Awakening The Gluttony Talent: I Become Stronger By Eating - Chapter 165

165 Blood-sucking Wasteland Filled with Poisonous Gas

“8-directional Cleave!”

The moment he activated his skill, the Dragon Blood Battle Saber in Lu Yu’s hands struck. Eight streaks of saber light from all sides came slicing on the gorilla king until its skin and flesh were shredded. It roared in fury endlessly.

This gorilla king was indeed extraordinary. The normal A-class Fearsome Beast would explode into bits if struck by this saber strike, but the gorilla king became more lively and alert instead. The aura on its body became more powerful. With a pair of bloodshot eyes, it slammed its paw directly on Lu Yu’s skull.

Pow! The Dragon Blood Battle Saber collided with the gorilla king’s paw. The tremendous force caused the ground to sink abruptly by an inch.

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Roar! The fierce and violent gorilla king was horrified to find that its paw could not press down any further. It was as if it had slapped on a giant mountain, unable to shake it at all.

Immediately after that, Lu Yu circulated his true energy, and then using those disproportionately small arms compared to the gorilla king’s paw, he grabbed the huge gorilla arm. With a mighty swing, he smashed the creature heavily to the ground.

Wailing incessantly, the gorilla king was smashed again and again against the ground, until its aura gradually weakened. Finally, it was as dead as a dodo.

“Gasp! Captain Lu is really too ferocious!”

Li Tieniu took one gulp of air. He had always believed that his strength was his forte. He now realized that the strength he had been so proud of was nothing compared to Lu Yu’s.

Even he could not manage to swing this gorilla king up and smash it so many times. He had received a blow from the gorilla king earlier and his body nearly fell apart.

Without their backbone of support, the other Berserker Blood Gorillas had no more fighting spirit and were roundly defeated. The cultivators of Lunan City pursued these Berserker Blood Gorillas, hitting and killing them mercilessly.

Lu Yu also examined the corpse of this gorilla king. Using the Blood Emperor Battle Saber to dissect it, a violent spurt of poisonous gas shot out. Fortunately, Lu Yu dodged this burst of toxic gas with his timely reaction, whereas a boulder beside him had cracked open from the impact of the gas.

“What a strong poisonous gas!” Lu Yu was astonished. He looked at the corpse of the gorilla king, and then at the horde of Berserker Blood Gorillas that had been defeated, and fell into deep thought.

He felt somehow that there was something wrong with the Fearsome Beasts’ attack on the city this time.

Roar!

The cultivators of Lunan City, who were in hot pursuit, suddenly heard a roar that shook the mountains and the wilderness. A mighty beast pressure that made everyone’s hair stand on end came barreling over, causing Lunan City to shake even more violently than before.

From the forests, another wave of Fearsome Beasts swarmed outward, forming a vast fiery red ocean.

[Scarlet Crystal Blood Striped Tiger]

[Level: A-class]

[Introduction: A Fearsome Beast with a body of red gold. Its body is as tough as iron, and impervious to swords and sabers. Its sharp claws are sharper than swords and sabers, and can easily shred armor.]

The system’s tiny text materialized before Lu Yu’s eyes. Just as he was feeling taken aback by this information, the cultivators of Lunan City had already been ravaged by the beasts until they abandoned their weapons and came fleeing in his direction.

“Run for your lives! Our weapons cannot cut through the bodies of these Scarlet Crystal Blood Striped Tigers!”

The situation was once again lopsided. Fortunately, after the cultivators of Lunan City retreated, they gradually launched a counterattack, relying on their home ground advantage.

And right from the beginning, the cultivators from the 4th Battalion never once took one step back or pushed one step forward. They coordinated with each other, displaying their battle skills with practiced familiarity to slay the Scarlet Crystal Blood Striped Tigers.

The black-clad woman also perceived an abnormality. Her delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly. These Fearsome Beasts kept attacking humankind’s city in a frenzied manner without any care for their own lives. It was as if an invisible hand was manipulating them.

