Chapter 1416: Love and Hearts Shattered

Love and Hearts Shattered

"Enough." Teacher Ye spoke slowly,

"Whether it has power is not important. As long as it represents [Judgment], that is enough..."

Han Meng remained silent for a moment. Ultimately, he still handed his handgun over to Teacher Ye.

"Thank you."

Passing by Han Meng, Teacher Ye slowly walked out of the laboratory.

Right at this moment,

As if he remembered something:

"Also, thank you for your judgment."

Teacher Ye looked at him for a good while, smiling bitterly:

"If only you had been born three hundred years earlier... how good would that have been."

Teacher Ye didn't say anything more. He slowly pushed open the laboratory doors and climbed up the steps. The surface of the earth now had already been covered by the frost of the Forbidden Sea. His blood-red dress shirt fluttered in the piercingly cold wind. His back view was tragic yet resolute.

A Thought Storm circulated within his eyes. His life had already entered its final countdown.

"Children..."

"Teacher is coming."

...

BOOM——!!

An earth-shattering loud noise rang out from the ruins. A giant mantis shot out from the dust, its speed so fast it left behind afterimages. As a cold gleam flashed past, a member of the Pu Family was cut in half at the waist in an instant!

Dripping fresh blood sprayed into the air like a gorgeous firework. Seeing this, Pu Xiachan to the side had reddened eyes:

"Damn it!!!"

"Why... why the hell can't we catch it?!"

After instantly killing a person, the giant mantis transformed into lightning once again and blended into the dust, vanishing from everyone's field of vision.

The Pu Family members, scattered in various directions in a sorry state, nervously converged towards the center. Pairs of eyes stared fixedly in different directions, attempting to catch a shadow of that mantis Calamity before they themselves were cut in half.

Pu Xiachan muttered softly. Hurricanes surrounded them, and flames burst forth from nothingness. Under her command, the elements were nimble yet powerful...

But even so, she still couldn't contend head-on with a berserk Seventh-Tier Fusionist.

And within a radius of no more than one kilometer from them, there were still three Calamities from the Forbidden Sea currently going on a massacre.

The current situation was no longer as simple as being attacked from both the front and back. The South Sea Domain had completely become a home for Calamities. What they had to consider was no longer how to hold this place, but how to break out alive...

"It's here!!!"

Someone shouted loudly. The crowd immediately turned their heads to look. But before they could see the mantis's movements clearly, the person who shouted had already been cut in half in an instant. The dripping, bloody upper half of their body flew through the air, splattering everyone with scarlet.

Just as Pu Xiachan was about to make a move, the mantis's cold gleam traced an arc and slashed towards her!

An invisible storm swept across the entire scene.

In the next second, the mantis's body froze in place, as if it had lost consciousness.

Pu Xiachan's pupils stared fixedly at that mantis blade that was close at hand. Her back soaked in cold sweat, she slowly turned her head to look back... only to see a blood-covered figure holding a gun, staggering towards them.

"Ye Mu!!" Seeing that person, Pu Xiachan's heart sank into the abyss.

Just one high-ranking member of the Integration Faction was already this difficult to deal with. Now that Ye Mu had arrived in person, they were most likely facing ten deaths and no life.

Teacher Ye didn't spare Pu Xiachan and the others another glance. From beginning to end, his gaze was on that immobilized mantis... His gaze was filled with heartache, self-blame, and bitterness.

Almost everyone in the Integration Faction had their fusion surgery personally performed by him.

Or rather...

It was the Thought Calamity that had created the Integration Faction through his hands.

From the moment they completed their fusion surgeries, they were closely linked to their respective World-Ending Calamities. That was a suppressive force from the very peak of their bloodlines. The World-Ending Calamity only needed a single shift of its mind to cause their fused Calamities to go out of control, making them wish they were dead.

And Slaughtering the Calamity was slaying the Calamity's consciousness. However, while obtaining power, it also deepened the connection between the Calamity itself and the physical body, making the person draw closer to a Calamity.

This also meant that the higher the degree of Slaughtering the Calamity, the deeper they were controlled by the corresponding World-Ending Calamity.

This was the power Teacher Ye had personally bestowed upon them,

And it was also the curse Teacher Ye had personally bestowed upon them.

"Mi Bo..."

"I'm sorry."

The Thought Storm circulated within Teacher Ye's hand, temporarily shielding Mi Bo from the World-Ending Calamity's control. That giant mantis began to visibly shrink, gradually reverting to human form...

Mi Bo had Slaughtered the Calamity too deeply, and had also been influenced by the World-Ending Calamity too deeply. Even after being reverted to human form by Teacher Ye, he was still in an uncontrollable berserk state, his scarlet pupils charging towards Teacher Ye.

Looking at that familiar face, Teacher Ye's memories continuously surged...

He clearly remembered how he had picked him up from the Gray World, remembered how he had made him complete the fusion, remembered how he had praised him for being exceptionally talented, and taught him hand by hand how to control his power... Those memories that Teacher Ye once viewed as treasures were now like sharp swords piercing backward into his body, leaving his heart dripping with blood.

Tears slid down Teacher Ye's cheeks. He slowly raised the gun muzzle in his hand.

"Tea...cher... Ye..." On Mi Bo's ferocious face, a final trace of clarity surfaced. He called out to Teacher Ye in pain. In Teacher Ye's eyes, it was as if he had reverted back to that child who actively raised his hand in class.

"Class is dismissed... Mi Bo."

Teacher Ye pulled the trigger.

BANG——!!

A bullet pierced through Mi Bo's head. He plunged heavily headfirst before Teacher Ye, completely devoid of breath.

A wisp of green smoke drifted from the gun muzzle. The hand with which Teacher Ye held the gun trembled slightly...

Everything had started because of him.

Now, he had to personally judge the sins he had created.

Even if this process was like suffering a thousand cuts, piercing his heart with pain... this was the punishment he deserved.

Drops of tears spread across the frozen earth. Teacher Ye, wearing a blood-red dress shirt, raised his hand and gently closed Mi Bo's eyes that were dying with eyes wide open, speaking gently, "Mi Bo... Soon, we will come to accompany you."

He stood up, staggering as he continued walking towards the next direction.

Pu Xiachan and the others looked blankly at this scene. Only when Teacher Ye had walked far away did they snap back to reality... They didn't know what had happened, nor did they know why the Integration Faction would trigger internal strife after backstabbing the South Sea Domain... But that lonely dress shirt stained with blood had already been deeply branded into their hearts.

Mi Bo was only the beginning.

The skeletal gray wolf rampaging once again in the ruins, the algae dragon freely shuttling through the seawater of the Forbidden Sea, the purple fox rapidly weaving through the corpse mountain...

And with the high-tier Fusionists all personally killed by Teacher Ye, next were the children who had only just begun or hadn't even started Slaughtering the Calamity. That was the true torture.

"Teacher Ye... I didn't want to kill anyone, I really... I don't know what happened..."

"Teacher Ye... are we born to be bad seeds?"

Briefly regaining clarity, Linglong knelt down before Teacher Ye. Beside her was a mountain of civilian corpses. Her face was filled with guilt and self-blame... Covering her eyes with her hands, she wept uncontrollably.

Teacher Ye's body trembled slightly as he painfully closed his eyes...

"Thought Calamity..."

"You will definitely pay the price..."

On this day,

Tears and gunshots echoed in continuous symphony,

Love and hearts were shattered to pieces.