Chapter 42

Hearing the ice? Perhaps this is the special ability bestowed upon Chu Zhongze by the刻纹兽 (Wenke Beast). Bu Li speculated, estimating the situation.

A young couple's legs were severed by the ice, the ice blades rising with the gushing blood, and in an instant, their legs were covered in white frost as if they had fallen into the ice.

Chu Zhongze did not say much; he only demonstrated his absolute power at this moment through his actions, which meant the rules.

The sudden intense pain instead made the couple, who were powerless to escape their fate, come to their senses. Under Chu Zhongze's gaze, they simply stopped the bleeding and tightened the severed limbs with animal skins to avoid dying too soon. To Chu Zhongze and the people of the Soul澜 Continent (Soul澜 means Soul Wave), this was laughable. But Bu Li became increasingly indignant. If not for his strong self-control suppressing his emotions, he would have already tried to assassinate Chu Zhongze.

Blood gushed out, and the vast mirage of the Five Directions City training ground was met with thunderous cheers, as if everyone present was driven mad by the scent of blood, as if they could all smell the odor of slaughter.

"Kill him!" countless people shouted without meaning, even if they knew the seemingly stronger but despicable remnant in the mirage couldn't hear them. They shouted not to be heard, but to vent their emotions.

The young man gently brushed the black hair from the girl's cheek, and the girl's fingers lightly caressed his face. Reluctant to part, yet forced to do so.

"Have you thought it through? Then let's begin." Chu Zhongze said coldly, indifferent to blood and life.

This man was even more terrifying than the legends, not because of his soul techniques, but because of his cold nature. Bu Li breathed subtly among the leaves, not daring to let his mind wander, for fear of being discovered by Chu Zhongze. Although he felt he had the strength to fight, the chances of winning were slim. As an excellent hunter, Bu Li had the patience to wait for a true opportunity.

After a brief exchange of glances, Chu Zhongze grew impatient, his aura rising, subtly threatening.

Bu Li's gaze also momentarily shifted from Chu Zhongze, the young couple's attachment to life and love flowing out in an instant, blending with the sunset of the Divine Remnant Mountains. Bu Li found it somewhat blinding. In their final moments, neither of the young couple gave up, each striving for a chance for the other to survive, no matter how slim the possibility. They did their best to fight for it.

Bu Li did not feel pity for them, but rather a bit of respect. They sought their fate and found it, and that was all.

In the final decision, Bu Li and Chu Zhongze's gazes simultaneously focused on their hands.

One hand spread open, the other clenched into a fist. In an instant, life and death were decided.

In the young man's horrified gaze, the head of the girl, who had just left a tender touch on his cheek, flew up and froze. In the ice, a faint smile and a satisfied expression could still be seen on her face.

"Alright, you can destroy your soul power and leave the Divine Remnant Mountains." Chu Zhongze did not intend to break his word, half-lifting his head to look at the sky, as if sighing about something.

The young man's face was numb, as if he dared not, did not want, and could not believe that what had happened was real. He watched the smile in the ice crystals in the air, which had been frozen, the last moment of relief was so real, so clear.

"How can this be? How can this be!" the young man muttered, his eyes vacant, like a walking corpse. With one leg severed and a fatal blow from Chu Zhongze, the young man could no longer stand, only crawling desperately towards the frozen head. His fingers dug into the ground so hard that the rough mountain rocks cut through his skin, leaving a clear trail of blood on the ground, stark and glaring among the weeds.

In the Five Directions City, mocking voices rose, ridiculing the young couple. Clearly, they wanted to survive alone but pretended to be reluctant. This was enough to prove the preconceived notion in people's hearts: the remnants were a despicable race, regardless of which clan they belonged to or what totem they worshipped.

The winners laughed, the losers cursed, and the chaotic sounds intertwined, like a boiling pot.

The young man, who was desperately crawling towards his frozen lover, was ignored. The bet was over, and the despicable human nature had been fully revealed in the face of life and death. Everything was over, all over.

A cruel smile appeared on Chu Zhongze's face, and an invisible cold aura shattered the frozen head, leaving only a left ear with ice chips on the ground. Walking forward, he deliberately stepped on the young man's hand, and the sound of the broken bones could be heard even by Bu Li.

"You have made your choice, hurry up and leave." Chu Zhongze sounded like he was persuading, but to Bu Li, it sounded like mockery.

The words were like knives, but the young remnant did not seem to hear them. He watched the last familiar face, now frozen, disappear, vanishing from the world. The entire world had turned gray and white, like a large piece of icy frost with a dusty taste, stale and hateful, devoid of any vitality.

The young man seemed to age suddenly, his once fierce face now calm as water, his gaze dull.

Chu Zhongze caught the left ear covered in ice that fell from the air, not even glancing at the man, and walked straight towards the Broken Dragon Platform.

Watching Chu Zhongze's back gradually disappear, the remnant man held a single-bladed knife in his intact left hand. A flash of the blade, and a gush of blood spurted out.

The change was unexpected; no one had anticipated that the remnant man would do this.

Seeing the two streams of blood, Bu Li was momentarily dazed. Many subtle expressions and actions flashed before his eyes, and only at this moment did Bu Li understand the exchange between the young couple. It wasn't that he was afraid of death, but that he thought the girl would leave the chance to survive to him, so he took an extra step, trying to deliberately lose to the girl. The girl understood him better, grasping every change in the young man's emotions in the moment of life and death, so in the end, nothing changed. It was still the initial fist, and he lost to her, leaving the hope of survival to the one he loved most.

This was why the young man was stunned, why he felt inexplicable grief, and why he ultimately committed suicide.

A burning flame ignited in Bu Li's heart, raging uncontrollably, out of anger, unable to control himself. Were the hundred tribes of the Western Divine Remnants inherently inferior?!

Just as he thought this, Bu Li suddenly felt a fluctuation in the aura of the Divine Remnant Mountains, and a sudden change occurred!

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