This fight with the Scarlet Crystal Blood Striped Tigers was more arduous than the battle with the Berserker Blood Gorillas. As the weapons struck their bodies, the blades became all twisted. With each wound inflicted, the cultivators had to use up dozens of weapons before they could finally slay one Scarlet Crystal Blood Striped Tiger.

And in the depths of the mountains and forests, the frenzied winds blasted out from time to time, churning up wild whirlwinds. Gust after gust of increasingly more powerful Fearsome Beast aura could be detected vaguely.

A thought sprang into Lu Yu’s mind. He stationed Li Tieniu, currently the most powerful member in the 4th Battalion, in Lunan City, leaving him to command the troops in battle.

Then, he brought Qin Yong and Song Yu, and headed straight for the north-western corner of the blood-sucking wasteland. Before leaving, fearing that the black-clad woman would cause some mischief, he spoke to her, “As the highest commanding officer in wartime, I hereby order you to follow me into the blood-sucking wasteland.”

“And you guys too!” Lu Yu pointed at Wang Bo and the other members of the various powerful families.

These people would most likely take advantage of this crisis for personal gain while he was away, or even become a burden to the troops. He thought it was better to bring all of them with him.

Ying Qufeng, Zhou Zhongzheng, Hou Tianlai and others did not want to move and looked at Lu Yu icily. When Lu Yu was about to have a fit, the black-clad woman spoke up with a look of interest in her eyes, “Interesting. Let me take a look at this blood-sucking wasteland to find out what happened exactly?”

Since the black-clad woman, who was the strongest on their own side, did not refuse, these three guys could not say anything else. They then followed Lu Yu and slew their way into the blood-sucking wasteland

A horrific stench of blood inundated the large wasteland, lingering in the air, making people feel nauseated.

Along the way, Lu Yu saw corpses of Fearsome Beasts strewn all over the place, but there was no sign of injuries on their bodies.

“The brain tissue of these Fearsome Beasts were all shattered in a flash, by some kind of force!” The black-clad woman touched the shattered jawbone of one of the Fearsome Beast corpses with a surprised look on her face.

[Ding! Detected that host has absorbed mysterious gas. Received: Strength +1500!]

[Ding! Detected that host has absorbed mysterious gas. Received: Poison Body (A-class).]

[Poison Body]

[Level: A-class]

[Introduction: Certain powerful Fearsome Beasts can emit mysterious poisonous gas and let it linger in the blood-sucking wasteland. After absorbing this gas, it can be activated in suitable bodies and infuse the whole body with lethal poison.]

After Lu Yu read the introduction, he was really taken aback. What kind of Fearsome Beast could emit poisonous gas from its body, and flood the whole blood-sucking wasteland with it?

“Oh no! There is poisonous gas in the air!” Ying Qufeng and the rest were not as fortunate as Lu Yu, who could resist the poison effects as his Gluttony Talent devoured the poisonous gas.

Within a few minutes, quite a number of people had collapsed. Ying Qufeng swallowed an antidote and was able to temporarily resist the poisonous gas. Looking at Lu Yu who seemed totally unaffected, he asked in surprise, “How come you are not affected by the poisonous gas even though you did not take any antidote?”

Lu Yu ignored him. He looked up at the poisonous gas lingering in the air, then headed straight for the source of the poisonous gas.

“Save me! Save… save… me!” The various patriarchs of the powerful families begged Ying Qufeng for help as they face imminent death, their bodies gradually succumbing to the lethal poison.

“No need to bother with this trash,” the black-clad woman said in an icy tone after swallowing an antidote. With that one sentence, she confirmed their death sentence.

Moments later, Zhou Zhongzheng, Hou Tianlai, Wang Bo and a small handful of patriarchs were saved by the black-clad woman.

The reason she saved Wang Bo and his gang was because these people, as the patriarchs of the powerful families in Lunan City, still had their uses.

“Aunt, what exactly is going on?” Ying Qufeng inquired humbly.

The black-clad woman thought for a while. Then she shook her head and said, “I don’t know what’s going on either. But I have a gut feeling that in the deep part of the blood-sucking wasteland, a terrifying monster is about to be born. And the Fearsome Beasts’ siege of the city this time is very likely connected to this matter.”