45: Swift and decisive action to annihilate the enemy.

"Perish!"

Lin Jingyu’s icy words echoed like a final judgment in the dead silent Li Family front yard.

The moment the word "Perish" left his lips, a tangible wave of murderous intent erupted, sweeping through every corner!

"Let's fight him to the death!" Li Xuanming's eyes were bloodshot, exploding with his last bit of madness in despair! He knew there was no retreat, only a fight to the death!

**Boom! Boom! Boom!**

Several Bone Forging Realm Elders roared, desperately burning their Qi and blood, unleashing the strongest attacks of their lives!

Blade Protective Aura, Sword Qi, and fist shadows, imbued with a suicidal will, tore through the air and slammed towards Lin Jingyu from different directions!

Lin Jingyu's eyes were indifferent.

He didn't even dodge.

He simply raised his arms, fingers spread wide!

**Bang! Bang! Bang!**

The Blade Protective Aura and Sword Qi, powerful enough to shatter stone tablets, struck his dark-golden skin, producing a harsh clang of metal!

Sparks flew!

Lin Jingyu's arms remained motionless, not even a white mark was left!

An Elder's fist smashed into his back, but he himself was struck as if by a heavy hammer, the bones in his arm cracking under the unbearable force, as he screamed and flew backward!

"Monster! He's a monster!" The Li Family Martial Artists who witnessed this scene completely collapsed.

Lin Jingyu moved!

Like a tiger entering a flock of sheep!

There were no fancy Moves, only the most primal and brutal crushing!

**Crack!**

A Peak Pulse Connecting Realm Martial Artist who rushed forward had his head casually grabbed by Lin Jingyu, crushed like a watermelon! Red and white instantly burst forth!

**Splat!**

Another Bone Forging Realm Elder's Protective Aura was torn apart like paper by Lin Jingyu's fingers, which were like a blade! Half of his body was neatly sliced open, and his internal organs spilled onto the ground!

**Boom!**

A Martial Artist wielding a giant hammer, along with his hammer, was kicked in the chest by Lin Jingyu!

His chest bones instantly collapsed into a terrifying concave pit, and he flew dozens of feet backward like a broken sack, crashing through a courtyard wall, and then fell silent!

Slaughter!

A one-sided slaughter!

Lin Jingyu's figure was like a dark-golden storm of Death, wherever he passed, flesh and blood flew, and severed limbs scattered!

The elite Martial Artists meticulously cultivated by the Li Family were as fragile as straw before him!

Screams, bone-cracking sounds, and flesh-bursting sounds intertwined into a symphony of Hell!

"No—!" Li Xuanming watched as the Family's elites were slaughtered, his eyes splitting with rage, looking like a madman!

He bit his tongue sharply, spitting a mouthful of essence blood onto an ancient turtle shell Talisman in his hand!

"Please, Old Ancestor, manifest your Divine Might! Slay this fiend!" he shrieked, slamming the turtle shell onto the ground!

**Hum!**

The turtle shell Talisman instantly ignited, transforming into a dense bloody light that shot towards the ancestral hall in the backyard!

**Rumble!**

A powerful, profound, and far superior aura to Li Xuanming's suddenly erupted from deep within the ancestral hall!

The very earth trembled!

A gigantic earthy-yellow phantom condensed above the ancestral hall, vaguely resembling an ancient Black Tortoise carrying a stone tablet on its back!

Below the phantom, the roof of the ancestral hall exploded, and a withered, skinny old figure, exuding the pressure of the third layer of the Marrow Cleansing Realm, shot into the sky! It was precisely the Li Family's Old Ancestor who was in seclusion—Li Zhenshan!

"Who dares invade my Li..." Li Zhenshan's ancient yet majestic voice resounded in mid-air, his turbid old eyes sweeping over the bloody Shura field below and that dark-golden figure.

However, his words abruptly stopped!

A terrifying aura, cold, evil, and utterly greedy, erupted without warning from beneath the secret chamber where he was cultivating!

Its speed far exceeded Li Zhenshan's reaction!

"What?!" Li Zhenshan's face changed drastically; he was about to make a Move—

**Splat!**

Several bone-piercingly sharp, pitch-black bone spikes, shrouded in dense Death Qi, shot out from the exploded ancestral hall ground like poisonous spears from Hell!

**Ah—!**

A horrifying, inhuman scream rang out!

Li Zhenshan's Protective Aura was easily pierced like a bubble!

Those several pitch-black bone spikes precisely penetrated his limbs and chest, pinning him in mid-air like a broken rag doll!

The powerful Qi and blood of a Marrow Cleansing Realm expert actually became the best nourishment for the bone spikes, being frantically devoured! Li Zhenshan's body shriveled visibly!

"Old Ancestor!" Li Xuanming was Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering upon seeing this scene!

