In this demon’s territory, even if escape was impossible, he would still resist. Resistance meant there was still a chance; without it, there was none at all.
“Damn it!” the demon soldiers roared furiously, their bodies trembling with rage.
They were afraid.
If they disobeyed their leader’s command, they would be punished.
Not only would their positions be lost, but they might even become food for their own kind.
At that moment, faint footsteps echoed from the street.
When Lu Yu turned around, he saw someone.
A woman!
A woman in her early to mid-twenties.
She had a graceful, slender figure, a delicate and beautiful face, lustrous black hair, and fair, jade-like skin.
She wore a tight, short white jacket, a black beaded spaghetti-strap mini skirt, and a pair of black pleated high boots, exuding a cold and aloof charm.
She approached Lu Yu. Her naturally fair complexion, combined with her icy expression, gave off an aura of distant elegance, as if pushing others away.
“A human!” Lu Yu couldn’t help but be startled when he saw her.
He had assumed this was a city of monsters, never expecting to find a living human here.
The woman briefly examined Lu Yu and said, “Come with me.”
“Why?” Lu Yu could smell the faint fragrance coming from her.
But this wasn’t the time to be distracted by a woman’s charm.
“In this city, either you listen to me and trust that I won’t harm you, or you provoke our leader and won’t even leave behind a single bone fragment,” the woman stared at Lu Yu without blinking. “Go to the Blood Prison—it won’t hurt you.”
As she spoke, she moved closer to Lu Yu, brushing past him at an extremely close distance, as if by accident.
Lu Yu felt a small piece of paper slip into his hand.
“Fine, I’ll see what’s really there,” he gripped the paper tightly, his voice cold. “If you’re deceiving me, I’ll take your life with my dying breath.”
The woman scoffed. “Even if you can kill demon soldiers, you’re no threat to me at all right now.”
Then she turned to the demon soldiers and pointed at Lu Yu. “Take him to the Blood Prison!”
“Come on,” one demon soldier pointed northeast. “It’s over there. I’ll lead the way.”
Lu Yu followed the demon soldiers, secretly checking the small piece of paper in his hand. The handwriting was messy, seemingly written in great urgency.
…
The third room in the Blood Prison!
…
Lu Yu crushed the paper into a small ball and swallowed it.
As he walked, he carefully observed the surroundings.
He was memorizing the terrain, including the structure of the bone towers.
Even though within this domain, escape seemed nearly impossible, he would never give up.
Moreover, when Lu Yu used his Flame Soul Weapon earlier, he had quickly opened his warehouse and ignited the Star Spirit Pearl.
He was certain now that the warehouse still worked.
“What kind of place is the Blood Prison?” Lu Yu asked the demon soldier as they walked.
“You’ll know when you get there,” the demon soldier replied with a sinister chuckle.
“A second-grade Star Spirit Stone,” Lu Yu tested cautiously.
He knew the Blood Eye had a special need for Star Spirit Stones.
The demon soldiers looked almost identical to the Blood Eye.
Lu Yu had begun to suspect that the Blood Eye was evolving into a demon soldier, hence his attempt.
The demon soldier’s steps halted. He turned and looked at Lu Yu.
“I can only tell you a little—just a little.”
“Fine.”
Suddenly, as if performing a magic trick, Lu Yu produced a second-grade Star Spirit Stone.
“Now tell me, and this will be yours.”
The demon soldier greedily eyed the stone. “The Blood Prison won’t harm you. Of course, getting out won’t be easy—you need to be prepared.”
“What’s inside?”
“Hehe, that I can’t tell you. But I can say this: there are many rooms in the Blood Prison. Avoid the third one at all costs.”
“Oh?” Lu Yu’s heart stirred as he looked at the demon soldier. “What’s there?”
“That’s all I can say.” The demon soldier greedily stared at the Star Spirit Stone in Lu Yu’s hand. “Can I have it now?”
“Yours.” Lu Yu tossed the second-grade Star Spirit Stone to the demon soldier.
The demon soldier threw the stone directly into his mouth, chewing it with a crunch before swallowing it, then continued walking with a satisfied expression.
“Let me tell you one more thing: survive the three trials in the Blood Prison, and you’ll have the honor of meeting our leader—an opportunity we can only dream of.”
Guided by the demon soldiers, Lu Yu entered a bone tower near the city’s northeastern center, several streets away from the heart of the city.
Externally, this bone tower looked no different from the others, but once inside, Lu Yu saw that there were at least thirty demon soldiers present.
Attached to the tower walls was spiral-shaped bone staircase leading to the top. On the stairs, hive-like rooms hung in place, each filled with pairs of eyes watching Lu Yu.
