Yama Rising

Chapter 674: Boundary Lines

The warmth of the sunbeams drove away some harshness of the cold winter. Its remote location meant that Yiershi Town wasn’t a fast-developing place. However, the fact that they were located near the customs also meant that they weren’t too bad either. At the very least, one could see the emergence of some European-style buildings, including clock towers, interspersed between the more typical Cathayan buildings.

The car drove all the way out of the state highway, and for another ten minutes, before another tall building appeared right in the middle of the snow-covered tundras.

In fact, this entire location was an attraction in and of itself. Each ticket to enter the Arxan Port costs 40 RMB. From there, if one entered the building and walked across the bridge, they would end up straight in the Mongol Empire. Unfortunately, the 40 RMB only allowed a person to enter the building and gaze across the river, and not cross the border bridge.

The silver BMW stopped in the parking lot. 300 meters was the closest they could get from the Arxan Port Bridge, and anyone attempting to get within 100 meters from the Arxan Port Bridge would have to undergo a physical examination. As soon as the car stopped, the car door opened, and a foot wearing army boots stepped out onto the ground, before promptly shrinking back and slamming the door shut.

Qin Ye leaned back on the back seat, ostensibly rattled, “... Don’t rush me… Let me get acclimatized…”

The driver was on the brink of tears, “Sir… Are you still acclimatizing?”

The door quickly slammed shut, and the BMW hurtled away at top speed.

“Useless!” The Harken glared at Qin Ye as it gave him a good dressing down, “You’re already a powerful Emissary of Hell, and yet you’re actually still afraid of the cold?! Yin energy is the coldest thing you can find in the world! Take a look at yourself! Can you please act with more decorum?!”

The Harken was tucked into a little pocket of space at his chest with only its head sticking out from the zipper.

The Harken responded by slinking right back into Qin Ye’s fur coat and pulling up the zipper, causing Qin Ye’s chest to bulge almost as though he was a man with a D-cup bosom, “Go. It’s time to head in. The Russian Underworld must already be anxiously waiting for us.”

Thus, he turned towards the woods around him and slowly vanished into the shadows.

“Sigh…” Xiao Guolong held the hot tea in his hands and gazed out into the white landscape outside the windows.

As a Soul Hunter, he would easily have been made the vice-captain of a department of any branch offices of the Special Investigations Department.

Shaking his head, he turned around and motioned to return to his work. And it was right then that he suddenly shuddered violently, spilling his hot tea all over his hands, yet it almost appeared as though he didn’t feel a thing at all. He stared intently in front of him.

This was the Arxan City branch office of the Special Investigations Department, and there was only one kind of person who was authorized to enter this place - a cultivator.

Why don’t I… feel afraid?

Xiao Guolong promptly recomposed himself and stared intently at the shadows at Qin Ye’s feet, “Are you a human or a ghost? Do you know what kind of a place this is?”

… No…

“Come here.” Qin Ye beckoned to him, “I’ll show you something good.”

Boom!

There was no need to consider other things in front of absolute power.

Thus, he watched vigilantly with bated breaths as the man reached into his coat… and then pulled out a dog…

An angry dog…

The fear and terror in his heart was instantly washed away at once. But, just then, Qin Ye pulled the dog into his bosom and smiled faintly, “If I were you, I’d look at the Yin energy reader that you carry around with you all the time. If I’m not mistaken, that’s a standard issue for all investigators these days.”

An electrifying sensation surged from his tailbone and spread throughout his entire body, causing him to shiver uncontrollably.

The compass-like Yin energy reader was pointed right at the end of the charts it was capable of reading, which was that of four million Yin - the level of an Infernal Judge. That said, he could see that the needle was still desperately attempting to go above and beyond the limits of the reader.

Or something even stronger!

He froze, and then turned back, pulling out dozens of talismans and plastering them all around him with abject fear. His eyes even grew slightly bloodshot as he cried out at the top of his voice, “Who are you? Breaking into the office of the Special Investigations Department is a crime punishable by death! You’ll be made a wanted criminal nationwide and barred from leaving the nation! Do you think you’re the first Yin spirit that has tried to infiltrate the Special Investigations Department? Some may have succeeded, but none have been spared!!”

Qin Ye waved his hand, “Yeah, yeah, there’s that old monk and that old Taoist priest, and there’s one more that I haven’t seen before. Ah, that’s right, you probably haven’t crossed paths with any of these before. They’re all acquaintances of mine. Alright, there’s no need to be afraid. This is the possession of an Emissary of Hell. I’m here to tell you something.”

“For the next dozen days or so, this place will see immense Yin energy fluctuations. You need only turn a blind eye to it. Don’t get involved. Otherwise…”

With that, Qin Ye’s figure vanished compmletely. And it was only then that Xiao Guolong realized that his back was already soaked through with cold sweat. Realization dawned on him that he had just been on the edge of the precipice between life and death earlier. He thought about it for a moment, and then picked up the phone and dialed for the operator, “Hey… it’s me, serial number AL544. Please transfer me to the Arxan City Special Investigations Department right now…”

What Xiao Guolong didn’t realize was that Qin Ye had merely transformed into his Hell’s Emissary state, silently watching the surroundings from the shadows and biding his time until midnight.

Qin Ye shook his head, “There’s no need.”

He turned to the Harken, “Will you really be able to pull through with that intelligence of yours? Holy crap… let go! Let go!!”

“What are you looking at? We can’t see the Array of the Nine Gods from here.”

“There’s a putrid smell coming from the distance in that direction… That’s the stench of corpses that have been festering in their own blood for countless years on end.”

“Is that so?” Qin Ye licked his lips and stared coldly into the distance. The Array of the Nine Gods also acted as a filter such that they could only see the regular sights of the mortal realm.

Over a dozen Yama-class Yin spirits were all eyeing this ostensibly barren piece of wasteland right now!