149: Chapter 149 Sword Slashes Bloodwood, The Demise of the Underworld Merchant

Lin Ye exerted force with his feet, forcefully stomping two deep pits into the hard concrete floor of the air-raid shelter.

Braving the sky-filling ghostly green poisonous miasma, his figure turned into a purple-gold lightning bolt, heading straight for the Yin Merchant standing under the tree.

"Stop him!"

The Yin Merchant frantically shook the black folding fan in his hand, and the fan suddenly unfolded.

The ribs of the fan were pieced together from smoothly polished infant leg bones, and the fan face was sewn from complete human skin.

As the folding fan waved, a dozen fierce ghosts roared out from the fan face and lunged at Lin Ye.

"Insignificant tricks."

Lin Ye didn't even pause his steps for half a second, the soul-suppressing copper coin sword tracing out a streak of Pure Yang Qi in mid-air.

Wherever the blade passed, those newly emerged fierce ghosts didn't even manage to scream before being directly burned into flying ash by the Pure Yang True Fire.

Lin Ye pressed forward, delivering a powerful horizontal slash straight at the Yin Merchant's neck.

The Yin Merchant's expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly raised the human bone folding fan to block.

"Crack!"

In front of the copper coin sword that had drunk its fill of Pure Yang True Blood, the hard human bone fan ribs were as fragile as a piece of biscuit.

The folding fan was severed on the spot.

The remaining might of the Pure Yang sword qi did not diminish, leaving a bone-deep bloody scar on the Yin Merchant's chest.

Dark black blood gushed out.

The Yin Merchant let out a miserable scream, and his whole body flew backward like a kite with a broken string, heavily smashing into the rough trunk of the Blood Divine Tree.

"Frost Star! Get the people hanging up there down! Leng Yue, seal the main gate, don't let a single fly escape!"

Lin Ye issued commands without even turning his head.

"Got it! Making me do this kind of rough work every day."

The pink, petite figure instantly rose from the ground.

Frost Star waved the nether-blue bone knife in her hand, shuttling back and forth in mid-air over a dozen meters high.

Blade light flickered.

Those incomparably tough black poisonous vines were cut like tofu in front of the bone knife stained with extreme cold corpse qi.

Black vine cocoons wrapping around the special operations officers of The Ninth Bureau fell down with thuds.

Frost Star kicked them one by one, precisely kicking these vine cocoons to a safe area at the edge of the hall.

While kicking, she muttered with disgust.

"Full of sweat, not even worthy of being a snack between teeth. I really don't understand why Husband wants to save you guys."

Leng Yue stood quietly at the entrance of the hall.

She extended her pale, slender hand and gently wiped it across the void.

A dark red wall of fire composed of Red Lotus Karmic Fire instantly sealed off the only retreat path of the entire hall.

The high temperature of the wall of fire roasted the air until it twisted and deformed.

"Lin Ye! Do you really want to drive us to total annihilation?!"

The Yin Merchant clutched his bleeding chest and stumbled up from under the tree roots.

His gold-rimmed glasses had long shattered in the impact, and the bottoms of his eyes were filled with frantic venom.

"I'm just a merchant working on the periphery! You've provoked the Yellow Springs Market, and The Big Boss will never let you off!"

"The Big Boss? Have him bring money to Lins Funeral Shop and line up to pay the registration fee."

Lin Ye's eyes were icy, holding his sword as he approached step by step.

"You intercepted my lightning-struck wood, today even if the King of Heaven comes, you still have to leave your life to pay the debt."

Hearing this, the Yin Merchant suddenly burst into a burst of frantic, weird laughter.

"Want to kill me? Then let's all die here together!"

The Yin Merchant fiercely bit through the tip of his tongue.

A large mouthful of original essence blood carrying intense deathly qi was directly sprayed onto the trunk of the purple-black Blood Divine Tree behind him.

"Blood Sacrifice to the Yin Furnace, Ten Thousand Woods Devour Souls!"

With the Yin Merchant's sacrifice, the dozen-meter-tall Blood Divine Tree began to vibrate violently.

Those veins on the tree trunk instantly turned scarlet red.

A terrifying suction force burst forth from the tree roots.

The Yin malignant qi accumulated for thirty years deep beneath the air-raid shelter was frantically extracted by this evil tree.

The floor of the hall began to crack.

