Infinity: Kill your way through the movie world.

"It's using an external network to create turbulent electrical currents!" David growled, his voice tinged with barely perceptible fear.

"When I caught it back then, it once used an old-fashioned telephone line to draw in high-voltage electricity from a substation, which almost cooked me alive!"

"Quickly, sever the surrounding network connections, or make the puppet retract its tentacles! Otherwise, this chaotic current will conduct in the opposite direction along the energy connections and will hurt you!"

His tone was urgent and full of worry.

In his understanding, physical isolation and energy interruption are the most effective ways to deal with this strange entity.

However, Wu Heng's reaction was beyond his expectations.

Faced with the suddenly intensified electromagnetic turbulence and the evil spirit's death throes, he showed no panic whatsoever. Instead, a faint, playful, and controlling smile appeared on his lips.

"Sever it? Why sever it?" Wu Heng's voice remained calm, as if everything before him was within his expectations. "Energy itself has no strength or weakness; the key lies in guiding and controlling it."

He raised his right hand, and a strange, pale black light emanated from his fingertips.

This light was neither holy nor malevolent; it possessed a highly condensed quality.

The black light flowed out like a living thing, intertwining and entwining with the black mist emanating from the puppet's evil spirit tentacles.

In an instant, a semi-transparent membrane of light, shimmering with complex black runes, formed between the tentacles and the jar.

This light film is not a simple barrier.

Because in the next moment, it suddenly differentiated into countless energy threads, hundreds or thousands of times finer than a hair, just like a dividing cell!

Some of the threads, like precise surgical probes, accelerated their penetration into the jar, more deeply entwining themselves around the core data stream of the network evil spirit.

Meanwhile, another part of the threads did something that left David speechless. They actually followed the weak signal connection that the evil spirit had just established, like a school of fish swimming upstream, spreading and tracking it at a speed far exceeding the signal itself!

“Instead of being passively cut off, we should take advantage of it,” Wu Heng’s voice rang out. “It can use the network to create chaotic currents, and I can use those currents to weave my information sealing network.”

The voice just fell.

The energy threads that had spread out in the opposite direction and had silently wrapped around the routers, old televisions, and even some standby electronic devices in the nearby streets that were unseen by evil spirits suddenly lit up at the same time.

A miraculous scene unfolded:

The annoying electrical turbulence in the air instantly diminished and subsided. The originally chaotic and destructive electromagnetic fluctuations were forcibly sorted and guided by these energy threads, transforming into stable and orderly energy flows.

These tamed electrical energies, instead of becoming destructive forces, were forcibly guided back into the stone chamber along the channels formed by the energy threads, like rivers flowing into the sea, and injected into the black light membrane that bound the evil spirits of the network.

"Sizzle--!"

Inside the jar, the cyber demon emitted an even sharper, more desperate electronic roar.

It tried to struggle and charge.

But the external forces it originally used to resist have now become the 'chains' that reinforce the cage!
The orderly current energy that was guided back was transformed into a more powerful binding force field under Wu Heng's will, which tightly imprisoned it in the core of the altar. The collision of the data stream was like hitting an invisible barrier, and it was all in vain.

David Xavier's mouth dropped open, and he nearly dropped the rusty screwdriver in his hand.

He stared at this unbelievable scene, his eyes filled with incredulous shock. "This...this..." He stammered a few times before finding his voice, his tone a mixture of awe and sudden realization, "...you can control energy like that?"

"Back then, I only thought about using stronger force to seal it off and suffocate it through physical isolation. I never thought that I could use its own strength and its weaknesses to counterbalance it. It's truly an eye-opener!"

Wu Heng was not distracted by David's amazement; his movements seemed to have been rehearsed countless times.

"The stripping away is only just beginning."

The puppet spirit's ten tentacles suddenly exerted their power again, and the energy formed by the fusion of black mist and purple threads completely invaded the core of the jar.

At the same time, the ends of the tentacles pierced the hard bluestone floor of the stone chamber.

Buzz--!

Black mist flowed into the ground through the tentacles, like living ink, quickly spreading and outlining on the floor, instantly creating an extremely complex pentagram array that emitted a faint glow.

The lines of the array are not simple geometric shapes; they contain countless intricate and ever-changing incantations, including ancient demonic language markings and abstract topological structures similar to modern circuit boards.

The array's core, located directly beneath the jar, suddenly blazed with a blinding red light.

"come out!"

With a low shout from Wu Heng, the jar shattered violently. A semi-transparent data stream, composed of countless flashing '0's and '1's, chaotic pixel blocks, and distorted electronic signals, was forcibly pulled out of the fragments as if grabbed by an invisible giant hand, emitting a mournful wail, and thrown into the center of the spell array below.

The data stream twists and struggles wildly within the array, attempting to reassemble or find a new escape path.

Wu Heng extended his index finger and gently tapped the array's core in mid-air.

"brand!"

The light of the transmutation array suddenly intensified, like a small scarlet sun bursting in the stone chamber. Countless finer and more complex black runes, like swarms of living nanobots, surged out from every node of the array.

Forcefully imprinted, written into every 'byte' and every energy node of that data stream!
The struggle of the data stream visibly weakened.

The shimmering light on its surface gradually stabilized, eventually transforming into a gentle stream of light, like a blue ribbon.

It hovered quietly in the center of the formation, then obediently wrapped itself around Wu Heng's raised wrist, like an electronic pet.

David moved closer and could feel the lingering warmth of the array, as well as the completely tamed network power contained in the blue light stream.

He let out a long sigh of relief and exclaimed, "Your methods are simply amazing! With this help, our guild's future network defenses will be impregnable."

David felt relieved, but then a question popped into his head, and he frowned as he asked, "Boss, does this mean we've completely enslaved it?"

“I always felt uneasy. This thing is very cunning, and ultimately, it is just an evil spirit.”

Wu Heng stroked the gentle blue light band on his wrist and shook his head: "It's only the initial enslavement, far from eradicating the hidden dangers. Just as you said, it is still an evil spirit in essence, and there is a possibility that it can be interfered with or even purified by a higher power."

Both demons and angels have endless tricks up their sleeves, and neither side will be happy to see Wu Heng successfully form a guild; causing trouble is inevitable.

So this is indeed a problem. (End of Chapter)