Chapter 43: Second Form, Dragon Flame Mode, Activate!

"Kill!"

Lin Yu charged forward once again, his flame-wrapped fists striking out like a violent storm in a frantic offensive.

"Bang!"

With just a single punch, the Treant was sent flying backward, blood instantly seeping from its chest.

This was the terrifying power of activating an S-rank innate ability, which increased his primary attribute threefold.

"Interesting!"

The Treant was utterly shocked.

This puny Level 1 weakling was actually capable of delivering such a terrifying punch. It was astonishing.

However, before it could recover its senses, Lin Yu's fiery fist came smashing down once more.

"No matter how great your strength is, what's the use if you can't hit me?"

The Treant sneered.

It shifted its stance, darting left and right, perfectly evading Lin Yu's punches.

He couldn't hit it!

Lin Yu realized that his speed simply couldn't keep up with the Treant. No matter how fast he threw his punches, the Treant always managed to dodge them effortlessly.

After all, there was a gap of nearly two full tiers; his speed attribute was clearly lower than his opponent's, making it difficult to land a hit.

At Tier 2, Level 10, all four fundamental attributes were at least 620 points, and his primary attribute, boosted by free attribute points, had even reached 1,020 points.

His current speed of 524 fell rather short.

"My turn!"

The Treant moved, blurring into a series of afterimages.

"Bang!"

Lin Yu took a solid punch straight to his back, sending his body flying and jarring his internal organs.

The Treant sneered and struck again.

Its speed reached the absolute limit, leaving Lin Yu completely unable to defend and reducing him to a passive state of getting beaten.

"Cough, cough!"

Lin Yu was sent flying by another punch, slamming against the stone wall. He wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and stared intently at his opponent.

"Brother Yu!"

"Uncle!"

Two anxious cries rang out.

Liu Shiyun and Liu Ruoke rushed over. A stream of green light flew from Ruoke's hands and poured into Lin Yu's body, rapidly healing his injuries.

"Mirror Image, Water Moon!"

Seeing the charging Treant, Liu Shiyun's expression changed, and she hurriedly activated her innate ability.

She snapped her fingers.

The Treant's running figure halted, freezing mid-air. The space where it stood solidified directly and then shattered.

"Bang!"

In that patch of space, blood blossomed.

However, the shattering of space only inflicted a few more wounds on the Treant's body; that power was not enough to tear it apart.

After all, the gap of two tiers still remained.

Breaking through the space, the Treant lunged forward and threw a punch.

"Mirror Image, Water Moon!"

Liu Shiyun activated her ability once more, but this time her opponent was prepared. Its speed skyrocketed, allowing it to directly bypass that spatial zone.

Repeatedly using her spatial ability failed to hit the Treant, only buying a little time.

Liu Shiyun gritted her teeth and threw her fists forward to meet the attack.

She knew she would undoubtedly be severely injured by this punch, but she could not retreat, because standing right behind her were Lin Yu and Ruoke.

At that very critical moment,

"Second Form, Dragon Flame Mode, open!"

Lin Yu shouted, instantly entering his second form.

This was his first time using it since successfully awakening to S-rank and unlocking the Dragon Flame form.

The enemies he had encountered previously were all too weak, easily crushed under his normal Flame form.

The Treant before him now could be said to be his first true adversary since the apocalypse began. Not only had it awakened an innate ability, but its tier was also as high as Tier 2, Level 10.

It had even half-stepped into Tier 3, making it exceptionally terrifying.

An awakened Treant utilizing its innate ability would experience a similarly explosive surge in its attributes, making it far more powerful than a normal, non-awakened Tier 3 being.

In an instant!

The yellow flames surrounding Lin Yu rapidly transformed into a crimson red, and his aura climbed frantically.

Suddenly,

A massive pillar of magical light surged straight up from his body, causing the entire stone chamber to shake violently.

Fragments of rock fell in a continuous "rustling" sound.

Feeling this immense pressure, the Treant's expression changed, and it abruptly retreated.

"So this is the Dragon Flame Mode?"

Lin Yu felt the changes in his body, clenching his fists as he sensed the vast reservoir of energy.

His primary attribute was strength, which was boosted threefold under the S-rank innate Flame state, while his other attributes remained unchanged.

