Chapter 356: Ye Lin

Ye Lin's eyes were tightly shut, a dark and unfathomable aura swirling around him as countless threads wove into a massive web before him.

Just as he wanted to find the whereabouts of Xia Qinglan, several threads within the web snapped simultaneously.

Ye Lin's perspective drifted upward continuously until it floated above the Millennium City, looking down at the entire city from high above.

Blurred images flashed rapidly before Ye Lin's eyes like a horse-riding spectator, and finally, the image froze in a dark corner; Xia Qinglan had lost consciousness, and standing beside her was someone!

To be precise, that should be a Skin Corpse, a Skin Corpse more powerful than any Ye Lin had ever seen.

Three words suddenly surfaced in Ye Lin's mind.

Skin Corpse King!

And the Skin Corpse King seemed to sense Ye Lin's gaze, abruptly opening its eyes to reveal a pair of scarlet pupils!

As the forbidden spell was activated, Ye Lin soon sensed the general location of Xia Qinglan in the netherworld.

But immediately after, a backlash unlike any he had experienced before appeared.

Ye Lin felt as if an invisible giant hand had extracted something very important from him, and an indescribable sense of weakness washed over him.

His pupils lost focus, the scene before him began to blur, and even his mind started to become sluggish.

Ye Lin immediately employed the Disintegration Technique and quickly reconstructed his flesh and blood, but this sense of weakness still did not fade.

He felt completely muddled, just like the feeling of having stayed up for several nights without sleep.

"Does this so-called sacrifice of essence, energy, and spirit mean consuming the power of the soul?"

Ye Lin was shocked; this was the first time he had encountered a backlash that his Undying Body could not withstand.

Although the Undying Body allowed his flesh and blood to constantly reconstruct and regenerate, it was powerless against this kind of backlash that directly consumed the power of the soul.

"And nobody told me that doing this divination stuff had such a fierce backlash..."

Ye Lin rubbed his throbbing temples, feeling as if his head were about to split open.

In the future, unless absolutely necessary, he would let Bai Si worry about calculating things for him; he would absolutely never use the River Chart and Luo Scroll, this nerve-wracking forbidden spell, again easily.

Relying on the results of the River Chart and Luo Scroll's divination, Ye Lin rushed toward the direction where Xia Qinglan was.

The Skin Corpse King was already difficult to deal with, and now that he had been backlashed by the River Chart and Luo Scroll, he was completely muddled.

Under these circumstances, wanting to deal with the Skin Corpse King was a difficulty comparable to Li Yunlong leading the Independent Regiment to repel the Three-Body people.

If that didn't work, he could only try to rely on his Undying Body to wear the Skin Corpse King to death; it was just a pity for his best father-in-law in the world, he could only hope his vitality was stronger than the Skin Corpse King's.

As for summoning the mysterious powerhouse suspected to be the Human Emperor, Ye Lin was unwilling anyway; calling that person over to deal with a Skin Corpse King, wasn't that using a cannon to kill a mosquito?

To alleviate the constant dizziness in his head, Ye Lin twisted his head off and held it in his hands to continue his journey.

Relying on the sense from the netherworld, he found the dark corner he had just seen in the Millennium City, only neither Xia Qinglan nor the Skin Corpse King was there anymore.

The surrounding air was filled with a scent of decay, and every breath made one's lungs extremely uncomfortable.

Ye Lin had intended to first look for where the remaining banners of the Human Emperor Flag were, but the master here seemed to have sensed Ye Lin's arrival; a wisp of dim yellow light pierced through the shadows, and Ye Lin reattached his head to his neck, seeing the scene not far away clearly.

The Skin Corpse King sat upright on a throne, its face unclear, but one could feel the formidable aura on the other party.

"Ye Lin, I know you."

The Skin Corpse King's voice was hoarse and eerie, as if its throat were stuffed with broken glass.

"I am curious, why would a level 74 human like you be wanted by two Demon Emperors and one Demon Sovereign simultaneously?"

The corner of Ye Lin's mouth twitched slightly; the two Demon Emperors, one was the Butterfly Emperor, and the other was the original owner of the Imperial Gold Spear, as for the Demon Sovereign... it must be the Soul-Devouring Empress.

"Where is the human girl you captured? Hand her over first, and then I will tell you why," Ye Lin parleyed.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say it."

The Skin Corpse King stood up from the throne.

"Those three lords want your life, and they are very willing to pay the price."

The Skin Corpse King paced out from the shadows, its body wreathed in an aura of ruin and death; its figure was nearly two meters tall, its skin like the cracks on a thousand-year-old tree, and it even shimmered with an eerie blue light.

It wore tattered armor, covered in pieces of bone.

This Skin Corpse King seemed different from all the Skin Corpses Ye Lin had ever seen!

Other Skin Corpses at least looked no different from humans, but this Skin Corpse King looked just like a real corpse.

Ye Lin remembered the dried corpses he had encountered crawling out of grave mounds when he first entered the Li Tomb Secret Realm; the Skin Corpse King actually looked very similar to those things.

He didn't know if the Skin Corpse King had any connection to those things.

"Wait!"

Seeing the Skin Corpse King about to make a move, Ye Lin hurriedly stopped it.

He had seen with his own eyes Naruto warming wine to talk to Nagato, talking Nagato into tears and bowing his head to admit his mistakes.

Ye Lin considered his own oratorical skills not bad either; if he could persuade the Skin Corpse King and awaken its original consciousness, avoiding a battle, wouldn't that be wonderful?

The key was his current state; Ye Lin really wasn't sure if he could beat the Skin Corpse King.

"Skin Corpse King, do you still remember that you were once a warrior of the human race! Do you still remember that you once fought for the common people of this world! Do you still remember that you were once a great hero who resisted the Demon race!"

Ye Lin spoke with conviction, impassioned, his face red and neck thick.

"Look at yourself now! You have actually fallen into becoming a lackey of the Demon race! Is this what you wanted?"

While speaking, Ye Lin even took out the flagpole of the Human Emperor Flag.

"Do you still remember, this is the battle flag you all had back then!"

Seeing the flagpole of the Human Emperor Flag, the Skin Corpse King's eyes were dazed for a moment, then slowly turned scarlet again.

"Warrior? Hero? Lackey? Hahahaha! Hahahahahaha!"

The Skin Corpse King suddenly burst into wild laughter.

"Do you know what kind of people are buried in those grave mounds outside the city? Those people! They were all brothers who died in battle in the Demon Realm with me back then! Their corpses have been eroded by demonic energy year after year, becoming demonic corpses!"

"We sacrificed our lives for the human race, charging into battle! But what about the human race! How did the human race treat us!"

"They clearly had the ability to bring us back, but what did they do? So many years have passed, and no one has ever thought of coming to take us home! They just left us to suffer in this land of the Demon race!"

"Human Emperor Flag? A joke!"

"Even if the real Human Emperor were here, I wouldn't acknowledge it! I am now... the Skin Corpse King!"

A more ferocious aura erupted from the Skin Corpse King, making one's hair stand on end.

Ye Lin was slightly shocked; the Skin Corpse King actually had its consciousness from when it was alive! This guy chose to become a demon while being clear-headed.

"You have never experienced my pain at all; we were just pawns abandoned after weighing the pros and cons! I ask you, if you were treated as a pawn to be discarded after use by the high-level human race, sent to your death, and not allowed peace even after death, what would you do?" the Skin Corpse King roared and questioned.

"Improve your strength well, and go back to kill them all!" Ye Lin said seriously.

Skin Corpse King: "......?"