Chapter 137: Chapter 137: The Lord’s Story, Nightmare Hunter Chat, Seen Him in Action?

"Are you all finished?"

Outside the bank.

Yun Zhenyue asked slowly, holding Mengmeng’s hand.

She had been worried Mengmeng would be scared, so she had brought her outside to wait.

Just then, she saw the Nightmare Hunter members all holding clothes made by Mengmeng. It seemed they were afraid of damaging them, not even daring to fold them, instead carrying them carefully in their hands.

"I suppose so..." the plastic mannequin replied with a sigh.

"Milady, Yu was too soft. He just crippled one of the Shopkeeper’s arms. Why don’t you give the order and let me go? I guarantee I’ll finish him off in a flash!"

Hearing someone trying to claim the glory,

the other Nightmare Hunter members all volunteered as well!

"Let me go! I’m fast, it’ll only take a few seconds!"

"Old Wang, are you trying to burn the place down? Watch out for fire."

"Milady, if you find it too troublesome, I can just transfer this whole bank to my internal space."

"..."

Hearing the Nightmare Hunter members’ frustrated complaints,

Yun Zhenyue was a little surprised.

’Just one arm?’

’That doesn’t sound like Mr. Yu’s style at all.’

He had even dared to kill the general manager right in front of the mall’s top brass.

But just then,

Yun Zhenyue suddenly sensed a frigid aura!

Goosebumps instantly broke out all over her skin.

"Hm?"

She instinctively looked toward Fushou Bank.

When she saw the scene before her,

Yun Zhenyue’s pupils constricted, her eyes filled with shock and disbelief.

In the blink of an eye,

the bank had been completely frozen solid!

Like a miniature landscape sealed within a giant crystal ball, translucent, crystalline ice enveloped the entire bank, forming an airtight prison!

Even the dust motes floating in the air had congealed into fine shards of ice!

It was as if not even light could escape; everything had been frozen in that single instant!

One could see bewitchingly strange, crimson spider lilies blooming across the surface of the extreme ice.

The brilliantly blooming flowers merged with the suffocating cold,

creating a bizarre and stunning display of bloody aesthetics.

...

Seeing this,

audiences around the world were so shocked they were left speechless.

Just moments ago, they had seen this group of Evil Stars swallow their pride to attract customers, and they hadn’t thought much of it.

They’d seen so many Evil Stars by now that they’d grown numb to it.

After all, when Mr. Luo used his special ability, he could barely exhibit the power of a mid-level Evil Star.

But seeing the result of a true mid-level Evil Star, Yu Honghui, using his special ability,

they finally realized something.

There was an enormous gap between each level of an Evil Star!

Just a single sub-level!

The power he unleashed...

It seemed several times more terrifying than Mr. Luo going all out!

If Mr. Yu went to Chilling Middle School,

he could probably freeze the entire school, and even the principal’s heart, without breaking a sweat!

And yet, an existence like this...

...was just a low-ranking member of the Nightmare Hunters?

The foreign audiences all felt sick to their stomachs.

In contrast,

the Dragon Country audience felt their hearts burn with excitement.

[HOLY SHIT, THAT’S BADASS! THAT ICE LOOKS SOLID!]

[Mr. Yu, come to our city! We’re just about to build an Ice and Snow World.]

[Flowers blooming from the ice... those flowers are definitely something special.]

[I’ll give a hundred bucks to whoever touches that ice!]

[It’s making my skin crawl. The ice is beautiful and terrifying. No way I’m touching it.]

...

This scene,

also made the pupils of the Nightmare Hunters tremble, their faces filled with shock.

"Yu actually used his special ability?"

The plastic mannequin looked stunned, sucking in a cold breath.

"He hasn’t used that in a long time. This Eternal Damnation Condensation is too destructive. A single misstep could freeze everything for miles, leaving the area in an extreme cold for a hundred years. If another Evil Star didn’t intervene, all life would be instantly extinguished."

"What set him off like that?"

Another Nightmare Hunter swallowed and said, "I think I get it now."

