Lin Yuan stood quietly in the center of the hall.
The white tank top on his body was still in tatters, and his pants were stained with dried blood. He stood barefoot on the shattered marble floor, his entire being radiating a murderous aura.
However, the wounds on his body had stopped bleeding. The pale gold bone patterns from the Ten Rounds as One flowed slowly beneath his skin, nourishing his body.
“Crackle.”
His right hand, which had just thrown the Purple Lightning spear, hung open slightly. Silver-white lightning arcs still lingered at his fingertips, crackling softly.
At this moment, his aura had completely changed. Having survived a life-and-death struggle, he had evolved to become steady and sharp, his entire body exuding a piercing presence tempered like steel.
【Notice: Killed 3 Tier 2, Level 5 Shadow Abyss Royals. Obtained 1,500 Ability Points.】
【Ability Point Balance: 6,150】
Lin Yuan glanced at the system panel in front of him, and a smile slowly curled the corners of his lips.
Finally, enough to upgrade my D-rank ability!
Immediately after, Lin Yuan slowly raised his head. His gaze pierced through the dim, chaotic hall and locked onto the dark purple figure standing before the statue.
By now, the Imperial Prince had already turned around.
Its pair of pure golden vertical slits locked eyes with Lin Yuan’s pale gold eyes from across the room.
On one side were the pure golden pupils innate to the Imperial bloodline; on the other were the pale gold eyes condensed from ten rounds of bone tempering.
One human and one wolf completed their first head-on confrontation in the hall filled with wreckage and the pungent smell of blood!
But soon, the Imperial Prince’s gaze returned to the Shadow Abyss Wolf statue.
Lin Yuan held the Purple Lightning spear, the wolf blood on the tip not yet completely dry.
He stared coldly at the Imperial Prince before him and noticed at once that the other’s gaze wasn't on him at all.
From start to finish, even after witnessing three of its royal kin being slain by a single spear, the Imperial Prince showed no anger, not a hint of surprise, and didn't even spare a glance at the corpses on the floor.
From beginning to end, its golden pupils were fixed on only one thing—the tall Shadow Abyss Wolf statue in the hall.
Lin Yuan followed its gaze and turned toward the statue.
He had seen this statue when he visited the trading market a few hours ago. At the time, he had been puzzled as to why a statue of the Shadow Abyss Wolf race would be placed in the hall.
Then, Lin Yuan noticed something abnormal about the statue.
Embedded in the center of the statue's forehead was a diamond-shaped transparent crystal, no larger than a thumb.
At this moment, the crystal was emitting a faint green light.
And in the air directly in front of the statue, a larger, irregularly shaped dark red crystal floated.
Something seemed to be sealed inside the crystal. Its exact form was unclear, but a curled shadow could be vaguely seen within.
The moment Lin Yuan looked at the crystal, the space-time system ability within his body inexplicably began to stir.
In the next second, the crystal on the statue also lit up.
The two crystals flickered alternately, one brightening as the other dimmed, in a perfect, steady rhythm. It was as if someone were deliberately controlling them; the two crystals were resonating across the distance!
Suddenly, an extremely subtle vibration permeated the entire hall, and the air became oppressive.
Lin Yuan tightened his grip on the spear, his brow furrowing as he let out a low snort. “What the hell is this!”
As soon as the words left his mouth, lightning suddenly exploded beneath his feet. He transformed into a silver-purple afterimage, charging straight toward the Imperial Prince in front of the statue without hesitation!
He didn't hold back on this strike, pushing his Tier 2, Level 1 lightning ability to its absolute limit.
The patterns on the Purple Lightning spear all lit up, and the tip pierced through the air with a sharp whistling sound, the attack incredibly fierce.
Yet, faced with this lethal strike, the Imperial Prince kept its back to him, never even turning its head.
Just as the spear tip was about to pierce the Imperial Prince’s heart, with only a few meters left, Lin Yuan suddenly jerked to a halt!
This wasn't a choice he made; it was his body’s instinctive sense of danger that forcibly stopped him!
He was all too familiar with this feeling. It was a premonition of danger he had cultivated through countless life-and-death battles in the wilderness, and it was never wrong!
In an instant, a cold, sharp killing intent struck from behind, making the hair on his back stand on end and sending a chill through his body!
Lin Yuan didn't have time to think. Lightning erupted from his feet once more as he violently threw himself to the side to dodge.
Swoosh—
A dark purple wolf claw grazed his back, instantly shredding his already tattered white tank top and leaving several eerie green claw marks in the air.
Lin Yuan landed steadily and turned around immediately, his pupils shrinking!
The one attacking him was actually a Shadow Abyss Wolf!
Dark purple fur, golden patterns covering its body, and golden vertical pupils—it was identical to the Imperial Prince before him, without the slightest difference!
The only difference was that the edges of this Shadow Abyss Wolf’s body were extremely blurry, and the light around it was distorted. Its form was semi-transparent.
It was entirely condensed from shadow energy, existing somewhere between a phantom and a physical entity!
Is this a shadow?!
Lin Yuan quickly looked down at the Imperial Prince’s feet and was startled.
Because it was the night of the full moon, moonlight spilled into the hall. Any physical object should have a shadow, but the space beneath the Imperial Prince’s feet was empty—he had no shadow at all!
Just then, the Imperial Prince slowly turned his head.
His main body was still standing before the statue.
From start to finish, he hadn't moved a single step, nor was he affected by Lin Yuan’s sudden attack. His eyes remained utterly cold.
Lin Yuan understood instantly.
From the moment he stepped into this hall, the Imperial Prince had split off a shadow clone. His main body remained motionless the entire time, leaving the clone to deal with Lin Yuan entirely!
Lin Yuan took a deep breath and spoke in a low voice, “The main body stays still while sending out a shadow clone. No wonder you didn't care; you had a trump card prepared from the start.”
The Imperial Prince narrowed his golden vertical pupils slightly. There was no anger or killing intent, only a hint of scrutiny.
From the beginning, he hadn't taken Lin Yuan seriously. It wasn't deliberate arrogance, but rather that the gap between them was so large that Lin Yuan wasn't even worth an emotional response.
But he hadn't expected this human to not only easily kill three Tier 2, Level 5 Shadow Abyss Royals but also remain almost completely unscathed. Such strength, in the entire city of Hangzhou...
No, one could say that among all the Tier 2, Level 1 ability users in the entire Dragon Nation, a second person like him could never be found!
Lin Yuan held the Purple Lightning spear horizontally in front of him, standing ready.
He pressed his left index and middle fingers together, and a pale purple lightning needle instantly condensed at his fingertips—the Running Thunder Finger!
He had already formulated a tactic: use the Purple Lightning spear to pin down the Imperial Prince’s main body in close combat while using Running Thunder Finger to attack the shadow clone from a distance, testing the clone’s range and strength first!
The Imperial Prince slowly turned his head back, no longer looking at Lin Yuan.
Beside him, the shadow clone tilted its head slightly, looking down on Lin Yuan with a bizarre smile.
The clone and the main body shared the same will; it didn't need any instructions to strike alongside him!
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