Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Slaughter Teleportation Array

Li Ren, now caught in a bloodthirsty frenzy, cared for nothing else—his entire being was consumed by killing. Wherever the crowds were thickest, he blinked there; wherever the loot was richest, he blinked there as well. At this moment, Yuxiao City felt like his personal farm, its streets sown with crops ripe for the harvest.

As everyone had predicted, Li Ren eventually made his way to the plaza before the teleportation array. The Yuxiao City teleportation array shimmered constantly with the light of transport; as soon as one group of players stepped out, another group surged in to take their place. Li Ren couldn’t help but curse himself for his earlier stupidity—how could he have overlooked such an obvious hunting ground? If he had the power to hold this spot, the number of players he could slay here would far surpass what he could manage by chasing them down one by one. After all, the teleportation array was essentially an endless monster-spawning machine—he only needed to cast area-of-effect spells again and again, and the player kills would pile up for his taking.

Without hesitation, he put this plan into action. His many minions swept forward, overwhelming any players in their path with their sheer numbers, high level, and deadly abilities. Reaching the teleportation array was effortless. Li Ren immediately ordered eighty minions to clear the surrounding players and keep the battlefield contained, while the remaining twenty, together with himself, formed a tight ring around the array. Now, whenever a player appeared, those twenty minions plus Li Ren himself could wipe them out in a single assault!

What exhilaration it brought! The players had never imagined that a monster would use such tactics, finding the perfect exploit as if cheating. With the city guards gone, another monster might have destroyed the teleportation array outright. But this terrifying opponent instead encircled it, as if to lay claim.

What was he intending? Witnessing these events, the players could only speculate, but none could guess Li Ren’s true purpose.

He killed for the sake of killing—nothing more. All for the newly acquired aura ability. And of course, to claim the gear from these hapless victims, each item representing untold souls—essential for Luoyun City’s future growth.

Thus began the infamous Yuxiao City Teleportation Array Incident, which would terrify players and spark chaos on the forums for a full month. As for what followed, Li Ren neither knew nor cared; at this moment, he was reveling in the carnage.

With Li Ren in control, the flow of players through the teleportation array accelerated. Previously, the array’s throughput was limited—new arrivals couldn’t step forward until the previous group moved on, and if a player dawdled for more than five seconds, the system would simply send them back to their original city. The system left no loopholes here.

Now, the teleportation process sped up dramatically! Some saw this as a boon, eager for their chance to get a piece of the action in Yuxiao City. Others, more wary, realized the rapid turnover meant the player population within the city was sharply dwindling, perhaps because monsters had breached the gates. But whether they rejoiced or fretted, whether they were wise or foolish, none guessed what truly awaited on the other side.

Indeed, no one would believe it unless they experienced that nightmare for themselves. The momentary dizziness of teleportation had barely faded when a massive bone blade came crashing down before them—sometimes, players only realized what had happened after their screen turned gray and lifeless.

Li Ren’s kill count soared. Though he couldn’t tally the exact number slaughtered by his hand, a rough estimate was easy enough: within just ten minutes at the teleportation array, he had mercilessly executed nearly ten thousand players, amassing ten thousand blood crystals and a mountain of equipment.

Li Ren could scarcely contain his glee.

All he wanted now was for the siege to continue, for if given more time, his newly gained aura skill was sure to evolve again! If his guess was correct, the next upgrade would require fifty thousand kills.

There is much talk of murderous aura in the world, but no one can truly describe what it is, nor how it is formed. Yet in this unending slaughter, a new presence gathered around Li Ren—a faint, unmistakable scent of sweet blood, though he remained oblivious to the strange transformation overtaking his body.

With only twenty minutes left until the siege’s end, Li Ren no longer hoped for ultimate victory. Even if he failed, the penalty would be a mere deduction of twenty thousand attribute points. Considering he had less than ten thousand in total, he laughed it off—“Let them deduct it. Even if I go negative, I can just grind it back with my shadow and farm more monsters,” he thought.

And he was right. With Luoyun City backing him and his newly enhanced attribute-stealing ability, even negative points wouldn’t matter. His focus had to remain on the players before him—opportunities like this might never come again.

So Li Ren ignored the siege’s final objective, keeping his attention fixed on the endless stream of players teleporting in and laying waste to them. In ten minutes, nearly ten thousand players surged through, and that was just the time it took for him to kill them. If he could anchor a legendary area spell—Death’s Decay, or Vulcan’s Inferno—right on the array, every player who arrived would be instantly consumed by its power, and the queue would move even faster. As long as the array could withstand such throughput, reaching fifty thousand kills would only be a matter of time.