The newly built city was enveloped in a glow resembling the aurora, and the dazzling light was so intense that it caused pain to the eyes of the people outside the city.
The entire city was shaking. One by one, the still-intact buildings cracked under the tremors and then collapsed.
Beneath the earth, one giant hand after another reached out. Each palm was over ten zhang in size, taller than an entire building.
Immediately afterward, a gigantic bull’s head emerged from underground, followed by a hairy, humanoid body and the bull’s legs, which were slowly climbing out of the earth.
The underground of this city has long been hollowed out; now, it’s just that all the hidden lives have emerged.
Each colossal Minotaur stood hundreds of feet tall, wielding battle axes nearly as tall as themselves. The axes were already covered in rust, with dried blood clumps smeared all over their surfaces.
The two horns on the ox’s head stretched nearly dozens of feet long, with a diameter of several feet. Curving upward toward the sky, they resembled a pair of metallic horns, gleaming with a metallic luster.
Without even experiencing the power of these monsters, their forms alone are already astonishing.
Each one seemed like a mountain. The ferocious leader within the city, the humans, along with these terrifying Minotaurs.
“One, two, three…” someone outside the city walls murmured, counting under their breath, their face growing increasingly pale and tense.
There were more than a thousand of these minotaurs, completely blocking off all the exits on the outskirts of the city.
The defense warriors outside the city were all taken aback when they saw the situation.
At once, they realized that their leader and the others had been ambushed.
“Charge in!” Someone shouted, and the ten thousand soldiers rushed toward the light shield all at once.
Boom!
The star soldier’s blade struck against the energy shield, sending him hurtling backward.
He struck with such force that it rebounded multiple times, shattering the attacker’s arm.
Bang!
Someone crashed against the light shield, their entire body emitting creaking, cracking sounds as bones began to break.
Lei Xiaohu held his broken war axe and sneered, “Lu Yu, did you hear that? Your people want to break in, but it’s absolutely impossible. Because this defense system is designed to be unbreakable within the time limit. And that time limit is half a month. In half a month, I think you’ll already be dead.”
“The minotaurs, the ultimate killing machines,” Lu Yu murmured, glancing at the towering figures before him.
His memories originating from Wang Zun contain records about minotaurs.
These races, raised by a certain powerful king, are naturally warlike and possess strength not inferior to that of two thousand zuns of monsters. They only know how to eat; whoever provides them with food, they will fight for!
Their skin and flesh are thick, making it hard for the star soldiers to cut through, resistant to flames, and even capable of significantly slowing down the effects of poison.
It would be very difficult for five thousand warriors to kill a two-thousand-years-old Minotaur.
That King Zun once wielded this terrifying killing machine to divide two great realms of an era alongside King Ping.
The other party really went to great lengths to keep him.
Fang Hua coldly said, “Fierce wolves—these creatures are extremely troublesome. They appeared in my era, a group of monsters capable of sharing damage. Even a King would find it difficult to deal with a pack of ten thousand fierce wolves.”
Lu Yu laughed and said, “Looks like someone really can’t wait for me to die sooner rather than later. The minotaur doesn’t belong to this era, nor does the dire wolf, not even the King of Shadows. Tsk tsk, I reckon bringing back so many lives must’ve drained him so much that he’s now too broke to even afford a pair of pants. He’s really going all out!”
“Haha!”
The people around Lu Yu burst into laughter immediately.
What Lu Yu said was a bit harsh, but it was indeed the truth.
“I really wonder where this person got the money; they’ve actually managed to revive so many powerful monsters,” Lu Yu said with a frown after laughing.
A monster of two thousand Zun would equate to two hundred billion. How much would it cost to revive a thousand such creatures?
What exactly did the other party find?
Is it an inexhaustible treasure trove that can actually revive so many monsters?
If he were to use this money, he would prefer to resurrect several kings or royal figures.
Or perhaps the opponent’s strength was not high; two thousand Zuns was the limit of his resurrection power.
Lu Yu and others laughed, while Lei Xiaohu’s group wore frowning expressions.
Two hundred thousand humans, fifty thousand ferocious wolves, and one thousand minotaurs—the pressure from such a force could drive any expert in the world today to the brink of mental collapse.
