The Three Harms Come to an End

The prompt for the third stage of the mission also rang in Lu Li's ears. Sure enough, the third calamity was to eliminate Zhou Chu, and the reward was a module about Zhou Chu.

The shadow on Zhou Chu's body wriggled and returned to Lu Li's back. He mobilized his limited Shadow Magic and condensed two shadow spears. Lu Li threw one of them in front of Zhou Chu, while Lu Li held the other spear in his hand.

"Didn't you say you were going to teach me martial arts? Then let's begin!" Lu Li handed the Oil-Paper Umbrella to Lilith, who was standing to the side, and told her to stand a little further away. Then he looked at Zhou Chu, who was leaning against his spear.

"Then let's go!" Zhou Chu exhaled, raised his spear, and thrust it towards Lu Li with the speed of a dragon. Lu Li once again freed his mind and body, and hurriedly shoved the spear aside. But Zhou Chu twisted and shook his hand, pushing Lu Li back several steps.

"First, your lower body needs to be stable. Your footwork seems to come from Assassin. This kind of footwork allows you to walk silently and easily avoid people's sight, and it's not slow either." Zhou Chu didn't rush to attack, but while speaking, he blatantly drew his spear again. "But it's not stable enough, it's light and powerless, so you can easily be knocked away."

Lu Li's mind raced as he observed Zhou Chu's movements. He parried Zhou Chu's thrust with his spear, shifted his stance to block Zhou Chu's subsequent shove, and then thrust his spear directly at Zhou Chu.

Zhou Chu flicked his spear, deflecting Lu Li's gun, and said coldly, "Pay attention to the elasticity of the spear; that way you can better leverage your momentum and make the spear spin faster."

And so, a teaching-style battle began. Lu Li's terrifying learning ability allowed him to desperately absorb Zhou Chu's combat experience, and he gradually became evenly matched with Zhou Chu, with the battle becoming increasingly fierce.

Zhou Chu was now completely serious. He didn't continue explaining, firstly because he had already covered most of what he could, and secondly because if he continued to waste energy explaining, he would die. Lu Li's progress had exceeded his expectations, and he was able to apply what he had learned to other situations. Although Lu Li still lacked experience, he was already a deadly threat to Zhou Chu.

Zhou Chu's physical abilities surpassed Lu Li's. When he became serious, the spear he wielded carried immense force. A black shadow spread across Lu Li's body, entangling the spear and using the shadow to enhance his defense against Zhou Chu.

Slowly, tentacles appeared behind Lu Li, and those shadows grew out from his back, re-condensing into long spears, as if Avatar into a spider monster, holding a spear in each hand, and each of the tentacles behind him also holding a spear. If Zhou Chu's martial arts skills had not been stronger than Lu Li's, he would have long since been unable to withstand Lu Li's cheating methods.

In the end, the spear in Lu Li's hand disappeared, replaced by two Short Blades, and the shadows behind him resembled small knives, attacking Zhou Chu frantically as Lu Li continued his assault.

Zhou Chu wielded his spear with great force, but two fists can't fight four hands, especially since Lu Li now had more than four hands. Behind him, shadowy tentacles, like phantoms, attacked Zhou Chu frantically, making him flustered and overwhelmed.

This time, Lu Li's control over the shadows became even more refined. Holes appeared on the shadow tentacles behind him, and as the shadow tentacles waved, countless changes in light and shadow, along with wailing cries, tormented Zhou Chu's vision and hearing.

Finally, Zhou Chu's vision blurred, and his hands failed to keep up. Lu Li's tentacles knocked the spear from Zhou Chu's hand, and two Short Blade blades were placed against Zhou Chu's neck. The two men stared at each other, panting heavily.

After a long pause, Zhou Chu closed his eyes. He had lost this match. Although he had fought a fierce battle with the Flood Dragon earlier and was not in good condition, and had also held back in the early teaching battle with Lu Li, he had given it his all in the end. So, he lost.

Lu Li looked at Zhou Chu, released the Short Blade, walked towards Lilith, took the Oil-Paper Umbrella, and headed into the distance, with Lilith wriggling her snake tail as she followed behind.

"Yingzhi not kill me? I know you never gave up on killing me from the very beginning." Zhou Chu opened his eyes and asked as he heard Lu Li leave.

"You lost." Lu Li's weary voice drifted over from afar. "So you're no longer Three Harms of Yangxian."

"Actually, I wanted to kill you more." Lu Li walked away. From his Eye of Detection, he could see that after Zhou Chu killed the Flood Dragon, his third ability, the Bane Aura, had become unstable. That's why Zhou Chu lost to Lu Li. Otherwise, with that kind of protagonist's halo ability, Lu Li would have had no chance of winning against Zhou Chu.

However, for Lu Li, he actually hoped that Zhou Chu could have the Bane Aura and could truly risk his life once, because that would mean that Zhou Chu was still Zhou Chu. But when Zhou Chu killed the South Mountain Tiger and the Flood Dragon, he was also killing himself step by step. He was no longer the Zhou Chu that Lu Li knew at the beginning.

By killing the South Mountain Tiger, Zhou Chu killed his own temper, because a tempered person cannot protect his companions in front of the South Mountain Tiger. But at the same time, he also killed his own wildness and learned about responsibility.

In killing the Flood Dragon, Zhou Chu chose to rely on Lu Li's help, thus killing his Pride and his own divinity. He no longer believed himself to be omnipotent and learned to accept help from others.

By choosing to fight Lu Li and teach him, he fulfilled his promise, put himself in a deadly situation, and killed his own humanity. At this moment, he had Avatar into a hero and was no longer the scourge that everyone feared.

"What a laughable hero." Lu Li stood at a distance, watching the crowd of people rushing over to help Zhou Chu up. He was no longer afraid of Zhou Chu, and tossed him high into the air, admiring him as a hero. From then on, Zhou Chu was the hero Zhou Chu, no longer the reckless and inconsiderate Zhou Chu who was Lu Li's friend and a scourge.

As Zhou Chu was carried back as a hero, his Bane Aura completely dissipated. With the three evils eliminated, Lu Li also had a module related to Zhou Chu appear in his hand, which summoned back the Shadow Assassin Mask and the Claw Ghost Mask that had been swept away by the river.

The dungeon quest was complete, and the time was up. Lu Li disappeared with the three masks. He gained a lot and lost a lot in this dungeon, but he didn't get rid of his three evils, which was great.

After eliminating the scourge, Zhou Chu realized his shortcomings and had some questions about Lu Li. He went to Wu Commandery Wu County in Wu Prefecture to find Lu Li, only to discover that Lu Li was not a member of the Wu Commandery Lu Clan. Zhou Chu was puzzled by Lu Li's deception, but he did not think much about it or feel any anger.

Finally, he became a student of Lu Ji and Lu Yun Lu Xun, the prime minister of the Wu Commandery Lu Clan, and literary figures. He eventually became a man of both literary and military talent and was highly valued by the court. In the spring of the seventh year of the Yuankang era of the Western Jin Dynasty, he died in battle. After his death, he was posthumously awarded the title of General Who Pacifies the West and granted the title of Marquis Xiao.

Zhou Chu's repentance and transformation into a virtuous man became a widely circulated story and a classic tale. Meanwhile, Lu Li finished the dungeon and returned to the distant part of his own world, with nothing changed.