The King of Curses

Chapter 90: Shura Field, Midgame
Spiritual interference on this scale is beyond human power and is rare in any era. It is like announcing one's arrival to everyone in a dignified manner, full of vigor and courage.

Cen Dongsheng held his forehead with a serious look as he looked towards the village buried in white mist. He could vaguely see wisps of green smoke rising up.

……

On the other side of the fog, the ghosts of the villagers who were eaten by the mandrills could not even keep their bodies in this sweeping spiritual storm. They turned directly into dust and mixed with the white dust in the sky.

……

His head still ached slightly, and it felt like someone's voice was echoing in his ears in the distance.

The mandrill became a fool. It fell backwards with a bang and did not move anymore. It was like a statue, waiting to be slaughtered.

This sudden mental interference was not only powerful and had a huge spread, but more importantly, he did not find its source in the haunted house.

In other words, this interference even penetrated the spatial isolation between the "haunted house" and the outside real world and affected the interior of the haunted house.

The only one who can do such a thing is Tiankui Quanshou.

What happened? Did Sister Zhizhen get attacked while staying in the mountains?

In this era, is there still an enemy that can make her take it seriously?
The confusion disappeared in an instant because the answer was so obvious and easy to think of.

"No way……"

Cen Dongsheng's pupils began to twitch.

That was... the worst possible development he could have imagined.

——An Zhizhen and Yi Qingyan are taking action.

He knew that the two of them had different personalities and their relationship was tense, but he didn't expect it to be so bad. He had only been away from them for less than an hour when they had already turned against each other and started fighting.

...is this a bit exaggerated?
All his uneasy premonitions came true, and he had never expected it to happen so quickly.

"I'm sorry, big guy, this fight has to end here."

He turned around and looked at the mandrill lying behind him.

The blood that had been boiling due to the fierce battle suddenly cooled down, and Cen Dongsheng knew that he now had more important things to do.

The aftermath of "Tian Kui Quan Shou" helped a lot, as the mandrill was now unable to resist.

Although he was confident of his victory and he had taken the initiative, there was still an unbridgeable gap in hard power between the man and the beast. If the fight continued, he would probably have to use the "Immortal Bone" again.

Now the mandrill has become meat on the chopping board, to be slaughtered at will. Its “immortal bones” are no longer useful and may have to be used in other more critical places.

He jumped onto the mandrill's head, stared at its vital points, and punched it.

No matter how thick-skinned and tough it is, the mandrill is just an immobile target at this moment.

In order to kill his opponent as quickly as possible, Cen Dongsheng's actions were somewhat cruel. He pulled out the monster's other eyeball and jumped directly into the black hole's eye socket.

The mandrill woke up in severe pain. It panicked and struggled to get up, but it was too late.

It lost its eyes, the world fell into darkness, and it could only feel something swaying in the lightless vision.

Amid the screams, Cen Dongsheng raised his fist, gathered his true Qi, and swung it downwards. The impact of the fist force and the burning invisible true Qi penetrated the skull and hit the most vulnerable part of the organism.

That's its brain.

"boom!"

Blood plasma suddenly appeared. After shaking its arms and legs, the mandrill stopped moving.

……

After dying, the monster's body shrank a little, and its skin, which was originally as hard as armor, became soft as if it had lost its support.

Now it doesn't look like a demon, but just a slightly oversized monkey.

The core of the monster's activities is a ball of pure Yin Qi, which is the same as that of ghosts. After Cen Dongsheng took it out, he refined and controlled it a little, introduced it into his body, and temporarily sealed it in his Dantian.

To study and utilize this energy "out of the ordinary" would require time for meditation, and now is not the time to do that.

After a fierce battle, the stone building was already on the verge of collapse, and Cen Dongsheng jumped out.

He found the whole village deserted.

"…The ghosts all disappeared."

When we mentioned "Tiankui Quanshou" before, we always mentioned its terrifying ability to manipulate people's hearts and how it was feared by the curse masters, but we didn't mention its influence on "ghosts".

