Haha...
Hearing Ulysses ' words.
The others immediately mobilized their Mental Strength and charged towards the blood-red longsword in Lu Xiu's hand.
Then—everyone's heart sank to the bottom.
They interrupted Maria's or Gehrman's skills, and by probing with their Mental Strength, they could clearly sense the blood energy. At that point, all they had to do was unleash their Mental Strength.
Simple.
But when their Mental Strength collided with the blood-stained blade in Lu Xiu's hand—they truly felt as if they had hit a steel plate.
Let alone destruction.
They couldn't even sense the life force that made up the longsword; it was as if the sword was made entirely of steel.
Is this reasonable?
Cheng Xiu was already scratching his head. "How on earth did they compress the blood energy to this extent?!"
"Berserker skills are all about bursting blood energy outwards----"
Wei Yidong stared wide-eyed. "In the Berserker system, is there a move that turns blood energy into a blade? Bloody Rave? Blood Blade?"
No one answered Wei Yidong.
Because they suddenly realized something terrifying: the system stipulated that Lu Xiu could only use skills within the Berserker system.
There were over fifty people present, yet they couldn't even figure out what skill the knife in the other person's hand represented.
"The core of the Berserker is the use of Qi and Blood. The skills you learn in dungeons are essentially all about using Qi and Blood, just in a fixed form. This means that as long as you have enough Mental Strength, Qi and Blood can actually transform into any form, such as a sword. Don't you understand?"
In the middle of the flower field.
Lu Xiu, holding the long, blood-red blade in one hand, answered Wei Yidong's question, "So you learned how to interrupt from Maria? Didn't you notice her moves at all? Are those Berserker skills you learned?"
The others exchanged bewildered glances.
Indeed, no White Spirit Hunter has demonstrated Maria's skills.
Lu Xiu shook her head, then continued, "Remember now? Isn't that right? But in the end, isn't it still about using blood energy? Never mind—you didn't learn it from Maria, so learn it now."
The moment the words left his mouth.
Boom!
A shockwave suddenly erupted from the flower field beneath Lu Xiu's feet, and she vanished from the spot without warning!
That's too fast!
Even the players who make it to the end have high dungeon levels and strong attributes.
But the explosive power brought by the Rampage was as if it had completely deviated from the dungeon's stats. Ulysses, who was standing at the front, only felt a flash of red light before his eyes, and Lu Xiu had already crossed a distance of more than ten meters and appeared directly in front of him!
Lu Xiu gripped the blood-red blade with one hand, swung the weapon, and drew a cross.
The Berserker's most basic introductory skill— Cross Slash!
"Interrupt her!!! Both groups interrupt her together!!!"
Ulysses immediately shouted.
The second and third groups of twenty players in the back row unleashed their combined Mental Strength almost the instant Lu Xiu raised her hand. At the same time, Ulysses held his weapon horizontally in front of him and released his Mental Strength in an attempt to interrupt Lu Xiu.
However, when more than twenty streams of Mental Strength collided with Lu Xiu's condensed blood energy, nothing happened.
This time they did sense the blood and qi, but their Mental Strength seemed to have vanished without a trace.
On the other side, Lu Xiu waved her arm.
Laugh!
An exaggeratedly large, several-meter-tall, giant blood-red cross suddenly formed in the air!
The crimson cross instantly filled the field of vision of everyone in the front row.
Ulysses' eyes widened suddenly, his pupils reflecting the enormous cross.
Is this... Cross Slash?
The thought had just crossed his mind.
The next moment.
The enormous crimson cross slammed head-on into his weapon, then surged forward with unstoppable force, its tail carving a furrow into the flower field.
Ulysses and the surrounding players didn't even have a chance to struggle before being instantly blasted away by the massive Cross Slash. Those who hadn't raised their weapons were sent flying in mid-air, showering down a rain of blood. Then, the blood rain instantly transformed into blood energy, which, as if drawn by a force, flew backward and condensed on the blood blade in Lu Xiu's hand.
One strike wipes out the front row.
