7: Lu Yu's plan!

At the command of the leader, everyone raised their weapons towards Lu Yu, who was circling in the sky, and launched an attack.

Screech!

Lu Yu let out a loud cry, flapped his wings, and directly swooped down towards those humans.

At the same time, Lu Yu activated his skill: Steel Body!

Instantly, a black light flowed over Lu Yu's entire body.

The next moment, an overwhelming barrage of bullets struck Lu Yu's body.

However, a shocking scene unfolded: the dense barrage of bullets hit Lu Yu's body, but it was as if they were striking steel; not only did they fail to cause any damage, but they didn't even leave a mark.

"How is this possible?"

The leader's eyes widened in disbelief as he exclaimed.

They had killed many fierce beasts before, but none had been able to completely immune to damage like Lu Yu, which completely subverted his understanding.

Lu Yu wouldn't care about the other party's feelings.

Since they attacked him, they had to bear the consequences!

When the distance was sufficient, Lu Yu opened his mouth and spewed out a blast of ice.

Frost Impact!

Facing this skill, which could freeze even F-rank black bears into ice sculptures, these individuals, who were purely ordinary people apart from their weapons, had no power to resist whatsoever.

A cold current swept through, and everyone was frozen into ice sculptures.

With a cold snort, Lu Yu spread his wings and departed.

Afterward, Lu Yu saw several more groups of similar humans, but he ignored them and swiftly flew past.

"It's time to change locations!"

Lu Yu pondered.

All the F-rank beasts in this forest had already been converted into his evolution points, so there was no need to stay. Instead, he would be subjected to endless human entanglement. It wasn't that he was afraid of these humans; Lu Yu simply didn't want the trouble.

Having made up his mind, Lu Yu flew directly towards the deeper parts of the mountain forest.

He could sense that there were more fierce beasts there, and their ranks were higher!

After three days of flying, Lu Yu arrived at the central area of the mountain forest, incidentally taking down two F-rank fierce beasts along the way, successfully accumulating his evolution points to 410.

He only needed 90 more points to evolve into a D-rank existence!

Unfortunately, however, Lu Yu had not plundered any skills or talents from the fierce beasts he had successively killed.

Otherwise, if he could possess over a dozen skills, Lu Yu's strength would skyrocket.

On this day, Lu Yu landed on a tree intending to rest for a while when he suddenly noticed a Spiritual Qi fluctuation not far away.

"An opportunity!"

Lu Yu's eyes lit up; a spontaneous Spiritual Qi fluctuation likely meant a spirit fruit was developing!

Ignoring his rest, Lu Yu flew directly towards that direction.

Before long, Lu Yu discovered a low-lying bush, and the Spiritual Qi fluctuation was emanating from beneath it.

Lu Yu landed on the ground, slowly parted the bushes with his wings, and indeed found a glowing spot, from which wisps of pure Spiritual Qi were slowly emanating.

"It really is a spirit fruit!"

Lu Yu was overjoyed, never expecting that what he sought tirelessly elsewhere would appear effortlessly before him.

He had almost scoured the entire forest before to find a spirit fruit, but hadn't found a single trace.

Now, he merely wanted to rest, and a spirit fruit just appeared before him.

"Am I perhaps the Son of Destiny?"

After marveling at his luck, Lu Yu decided to temporarily claim this place as his territory.

The spirit fruit clearly still needed a long time to fully mature. During this period, Lu Yu planned to clear out all the surrounding fierce beasts to prevent them from being attracted once the spirit fruit ripened, causing unforeseen complications.

Acting on his thoughts, Lu Yu first used the surrounding environment to conceal the developing spirit fruit. Only after it was hidden did he spread his wings and fly up, beginning to patrol the vicinity.

This time, Lu Yu showed no mercy. As long as it was a fierce beast, whether F-rank or not, Lu Yu killed them one by one, turning them into evolution points on his panel.

...

Rewind to a few days ago, Jingcheng.

The highest-level emergency meeting was convened.

The bright and grand conference room was filled with people.

Among them were some white-haired individuals who, with a single word, could set the entire national machinery in motion.

"Elder Wu, please first introduce the situation to everyone."

Elder Wu, an academician, a pillar of the nation, a peerless national scholar.

With the global upheaval, Elder Wu, who had originally retired, immediately flew to Jingcheng to lead the research on global changes. Relying on his profound academic foundation, Elder Wu, along with his task force, had already achieved some preliminary results within a little over a week.

"Everyone, please first look at the following pictures and videos."

Elder Wu walked to the stage and nodded to his assistant, who immediately understood.

The next moment, a gigantic ox appeared on the large screen.

This ox was estimated to be over two meters tall and more than five meters long.

Clearly, this ox was certainly no ordinary one.

Subsequently, a series of pictures were displayed, all showing animals that had undergone significant mutations:

A lion radiating golden light all over its body.

A dog howling at the sky, emitting black smoke all over its body.

A snake with two horns on its head, with faint electric light subtly emanating between them.

...

As each picture was projected, the entire conference room fell silent.

Finally, the large screen froze on an image of two suns in the sky.

"Everyone, the animals in these pictures have all appeared in recent days, and their root cause is the abnormal phenomenon of two suns appearing in the sky today."

"According to research, with the appearance of the second sun, an unknown substance suddenly appeared in the world. After observation, we found that these animals underwent such changes entirely due to this unknown substance."

"The unknown substance enters the animals' bodies, causing them to undergo unknown changes. Current findings indicate that these changes are all benign. Although the direction and form of the changes vary, it is undeniable that animals that have undergone this change have all become beings with powerful abilities."

"After consulting data, we have temporarily defined this unknown substance as Spiritual Qi!"

"The changes occurring in animals, we define as: Evolution!"

"And the great change the entire world is currently experiencing, we define as: Spiritual Qi Revival!"

As soon as these words were uttered, the entire audience was in an uproar.

One must know that the so-called Spiritual Qi was merely an existence in books; it was unexpected that it would appear in reality.

"Elder Wu, if these animals can evolve, what about us humans?"

Elder Wu shook his head and solemnly said, "Currently, no humans have been found to undergo this evolution like animals. Therefore, it is temporarily concluded that humans cannot evolve."

Upon hearing this, some people panicked: "Does this mean humanity has been abandoned?"

"Impossible, we still have powerful weapons. Even if these animals evolve, they won't be a match for humans!" Someone immediately retorted after that person finished speaking.

Elder Wu waved his hand, and the assistant began to play a video:

In the video, various fierce beasts that had just appeared in the pictures were surrounded by human armies and completely annihilated by an airtight barrage of firepower.

"See, no matter the so-called Spiritual Qi Revival, the weapons we humans possess are invincible."

"We should immediately begin a sweep, eliminating or capturing these fierce beasts for research, to avoid harming ordinary citizens!" someone suggested.

"Everyone!"

Elder Wu spoke again, but his expression was somewhat grim:

"Our research has found that evolved animals also have different ranks based on their strength. Those we just saw were newly evolved beings that could be easily eliminated by firearms, but there are also some…"

As he spoke, another video began to play on the large screen.

This video was very short and finished playing quickly.

But after watching it, everyone fell silent.

In the video, a huge Golden Eagle with a wingspan of over seven meters charged through a barrage of bullets, and countless bullets struck its body without causing any damage whatsoever.

The next instant, the Golden Eagle spewed a blue aura from its mouth, and all the soldiers were frozen into ice sculptures. With a single move, they were completely annihilated; there was no way to fight back.