The entire Fanggang City is filled with people.
Experts from all over the world, powerful figures from various factions, countless mysterious recluses, and wandering wanderers.
Fanggang City’s prosperity was unprecedented and unparalleled; even before the apocalypse, such a scene was impossible to witness.
Within the First Domain and between the core areas, crowds of people were packed tightly. Even beyond the First Domain, countless individuals were gathering!
They were all aiming for the quota of one hundred thousand people.
Everyone was extremely excited, each with a determined look as if they were sure to win.
Three days is enough time for many people to get well prepared.
Meanwhile, Liu Xing was waiting, having prepared for a long time for the recruitment on the third day.
Not only Liu Xing, but also Huowu and Xiaoxiao came to help.
Lu Yu quietly left Fanggang and returned to the cave beneath the Blood Tower.
The two grave robbers had already waited for almost ten days, thinking that Lu Yu had forgotten about the two of them.
They didn’t dare to run or escape, and their stored grain was almost gone.
The two of them waited here with eager eyes, bored for ten whole days!
At this moment, Lu Yu appeared, and the two of them were more excited than if they had seen a savior.
“Let’s continue our unfinished conversation!” Lu Yu said seriously. “Tell me, how much do you two actually know about the secrets of the Wangcheng ruins?”
“This, this—” the middle-aged man looked at Lu Yu, and after a long silence, he said, “We only searched a few times in your area; we didn’t go anywhere else.”
“Why was the search conducted only at my place?”
“Intuition!” said the middle-aged man. “In our line of work, sometimes your gut feeling can save your life, and it can also lead you to hidden treasures!”
Lu Yu stared coldly at the middle-aged man and said, “What I want to know is, besides the underground sealed tomb, what else have you discovered?”
Lu Yu did not believe that the middle-aged man had nothing to hide.
The ruins of the royal city are mysterious.
If the middle-aged man had really been a grave robber, he would have been able to dig deeper underground. He didn’t believe the middle-aged man hadn’t discovered anything at all.
“This—”
The middle-aged man hesitated, and he knew something was wrong.
He believed that Lu Yu must have seen through it.
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said, “I’ll tell you everything. My apprentice and I discovered that more than just one battle had taken place in that ruins!”
“Continue!”
Lu Yu’s expression shifted slightly.
He had always found that ruin mysterious!
Moreover, the examination of multiple King’s Sacred Bones also revealed that they did not belong to a single era.
The middle-aged man didn’t deceive him on this point, so he believed the rest would also be truthful.
After all, he had obtained a great deal of secret information from Xue Ji, enough to detect the loopholes in the middle-aged man’s words!
“There, the ground consists of a burial site formed by the bones of various life forms mixed with soil, extending five thousand meters downward from the surface. Beneath the ruins, at intervals of dozens or even hundreds of meters in depth, there are layers of soil dozens of meters thick, covering vast amounts of earth. Below these bones, another soil layer appears, and beneath that layer, bones again. It’s as if geological changes and accumulations from different eras have covered up the traces of one battle after another. The same war has occurred repeatedly in the same location, and at least ten large-scale wars have erupted there.”
“Continue!” Lu Yu frowned.
The war taking place in that region seems to be repeating some form of cycle—what is it all for?
At the lowest level, the sealed tomb resembles the central ruins of the ancient royal city. We believe it should be the king’s burial site. And all those wars, again and again, were likely fought solely for争夺 and searching for that royal tomb. However, I’ve always been puzzled—among those skeletons, many still retain the aura of Emperor Bones, and some emit a power as intense as that of a hundred emperors even today. Such an immensely powerful war should have utterly destroyed these ruins, so why did it leave these city wall remnants intact instead of completely obliterating them?
The middle-aged man said helplessly, “Ten wars have already piled the land up by five thousand meters, yet why is this ruin still on top? It seems more like the ruin was built right atop the remains of those ten wars. But then, the deepest tomb and the uppermost ruins belong to the same era. I’ve thought about it so much my head feels like exploding! How can objects from the same era be one on top of the other, separated by the span of ten wars?”
Lu Yu sensed something that made his spine tingle with fear!
“Besides these, what else have you noticed?” Lu Yu continued to ask.
The middle-aged man’s eyes twinkled as he smiled and said, “If Mr. Lu permits, I could take a look beneath all the ruins to see if there are any new discoveries.”
Lu Yu’s eyes flickered with an intimidating coldness as he coldly said, “You’ve got quite some nerve, trying to use my name to deceive others? Are you planning to shift all the blame onto me if you ever get caught?”
“This… this I dare not!” The middle-aged man was taken aback, quickly forcing a laugh as he said, “Mr. Lu, I was just speaking off the cuff, please don’t take it seriously.”
Lu Yu suddenly said, “Three-quarters!”
“Uh, what did you say?”
The middle-aged man did not immediately respond, asking in confusion.
Lu Yu said, “I’ll send someone to accompany you in the search. Everything found will be collected by my people, and then we’ll distribute it together after returning!”
Middle-aged and young people felt a sudden dizziness!
Lu Yu didn’t even plan to leave anything behind—it’s obvious that this was taken by force.
That’s way too harsh. They want three-quarters of everything all at once.
“Half each, one half for each of us!” The middle-aged man wasn’t one to be taken advantage of either, and quickly caught on.
