Chapter 214: Cruel (3k)

"Damn it, damn it, damn it..."

Li Qingzi clutched her abdomen; the icy sensation of seawater scouring her internal organs gave her a feeling of nervous heart constriction.

Although her body at this moment was not nearly as fragile as it originally was, her spirit and senses still maintained their original standards.

She soon rejoiced again because she could feel her heartbeat once more.

The confusion in her thoughts made it impossible for Li Qingzi to think clearly; she had to exhaust all her strength just to maintain her focus, and her Haki intensity had dropped significantly.

Splash!

The sound of entering the water was incomparably clear. Li Qingzi's heart trembled; she knew that Tao Baibai—no, that Bai Cangshu—was not willing to let her go at all.

Thinking back to the time in the Dragon Ball Derivative World, when the other party had no enhancements whatsoever, that Bai Cangshu couldn't even disguise his serial number and could only scurry like a rat under her sword momentum.

If not for her intention to capture him alive, if not for her desire to enslave him...

The emotion of remorse, like a cold, sinister snake, coiled around Li Qingzi's heart and tightened continuously.

Immediately after, Li Qingzi felt a deep sense of unwillingness. Her approach had no problems from a rational standpoint; in this damned Infinite Dimensional Space, lone wolves always had their limits, no matter how well they performed at the 【Paper】 tier, 【Parallel】 tier, or even the 【Strong】 tier.

The further one went, the more the Reincarnators encountered were equally excellent and powerful individuals, each having enhanced countless abilities.

A lone wolf's adaptability and range of ability coverage simply could not compare to those mature teams.

Just like Moon Demon herself; despite having stronger individual combat power than Flame Demon, she was constantly pursued by the team Flame Demon belonged to and fell into a disadvantageous position.

She had long known that even with the extremely smooth start she obtained through the generous conditions of the real world, she could not survive this dangerous "game" of the Infinite Dimensional Space on her own.

That was why she excavated 【Jing】, and why she wanted 【Tao Baibai】.

These talented individuals were the puzzle pieces that would allow her to live to the end.

Yes, contrary to the indifferent facade she projected, Li Qingzi was afraid of death; she was terrified of death.

As a woman who, from birth, possessed wealth that ordinary families could not acquire in several lifetimes, how could she not be afraid of death?

The calmness, cruelty, and sharpness she displayed in battle were merely because she always had the underlying confidence that she would not lose and would not die.

Her battles were always unequal, asymmetrical conflicts.

Whether in her once-mediocre life as a Mortal or as a Reincarnator, Li Qingzi possessed advantages that ordinary people could not compare to.

But after entering this world, she felt the disparity of the world.

Tao Baibai, who had only experienced a few missions, already possessed a certain degree of Immortality and High-speed Regeneration, becoming a special type that was difficult to kill. She had fought him for a long time without success, and instead was caught in a pincer attack by Enel, Flame Demon, and Critical Point, whom he had lured in, ultimately leaving her severely wounded.

Subsequently, in a head-on battle, she was forcefully killed by Tao Baibai.

The pain and fear of her heart being shattered still lingered in Li Qingzi's mind to this day.

Splash!

The seawater surged rapidly. Tao Baibai lunged over like a beast. Li Qingzi could not care about anything else and directly activated 【Moon Walk】 at the bottom of the water.

That violent stomping method caused her body, over three meters tall, to shoot out like a torpedo at the bottom of the water in an instant.

Staying in the sea could avoid many stray bullets, the Navy's Devil Fruit Ability Users could not pursue her, and in most cases, fighting on the seabed would make Reincarnators hesitant.

Throughout history, there have been countless examples of those who held the advantage but were counter-killed in the chaotic conditions of the water.

But unfortunately, Tao Baibai was not the type of Reincarnator who would retreat.

Li Qingzi stomped fiercely again; the drastic change in water pressure caused her scales to shatter, and her internal organs were immediately damaged.

This was another benefit of moving on the seabed: when moving explosively at high speed underwater, the body would also suffer damage. Even for Reincarnators whose agility attribute had broken through the Extreme Value, those who moved like her but lacked her current special physique could not withstand this pressure.

Bang!

Li Qingzi moved at extreme speed.

The next moment.

Boom!

A violent shockwave erupted on the seabed.

"Cough... pfft."

Because of the powerful water pressure in the deep water combined with the rapid shockwave, Li Qingzi was instantly injured in her lungs and viscera, coughing up blood from her mouth and nose.

She turned her head and saw a pitch-black figure already appearing less than two meters behind her.

Her pupils trembled, the other party vanished, and the next instant, a massive force struck her back.

Boom!

A powerful burst of Force directly pierced through Moon Demon's body, forming a white column of water in the sea.

Moon Demon's forward momentum was interrupted. Bai Cangshu's arm stabbed into Moon Demon's body, and he hung onto her. He utilized 【Life Return】 to completely close his ears, nose, and mouth; even in deep water, his resistance was much stronger.

And because he had broken through the Constitution Extreme Value, his current defensive power was stronger than Moon Demon's.

He used a 【Magic Spear】 to strike Moon Demon to a halt, and then, unlike when he killed Flame Demon, he did not use 【Instant】 combined with 【Death Intent Senra】 to forcefully execute her.

Because Bai Cangshu had realized by this time that a large number of Reincarnators in this world were fleeing; after that Black King entered the scene, many Reincarnators successfully withdrew by taking the exit opportunities provided by the space.

This made it almost impossible for him to obtain additional gains through Team Battle Points.

Although he would not suffer losses due to negative Team Battle Points, for a guy like Bai Cangshu, no additional gains already meant his interests had been harmed.

At the same time, the mass departure of Reincarnators gave him the opportunity to properly deal with Moon Demon, one of the so-called Four Demons of the Space.

