Lu Yu had never feared anyone in battle. If it came down to a bloody fight, at worst, it would be a mutual destruction. He was not someone the Blood Demon Bear could kill.
The Blood Demon Bear’s single eye shot out a sharp gleam. Its expression was like that of a beast ready to devour a man. It had already raised its front paws and said, “Even the Demon Ape dares not fight me. What makes you think you can?”
The Blood Demon Bear was extremely arrogant. With its attributes and skills, it indeed had the strength to be so conceited. With six thousand hit points plus the power of Life’s Fury, it had every reason to look down on Lu Yu.
“I can kill the Demon Ape, so I can kill you too,” Lu Yu refused to back down. His wounds were slowly healing—recovering twenty hit points per second, and the increased maximum life from consecutive hits had brought his vitality to match that of the Blood Demon Bear. In terms of hit points, he was actually slightly ahead now.
Hearing Lu Yu’s audacious words, the Blood Demon Bear became even more furious. It was already ready to attack, but its single eye had not yet healed. It was just waiting for the right moment.
The enemy before it was indeed arrogant. Yet the Blood Demon Bear had to admit, this man was indeed very strong. Ordinary people, if hit by its previous attacks, would have died eight or ten times over. This man had only sustained minor injuries, which showed his true strength.
The Blood Demon Bear’s injured eye was nearly healed. But instead of attacking, it crouched lower, its eyes fixed on the hillside.
Lu Yu was slightly taken aback at first, but soon he seemed to hear something too. Behind the hill, there were footsteps and voices.
Within less than ten minutes, a group of people appeared on the hill. First, one person peeked over, then thirty-four others followed, one after another.
The leader carried a stone club—the very same bone-crushing hammer of the Demon Ape. Behind him, more than thirty people followed, two of whom also carried bone-crushing hammers. A few others even wielded metallic Star Weapons, clearly not dropped by Wolf Demons.
Zhang Tao and others, hiding at a distance, were shocked when they saw them. “What the hell is going on?”
“Are you kidding? So many people, and even Star Weapons! Where did they come from?”
“Damn it, now we won’t get anything.”
Zhang Tao and his group couldn’t hide any longer and wanted to stand up. But after weighing their strength, they decided not to.
If these people wanted to steal the monster kill, with their possession of Star Weapons, they would be no match. As for Lu Yu, if he wanted to escape, these people probably wouldn’t be able to stop him.
When the thirty-odd people saw the standoff between Lu Yu and the Blood Demon Bear at the foot of the hill, they were first surprised. Then they glanced at Lu Yu’s equipment and all wore expressions of disdain.
One person daring to face the Blood Demon Bear—was this person just ignorant and fearless, or just plain stupid?
The Blood Demon Bear also saw the bone-crushing hammers—three of them—and its eyes changed. Lu Yu, however, showed no significant reaction. He merely glanced at the newcomers and then turned his gaze away.
“Hehe, one person dares to fight the Blood Demon Bear? You’re really asking for death,” one of the people on the hill pointed at Lu Yu. “Step aside and watch us kill this monster.”
This person looked down on Lu Yu with nothing but contempt. In this era, who dared claim they could kill the Blood Demon Bear alone?
As he spoke, he slung his bone-crushing hammer over his shoulder and walked down the hill, as if he were Lu Yu’s savior.
The thirty-odd people followed, and without even asking Lu Yu’s permission, they started surrounding the Blood Demon Bear.
“Friend, this doesn’t concern you,” the leader said as he approached Lu Yu and reached out to push him.
“Slap!” Lu Yu smacked the hand away and coldly said, “Speak politely.”
“Tsk, got some guts, huh?” The other person wasn’t angry but suddenly turned grim. “Let me tell you, politely means you leave. If not, do you think we won’t cripple you? Don’t you know that in this day and age, the worst thing when clearing monsters is having someone watching from the sidelines?”
“Seems to me I’m the one fighting the Blood Demon Bear, not you,” Lu Yu sneered. “If anyone’s watching, it’s you.”
“Haha—”
As soon as Lu Yu finished speaking, laughter erupted from the dozens around him.
“I swear, this guy’s never died before.”
“That’s what they call ignorant and fearless!”
“Dares to say he can solo the Blood Demon Bear. Who does he think he is?”
“Zheng, why waste words with him? Just knock him down with one hit.”
One after another, they continued to mock and scorn Lu Yu.
“Come on now!” A man standing beside Lu Yu chuckled. “After all, we’re visitors from afar, coming all the way from the upper county. We should at least be polite.”
He waved his hand and said, “You guys start. Before meeting Master Lu, bringing this big gift should be enough. As for you…”
He looked at Lu Yu with a grin. “By now, the Fanggang Star Spirit Mine should already be occupied by the military. You having a Star Weapon must have cost you a lot to buy from them. I won’t kill you, nor will I cripple you. But I will make Master Lu ban the sale of Star Spirit Stones to you. When you come begging to me, I might consider selling you some.”
At this point, his subordinates had already begun their attack.
