Chapter 882: Trouble Brewing

“Lu Yu, may you meet a bad end!”

A king, nearly driven mad with rage, charged at Lu Yu and roared furiously.

“Buzz!”

A beam of blood light erupted from the Beast Emperor’s mouth, enveloping the entire area ahead and engulfing everyone within it, without any regard for who was an enemy or not.

Yanluowang and the others didn’t hesitate, turning around and rushing toward the Beast Emperor.

Luo Chen raised his power to its peak, shattering waves of bloody light with each punch.

But this did not prevent the remaining bloodlight from falling upon him.

All the kings, including Luo Chen and King Yama, were blasted away.

Yanluowang fell beside Lu Yu, and as he got up, he suddenly swung his palm down fiercely toward Lu Yu’s head.

“Buzz!”

Lu Yu did not hold back either and slashed his sword outward in response.

The Starlight Sword was activated, its blade of light slashing toward King Yama.

Splash! Splash! Splash!

The sword light scattered, and a billion beams of radiant rain enveloped King Yama.

“What?” King Yama was greatly astonished.

Because Lu Yu’s sword strike unleashed a billion beams of light, each beam carrying the force of an ordinary King-level warrior’s attack.

The hand of the King of Hell, Yama, which was reaching toward Lu Yu’s head, suddenly changed. A more violent surge of energy erupted, shattering beams of light all around, as his arm struck down onto Lu Yu’s chest.

Bang.

Lu Yu was knocked flying.

But at the same time, a shower of light engulfed the King of Hell as well.

“Shatter, all of you!” the King of Hell roared amidst the rain of light. His power transformed into countless sharp swords that clashed against the radiant downpour, obliterating large swaths of it.

King Yama truly deserves to be the ruler of the city, for his strength is indeed rare to find among few others.

He emerged from the rain of light, though blood was seeping from several wounds on his body.

With ten billion rays of light attacking like rain, even King Yama with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes could not possibly block them all.

This strike injured King Yama.

A fine crack appeared on the heavy armor covering Lu Yu’s body, but he still did not gain any advantage.

The King of Hell’s eyes were filled with intense bloodshot rage, as if he could tear Lu Yu apart at any moment.

At the same time, he was also staring at the Starlight Sword in Lu Yu’s hand.

This sword is too terrifying; its power is astonishing when fully activated.

“Roar!”

On the other side, the Blood-Weeping Beast Kings had already reached the shore. The speed of their lashing tongues was so overwhelming that dozens of Kings couldn’t evade in time—they were pierced through in an instant by the beasts’ tongue spears.

The bone beast was not clumsy at all; it stood like a human and walked onto the shore, bringing its large claws down forcefully onto the ground.

It rose out of the blood ocean as it approached the shore, its body growing from a hundred zhang to nearly one hundred and fifty zhang in height.

At this height, the bone beast’s head was about fifty meters away from the rock ceiling of the underground world.

“Don’t let it come ashore. Block it.”

“Damn it, why did this happen?”

“Lu Yu, I will definitely behead you!” All the kings were furious, almost losing their sanity.

The Three-Eyed King raised his arm and swung his fist, colliding with the bone beast’s claw.

Bang.

The one-knee of the Three-Eyed King was pressed down straight.

The beast’s claws sprang up at the same time, its body recoiling a step backward, retreating further into the sea.

“Lu Yu, this time when it’s over, I’ll behead you myself!” the Three-Eyed King roared in fury, leaping high into the air and hurling a punch toward the bone beast.

“Roar!”

The bone beast spat out hundreds of one-meter-thick beams of crimson light.

The vertical eye of the Three-Eyed King split open, and a beam of light a hundred zhang thick collided with the blood-red radiance. The two forces crashed together like comets striking an earthquake, shaking the edges of the Sea of Blood, sending towering waves surging, and causing mountains and earth to tremble violently along the shore.

Meanwhile, some weaker kings were so terrified that they spat blood.

The Eagle King’s wings on Lu Yu’s back trembled, carrying him and vanishing from the spot.

“Everyone, I don’t have time to chat with you. Goodbye—I’m taking the stone egg and leaving this dungeon. I’ll never come back again. Haha—”

Lu Yu laughed heartily, transforming into a starry belt thousands of feet wide in the sky before vanishing.

“No!” King Yama and the others cried in alarm.

“Make sure to stop him; don’t let him take the stone egg away.”