Lu Xiu's figure flashed again, turning into a Afterimage as she swept across the flower field, directly cutting into the back row of the player formation, and nimbly landing in the center of the remaining forty-odd players.
Immediately afterwards.
Amidst everyone's bewildered gazes, she raised her long, slender right leg, her boot lightly stomping on the white flower-strewn ground.
The long, blood-red blade in her hand shattered instantly, turning into a thick cloud of blood mist that merged into the ground.
Buzz!!!
Suddenly, light shone brightly on the ground.
A complex, blood-red array pattern expanded in the blink of an eye, enveloping the remaining forty-odd players.
wrong.
Not just under their feet.
The crimson mark had even spread to the ancient trees and tombstones, and the skill's range directly covered the entire garden—a basic Berserker skill.
Rage Burst!
All players: "----"
They stared in disbelief at the massive blood array that covered the entire garden beneath their feet.
Isn't this a bit too advanced?
Should we interrupt this skill?
----Me?
The next second.
Boom!!!
A violent surge of blood energy erupted from the ground of the entire garden, soaring into the sky and covering almost every corner.
"Ah!"
Amidst screams and groans, the vast majority of players were thrown high into the air by the violent surge of blood energy, their feet leaving the ground and their health bars instantly dropping significantly!
However.
In the very instant that blood and energy surged to the sky.
"Hmm?" Lu Xiu, standing in the middle of the sea of blood, made a nasal sound, a hint of surprise flashing in her crimson eyes.
Amidst the violently surging blood energy, five figures were not blasted away, nor were they even harmed.
They are Shen Nian, Jian Li, Rosalind, Cheng Xiu, and a player with the ID Lu Jing.
The moment the blood energy erupted beneath their feet, the five of them abandoned their attempts to disperse it with their Mental Strength. Instead, following Lu Xiu's instructions, they released their own Mental Strength Mental Strength and used it to guide and control the small patch of blood energy that shot into the sky around them.
Of these five, some had only barely managed to shift their qi and blood, such as Shen Nian, Rosalind, and Cheng Xiu.
Some, however, managed to control their surging bloodlust, such as Jian Li and the player named Lu Jing.
"Aren't there already those who have learned it?"
Lu Xiu looked at the blood energy gathering in Jian Li's palm, slowly extended her right hand, and once again made a fist in front of her.
Call!
The blood-red aura filling the sky above the garden suddenly surged back, then spun rapidly in her fair hand. In just one second, the slender blood blade was formed again.
Lu Xiu gripped the blood-stained blade again.
At the same time.
The players who had been blasted into the air fell back down, scattering countless white petals.
All the players were dazed and confused from the fall. When they got up, everything went black again. Could this Blood Blade really disintegrate, release, and then reform?
What a perpetual motion machine!
On the other side...
Although Shen Nian, Rosalind, and Cheng Xiu were unharmed and hadn't taken flight, they were all panting on the spot. Just a moment ago, they had crossed the threshold of controlling their blood and qi with their Mental Strength, but because they were so tense, it had almost drained their mental sea.
This, combined with the suffocating feeling of walking on a tightrope, left them feeling somewhat exhausted.
The player named Lu Jing wasn't much better off, but compared to the other three, he did manage to snatch a small amount of blood energy from the palm of his hand.
Jian Li was in the best condition, with a ball of blood energy hovering in her palm, much larger than that in Lu Jing's palm.
"You succeeded?!"
At this moment.
Wei Yidong also noticed the bloodstains on Jian Li and Lu Jing's palms and asked loudly.
"Don't interrupt! It's impossible! This is the progenitor of the profession!"
Jian Li remained silent, staring at Lu Xiu, her delicate body tense.
Finally, it was Lu Jing who shouted, "Keep attacking! Keep using Berserker skills! If all else fails, normal attacks will do! Otherwise, you won't even have the chance to demonstrate your understanding of the Berserker class! Your system score will be pitifully low!"
The others, as if waking from a dream, immediately got up.
They no longer aspire to defeat Lu Xiu —especially after witnessing Lu Xiu's Rage Burst, they now simply want a higher score.
