Chapter 673: Advancement

The bald giant was daydreaming about the future when he would dominate the world.

A companion kept urging the bald man to hurry up and reveal what the skill was.

A group of people gathered together, chatting and occasionally bursting into laughter.

It was like the most ordinary conversation during a break in the battle, happening in every corner of the defensive line.

When Liu Da Nao’s food fell to the ground, after his companion suppressed half of a laugh, all the sounds disappeared.

The person who just walked past them looked so familiar.

The bald giant stammered, “Lu, Lu Yu!”

He thought he had seen it wrong.

How could such an important figure, who usually guards a region, come here?

He didn’t know Lu Yu at all.

But there was one time when he went to Fanggang to complete a mission, he personally witnessed Fanggang’s big boss, Liu Xing, showing utmost respect to a certain individual.

At that moment, the bald man was overwhelmed with emotions, shocked to the point of standing still in place.

Nowadays, everyone in the world knows that the best shops are in Fangang, where every item sold is a treasure and of the highest quality.

Liu Xing is merely an ordinary person; his current strength is such that even a random child around ten years old could easily engage him in over a dozen rounds of combat.

Yet it was an ordinary man like this who possessed a fortune rivaling that of an entire nation.

Even the leaders of various major organizations, upon arriving at Fanggang, had to show utmost respect to Liu Xing. The bald man had seen Liu Xing repeatedly and decisively reject requests from the Chinese military and even some top leaders from different countries, and those people didn’t dare to get angry at all.

Liu Xing had never bowed his head before anyone.

He had never seen anyone who could make Liu Xing bow his head in submission before.

When Liu Xing addressed the man as “Mr. Lu,” the bald, burly man finally realized who was standing before him.

From then on, the Han people remembered Lu Yu’s appearance.

He didn’t expect to see Lu Yu here.

Someone who had participated in the Dragon Clan’s trial and had seen Lu Yu before could no longer contain himself. He stood up and exclaimed, “Lu Yu, it’s really Lu Yu!”

“My eyes aren’t playing tricks on me, right?”

“Oh my God, is that real?”

“Why is Mr. Lu here?”

Important figures rarely come here.

Several people stood up, staring intently at Lu Yu’s retreating figure.

If powerful figures from the Han military or various major organizations come here, they usually take up residence to prevent the defensive line from being breached.

There were several times when the defensive line was on the verge of collapse before these people finally took action.

Normally, they just stay in the background without moving, like a group of big shots.

This defensive line has now become a battleground where various factions test their strength.

Even some foreign organizations have sent representatives here.

But someone like Lu Yu never comes here.

What a day today is!

Everyone was stunned, feeling that something was not quite right.

At this moment, not only this group of people but many more individuals saw Lu Yu as well.

They all stopped what they were doing and turned their eyes toward Lu Yu.

Considering Lu Yu’s strength, coming here seems to be of little use.

But it seemed that Lu Yu was about to enter the tide of beasts.

“What does he want to do?”

Many people felt puzzled.

Lu Yu walked up to the defensive line, where the tide of beasts never ceased. The creatures surged forward in waves, layer upon layer, like a sea crashing against the defenses. The air was thick with the stench of blood.

The beast is just a beast.

Some were devouring the corpses of dead wild beasts on the ground, while others, disregarding the lives and deaths of their companions, trampled over them to charge toward the city wall.

Humans along a defensive line saw Lu Yu and instinctively hesitated, their weapons pausing in mid-air.

They saw Lu Yu cross the defensive line and in one step reach thousands of meters above the swarm of beasts.

“Roar!”

The beasts in the monstrous tide spotted Lu Yu, and they all leaped up, rushing toward him as if launching a fierce attack from the sky.

Lu Yu was surrounded by thousands of wild beasts.

In the sky, countless beasts gathered together, forming a black sphere over one hundred meters in diameter.

Suddenly—

Evil energy surged out from the black orb, followed by a deafening dragon roar that erupted from within the orb, tearing the black orb apart.

Roars of dragons shook the heavens and earth, spreading thousands of meters outward, causing humans along the defensive line to spit blood from the sheer force of the shock.

This is merely the roar of the dragon more than ten times!

The person on the defensive line kept retreating in terror, their mind racing and expression filled with dread.

The black ball shattered.

One by one, the beasts didn’t even need to be attacked; the mere sound of the dragon’s roar shattered them into sprays of blood.

Hum.

Infinite demonic energy surged out from the center of the black sphere.

These malevolent energies devoured the blood rain and shattered flesh. In an instant, the blood rain transformed into ashes, scattering into the sky in all directions.

At the same time, the dragon’s roar crashed down like a tsunami toward the heavens and earth.

