In the following few days, Lu Yu went to the Tongtian Tower twice a day, earning over 4 million experience points each day.

Due to the limitations of Spiritual Power, even though Lu Yu had the Eye of the Sea providing nearly limitless Spiritual Qi, he could not continuously grind.

If he slowly output Spiritual Power, Lu Yu would not feel mentally tired even after a whole day. However, during high-intensity battles, Spiritual Power consumption was particularly high.

So Lu Yu would visit the Tongtian Tower once in the morning, collect experience, then return to his bamboo hut to study the Golden Armor Spirit Array. Once his Spiritual Power had almost recovered, he would go again in the evening to gain more experience, then log off to eat.

If his master was teaching, Lu Yu would only go to Tongtian Tower once, because he needed to listen to his master during the day.

As for Divine Power, Lu Yu's Spiritual Power was still slowly growing and had not yet completely stabilized. He planned to wait until his Spiritual Power stopped increasing, stabilize, and then attempt to acquire Divine Power.

To avoid any accidents due to the instability of his Spiritual Power while obtaining Divine Power.

Additionally, practicing the use of Shocking God Stab would have great importance in acquiring Divine Power.

Besides that, Lu Yu used his Contributions gained from Tongtian Tower to post two tasks in the Southern Heaven Hall. One task was to find items with Purple Flame Demon Fire or information about it, and the other was to look for treasures capable of storing Yinming Cold Qi.

The fire pearl modified from Fire Feather's fake pills could only store flames and couldn't store Yinming Cold Qi, and Lu Yu found it inconvenient to frequently visit the Yinming Cold Pool. Too many visits could attract attention from those with ill intentions.

Lu Yu offered over ten thousand Contributions for both tasks, confident that someone would accept them. He even specified that if there were treasures meeting the task requirements, an interview could be conducted.

From the twentieth to the ninetieth floor, Lu Yu gained a total of 44,000 Points, which equates to 44,000 Contribution Points.

Plus, for killing demons with strength equivalent to the ninth level of Qi Cultivation, each demon would yield 20-30 Points. Lu Yu had killed thousands of demons during this time, which amounted to tens of thousands of Points and Contribution Points.

Currently, Lu Yu's Contribution Points exceed 100,000. Calculating each Point's value at 100 gold, it amounts to a fortune of a million levels.

It may sound like a lot, but it's not enough to exchange for a seventh-grade Spiritual Level Cultivation Technique.

Most disciples who joined the Divine Weapon Pavilion came from prominent families, which at the very least would pass down a high-level Spiritual Level Cultivation Technique, namely a seventh-grade or higher technique.

The pursuit of these disciples was certainly beyond seventh-grade Spiritual Level Cultivation Techniques. They sought more advanced techniques, martial arts, secret techniques, and even the unique skills of elders.

These items are worth millions of Contributions, or even tens of millions.

Not to mention high-level spiritual weapons, spiritual armor, and spiritual treasures available for exchange. 100,000 Contribution Points are barely enough to exchange for a set of seventh-grade spiritual armor plus a seventh-grade spiritual armor.

These high-level spiritual weapons, spiritual armor, highly desired outside, are available within the Divine Weapon Pavilion for disciples to use Contribution Points to exchange.

Regular disciples, and even registered disciples, must meet certain preconditions when exchanging for more advanced spiritual weapons, spiritual armor, spiritual treasures, cultivation techniques, and martial arts. Otherwise, even if Contributions are sufficient, exchanges cannot be made.

However, those prerequisites do not restrict Lu Yu.

Lu Yu has special privileges from the Divine Weapon Pavilion, and except for a few items related to the Pavilion's core like cultivation techniques, Artifact Refining Technique, martial arts, etc., Lu Yu has the authority to exchange them.

Therefore, holding 100,000 Contributions, Lu Yu is not afraid of anyone not being tempted. As long as someone wants to exchange something for his Contributions, Lu Yu profits.

Lu Yu lay on the sofa watching television, having just come out of Tongtian Tower, now in his rest time.

"Latest report, Fallen Angel Lucifer attacked Ganglamei City, causing thousands of deaths, and the Twin Wing Angel Guardians of Ganglamei City are missing..."

The scene in the news report appeared like a movie, with a giant demon bearing black wings destroying one high-rise after another. On the streets below were tanks, and in the sky, the fighter jets flew by, just as one exploded during the live report.

The tank shells could not hit the fast-flying Fallen Angel Lucifer, and even when they did, unless it was armor-piercing rounds, they couldn't break through the Fallen Angel's defenses.

The effect of armor-piercing rounds was also minimal. The demon's healing speed was astonishing; blood holes from armor-piercing rounds recovered within seconds.

The Fallen Angel was the super demon born from millions of demons in Wanxiong City, resembling the legendary Fallen Angel, and hence was named Lucifer by the Eagle Alliance media.

Some believers thought that Fallen Angel Lucifer was sent by God to punish them and called for humanity to abandon resistance.

