Chapter 521 The Sect Master's Exclusive Weapon! The Power of the Ancient Heavens! Lu Yu's
Chapter 521 The Sect Master's Exclusive Weapon! The Power of the Ancient Heavens! Lu Yu's
Chapter 521 The Sect Master's Exclusive Weapon! The Power of the Ancient Heavens! Lu Yu's Birthday!
At this moment, within the crystal of the Staff of the Dust Walker, the withered, mummy-like infant opened its eyes. There were no pupils, no whites of the eyes, only endless darkness, as deep and terrifying as a black hole. Its body was covered with cracks, constantly seeping out dust and sand in a repetitive cycle.
He seemed to be outside of reincarnation, silently watching Lu Yu from the dark crevices of boundless time and space.
The air began to fill with a dusty, decaying smell. Even Lu Yu felt a dryness and heat in his throat. Everything around him began to disintegrate, turning into dust and sand, as if bringing about the end of all things.
"Xiu Ren, what happened!?" Shu Shu was completely dumbfounded as he watched the potato chips in his hand turn to ashes along with the bag.
I've only taken one bite...
Can I get reimbursed?
Little Spider, Lu Wa, and other pet beasts also turned their gazes towards it. Although this power was strong, it was not enough to shake them.
Lu Yu waved his hand, indicating that they didn't need to worry, and reached out to grasp the staff of the Dust Walker. All the strange phenomena ceased and returned to calm.
The relevant information then appeared before his eyes.
【The Ultimate Lord of Decay: The ancient Dust-Treader was once the Lord of the End. Wherever his descent took place, it was as if countless ages had passed in an instant; wherever his feet trod, flesh and stone, and all things in the world would turn into dust.
However, because the Mother of Twilight stole her power, she fell and was eventually forgotten by the Mother River.
However, the remaining traces, grazed on the Lord of the Gate's ranch, were pieced back together from the past and successfully transformed into the Staff of the Dust Walker.
He has absorbed enough souls, reshaped spirituality, acknowledged the Lord of the Gate, and opened up the aging persona to you.
You can trade 100 years of your life for 20 years of the other person's life.
Furthermore, it possesses the pseudo-mythical skill "Ultimate Decay," because it has lost its authority. Once activated, all life and matter that comes near or is touched by you will age rapidly and eventually turn into dust, known as the Dust of Aging.
It can accumulate continuously, with its power increasing infinitely.
Furthermore, it can bestow the gift of "Aging God Child" upon life. Those who receive this gift will gain immortality and be indestructible, but at the cost of their bodies forever entering a state of decay, their spines becoming bent and mutated, turning them into special mutated divine abominations who cannot control the power of decay, causing everything they come into contact with to age.
However, the balance of the mother river means that every gain comes with a corresponding price.
There is only one spot for the blessing. Once the recipient chooses to change targets, the original recipient will turn to ashes and perish. (PS: Immortality is not a blessing, but a curse.)
[Comment: Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Praise to the great Master of the Gate!]
"The life-trading skill has been upgraded."
Lu Yu nodded. The life-exchange skill originally took a hundred years to exchange for ten years of the opponent's life, which was equivalent to a ten to one ratio. However, because the sect master could reduce the side effects to one percent of the original.
That's equivalent to exchanging one year for ten years of the other's work, which is 1:10.
Now, after the upgrade, it can achieve a ratio of 1:20, providing more operational flexibility.
The same lifespan can replace twice as many old, immortal people as before.
The killer of the elderly is getting stronger.
However, this ability is not considered a buff for Lu Yu now. After all, with his current strength, he is already strong enough to sweep away most of the pseudo-kings. There is no need for him to exchange his life for it, as most of his opponents are true kings or supreme beings.
The supreme being among them has an infinite lifespan and is therefore of no use.
As for the true kings, they can be buried, but we must be wary that they may have used some external force to prolong their lifespan.
For example, Ganesha, even though he has lived for nearly a million years, is still in his prime. It's hard not to suspect that he may have received some of the lifespan blessing from Ganesha.
Abyss Kings, on the other hand, often live for millions of years, sometimes even until their spirituality collapses.