Nearly forty people, two bone-crushing hammers surrounded the Blood Demon Bear. They had more than enough strength to wear it down to death.
“Roar!”
The Blood Demon Bear roared, giving its all against the forty attackers.
Today was just its unlucky day. First encountering Lu Yu, then these people.
It wasn’t afraid of the Demon Ape, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t afraid of two bone-crushing hammers—not to mention there was still one hammer not yet in the fight.
“Don’t leave yet. Stay here and watch the show,” the man beside Lu Yu laughed, suddenly lifting his foot to kick Lu Yu in the knee.
Half of the group attacking the Blood Demon Bear laughed out loud.
“Boss, you should’ve done that earlier.”
The group laughed loudly, as if this wasn’t their first time surrounding and killing a Blood Demon Bear. Their coordination was perfect, completely trapping the Blood Demon Bear inside, making the fight seem easy for them.
Lu Yu stepped back a few paces, dodging the kick, and smiled. “I don’t want to say much. Leave now, and I’ll let you see Liu Heng and Lu Xing. Say another word, and I’ll make you meet God!”
“Meet God?” The other person burst into laughter, suddenly swinging the bone-crushing hammer on his shoulder, his face twisting with malice. “Then I’ll break both your legs and let you slowly meet God!”
The bone-crushing hammer swung, the howling wind like a beast’s roar.
“One who doesn’t know how to use a weapon is just a fool, forever a clumsy brute swinging a hammer,” Lu Yu sneered. With a single step forward, he dodged the attack and closed in on his opponent.
Lu Yu’s right fist shot out, his fingers like an eagle’s talons, already gripping the opponent’s crown.
“You dare kill me! I am—”
Only now did the man sense death approaching and screamed.
“Bang!”
Lu Yu’s fingers tightened, crushing the skull in an instant.
Boom!
Crimson blood mist sprayed from the man’s orifices and pores. His body fell stiffly to the ground, his face turning blue, instantly drained of all color.
The effect of the Burning Blood Blade activated—anyone with less than 3,500 hit points would be instantly killed upon taking damage.
“Wanting to show off in front of me—do you have the capital for that?” Lu Yu shook off the blood from his Soul Gathering Hand and suddenly stepped forward, heading straight for the other battlefield.
“Ahh, the boss is dead!” The previously laughing group now cried out in shock.
“Split up a few people and kill that kid.”
“Damn it, take him to Fanggang and let Master Lu deal with him.”
Six or seven people broke off and charged at Lu Yu, wielding their Star Weapons.
“Blood Demon Bear, even though we’re not on the same side, I don’t want to let any of these people go either. Let’s team up and kill them first, then settle our score,” Lu Yu said like a flash of lightning, charging into one of the men.
His right fist was sharper than a blade, piercing through the chest from front to back.
“Ahh!”
The dying man let out the most piercing scream as Lu Yu grabbed his neck and slammed his corpse into another person.
“Crash!”
One person’s weapon barely grazed Lu Yu’s back before hitting the ground. Lu Yu immediately countered with an elbow strike to the temple, shattering the skull, blood and white liquid gushing from the nose and mouth. Blood mist sprayed from the man’s orifices and pores.
“You bastard, you’re asking for death! You killed Xiao San and Liu Zi, I’ll split you in two!” One man swung his stone axe toward Lu Yu’s head.
Lu Yu moved like a ghost, tearing a chunk of flesh and ribs from the man’s side.
“I—”
He saw the deaths of his companions, only managing to utter a single word before blood mist erupted from his mouth like flames.
On the other side, the Blood Demon Bear reacted as well. Regardless of the dozens of attacks it suffered, it broke through the encirclement and appeared before Lu Yu.
“Human. I don’t like you, but I hate these people even more. So first, let’s kill them, then fight each other.”
The Blood Demon Bear roared, its eyes gradually turning blood red.
“Encircle them!” The remaining people moved again, surrounding Lu Yu and the Blood Demon Bear.
“Not one of you will escape!” Suddenly, the Blood Demon Bear charged madly toward one side of the battlefield.
Instantly, most of the people there gathered to block it, relying on their numbers to withstand the Blood Demon Bear’s charge.
“Crash!”
The Blood Demon Bear’s charge was blocked and pushed back.
But at that moment, Lu Yu suddenly stepped on the Blood Demon Bear’s head and leapt high, landing precisely behind these people.
His left hand swept out, the cold gleam of the blade slicing through six people. As soon as the blood flowed, the effect of the Burning Blood Blade activated.
Boom!
At the front, the Blood Demon Bear charged again.
It was like a mountain of flesh, instantly crushing half of two people’s bodies into pulp.
“What the hell is going on?”
“Damn it, are you even human? How can you team up with a monster to kill people?”
In an instant, eight of their companions died, and they began to panic.
Lu Yu grabbed one man’s neck and coldly said, “Connected to Lu Shan? Connected to the military? You think that scares me? Didn’t you just want to kill me a moment ago? Now, if you’ve got the guts, come at me again!”
“Crash!”
The Blood Demon Bear smashed another person’s skull, grinning savagely. “Killing people—what a thrill!”
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