At this time, Ye Zi's arms were completely useless and her energy was almost dry. She could barely even stand. Faced with the cold muzzle of the gun pressed against her forehead, she had no choice but to smile bitterly and closed her eyes slightly.

(There is no other way. This is the only way to counterattack, so I can only take a gamble...)

That's right, this resigned gesture of "letting go" is Ye Zi's deliberate attempt to show weakness to the enemy. In fact, she is trying her best to "scrape" the remaining elven energy in her body and condense it towards her mouth... If she can use it

The magic power is released, and the blood in her mouth is condensed into a blood arrow. If it is shot as a hidden weapon, it can become her last weapon!

At this arm's length distance, it is entirely possible for Ye Zi's condensed blood arrow to penetrate a human's forehead bone. However, in her current state, it would take at least several seconds to barely muster enough elf energy.

time. Therefore, she could only bet... that her "show of weakness" could deceive the Onmyoji so that he would not shoot immediately, but instead capture him alive and cast a spell to refine his soul.

However, she lost the bet.

Although her soul is powerful enough and is a rare and precious material for the evil arts practiced by Onmyoji, this guy is an old monster who has lived for a hundred years. How can he be easily swayed by greed? For Ye Zi

With such a dangerous opponent, he did not intend to leave even the slightest chance!

In the next second, the Onmyoji's right index finger moved slightly and he was about to pull the trigger of the Glock pistol.

However…

At this critical moment, his finger actually became stiff. No matter how his brain gave instructions, the finger could not move at all, as if it was completely out of his control.

No, that's not right.

It wasn't just this finger that was out of control... When the onmyoji realized something was wrong and planned to take half a step back, he was horrified to find that he had lost control of his whole body and couldn't even move a muscle!

How is he different from the clay and wood sculptures now?

"Reverse operation, completed."

An indifferent male voice sounded. Chu Xuan, who had been leaning against the "Hell Realm Mandala Formation" since the beginning of the battle, suddenly stood up and walked towards the Onmyoji. Then, he casually pressed down the Onmyoji's right arm that was holding the gun.

Let it point stiffly to the ground.

(What...what's going on!?)

Ye Zi, who was originally prepared to fight to the death, could hardly believe her eyes when she saw Chu Xuan playing with the Onmyoji in the palm of his hand. However, seeing that Chu Xuan had already taken control of the situation, she dispersed.

He killed the bloody arrow in his mouth to avoid ruining Chu Xuan's plan.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Chu Xuan first glanced at Ye Zi, with no emotion visible under his plain glasses, and nodded slightly in greeting to Ye Zi. Then, he turned to look at the Onmyoji who was still standing frozen in place, and snapped his fingers.

"Gui Chang...what on earth did you do?"

Logically speaking, when the body is not in control, Onmyoji cannot even think of uttering even half a syllable. However, after Chu Xuan snapped his fingers, his furious voice... To be precise, the "voice of the heart", in the courtyard

Sounded out of thin air.

"It just makes you fall into a 'nightmare'. You are conscious but unable to control your limbs." Chu Xuan's voice was unhurried, like a professor giving a lecture: "In science, we usually call it sleep paralysis

, sleep paralysis; among the people, the popular name is 'ghost on the bed'."

(Strange, logically speaking, with Chu Xuan’s style, he shouldn’t waste so much time with this dying person, right? He is planning to...)

"A spell from the illusion system!? How is it possible!?" After listening to Chu Xuan's explanation, the Onmyoji's "tone" was 50% disbelief and 50% shock and anger: "A mere so weak mage, just such a weak mage."

Poor mana..."

"Indeed, with the strength of your soul, you can indeed resist or even be immune to my spells." Chu Xuan nodded and frankly admitted that his spell cultivation is, as Onmyoji said, not that strong: "But

, if we use the power of the formation, the success rate of this spell... is one hundred percent."

"Array? Where is the array? Could it be..." Onmyoji's first reaction was that Chu Xuan was teasing him, but after a moment, his eyes widened and he guessed a possibility that he absolutely did not want to believe.

.

"Of course, it is the 'Hell Realm Mandala Array' under your feet. I modified the functional runes in it, so that the spell it carries is changed from 'suppression' to..."

"No way, no way, no way, no way!"

If he had lost to Ye Zi's violent crushing, the reaction of the Onmyoji would never have been so crazy and embarrassing. However, he, who has always been extremely conceited and claimed to be a genius, was defeated by what he was best at.

In the field of magic, he couldn't even understand what kind of techniques Chu Xuan used... He couldn't accept such a shameful failure!

"This mountain gate formation is connected to the earth's veins and has been passed down for hundreds of years. It has been transformed by my hands. Even if you, a little thief like you, can fight it, you will never be able to defeat it in just a few minutes.

Steal!"

"Yes, if it weren't for the logical loopholes in the third, fourth, seventh, and nineteenth nodes, the safety factor of this formation would at least be doubled several times. I'm afraid it would also cost me a lot more money to do the reverse calculation.

Kung Fu." Chu Xuan's calm words added another blow to the Onmyoji's mentality that was on the verge of collapse.

"Third, fourth, seventh, nineteenth...could it be those changes I made!?"

