154: Chapter 154 The Interception Before Death Valley

"The road to Yellow Springs is long... Living beings, stay away..."

An emotionless voice echoed in the red fog.

Immediately after.

Out of the mist directly in front of Lin Ye, a tall figure slowly walked out.

He wore an oversized black raincoat, its hem stained with mud and black blood.

Holding a tattered black umbrella in his hand.

The brim of the umbrella was pulled down extremely low.

Behind him, the mist churned like boiling water.

One after another, figures of the Black Raincoat Monsters walked out.

Ten, twenty, fifty.

A full hundred eerie figures wearing Black Raincoat Monsters!

They formed a semi-circular encirclement, trapping Lin Ye and the other three tightly in the center.

In the hands of every Black Raincoat Monsters, they gripped a thick black iron chain.

One end of the iron chains was in their hands, while the other end sank into the purplish-black soil underground.

"Yellow Springs Market."

Lin Ye's gaze was icy.

He recognized these outfits; they were identical to the ones he had encountered before in the Jiangzhou air-raid shelter.

However, the aura of the hundred Black Raincoat Monsters before him was more than ten times more terrifying than the four in the air-raid shelter combined!

"Death squad left behind to cover the rear?" Lin Ye sneered.

The tall Black Raincoat Monsters standing at the very front slowly raised his head.

Beneath the shadow of the hood.

It revealed a pale, bloated face without any expression.

Only the whites of his eyes remained, and his mouth was sewn shut with a coarse black thread.

The mechanically synthesized voice came from some kind of sound-transmission talisman on his chest.

"By order of The Big Boss, no one is allowed to approach Death Valley. Violators... will be executed without mercy."

As the words fell.

The hundred Black Raincoat Monsters simultaneously waved the black iron chains in their hands.

"Clatter——"

The harsh sound of metal friction resounded through the clouds.

Those iron chains that had sunk into the ground were whipped out, densely covered with barbs.

Impaled on every barb was a semi-transparent living soul with a painful expression!

They were using living human souls to refine this soul-locking grand formation!

At this critical juncture.

The air in front of Lin Ye distorted slightly.

A familiar semi-transparent light blue light screen popped up.

[Ding! Large living corpse soul-locking formation (Hundred Ghosts Yin-locking Bureau) detected. The current environment is extremely dangerous.]

["My Lord, Please Behave Yourself" System has been triggered. Facing this group of ignorant internet cult death squad members, please make a choice:]

[Option A: Of the thirty-six stratagems, running away is the best. The opponent is numerous, and a wise man does not fight when the odds are against him. Immediately throw out 100,000 underworld banknotes as toll money, shout "Brothers, do us a favor", and then turn around and run with the wives.]

Reward: [Jiangzhou Mountain-Running Pig] title.

Consequence: Hunted down by a hundred Black Raincoat Monsters to the outskirts of Ten Thousand Mountains, losing all face. Lose eligibility to enter the underground palace.]

[Option B: Cyber transcendence, speaker tactic. Pull out a high-power outdoor speaker from the backpack and play the rock version of Great Compassion Mantra. Attempt to reform this group of living corpses with music, making them put down the butcher knife and become Buddhas on the spot.]

Reward: [One Merit Wooden Fish] (striking it can produce Gatling gun sound effects).]

Consequence: Enrage the living corpse horde. Instantly hacked into pieces by a hundred soul-locking iron chains.]

[Option C: Pure Yang Qi domain, thunder and fire supreme. No jokes, no survivors, directly urge the ultimate foundation of the century-old lightning-struck wood core, cooperating with Pure Yang Dao Body and Golden Light Divine Incantation.]

Chop these hundred Black Raincoat Monsters along with the soul-locking formation behind them all into dregs, demonstrating the absolute military force of Lins Funeral Shop.]

Reward: [Dragon-Seeking Acupoint-Dotting Compass] (Upgraded version, can explore the trend of the underground palace's dragon veins), Husband points 3500.]

Lin Ye glanced at the panel.

These three options required no hesitation at all.

A and B were completely here for laughs.

Deep within Ten Thousand Mountains, facing the core death squad of Yellow Springs Market.

The only retreat was to slaughter right through them.

"System. I choose C."

Lin Ye chanted silently in his heart.

The moment the option was confirmed.

The aura on his body changed completely.

That black tactical assault jacket fluttered without wind, and on his well-built skin surface, those golden-red Pure Yang runes surfaced once again.

The surrounding dark red mist emitted a sizzling burning sound the moment it came into contact with this Pure Yang Qi.

"Since your The Big Boss is hiding in the back acting like a turtle with its head pulled in."

Lin Ye held the lightning-struck peach wood sword in his right hand, and pinched a [Taiyi Heavenly Thunder Talisman] with his left hand.

"Then I will first dismantle his threshold!"

"Kill!"

The tall Black Raincoat Monsters opposite let out a shrill roar.

One hundred black iron chains hanging with living souls carried a suffocating chilling aura.

Enveloping Lin Ye and the other three tightly from all directions.

The soul-locking formation activated!

At this moment, the air seemed to be completely drained.

Ayugu's complexion turned pale.

She felt that her soul was about to be pulled out of her body by this terrifying suction force.

