Chapter 55: The Path of Blood (1)

Twenty-six people, three seconds!

This should hardly have appeared, yet he saw it!

No, for the deceased, he would rather not see it.

Lu Yu, the young man rumored to be the one even Hei Ye fears, is actually this ruthless!

A man killed twenty-six people in three seconds, without even blinking an eye.

“Offensive skill! I really can’t accept this!” He looked as a fist was being pulled out from his heart, and now he could do nothing but feel resentful!

If they didn’t have offensive skills, they might have won.

But, it was already too late!

Lu Yu withdrew his hand and watched as Xiaoxiao silently began collecting loot from the corpse.

Lu Yu stood there, stunned and motionless.

One change has transformed a young girl far too much.

“But wouldn’t this make survival much easier?” Lu Yu suddenly wondered whether it was right to have turned a little girl into someone so ruthless.

More than twenty people, fifty mutated Star Sprit Pearls, and three hundred Star Sprit Pearls.

Xiao Xiao didn’t take any of them and gave everything to Lu Yu.

In this battle, he didn’t lose anything—in fact, he gained.

“Even though you only killed one person, this is also the result of our cooperation,” Lu Yu said, handing half of the items to Xiaoxiao.

Xiao Xiao held the item in her hand, at a loss for words.

“Alright, we need to hurry up and go!” Lu Yu patted Xiaoxiao’s head lightly.

The time left for Lu Yu to leave the brightness was not much.

The beasts were gradually retreating.

Lu Yu and Xiao Xiao were stopped again half an hour later.

Six bloodshot eyes, greedy,疯狂, lustful!

Three people lunged at Lu Yu, while three others went for Xiaoxiao.

Like a hungry beast, as if it had been years since he last tasted the scent of a woman!

Their stark white teeth were actually as sharp as jagged saw blades, arranged in upper and lower rows.

Bang!

Lu Yu smashed one person to death with a single punch, while the other two grabbed his arms and opened their mouths to bite down.

“Crack!”

“Wu!”

Both of them had their mouths filled with blood, and all their teeth were shattered.

“You, your abilities, you are the mysterious figure.” Since neither of the two had received any information about being harmed, they immediately thought of the mysterious person from that night.

“Oh, so Lu Yu and the mysterious person are actually the same person.”

“Oh, that’s how it is! So that’s the case!”

Both burst into wild laughter, overjoyed.

That’s really great news. The biggest secret in Fanggang was actually discovered by them.

“Did you actually find out?” Lu Yu looked at the two people still clinging to his arms with a cold smile and said, “Since you know, then go—die!”

The last word exploded from his mouth as Lu Yu’s left hand, fingers pressed tightly together like a blade, pierced through a person’s heart.

As the man’s blood was boiling with fury, Lu Yu twisted his restrained arm and struck the third man’s chin with a powerful right punch.

Snap.

The third person’s jaw was shattered; the injury was equivalent to activating the Bloodblade.

On the other side, the three blood-eyed men who had just rushed to Xiaoxiao’s side were first startled when they saw their companion die so easily.

Suddenly, the three of them separated and fled in different directions.

Lu Yu and the mysterious figure were actually the same person—this revelation was shocking enough to stun the heavens.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Three wolf-like shadows surged out from Lu Yu’s body, each tearing away a small piece of flesh from the three individuals. Blood mist filled the air as the scene erupted in chaos.

“Let’s go!”

Lu Yu grabbed Xiao Xiao and fled, leaving all the spoils behind.

It’s almost dawn; I can’t afford to waste any more time on this.

On the way, he encountered three more groups of people blocking his path.

Lu Yu never hesitated and acted immediately.

He doesn’t have time to linger any longer; he’s seizing every second available.

The east was already turning pale with the first light of dawn, and the monsters in the city had almost completely vanished.

Lu Yu and Xiao Xiao have already entered the mine.

“How much more Star Spirit Stone do you have? Hand it all over,” Lu Yu ordered.