However, in the Dragon Flame state, his primary attribute was directly boosted three times, and his other four fundamental attributes were doubled.

This was definitely a world of difference.

His speed attribute of 524 had now skyrocketed to 1,048, though the consumption of magic power was much faster than in the Flame state.

"Are you alright?"

"Are you alright?"

Lin Yu and Liu Shiyun spoke at the same time.

Both of them were taken aback, then exchanged a smile.

"I feel better than ever. Just wait while I go kill that Treant," Lin Yu said, clenching his fists.

"I'm fine too. Be careful."

Liu Shiyun gave him a charming smile.

"It's time to end this!"

Lin Yu stepped forward, walking at a slow pace. Wrapped entirely in crimson flames, he looked like a deity.

In his current Dragon Flame state, even if the Treant had reached Tier 3, he was confident he could bridge two tiers to eradicate it.

"Has your strength grown stronger again? What a pity, it's still useless if you can't hit me."

The Treant spoke coldly.

The aura currently emanating from Lin Yu filled it with profound shock; it was encountering that kind of oppressive feeling for the very first time.

"Is that so?"

The corners of Lin Yu's mouth curled up, and his figure instantly vanished.

When he reappeared, he was already behind the Treant.

"How could this—"

Before the Treant could finish, and before its body could even react, a tremendous pain surged from its lower abdomen.

Its eyes bulged wide, as if they were about to pop out of their sockets.

"—be so fast?"

The next moment, its body flew backward like a cannonball, the second half of its sentence finally leaving its mouth.

"Cough, cough!"

It slowly stood up from the ground, coughing up mouthfuls of blood.

That ordinary-looking punch from Lin Yu had nearly pierced straight through its body.

Had its true form not been that of a vine tree, with a stamina attribute far surpassing ordinary evolvers, that single punch probably would have pierced right through it.

Lin Yu in the Dragon Flame form was simply too terrifying!

It could no longer hold anything back!

The Treant wiped the blood from the corner of its mouth, and countless tendrils of black mist suddenly billowed from its body, instantly filling the entire stone chamber.

An aura of infinite despair spread, as if it were about to drag everyone into a hopeless world.

Behind Lin Yu,

The three ordinary evolvers, who were only at Level 3, instantly fell into illusions.

"No! Don't kill me!"

"Wife, don't be afraid, I'm coming right to keep you company!"

The three men roared frantically, their faces displaying a spectrum of emotions: fear, disappointment, sadness, helplessness, and finally, despair!

The male evolver gripped his own throat tightly with both hands, trying to commit suicide!

Lin Yu frowned, stepping forward with a few swift strikes to knock the three of them unconscious.

He then looked toward Liu Shiyun and Ruoke.

Liu Shiyun possessed stronger willpower and had not yet lost her sanity, but little Ruoke had long since been reduced to a tearful mess, her face pale.

Her aura was growing weaker by the second, dragging her toward the abyss of despair.

"Thwack!"

With a swift chop of his hand, Lin Yu knocked the little girl unconscious as well.

Liu Shiyun was also growing increasingly frail by this moment, her mental strength struggling with all her might to resist the erosion of the illusion.

Yet she probably couldn't hold on much longer, and would completely sink into the illusion within minutes at most.

"My guess was spot on; this Treant poured all its free attribute points entirely into mental strength."

Lin Yu muttered to himself.

He knocked Liu Shiyun unconscious as well.

Since the Treant was at Tier 2, Level 10, if all its free attribute points were dumped into mental strength, it had definitely surpassed 1,000 points.

In his Dragon Flame form, Lin Yu's mental strength was doubled, reaching 1,172 points, allowing him to remain unaffected by the illusion.

Had he been in the normal Flame form, he probably wouldn't have lasted long either.

Suddenly, amidst the black mist,

A fist materialized, smashing fiercely toward Lin Yu.

"Whoosh."

Lin Yu flickered, vanishing from his spot, and reappeared behind the Treant the very next moment.

He threw a punch.

The Treant was sent flying directly, its body not yet touching the ground.

The dragon flames all over Lin Yu's body flared violently.

"Ultimate Technique: Crimson Lotus Destruction Slash!"