The night in Fanggang is quite dark!
Deep in the campsite of the stadium, there sat a middle-aged man with completely white hair and a gaunt figure.
He absentmindedly stared at the knife in his hand, lost in a daze.
Maybe due to his previous weight, when he slimmed down, his facial skin sagged, making him look as aged as a seventy or eighty-year-old man.
He once wielded immense power in this city, with both the underworld and law enforcement giving him due respect.
However, with an overnight change, he lost everything.
His family died that night, and his only surviving son died shortly afterward.
His son was killed, and he wants to take revenge!
That’s why he has stayed in this city all along, hoping to wait for an opportunity.
However, with each passing day he waited, he grew older and more aged.
He could see the gap between himself and that person; revenge had become an empty promise, a mere fantasy that could only come true in dreams.
Even after he had a conflict with that person, no one in this city paid any attention to him.
Even friends who once called him brother kept their distance, and no one dared to offend that person.
He tasted betrayal, tasted loneliness and helplessness.
It seemed that he had begun to understand the feelings of that person back then, as well as the pain of being unable to seek revenge.
Under the same dark night as usual, a person walked up to him after more than a month, looking at him as if regarding a long-lost old friend, standing at this man’s feet, and sneered coldly, “Captain Wang, still alive and well?”
The aged middle-aged man slowly raised his head and, in a hoarse voice, asked, “Lu Yu, what have you come here for?”
The middle-aged man was none other than Wang Tao. After being beaten unconscious by Lu Yu and witnessing his son’s tragic state, he could indeed be considered Lu Yu’s sworn enemy!
Seeing it, or even hearing that sound, would make his heart bleed, his eyes turning as cold and fierce as if they could kill!
“Let me see how well you’re living,” Lu Yu said, squatting down and placing a star weapon he held in his hand on the ground. “Well then, are you still thinking about how to kill me? Here’s a star weapon—why don’t you try whether you can kill me with it? But if you fail to kill me, I’ll cut off one of your arms as interest!”
Wang Tao looked at the Star Soldier, remained silent for a long time, and did not reach out his hand. He stared at Lu Yu with a sneer and said, “Are you trying to make me desperate?”
“That’s right, it was meant to make you lose all hope.” Seeing that Wang Tao had not picked up the Xing soldier, Lu Yu knew that Wang Tao didn’t have the courage. He smiled as he put away the Xing soldier and said, “If you’re smart enough, you should already understand why I didn’t kill you.”
“I understand. You want me to watch you grow, and then gradually become more and more desperate!”
Wang Tao smiled bitterly and said, “Are you asking me to wait for revenge, to endure the torment of waiting in agony, until I become a walking corpse?”
“Very clever,” Lu Yu’s smile froze on his face as he coldly said, “I just want you to taste the pain of losing a loved one without being able to seek revenge. I want you to experience the torment of waiting for vengeance. I will return to you a thousandfold the suffering you once inflicted upon others. Don’t worry, I won’t let you die. I will make you feel even more desperate, until you eventually commit suicide in unbearable agony.”
Lu Yu said as he stood up, sneering, “Captain Wang, live well, and slowly experience this kind of despair. That mother’s final words— you’ll spend your entire life paying for your debt from that time. Or perhaps, you’ll fear death and continue living in disgrace.”
Lu Yu has left, and there isn’t a single person in this camp who doesn’t know him.
They knew that Captain Wang would either commit suicide or live in eternal pain.
Lu Yu walked out of the camp, looked up at the sky, and let out a long sigh of relief.
Now, he finally no longer owed anything to that family.
“If there is a paradise, I hope you will be happy there,” Lu Yu said with a smile of relief.
The debts have finally been repaid.
He believed that Wang Tao would not commit suicide; he was a man who feared death.
He will live forever in pain and torment, until one day he is driven to death by his own suffering!
Leaving the camp, Lu Yu walked out of the city.
One hundred Blood Demon Bears, this is not a small number.
Of course, for Lu Yu, this wasn’t a large number either.
He has four Star Weapons in his hands.
Although they are all first-class, there is also a method to turn them into second-class star soldiers.
That is, when a Star Marine’s attributes reach their maximum values, they can be upgraded.
Of course, the star soldiers can also be upgraded.
Therefore, what Lu Yu needed to do was to retain the star soldier’s several upgrades and push the star soldier’s data to the limit.
Such data is already considered极品 (jīnpǐn) by others.
Note: “极品” here is kept in Chinese as it’s a cultural term that doesn’t have a direct equivalent in English. If you’d like me to replace it with an appropriate English expression, please let me know.
Adding second-class star soldiers itself reflects its value.
In the following days, Lu Yu searched the areas outside the city for the Blood Demon Bear and various other monsters.
In his hands, these ordinary monsters stood no chance against him.
In front of these weak little monsters, the Phantom Spirit Star Ball barely increased at all.
The next day, he completed the task of hunting down one hundred Blood Demon Bears.
The reward obtained was a recipe for another type of armor.
Mysterious Radiant Mountain Armor – Combine any three armor pieces of any attributes, a secondary-grade star weapon that increases attack power by at least 5,000 points, with the star weapon possessing two skills or special effects, along with ten secondary-grade star spirit stones, to fuse and create an armor piece.