“That’s impossible. He’s too fast. This time, we’re in trouble.”

The faces of all the kings were frighteningly pale.

“Everyone, you hold off the Beast Emperor. I’ll go and stop Lu Yu,” said a King. “With my Wind Wings at full speed, I’m not that far behind him. I hope I can stop him in time.”

The Three-Eyed King gritted his teeth and reluctantly said, “Hurricane King, tell Lu Yu that as long as he gives up his intention toward the stone egg, we will let him leave unharmed.”

“That’s right. But if he dares to set foot underground again, I’ll tear him apart piece by piece,” said another king, still very unwilling to let it go.

“Okay.” Jet Wind King, a tall and thin young man, immediately rose up, circled around the Blood-weeping Beast and the Bone Beast, and transformed into a fierce gust of wind, rushing toward the Sea of Blood.

…

Lu Yu moved at an extremely fast speed, and in the blink of an eye, he had already arrived at the original bone island.

The stone egg lay all alone, without a single blood-weeping beast to guard it.

Lu Yu landed and reached out his hand to place it on the stone egg.

As long as he grabs it, he can put it into his storage space and take it away.

“Don’t!” came an anxious voice from the sky.

When he pronounced the word “no,” the sound could carry for dozens of miles.

However, by the time the word “want” reached Lu Yu’s ears, someone had already arrived beside him and reached out to seize his wrist.

“Why should I listen to you?” Lu Yu retorted, shaking his hand violently. The two forces collided, and Ji Feng Wang was forced to step back rapidly.

Lu Yu didn’t budge from his spot.

King Jifeng’s heart raced in shock, never expecting things to turn out this way.

Lu Yu is now in the form of the魔王’s wrath, fully possessing the power of a king. Combined with the weight of the Starlight Armor, unless facing a king who has begun to fuse their soul, he holds an absolute advantage.

Just like the move Lu Yu and King Yama had exchanged earlier, neither side gained an advantage.

If Lu Yu were to mobilize all his strength, he could even engage in battle with a powerful being like the King of Hell.

King Gust quickly lowered his posture and said, “Mr. Lu, King Three-Eyes and the others have agreed. As long as you abandon your intention toward this stone egg, we will let you leave.”

“Oh?” Lu Yu looked at the King of Swift Winds with confusion and asked, “So great? Not long ago you still wanted to kill me. Why have you made a compromise just because of a stone egg?”

“This—” King Jifeng hesitated for a moment and said, “You don’t want to leave the dungeon? This is your chance. As long as you don’t touch this stone egg, you can leave safely. Isn’t that enough?”

“Shouldn’t you tell me the reason?” Lu Yu looked at the stone egg, his hand slowly reaching out to threaten the King of Gale.

King Jifeng’s expression subtly changed as he coldly said, “Mr. Lu, this is your chance. As for the reason, it has nothing to do with you. If you don’t want to leave now, you might not get another opportunity!”

“Heh. You still dare to threaten me at a time like this?” Lu Yu said with a smile. “Then I won’t hold back either.”

Lu Yu reached out and touched the stone egg with his palm.

“Lu Yu, I’m already lowering my stance to negotiate with you. Since you don’t appreciate my leniency, there’s no need to discuss further,” King Jifeng said coldly. “It will suffice for me to leave with your corpse.”

Lu Yu suddenly withdrew his palm and looked at Ji Feng Wang, saying, “Even a king like Yan Luo Wang couldn’t kill me. Can you?”

“Killing you doesn’t necessarily require great strength,” King Jifeng said coldly. “There’s nothing more to talk about; I’ll just kill you directly.”

Hum.

The Storm King suddenly disintegrated, transforming into a violent whirlwind that surged toward Lu Yu like a raging dragon.

The wind bypassed the stone egg, but it swept up the surrounding sea of blood, engulfing the whirlwind in blood and transforming it into a blood-laden whirlwind.

Powerful winds swept across Lu Yu’s body, a force strong enough to uproot entire mountains.

Lu Yu immediately felt his footing become unstable. Even though he was wearing the Starfall Heavy Armor, the gale force winds were still strong enough to lift him off the ground.

Lu Yu immediately inhaled and plunged rapidly towards the ground.

The wind grew even fiercer at this moment, lifting Lu Yu off the ground.

“I don’t have anything to talk to you about either; I just want that egg!” Lu Yu roared, channeling power from his body into his Starlight Heavy Armor.

