197: Chapter 197 Ice and Fire Bath

Close the shop door.

The living room returned to peace.

Lin Ye twisted his somewhat sore neck; after today's series of tossing and turning, it was indeed time to take a good bath and relax.

"Helena, go to the backyard bathroom to draw water. Turn the water temperature higher."

Lin Ye took off his coat and casually tossed it on the sofa.

"As you command, Boss."

Helena obediently bowed in salute, and wearing high heels, she walked hurriedly toward the bathroom.

Five minutes later.

The bathroom was filled with mist.

In the huge circular bathtub, hot water rolled, and a layer of calming petals was scattered on top.

Lin Ye stripped off his clothes and stepped naked into the bathtub.

He leaned against the edge of the bathtub and let out a long breath.

At that moment.

The glass door of the bathroom was gently pushed open.

Helena walked in barefoot, stepping cautiously on tiptoe.

She did not change out of that nun's outfit with extremely little fabric.

At this moment, in this high-temperature environment full of water vapor, that cicada-wing-thin layer of black silk had been moistened by the water mist, tightly clinging to her skin.

She walked to the edge of the bathtub, her knees went soft, and she knelt directly on the wet tiles.

Holding a soft sponge in her hand, lowering her head, her voice was as thin as a gossamer.

"Boss... Helena will attend to your bath."

Lin Ye did not refuse, slightly closed his eyes, and placed his arms on the edge of the bathtub.

Helena carefully soaked the sponge, applied shower gel, and whipped up rich foam.

One of her hands supported Lin Ye's broad shoulders, while the other held the sponge, gently wiping Lin Ye's back.

"A bit heavier with the strength. Didn't you eat?"

Lin Ye closed his eyes and pointed out casually.

"Yes..."

Helena bit her red lips and increased the strength in her hands.

Because the distance was too close, her towering and plump chest brushed against Lin Ye's back from time to time with the back-wiping action.

That astonishing softness and astonishing elasticity caused a ripple to rise in Lin Ye's calm heart.

"Splash!"

Just as the atmosphere was gradually heating up.

The bathroom door was roughly pushed open by someone.

"Great! Helena, I knew you had bad intentions!"

Frost Star appeared at the door angrily.

"Hiss!"

As frost entered the water.

The originally scalding bath water instantly began to freeze over a large area!

This ice-and-fire double heaven experience of soaking in a hot spring one second and falling directly into an ice cave the next second was simply fatal.

"Frost Star! What nonsense are you making trouble with again, girl!"

Lin Ye helplessly pinched her pert nose.

"The water is about to be frozen into a skating rink by you! Hurry up and put away the corpse Qi!"

"I don't care! Who told her to secretly touch you while I was away!"

Frost Star was unrelenting, rubbing her small head randomly against Lin Ye's chest, her wet silver-blue twin tails flinging water all over Lin Ye's face.

"What kind of nonsense is this? As a dignified Nether Corpse King, you aren't afraid of losing status by fighting for jealousy with a servant."

A cold voice came from the door.

Leng Yue walked gracefully to the edge of the bathtub.

She had no extra actions, merely extending that slender, pale jade hand, her fingertips gently tapping on the frozen ice surface.

"Hum!"

A dark red Red Lotus Karmic Fire quietly bloomed beneath the ice surface.

The high temperature of the ultimate karma fire instantly melted the solid ice created by Frost Star.

The originally bone-chilling bath water, heated by the fire of the Drought Demon, once again became warm and comfortable.

The water temperature was just right.

A fraction more and it's too hot, a fraction less and it's too cold.

Seeing this situation, Helena quickly withdrew from the bathroom and closed the door smoothly.

Only Lin Ye and the twin beauties of ice and fire were left in the bathtub.

Leng Yue naturally stripped off the thin gauze on her body and slowly slid into the water.

She sat gracefully by Lin Ye's side.

Extending her boneless hands, she gently massaged the acupuncture points on Lin Ye's head.

Lin Ye closed his eyes, leaned against the edge of the bathtub, and let out a long sigh of comfort.

"Now this is what you call life."

...

After finishing the bath.

Lin Ye returned to the second-floor bedroom, feeling refreshed.

After coaxing the two wives who had tossed and turned for half the night to sleep, he draped a bathrobe and walked to the balcony outside the bedroom.

The night breeze blew.

He pulled out the special military encrypted tablet from his pocket.

