Martial Arts Overlord!

Immediately afterwards, Lu Jin pushed open the door to the training room.

The corridor was pitch black, with only the faint green glow from the remaining fluorescent paint on the walls, barely illuminating a few steps ahead.

The solid wood flooring on the ground was rotten and cracked, making a creaking sound when stepped on, and you could feel the planks turning into dust with every step.

The walls peeled away, revealing the rusted steel frame inside, with steel bars protruding from the concrete like the ribs of a dead person.

Lu Jin walked forward along the corridor.

Within the field of vision of the Sky Eye, every corner within a radius of nearly 100 meters can be seen clearly.

The light from the mysterious orbs shone from all directions, and the automatic pickup range expanded around him. The orbs flew out from his hiding place, converged into ribbons of light, and entered his body.

You have obtained a common-grade attribute source, increasing all attributes by 0.13.

You have obtained a Common-Level Breakthrough Dream Essence.

You have obtained a high-level attribute source, increasing all attributes by 1.3.

...

Lu Jin did not stop walking.

He descended from the top floor, passing through the Bone Forging Realm training area, through the Tendon Changing Realm floors, and through the Flesh Refining Realm and Skin Membrane Realm areas.

Wherever it goes, it automatically picks up and pulls all the light clusters within a radius of 100 meters.

Ordinary attribute origins, advanced attribute origins, and breakthrough dream essences—the light bands surged in from all directions like a swarm of fireflies, illuminating the entire corridor with flickering light.

"It's very unusual that there are no boxing slaves in the martial arts school."

Lu Jin raised an eyebrow. After collecting all the mysterious light orbs in the martial arts hall, he walked towards He Yulong's office.

The office door was rotten and collapsed, leaning against the door frame.

Lu Jin walked in, his gaze sweeping over the equally dilapidated desk. The drawer was broken, and its contents were scattered all over the floor.

Most of the documents had turned to ashes, but at the very bottom there was a metal folder, its surface covered in rust, and you could still vaguely see a few pieces of paper inside.

He crouched down and opened the folder.

The paper was yellowed and brittle, and the edges would crumble at the slightest touch, but the text in the middle was still barely legible.

The heading was a line of bold red text!

Emergency Response Plan for the Seven Planets Alignment Event!

"Seven stars aligned!" Lu Jin's eyes widened!

The document contains a list of cities.

Lu Jin's gaze lingered on the three characters "Pingshui City".

The list includes seven cities, four within the Xia Kingdom and three abroad.

Pingshui City ranks fourth, corresponding to Tianquan.

Looking further down, at the very bottom of the document, there was a line of small print, the ink so blurred it was almost illegible!

On the day the seven stars converge, the Holy Spirit Church simultaneously launches the sacrificial ceremony for the seven star cities.

The seven cities were turned into a dead zone, and the Fist Slave Calamity broke out in full force in August 3043!

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"Is this the origin of the Fist Slave calamity? The Holy Spirit taught them how to cause calamities in seven cities simultaneously."

Lu Jin couldn't understand it. Logically speaking, if the Holy Spirit Cult was that strong, why would they be so sneaky and afraid to reveal their identities?

"Perhaps the alignment of the seven cities on the day the seven stars align will allow the Holy Spirit Church to complete some kind of plan."

"This kind of plan is the main cause of the Boxer Rebellion disaster!"

Lu Jin took a deep breath.

The seven stars aligned.

Less than two months.

Seven cities were simultaneously turned into dead zones.

Pingshui City is one of them.

Lu Jin's fingers tightened slightly, and he pinched the edge of the folder so hard that it cracked a few times.

"Get stronger! I must get stronger!"

"If I'm not able to cope by that day, then I'll flee to another city!"

Lu Jin naturally hoped to cultivate peacefully in Pingshui City until he reached his peak, and then go to the provincial capital.

But if he really can't stay, he's not stupid; he won't perish with this city.

"Go back and ask the authorities how much they know about the alignment of the seven stars."

Immediately afterwards, Lu Jin searched through the office again, but found no other valuable clues. He then went to the gate of the martial arts school, where the inner city unfolded before his eyes.

It is completely different from the eternal night and ruins of the outer city.

Although the outer city was dilapidated, most of the buildings still retained their original outlines, and although the streets were cracked, their original appearance could still be seen.

The inner city was filled with ruins and rubble.

