Apocalypse: My Tattoos are Ten Yama Kings

Chapter 256: Chapter 250: The Secret Yang Jing Risked His Life to Uncover

The Ghost Leader is injured; continuing to engage is extremely disadvantageous for him.

Therefore, he chose to flee to the headquarters of the Deceitful King Faction under the lake.

Lin Yuan initially planned to chase after him, but a shout from Little Sister-in-law stopped his pursuit.

After a brief consideration, Lin Yuan temporarily suppressed the anger in his heart.

Chasing him down wouldn’t be a rational choice.

The Ghost Leader clearly wanted to deliberately lure Lin Yuan down.

No one knows what kind of traps lie below.

Lin Yuan returned to Little Sister-in-law’s side, and when he saw Yang Jing, there was no breath left in Yang Jing.

In the end, still dead!

Lin Yuan’s mood was somewhat heavy.

”He...” Little Sister-in-law seemed to want to say something.

Lin Yuan shook his head and said solemnly, ”We’ll talk after we get back!”

The Ghost Leader had shaken off Lin Yuan, and this was his territory; Lin Yuan didn’t want to stay here any longer.

In the next moment, Lin Yuan activated the Yellow Springs Road Tattoo’s ability, and the ”No Distance” rule appeared, taking Little Sister-in-law and Bai Ling’Er away from the scene.

A moment later, when they reappeared, they were already back at the Wushan Shelter.

Since Lin Yuan left, Yang Chan had been very anxious, like a frightened little rabbit.

Uneasy, she paced back and forth.

”Don’t worry, Lin Yuan will definitely bring your brother back!” Wen Yingying held Yang Chan’s hand, letting her sit on the sofa, and comforted her.

With the pace of strange invasions accelerating, Wen Yingying’s Princess Iron Fan Tattoo could no longer keep up with Lin Yuan.

Fortunately, Wen Yingying didn’t care much about power.

Now, Lin Yuan can protect her well, so she has simply embraced her role as Lin Yuan’s woman.

Wen Yingying was very kind; she tried to comfort Yang Chan.

The Day Traveler, who had almost been strangled to death by Lin Yuan earlier, looked at Wen Yingying and thought to himself, what virtues and abilities does Lin Yuan have to possess so many beautiful women?

The most crucial thing is that these women are all devoted to him, not to mention harmonious among themselves?

Could it be, Lin Yuan has some special talents?

Just then, the surrounding space distorted.

Lin Yuan, Little Sister-in-law, and Bai Ling’Er stepped out from the distortion, with Lin Yuan holding Yang Jing’s corpse in his arms.

”I’m sorry, I broke my promise, and couldn’t bring him back alive!”

”But don’t worry, I’ll kill the Ghost Leader and avenge him!” Lin Yuan put down Yang Jing’s body and vowed resolutely.

Upon seeing Yang Jing’s corpse, Yang Chan was first stunned.

After about ten seconds of stupor, she let out a heart-wrenching, shrill wail: ”Brother!”

Yang Chan hugged Yang Jing’s body, tears flowing like rain, uncontrollably crying and howling.

Everyone watched quietly, but no one knew how to offer comfort.

Such a grief of losing a close relative is impossible to sympathetically feel.

After more than ten minutes, Yang Chan’s emotions gradually eased somewhat.

At this moment, Little Sister-in-law stepped forward and comforted her: ”Actually, he had a glimmer of hope to survive. It was he himself who chose death.”

”Your brother was a hero.”

Saying this, Little Sister-in-law transmitted a memory scene into Yang Chan’s mind.

This memory was precisely from the time when they arrived to rescue Yang Jing, when Lin Yuan and the Ghost Leader were fighting.

Yang Jing had a flicker of hope to live, but to uncover the Ghost Leader’s secret, he chose to forgo the hope of survival.

After seeing this memory, Yang Chan was deeply shaken.

So, the Ghost Leader is this terrifying?

Since Yang Chan woke up, she had been kept within the villa, never leaving.

Though lacking freedom, she was very safe.

It can be said that the reason Yang Chan could live peacefully to this day was entirely because Yang Jing was carrying the burden for her.

”Your brother surely wishes for you to live well!”

”You are his all hope; everything he did was for you!”

”From today on, your path is yours to walk, you must be strong, don’t let him be disappointed!” The Day Traveler patted Yang Chan’s shoulder and said.

Yang Chan bit her lip, struggling to hold back her tears, and nodded heavily: ”I understand!”

”Thank you for bringing back my brother’s body!”

Witnessing this scene, Lin Yuan felt a bit bitter, a bit guilty.

Even felt a bit shameful!

When leaving, he confidently promised to bring him back.

In the end, he only brought back a corpse.

”Ah!” With a heavy sigh, Lin Yuan turned and went upstairs.

Keep watching, and the eyes would shed tears.

Upstairs, Lin Yuan took out the things Little Sister-in-law had just handed him.

Yang Jing’s Heavenly Eye.

”Sacrificing life too, just to spy on the Ghost Leader’s secret?”

”Yang Jing! Yang Jing, people like you can never be protagonists, why not live a bit selfishly?”

”Tell me, what are you after?”

