148: Chapter 148 Yin Shang

Sword light tore through the gloom.

Lin Ye wasted no words, stepping with the Nine Purple Gang Steps, his figure transforming into an afterimage as he instantly closed in on the air-raid shelter entrance.

"Courting death!"

The four Black Raincoat Monsters let out piercing screeches.

Four rusted soul-hooking iron hooks, carrying foul-smelling black water, locked tightly onto all of Lin Ye's vital acupoints from different angles.

The speed was extremely fast, pulling out four black afterimages in the air.

"Too slow."

Lin Ye sneered, his left hand sweeping out with the lightning-struck peach wood sword.

"Clang!"

The purple-golden heavenly thunder gang qi traced a perfect half-moon arc in mid-air.

Those soul-hooking iron hooks, which were enough to easily tear apart a living person's three souls and seven souls, shattered inch by inch the moment they came into contact with the Pure Yang thunder energy.

Immediately after, Lin Ye brought his right-hand fingers together into a sword finger, and a ball of golden-red flame ignited at his fingertips from the Pure Yang True Blood.

"Break!"

With a single point of his finger.

The Pure Yang True Fire transformed into a fire dragon, directly piercing through the chest of the foremost Black Raincoat Monster.

"Ahhh——"

The hooded face pieced together from countless resentful souls let out a shrill, miserable scream, instantly turning into a pool of foul-smelling pus emitting black smoke on the spot.

Seeing this, the remaining three Black Raincoat Monsters wanted to turn around and flee into the shadows of the air-raid shelter.

"Want to run? Frost Star hasn't had breakfast yet!"

A crisp cry rang out.

A small pink figure leaped up out of thin air.

Frost Star waved that deep-blue bone blade, spinning out an extremely exaggerated whirlwind slash in mid-air.

"Puchi! Puchi!"

Two Black Raincoat Monsters were directly cut in half at the waist.

Frost Star didn't give them any chance to turn into black smoke at all, opening her small mouth and sucking in forcefully.

Those scattered high-rank yin malevolent qi were sucked into her stomach slurp by slurp like noodles.

"Hiccup—— The taste is a bit spoiled, bad review."

The little loli burped and curled her lips in disdain.

The last Black Raincoat Monster had already retreated to the edge of the cave entrance.

Before it even had time to rejoice, a dark red lotus quietly fluttered down onto its head.

[Red Lotus Karmic Fire].

That Black Raincoat Monster was like an ice cream under the scorching sun, melting and evaporating at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving not even a shred of ash behind.

Leng Yue withdrew her finger, walking over to Lin Ye with her slender legs and locking her arm around Lin Ye's.

"Husband, the outside has been cleared."

Her dark golden eyes were filled with an obedient look seeking praise, without the slightest terrifying bearing of a Millennium Drought Demon.

Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan standing in the distance swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

These were four yin malevolent entities!

Looking across The Ninth Bureau, those were monsters that required a fully-staffed special forces team to expend a large amount of depleted uranium rounds to barely suppress.

Lin Ye patted the back of Leng Yue's hand.

"Let's go, into the cave. Today we'll uproot this rat's nest."

The three of them stepped over the black water covering the ground and officially stepped into the air-raid shelter.

Inside the cave it was pitch black, and the temperature was a dozen degrees lower than outside.

The yin qi here had already grown dense to the point of condensing into water droplets.

The air was filled with a moldy earth smell and a strong scent of blood.

The flashlight beam here could at most illuminate less than five meters out.

At the edge of the light, one could vaguely see the remains of those red slogans from thirty years ago lingering on the wall.

"Tap, tap."

The surroundings were dead silent, with only Lin Ye's footsteps echoing in the spacious tunnel.

"Husband, there is a very heavy smell of dead people on the ground."

Leng Yue slightly frowned, that pair of dark golden eyes emitting a faint glow in the darkness.

The degree of filth in this place seriously challenged her cleanliness as an ultimate vicious entity.

She clung tightly to Lin Ye, her fingertips gently scratching and pulling at Lin Ye's palm, as if seeking some kind of comfort.

"Don't be afraid, if your clothes get dirty, big brother will buy you new ones when we go back."

Lin Ye turned his hand to grip her ice-cold, tender little hand, coaxing her in a low voice.

Just in the moment the two of them were speaking.

The cement walls on both sides, which were originally smooth, suddenly emitted a twisting sound.

"Creak... creak..."

Those rough cement surfaces churned violently like a boiling quagmire.

Immediately following, hundreds of pale, bloated arms stretched out densely from the walls!

Some wrists still wore The Ninth Bureau special forces tactical watches, while others were completely withered claws rotted down to the bones.

They waved frantically in the air like seaweed, trying to grab onto all living things.

This was the eerie attack Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan described, which instantly wiped out the first major team of The Ninth Bureau.

"Heeheehee... Stay and accompany us..."

The eerie laughter mixed from countless men, women, old, and young simultaneously rang out from all directions of the air-raid shelter.

The mental pollution was extremely strong.

Frost Star irritably covered her ears.

"So noisy! It affects my digestion!"

She was just preparing to wave her bone blade and go up to slash.

But Lin Ye pressed down on her shoulder.

"Step back. Don't waste your energy on this kind of large-scale yin domain trap."

Lin Ye held the lightning-struck peach wood sword in one hand, while reaching into his backpack with the other.

But before he could make a move, Leng Yue beside him had already stepped out a step ahead.

