The three ethereal figures in the sky remained motionless, gazing at the activated star artifact and the expanse of emptiness with a cold expression. “You’ve always believed he is?”
Snap.
A piece of the world split open, revealing a massive, bloodshot eye. The vast void was but the eyelid of this colossal eye.
Hundreds of zhang tall, the giant eye blinked gently, and a muffled sound, like thunder, echoed in the sky above Fanggang, saying, “It’s time for this to end. I’m too tired to go on any longer.”
“This time, when it’s over, you will also be terminated.”
“I have been dead for a long time already!”
His bloodshot eyes blinked weakly, as if extremely exhausted, and finally closed shut, releasing his last words: “Perhaps, maybe! Even foresight isn’t omnipotent!”
The ring in Lu Yu’s hand began to emit an even more intense aura of slaughter.
Lu Yu still remembered everything about the moment he received the ring, when the bloodshot eye had appeared just like this.
Within that domain of chaos, the Blood Eye seemed to be the supreme ruler, commanding the Wolf King and the Black Tiger to submit.
Did the Blood Eye arrange everything, including giving him the information about the ring?
Or—
Lu Yu’s eyes revealed a cold, sharp gleam, and suddenly he intensified the aura of slaughter.
This might be his last chance.
The aura within his body was condensing, drawing even the invisible blade from the void toward him.
All the aura of slaughter had vanished into the ring.
The ring is clearly a star artifact.
However, what was released on its surface was not starlight, but rather a glimmer of cold luster.
The Wolf King said that this Star Artifact can enhance one’s power.
But he couldn’t even handle the driving.
Now, he is ready to drive.
It was just that what he enhanced was not his strength, but rather he absorbed all the murderous aura from Lu Yu.
Lu Yu became a conduit, through which a ceaseless stream of murderous aura flowed into the ring.
Then—
Blackish vapors flowed from every pore on Lu Yu’s body, then surged toward the ring.
“This—” Lu Yu’s heart sank in alarm as he realized that all the toxins within his body were actually draining away, flowing toward the ring on his finger.
The usually composed face of the Tian Sha inheritor suddenly showed alarm, and the eye of the ghostly flame abruptly turned its glow to white.
“It’s actually used like this,” the Heaven-Sundering Inheritor exclaimed in shock. Suddenly, he raised his hand toward Lu Yu, grabbed him, and snarled, “Give it to me.”
Behind Lu Yu, the wings of the Eagle King trembled as he swiftly retreated backward.
“Die!” the Heaven-Slaughtering Cultivator roared, two beams of white light shooting from his eyes like swords piercing through Lu Yu’s chest.
A beam of light shot through, and another beam that struck the spot where Lu Yu’s heart was located was actually reflected back.
“You—” the Celestial Calamity inheritor was even more astonished. Gazing at Lu Yu’s golden heart, he roared, “Kill you!”
Boom!
This time, the Heaven-Sundering inheritor was no longer composed.
He summoned the power of the elements, causing the air currents from all four directions to become chaotic.
With just a glance from the Heaven-Sundering Heir, a sharp sword materialized and stabbed toward Lu Yu.
Bang!
A barrier rose before Lu Yu, its cold light blocking the radiance of Tian Sha.
But the moment the barrier made eye contact, it was instantly shattered.
Lu Yu raised his hand, and layers of light shields formed in front of him, a total of sixty-five shields blocking the view.
However, the sixty-five layers of light shields were pierced in an instant, and the light still shot towards Lu Yu.
The toxic gas and aura of slaughter within Lu Yu continuously flowed into the ring, which resulted in the restriction of Lu Yu’s combat power.
He didn’t even have a chance to fight back.
Two beams of light struck Lu Yu, but they merely pierced through him without killing him.
Lu Yu coughed up blood and kept retreating.
“Give me the ring.” Tian Sha took one step and appeared right in front of Lu Yu, his large hand clamping down on Lu Yu’s right hand.
Lu Yu stepped back, the Eagle King’s wings trembled, and it carried him into the sky.
