Chapter 614
Lu Li's Game Control Mark has three modules added: modification, life, and absorption. This gives the mark the ability to absorb life force and modify the host, whether it is his own life force or the life force of others.
This is also a way to allow game characters to level up quickly, since vitality is universal in most worlds, and Lu Li plans to add things like digitized experience later on.
In short, Lu Li's journey of leveling up by defeating monsters has officially begun. After swinging the broadsword in his hand a couple of times, he became extremely adept at wielding it. Anyone who rushed at him could be dealt a fatal blow. At first, Lu Li was limited by his physical condition and needed to expend mental energy to use extraordinary techniques. However, after killing some people, the life energy he absorbed quickly surged into his body, making his body rapidly stronger.
"Kill that witch! Someone, come quick!!"
"Archers, shoot that witch to death with a hail of arrows!!"
Shouts rang out, and the imperial guards in their armor surged toward them, but they fell like straw in autumn harvest. Lu Li could easily dodge most of the flying arrows by moving his feet, and he could also easily block the rest.
Lu Li carefully sensed the changes within his body, Lu Li movements became even faster. His purpose was not to come to this low-level martial arts world to play around, but to further study the fulcrum.
Practice has proven that these pivots do indeed possess something similar to the protagonist's halo; whether on Waterblue Star or in another world, their role is to connect the worlds and form a special barrier.
The greater their influence in other worlds, the stronger this connection becomes. In such worlds, the normal path is to be selected as a concubine, compete for the emperor's favor, and ultimately succeed by gaining significant influence in the palace.
However, Lu Li did not follow the usual path and directly killed the top expert of the Imperial Palace. Instantly, he felt that his influence on this world had increased significantly. At the same time, with that close connection, some special things were added to his body.
"I've already transcended the limitations of this world." Lu Li leveled up by fighting monsters and absorbing a large amount of life force into his body. Although his body still looks human, his internal organs are no longer human.
She grew another heart, and a third one seemed to be forming soon. If you got closer, you could hear her rapid heartbeat. This world was a low-level world, and the level of the people in it was at most slightly higher than that of this world. The problem was that, under the protection of those powers, she was no longer just slightly higher than that world.
After crushing another person's throat, Lu Li discovered that his third heart had grown. The three hearts beat at different frequencies. After a moment's thought, Lu Li controlled the heartbeats to be at the same frequency.
It was as if someone was beating a drum beside her. The guards surrounding Lu Li groaned, blood flowing from their seven orifices, and they collapsed, clutching their hearts.
A death radius appeared around Lu Li. Anyone who got within fifty meters of Lu Li would bleed from all seven orifices, have their heart explode, and die. Lu Li walked step by step toward the place he sensed, and wherever he went, life was annihilated.
Emperor Ma Zi boarded his carriage and, escorted by numerous guards, headed towards a villa outside the city for refuge. At the same time, a series of urgent orders were issued, mobilizing the Imperial Guards to besiege the demoness and exterminate her entire family. The orders also notified prestigious sects such as Shaolin to send their experts to kill the demoness.
With the emperor's command, the court's power began to shift, but looking at the woman slowly approaching, they didn't even have the strength to step forward. With each step she took, any life within her death radius would perish.
Furthermore, as more and more lives are lost, her impact on the world grows, and the radius of death expands from the original fifty meters to one hundred meters. Within two hundred meters, there will be reactions such as nausea and vomiting.
As the death toll rose, the pockmarked emperor fled under the protection of his guards, inviting the most capable people in the land to kill the demoness. He promised that whoever could kill the demoness would become the imperial advisor and receive great rewards.
However, the rebellious forces across the land saw an opportunity, claiming that the ghost woman's appearance was Heaven's punishment for the Qing Dynasty, and that only by overthrowing the Qing court could the ghost woman leave.
Even more powerful forces claim that Lu Li is their holy maiden, the Avatar of the Eternal Mother, whom they invited to chase after the emperor. They assert that the death radius around her is a projection of the Vacuum Homeland, and that only by believing in their religion can people return to the Vacuum Homeland within the death radius.
"My empire..." The pockmarked emperor stood on the mountain ridge, where his army was encamped, surrounding the area in concentric circles, but to no avail. Upon seeing the demoness, everyone retreated, but the pockmarked emperor had nowhere left to go.
"Your Majesty..." The Empress, standing beside him, brought two cups of wine, forcing a smile, "This concubine will take her leave first!"
After saying this, the Yellow Emperor downed the wine in one gulp. Looking at the wine in his hand, and then at the people around him, he saw that they were all looking at him with hopeful eyes. He understood that they all hoped that if he drank this poisoned wine, the demoness would leave.
At the same time, he understood that once he drank this cup of wine, he would be a sinner emperor condemned to death by everyone. There was nothing he could do; he had lost that token, which had triggered all the strange changes, and that vixen was only chasing after him. For the sake of the Qing Dynasty's stability and for that vixen to retreat, he had to drink this cup of wine no matter what.
Lu Li narrowed her eyes slightly and could see the movements on the mountain. The reason she was chasing after the pockmarked emperor was not because he had lost his title or anything, but because of his status as emperor. He was one of the most influential people in the world.
Just like the experiment conducted in the Waterblue Castle of the Dou Qi world, one knight is at least equivalent to one hundred commoners. This is the difference brought about by different status and position. Killing an emperor is comparable to killing many people.
Seeing the emperor about to drink the poisoned wine, Lu Li narrowed his eyes, then widened them instantly. Two red lines shot out like lasers, slicing the pockmarked emperor and his wine cup in two.
Close your eyes, wipe away the blood from the corners of your eyes with your fingers, and using your eyes as a cavity, work through the five hearts to compress the blood, then Excitation it, exerting the power of a high-pressure water cutter.
Feeling the influence on his body, the connection with the Waterblue Star became even stronger, and the radius of death expanded again to one thousand meters. Lu Li continued walking in that direction without stopping, "Let's see just how large this connection can go..."
Six months later, the earth was desolate, and this body floated in the universe. Only a few cats and kittens remained on the distant blue planet, and the connection with the Waterblue Star had reached its end.
The heart pounded incessantly, like a heavenly drum beating, until finally the body exploded, turning into a rain of blood that was captured by the planet's gravity and revitalized. A few survivors recorded all of this, leaving behind the myth of the heavenly drum creating the world.
Meanwhile, Lu Li, inside the Waterblue Star Hotel, opened his eyes, lost in thought...