Chapter 525 - 236: The Peculiar Armored Race, Hundred Warriors Against Divinity Transformation (2)

When the Blood Armor Crystal fuses with a newborn, it becomes sustenance for the child, gradually enhancing their talent and cultivation speed, and aids in the formation of a Life Armor.

Of course, some of this information was not derived from the Eye of True Sight, but was obtained from the Nascent Soul Armor Man captured by the Red Tiger Demon King.

At the time, when the Red Tiger Demon King finally captured the Red Armored Man and brought him back to Lu Wenwu, he happened to catch Lu Wenwu conducting a dissection experiment.

This act of forcibly tearing off the armor seems to be an extremely terrifying action for the Armored Race.

It’s probably comparable to a classic punishment that some puzzle enthusiasts of the Zhu clan particularly enjoy—skin eradication.

And with an added enhancement of dismemberment.

Therefore, Lu Wenwu didn’t have to exert much effort to extract some information about the Armored Race from him.

However, he refused to divulge any in-depth topics, such as power divisions, social structures, violent institutions, etc.

Even though he was being skinned alive, he was the same.

Lu Wenwu fulfilled his request.

The guy was really tough, enduring without speaking.

Lu Wenwu, who did not have a penchant for torture, promptly extracted and refined his Nascent Soul.

[Body] attribute increased by five, and gained 100 points.

The Jade Slip issued upon entry now displayed a blood-red [100].

There was also a small line of text providing a prompt.

[Your position has been locked]

Interestingly, after Lu Wenwu dismantled and dissected several Armored Race corpses, he discovered some differences between this race and humans.

They have significant differences in the internal organ systems compared to humans, with some organs that humans do not possess, and have a manifested Dantian.

The skeletal structure appears similar, though.

And most importantly, these people...

In addition to well-defined body curves, they have no reproductive features!

Lu Wenwu is not a biologist, and he wonders how this strange race reproduces.

He can only conclude that this species is indeed different from humans.

The two might be considered distant relatives, but they are certainly not family.

Hmm...

Creating a new race.

This is unlikely the Little World of the Celestial Fire Demon God.

There’s no capacity for that here.

"After that skirmish, how do you assess their strength?"

Summoning a ball of clear water to wash away the blood, Lu Wenwu turned his head to look at the wolf and tiger who were digging for Golden Cores.

The Canglang Demon King was silent, harboring a deep resentment towards Lu Wenwu.

The Red Tiger Demon King, however, already somewhat familiar with Lu Wenwu, decisively spoke: "Demon Venerable, they are especially strong when forming arrays, as if born with an array. However, in individual battles, they are much weaker compared to normal Golden Core cultivators."

"How weak are they?"

Lu Wenwu picked up the corpses, indicating for Mao Mao to continue leading the group towards the predetermined location.

He instinctively glanced at his personal panel, and a prompt stood out.

[You have gained 0.001 free attribute points]

Hmm???

The Armored Race can drop free attribute points?

What’s the principle behind this?

Lu Wenwu felt some surprise regarding this, but was unclear about the reason.

Speaking of which, when he first encountered killing without obtaining free attribute points, it was during a wasteland five-player event killing those Ghost Masters.

Those entities referred to as "Ghosts" also failed to trigger Evil Slayer.

The second encounter was in the Underworld, where the creatures and Ghost Souls of the Netherworld didn’t yield free attribute points after death.

The third was earlier, killing cultivators similarly didn’t activate the Talent.

To this day, Lu Wenwu still does not understand the triggering principle of the [Evil Slayer] Talent.

Before he could continue pondering, the Red Tiger Demon King had organized his words and replied: "Besides having that peculiar armor, they don’t have those strange elixirs or the numerous complex and profound talismans that external cultivators have; they mostly rely on the armor and a strange flame for combat."