The true kings of the main world are suppressed by the world's consciousness, resulting in shorter lifespans, mostly lasting only a few hundred thousand years.
However, it's perfect for burying some old things.
For example, some ancient beings who have not yet become gods and are at the demigod stage, who cannot be accepted by the abyss and whose lifespan is nearing its end, can be buried in this way.
The rest of the information revealed is also quite interesting.
The Staff of the Dustwalker comes from the Lady of the Ranch, also known as the Infant Angel, who is a divine being born under the blessing of the Mother of Twilight.
Lu Yu had always thought that the power of the end belonged to Him, but he never expected that there would be such an unlucky guy as the Dust Walker, whose power was replaced and then erased.
If not for the blessing of the Person of Truth, it would have been completely destroyed.
This was Lu Yu's first close encounter with a completely extinct ancient god; he had even used the other's corpse as a weapon before.
Fortunately, He is dead. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been so easy for Egg to obtain the authority of the Feast of the End. It would have been much easier to fleece the Mother of Twilight.
It's not that the Mother of Twilight is easier to bully, on the contrary...
This being, who is suspected to be the reincarnation of the Supreme Mother Goddess, has orchestrated events that span across time, and his presence is felt in most events from the primordial era to the present.
And they all succeeded.
Even powerful gods like the Hidden Corpse Emperor and the Lord of Eternal Night Village were schemed against or manipulated. Even the Toad Ancestor was involved in the scheme against the Pure White God.
He's a true workhorse among the gods!
If Lu Yu didn't possess the forbidden rank and the Eye of Truth, and hadn't used many schemes to his advantage, he too would have become a pawn, experiencing endless despair.
Moreover, he had a vague feeling that the Mother of Twilight seemed to be actively relinquishing her authority over the end.
Because during the process of the egg condensing into the final feast, it did not encounter any obstacles or malice.
Even though the [Final Feast] is an independent path, it still encroaches on a portion of the source of the End, which is equivalent to snatching food from a tiger's mouth.
The Mother of Twilight made no reaction to the encroachment on her path.
It sounds strange that a great being would voluntarily relinquish its power; it's no different from walking into death.
However, Lu Yu still kept it in mind. For such a top-level and great existence, one should be contemptuous in strategy, but extremely cautious in tactics.
Arrogance is the greatest enemy!
As for the blessing of the [Aging God Child], it seems to grant immortality, but it has too many limitations and can cause mutations. Unless these side effects can be resolved, Lu Yu will not use it on his own people.
Lu Yu put away the Staff of the Dust Walker and looked at the Heavenly Calamity Star Spear, which had been forged.
Based on the pseudo-king-level Star Forge, it not only used the tentacles from the primordial starry sky, but also the stellar treasures plundered from the Star Family, a piece of the moon goddess's umbilical cord, and the ancient spear with the blessings of the past.
Gather the power of the sun, moon, and stars!
To ensure that the Star-Smelting process would proceed smoothly and be able to handle these high-level materials, Lu Yu even employed a clever tactic.
That is, using more than a hundred ordinary Moroboshi Furnaces to temper the pseudo-King level Moroboshi Furnaces, forcibly enhancing their power to be comparable to that of a King level.
So many times, even the will of the stars came to watch. What happened?
Is this forging a supreme divine artifact?
However, seeing Lu Yu's Primal Starry Sky Tentacles, He remained silent.
Thus, Lu Yu successfully completed the forging, and the Heavenly Calamity Star Spear was upgraded into a mysterious long spear surrounded by chaotic energy.
The spearhead is composed of two secondary spearheads formed from the dark, chaotic stars and the dazzling moonlight, arranged in a spiral structure that surrounds the ancient blade of light at the center.
The sun, moon, and stars converge and collide to form a vast, chaotic mist in which countless obscure and ancient divine scripts float and sink.
Click click click!
At this moment, the Eye of Heavenly Principle on Lu Yu's body opened its eyes, quickly covering the newly born divine weapon and intertwining with it. In the ignorant and chaotic mist, countless Eyes of Heavenly Principle grew, adding the power of "principle" to them.
It condensed into eight ancient characters.
Lu Yu translated it through the Eye of Truth and read it aloud softly:
"Upholding the principles of Heaven, governing time and space!"
hum!
