The Whole Sect Forced Me to Die, So I Went Berserk and Killed Them All - Chapter 30:

Chapter 30: Kill the Body, Destroy the Soul

“Hahaha, exhilarating!”

As the ghost carriage slammed Lin Zhi and Hu Yanlie aside, a wild, arrogant laugh erupted.

Shen Lian burst out of the carriage, leaping into the sky.

Before Lin Zhi and Hu Yanlie could react, his furious palms and violent fists rained down like a storm. The air distorted, birds scattered, and the power of his strikes merged with terrifying Daoist energy, sending the two Heavenly Feather Sect Peak Masters high into the clouds.

Boom!

Thunder roared across the sky, winds surged, clouds churned.

“Ah—!”

With two shrill screams, Lin Zhi and Hu Yanlie plummeted from the heavens.

Crash—

As they struck the ground, the rocks beneath them split into fragments.

Their faces were bloodied, their bones shattered, reduced to broken husks under Shen Lian’s relentless assault.

“This is the strength of Heavenly Feather Sect’s Five Peak Masters? These are the dogs the old lantern places his hopes on? Hahaha! What a damn joke!”

Scoffing, Shen Lian spun his folding fan and floated gracefully down before them.

“Shen… Shen Lian… how… is it you…”

“N-No… impossible… how could your cultivation be… so terrifying…”

Staring in disbelief at the one who had just crippled them, Lin Zhi and Hu Yanlie couldn’t believe it was that lowly, cowardly simp once trampled on by the entire sect.

“Let me guess, you’re both shocked I showed up here, right?”

Shen Lian didn’t spare them a glance as he turned his back and spoke coolly.

“Explaining to lapdogs like you would be a waste of breath. Just know that after today, your names will vanish from this world.”

Lin Zhi coughed blood, struggling to lift a trembling arm. He forced out, “Shen Lian… you… dare betray the sect? Aren’t you afraid the old ancestor or your seven Senior Sisters will find out?”

“A washed-up old fool, seven white-eyed wolves, and a eunuch dog—what kind of pathetic lineup is that? You think I, Shen Lian, would care? Before you worry about others, better consider your own ending today!”

Shen Lian spun around, folded his fan, and unleashed his Spiritual Might in a thunderous blast.

In the next moment, the Dantian Seas of the two men were utterly shattered.

“AH—!”

Their screams tore through the sky as the backlash from the Spiritual Pressure ravaged every inch of their bodies.

“Painful, isn’t it? Good. Now you know what it felt like when you targeted me. All I’m doing is returning the favor.”

“With your Dantian shattered, your centuries of cultivation vanish with it. Your bodies and souls will age rapidly. I wonder, are you regretting helping those seven white-eyed wolves frame me?”

Hu Yanlie’s bloodshot eyes glared at him. “You… bastard… you’ll die horribly! The old ancestor was right… you’re a walking disaster!”

“A disaster, huh? Hahahaha…!”

Shen Lian laughed coldly.

“When I raised Heavenly Feather Sect from a third-rate sect to its current glory, no one called me a disaster!”

“When I offered the sect spirit veins and spirit treasures, no one called me a disaster!”

“When I found secret realm entrances to expand our borders, no one called me a disaster!”

“When I pulled you trash out of the mud, gave you wealth and power, made you taste the life of superiority—none of you said I was a disaster!”

“But now that I’m putting you insects back in your rightful place, suddenly I’m a disaster?”

“You still dare speak the twisted doctrines the old lantern and those white-eyed wolves fed you?!”

“Listen well—Heavenly Feather Sect was built by ME! Without me, you wouldn’t even be qualified to enter the Monster Beast Mountain Range!”

“If I could give you everything, I also have the right to take it all away!”

“When you turned against me for some so-called Child of Destiny…”

“When you used the dirtiest tricks to torment me without reason…”

“Your fates were sealed! Dogs belong on all fours, not pretending to be human! I was too naive to think beasts could be tamed into people.”

“But since you all say I’m a disaster, fine—I’ll embrace it!”

“Hilarious. Truly laughable! I was so naïve it makes me want to laugh! HAHAHAHAHA—!”

Shen Lian’s near-maniacal laughter shook Lin Zhi and Hu Yanlie to their core.

They never imagined that the worthless loser would rise again—like this.

“Shen Lian! Think about your Master… would she want to see you like this?!”

Lin Zhi made a final desperate plea, invoking Shen Yunchu in hopes of awakening his ‘conscience.’

But Shen Lian remained unmoved. “Why should I care what others think? The people I kill, the people I protect—that’s for me to decide!”

“You mutts think just saying a few names will make me hesitate? You overestimate yourselves.”

He stomped the ground.

Boom—

The earth split three meters deep, dropping Lin Zhi and Hu Yanlie into a pit.

As time passed, their once-powerful bodies began to wither and age at a visible rate.

Shen Lian sat leisurely by the pit’s edge, lightly fanning himself. “Watching you age and die of exhaustion… now that’s a pleasure worth savoring.”

“You…”

Hu Yanlie tried to raise his hand but saw his arm shriveling rapidly.

A wave of fatigue overwhelmed him.

He turned his head to look at Lin Zhi—already a withered old man on the verge of collapse.

Death crept over them. Fear spread through their bodies like poison.

The two lay face-down in the pit, staring at each other in silence.

Never had they imagined that mighty Void Refining Realm cultivators like them… would end like this.

Just then, a pill rolled into the pit. It gave off a strong medicinal fragrance.

“This is a pill that extends life by 100 days. If you swallow it, you might have a chance to start over. But there’s only one. Think of it as the last bit of mercy from me to you dogs.”

Hearing that, the two men—who’d closed their eyes to accept death—suddenly lit up, dragging their ruined bodies toward the pill.

“Don’t even think about splitting it. Miss even a bit, and the effect is lost.”

At those words, both looked up in disbelief.

And when they saw Shen Lian’s cold smile above them, one phrase echoed in their minds:

Kill the body, destroy the soul.

But even knowing this was psychological torture, they still fought with all they had to reach that pill.

“Ah…”

“Ugh…”

Their brain cells began deteriorating, their ability to speak fading. All that remained was the instinct to survive.

They wriggled desperately toward the pill, crawling like corpses.

From Shen Lian’s view, the two of them looked like dried-up maggots writhing through the dirt.

Finally, as Hu Yanlie opened his mouth and neared the pill, his eyes went blank. He stopped breathing.

Lin Zhi saw it and a surge of joy flashed across his fading mind.

With the last of his strength, he shoved the mud-covered pill into his mouth.

But he no longer had the strength to swallow it.

“Ah… ah… ah…”

He tried to gulp it down, but his aged intestines and shriveled throat resisted his will.

Cough—ugh…

In the end, he spat out the pill and slumped beside it—lifeless.

“Hmph.”

Confirming both were dead, Shen Lian let out a cold snort and turned back to his ghost carriage.

With this rabble dealt with, his next target was the sealed Demonic Cavern a thousand kilometers away.

“Today, let the world witness the rebirth of Shen Lian.”

With that, he leapt into the carriage, speeding toward his final destination.