A thousand King-level bodies, along with trillions of Star Spirit Stones, Star Spirit Beads, and mutated Star Spirit Beads.
So much was thrown into the divine system that Lu Yu once again found himself pulled into that abyss of darkness.
Lu Yu discovered that the more advanced the system, the fewer choices were available.
Among the celestial systems, only three options are available.
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The first option is the random selection—choosing this will randomly draw one item from the Wang Zun system.
The second one is a skill fragment known as “Strengthening the Muscles and Bones.” Only by collecting all seven parts of the skill fragments can one obtain the complete attributes of the skill.
The third is called Skill Enhancement—specify a skill, which can gain a certain chance of improvement. The exact probability of enhancement is random.
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Lu Yu thought for a moment and chose the third option.
The first one relies too much on luck. The second one requires consuming seven chances and still may not be completed.
As for the third one, since there is no specified ability to improve, it means that all abilities can be enhanced.
Then the only one Lu Yu needed to promote was — the Venom Dragon King!
Lu Yu’s most primary and terrifying ability over the years has been his toxicity, which remains the only skill he has never shared with anyone else to this day.
In the Stone City, he had already improved a lot.
Moreover, inside, he only remembered that he had received a large number of Poison Dragon Fruits, and eventually consumed all of them.
As a result, the more one progresses, the more Poison Dragon Fruits one needs to consume, and the effects become increasingly less noticeable.
And this skill enhancement option is now his best choice.
Lu Yu hesitated for a moment before selecting the third option.
Immediately after the third option, all of his skills were listed.
When Lu Yu chose to enhance the Poison Dragon King’s attributes, he did not receive any提示 indicating restrictions.
This made his heart leap with joy, proving that this option imposed no restrictions on skills.
The section of the text describing the power of the Poison Dragon King began to blur and then changed.
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Explanation – The poison of the Toxic Dragon King has become incurable. Its effect evolves with the enhancement of the owner’s power, ultimately reaching the point where any living being that comes into contact with it dies instantly. This incurable poison has now evolved into something akin to a weapon. It is now capable of destroying star artifacts and their abilities.
Special Ability: Toxic Barrier — Your blood seeps into the ground, allowing toxicity to grow and eventually transform into a wall of poison. When multiple poison walls connect, they form a toxic barrier that envelops the land. Any living being that comes into contact with this toxic barrier will be corroded by the poisonous gas. The result of failing to withstand this corrosion means the end of life. The strength of the toxicity determines the power of the toxic barrier. For every 100,000 units of strength you possess, a toxic humanoid made entirely of poison will emerge within the barrier.
Special Ability: Poison King’s Body — Your body is composed of poison, and any object you come into contact with will be permanently poisoned.
Whether it be rocks, air, or weapons, all will become poisoned and unstoppable.
Caution—your poison is no longer merely destructive. When a weapon is smeared with your blood, your toxic power will seep into the weapon, transforming it into a venomous weapon.
Special Ability: Poison the Land — You are the King of Poison, exuding an aura of supremacy as you traverse the world. Wherever you walk, the land will forever be shrouded in poison.
Congratulations, mighty warrior. You have become a Wang Zun, one of the most supreme combatants of this era. Every step you take poisons even the void itself. Any place you tread, both earth and sky will become a realm of poison, an everlasting corruption that will never fade. Your power is that of a Wang Zun, and your toxic influence spans a radius of a thousand zhang. This means that with every step you take, the land within a thousand zhang diameter will be completely poisoned.
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The Poison King’s power has been enhanced once again.
This is already more than just corroding half-star artifacts; now, his poison can also inflict some damage on star artifacts.
“Even the ability of the Star Connector can be corroded and destroyed?” Lu Yu found it hard to believe.
What’s surprising him now isn’t just the enhancement of the toxicity.
If his blood gets on a weapon, can it turn the weapon into a poisoned one?
Lu Yu’s eyes narrowed as he calculated how this ability could benefit him.
Finally, he burst into hearty laughter.
As for poisoning the land, that had already reached the limit of his current level.
A toxicity range of thousands of zhang; with a single step, the poison spreads across a diameter of nearly 3,300 meters.
This is equivalent to taking another step forward, which would result in an area larger than several connected large football fields being poisoned.
Lu Yu was very satisfied with this promotion.
He was instantly transported out of the Celestial System and immediately began checking what remained on him.
“King Zun’s corpse is no longer sufficient. There are still around ten trillion Star Spirit Stones and Star Spirit Pearls left. That means, at this stage, we cannot enter the King Zun system anymore.”
Lu Yu murmured to himself while organizing the items in his storage space.
In fact, during this period, there were no beasts to hunt, and the only system everyone could access was the Heavenly God System.
In Fanggang and other places, anyone with sufficient strength has started to invest all their possessions into the Celestial God System, hoping to randomly obtain top-grade items from it.
When people finally have some free time, they realize how quickly time passes.
The doomsday tide countdown soon had only six months remaining.
Six months is a period of time that is neither too long nor too short.
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“Warriors on the battlefield, congratulations to you all. Each of you will have an opportunity to enhance your strength. The amount of enhancement will be random, with a minimum of one Zun and a maximum of ten thousand Zun. If your strength reaches ten thousand Zun, you will have a certain chance to increase your strength limit to twenty thousand Zun. This reward does not apply to Wang Zun and Wang.”
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A voice echoed through the sky. With only half a year remaining until the apocalypse, it had actually given them such a choice.
