A gray mist about one meter in diameter floated in front of Lu Yu. At the center of the mist, two eerie red lights, each the size of a cat’s eye, flickered like glowing eyes.
“This is the form of the Phantom Demon?” Lu Yu had imagined it would be a shadow. However, the current appearance was somewhat different from what he had envisioned. Number One was no longer a Demon Ape but had become the Phantom Demon!
The demonic form was taking shape, yet still somewhat unstable. The gray mist surrounding the two orbs of red light was visibly dissipating at a noticeable speed.
The demon suddenly sprang into action.
Lu Yu didn’t even see the demon’s movement before he saw the gray mist rushing toward his warehouse where the star spirits were stored.
In Lu Yu’s eyes, the distance of hundreds of meters had passed so quickly that he couldn’t even blink.
“That’s fast!”
Lu Yu was startled.
At this speed, Lu Yu couldn’t think of anyone in the present who could possibly dodge it.
On his way to the warehouse, Lu Yu discovered that in addition to soul control, he had also gained the ability of soul transmission.
Through soul transmission, you can summon the Phantom Demon to your side without any restrictions. You can also send the Phantom Demon back to its original location.
“Does that mean I can summon the Phantom Demon to me, no matter how far away I am?”
Soul transmission has no limitations and can be initiated at will.
Lu Yu’s consciousness stirred slightly, and in an instant, the Illusion Demon appeared before him.
Lu Yu’s consciousness stirred again, and the illusionary demon vanished.
“Great skills!” Lu Yu said with a faint smile, walking towards the warehouse.
At that moment, Lu Yu was taken aback and gritted his teeth, saying, “You’re nothing but a glutton!”
The warehouse was only a few hundred meters away from where Number One had been earlier.
Lu Yu passed through these places in no more than a dozen seconds. However, when he reached the warehouse, he noticed that the Phantom Demon had swept across a pile of Star Spirits, and at least a tenth of them had turned into starlight and entered the Phantom Demon’s body.
Then the Phantom Demon swept its gaze once more toward the pile of Star Spirit Orbs at the side. Where the gray mist passed, over a thousand Star Spirit Orbs vanished.
The demon absorbed things at a speed faster than the wind sweeping away the last clouds.
Lu Yu had merely issued an evolution command, and the Phantom Demon obeyed without hesitation.
When the demon finally came to a stop, the volume of the gray mist remained the same, but it had become denser. A pair of eerie red lights grew even more vivid, resembling a set of bloodshot eyes.
Lu Yu did a quick calculation. In just half a minute, the Phantom Demon had consumed over ten thousand grade-one Star Spirit Stones, more than twenty thousand Star Spirit Stones, and over a thousand mutated Star Spirit Pearls.
Lu Yu originally wanted to tell Huanmo to eat more slowly.
However, after thinking about it, he finally gritted his teeth and gave up on this idea.
The rapid evolution of the demon is also highly advantageous for his future survival.
Therefore, Lu Yu held back.
Next, Lu Yu had dozens of demonic apes carry large amounts of star spirits, mutated star spirit pearls, and regular star spirit pearls to the domain crystal.
Lu Yu began upgrading the Field of Slaughter!
Level 4 Slaughter Domain, with a staggering 5 billion life points!
Lu Yu glanced at the remaining items and calculated that he had enough to upgrade his Killing Domain to level five.
Therefore, Lu Yu chose to upgrade once again.
Level 5 Kill Domain with 50 billion HP! The domain automatically restores 100,000 HP per second when attacked. It can support the construction of 5,000 defensive towers, each with 30 million HP. The attack power and defense of these towers are equal to the attack and defense of the domain crystal’s owner!
Lu Yu glanced at the various items in stock, gritted his teeth, and decided to set up everything!
Five thousand defensive towers almost completely blocked the edge of the mine.
After completing all the setups, Lu Yu’s warehouse was almost empty.
The Star Spirit Stones, Star Spirit Beads, and mutated Star Spirit Beads had been almost completely depleted.
It could be said that there were hundreds of thousands of Star Soul Pearls and tens of thousands of Star Soul Stones, with no more than one hundred remaining of each type.
What had accumulated over several months was completely exhausted in just a few hours.
“Compared to that, it’s definitely consumed much faster. If we upgrade to level six, it would cost over a million—it’s simply unaffordable for ordinary people.”
Lu Yu sighed, packed more than forty special Star Spirit Beads and a small notebook recording the characteristics of all the Star Spirit Beads into his backpack. Then, Lu Yu took out two Blue Star Souls and placed them into the backpack as well.
Previously, he had never used these things.
It wasn’t worth using it before.
At that time, when everyone was only level one or two, using a Blue Star Soul to convert weapon attributes into hundreds or even thousands of base attribute points was considered too extravagant.
At that time, the price of Lan Xing Zhi Hun had already reached a peak of a thousand Star Spirit Stones.
Now, the mine controllers have become powerful enough and have accumulated substantial wealth.
At this time, selling the Soul of the Blue Star allows one to select a top-tier level 3 or even level 4 powerful weapon, extracting its attributes, which could directly push one of their own attributes to the peak of their current cultivation level.
The higher the level, the slower the attribute improvements become!
Therefore, using something like the Blue Planet’s Soul is equivalent to taking a shortcut instantly, without causing any harm to oneself. This is truly invaluable.
At this time, selling the Blue Planet’s Soul would only increase its value.
Lu Yu was about to enter the demon-hunting space once again to try his luck. It had been a while since his last visit, and he wanted to check out what was going on inside.
