The black wolves cleared the path ahead.
Zhang Shan and others walked to the front without ceremony.
Lu Yu hesitated for a moment, then chose another path and continued forward.
At this moment, the remaining hundred or so people turned around, with a small portion of them wanting to withdraw from the ruins.
As a result, they collided with a transparent barrier and were all bounced back.
A black wolf grinned sinisterly and said, “Allowing you to pass doesn’t mean letting you leave. Keep moving forward, or we’ll kill you right now.”
Those who wanted to leave immediately turned pale, their faces drained of color, and each one trembled violently.
More than a hundred people moved forward, walking together.
With a creature like the Black Wolf guarding the very edge of the ruins, how many more terrifying enemies could be lurking inside?
Zhang Shan and others walked far away, while over a hundred people carefully moved forward through the ruins.
At that moment, Hei Lang and the others suddenly turned sideways, their eyes fixed in one direction, revealing a fierce and menacing glare.
A black wolf sneered in a low voice: “Everyone gets only one warning. Now you must move forward, not stay here. Take another step back, and we’ll tear you apart on the spot.”
What the black wolves saw was none other than Lu Yu.
When everyone else moved forward, Lu Yu chose to go the other way.
However, after everyone else had walked far away, he returned.
Lu Yu said, “Everyone, I haven’t considered leaving yet. However, I came back to obtain some information.”
“How dare you, a human, ask us for information?” snarled a black wolf with a sinister grin. In the blink of an eye, it darted forward like lightning, leaping right in front of Lu Yu. Its front claws raised and fiercely slashed toward Lu Yu’s chest.
Lu Yu stood still in place, watching as the wolf’s claw descended onto his chest, then tore through his clothing, slashing downward from his front.
Hiss—
Wolf claws scraped out patches of firelight, failing to leave even a single wound on Lu Yu’s body.
The eyes of the five black wolves immediately became even more menacing.
“Everyone, now that we’ve had our attack, can we talk?” Lu Yu looked at his clothes, took them off, and put on a new set. “I need intelligence about this place, and I won’t ask you for it without offering something in return. I’m willing to exchange information with all of you.”
“Exchange?”
The black wolf in the middle slightly raised his interest and asked, “What do you want to exchange with us?”
“What can I get for everyone?”
“What we need is something you can’t provide,” a black wolf said coldly. “Get in quickly and don’t waste everyone’s time.”
Lu Yu said, “Since I’ve already come in, I’m definitely going further inside. How else would I know whether I have what you’re looking for if you don’t tell me?”
The black wolf in the middle sneered, “The item we want is something ordinary people cannot collect. Moreover, even if such a thing exists in this world, it would be extremely rare. There’s no way you could possibly have it.”
“Let me just say, maybe I really do have it.”
“There is a kind of beast blood that only appears in extremely rare spaces. These creatures are entirely golden in color, and their blood is also golden. Out of billions, even tens of billions of these beasts, only a few might ever appear. How could someone like you—uh…”
Before the black wolf in the middle could finish speaking, he suddenly froze.
The fierce glint in the eyes of the five black wolves instantly vanished, revealing expressions of greed instead.
Lu Yu held a small bottle in his hand; the bottle was transparent, and inside it, dozens of drops of Golden Beast Blood were swaying around.
“Is this the kind of beast blood you were talking about?”
“This, we’re not sure about this,” said a black wolf, greedily licking his lips. “Let us take a look first. No, even just a sniff would do.”
“Okay.”
Lu Yu popped open the bottle cap and gently shook it a few times; a drop of golden beast blood accidentally fell to the ground.
Five black wolves were so heartbroken that they almost rushed forward to fight for it.
However, they soon calmed down, making an effort to restrain themselves and putting on a composed appearance.
Lu Yu saw it with his own eyes, a quiet smile forming in his heart.
Lu Yu asked, “Is it this kind of beast blood?”
The black wolf in the middle immediately said, “It’s this kind of beast blood, although the quality is ordinary. It barely qualifies as what we’re looking for.”
“Then that’s good. I was really afraid you weren’t looking for this kind. Now we can talk about the intelligence that can be exchanged for this kind of beast blood, right?”
“What kind of intelligence do you want to exchange?” asked the black wolf in the middle.
“I want all the intelligence you know.”
The black wolf in the middle licked his lips and said, “That would require a lot of Golden Beast Blood. Each of us needs at least a hundred drops—no, two hundred drops.”
“No problem,” Lu Yu said, taking out a larger bottle. “There are a thousand drops here. As long as the information you provide satisfies me, all of this will be yours.”
Lu Yu smiled.
He was in that space, engaged in fierce battles, and had slain no fewer than a hundred golden beasts. He gave part of the beast blood to the warriors in Fanggang and kept the rest for himself.
This was how he still had more than 100,000 drops of Golden Beast blood in his possession. Moreover, he had yet to use the blood from two Golden Beasts, each possessing the power of ten thousand Zun, which together amounted to approximately 20,000 drops of Golden Beast blood.
A thousand drops of beast blood were truly a trivial matter to him.
Lu Yu noticed that the five black wolves were extremely eager for this beast blood, so he decided to lure them, hoping to obtain more information.
The five black wolves exchanged glances and spoke in unison: “You’re telling the truth?”
“I mean what I say.”
“Okay, we’ll tell you about a treasure location,” the black wolf in the middle said excitedly. “There’s a palace ruin not far from here, within ten li. There are some treasures there. If you can find them, it’s your lucky day.”