More than two hundred magic apes took out all the Star Spirit Stones from their bodies, puzzled about why the human leader was in such a hurry.

Lu Yu left behind the Star Spirit Stones intended as food for the Demon Ape and then counted them. There were forty-three in total.

“It’s still not enough!”

Well, something is better than nothing.

Lu Yu built two more defenses, positioning them toward the stadium.

“Try to regenerate and upgrade the fire dragon with this,” Lu Yu said, handing three Star Spirit Stones to Xiao Xiao.

Xiao Xiao just used one Star Spirit Stone and looked at Lu Yu, saying, “Big Brother, reviving a Level 2 Fire Dragon requires ten Level 2 Star Spirit Stones.”

“What? There’s actually secondary-grade Star Spirit Stones?” Lu Yu was taken aback. He had thought that seizing the Star Spirit Stone mine would be enough, but there were actually secondary-grade stones. Could it be there’s a secondary-level mine as well?

At this moment, Station One stepped forward and said, “Actually, the grade-two stellar spirit stones are located beneath the mine. This mine is very deep, and digging downward will yield grade-two stellar spirit stones. Moreover, sometimes grade-two stellar spirit stones can also appear on the mine’s surface, although that is quite rare.”

As he spoke, Number One pointed at the pit they had dug, which was more than ten meters wide and several meters high, and said, “We’ve been digging downward all along; we should be about to reach it soon.”

Lu Yu asked, “What is the use of a Grade Two Star Spirit Stone?”

After asking, he felt like he was going crazy with impatience.

If there is a level-one skill, there must be a level-two skill as well. Therefore, the level-two Star Spirit Stones are certainly used for combining into level-two Star Soldiers and for upgrading purposes.

“Secondary-grade Star Spirit Stones can cause monsters to evolve!” Number One spoke up, and the answer he gave truly shocked Lu Yu.

“Evolve the monster?” Lu Yu didn’t expect the魔猿 to give such an answer.

He recalled when he first met the魔人猿, who had told him how important the Star Spirit Stone ore was to them.

He guessed that the Star Spirit Stone must have a very important role for the monsters!

It can evolve monsters—

Lu Yu frowned.

If that’s the case, perhaps in the future, not only humans but even monsters will launch attacks on this place.

Number One continued, “For魔猿, star crystals are food. From what I remember, many level-one monsters require large quantities of star crystals to evolve to level two. Once adult monsters reach the peak of level one, they need level-two star crystals to advance to level two!”

“I understand now!” Since no monsters have reached the first level limit yet, the mine is still safe for now.

When a monster reaches the limit of level one, that’s probably when big troubles will come.

However, he couldn’t afford to worry about that anymore.

Provided that nothing unexpected happens today, Liu Heng will take action.

Lu Yu handed the Soul Gathering Hand to Xiao Xiao for safekeeping and then took out the Blood Ignition Blade.

He put on the black tracksuit. During the day, he could only cover his face, leaving only his eyes exposed.

“Warning, the territory in the southeast direction is under attack; defense towers are initiating automatic counterattacks!”

“Here I come!”

Lu Yu’s eyes turned cold, and a chilling killing intent began to spread from his icy gaze.

“Warning, the northern territory is under attack.”

“Warning, the territory in the northeast direction is under attack!”

One warning after another flashed through Lu Yu’s mind.

“Under attack, lost ten points of health.”

“Under attack, lost ten hit points.”

Lu Yu couldn’t calculate how many people were attacking.

Instantly, more than 400 points of health vanished!

“Field automatic recovery activated, restoring 100 hit points!”

“…”

“Wait here. If anyone rushes into the mine, you run,” Lu Yu said seriously, glancing at Xiaoxiao.

“No, I won’t leave,” Xiaoxiao seemed to realize what was about to happen. Shaking her head stubbornly, she insisted, “I won’t leave. I want to fight alongside you!”

