Chapter 213: The More You Struggle, The More You Owe!

"Consumption?"

Su Ming lifted his eyebrow, and a shiver of being calculated instantly spread up his spine.

This term...

Just hearing it feels inauspicious!

He wants a Zero Yuan Purchase!

"There's no such thing as a free lunch in this world; fighting is the same—there's an invisible cost."

Seeming to have seen Su Ming's confusion, Shen Qing gave a warm smile.

It was like a bank manager explaining a huge bill to a client.

His tone was bureaucratic, yet it sent a chill through the whole body.

"Mr. Su just now moved so broadly, borrowing a lot of force from this space..."

"And moreover, you violently destroyed my fixed assets."

"Since it's a loan..."

Shen Qing's eyes suddenly chilled, and his fingertip snapped sharply.

Gold coins tumble, the crying‑face emoji pointing upward!

"Then you have to repay both principal and interest, together!"

Ding—!

A crisp tremor rang, like a death‑calling funeral bell.

Huh?!

The next second, Su Ming's complexion changed abruptly, his whole body chilled!

Poo‑chi—!

No warning at all!

There was no attack trace whatsoever!

His left shoulder, as if someone detonated a bomb inside it, instantly burst into a spray of blood!

Poo‑chi—!

Then his right leg!

The wound exploded, blood gushed wildly!

"Ugh!"

Su Ming let out a muffled hum, slammed his single knee heavily onto the ground, and blood instantly stained his trouser leg red.

What's happening?

How did he do it?!

Self‑injury?!

Or some delayed settlement?!

The energy and damage expended by the swing just now...

At this moment, they have all turned into damage to his own body?

"What the hell is this?"

Su Ming clenched his teeth, cold sweat instantly soaked his back.

"Overlord clause? Forced purchase and forced sale?!"

Before he could catch his breath, Shen Qing had already gracefully paced to three meters in front of him.

From a height above, he surveyed him like a trapped beast awaiting slaughter.

"It's not over yet, Mr. Su."

"Given your violent resistance to the law just now, and the serious asset destruction record..."

"After my personal risk assessment, your credit rating… has been upgraded to 【Extremely High Risk】!"

Shen Qing slowly raised his hand, spread his five fingers, and grasped at empty space toward Su Ming!

That posture resembled a deity that controls fate.

"Activating risk‑control measures—"

"Enforced execution, Asset Freeze!"

Buzz—!

This damn!

The arbitrary, unreasonable Rule's force, domineering, assaults!

Is this damn Shen Qing's 【Qualified】 ability?!

In an instant, Su Ming's world went black.

No!

It's not the kind of black from closing your eyes.

All light, color, and scenery were forcibly stripped away at this moment!

Vision… has been taken away?!

"What the hell?!"

Su Ming was shocked, and instinctively swung his blade forward in a horizontal slash.

Panic is humanity's instinct when facing unknown darkness.

"Don't rush to move recklessly."

Shen Qing's voice shifted left and right, teasing like a cat playing with a mouse, surrounding Su Ming's ears in three dimensions.

"Your eyes, I'll take them first, as a down payment."

"Next…"

"Hearing, touch, smell…"

"I'll take them one by one, all of them, until I turn you into a…"

"…a human stick that can only be used to repay debts!"

Bang—!

Before the words finished, a massive force slammed onto Su Ming's back!

The potential energy of the load‑bearing pillar he just chopped off is now being treated by Shen Qing as an overdue fine, returned double!

Crack—!

The floor cracks.

Su Ming's whole body is pressed by this terrifying weight almost to the ground, his bones cracking!

Dead end!

Can't see, can't hear clearly, and a primeval divine mountain presses on his back!

This is the horror and uniqueness of Shen Qing's Qualified ability!

In his Rule—

The more you struggle, the more you owe!

…

Boundless darkness.

A dead‑silent world.

Su Ming lies on the ground, blood spilling from his mouth corner mixing with dust, smearing his face.

Vision reset to zero.

Hearing also begins to be plagued by severe static.

It's as if ten thousand flies are throwing a party in his brain, buzzing.

Shen Qing's mocking voice is like a dull blade, cutting his nerves repeatedly.

"The so‑called World's Number One…"

"This body's constitution truly resists damage, harder than the records state."

"But before the Rule of capital, it's merely a beast with slightly greater strength."

"Struggling, huh? Why aren't you struggling anymore?"

"Where's your ferocity?"

Shen Qing starts to be oddly sarcastic.

His usual tactic!

Mockery is trivial.

The point is…

Attacking the mind!

The fear of having one's senses stripped away is enough to shatter any normal person's rational defenses!

Unfortunately…

He, Su Ming…

His neural pathways have never been normal!

"Heh… heh heh…"

A low, hoarse, yet nervously tinged laugh bursts abruptly from Su Ming's throat.

"Hm?"

"What are you laughing at?"

Shen Qing furrows his brows and halts his steps.

That laugh makes him inexplicably uneasy.

It's as if some unknown ferocious beast in the darkness is staring intently.

"I laugh at you…"

Su Ming slowly lifts his head, his eyes hollow and lifeless.

But Shen Qing can clearly see that blood‑stained face bearing a grin that makes one's scalp tingle.

No fear, only madness!

"Laughing at you as a… useless creature that only knows how to use an abacus!"

"The abacus is being cranked loudly, shifting and freezing…"

Clack clack clack—!

Su Ming, bearing that terrifying pressure, his entire skeleton cracking, muscle fibers rupturing, blood seeping from his pores, staining his clothes red.

Yet he somehow, bit by bit, forcibly props his body up.

Just like…

A demon crawling out of hell, struggling to break its chains!

"But haven't you forgotten the most basic thing?"

Listening to Su Ming's hoarse voice, Shen Qing instinctively steps back half a pace.

"Make a deal…"

Su Ming staggers upright.

Need a channel, need a connection, right?

If you want to transfer harm, to freeze my senses, you must first connect your rule and my body...

Like a plug and socket, like a creditor and debtor.

Su Ming tilted his head.

Heh!

【Eye of Truth】, forever damn awesome!

Although his physical vision was deprived, before him lay utter emptiness.

But in his conceptual vision...

That red-black line shone like a damn searchlight!

The other end of that connection could only be Shen Qing—

This line is Shen Qing's channel of violence.

It's also his bridge to a comeback!

Since you can transfer harm to me...

Then the other way around...

Su Ming suddenly grinned, revealing a mouth full of bloody white teeth.

The Soul Dagger in his hand suddenly reversed, its black tip aimed at his own thigh!

No hesitation!

Puchi!

He stabbed hard, all the way to the hilt!

Hiss!

The intense pain made Su Ming's body shudder, blood spurting wildly.

Yet the corner of his mouth split even wider!

Come on!

You want to play heart-to-heart with me?

Then let's play bigger—I'll fight you to the death!