Rip!

When Bai Cangshu pulled out his right hand, he took the opportunity to tear off a large piece of flesh and blood along with the scales.

"Ah!"

Moon Demon cried out in pain. Her body twitched as if convulsing, and the scales all over her body stood on end. In an instant, a powerful sense of crisis emerged, and Bai Cangshu blocked in front of himself with both hands.

Dense black scales shot out like bullets.

Pfft pfft pfft pfft...

Clang clang clang!

Bai Cangshu activated 【Iron Block】 in an instant. His whole body vibrated continuously, as if being strafed by a machine gun, but this level of attack could no longer cause effective damage to him.

The slight injuries on the surface of the body had not yet manifested before they had already finished healing.

On the contrary, for the Monster, after this strike, the body's defenses were even weaker.

Bai Cangshu grinned hideously, tearing off another large piece of flesh and blood from the opponent's back.

The seawater was instantly dyed red by the blood; a large amount of muscle was torn off the Monster's back in an instant, revealing the huge skeleton after alienation.

The Monster swung its hands backward with force, elbows bent, and sword momentum lit up, but Bai Cangshu mastered the First of the First, instantly twisting the Force in his hands to block the Monster's slender arms, then grabbed them and pulled backward with force.

He stood behind the Monster, his hands pulling at the Monster's two overly long arms; the Monster's mobility began to weaken rapidly, sinking bit by bit toward the seabed.

Bai Cangshu exerted force, suddenly pressing both arms downward.

Crack!

The arms also snapped instantly.

These were not fatal attacks; Bai Cangshu's eyes opened slightly, he clearly perceived the movement of the muscles inside the Monster, the black Dragon-Slaying Sword appeared in his left hand, and the next moment.

Pfft!

Wielding a giant sword in the sea was exceptionally sluggish, but the terrifying force still instantly severed the limbs of the Monster that had lost its scales.

This cruel method of attack increasingly stimulated the Killing Intent Wave within Bai Cangshu; the frequency with which his hands tore at the Monster's muscles became higher and higher, from initially just wanting to give the opponent a sense of oppression so that it would hand over the resources in its Backpack out of fear.

By the end, it had developed into pure sadism.

A smile that even he himself could not notice was on Bai Cangshu's face, his killing intent surging.

Li Qingzi's pupils trembled; in a trance, she felt as if she saw herself appearing in the Consciousness Space again, and not only that, an unprecedented cold feeling was wrapping around her Soul.

"Am I going to die..."

"So I am dying..."

The Concept of 【Death】 appeared in her heart with unprecedented clarity, even clearer than when her heart was removed; at least, at that time she was still thinking of using the Indomitable Tese to make a final struggle against Tao Baibai.

But at this very moment, in the deep sea, she only felt that she was like rotten meat with absolutely no ability to resist, being torn apart piece by piece by Tao Baibai.

She remembered the scene she saw in a slaughterhouse when she was a child, those meat pigs being plucked clean and thrown on the table, the butcher dismembering them piece by piece, finally leaving only some useless skeletons and internal organs.

No... I don't want to die like that!

I don't want to die!

Thump-thump!

The Monster's heart twitched as if in a spasm, suddenly beating irregularly.

Thump-thump, thump-thump-thump-thump!

In just an instant, the frequency of the Monster's heartbeat exceeded the limit; in Bai Cangshu's perception, that heart of the opponent, which was somewhat hyperplastic and twisted due to abnormal activity, was beating so fast it was about to burst open.

The Monster only felt that at this moment, time had slowed down, the surrounding seawater became incomparably viscous, and she suddenly turned her neck nearly one hundred and eighty degrees; this kind of movement, which completely transcended the common sense of a former human body, was something she would never do under normal circumstances.

But in the current situation, she found that she had become more adept at fighting.

Pfft!

The activity of the cells was activated in an instant, and the severed limbs grew back simultaneously.

Amidst the violent beating of the Monster's heart, she did not even realize how special her current state was; she just suddenly had a feeling—perhaps, she could live?!

"Ha~"

The strange sound, through the seawater, made the Monster almost think she was having auditory hallucinations; when her pale eyes tried to focus, she discovered that a large number of white bubbles were appearing from the seawater.

Bai Cangshu's body began to swell, almost accompanying every heartbeat, his size was enlarging, and in the blink of an eye, he turned into a muscular man with a size close to the Monster.

Crack.

Bai Cangshu grabbed the Monster's arms, which had swollen after the muscle activation, and then, in the Monster's despairing eyes, bent and snapped them bit by bit.

The relief that had just risen in the Monster was shattered once again.

She felt herself falling downward continuously, the pure white Consciousness Space began to appear; she knew that once she fell into it and was controlled by that kind of Monster's thinking again, she would soon be completely annihilated in this world.

In the moment of life and death, she utilized the special perception that felt like bullet time in her current state, her whole body trembling crazily; not just her brain, but all the cells in her body were trying to find a way to survive.

"... Spare me..."

Boom!

A huge water wave exploded, and two huge figures flew out from the deep sea, landing on the water surface; Bai Cangshu was still in that little giant-like posture.

He gripped the neck of the slender Monster and said,

"Take out the things you think can make me let you go; remember, you only have one chance."

The Monster lay on the ocean, the surface of its body damaged over a large area by the Killing Intent Wave, and its back, which had been completely torn open, had blood constantly soaking into the sea.

【Warning, qo60833805, you are attempting to conclude a Slave Contract with another Reincarnator. After the conclusion, the other party will be able to control your resources and intervene in your resource allocation; you will be unable to resist the other party's orders. Do you wish to conclude?】

Li Qingzi lay on the ocean; at this moment, that arrogant eldest daughter of a financial conglomerate was already dead.

(End of this chapter)