The undead have descended upon the world? I possess a sword that can cleave the heavens once more!

The words fell.

Liu Musheng was about to say something when he suddenly froze.

He stopped trying to put his hands together again, stared blankly up at the sky, his mouth slightly open, as if he had seen something incredible.

Seeing Liu Musheng's expression, the Desire Corpse Seed, which had already broken through to the Void Realm, also revealed a mocking expression.

"Hehehe."

"You're scared out of your wits? You're giving up already?"

"You, the director of the Dayun Temple Investigation Bureau, don't seem to have much mental fortitude either."

"But it's alright."

"Negative emotions provided by the eighth-level torchbearer."

"It must be incredibly delicious!"

"Hehehe!"

Its sticky laughter echoed and lingered throughout the entire Da Yun No. 1 Middle School.

In the classroom of Grade 11 (1) in the teaching building of Dayun No.1 Middle School.

Xiao Qiu stared blankly at the demonic figure that blotted out the sky outside, her eyes gradually welling up with despair and tears streaming down her cheeks.

The image of those boys and girls, just like her, wearing the uniform of Dayun No. 1 Middle School, being brutally crushed was still playing on repeat in her mind, every detail still vivid in her memory.

And their screams after being swept away by the black tentacles—those sounds seemed to be etched into her eardrums, playing back over and over again, impossible to turn off.

Moreover, even the superhuman who can create fire tornadoes can't do anything to him.

Even the man who could stand in the sky and summon wind and fire was powerless before the black giant hundreds of meters tall.

Now, who can save them?

Xiaoxiao trembled and sobbed beside her, seemingly trying to alleviate her fear of death in this way.

Her voice wasn't loud, but it was muffled, a broken, incoherent sob squeezed from deep in her throat.

Her hands gripped Xiaoqiu's clothes tightly, her nails piercing through the thin fabric of the school uniform and digging into Xiaoqiu's waist, but Xiaoqiu felt no pain.

The pain I feel now is nothing compared to the impending death.

At that moment, Xiao Qiu's blank and desperate eyes suddenly moved.

Her gaze unconsciously rose, past the shoulders of the black giant, past the broken windows, and looked into the distance.

"That is..."

She murmured unconsciously.

On a bright afternoon, seven stars arranged in a dipper shape suddenly became incredibly bright!

Meanwhile, some students also saw a figure quietly floating in mid-air in another direction.

A student took out their phone and turned the camera magnification to the maximum.

On the phone screen, only a slightly blurry human figure can be seen.

I couldn't see his face or his features clearly, but I could see his wildly flowing white hair and his right hand raised high!

He appeared to be holding a long, black, rectangular object in his right hand.

Although the image was blurry, the shape of the object, its angle, and the direction it pointed towards the sky all evoked the same thought in the minds of everyone who saw it—

sword.

"Look!" shouted the student holding up his phone, "There's another superpowered person! We still have hope!"

His shouts were like the last ray of light before nightfall.

Those who were slumped on the ground raised their heads, those who were hiding under the table crawled out, and those who had covered their ears let go.

All eyes turned to the window at the same time, to that direction and that figure.

Xiao Qiu also heard what her classmate shouted.

She looked at the phone screen, at the blurry figure, and a glimmer of hope unconsciously welled up in her heart!

Has anyone come to rescue us?

That's what she thought.

Then, her pupils suddenly contracted, and her mouth opened slightly, as if she had remembered something.

A name slipped out of her throat automatically, as light as a sigh, yet as heavy as a prayer.

"Celebrity sister..."

She couldn't help but murmur, her voice so soft only she could hear, "We have to defeat that monster, Celebrity Sister!"

At this moment, the seven stars suddenly began to flicker violently, their silvery-white light flashing on and off, and enormous energy was surging and gathering in the sky, as if responding to Xiao Qiu's prayer.

Meanwhile, the illusory corpse of lust was still laughing heartily.

A black giant, hundreds of meters tall, stands above Dayun No. 1 Middle School, its laughter echoing down from above, carrying an arrogant air of looking down upon all living beings.

