Lu Yu put down the Xing Bing and continued to bow his head to eat.
He didn’t care how much the woman was bullied; what he needed was for someone to bring him meals on time.
He needed time and did not want to be held back by anyone.
The woman stared blankly at the Bloodblade, her outstretched hand slightly trembling, her heart caught in a relentless internal struggle.
“Either I replace them, or you kill them.”
Lu Yu ate his meal heartily, finishing off two large bowls of rice. Leaning back with closed eyes, he said, “I don’t want you to waste my time with this every time.”
The woman’s lips were tightly clenched as her hand slowly gripped the star soldier, then she tightened her grip more and more.
Lu Yu does not want to turn a person into a killer.
However, this world does not allow good people to exist either.
The woman ate some of the food and took the Xingbing pastry with her after wrapping it up.
Lu Yu stood up and said, “Zayiggu, let’s go again!”
Before the night fell upon the city, blue text flickered again before Lu Yu’s eyes.
The Silver Dragon Armor, after being stimulated repeatedly, finally reached the peak of level two. Once it hit its limit, Lu Yu suppressed his Star Soul and continuously stimulated the armor. Finally, by activating a faint power of his Star Soul, he managed to elevate the Silver Dragon Armor to level three.
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Congratulations, the Silver Dragon Armor has been upgraded to level three.
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Silver Dragon Armor: Unique
Level: Three
Attribute: None.
Effect: The Silver Dragon Armor primarily mitigates damage. When you are attacked, the armor will activate, absorbing the damage. Each time it absorbs an attack, it will automatically strengthen your physical body.
The Grade 3 Silver Dragon Armor can enhance the body’s strength up to the level of a Magic Soldier.
Skills:
Silver Dragon Possession — When activating Silver Dragon Possession, your body will be covered in dragon scales. For the next minute, you will be completely invincible and immune to damage from any attacks.
Silver Dragon’s Claw – While under the possession of the Silver Dragon, your attacks will ignore armor, and each strike will implant a Silver Dragon Blade within your enemy’s body. When the Silver Dragon’s possession ends, all Silver Dragon Blades will erupt simultaneously inside the enemy, dealing damage equal to three times your attack power for each blade.
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“Even stronger!”
Lu Yu was roaring with anger in his heart.
That evening, when the woman arrived, her face was very pale. Although she had changed clothes and taken a shower, there was still an ineradicable bloody smell.
Time was constantly slipping away in Lu Yu’s eyes. He didn’t know how far he could advance in these two months, but he didn’t want to waste a single moment.
Zayigudu even admired Lu Yu’s madness.
Even the demon soldiers were afraid.
Because among the demon race, such madness—training tirelessly without rest—there isn’t a single one!
On the thirty-first day, Lu Yu’s maximum lifespan and physical strength both reached ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety points, which was the upper limit for level three.
The attack power reaches twenty-five thousand points.
It was not until then that Lu Yu finally took six hours to rest.
When he woke up, he saw a demonic soldier standing not far from his bed, watching him.
“Didn’t I clearly say that no one is allowed to disturb me during my rest?” Lu Yu stared coldly at the demon soldier.
The icy gaze in Lu Yu’s eyes made the demon soldier feel as if his entire blood had begun to freeze.
The demonic soldier said, “The Blood-Slaughtering Demon Lord from the Northern City has arrived with a loyal retainer; you need to go over there!”
“Lord of Demons!”
Lu Yu suddenly recalled the elder’s description of demon-slaying.
Nine-level Demon Slaying, capable of subduing the Demon Lord!
You can imagine how powerful the Demon Lord is!
If the Dark Lord from the Northern City is strong enough, he would not come to visit but to seize by force.
So the peaceful Devil King comes here with assassins. Does this prove that Fan Tian is also the Devil King?
Now that his Level 3 Silver Dragon Armor or Phantom Star Soul Orb are already very powerful, just how strong would his Level 9 Demon-Slaying ability be?
