The wolf demon’s life was ebbing away, with copious amounts of blood gushing from its throat.
A low, trembling “wuwu” cry rumbled in its throat as it struggled to break free from Lu Yu’s grip.
However, Lu Yu’s arms were as rigid as iron clamps, tightening relentlessly.
The wolf demon waved his hands frantically, struggling continuously while letting out mournful howls.
More than ten demon apes left shocking wounds all over Lu Yu’s body. Before one wound could disappear, another wound had already been added on top of it.
Lu Yu endured the excruciating pain as his flesh was torn away piece by piece, his eyes radiating an astonishingly cold glare.
The wolf demon’s body continued to bend backward relentlessly, and its three-meter-tall frame was on the verge of being folded in half.
“Warning, life points reduced by ten, remaining life one hundred thirty points.”
“Congratulations, the battle has activated the Killing Star Soul. You are still 40% progress away from leveling up the Killing Star Soul to level one.”
“Increase maximum base life by 50 points, increase attack power by 50 points, and increase tendons and bones by 50 points.”
Blue text flickered continuously before Lu Yu’s eyes, and his health points decreased at a rate of dozens per second.
The Soul of Slaughter was also activated. Moreover, this battle had actually accelerated the upgrading process to such an extent that it exceeded his expectations.
After several battles, Lu Yu had already figured everything out.
Activating the “Murder Star Soul” is not easy either. It requires a desperate battle of life and death to trigger its activation. Moreover, the more intense and perilous the battle, the greater the enhancement to one’s attributes.
One step closer to reaching Level 1 of the Murder Star Soul.
But he couldn’t be happy now.
If he can’t kill the wolf demon, he will die!
“Today, I won’t believe it until I see you dead.” The coldness in Lu Yu’s eyes grew increasingly chilling.
Lu Yu roared in fury, channeling all his strength throughout his body, and suddenly exerted immense force.
Snap!
The wolf demon’s expression was extremely painful. Its head had slammed into its buttocks, leaving its lower body numb and its entire body limp.
The demon apes stopped and, seeing the dire state of the wolf demon, knew their leader was surely dead.
They abandoned their attack, trembling all over as they knelt around Lu Yu, touching their foreheads to the ground, transforming from fierce and ferocious to extremely fearful.
The Wolf Demon’s control over the魔猿s is effective only when they are active.
But when they are defeated, it only makes the demon ape fear the victor.
Lu Yu’s remaining life points – seventy.
His body had multiple wounds exposing the white bones beneath, with a large chunk of flesh missing from the left side of his face, the wound extending down to his neck.
It looked as if it had been torn apart by a beast, appearing particularly hideous and terrifying.
Lu Yu tore off the sleeve of his shirt and pressed it against the wound on his neck, then sat down on the ground, gasping for breath.
This time, the wounds on his body could only heal slowly, while he continued to suffer from a constant loss of vitality.
“Warning, your health points have decreased by ten. Remaining health is sixty points.”
“Warning, life points reduced by ten, remaining life is fifty-seven points.”
Slow recovery, faster loss.
After letting out one final gasp, the wolf demon’s body grew stiff.
At the same time, between the wolf demon’s eyebrows, a pale blue bead fell out along with a small cluster of light.
“Mutated Star Soul Pearl, and also a War Soul?”
Lu Yu’s eyes lit up.
Obviously, this wolf demon wasn’t very lucky either. It was controlled by Lu Yu before it even had a chance to unleash its skills.
He couldn’t believe his luck—Wolf Demon immediately dropped two items for him.
Three minutes later, the bleeding from the wound finally stopped.
Life begins to recover.
The demon ape still dared not move an inch.
Lu Yu waited until his life reached one hundred, then stood up and began walking inside the hall.
Nearly twenty magic apes had died, and half of their corpses were surrounded by flickering light.
“It looks like my luck is good today,” Lu Yu said, picking up all the Star Spirit Orbs. There were actually over a dozen of them.
With the few Star Spirits in his possession, he already had twenty Star Spirits, one mutated Star Spirit, and three Warrior Souls.
Ten monstrous apes knelt there, too afraid to move a muscle.
Not long ago, they still wanted to kill Lu Yu. Now, they are bowing to this human instead—they also fear death.
“Secure the hall, and do not allow any demon apes to approach.”
Lu Yu issued orders to these demon apes.
Judging from the current situation outside, there are still six to seven hours to go before the魔猿 withdraws.
“Hungry, hungry!” said a demon ape cautiously.
“Damn it, such a bunch of gluttons.” Lu Yu angrily kicked a demon ape far away and shouted, “After you finish eating, get out and stand guard.”
Lu Yu’s words were like an imperial decree, causing the ten demonic apes to immediately lunge toward the corpses of the wolf demon and his companions.
In their eyes, there is only food and commands. Even the death of their own kind is seen merely as food.