Some of the wild beasts on the ground had just leaped up when they were lifted and shattered to pieces by the dragon’s roar.

Then the dragon’s roar landed, and the sound waves crushed hundreds of meters of beasts as if turning them into a giant millstone.

The sound waves fell to the ground and spread in all directions, and any beast caught in their path was crushed to pieces.

Everyone who could see it along the border defense line miles away was stunned.

They were all stunned and even frightened out of their wits.

The power contained within those dragon roars has already exceeded ten thousand cultivators.

And that was merely a howl.

Sound waves swept across the land with a diameter of thousands of meters, leaving no one alive. Blood rain fell endlessly, and countless beasts were shattered by the shockwaves.

The damage caused was actually just sound waves.

“How could this happen!”

“Heaven, this is Lu Yu’s power!”

“They say Lu Yu’s attack range is unparalleled in the world, but this… this is just too terrifying.”

Eyes widened in amazement.

Many warriors are confident and strong.

But even now, I can’t claim to be strong.

Because even a single sweep of the dragon’s roar would be enough to instantly kill them.

Is the power of the King Without a Crown really this terrifying?

An endless sea of demonic energy rapidly expanded, enveloping the land within thousands of meters. The blood and life essence from the shattered beast bodies were completely devoured.

“Au.”

The distant beast charged wildly into the demonic aura as if it had gone mad.

They charged without any reason, merely to crush the enemy before them.

“Roar!”

A dragon’s roar rose again from the demonic aura, followed by the emergence of more than ten colossal dragons.

The dragon bodies vary in form, each stretching thousands of zhang in length.

What astonished the people at the defensive line the most was that the aura of each dragon surpassed that of ten thousand cultivators.

Someone stammered, “More, more than twenty thousand statues. These dragons’ power… could it actually be equal to Lu Yu’s?”

Many soldiers plopped down on the city wall, unable to even lift their weapons anymore.

What kind of power is this, and whose might is this!

One Lu Yu is already quite terrifying.

What would be the outcome if we added these dozen or so dragons, each matching Lu Yu’s strength?

The colossal dragon’s body soared through the air, its aura suppressing the land. All beasts with power below fifty thousand realms were forced to the ground, unable to lift their heads.

Lu Yu didn’t even move his hands; these dragons alone were enough to instantly obliterate everything around them.

The soldiers either had no chance to even raise their weapons.

Since all the beasts in a stretch of the city wall over ten miles long had completely turned their attention toward Lu Yu, not a single creature paid any heed to the humans on the city wall.

The beast lunged forward—

One dragon mouth after another tore countless beasts into pieces.

More than ten dragon-like monsters surged towards the ground.

At the same time, demonic energy spread from Lu Yu’s body, quickly expanding further. Within tens of miles, the land was submerged in this malevolent aura. The blood and life force from the dead beasts were rapidly devoured by the demonic energy.

Then more beasts rushed in.

“Roar.”

More than ten giant dragons surged into the herd, their massive bodies rolling and twisting. Wherever they swept through, tens of thousands of beasts were crushed into blood-soaked pulp.

The defensive line was already filled with people.

They could no longer see clearly who the person was within the demonic aura; just a faint silhouette from behind was already exerting immense pressure upon them.

More than one hundred thousand beasts surged into the malevolent energy in the span of a single breath.

In the span of a single breath, all these beasts were killed by the shockwave of the dragon’s aura.

The defensive line had already fallen silent, and everyone had forgotten that this was a battlefield.

They not only saw the giant dragon, but also sensed, within the magical aura, over a hundred incredibly powerful dragon presences, as if sealed away.

The back area was already in an uproar.

It’s quite rare for someone of Lu Yu’s stature to suddenly appear at the front lines.

Especially Lu Yu, who silently walked into the tide of beasts, which was even more unusual.

They didn’t have time to think too much.

The mere deterrent effect that Lu Yu was creating now had already brought their minds to a standstill.

After a long while, someone finally inhaled deeply and said, “Lu Yu’s attack range is truly unparalleled. If I could have just half of that power, I would be completely satisfied.”

“With the power of the King Without a Crown combined with such a massive area attack skill, he alone could destroy an entire city.”

At this moment, someone scoffed, “Do you really think that’s the true power of Lu Yu? If so, you’re gravely mistaken. Wait until you’ve truly witnessed it before making your judgment.”

Everyone looked at the speaker in surprise and said, “Friend, what do you mean? Have you seen Lu Yu unleash even more powerful and widespread destruction?”

The disdainful man said, “Have you all heard about Lu Yu single-handedly attacking the Holy City of the Yi Ren Clan a few years ago?”

“This—”

Everyone recalled the rumors from a few years ago, knowing that back then Lu Yu had been crazy enough to single-handedly storm the Holy City of the Yiren race, forcing them to even deploy the Dragon King’s War Bone.

