Chapter 6: Sudden Change

  After advancing twenty meters in difficulty, Zhou Jian suddenly felt the temperature rise sharply, and the hot wind that came rushing towards him almost made him jump up.

  Zhou Jian watched as his health points dwindled rapidly, but he was powerless to stop it. He was now in stealth mode and would reappear once he drank a blood bottle. The outcome was predictable.

  At this time in front of Zhou Jian, there was a vast lake of magma, and the waves of hot air were coming from it.

  Above the lake of magma, a black stone altar floated high in the air. On top of the altar was the constantly pulsating heart of the Demon King, which was about the size of a human head and looked as red as blood.

  Zhou Jian took a deep breath and retrieved Pandora's seal with his skill - "Void Retrieval".

  The object was retrieved through non-combat means and could be used while in stealth mode. A small seal left Zhou Jian's body and floated towards the lava lake, fortunately there were fewer monsters by the lake, plus the red mist was dense, so Zhou Jian controlled the seal to fly close to the lava, thus no monster noticed this small thing.

  The heart is about thirty meters away from the lake shore, Zhou Jian stares at Pandora's seal without blinking, twenty meters, ten meters, five meters...

  Because of the great distance, Zhou Jian's mental strength was already somewhat exhausted. Dense sweat beads seeped out from his forehead as he gritted his teeth and persisted: three meters, two meters, one meter...

  At the last moment, Zhou Jian's heart hung in his throat.

  "Pffft!"

  A faintly audible sound, Pandora's seal gently sank into the heart of the Demon King...

  Then, the heart's beating suddenly stopped.

  Dead silence.

  The monsters by the lake were startled, they all stopped and turned their heads back to look at the altar...

  Is it really successful?

  No harm done?

  Jian Zheng concentrated his mind and stared at those bewildered monsters, his heart racing fast. He was afraid that those monsters would suddenly go berserk and charge towards the demon king's heart all at once.

  These few seconds felt extremely long to Zhou Jian, and he had a strong sense of unease in his heart, as if something dangerous was about to happen.

  Where can I hide? Zhou Jian looked around and suddenly found a rock crevice ten meters away. He was overjoyed and immediately ran towards it. As long as he hid in the crevice, even if the monster went wild, he could avoid it.

  However, just as he was getting started, he suddenly discovered something unusual.

  Huh? What's this... light?

  Zhou Jian felt that the light behind him seemed to have brightened a bit, could it be...

  He suddenly turned around, and almost at the same time, the Demon King's altar exploded with a loud bang!

  A deafening explosion shook the earth, the lava lake boiled over, and a several-meter-high wave of molten rock rushed towards the shore with lightning speed, pouncing on Zhou Jian.

  Damn it!

  At this time, Zhou Jian didn't have time to run to the crack, and he didn't care about exposing his tracks. He chose to upgrade without hesitation. At that moment, a soft beam of light descended from the sky and enveloped Zhou Jian. The unbearable scorching sensation and pain instantly disappeared, and the negative state was swept away. Zhou Jian's life value, magic value, and spiritual power were all rapidly recovering.

  Just then, a surging wave of magma swept over Zhou Jian's body, but the rapidly recovering health and the healing light from the sky somehow allowed Zhou Jian to miraculously withstand this disaster.

  Zhou Jian didn't have time to savor the refreshing feeling brought by his upgrade, and immediately activated his skill Stealth again. He then rushed towards the crack, while at the same time, the monsters guarding the Demon King's heart finally realized what had happened. They let out a collective roar and charged towards Zhou Jian's disappearing figure.

  Zhou Jian sprinted wildly with his legs spread apart in stealth mode. At this moment, if he slowed down by even a single step, he would probably be trampled into minced meat by the furious monsters.

  After running ten meters, Zhou Jian jumped recklessly and rushed into the rock crevice, falling heavily.

  "Boom! Boom!" A large number of monsters angrily rushed towards the place where Zhou Jian disappeared, regardless of the fact that behind them was a turbulent and rolling lake of magma.

  Magma splashed, and the earth trembled ceaselessly due to a large number of monsters rushing about wildly. The lakeshore there was already in a state of complete devastation.

  Zhou Jian, who was several meters away in the rock crevice, stared at all of this with a lingering fear, unable to imagine what would have happened if he had run a step slower or hesitated for just a moment.

  It's too exciting for mom, this messenger is not a human being at all.

  The task was completed just like that. The Tianzun team, which was struggling to survive against the final boss, suddenly felt a significant reduction in pressure, and at the same time, the sound of their heartbeat disappeared.

  The broken military sword was overjoyed in his heart, he knew that Dark Sword had succeeded.

  "The warrior uses his shield to stun the boss, while the mage takes the opportunity to recover his magic points. The archer uses a piercing arrow, and the thief seizes the chance to launch a close-range attack."

  "Clang!" A dull thud, the demon king's minion was knocked unconscious by Light Head with his shield strike. Shield Strike is a special skill of heavy shield warriors that can cause 5 seconds of stun to enemies. This is one of the few skills that can cause bosses to become stunned, in addition to the thief's Blindness, the Controller's Mind Pierce and the Hunter's Binding Trap.

  5 seconds later, the thief immediately made up for the blind, and the control time of the blind lasted for 3 seconds. Although there were three thieves in the team, the boss would only be affected by the dizzy effect of the blind once at a time, which eliminated the possibility that the entire team was composed of thieves, taking turns to put the boss on the blind and grinding the boss to death.

  A total of 8 seconds of restricted time is enough for the mages to recover their magic.

  Zhou Jian also arrived at this time, if he was too far away from the boss, there would be no experience reward.

  The remaining time for Zhou Jian was just like watching a play, anyway he went up to fight and it wasn't useful, watching others kill monsters, sitting and waiting to get experience and equipment felt pretty good.

  Without the devil king's heart, the devil king's followers cannot recover their life value, so the blood loss speed is greatly increased. Just now a group of people surrounded and fought for half a day, the boss lost less than one tenth of its blood, but now it has lost more than half of its blood in just a short time.

  "Be careful, boss's blood is about to boil over."

  Last time we failed in the dungeon was because the boss went berserk and instantly killed our team's main tank warrior, resulting in a team wipe.

  The nameless mages were highly tense, and the main force of shield-bearing warriors was also ready to strike at any moment.

  "Roar!"

  The demon king's servant let out a furious roar and went berserk!

  However, because his source of power was cut off, this rampage was all bark and no bite.

  The main tank's health was reduced by half after being hit by the boss's skill set, but several healers took turns to replenish his blood, and they managed to get through it safely.

  Shield Strike, Blindness, and a 9-second stun. The wizard uses this time to recover MP, and the boss is left with only one-tenth of its HP remaining.

  Victory is within sight, and people have already begun to look forward to what this new copy of the boss can explode.

  However, at this moment, a layer of red light suddenly flashed on the boss's body. Before everyone could react to what was happening, a fierce shockwave burst out from the boss's body, and three warriors and one thief who were closest to the boss were directly blown away. The bloodless thief was instantly killed!

  Seeing this scene, Zhou Jian, who was originally sitting on the ground watching the play with relish, suddenly jumped up, oh no!