41: Chapter 41 Soul-Suppressing Spear Intent

"That's good."

"I don't need to rely on talent."

"I can pay to win."

Su Yu took a deep breath.

With a thought.

He directly awakened the pay-to-win system deep within his mind.

Before coming to Kyoto, he had brought over 240,000 in dirty money he had obtained from the Zhao family assassins.

This was his only source of confidence to establish himself in Kyoto and dare to touch upon higher realms.

"System."

Su Yu issued a command in his mind.

His gaze was locked firmly onto the Soul-Suppressing Spear at the center of the lake.

"Target: Residual Spear Intent of the Soul-Suppressing Spear at the center of the lake."

"One thousand yuan!"

Ding.

A crisp notification sound echoed in his mind.

The balance in his bank account instantly evaporated silently by one thousand yuan.

[Recharge successful.]

[Cultivation exchanged: One thousand years.]

[Detected residual high-level martial will...]

[Currently deducing and comprehending the Soul-Suppressing Spear Intent for you...]

Boom!

A heaven-shaking, earth-shattering thunderclap instantly exploded within Su Yu's mind!

His consciousness felt as if it had been forcefully ripped from his body by an irresistible, terrifying force.

It was dragged directly into a boundless, blood-red space!

The sky was dark red.

The ground was scorched black.

The air was suffused with a suffocating, thick scent of blood and the stench of exotic beasts.

Time, in this space, lost its original meaning.

It was infinitely stretched.

One year.

Ten years.

One hundred years.

Five hundred years.

A full one thousand years of time flowed by!

Su Yu's consciousness was like an absolutely calm bystander.

He sat withered in this blood-red Shura field for one thousand years.

He saw a towering figure from behind.

Holding a dark red spear.

All alone, standing before a bottomless, gigantic rift of an abyss.

Ahead.

Were endless, high-level exotic beasts surging forward like a black tsunami.

Their roars shook the heavens.

That figure did not retreat.

There was no fear.

He simply, extremely simply, raised his hand.

Thrusting the spear!

Pierce!

Flick!

Hack!

Smash!

There were no flashy martial techniques, no superfluous movements.

Every swing carried a tragic, desperate determination to go forward and perish together.

Every thrust caused hundreds, thousands of high-level exotic beasts to vanish into ashes under the spear light.

Su Yu just watched.

Watched for one thousand years.

He felt the loneliness of that figure.

He felt the tragic heroism of being willing to burn everything for the sake of the lights of ten thousand homes behind him.

One thousand years of observation.

One thousand years of realization.

The moment Su Yu's consciousness was pulled back into reality by the system.

He opened his eyes abruptly.

"Hoo—!!"

Su Yu was gasping for air.

His chest heaving violently.

Just like someone who had just been rescued from drowning.

The clothes on his back were completely soaked with cold sweat, clinging tightly to his body.

In his deep eyes, a faint, dark red light was flickering at this moment.

In the void.

He seemed to have grasped something.

It was a terrifying rhythm that could only be understood, not described.

It was the prototype of the final spear thrust delivered by that figure when he was exhausted!

But.

Just a little bit off!

It was like being separated by a layer of extremely tough window paper.

Clearly having seen the blinding light outside.

Clearly having felt that world-destroying power.

Yet he couldn't pierce through it!

"Not enough."

Su Yu gritted his teeth tightly.

A flash of unprecedented ruthlessness crossed his eyes.

One thousand years of comprehension.

One thousand years of sitting in silence.

And yet he could only barely touch the threshold of this Spear Intent?!

Just how overbearing was this Soul-Suppressing Spear Intent!

What kind of amazingly talented, invincible existence was the third principal back then!

However.

Since he had already touched the threshold.

Since he had already seen that layer of window paper.

Then he would use money.

To forcefully smash it open!

"System!"

Su Yu did not hesitate, letting out a silent roar in his mind.

"Recharge another thousand!"

Ding.

The crisp notification sound rang out again.

The balance was deducted again.

[Recharge successful.]

[Cultivation exchanged: One thousand years.]

[Currently continuing to deduce the Soul-Suppressing Spear Intent for you...]

Boom—!!!

This time.

Quantitative change finally triggered a qualitative change!

Two thousand years of accumulated time, two thousand years of observing life and death.

Transformed into a violent force that swept away everything.

Exploding thunderously within Su Yu's mind!

That layer of tough window paper blocking him was instantly torn to shreds by this force!

He saw it clearly!

He finally saw it completely clearly!

