Chapter 355: Forbidden Spell, River Chart and Luo Book

When the karmic fire burned out, the skin-corpses on the tree were all reduced to ashes, and the old locust tree was left as nothing more than a charred wooden stump.

Yet on that wooden stump, half a flagpole stood prominently, as if the burning of the karmic fire could not cause it any damage at all.

Ye Lin stepped forward and took down the half-flagpole; it matched perfectly with the broken end of the half-flagpole Xia Qinglan had given him.

With this, he was now only missing the flag itself!

Ye Lin patted the old locust tree, which had been burned black and reduced to a stump.

"Hang in there, buddy. Destruction precedes construction. If you can achieve nirvana and rebirth, you'll be the second Willow Deity."

"......"

After obtaining the flagpole, Ye Lin had intended to leave immediately, but at that moment, he suddenly heard Xia Qinglan's somewhat trembling voice.

"Xie Hong... look around you quickly..."

Ye Lin looked in the direction of the voice and discovered that, at some unknown point, a large crowd of figures had silently gathered all around, their expressions stiff, their eyes hollow and eerie, surrounding Ye Lin and Xia Qinglan without saying a word.

The air was filled with an extremely oppressive silence, and there was not a hint of vitality to be seen on the faces of those people.

Ye Lin's heart skipped a beat; unsurprisingly, these people were all skin-corpses!

He figured the commotion he made burning the old locust tree must have been too great, drawing all these ghostly things over.

"Stick your butt out," Ye Lin said in a low, magnetic voice.

"Huh? Right now?" Xia Qinglan was stunned for a moment, then her expression turned strange; he wouldn't be wanting *that* at a time like this, would he?

"Don't talk, just stick it out!"

Under Ye Lin's urging, Xia Qinglan gritted her teeth, closed her eyes with a sense of resignation, pressed her waist down, and assumed a posture of knee-joint rotation.

"Go to the usual place and hide; I'll come find you once I've broken free!"

No sooner had he finished speaking, and before Xia Qinglan could react, Ye Lin delivered a powerful kick; Xia Qinglan's body flew into the air like a soccer ball, tracing a graceful parabola through the sky and out of the skin-corpses' encirclement.

The skin-corpses were dumbfounded; honestly, if Ye Lin had been on the field, the score wouldn't have been 0-7.

After sending Xia Qinglan away, the now unburdened Ye Lin looked at the many skin-corpses before him.

"Good morning, everyone. You're here to take a dump, aren't you?"

No one answered him; they simply closed in step by step, their hollow eyes filled with resentment.

"Well, I'm done, so I'll be heading off now~"

"Forbidden Spell — Spatial Transition!"

Ye Lin didn't hesitate to make a run for it; ripples appeared in space, about to pull him in.

But at that moment, the leading skin-corpse suddenly opened its mouth to an incredible width and let out a sharp, ear-piercing shriek filled with resentment!

Immediately after, the other skin-corpses followed suit; the sharp sound waves turned into a physical force, making Ye Lin feel as if his head were about to split open on the spot.

The spatial channel that was about to form was destroyed in an instant, and the terrifying resentment caused Ye Lin to bleed from his seven orifices.

Skin-corpses with hosts and those without are not even on the same level of combat power.

Seeing the skin-corpses lunging at him, the Dragon bloodline within Ye Lin instantly boiled, and Burning Reincarnation was activated simultaneously!

"So you won't let me leave, huh? Today, I'll help you remember why Great Xia is called a land of etiquette!"

He then grabbed the two broken pieces of the Human Emperor Flag's pole and used them as two short clubs.

Although the Human Emperor Flag had collapsed, it was still a nine-star divine artifact, and its hardness was quite impressive.

The skin-corpse that charged the fastest had just reached Ye Lin when it was struck directly on the head by Ye Lin's club.

Bang!

A crisp sound rang out, and the skin-corpse clutched its head and squatted down.

As the saying goes, a good sound makes for a good head; Ye Lin held the clubs in both hands, and for a time, the sounds of *bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang* rang out in succession.

Although Ye Lin really wanted to use the Imperial Gold Spear, he didn't dare.

This was the Demon World; once the Imperial Gold Spear was brought out, the problem wouldn't be about dealing with the Skin-Corpse King, but about how he would escape this place.

Amidst the crisp *bang-bang-bang* sounds, Ye Lin pulled out a canister of powerful itching powder and launched an indiscriminate attack.

As the powder drifted, all the skin-corpses' eyes turned red instantly; for skin-corpses that only had one layer of skin, itching powder was almost the best divine weapon to deal with them.

After a silky-smooth combo, the skin-corpses were miserable, but as they fought, more and more skin-corpses began to gather here.

Ye Lin dared not linger, and he hurriedly cast a forbidden spell again.

"Forbidden Spell — Spacetime Wormhole!"

The moment the Spacetime Wormhole opened, Ye Lin didn't hesitate to snap off the finger wearing the Canglan Ring and throw it through.

"Forbidden Spell — Heavenly Star Explosion!"

The main body left behind began to swell bit by bit; the skin-corpses had not yet realized what was about to happen and were still throwing themselves at Ye Lin one after another, continuously gnawing flesh from his body.

The next second.

Inside the Millennium City, whether human or skin-corpse, everyone clearly saw a Patrick Star made of light, dazzling and brilliant.

BOOM—!!!

Because eyes grow in front of ears, it was only after seeing the bright Patrick Star that the crowd heard a deafening explosion.

The entire Millennium City trembled incessantly at this moment, as if a subterranean dragon were turning over; some aged houses were even shaken until they collapsed, becoming a pile of ruins.

As the piece that had been teleported away began to regenerate flesh, Ye Lin successfully escaped the encirclement of the skin-corpses.

Although it was unclear exactly how many skin-corpses this self-detonation had taken out, the gains for Ye Lin were quite considerable; having just reached level 73 not long ago, he leveled up once more to level 74.

"I'm probably going to be a wanted man; if only I had a Disguise..."

Ye Lin had a headache; so many skin-corpses had seen his face that he would find it difficult to move an inch within the Millennium City from now on.

But there was no use worrying now; he had better wait for Xia Qinglan to return. Only when she returned would he know where to find the rest of the flag.

Yet Ye Lin waited until nightfall without seeing a sign of Xia Qinglan.

"That shouldn't be..."

Ye Lin frowned slightly; Xia Qinglan should know that the "usual place" he mentioned was her home.

Could she have mistakenly thought it was the place where they first met?

Thinking of this, Ye Lin activated the Great Void Technique and arrived at the alley where he and Xia Qinglan first met, but there were no traces of anyone having been in the alley.

He went to Uncle Jiang's residence again, but it was surrounded by skin-corpses, three layers deep.

This girl, she hasn't run into trouble, has she?

Ye Lin decided not to wait any longer; he directly used his third profession talent to begin creating a forbidden spell.

"Generate a forbidden spell that can immediately find the person I want to find, at any cost."

【According to your requirements, a Fate-type forbidden spell is now being generated for you.】

【Forbidden Spell — River Chart and Luo Book: The Forbidden Spellcaster pays the majority of their essence, energy, and spirit to deduce a result they wish to know.】

【Confirm generation?】

"Essence, energy, and spirit?"

Ye Lin was stunned for a moment; he had used so many forbidden spells, but this was the first time he had seen one that required paying essence, energy, and spirit. What would be the consequences of paying that?

Never mind, he had an Undying Body anyway; he'd just go for it with his cheap life!

"Confirm!"

After generating this forbidden spell, Ye Lin immediately gave it a try.

"Forbidden Spell — River Chart and Luo Book!"