Chapter 667 - 433: Do Your Best to Kill Me (Part 3)

His frame was as burly as a black bear’s. With every footfall, he sent a dense web of cracks through the concrete as he charged ferociously toward Hu Qi.

His rusted bracer carved a dark red arc through the downpour, carrying crushing force as it shot straight for Hu Qi’s skull.

Faced with this vicious strike, Hu Qi neither dodged nor evaded. He simply threw a punch.

His movement seemed simple, yet though he struck second, his fist landed first, moving faster than the eye could follow.

The instant the two fists collided, the air seemed to tear apart with a sharp CRACK.

First, Lei Ao’s knuckles shattered under the immense impact. Then, the radius of his forearm snapped in a spiral fracture.

Ghastly white shards of bone, like spikes bursting from the earth, tore straight through his elbow joint. A spray of shredded flesh and bloody froth splattered across Lei Ao’s face like a firework display.

"Urgh...!"

The grunt had barely escaped Lei Ao’s throat when Hu Qi’s left knee, breaking the sound barrier, slammed violently into his face.

The force of the blow was like a direct hit from a cannonball.

The crunch of his nasal cartilage shattering was like a tomato being stomped flat. With that sharp sound, the pressure inside his skull instantly skyrocketed.

With a POP, his eyeballs shot out, splashing onto the rain-drenched ground.

As if his very skeleton had been ripped out, Lei Ao’s body collapsed straight to its knees.

As his knees smashed into the ground, they sent up a fan-shaped wave of gore. Rainwater and blood mingled, spreading in all directions.

The immense impact snapped his cervical spine at a grotesque right angle, and his skull caved deep into his chest cavity, like a nail pounded into a wooden stake with a sledgehammer.

He couldn’t even let out a scream before his Vitality was extinguished in an instant.

At this sight.

The bamboo-hatted monk standing nearby was horrified.

Without a moment’s hesitation, he turned and fled.

’As the three strongest among this group of Intern Readers.’

’They had sparred before coming to corner Hu Qi.’

’The strength of those two was in no way inferior to his own.’

’Yet now, they were killed on the spot in a single exchange.’

’This isn’t a battle... it’s a one-sided slaughter!’

Beneath his bamboo hat.

His pupils trembled violently with extreme fear.

He had only one thought now: escape. He had to get away from here.

’If he stayed, death was the only outcome.’

His muscle fibers strained to their limits, tiny Blood Beads seeping from his pores. His feet stamped cracked prints into the ground.

In an instant, his figure appeared dozens of meters away, as if he were using Shrinking Inches.

Suddenly, the hair on the bamboo-hatted monk’s entire body stood on end.

The next second.

The bamboo hat on his head exploded.

Revealing an aged face.

A large, splayed hand was clamped firmly over his face.

The force was so immense he could clearly feel the bones of his face groaning under the strain.

"Master, what’s the rush? Could it be you’re eager to reach Paradise? Since that’s the case, I’ll send you on your way!"

The voice, calm to an unsettling degree, rang out in the street.

The old monk shuddered. Peeking in terror through the gaps between the fingers, he saw Hu Qi—who had just been dozens of feet away—now standing before him like a phantom.

"Don’t... I beg you, spar—"

SQUELCH!

The words of begging came to an abrupt halt as a bald head, its face frozen in terror, flew into the air.

The headless corpse crashed to the ground, a fountain of blood from its neck cavity tracing a crimson arc through the air.

Hu Qi stood with his hands clasped behind his back. An invisible barrier seemed to extend three feet around him, for not a single drop of blood had touched his body.

BANG! BANG! BANG! ...

The snipers hidden in the shadows finally snapped out of their daze, and bullets came screaming through the air.

But sparks flew as the bullets ricocheted away, as if they had struck a wall of solid steel.

"It seems you can’t kill me! In that case, you can all die!"

Hu Qi spoke.

His gaze swept over the surroundings.

Instantly, a thick aura of death descended like a storm cloud, enveloping everyone present.

"He’s not human, he’s a monster!"

"We can’t beat him! Run!"

"Damn it! How is it possible to complete a mission like this?"

At this, the remaining Intern Readers were terrified beyond belief.

’Their three greatest experts had been slaughtered like chicks, and even a sniper rifle couldn’t break his skin. How were they supposed to kill him?’

He watched the crowd as they fled frantically into the distance.

Hu Qi didn’t give chase. Instead, he raised the Black Banner and gently tapped it on the ground.

A ring of invisible ripples spread out from the point where the banner pole touched the ground.

In that instant, everyone’s body froze in place as if struck by an Immobilization Spell. The Vitality in their eyes rapidly dissipated.

Due to their forward momentum, some even skidded for several meters face-down on the pavement.

Although these people had no visible wounds, their Vitality was gone.

It was as if their very souls had been torn out.

And in fact, that was exactly what had happened.

Twisted, translucent human figures and plumes of black smoke were sucked into the Damaged Black Banner, gradually fading into nothingness.

The surroundings fell deathly silent. In that single instant.

Not only the people before him, but every hidden Intern Reader and skulking Yin Beast within a thousand-meter radius had been completely devoured by the Black Banner.

After all this, Hu Qi paid no mind to the notification of incoming Modification Points or the cold system prompt that sounded in his mind.

He gazed into the distance.

He let out a soft chuckle.

"You’ve come all this way. Did you really think you could just leave?"

His words still hung in the air, but his figure had already vanished, leaving only a field of broken corpses behind.

...

"Damn it, how can such a terrifying person exist in this world?! No, that was definitely not a person!"

Amidst the towering skyscrapers of Shenmu City, a slender black shadow flitted from one rooftop to the next. It was Chiyu Sakura, who had been watching from the shadows the entire time.