Demon-slaying is purely offensive; only a ninth-level Demon-slaying technique can subdue a Demon Lord.
That means even level eight isn’t enough, and level seven is even less so. In other words, the Demon Lord must possess at least the same strength as a ninth-level Demon-Slaying skill.
“What do you need me for?” Lu Yu calmed down after a momentary startle.
Although it was just a single sentence, the minimal information revealed to him the gap between himself and Fan Tian. With Zhan Mo as a reference, he realized he needed to be cautious.
“Before the Battle of the Demonic Altar begins, there are sometimes exchanges like this,” said the demon soldier, looking at Lu Yu. “You fight for your leader, and I don’t want you to die here. So, let me give you a suggestion—kill your opponent!”
“Beicheng, is it on the other side of Qingshi?” Lu Yu continued to ask.
“It seems to be coming from the east.”
“I don’t understand why my city hasn’t become part of your territory?”
“Not every city would catch the eye of an expert at the leader’s level,” the demon soldier replied proudly, not wanting to say much more, and simply led the way forward.
This was the first time Lu Yu entered the grand hall of the White Bone Temple.
It was also the first time walking around this grand hall. The layout was somewhat similar to that of an ancient prince’s mansion.
There were two courtyards, and he lived in the front part of the first one.
Beyond the second gate of Lu Yu lies the center of this White Bone Hall.
There was not much difference between here and where he lived; the decor was equally sparse.
Entering the grand hall, both sides featured ten massive bone pillars forged from white bones. Each pillar was so thick that even two people could not encircle it with their arms. These pillars supported the entire hall. Straight ahead, nearly a hundred meters away, stood a high platform. Before the platform were nine steps, all constructed from piles of white bones.
Above the steps was a throne composed of countless human skulls.
Upon the throne sat a motionless figure, completely shrouded in a black robe, with dark aura swirling around its body.
To one side beneath the high platform, a man sat in front of a wooden chair. He was also wearing a black robe, but his face was exposed.
The man’s skin was jet black, gleaming like obsidian. His eyes were blood-red, and he wore a long black robe. His entire face was covered with a blood-colored spiral pattern, even extending into his eyes, forming two blood-colored whirlpools. The design continued to crawl across his entire face and downward, even reaching up to his neck…
These tattoos resembled some kind of spiral patterns, exquisitely detailed, and even emitting a faint red glow.
Lu Yu guessed that this must be the Blood-Slaughtering Devil King!
Behind Tu Xue stood a young man in his mid-twenties.
This young man was about 1.7 meters tall, with a pale face that was frightening. When he saw Lu Yu walk in, his eyes turned menacing.
The man sitting on the chair looked at Lu Yu, slightly scrutinizing him before saying, “Fan Tian, your luck is good to have found someone like him. However, it’s a pity—he’s still somewhat inferior to my own elite warriors.”
The dark figure atop the high terrace bone throne coldly said, “Tu Xue, whether there’s much difference can only be known after a fight.”
“Fine, then let’s do this by the rules,” Tu Xue said without showing any anger, smiling as he added, “I’ll bet one thousand human slaves on my elite warriors.”
“Hmph, just one thousand? Don’t you think that’s too little?” Fan Tian said coldly, “Ten thousand grade-one Star Spirit Stones, one thousand grade-two Star Spirit Stones, and two thousand slaves. Do you dare to take this bet?”
Tu Xue was slightly taken aback by Fan Tian’s words. The patterns on his face shifted subtly as he replied in a deep voice, “Fan Tian, this is merely the prelude. There’s no need for such a heavy stake, is there?”
“I wouldn’t call it foreplay,” Fan Tian laughed. “Killing one of your assassins, even if you spend another month training a replacement, could it ever match mine?”
“Hmph, it’s more likely that it’s your corpse. I’d say.” Tu Xue waved his hand coldly and said, “Hong Wei, kill him. Half of the stake will go to you.”
“I still don’t know your name yet, but you’d better kill him, or else you’ll be the one who dies.” Fan Tian looked at Lu Yu.
