56: Giving in? Beat them to a pulp first!

“Uh... Hngh...” Profound Sun Master's neck was clasped by iron-vice fingers, and his body beneath the purple robe was like a dead fish whose spine had been removed, his toes dangling weakly in the air.

The vast true essence of the Divine Treasury Realm, Ninth Level, was shredded by the Chaos Qi Flow that invaded his body, his Meridians were snapped, and his Dantian leaked. The dignified Ziyang Sect Master was now worse off than a Mortal.

“Sect Master Senior Brother!” Elder Zhao Yan, who was slumped in the distance, had bloodshot eyes and struggled to get up, only to cough up a mouthful of black blood.

Lin Jingyu slightly tightened his five fingers.

Crack.

A clear sound of bone breaking rang out over the dead silent ruins, drowning out the lingering echoes of rocks rolling down the distant mountainside.

“Stop! Your Excellency... Your Excellency, please show mercy!” An Elder with white hair and beard and a weak aura, Sun Shouzhen, the only Divine Treasury Realm, Fourth Level among the seven Elders, strained to shout.

All traces of immortal demeanor vanished from his face, replaced only by deep-seated fear and a sliver of humble desire for survival: “If you kill us, Your Excellency will become a Mortal enemy of the Ziyang Sect! An unending feud! The Prefecture will be shaken, and the Dynasty will intervene! Why... why must we go to that extreme?”

He panted heavily, speaking quickly, carrying his last hope: “What Your Excellency seeks is nothing more than resources, Cultivation Techniques, or... women? Spare the Sect Master and the rest of us, and the Ziyang Sect's thousand years of accumulation, its treasury and secret hoards, will be yours to choose from! Our Sect... is willing to serve Your Excellency as a Grand Worship Elder! Within the Prefecture, we will follow your lead!”

He stared intensely at Lin Jingyu's indifferent, Chaos-surging eyes, his heart nearly leaping out of his chest.

“Oh?” Lin Jingyu's lips curled into a cold arc. His voice was not loud, but it clearly entered the ears of every dying Elder: “It sounds like you want to yield?”

A burst of ecstasy exploded in Sun Shouzhen's eyes! “Yes! Yes! Our Ziyang Sect admits defeat! We only ask that Your Excellency...”

“Too bad.”

Lin Jingyu interrupted him, the muscles in his arm, wrapped in Chaos Qi Flow, suddenly bulging like a Dragon!

His cold voice shattered all illusions: “I, Lin Jingyu, never act under threat! And I don't believe in any damned 'Worship Elder' nonsense!”

“There's only one path for those who provoke me—”

He lowered his head, looking down at Profound Sun Master, whose face was contorted with suffocation and terror, his gaze treating him like a piece of dead meat.

“Death!”

“Pfft—!”

His five fingers exerted force violently!

Like crushing a ripe berry!

The head and upper torso of Profound Sun Master, the Ziyang Sect Master and a Divine Treasury Realm, Peak powerhouse, instantly burst into a cloud of scattered blood mist and shattered bone in Lin Jingyu's grasp!

The remaining torso twitched weakly twice before being swept up by the Chaos Qi Flow and completely reduced to dust!

[Ding! Executed Divine Treasury Realm, Ninth Level Peak (Sect Master / Major Threat)! Gained evolution points: 90,000 points!]

“Sect Master!!!” Sun Shouzhen let out a desperate wail, and his vision went black.

The other Elders were utterly terrified, feeling as if they had fallen into a bottomless ice cave!

Lin Jingyu shook off the non-existent blood from his hand; the Chaos Qi Flow devoured all the filth completely.

His cold gaze swept over the seven Elders whose faces had turned ashen.

“It's your turn.”

The instant the words fell, his figure blurred and vanished from the spot!

“Fight him to the death!” Elder Zhao Yan's eyes were blood-red. In desperation, he erupted into a final madness, ignoring his severe injuries and forcefully burning his vital essence. Dazzling Purple Flame surged around him, transforming into a Blazing Mad Lion that pounced toward Lin Jingyu's afterimage!

The other Elders also knew there was no chance of survival. They roared and brought out their broken Magical Artifacts or activated their last reserves of true essence, launching desperate counterattacks!

For a moment, various colored lights flashed intensely, and sharp sonic booms tore through the scorched earth!

However, in the face of absolute power and speed, all of this was like paper fireworks.

Lin Jingyu's figure weaved through the gaps in the violent attacks. The spatial displacement brought by the initial mastery of the Movement Technique made him seem like a teleporting specter.

There were no complex Moves, only the most primitive and violent power of the Physical Body!

“Bang!”

One punch! The Blazing Mad Lion that Elder Zhao Yan had transformed into was pierced straight through the chest by a hazy gray Chaos fist print!

The violent Purple Sun True Fire instantly extinguished as if encountering its nemesis!

A large hole appeared, running straight through his chest. His body instantly exploded, his face still frozen in a mix of madness and astonishment!

