Apocalypse: My Tattoos are Ten Yama Kings

Chapter 73: Chapter 73: Yin Realm of Death

Tier Five is the watershed of evil spirit strength.

A Tier Five evil spirit can refine a piece of land into its own ghostly realm.

The evil spirit itself is the ruler within the ghostly realm.

Within the ghostly realm, there is a portion of the power of rules contained.

Once trapped within the ghostly realm, unless the power of rules within it is broken.

Otherwise, one will be forever trapped inside.

Tier Five Evil Spirits, Ghostly Realm.

This will only appear on a large scale in the 3.0 version of the Strange Invasion.

In his past life, Lin Yuan had heard of a Sealed Door Ghost who refined Sealed Door Village into a ghostly realm, a Bus Ghost who refined a bus into a ghostly realm, and a Golden Armor Zombie who turned Chaotic Tomb Ridge into a ghostly realm.

Ghostly realms of Tier Five evil spirits are bizarre and varied, each one unique.

However, it all boils down to two words, which is rules.

If you know the rules of the ghostly realm, break those rules, then you can walk out.

If you can’t break the rules of the ghostly realm, then you’ll forever fall inside and become a ghost slave.

The Headless General knows that Black and White Impermanence exist depending on Lin Yuan.

As long as Lin Yuan dies, Black and White Impermanence will naturally cease to exist.

So, before he died, he cursed Lin Yuan to fall forever into the Yin Realm of Death.

Without a doubt, this Yin Realm of Death is a ghostly realm.

The Headless General is now Tier Six Peak, half-step Tier Five.

If he absorbed enough human souls and blood essence, he could regrow his head.

Once his head grows back, he would advance to become a Tier Five evil spirit.

By that time, he could refine a territory and turn it into a ghostly realm.

The place the Headless General chose was Peng City.

His original plan was to massacre the entire human race in Peng City, and then turn the entire Peng City into his own ghostly realm.

If he truly broke through Tier Five, then his ghostly realm would be the Yin Realm of Death.

The Yin Realm of Death, as the name implies, permits the entry of the dead, but no exit for the living.

This is a world that only welcomes the dead, if the living were to accidentally enter, they would come in living, but not leave alive.

Because the Headless General did not successfully break through, he is merely Tier Six Peak, half-step Tier Five.

So, he can only burn his own soul, cursing Lin Yuan with the Yin Realm of Death.

The curse formed by the Headless General’s soul, like a black mist, envelops Lin Yuan.

Thereafter, Lin Yuan suddenly disappears from the real world without a trace.

”Lin Yuan!”

”Lin Yuan!”

”Boss.”

”Boss Lin!”

Bai Ling’er, Wen Yingying, Zhang Zhen, and Geng Youcai call out in unison.

Bai Ling’er immediately dashes forward, seemingly trying to grab Lin Yuan, but unfortunately, Lin Yuan disappears too fast, she grabs at empty air.

Just as Lin Yuan vanishes, Black and White Impermanence also disappear like rootless duckweed.

Lin Yuan only feels sudden darkness before his eyes, and when he opens them again, he feels the temperature around him plummet, with gusts of cold wind as if he has fallen into an ice cellar.

The world before him is a pitch-black place.

Everything in sight is shrouded in oppressive, damp fog.

The surroundings are eerily quiet, with not a sound to be heard; even the drop of a pin could be heard in the stillness that feels terrifying.

However, if you listen closely, you can hear the eerie sounds around as if they were laughing or crying.

The Yin Realm of Death.

Is this the Yin Realm of Death?

Lin Yuan’s brow furrowed deeply, after a moment of pondering, he softly calls out: ”Master Qi, Master Ba, are you there!”

”Master Qi....Master Ba....”

Yet, after calling several times, Black and White Impermanence do not appear.

Lin Yuan’s brow furrows even deeper, his expression turns somber.

After a bit more thinking, he softly calls out: ”Ox Head Armor, Horse Face Horse.”

Yet, the Ox Head and Horse Face Tattoo remains unresponsive.

Neither Black and White Impermanence nor the Ox Head and Horse Face Tattoo are of any use.

Then, it comes down to the Ghost Gate, a special Underworld building tattoo.

The Ghost Gate Tattoo?

Lin Yuan tries to summon the Ghost Gate Tattoo, and soon after, a ghostly shadow of the Ghost Gate appears behind him.

Lin Yuan feels a tenfold increase of power within him, the tenfold boost from the Ghost Gate Tattoo is still usable.

Lin Yuan understands, it’s because the Ghost Gate Tattoo contains the power of rules.

In the Yin Realm of Death, only the power of rules is useful, all other powers are illusory.

But....

The power of rules from the Ghost Gate Tattoo is a tenfold boost, without the Ox Head and Horse Face Tattoo, or the Black and White Impermanence Tattoo, he is just an ordinary person.

Even with a tenfold, hundredfold, or thousandfold boost, he still cannot leave the Yin Realm of Death.

Within this Yin Realm of Death, there is a power of rules contained.

Lin Yuan knows that the only way to leave here is to break the power of rules within the Yin Realm of Death.

But, what is the power of rules within this Yin Realm of Death?

Lin Yuan is perplexed.

He walks through the sinister ghostly realm, trying to find out the rules within this ghostly realm.

Only by knowing the rules of this ghostly realm can he leave it.

The Headless General has not truly stepped into Tier Five, so his ghostly realm is an incomplete one.

The ghostly realm is not large, just a few miles around.

This ghostly realm is precisely the place where they just fought the Headless General.

Only, in the Yin Realm of Death, everything is shrouded in blackness.

Due to the battle, the ruined road is black.

The distant Peace Bridge is also black.

The houses along the road, toppled by the Headless General, are black as well.

Several cars parked by the road are still black.

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The Peng City within the Yin Realm of Death is nothing but perpetual blackness and deathly stillness.

This sight of Peng City is quite familiar, yet it’s not the Peng City Lin Yuan remembers.

A barren, empty city, a dead silence.

Only the shell of Peng City remains, with no sign of life, flesh, or blood.

The Yin Realm of Death’s Peng City is not large, Lin Yuan circles it several times, yet still cannot find the rules within.

The mountains grow old without years, the world has seen millennia.

In the ghostly realm, time seems to stand still.

Lin Yuan does not know how long he has walked within the Peng City of the Yin Realm of Death, his thoughts become slow, his body stiffens gradually.

He knows that if this continues, he will forever be trapped in this Yin Realm of Death, completely becoming a walking corpse.

Unknown how much time has passed, just as Lin Yuan is about to be completely lost, a memory surges in his mind.

It is, the memory of his past life.

In that past life, it seemed, there was also a Yin Realm of Death.

However, back then, the Yin Realm of Death did not appear in Peng City, but in neighboring Su City.

Even during the 3.0 version of the Strange Invasion, the Yin Realm of Death in Su City remained unsolvable.

At that time, Lin Yuan was still a low-ranking laborer at an official refuge, hearing stories about the Yin Realm of Death while working at the factory.

As the conversation turned to the subject of the Yin Realm of Death.

Old man Qin, the factory’s gatekeeper, after having some cheap liquor, drunkenly muttered a sentence: ”If the living can’t get out, why not try dying?”

”After dying, if one can leave the ghostly realm and return home, what harm is there in dying?”

Suddenly, Lin Yuan recalls these memories of his past life.

The Yin Realm of Death.

The living go in, never to come out.

Then, what if I died?

Suddenly, a bold idea emerges in Lin Yuan’s mind.

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