"----Only five?"
Lu Xiu heard Lu Jing shout, but didn't pay much attention. She just muttered something and then let go of her right hand.
The long, blood-red blade slowly floated to the front of her.
Lu Xiu raised her hands, clasped them together, and gently patted the hilt of the sword. Then she gripped each hand and pulled them to the sides.
The Crimson Blade was split in two.
It turned into two.
Lu Xiu, wielding the blood-red blades, stomped the ground again and vanished instantly.
In the blink of an eye.
She had already rushed in front of Lu Jing, her cloak and trench coat fluttering as she suddenly swung them backward. She lowered her center of gravity slightly, turned sideways, and swung her twin blades, about to slash at Lu Jing's neck.
Lu Jing's pupils contracted as he looked at Lu Xiu, who suddenly rushed in front of him.
Physical skills?
wrong.
Physical skills alone cannot achieve that speed!
So why so fast?
There's no way to avoid it.
Just as countless thoughts flashed through Lu Jing's mind, and he thought he was about to die, a muffled sonic boom suddenly exploded from the side!
At the critical moment, a figure cut between the two.
It's Rosalind.
Like Lu Xiu, she entered Rampage mode, an eerie blush rising on her fair skin, her Fox Ears standing up high, and scorching white mist rising from her body. She also brandished her weapon, charging fiercely at Lu Xiu's dual blood blades with a life-or-death stance!
Clang!!!
A deafening clang of metal clashing against metal was accompanied by dazzling sparks flying out.
A ring of air exploded violently around the two people, instantly pulverizing the surrounding white flowers.
"Rampage?"
Seeing this, Lu Xiu smiled slightly, then pressed down with her wrist, increasing the pressure and unleashing her power.
Rosalind's face showed surprise, as she felt an overwhelming force crushing down on the sword.
The next moment.
She was sent flying backward by the force of the blow.
During this time, she also bumped into Lu Jing behind her, sending him flying backward. They tumbled and slid more than ten meters through the flower field before crashing into a broken tombstone in a disheveled state, barely managing to stop.
Lu Xiu sent the two flying with a single blow, then spun around.
Bang bang bang!
Several Quicksilver Bullets whizzed past her, but they all just grazed her ponytail.
That was harassment from other players.
Using the momentum from her spinning motion, Lu Xiu disappeared again, closing in on Shen Nian.
At this moment, Shen Nian's face had lost the relaxed and carefree expression she had when joking earlier.
Her eyes reflected Lu Xiu's approaching figure, and her fair skin also flushed with an eerie red from activating her Rampage, while scorching white mist rose from her body.
She raised her long sword, named Thousand Shades, and slashed directly at Lu Xiu.
Lu Xiu raised her right hand.
Clang!!!
Blades clashed.
The Mars light instantly illuminated their faces.
Lu Xiu remained motionless, but Shen Nian suddenly leaned back, causing her long sword to swing backward as well. Her hand was torn open, and blood instantly stained her skin.
With the red hilt of her knife, she slid backward, her shoes carving two shallow furrows into the ground.
But at least it didn't fly away.
Shen Nian gritted her teeth, enduring the blow, and then swiftly swung her Thousand Shades sword upwards, aiming for Lu Xiu's ribs.
Facing Shen Nian's desperate strike, Lu Xiu swung her blood-stained blade downwards with her left hand.
Clang!
Shen Nian felt as if she had slammed into a wall, the two weapons clashing together with a piercing scraping sound.
Lu Xiu lowered her left wrist, intending to increase the force and send Shen Nian flying.
However, at this very moment, another unexpected change occurred!
Whoosh!
Several blood-red threads suddenly shot out from the side, wrapping around Lu Xiu's left wrist and preventing her from exerting force.
And the other end of the thread.
The blood energy that had gathered in Jian Li's left palm had disappeared. She swung her wrist back and pulled hard, causing the silk threads to...
Tension was high, preventing Lu Xiu from exerting her strength.
On the other side.
Cheng Xiu raised his Cane with his other hand, pierced it through his other palm, then pulled it out sharply and swung the Cane around.
