Lu Yu glanced at the Star Soul Stones in the Fanggang warehouse; there were still tens of thousands left, more than enough.
Lu Yu continued to absorb the energy, determined to complete the Bone Refining even if it meant exhausting all the Star Spirit Stones.
Over time, the metallic energy began to gradually become thinner and less dense.
Lu Yu finally saw the surroundings!
It couldn’t exactly be described as mountains of corpses. However, around him, every few steps there was a skeleton standing upright.
The densely packed bones numbered nearly a thousand.
Some bones were silver in color, while others resembled the hue of jade.
Without the isolation of metal energy, these bones, even in death, continue to emit terrifying vibrations!
Even the fluctuation of power within the skeleton alone has reached the seventh level!
If they are this powerful even after death, how strong must they have been in life!
Lu Yu’s body could now move slowly, but it required a tremendous amount of effort.
He didn’t know how long he had been standing, his legs had gone numb.
Lu Yu exerted great effort to sit down and continued absorbing the golden energy.
The metallic energy in the surrounding area became even thinner, and the Star Soul’s progress reached one hundred percent at the fourth level!
Lu Yu raised his hand, grabbed a Grade-4 Star Spirit Stone from the warehouse, and crushed it.
Boom!
His star soul within his body began to tremble, and the black, tentacle-like energy deeply embedded in his heart started to move, extending further into his bloodline!
It stopped only when the black gas had enveloped nearly fifty percent of the blood vessels.
The three basic attributes—each with a value of a million!
“Level five already!” Lu Yu looked ahead, his eyes turning even colder.
“The stronger I become, the closer your doom approaches!”
Lu Yu kept absorbing and drawing in tirelessly.
The golden light all around was growing increasingly faint!
He felt something strange behind him and his heart lurched as he turned around. Just less than two meters away, sitting cross-legged, was a corpse.
Lu Yu was startled and stammered, “How incredibly powerful must this person have been in life to be able to sit down in a place like this.”
Lu Yu looked at the standing skeletons and thought that even someone who entered with at least a seventh-level star soul would end up trapped and doomed to die the same death.
And yet this corpse was actually able to sit up—could it possibly possess an eighth-level star soul, or even something higher?
One of the skeleton’s fingers was pointing at the ground, where a smooth surface of a stone was carved with strange symbols!
One of the skeleton’s arms was golden. When Lu Yu’s eyes fell upon this golden arm, the golden bone within his own body began to vibrate slightly, as if resonating in response.
Lu Yu saw golden light gushing out from every pore of his body.
Lu Yu murmured to himself, “Could he also be using this metal essence to refine his bones?”
As these symbols entered Lu Yu’s eyes, they immediately transformed into blue text and reorganized themselves!
“Darkness has fallen, and we sought refuge in the Star Burial Ground. We had intended to escape, but never expected to be trapped here, left to die!”
“Hidden Beast, Golden Stone Sea, this Star-Burial Land is not simple; those who come later should avoid going deeper if possible!”
“There’s something strange about the Sword Tomb, but unfortunately, the darkness arrived too quickly, leaving no time to investigate thoroughly! What a pity, there won’t be another chance!”
The text flows with an immense sense of regret.
“Darkness, once again darkness!”
Lu Yu’s heart was in turmoil, and he increasingly felt the terror of the darkness!
But this is not the time to think about other things now.
Lu Yu focused intently on absorbing the golden energy—
The three basic physical attributes still improve, though at a slightly slower rate, upon reaching the fifth-level Star Soul.
…
The metallic energy in the surrounding area has become increasingly thin, yet there is still quite a bit of it.
However, the real scenery around began to reveal itself.
Lu Yu was still standing on a flat area covered with gravel. Just ahead, less than one hundred meters away, stood a stone bridge. The bridge was separated from the other side by several dozen meters, with a black vortex several meters in diameter continuously spinning at its far end. Even from a hundred meters away, Lu Yu could clearly see the pitch-black, steep abyss at the center of the stone bridge.
Lu Yu was startled into a cold sweat!
The mastermind behind this tomb executed everything so flawlessly—it was a chain of murders, each环节 linked seamlessly to the next!
If one fails to absorb the metallic essence, everything that meets the eye remains golden, and even the space a few centimeters ahead cannot be seen through.
If anyone here were truly able to move, they would plummet straight down the cliff, all the way to the bottom, unable to see through the metallic aura and walking right off the edge into empty space.
Perhaps if the person behind were able to move, would they fall off the cliff?
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Day 27—
When Lu Yu’s entire skeleton transformed into golden bones, he still felt anxious about whether there was anything left unfinished.
Therefore, he deliberately crushed the Spirit Stone again and inhaled the golden energy to conduct another test.
How much golden energy he had inhaled had all been spat out.
Lu Yu repeated it dozens of times, only stopping when he was certain he could no longer absorb any more.
At this moment, the remaining metallic energy in this space was no longer sufficient to complete the bone refinement for another person, perhaps only enough to accomplish a small portion of it.
Lu Yu stood up, and the golden energy around him was now barely holding him back!
However, these metallic energies were still able to support the upright corpses, preventing them from collapsing.
Lu Yu was about to get up and leave!
He suddenly stopped, staring at the skeleton whose left arm had turned into golden bone. He murmured to himself, “If you’re a ninth-level skeleton, then I’m truly sorry.”
Lu Yu said, his expression serious as he knelt before the bones, solemnly bowing three times, saying, “I just want to become stronger; I’m sorry for disturbing your rest!”
