Chapter 132: Finally, Someone Will Be Sad for Me

Xie Xiaoxiao's face turned deathly pale upon hearing this.

She was not afraid of death; from a young age, she had heard countless stories of heroes who died on the battlefield for the peace of the human race.

Xie Xiaoxiao had always hoped that one day she could become such a person, so she had long since prepared herself mentally for death.

But the outcome described by the Scaled Demon was simply unacceptable to her!

To be humiliated even after death was, to Xie Xiaoxiao, even more terrifying than death itself.

She stood frozen in place, not knowing what to do for a moment, her eyes filled with confusion and fear.

Only then did she realize that in battles against demons, there were fates far worse than death.

"You shameless wretch!"

Xie Xiaoxiao's eyes turned red, and tears were already welling up.

When it came down to it, she was just a young girl not even twenty years old.

"That's more like it. You have an old saying in Great Xia: those who know the times are heroes!"

Seeing that Xie Xiaoxiao had abandoned the thought of suicide, the Scaled Demon laughed wildly and reached out to remove Xie Xiaoxiao's Star Puppet Threads.

Xie Xiaoxiao was in complete despair; she didn't know what to do and could only watch helplessly as the Scaled Demon approached her.

But the moment his hand neared Xie Xiaoxiao, ice crystals suddenly condensed on his fingertips.

Immediately following, the ice crystals spread rapidly, freezing half of his arm solid.

The Scaled Demon was terrified; without hesitation, he raised his other hand and hacked off his own arm, sending purple blood spraying out.

The arm that fell to the ground shattered into a pile of ice shards.

"Who goes there?" The Scaled Demon was shocked and furious, and the other demons immediately became alert.

Xie Xiaoxiao seemed to think of something and widened her eyes, though there was still a look of disbelief in them.

Only when she saw Ye Lin appear before her did she gasp in surprise.

"Here, take it. I cut out the second half of the video for you, keeping only the part where you fought twenty-some demons alone and then killed one to successfully break out of the encirclement."

Ye Lin tossed a pink mobile phone to Xie Xiaoxiao, who caught it with a dazed look still on her face.

"You... you didn't run away just now? You were hiding in the shadows filming me?" Xie Xiaoxiao asked in disbelief.

"Yeah, wasn't that what you asked me to do? To film you defeating the demons alone so your family would acknowledge you," Ye Lin said as if it were a matter of course.

"Are you stupid! In a situation like this, you should have run! Why the hell are you filming? Now you can't run even if you want to!"

Xie Xiaoxiao gripped the phone, her emotions extremely complex at that moment.

She never expected that the reason Ye Lin hadn't fled was actually to film a video for her.

This man was so strange.

Xie Xiaoxiao's current mood was like finally managing to get a goddess to come home with you, and just as you pounced on her and were about to make your move, your mother pushed the door open with a bowl of noodles, saying you hadn't eaten all day and telling you to eat a bowl of noodles first.

Absurd, ridiculous, yet carrying a hint of logic.

"Twenty-some demons, and quite a few are already level fifty; this is really a bit tricky," Ye Lin scanned the demons before him, his expression grave.

"Can you win?" Xie Xiaoxiao asked, clinging to a shred of hope.

Although she knew the chances of Ye Lin winning were slim, given the strength of the demons before them, she still held onto that last bit of hope.

If one can live, who would want to die?

"I will win."

Ye Lin flashed a confident smile, then said with a touch of sadness.

"I will do my utmost to defeat them, even if it costs me my life! Don't worry, I'm an orphan; if I die in battle here, no one will be sad."

Xie Xiaoxiao's body trembled slightly at these words, as if the softest part of her heart had been struck.

Ye Lin's tone was calm, yet it revealed a sorrow so thick it could not be dissolved.

"I will!"

Xie Xiaoxiao blurted out, taking a deep breath and saying with a serious face.

"If you die, I will be sad! So... please, survive! Even if it means running away!"

"Really?" Ye Lin suddenly smiled, a very happy smile. "That's great. In this world, there is finally someone who will be sad because of my death. If that's the case, then my death won't be meaningless."

Ye Lin turned and walked toward the twenty-some demons, his back lonely and desolate, carrying the air of a warrior who sets out on a journey from which he will never return.

Xie Xiaoxiao felt her heart being gripped; she had never imagined that a stranger she had only just met would fight to the death for her.

"I beg you, survive, you must survive!"

The Heavenly Demon Cage allowed entry but no exit; until the power of the cage was exhausted, Xie Xiaoxiao could do nothing but pray silently for Ye Lin.

A powerful freezing aura spread out from Ye Lin as the center, forming a domain of extreme cold—it was the skill of the Heart of Ice Crystals: Absolute Zero!

Within the Absolute Zero domain, the power of all ice-type skills would receive a double bonus.

"Ice Whirl Curse!"

In an instant, countless massive ice spikes crashed down upon the twenty-some demons.

"You're courting death!"

The Scaled Demon let out a cold shout, his eyes filled with intense killing intent; having had an arm severed by Ye Lin, he clearly hated him to the bone.

Judging by the power of this skill, the person before him should only be level fifty or sixty; it was impossible for him to be a match for so many demons.

Sure enough, not long after the battle began, a demon seized the opportunity to approach Ye Lin and slashed an axe into his back. In an instant, blood flowed freely, and the wound on his back was deep enough to reveal white bone!

If Ye Lin hadn't blocked it slightly with a layer of ice, that axe would have split him in two.

Ye Lin's eyes hardened, and he pressed his hand against the demon's face.

"Freezing Technique!"

The Freezing Technique was sublimated into a forbidden spell; under the enhancement of the Absolute Zero domain, it took only two or three breaths to freeze the axe-wielding demon into an ice sculpture, cutting off his life.

Ye Lin successfully took out one demon, but at that moment, another demon seized the chance to ambush him, its claws instantly piercing Ye Lin's lower abdomen and twisting viciously.

A look of pain appeared on Ye Lin's face, but his hands did not pause for a second.

"Ice Blade Technique!"

A massive ice sword condensed and slashed the ambushing demon in two, but the price was that a portion of Ye Lin's own intestines were torn out.

Xie Xiaoxiao watched in horror; she had only seen such tragic battles in books and videos, and this was her first time witnessing one with her own eyes.

Watching Ye Lin continue to suffer injuries under the siege of the demons until he was drenched in blood, she fell to her knees, tears streaming down uncontrollably.

"Ye Mushuang, I beg you, stop fighting, run away quickly, don't worry about me anymore! If this continues, you really will die!"