Whoosh!
The Hunter's Cane suddenly transformed in mid-air, the Cane inside separating and extending into a serrated, multi-sectioned whip, with a thick aura of blood swirling around it.
Cheng Xiu swung his long whip, which whistled through the air, and lashed towards Lu Xiu's face!
For the first time, surprise appeared in Lu Xiu's crimson eyes.
They're even collaborating now?
Her thoughts raced, but her movements didn't stop at all; she exerted force with her wrist.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
With a crisp snapping sound, the several blood-red threads wrapped around her wrist suddenly shattered.
Jian Li stumbled.
At the same time, Lu Xiu pressed down hard with her left hand.
Shen Nian was gritting her teeth and pushing upwards when a tremendous force suddenly struck, which she couldn't withstand at all.
Bang!
Shen Nian stumbled, her legs went weak, and she was brought to her knees in front of Lu Xiu by the immense downward force!
At the same time.
Lu Xiu took a sliding step backward, using the recoil from the clash of weapons with Shen Nian to easily create distance.
Snap!
The whip missed its mark, striking the spot where she had just stood, sending dirt and flower petals flying.
"How can this be empty?!"
Shen Nian knelt on one knee, staring at the empty whip, and couldn't help but shout.
Cheng Xiu looked equally astonished. "She's too fast!"
On the other side.
After creating some distance, Lu Xiu caught a glimpse of three figures leaping up from her flank. Using the momentum of her retreat, she floated backward once more.
fly.
Almost the instant she stepped back.
Boom boom boom!
Gong Yu led two other players to flank and charge up from the side. Before they even got close to Lu Xiu, they all leaped high into the air and Mountain Crashing Extremity Slash.
The three landed.
A column of blood shot up from the ground.
at the same time.
Dozens of players on the periphery fired their guns in unison, unleashing a Quicksilver Bullets.
"Now it's all over—"
Gong Yu looked up, about to shout, when he saw Lu Xiu gracefully slide to the side, completely out of the skill's range, with countless Quicksilver Bullets merely crisscrossing around her.
Despite their impressive display of power, they couldn't even touch a single hair on her head.
"Are you kidding me?!"
Gong Yu watched as Lu Xiu slid past unharmed, his eyes slowly widening.
no.
Was this done by a human?
This doesn't say that the Berserker Progenitor's physical skills were also that strong!
Lu Xiu didn't care what they thought.
After she stood still, she raised her right hand, holding the blood-stained blade horizontally with the blade pointing forward.
Then pull your arm back.
Buzz.
The blood energy that had just been released into the air and should have dissipated instantly surged back, spiraling and converging onto the blade of Lu Xiu's right-hand blood-red blade.
final.
All the vital energy gathered at the tip of the blade, condensing into a single point.
"Hide----"
Gong Yu had just spoken when the word "open" was still stuck in his throat and he hadn't had a chance to spit it out.
Lu Xiu then slightly turned her body and suddenly thrust her right hand forward.
Brush!!!
The blood energy that had been gathering at the tip of the blade suddenly dissipated into a cohesive force the moment Lu Xiu thrust it out!
Laugh!
The crimson beam of light pierced through the entire flower field at a speed completely beyond reason. Gong Yu and the other two had no time to react, even though Lu Xiu had deliberately veered off course.
Their upper bodies were vaporized the instant they were hit; their bodies, along with their weapons, vanished into thin air.
Only half of his lonely lower body remained. After a delay of a fraction of a second, he lost his balance, collapsed limply into a pool of blood, and vanished in a flash of Bai Guang.
Sold out instantly.
A kill so instant that even the pain didn't have time to register.
The beam of light continued its relentless advance, instantly evaporating the three people before heading straight for the end of the flower field.
At the end.
Rosalind and Lu Jing, who had just stood up after being knocked away by Lu Xiu's attack, heard a piercing sonic boom in their ears.
The two instinctively shrank their necks.
Boom!!!
A beam of light whistled past a few meters above their heads and struck the giant tree behind them.
The giant tree exploded.
