In the valley, everyone from Lu Hao and Lu Minghai’s side widened their eyes in astonishment.
They knew the power of Lu Hao’s sword.
With this sword strike, Lu Hao dealt two million attack power against a level-five monster whose strength reached fifty million!
This sword once split a mountain in two.
That kind of strike truly deserves to be called powerful.
Lu Yu hadn’t even reached the peak of the fourth-level Xinghun; in truth, he was merely on par with a third-level monster. Yet such a weakling had actually withstood a sword strike powerful enough to slay even fifth-level creatures!
However, even such a powerful strike was now blocked.
“I must have seen it wrong.” Dozens of people kept rubbing their eyes. Who could believe it?
“Master Lu’s Flaming Sword has been blocked; this must be a fake.”
“Screech!”
A cold gleam swept across the lightsaber’s blade, forcefully splitting the tip of the saber in two, and cutting deep into the sword’s body.
Lu Yu’s flesh and blood were shattered and then reformed under the power of the lightsaber, as if he truly possessed an immortal body, sending shivers through the hearts of everyone present.
“Lu Hao, today I’ll take your life!” Lu Yu let out a long roar toward the sky, allowing his flesh and blood to be shredded. His arms bulged with prominent blue veins, resembling earthworms surfacing, continuously writhing and twisting.
Squeak—
The grating metallic sound became longer and louder.
Lu Yu exerted force with both feet, channeling a cold glow into the sword body, splitting the lightsaber in half from tip to hilt.
Lu Hao’s face was filled with shocking disbelief; how could he have imagined that his得意 strike would be shattered so easily?
Lu Yu’s hands are sharper than a sword and faster than a blade!
A cold ray of light severed Lu Hao’s arm, struck through the celestial crown, and then split downward between his legs.
“This isn’t fake!” Lu Minghai never expected that the boy who used to be powerless against his beatings would now become so strong.
He knows best about Lu Hao’s capabilities.
However, Lu Hao died just like that.
To die at the hands of Lu Yu, the one they once called a little bastard.
Lu Hao remained wide-eyed with shock until his last breath, and his body collapsed to the ground on both sides.
The valley fell silent, and the oppressive atmosphere was suffocating.
Lu Minghai stopped crying out; now he felt a sense of despair.
The murderous aura around Lu Yu had not yet dissipated; his blood-red eyes turned even redder. Glaring fiercely at the person holding Lu Minghai, he roared, “I said, whoever dares to catch him, I will kill them! Didn’t you hear me?”
As Lu Yu spoke, he slashed his palm through the air, and thousands of demon-slaying swords pierced forward, directly turning the person holding Lu Minghai into a pool of blood.
Lu Minghai was lying in the blood-stained mud, the only thing he could do was twist his waist, crawling on the ground like a giant worm.
Lu Yu stepped forward and placed his foot on Lu Minghai’s face, his voice cold as he said, “I said I wouldn’t kill you, and I will let you go back. Go back and tell everyone in your Lu family what you’ve seen here today. Let them know I’m back, understand?”
Lu Minghai trembled, too afraid to utter a single word of refusal. He kept nodding and said, “Understood, I understand!”
Lu Yu pulled his foot back and looked at the person who had arrived with Lu Hao, asking, “Who knows which city Lu Minghai came from?”
One person stammered, “From, from Xi’an! Lu Hao and Lu Minghai are both from Xi’an.”
Lu Yu said coldly, “Hmph, so Xian is already under Lu Yu’s control, right?”
The respondent nodded.
Lu Yu pointed at the responder and said, “You, crawl back while carrying Lu Hao on your back.”
The responder hesitated for a moment, thinking about Lu Yu’s strength, then quickly picked up Lu Minghai and rushed towards the narrow cliff passage.
“The rest is up to us now,” Zhang Qing chuckled, saying, “Everyone, once the platform is activated, you’d better enter first. If anyone dares to run away—”
Zhang Qing’s face suddenly darkened, and he coldly said, “I will cut off his limbs and leave him here to survive or die like a human stake, just like Lu Minghai.”
Hundreds of people, including those who had just emerged from the narrow pass of Xiantiangu, felt a sudden stir in their expressions.
Immediately understood what these people were trying to do.
Just as someone was about to open their mouth to speak, Zhang Qing arrived at his side like a gust of wind.
Zhang Qing grinned strangely and said, “I don’t want any questions, so whoever dares to speak will end up——”
The star soldier in Zhang Qing’s hand swung down, its four cold blades severing the man’s limbs.
The atmosphere around suddenly tensed, and several seconds passed before anything happened—
“Oh!”
The scream of the man whose limbs had been severed began to rise.
Everyone’s face turned pale.
Zhang Qing pointed at Lu Yu and said, “Therefore, after witnessing Lu Yu’s skills, who still dares to try to escape? Let’s see if anyone can run away!”
This time, no one dared to speak.
Like meat sausages, they would rather try their luck to see if they can survive inside.
More than a hundred people were gathered on the platform.
Then Lu Yu and the other four people also walked onto the platform.
Zhang Qing cut his finger and let a drop of blood fall onto the platform.
The blood droplets fell onto the platform and instantly blended into the river like a single drop of water.
Blood seeped onto the platform, and soon after, five stone pillars emerged from the five cardinal directions of the stone platform.
Dragon and phoenix patterns entwine around the stone pillars, with the sun, moon, and stars surrounding them. Each stone pillar bears a single handprint.
Zhang Qing placed his right hand on a handprint and said, “Alright, everyone should place their right hand on a handprint, and then it can be opened.”
