42: One strike and he's at the top of the leaderboard!

Shua shua shua shua shua shua shua!

Countless pillars of rainbow light descended.

Lu Chen and the others opened their eyes.

Before them was a similarly desolate territory.

The place was filled with jagged rocks and overgrown with weeds.

The jagged rocks were over a hundred meters high, and there were stone pits and hollows everywhere, resembling the ruins of a stone quarry.

A voice rang out in their minds:

"In one minute, Blood Demons will be released."

"Blood Demon Realms range from the Peak of the Third Realm to the Fourth Realm."

"Killing a Blood Demon personally, regardless of its Realm, earns 1 point."

"The top one hundred on the leaderboard will receive a reward, with the minimum being one hundred Grade 4 spirit crystals."

The voice in their minds faded away.

"One hundred Grade 4 spirit crystals!"

In the quarry ruins, countless Professionals cried out in surprise.

"As long as you make the list, you get at least a hundred Grade 4 spirit crystals. My god!"

"Secret Realms with Grade 4 combat power are already extremely rare, let alone those that produce Grade 4 spirit crystals."

"As expected of a demigods secret treasure, such a generous hand!"

"If only I could get a single Grade 4 spirit crystal, I'd have hope of reaching the Fourth Realm!"

"Heh, didn't you hear? The lowest Realm of the released Blood Demons is the Peak of the Third Realm!"

"Strange rules. Whether it's a Third or Fourth Realm Blood Demon, you only get 1 point for the kill!"

"Everyone will definitely scramble for the Third Realm Blood Demons. What are we Third Realm Professionals supposed to do!"

Suddenly, someone screamed:

"Who? Who's attacking me!"

"Bastard, you dare sneak attack me? I'll kill you!"

Very soon.

The Professionals using their ultimate moves to kill each other discovered that no matter what, they couldn't cause damage to one another.

Instead, they wasted a great deal of energy and were left panting.

It was at this moment.

The Blood Demons were released!

In an instant, countless blood-red figures abruptly appeared within the vast quarry ruins.

They were blood-red all over, humanoid, bipedal, with twelve fingers on each hand. Their fingers were of uniform length, nearly twenty centimeters long, looking like daggers with a terrifying cold glint.

They had tails.

At the end of the tail was a serrated scythe.

They stood between two to three meters tall, and their Aura was horrifying!

Some were far from the Professionals, others were near.

The distant ones were over a hundred miles away.

The near ones were right before their eyes.

For instance, next to the Professionals who had just been fighting, a three-meter-tall Blood Demon abruptly appeared.

Its head was like a bat's, and its mouth was a bloody maw.

It let out a screech and pounced on the exhausted Professionals.

The group had used their ultimate moves repeatedly in their desperate fight and had no combat power left.

In the blink of an eye, they were sliced into several segments by the twelve daggers.

Pa-ji pa-ji~

The Blood Demon chewed and swallowed the dozen or so corpse segments. Its Aura grew slightly, and its presence became even more terrifying.

Similarly.

There were Professionals whose sword light swept across, slicing two-meter Blood Demons in half.

As Blood Demons were slain by Professionals.

A giant light screen appeared in the sky.

1st: Cang Qiu, 3 points.

2nd: Jiang Xiong, 3 points.

3rd: Princess, 2 points.

4th: Xiu Xiu, 2 points... "Princess is the Ninth Princess."

Zhang Lang said, pointing at the giant light screen.

Then.

He cupped his hands in farewell.

"This lowly one will take his leave first. I wish you lords a place on the leaderboard."

Zhang Lang left.

Lu Chen's small flame flickered as he saw the guy hide in a crack in a ten-meter rock.

It made sense.

With his high-stage Third Realm strength, it would be difficult to kill a Blood Demon in a direct confrontation.

At that moment.

Beside a hundred-meter stone pit.

A man wearing golden armor split a three-meter Blood Demon in half with a single blade strike.

His name was Cang Qiu, the leader of the Black Wind Adventurer Group.

He wiped his precious blade and asked,

"How is the progress?"

The heavy-armored old man beside him pulled out a piece of parchment from his robes, studied it for a moment, and said,

"Of the ten thousand Professionals, Grade 4 Professionals account for about twenty percent.

