Chapter 50 - 48: From Now On, I Will Be the Sworn Enemy of Evil!

Chapter 50: Chapter 48: From Now On, I Will Be the Sworn Enemy of Evil!

"You people... you really deserve to die!

"The Post-Apocalypse has descended, and Demon Fiends are wreaking havoc across the world. You Daoists possess formidable martial strength, yet instead of helping the city’s soldiers and civilians clear out the Demon Beasts and protect the peace, you hide in these dark corners, murdering people at will and treating human lives like dirt!

"A full two hundred innocent residents have died by your hands! Your crimes are utterly heinous; death is too good for you!"

By now, Yang Sisi had awoken from her unconsciousness. Hearing Daoist Xuanqing’s confession, she immediately flew into a towering rage, overflowing with killing intent as she cursed them out in a most unladylike manner.

Compared to the foreign Demon Beast monsters, she hated these treacherous scums who slaughtered their own kind even more!

They were all humans, fellow compatriots of Great Xia, yet for their own selfish desires, they were actually cruel enough to deal such lethal blows!

A full two hundred human lives, dying for nothing by their hands!

Unforgivable! She could not forgive them! She dared not forgive them!

Yang Sisi’s heart was filled with righteous indignation. A soaring fury rushed straight to her head, leaving her practically fuming with steam.

She had never wanted to kill someone so desperately in her life!

If Liu Zimo had not been standing right next to her, she probably would have lost control long ago and taken action to finish off these two dregs of society herself!

"What the hell do you know, little brat?!"

Seeing that his deeds had been exposed, Jingyong Taoist no longer pretended to be a good person. Hearing Yang Sisi’s accusations and curses, he curled his lips in extreme disdain and said,

"The Post-Apocalypse has arrived, and human lives are as cheap as grass!

"Those mediocre masses in the city are nothing but a waste of food even if they live. Rather than letting them act as daily manure-producing machines, wasting our limited resources, it’s better to recycle this trash and sacrifice them to aid my cultivation!

"As long as my cultivation becomes powerful enough, I will naturally have the chance to slaughter every single Demon Fiend on Earth and restore a brand-new, peaceful world!

"Sacrificing one person to save ten thousand, sacrificing the lives of a small fraction to save the entire world—surely you’re not too stupid to understand such a simple math problem?

"This humble Daoist isn’t harming people; I am saving the world! I am saving more people for the future!"

Jing Yong delivered this impassioned speech so fervently that he almost believed it himself. He was as excited as if he had been injected with stimulants, his face flushed red.

"Y-y-you... shameless!!" Yang Sisi was so angry that she could barely speak.

Her worldview and values, cultivated through sixteen full years of orthodox education—nine years of compulsory schooling, three years of high school, and four years of university—made her instinctively abhor and reject the twisted logic espoused by Jingyong Taoist.

In her bones, like the vast majority of her compatriots, she was a kind-hearted person with a strong sense of justice. This quality might not be particularly eye-catching in ordinary, everyday life, and was rarely displayed, but when faced with issues of monumental right and wrong, it became incredibly radiant and infinitely precious.

Once upon a time, Liu Zimo had been a similarly angry youth who detested all hypocrisy and evil. However, after living in the chaotic Post-Apocalypse for thirty years, these impulses and sharp edges on him had long since been smoothed out. Therefore, upon hearing Jingyong Taoist’s defense of his own shamelessness just now, although Liu Zimo was disgusted, he wasn’t nearly as enraged as one might expect.

Because Jingyong Taoist’s words made Liu Zimo subconsciously think of a world-renowned special forces unit under the jurisdiction of the Apocalypse Federation Government—the Demon Blood Legion!

It was a special legion with only one person in its entire ranks. The legion commander, who was also the army’s only Martial Arts Grandmaster, practiced a Cultivation Technique known as the Demon Blood Technique.

It was said that in the past, in order to fend off the invasion of a King Level Demon Beast and protect the millions of residents in the city behind them, tens of thousands of soldiers in the Demon Blood Legion simultaneously chose to willingly sacrifice their own lives. Using their endless Qi and Blood Power, they helped the legion commander break through via the Demon Technique, successfully stepping into the Grandmaster Realm. Only then was the King Level Demon Beast’s invasion repelled, saving the millions of residents within the city.

That was a classic example of sacrificing the few for the greater good.

