Chapter 517: The True Enemy!

Lei Xiaohu’s body crashed through building after building, propelled by a single punch from the city center all the way to the outskirts.

The people from various factions gathered outside the city finally got to witness part of the battle.

When Lei Xiaohu landed and stood up, the crowd recognized who he was and their faces immediately changed expressions.

“Lei Xiaohu is done,” someone sighed regretfully after just a single glance.

Someone couldn’t help but feel resentful, saying, “Another person who could have challenged Lu Yu is gone. If only a few more years had passed, perhaps this Lei Xiaohu would have had a chance, but now he has no opportunity left.”

Lei Xiaohu had just come to a stop when Lu Yu also leaped out of the city, descending from the sky to fiercely stomp on Lei Xiaohu’s head.

Lei Xiaohu didn’t care about his image anymore. He quickly rolled to dodge the kick Lu Yu had aimed at him.

Boom!

Lu Yu landed, his foot touching the ground as he darted forward like an arrow to reach Lei Xiaohu’s side. His large hand seized Lei Xiaohu’s head, swinging him around like a dead dog before slamming him down onto the ground. Without pause, he kicked Lei Xiaohu away, not giving him any chance to launch a Blood Surge attack.

The crowd watching the fight around them was stunned. “This… after all that fighting, this is the situation?!”

They thought it would be such an intense battle, but isn’t this almost a one-sided massacre?

That’s all Lei Xiaohu’s got? How dare he act so arrogantly? He’s just asking for trouble!

Many people felt ashamed for having placed their hopes on this arrogant young man.

“Still won’t tell me who’s backing you up?” Lu Yu swung his sword, sending a powerful slash that sent Lei Xiaohu flying backward into the city once again.

Lei Xiaohu knocked down building after building; this was his domain, and everything belonged to him.

And now it’s all ruined.

Lei Xiaohu spat out a mouthful of blood and snarled, “Lu Yu, do you think I need to go looking for someone else?”

“Who do you think you are, to be so arrogant all by yourself!” Lu Yu strode into the city, yanked Lei Xiaohu out from a pile of ruins, and pulled him forward, saying coldly: “To deal with you, did you really think I would use all my forces? With me alone, I can still flatten this entire city.”

“Haha,呸! You’re truly too arrogant. Just you alone, do you really think you can stop my army of two hundred thousand?” Lei Xiaohu sneered with a hideous laugh, as if he had just heard the most ridiculous words in the world.

“Hmph.” Lu Yu flipped his hand, sheathing the stone sword, then suddenly struck his palm towards a cluster of buildings.

Boom! Boom!

Black energy surged from Lu Yu’s palms like a tide, instantly forming a hundred-zhang-high, hundreds-of-zhang-wide black tsunami.

The tsunami, accompanied by a breath of hurricane-like fury, swept past a cluster of buildings, which collapsed into rubble.

Huge waves crashed over a group of warriors.

One second, not even a second, not even time for a scream.

Where the black waves passed, buildings were swept away, and people were poisoned and killed.

Huge waves hundreds of meters high were crashing down, as if they were about to touch the sky.

Instantly turned into black water when touched by a breath from the sea waves, no one could possibly escape it.

The waves surged forward for nearly two kilometers with a thunderous roar before finally coming to a stop.

But just as the waves came to a halt, the towering wall of water exploded.

Thousands upon thousands of droplets of poison gas transformed into arrows, raining down like a storm and covering an area four thousand zhang in diameter.

Everywhere there were screams of agony, and countless people were rolling on the ground.

Struck by the toxic gas, the arrow ignored defense and pierced through the body, simultaneously introducing the poison into the bloodstream.

Within a mere second, their bodies had already begun to decay from within, turning into black water.

Not only the person, but even the weapon in hand and the storage bead were corroded completely.

This strike alone resulted in at least five thousand deaths.

Tiger Lei trembled all over, his voice shaking as he stammered, “Is this… is this really Lu Yu?”

Lei Xiaohu’s face turned even paler as he hissed in a cold voice, “You monster! You killed thousands of people in one go. Aren’t you afraid of going to hell?”

“Let me ask you again, will you speak or not?” Lu Yu coldly gripped Lei Xiaohu’s arm and said, “I’ve already killed many people; what’s a few thousand more?”