"Fallen Angel Lucifer was forced to retreat by Eagle Alliance's newly developed Holy Light Bomb, leaving Ganglamei City with its whereabouts unknown."

The report ended, and Lu Yu swiped on his black phone, the wall-mounted LCD television switched to a report on the situation of small neighboring countries around Hua Country.

Such information certainly wouldn't be made public to the masses, and even if it were part of a news report, it would not include live scenes. Only internal personnel could see these reports, with Lu Yu projecting content onto the LCD television for viewing.

The higher-ups displayed this content for players to view, to make them understand the current situation, refrain from being capricious, and collaborate, or else if problems arise, everyone would face disaster.

Lu Yu also noticed the tense situation; items in the supermarket had already started to be rationed. Due to the presence of demons, areas outside the city couldn't be considered safe zones, and food was becoming scarce.

Blue Sea City was relatively fortunate as there had been no rumors of demons nearby. The sole location where demons appeared was swiftly sealed off, monitored, and guarded 24/7.

Some cities weren't so peaceful. There were frequent rumors of demons spreading online, some being false, while others were true. However, regardless of authenticity, they caused widespread panic.

What terrified people was the fact that ordinary people didn't have the power to combat demons.

If it were small creatures becoming demonized and with a low degree of initial mutation, ordinary people might still have a slim chance. But once demonized creatures matured even a little, ordinary people's chances would infinitely tend toward zero.

On one hand, there was an increase in the demons' strength, and on the other, the enhancement of the demonic aura.

Under normal circumstances, the smaller the demonized creature, the less demonic aura it emitted. Recently demonized small creatures had relatively low demonic aura; as long as humans didn't ingest the demon's flesh, they wouldn't be affected.

However, once demonized creatures mature, the demonic aura within them rapidly increases. At that point, even if a human is merely injured, there's a risk of being infected by the demonic aura and becoming demonized.

Further, entire areas could begin to be suffused with the demonic aura, and even without seeing or touching demons, people might experience demonization due to the aura's influence.

Currently, small countries surrounding Hua Country are in such a condition.

Demons grew stealthily in the shadows, and their aura spread silently through cities. If the hidden demons weren't detected in time, the city would be doomed once mass demonization ensued.

Hua Country had long been researching items from the Divine Weapon World capable of producing talismans to counter the demonic aura, but these small countries lacked such technology and relied on manpower to hunt demons.

The countries were small, and the number of players even smaller, meaning there weren't enough people to do the job.

With fewer people, naturally, there were fewer strong individuals capable of timely detecting hidden demons within cities.

Currently, Hua Country was the most stable nation in the world, at least food could still be purchased.

It's not just food; people were stockpiling weapons and equipment at home. Various military goods in online stores were out of stock, and some began crafting their own gear, like stealing steel bars from construction sites and sharpening them.

Perhaps due to reading too many post-apocalyptic novels, quite a few believed that sharp steel bars could fend off demons.

Blue Sea City had several cases of steel rod theft. Lu Yu heard about it once during a patrol when chatting with guards in a sealed area.

The cockroach demons in the sealed area hadn't shown any signs yet, perhaps they were really poisoned to death by the powerful insecticides.

No signs were good news, allowing Lu Yu to have leisure. Every five days, he would sense the demonic aura—giving him plenty of free time to do his own things, staying particularly relaxed.

Of course, not even five days had passed since the last, only three days since the sewer battle.

Fei Yuqing stationed Lu Yu in the middle, Zhou Dazhi at both ends, and others in between.

Considering the weaker strength of others, which could make detecting any signs challenging, grouping them together might cause the best time to handle demons to be missed. Thus, the interval between the stronger individuals was shorter.

One must admit, this truly put Fei Yuqing to the test, but he managed it rather well.

After reading the situation reports of nearby small countries, just as Lu Yu intended to check the next message, an urgent alert sounded.

Ring ring ring!

"Hurry to the sealed area; a new situation has arisen here."

The message was from Zhou Dazhi. Technically, today wasn't his assigned day for patrols, but that didn't matter in this case.

Lu Yu flew out from the balcony, with spiritual power vibrating around him, bending light to obscure himself.

Without a close look, one wouldn't notice someone flying in the sky.

This was a small trick Lu Yu managed to perform after his spiritual power and soul strength improved. Previously, his control precision wasn't sufficient for him to manipulate spiritual power in this way.

Bam! The landing sound startled Fei Yuqing, who hadn't even noticed Lu Yu arriving.

Jiang Xiaoman held a strange instrument in her hand, resembling both a landmine detector and a vacuum cleaner. The display on it continuously flashed red lights, indicating high concentrations of demonic aura here.

"This is a Demonic Aura Detector, it's newly developed equipment and still in the testing phase, but its accuracy is quite high," Fei Yuqing explained.

"The scan detected a strong demonic aura presence here, yet Zhou Dazhi checked earlier and found nothing, which is why he called you over."

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