Unlucky Zhu Zhuyun

Unlucky Zhu Zhuyun

Zhu Zhuqing looked expressionlessly at the boy before her.

The towering image she had just built up in her heart collapsed instantly.

Fortunately, she was naturally aloof, so her expression did not crack.

With a soft sigh, Zhu Zhuqing kindly reminded him:

"You can't handle them."

"They command Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts?"

". No."

"Then do they have Titled Douluo?"

". No."

Lu Yuan turned the meat skewers in his hand and asked without even looking up:

"They have neither this nor that, so why can't I handle them?"

Zhu Zhuqing's lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but a meat skewer shoved toward her immediately stopped her mouth.

"I think you're just hungry."

"Try it. I think my cooking is pretty decent."

Lu Yuan picked up a grilled skewer himself and tasted it.

Honestly, cooking was something that had to be learned through practice.

When he had first entered the Star Dou Great Forest, he had been in a miserable state.

Forget grilled meat skewers.

He could not even keep up with the herbivores when it came to eating plants!

To herbivorous animals, Lu Yuan, who could not find food, was an amateur.

To carnivorous animals, Lu Yuan, who could not eat raw meat and drink blood, was an outsider too.

So, in order to fill his stomach, Lu Yuan had no choice but to try cooking for himself.

From chunks of meat that were often burned black at first to the skewers that now had color, aroma, and flavor, it could be said that life had forced all of it out of him.

But for now, this was the only dish he knew how to make. Stewing, boiling, stir-frying, and the rest were all beyond his abilities.

Aside from cooking, Lu Yuan had also verified one fact.

You were what you ate.

There was nothing wrong with that saying, but it was indeed somewhat one-sided.

After all, not every part of a Soul Beast could be eaten.

However, consuming large amounts of Soul Beast meat could indeed strengthen one's physique and rapidly replenish Soul Power.

At least a quarter of his Level 46 Soul Power had come from eating Soul Beast meat.

Of course, after eating Soul Beast meat, following it up with a life-or-death battle was a necessary step.

That could maximize the increase to the upper limit of his Soul Power Level.

So after eating, Lu Yuan often casually found a powerful Soul Beast and fought it.

Then, without realizing it, his Soul Power Level would break through another rank.

This effect did not work only for him. It was universal among most carnivorous or omnivorous Soul Beasts.

Devouring the flesh and blood of fellow Beast Race creatures could effectively increase one's cultivation years.

Using this method, he had forcibly raised a little white mouse of unknown breed to the thousand-year level.

A young white mouse with no bloodline, no inheritance, and no offensive ability had been force-fed into a Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

It had reached the pinnacle of mouse life.

Zhu Zhuqing angrily took the meat skewer in her hand, frowning as if she still wanted to say something.

Lu Yuan chuckled and spoke while Zhu Zhuqing had taken the skewer out of her mouth:

"Fifteen minutes and thirty-seven seconds."

"To be honest, your patience and perseverance really surprise me."

Zhu Zhuqing's heart skipped a beat, and she instinctively looked around.

Shadows of trees swayed.

They severely obstructed her vision.

This was one of the environments Agility Attack System Soul Masters loved most.

"When you encounter this situation, the best response is to extinguish the fire immediately, because anyone near the fire will undoubtedly become a target."

Lu Yuan spoke calmly, then tossed the branch in his hand into the fire.

Back then, he had not understood this.

He had rashly lit a fire in the darkness and had nearly been killed in one strike by a thousand-year Black panther.

Flames were not as intimidating to some Soul Beasts as people imagined.

At most, they could frighten some Ten-Year Soul Beasts.

From then on, Lu Yuan understood that without sufficient strength, it was best not to light a fire at night.

Unexpected dangers that were impossible to guard against often occurred at night.

Just like at this very moment, a Crossbow Bolt had silently stopped in front of him.

The violent poison had dyed the Mithril arrowhead pitch-black.

His gaze turned icy in an instant, only to quickly return to normal.

"This isn't a very good way to say hello."

Lu Yuan said with a smile, then turned his gaze toward the woman walking out of the darkness.

Looking at the composed boy before her, Zhu Zhuyun sighed inwardly.

To be honest, the current situation was indeed rather troublesome.

Though the boy before her was young, his strength was above average.

The ease with which he had blocked the poisoned arrow was proof enough.

But with two Soul Ancestors and a Soul King backing her up, he could not make any waves.

However, her target was not the boy before her.

