In the darkness, beyond the reach of human vision—
on Lu Yu’s back, nine thick black snakes, each as thick as a man’s arm, were growing longer and longer. Their bodies twisted and danced in the air, finally stopping growth when they transformed into massive serpents dozens of meters long. Their eyes were closed, as if just awakening, and slowly opened. Eighteen cold, blood-red beams of light shot from the serpents’ eyes. Like hungry beasts, they opened their mouths wide and lunged together at Wang Feng’s corpse.
Inside Wang Feng’s body, a red glow suddenly sensed the danger and sprang out from his chest, attempting to flee.
As soon as the glowing mass left Wang Feng’s body, his corpse rapidly dried up, as if all moisture had vanished, and quickly turned into fine ash.
But the nine black snakes were faster. In the instant the red glow tried to escape, the snakes had already torn into it and devoured it.
All of this was invisible to the human eye.
Lu Yu could not see it either.
Only after the red glow had been consumed did the voice in Lu Yu’s ear finally sound.
“Hunted and killed a mutant star soul carrier. Devoured the Shield Core Star Soul. Energy absorption completed!”
A torrent of information flooded into Lu Yu’s ears.
“Murderous Star Soul activated. Progress to level four: 76% remaining.”
“Knowledge absorption complete. Flesh, blood, tendons, and bones fusion complete!”
…
The notifications kept coming.
Before Lu Yu’s eyes, streams of text flashed by.
Lu Yu was secretly astonished. He hadn’t expected that killing someone with a mutant star soul would instantly complete one-fifth of his star soul progress.
He thought to himself, “Could it be that the Murderous Star Soul has the ability to evolve itself by devouring other star souls?”
At this moment, memories not originally his surfaced in his mind, then transferred themselves into his brain.
The so-called fusion of flesh, blood, tendons, and bones was not a fusion of attributes.
Every person’s body has a different level of resilience.
For example, a blade cutting into a human would cause a different wound than cutting into an animal’s hide.
That was the difference in physical endurance.
The fusion of flesh, blood, tendons, and bones was combining Wang Feng’s physical endurance with his own.
In other words, after the fusion, Lu Yu’s body would sustain far less damage than before when subjected to the same attack.
Lu Yu immediately understood.
The battle between mutant star souls was like a ruthless plundering war—
the victor could take everything from the loser, except for the attributes and the mutant star soul ability itself.
From Wang Feng’s memories, Lu Yu also obtained some special information.
The entire absorption process had been completed in just three seconds after Wang Feng’s death.
Wang Feng’s death left warriors from ten cities without any will to fight.
They scattered like a defeated army, each man for himself, fleeing toward the entrance.
But only then did they notice Zhao Long and others blocking the exit.
“Damn it, Zhao Long, move out of the way!” one of the leaders had no idea what was going on.
They had been focused on the battlefield the whole time and hadn’t noticed the entrance was blocked.
Now, desperate to escape, they didn’t care who stood in their way.
Two fast runners were already less than two meters away from Zhao Long and his men.
The two tried to run past Zhao Long’s group.
But at that moment, Zhao Long suddenly struck—he drew a battle blade from his waist and swung it down hard.
One of the men charging forward didn’t even have time to react before being split in half vertically.
As Zhao Long acted, his subordinates dared not hesitate. Several star weapons attacked together, chopping the other man into pieces.
The fleeing crowd behind instantly halted.
“What the hell do you think you’re doing, Zhao Long?” one leader stepped forward and shouted, “Don’t forget, you’re also an outsider!”
“Get out of the way! Move or I’ll kill you!”
The crowd roared.
They feared Lu Yu because he was too strong.
Even Wang Feng, who could duel level two monsters, had died. What chance did they have?
But Zhao Long and his men were different. They were no stronger than them—what were a few dozen people?
“Did I say you could leave?”
Lu Yu’s voice came from behind the crowd. The leader who had been cursing felt a chill run down his spine as two hands gripped his head.
“No—”
The leader’s eyes nearly popped out of his skull as he screamed in defiance.
“Crack!”
Before he could even cry out in pain, his neck twisted 360 degrees!
“Lu Yu, are you determined to wipe us all out?” someone shouted.
“Bang!”
Before the speaker could even raise his star weapon, Lu Yu kicked him into the air.
“When you tried to kill me, did anyone beg like this?” Lu Yu sneered coldly, then turned his head toward Zhao Long and his men. “I don’t think we’ve met before?”
From Wang Feng’s memories, he knew Zhao Long and his men were from other cities.
According to their usual practices, their mission would be to try to seize other cities.
Therefore, they should be his enemies.
