Chapter 250: Contribution and Giving Back

The earth is shaking!

The rumbling roar sounded like the angry growl of the earth itself.

People, beneath the crimson glow, felt the star souls beginning to stir with unusual movement.

Deep within every soul, a suppressed, bloodthirsty desire seemed to rise.

Pairs of eyes turned from black to bloodshot, faces twisted as if losing sanity and transforming into beasts.

“What’s going on?” Countless people desperately tried to control the desires surging within them, staring in horror at the blood-red clouds in the sky.

The sky was shrouded in a crimson glow spanning dozens of miles. All the beasts within that area cowered in fear, bowing their heads and lying flat on the plains, whimpering in terror.

Under the crimson light, those who could not control their bloodthirsty desires began to experience a sudden surge in power. Some warriors, who originally could not reach the peak of their current level, found their strength skyrocketing. Their three main attributes rapidly increased, reaching the pinnacle of their respective levels within just a few breaths.

Those who manage to control such desires do not experience any change in their strength!

Someone shuddered and whispered, “Could it be that this tower is actually seeking battle slaves? Only by becoming beasts who’ve lost their sanity can one accept her power?”

“This, this is the Blood Tower!” a hidden dark lord exclaimed in shock, also feeling a disturbance in his own power.

“Lu Yu has already found the Blood Tower!”

“No. Isn’t the Blood Tower supposed to have been destroyed because of the dragons?”

“There was a great battle between the previous generation’s slaughter and the Dragon King, which ultimately destroyed even the Blood Tower. How could it possibly still exist?”

The demons were visibly shaken, recalling the legend that sent chills down their spines!

Each of the Nine Star Souls possesses a unique item, which could be a weapon or another type of object.

Or perhaps these nine items do not originally belong to the Nine Great Star Souls, but instead are the most compatible with their effects, which is why they have been claimed by the Nine Great Star Souls.

The Blood Tower is an item exclusive to the Killing Star Soul. Within the range of the Blood Tower, any living being that transforms into a killing beast will experience an increase in strength.

However, once leaving a certain range of the Blood Tower, the increased strength will disappear!

The Demon Lords finally understood why the Bloodbath Star Spirit within Fanggang City had chosen Lu Yu as its heir.

It’s because the Blood Tower has always been here.

The Soul of Slaughter is naturally right here!

The Blood Tower erupted from the ground, its sharp, slender peak resembling a sword blade pointing straight up to the sky.

After the Blood Tower rose a thousand meters, its base finally came into view.

The spire is cone-shaped, extremely slender and pointed, reaching a height of one thousand meters, with a base area of only about one thousand square meters.

On the base of the spire, tens of thousands of red crosses gleamed with a bloody light, resembling countless blood-red stars shining and dazzling the eyes of everyone present.

A demon king looked at the slender blood tower in terror, gritting his teeth while pondering something intensely.

Suddenly, before the demon lord could make a decision, a golden blade of light, a thousand zhang long, slashed horizontally from the distant void!

Boom!

Blades of swordlight split the air, descending toward the Blood Pagoda in a fierce slash.

“The Blood Tower must be destroyed! Everyone, what are you waiting for? Take advantage of the fact that the Blood Tower has just risen—once we miss this chance, there will be no other opportunity!” Following the golden blade light, a devil king emerged, his entire body radiating brilliant golden light.

This Demon Lord’s expression was extremely cold, and his aura far surpassed that of an ordinary Demon Lord.

At the base of the Blood Pagoda, a gray sword beam shot upward, piercing through the golden light and slashing toward the demon lord.

“Boom, boom, boom—”

In the blink of an eye, at least ten beams of light came from various directions in the void, simultaneously intercepting the sword beam.

The blood-red light in the sky nearly shattered into pieces, more than ten beams of light breaking apart together, transforming into countless stars scattered across the heavens.

“The Blood Tower has appeared, what are you waiting for?”

Ten figures emerged from various parts of the plain.

The auras of numerous demonic sovereigns enveloped this expanse of void.

“Looking for death!”

Lu Yu emerged from the cave beneath the spire.

People finally saw Lu Yu in person at this moment, and together with the blurry photo, they became even more convinced that this person was indeed Lu Yu.

After upgrading his territory crystal, Lu Yu had been thinking continuously.

In the dragon’s lair, he had once obtained a stone block engraved with a crimson cross.

Although the stone isn’t large, it might have been collected by the dragon clan in one of the later areas, and it certainly possesses extraordinary qualities.

However, the stone showed no reaction to his Star Soul.

Lu Yu was thinking about the ruins in this cave temple.

In the past, when he came here, due to insufficient strength, there were some areas he dared not approach or explore deeply.

Now that his strength has reached the limit of a Star Lord, combined with the power of the Silver Dragon, he can even withstand attacks from a Demon Sovereign, so he should be safe here.

Lu Yu discovered a large amount of building debris among the ruins.

And some of these fragments could be pieced together, from which Lu Yu began to realize that something was amiss with the ruins.

He searched carefully and found a large number of fragments among the ruins.

As these fragments gathered here, Lu Yu noticed that a stone wall was covered with blood-stained crosses.

And on one of the stone walls, a blood-red cross was indeed missing!

Lu Yu placed the Blood Cross he had obtained within the Dragon’s Nest onto the缺口 in the stone wall.

Amidst the entire ruins, fragments buried underground at various locations automatically merged with the stone walls. One by one, the broken stones floated up automatically and then pieced together, forming into spires.

The spire erupted from the ground, just in time to meet the Demon Lord’s attack!

More than ten demon lords seemed determined to destroy the spire, completely ignoring the attacking power that Lu Yu had just displayed, and they joined forces to act together.

More than ten forces converged together and descended from the sky.