“During the fusion process of the Mysterious Light Mountain Armor, if the blood of a powerful life form is added, the armor will gain some of the abilities of that life form.”
“Another set of armor recipes?” Lu Yu excitedly examined the recipe fusion process. Just by watching the fusion, he could tell it was a much more powerful armor.
Lu Yu collected his emotions and, within three days, finally elevated the attributes of his four Star Weapons to the peak of level two. This process also consumed four level-two Star Spirit Stones to enhance the levels of these four Star Weapons.
He had collected ten sets of Silver Armor skills, sufficient to craft components for two Starlight Silver Armors.
Lu Yu used the formula to create the first component of the Starlight Silver Armor.
The first one was purely for practice.
However, Lu Yu was also very nervous throughout this process.
At the moment the Starlight Silver Armor took shape, Lu Yu was stunned by its attributes.
He had merely fused together the chest plate of the Starlight Silver Armor.
“Just this single component alone could allow a person to rival a warrior with a third-grade Star Soul.” Lu Yu couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration as he looked at its attributes.
The starlight silver armor resembles somewhat the armor of light cavalry. The breastplate is made of a thin layer of metal, cast into a streamlined shape. The silver armor is not bulky at all; it is light to the point of almost being weightless.
In the past, this would certainly have been a delicate piece of art.
But now, its role is defensive.
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Stellar Silver Armor: Breastplate
Level: Two.
Attribute: 50,000 defense points! Defense continuously decreases when taking damage.
Note: The armor’s defensive power is related to the user’s physical strength. The higher the physical strength, the less the armor’s defense is reduced when taking damage. Conversely, if the physical strength is too low, the armor’s defense decreases more significantly when attacked. When the armor is not damaged, the user will not suffer any harm.
Skill: Soul of the Silver Armor — When the defensive power of the Starlight Silver Armor decreases to 1,000 points, the armor automatically activates its skill, restoring its defense to 50,000 points. The Soul of the Silver Armor can only be activated once; once used, it cannot be restored.
Special Effect: If the Silver Armor is severely damaged, it can be repaired by using a second-grade Star Spirit Stone. Each repair requires a twenty-four-hour interval, and each repair consumes one second-grade Star Spirit Stone.
Restriction: A set of level-two armor can have a maximum of two skills. It already possesses the skill “Silver Armor Soul!”
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“This is just one component!” Lu Yu looked at the attributes, and then thought about the Xuan Guang Mountain Armor. What else could possibly surprise him more!
Lu Yu finally understood the effect of the armor.
They have similar defensive capabilities and vitality. However, when it comes to armor, the defense becomes purely about protective power. When maximum vitality can no longer be surpassed, the armor effectively adds fifty thousand hit points, an effect that no one would want to miss.
This is also a consumable item, but it can remain unharmed as long as the armor is not breached.
As for the Soul of the Silver Armor, this was a mutated attribute that emerged after Lu Yu added a Mutated Star Spirit Pearl, which possessed the Rage of Life, into the mix.
But with this attribute alone, defense power is doubled.
In a limited period of time, it is sufficient to protect a person from harm, which is similar to having invincibility for a certain duration.
Lu Yu tidied up his belongings, changed into a black tracksuit to conceal his face, and entered the Demon Hunting Plains carrying four grade-two peak star weapons along with his silvery starlight armor.
More than a month later, when he entered here again, it was countless times more bustling than the last time.
The stone tablet standing in Canghai remains there, unmoved.
Around the stone tablet, stalls were neatly arranged one after another.
This place seemed a bit more lively.
In front of nearly a hundred booths, various props were displayed.
Nearly three hundred people walked past the booths one by one, selecting items of their own interest.
People who come here wear masks, some wear capes, while others choose to show their true faces.
Some people don’t want to reveal their identities, while others seem indifferent.
Their strengths vary, but there is little communication among them, and interactions are primarily limited to transactions.
Lu Yu glanced around and noticed that not a single stall had armor on display. He couldn’t help but smile, feeling confident now that he had a clear idea.
Lu Yu found an open space and then laid out a set of Starlight Silver Armor and four Star Weapons.
Almost as soon as Lu Yu placed the Starlight Silver Armor on display, countless eyes from all around focused on the silver armor.
“Armor! This is armor!” the person closest to Lu Yu couldn’t help but exclaim in astonishment.
He darted forward in a single bound, reaching Lu Yu’s side in an instant, then grabbed the Starlight Silver Armor and began carefully examining its attributes!
After he finished reviewing the attributes, he tightly gripped the armor and said, “How much? Name your price!”
Although it’s just a part of the armor, this is indeed the first piece on this plain.
No, it’s not just the first in this plain, but also the first in the entire country.
Moreover, judging solely by this attribute, anyone with a bit of common sense would understand the power of this armor.
“This—this star weapon! Damn it, a top-tier level-two weapon with three attributes! And—it has two skills too!” Another person accidentally picked up one of the star weapons that Lu Yu had placed down, and immediately cried out in astonishment!
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