Spare My Life, Hero

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The two exchanged another three slashes. With a crack, both steel sabers broke at once. The web of Yellow Wolf's sword hand split open, spraying blood.

Zhang Yu's hand trembled slightly as well.

His strength was a little greater than Yellow Wolf's, but not by much.

"Die!" A savage gleam flashed in Yellow Wolf's eyes. Drawing on his many years of experience hacking people down, the instant the steel saber snapped, he launched a low kick at Zhang Yu.

"Hmph!" Zhang Yu snorted coldly. He did not dodge, because it was already impossible to dodge. The strength of his entire body surged layer by layer into his left fist as he unleashed the limit-breaking killing move of the Stone-Shattering Fist—Mountain-Crushing.

Bang!

Fist and foot collided.

Crack-crack-crack!

A string of bones shattering rang out.

"Ahhh..."

"My leg!" Yellow Wolf let out a miserable scream.

Mountain-Crushing carried more than two thousand jin of force, while Yellow Wolf's kick had barely exceeded one thousand jin. His shinbone was smashed into several pieces in an instant.

Bone fragments pierced out through his knee.

"Hero, spare my life!" Once his scream subsided, Yellow Wolf immediately stared at Zhang Yu with terrified eyes and begged loudly.

"Spare your life? Did you fucking spare my parents' and sister's lives? Die!" Zhang Yu roared through gritted teeth.

He swung the broken saber in his hand at Yellow Wolf's neck, giving him no chance to catch his breath.

Pfft!

Yellow Wolf's head was chopped off.

Rumble, rumble!

His eyes remained wide open.

He died with his eyes unclosed!

"The gang leader is dead! Run!" The remaining twenty-odd gang members had already been scared out of their wits. Seeing Yellow Wolf's head chopped off, they became even more helpless, fleeing in all directions like rats with their heads in their hands.

"You all have to die!" Zhang Yu roared, picked up another steel saber, and charged toward the remaining gang members.

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft...

These Wild Wolf Gang members, scared out of their wits, no longer had their usual viciousness. Crying, they knelt on the ground and begged Zhang Yu to spare their lives. Zhang Yu said nothing, his face cold and indifferent, as he chopped off their heads one after another.

In the end, only three people escaped the courtyard. Zhang Yu slaughtered everyone else.

At that moment, the entire Wild Wolf Gang headquarters looked like an asura's battlefield. Heads, blood, intestines, and headless corpses carpeted the courtyard.

"Ahhh..."

"Waaah..."

"Mother, I'm scared!"

"I'm scared too!"

Seven women emerged from the back courtyard with more than a dozen children. The sight in the front courtyard frightened them so badly that they burst into tears and screams.

Zhang Yu turned his head toward them, a beastlike glint flashing in his eyes.

"Yellow Wolf, didn't you fucking want to wipe out my whole family? I'll answer tooth for tooth and send your wives and children down there to reunite with you."

Pfft, pfft, pfft...

"Ahhh..."

Five minutes later, Zhang Yu had slaughtered those women and children as well.

[Ding, killed Yellow Wolf, a Bright Strength martial artist. Obtained 20 years of cultivation time.]

[Ding, killed an evildoer. Obtained 8 years of cultivation time.]

[Ding, killed an evildoer. Obtained 6 years of cultivation time.]

The System's voice began ringing in his mind.

Including Yellow Wolf's wives and children, Zhang Yu had killed a total of fifty-three people and gained 306 years of cultivation time.

[Cultivation time: 306 years.]

"Hahaha..."

After killing so many people, Zhang Yu felt his state of mind slipping out of control, and he burst into laughter.

"Hahaha..."

"Three hundred and six years. As long as I keep killing, it won't be long before I become the ruler of this world."

Just as Zhang Yu's eyes reddened and a trace of beastliness entered his gaze, the System's voice suddenly rang out in his mind.

[Ding, System BUG, System BUG. Repairs will now begin. The System will be replaced.]

