Half a year, a full half a year.
Lu Yu and the others did not rest; aside from necessary recovery, they swept through everything in their path.
One beast crystal after another was destroyed, and the coordination among the people had reached a level of absolute precision.
The divine blade fragment in Lu Yu’s hand released infinite sword qi, and his first King-Making ability transformed into countless invisible sword blades, sweeping in all directions.
No one in the world, except for King, could withstand their onslaught.
One by one, the beast crystals were destroyed, yet they continued to grow.
Now, the Storm King is also close to becoming the king.
Lu Yu fought while dragging his heavy body due to the restrictions of his starlight armor, and his strength was also breaking through.
With the strength of nine hundred thousand zuns, he is undoubtedly the first among all under the kings.
The sixteen beast crystals outside Tiancheng were completely destroyed in six days.
The moment all the beasts and the black rain vanished, the celestial city erupted in celebration, with the entire city roaring in triumph.
All the soldiers were moved to tears, and some of them knelt down on the ground directly.
Two years, a full two years, before they finally felt the light of day once again.
When Lu Yu and others entered the city, cheers were heard everywhere.
The Storm King exclaimed excitedly, “I believe I need only one more battle to reclaim my throne. When shall we head to a city!”
The Heaven-Devouring King said, “Everyone, restore your vitality now. I suppose everyone’s vitality is nearly depleted, and it’ll take at least a day to recover fully. We’ll stay overnight in this city tonight.”
“My home… I haven’t returned for a long time,” said the Chaos inheritor, gazing at the city. Some of the buildings still looked the same as they had before the apocalypse, and he found them very familiar.
“Let’s find a place to eat something and rest for a while first,” Lu Yu said, checking the storage space. “We still have enough food to last half a year, so there’s no need to resupply.”
The outskirts of the city had turned into ruins, but the central area, within a radius of over a hundred miles, remained relatively intact.
As Lu Yu and the others passed by a tavern, the owner rushed over excitedly and said, “Mr. Lu, esteemed gentlemen, thank you so much, really thank you all. If it weren’t for you coming here, I wouldn’t have known whether I could survive much longer. Please come to my tavern, eat whatever you like, it’s on me, it’s on me!”
At this moment, the three figures landed simultaneously from the sky. One of them coldly snorted and said, “Is your food even edible? Mr. Lu is our guest, and it’s only appropriate that we should be the ones to host him!”
When the boss saw the three of them, he immediately stopped talking, began apologizing while slowly backing away.
Lu Yu got a clear look at the three men — the false king!
He was very familiar with such an aura.
A false king chuckled and said, “Thank you all for helping us liberate this city; otherwise, we really wouldn’t have known how to destroy the beast crystal.”
Another false king clasped his hands behind his back, chest puffed out and head held high, saying proudly, “Yes, Mr. Lu and all the other Kings, we’ve prepared a feast at the finest restaurant in Tiancheng.”
Although they are a false king, they possess the strength to engage in battle with the king himself.
In this city, they are kings who look down from their lofty thrones. Right now, they are displaying the bearing of kings, acting as if they were truly royal.
The Heaven-Devouring King coldly snorted and said, “In my presence, do you have the audacity to speak to me with such an attitude?”
This is the true king.
The faces of the three false kings slightly changed, their brows knitting with anger.
“This is a military city, where are the military personnel?” Lu Yu said, “Someone asked me to bring them a message, so I came here to find them. We’ll have our meal in this restaurant.”
Lu Yu pointed toward the restaurant where the boss had just been.
A false king slightly curled his lips and said, “Mr. Lu, this city now belongs to us. Everyone from the military department is dead. If you have any messages, just give them directly to me. Both the不死 Sky Canopy and the core of the Blood Battle City are under our control.”
“Are they all dead?” Lu Yu asked in confusion. “How did they die?”
One person said proudly, “The military leadership is utterly incompetent, constantly dispersing our defenses until half of Tiancheng was destroyed and all the protective barriers shattered. What use are such commanders if they can’t even keep us safe? The three of us should take matters into our own hands and kill them all. From now on, we will be the city’s guardians and commanders.”
“I see. Then I can give you the information,” Lu Yu said. He had never had any fondness for the military, and it didn’t matter to him who lived or died.
Lu Yu took out a letter and threw it to a false king.
The three false kings immediately gathered around the letter to read it.
At this moment, from the dark corners between the streets and buildings, a little girl quietly emerged. She cautiously selected a piece of meat bone from a trash can and quickly tucked it into her arms.
“You little bastard, who told you to steal my stuff?” The shop owner, scolded by the false king, kicked the little girl to the ground with one foot, and his shoe-clad foot kept stomping on her body.
The little girl curled up her body, tightly hugging her chest, and pressed the piece of meat bone against herself.
The boss wore a cold and ruthless expression as he kicked the little girl, causing blood to drip from the corner of her mouth, yet he still seemed unsatisfied.
“Damn it, this is the stuff I use to feed my dog. I’m not giving it to you to eat. Give me back the meat bone. Do you even know how much a meat bone is worth in spirit stones these days? As for your broken body, I’m done playing with it. Get lost.”
The boss snatched the meat bone from the little girl’s arms.
“Please, please give it to me,” the little girl begged, hugging the boss’s leg tightly. Tears mixed with blood streamed down her face as she looked up at the boss with dull, lifeless eyes. “Boss, I’ll do anything you want, anything at all. Just please give me the meat bone.”
“Get out!” The boss kicked the little girl hard, sending her flying far away.