“You’re so stingy. I helped you kill someone, and not even a little reward?” Lu Yu stared coldly at Fan Tian.
“Are you haggling with me?” Fan Tian began to exude a chilling aura, from which countless icy serpents, already visible to the naked eye, started to emerge, heading toward Lu Yu like tendrils of cold smoke.
Amidst this coldness, there was also a deadly chill capable of ending all willpower, as if an intent to completely turn Lu Yu into a corpse was assaulting his nerves.
Lu Yu gazed coldly at Fantian, unmoved amidst the aura of killing intent.
The ice snake suddenly recoiled when it was about three feet away from Lu Yu’s face.
Fan Tian said coldly, “Kill him, and I will grant you one thousand second-grade Star Spirit Pearls and one hundred third-grade Star Spirit Pearls!”
“Alright!”
Lu Yu’s gaze turned sharp.
With these, he was one step closer to achieving the fourth-level Killing Star Soul.
“Then, let’s begin.” Tu Xue leaned back, watching Hong Wei with a look of enjoyment, full of confidence.
Hong Wei stared at Lu Yu, his pupils gradually losing their color, dissolving into a sickly, pale white.
Brahma’s body suddenly trembled as he turned to look at Tu Xue with a cold gaze and said, “Tu Xue, I didn’t expect you to actually bestow such an ability upon a human.”
“Your Yellow Spring trembles; I heard from the荒影 that you also gave this person to it.”
“Now, admit defeat, and I won’t kill you!” Lu Yu looked into Hong Wei’s eyes, noticing the change in his pupils, and realized this was no ordinary skill.
He could sense the danger.
But feeling it doesn’t mean I’ll be afraid!
“If you admit defeat, I will still kill you. Because in a duel between assassins, there must be one thing… death!”
As Hong Wei’s last word was shouted from his mouth, his feet had already fiercely stamped onto the ground.
Bang!
His figure darted out like a projectile.
In an instant, the albinism spreading across his pupils engulfed his entire body.
Lu Yu also sprang into action, moving at the very moment Hong Wei did.
Hong Wei’s speed increased dramatically after the depigmentation, and in the blink of an eye, he arrived just one meter in front of Lu Yu.
His arms trembled slightly as two cold blades sprang from his sleeves, darting forward like two venomous snakes aiming at Lu Yu’s chest.
Hiss!
A cold gleam pierced into the muscle, cutting deeply inward.
Lu Yu’s entire body tensed up.
Muscles that had already surpassed the demon-level strength trembled in an instant, forcefully clamping down on the two cold, sharp blades.
“Huh!” Tu Xue exclaimed in surprise, glancing slightly astonished at Lu Yu. “What a resilient body you have—it’s actually even stronger than a demon’s!”
“Same fate awaits—death!” Hong Wei roared. His eyes, previously clouded with leukocoria, suddenly regained their normal, clear appearance.
All of this happened in an instant, almost in the very moment between Lu Yu.
Hong Wei’s albinism vanished in an instant, starting with his hair, then his chest, his body, and finally his hands.
Suddenly, the cold blade in Hong Wei’s hand turned into a white blade—
“Whiteout Blast!”
As Hong Wei’s loud shout rang out, a cold gleam suddenly burst forth from his sleeve.
Two streams of white flame shot directly into Lu Yu’s chest.
Bang!
The explosion of Lu Yu’s chest could be heard by Fan Tian, Tu Xue, and Hong Wei, and it seemed to erupt from every pore of his body, making him appear as if he were bursting into flames.
“It’s over,” Tu Xue laughed loudly as he stood up, already ready to collect his money.
Brahma remained seated in his place, not even flinching, and said, “Tu Xue, you’re celebrating too soon.”
Boom!
As Brahma’s words faded, a pair of fists emerged from the white flames, striking out with raging red fire.
“Fierce Flame Soul Weapon!”
Lu Yu’s fierce shout stunned Tu Xue!
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