National Guardian's Gone and We're Done

”Chu He really is ruthless and decisive.”

”I get it now. If you’re practicing Martial Arts but don’t have that relentless killing intent, if you’re just soft and weak like some kind of scholar, you can’t expect to make any real progress.”

”Chu He’s right. The whole of Blue Star is getting stranger and stranger these days. All this talk about ’Deities’ has me worried sick and terrified. I don’t believe for a second that Deities exist in this world. If they did, how could so many atrocities be happening so brazenly?”

”...”

The vast majority of the live stream viewers were cheering for Chu He,

if only because most of these fans and their families had been acting like complete idiots.

As for the quicker, more intelligent fans,

they had evacuated the villa in time, right at the start,

and were now embracing their families, weeping with joy as they savored the bliss of having survived.

”Mr. Chu, it’s time to make your move.”

Liu Yuzhu reminded him.

After all, the Si Haowen Evil Spirit had now left the villa. There were many innocent civilians nearby,

and numerous villages were scattered in the surrounding area.

If the Si Haowen Evil Spirit was allowed to continue its rampage, countless innocent lives would inevitably be endangered.

”Mm.”

Chu He’s movements were like the most ancient and distant ballad. With a gentle point of his finger, he instantly stirred the boundless energy in the surroundings.

This energy, originally formless and intangible, condensed under his control into a staircase barely visible to the naked eye.

It stacked layer upon layer, encircling Si Haowen and forming a cage woven from pure power.

The cage was silent yet lethal. Every step contained a majestic power, enough to move mountains and rivers.

With a mere thought from Chu He, the energy staircase began to slowly compress inward,

as if the weight of the entire universe was converging on this single point,

bearing down on the centipede-like body of Si Haowen, a form twisted together from countless young girls.

This force wasn’t a simple physical attack; it was an erosion, a dissolution of existence itself.

It ignored the toughness of the flesh and acted directly upon the very essence of life.

In that moment, Si Haowen’s agonized screams sounded so faint and feeble.

His body rapidly lost its original form under the impact of this terrifying power.

Those once-vibrant faces of the young girls now became a testament to decay and destruction.

Under the force, their skin peeled away in layers, sending flesh and blood flying.

Yet, the instant it touched the air, it turned to motes of ash, consumed by an invisible fire,

not even leaving a single trace behind.

The surrounding Martial Artists all felt the terror and vastness of this energy.

They felt as if they were adrift in a boundless ocean,

and they themselves were like lone boats about to be swallowed by a monstrous wave.

The slightest fluctuation of this power made their hearts pound with terror,

as if at any moment they could be dragged into an endless abyss, never to see the light of day again.

Ultimately, Si Haowen’s body completely collapsed amid this banquet of power,

leaving only the face of the heavyweight girl, Butterfly, plastered to the ground where its stomach had been.

Her face was twisted and malicious, her eyes filled with hatred and resentment towards Chu He.

Chu He knew full well that this was not Butterfly’s own will,

but rather a manifestation of Si Haowen’s own resentment before its demise.

Her gaze was merely a projection of the darkness and distortion deep within Si Haowen’s heart, a final curse upon this world.

Chu He took a step, instantly appearing beside what was left of Si Haowen on the ground.

True Sun Fire swiftly enveloped the area where Si Haowen’s stomach had been,

peeling away Butterfly’s face and burning it to ash.

Now, Si Haowen had reverted to its original state.

Si Haowen, that female agent, and other spies lurking in the Great Xia Empire,

their ultimate goal was to cultivate this special Evil Spirit into a behemoth-like monster,

and then unleash it at a critical moment to deal a devastating blow to the Great Xia Empire.

Yet they never imagined that just as they were on the verge of success, Chu He would intercept them.

”Mr. Chu, aren’t you going to kill this Evil Spirit?”

Liu Yuzhu walked forward and asked, looking at Chu He, who had ceased his attack.

Just now, under everyone’s gaze, Chu He had merely casually extended a finger,

yet that one seemingly simple gesture had instantly defeated the Si Haowen Evil Spirit.

Many of the surrounding Martial Artists, Defense Team members, and the families of those fans,

all wore expressions of utter horror.

They knew Chu He was powerful, but the might he had just displayed, his sheer overwhelming presence,

reached a level that they found utterly inconceivable.

”Keeping it alive has its uses. This is an Evil Spirit that can, in theory, grow infinitely.”

With one hand, Chu He condensed a Thunder Rune, which he pressed directly onto the brow of the Si Haowen Evil Spirit.

This Thunder Rune could suppress the Mysterious Power within Si Haowen’s body,

rendering it completely immobile. It was, for all intents and purposes, sealed.

”What about everyone else? And is this place truly safe now?”

Liu Yuzhu looked at the villa, then at the surrounding fans and the endlessly crying parents.

”There’s no more danger. You can handle the cleanup.”

Chu He shook his head, grabbed Si Haowen, and instantly vanished from the spot.

Liu Yuzhu sighed as she looked at the parents, who had already broken down emotionally.

She sighed to herself, ’This is a huge mess, and dealing with it will be extremely tricky.’

...

「Great Jing Empire.」

”Her Majesty the Queen, the Lighthouse Empire has sent someone.”

The doors and windows of the grand hall were tightly shut. Zong Yajuan stood outside, her voice raised.

「Inside the grand hall.」

Ji Shengyue lay on the floor, her body drenched in sweat.

Her clothes were scattered everywhere—

on the table, on the bed, on the floor. Everything was a complete mess.

At this moment, Ji Shengyue didn’t even have the strength to lift a finger.

Her hair was also soaking wet, as if she had just been pulled from the water.

In these past few days, she had become the Great Celestial Dog’s complete plaything, forced to do its bidding.

All her glory as Her Majesty the Queen of the Great Jing Empire had been trampled to dust.

And the Great Celestial Dog seemed to revel in it.

Ji Shengyue even thought, ’The Great Celestial Dog? It’s not the dog... I am.’

”The Lighthouse Empire? What a killjoy.”

The Great Celestial Dog unhurriedly moved off of Ji Shengyue’s body, speaking with displeasure.

The Great Celestial Dog had injected a great deal of Mysterious Power into Ji Shengyue’s body.

This power nourished her physique,

allowing Ji Shengyue’s strength, in just a few short days, to reach a level comparable to a Fifth Grade Martial Artist.

When Ji Shengyue was young, she had been tested for her talent and aptitude; she simply wasn’t cut out for cultivating Martial Arts.

Ji Shengyue refused to accept this.

She secretly tried to cultivate many times on her own and even visited numerous famous masters,

but every attempt ended in failure, without exception.

According to those Martial Arts experts,

even if Ji Shengyue possessed willpower beyond that of an ordinary person,

and even if she devoted all her time and energy to cultivating Martial Arts,

the best she could ever hope for was to reach the Third or Fourth Grade, and that in itself would be considered an excellent outcome.

And so, Ji Shengyue ultimately had no choice but to give up on the path of Martial Arts.