…
It was getting darker.
Lu Yu put on a black robe that he had obtained from Huo Wu and covered himself with it.
The moment the light gate appeared, he walked straight into it.
At this time, not many people entered here.
Before Lu Yu’s eyes, the stone tablet was almost entirely stained with dried black blood.
On both sides of the stone tablet, two stone pillars still had two mummified corpses hanging from them!
This is a bit eerie!
Several other people, like Lu Yu, entered quickly and had already started chatting, deciding to make the transaction.
However, during the conversation among these individuals, they mentioned the Star Spirit Pearl and the Mutated Star Spirit Pearl.
Lu Yu stepped forward a few paces, frowning. “I remember that this place used to require Spirit Stones for transactions,” he said. “How come we can use Spirit Beads now?”
Several people turned around to look at Lu Yu. It was not uncommon for someone to conceal their origins beneath a black robe, and they paid it no mind.
One person looked at Lu Yu and chuckled, “Haven’t seen you around for half a month, have I?”
Lu Yu said, “Yes, it’s been a long time since I’ve been here. I remember that from the very beginning, rules were established requiring all transactions here to be conducted using Star Spirit Stones, right?”
“Friend, it seems you’ve missed the most thrilling events lately.” One person pointed at the dried bloodstains on the stone tablet and said, “At the very beginning, this was indeed the case. I heard that the two people who originally established this rule had even killed someone for it. However, as more and more people gathered here, some began to break the rules. One of those who set up the rules was said to be a famous assassin named Canghai. He has been single-handedly upholding the rules here recently, killing many who violated them. The bloodstains on this stone tablet are from those very individuals. But then—”
The man paused for a moment, then said with some disdain, “Does Canghai alone really think he can challenge an entire nation? He’s far too arrogant. Moreover, he killed influential figures from various cities, which caused even more people to turn against him. Eventually, more than ten days ago, a major battle erupted on the Demon Hunting Plains. Canghai fought against dozens of people and ended up severely injured. No one knows what method he used to escape. However, his two supporters were killed in the battle. Therefore, those two people hanging on the pillars serve as a warning, and not destroying the stone tablets is also a form of contempt.”
“Has the vast sea died yet?” Lu Yu continued to ask, his tone still remarkably calm.
Another person laughed and said, “Well, I’m not quite sure about that. But when he ran, I thought he wouldn’t die without a reason. He thought he was invincible, that he could challenge everyone! And this is the result. As for the other person, it’s already been more than three months since I last saw him. I guess he must be dead by now.”
The person pointed at the two corpses on the stone pillar and said, “Now, even the victorious side has formed an alliance and hasn’t prohibited any form of transaction here. Moreover, no one is allowed to touch those two corpses. The central stone tablet marks the execution ground designated for Canghai!”
“Alright, enough talk. I’ll take that item you mentioned earlier for one hundred thousand Star Spirit Pearls.”
“I told you goddamn well, I won’t sell for less than 130,000!”
The two of them started haggling again.
Lu Yu glanced at the sky and sighed, “It seems quite a lot has happened here.”
At this moment, the two parties reached an agreement on the price of twelve thousand Star Spirit Beads.
“Alright, here are twelve storage spheres, each containing ten thousand Star Spirit Pearls.” A person said, taking twelve cat-eye-sized glowing orbs from a backpack behind them.
Just as his hand was reaching out, it was suddenly grabbed by someone from the side.
The man turned his head slightly to look at Lu Yu and coldly said, “Friend, are you trying to take it by force?”
Lu Yu’s eyes gleamed with a cold light beneath his black robe as he said in a deep voice, “I didn’t mean to take anything. I just want to inform everyone that the transaction must be conducted using star spirit stones; everything else is strictly prohibited!”
“Tsk, another supporter of the Canghai Sect? Do you also want to end up as a corpse hanging on that pillar?” The other person tried to shake off Lu Yu’s hand.
However, the man tried several times with all his strength but failed each time.
“If you don’t let go right now, I’ll turn hostile!” the person coldly said, “If you’re looking to die, you don’t need them to do it—I can kill you myself!”
Lu Yu let go and coldly snorted, saying, “I’ll give you a chance. Put down what you have in your hand and use star spirit stones for the transaction instead!”
“If I don’t?” the other person sneered: “You want to start a fight!”
“Boom!”
Lu Yu swung his arm and unleashed a powerful palm strike. The immense force surged from his palm straight toward his opponent’s chest.
Now—there is no room for negotiation; here, only the strong prevail!
“Still not even reaching the peak of the fourth-level star soul, and you dare to lay a hand on me!” the opponent snarled, then raised his hand and instantly threw a powerful punch.
This punch not only shattered the palm wind that Lu Yu had slashed out, but it also slammed directly onto Lu Yu’s arm.
That person sneered coldly, convinced that this single punch would be enough.
However, just as his fist imprint was about to reach Lu Yu’s palm, countless sword鸣 sounds erupted.
Countless blades of azure light surged from Lu Yu’s palm, coalescing into a dragon-like form that coiled around the opponent’s arm, slicing through his skin and flesh.
Just in an instant, an arm turned into flesh and blood. Thousands of gleaming blades circled around the opponent, like wild beasts ready to tear their prey into pieces at any moment.
Lu Yu’s voice dropped coldly, “From now on, all transactions will be conducted using Star Spirit Stones! First offense, I’ll sever your arm! Second offense, I’ll take your life!”
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