Chapter 221 – Panic Boiling! The Death of Owl Blade!

Lu Yuan wandered aimlessly in the black space.

Under his feet was the hard and rugged black rock. He walked barefoot, and each step he took, the sharp rocks would cut his soles, making them bleed.

Lu Yuan’s body was already covered in wounds, but he kept moving forward tirelessly.

Until a certain moment.

He… suddenly woke up!

“Where am I? Where am I going? How am I… so weak?”

Lu Yuan suddenly looked up and saw the murky sky above him, with black and gray fog spreading over the entire world like milk.

The scarlet moon was hidden behind the fog, hazy, with a touch of eerie evil.

At this moment, he was standing at the foot of an enormous and towering black mountain.

The peak of the black mountain was shrouded in thick fog, making it impossible to see its summit.

Looking back at the path he had walked.

Lu Yuan saw that the blood flowing from his body had painted the stones of the black mountain with a scarlet hue.

A phrase suddenly surfaced in his mind—”Black soil of eternal rift, He will use blood, to paint every stone of the Demon Mountain…”

“Demon Mountain?”

Lu Yuan murmured, then his expression calmed down.

The blood at his feet flowed back, and the wounds on his body healed quickly.

Lu Yuan, who had experienced Crow Dreamscape many times, was already very familiar with such scenes.

“However… the elephant deity dreamscape’s attack is much stronger than the Crow Dreamscape.

It seems to be full of malice towards me…”

With a slight movement, Lu Yuan suddenly soared towards the Demon Mountain, as if he was teleporting.

He wanted to reach the summit of the Demon Mountain.

Breaking through layers of fog, the gigantic Demon Mountain seemed like an ancient beast dormant in the ground, slowly revealing a fraction of its majesty.

The road up the mountain seemed endless, and Lu Yuan continued to increase his speed.

In the dreamscape, there was almost no limit to his abilities.

But no matter how he ascended, the top of the Demon Mountain, shrouded in black fog, always seemed infinitely out of reach.

“Whoosh”

Lu Yuan finally chose to give up, exhaled gently, and stopped in his tracks.

At the moment he halted, the Demon Mountain beneath him began to shake violently.

“Rumble”

It seemed as if the slumbering beast was waking up, and this black mountain was unleashing its unmasked fury and malice.

Immediately afterward, Lu Yuan saw the murky black fog in the sky dispersing.

The scarlet moon hidden behind the fog revealed its full appearance—

It was actually a scarlet red eye.

Cold and indifferent, it gazed at Lu Yuan. Around the eye, an enormous outline of an elephant head seemed faintly visible.

At the same time, the mist at the peak of the Demon Mountain broke apart.

Beneath the giant outline of the elephant head and the scarlet eye, Lu Yuan saw a figure with multiple arms standing at the top of the mountain, looking down coldly at him.

“Sa@snake@￥%…”

A grand and majestic voice echoed from the mountain peak.

It was Ancient Phoenician Language—”I will eventually find you and crush you…”

In an instant, the black rock underfoot cracked, the black fog in the sky poured down, and the entire world trembled with intense hostility toward Lu Yuan.

It seemed as if… the whole world was targeting Lu Yuan.

Amid the dreamscape shaking as if the apocalypse had arrived, Lu Yuan simply watched everything calmly.

His gaze swept over the outline of the elephant head in the sky, the scarlet eye, and the figure at the mountain top. He couldn’t help but sigh softly.

“Open your mind, old friend… I just killed one of your emissaries, even the Crow Deity next door didn’t react this strongly…”

“Sigh…”

…

“Whoosh!”

Lu Yuan awoke from the dreamscape, emerging from the water.

“Ha—ha—”

He breathed deeply, with a viscous liquid dripping from his body and hair.

Lu Yuan found himself lying in something like a healing chamber, his entire body submerged in a bluish, sticky liquid.

His injuries were completely healed, and more than that, he felt an unprecedented sense of vitality.

“Lord!”

A man with thick, blade-like eyebrows, dressed in a Red Bear uniform, saw Lu Yuan awake and approached quickly, his face lighting up with joy.

He respectfully presented a set of neatly folded clean clothes with both hands.

