Chapter 278: The Fire Cave and the White Bones

The attack of the hundred-headed monster is not strong.

However, when all lives self-destructed, their power converged!

More than a hundred monsters exploded, and the force of the explosions in the narrow passage was like a storm that swept over Lu Yu’s body.

This force felt incredibly familiar to Lu Yu—The Supreme’s power!

Lu Yu was horrified.

This passage still holds such power, gathering these scattered forces and merging them into the Supreme Power!

Boom!

The storm swept over Lu Yu, lifting him into the air and sending him flying.

Although Lu Yu could withstand the power of a Supreme’s strike, it didn’t mean he could do so effortlessly.

When the first wave of the storm struck Lu Yu, the remaining nine hundred and ninety-nine waves arrived all at once.

In an instant, a thousand attacks, each comparable to the power of a supreme being, swept across Lu Yu’s body.

Even Lu Yu was struck so hard that he was embedded deep into the stone wall.

Blood was trickling from the corner of his mouth.

Lu Yu wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, stood up, and began to laugh.

The cold, sparkling light on his body became even brighter.

The life that exploded itself is dead, though.

However, from the moment they appeared, Lu Yu had already marked these lives.

Hunting has already consumed a significant amount of attributes.

This is just the beginning!

The storm within the passage vanished, and for a brief moment, silence fell at the far end of the passage.

A cold voice said, “Zunzhi!”

“The Overlord is the same!” At the end of the passage, a far fiercer storm suddenly surged forth.

Boom!

The air inside the passage became exceptionally heavy.

On Lu Yu’s body, it felt as if dozens of mountains were pressing down, threatening to crush him into the stone wall.

“Don’t go, or you’ll never leave again.” At the end of the passageway, a figure appeared.

This was not a human figure, but a skeleton.

A skeleton stood at the end of the passage, its two skull eyes flickering with blue ghostly flames!

White Bone held a rusty, broken sword in his hand.

In the blink of Lu Yu’s eyes, the shadow of the white bones before him vanished.

Boom!

A sword beam split through the sky above Lu Yu’s head and struck down onto his crown.

The old, nearly ruined broken sword erupted with an astonishing aura, as if it were about to tear apart Lu Yu’s entire body, crushing his flesh and blood.

“Clang!”

The broken sword chopped down a foot into the sky, encountering tremendous resistance, and suddenly rebounded.

A few flakes of rust fall from the rusty sword, revealing the bright blade beneath.

The white bone arm trembled with a “crackling” sound, and the broken sword in hand nearly slipped from his grip.

“Honor the King’s Bone!” The white bones saw a glimmer of golden light within the blood on Lu Yu’s celestial crown, and the ghostly flames in their eyes burned even brighter.

“Strike me with one slash, and I’ll repay you!” Lu Yu shook his hand, and more than ten grayish strands gathered in his right palm, coalescing into a stone sword, which he then swung upward to counterattack the white bone spirit’s crown.

The stone sword was so heavy that it crushed the surface of the stone walls in the passageway.

Clang!

White bone raised its sword, and the broken blade clashed against the stone sword.

Rust flaked off in pieces, and the stone sword swept across with a grayish glow, like a thunderbolt splitting heaven and earth, reverberating within the passageway.

Lu Yu opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood, his internal organs injured from the shock of the thunderclap.

He looked in surprise at the broken sword in the white bone’s hand.

He was well aware of the strength of the Stone Sword.

So far, apart from Bai Zhan’s battle axe, no weapon, not even a person, has been able to stop this sword.

However, after the rust on the broken sword was shaken off, countless beams of light erupted from it, resembling thousands of sword auras. These beams reflected off the cave walls and then converged upon him.

Lu Yu’s body was slashed by sword qi, leaving deep gashes several inches wide. Some cuts were so deep that bone was visible.

His defensive power was already comparable to that of an Emperor, yet he couldn’t even withstand the glow emanating from this broken sword—what kind of sword was this, exactly?

As Lu Yu endured the sword light, the stone floor beneath the white bones began to crack inch by inch, and a small, fine crack appeared on the bone’s arm.

The Stone Sword’s power increases in accordance with the user’s strength.

Although Lu Yu’s attack power is not strong, his physical resilience and vitality have already reached the Supreme level.

His condition can be considered as semi-Zunzang.

The gravity released from the stone sword pressed down on the white bones, making movement extremely difficult. The entire passageway began to rumble and shake, with chunks of stone walls peeling off one by one.

“Stellar artifact!” The ghostly flames in the white bones’ eyes flared intensely, staring in disbelief at the stone sword in Lu Yu’s hand.

At the end of the passage, a voice remarked, “No, it’s not yet a complete Star Artifact. However, a semi-Star Artifact with such power is rarely seen.”

“Human, I won’t kill you. Leave this place!” The white bone figure raised its hand and placed the broken sword back into its chest.

Phosphorescent lights flickered like ghostly flames among the white bones, sealing the broken sword’s glow.

The broken sword was soon sealed again by rust, losing its original luster.

Lu Yu gripped the stone sword and said in a deep voice: “I also have some matters here. I want to take someone with me, so I don’t plan to leave until I have taken that person!”

The White Bone spoke in a cold, eerie voice: “Human, don’t attempt to provoke me. Your strength is indeed impressive among humans. However, you’re merely a Half-Zhizun; you have no qualification to speak to me like that.”

Lu Yu could tell that these white bones were extraordinary.

However, this did not affect Lu Yu’s fighting spirit.

He coldly said, “It doesn’t matter what strength I hold in your heart. All I know is that no one is allowed to stand in my way.”

Not even the Supreme Being could break his will, and not even the Devil Ancestor could force him to kneel—so how could a mere skeleton possibly do so?

