Chapter 1416: Love and Heart Shattered

"That’s enough." Teacher Ye said slowly,

"Whether it has power or not doesn't matter. As long as it represents 【Judgment】, that is enough..."

Han Meng was silent for a moment, but eventually handed his pistol to Teacher Ye.

"Thank you."

Teacher Ye passed Han Meng and walked slowly out of the laboratory.

Just then,

He seemed to remember something:

"And thank you for your verdict."

"I just did the right thing." Han Meng replied calmly.

Teacher Ye looked at him for a long time and smiled bitterly:

"If you had been born three hundred years earlier... how good would that have been."

Teacher Ye didn't say anything more. He pushed open the laboratory door and walked up the steps. The surface was already covered in the frost of the Forbidden Sea. His blood-red shirt fluttered in the biting cold wind, and his back looked miserable yet resolute.

The storm of thoughts swirled in his eyes, and his life had entered its final countdown.

"Children..."

"Teacher is here."

……

Boom—!!

An earth-shattering roar erupted from the ruins. A giant mantis swept out from the dust, moving so fast it left an afterimage. With a flash of cold light, a Pu family member was cut in half at the waist in an instant!

Blood sprayed into the air like brilliant fireworks. Pu Chanchan, who was nearby, had red eyes:

"Damn it!!!"

"Why... why can't we catch it no matter what?!"

After killing one person instantly, the giant mantis turned into lightning again, mixed into the dust, and disappeared from everyone’s sight.

The Pu family members, who were scattered in various directions, gathered toward the center nervously, their eyes fixed on different directions, trying to catch a glimpse of the mantis calamity before they were cut in half themselves.

Pu Chanchan whispered, hurricanes surrounding them, fire erupting from the void, and elements moving nimbly and powerfully under her command...

But even so, she still couldn't confront a violent Seventh-Order fused individual head-on.

And within a radius of less than one kilometer, there were three other calamities from the Forbidden Sea, wreaking havoc all around.

The current situation was no longer just about being attacked from both sides; the South Sea Realm had completely become a home for calamities. They no longer had to consider how to hold this place, but how to survive and break out...

"It’s here!!!"

Someone shouted. Everyone turned to look, but before they could see the mantis’s movements, the person who shouted had already been cut into two halves. The bloody upper body flew in the air, splashing everyone with scarlet.

Pu Chanchan was about to act, but the mantis’s cold light drew an arc and slashed toward her!

An invisible storm swept across the field.

The next second, the mantis’s body froze in place as if it had lost consciousness.

Pu Chanchan’s pupils stared fixedly at the mantis blade that was close at hand. Soaked in cold sweat, she looked back slowly... and saw a blood-covered figure holding a gun, staggering toward them.

"Ye Mu!!" Seeing that person, Pu Chanchan’s heart sank to the bottom.

A high-level member of the Fusion Faction was already so difficult to deal with; now that Ye Mu had come in person, they were likely doomed.

Teacher Ye didn't look at Pu Chanchan and the others. His gaze was fixed on the frozen mantis from beginning to end... His gaze was full of heartache, self-reproach, and bitterness.

Almost every member of the Fusion Faction had undergone fusion surgery performed by his own hands.

Or rather...

It was the Fusion Faction created by Si Zai through his hands.

From the moment they completed the fusion surgery, they were closely connected to their respective world-ending calamities. That was the suppression from the very top of the bloodline. Even if Si Zai just had a thought, it could cause the calamities they fused with to lose control, making their lives worse than death.

And "Slaying the Evil" was to cut off the consciousness of the calamity, but while gaining power, it also deepened the connection between the calamity itself and the body, making people more like the calamity.

This also meant that the higher the degree of Slaying the Evil, the deeper they were controlled by the corresponding world-ending calamity.

This was the power Teacher Ye personally gave them,

And it was also the curse Teacher Ye personally gave them.

"Mi Bo..."

"I’m sorry."

The storm of thoughts swirled in Teacher Ye’s hands, temporarily blocking Si Zai’s control over Mi Bo. The giant mantis began to shrink visibly, gradually returning to human form...

Mi Bo had slain too much evil and was too deeply affected by the world-ending calamity. Even though he had been restored to human form by Teacher Ye, he was still in a state of uncontrollable violence, rushing toward Teacher Ye with scarlet eyes.

Looking at that familiar face, Teacher Ye’s memories flooded back...

He clearly remembered how he had picked him up from the Gray Realm, how he had let him complete the fusion, remembered praising his innate talent, and teaching him hand-in-hand how to control his power... Those memories that Teacher Ye once regarded as treasures were now like sharp swords, stabbing back into him, leaving his heart dripping with blood.

Tears slid down Teacher Ye’s cheeks, and he slowly raised the gun in his hand.

"Tea... cher... Ye..." On the face of the ferocious Mi Bo, a final trace of clarity appeared. He called out to Teacher Ye in pain. In Teacher Ye’s eyes, he seemed to have turned back into the child who used to raise his hand eagerly in class.

"Class is over... Mi Bo."

Teacher Ye pulled the trigger.

Bang—!!

A bullet pierced Mi Bo’s skull. He fell heavily in front of Teacher Ye, losing all signs of life.

A wisp of blue smoke drifted from the gun barrel, and Teacher Ye’s hand holding the gun trembled slightly...

Everything, everything, was caused by him.

Now, he had to personally judge the sins he had created.

Even if this process was like being cut by a thousand knives, heart-wrenching... this was the punishment he deserved.

Drops of tears晕开 on the frozen ground. Teacher Ye, wearing his blood-stained shirt, raised his hand and gently closed Mi Bo’s eyes, which were still wide open in death. He said gently, "Mi Bo... soon, we will come to keep you company."

He stood up and staggered toward the next direction.

Pu Chanchan and the others watched this scene in a daze. It wasn't until Teacher Ye walked far away that they came back to their senses... They didn't know what had happened, nor why the Fusion Faction had caused internal strife after backstabbing the South Sea... But that blood-stained, lonely shirt had been deeply imprinted in their hearts.

Mi Bo was just the beginning.

The skeletal gray wolf rampaging through the ruins again, the algae dragon moving freely in the seawater of the Forbidden Sea, the purple fox moving rapidly among the mountains of corpses...

And as the high-level fused individuals were all killed by Teacher Ye’s own hands, the children who had only initially slain evil or had not yet started were the true torture.

"Teacher Ye... I didn't want to kill anyone, I really... I don't know what happened..."

"Teacher Ye... are we born as bad seeds?"

Linglong, having briefly regained her senses, knelt before Teacher Ye. Beside her lay a mountain of civilian corpses, her face etched with guilt and self-reproach... She covered her eyes with her hands, sobbing uncontrollably.

Teacher Ye’s body trembled slightly, and he closed his eyes in agony...

"Si Zai..."

"You will surely pay the price..."

On this day,

tears and gunfire rang out in a continuous symphony,

love and hearts were torn to pieces.