Chapter 1 The First Trial

After taking a couple of sips of water, Li Chenzhou stood up, turned around and looked at the mine behind him. That was the direction from which countless roars were coming.

"This...is this the first test you've given me?"

Listening to the sounds from ahead, Li Chenzhou murmured, then a ferocious smile suddenly appeared on his face. He put away his battle blade and pistol, picked up the long staff, and charged forward.

What Li Chenzhou didn't know was that after he charged forward, at the end of the mine, near the underground river, Drill Instructor Li Yingning reappeared. Looking at Li Chenzhou's back, he muttered:

"This is the 52nd reincarnation. Maybe we really can't kill the Devourer. Maniac, what the hell are you thinking?"

Perhaps it was because Drill Instructor Li Yingning had disappeared, but all the humans, zombies, mutated beasts, and insects charged into the mine. Li Chenzhou, charging forward with his staff, soon saw the people rushing down the mine!

They were humans, miners in fact, wearing yellow hard hats, their eyes bloodshot, mouths constantly roaring, and faces twisted as they charged towards Li Chenzhou!

"Pu!"

Without any warning, Li Chenzhou directly slammed the staff onto the head of the person in front. The skull instantly shattered, white brain matter mixing with red blood like vibrant peach blossoms.

He had already realized that these people seemed to have completely lost their minds. It was useless to reason with them. The only difference between them and zombies was that they hadn't mutated!

"Pu pu pu!"

As these people charged, Li Chenzhou continuously swung the long staff in his hand, smashing one head after another. He suddenly discovered that he was now wielding the staff even more smoothly than the battle blade.

Although the staff had no blade, it could smash, stab, and chop. Both ends were useful. Especially after receiving the instructor's consciousness, Li Chenzhou was surprisingly familiar with the staff, as if he had used it for decades.

In the mine, the humans were charging at the front, but Li Chenzhou showed no mercy. He continuously thrust the staff, smashing, chopping, and stabbing, killing them all. And his target was always the head, because he knew that if he pierced their hearts with the staff, they might stand up again, and he would have to kill them again.

Although this would give him more slaughter points, now was clearly not the time to earn slaughter points.

The charging crowd was like a flood, and Li Chenzhou was like a dam, completely blocking them. The staff in his hand created afterimages around him, shattering the heads of anyone who approached!

However, as the slaughter continued, the corpses began to pile up on the ground. While stopping the charge of those people, it also prevented Li Chenzhou from fully displaying his skills!

"Kid! My fighting style! Is not defensive!!!"

Just then, Drill Instructor Li Yingning's voice suddenly rang in Li Chenzhou's ears:

"Besides, I lured the Devourer here, not for you to cower and hide from them!!!"

"Understood!"

Hearing the voice in his mind, Li Chenzhou suddenly grinned ferociously. Then, he took a deep breath, transferred the staff to his left hand, raised his right hand, and a pistol appeared out of thin air.

"Bang bang bang bang bang..."

With continuous pulls of the trigger, all the people rushing in the tunnel fell. Because Li Chenzhou had the slaughter system, he didn't even need to reload. As long as he had enough slaughter points, his pistol had unlimited bullets.

However, after killing dozens of people, a buzzing sound suddenly came. On both sides of the charging people, a large number of insects appeared—flies, mosquitoes, bees, wasps...

These insects were also aggressive, rushing towards Li Chenzhou like a flood!

"Come on!"

Li Chenzhou took a step back, raised his hand and shot down the two people rushing towards him. Then, with a flick of his wrist, the gun disappeared, and immediately after, the staff was transferred to his right hand, suddenly turning into a windmill, creating a flurry of afterimages around him...

"Pu pu pu pu..."

Li Chenzhou's entire body was surrounded by the staff shadows, like an invisible barrier. The flying insects that rushed at him crashed into the barrier, breaking bones and tendons, turning into a pile of mud.

However, insects have no fear. They continued to rush towards Li Chenzhou like moths to a flame, including the humans in the tunnel!

As mentioned before, the humans were in the innermost circle of the mine. Therefore, after Drill Instructor Li Yingning disappeared, they were the first to rush into the mine. The insects, due to their size, rushed in earlier.

Li Chenzhou continuously tapped the staff in his hand, smashing one insect after another to death. And any human who rushed in front of him, Li Chenzhou chose to shatter their heads.

They were his own kind, but now, they were also his enemies. Li Chenzhou would not try to wake them up, because he had tried it before, and the other reason...was that even if someone was awakened by him, Li Chenzhou couldn't trust him, couldn't keep him by his side, so he could only kill them all.

However, what excited Li Chenzhou was that whether it was humans or insects, as long as he killed them, the slaughter points would directly increase. In just over ten minutes, his current slaughter points had reached more than eight hundred, more than enough to exchange for an evolution potion.

Watching the slaughter points increase, Li Chenzhou's face became even more ferocious. Whether it's his own kind or insects, mutated beasts, as long as they block me, I will kill, kill until there is no one to stop me!!!

"Ah!!!"

Li Chenzhou let out a hysterical roar, wielding the staff in his hand so tightly that it was impenetrable, smashing all the insects that rushed at him. At the same time, he held a pistol in his left hand, blowing the heads off all the people or zombies that blocked him!

For a time, Li Chenzhou was like the strongest dam, blocking all the humans and zombies that flooded into the mine, and even pushing back upwards. As he moved forward, he left behind a road paved with various corpses...

"Pu pu pu!"

He didn't know how long it had been, nor did he know how many lives he had killed. Li Chenzhou had now put away his pistol, holding the staff with both hands, wielding it like a windmill, cutting, smashing, jumping, picking, stabbing, chopping, and slicing. Regardless of whether it was the proper way to use the staff, he could use them all. And those zombies or humans, or insects and mutated beasts, all died under his staff...

"Ah!!!"

Li Chenzhou didn't even know how long he had been killing. In short, he just felt a blur before his eyes, and a night sky had appeared in front of him. Fresh air also rushed in. The depression and anger he had been suppressing all the way were finally vented at this moment. Holding the staff in one hand, he raised his head and let out a roar...