They can still laugh? Do they really act as if they don’t exist?
“Lu Yu, you actually have the nerve to laugh when death is staring you in the face,” Lei Xiaohu said coldly. “After I’ve restrained you, you’ll watch with your own eyes as each of your people dies one by one.”
“Is that so?” The illusion demon beside Lu Yu spoke up.
He swept his palm across the stone sword, igniting a surge of black flame along its blade.
“Cut him down!” Lu Yu roared.
“Boom!”
The stone sword was swung outward, and a black sword beam of several thousand zhang directly cleaved into the crowd.
“Au.”
“Roar.”
The fierce wolf stirred.
Hundreds of ferocious wolves lunged toward the sword’s glow.
Bang!
The black light was shattered, and hundreds of fierce wolves were also contaminated by the poison.
But in an instant, the poison on all the injured ferocious wolves suddenly disappeared, while the poison on one particular ferocious wolf instantly spread, causing its bones to dissolve in an instant.
“Harm transfer, shift all the poison onto one of the wolves to reduce the damage,” Lu Yu muttered to himself, “then I’ll see just how many attacks you can withstand.”
He moved, stepping forward and rushing toward Lei Xiaohu.
Boom!
The ground he stepped on bore scorching marks of flames with every footfall, turning even the stones a deep red.
Lei Xiaohu made his move.
He swung his battle axe with one arm. The chilling glow of the axe was so intense that it split the earth beneath his feet. Innumerable axe blades, like a storm of rain, slashed toward Lu Yu from all directions.
“Boom!”
Lu Yu swung his right hand, and a three-chi-long emerald sword blade slashed out from his palm. With just this single strike, the sky filled with axe lights was completely shattered and dispersed.
The battle of the star artifacts.
Luo Haotian and others trembled, forgetting even the battle against the other side’s uncrowned kings, and stared blankly at the battlefield.
There wasn’t much energy fluctuation, but the single strike from each side made it clear to everyone that these were attacks they couldn’t withstand.
Vroom!
Lei Xiaohu’s single arm bulged with veins, and his battle axe suddenly erupted with a thousand-foot-long axe shadow, slashing down toward Lu Yu’s celestial crown.
Lu Yu’s figure shifted slightly, but he made no move to block.
He dodged the axe’s glow, and the war axe’s beam directly split into the crowd of people and monsters behind Lu Yu.
Shrieks of terror, the howls of monsters.
This axe split the earth, which was ten thousand feet long. All the people and monsters standing along the line were crushed into a pile of blood-soaked mud.
Dozens of minotaurs, hundreds of ferocious wolves, and thousands of humans—those struck head-on and those grazed by the axe’s glow—none could survive.
Lei Xiaohu was taken aback, and the “uncrowned kings” were even more stunned.
Boom!
It was only at this moment that Lu Yu made his move. The sword light in his hand split the sky, slashing down toward Lei Xiaohu’s arm.
Lei Xiaohu hurriedly swung his battle axe, using it as a shield to block the attack.
Bang!
He was struck down and sent flying.
The flames on the fire giant, transformed by Lu Yu, surged and danced violently.
Buzz, buzz, buzz…
In an instant, several sword beams slashed out from his palm, directly cutting into the surrounding crowds of people and monsters.
A cacophony of screams and roars filled the air, as thousands perished, over a dozen minotaurs were slain, and more than a thousand ferocious wolves were killed.
Neither of their strengths was sufficient to unleash the true power of the Star Artifact, as the King’s power they ignited was inadequate.
However, the astonishing power still shocked the warriors from both sides.
Lei Xiaohu was suppressed by a single strike, and his lone arm couldn’t react quickly enough, getting hit twice more.
The starlight whirled within the battle axe as it swept across with a “buzzing” sound, emitting an axe beam thousands of feet long.
Groups of monsters and humans were cut in half at the waist, and among them was even Lu Yu.
The fire giant was shredded by the axe’s glow, its fiery body exploding into countless sparks that rained down like a meteor shower.
“Haha! Mr. Lu, aren’t you supposed to be so powerful? Yet you still die just the same!” Lei Xiaohu exclaimed excitedly as he gripped his battle axe and stood up, his eyes gleaming with a beast-like ferocity.