It casually waved its hand, and a huge black column of air, hundreds of meters long and nearly a hundred meters in radius, condensed in mid-air. A shadow fell from the sky, shrouding Dayun No.1 Middle School and the surrounding area in a hazy dark hue.

The lustful corpse stared intently at the tiny, ant-like figure below with its icy, savage, and cruel eyes.

"Hehehe!" Its voice rolled down from the sky, "Let me lead you into the boundless purgatory!"

"I hope you can hold out a little longer and give me more negative emotions!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Musheng glanced at the seven stars that were flashing faster and faster, and a strange expression appeared on his pale face, which was slightly tired from excessive exertion.

He raised an eyebrow and said calmly.

"Oh? Is that so?"

"I'm so scared."

"I beg for mercy."

"Could you please let me off the hook?"

Upon hearing this, the lustful corpse seed in the Void Realm took Liu Musheng's words seriously.

Its intelligence was already limited, and it was overwhelmed by the surge of power, so it couldn't understand the perfunctory and sarcastic tone in Liu Musheng's words.

Its expression became even more flamboyant and arrogant.

"Hehehe! Liu Musheng, you'll beg for mercy too!"

"This is the first time I've ever seen a torchbearer beg for mercy! And a bureau chief at that!"

"The director of the Dayun City Investigation Bureau is begging for mercy before me!" Its voice carried a twisted, almost insane sense of satisfaction. "However, since you've begged for mercy, I'll give you a chance."

"You give up resisting, let me parasitize you—"

"grown ups!"

Li Liebiao's voice suddenly appeared again, and he said urgently.

"He's stalling for time! Kill him already! Do it now!"

Upon hearing this, the lustful corpse immediately frowned and said, "Shut up!"

"Now I am nine—"

He hadn't finished speaking.

It seemed to suddenly realize something, and abruptly looked up, gazing in the direction directly above it.

At that moment, seven silvery-white stars simultaneously released an overwhelming, blindingly bright light that seemed to set the entire sky ablaze.

"That is..." its voice trailed off.

But it was too late.

Seven silvery-white, dazzling starlight poured down without reservation, intertwining, merging, entwining, and converging in mid-air, transforming into a silvery-white sword aura with a long trail.

The star falls, its light cold; all things return to dust!

It was incredibly magnificent, and incredibly dangerous!

Sensing the extremely dazzling aura of stars, the face of the Lustful Corpse Species suddenly turned ferocious.

"Are you kidding me?!"

Its sound exploded from the sky, making the windows in the teaching building of Dayun No.1 Middle School buzz.

"I'm a ninth-rank expert!"

The next moment, a surge of energy from the dark domain appeared.

The hundreds-of-meters-tall black pillar of energy suddenly dissipated, and the hundreds-of-meters-tall, demon-like figure also vanished from the real world in an instant!

Seeing this, Liu Musheng frowned and immediately realized what was happening.

It tried to hide in the dark domain to avoid the dazzling sword energy!

But a pity.

This is all in vain.

As a characteristic formed after the Seven Luminaries Sword of the Star Pivot is perfected, Starfall carries all the effects of the seven sword moves of the Seven Luminaries Sword of the Star Pivot!

Even the Thousand-Faced God's Descendant, which possessed its own dimensional barrier, could not escape the Starfall, let alone an ordinary Lustful Corpse that had just broken through to the Void Phase.

Within the Dark Realm.

The boundless fog surged in all directions, and the figure of the Lustful Corpse Species appeared within it.

But before it could even catch its breath or think, the dazzling silver-white sword energy had already filled its entire field of vision.

The next instant, it lost all sense of its own existence.

It raised its right hand, watching its body begin to dissolve at an extremely fast speed, silently and irreversibly turning into grains of dust.

The dust particles drifted away in the black mist of the Dark Domain, like a fine, silvery-white rain of light, exceptionally beautiful.

"How is that possible..."

"I'm a ninth-rank..."

At that moment, Li Liebiao's voice appeared again.

This time, he no longer suppressed or concealed his feelings.

