Chapter 195: Breaking the Realm

"Hum!"

The sword light was brilliant and magnificent, dazzling to the eyes, yet it carried an aura of destruction. As the Sword Qi swept across, the Great Array hidden here was completely destroyed.

Then, the sword light gathered together once more, shooting straight toward Mo Li. When the sword light fell, everything blocking its path would turn into nothingness.

"Shen Yu, you cannot kill me!"

"Just because you say I can't kill you doesn't mean I won't; who do you think you are!"

With a slight wave of his hand, the sword light fell abruptly, plunging into the mortal world like a galaxy from the nine heavens, heading straight for Mo Li.

"Shen Yu, this is not the only such Great Array; if you kill me, the Master will immediately know that something has gone wrong!"

"At that time, he might trigger the Great Array in advance, and all the common people in the city where the array is located will have to die!"

Seeing that the sword light was about to fall, Mo Li roared loudly, the veins on his flushed face bulging, but his eyes were squeezed shut.

He had thought he would be torn to pieces by the sword light, but after waiting for a long time, he did not feel that he had lost consciousness. After opening his eyes, what came into view was the sword light mere inches away.

This sword light had stopped exactly less than half an inch from him, yet its terrifying aura seemed to have already pierced through him, leaving his entire body filled with a chilling coldness.

Gasping for air, Mo Li collapsed onto the ground, unable to bear the burden, as if he had exhausted his last bit of strength.

In that instant just now, he had brushed past death; he had never been so terrified, and his entire brain seemed to be a blank slate.

"What did you just say?"

"Sir, Lord Shen!" Struggling to crawl up from the ground, he tried several times but failed; now Mo Li only felt his legs were so weak they were completely uncontrollable.

His courage had been completely whittled away by the Sword Qi in that instant, and now his heart was filled only with fear.

"Lord, please see clearly, there is indeed more than one such array; I can guarantee you this. However, I am only responsible for the array in Anzhou City, and I do not know where the other arrays are!"

"Don't know? Then you are useless!"

The sword light shifted horizontally, as if about to fall slowly, its sharp Sword Qi seemingly ready to pierce him through once more.

"Wait, wait, Lord, I can contact the Master, I am willing to surrender and help you capture him. As long as we can take him down, everything will collapse without a fight!"

"Lord, don't be fooled by him, cough, cough!" The severely wounded Li Zehai suddenly revealed a grim smile and struggled to stand up.

"Li Zehai, why aren't you dead yet!"

"If you aren't dead, how could I possibly die? It was just being stabbed twice; if I couldn't even endure this little injury, do you think I could have survived back then!"

Staggering over, Li Zehai appeared very calm at this moment, completely devoid of the hysteria he had shown when he was just betrayed.

In just one short day, his Xinghai Gang was about to perish, his long and painstaking schemes had come to nothing, and now even his closest confidant had betrayed him.

Moreover, he knew very well that in his current state, he could not survive, and Shen Yu would not let them live either.

For the things they had done over these years, dying ten or a hundred times would not be enough; how could Shen Yu possibly let them live!

At this moment, Li Zehai was even thinking that when a person is all alone and has nothing left to lose, everyone should be like him.

"Shen Yu, Lord Shen, he cannot possibly contact the Master, and no one can contact him."

"Even we, all of us, do not know the name of this Master we have never met, nor whether he is a man or a woman!"

"And this Mo Li is greedy for life and afraid of death; to survive, he can use any means necessary. Even you, Lord Shen, he would dare to deceive!"

"And what about you?"

"I am different from him. My goal has always been very simple; I don't need power or status, I simply want everyone in the entire Anzhou City to die!"

"What?" This sudden answer caught Shen Yu off guard; the Li Zehai before him looked spirited and heroic, and in no way looked like a bad person.

Who would have thought that such a person would be the leader of the Xinghai Gang, the biggest tumor in Anzhou City, and who would have thought that such a person would have such a crazy idea.

This was no longer a simple case of revenge against society; this was completely wanting to destroy the World.