The gun hummed, its spirit surging forth in response to Lu Yu, yet even with its aura concealed, it remained vast enough to shake down the Milky Way.
Even a single thread falling now causes the void to tremble uncontrollably.
An ordinary small world wouldn't even be able to contain it; simply getting close to it would cause it to burst and return to nothingness.
"It seems inappropriate to continue calling it 'Old Foe Star Calamity Spear,' it should be called... 'Spear of the Ancient Heavens'!"
Lu Yu murmured softly, giving it a new name.
After the upgrade, the Old Heavenly Spear became harder and its ability to imprison was greatly enhanced. Once hit, it was second only to the ancient seals in history and could isolate all power and even authority.
At the same time, three brand-new abilities were also created.
The first one is named [God's Urgency].
It possesses extreme lethality against beings with divinity and created by gods, and is naturally able to restrain and annihilate divinity.
Furthermore, the older the target, the greater its power becomes, as long as it can be analyzed, traced back to its origins, and understood in greater detail. There is no upper limit to its power.
For others, pursuing the ancient is difficult, but for Lu Yu, who possesses the Eye of Truth, it's as simple as eating and drinking. He can trace back to the same level, and even higher levels can explore some information. If he can extract flesh and blood, he can directly glimpse the source.
If Lu Yu is a great being, then the gods have no secrets from him.
The second ability is called [Darkness].
Having mastered the three fundamental elements of light—the sun, the moon, and the stars—it can absorb all radiant powers and continuously strengthen itself.
It can also instantly devour the brilliance of a middle-thousand world, plunging it into eternal darkness.
Furthermore, it can draw upon the radiance of light to nourish the user, becoming stronger with each battle.
It can be said that from today onwards, all luminous creatures will tremble at the sight of Lu Yu.
As for the third ability, it is called [Old Heaven Plateau], which can summon the Old Heaven Plateau and allow the weapon to enter the original Old Heaven form, but the price is that the Old Heaven Spear will fall into a short period of silence.
Even the Eye of Truth gave it a very high rating, calling it a top-tier skill for boosting combat power.
In addition, the Spear of the Old Heaven also possesses hardness comparable to the True King's Court, as well as the property of immortality.
It can self-repair as long as it is not completely destroyed.
The more light it absorbs, the faster it repairs itself.
Lu Yu threw it to the True Spirit of the Azure Heaven Demon God, who then tempered it to maintain its strongest edge at all times.
In the following days, both the human race and the myriad races maintained an eerie calm, without any full-scale war breaking out. Instead, they restrained each other and only launched small-scale conflicts.
After all, the human race's front line has already reached the other side's doorstep, and if they get any closer, they will be close to the True Kingdom, which is no longer a realm that ordinary beings can reach.
No matter how many people there are, they can't overwhelm the kings!
Only a war between them will determine the future direction of the world.
However, the spirituality of this chaotic era is also quietly and steadily rising, and is already infinitely close to its peak.
The most obvious change is that the gods have begun to frequently perform miracles, and many evil god cults that were on the verge of extinction have been revitalized by divine revelation, which has caused a lot of trouble for the alliance and all races.
After all, these lunatics are also incapable of distinguishing between friend and foe.
Although most of the fires were extinguished immediately, under the distortion of divine power, more creatures became believers and spread the disease.
Lu Yu also made several attempts to fish for and hunt down the gods who had descended to the mortal world, but unfortunately these guys were too clever and never gave him a chance.
Even after all that effort, all they managed to obtain was a wood-attribute divine beast.
Both sides entered a brief period of calm, but everyone understood that this was just the calm before the storm.
Time flies, and it's already the end of December.
The months in the main world are not much different from those in the previous life, except that they are more in-depth and involve different spiritual divisions.
In December, the highest sun enters a period of dormancy, lasting for a month.
Of course, for this great being, it was merely the time it takes to breathe, a single spiritual cycle, but for humanity, it was a long-awaited winter.
A heavy snowfall blanketed the border, turning the landscape into a pristine white wonderland.
"Another year has passed so quickly." Lu Yu stretched out his hand, looking at the melting ice crystals in his palm, and sighed.
