My whole family was brutally murdered? I awakened the thug system and went on a killing spree.

Ah Jiu let out a burp.

A wisp of purplish-gold thunder smoke spewed from its nostrils and dissipated into the air.

The next second, the soil beneath Lu Chen's feet shone with a dazzling light.

A complex six-pointed star contract formation automatically appeared, enveloping his entire body.

The massive amount of lightning energy that Ajiu absorbed, after being purified by the SSS-level dragon bloodline, transformed into an extremely large and pure star source force, which flowed back into Lu Chen's body through the soul channel of the Beast Taming Contract.

Lu Chen's mental sea instantly boiled.

A dense series of cracking sounds emanated from his limbs and bones. The originally narrow star source circulation within his body was forcibly widened three times without any hindrance under the impact of this violent energy.

The power of the stars surged through the meridians, producing the sound of a real river flowing.

Second-tier peak.

The barrier is broken.

Third-tier Beast Tamer.

The entire process took less than ten seconds. There was no meditation or ascetic practice, no consumption of rare and precious herbs, and Lu Chen didn't even need to actively guide the process.

They rely entirely on tamed beasts to fly and collect resources.

Shen Du stood to the side, his eyes fixed on the contract formation that was gradually disappearing beneath Lu Chen's feet, his mouth agape as if he could fit a fist inside.

"Brother Shen." Shen Du swallowed hard, his voice trembling. "You're already at level three?"

Lu Chen clenched his fist, feeling the surge of power within him, and nodded.

"Pervert." Shen Du uttered two words after holding back for a long time.

He fought tooth and nail last night, consuming another B-grade secret realm core, barely managing to reach the threshold of the second tier.

Lu Chen, on the other hand, just stood there and watched as A Jiu inhaled a mouthful of lightning and broke through to a higher realm on the spot.

Shen Du turned to look at the golden-armored bear.

Xiong Da immediately lowered his head, covered his face with his huge paws, and pretended not to see anything.

At the same time.

Deep within Lu Chen's consciousness, that familiar mechanical notification sound rang out.

[Ding! Host has been detected to have broken through to the third-tier Beastmaster.]

[Hextech Talent System is now activated.]

[Drawing your reward for this major realm breakthrough...]

[Draw complete. Please select from the following three talents.]

Three runes radiating dazzling light appeared in front of Lu Chen's vision.

The first one is colored.

[High-end Shopping: High-level Beast Taming equipment or materials will randomly appear in your storage space. Purchasing them requires Star Origin Coins.]

The second one is gold.

[Pandora's Gear: Items stored in your inventory will automatically be converted into random resources of the same tier each day, with a 20% chance of evolving into higher-tier resources.]

The third one is colored.

[Sharing Spirit III: The host will disregard species isolation and permanently gain a very high percentage of the true attributes shared by their tamed beasts.]

Lu Chen's gaze swept quickly over the three runes.

High-end shopping is a good thing; as long as you have money, you can continuously acquire high-level resources.

However, apart from the more than ten million yuan he seized from the black market, Lu Chen is not considered wealthy.

Pandora's equipment is incredibly tempting. A 20% evolution probability means that, given time, even scrap metal can be transformed into a divine artifact.

But Lu Chen didn't hesitate for long.

The painful lessons of my past life are still vivid in my mind. A beast tamer's physical body is too fragile; once a high-level beast gets close and beheads them, even the strongest beast tamer is useless.

Ajiu is an SSS-class world-destroying thunder dragon. Its physical strength, affinity for thunder elements, and recovery speed are all at the top of the Blue Star food chain.

Sharing its attributes proportionally can directly cause a qualitative change in Lu Chen's combat power.

Lu Chen raised his hand and pointed at the third colored rune.

"I choose the spirit of sharing."

[Selection successful!]

[Colored Hextech Rune: Spirit of Sharing III is now loaded.]

[Attribute sharing channel established, synchronizing...]

boom!

Lu Chen's body jolted violently.

A wild and untamed power erupted from the depths of his soul, sweeping across his entire body.

His muscle fibers were torn apart and then instantly reformed. His bone density increased at an incredible rate. On the surface of his skin, a layer of fine purple-gold lightning patterns flashed by and then disappeared into his flesh.

Lu Chen lowered his head and looked at his hands.

He walked to a rock about half a person's height. This was a type of ore that had been tempered by A-level thunderstorm rules over many years, making it far harder than ordinary steel.

