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...
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
