Apocalypse: My Tattoos are Ten Yama Kings-Chapter 103 - 101: Defying the Ancestors’ Decision
With the addition of Zhuge Ming and his companion, the pressure on Geng Youcai’s side was immediately reduced.
Zhuge Ming’s Eight Array Map tattoos, along with the short-haired girl’s fire attribute tattoos, seemed to excel in large-scale attacks.
Soon, with the joint effort of the three of them, all the evil spirits that had climbed the city walls were driven back down.
At this moment, the situation for Zhang Zhen and Wen Yingying was also not optimistic.
Day Traveler, Prajna, Poison Lord, Giant Spirit, these four were all rigorously selected by the Zhang Family to be part of the hunting squad.
Therefore, their abilities were also strong.
The strength of these four, even in a one-on-one fight, was comparable to Zhang Zhen and Wen Yingying.
Moreover, now it’s four against two.
Zhang Zhen was fighting Poison Lord and Prajna alone, while Wen Yingying was facing the Giant Spirit and Day Traveler.
Thanks to awakening part of Lei Zhenzi’s tattoo abilities, Zhang Zhen was barely coping.
Wen Yingying was weaker, and now she was already a bit flustered.
Luckily, Day Traveler was just lazing around, even occasionally hindering Giant Spirit, otherwise Wen Yingying would have been unable to hold up.
Just then.
"Boom!"
A violent explosion sounded, followed by a golden mushroom cloud blooming on the distant mountain.
This golden mushroom cloud was precisely caused by Qiankun Umbrella’s transformation into an invincible little drill, after breaking through the seventh layer of the Linglong Tower.
The sudden explosion directly illuminated the surrounding night sky.
Prajna, Day Traveler, Poison Lord, and Giant Spirit shivered in fear as they realized what had caused the explosion.
"This..."
"Boss’s tower exploded!" Prajna’s face showed panic, and her voice quivered slightly.
The tower exploded, which meant that most likely Boss was also dead.
Undoubtedly, the plan to encircle and kill Lin Yuan by Celestial King and Zhang Peng had failed.
With Celestial King’s tower exploding, it basically meant that Celestial King and Zhang Peng failed to kill their target and instead got killed.
"Run!"
"Don’t go back to the gathering point, head straight for headquarters!"
"Damn it! What kind of monster is Lin Yuan, Peng City is no longer safe!" Poison Lord, sly and cunning, didn’t even think twice before releasing all his poisonous creatures to temporarily stall Zhang Zhen.
Then, he turned his head and fled.
Prajna saw Poison Lord run, and without a moment’s hesitation, she immediately ran in the opposite direction from him.
Seeing Prajna escape, Day Traveler’s eyes revealed a cold gleam.
This gleam was a killing intent.
So, Day Traveler chased in the direction where Prajna had fled.
Now, only Giant Spirit, the big oaf, was left at the scene.
Giant Spirit: "????"
Giant Spirit was dumbfounded, thinking, why didn’t you call me to run too!
Animals! A bunch of animals, just bullying the honest ones, huh?
Everyone ran, so naturally, Giant Spirit wanted to escape as well.
However, by this time Zhang Zhen had already shaken off Poison Lord’s poisonous creatures.
Zhang Zhen spread his wings, intending to chase after the fleeing Poison Lord, when Bai Ling’Er’s voice rang out: "Don’t chase, our task is to guard the shelter."
Military strategy says not to pursue cornered foes.
In games, not to attack when the opponent uses Flash.
Since they’ve run, there’s no need to chase further.
In case of any ambush, suffering a loss would not be worth it.
Since those who ran can’t be chased, then the remaining one can’t be allowed to escape.
Thus, Zhang Zhen immediately charged at Giant Spirit, joining Wen Yingying in besieging him.
Judging by Giant Spirit’s codename, it was clear his tattoos were of the Giant Spirit God.
His Giant Spirit God tattoos were also partially awakened.
The awakened part was the Giant Spirit God’s great axe.
Though Giant Spirit possessed immense strength, he was very clumsy.
Under Zhang Zhen and Wen Yingying’s siege, his speed was at a disadvantage, and he couldn’t escape.
The more he wanted to flee, the more anxious he became, and the more mistakes he made.
Before long, Giant Spirit was already covered in injuries, and his state visibly waned.
"Boom!"
Zhang Zhen flapped his wings of wind and thunder, wielding a street lamp, as the Wind and Thunder Power surged through him.
Wen Yingying combined Bajiao Fan and Red Fire Sword, ready to burn Giant Spirit’s behind at any time.
After about three to five minutes, Zhang Zhen seized an opportunity, knocking Giant Spirit on the shoulder with a stick, sending him flying.
Giant Spirit felt like he was struck by an immense hammer, a huge force surged into his body, causing his internal organs to nearly shatter.
Giant Spirit flew dozens of meters away, crashing heavily among the evil spirits, Deceitful Charm.
"Pfft!"
Blood sprayed from Giant Spirit’s mouth, he struggled on the ground unable to rise.
At this time, the severely injured Giant Spirit attracted the attention of the surrounding evil spirits and Deceitful Charm.
All the surrounding evil spirits and Deceitful Charm pounced on him, viciously tearing at his flesh.
