Lu Yin appeared in front of Uro with a Flash. “Sorry, but please give up the Fathomless Pool to us.” He then slapped out with a palm that had stars revolving around it and battle force flowing over it. Uro’s gaze changed sharply as he blocked the attack with both arms. There was another loud bang, and his body was hurled against the mountain wall, causing him to barrel straight through it before finally slamming heavily into the ground. Uro pushed himself to his feet even as an intense spike of pain shot through his shoulder.

He was infuriated and gritted his teeth in rage. A battle force user! How does Astral-10 have so many talents?

Suddenly, a shadow flitted above him as another palm pressed down upon him. It was Xia Luo’s turn.

Uro growled and raised his palm to use a battle technique of the Blaze Realm—the Heavenly Sea of Flames. He used flames composed of star energy to engulf Xia Luo and the area a thousand meters around him in a sea of fire, as if he wanted to burn the entire valley down. Uro had targeted Xia Luo with his attack, but as his palm neared Xia Luo, his star energy was inexplicably dissolved.

If he were from another academy, then Uro would have been stumped as to what had happened. But he was a student of Astral-6, which was home to nearly all of the Astral Combat Academy’s Lockbreakers. He was familiar with this scene, as this was how a Lockbreaker...