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The world was one enormous ramshackle operation.

The so-called airtight defenses could only keep out honest people who followed the rules, or ordinary people who weren't professionals. In the eyes of someone truly determined, they were easy to punch straight through.

Just like Li ChunJun, who easily slipped past the two lines of defense at Hengguang Garden and the Jin Family Courtyard, then went straight into the main hall...

He even spared a glance at the main hall's entrance to see whether it had been repaired.

Only now was this vicious criminal, wanted by the political, business, martial arts, and underworld spheres, finally noticed by Mo Lei, a martial artist of the Harmony Realm.

So this was the so-called Heavenly Net!?

"Come kill me!"

Li ChunJun's strength erupted. In an instant, he crossed the distance between himself and Mo Lei, now less than ten meters.

His level-nine Life Enhancement had long since endowed him with strength that surpassed the limits of the human body.

Now, sword in hand, he lunged to kill. He was truly like a ferocious beast, bearing a monstrous Killing Intent as he came thundering in.

Although Mo Lei had sensed that the man striding toward him was acting strangely and had been on guard, he still found it hard to believe as Li ChunJun erupted with such ferocity, charging like a beast pouncing on its prey.

"Li ChunJun!?"

How dare he!?

With hundreds of law-enforcement officers and hundreds of guests and guards present, how dare he sneak in!?

And how dare he launch a surprise attack on him!?

Did he really not care about his life at all!?

Or...

Did he simply hold the Garrison Department's forces—and him, a martial artist of the Harmony Realm—in utter contempt!?

"Outrageous!"

He roared furiously. His muscles and bones sang in unison as strength surged through him. His internal organs worked at their utmost, supplying abundant Qi and Blood and allowing him to display explosive power far beyond that of ordinary people.

Internal-External Unity!

Under this almost extreme burst of power, he actually managed to shift his body aside just before Li ChunJun's lightning-fast sword reached him.

At the same time, his extensive combat experience and exquisite martial arts skills let him spread his fingers wide as he moved, then viciously reach for Li ChunJun's arm.

Dragon Grasping Hand!

Backed by Mo Lei's battle-hardened experience, this grappling move struck even faster than its target could react.

Li ChunJun had only just begun to change his move, turning his sword for a swift horizontal slash, when Mo Lei's fingers clamped down like lightning on the joint between his upper and lower arm.

Strength surged—tendons and bones twisted!

But just as Mo Lei was about to use the hold to dislocate the arm that wielded Li ChunJun's sword, Li ChunJun's arm suddenly shuddered.

His muscles and bones vibrated!

His extraordinary body had been reinforced again and again, and Outer Refinement Great Accomplishment had strengthened his tendons and bones. The force bursting from his arm was even greater than Mo Lei's.

The surging force shook Mo Lei's fingers right off the joint he had seized.

"How could this be!?"

Mo Lei's expression changed dramatically.

What an incredible physique!

He could clearly feel the advantage of Li ChunJun's physique pressing down on him!

Facing Li ChunJun was like facing a humanoid beast!

That kind of physique...

Was he born with divine strength!?

Or had he taken some kind of Immortal Pill that strengthened the body!?

But the situation before him left no time to think.

He had failed to seize Li ChunJun's arm and twist its tendons and bones. The horizontal slash was already right before him.

At this critical moment, Mo Lei had no time to think. He abruptly bent backward, executing an iron bridge. The sword's edge tore past his nose by a hair's breadth.

He could even feel the gust of wind raised by the sword brushing across his face.

But Li ChunJun was no longer the man he had once been.

After cultivating the Nine Heavens Thunderclap Sword Art, he had learned the art of feints and shifting forms, and the principle of never exhausting all his strength.

When he struck with a sword, he put forth seven parts of his strength and held three in reserve.

Just like that slash...

In the past, Mo Lei would naturally have dodged it.

But now, the three parts of strength he had held back made the sword edge abruptly turn just as it was about to sweep past, then...

Came crashing down!

"Not good!"

Mo Lei's eyes widened.

He jerked his head aside and twisted his body, trying to evade the sword.

