179: Chapter 179 The Cultivation of a Seasoned Veteran

"Lin Ye! Are you leaving or not?!"

Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan stormed in and let out a roar at Lin Ye.

Her beautiful phoenix eyes were bloodshot, and her chest heaved violently.

"The Ninth Bureau's Skynet radar has already locked onto them. In five hours at most, which is at daybreak tomorrow morning, those three Cardinals will arrive in Jiangzhou City!"

"The Director has already requested reinforcements from the Yanjing headquarters, but that takes time. To minimize casualties, you must immediately take your people and retreat through the underground secret passage. The Ninth Bureau's helicopter is already waiting for you in the suburbs!"

Watching Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan acting as if facing a formidable enemy and burning with anxiety,

Lin Ye grinned with an utter lack of seriousness.

Not only did he ignore the subject of retreat, but he also leisurely walked up to Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan, his gaze sweeping over her tight, fiery figure without any concealment.

"Tsk tsk, Captain Chu. Running over in such a rush in the middle of the night, your tactical windbreaker is almost going to burst open."

"Did The Ninth Bureau buy your uniform a size too small? If a fight breaks out, it's going to expose things quite easily."

Lin Ye's sudden banter left Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan completely dumbfounded.

"You... are you fucking sick in the head?!"

Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan cursed in absolute rage, wishing she could draw the sidearm at her waist and blow away the person in front of her with a single shot.

"What time is it?! You still have the mood to joke around with me?! Those are three demigod-level powerhouses who can unleash city-destroying forbidden spells! Do you think they are those zombies and vengeful spirits you dealt with before?"

"Demigod-level?"

Lin Ye chuckled softly, his gaze gradually turning cold.

"In my eyes, as long as they aren't completely dead yet, they are just corpses waiting to be buried. Since they are corpses, they fall under the jurisdiction of Lins Funeral Shop."

Lin Ye reached out and patted Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan's stiff shoulders, which were tense from anger.

This overbearing action with a hint of appeasement caused Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan's body to tremble instinctively.

"Alright, stop worrying blindly here. Staying up late causes wrinkles for girls, so hurry back and get your beauty sleep."

"Tomorrow morning, the sun will rise as usual. I guarantee that these three old foreign ghosts won't even be able to flip a single bluestone slab on Taiping Old Street, let alone destroy the city."

Watching Lin Ye's completely unfazed expression,

Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan opened her mouth, suddenly not knowing what to say.

"You... are you really sure?" Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan's voice softened.

"I, Lin Ye, never do things I'm not confident about."

Lin Ye turned around and waved his hand.

"Fatty, see the guest out. Close up for the day. Sleep early tonight, get up early tomorrow, and get ready to welcome guests."

Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan was eventually half-pushed, half-persuaded out of the Funeral Shop by Fatty.

Silence was restored in the main hall.

Lin Ye did not immediately go upstairs to sleep.

He walked to the elevator entrance in the backyard and glanced at Helena following behind him.

"Let's go, come downstairs with me and take a look. Let's see how your Western Blood High Priest is doing with his bicycle pedaling."

Helena obediently nodded.

The two took the elevator down to the first floor of the nine nether purgatory tower, ten meters underground.

As soon as the elevator door opened,

A wave of pure spiritual Qi, even denser than yesterday, rushed toward their faces.

Throughout the underground space, the creaking sound of bicycle chains echoed through the skies.

Twelve Western heavy-armored paladins wearing pink floral aprons were currently red-eyed and drenched in sweat, one by one.

Their legs were pedaling spinning bikes frantically as if equipped with a perpetual motion machine.

And in the hamster running wheel at the very front—

The once lofty Blood High Priest Archimonde had completely lost any human appearance.

His scarlet mage robe had turned into tattered rags, and his shoes had long since been lost from running.

Running wildly barefoot inside the wheel, foam began to spill from the corners of his mouth.

"Run! All of you, run faster! If anyone dares to slack off, nobody gets steamed corn buns tonight!"