Lu Yu isn’t unwilling to take action; he simply doesn’t act without a clear benefit.
Lu Yu said coldly, “You’re thinking too optimistically. Once we’re discovered, you’ll escape and sell me out. Do you really think these people would let me go? I’ve invested a huge sum of money into building Fanggang City; do you think I can just abandon it at a moment’s notice? Moreover, you only have two people, yet I have over four hundred people relying on me. Do you really think your risk is greater than mine? Either I get three-quarters of the proceeds, and we cooperate, or you can forget it entirely—just don’t involve me if you get caught.”
“This—” the middle-aged man hesitated.
The young man beside him jabbed the middle-aged man hard and said, “Master, even a quarter share would work. At least then, if something goes wrong, someone else will take the blame. Otherwise, if the two of us get caught, we’ll truly be trapped with no way out—neither heaven above nor earth below.”
“Oh, right, right!” The middle-aged man immediately understood as well, nodding repeatedly and saying, “No problem, we’ll definitely take your people with us.”
“That’s great. Since you’re asking me to take on the risk for you, it’s only natural that there’s a cost involved!”
Lu Yu nodded with a faint smile.
Lu Yu had considered taking control of the entire ruins of the royal city, but his current strength was not sufficient to achieve that.
Privately hollowing out the underground of the ruined royal city, he didn’t object to that.
This world has always been one of survival of the fittest.
He doesn’t care about others’ survival, as long as he becomes strong himself.
Lu Yu summoned the demon using a teleportation method.
Whatever the demon saw, Lu Yu could see as well.
Therefore, he isn’t afraid of the middle-aged man trying any underhanded tricks, since the demon is following him!
Lu Yu nodded slightly towards Huanmo, who immediately reached out a hand toward Lu Yu, touching it to Lu Yu’s skin.
Boom!
The aura of the Demon King swelled once again, reaching the same level of power as Lu Yu!
The young man exclaimed excitedly, “So this is the Phantom Demon? It can copy all the abilities of a person?”
“Slap!” The middle-aged man harshly smacked the young man’s head and said, “What are you happy about, you idiot? This guy is going to take away everything we acquire from now on. Don’t you realize this is an insult to us?”
“Master. But with Huanmo around, don’t you think our lives are quite secure? If there’s any danger, someone can always cover our retreat.”
“Hmm, that’s true. But—”
The middle-aged man felt somewhat unhappy at the thought that everything he had found was being taken away by the demons.
“Mr. Lu, if there are no further questions, may we take our leave?” The middle-aged man smiled and said, “I’m quite looking forward to excavating plenty of valuable treasures from the ruins of the Wangcheng site!”
As he spoke, the middle-aged man grabbed the young man and started running toward the exit. He couldn’t bear to stay in this place for even a single second longer.
The young man said excitedly, “Master, this time we can accumulate a lot of equipment. When that time comes——hmm!”
An middle-aged man suddenly clamped the young man’s mouth and tried to drag him outside!
“Boom!”
Ten thousand skeletons suddenly stood up. The weapons in each skeleton’s hands were glowing, and the light in their eyes seemed to devour people.
“I feel like you’re hiding something from me!” Lu Yu said coldly on the altar, “Speak up. If you don’t clarify everything this time, don’t think you can just walk away.”
“Mr. Lu, you misunderstood,” the middle-aged man said awkwardly. “He’s always wanted to date a beautiful girl. Well, with such great gear, he can show off a bit, right?”
The young man immediately laughed and said, “My master has always discouraged me from chasing girls, as he believes it’s a waste of youth, so he covered my mouth!”
“So?” Lu Yu smiled.
The demon took one step and arrived in front of the middle-aged man and the young man.
Hiss!
The ten fingers of the demoness each shot out three feet of cold light, pointing at the throats of the middle-aged and young men.
A cold, sharp blade pierced the throat, and a trickle of blood flowed from the wound.
“I said, I said!” the middle-aged man immediately cried out cowardly, “Move this knife away.”
“Master, I admire everything about you, especially your integrity—” the young man said helplessly, covering his face with his hands, looking quite pitiful.
“When you’ve seen enough dead people, it’s only natural to fear death. Anyone who claims otherwise is just asking for trouble,” the middle-aged man said matter-of-factly. “I know Mr. Lu’s temperament all too well. If things go badly, he might just cut your head off with a single stroke of his sword.”
The middle-aged man smiled bitterly and said, “That’s exactly why I don’t gamble on things like this. Since Mr. Lu already has his suspicions, I might as well just admit it outright.”
The young man covered his entire face with his hands.
This master of mine is always in the right.
An middle-aged man coughed and said helplessly, “Actually, it’s like this. We discovered a secret during several explorations, which gave us the courage to come to this forbidden area of yours and the ruins of the royal city to search for some top-grade items.”
“Tell me more!” Lu Yu frowned. “You seem to have a lot on your mind. Why don’t you just spill it all out!”
“This really is the last secret,” the middle-aged man swore, pointing to the sky, “If I have any more secrets, may lightning strike me down and toss me into a pot of boiling oil for ten days.”
Lu Yu said coldly, “Alright, alright, stop swearing to me. What exactly is it that makes you dare to go to such lengths to cause me trouble?”
The middle-aged man put away the smile on his face and said solemnly, “Huaxia, perhaps the entire world is about to face a catastrophe!”
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