Chapter 123: Never Intended To Let You Live
The surroundings fell into a deathly silence.
Everyone stared blankly at Li Ye, who was surrounded by black qi spilling out like a ferocious tiger, completely stunned for a moment, not knowing what to do.
Crack, crack.
Until the distinctive chewing sound jolted them awake.
They looked toward the Snake Demon, where the massive snake head bobbed up and down, and clear traces of something struggling could still be seen in its mouth.
But because of this, the Snake Demon’s attention was focused on swallowing the thing in its mouth, not paying as much attention to the other Martial Artists.
Ingredients transformed from demonic creatures are greatly beneficial to Martial Artists.
Martial Artists with profound Qi and Blood are also attractive to demonic creatures.
Bang bang bang bang!
A Dragon Gate Realm Martial Artist clung to the cave wall with one hand and raised the assault rifle in the other, aiming at the Snake Demon’s head and pulling the trigger.
The gunpowder exorcism concept propelled by the bullets chipped several small gashes on the Snake Demon’s ore head.
But this time, the Snake Demon didn’t deal with that Martial Artist, instead focusing single-mindedly on digesting the Martial Artist in its mouth.
Whoosh!
Seeing this, a Second Realm Martial Artist kicked off the rock wall with his legs and dove obliquely downward toward the Snake Demon, slashing his blade toward the Snake Demon’s coiled heart.
Under threat, the Snake Demon finally stirred, twisting its body to shield its heart from the blade’s path.
Clang!
As gravel flew and the Snake Demon’s body was hacked open with a gash, a cut was also made at the heart position, though it was quickly patched by the Snake Demon with its body.
Meanwhile, the Snake Demon repaired the opened gash by constantly absorbing ore, given its location in the mine cave.
“Kill!”
With someone taking the lead, the others didn’t hesitate and charged toward the heart position.
They didn’t know if they could win, but if they kept dragging it out like this, once the Snake Demon digested that Second Realm Martial Artist, the next one would surely be one of them.
And with Li Ye’s gaze sweeping over, everyone felt they would be the next one thrown into the snake’s mouth. No one dared to bet, so they could only charge in.
Including Chen Hualong, no one was confident that Li Ye would spare them; they could only follow Li Ye’s words and first target that heart.
Demonic creatures have no humanity; they may be clever or strategic, but ultimately they revert to instinct.
Even a Skin-Peeling Demon as clever as that would reveal its true nature under survival threats, acting on instinct.
This Snake Demon was the same; facing attacks, it instinctively coiled around its heart, shaking its snake body to unleash a large amount of ore fragments, with even more waves erupting from the heart area.
But it didn’t give up on the person in its mouth, continuing to swallow, and with its attention diverted, the attacks were fierce but not as ferocious as expected.
Especially with Chen Hualong present, unleashing true essence sword qi without restraint, making the Snake Demon’s movements even slower and giving the Martial Artists more chances to attack.
If it were just targeting the Snake Demon’s body, it would have dispersed and crumbled under these attacks, but at this moment, no one dared to retreat and could only attack desperately.
“Oh no!”
A Second Realm Martial Artist overexerted himself, his strength failing to circulate properly due to the high-intensity attacks causing fatigue, and he momentarily slipped and fell to the ground, his legs trapped by the surging ore waves.
The Snake Demon shook out fragments and launched them straight at this person.
“Roar!!”
But at that moment, a explosive roar erupted from behind, shaking the Second Realm Martial Artist’s head as if it would burst, but also scattering the incoming ore fragments.
That Martial Artist turned back and saw Li Ye flashing over rapidly, involuntarily showing joy.
“Tha”
“Thanks too early!”
Li Ye pressed down on his head mid-air, yanked him up, and flung him straight toward the snake’s mouth.
The Snake Demon had just digested the person in its mouth and, seeing another Martial Artist with robust Qi and Blood flying in, instinctively opened its mouth and swallowed him.
But this gave the other Martial Artists more room to maneuver.
Li Ye’s sudden move made the Martial Artists attack even more frenziedly, not daring to conserve strength.
This time they were lucky; someone got injured first, but next time it might not be.
His gaze would make everyone think they were next.
Fighting desperately led to many Martial Artist casualties, but the Snake Demon’s heart repair speed began to lag behind the cracking speed.
The Martial Artists’ attacks were too dense, gradually causing more and more cracks on the Snake Demon’s heart, with gashes becoming increasingly prominent; the Snake Demon grew visibly more frantic, its attacks fiercer.
Chen Hualong slashed out with one sword, straight at the snake head; sword qi pierced through the snake head, heading straight for the heart below, hacking a massive fissure across the heart.
Bang!
At the same time, he was struck in the chest and abdomen by a tail, sent flying straight back and crashing hard into the rock wall, creating a large dent.
“Just a little more!”
Chen Hualong roared: “Attack that fissure!”
The remaining Martial Artists, hearing this, continued using lightness skill to collectively assault the heart fissure.