Ayugu, that little girl, hadn't gone to sleep yet either.

She held a thin leather whip specially made by Miao Territory and sat on a small stool next to the running wheel.

From time to time, she lashed the iron railings, making a crisp sound that scared Archimonde into a full-body shudder, causing him to run even faster.

"Boss, you're here."

Seeing Lin Ye, Ayugu stood up excitedly.

"The holy light magic inside these foreign ghosts is truly abundant! In just one night's effort, the pure spiritual Qi converted is enough for our shop to use for half a year! The furnace of the nine nether purgatory tower is almost full!"

Lin Ye nodded with satisfaction.

He walked up to the running wheel and looked at Archimonde inside, who was so exhausted he was rolling his eyes.

"Lord Archimonde, are you getting used to pedaling these Great Xia fitness equipment?"

Lin Ye asked with a smile, his tone extremely punchable.

Archimonde stumbled inside the running wheel and almost fell.

He grabbed the railing tightly, panting heavily, and stared fixedly at Lin Ye with his bloodshot double pupils.

"Eastern demon... don't be so smug..."

Archimonde's voice was as hoarse as a broken bellows.

"I can feel it... the holy light auras of the three Cardinals have already descended upon Great Xia... They have come with divine judgment..."

"Tomorrow morning... they will raze this place of yours to the ground. I will watch with my own eyes as you are burned to ashes by the holy fire!"

"Tsk tsk tsk."

Lin Ye shook his head, full of sympathy.

"Still dreaming?"

Lin Ye turned his head to look at Helena.

"Helena, go get three spare sets of pink floral aprons, and by the way, have someone custom-order three high-end spinning bikes from the black market."

Helena was stunned for a moment: "Boss, this is..."

Lin Ye grinned, revealing a row of pearly white teeth.

That smile, falling in Archimonde's eyes, was even more terrifying than a devil.

"Tomorrow morning, it's the reserved spot for those three old Cardinals. Being old, running in hamster wheels easily leads to sudden death; riding bicycles is better for health preservation."

"You—!"

Archimonde was so angry that he spat out a mouthful of old blood and fainted directly inside the running wheel.

"Such poor psychological endurance."

Lin Ye waved his hand.

"Ayugu, splash him awake with water and keep him running. As long as he isn't dead, he can't stop."

After instructing all this, Lin Ye turned around and left the basement with satisfaction.

Just as Lin Ye returned to his room to sleep,

In the suburbs of Jiangzhou City.

Amidst the night,

Three terrifying cross holy lights turned into three sharp swords cutting through the darkness, forcefully tearing apart the dark clouds over Jiangzhou's sky.

The holy light dissipated.

Three white-haired old men wearing luxurious dark-gold-trimmed red robes and holding pure gold scepters hovered mid-air.

Behind them, there were no tens of thousands of troops.

But just the coercion exuded by the three of them instantly turned all evil and gloomy things within tens of kilometers below into ashes.

That was a terrifying aura truly belonging to the demigod level.

"This filthy Eastern city."

One of the Cardinals standing in the middle slightly frowned, his eyes full of arrogance and disgust toward the Eastern land.

He raised the scepter in his hand, pointing directly at the center of Jiangzhou City, in the direction of Taiping Old Street.

"I have already felt Archimonde's humiliated despair, and... the aura of our Holy See's lost sacred artifact."

Another Cardinal spoke coldly.

"After dawn."

"Use the blood of this city to wash away the disgrace brought to us by the heretics."

The three Cardinals looked at each other.

Afterwards, they turned into three streaks of light, heading straight toward Lins Funeral Shop with an unmatched, arrogant posture.

And in the second-floor bedroom,

Lin Ye was hugging Leng Yue and Frost Star, sleeping very soundly.

Nothing is more important than my sleep.

No matter if you are a Cardinal or God in person,

Tomorrow morning, you all have to honestly line up to receive your aprons!