Chapter 757: The Living Dead

Lu Yu stood on what was no longer really a rooftop, speaking with a chilling intent that pierced to the bone, “What? There’s still someone inside?”

Indeed, many people around the streets have remarkably sharp perceptions, yet they are completely unable to sense any human presence within the buildings.

Some people still haven’t come out; this hiding spot is too well-concealed.

At this moment, everyone heard a faint coughing sound coming from inside the building.

This is indeed a human coughing sound.

They were greatly surprised, never expecting that there was actually someone inside!

But the group still couldn’t sense any human presence.

“What’s going on here?”

“Who else could possibly conceal their presence to the point of being completely undetectable?”

“Lu Yu is so amazing, he can sense things like this too?”

A person inside the building, completely surrounded by a radiant glow, struggled to climb out through a hole in the rooftop.

He was very thin and frail, with a sallow complexion, as if a gust of wind could knock him down at any moment.

As soon as the man stepped out, a gust of wind blew toward him, and he immediately covered his mouth and began coughing.

“It’s him!”

Everyone then realized that many people living in Qin City had seen this person before.

Qin Shan, a completely ordinary person without any star soul.

Someone remarked, “So it’s him. That makes sense. He’s Qin Hai’s cousin, Qin Shan. He was born before the apocalypse, and his health has always been poor.”

“I heard that at the moment the apocalypse arrived, Qinshan was about to die. It was the change in the apocalyptic attributes that saved his life. So now, he’s completely a living corpse.”

“Yeah, I’ve heard about this person too, and I’ve even seen him with my own eyes. He seems to lack a Star Soul, and I heard his power is stuck at level one, unable to advance any further.”

“In a world like this, someone like him would have died long ago without the protection of the Qin family. It’s only normal if you can’t sense his presence.”

People were talking about it, feeling that Lu Yu had gone too far.

“Without even presenting any evidence, Lu Yu wiped out the entire Qin family. Now, are you going to kill even a sick person?”

Many people looked at Qin Shan with sympathy, wondering how Lu Yu would handle the situation. Qin Shan stood in front of Lu Yu, coughing and trembling as he begged for mercy, “M-Mr. Lu, I don’t know anything. I’m just an ordinary person. Please, don’t kill me.”

Lu Yu looked at Qin Shan coldly and said, “Don’t pretend. In this entire city, all the members of the Qin family combined are not as powerful as you alone.”

“No, no, Mr. Lu, I can’t do anything. I’m just a Level 1 ordinary person,” Qin Shan stammered, “Mr. Lu, I beg you, please let me go.”

Qin Shan knelt down, his head thumping repeatedly on the ground—bang, bang, bang. His lips began to tremble, his eyes turned red, and he shouted, “Mr. Lu, I beg you, I’m just an ordinary person. Even if everyone from the Qin family has done wrong, I haven’t done anything. I beg you, please let me go.”

Everyone around could not bear to watch anymore.

Some people were even secretly indignant, muttering, “Who do you think you’re kidding? Would Lu Yu actually target someone like this?”

“Could Lu Yu actually be insane? This is the weakest member of the Qin family. The strongest ones are those three who have initially mastered the King’s Skills. But they aren’t in this city. How come Qin Shan has become the strongest one here?”

“I’ve seen Qin Shan; he was taken out for a walk by his family when he was nearly killed by a common Grade Two beast in the wild. To call the weakest one the strongest… Lu Yu…”

People became fearful.

If Lu Yu really loses his temper and starts distorting facts.

The apocalypse tide doesn’t need to come; this world could plunge into darkness and chaos because of him.

Qin Shan kept kowtowing, causing the radiant light around him to tremble incessantly. The ground where his head touched was even indented into a small pit.

Lu Yu looked at Qin Shan and said, “I really admire you. Even in this situation, you remain so calm while hiding yourself shamelessly without regard for dignity. Do you really think I believe you? Qin Shan, wasn’t it you who killed that British soldier who possessed the prototype of the King-Making Skill? The prototype of that skill is now within you—do you think I don’t know?”

“Mr. Lu, this is fake. Who told you that? It’s all a scam. I’m only at level one, how could I possibly kill someone so powerful?”

“I’ll grant your wish to die on your knees!” Lu Yu strode forward, his Divine Blade fragment erupting with countless sword beams that shot toward Qin Shan like a storm of light.

Lu Yu showed no mercy.

He came here to kill people, so no one could be left alive.

With Lu Yu’s strike, the Divine Edge fragment completely disintegrated.

The starry lights gradually faded away in the sky.

It represents that this fragment has consumed all of its energy.

The power of forty myriads of stars driving the stellar artifact has already reached about one-tenth of the artifact’s total potential.

Such a force pressed down from the sky, faster than one could imagine.

In the blink of an eye, everyone saw the sword light envelop Qin Shan.

That frail, small figure within the sword’s glow appeared so insignificant that it seemed as if in the next moment, Qianshan would turn into a blood-soaked mess.

“Done for.”

Many people did not retreat.

They looked at Lu Yu as if he were a demon.

Lu Yu had already cast aside all rules and disregarded morality, ready to unleash a massacre.

Lu Yu lost his mind.

Many people are rapidly regressing; this message must be conveyed to all companions.

Vroom!

The sword light surged like the sea, completely submerging Qin Mountain.

“Ahh!” Qingshan screamed, his cry resembling the agony of being slowly cut by a sword’s glow.

Boom!

They saw the sword light tear open a rift, and Qinshan vanished.

Even without blinking, everyone’s eyes witnessed Mount Qin suddenly vanishing from the world in an instant.

“What? What’s going on here?”

“Qin Mountain has vanished, but he is not dead.”

Boom!