"Ah!"
"Ah! Ah!"
The Giant Spirit let out a painful roar, using all his strength to try to drive away the evil spirits and deceitful charms on him.
Unfortunately, when he was struck by Zhang Zhen’s blow earlier, the Xuanhua Axe in his hand flew out, slipping from his grasp.
Now, without a weapon in his hand, he couldn’t possibly deal with so many evil spirits and deceitful charms.
Although, occasionally, some evil spirits and deceitful charms would be thrown off by him.
But soon, more evil spirits and deceitful charms surged forward.
The Giant Spirit’s painful screams grew weaker until they completely disappeared.
In just two or three minutes, the Giant Spirit vanished entirely, as if evaporated from the earth.
The evil spirits and deceitful charms did not waste anything; not a single piece of flesh or drop of blood was left on the ground, everything was licked clean.
Having devoured the Giant Spirit, these evil spirits continued to besiege the city.
At this moment, the pitch-black night began to turn faint red.
Moreover, there was a feeling like Mount Tai was pressing down, making the surrounding space seem to shrink, causing a sense of oppression.
Now, the evil spirits besieging the sanctuary seemed to sink into a swamp or quagmire, their speed decreasing by more than tenfold.
These evil spirits unexpectedly all entered a slow-motion state.
However, Zhang Zhen, Wen Yingying, and others were unaffected.
Everyone involuntarily looked up to the sky, only to see a large red umbrella hanging there at some unknown moment.
The large red umbrella emitted a faint red light, causing these evil spirits’ movements to slow.
Moments later, Lin Yuan’s Zhong Kui’s Demon-Slaying Sword transformed into a long rainbow, continuously dancing and traversing among the evil spirits and deceitful charms.
With the dance and traverse of Zhong Kui’s Demon-Slaying Sword, the evil spirits and deceitful charms around were sliced and diced effortlessly by Lin Yuan.
In short ten minutes or so, Lin Yuan had completely slaughtered all the evil spirits besieging the sanctuary.
Now, the area around the sanctuary was filled with dense deceitful qi, a mist-like deceitful qi, making one feel as if steaming in a sauna.
"Quickly, absorb this deceitful qi!"
"I’ll protect you!" Lin Yuan said to the people around him.
Lin Yuan didn’t choose to absorb the deceitful qi himself; he felt a faint premonition that absorbing deceitful qi wouldn’t awaken the tattoos on him anymore.
The Four Great Judges’ tattoos, starting from Zhong Kui, all required the absorption of special powers like Power of Rules to awaken again.
Now, deceitful qi was useless to him.
Zhang Zhen, Wen Yingying, Geng Youcai, and the injured Bai Ling’Er all sat cross-legged and began to absorb the surrounding deceitful qi.
However, Zhuge Ming and the short-haired girl hesitated a bit.
How should they say it!
Today they came over but didn’t help much; Lin Yuan just came over and, like cutting vegetables, resolved all the evil spirits.
If they were to absorb deceitful qi with Zhang Zhen and others, it would be somewhat embarrassing.
"Thanks for lending a hand; quickly absorb the deceitful qi with us!" Lin Yuan said to the two who were in a tight spot.
"This...."
"We didn’t help much; this is quite embarrassing!" Zhuge Ming said awkwardly.
Lin Yuan said with a smile, "To help selflessly at such times makes you my friend. I, Lin Yuan, am never stingy with friends."
"You both should absorb together!"
It’s hard to refuse when sincerely invited!
Under Lin Yuan’s repeated encouragement, they stopped declining, sat cross-legged, and started absorbing deceitful qi.
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"Boss Lin, are you lacking anyone for errands or odd jobs here?"
"You know, we’ve admired Boss Lin for a long time and want to stay and serve you." After absorbing the deceitful qi, Zhuge Ming expressed his thoughts.
These two had decent strength and assisted selflessly when the sanctuary was besieged; their character seemed good too.
Lin Yuan pondered and asked, "Why don’t you join the official sanctuary?"
"Boss Lin, the official sanctuary has too many people!"
"More people, more issues, more rules!"
"We’re used to freedom and can’t stand such constraints!" Zhuge Ming explained.
It makes sense; Lin Yuan built his sanctuary for similar reasons as Zhuge Ming.
After all, it’s the end of the world; no one wants to continue the grind. With strength, freedom is more desirable.
"You can stay."
"But let me say something first."
"I don’t have many rules here; there’s only one rule – no betrayal!"
"If betrayed, no matter where you go, I’ll take your lives!" Lin Yuan said solemnly.
Hearing this, Zhuge Ming immediately guaranteed, "Boss Lin, you can rest assured about this."
"My family ancestor is Zhuge Liang, who served Shu Han devotedly till death. Her family ancestor is Zhou Yu, who also served Eastern Wu with all his heart!"
"Our ancestral families are loyal courtiers; you won’t find a traitor in our genealogies from start to finish!"
Loyal courtiers?
That’s indeed not bad!
Wait!
Something seems a bit off.
Your ancestor is Zhuge Liang; her ancestor is Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu was angered to death by Zhuge Liang, wasn’t he?
Oh dear, how did you two end up partnering together?
Wow, seems you’ve made a decision against your ancestors!