Lu Yu sat aside, not only to recover the remaining hit points, but more importantly, to restore the remaining vitality.
Nine hundred maximum health, almost a thousand now.
But he was also well aware that he could withstand the impact of at most a dozen or so demon apes.
If another Wolf Demon were added, he might not be so lucky this time.
Especially now, when the life limit hasn’t been restored yet, another wave will definitely cost me my life here.
Therefore, Lu Yu didn’t want to hold back anything now.
Twenty Star Spirit Beads, all crushed at once.
Watching streaks of light gather at the fingertips, then surge into the body.
The light surged into his body, flowing into the black sphere of energy within.
The murderous star soul began to pulsate, and the tiny, outstretched filament extended a little longer once again.
More than ten seconds later, Lu Yu saw the result he had been looking for.
“Murderous Star Soul activated, energy accumulation in progress. Fifteen percent remaining to reach level one of the Murderous Star Soul. Base life force increased by 60 points, attack power increased by 40 points, tendons and bones increased by 40 points!”
One exceeded the maximum value, which is stronger than upgrading a skill once.
Lu Yu smiled slightly, feeling that his luck was pretty good.
Moreover, the energy from the twenty Star Spirit Beads was indeed powerful enough to boost the progress by twenty-five percent in one go, bringing it even closer to Level One.
He observed the mutated Star Spirit Pearl with his Eye of Truth, and the smile on his face deepened slightly.
“Really lucky, there’s a skill inside.”
Lu Yu looked into the Star Spirit Pearl and carefully examined the skills within. He discovered that the attributes of the skills were constantly changing as well.
This is similar to the attributes of the soldiers’ souls.
Changes vary in strength, sometimes strong and sometimes weak.
“If enduring these past few days of torment means obtaining the Eye of Truth, then I accept it,” Lu Yu said, rubbing his eyes. Besides the Skill of Slaughter Ascension, the Eye of Truth was his greatest gain from these days.
With this, what could possibly deceive his eyes?
As he continued to read carefully, his expression gradually froze.
In the leap of skills, he discovered a skill attribute with a special effect…
Skill – Breath of Life:
Level: Grade 1 (can be upgraded three times).
Ability: When health is above 100, increases health regeneration speed by 1 per second.
Special Effect: When health drops below 100 and sustains serious injury, there is a certain chance to instantly restore health to 100 points. When receiving lethal damage, there is a 30% chance to negate this damage and restore 100 health points.
…
“This skill—” Lu Yu exhaled sharply after reading through the skill description, his expression turning serious.
This skill is absolutely amazing.
When receiving fatal damage, 30% of the damage is mitigated, and 100 health is restored.
Lu Yu looked at the skill, his heart trembling slightly.
Fortunately, the wolf demon did not activate its ability.
Otherwise, in the end, it would not be the wolf demon who gets worn down and dies, but him.
Don’t pay attention to that thirty percent probability; according to Lu Yu’s understanding, this percentage is merely an approximate figure.
Some people strike ten times yet fail to kill a person, while others kill with a single stab. Can you really say that a single stab which kills is absolutely certain to be a fatal blow?
Lu Yu believed that a 30 percent chance of triggering doesn’t mean one would only have three chances to trigger it out of ten fatal injuries. Instead, he thought that each time one receives a fatal injury, there should be a 30 percent probability of triggering it.
In other words, if that person is lucky enough to obtain such a skill, it’s entirely possible for them to trigger two instances of critical damage.
Good character might just mean continuously triggering positive responses.
In that case, how is it different from being immortal?
There are still two more promotions. And don’t forget that the Bloodthirsty Promotion remains.
Lu Yu nervously捏着 the beads, waiting for the skill to change again.
When it was time for the attribute with special effects to appear, he quickly crushed the bead.
The skills and attributes are exactly the same as the best one you just saw.
Then—
“Congratulations! You have the special ability to promote through killing, and your skills receive additional attribute bonuses. When your health exceeds 100, you gain an extra 1 health recovery per second!”
Special Effect: When health drops below 100 and sustains serious injury, there is a certain chance to instantly restore health to 150 points. When receiving lethal damage, there is a 35% chance to negate this damage and restore 100 health points.
Lu Yu looked at the additional attributes gained from the Kill Promotion and swung his fist heavily, saying, “Yes, this is exactly what I need.”
Now, he can recover an additional two points of health per second. A few hundred health points would only take two or three minutes.
And with a 35 percent chance to negate damage, after three attempts, there might be a chance to approach a high probability of nearly 90 percent.
This skill is priceless, not something you can buy with money.
Lu Yu’s selection of skills was merely a matter of half an hour.
Several demon apes charged up the stairwell, but they were all intercepted and killed by ten demon apes.
Two out of the ten demon apes had also died.
Several hours remained before dawn, and the screams from the city outside began to diminish.
This is not a good thing.