Lu Yuan casually grabbed them and draped them over himself, asking, “Where’s the person who brought me back?”

“That gentleman has already left and took the stone ball with him. He said you should rest well and to contact him anytime if needed.

Oh, right…”

The thick-browed Red Bear paused and solemnly said, “That lord instructed me to make sure to inform you when you wake up. His name is—Lan Chen.”

“Lan Chen.”

Lu Yuan muttered the name to himself, then nodded and said, “Got it.”

“He also mentioned that the Potion used for your healing is very expensive and, if you don’t believe him, I should send you this link. You can copy and paste it into the merit shop…”

“…”

After listening to the thick-browed Red Bear’s long-winded explanation, Lu Yuan nodded speechlessly to show that he understood and waved him off.

Once the thick-browed Red Bear left, Lu Yuan was the only one left in the spacious Lounge.

He casually opened his Golden Bear backend and immediately saw two unread messages quietly waiting.

One was from Yuwen Tong—Lord Tongtongtong: “Good job! (I have high hopes for you)”

Lu Yuan promptly replied: “All thanks to your excellent guidance, Lord Tong.”

After waiting for a while without receiving a reply from Yuwen Tong, he opened the second message—[Flying Bear General “Lan Chen” requests to add you as a friend.]

Lu Yuan casually clicked accept and then, after thinking for a moment, added a note after his name—”credit-seeker.”

After finishing all that, Lu Yuan calmed himself and checked his panel for his gains.

[Name: Lu Yuan]

[Age: 17]

[Strength Points: 21 (limit break 1)]

[Agility Points: 20 (limit break 1)]

[Constitution Points: 22 (limit break 1)]

[Intelligence Points: 21 (limit break 1)]

[Profession: Martial Artist lv11 (12234/102400)]

[Basic Professional Skills: …]

[Basic Professional Skill: …]

[Intermediate Professional Skill: …]

[Advanced Professional Skill: Spirit Crane Body lv5 (max level), Ten Thousand Refined Body lv5 (max level), Steel Bones lv5 (max level), Amitabha Golden Garment lv3 (234/400), Heavenly Ultimate Physique lv1 (65/100), Kesa Skill lv3 (78/400), Whale Body lv3 (23/400), Martial Deity Strength lv4 (341/800)…]

[True Essence: Great Whale True Intent lv1, Spirit Crane Body lv1, True Essence of Dragon Form lv1]

[Special Moves: Spirit Crane Technique—Crane Shadow Float lv2, Mistaken Plucking of Immortal Orchid lv2, Ethereal Penglai lv2]

[Dragon Sect—Dragon Shield lv1, Dragon Moves Through Clouds lv1, Dragon Rainfall lv1]

[Whale Body Ocean Encompassing Style—Ocean Encompassing lv1]

[Super Killer Move: Thousand Crows Salute the Moon lv2, Domain Power lv1]

[Professional Core Skills: Imaginary Enemy lv3, Special Exertion lv4, Undefeated Instinct lv1]

[Profession: Death Messenger (Extraordinary) lv7 (5539/6400)]

[Basic Professional Skills: Death Energy Entanglement lv8 (1034/12800), Crow Language lv3 (23/400), Eye of Doom lv3 (12/400)]

[Basic Professional Skill: Underworld Garment lv1 (78/100)]

[Professional Core Skills: to be unlocked]

[Super Killer Move: Death Messenger on the Way to the Underworld lv1]

[Profession: Spear Bearer (Extraordinary) lv2 (13/200)]

[Basic Professional Skills: Blood-burning Body lv1 (34/100), Unyielding Will lv1 (56), Hunting Perception lv1 (0/100)]

[Skill Points: 1]

[Attribute Points: 1]

The main changes had occurred in several places.

First, Lu Yuan’s constitution points had increased by a full 2 points!

“No wonder I feel so great; it’s because my constitution points had a significant boost. Is it because of Lan Chen’s healing Potion?”

An increase of 2 constitution points after a limit break, which when converted into attribute points, equals 4 points.

It is quite an impressive figure.

Lu Yuan suddenly remembered to paste the link that the thick-browed Red Bear had sent him into the merit shop. It opened to reveal a product called [Super Cell Repair Fluid].

