Soon,
Lu Xiaobai smoothly completed two cycles of his body tempering technique, and his own vitality level reached 4.6, a bit stronger than yesterday.
"Begin!"
His expression shifted as he was about to release [Feigned Injury],
but his gaze instantly caught sight of something, and he stopped abruptly.
Three figures were swimming towards this area, and behind them was a ferocious Giant Star Shark in hot pursuit!
"The Pig, Cow, and Sheep Trio?"
Lu Xiaobai immediately recognized the three—it was that peculiar combo from his own class...
"Lu... Brother Lu?"
Liu Quan was momentarily stunned, then his face also lit up with joy.
They had thought it was someone from another class and were even prepared for a fierce fight.
The three quickly swam closer.
The 9th-level vitality Giant Star Shark that had been chasing them arrived nearby. Upon seeing the Mechanical Octopus, it chose to leave without hesitation.
"Finally shook off that beast..."
The trio let out a sigh of relief, completely relaxing.
Lu Xiaobai said with a smile,
"Looks like you guys were chased for quite a while?"
Liu Quan replied with a tired expression,
"That beast holds a grudge. We only killed its offspring, and it ended up chasing us all this way."
"..."
Lu Xiaobai's mouth twitched.
It'd be weird if it didn't want to kill you...
Seeing the three resting on the head of the Mechanical Octopus, he didn't pay them much more mind and continued with his hunting plan for the day.
His expression focused slightly as he released [Feigned Injury]. Instantly, a large amount of blood infused into the seawater.
"Lu... Brother Lu, you're bleeding?!"
Liu Quan and the other two were shocked, their eyes filled with disbelief, seemingly struggling to comprehend.
How did a major hemorrhage just happen out of nowhere...
"It's nothing, just a minor injury."
Lu Xiaobai naturally wouldn't inform them about his family skill.
"This is minor?!"
The trio's eyes were filled with bewilderment.
Was the young master of the Lu family this much of a tough guy...?
After a moment, seeing the blood becoming increasingly dense with no sign of stopping,
Liu Quan proactively offered,
"Brother Lu, there's a type of seaweed in this area that can stop bleeding. Should I go gather some?"
Lu Xiaobai shook his head.
"I injured myself on purpose. As for the reason..."
He didn't finish his sentence, instead casting his gaze around them.
The three were slightly puzzled, then their expressions suddenly changed drastically.
In just this short while, over a dozen Giant Star Sharks had already gathered around them. Even the one that had been chasing them was lured back!
"Luring monsters? But that's useless, the Mechanical Octopus won't help attack."
Liu Quan and the others were still confused.
Lu Xiaobai offered no explanation, continuing to release the [Feigned Injury] skill.
Soon, the blood kept spreading.
Coupled with the Mechanical Octopus's constant movement, his blood affected an even wider area of the sea.
An hour later,
an enormous Giant Star Shark King appeared!
"A 10... a level 10-plus Dumb Shark?!"
Liu Quan and the trio were shaken, their eyes filled with gravity and even fear.
The three of them together couldn't even defeat a level 9 Giant Star Shark. This Shark King before them was enough to annihilate them instantly...
Just as the three were feeling anxious, the Mechanical Octopus beneath their feet suddenly sprang into action.
Boom, boom, boom—
Eight thick mechanical tentacles shot out violently. Accompanied by the terrifying roar of machinery, they instantly entangled and tightly bound the Shark King!
Meanwhile, Lu Xiaobai calmly began to nock arrows and shoot, mixing in to secure assists from the sidelines.
This method left The Pig, Cow, and Sheep Trio utterly dumbfounded.
You could play it like this?!
Soon,
the Shark King lost its life force due to the severe injuries it sustained.
"Another 50 points in the bag, not bad..."
Lu Xiaobai smiled slightly, pulling the arrows from the Shark King's corpse and reloading them into his quiver with practiced ease.
Clearly, he had done this more than once!
"Lu... Brother Lu, how many points did you just get?"
"Fifty."
"..."
The three fell silent instantly.
Yesterday, they had fought desperately to kill three level 8 Giant Star Sharks, earning only 60 points to split three ways. Yet he had just earned 50 points in this short time.
What did all their suffering yesterday even mean then...
"Brother Lu, I finally understand how you got tenth place!"
Liu Quan said with an admiring expression,
"To actually find a way to farm monsters like this..."
Lu Xiaobai chuckled, then began releasing blood again, preparing to lure another Shark King...
"Still releasing?!"
Watching this, the trio felt their eyelids twitch. They simultaneously understood why no one had ever used this method before.
Who had this much blood to spare?!
As time passed,
the blood thoroughly dyed the nearby waters red.
Yang Yifei watched this scene and couldn't help muttering,
"As expected of a big shot from the Lu family, the health bar is truly thick..."
Liu Quan shot him a glare. Is that any way to compliment someone?
"..."
Yang Yifei rubbed his nose, gave an awkward smile, and didn't speak further. But inwardly, he was truly astonished.
If it were an ordinary person, even draining all their blood probably wouldn't produce this much...
Lu Xiaobai paid no mind to the trio.
He frowned slightly, a hint of confusion in his eyes, and murmured to himself,
"Luck this bad?"
Three hours had already passed, but not a single Shark King had appeared...
Although his method was safe and the efficiency of earning points wasn't low, it did rely somewhat on luck...
Liu Quan, standing nearby, sensed the situation and whispered,
"Brother Lu, is it possible that there are simply no more Shark Kings near this Mechanical Octopus's patrol route?"
"Huh? They follow fixed routes?"
"Of course."
Liu Quan said with a smile,
"There are over a dozen Mechanical Octopuses in this entire sea area, each responsible for patrolling different routes. Otherwise, if they just wandered randomly, wouldn't they easily bump into each other?"
"I see..."
Lu Xiaobai nodded, murmuring to himself,
"In that case, we'll have to leave. Do you know the locations of other Mechanical Octopuses?"
"We know the approximate locations of three others."
"Good. Do you have time? Can you guide me?"
"Of course we have time!"
Liu Quan grinned and immediately agreed.
They were just worrying about how to get on good terms with Lu Xiaobai. A request like this was exactly what they hoped for.
After all, for them, this competition wasn't all that important anyway.
Their class was already at the bottom—no room to fall further...
Hearing this, a smile flickered in Lu Xiaobai's eyes. He said,
"Once these sharks leave, we'll go find another Mechanical Octopus."
Currently, after three hours of luring, there were at least over two hundred Giant Star Sharks near the four of them, appearing densely packed. Especially with those greedy, hungry eyes, it was enough to send chills down one's spine.
Naturally, the four didn't dare leave recklessly and could only cling tightly to the Mechanical Octopus's metaphorical thigh...
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ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