Even then, people only began to realize that the Inhuman city of Attilan was merely a guardian outpost along the path to the true royal city of the Inhumans.

That day, Lu Yu used a Star Artifact. With a combat strength of seventy to eighty thousand, he activated the Star Artifact. You wouldn’t understand how terrifying that strike was unless you had seen it yourself. To put it this way, if that activated Star Artifact had struck this land, it could have killed a million beasts in a single blow.

This —

Many people widened their eyes in disbelief, staring at the demonic aura.

“Roar——”

Just as the immense demonic energy surged, a dragon’s roar echoed forth. Within the demonic energy, it seemed as though a seal had shattered, unleashing a violent and frenzied dragon.

This is a silver dragon; the moment it appeared, its aura already shattered the limit of two hundred thousand.

The demonic energy surged even more violently and fiercely.

People only came to their senses at this moment.

They finally understood why Lu Yu had come here.

Lu Yu was cultivating by using the endless lives of the beasts here.

Here, there are endless waves of beasts and countless lives.

Their strength was being devoured by Lu Yu’s demonic energy, which was then channeled to enhance the dragon clan’s essence within the demonic aura, using this method to evolve.

Lu Yu alone is now holding a defense line stretching for dozens of miles, and he is even pushing the beast tide here backward.

“Au.”

The beast was blocked and even forced backward under the pressure.

The beasts’ instincts drove them to focus their fury on Lu Yu.

Boom. Boom.

In an instant, all the beasts along the border of Huaxia turned their heads and charged toward Lu Yu.

Others along the border defenses were still unaware of Lu Yu’s arrival, so when they saw the tide of beasts suddenly surging in one direction, they were all astonished.

“What’s wrong?”

“What exactly happened?”

Many people still don’t understand what’s going on.

But soon they all understood what had happened here.

Lu Yu is using the endless tide of beasts here to cultivate.

When the endless tide of beasts had not yet gathered toward one side, people did not feel their vastness.

And when they now gathered in one direction, this terrifying tide of beasts became immediately and dreadfully overwhelming.

A dark, surging mass of beasts pressed together, layer upon layer, forming a towering wave dozens of meters high, steadily advancing forward.

The wave surged to its peak, and the beast at the very top fell down to the ground. Then, the beasts behind climbed onto the crest of the wave and continued pressing forward.

Such a scene is not only magnificent but also extremely stressful, leaving people breathless as they watch.

Moreover, this time more than 500,000 beasts surged into the demonic aura.

A fivefold increase in quantity, enough to make anyone’s scalp tingle with shock.

But as soon as the beast rushed into the monster’s lair, it fell silent.

The狂舞 of the魔龙is even more intense than the beast tide.

The moment half a million beasts entered, they were instantly shattered by the tremors from over a dozen dragon-like monsters.

Someone witnessed all this and paled, saying, “People say this defense line is a meat grinder, but in my opinion, Lu Yu is the real meat grinder. With him there, a single person could hold this defense line.”

“With such a terrifying attack range, if the tidal wave of the apocalypse breaks out, who could possibly make it through?”

They watched helplessly as an endless swarm of beasts lunged toward Lu Yu, and in an instant, hundreds of thousands of them vanished.

“Roar!”

It was as if another seal had shattered within the demonic aura, giving birth to a new Dragon King of Darkness.

If you were to look from a satellite, you could see dozens of enormous black holes crawling out of the beast in India.

These beasts were endless, as if receiving orders, and the moment they rushed out, they scattered in all directions.

These rushed toward the Huaxia region in the largest numbers.

Every second, more than a million beasts crawled out from the black hole, and over half a million of them surged toward Huaxia.

Nowadays, the rate at which these beasts emerge is barely keeping up with Lu Yu’s killing speed.

Lu Yu didn’t even flinch; he stood still as the Dragon King could slay tens of thousands of beasts every second, or even more.

No one could calculate exactly how many people Lu Yu had killed.

They simply noticed that another surge of demonic energy was about to erupt within the existing demonic aura.

From night to day, and then from day to night, a new Dragon of Darkness is born at regular intervals.

However, within the demonic aura, they also sensed fourteen extremely powerful presences continuously expanding, like black holes devouring vitality, yet none of them had been born.

“Accumulate Transformation Power: Four! You now possess enough transformation power to evolve four half-star artifacts into full star artifacts!”

Lu Yu heard a voice by his ear, and words were flashing before his eyes.

“That’s too little,” Lu Yu whispered softly, swiping away the words in front of his eyes.

He can now transform up to ten half-star artifacts at most.

But he had everything ready, only to find out that the materials were missing.