Chapter 411: Yama vs. Serious Punch

Bai Cangshu looked at Saitama appearing before him and nodded without hesitation.

Saitama looked at the ruined city, the humans "brought back to life" like walking corpses, and behind him, the terrified, screaming female reporter, and Fubuki, who was pale but still pulling on Tao Baibai.

He slowly raised his fist.

"Don't! Mr. Saitama!"

Lilith spoke to stop him instinctively, but regretted it after the words left her mouth; she had no idea why she had spoken to stop him, and after thinking for a moment, she continued.

"These people are temporarily surviving because of Mr. Tao Baibai's ability; perhaps if you kill Mr. Tao Baibai, they will die again..."

"Also... Mr. Tao Baibai saved us before..."

She had initially tried to use Logic to persuade Saitama, but soon she could not even persuade herself, and began to "babble incoherently."

When it came down to it, she didn't think Tao Baibai was a good person either, but without this cruel and evil Tao Baibai, she simply could not survive in this world.

After saying a few words, without needing Saitama to refute her, Lilith lost her voice; she had pleaded for Tao Baibai only for some selfish desires she couldn't even explain to herself, and just thinking about that emotion made her feel she couldn't face herself, let alone face the short-haired one and Luoka who had died miserably in the battle between Tao Baibai and the Sage.

Saitama looked at this weak, simple woman, his gaze holding a completely different expression than when he looked at Bai Cangshu.

This woman was likely the only existence in "that group" he had seen who was still "like a human."

The other party still retained everything that made a human a human.

When encountering danger, she would feel fear, would beg for help, would pray, would call for a hero.

When encountering others in danger, she possessed empathy and would instinctively want to save them.

Even though... this group of people was likely not even the same species as him and the people of this world, this woman still risked her life to save Fubuki.

"You, go."

Saitama waved his raised right hand, signaling Lilith to leave; he did not throw that punch.

Subsequently, he looked again at this "fraudulent" guy in front of him, his eyes indifferent; in his view, after Tao Baibai smashed the city block and then used that so-called power of the gods to help others, it was nothing more than continuing to deceive these people.

To gain the title of a hero.

This behavior was far more twisted than those Professional Heroes who only acted for fame and fortune.

He was exploiting the instinctive expectation and longing for a 【Hero】 in the human heart.

"Are you not going to run?"

Saitama clenched his right hand into a fist; at this instant, the sense of oppression in Bai Cangshu's heart reached its peak, death intent surged in his chest, and beneath his bloodlines, the Yellow Springs Power swelled as never before.

Bai Cangshu's head-shaking motion seemed very slow at this moment; he was somewhat unaccustomed to his aging muscles.

But he still clenched his left fist bit by bit, Senluo Death Intent condensing continuously; the intense Senluo Death Intent and the Yellow Springs surged together, and in just a breath, that peerless, unique Tese was triggered.

【Yama】!

A phantom appeared behind Bai Cangshu, and the monstrous Yellow Springs seemed to begin to surge.

Fubuki looked suspicious; she had indeed heard a sound like water colliding, and also... it was so cold.

Beside Tao Baibai, the temperature dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye; almost instantly, white frost began to appear on her breath.

This was some kind of ability...

Bai Cangshu suddenly waved his right hand.

Boom!

The extreme speed of the Eighth Stage Instant turned his own right arm into powder in an instant, but the wild wind it whipped up still blew Fubuki and the black car away for dozens of meters.

"Get further away, you weaklings~"

Bai Cangshu's voice was hoarse as never before, but his tone remained high and spirited.

Lightning light continuously dissipated from his severed right arm, and his 【Thunder Emperor Heart】 was beating at a speed exceeding its limits.

This was the battle he had dreamed of most; as Bai Cangshu did all this, his eyes did not move from Saitama for a moment; he drove Fubuki and Lilith away, not because of any sudden kindness.

It was because he truly felt the presence of these two was getting in the way.

Saitama would likely not want to involve these two.

Facing Saitama, running away was meaningless.

Whether it was a full-power punch or a punch with controlled force, Saitama possessed the ability to kill him, therefore...

He wanted to see Saitama's true power!