His voice was sharp and sarcastic, filled with long-suppressed anger.

"You useless piece of trash! I told you to hurry up!"

"Still acting all high and mighty!"

"Now look what's happened, I'm going to have to die with you!!!"

"He clearly had a chance to kill Liu Musheng and escape!!!"

"This is an opportunity that labor and management worked so hard to create!!!"

"But you, you idiot, wasted it!!!"

"Useless, useless, useless!!!"

"You're the worst of the worst!!!"

"You son of a bitch"

Listening to Li Liebiao's scathing rebuke, the sticky voice surprisingly did not offer any rebuttal.

It remained silent for a few seconds amidst Li Liebiao's curses, and then spoke.

"You're right, maybe I'm the most useless one..."

Before the words were finished, they vanished completely, leaving nothing behind in the world.

Although both turn into dust, the effect of a meteor shower is different from the destruction of the Pivot Sword Intent. This is a pure, massive scouring of stellar power!

With the immense power of the stars, the ninth-order Desire Corpse Seed was forcibly dissolved into dust!

Liu Musheng witnessed this scene as soon as he entered the Dark Domain, and he breathed a long sigh of relief: "As expected of the Torchbearer who can deal with the Divine Descent Body..."

Then he shook his head and looked at the place where the lustful corpse seed had dissipated: "This is what happens when you consume too much negative emotion."

Meanwhile, Wu You, who was in mid-air in the real world, also received a notification from the Sword Manual.

Experience points +30000.

He slowly lowered the sword he had been holding high and exhaled a breath of stale air.

The breath he exhaled was rather long, carrying a hint of barely perceptible fatigue.

Although he can now use Starfall without taking damage, it still consumes a lot of energy.

Then, the black longsword silently vanished from his palm, and his figure disappeared from the spot.

After completing their mission, the seven silvery-white stars in the sky disappeared one by one.

The sunlight regained its previous brightness.

The bright yellow light, tinged with a hint of heat, once again bathed the entire land, the school buildings with their broken window frames, and the faces of the students who peered out of their windows, their faces still streaked with tears.

The campus of Dayun No.1 Middle School was quiet for about a second.

Then, it boiled.

"Yay!!!" A boy leaned most of his body out of a third-floor window, waving a school uniform that looked like it belonged to someone else, like a victory flag. "The monster is gone! It must have been defeated!"

"Superpowered individuals—awesome!!!"

His voice echoed throughout the building, creating even louder waves of sound.

"It must have been that white light just now!!!"

"The monster vanished as soon as the white light appeared!"

"Did you see that?! That white light! It struck down from the sky!"

Another voice came from the next classroom, loud and clear.

Many more people collapsed to the ground, tears streaming from their eyes, murmuring, "We survived... Waaah—"

But unlike the tears before, this time the tears were not from the shadow of death, but from the joy of life.

Liu Musheng's figure also disappeared from the dark domain and reappeared in mid-air above Dayun No.1 Middle School.

His face was still pale, and the color had not fully returned to his lips, but the anxiety on his face had disappeared.

The next moment, Wu You appeared beside him.

Liu Musheng nodded to Wu You, his movements slow but solemn.

Then, he stretched out his right hand and gave a thumbs up.

"ox!"

Wu You smiled, his voice still calm and cold: "Still hesitant, still hesitant."

He is always happy when praised; being genuinely affirmed is always a pleasant thing.

At this moment, Xiao Qiu, a student in Class 1 of Grade 11 at Dayun No.1 Middle School, squeezed to the window and leaned half her body out.

The wind blew her hair, drying the tear stains on her face. Her eyes were still red, but the despair in her pupils was gone.

He looked at the white-haired figure he had met once before in mid-air and shouted.

"Xiaoxiao! Xiaoxiao!"

"Come quick!"

Xiaoxiao had stopped sobbing by now. Hearing Xiaoqiu's call, she wiped her face and squeezed past Xiaoqiu, their heads peeking out of the window side by side.

Liu Musheng withdrew his hand mid-air, his expression showing a hint of shame.

