#434Chapter 409: Yan Luo vs. Serious PunchAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
Bai Cangshu looked at Saitama, who had appeared before him, and nodded without hesitation.
Saitama looked at the ruined city, the humans who had been 'revived' like walking corpses, the screaming female reporter behind him, and Fubuki, who was pale but still clinging to Tao Bai Bai.
He slowly raised his fist.
"Don't! Mr. Saitama!"
Lilith instinctively tried to stop him, but regretted it as soon as she spoke. She didn't know why she was stopping him. After thinking for a moment, she continued,
"These people are temporarily alive because of Mr. Tao Bai Bai's ability. Perhaps if you kill Mr. Tao Bai Bai, they will die again..."
"And... Mr. Tao Bai Bai saved us before..."
She initially tried to persuade Saitama with Logic, but soon couldn't convince herself and started 'talking nonsense'.
Ultimately, she didn't think Tao Bai Bai was a good person; it was just that without this evil and cruel Tao Bai Bai, she wouldn't have been able to survive in this world at all.
After saying a few sentences, Lilith fell silent without Saitama needing to refute her. Her plea for Tao Bai Bai was merely for some selfish desires she couldn't even articulate. Just thinking about those emotions made her feel ashamed, unable to face Short Hair and Loka, who had died tragically in the battle between Tao Bai Bai and the Sage.
Saitama looked at this weak, simple woman, his gaze entirely different from when he looked at Bai Cangshu.
This woman was probably the only 'human-like' existence among the 'kind of group' he had ever seen.
She still retained everything that made a person human.
When encountering danger, she would be afraid, call for help, pray, and cry out for a hero.
When others encountered danger, she had empathy and instinctively wanted to help.
Even though... this group of people and the people of this world were likely not the same species, this woman still risked her life to save Fubuki.
"You, go."
Saitama waved his raised right hand, signaling Lilith to leave; he did not throw that punch.
Then, he looked at the 'deceiver' before him. His eyes were cold; in his view, after Tao Bai Bai destroyed the district, he used the so-called power of a god to help others, which was nothing more than a continued attempt to deceive these people.
To gain the title of a hero.
This behavior was far more twisted than that of professional heroes who only acted for fame and fortune.
He was exploiting the innate human yearning and longing for a 'Hero'.
"Aren't you going to run?"
Saitama clenched his right fist. At this moment, the oppressive feeling in Bai Cangshu's heart reached its peak. Death Intent surged in his chest, and beneath his bloodline, the power of the Yellow Springs surged like never before.
Bai Cangshu's head shake seemed very slow at this moment; he was somewhat unaccustomed to his aging muscles.
But he still clenched his left fist little by little, the Senluo Death Intent continuously condensing. The intense Senluo Death Intent and the Yellow Springs surged together, and in just a breath, that unique and unparalleled characteristic was already triggered.
"King Yama!"
A phantom appeared behind Bai Cangshu, and the surging Yellow Springs seemed to begin to churn.
Fubuki looked surprised and doubtful. She did indeed hear the sound of water colliding, and... it was so cold.
Next to Tao Bai Bai, the temperature dropped visibly, and almost instantly, her breath began to turn into white frost.
This was some kind of ability...
Bai Cangshu suddenly waved his right hand.
Boom!
The extreme speed of an eighth-tier instant pulverized his own right arm, but the swirling gale still blew Fubuki and the black sedan tens of meters away.
"Hide far away, you weaklings~"
Bai Cangshu's voice was hoarse as never before, yet his tone remained uplifted.
Lightning constantly emanated from his severed right arm; his thunder emperor's heart was beating at a speed beyond its limit.
This was the battle he had always dreamed of. As Bai Cangshu did all this, his eyes never left Saitama for a moment. He drove Fubuki and Lilith away, not because of any good intentions.
It was because he truly felt that their presence was somewhat hindering things.
Saitama would most likely not want to affect these two.
Facing Saitama, fleeing was meaningless.
Whether Saitama used a full-power punch or a controlled one, he had the ability to kill him. Therefore...
He wanted to see Saitama's true power!
