Ten days ago, several cargo ships from the United States and Canada arrived in Shanghai.
This is the first fleet from afar since the end of the world.
These outsiders brought not only many unusual treasures but also a demon!
Or perhaps, this is just a demon-like creature of the demonic race, who calls itself Xie Ming!
This demon was very courteous. After seeking permission from the Chinese military, he built an arena atop the ruins of Shanghai.
It was not until the demon, who called himself Xie Ming, briefly revealed his true form in the sky—a monstrous demon nearly ten zhang tall, with a tail, devilish wings on his back, and engulfed entirely in flames—that people realized Xie Ming was actually a Supreme Being.
What surprised them even more was that Xie Ming had actually come to search for the successor of Hell.
In other words, anyone who meets his criteria will be able to inherit the legacy of the previous Hell King and become the new Hell King.
The event caused a sensation across Huaxia, with many people rushing to Shanghai, gathering at the ruined arena, eagerly awaiting the trials and battles to come.
The King of Hell will be the strongest in Hell.
Xie Ming is merely the first one to awaken in the deepest depths of hell!
He is a warrior sealed by the previous King of Hell, specifically for this final inheritance.
A supreme being is merely a warrior of the King of Hell.
Therefore, many warriors in Fanggang City who aspired to become Lu Yu’s subordinates went to Shanghai; some went to witness the excitement, while others sought to test their luck.
Liu Xing explained the situation, saying, “Passing the test isn’t easy at all—it consists of three trials, and so far, no one has even passed the first one. I heard that Qian She, the Demon Lord, has already broken through to the Star Lord level, possessing two hundred trillion attributes, yet he only lasted fifteen seconds in the first trial.”
“Inheritor?” Lu Yu was secretly astonished in his heart.
Am I not also an inheritor, one who has inherited the Star Soul of Slaughter?
Xie Ming may not only be a warrior, but also a guardian.
Lu Yu signaled Liu Xing to continue recruiting until reaching two thousand people.
He tidied up, separated the hydra’s corpse, and then arranged the fifteen kinds of materials properly in the warehouse before arriving at Huowu’s magic city.
Hellfire is lava.
He has gathered all the materials and can now complete the Hundred Refinements Demon Body.
Ten years, one day less each day.
On the side of the Phantom Demon, the city of Tokyo was already piled high with corpses. The heads of more than fifty thousand people were stacked before the shores of Tokyo.
The Japanese people did not know who had been there cursing Lu Yu.
Lu Yu didn’t care who else was there.
What he wanted was to instill fear.
The deaths of how many people had nothing to do with him.
Let those little Japanese know fear, enough to understand the consequences of provoking him.
Lu Yu entered the passage behind the seal once again. Immediately, a figure appeared before him in anger, saying, “You’ve broken your promise. What do you intend to do by coming in again?”
“I don’t mean to disturb everyone,” Lu Yu said earnestly. “I also need hellfire to cultivate, and this is the only place I know of.”
“Cultivation?” The figure hesitated, “You already have the King’s Bone. Could it be that you also wish to complete the Hundred Refinements and Bone Tempering?”
“No, it’s a different kind,” said Lu Yu. “My cultivation doesn’t conflict with yours, nor will it disturb you. Moreover, my cultivation might even be beneficial to your Bone Tempering Fire.”
“No!” the figure’s voice growled. “Leave this place. It will do you no good to anger me!”
A figure exuded a deadly aura.
Lu Yu’s smile faded as he coldly said, “Discussing with you was my way of showing respect to everyone. It doesn’t mean you can control my actions. If you refuse to let me in, then we’ll settle this with a battle—let the outcome decide who wins and loses.”
Lu Yu showed no mercy. The energy around him surged, and the vibration of countless billions of power caused the passage to rumble loudly.
“What? You’ve broken through to the power of a Saint?” The figure first froze in shock, then exclaimed in surprise: “You haven’t even broken through, yet you can already possess the power of a Saint with just your Star Master strength.”
The figure’s voice trembled slightly.
On that day, Lu Yu’s attack power was merely two trillion, yet they could barely suppress him.
Now, the power of a single seal is fifty times stronger than before, making it even harder to suppress.
The figure’s voice was slightly silent, then coldly said: “Indeed, you are not disturbing us?”
“That’s right,” Lu Yu said. “While you absorb energy from the fire, I temper my body using the high temperature of lava. There’s no conflict.”
High-temperature forging of the body?
The figure was slightly taken aback, unable to guess what Lu Yu was about to do.
However, the figure disappeared.
Lu Yu’s lips curled slightly, and he let out a cold snort.
He refuses to listen to reason and insists on being confrontational. I really don’t understand what’s going on in his mind!
Does it only work when there’s a threat involved?
Walking into the passageway, a wave of heat hit my face.
Lu Yu glanced at the white bones on the stone platform, nodded slightly, and then leaped from the cave toward the flames.
Four skeletons gazed at Lu Yu together, curious to see what the person before them intended to do.
Lu Yu’s sudden leap startled the four people.
Without using the trembling protection of the Yellow Spring, Lu Yu directly leaped into the flames.
In the brief moment that Lu Yu’s body plunged into the lava, more than half of his flesh and blood had already vanished.
The flames engulfed his body, and the pain made Lu Yu furrow his brows. Nevertheless, he gritted his teeth and continued to sink deeper into the lava.
