One Punch Collapses Mountains, Blood Debt is Paid with Blood

That punch was slow. And light.

So slow that the grinning sneer on Li Mo's face hadn't even faded, and so light it was as if he'd merely waved his hand casually.

There was no sound of wind or thunder, no whistling energy.

Even the signature faint golden light on Lu Shaoyou's fist was contained to the extreme, almost imperceptible.

"That's it?"

Li Mo was stunned at first, then let out an even more disdainful burst of laughter.

"Lu Shaoyou, are you scared silly? You don't even want your weapon anymore, trying to tickle me with that flimsy fist?"

Within the forbidden zone, Xue Yugang frowned. "What is he trying to do? Give up resisting?"

Only Xue Yutang, in the blood pool, had a flicker of inexplicable unease flash in his crazed eyes.

However, the next moment.

The laughter stopped abruptly.

Time seemed to be paused at that instant.

There was no earth-shattering explosion, no world-destroying light and shadow.

Everything happened silently.

The colossal bloody demonic shadow that coiled above Blood Saber Peak, connected to the vital energy of the entire mountain range by the blood and souls of thirty-six Xiantian experts, had its arrogant roar frozen on its face.

Immediately after, fine cracks began to spread, not on its surface, but from its interior, from its core, without any warning.

Crack… crackle…

The crisp sound of shattering was exceptionally piercing in the dead silent air.

The Blood Shadow Array, which was indestructible and had withstood Lu Shaoyou's punch with ten Dragon-Elephant Powers, was like a piece of porcelain shattered from the inside. In an instant, it collapsed, disintegrated, and turned into a sky full of bloody light spots, dissipating in the wind.

But this was only the beginning.

The true terror descended upon Blood Saber Peak.

Starting from the sect's main gate, a terrifying, invisible shockwave spread frantically along the earth veins into the depths of the mountain.

Wherever it passed, hard rocks, ancient trees centuries old, imposing buildings… everything tangible was completely disintegrated, decomposed, and annihilated from its most basic structural level by an intangible and bizarre force!

Boom—Rumble—!

The delayed roar finally shook the heavens and earth.

Under the horrified, ghost-seeing gazes of Li Mo, Xue Yutang, and Xue Yugang.

The main gate of the Blood Saber Sect, which had stood majestically in Qingzhou for hundreds of years – Blood Saber Peak.

The majestic mountain gate, the steep cliffs, the continuous palaces… more than half of the mountaintop, right before their eyes, like a castle built of sand, silently collapsed, disintegrated, and turned into scattered dust!

Smoke and dust soared into the sky, obscuring the sun and covering the clouds!

The thirty-five Blood Shadow Guards, who served as the array's nodes, didn't even have time to scream before they, along with the collapsing mountain body, were turned into dust.

[Slaughter Value +5000!]

[Slaughter Value +5000!]

A series of system prompts flashed wildly in Lu Shaoyou's mind.

As the smoke and dust gradually dispersed.

The area in front of the original Blood Saber Peak's main gate had now become a massive, smooth fault.

Lu Shaoyou retracted his fist and stood quietly at the edge of the fault, his clothes fluttering, like a divine demon.

And opposite him, at the end of the collapsed area, a figure knelt alone, trembling like a sieve.

It was Li Mo.

When Lu Shaoyou unleashed the Dragon-Elephant Mountain Collapse Strike, he had precisely controlled the range of his power, deliberately leaving this life.

"No… impossible… this is impossible…"

Li Mo muttered distractedly, unable to comprehend, much less accept, what was happening before him.

One punch.

Just one punch.

The impregnable Blood Shadow Array.

Broken.

Even Blood Saber Peak had collapsed.

Everything he was proud of, his last hope for revenge, was as fragile as a joke in the face of this punch.

Fear, like an endless tide, drowned his reason and washed away the last dam in his heart, which had been supported by hatred.

He looked up at Lu Shaoyou, who was slowly walking towards him. The figure in his pupils magnified infinitely, as if he were the god of death emerging from hell.

The instinct for survival made him roar with all his might.

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me! I was wrong! I was truly wrong!"

He scrambled backward on all fours, tears and snot streaming down his face, utterly pathetic.

"Please, spare me! I don't want to die! I don't want to die!"

However, Lu Shaoyou's footsteps didn't falter in the slightest despite his pleas.

Just as Li Mo sank into complete despair, believing he was certainly going to die.

He suddenly discovered that the fear in his heart was actually slowly receding.

He looked at his own state, neither fully human nor ghost, at the collapsed half of the mountain peak.

Feeling the power draining from his body, a fatigue and weariness he had never known before surged into his heart.

He suddenly stopped crawling.

He halted, raised his head, and looked at Lu Shaoyou with an expression of relief, his voice hoarse as he said, "Kill me."

"Give me a quick end."

He no longer wanted to live in such a hideous state.

Death, at this moment, had instead become a luxurious release.

"A quick end?"

Lu Shaoyou's footsteps stopped in front of him.

He looked down at Li Mo, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face.

That smile held no warmth, only endless coldness and mockery.

"You want a quick end?"

In his mind, the honest and kind figure of his father, Lu Dahai, flashed by.

The screams of the villagers of Lu Family Village before their tragic deaths seemed to echo in his ears again.

The despairing, vacant eyes of the young girls who had been violated and left to die by the Black Wind Village bandits, their bodies hung from the rafters, appeared clearly before his eyes.

"Did they... want to live?"

"Did the more than three hundred people in my Lu Family Village want to live?"

"Did you give them a quick end?"

Lu Shaoyou's voice was terrifyingly calm, yet every word struck Li Mo's heart like a heavy hammer.

Li Mo's face instantly turned ashen white as paper.

"No... I..."

He wanted to argue, but couldn't utter a single word.

Lu Shaoyou slowly extended his right hand, his fingers long and slender. The pale golden Dragon Elephant true qi condensed at his fingertips into strands as thin as cicada wings, sharp and unparalleled blade edges.

"My father was hacked to death."

"The women in the village were subjected to humiliation before they died."

"So..."

The smile on Lu Shaoyou's face grew increasingly cold.

"You should also have a good experience."

As his voice fell, he waved his fingers.

Chichichichi—!

Countless subtle sounds of air being broken echoed.

Li Mo didn't even feel pain, only seeing patches and patches of fine blood spray erupt from his body.

His clothes were instantly cut into strips of cloth.

Next came his skin, his muscles, his fascia...

Under the slow torture of countless sharp blade edges formed by the Dragon Elephant true qi, his flesh was peeled off piece by piece, strand by strand, with precision.

Yet, it skillfully avoided all vital points, allowing him to maintain his clearest consciousness to feel this extreme pain.

"Ah—!"

A scream, so piercing it was beyond human, finally erupted from Li Mo's throat, echoing throughout the messy wilderness.

He wanted to pass out, but found his mind to be clearer than ever before.

He wanted to die, but didn't even have the strength to bite his tongue.

He could only watch helplessly as he was scraped alive, piece by piece, into a bloody skeleton.

After an unknown amount of time, the screams gradually weakened.

Only a pale, white skeleton remained, kneeling there alone.

Lu Shaoyou walked forward slowly, looking at the head filled with painful despair.

He extended his right hand, fingers forming a claw, and gently pressed it onto the crown of the skull.

"The revenge for Lu Family Village has been avenged."

Crack!

A crisp sound.

The skull shattered in response.

All sounds abruptly ceased.