113: Heart-strengthened! A 16,000-pound force sweeps across!

At the top of the ruins, the foul wind whistled, carrying gravel and dust that lashed against Lu Sheng.

He stepped on the Marine Iguana King, which had died with its eyes wide open, and clutched the purple-black energy ball in his hand.

The thing pulsed in his palm, like a living heart just ripped from a chest cavity—heavy and emitting a heart-stopping spirit source fluctuation.

Lu Sheng tensed his fingers.

"Break for me."

Without the slightest hesitation, he slammed the orb of light into his chest.

"Boom—!"

A heavy, viscous, and violent surge of energy instantly breached the dams within his body.

If the previous spirit source had been a trickle, what was now pouring into his Meridians was molten steel.

The already full spirit source bar was brutally pushed to its limit at this moment, even overflowing.

【Ding! Absorbed Level 6 Sea Beast spirit source! spirit source value +100!】

【Congratulations host! Rank promoted!】

【Current Rank: Level 6 Spirit Source User (25 / 2500)!】

Lu Sheng threw his head back, a low roar suppressed in his throat.

The world had changed.

The originally dim and noisy battlefield suddenly felt as if a slow-motion button had been pressed in his eyes.

The air was no longer empty; countless tiny particles emitting a faint blue glow were floating and colliding.

Those were spirit source particles, the cornerstone of energy in this Apocalypse.

His body was like a black hole that had been dried up for ten thousand years, greedily plundering everything around it.

The air distorted visibly as the spirit source density was instantly sucked dry, forming a transparent vortex centered on him.

【Basic Strength +2000 catties!】

【Current Basic Strength: 6387 catties!】

"Please select a body reinforcement direction: 【Reinforce Muscles (Ultimate Strength Stacking)】, 【Reinforce Bones (Increase Density and Impact Resistance)】, 【Reinforce Heart (Heart governs burst, significantly increasing blood supply efficiency and instantaneous explosive power)】."

The three options hovered on his retina.

A memory flashed through Lu Sheng's mind of Chen Yan's inscrutable expression at the dinner table— "Skin and flesh like iron, internal organs like paper."

His muscles and bones had already been reinforced.

What he lacked now was not strength or defense, but a powerful heart.

This human shell was like putting a tractor engine into a heavy tank; despite having armor and gun barrels, it couldn't pick up speed even with the accelerator floored.

"My lungs have already been reinforced once; now, it is time to reinforce the heart."

Lu Sheng's will, sharp as a blade, slashed fiercely towards the third option.

"Select, Reinforce Heart!"

"Thump—"

A scorching hot current exploded out of thin air in his chest, instantly enveloping the beating ball of flesh.

Lu Sheng's expression changed drastically; his knees went weak, and he dropped onto one knee, the concrete floor beneath him cracking into a spiderweb pattern with a "crack" sound.

Pain.

Not the kind of tearing pain, but a higher-dimensional force forcibly reshaping his organs.

His heart was gripped tightly by an invisible hand, being frantically compressed and kneaded. The original red myocardial fibers were forcibly torn by the golden spirit source, then reorganized, becoming thicker and tougher.

"Ugh..."

Lu Sheng gripped the collar of his shirt tightly; cold sweat instantly soaked his back.

Every heartbeat felt like pulling a rusty bellows inside his chest—heavy, yet powerful.

"Thump!"

The first sound was dull as thunder, making his eardrums numb.

"Thump!!"

The second sound—the shockwave actually passed through his body, causing the gravel on the surrounding ground to vibrate slightly.

"Thump!!! Thump!!! Thump!!!"

The heartbeat grew faster and heavier, finally overlapping with the sound of waves crashing against the reefs, like a war drum beating on the battlefield, roaring loudly!

Lu Sheng slowly stood up, his spine cracking in a series of explosions.

The feeling was too wonderful.

His blood was no longer flowing but surging, like water in a high-pressure jet, with every pump delivering massive amounts of oxygen and spirit source to his limbs and bones.

His body, which had been slightly fatigued, was instantly filled with this violent power.

【Ding! Heart reinforcement complete! Current status: Heart Strengthening Level I!】

【Ding! Congratulations host for Awakening the God-Tier Sequence—Dragon God, exclusive divine skill—Human-Dragon Form!】

【Human-Dragon Form: Activate the Dragon blood within, golden scales cover the entire body, pupils become vertical, Dragon horns grow on the forehead, limbs undergo Dragon transformation! After activation, all attributes skyrocket by 2 times! Duration: 3 minutes 30 seconds (Heart Strengthening Level I bonus + 30 seconds)!】

All attributes... doubled?

Lu Sheng looked at the data on the panel, his mouth curling uncontrollably.

Basic strength 6387 catties, plus 1600 catties from the dragon devouring spear, his normal combat power was already heading towards 8000 catties.

If he activated Human-Dragon Form...

16,000 catties?

Was that even human?

He was practically a humanoid pile driver!

"Hoo—"

Lu Sheng exhaled a breath of stale air; the breath, condensed like a sword, actually left a clear white mark on the broken wall three meters in front of him.

He walked to the edge of the ruins and looked down.

The battle below was still continuing.

Having lost their king's command, those thousands of Marine Iguanas, although in disarray, still possessed their ferocity and were continuing to besiege the blazing flame by instinct.

Especially the blazing flame; the hellfire flamethrower on the Deck had already overheated and shut down, and Zhou Hai and the others were fighting in a bloodbath, their defensive line in critical danger.

On the Deck of the blazing flame, the firelight flickered.

That fat guy Zhou Hai was covered in blood, the light of the Explosive Flame Fist in his hand had dimmed significantly, and he was being surrounded and bitten by three elite Marine Iguanas. A bloody gash had been scratched onto his butt, and he was wailing while fighting.

"Damn it! Why are these beasts endless! Where is Little Lu? Why isn't he done yet? If he doesn't come soon, I'm going to become lizard dung!"

Zhao Ze's face was pale, his internal spirit source was bottoming out, and the originally golden and brilliant Immortal Heavy Shield had dimmed. At the same time, Su Li's sword-swinging speed had also slowed down.

"That's about enough."

Lu Sheng loosened his neck, which made a cracking sound. The golden light in his eyes didn't dissipate; instead, it became even more intense.

He slowly extended his right hand, palm facing upward.

"Hum!"

A wisp of golden, tangible liquid spirit source flowed out from his fingertips. It didn't dissipate but, like an obedient little snake, nimbly wove and coiled between his fingers.

spirit source projection, condensed without dispersing.

This was the mark of a Level 6 Expert, and also the capital for walking on waves that Chen Yan had spoken of.

"Rank has increased; let's try out the new power."

Lu Sheng stepped out of the ruins; beneath his feet was a cliff dozens of meters above the sea.

He didn't jump; he didn't use any reaction force.

He just walked out flatly, taking a step into the Void Realm, his body falling naturally.

The moment his foot was about to touch the surface of the sea, a mass of high-density golden spirit source surged from the sole of his foot, instantly compressing the seawater beneath him, its hardness comparable to cement.

"Plap."

A soft sound.

Lu Sheng stood steadily on the undulating waves, his shoe soles not even getting wet.

He stuffed his hands into his pockets, looked at the others fighting bitterly in the distance, and a grim smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Little ones, your king is here."

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