I, Old Sun, Have Arrived!

Wherever the red ripples reached, even space warped.

The instant Lin Yi touched the red ripples, he turned to ash...

"Roar!"

The Blood Ghost let out a furious roar.

The red ripples swept past.

Fine cracks actually appeared across its body.

But as the sea of blood surged madly into its body,

it returned to its original state in the blink of an eye.

Its eyes brimmed with fury.

Clearly, the Blood Ghost was very angry!

A tiny ant had injured it twice in a row.

Lin Yi had just swapped places with the Skinning Ghost.

He was back in Ice and Snow City again.

Watching the Blood Ghost still charging at him after Settlement, his heart sank.

That had been his last resort...

When a man was about to die, his heart turned kind.

He no longer intended to bring disaster upon the convoy.

He could easily swap places with Da Sha or Bai Xiaoyu.

He could.

But there was no need.

He silently put on his clothes. Even in death, he wanted some dignity...

The sea of blood enveloped him again.

Otherworldly Walking!

Lin Yi had not given up.

He charged at the Blood Ghost again.

But this time, the enraged Blood Ghost did not raise that terrifying spinal whip.

Countless strands of blood-red seaweed wrapped around Lin Yi's body.

It descended from the sea of blood, step by step.

The Blood Ghost arrived, and the restless souls scattered!

Its eyes filled with malice, the Blood Ghost grabbed Lin Yi's finger and wrenched it hard.

Crack, snap.

"Aah!"

A heart-rending scream burst from Lin Yi's mouth.

Every finger was linked to the heart.

The Holy Mother's two-hundred-percent pain increase

made Lin Yi tremble all over with agony.

A humanlike pleasure actually flashed through the Blood Ghost's eyes!

But the next moment,

the finger it had snapped off reappeared.

The price was one substitute death and ten contribution points.

But now, Lin Yi would rather not have this substitute-death ability!

Crack, snap!

Another series of cracking sounds rang out.

"Aah!"

It hurt. It hurt so much!!!

The piercing agony reached deep into his soul.

Cold sweat instantly covered Lin Yi.

If it happened again, he would rather just die!

The Skinning Ghost was now nothing but a skeleton.

It stood amid the ice and snow, somewhat bewildered.

Snap.

A finger on its skeleton broke off.

"Huh?"

The Skinning Ghost picked up the severed finger and pushed it back into place, successfully reattaching it.

But soon,

snap.

The finger fell off again.

The Skinning Ghost: ????

Meanwhile,

inside the convoy,

everyone was in rather low spirits.

Only six vehicles remained in the convoy now.

Two of them were only being driven by people reassigned from Elder Qi's heavy truck for the sake of the supplies aboard.

Only Bai Xiaoyu and Xiao Zhao remained in Bai Xiaoyu's modified pickup, too.

The convoy had suffered near-total casualties in Ice and Snow City.

Elder Qi sat on the bunk.

Da Sha lay beside him.

He was still unconscious.

"Ah, I wonder if this child will go mad when he wakes up and finds out Lin Yi is gone."

Elder Qi sighed. He knew how important Lin Yi was to Da Sha.

But he was also deeply grateful.

Grateful that Lin Yi had drawn the Blood Ghost away for them.

It seemed that whenever the convoy encountered danger,

Lin Yi was always the one to step forward, time and again.

"What a good child."

Elder Qi could not help sighing again.

But just then,

Da Sha's body began trembling uncontrollably.

"Child, are you all right?"

Elder Qi's expression changed.

Yet unexpectedly,

golden light began spilling from Da Sha's body.

His eyes snapped open, no longer holding their former dullness.

Instead, they brimmed with an unprecedented sincerity!

He was no longer dim-witted.

He turned and bowed to Elder Qi, solemn and earnest. "Thank you for looking after me all this time, Elder Qi. From now on, I'll have to trouble you to look after my master."

"Huh?"

Elder Qi had yet to grasp what was happening.

Why was Da Sha no longer dim-witted?

Da Sha pushed the door open.

His body shot skyward.

Trailing golden light, he pierced the darkness like a golden meteor streaking across the sky.

He was headed straight for Ice and Snow City!

"Da Sha!"

Elder Qi cried out.

Quite a few people in the convoy saw the scene as well.

"Elder Qi, what's going on with Da Sha?"

Someone asked over the radio.

"I don't know either. Da Sha..."

Elder Qi shook his head, the shock still lingering in his eyes.

He did not understand what exactly had happened to Da Sha either.

Ever since he had awakened, everything about him had become different...

Ice and Snow City.

Lin Yi was drenched in blood from head to toe.

His face was pale and bloodless.

The pain had already left him barely clinging to life.

His eyes had lost their focus under the torture.

Crack, snap.

His finger was torn off again.

But he had already grown somewhat numb...

He let out a meaningless, muffled groan.

But just then,

a gleam of golden light approached from afar.

With it came a heaven-shaking roar!

"Sequence Transcendence-Great Sage Equal to Heaven!"

"Master!"

"I, Old Sun, have arrived!"