He sighed, his voice filled with self-reproach: "This time, my hesitation almost led to disaster. Luckily, you were there, otherwise..."

Wu You stopped being modest and nodded: "It's my duty. You're too kind, Director Liu."

"However, the most urgent task is to first clear out the other concentrated areas of the Lustful Corpse Seeds."

Upon hearing this, Liu Musheng nodded: "That's true."

After saying that, he seemed to have heard something, glanced in the direction of the Dayun No. 1 Middle School teaching building, his lips twitched, then he turned his head and winked at Wu You: "Then I'll go first."

Then, his figure stepped into the air in one direction.

Seeing this, Wu You raised an eyebrow and looked in the direction of the Dayun No. 1 Middle School teaching building.

Every window was packed with people, a dense crowd.

"Take me under your wing, boss!" a boy shouted hoarsely.

"Goddess! This is my only goddess from now on!" another boy chimed in, his voice filled with fervor.

"I want to be a superpowered person too!!!" a girl shouted, cupping her hands around her mouth.

"I want to join the organization! Please take me in!!!"

Among them, Wu You also spotted two somewhat familiar figures.

They were the two girls I bumped into at Lin's Soup Dumplings shop this morning.

They waved and shouted excitedly at Wu You:

"Celebrity sister, thank you! Thank you for saving us!!"

This was Xiaoxiao's shout, her voice filled with the excitement of surviving a disaster.

"Celebrity sister, I want to become someone like you who can protect everyone when I grow up!!!"

This is what Xiao Qiu shouted, her voice carrying a certain determination.

Hearing their shouts, Wu You smiled.

Do you want to be someone who protects everyone?

The sentence flashed through Wu You's mind, and then he looked down at his chest.

The small golden torch badge on his chest reflected a bright light.

Then, he raised his head, his lips moving slightly.

A calm, quiet voice, audible only to Xiao Qiu, rang clearly in her ears.

"If you want to protect everyone, then go and take the martial arts exam. Good luck!"

Strength is essential if you want to protect yourself and others.

Without spontaneous awakening, the only option at this stage is to follow the path of a martial artist, strengthen the body and temper the spirit, and then strive to become an ability user.

Only in this way can we have the power to protect ourselves and everyone else.

After saying that, Wu You didn't hesitate any longer and disappeared from the spot.

Upon hearing Wu You's voice, Xiao Qiu's expression shifted from confusion to shock, and then to ecstasy.

Her face flushed instantly, her eyes widened, and her pupils reflected the now empty space.

She gripped Xiaoxiao's shoulders tightly and shook her, saying excitedly.

"Xiaoxiao! Did you hear me?!"

"She just spoke to me! She just spoke to me!"

Xiaoxiao was being shaken violently and could only stammer, "What did you hear?"

"Didn't the celebrity sister just disappear?"

"No, she just spoke to me! She encouraged me to take the martial arts exam and wished me success!"

Upon hearing this, Xiaoxiao was even more confused: "Huh??? I didn't hear anything..."

Just then, a girl with a ponytail squeezed to the front: "What celebrity sister?"

This time, Xiaoxiao wasn't dizzy anymore. She and Xiaoqiu turned their heads at the same time, looked at the girl with the ponytail, and said in unison, "That superpowered person who just saved us is her!!!"

"ah???"

. . . . . .

On the rooftop of an unnamed building.

A slender figure seemed to sense something. It suddenly looked up at the sky in a certain direction, and countless layers of golden rings appeared in its eyes.

"It'll be soon, it'll be soon."

"We will meet again."

Then, the layers of golden rings in its eyes gradually disappeared.

Then it shook its head, seemingly unaware of what it had just said.

It muttered to itself, a hint of confusion in its voice.

"What's wrong? Why have you been feeling so absent-minded lately?"

"Do you have any clues, Lin Zhili?"

The air was still for a few seconds, then the wind blew from the rooftop, ruffling a few strands of white hair at its temples.

A moment later, the only response was two words laced with sarcasm:

"hehe."

The figure on the rooftop remained silent for a moment, then vanished from the spot.