Everyone was so delighted that they burst into joyful exclamations.
The war hasn’t even started yet. Is this the gift prepared for them?
No one would refuse something that is given away for free.
What attributes can be unlocked is purely a matter of luck.
Lu Yu is Wang Zun, and such matters have nothing to do with him.
Lu Yu began organizing the materials for his star artifacts.
The complete method for manufacturing star artifacts, obtained from the City Lord of Stone City, was not forgotten.
After discussing this method with Kun, Lu Yu confirmed that the manufacturing technique of this star device could be expanded.
Forty star artifacts and one controller – this is the limit of what this method can utilize.
Moreover, controlling forty star artifacts all by oneself is something that has never happened before.
To refine such a vast number of star artifacts, the sheer consumption of resources and time alone would be beyond what an ordinary person could endure.
Lu Yu and Fanggang were both preparing for the final tidal apocalypse.
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The countdown to the end of the world has three months left—
Barriers began to rise in all major cities.
Now, they could also feel the war approaching them.
“No one could predict just how terrifying the first wave of the true apocalypse tide would be.”
Many people were talking to themselves.
People who were away are gradually returning to their respective cities.
Groups of food-gathering troops also began to return to the city.
There’s no more transmission. If they don’t want to be overwhelmed by the beast herds in the wilderness when the apocalypse tide arrives, they must start heading back to the city now.
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The countdown to the apocalypse tide has two months remaining — in the center of ruined cities, where massive sinkholes have formed, earth-shattering beast roars begin to emerge. These roars never cease; from night to day, they only grow louder and louder.
These cities were formed after the void left by the excavation of the Starling Mines. The beasts that originally inhabited the sinkholes vanished completely.
Now, these beasts seem to be coming back to life.
Lu Yu appeared beneath the Blood Tower in the city. He sensed unusual activity coming from below the tower.
The Blood Tower now stands between the second domains. When Lu Yu entered the underground cave beneath the Blood Tower, blood patterns began to emerge on the altar within the cave. It seemed as though blood was flowing outward from within the bloodline; the red liquid had already started spreading from the altar to the surrounding areas.
Lu Yu sat cross-legged above the altar, sensing the aura emanating from beneath it.
After several days and nights, Lu Yu opened his eyes and stared in shock at the altar.
Beneath this altar actually lies a nest in slumber. He could not sense exactly how many lives dwell within this nest, but he knew his perception would not deceive him.
The nest beneath this altar is filled with cruelty and bloodshed.
The one sealed beneath this altar is certainly not a righteous person; rather, it should be a complete member of the demonic race.
Or—there is a king beneath!
Lu Yu certainly didn’t want such a ticking time bomb in his city.
He tried to move the altar and found that it was very deep, like the shell of a sealed space, piercing deep into the earth’s crust.
No matter how Lu Yu shook, he could not move the altar even slightly.
Lu Yu even summoned the King of the Undead, who also exerted his full strength, yet was still unable to move the altar.
“It seems it should have remained here all along and never been moved,” said the Undying King, stroking the metal pillar. “What do you intend to do with this thing? I can sense it—there’s a king sealed within, along with many terrifying presences.”
“I’ll do it,” Lu Yu replied after a moment’s thought.
The King of Immortality stood up and left.
He has his own work to do.
Lu Yu stood in deep thought below the altar for a long time. Eventually, he began setting up a toxic barrier around the altar.
The toxic barrier wasn’t wide, just enough to cover the altar.
However, Lu Yu deployed nearly a thousand layers of powerful toxins, completely sealing off the underground cave.
“As long as any life emerges from the altar, even if it’s not immortal, it must be immediately transported out of the defense port; they don’t have permission to enter or leave.”
When Lu Yu finished all of this, half a month had already passed.
Only two months remain until the Doomsday Tide.
At this moment, Xue Ji returned, the Ruler of the Underworld returned, and the Demon-Slaying Elder also returned.
Lu Yu also noticed that one of the indicators in the war mode was gradually turning from dim to black, and names began to appear one by one within it.
Lu Yu was astonished and said, “Does it mean that once the Apocalypse Tide begins, even kings can be resurrected?”
Vroom!
The barrier at Fanggang began to rise.
The entire Fanggang was covered as the Undying Sky Barrier rose up three layers! Ten layers of the Phantom Veil Barrier ascended.
The ten-layered sky canopy, like a vast dome, covers the city, bringing a sense of peace to many people’s hearts.
With defense, they no longer fear death.
The immortal sky of the first realm has risen three layers! The Phantom Veil has risen five layers, and the Steel Bastion has also risen five layers.
All the barriers of Fanggang have been raised, truly isolating Fanggang from the rest of the world.
The person shrouded within the barrier possesses the sole authority to enter and exit the barrier.
As for outsiders, even if the king himself wanted to enter, he would have to fight his way in.
Especially since the core of the Eleventh Heaven’s Indestructible Sky is located within the Core Domain, it’s as if the Indestructible Sky cannot be breached as long as the Core Domain remains unbroken.
People watched as the countdown accelerated, knowing that the man’s ascension to kingship was imminent.
Someone said, “That’s about it.”
“Whether we can survive now depends on whether we have the strength to withstand the Endless Tide.”
All cities have entered a state of war readiness, with countless barriers rising to envelop them one by one.
Lu Yu stood before the corpse puppet with his palms sweating, holding a small bottle in his hand that contained blood that was glowing.
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