so carefully constructed. A tremor ran through the Lu Sanctum as a massive tail rose high into the sky. This was the sight of the Python Ancestor rolling over.

Lu Yin heard Ancestor Lu Tianyi’s roar of rage, and he also heard countless people call out for Ancestor Lu Yuan. He wanted to see more, but it was only a memory. He was seeing Ye Bo’s memories. On the day of the Lu family’s exile, Ye Bo had been on Food Paradise. No, it had not been Ye Bo, but rather a servant of the Lu family who had coincidentally been a host for Ye Bo's consciousness. Ye Bo’s consciousness had carried that servant’s memories with him, and the memories had eventually become his as well.

The ground shook as the golden light of the Lu Sanctum flickered. Bai Xian'er looked like a sleeping beauty as she silently lay on the bed in the cabin in the woods. A blurry figure overlapped with Bai Xian'er's body, and then that second figure stood up. Lu Yin saw who it was, and he was startled. Prof. Wei ?

Prof. Wei walked out of the cabin, looked up, leaped into the sky, and released a strange attack that shot towards Lu Tianyi.

Lu Yin remembered what Lu Qi had said, and at this moment, Lu Yin realized that the strange power that had hindered Ancestor Lu Tianyi had come from Prof. Wei.

Fear filled Ye Bo’s memory, which indicated that the servant had panicked.

Suddenly, another blurry figure overlapped with Bai Xian'er's body, and then that figure rose up and left the cabin. This woman looked 70% similar to Bai Xian'er, but with greater arrogance. She radiated killing intent as she also released an attack in a specific direction. It was the same strange power that Prof. Wei had released, and the servant's gaze followed the attack to see the Seven Heroes.

"Xiao Qi, be careful!" A scream rang out, and Lu Yin watched through Ye Bo’s memory as the attack pierced his oldest sister's body. While Lu Xiaoxuan’s memories had been lost, Lu Yin still recognized his oldest sister who had also been a member of the Lu family: Lu Qian.

The attack released by the woman who had emerged from Bai Xian'er's body shot through Lu Qian's body and then continued on towards Lu Xiaoxuan.

His third brother, Nong Ye, pushed Wan Lingdang aside, and the attack tore Nong Ye's body apart as well. Long Xing jumped forward, attacking with her innate gift, but it did nothing to stop or even slow the attack. She was also cut down.

Next was Lu Xiaoxuan’s fifth brother, Liu Shi.

In Ye Bo's memory, Lu Yin clearly saw just how helpless Lu Xiaoxuan had been. He had rushed forward, wanting to fight, only to be pushed back by Wan Lingdang. "Little Seven, run away!"

"Little Seven, escape!"

"Go, Little Seven!"

"Little Seven-"

The screams of death all around him caused Lu Xiaoxuan to collapse. As he reexperienced the memory, Lu Yin also collapsed. Numerous thoughts swirled through his mind: the love his sworn siblings had all held for him, the scene of them swearing to be siblings, and the relationships between the Seven Heroes.

All the others were dead. At the same time, they had all fallen.

That attack had continued on towards Lu Xiaoxuan, as fierce as ever. However, just as it was about to slam into him, a Champions’ Stage had suddenly appeared. The attack crashed into the Champions’ Stage, instantly shattering it and stunning Lu Xiaoxuan.

Lu Qi's distant roar could be heard, and the attack turned his way.

Ye Bo's memory did not follow the attack, and the host instead remained focused on the fallen Seven Heroes.

Lu Yin watched as his oldest sister, covered in blood, slowly crawled over to Lu Xiaoxuan. The others were struggling to speak as Lu Xiaoxuan’s oldest sister crawled over to his side. She took a small cube out of the unconscious Lu Xiaoxuan’s cosmic ring and smiled very happily. It was impossible to know just what she said, but she smeared her blood on the cube before handing it over to Xiao Mo, who was closest. After that, the cube was passed along to Long Xing, Liu Shi, Nong Ye, and then Wan Lingdang.

Once Wan Lingdang had smeared his blood on the die as well, it floated into the air, emitting a soft light. Pips appeared on each of the cube’s six sides, and the die then transformed into a beam of light that shot into Lu Xiaoxuan's body.

After seeing the die disappear into Lu Xiaoxuan's body, Lu Qian closed her eyes and slowly collapsed.

This was the end of Ye Bo’s memory, as the servant had died, destroyed by the shockwaves of the battle in the sky.

The Possession suddenly ended, as Lu Yin withdrew and returned to his own body, passing through the dark space.

He slowly opened his eyes. They were flushed red. He had finally seen the truth of that fateful day.

The Seven Heroes had all died to save him, and he had also remembered everything.

The die was not his own innate gift, but it was also exactly that.

The cube had appeared in the sky on the day that Lu Xiaoxuan had created Flipping the Sky.

Lu Yin had never fully regained his memories as Lu Xiaoxuan, but certain things could trigger the return of specific memories.

On the day that Lu Xiaoxuan had created Flipping the Sky, the battle technique had drawn out Ancestor Lu Yuan. Soon after that, the cube had been drawn out as well. It had then followed Lu Xiaoxuan wherever he went, and while he was able to store it in his cosmic ring, or even in his body, he had never been able to move very far from the cube. Any time he moved a certain distance away, the cube had automatically chased after him.

Lu Xiaoxuan had kept no secrets from the Seven Heroes, and he had told all of them about the matter.

From their experiments, they were shocked to learn that innate gifts could be stored in the cube. With it, Lu Xiaoxuan had become able to use the innate gifts of any of the other Seven Heroes, and their innate gifts had also caused pips to appear on the cube and create the die. At the moment of their deaths, they had given everything they had left to Lu Xiaoxuan, which had permanently granted him their innate gifts.

They had not even known whether Lu Xiaoxuan would survive, but for a mere glimmer of hope, all of them had willingly given him everything.

Lu Yin left the Lu Sanctum and made his way towards Virtue Archives. The attack that had blocked Ancestor Lu Tianyi had been released by Prof. Wei.

The fact that Prof. Wei was capable of standing up to Ancestor Lu Tianyi intimidated Lu Yin, so he first spoke to his ancestor.