“What kind of treasure?”
A black wolf said, “How would we know that? We’re only here to guard this place; we don’t have the right to leave.”
“So, you only know about this much information?” Lu Yu gave a sidelong glance, took out a bottle, poured out half of the beast’s blood, and placed it on the ground, saying, “Five hundred drops are for you now. Wait here while I go check; if there’s truly a treasure, I’ll give you the remaining five hundred drops all at once.”
The black wolf in the middle became furious, its fur bristling as it growled, “Dare you deceive us?”
“Don’t be angry, everyone. I’m just being cautious,” Lu Yu said with a smile. “If there’s really a treasure, I will definitely give you the remaining five hundred drops. But if there’s no treasure, consider those five hundred drops as my gift to you. I think that’s a fair deal, isn’t it?”
The black wolf in the middle sniffed and gritted his teeth, saying, “Humans are indeed cunning. Fine, I’ll tell you everything. That ruin is dangerous. There is truly a treasure inside, but it’s guarded by hundreds of Shadow Beasts at the Wangzun level. These Shadow Beasts have no physical forms and possess only limited offensive abilities; most other abilities are ineffective against them. If you don’t have fire, lightning, or poison abilities, even a King stepping inside would face certain death. They feed solely on flesh and blood, so if you’re surrounded by them, you’ll have to rely on your own luck.”
“What exactly is that treasure?”
“We really don’t know about that,” several black wolves said in unison, shaking their heads.
Lu Yu asked again, “I heard that someone saw an altar here, and there was golden light on the altar. Do you know what exactly that golden light was?”
“This has nothing to do with you. We’ve said all we could; what’s left is for you to find on your own. Hand over the remaining five hundred drops quickly, or we’ll kill you.” The eyes of the five black wolves once again revealed a menacing gleam.
Lu Yu placed the remaining half of the king’s blood on the ground as well, then proceeded forward along the path indicated by the black wolf.
Indeed, there is a vast ruin of a palace here.
Hundreds of massive stone pillars were still supporting enormous rocks on top of them.
The remaining collapsed sections are all composed of massive stones weighing several thousand catties each, resembling small stone mountains.
Lu Yu also noticed more than a dozen corpses at the edge of the palace ruins.
These corpses had no flesh or blood left on them; the bones were stark white, displaying a state of struggle.
“If it were someone else, it would really be a bit of a hassle. But since it’s me, these treasures were just meant for me.”
Lu Yu smiled and stepped into the ruins.
He was smiling, yet cautious, not daring to be certain whether those black wolves had anything else in reserve.
Just as he approached the dozen or so white skeletons, over a hundred clusters of black mist suddenly emerged from the crevices of the surrounding giant boulders, rushing toward Lu Yu.
Lu Yu stood still, waiting for the dark mist to approach.
“Click.”
Suddenly, some black mist opened its mouth, revealing white teeth, and then bit down towards Lu Yu.
Bang.
Black Mist’s tooth was chipped, letting out a strange screech.
All the black mist arrived extremely quickly.
They surrounded Lu Yu in less than a second.
Hum.
Flames erupted from Lu Yu’s body, instantly devouring all the black mist in a single blink.
Black mist of the Wangzun level; beings of this level are instantly annihilated in front of Lu Yu.
Dark gray ash lay scattered around Lu Yu.
Lu Yu walked into the ruins of the palace.
This area of ruins is at least the size of a small town.
Lu Yu searched bit by bit and finally found a small box on the altar at the central plaza of the palace.
Lu Yu opened the box, and inside was a storage pearl.
Lu Yu’s hand involuntarily trembled upon seeing the inside of the storage bead, causing it to slip from his grasp and roll onto the ground.
The storage pearl actually contained a sea of blood.
Lu Yu barely caught a glimpse of the edge.
“This is not an ordinary storage pearl. The blood sea inside seems to truly be a sea of blood. How much blood from countless lives would it take to form such a blood sea?”
Just like the blood sea where he saw the Bloodline Inheritor cultivating.
It’s as different as heaven and earth compared to that bloodbath over there.
This is definitely not an ordinary storage bead; it might even be a sealed storage space.
Lu Yu carefully put away the storage bead.
He was unsure of the purpose of this item, so he decided to put it aside for now.
Then Lu Yu scanned the surroundings again and discovered a crystal in a corner of the palace. Inside the crystal, black mist was surging and colliding.
…
Congratulations on obtaining the Death Fog. By injecting your blood into the crystal, you will activate the Death Fog and bring it under your control.
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“Is there such a wonderful thing?”
Lu Yu’s eyes sparkled as he released the fog of death.
The Mist of Death is a power even kings fear. Using it at a critical moment might save your life or help you advance further.
With these two items as a foundation, Lu Yu searched even more meticulously.
This time, he found a King’s Blood Crystal among the rubble in the palace.
“They’re all great things,” Lu Yu said with renewed motivation.
However, this time, his search turned up nothing.
Lu Yu stood up, instead of walking further away, he returned to the position of the five black wolves.
Five black wolves were in the process of dividing the Golden Beast’s blood when they saw Lu Yu and hesitated, asking in surprise, “How come you’re back?”
“How about we continue our deal?” Lu Yu smiled and said, “I’ll use the Golden Beast’s blood again in exchange for your intelligence?”
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