But it’s not because this curse is not effective against ghosts and monsters, but because it is too strong. As soon as it is cast, the ghosts and monsters can only flee in panic.

Later, in the war between humans and demons, the Philosopher King himself rarely took action; and every time she appeared, it was time to decide the outcome of the battle.

If we talk about ghosts separately, the big monsters with strong bodies can still barely resist, but ghosts without bodies cannot resist the pure souls at all and will be reduced to ashes in the blink of an eye.

"—!"

Another powerful mental shock swept through like a storm.

His head was filled with a lot of noise again, as if countless people were chanting and reciting in the background; his eyes were flickering, like a broken TV screen.

Cen Dongsheng covered his forehead with his hands, and as his true energy surged, the discomfort was suppressed.

If it weren't for Tiger Soul's special ability, he would have fainted like the mandrill.

"quick……!"

He ran forward.

And at this moment, another change occurred——

His body's instinct was warning him that something extremely dangerous was approaching, making his hair stand on end.

Looking up, Cen Dongsheng saw a faint trace appearing above the dim sky of white dust.

His pupils contracted, and he immediately determined the baseline along the direction of the "trace" and jumped to the side.

A few breaths later, the ground where he was originally standing was silently cut open by some huge and sharp invisible object, spreading for hundreds of meters.

The opening seemed shallow, but the inside was so deep that the bottom could not be seen.

Ever since the "wound" appeared in the sky, the entire haunted house world has shown signs of collapse.

The attack released from the real world can spread and expand to the haunted house, shattering the spiritual space...

There is only one person in this world who can do this.

Cen Dongsheng had originally planned to go out along the path indicated by the hunting team's ghost, but now it seems that this is no longer necessary.

But he was not happy at all.

*
"Well……"

An Zhizhen closed her eyes.

In her "vision", an invisible sun hung high in the sky above Shilou Mountain; after the "sun" appeared, it released an astonishing force field all the time, and a storm descended on the ground.

The mountaintop below was like a giant candlestick with countless candles, some of which were bright and some were dim. Different creatures had different characteristics, and ordinary people and ghosts, ghosts and curse masters were all different.

Under the blowing of the solar wind, most of the candle flames dimmed, and a small part of them were blown away.

Although most of the climbers went down the mountain after sunset, there were still a small number of people left to camp on the top of the mountain; including the villagers living on the mountain, most of them might have fainted by now.

"It seems that I still don't practice enough."

She opened her eyes and looked at her hands, which were as flawless as white jade.

An Zhizhen didn't mind the fact that her actions might affect innocent people. She had been mentally prepared and knew that sacrifice was always inevitable.

Everyone's life has its own unique value, and those who fully realize their personal value and contribute to the future cause of all mankind can be said to have died a worthy death.

However, if this is the result of her immaturity, then that is another matter. ...It seems that it is not the right time yet.

She decided to stop before the situation got out of control.

"Let's stop it."

An Zhizhen said. She sent her voice to the girl's ears far away.

……

"……Um?"

Yi Qingyan raised her head, and a faint smile appeared on her pretty face. It was pleasing to the eye, but for some reason, it made people feel creepy.

Her tone was cold and filled with murderous intent.

"Miss An, are you going to admit defeat and beg for mercy?"

"I can feel that Dongsheng is about to come out of the haunted house."

"Yeah... like you're going to die soon."

Yi Qingyan stood where she was, raised her hand to support her forehead, feeling the cold sweat pouring down her face. The clothes on her back were also soaked with sweat.

She is not moving now because she really doesn't have the strength to move.

An invisible spiritual storm swept across the entire mountain, and the core of the explosion was between the two of them; the impact on others was merely the aftermath.

As the person who actually faced the attack of "Tian Kui Quan Shou", even if he could rely on his own curse to resist being brainwashed or controlled, he would inevitably be impacted on the spiritual level -

Wave after wave of piercing pain came over her like an endless tide, making her want to scream like crazy.

But she didn't want to show any embarrassment in front of her opponent, so she chose to endure it.

Hold on, hold on...

Although the process is painful, it is not completely unbearable after getting used to the pain.

And once she could resist, she was sure that the initiative would be in her hands.