Wood chips mixed with leaves fell softly from the sky.
Rosalind was so startled that she sat back down with a thud, her Fox Ears twitching.
She stiffly raised her head and looked at the giant tree behind her.
The giant tree did not collapse.
But right in the center of the trunk, a huge cavity with carbonized edges was blasted out.
Through that hole, Rosalind could clearly see behind the giant tree that the boundary of the thick fog that had previously shrouded the entire Hunter's Dream had been pierced by this attack, creating a vacuum passage.
Carbonization!
Blood Qi Attack!
Rosalind stared blankly at the tree hollow, then stiffly turned her head to look at Lu Xiu in the distance, completely unaware of how the two words were combined.
The others were also stunned.
They were all too familiar with this move— Maria's signature blood beam.
However, when Lu Xiu unleashed this move, it was a hundred times more terrifying Maria's —especially in the context of Roleplay Instance where everyone is unable to use real-world skills. Witnessing the power of this move firsthand was like an ordinary person encountering Superman.
A feeling of helplessness immediately welled up inside me.
In the middle of the flower field.
Lu Xiu lowered her right hand.
The blood-red longsword pointed diagonally at the ground, and pure white petals, swirled up by the shockwave, fluttered down like a snowstorm under the blood-red moonlight.
She stood amidst the fluttering petals, watching the other players.
Thump thump thump----
Even though there was no background music, at this moment, all the surviving players present seemed to hear extremely oppressive music, with dull drumbeats that sounded like a death knell.
Especially after seeing the Title Berserker Progenitor above Lu Xiu's head.
The music got louder----
It wasn't until Lu Xiu turned around that they realized it was their own heartbeats.
But this did them no better.
Everyone was internally screaming.
Dog system!!
Look at this person! Open your dog eyes and look!
only.
Before they could recover...
Lu Xiu then transformed into a Afterimage once more, charging straight towards the crowd!
As they watched the Afterimage that instantly covered dozens of meters and approached, everyone's heart pounded wildly like a drum.
o
Now it's really become background music.
despair.
certainly.
Not everyone chose to submit to execution.
Despite this oppressive atmosphere, some people still chose to resist.
I refuse to believe it!!!
Wei Yidong's eyes were bloodshot, and the veins on his neck were bulging.
Seeing Lu Xiu rushing towards him, he not only didn't retreat, but instead charged at Lu Xiu without hesitation!
Beside him, Ulysses's eyes also turned fierce, and the two of them, one on the left and one on the right, simultaneously unleashed their Berserker skills.
Ulysses thrust his left hand forward with a sudden, powerful strike, a Soul Siphon. Blood energy formed a rapidly spinning vortex in front of his palm, unleashing a powerful pulling force in an attempt to forcibly lock Lu Xiu in place.
Wei Yidong then spat out blood energy forward, which gathered into a large sword. He then gripped this blood energy sword and charged forward, aiming to stab Lu Xiu.
One control, one kill!
Under pressure, the two executed a near-perfect tactical play.
However, facing this determined attack, Lu Xiu's forward momentum did not slow down at all.
She simply turned to the side, lightly tapping the ground with her foot, and instantly created distance to the side.
Laugh!
Wei Yidong's Blood Blade missed its mark, grazing the hem of her trench coat.
"They're here!"
The instant Lu Xiu passed through the two, the seven or eight players behind them also turned red-eyed and unleashed their skills simultaneously.
Several bursts of blood energy skills and normal attacks seemed to have completely sealed off all the space in front of Lu Xiu.
However, Lu Xiu's speed remained undiminished, her figure continuously shifting and sliding sideways amidst the dense barrage of skills.
Swish!
Everyone only felt a blur before their eyes before their attacks all missed.
Lu Xiu had already penetrated their entire formation.
It has to be said.
The attribute bonuses from Rampage are indeed unfair.
Where are they?!
Everyone felt a chill run down their spines and turned around abruptly.
Lu Xiu had already arrived behind everyone.
Unbeknownst to her, the blood-stained blade she held in her left hand had quietly dissipated into a cloud of blood mist.
