Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

The next day.

Early in the morning.

New York City was shrouded in thick fog.

Du Wei habitually got up at six o'clock, freshened up, and then returned to his bedroom to power up his fully charged phone.

As soon as he turned on the phone,

he saw over thirty missed calls and hundreds of text messages.

Ninety percent of them were from Alex.

The more Du Wei looked, the more he felt a headache coming on, so he composed a message: "Have you eaten?"

Based on his understanding of Alex,

his girlfriend was definitely still sleeping at this time.

No big deal.

After that, he made a call to Father Tony.

It took quite a while before the call was connected.

But the voice that came from the other end of the line was Tom's exhausted and listless voice: "Fuck… my dear friend, you're finally back."

"Let me tell you, I had a dream last night that I was partying with lots of beauties, and then you crashed my private party with your friends."

"But you didn't do anything, you just said you were passing by."

Hearing this,

the corner of Du Wei's mouth twitched, and he said, "That was just a dream. I'm already back in New York. I'll stop by the church later; remember to wake Father Tony, I need to talk to him."

Tom uttered an "Okay," and said, "Come over then. Just in time, these past few days I've managed to track down all the movements of the Voodoo Cult. Let's see if it can be of any help to you."

Du Wei raised an eyebrow: "All right."

...

After hanging up the phone,

Du Wei drove towards the church in the North Brook District.

The last time he asked Father Tony whether the Voodoo Cult harbored any malice towards him, it was actually to give Evil Spirit an opportunity to develop.

But now, Evil Spirit had already become a Demon Spirit.

So there was no need for that anymore.

However, since returning from Hell's Gate, Du Wei couldn't shake a particular thought from his mind.

His adversary was Solomon's Seventy-Two Pillars Demon Gods.

And in this world, there were seventy-two Hell's Gates, each corresponding to those Demon Gods.

Of course,

some Demon Gods had already been killed in the past.

Evil Spirit Du Wei had also killed a Demon God and was in the process of assimilating it.

There weren't many adversaries left.

Moreover, there were now only seventy-one Hell's Gates left; the missing one had been physically dismantled into pieces by Evil Spirit Du Wei.

In this world, there were also certain items related to the Demon Gods.

The Church had schemed for two hundred years with an undercover plan, hoping to gather all these items together to eliminate all Evil Spirits at once.

Regarding this,

Du Wei felt it was impossible to succeed.

Because as long as there were Demon Gods, Evil Spirits would continue to be reborn.

"I need to resolve the issue from its root, so I'll try to kill off those Demon Gods," he mused.

"Once I succeed in assimilating, I can start hunting them down one by one and wipe them all out."

"Inside the Voodoo Cult, there are also items related to the Demon Gods, which can become the capital for me to achieve my goal."

While in the car, Du Wei drove and talked to himself.

The Golden Scales were an example.

The exact use of this device, as Mercer had said, was a fifty-fifty chance of killing a Demon Spirit, requiring enough sacrifices to be offered, and leaving the rest to luck.

But Evil Spirit Du Wei chose to sacrifice more than two hundred Evil Spirits and Demon Spirits to replicate it, forcibly dragging the concept of a Demon God from its pedestal into a targeted entity.

And then,

it won.

Facing its own replica, it would never lose.

Besides, this was just the Golden Scales. Simon Lee, the Demon God related to it, probably wasn't ranked very high among the Demon Gods.

At least, before this, Evil Spirit Du Wei wasn't able to assimilate the Antique Clock.

Based on this, the rank of Antique Clocks is above the Golden Scales and also above Valak.

"I'm looking forward to a surprise from the Voodoo Cult."

...

Several minutes later.

Inside the church of the North Brook District.

When Du Wei entered the reception room, Tom and Father Tony had already dressed and were waiting for him.

Upon meeting,

Father Tony said with mixed emotions, "Mr. Du Wei, welcome back."

Tom also said, "Although I just said the same thing to you last week, but… buddy, welcome back to New York."

The church didn't show any unusual reaction to Du Wei's disappearance.

Because the hunters, led by Pope Ferun, all knew that "His Excellency the Duke" must have gone to Hell's Gate.

They weren't too worried.

Only, with the rank of Father Tony and Tom, they couldn't possibly know these secrets.

All they knew was that Du Wei might be risking himself again.

Plainly speaking, they were primarily concerned.

Du Wei felt a slight touch in his heart, but accustomed to detachment, he responded calmly, "Let's dispense with the niceties and get straight to the point."

Tom and Father Tony nodded.

Both had very serious expressions.

Seeing this, Du Wei directly asked Father Tony, "The Voodoo Cult must have been in contact with you lately, wanting to develop you as an undercover agent. Now, I need to get in touch with their people. Can you help me arrange a meeting?"

After some thought, Father Tony said, "Of course, that woman wants to sleep with me every day. Just a text from me, and she'll definitely come out to meet me."

"You don't know how sick that old woman named Emily makes me feel. I tell her I'm ill, and she says she doesn't mind. It's really disgusting."

Du Wei frowned, "Don't worry, once I've met with her, she won't bother you again."

Father Tony sighed in relief, "That would be good."

At this moment, Du Wei looked towards Tom.

Tom immediately said with enthusiasm, "Buddy, I have the activity tracks of the Voodoo Cult. Can I help you with that?"

In his heart, the word 'buddy' carried significant weight.

Du Wei had helped him many times before.

He had always felt indebted.

After some thought, Du Wei said, "I am not out to fight the Voodoo Cult, and their activity tracks are of no significance to me at the moment."

Upon hearing this,

Tom was visibly disappointed. He said, "Is there really nothing I can help you with? I owe you a lot, and even though I know you don't care, you understand…"

The reason why Tom was part of the "Moonlight Clan" was that he gave his salary as private bereavement payments to the families of his subordinates and friends who had died in the line of duty.

Of course, Du Wei knew about this.

But precisely for this reason,

Du Wei didn't want Tom to get too deeply entangled in these matters, the same with Father Tony.

The more he knew, the harder he felt the path ahead of him was.

He didn't want Tom and Father Tony to be targeted by the Demon Gods one day because of him.

Once targeted, ordinary people had only death to look forward to.

Bear in mind that even many hunters were as insignificant as ants before the Demon Gods.

Thus,

Du Wei said gravely, "I will only do what I must, and relative to that, you really don't need to get too deeply involved."

Tom waved his hand, "Fuck! Don't give me that crap, when we went to Poland to take on the Veda Sect, it was dangerous too."

"Now you don't even have a conflict with the Voodoo Cult, and you said they just want to infiltrate the church with undercover agents."

"I think I'm pretty good at dealing with them."

"How about this, let me infiltrate the Voodoo Cult as an undercover agent. I could charm all the women of the Voodoo Cult."

Du Wei's face darkened.

But at the same time, he thought it might actually be a good idea.

The Voodoo Cult was not a Cult; it was just a religious organization that didn't get along well with the church.

Now that he was planning to target the Voodoo Cult, if Tom could join in and coordinate with him from the inside, the chances of success seemed pretty high…

However, after some thought, he felt this course of action would put Tom in danger.

Yet at that moment, Tom said on his own, "I used to be a man kept by a wealthy woman, I'm really good at dealing with those lonely old women. If I join the Voodoo Cult, I could climb to the top within a month."