Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

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Drip, drip, drip…

The footsteps seemed to have been tainted with the chill of the anatomical room.

Du Wei, wearing a mask, stepped towards the Demon Nun.

He bent down.

The terrifying visage of the Demon Nun was right before his eyes.

Her skin was ashen; her face elongated, with cheekbones deformed so as to appear much higher than a normal person's; a hooked nose like an eagle's beak; lips turned black; deep-set eye sockets.

Only her eyes were tightly shut.

But even so,

Du Wei could feel that long-suppressed evil thought.

Once it broke free from its shackles,

He would be the first one it would kill.

Evil Spirit Du Wei could pin the Demon Nun down with an Evil Spirit Scalpel, but he couldn't do it himself.

All he could do

Was to let it out.

Immediately, Du Wei reached out and grasped the Evil Spirit Scalpel.

The moment he touched it, he felt a prickling pain like that of a needle.

Perhaps because the Demon Nun had been pinned for too long, the scalpel had undergone some strange changes.

Du Wei felt no presence of the Evil Spirit in it.

Instead, he sensed a different kind of familiarity.

It seemed that over time, the Demon Nun had eroded the Evil Spirit Scalpel, turning it into something similar to the Golden Brooch.

Du Wei took a deep breath.

His right hand yanked hard.

Sssst…

The scalpel was pulled out from the Demon Nun's head, leaving behind a terrifyingly deep wound, from which a fog spewed out as if it were a living thing.

In the blink of an eye.

The entire anatomical room was filled with fog.

With a thick malice, a cold gaze targeting Du Wei to its extreme locked on him.

The Demon Nun's eyes opened amidst the fog.

Just one look into those eyes could cause a person's sanity to crumble.

Her pupils were like those of a predatory beast, a yellow beast-like gleam in a tiny point.

The rest of her sclera was pitch black.

The entire dream quivered uncontrollably.

The original dark hues were replaced by more sinister ones, like the color of blood after it coagulates.

The master of the dream was still Du Wei.

But now, the alien presence that was confined in the dream had been completely set free.

Du Wei looked at the Demon Nun and said indifferently, "Do you want to kill me? Then come on, I'm waiting for you in reality."

Having said that,

he gripped the Evil Spirit Scalpel and plunged it into his own heart.

He vanished immediately.

Outside the anatomical room, Freddy, who had witnessed everything, completely broke down in fear.

Not daring to stay, he screamed frantically, "Du the Devil, take me with you, take me with you, I don't want to die at the hands of this thing."

But there was no response.

Du Wei seemed to have abandoned him.

In utter despair, Freddy ran like mad towards the edge of the dream realm, but no matter how much he ran, he couldn't leave the confines of the anatomical room.

Then.

Freddy saw a pair of shriveled, ash-gray hands, with fingertips like claws, gripping the door frame of the anatomical room.

Rip…

The door was destroyed.

The Demon Nun, dressed in a nun's habit and about two meters tall, walked out from inside.

Upon her appearance, she turned her gaze towards Freddy…

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Outside the dream realm.

The downpour was torrential, raindrops fell on the car, but no sound was emitted.

Darkness enveloped everything.

The hybrid of the bus and the Horror House was parked right beside the stopped black Subaru Impreza.

And inside the car.

The shadow was attached to Du Wei, and both master and servant sat in the driver's seat.

What happened in the dream passed in just an instant.

But in Du Wei's hands, there was now an Evil Spirit Scalpel.

"Come out,"

Du Wei, holding the scalpel, had the back of his hand with the design of a compass pointer rotating.

The next second.

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A face filled with terror and collapse, Freddy appeared in the passenger seat.

"Don't come any closer... "

Just as he finished speaking, Freddy cried out, "No, wait, where is this? I'm not dead!"

Du Wei said coldly, "This is reality, I brought you out of the dream."

Freddy couldn't help but shed tears, he wanted to thank Du Wei for saving his life.

But the next second, he let out a scream.

"Fuck! What is that behind you, behind you?"

"Demon Nun!"

Freddy saw that, right behind Du Wei, the silhouette of the Demon Nun was faintly visible, ready to emerge into reality at any moment.

It was precisely because of this.

The Demon Nun's presence was there.

It was still relatively safe for now.

Of course...

It was only temporary.

The next second.

Du Wei kicked open the car door.

He could feel the Demon Nun's suppression over the shadow and the resistance to the Strangeness amalgamation.

There wasn't much time left.

"I still have a chance."

Du Wei said, handing over complete control of his body to the shadow.

He entered a third-person perspective.

The shadow too wasn't cooperating with him for the first time, the black shadow completely enveloped Du Wei, his Right Hand holding a Dagger, his left hand gripped the Evil Spirit Scalpel.

It became dual-wielding again.

And this time, it was even more terrifying than before.

Whoosh...

The Evil Spirit Scalpel sliced through the air, stabbing towards the Demon Nun who had just appeared behind them.

The Demon Nun grabbed the scalpel with one hand.

The other hand reached for the shadow's neck.

The shadow immediately detached from Du Wei's body and pounced over.

Du Wei then took out the Joker Card that represented the invocation of a wish: "Let the Demon Nun leave my car!"

The Joker Card emitted a chilling energy,

shivering in resistance.

This was something it couldn't accomplish.

But Du Wei said forcefully, "You must do it, and in return, I will leave behind that Gamble Card until the day I die. Consider it a trade."

"Either live or die."

Puff.

The Joker Card that embodied the wish burst into flames.

The fire glowed green.

The Demon Nun actually appeared outside the car.

It wasn't because of the Joker Card's direct power.

The more specific the wish, the more bizarre the method of realization.

The combination of the bus and the Horror House seemed to be infuriated by the appearance of the Demon Nun.

Its power directly forced the latter to leave Du Wei's side.

Consequently,

the Demon Nun also became a target for this Strangeness.

The two began another kind of confrontation on a different level.

On the contrary, Du Wei was somehow ignored.

It was as if two horrific entities were utterly indifferent to his life.

No...

They probably both thought that killing Du Wei was a near certainty, the only difference being when to do it.

Only Du Wei knew.

Why the two Strangenesses were also interested in the Demon Nun.

Because in a certain sense,

Du Wei and the Demon Nun had a similar tendency.

One was a man about to assimilate with the Demon Gods, marked by Evil Spirits.

The other was an extension of Valak, from Solomon's Seventy-Two Pillars Demon Gods.

In that moment,

Du Wei didn't hesitate to start the car and floor the gas pedal, driving out.

The car sliced through the darkness.

The target ahead was Massas City, only a kilometer away.

There were many abandoned power grids outside the city.

But Du Wei didn't even look, just drove straight into them.