Chapter 311: Remove All Roots

The freezing wind howling through the mountain pass did not carry the scent of snow anymore; it carried the absolute, unmistakable stench of impending doom. Tony Clark slowly walked out from the massive iron threshold of the secret mountain vault, his heavy leather boots making a clear, resonant clicking sound on the frosted stone.

His dark hunting cloak billowed violently behind his tall frame, but his posture was perfectly relaxed, settling back into his signature, lazy nonchalance. Beneath his robes, his newly reinforced 9th Class Elder Disciple magus foundation vibrated with a terrifying, dense solar energy [3.5× baseline multiplier] that turned the surrounding mountain air impossibly heavy, forcing the falling frost to vaporize into harmless mist before it could even touch his skin.

Beside him, the massive Crimson Shadow Griffin stepped forward with majestic, fluid grace, its thirty-foot blood-red wings folding tightly against its muscular flank as its purple galaxy eyes locked onto the narrow ravine road below. Julie Faith stood half a step behind Tony's left shoulder, her hands neatly clasped, her face completely expressionless and filled with the serene, brainwashed devotion of her absolute master-slave seal.

Tony casually reached behind his back, his fingers lightly brushing against the sleek, iron-like riser of the Void Dragon's Shadow Bow. "A true villain never leaves a half-written script on his board, Julie," Tony murmured smoothly, his deep baritone voice carrying a chilling, razor-sharp edge that made her inner soul feel structurally cold.

"To permanently kill a toxic weed, you must ruthlessly tear out every single one of its hidden roots from the deep soil, or it will eventually find a way to crawl back and choke your garden. The Faith Family has already been stripped of their assets, but the Vance clan's inner peak factions are still breathing inside this city. Tonight, we are going to execute a total, open war to erase their entire lineage from the face of this continent."

Before Julie could even offer a submissive verbal reply, a sudden, thunderous rumble violently vibrated through the entire mountain ridge. The thick wall of illusionary mist guarding the mouth of the ravine was violently torn to pieces by a massive wave of high-tier, gold-and-crimson spiritual pressure.

The space directly above the stone platform fractured, and a supreme, dark-armored enforcement squad consisting of six elite 10th-Class Grand Disciple executioners slowly materialized from the air, their hands tightly gripping heavy, enchanted halberds that hummed with absolute realm laws.

Standing at the absolute vanguard of the armada was a stern-faced, high-level Inner Peak Elder dressed in the grand, majestic robes of the Academy Enforcement Hall, his eyes gleaming with a cold, ruthless authority as he looked down at the ruined vault doors.

"Tony Clark! Your lawless, arrogant crimes inside this province have officially reached their absolute limit!" the Enforcement Elder roared, his voice reinforced by core spatial energy so that it boomed like a massive tolling bell through the valley, causing the rocks to shake.

"The Grand Master of the Inner Peaks has officially caught wind of your illegal subterranean raids against the noble clans, and your reckless explosion of solar laws inside this ravine has triggered our highest-grade tracking arrays! You are ordered to immediately drop your weapons, dismount from that forbidden spatial beast, and submit your soul to the enforcement hall for an absolute execution trial! If your lineage dares to resist our jurisdiction for even a single microsecond, the academy will permanently declare your name a global enemy of the entire empire!"

Tony didn't show even a single fraction of panic, anxiety, or internal distress under the crushing weight of their collective pressure. He let out a soft, lazy yawn and casually adjusted his hunting cloak, his dark eyes locking onto the Enforcement Elder's stern face with a sharp, predatory intensity that made the old master's heart instinctively skip a frantic beat.

A slow, ruthlessly brilliant grin curled the corners of his lips as he stepped forward, his tone dripping with an incredibly dangerous, casual arrogance.

"You academy dogs truly possess an extraordinary talent for showing up right on time to deliver your pathetic bodies straight into my meat grinder," Tony sneered coldly, his voice easily slicing through the roaring pressure of their halberd matrices. He casually raised his hand, and with a brief mental command, he accessed his fully synchronized system storage space, creating a massive vacuum that pulled a heavy stack of his mass-produced Homing Shadow Talismans directly into the open air around his body.