It took the little girl quite a while to stand up again. Her frail body leaned against the cold wall of the tall building as she wiped away tears with her hand. The three false kings pretended not to see her. After reading the letter, they smiled and said, “Thank you, Mr. Lu, for sharing this information with us. If you’d like to have a meal here, we’ll have those delicacies brought over to you right away.”
The restaurant owner threw the meat bones into the trash can while scolding the little girl!
All of this was witnessed by Lu Yu and others.
There were many people around, as well as numerous soldiers passing by. Each of them cast indifferent glances, and no one stopped.
Lou Xiaoyu’s hands clenched tightly into fists as she stared at the tavern owner’s face, her eyes filled with anger.
The expressions of the three inheritors, Qi Xue, Hun Dun, and Lie Huo, were also extremely cold and indifferent, yet a murderous aura was seeping from them.
The owner, wiping oil stains from his hands, ran toward Lu Yu and the others with a sycophantic smile on his face. “It’s my honor to have you esteemed guests at my restaurant,” he said. “I guarantee the food here will satisfy you all! Whatever you’d like to eat, whatever delicacies you desire, I’ll have the chefs prepare them for you right away. Please rest assured, my chefs were once renowned cooks—internationally acclaimed chefs!”
Lou Xiaoyu watched the figure gradually moving away, her silver teeth clenched tightly as she muttered, “Who is that little girl?”
“Oh, that’s a little girl who comes here every day to steal food.”
Xiaoyu’s delicate body trembled slightly, and her shy face now showed anger as she confronted him, “But how come I heard you say you were just playing with her body until you had enough?”
The boss was taken aback and said, “Ma’am, this is the apocalypse. How could I possibly give her food for free? You know that food is in short supply throughout the entire Tiancheng now.”
With a voice choked with tears and blood, he coldly asked, “Then what about the food we ate? Didn’t the military leave behind plenty of supplies intended for the civilians? Did you distribute them on time?”
Lu Yu’s eyes filled with tears as he looked at the three false kings.
“That’s too unfair,” said a false king coldly. “We are the ones fighting desperately, so why should we share our food with the civilians? Besides, those civilians can’t help us at all. Even if we give them food, they’ll just stay full for a while and then keep asking for more. We have so many soldiers risking their lives in battle; the food should rightfully go to them. These civilians should understand that in this world, nothing good comes without hard work.”
Lou Xiaoyu’s eyes turned red as she stared at the False King. “Then are you just going to let a little girl like this survive by exchanging her own body for food?”
A false king said, “This is the end of the world; the end times are meant to be cruel. Miss Lou, I know who you are—you’re someone who survived from before the apocalypse. You should understand better than me that in your era, there were even people with red eyes.”
Hongyan, a name that is nearly forgotten by people, refers to a group of individuals who survived by preying on others.
“I… I’m going to kill you.” Lou Xiaoyu had always been a shy girl. Even while traveling with Lu Yu and destroying beast crystals, she rarely attacked enemies, focusing instead on protecting everyone.
But now, for the first time, Lou Xiaoyu exuded a faint trace of killing intent.
That crystalline jade hand struck toward a false king.
Bang!
The false king moved even faster, countering with a palm strike that slammed heavily onto Lou Xiaoyu’s shoulder.
Lou Xiaoyu was overwhelmed by anger, losing her composure.
Originally, her power of the Moonlight Star Soul could have resisted such an attack.
But now, the fabric on her shoulder was shattered, and the shoulder itself was crushed and drooped down.
After the False King wounded Lou Xiaoyu, he coldly said, “Miss Lou, I respect you because you helped us destroy the beast crystal. However, this city belongs to us now, so the rules of this city will be set by us.”
With a voice filled with sorrow and bloodlust, he said in a low tone, “In other words, you killed the military personnel because the high-ranking officers stood in your way of becoming the king of this city, right?”
“Everyone, no matter what, this city belongs to us. Our affairs don’t require your interference. We welcome your help in destroying the beast crystals, but there are some matters that don’t concern you.”
The three false kings all seemed extremely displeased, their cold and haughty expressions turning somewhat grim.
As the King who swallows the heavens, he was already indifferent enough toward living beings. Yet, he still could not match the cold-bloodedness and shamelessness of these others. Seeing the attitude and words of the three false kings, he snorted coldly, saying, “You’re merely false kings; do you even have the qualification to be so arrogant?”
A false king laughed loudly and said, “Everyone, don’t forget—the city belongs to us. Within this city, we are immortal, while you certainly are not. If you insist on meddling in our affairs, even if you were a king, you still wouldn’t have the qualifications here.”
The false king’s voice grew sharper with each word, now brimming with murderous intent.
The Flame Bearer clenched his teeth and said sternly, “Mr. Lu, although our mission is far more important than this, I can’t stand by any longer. Kill all three of them without leaving a single one alive, and I’ll consider myself indebted to you with a life-debt.”
The Storm King said, “Even when I was king, I had blood on my hands, but I’ve never seen people like you. You people dare to wield such power? Scum!”
“What’s so great about the Immortal Sky? I’ve killed plenty of false kings before.” The King of Immortality sneered, “Now, all three of you kneel down, and I might just leave you with a complete corpse.”
The last traces of respect on the faces of the three false kings turned into murderous intent. One of them snapped, “In this city, you have no power.”
“Who exactly are you saying is not capable?” Lu Yu finally spoke, his voice cold and unyielding. He hadn’t said a single word from the beginning, but his current response was unexpectedly harsh.
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