From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword

After several direct confrontations, Lu Heng had roughly figured out Sagers's attributes.

Sagers's strength attribute was over 40 points, and his agility attribute was even higher, surpassing 43 points.

Lu Heng's current strength was 35 points, and his agility was 45 points.

In terms of strength, Lu Heng was much lower than Sagers, but his agility was slightly superior to Sagers's.

Therefore, during head-to-head clashes, Lu Heng would always be shaken and forced to retreat.

However, relying on his super high agility and in-depth level movement technique, he could still weave around and counterattack under Sagers's assaults without falling behind.

A few days ago, when Lu Heng encountered Sagers, he had no choice but to flee.

Now, he was able to sever Sagers's wings with a single sword strike and hold his own in head-to-head combat.

The rapid increase in combat power was evident.

Moreover, this was a battlefield slaughter, not a duel.

Su Muyu joined the battle, and together they assaulted Sagers, dispatching the Sky Eye Falcon to swoop down on Sagers in attacking dives.

Originally, Sagers had been the ruler of the skies, always the one to dive onto his opponents.

Now the situation had changed—the Sky Eye Falcon held the aerial advantage, and with each piercing cry, it launched a diving attack on Sagers.

With the addition of Su Muyu's 34-point spiritual power, the Sky Eye Falcon's diving attack had an attack power of 5× the spiritual attribute, which was 170 points of attack power.

Even though Sagers had extremely high defense, 170 points of attack power was enough to pose a threat to him.

Moreover, with the Sky Eye Falcon targeting vital areas like the eyes and heart, it forced Sagers to defend himself.

While controlling the Sky Eye Falcon's diving attacks, Su Muyu also raised her crossbow, aimed at Sagers's back, and fired flame attribute elemental arrows.

The flame arrows struck Sagers's back, igniting fierce flames, scorching his skin, and infuriating him immensely.

Roar!

Sagers turned around in fury; upon spotting the one who shot at him, he roared and charged toward Su Muyu.

Su Muyu, who had been at a distance of 50 meters when she shot the arrows, felt slightly nervous when she saw Sagers coming, hurriedly went invisible, and retreated toward the Bansel Clan's position.

Lu Heng, seeing Sagers pursue Su Muyu, immediately activated the second stage of Gale Step, executed Chasing Moon Style from Step Sword Seven Styles, and stabbed at Sagers with his sword.

Sagers had originally intended to crush Su Muyu first before turning back to face Lu Heng, but halfway through his charge, he realized Su Muyu had disappeared, and with a sharp sword light striking from behind, he was forced to turn around and block.

A warrior and a demon clashed once again.

Su Muyu, having run to a distance of 100 meters, patted her chest and exhaled a breath of relief.

Having just seen a Commander Level demon charge at her, she couldn't possibly claim she was unafraid.

However, the invisibility was too useful, and with Lu Heng intercepting Sagers, she was quite safe.

She had been shooting from a distance of 50 meters earlier and got a scare, feeling it was not very safe, so this time she increased the distance to 100 meters and once again concentrated to shoot elemental arrows at Sagers.

Among the five-dimensional attributes, the perception attribute was a composite of abilities such as penetrative power, vision, hearing, intuition, and other perceptual abilities.

A superpower user with high perception had vision and hearing beyond ordinary people, a more acute premonition of danger, and was better at spotting hidden clues and traps.

The First Transition Class "Sky Eye" additionally enhanced visibility.

Therefore, Su Muyu's vision far surpassed the average person, equivalent to carrying an eight-times scope at all times. She could also supplement her observation with the perspective of her scout eagles.

When shooting elemental arrows, she could ignore most of the wind resistance and the effects of gravity, so her archery accuracy from 100 meters away was very high.

Every time Lu Heng used his movement technique to increase the distance, the arrows would punctually shoot toward Sagers.

Sagers kept turning back furiously, but saw that Su Muyu's distance was always over a hundred meters.

If he could still fly, this distance would be merely a matter of a dive, but now that his wings were severed by Lu Heng, he had become a flightless vulture.

This left him in a one-sided situation of being hit.

As a Winged Demon Commander from the Evil God World, he was once one of the strongest combatants on this land.

Wherever he appeared, the only option for opposing beings was death.

As strong as he was, he now became a struggling trapped beast.

He was angry, he shrieked, he fought back with all his might, but he could not find a way to turn the tables.

Under the combined attacks of Lu Heng and Su Muyu, the wounds on Sagers's body multiplied.

Feeling the threat of death, he did not dare continue the fight and turned to retreat towards the direction of the Temple, howling to the sky, calling for the Winged Demon Air Force to come to his rescue.

Seeing a swarm of Winged Demons flying in the sky, Su Muyu immediately changed targets, controlling her scout eagle to attack Winged Demons, and her flame arrows rapidly picked off several elite Winged Demons.

Lu Heng, using Gale Step to catch up with Sagers, released Shadow Clones, struck from both sides to suppress Sagers's counterattack, then swung his sword for a heavy downward chop, executing Thunderous Strike.

Boom!

The thunderous hit sent Sagers crashing to the ground.

The raging lightning tore through his body, each arc of electricity mercilessly slicing his flesh and draining his life.

He was once the most powerful being in this world, his presence always invoking the deepest fear in his opponents' hearts.

Yet, now he cut a sorry figure. The continuous battles had severely injured him, and he was unwilling to die like this, but he had no other choice.

He struggled to get up, raised his spear, and launched his final counterattack at Lu Heng.

Lu Heng raised his sword to block the counterattack and followed it with a swift strike, beheading Sagers and putting an end to his life.