"You talk about Grand Masters, legal warrants, and execution trials as if your primitive realm laws actually hold a single ounce of authority over my grand chessboard. Let me make something perfectly clear to your short-sighted minds: I didn't just plunder a single treasury; I hoarded enough resources to turn your entire enforcement hall into a permanent, silent graveyard."

The Enforcement Elder's face turned an angry shade of purple at his public, villainous insults, his pride completely shattered by Tony's absolute defiance.

"Execute the Grand Realm Law Array! Break his limbs and capture the beast!" the elder shrieked in a fit of psychotic rage, violently waving his golden halberd forward.

With a deafening roar, the six elite executioners violently thrust their weapons into the air in perfect unison, unleashing a colossal, reality-shattering net of compressed silver lightning and spatial cutting matrices that roared directly toward Tony's chest, intending to paralyze his physical frame within a fraction of a millisecond.

Tony stood perfectly still in the path of the oncoming doom, his expression remaining completely unbothered. He didn't use his master's protection amulet, nor did he attempt to utilize a basic defensive barrier.

Instead, with a sudden, fluid sweep of his right arm, Tony violently infused the full, explosive depth of his newly acquired peak 9th Class solar foundation directly into the floating stack of five hundred advanced talismans, executing his 100% synchronized Homing Abyssal Strike methodology through the printed arrays.

"Go," Tony commanded ruthlessly, a wide, villainous smile plastered across his face.

BOOM!

An absolute, incomprehensible explosion of dark purple shadow force violently erupted across the narrow ravine as all five hundred Homing Shadow Talismans detonated at the exact same millisecond.

The massive wave of dark energy didn't scatter into a standard blast; the advanced homing laws instantly locked onto the core life forces of the six floating executioners and the Enforcement Elder, turning the purple cards into thousands of invisible, ghostly shadow arrows that shot straight into the air like a swarm of locusts.

The invisible arrows sliced through the incoming silver lightning net and spatial cutting matrices with zero atmospheric resistance, completely tearing the supreme academy spells into harmless gray sparks within a single fraction of a microsecond.

Before the Enforcement Elder could even register that his ultimate legal array had been completely vaporized, the thousands of invisible, tracking shadow arrows pierced cleanly through the defensive shields of all seven high-tier experts with a terrifying, overlapping POP.

The absolute, raw kinetic force of the plundered blood-ink arrays violently detonated inside their primary meridian junctions, completely shattering their cultivation foundations into absolute dust on the spot.

The elite execution squad let out a single, muffled gasp of agonizing horror as their internal energy pools completely disintegrated. Their physical bodies were thrown backward across the rocks like broken ragdolls, crashing heavily onto the hard, frosted stone floor of the ravine, completely unconscious, permanently crippled, and defeated in less than three seconds.

Tony casually rolled his shoulders, his signature lazy smirk fully returning to his face as he swung his legs back over the massive, fur-lined back of the Crimson Shadow Griffin, pulling Julie up behind his high-grade saddle.

He looked down at the mountain of his ruined, bleeding enemies with a look of supreme, unadulterated scorn, his dark eyes locking onto the eastern horizon where the central city district loomed in the distance.

"The minor roots inside this mountain are officially torn out, Julie," Tony muttered smoothly, his fingers tightly gripping the silver-rimmed reins as the griffin's purple galaxy eyes violently flashed, its massive wings creating a colossal vortex of pure spatial void energy that wrapped around their physical frames.

"Now, let us fly straight into the central district and launch our final, absolute execution war against the main gates of the Vance clan. Tonight, we will ensure that not a single seed of our enemies remains alive to see the next dawn."

With a sudden, powerful snap of the reins, the space inside the ravine violently distorted, and Tony and his legendary companion beast completely vanished into thin air, launching an absolute, unstoppable march to erase the remaining roots of his enemies forever.