"Hehehe..." A chilling, eerie laugh echoed. From beneath the shattered ancestral hall ground, dense, inky black mist surged out, rapidly condensing into a terrifying silhouette three zhang tall!

It was a twisted humanoid figure pieced together from countless pale white bones!

Its head was a gigantic, cracked skull, with two clusters of eerie green ghost fire burning in its hollow eye sockets.

In its chest cavity, the black bone jar from the secret chamber was conspicuously embedded!

The mouth of the bone jar was wide open, like a ferocious maw, frantically devouring the essence blood gushing from Li Zhenshan's wounds!

Countless tiny, pitch-black runes, like maggots, writhed on the surface of the bones, emitting a nauseatingly sinister aura!

"Delicious... blood food... and... powerful... prey..." The skull's lower jaw opened and closed, emitting intermittent, bone-grinding, piercing sounds, as the eerie green ghost fire greedily locked onto Lin Jingyu, the only one standing in the field!

"Evil... evil creature! It's that thing Li Yuankun was worshipping! It... it backfired on the Old Ancestor!" A surviving Elder collapsed to the ground, screaming hysterically, his pants instantly wet.

Li Xuanming's face was ashen, his body trembling like a sieve.

He had intended to awaken the Old Ancestor for a final struggle, but he never expected that the evil bone jar, worshipped for generations by the Li Family and regarded as their last trump card, would backfire on their strongest Old Ancestor at such a critical moment!

This was simply digging their own grave!

"Useless... summoning me... yet no... sufficient sacrifices..." The skeletal evil creature seemed unsatisfied with Li Zhenshan's essence blood, its eerie green ghost fire sweeping over the terrified Li Xuanming and others, "Then use... your... flesh and blood... Souls... to make up for it!"

Its chest bone jar's maw suddenly opened wide!

A terrifying suction force erupted!

Li Xuanming and several surviving Elders and Martial Artists were seized by an invisible giant hand, screaming as they were lifted into the air, involuntarily flying towards the ferocious bone jar's maw!

"No! Mercy! Old Ancestor, save me... ugh!" Li Xuanming's plea for mercy instantly turned into a bloodcurdling scream! The moment his body approached the bone jar's maw, his flesh and blood melted like wax, his bones were crushed, and along with his Soul, he was completely devoured by that greedy maw!

Having devoured Li Xuanming and several others, the skeletal evil creature's aura surged significantly!

The black mist around it churned, the pitch-black runes on its bones grew even darker, and the speed at which the bone spikes pierced Li Zhenshan devoured him also sharply accelerated!

Li Zhenshan couldn't even scream, leaving only a shriveled skin hanging on the bone spikes, swaying in the wind.

The skeletal evil creature slowly rotated its massive skull, the eerie green ghost fire burning fiercely, locking onto Lin Jingyu.

"Now... it's your... turn! Powerful... Physical Body... perfect... vessel!" It let out a greedy hiss, and a giant claw, entirely composed of pitch-black bone spikes and entwined with dense Death Qi, tore through the air, bringing Soul-corroding chill as it grabbed down at Lin Jingyu!

Wherever the claw wind passed, the ground's flagstones silently turned into grayish-white powder!

Facing this terrifying evil creature, Lin Jingyu's eyes showed a flicker of emotion for the first time, but it wasn't fear, rather a... cold disgust.

"Filthy thing," he murmured.

Just as the Death Qi bone claw was about to reach him—

Lin Jingyu moved!

He didn't retreat!

Instead, he took a step forward!

His right fist clenched, muscles and bones resonating, emitting a muffled thunderous sound!

A million jin of pure power, driven by the Dragon Tendon Tiger Bone Art, instantly erupted to its Peak!

He didn't use any Martial Skill amplification.

It was the simplest, most direct, and most brutal straight punch!

He slammed it out fiercely, meeting the incoming giant bone claw!

**Boom—Crack! !!!!!**

The moment fist and claw collided!

Time seemed to freeze for an instant!

The next moment!

An unimaginable terrifying force poured out from Lin Jingyu's fist!

The massive bone claw, pieced together from countless bones, entwined with Death Qi, and seemingly indestructible, shattered and disintegrated inch by inch from the point of impact, like inferior porcelain struck by a ten-ton hammer!

Countless pitch-black bone fragments mixed with viscous Death Qi exploded like black fireworks!

The momentum of the punch was not exhausted!

The violent torrent of power, along the shattered bone arm, surged upward, unstoppable, slamming towards the core of the skeletal evil creature's chest—the embedded black bone jar!

"No—!!!" The skeletal evil creature let out a Soul-piercing shriek of extreme terror for the first time! It sensed the crisis of destruction!

The chest bone jar spun frantically, spewing out a dense, inky black Death Qi barrier, attempting to block!

**Pop!**

Like bursting a bubble!

The Death Qi barrier, capable of corroding Marrow Cleansing Realm experts, couldn't even block for a thousandth of a second in the face of absolute power!