After Lu Yu finished kowtowing, he stood up and walked toward the skeleton. He placed his palm on the crown of the skeleton’s skull and activated his immortal body!
The skeleton emitted a faint white glow, then gradually disintegrated into radiant light, which, with Lu Yu’s breathing, seeped into his body through every pore.
“Congratulations! You have obtained the ninth-level bones. The fusion of the immortal body begins!”
Lu Yu heard such a sound and felt secretly delighted in his heart!
“In that case, I’ll have to apologize!”
The text in front of Lu Yu began to change.
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Immortal Body: The One and Only.
Grade: Two! (Upgrade method – Find the remains of a Level Nine life form and fuse with it to enhance your level!)
Attribute: None.
Description: Originates from the powerful ability born out of the dead’s struggle for survival! Driven by the will to live, it sought after the power of immortality. Eventually, it discovered the method to become immortal. When this immortal body is applied to the deceased, it renders their corpse eternal and indestructible. If used on the living, it grants the living an immortal body!
Special Effect: When your HP reaches zero, your physical body will enter a state of void. Before entering this state, you will be unable to attack, and all attacks against you will be ineffective. Your HP will then recover at a rate of 200,000 points per second until it reaches your base maximum HP.
Ability: When struck by a fatal attack, you will absorb the energy from that strike, permanently increasing your maximum health by 200,000 points! This ability can be triggered once every twelve hours, and upon activation, it will rapidly restore all your health! Your maximum health has already reached the pinnacle of the Star Soul cultivation stage and can stack infinitely!
Limitation: Second-degree immortality; the ability activates every twelve hours!
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Massacre Promotion Activated – Life recovery rate increased to 400,000 points per second. When struck by a fatal blow, your maximum life permanently increases by 400,000 points!
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“Haha…!”
Lu Yu burst into laughter, watching the skeleton transform into golden light, unable to contain his excitement.
Even if there were no treasures in the Star Burial Ground, completing the Bone Refinement and obtaining this skeleton would have been enough to satisfy him!
Moreover, with a life recovery of 400,000 per second, upon receiving a fatal blow, the maximum life will also increase by 400,000.
Because of the existence of Promotion through Slaughter, the effects gained from powerful skills began to truly manifest. Each promotion multiplies the effect by four times that of the initial level.
Only he can achieve such an effect.
With the same skills, reaching the top level, the higher his rank becomes compared to others, the greater the gap will be!
“Congratulations, bearer of the Slaughter Star Soul, the Unbreakable Body seal has been lifted—your maximum life limit has been unlocked!”
Suddenly, a voice in Lu Yu’s mind spoke in an extremely solemn tone, “Your life limit will no longer be restricted by the star soul rank and can be infinitely improved!”
“This—” Lu Yu’s smile froze on his face.
Lu Yu felt that the voice in his mind had almost shattered his heart.
“Maximum basic life increased by 5,000,000 points!”
“Hiss!” Lu Yu inhaled sharply again, feeling as if his heart were about to leap out of his chest.
One level, just one level up, and his maximum basic life has now reached seven million!
One point five million attack power, two point three million tendon and bone strength!
Compared to Wang Jilong, who has reached the peak of level five, perhaps this is incomparable.
However, with the power to slay demons and shake the depths of the underworld, he was no longer afraid, even when facing an opponent with a sixth-level star soul!
Lu Yu took a deep breath, preparing to leave, when he noticed the golden bone arm lying on the ground—the very limb that had belonged to the corpse!
Lu Yu thought for a moment and teleported the golden bone arm back to the warehouse.
He looked at the bones standing around him, hesitated for a moment, and did not reach out to touch them.
Lu Yu walked to the edge of the stone bridge and looked into the abyss at the cliff. It was truly pitch black and unfathomably deep!
“Good luck! If we had fallen, we would have been dead for sure!”
Beside the stone bridge stood a stone tablet, its surface carved with numerous strange symbols, each bearing a different handwriting style.
“Shadow beasts, Golden Sea of Stones—it seems the master of this Star-Burying Land doesn’t welcome intruders! Too bad I already possess blood and bones; otherwise, this Golden Sea of Stones would never let me go unchallenged.”
“Except for this ocean of gold and stone, there is nothing particularly remarkable here, as the Demon-Slaying Elder once said!”
“There’s something strange about the sword burial ground, but what’s deeper within the tomb is even more intriguing.”
Each line of handwriting sent a shiver through Lu Yu’s heart upon seeing the name “Zhanyu the Elder.”
Could this be the same person as the phantom I saw in the City of Magic?
Lu Yu looked further down and found that the handwriting was actually similar to the text above.
It seemed that the person who had entered came out. This time, the handwriting was somewhat faint and a bit sloppy.
“Stop right there, latecomer!”
“Cannot go deeper!”
“Cannot be cut, cannot be cut, warn those who come later, do not venture deeper!”
After these words, there is nothing more.
“What could possibly be inside!” Lu Yu’s heart raced with greater alarm. Anyone capable of skipping this bridge was likely already beyond the ninth level.
But even they returned the way they came and left behind such words. What exactly lies ahead in the tomb area!
Lu Yu looked toward the black vortex on the other side of the bridge and, unable to suppress the urge within his heart, stepped onto the stone bridge!
Boom!
Suddenly, countless black tentacles emerged from the void behind Lu Yu. These tentacles, as long as giant pythons, split open at their tips, revealing countless serrated fangs inside!
Wherever his hands passed, even the golden aura and the bones were swallowed by the darkness.
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