From an ordinary student in Dayuan City to a big shot in the Alliance, a pseudo-king of the mortal world, a big shot who looks down on all living beings, it seems like only three years have passed.
Standing atop the white tower, he could see many residents of the border town playing a snowball fight, with their pets joining in.
Even when some soldiers started secretly building snowmen, the officers turned a blind eye, brewing a cup of hot tea and enjoying the peaceful moment.
Although the scorching heat and freezing cold could no longer affect Lu Yu, Little Spider still knitted his ten sets of winter clothes as usual. Each one was well-made and included a chibi family portrait of all his pets.
"Wow, this is the new dress Sister Spider made for me, isn't it beautiful!"
The little mouse also put on red gloves and a hat, happily showing them off and rolling around in the snow.
However, it was quickly blown away by Egg's sneeze. Just as the mouse was about to complain that Egg was always picking on it, it saw Egg raise its neck and show off its beautiful scarf.
The Black Crimson Dragon Ant now wears a black and red cloak, adding to its imposing presence.
The Paper Knight didn't receive any clothes, since he already had the Paper Kingdom armor, but he did receive a book cover for the Redemption Bible made by Little Spider, as well as exquisite bookmarks with pictures of Lu Yu and various pet beasts.
The paper knight carefully put it away.
The five calamities peacock received a fluffy coat, which made it look adorable.
Red Hare received the shoes, not because the little spider deliberately severed its connection with the earth, but because it wanted them itself.
When not fighting, you can wear it to stroll around, which looks a bit elegant and is also a kind of alternative... horseshoe.
The Thousand-Faced Spirit God received a beautiful garment woven by the moonlight, perfectly matching its pursuit of desire.
Lu Wa initially didn't want to accept the little spider's gift, but upon seeing that it was a chibi card of Lu Yu, she instantly knelt down in despair.
As for the white fox...
It received a pillow.
Whether it was because of the winter or because they had entered real time, the White Fox always liked to lazily sleep at home, which showed Lu Yu another side of the White Fox...
Lazy.
She likes to laze around every day, eating delicious food and snuggling up to Lu Yu.
He was completely out of place with the "King of Rolls" team.
Every time he wanted to urge the other person to work harder, he couldn't bear to speak after seeing their gentle gaze.
It always gave him the feeling that he was disrespectful to his teacher and a disobedient student.
I feel so guilty.
In the end, I could only vent my frustration by petting the white fox.
But I must say, it feels great to hold, and the latter will even make a pleasant fox call in response.
It's incredibly addictive.
No wonder King Zhou liked to play with foxes.
Lu Yu didn't force him, after all, the white fox's pseudo-king level strength was considered top-tier within the team, and the other pets would need time to catch up.
The white fox also sleeps with its head on a pillow every day, and even while lying down, it continues to grow stronger.
Just when Lu Yu thought it would continue until the final battle, the gate of the White Tower was pushed open, and Luo Zisong walked in casually, looking at Lu Yu and saying:
"Young Master Lu, tomorrow is your birthday. How about we summon all the major families and schools of thought in the alliance and hold a grand banquet...?"
The words were abruptly cut off before they could be finished.
Because all of Lu Yu's pets, including the little spider, were staring at him indifferently.
Red Hare was filled with murderous intent.
Egg opened its myriad eyes, radiating the pressure of an ancient dragon. Suddenly, it felt a bit hungry and wanted to eat someone to fill its stomach.
The white fox opened its eyes, resting on the pillow, and looked at Luo Zisong with a helpless expression.
Xiao Luo is still as impulsive and careless as ever.
"This...this..."
Luo Zisong felt a chill run down his spine, completely unaware of what was happening, and looked at Lu Yu in a panic.
Did I... say something wrong?
"Eek..."
The little spider sighed, somewhat regretfully.
They originally wanted to give their owner a big surprise, and even prepared a lot of things without telling their owner, but Luo Zisong spoiled it for them in advance.
Lu Yu patted its head and said with a smile:
"Alright, don't scare Principal Luo. You've all been acting suspiciously lately, how could you possibly hide it from me? In that case, let's all have a lively birthday celebration together."
(End of this chapter)
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