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Arc 9: Chapter 15

How many ghost kings? Four??

There were only twelve ghost kings in total in this world, and five of them were the husbands of his brother. This meant that most of the leftover ghost kings were all here!

After realizing this terrible reality, Lin Yuan hugged Yu Jin tighter. Wuuu, if he was going to be eaten by a ghost, he’d rather be eaten by Yu Jin and Xiao Ying.

Yu Jin felt the increased force around his neck and thought that the teenager in his arms was very afraid of all of the ghosts. He lowered his head and said soothingly: “Don’t worry, the three of us will protect you.”

Although Lin Yuan knew that his three husbands were very strong, there weren’t just one or two ghost kings, there were 4! And a bunch of other evil spirits too…

The Glasses of Illusion were showing a rose today. Lin Yuan felt like he was about to drown in a rose bush, which was a little grotesque in the middle of the night. 

As the fight continued, Lin Yuan was sent to Xiao Ying’s arms. The Ghost King left a kiss on his forehead and said: “Lin Yuan, if you feel scared, just take a nap. By the time you wake up, it’ll be over.”

Lin Yuan was already in tears. His trembling fingers grasped Yu Jin’s clothes and his voice said hoarsely: “Yu Jin, if… I mean if, I don’t live past today, don’t be sad or angry. No matter what happens in the future, you should live well…”

“But…” Lin Yuan’s voice choked up, and he said with red eyes: “I really want to be with you. Just like you are trying to save me, I also don’t want anything bad to happen to you.”

He really, really wanted to live, but facing ghosts, Lin Yuan was already in despair.

The man looked at the teenager who had tears on his face, and gently brushed the corner of the other’s wet eyes. His tongue licked the teenager’s slightly hot tears, and he seemed to feel a trace of residual warmth from his frozen body. 

Lin Yuan’s breath was warm, moist, and full of vitality. It was the simplest way to represent life itself.

Yu Jin had already been dead for thousands of years. His dragon robe, his body, his face, were nothing but illusions.

Yu Jin smiled softly and slowly rubbed Lin Yuan’s soft hair: “I know. Trust me, be good, and close your eyes.”

Lin Yuan listened obediently, but he was still scared to death. He hugged Xiao Ying’s neck tightly and didn’t dare to open his eyes. 

Xiao Yin’s scarlet eyes were stranger than blood, and he never let go of Lin Yuan. 

Xie Daolan had reinforced this building with twelve arrays using his blood, but this was only a temporary measure. The formation could only last for a few hours. 

Xie Daolan’s side was barely even, while Yu Jin was even more difficult. As fellow ghost kings, it was indeed not easy to solve two other ghost kings. 

The moment Yu Jin’s face was scratched by a ghost king, he suddenly thought of when Xie Daolan said that he would bring bad karma if he interfered with Lin Yuan. Because he and Xie Daolan were by Lin Yuan’s side, the ghosts banded together to deal with him, letting more and more ghosts know about the extreme Yin constitution to have a better chance of defeating him. 

Yu Jin became irritable knowing that he brought more danger to Lin Yuan. The embroidered dragons on his robe began to shine, bringing the imperial power and pressure from thousands of years ago. Yu Jin’s evil spirit was much heavier than these younger fierce ghosts, and even the two ghost kings felt an unprecedented danger. 

The clouds in the sky began to gather in layers, gradually lowering closer to the ground. 

Xie Daolan noticed the change and looked up at the sky. 

Suddenly, streaks of lightning flashed, and then a loud boom of thunder rang throughout the air.

Xie Daolan’s face hardened.  Yu Jin was able to attract Heavenly Lightning, which meant he was an evil ghost who couldn’t be subdued by Heaven. He killed at least tens of thousands of people in his lifetime.

But Xie Daolan looked at the figure in the dragon robe and had an indescribable sense of familiarity, as if he had seen this scene before. 

Red lighting struck down, violently ripping apart crowds of ghosts gathered on the mountain. 

One of the ghost kings retreated: “What on earth did you do?”

The lighting didn’t spare Yu Jin either. The golden crown bundling his hair fell to the ground, causing his long hair to scatter. Yu Jin said quietly: “What am I doing? You trespassers are attacking without a word, of course I’m acting out in self-defense.”

His smile deepened: “Nine thousand nine hundred and eighty one strikes, I wonder how many of you will be left?”

All of the evil spirits thought he was crazy. He dared to draw Heaven’s punishment to himself, did he not fear getting his soul dispersed too?

The four ghost kings didn’t have the confidence to survive, so they could only flee away from the mountain as far as possible. 

As the center of the storm, Yu Jin was naturally the target of lightning. But he had already experienced this punishment once, so this second time was nothing.

He only looked down at his blood-stained body and frowned. He didn’t want to scare Sui Sui. 

When the thunder was over, he calmly recovered his previous appearance, and a wisp of resentment hooked the golden crown on the ground. Yu Jin tied up his hair and was about to step into the room, when the glint of a sword appeared in front of his neck. 

The ghost king asked casually: “What’s the meaning of this? Mr. Xie, do you want to take advantage to cut down my soul?”

Xie Daolan looked at him coldly: “Heaven and earth can’t tolerate you.”

Yu Jin raised an eyebrow: “So what? Lin Yuan can tolerate me. He said he wanted to be with me, and didn’t want anything bad to happen to me. Are you going to make him cry?”

After a heavy silence, Xie Daolan sheathed his sword. His voice was particularly piercing in the quiet night: “Yu Jin, your killing karma is too heavy. Don’t touch him casually.”

Yu Jin’s eyes turned blood red: “If Lin Yuan wants to touch me, should I listen to him, or you? What thing are you?”

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With his eyes closed, Lin Yuan didn’t know what was going on. At some point, the screeches of the ghosts were gone and it began to thunder. Lin Yuan was not afraid of thunder, so he calmed down a lot. 

After the thunder stopped, it was strangely quiet for a period of time, until he heard Yu Jin’s lazy chuckle: “Sui Sui, come here.”

Lin Yuan looked up from Xiao Ying’s arms and saw Yu Jin’s handsome face. His eyes reddened uncontrollably and he immediately ran to Yu Jin.

Just then, a cloud of black appeared in front of him, and a pair of bony, white hands stretched out from the fog.

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