"Leng Yue, protect Ayugu. Frost Star, fire at will."

Lin Ye's voice sounded very steady amidst the piercing sound of the chains.

He stepped forward with his left foot.

Nine Purple Gang Steps initiated!

"Heaven and Earth Xuanzong, the root of all Qi. Cultivated through hundreds of millions of kalpas, prove my divine powers!"

The incantation of Golden Light Divine Incantation exploded in the dark red mist.

Lin Ye slapped the Taiyi Heavenly Thunder Talisman in his hand onto the blade of the lightning-struck peach wood sword.

This dharma sword, fused with the top-grade lightning-struck wood core, erupted with unprecedentedly terrifying might at this moment.

A purple-golden pillar of light shot straight into the clouds from the tip of the sword, forcefully tearing apart the dark red mist shrouding their heads.

"Break!"

Lin Ye gripped the sword with both hands, using himself as the center, and swung a 360-degree circular sword Qi all around.

Authentic Nine Heavens True Thunder mixed with Pure Yang True Fire transformed into a purple-golden thunder tsunami, fiercely crashing into the overwhelming black iron chain net.

"Rumble——!"

The deafening explosion resounded throughout the entire outer perimeter of Death Valley.

Even the ground was shaking violently.

Those indestructible soul-locking iron chains, the moment they came into contact with the thunder tsunami, were like fragile popsicles encountering thousands of degrees of high temperature.

Fracturing inch by inch.

Melting into molten iron.

Those semi-transparent living souls hanging on the iron chains, under the baptism of thunder and fire, let out sighs of relief.

Turning into dots of white light, completely dissipating.

The powerful backlash force was transmitted along the iron chains.

The dozens of Black Raincoat Monsters standing at the very front didn't even have time to scream before their bodies exploded directly from the inside.

Foul-smelling black blood and rotting flesh splashed all over the ground.

"My turn!"

Frost Star shrieked with excitement.

The pink figure instantly rushed into the crowd of Black Raincoat Monsters who were not yet completely dead.

The dark blue bone knife pulled out streaks of fatal cold radiance in the air.

She didn't need defense at all.

Any iron chains or fists approaching her would be frozen into ice dregs the moment they touched the layer of extreme cold Nether Corpse Qi on her skin surface.

Hand falls, blade drops.

The heads of the Black Raincoat Monsters rolled to the ground like balls.

While hacking, Frost Star greedily absorbed their scattered Yin Qi.

Like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.

Leng Yue stood in place without moving.

She propped up a dark red karmic fire barrier, protecting Ayugu within it.

She watched the Black Raincoat Monsters turn into flying ash under Lin Ye's sword, her eyes filled with disdain.

"Such trash, how dare they block my Husband's path."

In less than three minutes.

The hundred aggressive Black Raincoat Monsters death squad members.

Had already been completely slaughtered.

The ground was full of charred broken limbs and un-dried black blood.

That leading tall Black Raincoat Monsters, at this moment, had only half a body left.

He collapsed in the mud, stepped on the chest by Lin Ye with one foot.

Pure Yang True Fire was slowly burning his wounds.

"You... you cannot win against The Big Boss..."

The sound-transmission talisman on the chest of the Black Raincoat Monsters emitted intermittent current sounds.

"That bronze coffin... has already... already entered the depths of the dead valley... the grand formation... has opened..."

Lin Ye's gaze was icy.

With a flick of his sword tip, he directly pierced the sound-transmission talisman.

"Noisy."

The body of the Black Raincoat Monsters turned into a puff of black smoke and dissipated.

[Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing Option C.]

[Extremely hardcore crushing of Yellow Springs Market rear-guard death squad. Reward: [Dragon-Seeking Acupoint-Dotting Compass] (Upgraded version) x1, Husband points 3500 have been issued to the account.]

The system's prompt tone sounded in his mind.

Lin Ye withdrew his long sword.

Took out the newly acquired [Dragon-Seeking Acupoint-Dotting Compass] from the inventory.

This upgraded compass was forged entirely from a rare black ink jade.

The magnetic needle in the heavenly pool presented a dark golden color.

Lin Ye injected a trace of True Qi into the compass.

The dark golden pointer began to spin frantically.

Then, the pointer suddenly stopped, pointing straight at a direction in the deepest part of the thick fog.

There, the drag mark covered with black frost disappeared at the entrance of a huge canyon.

Lin Ye walked along the direction of the pointer.

When he reached the edge of the canyon entrance, his pupils suddenly constricted.

On the two steep cliff walls hundreds of meters high on both sides of the canyon.

Two extremely deep gullies were impressively left behind.

Those were marks forcefully gouged out by incomparably thick iron chains.

And at the edge of one of the gullies.

A palm-sized bronze fragment was stuck.

The fragment was carved with ancient, intricate cloud-thunder patterns, exuding an aura of extreme ominousness sufficient to make the soul tremble.

"As expected."

Lin Ye dug out that bronze fragment, holding it in his hand to examine.

"What they were carrying was not an ordinary coffin at all."

He raised his head, looking toward the bottomless depths of Death Valley completely swallowed by the dark red thick fog.

"Where on earth did The Big Boss of Yellow Springs Market dig out such a fatal gadget."