Actions like those of Jingyong Taoist, who continuously slaughtered civilians entirely for his own selfish desires, couldn’t even compare to the selfless deeds of the Demon Blood Legion! This was also why, despite both practicing a Demon Technique, the Demon Blood Legion was always respected by the people, whereas Ren Tu Jingyong was universally despised, condemned by everyone, and even expelled from Dragon Tiger Mountain.

"Advisor Liu, say something! These two scums killed so many innocent civilians. How should they be dealt with?" Unable to swallow her anger, Yang Sisi asked Liu Zimo sharply.

Liu Zimo said nothing. He simply raised his hand and tapped lightly. Two streams of sharp Powerful Qi shot out, instantly piercing right through the hearts of Jingyong Taoist and Daoist Xuanqing.

THUMP!

THUMP!

The two men collapsed to the ground one after the other, their auras completely extinguished.

Only after doing all this did Liu Zimo speak to Yang Sisi in a flat, expressionless voice.

"In chaotic times, heavy laws must be applied. Since even you call them scums, what’s there to be polite about?

"Go find a white cloth. Use their blood to write out every crime they’ve committed, and hang it up on the opposite building along with their corpses!

"Let all the local and foreign Martial Artists in Luozhou City know: anyone who dares to harm their own kind, disrupt order, or commit evil wantonly will be subject to martial law and punished without leniency!"

This was to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys—to make an example of them as a warning to all!

Liu Zimo couldn’t control what happened in other places, but in Luozhou, he would absolutely never allow similar villainous Martial Artists to appear again in the future!

The current Liu Zimo was not only the Martial Arts Consultant of the Military Staff Department, but also a formidable Martial Artist at the peak of the Golden Body realm. He had the confidence and the strength to say such words and do such things!

[Your Good Brother Jingyong Taoist harbored malicious intentions toward you, severing your bonds of brotherhood. Under your counterattack, he lost his life on the spot, his soul ascending to the heavens!]

[The ’Heaven-Stealing’ Talent Attribute has been passively triggered. You have inherited half of the legacy gifted by your Good Brother Jingyong Taoist upon his death. Basic Illusion Array +100, Martial Arts Cultivation +20, Spiritual Power +30, Divine Soul strength +15.]

[Your Good Brother Jingyong Taoist has gone offline. Current bindable targets: (11/30)]

[Your Good Brother Daoist Xuanqing harbored malicious intentions toward you, severing your bonds of brotherhood...]

[The ’Heaven-Stealing’ Talent Attribute has been passively triggered... Basic Illusion Array +30, Martial Arts Cultivation +5, Spiritual Power +10, Divine Soul strength +3.]

[Your Good Brother Daoist Xuanqing has gone offline. Current bindable targets: (10/30)]

The moment Jingyong Taoist and Daoist Xuanqing died completely, the familiar Superpower prompts rang by Liu Zimo’s ears once more.

Immediately after, a full twenty-five years of Martial Arts Cultivation suddenly surged into his Dantian and Qihai. At the same time, massive amounts of Illusion Array knowledge and deployment experience erupted and churned within his Sea of Consciousness.

His Spiritual Power and Divine Soul strength also doubled in an instant!

BOOM!

BOOM!

Liu Zimo’s Qi Sea Dantian, along with his Spiritual Platform and Sea of Consciousness, violently trembled at the same time. Astoundingly, both his Martial Arts Cultivation and Divine Soul Cultivation began to break through to the next level!

He thought to himself, "Awesome!"

Liu Zimo’s heart surged with excitement, filled with immense joy and surprise.

It wasn’t in vain that he had spent two binding slots to bind Jing Yong and Xuanqing in advance. Now, the time for the payoff had finally arrived!

Borrowing the words Jingyong Taoist had spoken earlier: since they were going to die anyway, it was better to recycle this trash and help his own cultivation reach the next level. It could be considered their final, minor contribution to the future of the human race!

He thought to himself, "However, unlike Jing Yong and the others, I am not treating human lives like dirt. I am acting on behalf of heaven and executing wartime martial law!

"From now on, I, Liu Zimo, will be absolutely irreconcilable with evil!

"I will absolutely never allow any villain to act recklessly and remain unpunished before my eyes!"

Liu Zimo earnestly justified himself in his heart, even setting a flag for himself.

Using the "Heaven-Stealing" Superpower to actively harvest these "leeks" for the first time, he felt zero guilt. On the contrary, he felt an eager craving for more, raring to go as if he had discovered another smooth Tongtian path!