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Tie Youxia stood on the bridge, his face devoid of any emotion.

"To find this place before me and calculate my time, you are indeed extraordinary."

His hand rested on the dark hilt of the knife at his waist.

"But killing an official is, in any case, a capital offense!"

An invisible, sharp aura surged from his body, locking onto Shen Mo in the pavilion across the ten-zhang-wide water.

Shen Mo stood up from the futon and turned around.

This was the first time he had faced the chief constable of the Six Doors directly.

"You decide what is good and what is evil within the Six Doors."

"Then who will judge the Six Doors?"

Shen Mo asked.

The sound was calm, yet it stopped the wind on the lake.

"Han Tong and his ilk are the first, but they will certainly not be the last."

Tie Youxia's expression darkened slightly.

He was certainly aware of the corruption within the Six Doors.

Over the years, he had thought about making corrections, but how many of those people in the court were clean?

"I only enforce the law."

Tie Youxia's answer was resolute.

He drew his sword an inch from its sheath.

Clang—!

That wasn't the sound of metal, but a sharp, tearing sound that ripped through eardrums.

"Today, I will bring you to justice."

His aura surged wildly, and the lake water around the stone bridge beneath his feet was compressed by the invisible force, moving without wind and rippling with fear.

"Your laws are too weak."

Shen Mo silently gave instructions to the ancient mirror in his mind.

"Consume 2000 Good and Evil Points to upgrade the Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill."

In an instant, the words on the ancient mirror in his mind were completely agitated.

[Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill: Beginner] → [Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill: Tenth Level (Mastery)]

Good/Evil Points: 65

A terrifying force, indescribable in words and heavy enough to crush mountains and rivers, suddenly awakened within his silent limbs and bones.

His Taoist robe remained unmoved, and his posture remained unchanged.

But the air around him began to groan under the strain, visibly distorting and folding.

The stone slabs underfoot began to crack.

Tie Youxia's resolute face finally changed.

His senses were screaming warnings!

The aura emanating from the cyan Taoist robe opposite him expanded a hundredfold, even a thousandfold, in an instant!

That's not an increase in internal strength.

That was a qualitative change.

It is a qualitative change from an unfathomable martial arts master to an ancient ferocious beast wearing human skin.

That was pure, absolute power!

"This...this is impossible!"

For the first time, a tremor appeared in Tie Youxia's voice.

He had roamed the martial world for thirty years and had never seen such a terrifying aura.

Even when I had seen Huang Yaoshi, the "Eastern Heretic," from afar during the Mount Hua Sword Tournament, I did not feel this kind of pressure.

Shen Mo took a step forward and stood at the edge of the pavilion.

He casually threw a punch at Tie Youxia from a distance of ten zhang.

There are no special moves.

It is simply the purest expression of power.

The force of the punch had already arrived before the wind even swept across the lake!

The air in front of Tie Youxia was instantly sucked out and compressed, forming a white wall of air that was visible to the naked eye. Behind that wall of air, the calm lake surface was pressed down by the unparalleled fist pressure, creating a huge dent several meters in diameter!

The lake water surged wildly to both sides, revealing the black muddy bottom of the lake.

"drink!"

Tie Youxia let out the strongest roar of his life, pouring all his power into the blade without reservation. The "Soul Chaser Blade" drew a decisive arc and slashed horizontally.

The blade struck the air wall.

The imagined clang of metal on metal did not occur.

Click.

A barely audible, crisp sound.

This precious sword, which had been with him for thirty years and had drunk the blood of countless vicious people, couldn't even last a breath before it silently broke in two.

The broken edge was as smooth as a mirror.

Immediately afterwards, the devastating wall of air slammed into his chest.

He flew backward like a broken sack struck by an invisible giant hammer.

The sturdy stone bridge railings along the way were shattered into pieces by his body, and stone chips rained down.

boom!

Tie Youxia's body finally crashed into the lake shore, collapsing a cluster of pavilions and towers, and billowing dust rose into the sky, obscuring the sun.

In front of the pavilion in the middle of the lake.

The long bridge connecting the two banks began to show spiderweb-like cracks starting from the middle.

The cracks spread rapidly.

Finally, with a deafening roar, the entire stone bridge collapsed and crashed into the lake, creating towering waves.

Shen Mo remained standing on the edge of the broken bridge, his blue robes fluttering in the wind. The earth-shattering punch from just now had nothing to do with him.

Amidst the ruins.

Coughing up blood, Tie Youxia struggled to his feet from the rubble, using the broken half of his sword for support.

The bones in the arm that held the knife were completely shattered, and the entire arm hung limply.

His internal organs were wracked with excruciating pain with every breath.

He looked at the solitary figure in the pavilion in the middle of the lake, and in his eyes, the belief he had built up throughout his life was crumbling inch by inch.

Fear crept into the chief constable's heart for the first time.

He finally understood.

The person before me has transcended the boundaries of the martial arts world.

This is a monster who can single-handedly overturn the entire martial arts world.

The silent, calm words clearly crossed the wide lake, reaching his ears and his blank mind.

"Now, I will give you a new law."

"From this day forward, the Six Doors are at my service."

"Your mission is to use all the power of the Six Doors to gather all the martial arts manuals in the world and deliver them to me."

Shen Mo paused for a moment.

You can refuse.

"However, the price was that everyone in the Six Doors, from the chief constable to the lowest-ranking constable, from the headquarters in Lin'an to the most remote prefectures and counties, was wiped out."

Tie Youxia fell silent.

He knew this was not a threat.

This is a fact.

Given the strength they just displayed, it's only a matter of time before they wipe out the entire Six Doors.

"I……"

Tie Youxia opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't say no.

He thought of the innocent constables in the Six Doors, and those brothers who were still solving cases for the people.

They shouldn't have died because of their own decisions.

I promise you.

Tie Youxia lowered his head.