Chapter 350: The Indigenous People of the Millennium City

After resolving the small skin-corpse, Ye Lin activated the Great Void Technique, performed a double jump to vault over the city wall, and entered the Millennium City.

Upon entering, the scene inside left Ye Lin astonished; it was completely different from the dead, panicked atmosphere outside, as the Millennium City was bustling and prosperous.

The hawkers' cries rose and fell, pedestrians came and went, chatting and laughing, filled with the vibrant atmosphere of daily life.

If he didn't clearly know where he was, Ye Lin would have even suspected he had arrived at some human city.

Looking at these people before him, the thought that some of them were transformed skin-corpses made Ye Lin shudder.

Ye Lin, keeping the Great Void Technique active, crouched in a corner for an hour, but no matter what, he could not tell which were skin-corpses and which were true living humans.

At this rate, let alone finding the Skin-Corpse King, even finding an ordinary skin-corpse was a struggle.

Ye Lin decided to take the initiative, then found a dark corner and took the opportunity to pull a passing long-legged girl inside.

He covered the girl's mouth, then carefully inspected every inch of her skin, but no matter how he checked, the girl before him looked no different from a human.

"Could she be human?"

Ye Lin frowned; at this moment, he suddenly remembered Professor Shen's warning.

Consequently, Ye Lin stuck his finger into the girl's mouth and stirred it around.

The next second, the girl's eyes turned fierce, and with a snap, Ye Lin's finger was severed at the root!

The previously beautiful and plump girl suddenly transformed into a pink skeleton, and a layer of pale, eerily lustrous human skin slowly peeled off her, like a beauty-snake shedding its skin.

Beneath the human skin, there was no longer any flesh or blood, only a stark white skeleton, and the skeleton was covered in countless tiny black holes, dense and terrifying to behold.

As soon as the human skin appeared, an extremely cold aura permeated the air; it was the terrifying, lingering resentment of the skin's former owner!

Ye Lin's pupils shrank violently; was this the true form of a skin-corpse? He had thought Professor Shen was having an episode, but it turned out what Professor Shen said was truly a way to identify skin-corpses?

The skin-corpse clearly sensed fresher flesh from Ye Lin; after detaching from its original host, it coiled directly toward Ye Lin, obviously intending to use him as its new host.

A chill ran through Ye Lin's heart, and he instantly released a forbidden spell.

"Forbidden Spell — Eye of Eternal Freeze!"

Intense cold gathered, and just as Ye Lin was about to freeze the human skin, it suddenly vanished in an eerie manner!

The next second, Ye Lin felt a bone-chilling cold, as if countless cold, venomous snakes were desperately trying to burrow into his skin.

A layer of pale human skin was tightly plastered against Ye Lin's body, continuously embedding itself into his flesh, while a powerful, foreign resentment bombarded Ye Lin's mind, attempting to take complete control of his body.

Ye Lin gritted his teeth, wanting to tear the skin off with brute force, but the harder he pulled, the more tightly the skin fused with him.

"Is this skin-corpse this bizarre?!"

Ye Lin was shocked.

"Sorry, my dear good father-in-law!"

Ye Lin didn't hesitate and directly used the Disintegration Technique, turning his entire body into countless particles.

He and Xie Hong were only bound by a single hair, so he figured one disintegration shouldn't cause much of an impact; meanwhile, a certain big shot far away in the capital suddenly felt a pang of angina.

After disintegrating, Ye Lin quickly reconstructed his body, and this time he did not give the skin-corpse another chance to parasitize him.

"Forbidden Spell — Karma Fire Burning Heaven!"

The purple-red karma fire burned fiercely, enveloping the skin-corpse; even while wrapped in the karma fire, the skin-corpse refused to stop, continuously emitting sharp, ear-piercing wails that left Ye Lin feeling dizzy and overwhelmed.

Forced by necessity, Ye Lin had no choice but to puncture his own ears to deafen himself.

As the karma fire burned, the skin-corpse, which was originally just a piece of skin, slowly curled into a ball and completely ceased its noise; whether it was an illusion or not, Ye Lin seemed to hear a sigh of relief.

Ye Lin walked forward and directly activated Endless Devour.

【Devoured Level 68 Demon*1, obtained moisture, fat, protein, carbohydrates, minerals, and a trace of thin Long Zhi bloodline;】

【Increased lifespan by 233 years, experience points by 2040, strength attribute by 2, agility attribute by 1, and mental power by 26.】

"This skin-corpse is even more troublesome than I imagined..."

Ye Lin was now feeling quite overwhelmed.

The difficult part about skin-corpses was not their powerful combat ability, but the endless resentment they carried, which seemed to bear infinite pain and unwillingness, constantly affecting a person's mind.

That cold, resentful aura could pierce directly through the soul, like sharp blades constantly slicing at one's consciousness.

If he didn't have an Undying Body, Ye Lin would have been stripped of a layer of skin, if not killed, by that initial parasitism.

And this was only a Level 68 skin-corpse; Ye Lin didn't even dare to imagine how terrifying the Skin-Corpse King must be!

Now it wasn't a question of whether he could find the Skin-Corpse King, but whether he could defeat it once he found it.

Ye Lin vaguely felt that the resentment of the Skin-Corpse King could probably satiate several Evil Sword Immortals.

Just as Ye Lin was pondering a countermeasure, he suddenly realized something and turned his head abruptly.

"Who?!"

Ye Lin flashed over and dragged a person out from the corner; the person stumbled several steps under Ye Lin's forceful pull before barely steadying themselves.

Under the moonlight, an exquisite and delicate face entered Ye Lin's view, with a hint of terror in a pair of innocent, large eyes.

"Don't... don't do anything, I'm human, not a skin-corpse," the girl hurriedly explained.

Ye Lin didn't say a word and directly probed his newly grown finger into the girl's mouth to stir it around.

However, unlike before, this time his finger was not cruelly bitten off; he only touched a soft little tongue.

Having confirmed the girl's human identity, Ye Lin's expression softened slightly, and he asked.

"Are you from the Millennium City?"

The girl nodded and asked cautiously, "My name is Xia Qinglan. I saw you over there just now; are you... able to kill those human skins?"

Seeing Ye Lin remain silent, Xia Qinglan bit her red lip and pleaded.

"Could you please eliminate all those human skins? Or take the surviving humans of the Millennium City away from here."

Ye Lin raised an eyebrow and then retorted.

"Why should I help you? Do you know that every time a whale poops, its butt has to open very, very wide, and it can't close for a long time afterward, which is very painful? You don't know, because you only care about yourself."

Xia Qinglan was stunned for a moment, wanting to speak but hesitating, then finally couldn't help but ask.

"Then at that time, what happens if another creature takes the opportunity to crawl inside?"