Hum.
A halo swept out from the Celestial Destroyer, its radiant light gliding across Lu Yu’s back.
Snap!
Even the Eagle King’s wings were shattered.
Lu Yu lowered his head and bent forward at the moment the Eagle King’s wing shattered, allowing the halo to sweep across his back.
A large chunk of Lu Yu’s back was cut off by the halo.
He lost the wings of the eagle king mid-flight and began to plummet toward the ground.
Bang!
The heavenly demon descended from the sky, stepping down towards Lu Yu’s chest.
Lu Yu placed both hands on the ground and swiftly sidestepped dozens of meters to evade Tian Sha’s stomp.
Nearly half of the toxic gas within his body had dissipated.
The sword in Tian Sha’s hand was raised.
“Roar!”
The sky split open, a massive rift directly hovering over the City of Bones.
“Boom, boom, boom…”
Within the rift lay an immense darkness and a colossal mountain, its height unfathomable, stretching countless ten-thousands of feet into the air, its surface riddled with countless openings.
That looked more like a gigantic planet.
Countless dragons danced wildly across the sky, their fiery breaths spewing from their mouths in torrents, rushing toward the Sky Demon and engulfing it completely.
An endless dragon’s breath swiftly engulfed Tian Sha.
Endless dragon breath, with dazzling lights of various colors, continuously spewed from the mouths of the dragons, unceasingly landing where Tian Sha stood.
“Go to war!”
Thirteen giant dragons led the way, descending toward the earth. In midair, they transformed into human forms and stepped toward the celestial demon.
“Battle!”
More dragons soared from the planet, heading towards the earth.
“You wretched reptiles, having survived so many destructions, have finally decided to come out?” The voice of Tian Sha emerged from within the radiant light, yet remained calm and utterly silent.
The vertical eye of the Dragon King of Three Eyes split open, and the light from his three eyes ignited even the void.
Boom!
A sword beam pierced through the void, straightly penetrating the vertical eye of the three-eyed dragon king.
“Boom!”
The Dragon King with three eyes bled from the center of his brow. He did not utter a sound of pain; instead, his fighting spirit and murderous aura grew even more intense.
Millions of dragons landed, transforming into millions of warriors.
Everyone has half of their body as a human and the other half as a dragon.
Colorful beams of light densely covered the dragon warriors’ bodies, forming layers of protective shields.
Lu Yu was retreating, moving backward beneath the Blood Tower, away from the battlefield.
This was his last line of defense.
The dragon clan will not appear unless it’s a critical moment.
The appearance of the dragon clan signifies that the moment for an inevitable battle has arrived.
Moreover, they were not aiming for a full-scale war, as they knew that their involvement at this point would not make much of a difference.
They were buying time for Lu Yu.
All dragons were prepared to die.
The Heaven-Sundering Sword slashed down, and hundreds of dragon clans rushed forward, using their bodies to block the blinding light.
Because they also knew it was impossible to harm Tian Sha.
They appeared merely to buy time for Lu Yu.
“Lu Yu, this is your final moment of rest before the Dragon Clan falls in battle.” The Dragon King with three eyes gritted his teeth, blood dripping from the vertical eye on his forehead. He roared, “No matter what it takes, victory must be mine!”
Sword light cleaved through hundreds of dragon kin, spilling endless dragon blood upon the earth; no one could survive.
The dragon clan’s defense was astonishing, and it was now fully displayed.
Rays of light fell upon Tian Sha’s body, shattering into a sky full of radiant fragments.
“Lu Yu, give me the ring!” Tian Sha roared, preparing to force his way through the dragon clan’s defenses.
A thousand dragon warriors blocked the impact of Tian Sha’s attack with their bodies.
Upon the collision of the two forces, a thousand dragon warriors’ bodies cracked and then exploded into a rain of blood.
Tian Sha staggered backward, also taking a small step back from the impact.
Lu Yu stood at the rear, coldly staring at the ring in his hand, and gritted his teeth, saying, “Tell me, are you really worth me using my two most powerful abilities to activate?”
