Chapter 99: Holy Fire?

Lu Ying realized she couldn't run away.

Because there was no path ahead, all she could see was a wall.

She had run into a dead end!

"What should I do?"

Lu Ying forced herself to stay calm; there was no time to turn and run now, and her eyes kept scanning ahead.

Finally she decided to use the railing of a nearby house to climb over the wall!

Having made up her mind, Lu Ying was about to set off, but just as she was halfway up, a voice from behind made her heart, which had just risen, plunge to the bottom of a valley:

"Stop the futile struggle."

Tap tap.

Accompanied by the sound of footsteps, Lu Ying turned her head to look back.

It was three golden‑haired knights!

The nun who had been silent stepped forward and spoke in the era's Da Xia Language:

"Lu Ying, come back with us."

"I brought you from the East, gave you food, shelter, clothing, and knowledge; why do you want to leave?"

"I know you have some misunderstandings about us, but please believe us; everything we do is to benefit all beings."

"This is what the Lord permits and expects to see."

Lu Ying shook her head, glared at her, and said, "I won't!"

"You turn people into monsters!"

"What the Lord permits is only what you think it is! Using the Lord's banner to do your own thing!"

"You will go to Hell in the future!"

Her words made the nun's previously gentle and calm expression collapse instantly, and she stepped back behind the knights:

"It seems you have been completely bewitched by the Demon."

"Delun, you come forward."

"It should have been like this all along; Yalina, stop the nonsense with her." Delun, the golden‑haired knight, seemed impatient, and immediately stepped forward to seize Lu Ying.

But just as he took a few steps, a voice sounded from behind:

"I originally wanted to rest a bit, then reorganize in a few days."

"It seems... it has to start right now."

"Who?"

The sudden voice made Delun and the other two knights' faces darken, and they instantly turned to look.

A black‑haired Eastern youth walked over, met their gaze, and said softly:

"My name is Yu Lin."

"Of course, you may also call me Saint Yu Lin."

".........."

His words plunged Delun and the other two knights into a brief silence.

"Hahaha!"

Delun's laughter suddenly exploded through the alley; he covered his belly, bent over, laughing so hard his whole body trembled, and tears streamed from the corners of his eyes.

"Ha ha! This... this is my... this year..." He wiped away the laughing tears, and as he straightened, his face still bore a twisted grin,

"No, it's the funniest joke I've ever heard since I was born!"

He pointed at Yu Lin, his finger trembling from the hysterical laugh, and said, "You Eastern monkey, you even add 'Saint' before your name?"

"Where did you sneak in from? You learned a bit of the Eastern Lian Qi Method and dare to show off here?"

"Really................"

Delun suddenly drew his knightly longsword from his waist, the tip pointing at Yu Lin's throat:

"What nerve!"

Before the last syllable could finish, his figure suddenly blurred—

Swoosh!

The sword light slashed down like lightning, the blade tearing the air with a sharp howl.

The strike, infused with all of Delun's strength, vowed to split the arrogant Eastern man before him in two!

Clang!!!

The massive clang of metal made Lu Ying cover her ears.

Yalina and the other person, whose calm expressions were replaced by shock.

Because Delun's sword blade was firmly clamped by a hand glowing with golden light!

The blade was only an inch from Yu Lin's forehead, yet could not advance any further.

"How... how could this be?!" Delun's face flushed bright red, and veins bulged on his neck.

"Cut it down for me!"

"Just obediently go die!"

His biceps bulged as he exerted all his strength to press the longsword down, but the blade remained unmoved, as if he were cutting into a towering mountain!

"Typical." Yu Lin shook his head, the golden hand applying a slight pressure—

Crack!

The finely‑crafted steel knightly longsword snapped in response, and the half blade clanged onto the ground.

The broken tip bounced twice on the ground before finally coming to rest at Delun's feet!

The air was terrifyingly silent for a moment. Only the sound of a flock of pigeons flapping their wings nearby could be heard.

And.

Delun's gulping sound:

"You, you............"

"Enough, the game is over, I don't have time to play with you." Yu Lin interrupted him, casually pulling the half‑broken sword from his hand.

He jabbed the sword hilt into his stomach with just a single thrust.

"Uh!"

Delun collapsed to the ground instantly.

He curled up, his face as pale as paper, both hands tightly covering his abdomen, beads of pea‑sized sweat seeping from his forehead, his lips trembling from the excruciating pain.

In those once‑arrogant blue eyes, disbelief and terror now filled the gaze.

Yu Lin didn't even glance at him, lifted his foot and kicked him against the wall, as if kicking away an obstructing stone.

His body slammed into the brick wall with a muffled thud, then slid down softly to the ground, the dust in the corner trembling and drifting down.

Seeing Yu Lin approach, Yalina and the Priest's faces showed panic.

Yalina gritted her teeth and growled:

"Don't come any closer! You'd better leave right now! Otherwise we'll have to use Holy Law!"

Yu Lin's steps did not pause at all; the sound of his shoes on the stone slabs rang especially clear in the silent alley.

The Priest suddenly tore off the silver cross from his chest, clenched his hands, and began chanting the incantation hastily:

"Lord, I beg you, send down a flame that can incinerate everything................."

Blinding Holy Light burst from the cross, turning into a blazing white flame.

The flame roiled violently, the surrounding air scorching and warping, the heat wave blackening the alley walls in an instant!

Under the Priest's command, it flew toward Yu Lin!

"To Hell you go! You damned—"

The Priest's snarling expression suddenly froze.

In his widened pupils reflected an unbelievable sight: the Holy Fire, capable of purifying all evil, now lay obediently in Yu Lin's palm, like a tamed little beast.

Yu Lin even gently pinched the flame with his fingertip, and the fire danced merrily between his fingers.

The next moment.

Yu Lin threw the Holy Fire back!

The Holy Fire whooshed back, and the Priest's pupils snapped shut: "How... how is this possible?!"

"What on earth.........."

His words were not finished.

Whoosh! The massive fire rose, incinerating him completely, leaving not even a speck of ash!

Yu Lin had already stepped forward, his gaze falling on Yalina, whose feet were slick with a foul, stench‑laden liquid from sheer terror:

"What are you going to do with her?"