Chapter 287: A Bustling Crowd, One Seat

A scarlet sky, a scarlet earth.

Ye Lin carried the Human Emperor Flag and sped through the Heaven Refining Secret Realm. At this moment, the Human Emperor Flag was slightly different from when it first started; not only was it more magnificent and imposing, but the golden light it emitted had also grown faintly stronger.

Of course, this was also related to Ye Lin's tireless efforts during this period. Three days had passed since he entered the Heaven Refining Secret Realm. In these three days, Ye Lin had opened the Human Emperor Flag to everyone he encountered, very generously welcoming them inside to be guests.

After three days of hard work, the number of soul bodies within the Human Emperor Flag had skyrocketed to over a hundred; among them were humans, as well as spirit prisoners.

"Come, this gentleman, please step inside. One seat in the bustling crowd~"

This sentence had almost become Ye Lin's catchphrase.

Now, under the waving of the Human Emperor Flag, over a hundred soul bodies roared as they lunged forward; it finally possessed a trace of the might of a Nine-Star Divine Artifact.

However, today was somewhat strange. Ye Lin had advanced dozens of kilometers and had not seen a single person, which was clearly not right.

Ye Lin sniffed, and a wave of blood-scent rushed into his nose.

He cautiously probed forward and saw a gruesome scene: viscous blood had nearly congealed, staining the earth beneath Ye Lin's feet red.

There were bloodstains everywhere, yet there were no severed limbs, nor could any corpses be seen.

Judging from the scene before him, it was clear that someone had been murdered, but why were there no corpses?

Ye Lin grabbed the Human Emperor Flag and swung it hard; dozens of translucent figures floated up, some of which were already on the verge of dissipating.

They were all curled into balls, their expressions incomparably painful, as if they had suffered unspeakable torture before death.

"Who did this?"

Ye Lin's brows furrowed tightly. Besides him, this beast, there was actually someone else slaughtering humans in the Heaven Refining Secret Realm? How could this be allowed!

Ye Lin was a pure beast himself, so he knew very well how much harm a beast could cause; there was only room for one beast like him in this world.

Ye Lin immediately decided that for the sake of his fellow human compatriots, he would find this beast and eradicate it!

The bloodstains had not yet completely congealed, which proved that the murderer certainly had not gone far!

"Forbidden Spell: One Qi Transforms into Three Purities!"

Ye Lin immediately summoned two other clones and launched a carpet search in three directions.

Sure enough, one of the clones soon made a discovery. Ye Lin calmly erased the other two clones and activated the Great Void Technique to rush over.

Just as he approached the place where the clone had discovered the anomaly, Ye Lin heard a woman's shrill, miserable scream.

Following the sound, Ye Lin's brows immediately knit together.

A man was ravaging a beautiful woman, while four or five other men were leaning on her.

However, those four or five men were not taking advantage of the woman, but were actually gnawing on her!

Those four or five men were like zombies, drinking blood and eating raw flesh, biting off the fair flesh from the woman's body mouthful by mouthful, with fresh blood splattering everywhere.

The woman struggled desperately in pain, but it was completely useless.

"Devils! You are devils! You will definitely go to hell!" the woman screamed desperately.

One of the men got up to block the woman's mouth, but was bitten on the thigh by her.

"Baka! You stinking woman of Great Xia!"

The man roared and slapped the woman, breaking all her teeth.

Afterward, the angry man walked to the top of the woman's head, took out a sharp dagger, and pried open a small circular hole in her skull; the woman soon convulsed all over from the pain.

A strange smile appeared on the man's face.

Even his companions showed expressions of contempt at this scene.

"Yota, if you do this, how are we supposed to eat her brain matter later? Disgusting!"

"Hmph, if you won't eat it, I will!" The man called Yota gave a cold laugh, not caring in the slightest.

At this moment, his shoulder was suddenly tapped, and upon turning his head, he saw Ye Lin's smiling face.

"Who?" Yota turned around angrily and glared at Ye Lin.

"My lord is wise and martial; your heroic posture on the bed is admirable. This little brother happened to pass by and came to learn some skills with an attitude of study!" Ye Lin said with a kind smile.

"Who are you?" Yota looked vigilant.

"That is what I would like to ask as well. You all seem... not to be from Great Xia?" Ye Lin tilted his head.

"Hmph hmph, that is natural. We are from the Great Sang Empire!" When mentioning the four words "Great Sang Empire," Yota proudly raised his head.

The next second, his throat was slit, and fresh blood splattered everywhere.

Yota retreated four steps, clutching his neck, his face full of disbelief as blood poured continuously from between his fingers.

Ye Lin's strike was too fast, so fast that he had no time to react.

"I didn't expect that in this world, there would also be a disgusting country like yours. It seems my perspective was too narrow; stacking the Human Emperor Flag in the Heaven Refining Secret Realm is still a bit inhumane." The smile on Ye Lin's face had no warmth at all.

The other Sang nationals were furious upon seeing their companion killed and wanted to attack Ye Lin.

"You dare to attack us, you creature who doesn't know life from death!"

Several people revealed their aura, and without exception, they were all above level 80!

It was a pity that in front of Ye Lin, this was not worth looking at.

"Forbidden Spell: Eye of Eternal Freezing!"

Under the gaze of his affectionate eyes, the parts of their bodies below the shoulders all turned into ice sculptures, with only their heads left exposed.

Ye Lin did not kill them, because he still wanted to learn more intelligence. He walked toward one of them.

"Speak, how many of you have snuck in?"

"Do you think I will tell you? Bah! Kill me! Long live the Great Sang Empire!" the man roared.

"Sometimes, wanting to die is a very luxurious thing."

Ye Lin waved the Human Emperor Flag, and the soul body of the man named Yota from earlier was forcibly sucked into the Human Emperor Flag.

Watching Yota's soul struggling desperately but unable to escape, they felt a bit terrified.

"You... what did you do?"

"Nothing much, I just happen to know a few methods for torturing souls. Since you all like gnawing on people so much, why don't I let you taste what it's like to be gnawed on? How about that?"

Ye Lin summoned Yota's soul body back out, then raised a finger, and the more than one hundred soul bodies of the Human Emperor Flag appeared one after another.

Under Ye Lin's manipulation, those soul bodies lunged forward directly, greedily gnawing on Yota's soul body.

As soul bodies, they could strengthen themselves by gnawing on their own kind; Yota's soul was the best tonic for them!

A moment later, Yota was gnawed to nothing, which meant he was completely soul-scattered!

Ye Lin stretched, then looked at the other five frozen Sang nationals.

"Come, now I will ask you again, how many of you have snuck in?"

The other five people were already pale with fright; they had never seen anyone who could continue to torture the other party's soul after killing them! Such methods were simply incomparably bizarre!

Seeing no one speak, Ye Lin followed the same pattern, twisting off another person's head, extracting their soul, and letting the other soul bodies gnaw on it.

Afterward, Ye Lin stopped asking and raised his hand to twist off the third person's head; the third person was scared witless.

"Wait! I'll talk! I'll talk!"

*Snap.

Ye Lin had no intention of stopping; twisting the head, extracting the soul, and feeding it to the other soul bodies was done in one go, and then he walked toward the fourth person.

The fourth person hurriedly said loudly.

"A total of 28 people from our Great Sang Empire entered. You have already killed 3, and now there are 25 left!"

Ye Lin's hand hovered over this person's head, then he rubbed his head as if petting a dog, praising him with a smile.

"That's right, that's a good boy~"