[Killed Winged Demon Commander Sagers, absorbed 200 points of demon energy.]

"Source Energy Level has risen to 19, all attributes +2, Agility attribute an additional +0.6."

Su Muyu had also leveled up to 17, gaining an increase in all attributes, with her combat power continuing to rise.

After the death of Sagers, a Crystal Core was separated from the body.

Lu Heng picked up the Crystal Core, without time to inspect it, he immediately stowed it in his inventory bar, and went to meet up with Iron Arm.

The Resurrection Ceremony was still ongoing in the Temple, they had to immediately break into the Temple, otherwise if Evil God Barton were to be resurrected, all their efforts would be in vain.

...

Following the death of Winged Demon Commander Sagers, the remaining elite Winged Demons lost their will to fight and fled back to Barton Temple like headless flies.

Iron Arm led the Bansel Clan warriors, pressing towards Barton Temple, pushing siege engines forward and continuing to hurl bombs and boulders at the Temple.

Boom! Boom! Boom...

The siege engine's assault forced the demons to huddle inside the Temple.

The Bansel Clan warriors launched an assault on the Temple's main gate, clashing with the Horned Demon army guarding the Temple.

Seeing how intense the battle was at the front of the Temple, Lu Heng turned to Su Muyu and said, "Inform the other two Superpower User squads to attack the Temple from the back door together."

The Bansel Clan warriors attacked the front door of the Temple.

Lu Heng, Lin Zeyu, and Sitichai, leading their team of Superpower Users, initiated an attack from the back of the Temple.

The Bansel Clan's assault had drawn the overwhelming majority of the demons' attention.

So, there were fewer demons guarding the back of the Temple, the Superpower User squad launched a charge and broke through the back door, entering the Temple's interior.

Seeing the advantage in battle, the other two Superpower User squads decisively joined the fight, tipping the scales of victory in favor of the Bansel Clan.

After entering the Temple, the demons guarding the Temple roared and rushed forward, engaging in close combat with the Superpower Users.

Lu Heng and Su Muyu chose a narrow corridor without demonic guards to enter the second floor platform of the Temple's great hall.

At this moment.

The Resurrection Ceremony in the great hall continued.

The Fiery Flame Horned Demon Commander took parts of Evil God Barton's corpse from the Soul Box and placed them into the Holy Grail filled with Source Material blood.

These parts were the servants of the Evil God, collected from various Abyssal Worlds over more than a century.

And the most important of these parts was the jet-black heart.

At this moment, the heart had absorbed the blood and was emitting an evil aura.

Upon stepping into the great hall of the Temple, Lu Heng felt a spiritual pressure.

"Subjected to spiritual pollution from an unknown existence, Spirit -1."

Lu Heng suddenly turned to look at the jet-black heart; this spiritual pollution was unmistakably emanating from it.

Not yet resurrected, it was already releasing spiritual pollution.

Once resurrected, not a single person here would survive.

Lu Heng was about to jump down from the second-floor platform to stop the ceremony.

Just then.

A figure blocked the way; it was Lei Jinhao.

Seeing him appear, there wasn't a hint of surprise in Lu Heng's eyes; everything was as expected:

"So, you've chosen to become a Traitor, even if it means being a pawn of the Evil God?"

Lei Jinhao looked down on Lu Heng with pride and an arrogant expression, saying in a drawn-out voice,

"I will not be anyone's pawn; I follow only Strength, to gather mighty power within myself. One day, no one in the world will be able to dictate my fate."

Lu Heng shook his head and chuckled, "It seems every Traitor thinks the same, but none can escape the inevitable plunge into the Abyss."

Lei Jinhao's lips curled into a cold sneer, contemptuously saying, "You speak as if you can see through everything, but you're just an ant struggling on the road to becoming stronger."

He wasn't born at the finish line as a lucky son. He had fought in underground boxing matches, smuggled for gangs, and competed with stray dogs for food. He had clawed his way up from the filthiest gutters, so he understood all too well what an ant was.

Everything he had, he had fought for with his own hands, against men and dogs. Thus, in his eyes, there was only the pursuit of power, and for power, any means justified the end.

In his world, everything had to be fought and taken with one's own hands.

So, at Gardenia Beach, the moment he appeared, he tried to take the beach, to take the Crystal Core.

Because that was his way of survival.

Lu Heng did not know about Lei Jinhao's past, nor did he want to. In the face of a Traitor, the word 'kill' was enough to sum up all the cause and effect.

"Right, you've already accepted the Evil God's blessing; it's no use talking more. Here, let's settle our grievances."

Lu Heng slowly drew the Aurora Blade from the void.

Lei Jinhao vibrated his arms, revealing a pair of armguards, and a ring of Wolf Soul Fighting Spirit emanated from around him, proudly stating,

"Originally, there was no mortal feud between you and me, and I had no particular need to kill you. It's just unfortunate that you messed with Gong ZhenTeng's son. Now, there is no other way; you have to die."

"Have you forgotten so soon how you were forced to use Frenzy in one move last time? Are the self-inflicted injuries from the Frenzy backfire healed?"

In his previous life, Lu Heng had heard of the name of the Storm Boxing King many times, but had never fought against him.

That's because in Lu Heng's last life, he had only awakened a year after the Abyss invasion, and although he later became a top Superpower User, by that time, the Storm Boxing King had already achieved fame and become a regional overlord.

At that time, the Storm Boxing King, holding the reins of power, had retired behind the scenes and seldom made public appearances.

Therefore, there was no interaction between them, and naturally, no chance to fight.