One needed Fei Xiong level access to purchase it, each person was limited to one vial per month, and each vial required a whopping one hundred thousand merit points.

“That expensive….”

Lu Yuan was surprised and suddenly understood why Lan Chen had sought to take credit.

Who knows how many vials of this repair fluid he had used on Lu Yuan?

Spending hundreds of thousands of merit points only to go unacknowledged was not an option.

Lu Yuan quickly sent a “thanks” to the “credit-seeker.”

The “credit-seeker” replied instantly, “You’re welcome!”

Lu Yuan added, “If I ever have a similar task in the future, I’ll want you as my backup again.”

The “credit-seeker” responded, “…”

“It’s not just because of the repair fluid’s effects. My martial body was shattered by the elephant deity emissary, and later rebuilt forcibly due to entering [Perfect Form after First Limit Break]. It was a process of breaking and rebuilding that significantly boosted my constitution points. It’s not surprising…”

Defeating the elephant deity emissary had provided Lu Yuan with a total of fifty thousand professional experience points for [Martial Artist], leveling it up from lv10 to lv11.

He gained 1 skill point and 1 attribute point.

He also newly comprehended a super killer move—[Domain Power]!

Lu Yuan himself was surprised by this.

The skill came from the true skill visualization diagram of Xiang Lei, the sect leader of the Hundred Refinement Sect.

Xiang Lei was the previous owner of the Palace of Flesh and had developed it to a very high degree.

[Domain Power] was a killer move skill crafted to fit the Palace of Flesh owners: Strength, inner strength, and true intent were combined to their utmost, merging together into a swirling black hole-like vortex, unleashed in a single punch!

Lu Yuan had successfully comprehended this skill during the first stage of his battle with the elephant deity emissary.

Due to his overwhelming strength in all aspects compared to Xiang Lei and the serendipitous fitting of the [Perfect Form after First Limit Break], the skill had unexpectedly been elevated to the level of a super killer move.

It was a complete and unexpected delight.

“The same super killer moves have different focuses. [Thousand Crows Salute the Moon] targets the mental aspect more, whereas [Domain Power] emphasizes physical attacks.

My lv2 [Thousand Crows Salute the Moon] had little effect on the elephant deity emissary mainly because it doesn’t respond much to mental attacks!”

Lu Yuan squinted his eyes, recalling the battle against the elephant deity emissary.

Compared to its terrifying strength, its intelligence was indeed quite lacking.

Its consciousness was murky and clouded, as if it was just a “tool.”

Lu Yuan couldn’t help but remember the multi-armed figure he saw standing atop the demon mountain in the elephant deity dreamscape. He subconsciously looked down at the spot on his right chest.

The mark of the elephant deity demon mountain was still there, imprinted on Lu Yuan’s chest like a tattoo.

“What kind of existence could use a Level SS elephant deity emissary as a mere tool?”

A trace of complexity flashed in Lu Yuan’s eyes.

After this battle, it seemed he had just begun to glimpse the tip of the iceberg that is the top-tier extraordinary powers of this world.

He was talented enough to grow to his current level in just a few months.

But compared to those top-tier extraordinary powers… there was still a considerable gap.

“Without entering the [demon] state, my combat power at most reaches level S+… What is the difference between level S+ and level SS combat power, and what is the critical breakthrough?”

Lu Yuan murmured, planning to ask Yuwen Tong or the “credit-seeker” Lan Chen later.

Going further, [Death Messenger (Extraordinary)] profession saw improvements.

In the [Death Messenger (Extraordinary)] profession, after the [Eye of Doom] skill finally reached lv3, it met the requirements to unlock the first professional core skill.

Lu Yuan’s gaze wavered between [Undefeated Instinct] and the yet-to-be-unlocked professional core skill before finally choosing to unlock the latter.

Soon, a new skill was revealed —

[Professional Core Skill: Panic Boiling!]

Skill Description:…

Lu Yuan didn’t have time to carefully check the skill description.

At that moment, “Di-di-di—”

His communicator rang with urgent message notifications.

He casually opened it to check.

In the next second, his expression became shocked, quickly turning incredibly cold.

The message came from members of the Yellow Bear organization stationed in Pan City.

The message informed him—

Red Bear, Owl Blade… is dead!

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