Eliminate evil thoroughly.
In his past life, although Lin Yuan hadn't awakened his tattoo, he did hear from a powerful Life Pattern Master who said this:
He said, wherever you find evil spirits, you must deal with them there. If you find an evil spirit in the toilet, you have to drown it in the toilet.
Lin Yuan absolutely agreed with this statement.
Just now, most of the Paper People were burnt to death by Wen Yingying using the Red Fire Sword and Bajiao Fan.
The few remaining Paper People almost all fled in this direction.
As a result, Lin Yuan deduced that the nest of the Paper People was ahead.
Jiafuluo Supermarket.
Looking at the familiar sign in front of him, Lin Yuan felt a dense Deceitful Qi within the supermarket.
No doubt, this was the base camp of the Paper People.
Inside the large chain supermarket, there wasn't a soul around, and there was no lighting, only the emergency lights cast a ghostly glow.
"Tap."
"Tap, tap."
The surroundings were empty, with only the footsteps of the three echoing.
The three of them each had different expressions.
Lin Yuan was expressionless and unperturbed.
Now, killing a few evil spirits was as ordinary to him as eating and drinking water.
Wen Yingying, with a Red Fire Sword in one hand and a Bajiao Fan in the other, was eager yet a bit frightened.
Lastly, there was Geng Youcai, who was panicked, with all the hair on his body standing erect, feeling a chill running up his spine.
"Snap!"
Lin Yuan found the supermarket's circuit breaker and flipped it on, instantly lighting up all the lights in the supermarket.
"Ah!"
At the moment the lights came on, Geng Youcai let out a heart-wrenching scream.
Afterward, he staggered backward a few steps and sat down on the ground.
"What's wrong?" Lin Yuan turned his head and asked.
Geng Youcai pointed shakily to a corner of the supermarket and said in panic, "People, people!"
People?
Lin Yuan hesitated a bit, looking in the direction Geng Youcai pointed.
And sure enough, on the ceiling to Lin Yuan's right, a row of people was hanging.
These people were like meat hung by butchers for sale.
Since Lin Yuan was facing the other way while flipping the switch, he hadn't noticed at first.
Due to his fear, Geng Youcai had been looking side to side and was the first to discover the people hanging from the ceiling.
"Help!"
"Help, help!"
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After the lights were turned on, the people hanging from the ceiling also noticed Lin Yuan and the others.
At this moment, they seemed to have seen their saviors, each shouting loudly for help.
Being of the Human Race, Lin Yuan couldn't watch them die without lifting a finger.
"Get them down!" Lin Yuan ordered Wen Yingying.
Wen Yingying swung the Red Fire Sword in her hand, slashing out red sword energy that cut the ropes holding the people.
"Thud."
"Thud, thud."
The people fell from the ceiling like dumplings being dropped into water.
Fortunately, the ceiling wasn't too high, falling meant at most a sore backside.
Once free, the people burst into chaotic cries, filling the surroundings with noise.
"What are you all standing here for?"
"If you don't want to die, get out!"
"This isn't a place you can stay," Lin Yuan roared, silencing the noisy crowd.
There was an evil spirit here, and it was a strong one at that.
The people hanging from the ceiling were prey captured by its Paper People.
Now that Lin Yuan had freed its prey, it was bound to appear soon.
When disaster strikes the city gates, those near suffer as well.
The battle between gods will bring catastrophe to mortals.
If they didn't escape quickly, once Lin Yuan started fighting the evil spirit, a random energy fluctuation could easily kill them.
The people were terrified and hadn't realized it until Lin Yuan's roar snapped them back to reality.
Once they realized it, they all wore terrified expressions and began fleeing blindly.
As a young woman passed by Lin Yuan and his group, she urged in panic, "You should run too!"
"It's killed a lot of people and skinned many human skins!"
"Run away, quickly!"
After saying this, she also ran out.
Once everyone had escaped, Lin Yuan felt an extremely chilling presence coming closer.
No doubt, it was the evil spirit approaching.
"If you're scared, you can wait for us in the car," Lin Yuan suggested to Geng Youcai.
Though Geng Youcai was also a Life Pattern Master, he wasn't a combat type.
This type of auxiliary Life Pattern Master was far fewer in number than combat types.
A Life Pattern Master with a Lu Ban Tattoo was a precious gem in any power.
"I..."
"I'm not afraid!" Geng Youcai gritted his teeth and forced himself to say.
In truth, he was indeed terrified.
But compared to returning to the car alone, he preferred to stay with Lin Yuan and Wen Yingying.
In Geng Youcai's eyes, Lin Yuan and Wen Yingying were like notorious bandits, outlaws.
He could claim Lin Yuan and Wen Yingying were not good people, but could never say they were incompetent.
Though he didn't approve of Lin Yuan's character, he had enormous respect for Lin Yuan's strength.
Being in the car alone versus being by Lin Yuan's side, the latter was undoubtedly safer.
Seeing that Geng Youcai didn't dare to go back alone, Lin Yuan instructed Wen Yingying, "Protect him!"
"Understood!" Wen Yingying nodded in agreement.
Lin Yuan was counting on Geng Youcai to build him a shelter!
So, he definitely wouldn't let him die at this moment.
After instructing Wen Yingying to protect Geng Youcai, the intensely cold and chilling aura approached closer and closer.
"Cha."
"Cha, cha."
Again came that boisterous laughter, neither male nor female in tone.
A moment later, with Lin Yuan and the others at the center, the supermarket was densely populated with Paper People.
The last time Lin Yuan saw so many Paper People was in a TV series, during the fight between Yue Qiluo and Wu Xin.
Amidst the crowd of countless Paper People, Lin Yuan saw a person styled like a chic, urban girl with a full head of long, black hair.
Although she appeared human on the outside, Lin Yuan could clearly sense the Deceitful Qi emanating from her.
Painted Skin Demon.
Lin Yuan had heard of the Painted Skin Demon in his past life; they have no skin, so they regularly flay human skins to use as their own.
Prolonged use leads to decay, and when that happens, the Painted Skin Demon replaces it with a fresh human skin.
Therefore, Painted Skin Demons usually keep a number of humans captive to serve as a human skin reserve.
When the old skin decays, they can immediately flay a new one to replace it.
The Painted Skin Demon was formidable; even the weakest among them held Tier Eight power.
And the Painted Skin Demon before Lin Yuan now was clearly not the weakest.
Tier Seven!
Indeed, it was a Tier Seven Evil Spirit.
The Painted Skin Demon before him, though also a Tier Seven Evil Spirit like the Corpse King, was much stronger than the Corpse King.
For instance, just its ability to control Paper People far surpassed the Corpse King's.
The Corpse King was among the weakest of the Tier Seven Evil Spirits, whereas the Painted Skin Demon in front of him was at least mid-tier among Tier Seven Evil Spirits.