But even so, the keen blade still hacked off his right ear, then plunged into him along his collarbone and shoulder blade, its momentum undiminished!

The blow lacked enough force to cut very deep, but Li ChunJun's sword moved with the speed of thunder!

When the descending blade was stopped by his ribs, it shifted from a chop to a slash, and then...

Slashed diagonally upward!

The sword had entered near Mo Lei's neck, at the edge of his shoulder blade. If it slashed diagonally upward now...

Its keen edge would cut straight through his neck, windpipe, and carotid artery!

A fear unlike any he had ever known flooded his heart!

Mo Lei had never imagined that he, a man who had risen to such a high position, would one day find himself on the brink of death!

Under this overwhelmingly intense threat of death, his adrenaline surged!

His explosive power and reflexes climbed to their limits!

The instant the sword swept past his throat, he forced himself to lean back once more. In the end, the deadly blade only left a faint bloody line on his neck before cutting through empty air!

With adrenaline coursing through him, he abruptly kicked off with both feet, like a frog pushing through water, and swiftly escaped from beneath Li ChunJun's sword.

Only then did the people around them finally react.

"Director!"

"Fourth Uncle!"

"Lord Mo!"

One cry of alarm after another rang out.

Mo Lei, who had retreated in a flash, shouted in terror without the slightest hesitation: "Stop him! Stop him! Kill him!"

At that moment, he was still shaken to the core by his narrow escape from death!

He was filled with the horror and terror of clawing his way back from the jaws of death!

He wants to kill me!

He really dares to kill me!

He was one of the top ten figures in all of Guangzhou City, a powerful man who commanded a violent organization of several thousand people...

And Li ChunJun really dared to kill him!?

Feeling the vivid red line on his neck, remembering how that icy sword had slashed at him without the slightest hesitation...

At that moment, Mo Lei finally understood fear.

He had sobered up. He had come to his senses!

Why wouldn't Li ChunJun dare to kill!?

A monster with nowhere left to turn, gone completely mad, and cast aside every moral principle—what kind of person would he not dare to kill!?

Whoosh!

A flash of swordlight tore through the air!

Li ChunJun burst forward once more!

His speed and agility as he pounced were...

Perfectly captured by the words, "swift and nimble as a swimming dragon"!

Though the people around him had finally reacted and were already shouting as they rushed to attack him, these people...

Were far too weak.

Not even at the Harmony Realm—how could they stop Li ChunJun's innate strength!?

And their attacks were far too slow.

So slow that they couldn't possibly save Mo Lei before Li ChunJun killed him!

The only person who could save him was himself!

At least...

That was true for the next three seconds!

He had to survive those three seconds!

"Li ChunJun!"

Mo Lei roared, "If you've got the guts, fight me openly and fairly—"

Vmmmm!

Li ChunJun's sword shot out without the slightest hesitation!

In fact, the moment his full-speed thrust shot forward, it was already faster than the sonic boom.

A visible ring of white air burst from the tip of the sword.

That speed...

Was beyond the limits of everyone's reaction except Mo Lei's.

As for Mo Lei...

He could see it!

But he was still retreating, and couldn't block it!

Even at his peak, without a divine weapon at his side, he wouldn't have been able to stop a sword like this!

A hopeless deathtrap!

The moment Li ChunJun fixed his gaze on him, Mo Lei was already doomed to die today!

Realizing this, Mo Lei threw his head back and let out a long cry, filled with unwillingness, regret, and fury.

"Ah!"

He no longer bothered to look at the sword that had broken the sound barrier. Gathering every last bit of strength in his body and channeling it into his arm, he hurled a thunderous blow at Li ChunJun's head.

Bang!

The next instant, the head of Director Mo seemed to have been struck by a giant siege crossbow. A bloody hole, larger than the sword itself, burst open, nearly blowing his head apart!

And the all-out strike he had unleashed with every ounce of his strength was effortlessly blocked as Li ChunJun swept his left hand across...

Firmly and steadily.

Like an immovable mountain, it turned away every ounce of the punch's supposedly thunderous force, refusing to let it shake even a fraction.

This was the final sight of the martial artist of the Harmony Realm.