The strongest among them is our old rival, the Savage Bear Adventurer Group.

Next are some City Lords from neighboring countries.

The Ninth Princess and her maid Xiu Xiu are not weak.

There's also the local native Ning Xiwei; her Little Skeleton can insta-kill Lei Pengcheng, so she shouldn't be underestimated."

"What's so great about insta-killing Lei Pengcheng! Our leader can do that too!" someone said dissatisfiedly.

"Those of us who used Tokens to enter are all City Lord level. What do they count for!"

"Exactly, our Black Wind Adventurer Group has a total of one hundred brothers inside!

That Dead Bear Group only has eighty people."

"With a hundred of us acting together to heavily wound the Blood Demons and our leader dealing the finishing blow, we're bound to top the leaderboard!"

The heavy-armored old man tucked away the parchment and said calmly:

"The boys are right, the advantage is ours!

Those with more people aren't as strong as us.

Those with strength similar to mine don't have as many people.

Our group's efficiency in hunting Blood Demons will definitely be number one!

If everyone hunts the Blood Demons together and leaves the finishing blow to you, Leader, taking the top spot on the leaderboard will be as easy as reaching into a bag for an object!"

Cang Qiu leaned his blade against the stone wall and narrowed his eyes.

"The advantage is indeed ours, but we cannot be careless. Stay alert in case they cooperate!"

"Rest assured, Leader. Once their numbers or the number of experts exceeds expectations, I will arrange for people to move out, to sabotage, divide, or assassinate!"

"Good!"

"Brat, move out!"

"Understood!"

Shua—

Dozens of figures charged out, flying toward the blood-red figures.

The members of the Black Wind Adventurer Group who could obtain a Token to enter the demigods secret treasure were all official members.

Naturally, every one of them had City Lord level strength and was in the Fourth Realm.

Soon, these members heavily wounded the Blood Demons and carried them back to Cang Qiu.

Shua shua shua!

Cang Qiu dealt the finishing blows one after another.

Often, just as he killed one Blood Demon, a member would bring back another heavily wounded one.

This hundred-meter stone pit seemed to have turned into an assembly line for slaughtering Blood Demons!

As Cang Qiu slaughtered each one, he tossed the Blood Demon corpse directly into the hundred-meter pit.

The moment a Blood Demon died, its entire body would emit a foul stench and rapidly rot, losing all value.

After slaughtering hundreds of Blood Demons in a row.

Cang Qiu looked up at the giant leaderboard.

1st: Cang Qiu, 802 points.

2nd: Jiang Xiong, 527 points.

3rd: Princess, 60 points... "Hahaha!"

Cang Qiu threw his head back and laughed.

"You bear, let's see how you compete with me now!

The first place on the leaderboard is definitely going to our Black Wind Adventurer Group!"

Shua! Shua! Shua!

Blood Demons kept appearing.

More and more gathered around Lu Chen's trio, becoming a dense crowd!

"How terrifying!"

Sun Feifei's face was pale as she moved closer to Lu Chen.

Ning Xiwei's face was also pale, but she was eager to try.

It was just that there were simply too many Blood Demons nearby.

She had no chance to fight them one-on-one.

"Four-Sided Slash!"

Lu Chen leaped half a meter into the air.

A bone saber appeared in his palm like a sand drawing.

He gripped it.

And swung it to the side.

Horizontal blade glows appeared in all directions, slashing out for a mile.

[Strength +66]

[Strength +135]

[Strength +3]

[agility +87]

[Physique +100]

[racial value +300]

[vitality +10]

[vitality +13]

[Skills Acquired: Blade Ejection, Bloody Slaughter...]

[Talents Acquired: Steel Blade, Bone Piercing]

His ears were filled with countless sounds of attribute points increasing, skills being acquired, and talents being gained.

Their vitality is really low.

It seems.

These Blood Demons have Souls, but not much.

At this moment.

All the Professionals were astonished to find that the giant leaderboard overhead had instantly changed.

1st: Ning Xiwei, 1024 points.

2nd: Cang Qiu, 828 points.

3rd: Jiang Xiong, 535 points... 100th: Zhang Lang, 1 point.