“He’s gone mad!” exclaimed a white skeleton. “The deeper we go, the higher the flame’s temperature becomes. Even the King’s Sacred Bone might not be able to withstand it!”
“He’s too bold, isn’t he? Doesn’t he fear falling into eternal damnation?”
Another skeleton spoke.
At this moment, Lu Yu was already completely engulfed in flames.
His body kept sinking, and the deeper he went, the higher the temperature became.
In an instant, flesh and blood are reborn, and billions of life points vanish.
One death, merely a loss of a hundred billion hit points.
But he could regenerate fifty trillion life points per second; such a regeneration speed far exceeded the rate of consumption, making him essentially immortal!
He is now truly an immortal being!
Lu Yu kept sinking, his body already numb to the flames.
The reborn flesh would once again turn to ashes in the lava in the blink of an eye.
On the platform, the four skeletons absorbed the flames and detected a thread of vitality within them.
“It’s very weak, but if this vitality is absorbed, it can accelerate the regeneration of flesh and blood. He was indeed right,”
A skeleton, filled with delight, quickly moved to absorb that bit of vitality.
As Lu Yu sank downward, he nearly died ten times every second, with billions of lives being devoured by flames. This intensified the vitality within the flames, making them seem almost alive.
“It seems this is—” a skeleton, while drawing in vitality, stared in horror at the flame and said, “the method of the Hundred Refinements Demonic Body; this is the method of the Hundred Refinements Demonic Body.”
“Yes, it’s the Hundred Refinements Demonic Body. This is the release of one’s own vitality. The beginning of the hundred refinements!”
The ghostly flames in the eye sockets of the four skeletons flared wildly with disbelief.
The Legend of the Hundred-Forged Demon Body is merely a myth; no one has ever succeeded in achieving it.
It’s not just that the method has been lost. Moreover, only the Star Lord can use this method.
However, the Star Lord’s regenerative abilities and life force are simply insufficient to sustain life within the terror of these hellish flames. Therefore, in the past, several individuals with vitality far surpassing that of ordinary demon lords have attempted it, yet they all perished in the hellfire.
This time, a Star Lord has obtained the Supreme Power. Will he succeed?
Four skeletons, their eye sockets flickering with ghostly flames, stared intently at the lava, ceaselessly pondering.
Lu Yu was still sinking in the lava, experiencing death fifteen times per second, faster than an instant.
The consumption of nearly one billion life points can still be sustained.
He didn’t know how deep he had sunk, and the flames around him were hot enough to melt stone.
His royal bones began to turn red, with golden light, stardust, and crimson all appearing on his skeleton at the same time.
Lu Yu was still sinking, his consciousness existing for only an instant before vanishing completely.
A single thought must be composed in several parts.
The pressure from all around is also increasing.
Moreover, as he sank deeper, the pressure from all directions increased, pressing his bones to the point where they began to creak and groan, as if they were being compressed. Every inch of his bones started to contract.
Lu Yu was incredibly shocked.
He finally understood why even the person who proposed it found it difficult to accomplish.
Without possessing extraordinary abilities, no one could possibly complete the Hundred Refinements Demon Body.
After all, the Star Lord’s life force couldn’t possibly sustain him this far either.
Thirty deaths per second, nearly one hundred and fifty billion lives lost every second.
But he was still far from sinking into the center of the lava.
Lu Yu sank downward, his body moving neither quickly nor slowly.
He kept calculating the time, waiting restlessly.
Two hundred billion lives consumed every second…
Three thousand billion…
One trillion…
Ten trillion…
The sinking had no bottom yet, and Lu Yu’s heart began to sink as well. If this continued, would the consumption and recovery of his vitality eventually balance out?
However, this time Lu Yu’s worry was unnecessary.
Lu Yu’s life consumption rate finally stopped when it reached thirty trillion per second.
The flames here can reduce even the supreme beings to ashes in an instant.
Lu Yu’s sinking also came to an end.
At this moment, his bones were melting away.
Every second, part of the bones would be liquefied and then re-solidified.
Lu Yu looked around in surprise.
This is the center of the Earth’s core.
He had never dared to imagine that a human could reach this place.
The surrounding lava swirled like a vortex.
At the center point, there was a black hole the size of a grain of rice, pulling the surrounding lava into rotation.
And he was only ten meters away from the black hole, constantly moving as the lava rotated around it.
Such a scene is something no one can ever witness.
This can be considered a kind of wonder, and also the reason why the Earth exists.
Lu Yu took a deep breath and murmured to himself, “It begins.”
With a flip of his palm, the first material in the warehouse vanished!
The moment the material entered the flame, it turned into liquid.
The tempering begins—
The liquefied material fuses with the regenerated flesh!
Boom! Boom!
Lu Yu’s body, flesh and bones, exploded into pieces, becoming a speck within the lava.
The fusion begins!
The flames are integrating the materials into bones and flesh.
In one second, his life drained away rapidly.
In one second… thirty-five trillion… thirty-six trillion… thirty-seven trillion lives are being consumed!
Because the material repels flesh and does not want to integrate, it has increased the difficulty of fusing with flesh.
When the consumption of life force increases to forty trillion per second, flesh is formed for the first time, with the material integrating into the blood, flesh, and bones.
“Next comes the tempering process,” Lu Yu said, his bones seated in the lava.
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