He looked at the ring and used his military training to try to see through it.
But he failed to see through it.
This ring resembles a star artifact, but it is completely different from one.
That man died in front of the double-headed scorpion, obviously aiming for the poison.
Then exactly what relationship is there between this ring and the poison!
In just a moment, tens of thousands of dragon warriors perished, and the Heavenly Demon’s advance could not be halted.
The Silver Dragon King blocked Tian Sha’s path and was slashed by a sword, losing one of its arms.
The Silver Dragon, known as the dragon race’s strongest in defense, and especially as a king, still could not manage it.
Tian Sha coldly said, “When it comes to defense, you’ve surpassed the City Lord of the Divine City. But regarding offense, you’re merely a group of Kings at best. Before me, I can kill ten thousand City Lords with a single strike—do you really think killing you would be difficult?”
“The Dragon Clan has survived numerous destructions; we’ve seen enough,” the Three-Eyed Dragon King said with a smile. “This time, our appearance isn’t intended to kill you. In fact, when we show ourselves, it already means death is approaching. Our task is simply to block your way and buy Lu Yu some time.”
“If you leave, you won’t die!”
“If we were afraid of death, we would have already gone to sleep when the tidal wave of the apocalypse came.”
“Even if you are not afraid of death, you still cannot stop me.”
“Then let’s take a look.”
The Three-Eyed Dragon King pointed at the sky.
“Roar!”
Upon the colossal mountain in the darkness, a hundred mighty dragons surged down. Each of them exuded the aura of a dragon king, a power so immense and similar to that of the thirteen dragon kings.
“The puppet warriors created by the dead puppets are no good either.”
After finishing his words, Tian Sha suddenly cast his gaze beyond the Dragon Kings towards the rear.
The ring in Lu Yu’s hand stirred with an unusual movement.
One of the black beams of energy shot up into the sky.
Boom—boom—boom—
The sky trembled as black mist transformed into a massive vortex with a diameter of one hundred zhang.
“This fast!” Tian Sha was greatly shocked, his face changing color instantly.
At this moment, Lu Yu finally understood the effect of the ring.
Absorbing the infinite aura of slaughter, and even sucking dry all the toxic gas from Lu Yu’s body, it suddenly began to flow backward.
Boom… boom… boom…
This is not a reversal, but rather a feedback loop multiplied by dozens of times.
The killing aura that had been drawn out of Lu Yu’s body by the ring now surged back into him.
If it absorbs “one”, then what is returned is a hundred.
The toxic gas he inhaled was no different.
“I understand now. It’s not aggressive; it’s just an extension of capability.”
Lu Yu laughed.
The ring cannot be activated by ordinary means.
Perhaps this was created by one of the inheritors, designed to respond exclusively to the soul energies of the Nine Mutated Star Souls.
The finger ring absorbs poison because it is primarily made from the bones of a venomous dragon.
Its operation requires a massive amount of剧毒 (toxicity) to sustain, rather than stellar power.
Note: “剧毒” was translated as “toxicity.” If “剧毒” refers to a specific substance or concept in your context, please clarify for a more accurate translation.
The creator might have been a genius.
Perhaps the one who died within the Domain of Unified Demons sought to obtain the power of venom in order to make the ring function perfectly.
But the vortex in the sky spun faster.
In a distant land, within a blood-colored altar, a massive mass of crimson liquid soared out from the altar, heading in one specific direction.
…
In a half-destroyed city, people stood motionless atop the ruins, their eyes vacant and lifeless.
Amidst the attacks of countless divine servants, they were utterly powerless to fight back.
A part of them, although fearful, still possessed fighting spirit. Clenching their weapons and gritting their teeth, they were making the final preparations.
Having chosen to resist, one must resist until the very end.
But at this moment, they suddenly saw threads of crimson energy being released from their bodies, which then flew toward a single direction.
“My star soul is gone. What happened?”
“My power… how has it vanished?”
These people suddenly felt changes within their bodies.
