193: Chapter 193 Thunderous Cleansing

The car door pushed open.

Lin Ye was wearing that grey hoodie, a pair of black flip-flops on his feet, walking down leisurely with one hand stuffed in his trousers pocket.

"Old Gao, in the middle of the night, the wind at the harbor is strong. Standing on the car roof catching a draft, be careful not to throw your back out."

Lin Ye raised his head and blew a whistle at Deputy Director Gao Guoliang on top of the car.

Seeing this man appear,

Deputy Director Gao Guoliang's heart, which had been in his throat, suddenly settled down like a giant rock landing on the ground.

Without even realizing it himself, he had developed a blind trust in this money-grubbing Funeral Shop owner.

Deputy Director Gao Guoliang jumped down from the roof of the car and walked quickly up to Lin Ye.

"You've finally arrived! The thing on this ghost ship is too sinister; heavy firepower from The Ninth Bureau didn't even make a sound when hit inside."

Covered in sweat from anxiety, Deputy Director Gao Guoliang pointed to the tumbling dark red demon mist ahead.

"Name your price! As long as you can rescue the people and deal with this great demon, you can pick whatever you want from The Ninth Bureau's treasury!"

Lin Ye picked his ear, pulled a cigarette out of his pocket, and held it between his lips.

Beside him, Helena perceptively stepped forward, pulled out a windproof lighter, shielded it from the sea breeze with her palm, and lit the cigarette for him.

Lin Ye took a deep drag and blew out a blue-white smoke ring.

"Old Gao, talking about money hurts feelings. I am a law-abiding citizen of Great Xia, and helping the country solve its troubles is my duty."

Lin Ye spoke with impressive righteous indignation.

Deputy Director Gao Guoliang froze for a moment and looked at him suspiciously. "When did you change your nature, kid?"

"Don't rush, I haven't finished speaking yet."

Lin Ye smiled.

"Saving people is a duty, free of charge."

"But this cruise ship, along with all the legacies, antiques, and magical artifacts left behind by the Sakura Country zaibatsus, plus all the parts from that great demon, are all counted as my personal spoils of war. Your Ninth Bureau isn't allowed to touch a single hair."

"Do you agree?"

Hearing this, Deputy Director Gao Guoliang not only wasn't angry, but instead let out a long sigh of relief.

"Deal! It's a promise! The Ninth Bureau will absolutely not meddle in anything on this ship!"

Deputy Director Gao Guoliang made the decisive call firmly.

"Straightforward."

Lin Ye flicked away the cigarette butt in his hand, his eyes instantly shedding all trace of rogue behavior.

He turned around, facing Deepwater Pier No. 3.

"Captain Chu, have all your people retreat fifty meters outside the edge of the demon mist, turn the anti-aircraft searchlights up all the way, and shine them on the deck of that ship."

"Today, I'll show you what professional ship-dismantling demolition engineering looks like."

Deputy Captain Chu Hongyan did not hesitate for a second and immediately picked up the walkie-talkie to order a retreat.

The Ninth Bureau's armored vehicles and special operatives retreated like a tide, clearing a large open area.

Over a dozen massive searchlight beams converged in unison on the behemoth docked at the berth.

Under the intense light, the miserable state of the cruise ship was completely exposed before everyone.

The hull of this top-tier luxury cruise ship, which cost billions to build, was already covered with pitted holes corroded by strong acid.

On the deck, mountain-like piles of corpses emitted a foul stench.

Some of those corpses were wearing Onmyoji kariginu robes, while others were clad in expensive suits.

But without exception, their bodies were pierced by scarlet fleshy tentacles, impaled in midair like candied hawthorns and swaying with the wind.

At the highest point of the cruise ship, inside the glass dome originally meant for sightseeing,

coiled a terrifying heart as huge as a mountain of flesh.

It was beating rhythmically.

The dark red demon mist covering half the harbor was spewing out precisely from the holes of this heart.

"Squeak squeak squeak squeak—"

Feeling the stimulation of the strong light,

the hundreds upon thousands of corpses on the cruise ship's deck suddenly raised their heads in unison.

Their eyes all turned an eerie dark red, and sharp rat-like screeches issued from their throats.

"Oh no! Those are Flesh Puppets controlled by demon qi!" Deputy Director Gao Guoliang's face paled dramatically as he shouted a warning.

Like a swarm of zombies catching the scent of living humans, those Flesh Puppets surged frantically toward the shore along the cruise ship's gangways and ropes.

They moved extremely fast, crawling on the ground using hands and feet in distorted postures.

Lin Ye stood at the very front, one hand in his hoodie pocket, while his right hand unhurriedly gripped the hilt of the soul-suppressing copper coin sword at his waist.

"Leng Yue, hold the left wing. Don't let these filthy things run into the city and reek up the citizens."

"Frost Star, the right wing is yours. If you see ugly ones, hack them directly. Don't shove just any garbage into your mouth; watch out for an upset stomach and diarrhea."

