181: Chapter 181 The Great Heavenly Dragon

"Boom—!!!"

The moment Lin Ye's voice fell,

a muffled thunderclap suddenly rang out in the originally clear sky of Jiangzhou City!

Immediately after,

the ground of the entire Taiping Old Street began to tremble violently and uncontrollably.

The celadon teacups on the tea table emitted a "clattering, clattering" collision sound, and tea spilled all over the table.

A terrifying coercive aura swept over from the end of the old street!

"Crack! Crack!"

Outside the Funeral Shop, those aged bluestone slabs began to crack inch by inch under this invisible coercive aura.

The already withered and yellow trees on both sides of the street rapidly turned to ashes at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This was not ghostly Qi.

Instead, it was a very pure, overbearing, and xenophobic—holy light.

Three gigantic white cross light projections forcefully tore open the clouds above Jiangzhou and hovered above Taiping Old Street.

The dazzling white light illuminated this gloomy old street as bright as day.

Even the air was permeated with a strong scent of burning incense and myrrh.

"They're here!"

Bai Yu was so frightened that he crawled directly under the tea table, shaking all over like a chaff-sifting sieve.

Fatty Wang was also drained of all color, gripping the edge of the table so tightly that he found it difficult even to breathe.

For ordinary people and low-level cultivators like them, a demigod-level coercive aura of this magnitude was simply a dimensional reduction strike; just taking one glance felt as though their souls were about to be ignited.

Helena's face was even paler.

She had once been an enforcer of this power, so she knew better than anyone what this represented.

"Lord... Cardinal... It really is them..."

Helena's legs went soft, and she instinctively wanted to kneel.

That was a rule of the Church deeply rooted in her subconscious for decades.

But just the moment her knees were about to touch the ground,

a warm and powerful hand steadily supported her arm.

"What are you kneeling for?"

Lin Ye's voice sounded beside her ear.

"My, Lin Ye's people, can only kneel to me in this lifetime."

"As for those old pansies in red skirts floating in the sky outside, are they even worthy?"

Lin Ye gave Helena a pull and hauled her up.

He bit the remaining half of the deep-fried dough stick in his mouth, shoved one hand into his hoodie pocket, strode forward with his long legs, and walked unhurriedly to the glass front door of the Funeral Shop.

"Clatter!"

The door was shoved open by him.

With the deep-fried dough stick clamped in his mouth and wearing flip-flops, Lin Ye stood slouching on the steps of the Funeral Shop just like that.

Facing the overwhelming holy light coercive aura, he didn't even blink an eye.

The Qi of the Pure Yang Dao Body circulated automatically, brutally blocking the sacred magic trying to invade his body three feet away.

At this time,

three kilometers outside the perimeter of Taiping Old Street,

the special operations agents of The Ninth Bureau, who had set up the highest-level cordon, were staring fixedly at this scene through military binoculars.

Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan gripped the binoculars with both hands.

"He's crazy... Lin Ye is really standing there alone! It's one thing that he's not running, but he's actually still eating a deep-fried dough stick?!"

Deputy Director Gao Guoliang beside her was also covered in cold sweat.

"Those are three Cardinals! If any one of them casts a forbidden spell, half of our Jiangzhou City will have to be rebuilt."

"Just what trump card does Lin Ye have to dare be so arrogant?!"

Above the sky,

the three cross light projections gradually solidified.

Three Western old men wearing gorgeous dark-gold-trimmed red clerical robes, tall crowns, and holding pure gold scepters looked down condescendingly like gods upon Lin Ye standing on the steps below.

The three of them had different appearances, but their eyes all revealed the exact same extreme arrogance.

The Cardinal standing in the middle stared coldly at Lin Ye with his azure-blue eyes and slowly spoke.

Amplified by magic, his voice rolled and echoed like thunder across the sky of Jiangzhou.

"Filthy Eastern heretic."

"You have blasphemed the great truth, auctioned off the sacred holy artifact, and imprisoned the servant of God."

"Now, hand over the holy artifact of the Church, hand over that nun Helena who betrayed her faith..."

"Then, kneel before God's cross and wash away your sins with your soul and blood."

"Otherwise, we shall represent the great Lord, descend divine punishment, and completely erase this dilapidated temple of yours—filled with filth and demonic aura—along with this street from the world!"

This speech was uttered with righteous indignation, maxing out the pretentiousness.

Coupled with the three huge holy cross lights behind them, it truly had the oppressive feeling of doomsday and divine judgment.

Many of the Jiangzhou cultivators hiding in the distance could no longer withstand this coercive aura and lay on the ground shivering.

Meanwhile, Lin Ye leisurely swallowed the remaining half of the deep-fried dough stick in his mouth.

Then, right in front of the three demigod-level Cardinals, he ungracefully let out a burp.

"Burp—"

Although the sound wasn't loud, it was exceptionally clear on the dead-silent old street.

The expressions of the three Cardinals instantly turned gloomy.

This was blatant contempt!

Just as Lin Ye was about to open his mouth to retort,

the air in front of him suddenly distorted violently like water ripples.

that long-absent translucent system panel popped out accompanied by a crisp "ding."

[Ding! Detected extremely high-tier Western hostile targets (Cardinals × 3) acting aggressively and pretentiously in front of the host.]

[The "My Lord, Please Behave Yourself" System has been triggered. As the head manager of Lin's Funeral Shop, facing such idle deities who crossed the ocean to smash the place up, please make a choice befitting your identity:]

[Option A: Kneel and receive baptism, Lord, Amen.

A wise man submits to circumstances; immediately kneel on both knees, cross your hands in front of your chest, present Helena and the twin wives with both hands, and shout three times, "Hallelujah, ask the Lord for forgiveness."

Reward: [Traitor's Cross]. After wearing it, automatically become a loyal running dog of the Western Holy See.

Consequence: The host's Dao heart shatters and everyone abandons them, after which they are struck on the spot into a lump of charred carbon by the angry heavenly thunder of Great Xia.]

[Option B: Cyber translation, academic debate.

Resolve hostility with extremely high emotional intelligence, pull out your mobile phone, use Baidu Translate, and with fluent London accent combined with breakdance RAP, attempt to defeat the three Cardinals in a rap battle, reform them with love and peace, and discuss the religious differences between China and the West.

Reward: One [Grammy Platinum Microphone] (comes with automatic auto-tune function).

Consequence: The Cardinals feel you are insulting their intelligence, fly into a rage out of humiliation, and blast you along with the microphone into slag with a forbidden spell.]

[Option C: Manifesting holiness before others, violent hospitality.

Great Xia does not feed idle Western deities! What these three old hags are wearing and carrying are all top-grade funerary objects. Directly open the Jiuyou Domain, fully open the Pure Yang Dao Body, strip off their red robes, and confiscate their scepters.

In the most humiliating way, escort them into the basement to ride stationary bikes and reunite with the Blood High Priest!]

[Reward: Pure Yang Dao Body exclusive advanced Dharma form—[Great Wei Heavenly Dragon] (can summon a ten-thousand-zhang golden dragon condensed from Pure Yang True Fire to crush all falsehoods), 8,000 Husband Points.]