Settlement!

Lin Yi reappeared not far from the assembled vehicle.

It was the Skinning Ghost's location.

He still had four lives.

Two from the Skinning Ghost.

One from Bai Xiaoyu.

One from Da Sha.

The contributions from the other scattered people had not reached a hundred.

Four lives, but they were not much use.

The Blood Ghost had clearly set its sights on him.

No matter how far he ran, that ghostly thing would hunt him down.

Now, the only way to survive.

Was to figure out how to break out of this situation.

The Blood Ghost...

The Blood Ring...

Something suddenly occurred to Lin Yi.

He quickly took the Blood Ring into his hand.

"Could it be that the Blood Ring's owner has come looking for it?"

Lin Yi's expression changed.

That was the only possibility.

Perhaps another convoy had entered the Graveyard and, through sheer bad luck, awakened the Blood Ghost.

Lin Yi did not think that ghostly thing would spare him just because he handed over the Blood Ring.

The Blood Ghost was too strong. Using Purification just once had left his head swimming.

In his current mental state, he could not even unleash Plunder.

The sea of blood churned, drawing closer and closer to Lin Yi.

There were few options.

Lin Yi immediately activated Otherworldly Walking and fled madly.

But soon, his gaze fell on the Blood Ring in his hand.

"I can only take a gamble. I don't know whether the Blood Ring's Soul-Sealing can suppress the Blood Ghost."

Lin Yi immediately chose to pay the price.

Bad Luck Clinging!

A faint black mist gathered from all around.

Eventually, it gathered above Lin Yi's head into an invisible black cloud.

Rumble, rumble, rumble.

He had only just contracted with the Blood Ring.

When tremors came from the distant ground.

On the horizon, a colossal creature was racing toward Lin Yi.

It was the twenty-meter-tall Nine-Headed Anomaly he had encountered on the grassland.

It moved on all fours, standing twenty meters tall even in that posture.

The purple wild-grass hair on its nine heads streamed in the wind.

Every stride made the earth tremble.

And its target was naturally in Lin Yi's direction.

Except Lin Yi was currently in the state of Otherworldly Walking.

The Nine-Headed Anomaly passed through Lin Yi and raced toward the sea of blood.

Clearly, this creature was not afraid of the Blood Ghost.

"Uh."

Lin Yi froze for a moment, then activated the Blood Ring's spatial ability.

He stored the assembled vehicle's fragments and supplies in the Blood Ring.

He found some clothes and hastily pulled them on.

Then he continued sprinting.

He had not expected to attract this thing immediately after contracting Bad Luck Clinging.

But to Lin Yi's pleasant surprise.

The instant the giant anomaly saw the Blood Ghost.

"Roar!"

An enraged roar burst from its mouth.

All nine heads turned toward the Blood Ghost in unison.

Bang.

The Blood Ghost showed the giant anomaly no respect whatsoever. The sea of blood lifted its body and carried it before the Nine-Headed Anomaly.

Its bone whip lashed down viciously, instantly exploding one head.

"Roar!"

The Nine-Headed Anomaly let out an enraged roar.

Its purple wild-grass hair surged in the wind, reaching out to entangle the Blood Ghost.

Its fists tore through the air with piercing whistles.

Lin Yi could imagine that if one of those punches landed on him, it would definitely leave him black and blue.

He had not expected the two anomalies to start fighting. They were practically buying him time.

"Bad Luck Clinging isn't that bad after all."

Lin Yi sighed, ignoring the commotion behind him as he fled rapidly toward the convoy.

With the Nine-Headed Anomaly holding it up, he had already deactivated Otherworldly Walking.

If he kept using it, his head would explode.

Substitute death would not restore his mental energy.

But the moment he deactivated Otherworldly Walking.

Thud.

He fell flat on his face.

For someone with Sequence Transcendence, this was almost impossible.

It could only be Bad Luck Clinging.

Before he had run two steps, a bird dropping landed on his head.

Birds had not been seen for a long time since the apocalypse.

He looked up.

A tiny white speck rapidly grew larger in his vision.

"Fuck."

Lin Yi nimbly dodged aside, barely avoiding that bird dropping...

"When I get back, I'll have to ask Elder Qi whether a contract with an Anomaly can be canceled..."

Lin Yi was speechless. In such a short time, he had already encountered so much bad luck.

If he kept carrying this thing, wouldn't he be tormented to death?

But...

He looked back at the Blood Ghost amid the churning sea of blood and asked the Blood Ring, "What price do I need to pay to use Soul-Sealing on the Blood Ghost?"

Buzz, buzz.

The Blood Ring trembled.

A red notification appeared.

Sealing the Blood Ghost's soul requires one Anomaly material ranked within one thousand.

Lin Yi: ???

Seriously, are you messing with me?

I could even give you my life if you asked.

But where am I supposed to find you an Anomaly ranked within one thousand?

Lin Yi's face darkened.

He felt as though he had been tricked.

He had saddled himself with Bad Luck Clinging, and this was all he got?

"Awooo..."

An unwilling howl sounded behind him.

Lin Yi turned his head, and every hair on his body stood on end.

The Nine-Headed Anomaly, which he had never even considered fighting, had actually died in such a short time!

Boom!

The Nine-Headed Anomaly crashed heavily into the sea of blood.

Countless tormented souls scrambled out.

In the blink of an eye, the Nine-Headed Anomaly's enormous body was submerged in the sea of blood and vanished.

An overpowering bloody stench rushed toward him.

The sea of blood surged forward, reaching Lin Yi's back in just a few blinks.

The smell of blood enveloped him.

Countless tormented souls flickered in and out of view within the sea of blood.

An enormous bulge appeared.

A twenty-meter-tall, blood-red Nine-Headed Anomaly struggled out of the sea of blood.

The eyes on its nine heads were filled with venomous hatred.

Countless strands of blood-red wild grass surged, blotting out the sky and binding Lin Yi up like a tightly wrapped dumpling.

The Nine-Headed Ghost had actually become nourishment for the sea of blood!

The Blood Ghost approached across the sea of blood.

Its bloody eyes stared at Lin Yi.

It raised the bone whip high in its hand.

"Settlement!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Yi hurled the Blade of Greed the instant the Blood Ghost appeared and unleashed Settlement.

Boom!

A muffled explosion rang out.

A red ripple abruptly spread outward from the Blade of Greed.