The demon gazed blankly at the spot where his heart should have been, blood gushing out endlessly as if it could never be stopped.
“My God, did I just see that right?!” The middle-aged man’s eyes bulged, nearly popping out of their sockets.
This was a complete reversal of the situation.
“What the hell did I just see?” The crowd surrounding the battlefield had been expecting either Lu Yu’s victory or a mutual destruction between the human and the demon.
Who could have imagined that a battle that seemed to have Lu Yu at a disadvantage would suddenly end in his triumph?
The demon’s eyes widened in disbelief, watching as over seventy thousand life points vanished in an instant like a flood bursting through a broken dam, pouring from his chest wound onto the ground.
It seemed unable to comprehend what had happened, unable to accept that it was supposed to be the one dominating the fight.
Yet in the blink of an eye, this human had killed him.
“Your left hand, your left hand has changed!” The demon’s vitality truly exceeded everyone’s expectations.
Even with his heart torn out, it still hadn’t died.
Instead, it felt its life slipping away, like something being forcibly severed, and suddenly turned and rushed toward the altar.
“If I must die, I’ll drag you all with me!” The demon roared furiously. After two powerful leaps, its body landed at the center of the altar.
Its body trembled as it landed, seemingly on the brink of death, kneeling at the center of the altar and shouting, “Come forth! I offer my blood to summon the return of the King! Destruction—just one minute is enough to obliterate everything belonging to our enemies!”
“Stop him!” Lu Yu’s heart inexplicably trembled, as if sensing the arrival of doomsday. He had never felt so close to death before.
The middle-aged man and his companions also seemed to realize something and charged toward the demon like madmen.
“Hahahaha! I’m ready to die, but you still think you can stop me!”
The demon’s hands gripped the wound on its chest and tore outward violently.
Rip!
Its hands tore its own body in half.
Blood and organs scattered onto the center of the altar.
Boom!
The altar was drenched in the demon’s blood. The altar, originally designed to absorb blood, began emitting a crimson glow.
At first, glowing symbols appeared across the altar. Then, intricate patterns formed around those symbols, spreading outward in layers. Soon, crimson blood lines flowed between countless runes, connecting most of them together.
Seeing these symbols, the middle-aged man shouted excitedly, “These are languages that have never been seen before! These symbols are beautiful—truly a gift from heaven to me, hahaha!”
“Luoyao, you’re insane! This isn’t the time for nonsense. Hurry up and see how to stop this!”
Everyone dragged the middle-aged man toward the altar.
To them, Luoyao was an archaeologist and should understand such things.
Though they didn’t know why the demon had sacrificed itself to the altar, they could tell from its words that whatever was happening couldn’t be good.
They pulled Luoyao toward the altar, but as soon as one foot stepped onto it, a sudden red barrier appeared, flinging them all backward.
Over twenty people were thrown several meters away, staring in shock at the glowing wall on the altar.
On the altar, more and more bloody runes appeared, swirling like a vortex within the altar itself.
“Boom!”
The altar trembled once again, and from the center of the vortex, a hand emerged.
It was just a single hand. Yet its skin was pitch black, gleaming darkly.
The fingers were unusually long, and the nails resembled sharp daggers, gleaming with a cold, sinister light.
“Is this… a myth?” Luoyao rubbed his eyes hard, feeling as if the blood-red vortex connected to another world entirely.
“What are you staring at? Try to break the barrier! We can’t let the owner of that hand come through!”
Lu Yu, already shivering at the sight of the hand, swung his fist toward the red barrier with all his might.
Bang!
Crack!
His arm shattered instantly. The barrier’s counterforce was unimaginably stronger than the punch he had thrown.
The shockwave not only shattered his arm but surged upward along it, instantly exploding Lu Yu into a red mist.
All his blood and flesh rapidly condensed toward the center, reforming his body.
But his face was pale.
With that single strike, his remaining tens of thousands of life points had dropped to less than five thousand.
He hadn’t even activated his Life Rage ability yet.
If a single strike could unleash such terrifying power, how immense must that force be?
“Run!”
The group grabbed Luoyao and fled desperately.
If even Lu Yu had been reduced to this, what chance did they have?
But just as they took a couple of steps, they froze.
From beneath the ruins of the ancient structures, thousands of skeletal hands emerged from the ground.
Some sprouted from the ruins, others from the street over a hundred meters wide.
They shattered the rubble, tearing through the wide street.
Thousands, even tens of thousands of skeletal hands stretched out, like a sea of bones swaying in unison.
“Mother of God… this is a graveyard!” Luoyao was stunned.
If this ancient ruin was truly millions of years old, who had built this massive graveyard to bury all these skeletons?
Millions of years should have been enough to reduce bones to dust.
