"Old Lin, you came back at just the right time!"
As soon as Lin Chen stepped into the dorm, a familiar voice sounded in his ear.
"What are you two doing here?"
Lin Chen stared at the two familiar faces, clearly taken aback. They were his roommates, but with graduation approaching, they had moved out of the dorm long ago.
"Fatty ran into some trouble, so we came back to check on him. We figured we'd take him out and broaden his horizons while we were at it," Zhang Song said with a chuckle.
So that was it!
Lin Chen understood at once. Shen Shiyuan must have told their roommates he was about to get a girlfriend, only for the girl in question, Hu Xiaoling, to die.
"We were just about to call you. Since you're back, perfect timing. A new bar just opened nearby. Let's take Fatty there and show him around," Chen Ping said, looking at Lin Chen.
Lin Chen nodded. Chen Ping and Zhang Song rarely came back, and since they were keen on going, he had no reason to refuse.
Before long, the four of them arrived at the bar. The place was a riot of neon lights and wine, with hot girls dancing on the floor. Fatty Shen couldn't stop swallowing.
With Shen Shiyuan's build, he'd never had much contact with girls. Otherwise, he wouldn't have fixated so stubbornly on Hu Xiaoling. Faced with such a fiery scene, his blood was naturally surging.
Shen Shiyuan wasn't the only one. Lin Chen was also staring fixedly at the beauties on the dance floor, excitement and exhilaration showing in his eyes.
"Fatty, pretty good, huh?" Zhang Song chuckled.
Fatty nodded at once. Hu Xiaoling? He'd forgotten all about her.
Chen Ping watched Lin Chen, whose eyes looked ready to shoot flames, and couldn't help teasing him. "Old Lin, I never knew you were into this sort of thing!"
"Don't rush. I hear the private rooms are even more fun." Zhang Song winked at Fatty Shen and Lin Chen.
Lin Chen heard him and forced down the stirrings in his heart. He wanted to see for himself what made those private rooms so special!
Chen Ping booked a private room. His family and Zhang Song's were both well-off, so a room like this was no big deal to them.
Soon, four hot girls in skimpy outfits arrived with drinks and food. As they set everything down, they smoothly took seats beside Lin Chen and the others.
Zhang Song and Chen Ping were fine; they both had girlfriends and had long since gotten around. Fatty, the pure-hearted young man, immediately blushed to his ears.
"Holy crap..."
"Old Lin's the real player here. He made his move already?"
Zhang Song and Chen Ping looked over at Lin Chen and gaped. Their dorm's most proper guy was actually a seasoned player? The beauty had barely sat down before he put his hands on her!
"Miss, your hand feels a little cold." Lin Chen held the beauty's hand, his gaze burning as if he meant to melt her.
"Handsome, it's not me who's cold. You're just too hot." The beauty's breath was sweet as orchids. She looked at Lin Chen with a sultry, lingering gaze. "You're looking at me like you want to eat me alive. You've got my little heart thumping like crazy."
"Really?" Lin Chen looked surprised, but his hand had quietly settled against her chest.
Fatty Shen's mind went blank at the sight. You could be that forward?
Did being handsome mean you could do whatever you wanted?
"Doesn't feel like it's thumping, though. It's actually a little cold." Lin Chen grinned at the beauty. "How about I warm you up?"
Before the beauty could react, a sharp pain suddenly struck her chest. A hand had punched straight through her body.
"Holy crap... Old Lin, what are you doing?"
Fatty saw Lin Chen's hand pass right through the beauty's body, and his face turned deathly pale. Had Old Lin just killed someone?
At Fatty's cry, Zhang Song and Chen Ping looked over too. Was this a dream?
Old Lin had killed someone—and with his bare hand, punching straight through her body?
"You're a cultivator!" the beauty cried, staring at Lin Chen in terror.
"Correct. Too bad there's no prize!"
Lin Chen gave a light chuckle and activated his Blood Qi True Flame. His arm trembled, and in an instant, the beauty was swallowed by the flames and reduced to ashes.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
At that moment, the three hot girls on the sofa leaped up and surrounded Lin Chen.
"A cultivator dares to kill one of ours? You're asking to die!" The leading girl's face was full of murderous intent. Ghost energy surged around her, and the whole room plunged into an icy abyss.
"I knew at a glance you weren't human!"
Lin Chen had sensed something was off as soon as he entered the bar. It was his first time encountering ghosts, and he'd wanted to see what the creatures were up to. So they'd tried to seduce him, huh?
"Kill him!"
The three female ghosts moved as one and charged straight at Lin Chen. Instead of backing off, Lin Chen advanced to meet them, summoning his Blood Qi True Flame as he rushed forward.
Bang! Bang!
One punch for each pretty girl. Three punches later, only three piles of ash remained in the private room.
"Slain a First-order Ghost, source +500." "Source: 2300"
"Trash!"
Lin Chen looked disdainful. They hadn't been very strong, but they'd given him a decent amount of source. Four First-order Ghosts had given him two thousand source.
"Old Lin, we can afford to pay. You didn't have to kill anyone!" Zhang Song said, looking terrified.
"Do I look like the type to freeload?"
Lin Chen stared at Zhang Song and the others, speechless. "Those things weren't human. They were ghosts!"
"Ghosts?"
Zhang Song and the others exchanged glances. Those beautiful, fiery girls had been ghosts?
Bang! Bang!
Just then, the private-room door and the glass shattered in an instant. Several grotesque figures rushed in: one had only half a head, another was missing an arm and a leg, and others were covered in rotting flesh.
Gulp.
Zhang Song and the others swallowed hard. If they'd still had doubts before, they no longer doubted Lin Chen at all.
They'd walked straight into a den of ghosts!
"Old Lin, help!" Fatty and the others cried out in a panic.
"Stay behind your godfather, and I'll keep you safe." Lin Chen smiled calmly. A few little ghosts weren't worth worrying about.
At that moment, the little ghosts who'd rushed in suddenly parted to make way. A tall, imposing man wreathed in ghostly energy strode in.
"I hadn't meant to take your lives. But you killed my people. If I don't get an explanation, how am I supposed to show my face around here?" The burly man looked at Lin Chen, his voice icy.
"What kind of explanation do you want?"
"You can leave. The three behind you stay." The burly man looked at Zhang Song and the others behind Lin Chen.
"Godfather..." Zhang Song and the others looked meekly at Lin Chen.
"Good boys, today your godfather will show you how to tear a ferocious ghost apart with his bare hands!"
Lin Chen laughed heartily. He pushed off the ground and appeared in front of the burly man in an instant. His hands, wrapped in Blood Qi True Flame, reached straight for him.
"Looking for death!"
The burly man roared with fury and summoned all his ghost energy to block Lin Chen's attack. But Lin Chen's hands, wrapped in Blood Qi True Flame, sliced through both his arms and plunged into his ghostly body.
"What?" The burly man was horrified. He hurriedly began, "Wait..."
"Split!"
Before the burly man could finish speaking, Lin Chen put strength into both hands. The burly man split in two, engulfed by Blood Qi True Flame and reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye.
"What was he saying just now? Never mind. It probably wasn't important."
Lin Chen looked at the little ghosts in front of him and smiled. "Now it's your turn."
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