A king without a crown roared from a distance, “Lei Xiaohu, make sure you see clearly before you strike. How many warriors have been destroyed by that single axe of yours?”
Lei Xiaohu immediately noticed that within a thousand zhang directly ahead of him, an area spanning nearly ninety degrees in a fan-like shape had become a vacuum.
The power of the Star Artifact spares no one. Anyone caught in its blast will be reduced to nothing but a pile of shattered bones and bloody flesh, with severed limbs scattered across the ground like a scene from hell.
Lu Yu didn’t block that attack, and the person behind him didn’t even have time to dodge.
Flames gathered in the sky, forming a towering fire giant that descended to the ground, its hand already slashing out a sword beam thousands of feet long.
Lei Xiaohu wanted to dodge, but immediately heard someone shout, “Don’t dodge! There are seven minotaurs behind you!”
Lei Xiaohu was taken aback for a moment, then gritted his teeth and raised his battle axe to block the sword light.
The sword light struck the axe’s body, and the scattered beams of sword light transformed into a river of stars, vanishing into nothingness.
Boom!
Lu Yu stepped forward and swung his fist fiercely toward Lei Xiaohu, aiming directly at the axe’s body.
Bang.
Lu Yu’s battle axe in boxing sent splashes of starlight flying from its blade, as if streams of stars were flowing out from the axe itself.
Meanwhile, Lu Yu’s arm also exploded.
The counterattack from the star artifact was so powerful that even he couldn’t block it.
“Haha, Lu Yu, you idiot! This is a star artifact, not something you can touch with your hands,” Lei Xiaohu stood up, laughing even more smugly.
“It’s idiotic,” Lu Yu said coldly. “Do you really think I’m that stupid?”
Lu Yu’s arm was broken, and he lifted his foot to kick towards the battle axe.
Bang.
A large splash of starlight surged across the axe’s body, submerging half the city in the Milky Way.
One of Lu Yu’s legs was also broken, with flames regenerating his arm and leg.
“Haha, you idiot! You know you can’t break through, yet you still charge forward. Aren’t you just plain stupid?” Lei Xiaohu seized the opportunity, swinging his axe in a counterattack that shredded Lu Yu’s body into pieces.
This time, he did not use the power of the star artifact; with the artifact itself, he shattered Lu Yu’s body into pieces.
Lu Yu’s new body took shape not far away, while vast rivers of stars from the heavens swirled and were drawn into his form.
The flames on him flickered more intensely.
Half of the city’s starry river swirled like a tornado around Lu Yu and quickly vanished.
Lei Xiaohu swung his axe once more, this time with an even fiercer and more violent arc of light. The thousand-zhang-long axe beam churned the very air of heaven and earth, sweeping away all the flames from Lu Yu’s body and annihilating the thousand figures standing behind him.
“Idiot, idiot!” A king without a crown had already exploded in rage. “You’re killing your own people!”
Lei Xiaohu was stunned.
He thought Lu Yu would block it.
However, Lu Yu had no intention of blocking at all, not even the slightest move to defend himself. He was ready to be killed.
“Boom.”
The flames coalesced in the air, and the reincarnation site left Lei Xiaohu completely baffled.
A giant descended from the sky, stomping fiercely toward Lei Xiaohu’s head.
“Boom!”
Lei Xiaohu raised his war axe and used his shield to block the attack.
The starlight on the battle-axe surged violently, and waves of radiant light shattered the fire giant into pieces.
At the same time, several thousands-of-miles-long starry rivers once again detached from the battle-axe, swirling around between heaven and earth.
“Lu Yu, you’re deliberately letting me kill you!” Lei Xiaohu shouted, realizing why Lu Yu wasn’t fighting back.
“You still don’t believe me when I call you useless,” Lu Yu said, reborn amidst the flames. In an instant, he absorbed the entire river of stars, then laughed loudly, “Do you think war is a battle for one person alone? Everyone in this city is yours—hundreds of thousands, all under your command. As long as you strike with your hand, even your own people will be caught in the crossfire. Haha, using your hand to kill your own men! Now that you’ve revealed all your hidden cards, let’s fight it out properly.”
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