Chapter 212
Chapter 212: Samadhi True Fire Refines the Beasts
“No!”
Amid Cheng Yue’s miserable scream, the car suddenly shot forward.
Very quickly, it crossed the Demon-Human–Eden border and rushed toward the Eden park that made Cheng Yue’s very soul tremble.
The Eden park was a coastal city.
On the outermost edge facing the sea was the park.
The walls of the park opened into the seawater.
That portion of the sea was pale red all year round.
The moment they entered the park, waves of screams came continuously from inside the buildings.
Some of them were so miserable that they no longer sounded human at all.
From the moment Cheng Yue entered the park, he had already begun trembling.
Once the car stopped, Cheng Yue looked as if his soul had left his body.
The Demon-Human Nation Law Enforcement Officer personally dragged Cheng Yue out again.
Several lackeys wearing rubber shoes and smoking cigarettes walked over.
In the Demon-Human Language, one of them smiled and asked the Law Enforcement Officer, “What happened? Did you not say there was some pressure, and that he had to be sent back?”
“His mouth is not tight enough! It is better to let him die here.”
The Demon-Human Nation Law Enforcement Officer said, “Fine. Leave him to me.”
As he spoke, the lackey took a deep drag from his cigarette and tossed it away. Then he stepped forward and grabbed Cheng Yue, who had already collapsed in terror.
“This one has Fourth Grade cultivation.”
“He can barely be used as rations.”
“Drain him first. Little Airplane plus the Fire-and-Ice Treatment.”
“Forget it. I will do it myself!”
Before the Law Enforcement Officer finished speaking, the rage in his chest grew stronger and stronger.
All because of this bastard, his business had been affected.
Even cutting him into pieces would not be enough to ease his hatred.
He had to personally put him through torture once.
“Understood!”
The lackey answered with a smile, then directly hoisted Cheng Yue onto his shoulder and followed the Law Enforcement Officer into a building.
Inside this building, terrifying screams echoed everywhere.
There was no proper interior finishing. The building had been divided into separate compartments.
All kinds of torture instruments were placed in each compartment.
The lackey carried Cheng Yue into one of the compartments.
He pushed over a small cart with an enormous block of ice on it.
Then he found a thin thread.
Cheng Yue had already begun struggling violently, only to be knocked unconscious with a sudden blow.
And when he woke up...
Cheng Yue discovered that his body was suspended by nothing more than two thin threads wrapped around both of his index fingers.
They supported most of his body’s weight.
And beneath his feet was that huge block of ice. He had to stand on tiptoe with all his strength just to barely touch the ice.
Moreover, not only would the ice not melt, it instead gave off a bone-piercing chill.
At this moment, his fingers had already been strangled into a dark purple color.
They were almost being pulled out of joint.
Beneath him were his feet, already frozen numb.
Beside him, a large pot of boiling water was burning.
And behind this compartment...
A small box made from human bone quietly emitted waves of strange energy.
Cheng Yue did not dare struggle. He could only cry with heart-rending anguish and beg for mercy again and again.
But the more pain he suffered, the more waves of purplish-black aura emanated from his body.
The small box behind him continuously absorbed it.
Before long, the Demon-Human Law Enforcement Officer walked in.
“I beg you, please let me go, all right?”
Cheng Yue no longer had any thought of resisting.
He only repeated this pale plea again and again.
But the Law Enforcement Officer’s face was full of cold laughter.
Using an iron ladle, he scooped boiling water from the pot and poured it onto Cheng Yue’s frozen feet.
“Ahhh!”
Amid Cheng Yue’s heart-rending scream, the Law Enforcement Officer clicked his tongue.
“I trusted you and let you go back, but you did not do what you promised me.”
He shook his head with repeated clicks of his tongue.
He seemed to greatly enjoy the process of torturing people.
The purplish-black aura from Cheng Yue’s body spread wildly and was absorbed into the human-bone box like a black hole.
But at that moment, a cold voice suddenly appeared behind him.
“So this is where it is!”
The Law Enforcement Officer turned around abruptly.
He saw a wisp of smoke before him instantly condense out of thin air into a strong young man.
“You are...”
The Law Enforcement Officer was shocked. The instant he spoke, a layer of yellow light covered his hand as he grabbed toward Li Mu.
Li Mu seized his palm.
Then he clenched fiercely.
CRACK!
Bone shattered and flesh pulped.
The Law Enforcement Officer let out a shrill scream.
Li Mu struck out with one palm, shattering the protective light around his body.
Then he directly pressed the man’s head into the boiling iron pot beside him.
The Law Enforcement Officer struggled wildly, but Li Mu held him down like an iron hand and steel clamp. He could not move in the slightest.
This was also where the effect of Li Mu’s Profound Transformation began to show.
What Li Mu had transformed at the Profound Rank was the second Talent Trait among his talents.
【If the opponent’s strength is weaker than the Talent user’s, the attack intensity they inflict on the Talent user is reduced by 50%.】
After this trait underwent Profound Transformation, Li Mu discovered that not only would people weaker than him deal reduced damage to him...
He could also produce a “suppression” effect against those whose strength was weaker than his.
From strength to True Qi, from body to spirit, it was an all-around suppression.
Before him, not only could they not muster courage...
Even the True Qi they raised would be restricted.
The greater the gap in strength between them and him, the less True Qi they could raise.