"What does that mean?" Zhang Yu froze.

[The host's killing intent is too heavy. To maintain the balance of the ancient martial world, the host's System will now be replaced.]

"No, System, are you screwing with me? I won't change it, I won't! I want this Villain-Slaying System!" Zhang Yu shouted.

[Replacement will begin. The replacement will be complete in one shichen. The countdown now begins.]

"Fuck, System, you're serious?"

"I won't change it!"

"Big brother!"

"Grandpa!"

Zhang Yu was dumbfounded. A moment ago, he had been dreaming of ruling this ancient martial world in three months. The next moment, the System had strangled that dream in its cradle.

No matter how he pleaded, the System ignored him completely.

A few minutes later, Zhang Yu stopped begging. He knew he could not stop the System from being replaced, so he hurried toward the Wild Wolf Gang's back courtyard.

The Wild Wolf Gang was the Zhou Family's dog in the inner city, and the Zhou Family had Dark Strength martial artists. He had to flee far away at once; he could no longer remain in Jiang County.

Zhang Yu began searching the corpses and combing through the Wild Wolf Gang's back courtyard for gold, silver, treasures, and martial arts manuals.

He found quite a bit of gold, silver, and treasure, but not a single martial arts manual.

"Fuck, seriously? Not even one? Based on my ten years of reading web novels, I should at least find one," Zhang Yu muttered.

He returned to Yellow Wolf's bedroom and began tapping around, checking for a hidden room. Suddenly, he heard a sound beneath the bed.

"Who is it?" Zhang Yu narrowed his eyes, every muscle in his body tensing as he prepared to strike at any moment.

"Come out!"

A girl of thirteen or fourteen crawled out from beneath the bed, her face full of terror and streaked with tears.

"Are you one of Yellow Wolf's concubines too?" Zhang Yu asked coldly.

He was ready to strike. Even though he no longer had the Villain-Slaying System, he might as well see a good deed through to the end and send her down to Yellow Wolf.

A family ought to be neat and whole.

Thud!

The girl dropped to her knees, tears streaming down her face. "No, I'm not. Yellow Wolf only kidnapped me today, and then you came, benefactor... waaah... He killed my parents and my elder brother. He wanted me to become his eighteenth concubine, waaah..."

"You killed Yellow Wolf, so you are my benefactor. I'll repay you for the rest of my life, even if I have to work like an ox or a horse," the girl said through tears.

Zhang Yu blinked, then relaxed. "Go. You don't need to repay me. I didn't kill Yellow Wolf for your sake."

After saying that, he continued searching.

"Benefactor, are you looking for a hidden room? I know where it is," the girl said.

A few minutes later, Zhang Yu entered Yellow Wolf's hidden room. Inside, he found one hundred taels of gold and a martial arts manual—a third-rate technique, Iron Shirt.

He tucked the manual into his clothes, bundled up the gold, banknotes, and jewelry, slung it over his shoulder, then set the Wild Wolf Gang ablaze before leaving without looking back.

Zhang Yu ran twenty li in one breath. When he turned around, he found that the girl was still following behind him.

"Stop following me. I don't need you to repay me." Zhang Yu frowned slightly.

The girl pursed her lips and looked at Zhang Yu with tear-filled eyes, saying nothing.

"Go! Stop following me."

When Zhang Yu drove her away again, tears began streaming down the girl's face. She wept silently.

"What a nuisance," Zhang Yu muttered, no longer bothering with her.

He had something more important to deal with. The System's voice had just sounded in his mind, informing him that only half a ke remained before the System was replaced.

"This..."

Zhang Yu stopped running and sat down in a small grove. He took out the third-rate Iron Shirt technique from his clothes and looked through it, only to realize that there was no way he could learn it immediately.

"What should I do?"

If the System was replaced and his 306 years of cultivation time vanished, there would be nowhere for him to cry.

"No, it looks like I can only keep cultivating the Stone-Shattering Fist." Zhang Yu sighed.