“If you stay here alone, there’s nothing you can do.” Lu Yu patted Xiao Xiao’s head seriously and said, “Even if you have the Fire Dragon regeneration ability, it can only save you once. What will you do if your domain is broken?”

“I, I’ll go with you,” Xiaoxiao replied without hesitation, her tone serious.

“I don’t have time to protect you,” Lu Yu said seriously. “Remember, you still owe me many Star Spirit Pearls. Until you’ve repaid them all, you must obey me. If anyone enters the mine, you must leave!”

Xiao Xiao, with tears welling up in her eyes, kept nodding.

“Damn it, I’m not going to die, why are you crying?” Lu Yu shouted angrily, “If I do die, it’s because you cursed me to death.”

As he spoke, Lu Yu forcefully placed the Soul Gathering Hand into Xiaoxiao’s palm, impatiently saying, “Take it. When I come back, return it to me.”

In just a few sentences, the health points of the defensive tower had already dropped by more than 3,000.

Even five million hit points wouldn’t last for long.

“Old man Liu, I didn’t go on a killing spree last time, but don’t you dare think I’m afraid of spilling blood.” Lu Yu strapped all the Star Spirit Beads and mutated Star Spirit Beads onto his body.

More than three thousand Star Spirit Beads, and over two hundred mutated Star Spirit Beads!

This time, Lu Yu would fight until these people were completely terrified.

Liu Heng arrived at the area near the stadium with all his troops. Excluding the soldiers who had died in the past two days of battle, there were still more than 980 soldiers remaining.

The ordinary people at the camp were unwilling to join. They were still hesitant, fearing that if the attack failed and provoked the wrath of the mysterious figure, they would never obtain any more star spirit stones in the future.

But Liu Heng would not hesitate.

He needed the mine, and then gradually controlled the city through the mine.

United with the other two camps and the Blood Eyes, a total of three thousand fighters surrounded the mine.

Lu Yu silently infiltrated the mine at dawn, then surrounded it.

Three thousand people are enough to trap and kill one person.

However, Liu Heng never expected that a thousand meters away from the Star Spirit Mine, an invisible barrier would block his path.

“Attack!”

Liu Heng issued an order!

This is the decisiveness of a leader.

Some things, once done, leave no room for regret.

Since the attack has already begun, we must give it our all!

When the swords and blades struck the invisible barrier, the crystals hovering behind the barrier suddenly emitted beams of crimson light.

Anyone struck by the beam was pierced through their body in an instant.

Each crystal emitted two beams of light per second, and with four crystals, eight people fell to the ground in an instant.

“What’s going on here? This wasn’t here before—when did it appear?” A soldier beside Liu Heng was first taken aback, then immediately gave orders to drag the wounded back and for the others to avoid attacking the light.

“It’s indeed wise to act again. That person has already set up such defenses outside the mine. But obviously, the defenses are not enough; given some time, we can definitely break through them.” Liu Heng said seriously, “However, if we wait a few more days, it might become even harder to breach the defenses.”

The officer beside Liu Heng, clearly somewhat uneasy, said, “Mr. Liu, was this action a bit too hasty this time?”

Liu Heng waved his hand and stared at the location of the mine, saying, “Now that we’ve already taken action, there’s no turning back. Either we capture that person, or I will die.”

Between their conversation, Liu Heng caught sight of a figure approaching near the mine.

“Here we go,” Liu Heng’s heart tightened as he felt his gaze fixed upon by those eyes, involuntarily causing his hair to stand on end.

“Xing Liu, since you’ve come here to die, I’ll be happy to oblige you,” Lu Yu growled in a low, hoarse voice.

He didn’t stop at all; while running, he had already crushed the large Star Spirit Pearl in his palm.

One by one, wolf-like shadows surged out of his body. Dozens of these wolf-like shadows, resembling a pack of running wolves, charged towards the crowd outside the domain.

“Get out of here if you don’t want to die!” Lu Yu roared like a madman commanding the wolf pack, closely following behind the wolves.