After Lu Xiu steadied herself, she took a step back, slightly lowered her center of gravity, and suddenly pulled the long, slender sword in her right hand to her waist with a smooth, flowing motion, as if she were sheathing a sword.
Immediately afterwards.
The next second.
As Lu Xiu sheathed her knife.
Buzz!!!
Everyone suddenly looked up.
The blood mist that had erupted from the Berserker skills above the flower field suddenly stopped the moment Lu Xiu assumed a stance to sheathe her sword and gather power.
Immediately afterwards.
Swish, swish!
The blood mist, drawn by Mental Strength, condensed into blood blades resembling sword energy, then erupted with a deafening roar. Hundreds and thousands of sword energies swept out like vortexes, frantically slicing through everyone.
Everyone was engulfed by the crimson sword energy.
"Is this the originator of the profession?
One player watched helplessly as the bloody blade approached, then glanced at Lu Xiu in the distance and muttered to himself.
It was then dismembered into pieces by the densely intersecting blood blades, instantly turning into Bai Guang.
certainly.
In despair.
However, some people have still made breakthroughs.
"Get out of my way!!!"
Wei Yidong, Ulysses, and a few other players, at this critical moment of life and death, as countless blood-red blades rained down upon them, finally truly grasped the threshold of controlling their blood and qi with their Mental Strength.
They unleashed all their Mental Strength without reservation to seize control of the blood-stained blades that were about to pierce them!
Buzz!
Several blood-red blades that were about to shred Wei Yidong's neck suddenly trembled under the forceful intervention of his Mental Strength, narrowly missing his cheeks and leaving only streaks of blood on his face.
Ulysses did the same, creating a small safe zone amidst the blade storm.
Although covered in wounds.
But at least he didn't die on the spot.
However, this nightmarish combo was not over yet.
The crimson sword energy did not dissipate after it had annihilated most of the players.
Instead, it paused abruptly in mid-air, then, as if returning to its nest, all of them converged towards Lu Xiu's waist, swirling and adhering to the blood blade.
Lu Xiu leaned forward slightly.
Just as she was about to exert force with her right hand.
Wei Yidong, Ulysses, and the others, who had just learned to control their qi and blood with their Mental Strength, felt their hair stand on end.
I'll die!!!
They were left with only one thought, their minds blank, but their bodies reacted instinctively, lunging forward and burying their faces in the mud covered with white flowers, completely disregarding their image.
And just as they fell to the ground...
Lu Xiu, standing at the edge of the flower field, raised her head and suddenly pulled her right hand, which was gripping the hilt of her knife, out of control.
Clang!!!
Accompanied by a sound that seemed both real and illusory as the sword was drawn.
A crescent-shaped burst of blood energy erupted, brushing against everyone's scalps and sweeping across the entire flower field!
laugh.
Wei Yidong, Shen Nian, and the others, who were lying on the ground, felt a sudden chill on their heads, as if they had just brushed past death. Their hearts stopped beating for a moment.
The crescent-shaped aura of blood crushed the falling white flowers and sliced open the broken tombstone at the edge of the flower field.
final.
It smoothly cut into the ancient giant tree that already had a large hole blasted into it.
In the middle of the flower field, the player who was still alive lay on the ground, his body soaked in cold sweat, too afraid to move.
Until the next instant.
Click----
The sound of wood snapping rang out.
Rosalind slowly raised her head and looked in the direction of the sound.
There stood that ancient, colossal tree, its massive canopy blotting out the sky, and it began to slowly tilt.
Immediately afterwards.
Rumble rumble rumble!!!
With a deafening roar that shook the earth, countless wood chips shot out as the giant tree crashed outside the edge of the dense fog, stirring up a cloud of gray mist.
Looking at that giant tree that had completely disappeared.
Looking at the smooth cut on the giant tree.
All the players lying on the ground suddenly felt like laughing.
Ha ha----
And at the edge of the flower field.
Lu Xiu slowly straightened up, looked at the remaining people, counted them briefly, and murmured, "Thirteen people have learned Mental Strength control? Not bad."