“I, Lei Xiaohu, don’t need anyone’s support to get things done!” Lei Xiaohu snorted coldly, the scars from his wounds already beginning to show on his skin.

“Rip!”

Blood spurted from Lei Xiaohu’s arm; his left arm had already separated from his body, revealing the pale, white joint. The long, blue veins were torn apart, and the flesh hung in uneven, jagged pieces, as if it had been savagely bitten and ripped.

Lei Xiaohu’s painful screams pierced Lei Laohu’s heart with anguish.

Lei Laohu’s legs gave way and he knelt down sobbing, saying, “Mr. Lu, Mr. Lu, we were truly wrong. We shouldn’t have harmed Miss Huowu, nor should we have seized your shop. Please, I beg you, spare my son. He’s my only child.”

Lu Yu roared, hurling Lei Xiaohu toward Lei Laohu’s side. “When Huowu was injured, did your son ever think of sparing her? You dare to enter my city to snatch away my people—who gave you that right?”

Lu Yu’s voice grew colder as he strode toward the father and son, his tone heavy with menace: “I never forget an enemy. Those who harm me will pay with their lives. Did you really think you could leave here today?”

Lei Xiaohu gritted his teeth hard, saying with great unwillingness: “Mr. Lu, your strength is greater than mine. I won’t regret dying this time. Ha ha, if our strengths were equal today, it would be you who would die.”

He clutched his severed arm, blood spilling all over the ground.

He no longer has the ability to regenerate his arm.

“Without real strength, you’re nothing. A few years ago, you were just a little brat; did you have any room to be arrogant in this world back then?” Lu Yu sneered, “I’ve said before that today I’ll take back everything I’ve given you. Without my evolution pill, you wouldn’t have your current talent, so now I’ll take your strength back.”

Lu Yu stepped forward as he spoke.

Lei Laohu suddenly jumped up, not knowing where he found the strength, and rushed toward Lu Yu.

Suddenly, a dagger appeared in his hand, its blade gleaming coldly with a poisonous aura lingering around it.

“You dare to wound me with my own weapon?” Lu Yu waited until the sword in Lei Laohu’s hand touched his body before coldly gripping Lei Laohu’s arm and suddenly applying force, tearing off both the weapon and the arm.

Lu Yu casually tossed his severed arm aside and said, “You’re even weaker.”

As he spoke, Lu Yu kicked Lei Laohu so hard that he flew far away. Then he walked up to Lei Xiaohu and said, “If you don’t tell me who it was, I’ll break another one of your arms.” Lu Yu stepped on Lei Xiaohu’s chest and grabbed his arm, threatening, “If you dare to move even slightly, I’ll rip this arm off right away.”

Lei Xiaohu’s face turned extremely pale!

If he loses one arm, he still has a chance to become stronger. But if both arms are gone, there will be no hope left at all.

“I, I’ll speak,” Lei Xiaohu gritted his teeth, no longer putting up a tough front.

“I thought you were so tough. Turns out you’re nothing special after all!” Lu Yu released Lei Xiaohu’s arm and said, “Tell me, who is it?”

Lei Xiaohu said, “Someone has it in for you, and of course they also have their eyes on your city. They secretly approached me. Actually—”

Lei Xiaohu suddenly paused mid-sentence, then sneered ominously, “It was already your mistake to come to this city. Lu Yu, now that you’re here today, don’t even think about leaving.”

Lei Xiaohu said, suddenly slamming his palm forcefully onto the ground.

Although he was injured, his strength had not vanished.

As he struck with his palm, the entire city began to tremble.

The outer edges of the city cracked open, spewing out massive beams of blue light that shot straight into the sky, as if forming a wall of light that separated the city from the outside world.

Boom!

The ground of the entire city cracked open, and figures leaped up from beneath the surface one after another.

As soon as these people appeared, they rushed toward Luo Haotian and the others.

“Drink up!”

Luo Haotian and others also sprang into action, rushing forward to intercept the figures that were charging toward them.

The two sides collided in midair, and in an instant, they had already exchanged hundreds of attacks.

