Sha Lu’s face was extremely gloomy, feeling humiliated to such an extent for the first time!
Since becoming the Demon Lord, all humans before him were merely instant kills.
Yet today, he encountered a human whose soul was merely at the peak of the eighth star level, and this human caused him to suffer losses consecutively.
If there were other Demon Lords around, they would probably mock him to death.
If it weren’t for the Dragon’s Nest, the bloodshed must continue until the end between him and Lu Yu!
Unfortunately, there’s not enough time left, and I can’t afford to waste any more!
Lu Yu stopped as well when he saw the carnage coming to a halt.
His expression remained extremely solemn, his icy eyes fixed on the carnage as he chuckled, “Murderous Overlord, aren’t you supposed to tear me apart? What’s wrong, why have you stopped? What’s the reason for this?”
Sha Lu’s voice rumbled: “Judging from the time we entered here, this place will be sealed off in about ten hours. Anyone who hasn’t left by then will be purged from the Dragon’s Nest! I could kill you anytime I want. However, what’s inside the Dragon’s Nest is far more important than eliminating you!”
Lu Yu nodded without the slightest hesitation, a cold smile on his face. “Fine! After we get out, I’ll accept your challenge anytime!”
“Damn it, are you asking for death?!” At Lu Yu’s words, Sha Lu was almost driven to a frenzy.
What Lu Yu said was both provocative and sarcastic.
A mighty demon lord, repeatedly seeking trouble with someone who has only an eighth-level star soul—truly, it’s enough to invite ridicule.
Especially the word “challenge,” as if the mighty Demon Lord himself had already become so weak that he was being looked down upon by someone.
Such humiliation and slaughter would enrage anyone.
However, the massacre was still endured.
After killing Lu Yu, we can figure out the next steps. If we miss the Dragon’s Nest, we won’t know when we’ll get another chance.
After finishing his words, Sha Lu turned his back on Lu Yu without another glance.
He tore through the void to enter another space, then searched for the stone pillar and teleported away.
The massacre doesn’t care whether Lu Yu knows the way out or not!
Anyway, the massacre won’t be broadcast in front of Lu Yu, and they prefer Lu Yu to be eliminated.
Based on the strength displayed in this battle, if he continues moving forward like this, others’ chances will become slim!
Lu Yu exhaled deeply in relief only after witnessing the Murderous Devil King leave the overlapping space within his mind.
He wasn’t confident about defeating the slaughter, so he always held something back.
I’m just worried that if Kill escapes, any one of the following abilities—Kingbone, Kill Star Soul, Poison Dragon, or Silver Dragon—would be enough to drive the major demon lords outside to madness.
At that time, if those few people team up, even with the help of Huang Ying and Huo Wu, his hope of surviving would probably be slim.
Lu Yu did not leave immediately.
He now has control over the overlapping space and can leave or even enter at any time.
There were only a few hours left, and he didn’t want to waste this opportunity.
Lu Yu released his divine consciousness, and everything across the nine hundred and ninety-nine layers of space came into full view.
He wanted to see if there was any other information hidden here besides what he had already obtained.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine layers of space merge, leaving no trace of anomaly!
“Huh, something’s wrong!” Lu Yu stared at the first layer of space and immediately teleported there.
A stone pillar here had a section several feet wide sliced off by a sword, leaving a flat surface on which more than ten unique symbols were carved.
In front of the stone pillar lay a shattered star-forged weapon and the remains of a skeleton, less than one-tenth of which was still intact, leaning against the pillar.
Lu Yu inhaled sharply and said, “A overlapping space with a time limit—everything here should be an illusion overlapping with reality. How could someone actually die here? When the time limit is exceeded, shouldn’t people be transported out automatically?”
Lu Yu looked at the symbols on the stone pillar, which disassembled and reorganized into words he could understand.
“I have entered the darkness, I have already captured the darkness…!”
When he finished writing, the sword seemed to shatter, and the man had already lost all his strength.
There are still some characters left to be written at the back.
Lu Yu looked at the shattered bones in shock and exclaimed, “While others flee from the darkness, he actually dares to step into it. What tremendous courage!”
Lu Yu squatted down, and the slight breeze around him had already turned the remaining parts of the skeleton into ashes.
The broken sword was left with only a hilt, the entire blade shattered into pieces.
Lu Yu grasped the sword hilt, but it crumbled to decay in his hand.
“He’s strong enough to enter the darkness! But if not even bones can remain, what exactly lies within the darkness?”
Lu Yu murmured to himself, yet he felt his scalp tingling, as if a pair of eyes were staring at him from behind.
Lu Yu suddenly turned around and, in the darkness, saw a pair of eerie blue eyes emerging from among the stone pillars.
Then, from among the stone pillars, a figure emerged like a ghost stepping out of the stone column. This shadowy figure stood beneath the grayish-white light, its entire body wrapped in black mist, with only a pair of eyes visible.
Stared at by those eyes, Lu Yu felt a chill rising from the depths of his heart.
“Human or ghost!” Lu Yu took a deep breath, his icy gaze fixed on the spectral figure.
The ghostly figure did not speak, instead gazing past Lu Yu toward the inscriptions on the stone pillar, wearing a puzzled expression.
The ghostly figure spoke, its gaze rigid, muttering to itself, “I have split myself, just to preserve my will. Someone is coming; it’s time to gather!”
Then, more ghostly figures emerged from the stone pillars around.
These shadows started with dozens, then became thousands, and later turned into tens of thousands!
These shadowy figures surrounded Lu Yu.
