The Yuanbao Atlas

Not long after returning to the king's residence, Tao Xiang arrived, her expression full of conflict.

Seeing her, Lu Yin guessed what had happened.

"I'm sorry, I lost your friend," Tao Xiang said, apologizing very sincerely to Lu Yin, her small face looking very cute.

Lu Yin smiled. "Tao Xiang, Bai Xue is an adult. She has to be responsible for her own actions. Her disappearance is her own business; it has nothing to do with you."

Tao Xiang was helpless. "Actually, I don't know what happened either. She just vanished without a trace. I didn't feel a single thing."

Lu Yin was surprised. He had originally thought that Bai Xue had been taken away during the turmoil in the Martial Hall. The Second Prince, Duke Yushan, had rebelled, and a portion of the people from the Martial Hall had left. It was very possible that they had taken Bai Xue with them; after all, she had a talent. But now it seemed there was another story. "What happened?"

Tao Xiang was confused. "I really don't know what happened."

"Wasn't she missing on the first ring continent?" Lu Yin asked.

Tao Xiang shook her head. "No, she went missing right at the Sixth Squad's garrison. It must have been some super expert who took her away. But I didn't sense a single trace of Star Energy. I've already reported it to His Majesty. His Majesty said that it would take at least a Hunter Realm expert to do it, and not an ordinary one, because even he didn't sense anything unusual."

Lu Yin was shocked. To be able to hide from Undying Yushan, it must have been a super expert. Why take Bai Xue away?... Zhang Dingtian, Shi Wuzhang, and Xu San were also missing. Could it be related to this person? They were all very ordinary. The only common point was—Earth.

But Earth was just a very ordinary planet; it shouldn't have involved a supreme expert.

Unable to figure it out, Lu Yin was helpless and said to Tao Xiang, "It has nothing to do with you. Don't blame yourself anymore."

Tao Xiang nodded, her expression sad. She also liked Bai Xue very much, but she had gone missing.

Before long, Tao Xiang left. She told Lu Yin that Wendy had brought her many Innerverse snacks. Lu Yin knew she was hinting at him, but he really didn't have any snacks and could only trick Tao Xiang into leaving.

Not long after Tao Xiang left, Toleona came to visit.

"Your Highness the King of Zishan, this is the Ona family's meeting gift for you. Please accept it," Toleona said, taking out a star chip and handing it to Lu Yin.

Lu Yin accepted the star chip, looked at Toleona, and gave a faint smile. "Thank Uncle Snomo for me."

Toleona nodded and slowly left.

Lu Yin inserted the star chip into his personal communicator. On it was a list, a list of those who had once been loyal to the Zishan clan. Of course, a portion of them were also marked as traitors.

This list was similar to the one Yin had given him. Although it was more detailed, it was generally no different.

For the Ona family, giving this list showed great sincerity. If not for Yin, Lu Yin would have been very happy. But unfortunately, he already had it. To receive a favor for nothing was not as satisfying as receiving payment.

Lu Yin destroyed the star chip, looked at his personal communicator, and remembered something.

Before Mentor Wu Sheng had left the Tenth Academy, he had given him a few instructions, one of which was to wait for the Decipherer network's verification to be successful. Lu Yin didn't know if it had been successful. He immediately entered the symbol Mentor Wu Sheng had given him. Soon, a login interface appeared on the light screen.

Lu Yin entered his number in the Research Society and, after several layers of verification, a message appeared: 'Congratulations to Decipherer Lu Yin on successful verification. Please name yourself and begin your great path of deciphering.'

Lu Yin's eyes lit up, and he immediately named himself—Seventh Bro. The next moment, the light screen changed, and what appeared before Lu Yin's eyes was an interface filled with all kinds of information about Decipherers. And in the lower right corner, it was constantly flashing; someone was contacting him.

Lu Yin clicked on it out of curiosity. Countless congratulatory words came flooding in from all sorts of places, including the major empires, powers, companies, academies, and various research societies of the universe... The countless congratulatory words almost made his eyes blur.

He knew that the status of a Decipherer was very high, but he hadn't expected it to be this high. He was just a newcomer who had just joined, without a single merit, yet so many people were sending him congratulations. It was too exaggerated. Among them was actually the Great Yu Empire.

Lu Yin immediately closed the page. There were too many; he couldn't read them all.

And not far away, there was another shining point, with the four words 'Yuanbao Atlas' written on it.

Lu Yin's eyes lit up. He had read the books Mentor Wu Sheng had given him and was not completely ignorant about deciphering. A Yuanbao was a general term for those items that needed to be deciphered. The universe had gone through countless ages, and countless treasures were covered in dust. These treasures were Yuanbao. Deciphering was the only way to open a Yuanbao.

The so-called Yuanbao Atlas was a video of the deciphering process. Any Decipherer, as long as they uploaded their own deciphering video, could add it to their own Yuanbao Atlas. These Yuanbao Atlases could be sold or traded. Of course, if one was qualified, one could also upload it to the Yuanbao Atlas within the Decipherer network for later generations to view and admire.

The flashing of the Yuanbao Atlas meant there was a new Yuanbao deciphering video.

Lu Yin clicked on it with anticipation. Lines of information caught his eye: 'Congratulations to Seventh Bro on joining the Decipherer Research Society. Mebis Bank presents five Yuanbao Atlases.' 'Congratulations to Seventh Bro on joining the Decipherer Research Society. The Strange Metal Alliance presents three Yuanbao Atlases.' 'Congratulations to Seventh Bro on joining the Decipherer Research Society. The Three-Leaf Grass Company presents three Yuanbao Atlases.' ...