“The King without a Crown,” Luo Haotian said coldly, his eyes fixed on his opponent. He continued in a deep voice, “It seems that Mr. Lu was right; the Guardians have indeed resurrected other Kings without Crowns.”

The person across was not tall, but his eyes revealed a sharp and clever glint. He wore a faint, ambiguous smile as he spoke, “It seems Lu Yu is undoubtedly a Guardian too. The person who resurrected us was right; this time investing in Lei Xiaohu has indeed been worthwhile.”

Fang Hua replied coldly, “My Master Lu said that he resurrected more than thirty people, and the remaining fifteen seem to have been taken by someone else. You’ve come here as a group of fifteen, so it’s likely that you were all resurrected by the same person.”

From between the cracks, more than a hundred people emerged. Among them, a burly man laughed and said, “Hehe, you’ve got it wrong then. Who said only those below the rank of Star Lord can be Kings Without a Crown? Could a Sovereign not also be a King Without a Crown?”

How many people are there underground?

After hundreds of people came out, countless ferocious beasts continued to crawl out.

Luo Haotian and others grew increasingly solemn.

The auras of the nearly one hundred people who initially stepped forward were too similar to theirs.

Uncrowned kings, all of these are uncrowned kings.

A hundred kings without crowns—how many has the other side prepared, exactly?

Each of these ferocious beasts stood over ten feet tall, like a small mountain. They had sharp fangs and tusks, their backs covered with sword-like scales, resembling wolves yet not quite wolves.

Lei Xiaohu suddenly vanished from beside Lu Yu, grabbing his father and fleeing into the pack of fierce beasts. He coldly said, “Mr. Lu, do you understand now? You didn’t bring everyone here; you were too arrogant. If you had those one hundred thousand people, maybe you would have stood a chance.”

“How can you hundreds of people fight against the people here now?”

Fang Hua said solemnly, “It seems this time there will be a bloody battle.”

Yang Lie licked his lips excitedly and smiled, saying, “Hasn’t all our hard work been leading up to a battle like this?”

Shi Hu and the others sneered coldly, their star weapons gripped tightly in hand. Facing the swarm of ferocious beasts without the slightest fear, he said, “After eating dry rice for so many years without ever lifting a finger, today is finally the day to go all out and slaughter them all.”

“Only you all?” Lu Yu glanced at their battle formation — a hundred Crownless Kings, their strength was formidable.

Lu Yun could sense that at least three of them had cultivation bases reaching three thousand zuns.

Those ferocious beasts mostly possessed strengths around the level of a thousand zuns.

They are not formidable individually, but when combined, there are at least fifty thousand. Moreover, even more are crawling out from the underground fissures. Such a number is truly astonishing.

Flames surged around Lu Yu’s body, flickering between his right hand. From the fire, streams of stars rose up, winding around his arms like celestial rivers.

“Hiss!” Everyone present paled, sensing an immense power emanating from the flames.

Star Vessel!

“It’s time to take action.” From within the crowd, several members of the press stepped forward together.

They handed a weapon to Lei Xiaohu and said, “Here, only you possess the King’s power, so he has given you a chance to seek revenge.”

This is a double-edged war axe, except that one of its edges is missing. The shaft of the axe shimmers with a dragon’s shadow, moving as if a real dragon were wriggling upon it.

“He must have some confidence to dare come here knowing I have a star artifact. As expected, he also has a star artifact.” Lu Yu sneered, as grayish light flickered before him, forming into a stone sword.

Boom.

A figure shrouded in mist stepped forward and grabbed the stone implement.

Hum.

The stone sword’s light flickered as it was activated.

Splash!

Inside Lu Yu’s body, countless cold lights shot out, and ten thousand blades of slaughter hovered in the sky.

Twenty blades of carnage merged into one. Each blade’s shimmering starlight flowed like a tiny celestial river entwining around the sword’s body.

Everyone’s face changed color.

These star soldiers actually had the glimmer of half-star artifacts shining on them.

Five hundred blades of slaughter fell to the ground, landing directly in front of Shi Hu and the others.

The sword had not yet fully touched the ground, still hovering two feet above the surface. However, the ripples emanating from the blade had already sliced a long, narrow gash into the earth.

By then, the city had already collapsed completely.

The people on the periphery looked beyond the ruins, and not one of them could hide their shock!