Even Lu Yu, with all his boldness, couldn’t help but feel his hair stand on end when he saw those ghostly figures.
Suddenly, these ghostly figures moved toward the first figure, then their bodies turned into black mist and merged with the initial figure.
The more silhouettes merged, the clearer the gaze of the original silhouette became.
After the merging of tens of thousands of human figures was completed, the sole remaining ghostly figure’s eyes began to radiate a brilliant, intelligent light!
The figure looked at Lu Yu and asked sorrowfully, “Has the darkness passed?”
“Who exactly are you?” Lu Yu took a deep breath, already suspecting that this was yet another expert who had survived through some extraordinary means.
He seemed to have nothing left but his soul.
The skeleton he saw must have been the body itself.
“Me? Me?!” The figure’s eyes blazed with astonishing light, and his voice turned arrogant and majestic as he declared, “The Demon Ancestor!”
The Demon Ancestor!
These two words were even more shocking to him than the impact brought by the Demon Lord.
These were merely two words, yet they nearly shattered Lu Yu’s heart.
From the tone of the figure’s voice, an invincible aura of supreme dominance was already evident, causing the very space around to tremble in response!
“What, what!”
Lu Yu was startled, his heart pounding violently.
He had heard this name more than once before.
The progenitor of the demon race, and the first human to attain demonic enlightenment through great wisdom.
The rise of the demonic later on was all because of this one person.
The figure continued, “Now I am merely a soul without power. I sense the aura of both humanity and demon within you. You should be able to take me away!”
Lu Yu’s forehead slightly broke out in cold sweat as he said, “Why should I believe you?”
Even when facing just a soul, he dared not underestimate it.
The progenitor of the demon race, a terrifying expert whose combat power rivals the peak of the Nine Star Souls.
No one knows where the Demon Ancestor came from, and no one even knows whether the Demon Ancestor is alive or dead.
The demonic race flourished because of him. Even after the passing of millions of years since the Demon Ancestor’s disappearance, the demonic race still revered and worshipped him as a divine being.
In the Demon Race, the Demon Ancestor is the deity, their creator!
Lu Yu would never believe that he could encounter the soul of the Devil Ancestor here.
An existence as divine as a god, even if it were just a soul, must never be underestimated!
When Lu Yu said, “Why should I believe you?” his heart almost stopped beating.
Facing the Demon Lord, he still had the strength to fight.
Yet when facing the Ancestor of Demons, the divine being of the demonic race, he dared not underestimate even a single soul!
As if seeing through Lu Yu’s thoughts, the Devil Ancestor said, “You are the first cultivator in this realm to discover my remains!”
Lu Yu took a deep breath and replied, “The seventh one!”
He hadn’t originally intended to respond. However, since the Devil Ancestor asked the question, there must be a deeper meaning behind it. Lu Yu also wanted to see what the Devil Ancestor intended to say.
“Number seven?” the Demon Ancestor sighed. “I am number six!”
Lu Yu was moved.
The Devil Ancestor continued, “You must have come here to the Dragon’s Nest for the treasure as well. Then, I can help you enter the seventh zone. So long as your abilities meet the requirement, one item will be enough to let you surpass the ninth-grade Star Soul!”
Lu Yu asked in confusion, “Zone Seven?”
The Devil Ancestor was slightly taken aback and calmly said, “It seems you know nothing about this place. Well, let me tell you. This Dragon Nest has a total of six regions. However, beyond those six regions, there is still a hidden area.”
Lu Yu exclaimed in surprise, “You mean the area where the Dragon King is located?”
The Demon Ancestor nodded and said, “You could put it that way! As long as you help me leave, I can take you into the Seventh Zone!”
Lu Yu looked at the Devil Ancestor, hesitating.
The ancestor of the demon race, can he be trusted?
Lu Yu narrowed his eyes, his mind racing as he weighed the potential gains.
Finally, Lu Yu seemed to reach a decision and asked in a deep voice, “I have a question. Can you tell me the truth?”
The Demon Ancestor said calmly, “Ask.”
“You said you entered the darkness. What exactly happened?”
“Accurately speaking, it’s not just walking in—it’s breaking through,” said the Demon Ancestor proudly. “I have prepared for ten thousand years, waiting for the arrival of darkness. I wanted to see what darkness truly is, so I broke through. However—”
The Demon Ancestor suddenly clutched his head in pain, crying out loudly, “I was so close, just one step away from making it through. It’s like part of my memory is missing! There’s something there, but I can’t see it anymore.”
The Devil Ancestor’s expression grew increasingly pained as he spoke, his agony causing the shadowy figure shrouded in dark qi to waver and flicker as though it might dissipate at any moment!
The Demon Ancestor stopped thinking, and his shadow stabilized somewhat.
Lu Yu looked at the Devil Ancestor, nodded, and said, “Thank you for your answer. However, I’m sorry, but I cannot take you out!”
The Devil Ancestor was slightly taken aback and asked, “Why?”
“I can’t guarantee how much of a threat you are, so I’m sorry!”
Lu Yu took a step back as he spoke, and with a slight shift of his will, he was about to teleport out of the overlapping space.
Boom!
The dark aura around the Devil Ancestor began to ripple, emitting a faint wave that spread outward from within the black mist.
The voice of the Devil Ancestor turned icy cold as he said, “No one has ever dared to defy my will!”
The fluctuation of the dark energy affected the entire space, causing the layer of space where Lu Yu and the Demon Ancestor stood to tremble as if it were about to collapse.
“Buzz!”
From the dark void behind Lu Yu, a skeletal hand emerged and reached toward his back, aiming for his heart.
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