"Don't let these dirty things touch my husband."

Leng Yue's voice was cold to the extreme, exuding an absolute overbearingness.

Inside her delicate body wrapped in a large windbreaker, an appalling, extremely high temperature suddenly erupted.

A huge dark red red lotus bloomed roaringly beneath the three people's feet!

Karma fire blazing across the land.

There was simply no need for contact.

The moment those hundreds of ghost hands stretching out from the wall were irradiated by the high temperature of the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, they directly let out screams that were shrill to the extreme.

Those arms, as if shocked by electricity, frantically shrank back into the cement walls.

But the rules of the karma fire were merciless.

The flames followed those ghost hands, directly burning into the yin domain space inside the walls.

"Boom boom boom——!"

A series of muffled explosions came from within the walls on both sides.

Large chunks of cement peeled off and smashed onto the ground.

The hundreds of wandering ghosts hiding in the walls were burned completely clean by this single fire of Leng Yue.

The tunnel, which was originally fraught with danger, was instantly cleared out into a spacious avenue.

"My wife's temper is truly more and more to my liking." Lin Ye smiled and pinched Leng Yue's cheek.

Leng Yue smoothly leaned against Lin Ye's shoulder, the murderous intent in her eyes instantly dissipating, replaced by a meek and delicate appearance.

If this scene were seen by those special forces officers of The Ninth Bureau who narrowly escaped death, they would probably doubt life on the spot.

The three of them continued deeper.

After walking about five hundred meters, a huge underground hall appeared ahead of the tunnel.

In the center of the hall, however, grew an eerie "tree".

This tree was fully more than a dozen meters tall, its entire body presenting a sickly purple-black color.

There was no bark on the tree trunk, only dense meridians resembling human blood vessels.

And on the branches hung dozens of "cocoons" tightly wrapped by black vines.

On the surface of several cocoons, the iconic black tactical suits of The Ninth Bureau special forces agents were also exposed.

And beneath that eerie giant tree.

Stood a man wearing an exquisite retro suit and gold-rimmed glasses.

In the man's hand, he toyed with a black folding fan.

He looked at Lin Ye and the other two walking into the hall, the corners of his mouth curving into a morbid smile.

"Lins Funeral Shop, you actually really dare to chase all the way here."

The man's voice was very gentle, but it exuded an extreme chill.

"That life and death contract took quite a bit of my effort; you burning it has given me a huge headache."

Lin Ye held the copper coin sword in one hand, his gaze sweeping over the man twice.

"You are that god-pretending administrator of the Yellow Springs Market?"

The man shook his folding fan and chuckled aloud.

"Administrator? I am merely a merchant doing intermediary business between the yin and yang realms."

"You can call me, Yin Merchant."

He pointed to the hanging "cocoons" above his head.

"The people you want are all right here. However, the living human blood and qi inside their bodies are the best fertilizer for my 'Nine Nether Blood Divine Wood'; pulling them off now, I'm afraid they've all become medicine dregs."

Lin Ye ignored his nonsense.

"How you harvest leeks on the internet, I don't care. But you shouldn't have, above all else, touched the Ghost Market of Jiangzhou and snatched the lightning-struck wood I wanted."

Lin Ye raised his sword tip, pointing directly at the man who called himself Yin Merchant:

"Whatever I, Lin Ye, have my eyes on, whoever touches it dies."

Yin Merchant put away his folding fan, his gaze turning extremely venomous.

"Refusing a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit! In this extremely yin air-raid shelter, my Blood Divine Wood is invincible."

"I'm going to turn your Pure Yang Dao Body into my most perfect collectible!"

With a wave of his hand, the huge purple-black tree emitted a deafening roar.

Countless thick black vines frantically shot toward Lin Ye from all directions.

The tips of the vines were covered in sharp barbs, flashing with a faint blue toxic light.

This was cut from the same cloth as the method of planting wood malevolence on Bai Yu's arm earlier, only more than a hundred times more powerful.

"Playing with wood in front of me?"

Lin Ye sneered.

He casually thrust the lightning-struck peach wood sword into the floor, bit his fingertip, and smeared a streak of Pure Yang True Blood directly onto the sword body.

"Supreme Unity Celestial Venerable, lend power to eradicate demons. Three Yang obscure fires, execute swiftly as commanded!"

Lin Ye stepped on the hilt of the peach wood sword with one foot.

"Boom——"

A circle of Pure Yang True Fire exploded outward around the peach wood sword as the center.

The scorching high temperature instantly swept through the entire underground hall, forcing back all the stabbing black vines.

Once those barbed poisonous vines came into contact with the Pure Yang True Fire, they were like living things encountering a hot iron, emitting piercing screeches and frantically curling up and withering.

"With just this bit of capability, you even dare to act as king of the mountain?"

Lin Ye pulled out the peach wood sword from the ground, his figure like lightning as he charged directly into the sky-filling flying vines.

Wherever the sword blade pointed, it was invincible.

"Blood Divine Wood, strangle him for me!" Yin Merchant frantically waved his folding fan.

A bloody maw split open on the main trunk of the tree, spewing out a green poisonous miasma, attempting to completely submerge Lin Ye.

However, Lin Ye didn't even dodge.

The soul-fixing mirror at his chest emitted a circle of soft cyan light, perfectly isolating all the poisonous miasma outside.

"Now, it's time for me to settle accounts."

Lin Ye's voice rang out in the firelight, as cold and ruthless as King Yama.