The dark-golden fist, like a red-hot branding iron piercing butter, penetrated the Death Qi barrier without obstruction, fiercely smashing onto the violently trembling black bone jar!

**Crack! Boom—!!!**

After a crisp cracking sound, there was an earth-shattering explosion!

The black bone jar, the core of the skeletal evil creature's power, exploded into countless pitch-black fragments under Lin Jingyu's million-jin strike, like a smashed egg!

Countless twisted, resentful pitch-black runes escaped from the fragments, emitting silent wails, and were then completely annihilated by the violent punch force!

Its core destroyed!

The three-zhang-tall skeletal evil creature let out an extremely mournful wail, its massive body trembled violently, and the countless bones forming its body instantly lost their luster, breaking, collapsing, and turning into grayish-white bone dust!

The dense Death Qi entwined around its body rapidly melted and dissipated like snow under a scorching sun!

With just one punch!

This terrifying skeletal evil creature, which had devoured the Li Family's Old Ancestor and Family Head, was brutally and unreasonably blown apart by Lin Jingyu, turning into dust!

The entire Li Family mansion fell into complete silence. Only bone dust carried by the wind over the ruins, and an overwhelmingly dense smell of blood, remained.

Lin Jingyu slowly withdrew his fist; not a single trace of erosion by Death Qi was left on his dark-golden skin. His indifferent gaze swept over the dilapidated Li Family compound, where not a single living Soul remained.

[Ding! Slayed "Skeletal Soul-Devouring Evil Creature (Defective Product)", gained evolution points: 18000 points!]

[Ding! Slayed "Li Zhenshan (Marrow Cleansing Realm, Third Layer)", gained evolution points: 3500 points!]

[Ding! Slayed "Li Xuanming (Bone Forging Realm, Fifth Layer)", gained evolution points: 800 points!]

[Ding! Slayed several Li Family Martial Artists, gained evolution points: 3200 points!]

[Ding! Discovered and destroyed "Yin Nether Contract Altar (Fragment)", gained evolution points: 5000 points!]

[Total evolution points gained: 30500 points!]

[Current evolution points: 69250 points!]

The cold System prompt sounded in his mind.

"Yin Nether Contract Altar?" Lin Jingyu's gaze slightly narrowed as he scanned the spot where the black bone jar had exploded.

The System wouldn't make groundless claims; this evil creature indeed couldn't have been refined by the Li Family. The forces behind it were probably deeper.

However, now was not the time to delve deeper.

He no longer lingered, turning around and stepping out of the ruined Li Family mansion, treading a path paved with blood and bones.

Outside, there was a deathly silence.

All the eyes secretly peeking, the moment they met Lin Jingyu's figure, recoiled like startled rabbits, filled with boundless fear and reverence.

Shattering an array with one punch, single-handedly slaughtering the century-old Li Family, and even that terrifying evil creature was blown apart with a single punch... this was no longer within human capabilities!

City Lord Zhao Wuji, along with Wang Lie, Sun Buer, and other aristocratic Family representatives, had already been waiting at a distant street corner.

Seeing Lin Jingyu emerge, Zhao Wuji didn't hesitate, stepping forward first and bowing deeply, adopting an extremely humble posture:

"Lord Lin's Divine Might is unparalleled! The Li Family colluded with evil creatures and brought about their own destruction! The entirety of Border Wasteland City is grateful to Your Excellency for eliminating this great menace!"

Wang Lie, Sun Buer, and the others also quickly followed suit, bowing deeply, cold sweat trickling down their foreheads, not even daring to breathe heavily.

Lin Jingyu's steps did not stop, his gaze sweeping over Zhao Wuji: "The Li Family's assets belong to the City Lord's Mansion. I will leave Border Wasteland in a few days and head to the Prefecture."

Zhao Wuji's heart surged with ecstasy, then suddenly tightened. He immediately said, "Your Excellency, rest assured! Your subordinate will definitely handle it properly! I would never dare to withhold the slightest! This is a detailed map of the Prefecture that your subordinate compiled overnight, as well as markings of several dangerous areas where demon beast tides might erupt or Secret Realms might open soon. Please take a look, Your Excellency!" He respectfully offered a Jade Slip with both hands.

Lin Jingyu casually took the Jade Slip, his Divine Sense sweeping over it, and the information was clear in his mind. He nodded slightly, and his figure transformed into a dark-golden stream of light, disappearing at the end of the street, leaving only his cold words drifting in the wind:

"This matter is concluded. Do not disturb."

It wasn't until Lin Jingyu's figure had completely vanished that Zhao Wuji and the others dared to straighten up, each looking as if they had just been pulled from water, their backs drenched in cold sweat.

Looking at the ruined Li Family, and at the direction where the dark-golden figure disappeared, Zhao Wuji murmured:

"Border Wasteland... has no enemies anymore."