Chapter 42: The Treant Demon

Lin Yu grasped the flame blade and swept it directly across the crowd.

The speed was immense, utterly silent.

Before anyone could even utter a scream, they were instantly slain, severed into two halves by a single blade strike, their very corpses devoured by the roaring flames.

Having finished everything, Lin Yu walked over to the seat of honor and sat down, quietly waiting for the caster to appear.

The only three survivors watched this scene, trembling with fear.

After an unknown period of time, the sound of "tap, tap, tap" footsteps finally echoed.

The few of them looked toward the entrance.

The entity wearing the bull-head mask appeared, and it froze visibly upon seeing the solitary figures remaining in the room.

"Where are the others?"

"They're all dead!" Lin Yu looked straight at it and said with a smile.

"You killed them?"

The bull-headed entity flew into a rage instantly: "They were supposed to be Lord Demon's food! How dare you kill them! Damn you! Damn you!"

It jumped up and down in place, then rolled around and cursed furiously.

This performance left the few remaining people dumbfounded.

"Mom, is it crazy?" little Ruke asked with an innocent and adorable expression.

Having followed Lin Yu through all sorts of major trials, her psychological resilience far surpassed that of ordinary people present.

"You broke the rules here, and now all of you must die!"

The entity seemed to have calmed down. It slowly stood up, glaring at them with boiling murderous intent.

"Call that demon out!" Lin Yu said.

"Heh, you want to see my master? Are you even worthy?" The bull-headed entity sneered and flicked its sleeve.

A barrage of withered vines darted out from the cuff, rapidly extending and piercing straight toward them.

Lin Yu's figure flashed as he thrust out his right hand and grabbed hold of the vines.

With a heavy pull, the immense strength was something the bull-headed entity could never hope to resist.

Under this tremendous traction, its body was dragged directly flying toward Lin Yu.

"Bang!"

A kick lashed out, striking squarely in the center of the bull-headed entity's chest, sending it flying backward and crashing heavily onto the ground.

In Lin Yu's hand, flames suddenly ignited, rapidly surging forward along the withered vines.

"Ah!"

A heart-rending scream echoed through the air.

Seeing that the flames were about to reach its body along the vines, it directly tore the withered vines apart with its own hands.

That was the arm of the bull-headed entity itself!

Severing its own arm to survive, it was remarkably decisive.

"Yiyi-yaya!"

A string of incomprehensible language suddenly tumbled out of its mouth, as if it were summoning something.

"Roar!"

Soon, five bizarre-looking creatures kicked the heavy doors flying and burst into the room.

None of them were human!

The five entities varied greatly in form.

One stood four to five meters tall, topped with a pumpkin head and wielding two large axes.

Another had no head at all, resembling nothing more than a giant tree stump. Right in the center of the stump was a single vertical eye, ferocious and terrifying, still oozing fresh blood.

"Ah! Monsters!"

"They are monsters! Whenever anyone breaks the rules, they appear to kill and devour people."

The woman behind Lin Yu screamed, backing away frantically before curling up tightly into a corner.

"They are all Tier 1!"

Feeling the overwhelming aura of these five monsters, Lin Yu was overjoyed.

"Kill him!" the bull-headed entity roared.

The five monsters immediately charged at Lin Yu.

Flames condensed in Lin Yu's hand, rapidly forming a flame blade over a meter in length.

His figure flashed with terrifying speed; among those present, only Liu Shiyun could barely trace his movements.

"Slash! Slash!"

The flame blade swept across the necks of all five monsters in succession, and then came to rest directly against the neck of the bull-headed entity.

His speed reached the absolute extreme—even as the monsters were merely preparing to move, their throats had already been slit.

"How is this possible?"

Watching the heads of the five monsters roll down from their bodies, the bull-headed entity widened its eyes in utter disbelief.

How could this person before it possess such terrifying strength? Slaughtering five Tier 1 monsters in the blink of an eye—such power surely required the master himself to step forth and eliminate.

Lin Yu brought his blade down.

A severed piece of vine flew through the air; it was the bull-headed man's last remaining arm.

It let out a shrill, miserable scream.

"Still not summoning your master?"

Lin Yu cleaved the bull-head mask apart, revealing a wooden face beneath.

"You're all going to die! Everyone is going to die!" Fear washed over the wooden face.

"I'll give you three seconds. After three seconds, I'll send you to join these five monsters."

While issuing threats, Lin Yu pried open the heads of the five newly slain monsters and harvested the crystal cores embedded within.

The wooden face actually contorted with a complex array of human emotions, appearing utterly bizarre.

"Yili-wala."

Following a flurry of incomprehensible speech, the ground suddenly began to tremble. At the entrance, a cluster of black light converged, slowly forming the silhouette of a person.

The black light dissipated, revealing its true appearance.

It was a treant.

That's right, a treant.

He possessed delicate facial features and a strong, muscular physique just like a human, but his hair consisted of strands of intertwined vines. The skin on the surface of his body resembled the rugged bark of an ancient tree.

The treant walked forward step by step, radiating a terrifying aura as massive magical power surged violently.

Lin Yu tensed his entire body, making full preparations for battle.

"He truly is a big fish!"

Lin Yu's expression turned solemn as he sensed the terrifying, boundless magical power concealed within the creature's body.

This was likely an entity above Tier 2, perhaps even approaching Tier 3.

On the thirteenth day of the apocalypse, this was undeniably the ceiling of existence—belonging to the absolute pinnacle of powerful beings.

Although Lin Yu was currently only at Tier 1, his magical power had reached 69,000, and his mental power stood at 586, stats that already matched those of an ordinary Tier 2 Level 10 evolver.

For something to make him feel pressured, its magical or mental power had to far surpass his own.

"Useless trash, failing even at such a trivial task. What use is there in keeping you alive?"

Upon hearing the treant's report, the treant flew into a rage, its palm instantly clamping around the bull-headed man's throat.

"Master, spare my life! Spa—"

Before the words could be finished, a sharp "snap" echoed, and the treant had already broken its neck.

"Thud—"

The body was casually discarded onto the floor.

The treant raised its head and swept its gaze across the crowd, finally letting its eyes come to rest on Lin Yu.

"So it was you who killed my livestock?"

He stepped forward, and as he walked past the corpse of the bull-headed entity, he stomped down heavily, crushing the body directly into dust.

"Tier 3?" Lin Yu narrowed his eyes and asked deliberately.

"It should have reached that level soon, but unfortunately, you ruined it. Tell you what, why don't you stay and become my slave?"

The treant's wooden face actually formed a human-like smile.

"Why don't you just lend me your crystal core instead!"

Lin Yu shouted aloud, taking the initiative to launch an attack.

His body shot forward like a released arrow, materializing right before the treant in an instant.

Gathering all his strength into a single fist, he struck squarely and unhesitatingly against the treant's chest.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

In the blink of an eye, Lin Yu unleashed over a dozen punches.

Yet the treant neither dodged nor evaded, allowing Lin Yu's blows to rain down upon him.

"Is that all the strength you have?"

The treant abruptly threw a punch, colliding violently with Lin Yu's fist.

Immediately afterward, the two began exchanging blows at a frenzy, their punching speeds so blindingly fast that ordinary people could no longer distinguish them, seeing only a blur of overlapping afterimages.

"Again!"

Blazing flames erupted all over Lin Yu's body as he directly activated the Flame Form of his fire-attribute talent, a mantle of yellow magical fire instantly enveloping him.

At this moment, his physical strength doubled.