As Bai Cangshu's hair fell out continuously, various pieces of information about Saitama continued to appear, flooding into his brain.

"Hey, hey, hey, you guy, if you die at a time like this, we'll be in a tough spot..."

Gojo Satoru's voice appeared, but the next moment, it was suppressed by a more magnificent Soul, making him unable to continue speaking.

In the pure white world of consciousness, Gojo Satoru fell from the edge of the 【Heart Throne】; in his eyes, that throne, like white jade, was now full of cracks.

"This guy..."

Gojo Satoru sensed Bai Cangshu's will, that soul power so intense that he couldn't even get close; it was clear the other party had concentrated to the extreme.

Next would likely be the other party's peak strike, the final radiance of his host's existence in the world.

Bai Cangshu's fighting spirit was so wild it exceeded Gojo Satoru's understanding; at this moment, he felt the gap between himself and Bai Cangshu, even though both had the self-perception of being a natural Outlier.

But in terms of this Spirit and willpower in a desperate situation, he... was inferior to him.

"Heh, I really lost to you, didn't I..."

Gojo Satoru stopped struggling, looking up as the Heart Throne continued to crack, falling into the surging Yellow Springs.

Suppressing the restlessness of the soul in his heart, Bai Cangshu's mouth corners hooked up with difficulty.

He clenched his left fist, and the giant phantom behind him also clenched its fist.

"Ha... there are no distractions now, Saitama..."

Saitama saw everything; at this very moment, Saitama had a kind of "wisdom" that saw through everything, or perhaps it was intuition.

He did not want the world to become what it was now.

But when this group of suddenly appearing guys was no longer satisfied with trapping him or using him, he lost the right to be a bystander.

This group of people wanted to change him... they wanted to use the life and death of the vast number of ordinary people in this world, and they wanted to use the death of another noble Soul, to change him.

This was the place where Saitama felt disgust.

He hated Reincarnators.

【Warning, World Mainline has changed】

【World Mainline: Survival】

【Task Description: Please survive the pursuit of special Plot Character Saitama】

【Task Reward: Depart from this world and obtain A-rank Singularity *1, Dimension Point *15000】

【Failure Penalty: Mu】

The scarlet text refreshed before Bai Cangshu, but he did not even look at it, only clenching his left fist tightly.

The Killing Intent Wave surged until his body began to bleed from various places, and his golden Qi also whistled as it condensed.

Conqueror's Haki infusion complete.

Then came a whooshing sound.

Beneath his feet, the murky yellow Yellow Springs Water began to appear, and within the phantom behind him, the Yellow Springs rolled up great waves.

The black phantom's left fist rose, Bai Cangshu's left fist rose, and he took a step forward with his right foot toward Saitama.

Intense killing intent, wrapped in that cold will of all things lying dead, condensed into a thick fist intent behind Bai Cangshu in this instant.

Saitama looked up and saw that when the black phantom clenched its fist, an illusory gate opened; that was the Gate of the Underworld, that was the gate of life and death.

This was a madman who was crazy about battle.

This was an Outlier who had no human heart.

This was a twisted person who even held his own life in contempt.

Saitama suddenly felt a great deal of understanding in his heart for this fellow who called himself Tao Baibai.

His own loneliness was completely different from this fellow's coldness, but at this moment, he decided to satisfy this madman's final craving.

He clenched his fist, pulled it back in an instant, and spoke, saying:

"Killer Move, Serious Punch."

Bai Cangshu's white long hair completely vanished, and a satisfied smile bloomed on his wrinkled face.

Boom.

As if countless vengeful spirits were whistling out from the wide-open Gate of the Underworld, that black phantom threw a punch, and the aura of all things dying spread out with a roar.

But the next moment, a boundless light and heat permeated the area; Bai Cangshu's pupils dilated, feeling that all information had been submerged.

【You have made contact with the Limiter】

【ex051, you have suffered a Concept-level attack: Serious Punch, currently performing exemption judgment...】

【Exemption failed】

Crack! Amidst the sound of the world shattering, boundless darkness enveloped Bai Cangshu, and then a massive Broccoli appeared in his consciousness; the black phantom began to shatter, and Bai Cangshu's consciousness vanished along with it.

(End of chapter)