I died young at the start, but I'm reincarnated with unlimited skill points!

South entrance of the outer city street.

A centurion of the Zhenfu Division led twenty imperial guards on orders to clean up Lane 17 of South Street.

The centurion's name is Zhou Tiezhu. He is thirty-two years old this year and has been a member of the Imperial Guard for eight years.

Eight years ago, he was a farmer who was conscripted into the Zhenfu Division.

During his eight years in the Zhenfu Division, he learned to kill, to watch others die without blinking, and to obey orders.

But the first three days of the massive cleanup made him realize that he seemed to have forgotten something.

He himself was only human.

"Lord Centurion, we've arrived at Lane Seventeen."

His deputy behind him gave a low reminder.

Zhou Tiezhu nodded and gestured for his men to disperse.

Then he saw the scene in the alley.

stunned.

Everyone in the alley came out.

Men, women, the elderly, and children.

No, there are no children.

The children are all gone.

Zhou Tiezhu later learned that before the explosion, the old people in the alley had sent away all the children under the age of fifteen.

They were sent to the resistance settlement outside the city.

As they were leaving, an old woman holding her grandson said something.

"Grandma will go and change your world. Grow up well and take care of Grandma for a while longer."

At this moment, the alley was filled with adults.

They did not carry any weapons, nor did they make any gesture of resistance.

They simply stood at their respective doorsteps, silently watching the imperial guards at the alley entrance.

Thousands upon thousands of eyes.

There was no fear or hatred in those eyes.

There was only an extremely calm and composed acceptance.

It's like someone who has made all the preparations and is waiting for the final command.

Zhou Tiezhu's hand rested on the hilt of the knife, but he hesitated to pull it out.

Because he was at the very front of the crowd, he saw a face.

She was a woman in her forties, wearing a faded coarse cloth dress.

Zhou Tiezhu knew her.

That was his neighbor, Sister Wang, who lived in the next alley.

The year his wife gave birth, she had a difficult childbirth, and it was Sister-in-law Wang who ran ten miles to find a midwife.

After the baby was born, Sister-in-law Wang brought over a basket of eggs, saying it was to help the new mother recover.

In that instant, Zhou Tiezhu's mind went blank.

He looked down at his hand gripping the hilt of the knife.

That hand was trembling.

"Lord Baihu?"

His deputy urged him on from behind.

Zhou Tiezhu did not move.

"Lord Centurion, the orders from above are..."

"I know what the order is."

Zhou Tiezhu's voice was so hoarse it didn't sound like his own.

He remained silent for a few moments.

Then he did the most disobedient thing he had ever done in his life.

"Clang—"

He drew the sword from his waist and threw it on the ground.

The sound of metal striking the bluestone slabs was unusually crisp in the quiet alley.

There was a brief silence.

"Clang."

His deputy behind him threw down the knife.

"Clang, clang, clang..."

One knife after another fell to the ground.

The twenty guards neatly laid down all their weapons at the entrance of Lane 17 on South Street.

The silent mortals in the alley watched this scene; no one cheered, and no one applauded.

Sister-in-law Wang gently wiped her eyes and then nodded to Zhou Tiezhu.

Zhou Tiezhu stood there, suddenly feeling that the wind was a bit fresher than usual today.

The feeling was exactly the same as that night when Zhao Heng looked up at the sky outside the mine.

……

The imperial guards lowered their swords.

But people never stop moving forward.

The place they were going to was not the alleyway or the street.

Instead, they were the remaining strongholds of the evil spirits in the center of the city.

Although the spiritual energy storm in the capital killed most of the demons, some Foundation Establishment stage demons still managed to escape to the outer city's outskirts and eke out a living.

Blood Crossing's "rather kill a million" order is enforced by these remaining evil spirits.

Now, mortals from the seventy-two streets and alleys outside the capital are converging on these demonic strongholds.

Millions of people flowed in, like seventy-two tributaries merging into a great river.

Silent, resolute, and unstoppable.

Those remaining Foundation Establishment stage demons stood atop the stronghold, watching the dark mass of people surging below, and for the first time felt a chill run down their spines.

How many can they kill?

Ten thousand? One hundred thousand?

There are millions, two million, and still more ordinary people!

Moreover, these mortals are not here to fight.

They're here to die.

Suicide is their weapon.

A demon at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage desperately broke through the stronghold and flew out of the city.

It doesn't want to die here.

It did not want to perish together with a group of mortals.

But it flew less than three miles.

"Buzz—!!!"

A pure white storm of spiritual energy exploded behind it.

Countless white pillars of light converged into a sea, creating a second spiritual storm outside the capital city.

The demon that broke through the encirclement was swept by the aftershocks of the spiritual energy storm. Dozens of cracks appeared on the surface of its demonic body, and it fell to the wilderness outside the city with a howl.

It lay on the ground, convulsing, its vertical pupils filled with disbelief.

"These lunatics... these damn lunatics..."

It couldn't understand it.

For tens of thousands of years, mortals have only two states in the face of evil.

Kneel down if you're alive, or lie down if you're dead.

When did they learn the third one?!

I'll die standing up, and you'll be buried with me!

……

at the same time.

The entire territory of Dali.

The towns that had completed the first round of detonation in the first three days began the second round.

The first explosion purified the local demonic energy and killed the evil spirits guarding the area.

However, the demonic energy was not completely eliminated; it was only reduced by 70%.

Although the remaining 30% of demonic energy was insufficient for the demons to survive, it was still slowly eroding the heavens and earth.

As a result, more ordinary people stepped forward.

This time, there's no need for gongs or secret codes.

Those ordinary people who witnessed the blue sky in the first round of detonation spontaneously started a new round of detonation.

The elderly, terminally ill patients, and the lonely people who have lost all their relatives in blood donation.

They walked to the place where the demonic energy was most concentrated, sat down, and closed their eyes.

No organizer forced them.

No one told them they had to die.

They simply felt that if their lives could make that blue sky a little bigger and a little clearer.

Then it's worth it.

The net that Su Yu wove is no longer needed.

Because mortals themselves have become a larger web.

A net woven from awakened will, spreading throughout the entire Great Li!

This network has no central hub, no leader, and no nodes that can be destroyed.

Every mortal is a knot in the internet.

Every knot has its own will.

You can kill a person, but you can't kill an awakening.

For tens of thousands of years, evil forces have used their butcher's knife to try to completely domesticate mortals into beasts that only know fear, thinking that by severing their spiritual roots, they would cut off any possibility of resistance.

But they will never understand.

The most terrifying power in this world is not the magical arts of immortals that can move mountains and fill seas, but the faint firefly hidden deep in the mud, willing to burn its bones and blood for its descendants.

So what if I don't have immortal bones? So what if I have a mortal body?

When these millions of ants sacrifice their lives to straighten the spine that has been broken for tens of thousands of years, that is the most magnificent power of heaven and earth!