Boom.

The gravity of the Star Armor suddenly increased several times, forcing Lu Yu’s figure to land once again.

Hum.

The entire island began to tremble.

Lu Yu’s hand had already touched the stone egg, and then he slashed open the storage space.

“No!” King Gale roared, and arms formed of raging winds reached out to stop it.

Unfortunately, it was already too late.

As soon as the stone egg left the ground, it transformed into a gray rock.

Lu Yu didn’t have time to think further and quickly threw the stone egg into his storage space.

Boom!

The ground was shaking, and a blood-red sea was surging up in a hundred-zhang-high tsunami, radiating outward from this small island in all directions.

The tsunami did not consist of a single wave, but rather a relentless succession of waves, each one a hundred feet high, crashing one after another toward the edge of the blood-red sea.

Amidst the tsunami, countless blood-crying beasts surged forward with the waves, letting out deafening roars.

The King of Gale landed and transformed back into human form, staring at Lu Yu with a trembling voice: “You, do you know what you’ve done?”

“What’s the big deal? I just picked up a stone egg,” Lu Yu said disdainfully, looking at King Jifeng. “You didn’t tell me the reason when I asked, so of course I had to pick it up myself to see what would happen.”

“You’re practically looking for death!” King Jifeng gritted his teeth and said, “This is a task on the Divine Mission Stone that no one dares to accept. Once you take on this mission, the underworld will be completely sealed off, and no one will be able to enter or leave. Even your so-called resurrection methods won’t work here.”

“Task?” Lu Yu chuckled. “I’ve seen the tasks on the mission stones too. The strongest one was that King-level task I accepted. There’s no task stronger than that. You’re saying that a stone egg in my hand is a task now? You’re kidding, right?”

“Scare you? Do I have time to scare you?” the King of Gales snarled ferociously, “The only thing I want to do right now is crush you to death. That task can only be undertaken by a Blood Eye; humans can’t even see it. Whoever touches the stone egg, even without accepting the task, has already activated it. If the Blood-Weeping Beast King isn’t defeated, the entire underground world will be destroyed.”

“That’s even better, then. If it’s destroyed, it has nothing to do with me,” Lu Yu said coldly.

“The seal will not open as long as there is still one person alive in this world. This is a task even more terrifying than the Descent of Darkness itself, offering a reward capable of transforming an ordinary person into the most powerful King, along with a set of Stellar Armor and even a Royal Bloodline Stellar Artifact.”

“Then you can go ahead and finish it yourselves; it’s got nothing to do with me anymore,” said Lu Yu. “I just need to hide somewhere until the underground world opens again, right?”

“You madman, do you even understand what you’re talking about? Around the Sea of Blood, there are ten cities. These tsunamis will flood all these cities. In the Sea of Blood, the Qixue Beasts are as agile as humans, unlike their clumsy movements on land. Those who die in the Sea of Blood will all be transformed into Qixue Beasts. Furthermore, the Sea of Blood won’t merely sweep across the ten cities on its edge; it will surge through every corner of the underground world. Wherever the Sea of Blood passes, Qixue Beasts will emerge from the ground, and there will even be random births of King-tier Qixue Beasts. In other words, all cities in the underground world will be submerged. Qixue Beasts will appear in cities and the wilderness, and the underground will become a vast ocean. Once all cities are destroyed, all Qixue Beasts will attack the survivors until every last person is transformed into a Qixue Beast. You were a King-tier in life; in death, you will become a King-tier Qixue Beast. After the destruction of the underground world comes the surface world. Now do you understand?”

King Gust couldn’t help but wish to tear Lu Yu into pieces.

But it’s useless now. The blood tide has already risen, and there’s no chance to stop it anymore.

Lu Yu inhaled deeply, feeling as though he had just opened Pandora’s box.

“Then why did you just stop the Bone Beast earlier instead of stopping me?”

“The bone beast has completely come ashore; that’s when the mission begins. Of course, they have to stop the bone beast—what the hell do you think you are?” Hurricane King couldn’t care less about anything else right now—he needed to clarify things first.

Since the mission has already begun, explaining clearly will give them another ally.

Lu Yu felt a sudden headache.

If the entire underground world were to perish, even if he were the last one left alive, he would have to face the Blood-Soaked Beasts formed from every person in the underground world—how many people would that be, and how many kings?