You're my wife, don't doubt it!

"Ha!" Xiao Yao laughed loudly, "Isn't this just a yandere?"

"Therefore, Salome is also regarded as a symbol of love and desire," Shen Jie added weakly.

“Very interesting,” Xiao Yao commented, “but how do you all know so much about it?”

“That’s what my uncle just said,” Yu Luying told Xiao Yao.

"Which uncle? Wait a minute, aren't both of your uncles in the mortuary?" Xiao Yao said, "So this still doesn't answer my question—what are we doing sitting here? Why don't we go up and cut her into five pieces? Oh, so you two can't move, right?"

“They both tried,” a male voice came from behind Xiao Yao. “Neither Queen Mary nor Cinderella could break through Salome’s defenses—she is invincible.”

"Ughhh!" If Xiao Yao's leg were fine, he should have jumped up by now: "What the hell?"

The boy turned around with difficulty and saw three or four people standing behind him. Yu Bo, wearing the white sacrificial robe, stood in the center, holding a large, round, white holy body wrapped in cloth. Yu Baolu stood behind his younger brother, holding a large umbrella above Yu Bo's head.

The one supporting Mr. Yu Texuan was naturally Lu Ziya.

Don't stand behind me silently and scare me!

However, this method is excellent, Xiao Yao thought. No wonder no shadows have come any closer; they've all vanished without a trace.

"How can we break through her defenses?" Xiao Yao wondered, whether he was asking someone else or talking to himself.

Yu Baolu shook his head and said, "As far as I know, once someone has someone they love and develops feelings for that person, they cannot make an effective attack on Salome."

Xiao Yao: "?"

“Only pure-hearted people can activate their spiritual fortress and cross the barrier woven by Salome with lust,” Yu Baolu explained.

"No, how did you know that? And how did you know it so clearly?" Xiao Yao blurted out, "So, according to you, I don't need to try it at all."

“I think so too,” Yu Baolu replied.

“That being said, young friend, you should still give it a try,” Yu Texuan said.

Xiao Yao closed his eyes and focused his attention.

"Are you alright...?" Shen Jie said weakly, "Don't push yourself too hard."

A Don Quixote-like figure suddenly appeared from behind Xiao Yao, riding a steed named Nu Nan, holding a long spear steadily in both hands—"So you have a spear!"—and charged towards Salome.

Just as the spearhead was about to pierce the headless girl's abdomen, it was suddenly deflected by an invisible barrier and then broke in two. Xiao Yao's hand trembled, and blood gushed out.

“Ah, Xiao Yao…” Yu Luying exclaimed.

Just then, Ribbonfish, wearing only briefs and holding a communicator, rushed over in a panic, followed by a girl wrapped in a red cloak.

Xiao Yao frowned. How did this guy manage to carry a communicator on his person while wearing only briefs?

“Attack.” Yu Bo uttered these two words succinctly.

When the ribbonfish saw Salome, it was clearly taken aback. It looked at the head in the plate, then at Yan Xiao, then back at the head in the plate, and then back at Yan Xiao.

Yan Xiao was also terrified, turning her head away, unable to bear looking at the headless body.

"Attack now!" Yu Baolu urged. "Salome is channeling shadow energy. If we delay any longer, there will be a massive explosion, and everything will be destroyed!"

“I…I’m a little unsure how to summon a fortress on land,” the ribbonfish stammered. “Attack at sea and I’m afraid of accidentally hurting you—can’t I just use my own fists?”

Everyone frowned and looked at each other in bewilderment.

“Don’t rush me,” said the ribbonfish. “Let me feel it again and try to find the right feeling.”

“Third brother,” Yu Baolu turned to Yu Bo, “we can’t wait any longer, we can’t delay any longer. Hasn’t your fortress been restored yet?”

After thinking for a moment, with a hint of reluctance on his face, Yu Bo carefully handed the sacred body in his hands to Yu Baolu.

Upon seeing this, Grandpa Yu Texuan hurriedly and shakily took the umbrella from Yu Baolu's hand and held it over Yu Baolu's head.

“I’ll give it a try,” Yu Bo said.

Chapter 320 Ending

2023-09-06

“I’ll give it a try,” Yu Bo said.

The young man stood five meters away from the headless girl, his back to her, kneeling on his right knee, his hands on his left knee, in a meditative posture.

A handsome young man rose up from behind him, wearing a straw hat and wooden clogs, without armor, and with a cross hanging on his chest. He turned around, took two steps toward Salome, and leaped high into the air.

The leap reached a height of about three meters, and the katana in his right hand was raised high, descending at a 45° angle from the sky to slash at Salome.

Everyone held their breath, filled with anticipation.

With a strange cry, two flashes of light appeared, and the boy's phantom disappeared. The priest, who was meditating with his back to him, swayed twice, and Salome also swayed twice. The tray in her hand lost its balance, fell to the ground and shattered, and a head rolled a few steps away.

Everyone looked at each other, wondering if it was a success or a failure.

The shadows that had been shining on Salome's hands went out.

Then, it "lit up" again.

“At least she has to reassemble the Shadow Energy Explosion,” commented the optimist Yu Baolu, “buying us valuable time.”

Yu Bo stood up and faced Salome, looking somewhat dazed.

“Bobo,” Yu Texuan said with great dissatisfaction, “you still have distracting thoughts!”