It turns out that the former Mountain Gate Formation was mainly used to suppress evil spirits. Onmyoji was very dissatisfied with this, so he spent several years and devoted himself to research and modified it into a killing array that suppressed all living things and had a greatly improved power.

One of his favorite works.

And the nodes he modified were exactly the four mentioned above!

"Mortal wisdom, it is not difficult to see from the crude design of these nodes that you know nothing about high-dimensional geometry and differential topology." Chu Xuan adjusted his glasses and made the final verdict: "With the knowledge of occult science

If you study magic with a scientific attitude instead of a scientific attitude, you are doomed to failure."

After listening to Chu Xuan's words, the Onmyoji's "voice" only made a series of shouts of unknown meaning: as if he was trying to organize a verbal refutation, but could not find a reason to refute at all; and it was as if he was a dog with a broken spine.

, barking wildly before dying.

Because, his pride and ambition have been shattered to pieces by the cold reality of the man in front of him!

Seeing the extremely ugly performance of the Onmyoji, Chu Xuan's expression did not waver at all. He just stretched out his right hand and pressed it on the Onmyoji's wrinkled forehead.

(I understand, Chu Xuan’s purpose...is to destroy the Onmyoji’s mental defense and then deeply invade his mind?)

A few seconds later, a creepy distortion appeared on the Onmyoji's face. Even his eyes, ears, mouth and nose were covered with dark, sticky "blood". He didn't know what kind of horror he had encountered in his inner world.

matter.

This situation lasted for more than a minute, until Chu Xuan took back his right hand. This period of time did not seem to be long, but it was enough for him to squeeze out all the valuable information in the Onmyoji's mind.

then…

Chu Xuan's right hand was surrounded by the radiance of magic, like a hot knife cutting through butter, it was inserted directly into the Onmyoji's chest, grabbing the dark-colored "Stone of Thousand Yin", and cutting the "meme"

"Heart" was torn out by force!

"Kill the main messenger of the curse - Onmyoji Fujiwara Ritsu, get a B-level side plot, and get 5,000 reward points."

The Lord God's cold reminder sounded in Ye Zi's mind, indicating that this old monster, which was extremely difficult to kill and seemed to have countless lives, was finally put to death.

Although Ye Zi breathed a long sigh of relief, Chu Xuan, who was holding the "Corrupted Thousand Yin Stone", or the "Grudge Meme" in his hand, could not relax at all... In a sense, this thing is different from the whole world.

The world's nuclear bombs combined are equally dangerous!

I saw his left hand moving slightly, and the blue light of arcane energy flashed on the index and middle fingers, and runes were continuously outlined in the mid-air. After these runes were formed, they fell downwards one after another, disappearing into the sky.

In the array.

When he finished writing the last rune, the entire array suddenly erupted with a dazzling light. Different from the evil purple light when Onmyoji activated the "Hell Realm Mandala Array" before, this light was earth-yellow in color.

Thick, but... On this bluestone ground, wherever the lines of the magic circle touched were burned red, exuding high heat, it looked, seemingly, something bad?

"Don't worry, it's just overload."

("Just" overload...? No matter how you look at it, it seems like you are draining all the value of the formation and using it as a consumable... This thing won't explode, right!)

After saying something casually, Chu Xuan threw the Qianyin Stone in his hand and let it fall in the center of the magic circle. Substantial "black sludge" was pouring out of the stone in a steady stream and was cast by the magic circle.

The array absorbs it.

Finally, when the "black mud", or in other words, the resentment, was drained away, countless light threads poured out from the magic circle, wrapped around the Qianyin Stone, and sealed it.

After doing all this, the magic circle just reached its limit, and after a strange sound that sounded like a mournful cry, it lost all its luster.

"With the help of the power of the formation, all the resentment is stripped away and channeled into the earth's veins... Although this cannot reverse the process of 'corruption', it is enough to make the meme become unprecedentedly weak and be sealed." Chu Xuan

His tone was calm, as if he had just solved a math problem. He turned his head and glanced at Ye Zi, and roughly explained his operation: "I have received a reminder from the Lord God, and the cursed meme has been successfully rendered harmless.

.”

"Well, if something like resentment is channeled into the earth's veins...will there really be no problems?"

Feeling impressed by Chu Xuan's "immortal operation", Ye Zi asked weakly, expressing his doubts.

"Until nature's self-purification ability eliminates them all, disasters on the Japanese archipelago will become more frequent. Although transcendence will not be cut off, the difficulty of cultivation will also double. But this is the only option. You can't... exclude them.

Pacific Ocean, right?”

"The rest of the cursed ghosts will dissipate when the meme is sealed...except for Kayako." Chu Xuan took out the communicator and sent a message to Zheng Zha, indicating that he would

Bian has already done it, and then briefly analyzes the current status: "Because of it

It is powerful enough to exist alone without being separated from the memetic core. If it is not destroyed, it may even grow into the next memetic core... This is also the main task of the Lord God's judgment of 'eliminating the curse' that has not yet been completed. There is no

Let’s return to the main god’s space.”

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"So if you eliminate this guy, you can return to the main god space...is this what you mean?"

On the battlefield on the other side, Zheng Zha wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and muttered to himself.

In the previous battle, Zero Point, which threatened Kayako the most, was attacked and knocked unconscious, so it was Zhan Lan who picked up Chu Xuan's message and conveyed it to him.
Chapter completed!