Less than half a foot in front of Lu Yu, a sword beam pierced through the air from nowhere, its tip as cold and menacing as the fang of a venomous snake.

In the breath of the crowd, the sword tip came to rest at Lu Yu’s forehead.

A dazzling beam of light erupted from the tip of the sword, piercing through Lu Yu’s forehead and exiting from the back of his head.

At this moment, the sword’s master emerged from the void.

The emaciated Qin Shan wore an icy expression, his formidable aura already surpassing that of a Supreme Being.

Several King Venerates around felt a bone-piercing cold.

The sudden change left countless people shocked and stunned.

No one living on the land of the Qin clan was unaware of Qin Shan’s frailty; they had long accepted the presence of the weakest and most delicate person among them.

But in an instant, Qin Shan became a powerful cultivator capable of killing even Lu Yu with a single sword strike.

“This…”

Everyone around stood in stunned silence, completely unable to react.

Qin Shan’s sword pierced through Lu Yu’s forehead, and then suddenly transformed, unleashing a fluctuating regal aura from his body.

Boom!

Qin Shan’s sword moved again, and as he thrust forward, a cyan serpent’s shadow coiled around the blade, aiming straight at Lu Yu’s heart.

Bang!

Lu Yu moved. With a flick of his hand, he seized Qin Shan’s sword in one swift motion.

Qin Shan was incredibly fast; with a simple flip of his hand, he had already drawn his sword.

Lu Yu dashed forward with a quick step and threw a punch.

A powerful fist strike directly hit Qin Shan’s chest, with all his strength surging forth. In a single punch, the radiance surrounding Qin Shan was shattered.

Then another fist shot out like lightning, striking straight down on Qin Shan’s chest.

Qin Shan’s figure flickered slightly, absorbing the full force of the punch without even a hint of a furrowed brow. With a swift turn of his sword, he slashed across Lu Yu’s chest.

A sword scar cut through the bone, nearly splitting Lu Yu in half.

A cyan serpent’s shadow darted into Lu Yu’s body from the wound.

Lu Yu was even more ruthless. Without even glancing at the wound on his chest, he changed his fist into a claw and struck directly at Qin Shan’s shoulder.

Snap.

Lu Yu’s claw ripped off Qin Shan’s left arm.

In a flash of lightning and sparks, the two sides engaged in a swift confrontation, leaving people around them barely enough time to catch their breath.

They stared fixedly at Qin Shan. This ordinary person, who had just reached level one, actually possessed the King’s Might.

Moreover, he actually still had the ability to confront Lu Yu.

At this point, both sides retreated.

The flesh and blood on Qin Shan’s arm was reorganizing.

Lu Yu’s wound on his chest did not close; instead, two bluish snake-like shadows clung to the skin on either side of the injury, actually gnawing at the flesh around the wound. In an instant, the original sword slash transformed into a gaping wound, one foot long and three inches wide.

Lu Yu’s injuries were not limited to the skin; countless tiny snake-like creatures, resembling flesh-eating worms, were devouring his bones and internal organs. Even the bones and organs in his chest had been gnawed away in chunks.

Amidst the distant crowd, someone suddenly shouted, “This is the prototype of the Warrior King skill from the British military’s soldier—I’ve seen it before, the Ten Thousand Snake Devouring Body! It must be the Ten Thousand Snake Devouring Body, there’s no doubt about it, absolutely no doubt.”

After this person let out a strange scream, many people around them immediately cried out in alarm as well.

Because they had also seen this skill, and some people had heard of it before.

This was the skill of that British military man, and that man is already dead—killed by the hunter.

In other words—

Qin Mountain is truly a hunter.

In an instant, the streets all around were in an uproar.

Only then did they believe that the weakest member of the Qin family was actually the hunter!

How could they possibly still not believe now?

Qin Shan is more than just a hunter. Based on those few sword strikes just now, what Lu Yu said is indeed correct—within this city, the strongest person in the Qin family isn’t those Wang Zun figures, but rather Qin Shan.

“What good will knowing this do for you!” Qín Shān said in a dark voice: “In any case, Lu Yu has already destroyed our Qín clan. With just over a year until the Apocalypse Tide arrives, at worst, I’ll just go into hiding and wait. But Lu Yu, you’re ruthless—destroying my family. Today, I will definitely kill you.”

“Relying solely on your Myriad Snake Devouring Body!”

Lu Yu glanced at the wound on his chest, which was growing larger, and said, “The British military has offered a generous price for your head. So even if you wanted to leave today, you won’t get the chance.”

As Lu Yu spoke, the countless blue snake-like shadows around the wound suddenly twisted and turned into black smoke, one after another.

At the same time, the wound on Lu Yu’s chest had also healed.

“Either you kill me, or I kill you. But if you think you can capture me alive, you’re not strong enough!”

Lu Yu’s fighting spirit shook the heavens. He took a bold step forward and declared, “Then let’s see.”

“Alright, let’s see.” Qin Shan raised his sword and gave it a shake; his figure became a blur as he dashed toward Lu Yu, stabbing with a swift sword thrust.

Hum.

The sword trembled in midair, transforming from one blade into countless thousands.

“Too weak.” Lu Yu scoffed, raising his hand disdainfully. A cold, sharp light enveloped his arm as he reached into the sword’s shadow.

Bang!

Lu Yu’s arm exploded with power, shattering the myriad sword shadows.

Before Qin Shan could react, Lu Yu’s arm pierced through his chest.

“What?” Qin Shan’s pupils contracted sharply as he took a big step backward.

There was a transparent hole in his chest.

“I didn’t say I needed to capture you alive. I can just kill you and then bring you back to life,” Lu Yu replied coldly.