Yet these skeletons looked disturbingly fresh, as if their flesh had only recently vanished, leaving behind grayish-white remains.
“Crack!”
More and more cracks spread across the ground, and complete skeletons crawled out from beneath.
These skeletons wore what appeared to be cloth or silk garments—some tattered, others still intact.
They resembled robes of mystic practitioners or battle armor.
In any case, all the clothing shared the same style.
Rattle!
On the altar, the skeleton chained to the stone pillar suddenly had blue light flickering in its eye sockets.
The chains automatically loosened.
The skeleton dropped to the ground, and a mighty voice echoed from the sky above it.
“If the world faces calamity, I shall sacrifice myself to suppress it. If the world becomes hell, I shall sacrifice myself to seal it.” The voice came from the sky above the skeleton, as the bony frame moved toward the center of the altar.
The blood-red vortex began to slow, its crimson glow dimming.
“Kill!”
Another mighty voice rose from the crown of the skull on the altar.
This voice was grand and majestic, like a divine chant, causing the black hand at the center of the altar to tremble and retreat slightly.
“Kill!”
All the bones across the ruins lit up with blue light in their eye sockets, and voices rose from the crowns of their skulls.
Ten thousand voices sounded together, like a divine chorus, vast and overwhelming, shaking the hearts of all present.
It was as if all living things were to be slain, as if gods and demons were to be slaughtered. This was the voice of a god of war!
Luoyao and his companions trembled, their bodies shaking uncontrollably, falling to their knees in instinctive terror at the mighty sound, as if in the presence of a true deity.
Lu Yu stood still, hearing the divine-like chant, and felt his Kill Star Soul stir within him.
He could feel the Star Soul resonating with the “Kill” chant, and it had begun to grow.
“Kill! Kill!”
The divine chant continued!
With every rising note, the black hand retreated a little further.
Within Lu Yu’s heart, the Kill Star Soul stirred. The fine black threads embedded in his heart grew under the influence of this “divine sound,” fusing with his heart.
Each time this mighty voice sounded, the Star Soul melted a little more.
Amidst the overwhelming aura of slaughter, the aura of slaying gods and demons, the Star Soul felt like a fish returning to the sea, undergoing a transformation it had never experienced before.
“Kill Star Soul activated, energy accumulating. Progress to Level 3 Kill Star Soul: 95% remaining.”
“Kill Star Soul activated, energy accumulating. Progress to Level 3 Kill Star Soul: 93% remaining.”
…
Lines of text flashed across Lu Yu’s vision, cascading past him.
The changes in the text made Lu Yu’s heart tremble.
He could feel that these skeletons were connected to his Kill Star Soul.
Especially since his Kill Star Soul, which had always been so difficult to cultivate, had finally started to change.
Ninety percent, eighty-seven percent… seventy-six percent…
Lu Yu had never imagined a day would come when his cultivation would advance so rapidly.
Luoyao and his companions couldn’t even lift their heads anymore, eyes tightly shut, their minds paralyzed with fear from the god-of-war-like voice.
Lu Yu simply stood still, closing his eyes and devoting his entire being to the “divine chant.”
Hundreds, then thousands of times the divine chant resounded, and the black hand had already retreated deep into the vortex.
Around the altar, ten thousand skeletons sat cross-legged, their eye sockets dimming as only the voice of slaughter continued from their crowns.
The black hand shrank lower and lower, and the blood-red vortex grew smaller and smaller.
The skeleton reached the center of the altar and sat cross-legged within the vortex. Before it was only the wrist and hand of the black entity still visible.
Boom!
Lu Yu felt a surge of power within him.
The Kill Star Soul fully fused into his heart, making him feel his heart turn icy cold, resonating with the aura of slaughter.
“Congratulations. Your Kill Star Soul has reached Level 3. From now on, your power is unsealed—every point of attack power you gain will directly translate into physical strength. The three special effects of Level 2 will no longer apply.”
This time, Lu Yu heard a voice in his ear, not text.
“Good!” Lu Yu shouted inwardly, the joy of breaking free from constraints truly what excited him.
From today onward, he would no longer be plagued by having high attack power without the ability to unleash powerful techniques.
His power had been unsealed!
At this moment, the black hand on the altar had completely vanished into the vortex.
The crimson glow on the altar faded, and the blood barrier disappeared.
Countless skulls bowed low, silent as if dead.
The blood barrier on the altar vanished, and the skeleton on it began to emit a crystalline white light, making the entire skeleton appear eerily surreal.
Silence!
Only then did Luoyao and the others shakily raise their heads, staring in shock at the surroundings.
The scene was too overwhelming.
The middle-aged man looked at the skeleton on the altar, surprised at first, but his expression soon turned greedy.
After all, his original purpose for coming here had been for this very skeleton.
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