The area where Lu Yu and the demon soldiers stood was a hall-like space. The floor wasn’t made of bones but thick stone slabs.
“Thirty-seven, why did you bring a human here?” a demon soldier stepped forward, staring at Lu Yu like a predator eyeing its prey.
The demon soldier who had brought Lu Yu in replied, “The leader specifically ordered him into the Blood Prison.”
“Even if the leader ordered it, the rules still apply here,” another demon soldier glared at Lu Yu. “Here, if a human wants to enter, they must prove they’re worthy.”
“He has already killed number forty-three. If you want to test him again, feel free,” said thirty-seven.
“What? Number forty-three is dead?”
“No wonder his scent of blood seemed so familiar—it’s from a demon soldier.”
The thirty-odd demon soldiers were momentarily shocked into silence.
“Open the passage. Let him go down,” thirty-seven continued.
“Open the passage!”
The demon soldiers quickly gathered in the center of the hall and placed their hands on a massive stone slab on the floor.
“Up!”
With a collective roar, the stone slab slowly lifted, revealing a dark tunnel leading underground.
“If you don’t come out within a month, it means you’re dead. If you survive the Blood Prison, a passage will lead directly to the Bone Palace,” thirty-seven gave Lu Yu a shove. “Go in.”
Lu Yu looked at the dark passage below, hesitated slightly, then stepped forward.
As soon as he entered, the stone slab above immediately closed shut.
“Peng, peng…”
Torches on both sides of the passage suddenly ignited, illuminating the way.
No one would believe that this place had once been a bustling city.
Everything here had become unrecognizable.
Lu Yu descended the stone steps. Within less than ten minutes, he reached the bottom.
At the bottom was a circular stone chamber with nine doors around it.
The doors were carved from blood-red stone, engraved with countless beast patterns, as if they were dripping blood.
“From left to right, the stone doors are numbered one through nine. Choose one to enter. Either you survive and come out, or you become a pile of bones,” a solemn, icy voice echoed from above.
“Humans, I’m looking forward to your performance.”
Lu Yu stared at the nine stone doors, scanning them.
After a brief hesitation, he walked toward the third door.
As he approached, the stone door suddenly rumbled and sank into the ground. A massive blood-red vortex appeared, pulling him in with immense force.
…
Above the central mine of Qin City stood a towering bone structure nearly a hundred meters high.
Deep within this structure, seated on a bone throne made from the bones of countless beasts, a dark figure cloaked in black robes chuckled, “Interesting. He chose the third door. I wonder how much chance he has of coming out alive.”
“Vantian, if he succeeds, you’ll have your full team assembled,” a woman with pitch-black skin sitting on a wooden chair below the bone throne giggled. “Among us, you’ve been the slowest.”
“Haha, humans say quality over quantity. Slowness has its advantages,” the dark figure in the robe laughed. “Huang Ying, I heard you found someone quite capable.”
The woman giggled again. “Isn’t that what makes it fun?”
…
The blood vortex pulled Lu Yu in, and in an instant, he appeared on a platform in the center of a vast blood pool within a massive stone cave.
The blood pool was hundreds of meters wide, bubbling with blood and emitting a thick, pungent stench of blood.
Within the blood, countless human corpses floated and rolled.
Without having experienced the city’s hellish landscape of death, even a strong-willed person might have broken down in this place.
“First trial!”
The voice from the chamber echoed again, but this time, it was extremely cold.
As soon as the voice ended, the blood pool suddenly boiled. All the corpses rose, as if resurrected.
Their eyes were blood-red, and the moment they awakened, they lunged at Lu Yu.
Men, women, children, and the elderly—all moved as if possessed, rushing toward him.
“Trying to see if I’m ruthless enough?” Lu Yu immediately understood the leader’s intention.
Lu Yu raised his hand and slashed forward. The first man who rushed at him was split into pieces. The fragments dissolved into blood mist, falling back into the blood pool.
But as the man’s head turned into blood mist, a speck of red light entered Lu Yu’s palm from where he had struck.
A faint, sharp pain traveled through his nerves to his brain.
“Kill! Kill! Kill!”
Each corpse shouted the same syllable, charging at Lu Yu in a frenzy.
“These are just ordinary people. This test means nothing,” Lu Yu showed no mercy, slicing down hundreds of them in moments.
However, with every kill, a red dot appeared on his palm. As the number increased, the pain wasn’t just like needles anymore—it felt like knives slicing through.
The blood pool continued to churn. The corpses that had disappeared resurfaced, but none of them revived again.
“This isn’t a test of my ruthlessness!” Lu Yu instinctively realized, looking at his palm covered in red dots. He closed his eyes for a moment, as if contemplating something, then suddenly smiled.
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