However, the Spirit Sword conjured by Zhang Kunlun’s talisman didn’t aim at Chu Xiu at all but pointed directly at the underground shelter! With the Spirit Sword’s penetrating ability, piercing through these twenty meters of earth was just like a game!

Moreover, the dozen or so Spirit Swords spread out across the sky, at least a hundred meters apart from each other, and were now sequentially falling downward! The intervals of their descent were evidently calculated by Zhang Kunlun, just right to match Chu Xiu’s speed, but if he wanted to intercept them, it would be impossible to catch up to Zhang Kunlun before all the Spirit Swords fell.

In other words, Zhang Kunlun was using the lives of tens of thousands of people beneath the shelter to threaten him!

"Truly has abandoned all humanity."

"But do you think I would care about the lives and deaths of these strangers?"

Without hesitation, Garuda’s Wings behind Chu Xiu erupted with dazzling Spiritual Light, blasting out like a cannonball, instantly appearing behind the severely injured Zhang Kunlun. Startled, Zhang Kunlun tried to swing the long sword in his hand, but as soon as he raised it, Chu Xiu had already grabbed his head and slammed it heavily to the ground!

"Boom!"

The two figures fell from the sky to the ground, stones splattering, and Chu Xiu dragged Zhang Kunlun’s head into the earth, carving a hundred-meter-long trench into the street! 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Simultaneously, intense energy fluctuations continued to erupt from both of them, with Chu Xiu’s Demonic Qi and Zhang Kunlun’s Magic attacks intertwining in the air, incessantly shattering the surrounding ground!

Suddenly, as if they had smashed through a certain strata, the two plummeted down fiercely!

"Rumble!"

Carrying a large amount of rock, the two crashed into the underground shelter, and terrified screams echoed in Chu Xiu’s ears, but he couldn’t care less, as his eyes fixated only on this troublesome opponent!

Zhang Kunlun’s Fire Dragon scorched his body, causing searing pain throughout, but the pain didn’t make Chu Xiu retreat; instead, it made his gaze even more ferocious!

"Shhh! Shhh! Shhh!"

Voids of Demonic Qi transformed into sharp spikes that pierced Zhang Kunlun’s body, shredding his internal organs to pieces!

Zhang Kunlun finally couldn’t hold on, the flames around him extinguished completely, and his face, already bloody and mangled during the drag, was indistinguishable, only conveying an expression twisted with reluctance and resentment.

"You hypocritical..."

"Crack!"

Before he could finish speaking, Chu Xiu crushed his skull with a single grip.

No longer having the talisman in hand, Chu Xiu had no need to argue with him as before.

A crystal flickering with an eerie glow rose from Zhang Kunlun’s body, a temporary spatial shard containing all of this Heroic Spirit’s possessions.

Chu Xiu collected it, wiped his face, and looked up, meeting countless eyes filled with extreme fear.

At the instant they locked gazes with Chu Xiu, terrified screams rang out again, with people shoving each other as they fled to the distant corners as if only by hiding in the most desolate depths could they find a sliver of peace.

Glancing down, Chu Xiu saw that there were no other corpses among the collapsed ruins at his feet.

Looking into the distance, the dozen or so Spirit Swords had all fallen, but none had penetrated the ground because, during the pursuit, Chu Xiu had already released his Ghostly Legion to fend off these falling Spirit Swords.

Under the watchful eyes of a Demigod rank, he couldn’t truly neglect the civilians.

Despite this wave causing severe losses to his already depleted Ghostly Legion, they succeeded in intercepting these attacks.

However...

Even if no one had died, just awakening the masses to the enormous disparity between them and the Awakened, just witnessing the Awakened displaying their powers before them, just realizing that an Awakened might destroy them as easily as moving a finger—not even targeting them, but purely from the battle aftermath—was enough to plunge them into utter panic.

"Do not be afraid, everyone, the enemy has been dealt with."

Chu Xiu’s voice, using a special Sound Transmission technique, conveyed far and wide, entering everyone’s ears, but the people’s panic was not assuaged. They continued to run and scream aimlessly, squeezing into those dark corners, as if only hiding in the most deserted places could bring them a sense of comfort.

The chain of suspicion had already formed, and Chu Xiu’s explanation seemed pale and powerless in the face of this massive panic.

The announcement from the Outer Realm Demon was extremely cunning; besides competing for the Seed, killing their kindred, even low-tier kindred, could also offer a chance at survival.

Originally, they could deceive themselves, pray for others’ kindness, but when Chu Xiu effortlessly shattered the shelter’s barrier and appeared before them, those long-suppressed, dark thoughts that could not be seen exploded uncontrollably!

Who could guarantee that no Awakened would seize the chaos to slaughter them? Even those soldiers maintaining order, were they unafraid of death?

What if an Awakened was secretly murdering among them? In this dark and chaotic shelter, who would have the heart to investigate a crime?

Moreover, who could assure that these Awakened wouldn’t use the excuse of battle, deliberately drawing the fight towards the shelter, to massacre ordinary people?

Furthermore, could ordinary people themselves be trusted? Who could ensure that everyone could withstand this hopeless panic without attacking others?

In an instant, the entire shelter turned into a prisoner’s dilemma of mutual suspicion, where, facing the despair of having to kill others or die themselves, even the stalwart-minded would collapse!

Chu Xiu’s appearance, in the most direct manner, detonated this fear, known to all but mentioned by none!