Lu Yu let out a deep roar, took a single step towards the heavens, and with his own body, he intercepted the combined forces of over ten demon lords.

Blow after blow struck his body, each one shattering apart.

Then Lu Yu slashed his sword at the nearest Demon Lord in mid-air. The immense sword qi overwhelmed the Demon Lord, crushing him instantly.

“Come on!” The remaining ten Demon Lords glared fiercely and attacked again.

Boom!

Another blow was intercepted by Lu Yu with his body.

Another Demon Lord was shattered with a single blow!

The remaining nine Demon Lords were furious but ceased their attacks.

There are many demon lords in the dark, yet few of them emerge anymore.

Lu Yu’s ability to fight against the Devil King naturally reveals his terrifying prowess.

Now, without any visible change to his body, he can withstand the combined attacks of over ten魔主. His physical strength has already surpassed that of the魔主 by a large margin.

They had long received news that Lu Yu possessed the power of the Silver Dragon.

From this perspective, Lu Yu’s current Silver Dragon power is at least level seven, and he has already become immune to attacks from the Demon Lord.

With the sword in Lu Yu’s hand, even a hundred more demon lords couldn’t even scratch the Blood Pagoda.

The first under the Devil King, this is no joke!

If the Demon Lord doesn’t come, no one will be able to destroy this Blood Tower!

The remaining nine demon lords, seeing that the others had no intention of taking action, immediately withdrew and attempted to vanish into the darkness.

Lu Yu’s eyes shot out two beams of blood-red light.

In an instant, countless beams of cyan light converged into a demon-slaying sword.

Thousands of demon-slaying swords converged into nine dragon-like sword formations, each striking toward one of the nine directions.

The nine demon lords barely had time to tear open the void before their bodies were severed and fell.

Blood rain fell from the crimson sky; the Star Lord of the Celestial Deity Organization, the onlookers gathered around, as well as the Demon Lords hidden in the shadows all felt their bodies turn cold.

This combat power has already reached the limit of a Star Lord.

Based solely on this, it would already be extremely difficult for an ordinary Demon Lord to kill him.

And yet this human dares to challenge demons? Without at least a hundred demon lords, coming here is nothing but a suicide mission!

Everyone watched as the blood light above the Blood Pagoda grew increasingly intense, then, after forming a blood cloud covering a radius of dozens of kilometers, rapidly contracted back into the Blood Pagoda.

The tower had turned completely crimson; this was the true Blood Tower.

Boom!

Suddenly, a blood-red beam shot straight up from the tip of the Blood Tower, piercing the heavens.

Vibrate!

After the light beams pierced through the clouds in the sky, they suddenly transformed into a crimson ripple that swept across the heavens.

The ripples spread far and wide, as if trying to cover every corner of the heaven and earth.

On a small island at the extreme northern border of Huaxia, more than ten people who had just emerged from the void seemed to sense something and looked up at the sky.

A sound echoed in their ears!

At this moment, people within Fanggang City also looked up at the sky simultaneously!

A voice sounded in the ear!

In a city of demons, rows of demon corpses were rotting and decaying, and the entire city was exuding an aura of death.

A dark figure clutched a corpse of an eighth-level demon race in one hand and was greedily sucking out the demon’s brain marrow. At that moment, he also looked up at the sky, his eyes suddenly emitting a blood-red light as he let out a fierce howl toward the heavens!

He also heard a voice by his ear, and不甘心 (bù gānrén, unwillingly) shouted out, “Lu Yu, you’ve actually activated the Blood Tower. No, I’m too slow; I still need to accelerate my speed.”

As he spoke, the dark figure discarded the demon’s corpse in his hand and reached toward a half-ruined body lying near the sinkhole.

That was a Demon King—

Now his body is covered with teeth marks on his flesh and bones, as if he had been devoured by a wild beast.

However, the demon race’s formidable vitality did not kill him; instead, it made his existence even more agonizing!

In every corner of Huaxia, a voice was heard by everyone who possessed a star soul!

“The Blood Tower is complete! O Star Souls, from this day forth, offer your will to kill, and you shall receive the reward of power!”

Everyone standing before the Blood Tower, and the lands in every corner of Huaxia, heard such a sound.

And only those standing before the Blood Tower knew that it was there; they looked at one another in bewilderment, unable to comprehend what was truly happening!

“What is this, an offering of slaughter intent?” someone muttered to themselves, stepping forward toward the Blood Pagoda.

What exactly is the meaning of slaughter, and how much power does the backlash carry?

As this person approached the Blood Tower, the closer he got, the more difficult it became to suppress the star soul and the thirst for blood within his body.

When he approached within ten zhang of the Blood Tower, he seemed like a wild beast that had lost its sanity, charging toward the spire with bloodshot eyes.

His hands pressed onto the blood cross, and instantly, thousands of extremely fine blood threads shot out from his body, being transmitted into the blood tower.

This process lasted for less than half a minute, after which the person regained consciousness and his eyes returned to their normal color.

He stared blankly at his own hands, feeling an unfamiliar calmness. For the first time, there was not a trace of murderous intent left in his heart.

He felt like he was about to become a Buddha!

However, he suddenly let out a startled cry: “What’s going on here? The assessment of me is first-rank killing intent, yet the feedback has increased each of my three attributes by one hundred million!”

“The absorbed killing intent has been taken away, yet the returned power is this abundant?”

Everyone in front of the Blood Tower reacted instantly, and countless people rushed toward it.

Pairs of hands pressed against the Blood Pagoda, channeling the killing intent from within their bodies outward, exchanging it for immense power.

The dark lords knew that this could no longer be stopped.

They looked at Lu Yu, as all the murderous intent was now gathered within his body.