As soon as the tablet was turned on.

The dense red urgent intelligence inside The Ninth Bureau refreshed like a waterfall.

Lin Ye casually clicked open several pinned top-secret documents.

The more he looked, the higher his brows arched.

"Interesting. It seems that the commotion of this spiritual energy recovery is much bigger than I imagined."

Lin Ye touched his chin.

The intelligence showed.

Now the supernatural forces across the globe had completely fallen into a crazy state of shuffling and rampage!

The first piece of intelligence.

[Sakura Country's entire territory has fallen.]

[The amaterasu cruise ship incident was just an inducement; the seal at the bottom of Mount Fuji has completely shattered.]

[The legendary "Eight Million Gods" are actually all bloodthirsty ancient great demons. Currently, Tokyo has been almost completely occupied by the Hundred Ghosts Night Parade.]

[But what's weird is that Sakura Country's Onmyoji Association and Kyoto's Highest Shrine Society not only did not ask the international community for help, but instead assembled all surviving senior onmyojis and god-favored shrine maidens, forming a huge delegation, attempting to fly to Great Xia by special plane!]

[Their diplomatic rhetoric is: demanding that Great Xia return the national treasure magic artifact lost on amaterasu, and explicitly demanding to see the mysterious powerhouse who summoned lightning magic at the port.]

Seeing this, Lin Ye sneered out loud.

"Coming to me for a magic artifact? I gave that broken firewood knife to Ayugu to chop wood in the backyard, and as for the demon core, it went into Frost Star's belly long ago."

"If these little Japanese dare to come to the entrance of Taiping Old Street to beg, I don't mind sending them to the basement to ride bicycles together with those Paladins, making up a cross-border labor camp."

He continued to scroll down.

The second piece of intelligence came from the distant Northern Europe.

[Glaciers melt, the Old Gods' Wild Hunt.]

[The giants in Norse mythology are beginning to awaken. A huge aurora anomaly has appeared over the Scandinavian Peninsula. According to divination by the Northern European Witch Association, this is a precursor to "Ragnarok".]

[The Chief Witch of the Northern European Witch Association has already led a team of female warriors carrying Rune runes to sneak into Great Xia territory secretly, seemingly searching for some kind of Eastern divine artifact capable of resisting the Old Gods.]

The third piece of intelligence came from Southeast Asia.

[Siam's Sorcerer Alliance suffered internal strife.]

[The peerless old demon known as the "Thousand-Eye Gu King" swallowed hundreds of black-robed Ajarns. He is frantically collecting living human essence and blood in the Southeast Asian jungle, attempting to refine the legendary Nine-Death Soul-Returning Pill.]

[Secret posts of The Ninth Bureau on the southwest border sent news that this old monster seems to have set its sights on a certain ancient bloodline in the Ten Thousand Mountains of Miaojiang.]

"Miaojiang? Ancient bloodline?"

Lin Ye narrowed his eyes slightly.

In his mind, Ayugu's figure instantly emerged, along with her mysterious identity as the saintess of the Wangu Ancient Tribe.

"It seems that these clowns have regarded Great Xia as a piece of fat meat that anyone can come and take a bite of."

Lin Ye turned off the tablet and casually tossed it on the tea table next to him.

He supported the balcony railing with both hands, overlooking the quiet Taiping Old Street below.

The night was deep.

But in Lin Ye's Pure Yang double eyes, he could clearly see that from all directions of Jiangzhou City, countless dark auras carrying hostility, greed, and probing were converging toward this city.

The subsequent retaliation of the Western Holy See.

The questioning of Sakura Country's onmyojis and shrine maidens.

The secret infiltration of Northern European witches.

The greedy covetousness of the Southeast Asian Gu King.

"The wind sweeping through the tower heralds a coming storm."

Lin Ye pulled a cigarette from his pocket, held it in his mouth, and lit it with a "snap" sound.

The scarlet cigarette butt flickered in the night breeze.

He took a deep puff, exhaled a blue-white ring of smoke, and there wasn't a shred of fear in his eyes.

"Come on, come all."

"No matter which country's gods, or where the monsters are."

Lin Ye flicked the cigarette ash.

"As long as you dare to step into Great Xia's territory."

"I'll let you witness what a true Eastern horror story is. There are plenty of empty rooms in my nine nether purgatory tower, and I was just worrying about lacking high-power power banks."