"Tian Kui Quan Shou" is interfering with her thinking, and she has to mobilize most of the true Qi in her body to resist; but for her, the loss of "Wu Jian Hell" is almost non-existent, so her combat effectiveness is not directly affected.

Just one knife...

she thinks.

Yi Qingyan gradually got used to the pain and her body was no longer stiff.

Slowly, slowly, she raised a finger.

The world before my eyes turned into black and white.

Not long ago, she swung a knife, but because she couldn't control her strength, the leaked power failed to hit the opponent, but cut the haunted house not far away;
After a period of stalemate, Yi Qingyan has become accustomed to locking the opponent.

Next, as long as the opponent can’t dodge with this knife, he will be dead.

Although they were all "special curses", the effects were not exactly the same. At least, Yi Qingyan did not feel the same "inability to completely kill" feeling from the other party as Dong Shengge did...

"Yes, I give up." An Zhizhen answered very straightforwardly, "I came to this place in my real body. If I die, I will really die."

"……what?"

"Because I'm with Dongsheng, I'm willing to expose my weaknesses."

"What do you mean by that?" The girl frowned. "From what I hear, it means you didn't use your full strength...right?"

Seeing that the other party did not answer, Yi Qingyan sneered.

"You're an adult, but you're still good at making excuses for yourself."

…But it does make sense. She laughed at it, but she thought so in her heart.

She couldn't "get serious" in front of her brother either.

Even now, because I know he is nearby and I am concerned about his existence, I cannot use all my means.

Also, even if she could really kill the other person here, her brother would most likely be disappointed in her or even leave her after knowing the truth, which was something Yi Qingyan could not accept.

Speaking of which, has my brother... come out of the "haunted house" yet?
He must have noticed the fact that we were fighting, and my brother's subconscious reaction was to try to stop them.

Yi Qingyan quickly changed her mind, as she knew that time was not enough.

"Okay, I'll give you this chance. But next time, don't use your brother as an excuse."

"Of course, we can choose a place away from the crowd in advance."

“This fight is not over.”

"I know."

"Then pick a day soon..."

Yi Qingyan was silent for a moment, and she realized another possibility.

"But if Brother Dongsheng cares about this matter, he might try his best to stop it, and then there might not be a fight. If you hadn't taken the initiative to attack me this time, there wouldn't have been a conflict..."

"You still don't understand."

"Understand what?"

"I used my ability before only to stop you from interfering with Dongsheng. I hope everyone can respect his decision, whether as a partner or someone close to him."

The woman sighed, as if feeling regretful.

"Miss Yi, I don't think we need to make another appointment. If you can't understand me, the conflict between you and me, and even between you and Dongsheng, will erupt sooner or later, and that day won't be too far away."

As for An Zhizhen's statement, Yi Qingyan's answer was -

"……boring."

she says.

*
Cen Dongsheng left the haunted house.

After the core ghosts die, the haunted house phenomenon will gradually disappear, and the destruction of "Blade of Infernal Affairs" will further exacerbate this process.

When he came out, the spiritual space behind him had collapsed. He turned around and what came into his sight was the real Shilou Mountain.

The forest returned to peace.

...Come to think of it, it seems like things have suddenly become quiet now?
Ever since he escaped from the haunted house, the dizzying mental interference and dangerous space cutting have never appeared again.

He swallowed and continued walking up the road with a nervous mood.

After climbing to the top of the mountain, Cen Dongsheng saw the tent in the distance, still safely placed there; and the figures of two girls, one big and one small.

An Zhizhen and Yi Qingyan were sitting by the campfire in the camp, apparently cooking and chatting.

The night is dark, the breeze is blowing, and the sky above is dotted with stars.

On a rare quiet night, the sight of the two of them sitting by the fire from afar actually made him feel a little relieved...

No, that's not the case at all.

He was very sure that the large-scale conflict that had just broken out was not just an illusion.

So, did they fight or did they stop fighting halfway?

Cen Dongsheng was full of doubts, but he no longer hesitated and walked quickly towards them.

(End of this chapter)