Thousands of finger-thick blood-colored tree roots, like a group of living venomous snakes, broke through the ground.

The entire underground space instantly turned into a rolling sea of blood-colored wood.

They rolled toward Lin Ye, covering the sky and blocking the sun, attempting to swallow him alive.

At this critical moment of life and death.

That light-blue system light curtain popped up again.

[Ding! Detected an extremely berserk evil-malignant mutant (Blood-Sacrificed Divine Tree), the current environment is extremely dangerous.]

[Warm reminder from the "My Lord, Please Behave Yourself" System: Facing capital loss, please make a choice, Host:]

[Option A: Break the tail to survive, abandon the hostages. Directly pull out the earth-escaping talisman, slip away with the twin wives. Leave that group of The Ninth Bureau special operations officers as fertilizer for the Blood Divine Tree.

Reward: [Jiangzhou Fleet Foot] title.

Consequence: The Ninth Bureau is furious, offering a bounty to hunt down the Host, Lins Funeral Shop's reputation completely bankrupts.]

[Option B: Move with affection, reason with logic. Utilize top-level public relations rhetoric, draw a big pie for the Yin Merchant on the spot, promise to give him ten percent non-voting shares of the Funeral Shop, and invite him to jump ship to serve as the procurement director.

Reward: One [Brainwashing Master's Golden Microphone].

Consequence: High probability of being poked into tens of thousands of transparent holes by the Blood Divine Tree.]

[Option C: Drain the pond to catch the fish, uproot entirely. This tree has absorbed thirty years of underground yin qi, its wood heart is a priceless supreme artifact-refining supreme grade.

Directly utilize the foundation of the lightning-struck peach wood sword, summon the Nine Heavens True Thunder, completely smash this broken tree, and pack away the Yin Merchant and the wood heart together.

Reward: One spiritual qi purification storage ring (with a built-in ten-cubic-meter vacuum storage space), 3000 Husband points.]

Lin Ye glanced over the panel.

Storage ring?

This was a legendary storage magical treasure that only immortal cultivators could possess.

With this thing, going to the Ten Thousand Mountains to excavate subterranean palaces in the future would simply be a mobile treasury.

"System, I choose C!"

Lin Ye roared inwardly, no longer holding anything back, ripping off the black windbreaker on his body and casually tossing it aside.

On his well-built upper body, golden Taoist runes faintly emerged.

That was the materialized manifestation of the Pure Yang Dao Body driven to the extreme.

"Leng Yue, give me some yin qi!"

Lin Ye shouted without looking back, and Leng Yue standing at the door didn't hesitate at all.

Her figure flashed, instantly appearing behind Lin Ye.

Her pale, icy palm fiercely slapped onto Lin Ye's broad back.

A strand of Hanba yin qi, pure to the extreme, was injected into Lin Ye's body without reservation.

Lin Ye's eyes instantly turned half scarlet-gold and half nether-blue.

He raised the lightning-struck peach wood sword high with both hands.

The tip of the sword pointed directly at the pitch-black dome of the air-raid shelter.

"Nine Heavens Responding Origin, Five Thunders Orthodox Method!"

Lin Ye chanted the supreme thunder method general outline of the Taoist sect in his mouth.

Every word he chanted made the air in the underground hall heavier by a fraction.

Those blood-colored tree roots rolling over frantically, at a distance of three meters away from Lin Ye, were forcefully suppressed by the terrifying aura on his body so that they couldn't advance an inch.

"Break!"

Lin Ye roared.

Gripping the sword with both hands, carrying the momentum of thunderous might, he fiercely slashed down.

"Rumble!"

A purple-gold berserk thunder thicker than a water bucket ignored the barrier of the air-raid shelter's twenty-meter-thick strata and directly descended from the sky.

The berserk heavenly thunder accurately struck the lightning-struck peach wood sword.

Then, following the blade's edge, it turned into a purple-gold thunder giant dragon, roaring as it rushed toward the huge Blood Divine Tree.

"No!"

The Yin Merchant let out a desperate, miserable scream.

The thunder giant dragon impacted the trunk of the Blood Divine Tree.

This evil tree that had sucked on the vital blood of countless living people and underground yin qi instantly exploded from the inside in front of the absolute destructive power of the Nine Heavens True Thunder.

The purple thunder fire filling the sky ignited the entire big tree.

