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Late at night, at Tian Shuang Hospital in Shanghai, the private hospital of the Lu family, which boasts the world's top medical team and serves the Lu family exclusively.

In the VIP ward on the fifth floor, Lu Yuanshan lay on the soft bed. Even though it was already two o'clock, he was still awake, carefully looking through the financial statements.

Suddenly, he felt a slight pain in his heart, which quickly disappeared. He thought it was just his imagination, but soon exhaustion overwhelmed him, and he fell into a deep sleep. Soon after, the electrocardiogram machine next to him turned into a single line, followed by a beeping sound.

The substitute doctor rushed in quickly and tried to save Lu Yuanshan with a defibrillator, but after more than a dozen attempts, the electrocardiogram showed no change. In the end, the doctor had no choice but to pronounce Lu Yuanshan dead.

The cause of death was determined to be a sudden heart attack.

After news of Lu Yuanshan's death reached the Lu family, all sorts of strange and unrelated people appeared, all wanting a piece of the story from the Lu family.

Lu Shuang was extremely busy, and so was Lu Tian, ​​especially since he was a fake young master of the Lu family. His relatives, friends, and shareholders all believed that he was not qualified to inherit any of the Lu family's property, and the two of them had long forgotten about Lu Ming.

Meanwhile, Lu Ming, the instigator, was already in the Douluo Continent.

"Damn it?! How did I end up in the Star Dou Great Forest? If I didn't have some strength, I'd probably be dead by now."

Inside the Star Dou Great Forest, Lu Ming clutched the wound on his arm. The skin and flesh were torn open, and thin streams of blood trickled down between his fingers. He cautiously peeked out, watching the ferocious beast searching for its prey in the distance.

It was a giant bear, standing four meters tall, with dark golden fur covering its entire body, and its huge bear claws were particularly ferocious and terrifying.

This giant bear is none other than the king of bear-type soul beasts—the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear.

However, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear was in very bad shape at the moment. One of its eyes had been gouged out, and a hideous wound on its chest was bleeding profusely.

It kept twitching its nose, trying to find traces of that damned human, but the pungent, strange smell in the air completely numbed its sense of smell, and it couldn't find any trace at all.

On the tree, Lu Ming held a bottle of cologne in his hand and gently sprayed it around. The light and elegant fragrance masked the smell of blood.

A bear's sense of smell is more than five times more developed than a dog's, let alone the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, the king of bear-type soul beasts, whose sense of smell is even more terrifying, and food and prey within a radius of tens of kilometers cannot escape its pursuit.

This is why perfume has such a powerful effect on their sense of smell; however, it doesn't last long. Given their adaptability, they will likely quickly adjust to the scent and find their place again in the bloody aroma.

"In that case, let's take it down!"

Lu Ming's eyes turned cold. He maintained his tortoise breathing technique, his body devoid of any aura, and his breathing was terrifyingly long, only once every ten minutes or so. He stared at the dark gold dinosaur bear not far away as if he were looking at a dead bear.

The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear continued searching for Lu Ming's location. Its massive body, like a truck, sent rocks flying and trees tumbling in its wake. However, the lingering strange smell in the air made it extremely uncomfortable, making it difficult to concentrate on its search.

The air trembled slightly, alarm bells rang in the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's mind, and dark gold light flowed on its huge paws as it suddenly swung them into the air.

"Clang!"

The bear's paw and the sword tip collided, producing a metallic clang. A crimson longsword was sent flying and embedded in a towering tree nearby, leaving only the hilt trembling violently.

"roar!"

The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear roared, constantly looking around with panic in its eyes, because there was no sign of the human above it; what it had just knocked away was merely a weapon thrown by the other party.

As soon as it turned around, it saw the annoying human in front of it. His right hand had transformed into a palm blade, with black and white light wrapped around the blade. The light was not bright, but it gave it a deadly threat.

"Pfft!"

Before it could even react, Lu Ming's palm strike had already landed on its head, creating a breathtaking, ink-wash-like sword aura. Immediately afterward, a massive head shot into the sky and landed on the ground a short distance away, its eyes filled with disbelief.

"Bang"

The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's massive body fell to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust, and a deep purple spirit ring slowly floated above the corpse.

"call!"

Lu Ming was panting heavily, his body slightly relaxed. That last strike had consumed a full thirty percent of his true energy. Even he couldn't withstand such a sudden burst of power. At this moment, his meridians were faintly tingling with pain!

"It seems I still need to persist with the Yi Jin Xi Sui (Muscle/Tendon Changing and Marrow Cleansing) and practice external martial arts; the strength of my meridians is extremely important!"

"I wonder if I can absorb the spirit ring using the Northern Darkness Divine Art!"

With a slight sigh, Lu Ming slowly walked to the corpse of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear. Looking at the soul ring condensed from the essence of the soul beast's soul power, he placed his hand on it and used the Absorption Technique of the Northern Darkness Divine Art to draw out the soul power within the soul ring.

He immediately felt streams of extremely pure power surging into his body, flowing along his meridians to his three dantian.

Within the dantian, the black and white true qi, under the influence of the true qi vortex, transformed into a Tai Chi diagram, continuously absorbing this external energy and refining it into Beiming True Qi, which was then dispersed throughout the body. Every inch of muscle and tendon was absorbing this energy.

Lu Ming's physical fitness also increased rapidly at this moment. Of course, this increase was compared to Lu Ming's usual state during cultivation, and it was not actually much faster.

"As expected of a fantasy world, the spiritual energy contained within is truly abundant!"

At the same time, Lu Ming also felt the spiritual energy between heaven and earth flowing into his body through the acupoints around his body, and being refined together with the soul power in the Dark Gold Terror Claw Bear Soul Ring. He couldn't help but sigh, his strength had not increased so rapidly when he was in the combined world of Tianlong and the short drama.

This shows how important the cultivation environment is; the saying that you can't raise a true dragon by diving is quite true.

"roar!"

Just as he was refining his soul power, a bear's roar suddenly echoed in Lu Ming's mind, almost interrupting his cultivation and causing him to suffer a qi deviation. Lu Ming quickly guarded his mind and used all his strength to activate the Eternal Youth and Longevity Technique to completely refine the true qi in his body.

"As expected of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, its seven thousand years of cultivation actually generated a mental impact!"

Two hours later, Lu Ming opened his eyes, still feeling somewhat shaken.

While mental impact is a standard feature of ten-thousand-year-old soul beasts, some soul beasts with powerful bloodlines also possess it when they have a thousand-year cultivation level. For example, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and the Titan Giant Ape. These soul beasts have pure bloodlines and great strength. A thousand years of cultivation is comparable to ten-thousand-year cultivation of ordinary soul beasts, which is quite powerful.

The terrifying aspect of mental shock is that it directly affects mental strength, making it impossible to defend against.

If it weren't for the fact that Lu Ming's cultivation had reached the Innate Realm and his mental strength far surpassed that of others at the same level, he probably would have died from the mental shock of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, suffering a qi deviation and shattered meridians.

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