Lu Yu knew that this meant fewer and fewer people could be found, and it also indicated that the city was drawing closer to becoming a true ghost town.
“Boom!”
The building where Lu Yu was located shook twice.
Across the street, a sixteen-story building collapsed with a thunderous roar. Hundreds of demonic apes were crushed to death, while hundreds more were severely injured, lying there wailing in agony.
Under the collapsed high-rise buildings, hundreds of black giant wolves, each standing two meters tall, emerged.
The appearance of these giant wolves immediately caused the surrounding magic apes to clear a path.
The giant wolves scattered in all directions across the city, then vanished into the darkness.
“A new monster,” Luyu’s face darkened further. Seeing the魔猿’s fear towards the giant wolf, this was certainly no weaker than the wolf demon.
Just as Lu Yu was speaking, in another high-rise building, a two-meter-tall demon ape emerged, carrying a gigantic spiked club that was one meter taller than its own body.
Perhaps it wasn’t really stepping out, but rather smashing through the wall with his body and rushing into the street.
This slightly smaller demon ape dragged a wolf demon’s leg in its hand across the rubble-strewn ground, leaving behind a dark red blood trail.
The face of the wolf demon was shattered, its flesh torn into pieces, as if it had been subjected to a thousand cuts. Countless wounds exposed the gleaming white bones beneath.
“Au.”
All around the street, one howl after another rose into the air.
Then, one after another, wolf demons emerged from the dark alley. Some carried stone clubs, while others brandished stone axes, surrounding that magic ape.
A massacre, a bloody battle!
This small demonic ape was so fierce that it made Lu Yu’s heart tremble with fear.
Facing sixteen wolf demons alone, he managed to kill six or seven before finally being overwhelmed by the remaining ones.
Then, like madmen, these wolf demons smashed the ape demon into a pulp.
Just as these wolf demons had not yet departed, on the distant buildings, several agile figures leaped from rooftop to rooftop. Like ferocious wolves pouncing on their prey, they tackled the wolf demons and began tearing into them fiercely.
They were six small demonic apes.
The city fell into complete chaos.
Some monsters that had not appeared on the first night began to show up one after another.
This place has become a battlefield for monsters. Some buildings were shaken down, and the people who survived inside then became the monsters’ source of blood and food.
That night, monstrous apes, wolf demons, small demonic apes, black eagles with wingspans of ten meters soaring through the air, and several other creatures that Lu Yu could not even begin to describe appeared on the streets.
As the street gradually brightened with the approaching dawn, the morning sun on the horizon seemed to be veiled by a faint reddish hue.
There was an indescribable bloody atmosphere in the city, and blood had not yet dried on the streets, flowing like small rivers.
The streets were littered with the remains of various monsters, replacing the corpses of humans that once lay there.
After that night, the monsters on the streets showed no intention of sleeping at all.
The demon apes were searching the streets for blood and prey, while the giant wolves darted through the alleys.
Only the small demon apes and wolf demons seemed to have temporarily ceased hostilities and disappeared from sight.
Lu Yu stared at the demonic ape on the street. It would be dangerous to step outside.
However, he had to go to the mine.
“Let’s do this,” Lu Yu said through clenched teeth, gripping his fist and hoisting the Wolf Demon Staff onto his shoulder. He then led the remaining nine-headed魔猿 down the stairs.
Under the protection of the Nine-Headed Demon Ape, Lu Yu chose to walk in relatively dark and secluded corners.
However, he still encountered dozens of demon apes.
The last of the nine-headed demon apes was gone, and he was still several streets away from the city center.
Lu Yu found that the city was becoming increasingly difficult to navigate.
Because the monsters have started to become active during the day, and they hunt in groups of ten or more.
He walked cautiously, stopping every so often to look around, which made his progress extremely slow.
However, even so, he was still discovered by more than ten demon apes.
With Lu Yu’s current strength, it wouldn’t be difficult for him to deal with these魔猿.
Lu Yu successfully defeated thirteen demonic apes, suffering a loss of three hundred life points, and obtained six Star Spirit Beads.
Lu Yu didn’t care about the place and unceremoniously used all the Star Spirit Beads.
This time it’s a bit different.
When the energy entered the Killing Star Soul, that tiny, delicate hair within the Star Soul grew a little longer and pierced into his heart.
At that moment, he felt a cold breath piercing through his nerves and reaching the deepest part of his brain, as if it were connecting with his nerves and becoming a part of his body.
“Congratulations! Since your Killing Star Soul has accumulated enough energy, reaching one hundred percent, it has now been upgraded to level one.”
“Please hunt powerful monsters to accumulate energy and activate the special effect of the Level 1 Slaughter Star Soul.”
“Hunted down one hundred wolf demons, now hunted down zero.”
Lu Yu watched the words flicker, slightly taken aback.
“Congratulations, your Kill Star Soul has advanced to Level 1, you have gained a Level 1 skill, and received basic attribute rewards…”
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