Those blood-colored vines frantically twisted in the thunder fire, emitting sizzling burning sounds, turning into black ash filling the sky.

The shock wave, mixed with the remaining might of the thunder, directly blew the Yin Merchant's whole body away.

He heavily smashed into the stone wall behind, his bones shattered all over, sliding to the ground like mud.

The vibration inside the hall lasted for a full minute before calming down.

The dust settled.

The Blood Divine Tree, which was originally over a dozen meters tall, had been split into a pile of charred waste charcoal.

Only at the very center of the tree roots was left a crystal-clear, top-grade wood heart radiating a faint blood-colored halo.

Lin Ye let out a long breath of turbid qi.

The gold-red light in the depths of his eyes gradually dissipated.

Leng Yue immediately withdrew her hand, pulled out a clean spare coat from her backpack, and thoughtfully draped it over Lin Ye's sweat-drenched shoulders.

"Husband, you weren't hurt, were you?"

Her voice became cold and gentle once again.

"It doesn't even count as a slight skin injury."

Lin Ye patted the back of her hand.

Walking in front of that pile of ruins, he picked up the blood-colored wood heart.

This wood heart felt warm to the touch and heavy.

This was a good material for refining top-grade self-defense magical artifacts, and its value was definitely more than ten times that of the lightning-struck wood snatched earlier.

This wave was immensely profitable.

Lin Ye put the wood heart into the spiritual qi purification storage ring that the system had just distributed into his pocket.

Afterwards, he strode over to the dying Yin Merchant.

The Yin Merchant's chest was completely collapsed, and black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs continuously surged out of his mouth.

He stared fixedly at Lin Ye, his eyes filled with fear and unwillingness.

"You... what kind of monster are you anyway..."

"I'm a businessman sending you off on your final journey."

Lin Ye squatted down, looking down at him from a high position.

"Speak, where is the base camp of the Yellow Springs Market? What on earth are you guys looking for by stirring up so many things in Jiangzhou?"

The Yin Merchant coughed twice, twisting the corner of his mouth into a tragic, weird smile.

"Looking for what? Cough cough... How could a mortal like you understand The Big Boss's layout..."

His eyes suddenly widened as if experiencing a flash of lucidity before death, staring fixedly at Lin Ye.

"Jiangzhou... is just the beginning. Once the things inside the Ten Thousand Mountains come out... the entire profound sect of Great Xia will have to be buried with them! I'll be waiting for you... in hell!"

Just as the words fell.

The Yin Merchant's body suddenly stiffened.

A bizarre black rune suddenly lit up at the center of his brow.

Following that, his entire head went "bang" with a sound, exploding directly like a watermelon.

Filthy blood splattered all over the floor.

It was The Big Boss behind the Yellow Springs Market who directly detonated the restriction in his brain from afar to prevent him from leaking more secrets.

Lin Ye stood up and used his toe to flip open the Yin Merchant's coat that hadn't been blown apart.

From the inner pocket, a black ledger fell out.

Lin Ye picked up the ledger and flipped through it for two glances, his brows furrowing tightly together.

What was densely recorded on the ledger were all Yin gate materials collected from various places in Jiangzhou, as well as the birth characters of some living people.

And on the last few pages of the ledger.

Unexpectedly drawn was a sloppy map sketch.

At the end of the map, a blood-red skull was marked.

The location was precisely the Ten Thousand Mountains, Ten Thousand Gu Demon Cave.

"It seems what the old man said in the letter is correct. This bunch of online rats are indeed aiming at the things inside the underground palace."

Lin Ye stuffed the ledger into the storage ring.

This trip not only saved the people of The Ninth Bureau and earned fifty million, but also obtained the core ledger of the Yellow Springs Market and the top-grade wood heart.

He turned around and walked toward the edge of the hall.

Inside the dozens of vine cocoons cut down by Frost Star, the special operations officers of The Ninth Bureau were lying flat and disorderly on the ground.

Although all unconscious and pale, their chests were rising and falling.

They were just drained of a bit of vital blood, and after going back to recuperate for ten days and a half month, they would be able to get out of bed.

Lin Ye pulled out his phone to check, and there was still no signal deep inside the air-raid shelter.

He kicked Frost Star, who was still smacking her lips beside him.

"Stop eating, it's time to wrap things up and settle the account."