Lu Chen did not use any star source power, but simply raised his right hand and gripped the edge of the thunder rock with his five fingers.

work hard.

Click.

The hard rock was crushed into powder on the ground.

Lu Chen loosened his grip and slapped the lime off his palm.

His current pure physical strength is enough to tear apart a defensive beast of the same level with his bare hands.

"Let's go." Lu Chen turned around and looked at the canyon leading into the depths of the secret realm.

"Go and get the goods."

……

The inner area of ​​the Thunderous Ruins is shrouded in thick thunderclouds year-round.

This is a paradise for lightning-type monsters. Any one that jumps out is an elite monster of tier three or higher.

But today, this area has been met with utter destruction.

A purple lightning lion, over six meters tall, pounced down from the rock wall on the side of the canyon. A fourth-tier lord-level beast, its entire body wrapped in high-voltage arcs of electricity, its sharp claws aimed straight for Lu Chen's face.

Lu Chen didn't stop walking.

Ah Jiu, who was perched on his shoulder, didn't even stand up.

Ajiu opened her mouth.

A burst of purple-gold lightning energy erupted forth.

Thunderous breath transformed into a giant net of lightning in mid-air, precisely trapping the Purple Lightning Lion.

There is no room for struggle.

The fourth-tier lord-level beast was blasted away by the purple-gold lightning, its flesh and bones evaporated and turned to ashes.

Only a purple crystal core, crackling with violent lightning, remained in mid-air.

Ajiu stretched out its claws, sucked the crystal core into its stomach from a distance, chewed it twice, and swallowed it.

"belch."

Another burp.

The two, along with the dragon and the bear, advanced towards the deepest part of the secret realm at an extremely steady pace.

There was no hard-fought battle, no drawn-out struggle.

They were all one-hit kills.

Tier 3 Thunderstorm Bears, Tier 4 Lightning Moths, and swarms of Thunderrock Rats.

No matter how many come, no matter what level they are, once they enter Ajiu's attack range, they will all turn to ashes.

Ajiu didn't even bother using skills. It simply used higher-dimensional lightning laws to launch a dimensional reduction attack on these lower-level creatures.

As Ajiu continued to devour the alien beast's crystal core and the free-floating lightning in the air.

The strange phenomena in the sky became increasingly obvious.

The originally oppressive and heavy black thunderclouds are thinning at a visible rate.

Sunlight pierced through the gaps in the clouds, casting a large amount of light into the canyon.

It's as if Ajiu forcibly emptied a section of the lightning-based rules in this area.

Shen Du followed behind, carrying a large tactical backpack.

His current task is to find bargains.

He swept all the broken crystal cores that Ajiu had rejected and not swallowed whole, as well as the high-level lightning materials scattered on the ground, into his backpack.

"Brother Shen." Shen Du stuffed a fourth-tier lightning-struck wood into his bag and zipped it up. The backpack was already bulging and about to burst.

"I don't feel like a beast tamer right now," Shen Du said, wiping away sweat. "I feel like a junk collector."

Lu Chen glanced at him.

"Take this junk to the black market, and it'll be enough for you to buy a set of S-grade armor."

Shen Du immediately shut up and hugged his backpack tightly.

Ahead, the road through the canyon comes to an end.

The fluctuations of lightning element in the air suddenly became extremely chaotic.

Lu Chen stopped in his tracks.

According to Zhao Tianyu's previous statement, at the deepest part of the Thunder Ruins, there is a naturally formed "Ancient Thunder Pool." Zhao Tianyu wants to use the energy of the Thunder Pool to help his Thunder Crocodile awaken its ancient bloodline.

But Lu Chen looked ahead, his brows furrowing slightly.

There is no pool.

There is no naturally occurring treasure land for nurturing it.

The terrain ahead collapsed over a large area, forming a huge pit with a diameter of over a kilometer.

The pit contained no soil, only charred crystals.

Lu Chen walked to the edge of the pit and looked down.

At the center of the pit stands a dilapidated building.

It was a black metal gate that was a hundred meters high.

The material of the gate is unknown, but its surface is seamless and appears as a single piece without any seams.

It lies half-buried in the ground, tilted, exuding an ancient and deathly aura.

Lu Chen stared at the door.

The surface of the gate was covered with three terrifying claw marks, each several meters deep.

Claw marks stretched from the top of the door to the bottom, almost tearing the heavy metal door apart.

The marks left by the cuts on the metal edges still retain a chilling aura of brutality.