If both strength and realm were lower than his, then as long as Li Mu released even a trace of pressure, they were no different from ordinary people.
While pressing the Law Enforcement Officer’s head down, Li Mu summoned his long saber and sent it flying to cut the thin threads above Cheng Yue’s head, lowering Cheng Yue down.
However, the stove used to boil the water was clearly unstable.
The large pot had been knocked over by the Law Enforcement Officer onto the ground.
But he still could not break free from Li Mu’s restraint.
As a result, although the hot water had spilled, what the Law Enforcement Officer had to face directly was the stove fire.
Li Mu sneered.
“Oh. So you like being dry-roasted.”
At this moment, Cheng Yue huddled in the corner, trembling.
His eyes looked at Li Mu with both terror and hope.
Just then, Cheng Yue suddenly sensed an extremely terrifying energy floating above the park.
Immediately afterward, a gentle yet powerful water force slowly wrapped around him.
It was actually an enormous water ball.
Wrapped inside the water ball, Cheng Yue slowly floated into the air.
Only then did Li Mu run out, dragging the Law Enforcement Officer whose face no longer looked human at all.
As expected, Old Shui had already arrived above the park.
His eyes were filled with fury.
On the way here, the two of them had practically raced each other.
Although Old Shui was very fast, in terms of endurance, Li Mu’s consumption-free Somersault Cloud was still superior.
So Li Mu had arrived several minutes ahead of Old Shui.
Because he was not certain whether any Earth Rank experts were hiding here, Li Mu had originally planned to use Gather Form and Scatter Qi to scout first.
He would wait until Old Shui arrived before making a move.
Unexpectedly, he saw the torture inside these buildings.
It exhausted the limits of human imagination and repeatedly struck at the bottom line of human suffering.
Li Mu truly could not endure it. As it happened, he saw the Law Enforcement Officer torturing Cheng Yue.
This Law Enforcement Officer was precisely the Demon-Human Nation Law Enforcement Officer who had taught Cheng Yue what to say in the video.
So Li Mu immediately acted.
Now that Old Shui had arrived, Li Mu did not want Old Shui to steal his kills.
Thus, Li Mu shouted toward Old Shui in midair, “Old Shui! Leave saving people to you!”
“If an Earth Rank comes, block them!”
“Leave the killing to me!”
After Li Mu shouted, he opened the system.
Of the 29,000 points he had gained after killing Zong Hongsheng, he added 20,000 points to the Fire-Avoidance Art.
He lit up three entries of the Fire-Avoidance Art.
【Condense a mouthful of divine fire within the body. It continuously tempers the body and can accelerate the elimination of resistance to medicinal pills.】
【The divine fire can be sprayed out of the body to injure external enemies.】
【The divine fire transforms into Samadhi True Fire. When releasing Samadhi True Fire, True Qi is continuously consumed.】
There was also an explanation of Samadhi True Fire below.
【Samadhi True Fire: Neither heavenly fire nor wild fire. It first burns the impurities of the Divine Soul, then burns both form and spirit into complete extinction. Before the host’s True Qi is exhausted, Samadhi True Fire cannot be extinguished.】
At this moment, Old Shui had already used the same move he had used in the military district before.
With his exceedingly powerful Earth Rank Divine Sense, he wrapped all the injured and tortured Huaxia people in water balls and slowly lifted them into the air.
Meanwhile, some Eden mercenaries and many lackeys rushed out from the buildings.
Sensing the powerful Earth Rank might in the air, these people had no thought of resisting.
They scattered and fled in all directions.
Unfortunately, the entire park had already been blocked off by pale-blue walls of water element.
It was Old Shui’s Blue Water Prison.
Not a single one of them could even think of escaping.
Li Mu first used Heavenly Might to destroy the buildings, preventing anyone from hiding inside.
Then he used External Incarnation and sent all his incarnations and divine weapons down to strike those lackeys.
But he did not kill them directly.
Beating them to death with one cudgel would be far too cheap for them.
These people gathered together to resist the attacks of the Divine Weapon Art and his incarnations.
Li Mu drove the Somersault Cloud above the densest part of the crowd.
He pointed with his small hand and puffed out his cheeks.
“Whoosh!”
A mouthful of Samadhi True Fire surged out of Li Mu’s body, instantly igniting the entire herd of beasts below.
Among all the ways for humans to die...Being burned to death was the most painful. There was no exception.
And when the Samadhi True Fire descended, Li Mu suddenly understood what “first burns the impurities of the Divine Soul” meant.
The sins this person had committed were the fuel for the Samadhi True Fire.
The more sins a person had committed, the longer the Samadhi True Fire would burn their Divine Soul.
And before those sins were burned away, the burning of the Divine Soul would not directly cause death.
They would remain conscious the entire time, enduring pain from their burning Divine Souls that was millions upon millions of times worse than having their bodies burned.
Only when their Divine Souls were purified would the Samadhi True Fire burn them until both form and spirit were completely extinguished.
Li Mu did not even have time to look at the entries gifted by the system as they popped up.
Instead, he began setting fires everywhere.
Within this Eden park, there were at least more than two thousand beasts who tortured people.
Li Mu did not begrudge his True Qi at all. Like a flamethrower, he unleashed fire in every direction without a single blind spot.
The screams of Divine Souls being burned rang into the heavens.