When Lu Yu and the others placed their hands on the handprints as instructed, the five stone pillars lit up.
The dragon and phoenix patterns, along with the sun, moon, and stars carved on the stone pillars, seemed to come alive and detach themselves from the pillars.
Among the stars, dragons and phoenixes weave through the sky, dazzling and beautiful.
Even hundreds of people were stunned.
In the center of the platform, the stars and the dragon and phoenix gradually condensed and finally transformed into a radiant gateway.
Zhang Qing pointed her left finger toward the light gate and coldly ordered, “Go in!”
More than a hundred people hesitated, then filed in one after another just as Zhang Qing’s expression was about to reveal a murderous glint again.
The last five people also walked in.
After all five of them stepped through the light portal, the portal behind them vanished.
Everyone stood inside a vast underground cave.
This cave covers an area of ten thousand square meters, with colorful stalactites above shimmering in dazzling lights.
The scenery here is no less impressive than that of known karst caves. The strangely shaped stalactites form countless different figures, dazzling the eyes with their glimmering light.
Around the platform where the person stood, there were also numerous stalactites, and even several underground rivers flowing with water, with a few blind fish swimming in them.
Such a scene was entirely like an underground landscape somewhere on Earth.
However, no one had ever seen such a stone platform in the center of an underground landscape!
Directly to the south of the cave, there is a pitch-black entrance large enough to accommodate a truck.
Zhang Qing shoved the few people in front of him and coldly said, “Go over there!”
The few people immediately hesitated.
But Zhang Qing’s hand was faster; with one slash, he severed a man’s neck, splitting off the head.
Then, Zhang Qing raised his hand and pushed the corpse off the platform.
“Don’t go, or I’ll kill you!”
Lou Xiaoyu frowned slightly, feeling that this was somewhat cruel.
Wang Jilong saw the expression on Lou Xiaoyu’s face and couldn’t help but sneer, “A delicate woman like you, without ability, would merely become a plaything for men. At that time, you will suffer even more than they do.”
Lou Xiaoyu sighed.
This is survival in the apocalypse!
Five people carefully stepped down from the platform, treading on the stalactites, and moved toward the dark cave entrance.
Zhang Qing let them go down to explore the road ahead; the path was definitely not smooth!
Several people walked very cautiously, not quickly.
Zhang Qing did not urge them forward either, but instead kept a close watch around the group of people.
Everyone’s breathing became so faint that it seemed to stop altogether.
Everyone dared not breathe heavily, fearing they might miss important details.
Just as these people walked out less than ten meters.
Suddenly, the stalactite beneath their feet cracked open, and one by one, skeletal white arms reached out, grabbing their ankles and pulling them downward into the earth.
The five of them were pulled into the crevice before they even had a chance to scream in pain.
The crack was less than half a foot wide. The bodies of the five people were torn apart, and half of their corpses were still protruding from the crack when another skeletal white hand reached out and pulled the remaining bodies inside.
The blood flowed into the underground river, turning the water red!
The platform fell silent.
Lu Yu couldn’t help but furrow his brows.
The strength of these five individuals was at the peak of the fourth-level Star Soul. They were killed so easily.
This is just ten meters away.
Who knows how many more dangers lie beneath the ground.
Zhang Qing inhaled sharply through his teeth and said, “So it’s really like that!”
Lao Wu Lao coldly said, “Zhang Qing, you knew there was such danger here, yet you still let us come in and take the risk!”
Zhang Qing laughed and said, “Valuable things are obtained through risks! It’s impossible for the old man to want to earn money without taking any risks. Besides, am I not here with you, sharing the same risk?”
Lu Yu stared at the cracks that were slowly healing and turning back into stalactites. He couldn’t help but say coldly, “If all the stalactites on this ground are like this, how can we get through? Zhang Qing, don’t you think you should explain what exactly is going on here?”
“Hey, no problem,” Zhang Qing said, coughing slightly and then becoming serious. “As a king, the Star Corpse naturally deserves a king’s treatment even after death. All these bones underground were killed by the Star Corpse and sealed here as burial offerings. These remains aren’t just human; there might also be monster bones, or even the remains of demons. Of course—”
Zhang Qing paused for a moment and said solemnly, “If we don’t have enough luck and run into a monster of level seven or eight, we’ll have no choice but to give up.”
When Zhang Qing said that, the faces of the more than 100 people who had been brought in turned deathly pale.
Lu Yu and the others couldn’t help but wear serious expressions.
“There’s only one way to the cave entrance; it’s nearly impossible to go around,” Lu Yu frowned, examining the surroundings, and coldly said, “The ground is no good, but I wonder if the air route will work!”
As soon as Lu Yu finished speaking, Wang Jilong had already grabbed a man by the neck and hurled him toward the cave entrance.
“No!”
The person shouted loudly in midair. As he struggled and flew outward for more than ten meters, dozens of decayed arrows shot out from the stalactites, directly piercing through his body.
The person’s body flew sideways through the air, and as he fell toward the cave entrance, the area where the arrow had struck began to corrode!
Within a few seconds, not a single bone of this person remained, only a pile of dozens of corroded arrows left at the mouth of the cave!
Wang Jilong said coldly, “It seems we can’t go through the air either; it’s poisoned!”
Lu Yu looked at Zhang Qing and said, “Since they dared to come here with just five people, they must have a way to get past us, right?”
“Of course there’s a way. However, with these people around, we won’t have to pay such a high price anymore.”
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