As Bai Cangshu's hair continuously fell out, various pieces of information about Saitama kept appearing and flooding into his brain.
"Hey, hey, hey, if you die now, we'll be in a lot of trouble..."
Gojo Satoru's voice appeared, but the next moment, it was suppressed by an even grander soul, preventing him from speaking further.
In the pure white consciousness world, Gojo Satoru fell from the edge of the Heart Throne. In his eyes, the jade-like throne was now full of cracks.
"This guy..."
Gojo Satoru perceived Bai Cangshu's will, a soul power so intense that he couldn't get close to it at all. It was clear that the other party had concentrated it to the extreme.
Next, it would likely be the other party's peak strike, the ultimate radiance of his host's existence in the world.
Bai Cangshu's battle intent, like a frenzy, exceeded Gojo Satoru's comprehension. At this moment, he felt the gap between himself and Bai Cangshu. Even though both of them had the self-perception of being natural anomalies.
But in terms of Mental power and willpower in such a desperate situation, he... was inferior to him.
"Heh, I really lost to you..."
Gojo Satoru no longer struggled, looking up as the Heart Throne continuously cracked, falling into the turbulent Yellow Springs.
Suppressing the turmoil in his soul, Bai Cangshu's lips curved into a difficult smile.
He clenched his left fist, and the giant phantom behind him also clenched its fist.
"Ha... now there are no disturbances, Saitama..."
Saitama saw everything. At this moment, Saitama had a kind of 'wisdom' that saw through everything, or rather, intuition.
He didn't want this world to become what it was now.
But when these suddenly appearing individuals were no longer content with trapping him or using him, he lost the right to be a bystander.
This group of people wanted to change him... they wanted to use the life and death of a large number of ordinary people in this world, and the death of another noble soul, to change him.
This was what Saitama found repulsive.
He hated Reincarnators.
"Warning, World Main Storyline has changed."
"World Main Storyline: Survival"
"Task Description: Survive the pursuit of special plot character Saitama."
"Task Reward: Depart this world and obtain A-rank singularity points *1, dimensional points *15000"
"Failure Penalty: None"
Scarlet words refreshed before Bai Cangshu, but he didn't even look, just tightly clenched his left fist.
Killing Intent Ripple surged, causing his body to bleed in various places, and golden energy roared as it condensed.
Haki of the Conqueror was fully Entanglement.
Then came a whoosh.
Beneath his feet, the turbid yellow waters of the Yellow Springs began to appear, and within the phantom behind him, the Yellow Springs stirred up huge waves.
The black phantom raised its left fist, Bai Cangshu raised his left fist, and took a step forward with his right foot towards Saitama.
Intense Killing Intent, wrapped in that icy will of all things silent, and a dense fist intent, condensed behind Bai Cangshu at this instant.
Saitama looked up and saw that as the black phantom clenched its fist, an illusory gate opened—the gate of the underworld, the gate of life and death.
This was a madman obsessed with battle.
This was an anomaly without a human heart.
This was a twisted person who even disregarded his own life.
Saitama suddenly gained a lot of understanding for this guy who called himself Tao Bai Bai.
His own loneliness was completely different from this guy's coldness, but at this moment, he decided to fulfill this madman's last desire.
He clenched his fist, retracted it instantly, and then spoke,
"Killer Move, Serious Punch."
Bai Cangshu's white long hair completely disappeared, and a satisfied smile blossomed on his wrinkled face.
Boom.
As if countless Ghost roared out from the opened gate of the underworld, the black phantom threw a punch, and the aura of death of all things spread out with a roar.
But the next moment, an boundless light and heat permeated the air. Bai Cangshu's pupils dilated, feeling as if all information had been drowned out.
"You have touched the Limiter."
"EX051, you have suffered a conceptual attack, Serious Punch. Performing exemption judgment..."
"Exemption failed."
Crack, amidst the sound of the world shattering, boundless darkness enveloped Bai Cangshu, followed by a giant broccoli appearing in his consciousness. The black phantom began to shatter, and Bai Cangshu's consciousness vanished with it.