In the white bones, ghostly flames flickered, as if trying to devour Lu Yu’s soul.

Immediately afterward, the white bones did not speak but began to retreat backward.

After the white bones vanished at the end of the passage, the stone walls within the passage began to crack open one by one.

One by one, monsters broke through the walls.

“Roar!”

The giant dragon roared, broke free from the stone wall, and rushed toward Lu Yu.

A colossal body swayed, filling up most of the passageway.

In an instant, thousands of monsters exploded within the passageway.

The terrifying power surged like a war god sweeping across the battlefield, shaking the passageway as if it were on the verge of collapse. Gales of immense force, each carrying the might of the four尊 (respectively the strongest forces unleashed by Bai Zhan), swept through with overwhelming intensity.

“Self-destruct, self-destruct…” Lu Yu gripped his stone sword, sweeping it toward the fierce wind, and scoffed coldly, “Is this all you’re capable of? No other skills? Even if you keep self-destructing, you still can’t kill me.”

He cleaved through the first storm with a single sword slash, but then thousands of layers of subsequent waves surged toward him from behind.

Lu Yu’s flesh and blood exploded, and clusters of starlight began to shine from within his golden bones.

When these forces swept across the golden bones, wave after wave, ripple after ripple, it was like the Demon Lord’s ultimate strike, impossible to evade.

Thousands of layers of fluctuation swept through, and golden bones began to show cracks.

Next came the thousand layers. Lu Yu’s golden bones in his limbs exploded, followed by his chest, and finally his skull!

Lu Yu’s flesh and bones turned into a rain of blood.

After the storm, the giant dragon extended its claw from the clouds, reaching toward the stone sword.

In the moment when the dragon’s massive hand was about to touch the stone sword, a fragment of golden bone on the sword emitted a golden beam of light. This light drew the surrounding shattered golden bones toward the stone sword.

Boom!

The stone sword erupted with astonishing gravitational force, crushing the dragon’s body and sending it plummeting to the earth.

Golden bones instantly converged, followed by the regeneration of flesh.

Lu Yu pierced the dragon’s head with his sword.

The giant dragon let out a mournful roar, its body struggling desperately, but it eventually stilled.

Lu Yu raised his hand and sealed the giant dragon’s body into his storage bead.

Due to the large number of monsters breaking through the walls, the passage had become even wider, nearly the size of half a football field.

The cold, star-like glimmers on his body surged like swords drawn from their sheaths, exuding an aura so formidable that it made people instinctively feel awe and fear.

“Roar!”

The stone wall of the passage opened again, and this time it wasn’t just a thousand heads—it was nearly three thousand monsters appearing together.

At the end of the passage, a voice shouted angrily, “Explode!”

Boom, boom, boom…

Three thousand monsters detonated themselves at the same time—an explosion of nearly a thousand demon sovereign-level lives, and two thousand nine hundred king-level beings’ first detonation.

It was as if an immense force had emerged from the dawn of creation itself, threatening to extinguish all life.

“Alright!”

Lu Yu, fearless and undaunted, had long since set his mark as a hunter, his life after self-destruction no different from those he had reaped.

A large amount of attributes was being transferred into Lu Yu’s body.

The storm grew fiercer and more intense, possessing destructive power capable of obliterating decayed ruins, turning all the debris within the passage into dust!

“Break!”

Lu Yu stood amidst the storm, like a celestial sword piercing the heavens. The cold radiance within him surged forth, suddenly transforming into millions of sword beams that erupted from his body.

His hair strands danced wildly, each one resembling a sword, slicing through the void as they swayed amidst the storm.

The sword light transformed into a rain of blades, tearing through the storm and slicing all the tempests within the passage into fragments.

The storm shattered, making it difficult to form terrifying power again, and ultimately faded into nothingness.

The void around Lu Yu was emitting a piercing sword hum.

At this moment, the passageway fell silent.

No more life emerged from the breach. The gravel and ashes within the passage began to float toward the stone wall, refilling the gaps and restoring the wall to its original narrow passageway.

The voice at the end remained silent for a long time before another voice spoke: “You are very different. To have reached this level, it would be difficult for us to keep you here!”

Another voice, cold as ice, said, “Come in!”

The sound of swords around Lu Yu vanished.

The cold light emanating from his body receded, no longer resembling a sword!

Lu Yu’s expression was icy cold as he strode into the passageway.

The passage was long, but there were no further obstacles.

Lu Yu walked forward for nearly a kilometer. The passage became increasingly hot, and ahead, the end was almost in sight, with flickering flames visible in the distance.

“Buzz!”

A wave of scorching heat rushed towards Lu Yu, almost melting him.

Lu Yu walked to the end and finally saw everything ahead.

Ahead, there was no path, only a pit of fire.

The fire pit is thousands of meters high, with a diameter of thousands of meters as well!

The place where he was located was only one of the thousands of caves surrounding the fiery abyss. At the very front of the abyss, lava was rolling about, and towering pillars of fire, hundreds of meters high, occasionally erupted from the molten depths!

There was no one here, nor were there any white bones.

All that could be seen was lava and flames!

The walls of the fiery abyss were embedded with dozens of chains shimmering like starlight, extending into the molten lava, as if pulling something.

The chains clattered noisily, continuously vibrating as the lava surged and rolled.

Lu Yu saw that the end of the iron chain was pulling a platform that floated above a pool of molten lava.

On the platform, there were four skeletons sitting cross-legged, undergoing the baptism of lava.

“Come down here and talk to us if you’ve got the guts!” a skeleton turned its head and looked at Lu Yu.

Another skeleton said, “The human you’re looking for was indeed placed under our watch long ago. If you want to take him, let’s see if you have the qualifications!”