At this time, Ye Zi's arms were useless and her energy was nearly dry. She could barely stand even when standing. 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 fight back, so I can only take a gamble...)
That's right, this resigned gesture of "taking the fight" is Ye Zi's deliberate show of weakness to the enemy. In fact, she is trying her best to "scrounge" the remaining elves' 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...bet that her "show of weakness" could deceive the Onmyoji so that he would not shoot immediately, but instead capture him alive and use magic 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 a dangerous opponent like Ye Zi, he didn't 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 a half step back, he was horrified to find that he had lost control of his whole body and could not move even a single 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 holding the gun, pointing it stiffly at the ground.
(What...what's going on!?)
Ye Zi, who was originally prepared to fight to the death, could hardly believe his eyes when he saw Chu Xuan playing with the Onmyoji in his hands. But seeing that Chu Xuan had taken control of the situation, she dispersed the blood arrows in her mouth to avoid ruining Chu Xuan's plan.
"Thanks for your hard work."
Chu Xuan glanced at Ye Zi first. There was no emotion in his eyes under his plain glasses, and he nodded slightly to Ye Zi. Then, he turned to look at the Onmyoji who was still standing frozen in place, and casually 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 hearing Chu Xuan's explanation, the Onmyoji's "tone" was 50% disbelief and 50% shock and anger: "Such a weak mage, just such a 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 was, as Onmyoji said, not that strong: "But , if you use the power of the formation, the success rate of this spell... is 100%."
"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 our 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 lost to Ye Zi's violent crushing, the Onmyoji's reaction would never be so crazy and embarrassing. However, he, who has always been extremely conceited and claimed to be a genius, was defeated in the field of magic that he was best at. He couldn't even understand what kind of techniques Chu Xuan used... Such a shameful failure was completely unacceptable to him. !
"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 against 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 a lot more 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 Shanmen Formation was mainly used to suppress evil spirits. Onmyoji was very dissatisfied with this, so he spent several years and devoted himself to research, modifying it into a killing array that suppresses all living things and has greatly improved its power. One of his favorite works.
And the nodes he modified were 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 mysticism Studying magic with an attitude rather than a scientific attitude has already doomed you 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 formulate a verbal rebuttal, but could not find a reason to rebut 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 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 had dark and sticky "blood" flowing out. He didn't know what kind of terrifying things 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 brilliance 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, and get a B-level side plot, with 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 and disappeared into the sky. In the formation.
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, like the earth. 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 continuously pouring out of the stone and was cast by the magic circle. The formation absorbs it.
Finally, when the "black mud", or in other words, the resentment, was completely exhausted, countless light threads poured out from the magic circle, wrapped around the Thousand Yin 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 to glance 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" in his heart, 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, and we cannot... 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 had already finished it, and then briefly analyzed the current status: "Because it is powerful enough, it can exist independently without the core of the meme. If it is not eliminated, it may even grow into the next meme. The core...this is also the reason why the Lord God has determined that the main task of 'eradicating the curse' has not been completed and will not allow us to return to the Lord 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.
After learning the good news, a smile appeared on Zheng Zha's lips: In this case, it's time... to use the last move!