"Yu never planned on letting this bank off the hook from the start."

"He deliberately had those other shopkeepers move their things to agitate the Shopkeeper, make him panic and say something foolish. That gave him a reason to act."

"We wouldn’t care, but he was probably afraid of giving Milady a bad name for wanton slaughter."

At that moment, the Nightmare Hunter members were all stunned!

To say nothing of the shopkeepers who had followed them!

Clutching clothes, toys, and other miscellaneous items, their pupils were quaking as if in an earthquake, their jaws hanging so low they were about to hit the floor.

They had always thought this group of strange ghosts was terrifying,

but they never imagined they were this ridiculously powerful!

Fushou Bank was a famous S-rank instance dungeon in the area!

And the Shopkeeper was a high-level Crimson-robed Ghost!

If he were easy to deal with, they would have ganged up on him long ago!

Why else would they have been bullied for so long?

But now?

They had only just stepped outside,

and that powerful being had already frozen the entire bank into a block of ice?

If they even got a little closer, they could feel a bone-chilling cold!

A formless terror swept through their hearts like a shadow!

They could only imagine that being frozen by such extreme cold would mean instant, violent death!

Compared to a ghost with that kind of power,

they were like weak little children.

A being like that had to be an Evil Star, right?

And there were ten more of them!

’No wonder Mengmeng’s shop is doing so well.’

’So she has a major backer!’

The shopkeepers looked at Yun Zhenyue with trepidation. They had clearly seen that this entire group of Evil Stars obeyed her commands.

’A being like that... is a clerk Mengmeng hired?’

For a moment, they didn’t know whether to envy Mengmeng for her ridiculous luck...

...or despair that with so many Evil Stars around, their own businesses were probably finished.

A short while later,

Yu Honghui emerged slowly from the ice, his expression cold and detached.

The ice hadn’t affected him in the slightest.

Many ghosts from the nearby instance dungeons also came out. When they saw the frozen bank, they looked on in shock, their gazes filled with gratitude.

That bank had been oppressing them for a long time.

Seeing it eradicated was a great relief!

"Yu, that was badass!" the plastic mannequin said, giving him a thumbs-up. "You must be close to becoming a high-level Evil Star now. Your control over that special ability was so stable; none of it leaked out at all."

The other Nightmare Hunter members also watched him with envy.

’He managed to show off his power in front of the Lord’s wife.’

’He’d really made an impression!’

’When he gets back to the Nightmare Hunters, he’ll definitely get a ton of contribution points!’

But Yu Honghui only glanced at his masterpiece upon hearing this.

Then, as if recalling something, he shook his head and said, "This is nothing."

"You guys really haven’t seen anything yet."

’This is *nothing*?’

The Nightmare Hunter members all thought he was humblebragging!

Even Yun Zhenyue thought he was showing off a bit.

’If Mr. Yu and Luo Huan were at the same table, the two of them could probably brag for half a day.’

The group started walking toward Fierce Ghost Mall.

They bragged and told stories as they walked.

The atmosphere was congenial.

But the crowd of shopkeepers wished they could plug their ears.

They were terrified of hearing something they shouldn’t.

It wasn’t until they were almost there that Yu Honghui finally snapped out of his reverie.

He suddenly interjected.

His pure, flawless white eyes seemed distant as he said, "You think I’m showing off because you’ve never seen the Lord in action."

’The Lord?’

Hearing those two words, all the Nightmare Hunter members’ interest was piqued.

They stopped chatting.

Although they were all low-ranking members,

Yu Honghui had joined the Nightmare Hunters much earlier than them and was about to become a core member. They all had to respect him, addressing him as "Yu" or "Old Yu."

"Does the Lord even need to act?"

one of the ghosts, who was as hot as a blazing fire, laughed.

"A single glance from him is enough to scare the wits out of those Great Evil ghosts!"

"You say that with such certainty. Don’t tell me you’ve actually seen it?"

Hearing this, Yu Honghui nodded under everyone’s watchful eyes.

"I have, in fact, seen it."