"Among them, the Red Armored Man at the Nascent Soul Stage did possess a sophisticated control-type magical treasure, which I observed to be even more intricate than the magical treasures used by the cultivators of Celestial Star City. However, it was a one-time-use item and shattered after attacking me once."

"Innate arrays, armor, flame, not very developed talismans, elixirs, or beast taming..." A gleam of interest appeared on Lu Wenwu’s face, "Interesting, this race is truly fascinating."

Sitting atop a cloud, Lu Wenwu attempted to refine the over ten Golden Cores he had gathered through Devouring Heaven and Earth, swallowing them down.

There was an effect, but it wasn’t great.

Compared to Nascent Soul, the purity provided by the Golden Cores was indeed lacking.

Even at the peak of Golden Core, the increase in [Body] attribute post-refinement was scarcely 0.1 points, which was quite little.

Nevertheless, little by little, Lu Wenwu wasn’t deterred, consuming them all in one go.

[Body] attribute increased by over 1 point, better than nothing.

"Demon Venerable, please take a look at this; it was just found among the Nascent Soul Armor Man’s remnants. It seems to be an array plate capable of displaying locations."

The Red Tiger Demon King reverted to the size of a large house cat, carefully nudging Lu Wenwu.

Lu Wenwu looked along with his paw; in the center was a copper mirror approximately the diameter of a size seven basketball, with horizontal and vertical coordinate grids resembling radar.

Three blood-red skulls were flashing continuously on the copper mirror, marking the locations where they had previously slain members of the Armored Race.

"This thing is interesting; I thought it would offer full map clarity, but it turns out it’s more like a tracking radar." Lu Wenwu didn’t dwell much on it.

"Demon Venerable...though it may be somewhat inopportune, I still wish to remind you, we might already be surrounded." The Red Tiger Demon King timidly said, with a quiver in its voice.

It pointed its paw around the copper mirror: "See the large swaths of green armor markings on this side? If not mistaken... this should be their reinforcements."

The green dots covered the entire side of the copper mirror, almost completely engulfing it.

On a rough estimate, there were at least hundreds.

"Your observational skills are sharp, I’m pleased."

Lu Wenwu maintained a smile, getting up to look far into the distance.

From afar, countless black dots were already appearing on the horizon, forming ten organized formations.

In each formation, the leading Red Armored figures were at the peak of Nascent Soul, besides another two Nascent Souls, the rest were all Golden Core.

Within each formation, the qi mechanisms of the Armored Race cultivators were interconnected, pooling their innate power to an astonishingly high level.

In an instant, over a thousand of the Armored Race had completely surrounded Lu Wenwu and his group.

And the concentrated explosive power within each array had evidently reached the Divinity Transformation level!

A hundred-person formation could rival Divinity Transformation!

Such a feat in the outside Cultivation Realm would be unimaginable!

Upon reaching Divinity Transformation Realm, no matter how many Low-tier Cultivators came, they were still nothing more than ants.

Without relying on an array, having over a hundred Nascent Soul True Monarchs face a Divinity Transformation True Venerable remains an uncertainty.

Celestial Star Child, who maintained the Celestial Star City’s grand array for centuries, is said to be comparable to Divinity Transformation, and merely just comparable.

To barely survive a single move from a Divinity Transformation without dying can be considered comparable.

Stronger than the peak of Nascent Soul, but by no means reaching the actual might to be termed a True Venerable.

Even Celestial Star Child is like this, not to mention a battle array formed by only three Nascent Souls and several dozen Golden Cores?

Yet now, the reality is laid bare.

The Armored Race indeed possesses such power.

This level of intensity, for a normal Trial Taker, leaves no possibility of survival other than fleeing!

But Lu Wenwu, is not a normal Trial Taker!

"Confucius said: Without seriousness, there is no authority. Armored Race’s battle array? Come, let me see your purity!"

Lu Wenwu’s face involuntarily broke into a sinister grin, as his muscles, like hardened metal, surged with scarlet steam, igniting into the Blood Qi Flame.