“Mea cupba.” Yu Bo punched his left chest with a look of shame.

"Ahhh!" Ribbonfish suddenly clutched his temples with both hands and screamed in pain.

A phantom of a man wearing a helmet with a mane and feathers, bare-chested, wrapped in a red skirt, and wielding an iron rod lunged at the head that had just stopped rolling on the ground, and was then bounced away like Don Quixote. Before disappearing, he struck at the headless girl's true form.

Neither attack was effective.

"Is there anyone else we haven't tried?" Yu Bo asked bitterly.

A deathly silence enveloped everyone.

“Let’s retreat…retreat,” said Grandpa Yu Texuan. “While there’s still time, let’s retreat to a safe distance before the explosion occurs.”

“No,” Yu Baolu protested, holding up the Holy Body. “We must retrieve the Holy Cloth and Holy Body; we can’t let her destroy them. Besides, even if we retreat to Shanghai, we might not be able to leave Shadow Time, right? Does anyone know how to stop Shadow Time?”

"Then what should we do? Leave us here and let us all wait to die?" Yu Texuan asked.

"They all seem unable to move, right?" Lucia said. "They all seem to be seriously injured."

"Lucia, come here for a second." Xiao Yao beckoned to Luzia.

"What's wrong? I need to help Grandpa Yu," Lu Jia said.

Yu Bo silently walked to Lu Ziya's side and took the old man's arm from the girl's hand.

Lu Ziya walked up to Xiao Yao, squatted down, and listened attentively to what he had to say.

She first shook her head repeatedly, then nodded hesitantly.

Yu Luying, who was holding Xiao Yao, also chimed in quietly.

The four teenagers started whispering among themselves.

“Third brother, your attack was the only one that worked,” Yu Baolu said. “I think you can try again.”

Yu Bo shook his head and said, "I want to too, but I can't feel him at all anymore. That last moment completely drained me."

Yu Baolu began to sigh and complain about Yu Bo: "Sigh, third brother, it's not that I'm nagging you, but you've always been like this since you were little—" He glanced at Lu Ziya, cut off the rest of his sentence, and continued: "Later, you... you became a priest, and the old man was so happy for you, huh? You've been in the seminary for nine years, and you've been a priest for two or three years now, how come you're still not pure of heart?"

Yu Bo was initially humble and submissive, but after listening to Yu Baolu's endless rambling, he became impatient: "That's enough, isn't it? I haven't made any mistakes. We're all human, everyone has emotions and desires. If you had a fortress, you could have broken through it, right?"

“You! I…” Yu Baolu fell silent.

“That’s right, Uncle, you should shut up and be quiet for a bit,” Xiao Yao turned around and chimed in for Brother Bo.

Yu Baolu, who had been silent, suddenly erupted as if he had been set on fire, shouting loudly, "Shut up? You're the one who should shut up! Look at all of you! I'm almost embarrassed to say anything to you!"

Everyone: "?"

"The world is truly going to the dogs, and people's hearts are no longer what they used to be!" Yu Baolu continued his indignant tirade, unleashing his devastating barrage: "Look at you all, boys and girls, how old are you? Only teenagers! Is any of you even 18 yet? When we were your age, we were innocent, naive, pure, and carefree—the best years of our lives! But you, you 80s generation, are truly a lost generation—"

“Uncle Yu, you’re not quite right,” Xiao Yao retorted unhappily. “What’s wrong with teenagers dating? Canon law allows marriage at 14 or 16. Genesis says you should be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. What’s wrong with love between men and women?”

"Xiao Yao, just shut up!" Yu Luying said reproachfully, "You two still have the leisure to argue right now?"

"There's nothing wrong with romantic relationships!" Yu Baolu said, "Are you married? Huh? Married? Dating is fine! Can't you be a little more innocent? You know what you've been doing! To put it bluntly, you're utterly shameless..."

The fact that they couldn't harm Salome doesn't necessarily mean they did anything wrong. After all, this is about intentions, not actions. But everyone was silent because they felt guilty—only Yu Luying was still stubbornly saying, "Uncle, what are you saying? What did I do? I didn't do anything! In front of everyone, the priest is here, Grandpa is here, the Holy Spirit is here, and you're talking like this?"

“That’s enough, Paul!” Yu Texuan, who had been silent all along, finally spoke up.

“So what if I say this? So what if I say this? If Iesu came right now, which of you would stand firm? Who would dare to look him in the eye?” Yu Baolu’s rant grew more and more heated, his cynicism reaching a fever pitch: “The world is going to the dogs! People’s hearts are no longer what they used to be! This corrupt generation! The reason there is so much suffering in the world is because Adam and Eve did not keep the commandments! It is because mankind does not keep the commandments! It is because you do not keep the commandments! Just like Lihua…”

Upon hearing the name "Lihua," Yu Luying looked up at Yu Baolu with a murderous expression.

If her leg hadn't been broken, she would definitely be standing up by now.

Yu Bo hurriedly called out, "Alright, brother! You've sprayed saliva all over the Holy Body! Give it to me!"

"So your religion is like this too?" a female voice replied.

Everyone was startled, only to realize that the one who spoke was the head on the edge of the broken plate.

"'The suffering of all beings is due to their original sins, their failure to observe the precepts, their ignorance of repentance, and their indulgence in lust.' To me, that's bullshit."

"Without anger, hatred will never end."