It was Zhu Zhuqing behind him!

She had no interest in provoking any more trouble now. She only wanted to immediately kill Zhu Zhuqing on the spot and bring this struggle to a perfect conclusion.

So Zhu Zhuyun got straight to the point:

"The Star Luo Zhu Family is conducting business. Uninvolved parties, step aside!"

A faint Killing Intent laced her tone.

But that trace of Killing Intent was swiftly suppressed by Killing Intent as overwhelming as stormy seas.

Pale-red currents, almost tangible, coiled around Lu Yuan's body.

The bone-chilling cold made Zhu Zhuyun's body stiffen instinctively.

Yet as a woman who had seen the world, Zhu Zhuyun recovered immediately after only a momentary lapse.

"Attack with everything you have!!!"

Her voice was hoarse.

It was the kind of hoarseness caused by her voice cracking from excessive agitation.

Her Martial Soul possessed her instantly.

Three Soul Rings—yellow, yellow, and purple—appeared.

As though fleeing for her life, Zhu Zhuyun disregarded all decorum and desperately fled in the opposite direction.

She had kicked an iron plate!

That was Zhu Zhuyun's only thought.

Though she did not know his exact strength, that Killing Intent alone proved he was definitely a ruthless figure!

The saying that a wealthy man did not sit beneath a crumbling wall was perfectly embodied by Zhu Zhuyun's actions.

Dozens of soul skills tore through the night sky, yet all were split in two.

Their bodies were split in two as well.

As Death Guards, they had indeed obeyed their orders perfectly.

But before Spatial Severance, their resistance was truly futile.

Unlike other Martial Souls.

Lu Yuan's Martial Soul itself was a Pure Element Martial Soul.

Pure Element Martial Souls existed only in theory and had never been proven.

Because theoretically, the human body could almost never endure the impact of a Pure Element Martial Soul's awakening.

Even Ultimate Fire, Ultimate Ice, Ultimate Lightning, Ultimate Light, and the like could only barely be borne through certain powerful Beast Martial Souls.

Awakening a Pure Element Martial Soul directly would most likely result only in one's body exploding.

It was certainly powerful.

But power that could not be wielded was useless.

And compared to basic elements like water, fire, light, and darkness, space undoubtedly stood at the peak of all elements.

A hair's breadth apart was as far apart as heaven and earth.

That saying was not an exaggeration when used to describe the power of the space attribute.

Because space could be folded!

One fold, two folds, three folds, four folds.

What other elemental wielders exhausted all their strength to shatter was, in the eyes of a space wielder, something that could be done with a casual gesture.

After all, one was doing addition, while the other was doing multiplication.

With the same values, multiplication clearly produced a greater result.

Unless wielders of other elements had cultivation realms absurdly higher, allowing them to crush their opponents through sheer addition.

Otherwise, within the same realm, users of other Pure Element Martial Souls had no way to harm users of Space Martial Souls!

Even Pure Element Martial Souls could do nothing against Space Martial Souls, let alone these miscellaneous soldiers who had been directly taken down by Spatial Severance!

After running an unknown distance through the darkness, Zhu Zhuyun stopped, panting heavily.

It was clear that sometimes, having too voluptuous a figure was not a good thing.

"I should have shaken him off, right?"

Zhu Zhuyun looked back at the darkness behind her, where there was no longer any movement, and felt as though her heart was bleeding.

One Soul King, two Soul Ancestors, and more than forty Soul Grandmasters and Soul Elders—it looked like they were all finished!

On the surface, the price was heavy, but it was not something Zhu Zhuyun could not bear.

The problem was that these Soul Masters were Death Guards Zhu Zhuyun had personally cultivated!

The sort of Death Guards who truly dared to charge forward at critical moments!

One had to know that Soul Masters were recognized as the noble class across the continent, and their status was anything but low!

Serving a faction was fine.

Dying for it was out of the question.

That was the most basic requirement for most Soul Masters when choosing an affiliated force.

The joy of narrowly escaping and the grief of devastating losses intertwined. Before Zhu Zhuyun could emerge from those complicated emotions, she felt a gust of wind behind her head.

Before she could turn around, she lost consciousness under that blow to the back of the head.

"Trying to run?"

"No chance."

Lu Yuan sneered, tossed aside the wooden club he had grabbed on the spot, hoisted the unconscious Zhu Zhuyun over his shoulder, gave her a bounce, and headed back the way he had come.

When it came to running away, the space attribute was still the best!

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