The skyscrapers looked as if they had been crushed in the middle by a giant hand, their reinforced concrete skeletons twisted and broken, and their glass curtain walls shattered into glittering fragments scattered all over the ground.

The streets were riddled with huge cracks, some several meters deep, with edges as smooth as if they had been laser-cut.

The entire city looked as if it had been the site of a war far beyond human imagination; all the buildings, streets, and facilities were razed to the ground in a devastating manner!

There were no roars of the fist slaves, no tremors of the monsters' rampage, and not even the breath of any living creature.

Unlike the Shura field in the outer city's central square, where countless fist slaves devoured each other, the inner city was so quiet it was as if everything had died.

But at that very moment, a major earthquake struck.

"BOOM!!"

Lu Jin's pupils suddenly contracted!

It wasn't the horizontal shaking like an earthquake; it was vertical, like some enormous thing stepping onto the ground.

"What is that?!"

At that moment, Lu Jin suddenly looked up, which made him gasp in shock!

At the far end of the street, behind a leaning high-rise building, a huge figure is slowly walking towards us.

It is over ten meters tall, humanoid, with limbs in proportions exactly like a human, but its entire body is covered with dark golden scales.

Those scales weren't the dazzling gold of dragon scales, but a more somber and ancient color, as if they had been repeatedly soaked in time and blood.

In its right hand it held a giant sword, the blade of which was wider than Lu Jin himself. The blade was covered with nicks and cracks, and each nick was filled with dried and blackened remnants of flesh and blood.

He was holding a fist slave in his left hand.

A boxer the size of a truck was like a chicken with its neck choked in its hands.

The fist slave was still struggling, its limbs flailing wildly, but its head was gripped by that dark golden hand, and with each struggle, the scales in the palm tightened a little more.

Click—!

A deafening roar that shook the heavens!

The fist slave's head shattered like an egg in its palm, black blood gushing out from between its fingers.

It casually tossed the body aside and then stopped.

Then it turned its head, and a pair of dark red eyes accurately locked onto Lu Jin from hundreds of meters away.

"grass!"

At that moment, Lu Jin's back was instantly covered in a layer of cold sweat.

It wasn't fear, but an instinctive warning that surged from the depths of my bones, a feeling of being targeted by a predator.

Since he began practicing martial arts, he has never felt real fear in the Eternal Night Ruins.

But this time, that feeling came back.

The giant wielding the sword looked down at him as if a mountain were pressing down on an ant.

The giant raised his right arm, held the greatsword above his head, and swung it down.

The air exploded on its own in front of the sword's edge, and a visible black arc of light detached from the blade!

Wherever it passed, the ground was torn open, leaving a bottomless ravine, and the ruins on both sides of the street were blown away by the blast wave like building blocks.

Before the sword energy even arrived, the ground beneath Lu Jin's feet had already begun to crack.

"Damn it! How can the fist slaves in the inner city release their internal energy outwards! This is already the opening of the meridians!"

"Why should I?!"

Lu Jin was extremely shocked. The fist slaves in the inner city were not only one or two levels stronger than those in the outer city.

This is on a level far beyond!

No matter how high his Bone Forging Realm stats are, they are still not as high as those of this Fist Slave monster that can project its Qi!

The Dragon God form instantly activated, golden dragon scales covered his entire body, and phantom dragon horns extended from his forehead.

He pushed the Eight Trigrams Dragon Step to its limit, and his figure disappeared from the spot, rushing madly towards the direction of Baijiang District.

The sword energy grazed past his afterimage, splitting the golden phantom that remained in place in two.

The sword energy landed behind where he had just stood, and a tilted high-rise building was vertically cleaved in two, the cross-section as smooth as a mirror, and the entire building collapsed with a roar!

"hiss!"

"Does the Meridian Opening Realm possess such destructive power?!"

"I didn't see that in my master either!"

Lu Jin gasped several times!

In the vision of the Heavenly Eye, the sword-wielding giant began to stride. Each step of its ten-meter-tall body created a deep crater in the ground, and its speed was illogical.

Each step covered more than ten meters, and the distance between him and Lu Jin was shrinking at an alarming rate.

Lu Jin did not attack, not because he did not want to, but because he knew that with his current strength, he might not even be able to break through the monster's defenses.

Before long, Lu Jin escaped to the border between the inner and outer cities.

