Demon King: Hero, don’t run away!

Ordinary [Blood Burst Earth] first creates a deceleration control field, and after a period of time, the power of blood buried underground erupts, causing damage to enemies in the control field.

This delayed-hit skill usually raises the question, ”With such a long duration, can anyone really fail to run out of the deceleration field and end up in the middle of the ground to take the hit? No way, right?”

Unless paired with some forced movement skills, the hit rate of this skill is quite emotional.

It can only be used to bully those who are unfamiliar or encountering this skill for the first time.

[Blood Burst Earth] is a skill Yang Yu learned with 150 Skill Points from the Blood Lion.

Before reaching the one hundred level, Yang Yu needed to level up 15 times to acquire enough Skill Points to learn this skill.

Naturally, he needed to try developing it.

Initially, Yang Yu had the mindset of wanting to see if there were any strange uses or techniques for these skills, experimenting repeatedly.

Eventually, he indeed discovered quite a few things.

The current uses of [Shadow Deception] and [Shadow Power] were developed by Yang Yu’s repeated use and practice.

But not all skills can be developed like these two.

The majority of skills have their unique and fixed operational rules, excessive interference may only make them lose their original effect.

Bai Jin’s Magic is said to have Basic Magic, even the most powerful Magic is pieced together from Basic Magic and slightly simplified.

To change certain Magic, one must start from its underlying logic.

Yang Yu checked in the giant dragon’s knowledge base, ordinary skills have their underlying logic too, but understanding all skills’ underlying logic requires calculating in years.

Some Special skills are compiled within the race’s ”blueprints”, requiring that race’s Characteristic Magic Power as the key to activating, which is why Yang Yu needed to absorb the Blood Lion’s Racial Essence to learn [Fury Blood].

To crack the underlying logic of those exclusive skills, it takes at least a decade.

Knowing this, Yang Yu directly kicked some exclusive skills out of his learning list, only eyeing the Fish-dragon Clan’s [Level Flow Replacement] enviously.

Additionally, some skills simply don’t exist in this world, it’s hard to say clearly about their underlying logic...

Those skills were slowly developed over long ages, inspired by various things by generations of people.

Different periods have different names for skills that shouldn’t exist in this world, but nowadays they are generally referred to as ”Ancient Martial”...

Even ”Ancient Martial” might be newer than many skills...

Owen explicitly told Yang Yu, the ”Qi” mentioned by the ”Ancient Martial” School is indeed what Yang Yu speculated, which is Magic Power.

Some concepts of the ”Ancient Martial” School actually fit quite well with this world.

Perhaps because [Shadow Deception] and [Shadow Power] are from the ”Ancient Martial” School’s Shadow stream, these two skills have some plasticity...

When it’s said they have plasticity, it might actually be because the skill hasn’t been optimized to its best.

[Blood Burst Earth] also has certain plasticity; otherwise, Yang Yu wouldn’t be able to choose the control effect or damage effect of [Blood Burst Earth].

Due to the excessively long time [Blood Burst Earth] takes to deal damage, Yang Yu continually experiments to see if he can trigger [Blood Burst Earth] ahead of time.

Unfortunately, after researching for so long, aside from finding he could sense the power of blood buried underground, allowing him to perceive some underground Magic Power, there seemed to be no room for improvement, merely waiting for it to explode on its own.

Yang Yu couldn’t have anticipated that the ability to sense underground Magic Power would be instrumental against the Zero Technique before him.

Soon, Yang Yu detected a trace of anomaly within his range of perception.

Raising the sword in his hand, Yang Yu thrust it into a seemingly empty ground.

A white smoke floated out from beneath the ground, transforming into Zero Technique, with his right shoulder gashed by Yang Yu, flickering with golden light, reluctant to seal.

Zero Technique’s eyes widened, feeling incredible that Yang Yu was able to find him.

But he quickly realized Yang Yu’s skill was to blame.

The array set up by Kai Bu allowed him to conceal his own figure and effortlessly sense Yang Yu’s position. Zero Technique intended to utilize this array to repeatedly attack and delay Yang Yu, but who knew Yang Yu would break his setup so quickly.

Reflecting on the tales he’d heard from Kekarlos about Yang Yu, Zero Technique felt it wasn’t so unbelievable after all.

”It seems as though he is bound to disrupt our plans.

Only one day left, just one more day.

Absolutely need to persevere, I’ve worked hard for so many years all for the arrival of that day.

For that day when everyone can work happily and build this world together.

He’s strong, but surely has vulnerabilities.

Think carefully, think carefully, the primary task is to analyze the current difficulties and find ways to overcome them.”

Facing this unprecedented formidable enemy, both ambush and prolonged battle strategies have failed. Zero Technique is not discouraged, his nonexistent brain working swiftly.

Yet before Zero Technique could devise a concrete plan, Yang Yu’s sword was already slicing through the air.

The glow of [Fury Blood] had faded from Yang Yu, yet for a Spiritual Body, his weapon is inherently deadly, Zero Technique dared not slack.

Phasing his form doesn’t work, Zero Technique could only use his black claw to fend off Yang Yu’s attack.

Yang Yu’s [Dark Breaking Blade] slashed again, leaving a golden gash on his claw, continually emitting smoke.

Blocking Yang Yu’s strike, Zero Technique quickly distanced himself from Yang Yu, however, Yang Yu relentlessly pursued, as if even if he fled into the Black Mist, he would be followed and utterly defeated.

Zero Technique divided his Spiritual Body into multiple pieces, tossing them around.

After entering into a contract with Gao Fang, Zero Technique no longer had mist connecting those pieces, but this did not mean he lost the ability to move rapidly towards his Spiritual Body pieces. Instead, due to the contract, he established an unseen connection with those pieces, he still could move quickly towards them.

The issue is, due to throwing out too many pieces, Zero Technique’s original strength is greatly reduced.

Zero Technique has decided, if he cannot win frontally, then he will continuously move using the pieces, carrying out guerrilla tactics.

Yang Yu’s attacks are extremely powerful, but he also has weaknesses, being a warrior, he cannot strike the air.

As long as he can retreat into the air at the dangerous moment, he can evade Yang Yu’s strike...

As long as other Spiritual Bodies attack Yang Yu continuously while harassing him from the side, a large amount of time can be bought.

Zero Technique mutters repeatedly to confirm the feasibility of this plan, convincing himself to execute this reluctant plan.

Unfortunately, Zero Technique overlooked one thing from start to finish:

In terms of guerrilla warfare, Yang Yu is a professional.