265: The disgusting desire to survive

“Stop bluffing!”

Xu Xuli swung his claws, and the black flames, as if polluting the air, turned into blade energy, slashing towards Gongye Shiyi.

Gongye Shiyi raised his sword, accumulating power.

At the same time, he bent down and charged towards Gongye Shiyi.

The stone bricks under his feet continuously shattered under the immense force, but Gongye Shiyi’s movements did not slow down in the slightest.

The pointer on his chest rapidly flickered, quickly reaching the one-third mark.

A layer of fiery red blade energy covered the broad sword blade, completing the first stage of power accumulation.

Xu Xuli was startled, his face contorted in a ferocious expression.

“Die!”

He roared.

In an instant, all the black flame blade energy that Gongye Shiyi had dodged in the sky, under Xu Xuli’s control, suddenly changed direction.

They slashed towards Gongye Shiyi from all directions!

Gongye Shiyi gripped his greatsword tightly, but his aim was not Xu Xuli’s position.

Instead, it was the ground!

First stage of power accumulation, release!

The massive sword blade, as if carrying the momentum to tear apart giant rocks, heavily slashed towards the earth.

In an instant, the violent force tore the earth apart, raising a sky full of dust and shattered stones.

A powerful counter-shock force transmitted from the sword hilt to Gongye Shiyi’s arms, throwing Gongye Shiyi’s entire body into the air like a meteorite.

This single action caused the Machinist armor to unleash unprecedented speed!

“What?!”

Xu Xuli’s pupils constricted sharply as he watched Gongye Shiyi charging towards him, staring at his eyes glowing with a bright red light.

The fear in his heart was like an invisible large hand, gripping his heart, almost suffocating him.

“Slash!”

The greatsword tore through the air, heavily slashing towards Xu Xuli!

Xu Xuli quickly brought his arms together to block the attack, but the bone armor on his arms was still cut open by this terrifying force!

‘The strength, it’s too, too strong!’

Under overload mode, Xu Xuli was completely unable to resist the immense power, and his entire body was uncontrollably sent flying by the massive force.

He desperately tried to focus his vision, but the world spinning before his eyes made it impossible for him to see clearly.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

With a series of continuous loud bangs, his body repeatedly crashed through walls, then heavily slammed into the ground.

His body, propelled by that immense force, had actually smashed directly through a teaching building.

“Damn it, damn it!!”

“Bastard, die, die!!”

He controlled his numb body, struggling to climb out of the crater he had made in the ground.

He stared with terrified eyes at the hole in the teaching building in front of him, which he had smashed through.

At this moment, Gongye Shiyi was standing on the edge of the hole in the teaching building.

He held the greatsword with both hands, one foot planted on the broken wall, his eyes fixed on Xu Xuli.

The greatsword in his hands was continuously accumulating power.

His anger quickly receded, or rather, the anger in Xu Xuli’s heart was now drowned and extinguished by a surging, icy flow of terror.

‘I’m going to die, I’m going to die!’

He gasped desperately, the flames in his chest flickering, flowing throughout his body, desperately repairing the broken bone armor on his body.

“Still thinking of struggling in the face of death now?”

“You crave life so much, are so greedy for everything, and so terrified of death.”

“Yet you wantonly trample on others’ lives, wantonly destroy others’ lives, and wantonly spread fear to others.”

“Watching the darkness in your heart, watching you struggle in the face of death right now, it’s truly nauseating.”

“Because, only you are not qualified to struggle for survival here.”

At this moment, the third stage of power accumulation for the greatsword was complete. Gongye Shiyi looked down from above, his cold eyes fixed on Xu Xuli.

Xu Xuli’s eyes were wide, and blood continuously overflowed from his mouth and nose.

“I’m human, I don’t want to become a monster!”

“Everything I did before was because the monster power inside me was out of control!”

“Spare me, I truly regret it, I don’t want to be like this!”

Principal Xu Xuli, who had been high and mighty, wantonly playing with others’ lives, now, under the threat of death, completely disregarded his lowly appearance.

He was like a stray dog begging for scraps thrown into a trash can, utterly fawning.

“Xu Xuli, I have nothing more to say to you.”

Gongye Shiyi leaped up, swinging the greatsword of judgment, and brought it down fiercely towards Xu Xuli.

“Bastard, you bastard!”

“What right do you have to kill me, what right?!”

“No one has the right to judge me, no one has the right to sentence me, no one has the right to kill me!”

Xu Xuli roared, swinging his arms. All the bone armor on his body, as if coming alive in that instant, desperately squirmed towards his arms, forming a thick bone shield.

The dark flames in his chest also flowed onto the shield, enveloping the bone shield.

In just an instant, Xu Xuli abandoned some offensive opportunities and activated his strongest defensive form.

The descending greatsword collided with the shield.

Under the ear-splitting roar, the astonishing air current tore the surrounding shattered earth into fragments, blowing them in all directions.

The greatsword cut through the bone shield, and with a grating friction sound, it deeply embedded itself into the bone shield.

Until the greatsword stopped, it had already cut into the center of the bone shield, creating a long crack on the bone shield.

‘I blocked it!’

Xu Xuli, who was almost in despair, was overjoyed.

However, the next second, a shattering sound rang out.

Centered on the greatsword, cracks rapidly spread across the bone shield, and in an instant, they had already extended to half of Xu Xuli’s body.

Terror once again drowned the sliver of hope that had just risen in his heart.

Xu Xuli’s eyes widened in horror.

“No!!”

Bang!

Amidst the shattering, Xu Xuli’s entire body was like exploding porcelain. The bone shield, connected to the bone armor of his upper body, all burst into fragments.

His arms and half of his torso also disappeared along with the shattered bone armor.

Blood continuously spurted from his head, which was covered in cracks and gashes.

Gongye Shiyi slowly raised his greatsword, resting it on his shoulder, and walked to the position of Xu Xuli’s head.

He swung the greatsword, aiming at the center of his forehead.

Facing Xu Xuli, who had now lost his combat ability and bone armor defense, this greatsword might only need to be released, and its own weight would be enough to cut Xu Xuli’s head in half.

“Wh-why, why?”

“Why do you have to kill me? Give me a reason!”

Xu Xuli’s consciousness was fading, but the intense unwillingness in his heart kept him barely clinging to life.

After all, how could he, who was conceited, considered himself noble, and viewed others as weeds and lowlifes, accept his own death?

The more people like him were, the more they feared death.

Gongye Shiyi slowly lowered his greatsword, letting it pierce Xu Xuli’s skin and skull inch by inch.

“I don’t like the clothes you usually wear. They’re too pretentious.”

Xu Xuli’s eyes widened, as if he had heard something unbelievable, staring intently at Gongye Shiyi.

Until his head was completely pierced by the greatsword, exploding into a puff of black smoke, leaving only a monster crystal.

He took out a blank card and absorbed the monster crystal.

Gongye Shiyi put away his greatsword, feeling as if a great matter had been resolved, and let out a long-awaited sigh of relief.