Cultivating Through The Game

The body of the sand dragon opened a hole, and the Shura demon stepped out, staring intently at Lu Yu. Although Lu Yu was not a Core Formation Martial Cultivator, his strength indeed made the Shura demon feel as if he had met his match.

He once imagined that if Lu Yu possessed a magical weapon of his own, he might be able to defeat him.

But now, Lu Yu's best option was to surrender without resistance.

The encirclement was getting tighter, and Lu Yu's range of movement was shrinking. Every time he broke through the sand dragon, he would desperately find that outside was still the encirclement.

Boom~ Finally, the Shura demon was not the one sent flying; this time, it was Lu Yu. Lu Yu crashed into the body of the sand dragon, and at the moment he entered the sand dragon's body, Lu Yu attempted to use earth escape to flee underground.

He hadn't used it before because Black Sand City's underground was shrouded by an Array, preventing him from using earth escape to enter or exit Black Sand City.

Using earth escape now was Lu Yu's attempt to break through the sand dragon's encirclement since brute force wasn't working, and he was trying to directly pass through the sand dragon's body with earth escape.

As soon as the earth escape light enveloped his body, Lu Yu sensed the world inside the sand dragon. Eight sand dragons were like tubes drawn from underground. Following the body of the sand dragon, Lu Yu could move within the tubes.

Every time Lu Yu broke through the sand dragon and found himself still within the encirclement, it was because these eight tubes were constantly moving, always maintaining an encircling posture around Lu Yu.

If he couldn't move along the tubes, finding a way out would be impossible.

Like a maze, only by moving along the tubes could he escape the moving maze formed by the eight sand dragons.

In just an instant, Lu Yu made a decision. He rushed underground, along the solid yellow sand tubes formed inside the sand dragon's body.

The sand dragon was formed by the sand beneath Black Sand City; the fact that the sand dragon appeared indicated that earth escape could also move underground.

Rustle~ Lu Yu was surrounded by noise as he followed the sand dragon into the underground.

Boom~ The form of the sand dragon stiffened, and the eight sand dragons exploded one after another, scattering into countless yellow sands falling within Black Sand City.

After the eight sand dragons rampaged, a clean and flat area appeared in Black Sand City. This area was left with only fine yellow sand, with no remnant of any structures visible.

Those caught up in the battle between Lu Yu, the Shura demon, and the Sand King Palace were ground to powder by the sand dragon, their shattered bodies mixed in with the yellow sand.

Survivors stood at the edge of the battlefield, gazing at the leveled inns and streets, choking back tears.

For the first time, they missed the City Lord of Black Sand City. Although battles erupted even when the City Lord was present, such vast areas being razed to the ground never occurred.

This would be seen as a provocation against Black Sand City. But now, with the City Lord missing, no one stepped forward to stop it, and no one was there to impose order over everyone.

More freedom also meant more chaos; no one liked a world in chaos.

Lu Yu followed the quicksand passage formed by the sand dragon into the underground and entered an underground palace, a moving underground palace.

Hidden in a lawless room within the underground palace, Lu Yu cautiously observed the corridor outside. In the underground palace, he couldn't extend his perception externally; here, the suppression on perception was even more exaggerated than underwater ruins.

Unable to use perception, Lu Yu could only use his eyes to observe the movements of others in the underground palace.

Lu Yu saw the masked foreign tribe and the Shura demon who had previously besieged him walk through the underground palace's corridor, guessing that this might be the lair of the Sand King Palace.

The reason he could determine that the place he's in was moving was that he sensed himself moving away from Chu Tianhe, and soon Chu Tianhe vanished from his spiritual marking's sensing range.

A spiritual marking is equivalent to a small piece of spiritual power divided from Lu Yu, which can attach to objects. Within a certain range, it resonates with Lu Yu's spiritual power, unaffected by most environmental factors.

Unless the environment could influence Lu Yu's spiritual power.

The underground palace only affected Lu Yu's spiritual power perception and did not affect his spiritual marking's sensing.

After seeing the Shura demon and others pass by the door, Lu Yu was about to move out when he noticed someone heading towards him, seemingly targeting the room he was in.