"Helena, watch from behind. Learn how our Great Xia deals with heretics like this."

Lin Ye distributed tasks methodically, like a mob boss barking orders.

"As you command, Husband."

A chilling murder intent flashed in Leng Yue's dark-gold eyes.

She tapped her toe lightly on the ground, turning into a moon-white afterimage that instantly appeared on the left side of the defensive line.

Her fair, slender hand clutched at the air.

"Boom!"

A wall of dark red Red Lotus Fire over ten meters tall rose abruptly from the ground.

The Flesh Puppets charging toward the left wing turned into black ash flying across the sky the instant they touched the Ultimate Karma Fire.

When a Hanba grows furious, a thousand miles of land turn barren.

Such low-level demonized Flesh Puppets weren't even cannon fodder before her.

"Got it, Brother-in-Law! I'll only pick the fattest meat to eat!"

Frost Star licked her lips excitedly, her pink figure charging straight into the corpse mob on the right wing.

Everywhere she passed, the extremely cold Nether Corpse Qi flared up and spread wildly.

The Flesh Puppets pouncing forward were instantly frozen into crystal-clear ice sculptures.

Weaving among the ice sculptures, Frost Star kicked them to pieces like soccer balls, having a blast.

Seeing that his two wives had controlled the situation,

Lin Ye took a deep breath.

The domineering aura of the Pure Yang Dao Body's third stage burst out at full power without reservation at this moment!

"Rumble!"

The bluestone slabs beneath Lin Ye's feet shattered instantly; his gaze locked tightly onto the giant heart at the highest point of the cruise ship.

To catch bandits, capture the king first.

"I don't have time to play tower defense games with you small-fry today."

Lin Ye drew the soul-suppressing copper coin sword with his right hand.

The sword blade sliced a dual gold-and-red astral energy across the night sky.

"Crack-spark—!"

The sky above Jiangzhou Harbor was instantly torn open.

The sky full of dark clouds was forcibly dispersed by a violent power of thunder.

Countless purple-gold wild lightning bolts, thick as water buckets, tumbled and roared within the clouds.

"The land of Great Xia isn't a cafeteria where you Eastern beasts can act wild."

Lin Ye gripped his sword with both hands, the tip pointing straight at the mountain-of-flesh heart on the cruise ship's dome.

"For me—cleanse the land with thunder and fire!"

A single strike slashed down!

"Rumble-rumble-rumble—!!!"

Accompanied by Lin Ye's bellow,

from high above the nine heavens, dozens of purple-gold Taiyi Divine Thunders, carrying the Pure Yang True Fire that burns all things, slammed viciously onto that cruise ship!

At this moment,

the entirety of Jiangzhou Harbor was illuminated as bright as day.

Thunder struck the cruise ship's deck; under the baptism of Pure Yang thunder and fire, those scarlet tentacles and thousands of Flesh Puppets instantly disintegrated into ashes.

Tough special steel armor was directly melted and torn apart under the bombardment of divine thunder.

"Awoo!!!"

The remaining body of that ancient great demon felt a fatal threat of destruction.

The massive heart beat frantically, spewing a vast amount of black demon qi in an attempt to condense a protective shield above the ship.

But under the dual dimensional strike of the Taiyi Divine Thunder and Pure Yang Dao Body,

this demon qi shield was like using window paper to block armor-piercing shells.

"Bang!"

The shield shattered instantly.

The thickest purple-gold bolt of lightning pierced directly through the cruise ship's dome, crashing brutally right into the center of that mountain-of-flesh heart!

A shrill, agonizing scream echoed across the entire East Sea surface.

The cruise ship was forcefully cleaved in two down the middle, with fiercely burning timber and steel scattering in all directions.

Massive sea waves were tossed dozens of meters high by the shockwave of the explosion.

Deputy Director Gao Guoliang and all The Ninth Bureau agents standing in the safe area behind

were all frozen in place as if struck by an immobilization spell, staring slack-jawed at this scene.

Summoning thunder from the nine heavens to directly sever a two-hundred-meter-long luxury ocean liner!

Standing behind Lin Ye, Helena's pair of icy-blue eyes were full of fanaticism and obsession.

This was her master.

An invincible existence whose word was law, treading both Western gods and Eastern great demons beneath his feet to trample at will!

"Playing dead, are you?"

Lin Ye sheathed his long sword, his gaze sharply fixed on the ruins of the ship's cleavage.

He could feel that the core demon core of that great demon was still lurking in the sea of fire, attempting to escape into the deep ocean under cover of night.

"Now that you've entered my turf, you still want to swim back to Japan?"

Lin Ye sneered, turning into a golden beam of light, stepping across the debris floating on the sea surface, and diving straight into the sea of fire!

"I'm going to check if this Japanese seafood is fresh or not. Leng Yue, seal the sea surface for me—don't let even a single crab through!"