“Buzz!!”
This time, the Snake Demon no longer coiled around its heart but hovered above it, roaring with mouth open, not only shooting fragments but also unleashing massive dust clouds.
The Martial Artists near the heart who struck it were enveloped by this dust, their movements becoming more labored; the Dragon Gate Realm ones were even covered in a layer of ore skin, and despite resisting with Qi and Blood, it couldn’t be changed.
But the dust’s appearance also made that Snake Demon crack inch by inch, clearly unable to hold on.
“Got it!”
Chen Hualong forcibly regulated his breathing and flew out from the dent, charging straight at the heart position like a meteor.
His eyes were full of joy; one sword thrust down, about to pierce the heart.
His effort wasn’t just due to Li Ye’s threat; he also undoubtedly wanted to kill the Snake Demon to see if he could obtain a token again.
The previous Snake Demon had allowed him to recover, but this time attacking the heart seemed different.
If he could truly kill it and get the token, that would be a gain!
Whoosh!
But as Chen Hualong reached above the heart, an inexplicable fiendish wind appeared nearby, blowing him into great alarm as if suffering new pollution, his movements stiffening.
A residual shadow rapidly solidified beside him, black qi coiling around the palm, which slapped fiercely toward the heart position.
It was Li Ye!
Staring at the Snake Demon wasn’t just Chen Hualong; he was watching too.
He observed more carefully than Chen Hualong and knew this demonic creature was likely reaching its critical point.
This demonic creature was very special; it might even be a god.
Time to harvest it!
The black qi palm descended with howling wind, slapping down with one strike.
“Dragon Tiger Thunder Sound Great Fiendish Hand Seal!”
As the palm struck, wind howled and cranes cried, like muffled thunder and crackling lightning; with a boom, it smashed the heart, pulverizing it into powder.
Amid this powder, the Snake Demon’s head reared up, its body disintegrating into fragments raining down.
Amid the scattering, a glowing object appeared among the fragments, falling downward.
“It’s mine!”
Chen Hualong reached out to grab it, catching it in hand.
Bang!!
But just as joy rose on his face, a black-qi-infused palm carrying thunder sound slapped his crown, instantly pulverizing his upper body into powder.
The glowing object also fell into that palm.
“Not a token, nor a god”
Li Ye waved his hand, blowing away a gust to scatter the fragments and powder.
The object in his hand was a small heart, but made of unknown metal.
He sensed no authority from it here.
No token dropped, but…
“A magic treasure?”
A smirk tugged at Li Ye’s lips as he pocketed the heart, then slapped a nearby Martial Artist into powder with one palm.
“Li Ye, what are you doing!”
At this point, the surviving Martial Artists finally reacted.
“Such a simple matter, of course it’s collective punishment.”
Li Ye laughed: “I threaten you with your whole families, and someday you’ll come for mine. Can’t have my parents touring every day, and even that wouldn’t work—if someone wants to find them, where couldn’t they?”
“Especially the Chen Family, they’ve lost quite a few; better to be direct than wait for you to recover and seek revenge…”
He said ferociously: “I’ll kill you all, and then there are no enemies left!”
From the moment he sent these people into the Demon Realm, he never intended for them to live.
To avoid repeating his master’s fate.
“Li Ye, you’re breaking your word!”
At this time, the badly wounded Luo Jin charged straight at Li Ye, slashing with one sword: “Even as a ghost, I won’t let you go!”
Li Ye didn’t even look, slapping out with a fiendish qi palm that first shattered the sword blade, then pierced straight through Luo Jin’s chest, pulverizing him into powder.
“I said if you lived, I wouldn’t trouble you, but I didn’t say I wouldn’t kill you.”
Li Ye sneered: “Become a ghost? Martial Artists have no right to that; you’re lucky if you reincarnate. If you become human again next life, remember to obey the law.”
Zhong Chang said all Martial Artists in Jinze City could be killed, and he had his reasons.
These years, Martial Artists in Jinze City had become too arrogant, acting excessively; like this Luo Jin, whose crimes weren’t as severe as Liu Huda’s, who was wiped out first, but still significant.
Though they knew boundaries and didn’t cause major influence, Li Ye couldn’t stand it.
Actually, sparing a few could instill fear and make them more cooperative with the Disinfection Bureau in the future.
But killing them off was no issue either.
Compared to that, Li Ye still preferred leaving no future threats.
Otherwise, if something unexpected happened, it’d be too late for regrets.
Since Director Pan had led him down this path and he was going all the way, better to be decisive.
Better others’ whole families die than his.
Li Ye wasn’t worried about Jinze City’s Martial Artist circle; niches like that would naturally be filled once vacated.
The newcomers would naturally understand the reasoning.
The reasoning built from the heads of all Jinze City’s Martial Artists should be even more eye-opening.
Sigh, better nap for a bit; update later. And still need to adjust schedule for stable updates.
