[ You have killed the White Snake Sage, gaining 2800 dimensional points. ]
[ You have obtained 1 d-class special point. ]
[ The White Snake Sage and related faction quests for Dragon Ground Cave are partially removed; some questlines will no longer be able to close. ]
A purple drop card materialized from beneath the enormous white snake's head.
[ You have obtained Drop Card (Purple) * 1. ]
[ Killing Intent Ripple has improved; current: Lv3 (1074/1200). ]
Poof~
The purple Killing Intent Ripple once again burned fiercely around Bai Cangshu's body; the color of the ripple was already close to red.
Bai Cangshu could foresee that when Killing Intent Ripple broke through to LV4, it would likely be when this powerful ability once again crossed its limits. At that point, he would very likely be directly engulfed by the Killing Intent Ripple, but at the same time, his strength would also break through its current threshold.
At least, by then, purely from the perspective of energy mastery, even without leveraging the soul power within his body, the intensity of his aura, solely relying on a Killing Intent Ripple that reached LV4, would be entirely sufficient to enter the [Strong] tier.
Bai Cangshu pressed the White Snake's massive remains into the opening at the base of the Golden Tree. All around, scarlet rot curses were scattered, because that woman had bloomed the Scarlet Rot flower, nearly two kilometers in every direction had become barren.
If not for the Golden Tree having already grown to over a thousand meters in height, and its underground Roots extending an unknown distance, perhaps the Golden Tree would have been killed by this Scarlet Rot curse by now.
Pffft!
The headless, gigantic remains of the White Snake Sage touched the Roots of the Golden Tree, and a strong golden radiance began to emanate. Because the supreme will had not yet descended, the concept of [Death] had not yet disappeared.
What the Golden Tree was doing now was almost like competing with the Pure Land of this world for "customers," absorbing various intense life forces and then distributing them in the form of blessings.
All who received the Golden Tree's blessing became citizens of the golden law. After their deaths, these people would no longer enter the Underworld and the Pure Land, but would instead return to the Golden Tree in the form of [Return to Tree], completing a cycle.
Intense life force was absorbed, and the Golden Tree continued to sprout branches at a visible rate, extending higher into the sky. The radiance of the golden law vibrated with the branches, continuously drifting in all directions.
From the corner of his eye, Bai Cangshu saw that half of the First Hokage, Senju Hashirama's body was now entangled by scarlet rot. The most disgusting part of this "shitty technique" was that once contaminated, no matter how strong one's life force, it would eventually be dragged down.
Aside from actually dying once, only a very few powers could suppress it.
Senju Hashirama was in extremely poor condition at this moment; the thousand-meter-tall giant Buddha statue had collapsed, and he was clutching his forehead, the scarlet rot curse on his jaw continuously disturbing his mind.
Bai Cangshu smiled freely, and leisurely crushed the drop card.
Purple radiance lingered on his fingertips.
[ You have opened Purple Drop Card · White Snake Sage. ]
[ You have obtained 3000 dimensional points. ]
[ You have obtained Material · Dragon Transformation Snake Head (Extremely Rare). ]
[ You have obtained Ability Scroll · Dragon Ground Cave Sage Arts Cultivation Method (Purple). ]
Perhaps because Bai Cangshu had just triggered [Uncertainty of Luck] dozens or hundreds of times when he killed the White Snake Sage with [Instant Prison Kill], his luck was extremely high at this moment.
Opening the drop card directly yielded two purple rewards, one being a material and the other a Sage Arts cultivation scroll.
Both were very valuable hard currency.
The Golden Tree continued to grow, and the wounds corroded by the scarlet rot were also healing. Bai Cangshu, taking advantage of the wounds not yet being fully covered, lightly leaped into them.
The moment he entered, he saw only an ancient and enormous toad, holding a young man wearing a Uchiha Clan jacket. The instant it saw Bai Cangshu appear, the great toad, accompanied by smoke, vanished with the young man.
However, Bai Cangshu still saw the clear golden glow in the young man's opened eyes.