Lu Yu was very confused—these people not only hadn’t become enemies, but had even abandoned the city earlier and now blocked the exit to help him.
Zhao Long looked at Lu Yu. At such close range, he finally felt the pressure that those who fought him had endured.
That overbearing aura, even just standing there, felt like a towering skyscraper pressing down on him.
Zhao Long bowed deeply and said solemnly, “Mr. Lu, our leader gave us special instructions before we left. If we encountered your city, we would become your subordinates. This is our first time meeting you, and we will definitely act accordingly.”
The people from the other cities were stunned.
“What the hell is going on?”
“These people from completely different cities actually act like they know each other?”
They whispered among themselves, suddenly realizing the truth.
“It’s because of the tunnel in the mine!” someone gasped, staring at Lu Yu with sudden understanding.
The strongest warriors from these two cities had met in the mysterious space within the mine.
Lu Yu thought of someone, but couldn’t confirm yet.
Zhao Long took out a note from his pocket and respectfully handed it to Lu Yu with both hands, saying, “The name is on here.”
Lu Yu took the note, glanced at it, and burst into laughter. “I see! So it’s him. Good. Since they are his subordinates, I won’t say much.”
Lu Yu turned to face the three or four hundred people trapped at the entrance and smiled coldly. “Everyone, you’ve been in this city for quite some time. You must have heard a lot about me. So, I think I don’t need to explain much.”
“What… what do you want to do?” one leader recalled Lu Yu’s past actions and couldn’t help asking, “Are you really going to kill us all? Don’t you know we’re from ten different cities? Killing us means making enemies with ten cities!”
“If I don’t kill you, will ten cities let me live?” Lu Yu’s face darkened as he sneered, “Killing you isn’t even worth dirtying my hands.”
Everyone’s faces lit up.
If Lu Yu had lost confidence in killing them,
then they had a chance to survive.
One leader immediately raised his hand and swore, “Mr. Lu, if you let us go, we promise never to return to this city again!”
“I never said I’d let you go,” Lu Yu sneered, “You’re imagining things, aren’t you?”
Then, Lu Yu slightly nodded toward the people from Fanggang and said, “You should understand what I mean!”
Li Yi was the first to nod, excitedly saying, “Mr. Lu means we kill these people, sell the star weapons and star crystals to us, and you take the star pearls and mutant star pearls, right?”
The people from Fanggang were instantly delighted.
If they had to take down hundreds of people on their own, it would be difficult.
But if they could call in help, even twice that number would be manageable.
At this moment, Lu Yu nodded and said, “Those who feel you’re too few can go call for help now!”
Then, his expression suddenly turned cold as he said, “Out there, you still have some unfinished business!”
Many who had heard Lu Yu’s permission to call for help immediately started running toward the tunnel. Others nodded and said, “Understood, understood! We’ll send every last one of them to the edge of the mine!”
Boom!
A flood of people surged toward the tunnel exit.
“Lu Yu, are you treating us like this?” one person trembled and accused.
“What you treated me as, that’s exactly what I’ll treat you as!”
Lu Yu sneered coldly, “If you think I’ve done wrong, come find me in your next life!”
Lu Yu’s words were merciless, leaving no room for mercy.
Meanwhile, outside the underground ruins, a storm was brewing!
The first news to spread was—
“Lu Yu is still alive!”
Boom!
Fanggang was shaken.
Instantly, they understood what they needed to do first.
The dozens of people who had once attacked Xiao Xiao also knew the location of the ruins, but had retreated early, hoping to benefit from the aftermath.
Who could have imagined that retreat would cost them any chance of escape?
The entire Fanggang was now hunting them.
Surrounded by thousands, those dozens finally understood what it meant to have no way out.
Some outsiders who hadn’t gone to the ruins also received the news.
“Lu Yu’s star soul is level three?”
“Even that guy Wang Feng is dead?”
“They say Wang Feng had a mutant star soul, and he still died?”
Their hearts turned cold, their bodies instantly soaked in sweat.
Only now did they realize how fortunate it was to have missed that intelligence.
After the dozens inside the city were surrounded and killed, nearly two thousand people headed toward the ruins.
The outsiders finally woke up.
Lu Yu had used their hands to kill, but it also showed his dominance in their hearts.
They were no longer facing just one man.
To occupy this city and its mine, either they killed Lu Yu, or they would be at war with an entire city.
“What terrifying methods!”
“He’s also warning us—if you want to stay in this city, you’d better behave. If he dares to offend ten cities, what wouldn’t he dare to kill?”
“Don’t forget, there’s still one person in the mine who hasn’t appeared. It’s said his strength is no less than Lu Yu’s.”
“If the two of them team up?”
No one dared to imagine the result!
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