…
A city, with tens of millions of bloodshot eyes launching a frenzied assault on a half-destroyed metropolis.
They grinned hideously, and some were stuffing human flesh into their mouths while laughing uproariously.
To them, flesh and blood mean power.
Half of the city was destroyed by the divine servants, all defensive barriers were completely ruined, and nearly half of the city’s powerful experts were killed.
When the trumpet of God sounded, the servants of God abandoned all these warriors.
In their eyes, these people were already dead.
They can be killed at any moment.
As soon as the divine servant left, before the people here could even react, they were once again surrounded by the blood-eyed creatures.
The Blood Eyes originally intended to head to Fanggang.
The rewards there would be rich enough.
However, when they saw the many defenseless and ruined cities here, they immediately felt a desire to massacre.
After all, killing enough people can still earn you a decent reward.
But now, something strange is happening.
The blood from countless individuals flew in unison toward a single direction.
After their blood had left their bodies, the strength of these individuals rapidly faded, and even their star souls vanished.
“What’s going on? What’s happening here?”
The bloodshot-eyed warriors and all the fighters in the city ceased their battle, turning their gazes toward that direction, each heart simultaneously thinking of the same place—Fanggang.
…
Wherever there are people, such abnormalities will arise.
A vast number of warriors lost their powers and became ordinary humans, with all the star souls within their bodies completely vanishing.
Not only humans, but even divine servants, generals, and city lords—countless divine servants had bloodlight appearing within their bodies.
Even the monsters within the monstrous army, even the dragon warriors.
As long as all lives that exist in this world, the light of blood within their bodies will depart from them, and then their strength returns to nothingness, becoming the most ordinary lives.
The divine servants lost their power, and the divine energy within their bodies instantly transformed into flames, reducing their physical forms to ashes. One after another, golden beams of light shot up into the sky.
The sky was changing, turning golden. Yet the earth had become crimson, causing everyone to halt their battle.
Now all the bloodlight is flowing toward the black vortex above the City of Bones.
The black vortex was absorbing the crimson light when, suddenly, it transformed into a beam of blood-colored light and pierced into Lu Yu’s celestial crown.
Boom—boom—boom—
The space around Lu Yu began to ripple, and the spiritual energy within his body started to grow even more immense.
Vroom!
Lu Yu’s right eye turned completely into a bloody red, as if an endless sea of blood began to shimmer.
“Get out of here!” Tian Sha sensed the danger, roared in anger, and simultaneously unleashed his white sword and the auras surrounding his body.
Thousands of dragon clans were slaughtered.
“Roar!”
The dragon warrior lunges forward; even a dragon warrior who has lost their power still charges ahead.
They blocked the path of the celestial calamity with their own bodies.
Blood is flowing, lives are being claimed.
Heavenly Annihilation was truly invincible, attacking from an extremely distant place toward Lu Yu’s location, each step forward trampling over piles of corpses.
No one can stop him; he is the strongest.
When the two Dragon Kings before Tian Sha were beheaded, it was Lu Yu who stood before Tian Sha.
Millions of dragons perished, with half their race wiped out, and six dragon kings were slain.
Their bodies were destroyed.
However, within the core domain, the Dragon King’s aura surged violently into the sky.
Above the dead puppet, their blood still remains, allowing them to be reborn.
Moreover, the six Dragon Kings were revived and immediately rushed toward the City of Bones.
Vroom!
Two beams of white light shot from the Heaven-Sundering Demon’s eyes, directly aiming at Lu Yu’s celestial crown.
He was going to smash Lu Yu’s head.
Boom!
Lu Yu’s right eye flared with blood-red light again, as a beam of crimson light dozens of feet wide collided with the two white beams.
The crimson light, entirely driven by the intent to kill, was a strike from Lu Yu as he mimicked the illusory figure from the blood-red desert within the domain of the ninth-level Unified Demon.
The white light shattered, and a crimson glow surged upward toward the heavens.
Boom!
The Heaven-Cursed Sword slashed forth, the white blade cleaving through the crimson light, forcing the figure to retreat several steps.