—
Uchiha Itachi protected Pingzhong Hua, following behind Ping Zhongshi and Uchiha Shisui. The group, a moment behind Tao Bai Bai, also rushed back to the Land of Fire.
Uchiha Itachi's gaze subtly scrutinized Zhi Shui and Ping Zhongshi, while Pingzhong Hua kept her head down, her emotions unreadable.
Aside from Orochimaru, who had left the team midway to prepare to implant a Sharingan into himself, the atmosphere among the four-person group was now quite strange, making [Chaos], who remained in this team, feel very odd.
The two who should have been a couple no longer spoke to each other, and the two Uchiha, who were supposed to be like brothers, also spoke less and less.
For Reincarnators, there was rarely a situation of "those with different paths do not conspire together." All Reincarnators acted based on interest; even the most violent and cruel Reincarnators would occasionally cooperate with those who were upright and just.
But story characters were different. At this moment, Chaos clearly felt that this pair of brothers and this couple had developed irreconcilable contradictions over the future of the [Golden Law].
He didn't know what had happened, nor whether Tao Bai Bai had fallen under Uchiha Shisui's [Heavenly Hand Power], but this temporary squad, in his opinion, was on the verge of collapse. He worried that at some point, perhaps these two from the Uchiha Clan would engage in an internal conflict.
Chaos secretly placed something into his and Catherine's team space to transmit a message.
"Stop!"
Uchiha Shisui suddenly raised his right hand and spoke, stopping the team from moving forward.
Chaos hadn't yet realized what was happening, but Uchiha Itachi had already stepped forward two paces, activating his three-tomoe Sharingan, also looking down at the human town below the mountain ridge.
It was a small town built along a large river, relying on superior geographical resources.
Judging by its size, the town's population should exceed two thousand, considerably larger than the town where Ping Zhongshi and Pingzhong Hua originally resided.
But at this moment, there was no sign of life in the town, only a large group of men and women with golden glows in their eyes, silently killing.
This group of people held various things that could not even be called weapons: hoes, sickles, stones, wooden sticks, even wine bottles and various bottles and jars.
They silently surrounded another group of terrified people in the town center, then continuously brought their weapons down.
A large amount of blood quickly flowed. From the bloodstains in other parts of the town, it could be seen that this was not the first place of the atrocity; a large number of corpses already lay everywhere.
"This is…"
Chaos watched this scene and quickly realized something. Not only him, but even without intelligence on the [golden law], Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi both keenly sensed something.
"They are killing… those who haven't joined the golden law…"
Uchiha Shisui's pupils trembled. This cruel scene deeply shocked him, especially because those people, judging by their attire and appearance, were not combatants—those elderly, weak, women, and children were now holding anything they could to take lives, silently and coldly taking the lives of others.
Uchiha Shisui trembled slightly, unable to control himself, fearing the golden glow in those people's eyes.
It was precisely because they weren't holding weapons, precisely because they weren't trained professionals in taking lives, that he felt such fear.
Perhaps after the golden law truly descended, this world could escape the threat of death, but before that, these citizens of the golden law were being manipulated by some will, eliminating all non-golden law citizens!
"Zhi Shui, is this the world you want…?"
Uchiha Itachi watched this scene, terrifyingly calm. Pingzhong Hua also stared at her husband's eyes, her face pale.
Ping Zhongshi's pupils trembled, but in the end, the golden glow in them grew even more dazzling.
"For the greater good, for the future, for a future where no one will die, perhaps we can only…"
Smack!
Ping Zhongshi turned his face slightly. He saw that his wife's hand was already bleeding profusely, and her pale face was flushed with an unhealthy red due to extreme agitation.
Pingzhong Hua could hardly believe that the person before her was still the warm man who had once held a war orphan who had lost her family in the ruins, and risked mission failure to bring that little girl back.
"Shi!"
"Here, there is no greater good, no future…"
"Only death, that's all."
The woman sobbed uncontrollably.