He saw that figure, at the end of his life, ignite all his blood and qi to deliver that peerless spear thrust!

No technique.

No moves.

Only pure, extreme slaughter!

Only the determination to live towards death!

Suppress!

Soul-Suppressing!

Hum—

The moment Su Yu completely comprehended this trace of Spear Intent!

A sudden change occurred!

At the center of the lake.

On that bare black reef.

The half-broken spear that had been silent for a full sixty years, having withstood wind and rain without the slightest movement.

Suddenly.

Emitted an extremely crisp, extremely high-pitched spear ring!

Clang!!!

This sound was like a dragon roaring in the nine heavens!

Carrying an ecstasy and arrogance that had been suppressed for sixty years.

Instantly piercing through the wide surface of Weiming Lake, booming across the entire Capital Martial Arts University campus!

The next second.

A visible, thick, nauseatingly dark red, terrifying Spear Intent.

Shot up into the sky from that broken spear blade!

Piercing straight into the firmament!

Rumble!

The originally clear sky, at this moment, was forcefully torn apart by this dark red Spear Intent, creating a cloud rift a thousand meters long!

A gale suddenly rose!

Sand and stones flew!

The originally calm, mirror-like water of Weiming Lake, as if boiled, began to roll and roar violently!

Stirring up huge waves over ten meters high!

"Plop!"

"Plop!"

The entire Weiming Lake.

All the seniors.

All the freshmen.

Including that instructor who had just been chatting away, telling everyone to calm their minds.

All had their legs go weak under this sudden, terrifying pressure.

Everyone's faces turned pale, their minds blank.

As if an invisible, peerless spear was hanging over their heads, ready to fall at any moment and grind them into dust!

"Wha...what happened?!"

That instructor was lying flat on the grass.

His cheeks pressed tightly against the soil.

His eyes, filled with horror and disbelief, were locked onto the dark red pillar of light at the center of the lake that pierced heaven and earth.

His voice was trembling violently.

His teeth were chattering.

"Resonance..."

"The Soul-Suppressing Spear... actually resonated?!"

"Who is it?!"

The instructor was roaring frantically in his heart, his eyeballs almost popping out.

"Just which monster is it?!"

"Actually really comprehended the Soul-Suppressing Spear Intent!!!"

Not just at Weiming Lake.

This overbearing Spear Intent that shot into the sky instantly alarmed the entire Kyoto Martial Arts University!

Deep within the campus.

In several ancient, permanently sealed towers.

Several aged figures with terrifying auras, even surpassing the Martial Venerable realm, suddenly opened their eyes!

"Soul-Suppressing Spear ring?"

"Sixty years... finally someone has drawn out that old guy's will again?"

"Investigate! Investigate immediately! Which department is this genius from!"

The entire Capital Martial Arts University, at this moment, was completely boiling!

And at Weiming Lake.

At the very back of the crowd.

In that inconspicuous corner overgrown with weeping willows.

Su Yu.

Slowly stood up.

He was not overwhelmed by this terrifying pressure.

Because at this moment.

On his body.

Was radiating a trace of the same, origin-same, identical.

Extremely tragic dark red Spear Intent!

Su Yu stood in the gale.

His washed-out old short-sleeved shirt flapping loudly.

He slowly raised his right hand.

Pointing his fingers like a sword.

His eyes deep as an abyss, without a ripple.

Extremely casually.

Towards the void in front of him.

A light thrust.

Rrrrip.

A harsh tearing sound rang out in the air.

Just like a piece of heavy canvas being forcefully slashed by a sharp blade.

A visible dark red wave of energy burst forth from his fingertips.

Silently sweeping past.

Pfft.

Ten meters ahead, a half-man-high, hard iron-wood stone weighing several tons, used for landscaping.

Did not emit any explosion sound.

Directly.

Split into two!

The cut surface was smooth as a mirror.

Even the texture inside the stone was not damaged in the slightest!

Pure cutting!

Pure destruction!

Su Yu withdrew his finger.

Looking at the dark red light on his fingertips that hadn't completely dissipated.

Feeling the Spear Intent within him that was as obedient as an arm, overbearing and unparalleled.

A flash of extreme shock and satisfaction crossed his deep eyes.

Two thousand yuan.

Two thousand years of cultivation.

Exchanged for a trace of invincible slaughtering Spear Intent.

"This money."

Su Yu put his hands back into his pants pockets.

The corners of his mouth lifted slightly.

"Was worth spending."