The lines of information made Lu Yin excited. They were all powerful forces in the universe, with dozens of messages. More than half of them, Lu Yin had never even heard of. But to be able to send messages on the Decipherer network, they were all not simple; there was at least one Decipherer among them.

Mebis Bank, the Three-Leaf Grass Company, and even the White Night clan, the Fire Domain... all the powers were expressing their goodwill to Lu Yin. Facing a Decipherer, even an ancient cosmic power like the White Night clan was not too arrogant. This was the prestige of a Decipherer.

Lu Yin felt lucky to have joined the Decipherer Research Society. He had seen another world.

With a heart full of excitement, Lu Yin began to watch the Yuanbao Atlases that these powers had sent him, starting with Mebis Bank.

On a desolate land, there was a strange black rock soaring into the clouds. A man slowly approached. As he approached, the void began to crack. Vaguely, the desolate land changed. The appearance of the man seemed to have disturbed the balance of this region, causing the entire land to crack and the void to shatter. But this was not enough to affect the man.

The man walked step by step to the bottom of the black rock, reached out to touch it, muttered something, walked around the rock, and then struck it at different positions. An hour passed, and the black rock gradually cracked and finally shattered. The moment it shattered, the void seemed to be about to collapse completely. The man held down the void with one hand, forcibly freezing it. Finally, under the cover of a layer of green light, countless plants grew on this desolate land. And before the man's eyes, a towering green root appeared.

This root had always been covered in dust by the black rock and was now released by the man.

Lu Yin watched in shock. This was deciphering. Those black rocks were actually the substance formed by the cosmic Star Energy and various strange energies over the ages, covering the root in dust and turning it into a Yuanbao. Now, it had been successfully deciphered by the man.

The process seemed simple, but every step was full of danger. The entire desolate land was under the cover of the Yuanbao's fixed energy field. Once one stepped into it, one would surely bear an unimaginable pressure, and even the void would shatter. And for the man to successfully decipher it, it had taken him an hour to dissolve the outer layer of materialized energy. This was a huge project. If any step went wrong, not only would the man die, but even the Yuanbao could be destroyed in an instant.

The man was definitely a super expert of the Star-Wandering Realm; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to forcibly freeze the shattering void. Deciphering sometimes relied not only on the control and understanding of Star Energy, but also on powerful strength. Without strength, sometimes one couldn't even get close to a Yuanbao.

Lu Yin remembered a sentence on the title page of the book Mentor Wu Sheng had given him: 'There are no two identical Yuanbao in the universe.' Any deciphering process was unique. Therefore, deciphering had extremely high requirements for Star Energy and also for experience. That was why there was the Yuanbao Atlas. Hundreds of thousands of Decipherers constantly watched others' Yuanbao Atlases to increase their experience, not only in the hope of successful deciphering, but also for—protecting their lives.

Decipherers enjoyed the highest status in the universe, and at the same time, they also bore dangers that others could not imagine. Because those Yuanbao were sealed by the dust of the universe, to unseal any one of them was to contend with the universe.

Exhaling, Lu Yin pondered for a moment. He wanted to watch the Yuanbao Atlas just now again, but unfortunately, he couldn't enter. Any Yuanbao Atlas could only be watched once. To watch it again, one had to buy it. What a scam.

Lu Yin was helpless and watched the next one.

This time, it was at the bottom of the sea. The viewing angle was not a panoramic view, but only a pair of hands could be seen. Obviously, this was filmed with a personal communicator, meaning this was a deciphering video made by a Decipherer herself.

That pair of hands was snow-white, clearly belonging to a female. As the video shook, Lu Yin saw the Yuanbao. It was a fish, to be precise, a fish frozen by a gray substance.

This fish had been covered in dust for who knew how long. It looked very ancient and slowly emerged from the bottom of the sea.

As it emerged, countless sea creatures around it rushed over madly, their eyes crimson, attacking the female. The female's hands waved casually, and the sea instantly turned blood-red. Those sea creatures were only in the Melting Realm, and most were only in the Reaching Realm, while the female was at least a Limiteer Realm expert and dealt with them easily.

An ordinary Limiteer was a Bright Pupil Initial Level Decipherer. This kind of video was more helpful to Lu Yin. The one just now could obviously only be dreamed of; he didn't know how long it would take to reach that level.

The female easily touched the fish, held it in her hand, and slowly caressed it, as if feeling something. Lu Yin could guess that she was using Star Energy to sense the surface of the fish, attempting to dismantle the dusty substance on the surface.

A long time passed, and the color of the dusty substance on the surface of the fish gradually became lighter. It was originally gray and now turned grayish-white, getting fainter and fainter.

Until another two hours passed, as the fish's two eyes lit up, the dusty substance on the surface completely disappeared, and the fish also returned to its original appearance, with brilliant colors and intelligent light in its eyes. This was a valuable fish.

The video ended here. Lu Yin didn't know what that fish could do, but it had obviously been hidden by the owner of the video. Any item covered in dust was valuable. Of course, there was no lack of empty ones, where the contents had been destroyed by the passage of time. But anyone facing a Yuanbao was willing to try to unseal it. Who knew, there might be a heaven-defying item.