"Lord, he is just a madman, don't listen to him!"

"I am a madman, a madman who only knows how to seek revenge. Mo Li, aren't you the same? Why else were you chosen by the Master?"

"I wonder if Lord Shen would be willing to hear my story?" With a light smile, Li Zehai said calmly.

"Back then, I was actually an Iron Badge Constable in Anzhou City, insignificant."

"I remember it was an autumn, the weather was dry, and a sudden fire broke out, burning down several courtyards. We constables of the Capture Gate all went to help put out the fire and save people!"

"At that time, my fiancée's house also caught fire, so I rushed in to save her."

"But does Lord Shen know what I saw? When I rushed inside to save people, I saw my fiancée and the young master of the Feng Family on the bed."

"The two of them were stark naked, panicked and flustered, appearing right before my eyes just like that!"

"I could tell that there were no wounds on her body, nor had she been drugged; she was not forced, she was not forced!"

"Heh, to reach such a point in life, how pathetic!"

Clenching his fists, Li Zehai's face was pale, but the injustice in his heart and the burning rage were enough to consume his entire being.

"Do you know, at that instant, I wanted to just watch them burn to death, but in the end, I saved them, just because I was a constable!"

"When I first entered the service, my master told me that we are constables of the imperial court, and sometimes we must make choices between human sentiment and principles."

"As a constable, the first thing to do is to be worthy of one's status; if we cannot even uphold the most basic beliefs ourselves, then what will happen to the Constables under us?"

"So, even after seeing that unsightly scene, even though my heart was already dead, I still saved them."

"I was worthy of everyone, worthy of my status, worthy of my master, but I was the only one I was not worthy of!"

Taking a deep breath, he suppressed all the resentment in his heart and looked calmly at Shen Yu opposite him.

Suddenly, a mocking smile appeared on Li Zehai's face. It was as if he were mocking himself, and as if he were mocking him.

"But what was the result, Lord Shen, do you know what the result was?"

"The result was that from that day on, I began to be retaliated against. My parents were killed, and my brothers all died."

"My master, a dignified Silver Badge Constable of the Capture Gate, was framed and thrown into prison just because he spoke a few good words for me, and was sentenced to be beheaded!"

"He worked diligently his whole life, performing his duties faithfully, yet in the end, he met such an end!"

"As for me, they broke all my meridians, crippled my dantian, snapped my limbs, and threw me on the street to beg for a living; they said they wanted me to live like a dog!"

"Not a single person I had helped was willing to help me in secret. Instead, they were even more ruthless and cruel than others. These are the people I once helped, this is my persistence; how ridiculous!"

"Every day and every night I have been experiencing bullying and humiliation; everyone in the entire Anzhou City deserves to die!"

"Tell me, can good people really be rewarded?" He closed his eyes, and the scenes of the past appeared vividly before his eyes, as if stabbing into his chest like blades.

Even after so much time had passed, whenever he recalled it, he would always feel heart-wrenching pain and toss and turn, unable to sleep.

"At that time, I told myself that as long as I could take revenge, as long as I could take revenge, I was willing to pay any price, but it was too difficult, because my opponent was the Feng Family!"

"The Feng Family, could it be the Feng Family of Anzhou City?"

"That's right, it is that very Feng Family. Does Lord Shen also think I am delusional?"

"No, I just think this is truly a sad story!" He raised his eyebrows slightly, not expecting that the one Li Zehai wanted to take revenge on would be the Feng Family.

Within Anzhou City, the Feng Family was like a behemoth; even the former Governor He Yuan could only smile apologetically in front of them, let alone the Xinghai Gang that relied on He Yuan.

Even though the Xinghai Gang claimed to be the number one gang in Anzhou City, they were still not worth mentioning in front of the Feng Family.

Moreover, the Xinghai Gang still had to secretly construct the Great Array and do so many things in the shadows, so they could not afford to fall out with the Feng Family even more.

Therefore, even when seeing his old enemies, he could only lick his face and greet them with a smile.

With such long-term suppression, it is no wonder he could become so twisted.