”Even if you finally kill the Ghost Leader, who would remember your good deeds?” Lin Yuan gazed at the single eye in his palm and couldn’t help but mutter.

In all honesty, Lin Yuan did not possess the same awareness as Yang Jing.

If someone told him that he needed to perish together with the Ghost Leader in order to kill him,

Lin Yuan would absolutely abandon the plan to kill the Ghost Leader, turn around, and say, ”Next time, for sure.”

Although Lin Yuan had defeated Yang Jing multiple times, he deeply admired this defeated subordinate.

He won in strength, but lost miserably in character.

”What kind of secret does the Ghost Leader have?”

”To make Yang Jing willing to sacrifice his life just for a glimpse!” With this thought, Lin Yuan was filled with curiosity.

Without hesitation, he injected energy into the Heavenly Eye, and after a moment, the Heavenly Eye projected an image in front of Lin Yuan.

This image was from Yang Jing’s perspective.

At the bottom of the lake, there was a Buddha hall.

Inside the hall, there was a Buddha statue.

No...

Lin Yuan’s pupils contracted; it was not a single Buddha statue, but two.

The one in front was the World Honored Buddha Statue he had seen before.

The slightly smaller statue behind it was in an extremely bizarre posture, closely adhering to the one in front.

And that slightly smaller Buddha statue was astonishingly modeled after the Ghost Leader.

The image froze here, with nothing else beyond this.

Honest to say, Lin Yuan couldn’t understand it.

”Could the hope of defeating the Ghost Leader lie in these two Buddha statues?” Lin Yuan murmured to himself.

At this moment, the voice of his little sister-in-law sounded in his ears; without him noticing, she had come up.

”That’s not a Buddha statue; it’s the remains of the World Honored.”

Lin Yuan: ”?????”

Lin Yuan was even more confused. What are the remains of the World Honored?

Seeing Lin Yuan’s confusion, his sister-in-law proactively explained, ”Just as humans have a lifespan that eventually ends, so do evil spirits.”

”Even entities like the World Honored and the Rebirth Saint Mother, revered as deities in the mysterious world, face this reality.”

”It’s just that, compared to ordinary humans, their lifespans are much longer.”

”But long does not mean limitless.”

”Every Rebirth Saint Mother, after dying, seals their power in the coffin, to be inherited by the next Rebirth Saint Mother. After inheriting the relics of the previous generation, the next Rebirth Saint Mother can rapidly grow.”

”Compared to the Rebirth Saint Mother, the World Honored is stronger, and in this regard, far more absolute.”

”The Rebirth Saint Mother uses her power to empower the next generation, whereas the World Honored redeems himself.”

”Whenever his lifespan nears its end, the World Honored seals all his power into his physical body, which is then kept by his most loyal followers.”

”This physical body is called by the followers as the remains, and after being worshipped by them, it absorbs their beliefs, acquiring even greater power.”

”It’s rumored that if the World Honored successfully merges nine such remains into one through nine lifetimes of cultivation, he will possess the power to rule all worlds.”

The World Honored is a top master in the mysterious world, and if placed in their world, he would undoubtedly be invincible.

Lin Yuan wasn’t sure whether nine World Honored as one could rule all universes, but to rule their world, certainly no problem.

Realizing this, Lin Yuan hurriedly asked his sister-in-law, ”How many lifetimes is the World Honored in now?”

His sister-in-law shook her head and said, ”I don’t know!”

”The secret of the World Honored’s cultivation across lifetimes can’t possibly be known by outsiders. Even every past Rebirth Saint Mother only knows a few insignificant details.”

”The worship of the remains is not much of a secret, so I could recognize it.”

”Though I don’t know how many lifetimes the World Honored has been through, in the mysterious world, there are currently four remains worshipped.”

”Including the one of the Ghost Leader, that makes five.” She paused before adding, ”Of course, there might be some that haven’t appeared yet.”

Lin Yuan nodded; if it were only five, it wouldn’t threaten their world.

Even seven or eight, no big deal.

Because the World Honored’s lifespan is extraordinarily long.

Accumulating a lifetime’s power takes an incredibly long time, possibly hundreds or even thousands of years.

Therefore, there’s no immediate threat to them.

Given the current situation, it’s uncertain if humanity can even continue, let alone consider such a distant future.

Next, Lin Yuan pointed at the slightly smaller Buddha statue closely attached to the remains of the World Honored and asked, ”What is this?”

”Why does it seem to resemble the Ghost Leader?”

His sister-in-law nodded, saying solemnly, ”It doesn’t just resemble; this is indeed the Ghost Leader.”

”I had mentioned that the Ghost Leader by the lake just now seemed peculiar.”

”Turns out it was merely his soul; his physical body is here.”

Lin Yuan: ”???????”

Lin Yuan felt increasingly bewildered; now he had the sensation of not being well-read enough.

The matter of the World Honored’s remains had just been understood with difficulty.

Now the Ghost Leader’s physical body seemed even more mystical.

”No way?”

”This is the Ghost Leader’s physical body? And what I fought with was his soul?”

”Are you sure? How can a soul exist apart from the body, let alone possess such formidable fighting prowess?” Lin Yuan was utterly perplexed.

”Humans naturally cannot!”

”But evil spirits can!” his sister-in-law declared solemnly.