Watching the monster chase after it in another direction, Lu Jin breathed a sigh of relief and rushed out of the inner city, into the area of ​​the Skyquake Zone, until the footsteps behind him completely disappeared, and stopped on the roof of a relatively intact building.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"

Lu Jin was panting heavily; his back was soaked with cold sweat.

That long-lost fear of facing death returned.

"Damn it!"

"I'd almost forgotten what this feeling was like!"

Lu Jin gritted his teeth. Ever since his strength had been steadily increasing, he had been able to easily defeat any of the fist slaves he encountered.

Unlike today!

That sword-wielding giant, ten meters tall, with dark golden scales, could unleash sword energy. Its strength, speed, and defense completely overwhelmed any other fist slave he had ever seen.

"Why is there such a powerful fist slave in the inner city center, towering so much above the outer city?"

"Why are there no other fist slaves appearing in the inner city?!"

Could it be?

At that moment, a flash of inspiration struck Lu Jin!

Immediately afterwards, Lu Jin arrived at the central square of the Tianzhen District, where the scene was exactly the same as that of the center of the Baijiang District.

The corpses of the fist slaves lay scattered across the broken stone slabs, their black blood pooling into small streams.

All of them are remnants left behind after infighting and mutual devouring.

This is true in Baijiang District, and it is also true in Tianzhen District.

The fist slaves from each area were driven to the central square by some force, and then made to devour each other!

"Is this some kind of witchcraft-raising scheme?!"

Lu Jin's pupils suddenly contracted.

The fist slaves in the eight regions devour each other, with the strongest surviving and then being sent to the inner city to continue devouring each other.

Layer upon layer, like raising a venomous insect, it eventually nurtured that giant wielding a sword.

"That sword-wielding giant might be the strongest fist slave monster bred in Pingshui City!"

"Perhaps, we can raise one in Pingshui City, and then raise them throughout the province, the country, and the world!"

"What exactly is the Holy Spirit teaching them to do?! Won't they die too?!"

Lu Jin took a deep breath, and he felt that his guess was correct.

Bang it!

Lu Jin punched the wall next to him, and the wall blasted open a gap several meters in diameter, sending debris flying everywhere.

"Damn it!!"

At this moment, Lu Jin's expression turned extremely gloomy. Not strong enough, still not strong enough.

He painstakingly cultivated to the second level of Bone Forging, thinking that he would at least have the power to protect himself in the Eternal Night Ruins.

It turned out that there was a monster of that level hidden in the inner city, and this monster seemed to be able to move around the entire Pingshui City, but it stayed in the inner city for a long time.

Once he senses the presence of Lu Jin or the powerful Fist Slave monster, he'll probably come over.

Therefore, starting today, no matter where he enters the Eternal Night Ruins in Pingshui City, he will no longer be safe.

This feeling of being extremely close to death again made Lu Jin very unhappy!

At that very moment, a roar exploded from behind him!

"roar!"

Lu Jin suddenly turned around.

What came into view was a fist slave that was over three meters tall, standing less than five meters behind him. It was completely black, and its muscles bulged like blocks of iron.

Its head is a nearly complete human skull, with clearly distinguishable facial features and an ordinary appearance; it would not attract any attention in a crowd.

But his eyes burned with a ghostly green light, and his mouth stretched to his ears, revealing two rows of sharp teeth stained with black blood.

A pair of enormous fleshy wings unfolded from its back, the wing membranes covered with dark purple blood vessels.

This appears to be the strongest fist slave to survive after being devoured by the Heavenly Shock Zone.

At this moment, it stared at Lu Jin, let out a low roar, and suddenly spread its fleshy wings, stirring up a gust of wind.

Upon seeing the monster, Lu Jin's expression turned icy cold.

"I'm very angry right now."

Lu Jin's voice was very low, so low it sounded like it was being squeezed out from between his teeth.

"What are you barking about, you dog?!"

His right arm suddenly swelled, the muscles stretching the sleeve of his workout clothes taut.

With a powerful stomp, he leaped three or four meters into the air, raising his right fist high, where layers of golden dragon scales appeared on his fist.

The right arm grew a full circle thicker the moment he leaped into the air, his figure arcing through the air as his right fist slammed down towards the head of the fist slave.

"If I can't beat that guy in the inner city, I can at least beat you!"

"Damn you, you're only alive to become nourishment for that monster in the inner city, so you can all die!"

Lu Jin's pupils were utterly indifferent. Now that he was here, he was going to clear out everything in Pingshui City except for that monster!

In an instant, a golden dragon roared through the darkness!

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