[Ding! Executed Shenzang Realm, Third Level! Gained evolution points: 15,000 points!]

“Puff!”

One palm!

An Elder holding a Turtle Shell Shield was flattened into a twisted meat patty, shield and all!

Fragments of the shield, mixed with flesh and bone, were deeply embedded in the scorched earth!

[Ding! Executed Divine Treasury Realm, Second Level! Gained evolution points: 8,000 points!]

“Tear!”

One grab! An Elder skilled in Movement Techniques who tried to escape was overtaken by Lin Jingyu, who arrived later but moved faster!

Lin Jingyu's large hand clasped his shoulder, and like tearing a piece of old cloth, he ripped the Elder in half alive!

A splatter of blood and internal organs rained down!

[Ding! Executed Divine Treasury Realm, Second Level! Gained evolution points: 8,000 points!]

Slaughter!

A slaughter without suspense, carried out with horrifying efficiency!

Sun Shouzhen watched helplessly as his fellow Sect members were easily crushed like chickens and dogs. Every time that towering figure flashed, a Divine Treasury Realm life was taken!

The speed was so fast that he couldn't even track the trajectory! His last shred of fighting spirit completely collapsed.

“Mercy! Senior, please spare my life! I am willing to be your slave or servant...” Tears and snot streamed down his face as he knelt on the ground, frantically kowtowing.

Lin Jingyu's figure appeared before him as if teleporting, his shadow completely enveloping Sun Shouzhen.

“Slave or servant?”

Lin Jingyu looked down at him, his eyes like ten thousand years of cold ice: “Are you worthy?”

“Bang!”

He stomped down with one foot!

Elder Sun Shouzhen, along with the ten-zhang area of ground beneath him, was instantly crushed into powder by an irresistible Chaos force!

Only a deep crater remained on the spot!

[Ding! Executed Divine Treasury Realm, Fourth Level! Gained evolution points: 25,000 points!]

The last Elder let out a desperate scream and turned to flee, pushing his Movement Technique to the extreme.

Lin Jingyu didn't even bother to chase.

He flicked a finger.

A gray finger force, condensed to the extreme, shot out, faster than lightning!

“Chaos Finger: Annihilation of Essence!”

“Puff!”

A bloody hole burst open in the back of the Elder's head. The annihilation power contained in the finger force instantly destroyed all his vitality, and the corpse plunged forward, maintaining its charging posture.

“Ding! Executed Divine Treasury Realm, Second Level! Gained evolution points: 8,000 points!”

In just ten breaths.

The eight Divine Treasury Realm powerhouses sent out by the Ziyang Sect, including Sect Master Profound Sun Master, were all executed! Not a single corpse remained!

Silence returned to the ruins, with only the Chaos Qi Flow silently circulating around Lin Jingyu, devouring the scattered energy and blood stench in the air.

He stood still, as if he had just crushed a few ants, his breathing not even slightly quickened.

[Ding! Battle settlement complete!]

[Total evolution points gained: 155,000 points!]

[Current evolution points: 178,750 points!]

The cold System notification sounded in his mind, bringing with it a pure increase in power.

Lin Jingyu's gaze swept over the widespread mess, lingering briefly on the spots where the spatial fluctuations were the most intense—the annihilation points of Profound Sun Master's and several Elders' storage Magical Artifacts, now only showing a few undetectable spatial dust motes.

He paid no attention to this. With the System in hand, killing powerful enemies to gain evolution points was the true Grand Dao!

“The Ziyang Sect?”

He murmured, a trace of disdainful mockery in his voice. “As of today, it is erased.”

In the distance, a subtle yet grand and imposing aura, like a crouching Dragon, was rapidly tearing through the air!

That aura carried the mark of order and authority, distinctly different from the sharpness of Sect Cultivators or the wickedness of demons and monsters.

Lin Jingyu's Chaos-surging eyes lifted slightly, looking toward the direction from which the aura came.

“People from the Dynasty? They arrived quickly.”

His lips curled into a cold arc. His vast Divine Thought, like an invisible radar, instantly locked onto the direction of the Ziyang Sect's headquarters on the outskirts of the Black Fiend Mountain Range.

That place must now be an ocean of terror.

Should he go to the Prefecture to meet this imperial envoy?

Or... should he go directly to wipe out the Ziyang Sect's old nest, completely eradicate the roots, and harvest a wave of “experience” along the way?

With 178,750 evolution points in hand, it was enough to push the Movement Technique to a completely new level!

Or... take the Chaos Heaven Opening Art a step further?

Thoughts flowed rapidly within his decisive will.

The next moment, Lin Jingyu's figure suddenly blurred on the spot, and ripples spread through the space.

Target: Ziyang Sect's Mountain Gate!

As for the approaching Dynasty aura... let him arrive to an empty scene.

The murkier the waters of this Prefecture become, the faster demons and evil entities will pop up for Lin Jingyu!