Lu Yu felt his star soul within his body growing stronger and becoming whole.
Especially the right eyeball, which belonged to the soul master, was seemingly activated at this moment.
Lu Yu seemed to witness a great battle, a one-against-three showdown, a magnificent fight against the heavens.
Boom!
The black vortex above Lu Yu’s head vanished, and a crimson flame surged around his body, transforming into a giant dragon that coiled in the air above.
The ring is not a star artifact; it is a tool capable of gathering star souls.
Because this is a tool used to reconsolidate the incomplete powers of the nine mutated star souls, restoring them to their complete state.
The Blood Eye of the Demonic Realm was merely a tool that had been handed over to Lu Yu!
“Is it complete?” Tian Sha’s expression was very unnatural.
The power of the Soul Lord was once distributed among his loyal warriors and has been passed down ever since.
However, today, the Slayer of Inheritors has reconsolidated these soul forces.
The Heaven-Sundering Sword’s expression turned fierce and grotesque. Suddenly, he exerted force with his left foot, channeling all his power into the sword blade, and charged toward Lu Yu.
Boom!
The City of Bones trembled violently as if shaken by a powerful force.
The Heaven-Sundering inheritor transformed into a beam of white light, becoming pure light itself.
When he reappeared, the sword had already pierced Lu Yu’s chest, pointing at the golden heart.
Bang!
The golden heart pounded violently, causing the sword blade to hum softly.
“Strike me through!” Tian Sha roared. Endless white light surged within him, all converging onto Tian Sha’s sword.
“Zzzzz!”
The white sword pierced into Lu Yu’s heart bit by bit, and then emerged from his back.
“Heavenly Punishment, there’s nothing that cannot be pierced. Whoever gets pierced, dies for sure!” Tian Sha sneered, looking up at the sky and laughing loudly, “Do you see? What you promised me should be given to me.”
“No, it’s not over yet!” a faint shadow replied.
Tian Sha wanted to pull back his hand but realized that Lu Yu’s right hand had already gripped his sword-wielding hand, while Lu Yu’s left hand was pressing down on Tian Sha’s shoulder.
Tian Sha did not even twitch his sword, yet he saw a fierce murderous intent erupt from Lu Yu’s body. He roared, “Go find another heir for your star soul!”
Boom.
Blue flames, black toxic flames, and red flames intertwined on Lu Yu’s body.
Three flames surrounded Lu Yu and Tian Sha.
Boom, boom, boom…
One of the Heavenly Executioner’s arms kept striking Lu Yu’s body, causing cracks to continuously form all over Lu Yu’s body.
“You’re not qualified to assault my soul.” A brilliant white light erupted from Tian Sha’s body, acting like a solid light shield to resist the attack of Lu Yu’s three flames.
“This is my territory!” Lu Yu declared defiantly, his fighting spirit surging even higher.
His will resonated with the Blood Tower of Slaughter, and the previously motionless seven-story palace began to rotate. The essence of slaughter, devoid of actual killing, surged into Lu Yu’s body.
Boom!
Bloodlight like a sword shot from Lu Yu’s right eye, directly piercing into Tian Sha’s body.
The crimson light ahead was blocked by a white light shield.
However, behind him, blood continued to spurt out, and the crimson light kept shooting forth. Laser-like beams incessantly struck against Tian Sha’s glowing shield, creating sparks that roared like thunder.
The light shield became extremely unstable, constantly developing cracks, as if it were about to be pierced at any moment.
Heavenly Punishment was even fiercer and more violent, relentlessly pounding Lu Yu with punch after punch. He became terrified.
This became a contest of willpower.
Layer upon layer of barriers appeared on Lu Yu’s body, continuously neutralizing the force of Tian Sha’s punches.
The two complete star souls of the Star Spirit.
These are the two most powerful mutated star souls among the top ten.
Now they are truly colliding with each other.
The strongest—one has yet to determine how the outcome should be decided, as no one knows who will win.
Both of them are the strongest, whether in attack or defense.
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