Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

Bang...

The door was kicked open.

Du Wei, wearing a mask, rushed out in a sorry state.

Then...

His pupils suddenly contracted.

Standing in the corner outside the doorway, bathed in moonlight, was Josh, who had already become somewhat inhuman.

He, or it, had a bloody smile, eyes bulging wide as if they were about to burst out, staring intently at Du Wei.

No shadow...

A sense of inevitable doom filled Du Wei's heart.

It must be said that this time, he had met with disaster.

It was not for lack of vigilance.

Du Wei had followed the plan perfectly, and had found the problem, but he hadn't anticipated that the Evil Spirit would be so formidable.

To actually blow out the lighter...

Not even the shadow entity could do that.

Brutally simple...

Eerily excessive, if that Evil Spirit really had been brought out from behind the door, Du Wei couldn't imagine what kind of terrible events would unfold once that door was opened.

Just like the name of that door—Hell's Gate.

"Will I die?"
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Du Wei asked himself in his heart, the more critical the situation, the calmer he became.

Then, he told himself, "Absolutely impossible."

Outside the door.

The figure of Josh in the moonlight became blurred and disappeared.

Unnervingly unreasonable.

Behind Du Wei, in the darkness, something was stealthily reaching out for him.

But that thing was merely a shadow, silent in the darkness, completely undetectable.

Man and shadow seemed to have split into two parts.

Just as it was about to touch Du Wei...

His shadow suddenly moved.

The shadow entity stood up from within the shadow, wielding a dagger and making a light slash.

Hiss...

A scream-like sound, mixed with a sizzling noise, drilled into Du Wei's ears, making his complexion extremely unsightly, his body involuntarily curling, his left hand covering his ears.

"Hmm..."

Du Wei groaned, stuffed the flintlock gun into his pocket, and without looking behind, ran straight away.

But he hadn't run far before Josh reappeared in the corridor ahead.

It leaped at Du Wei with a hideous laugh.

Behind Du Wei, the darkness grew denser, spreading like mist.

It moved silently, blocking every path.

Du Wei squinted his eyes, tucked the flintlock gun into his pocket, and when he took his hand out again, he was holding a pistol.

A flintlock gun can fire only once.

But a pistol is different.

"The reason you're after me is simply because I wanted you to be."

"Your appearance, all happened under my influence."

"What makes you think you can kill me?"

Du Wei's voice carried a sinister tone, and at the same time, his left hand took out a coin.

He flipped it.

Heads.

Fate smiled upon him.

Bang...

Fire burst from the barrel of the gun, a bullet flying forth.

Josh's figure twisted and vanished.

But just as it disappeared, it was thrown out of thin air, crashing heavily on the floor.

The bullet hit its shoulder, but the blood that flowed was black.

It could no longer be considered human, and it rose to its feet quickly.

A cold, malicious malevolence enveloped Du Wei like a tide.

"What exactly are you, and why are you attacking me as well, apart from that shadow?"

As he spoke, Du Wei glanced behind him; the darkness was spreading quickly, less than two meters away from him now.

The evil intent within the darkness was even more terrifying.

It was a hateful venom, loaded with resentment and jealousy towards the living.

If Josh served as a vessel, then the Evil Spirit sealed inside him had evidently separated from him, and his body had undergone some abnormal transformation.

And according to the original storyline.

If Du Wei hadn't come to Jedecra State, Josh would have dreamed of the shadow killing his wife and three children.

He had some incomprehensible connection with that shadow.

Almost as if they were one.

Du Wei's visit was intended to mark the Evil Spirit as a backup, but he had not anticipated that it would shift the target, attracting all the danger onto himself.

"I never intended to sacrifice myself for others."

Du Wei clenched his teeth and directly underwent the Evil Spirit Transformation.

His entire aura turned exceedingly chilling and gloomy.

All emotions were completely hidden.

In his eyes, there was only coldness.

"You're not qualified to want me dead," he said, his voice indifferent.

Du Wei turned and walked away, deliberately slowing his pace this time, as if he was waiting for the darkness behind him.

However, Josh, for some reason, didn't immediately pounce on Du Wei but seemed somewhat wary, maintaining a distance that was neither too close nor too far.

"What are you afraid of?"

As Du Wei walked towards the reception room, he coldly stared at Josh.

Although he was asking the creature, he was also speaking to himself.

Now in the cathedral, there was only Du Wei, Josh's transformed body, and the ever-spreading darkness.

No one else meant no restrictions.

Du Wei's advantages would keep amplifying.

For instance, certain things he had discarded as his tactics grew more numerous, he had picked up again.

The so-called rules...

The so-called trigger mechanism.

The latter didn't need to be considered, for Du Wei was the one orchestrating it.

It was just getting a little out of hand...

As for the former, that was due to Josh and that shadow.

Du Wei's thoughts were rapidly firing.

He keenly noticed a problem.

In the room, when the transformation happened, Josh disappeared.

But when he lit the lighter, it suddenly appeared.

Yet when the lighter was extinguished,

the shadow emerged from the darkness.

And now, having left the room, both the shadow and its body appeared simultaneously.

Where there is light, there will be shadows.

"So if I'm in complete darkness, I'll face that shadow, but if I'm in sunlight, I'll have to deal with two dreadful beings?"

Du Wei's gaze became even colder, in a situation where external forces couldn't take effect, all he could rely on was his wit.

Just as he had when he first confronted the Evil Spirit.

Intelligence was to harness external forces, to create external forces.

But it would never be replaced by external forces.

Just then, he reached the reception room door.

The encroachment of darkness from behind slowed down as it seemed to realize Du Wei's intention.

Josh's body was skulking beside Du Wei, its mouth wide open, oozing black-brown liquid—filthy and nauseating.

Du Wei looked at them coldly. "Rest assured, it won't end so soon. I will find a safe place for you to stay until the next confrontation between it and me begins."

Now the situation tilted back in favor of Du Wei.

He was starting to feel confident.

The target of La Zandín was not something he could relinquish.

He had to deal with the adversary and bring this powerful Evil Spirit into his fold.

Stepping into the reception room,

Du Wei strode over to his backpack, and at that moment, the room door slammed shut...

In the corner of the reception room, a chilling presence arose; the shadows seemed to come to life, spreading from the floor up onto the walls.

A black silhouette stood at the door.

Outside was Josh's body.

"Do you think you've already won?"

Du Wei slung the bag over his shoulder and extended his right hand, activating his Marking Ability.

The shadow uncontrollably materialized in front of Du Wei, whose right hand grabbed its neck, and a piercing cold spread from the touch of the palm.

As if he was cutting his hand with a knife.

But Du Wei seemed unmoved as he glared at the shadow and said coldly, "I told you, this isn't going to be over so quickly."

In the corner, an even colder malevolence slowly coalesced; Annabelle appeared in the room, eerily floating.

Its target was also Du Wei.

The next moment,

the sound of brakes screeching.

The bus stopped outside the reception room door.

The glaring headlights shone in, illuminating the room brightly.

The darkness vanished.

The shadow disappeared, replaced by Josh's body.

Du Wei abruptly released his right hand and dashed to the door without looking back, yanking it open.

There stood the bus.

But this time... Du Wei's timing for activating the Mark seemed a bit off.

Because there were already several Evil Spirits sitting on the bus.

It seemed to be picking up passengers...