Rules of the Strange: I Became a God in a Bizarre World Through Taoist Arts

Shen Xingzhuo's voice rose a few decibels, but inexplicably steadied Pei Jinyu's swaying body.

Their eyes met in mid-air.

Pei Jinyu suddenly understood the fierce look in her eyes.

Is she... angry...?

"Was she...actually sincere...?"

Pei Jinyu had this question in her mind.

The next second, the surrounding space began to tremble, and mottled cracks appeared on the straight road beneath our feet!

Shen Xingzhuo stumbled and shouted:

"Walk!"

She acted decisively, grabbed Pei Jinyu's arm, and led the three of them forward.

As he took another step, Shen Xingzhuo suddenly had an epiphany.

Rule 1: There is only one straight path from one ancestral hall to another.

And rule two: [When heading to the ancestral temple on the back mountain, you must take three steps back after every thirty steps, otherwise you will encounter a maze and never reach the end].

The ghost stories deliberately divided the rules into two parts to confuse her.

After all, the wedding rules triggered in the past timeline were like this, and they needed to be verified one by one to pass the test of the rules.

But when a way of thinking becomes ingrained, and after experiencing many things in a short period of time...

Such tricks used in ghost stories do have a chance of succeeding.

Shen Xingzhuo pursed her lips tightly and dragged the three strange creatures behind her forward at breakneck speed.

But even so, the road is still so long.

They were trapped in the ten directions.

It's like a complete dream.

In the dream, I am constantly on a cycle of escape, and no matter which way I go, the "killer" behind me will follow me every step of the way.

Even with a thousand techniques, I am still filled with unease.

……

"Yin'er!" Madam Pei suddenly called out, "Are we just going to go like this? What if..."

She hesitated for a moment, then continued, "What if we get lost?"

After she finished speaking, Madam Pei's heart suddenly started racing.

Fortunately, Shen Xingzhuo didn't keep her waiting any longer.

"I just asked my mother, and she confirmed that there is a clear causal relationship between the ancestral hall in our house and the ancestral hall on the back mountain. I once read about this in a miscellaneous book..."

She paused, then continued:

"It is said that people in the Xuanmen (Taoist) school believe in cause and effect."

Among Liu Jin's various methods, there were the Red Phoenix Soul-Binding Array, the Impure Earth, and stealing her luck.

Although he was utterly depraved

But it is indeed one of the top evil arts in the Xuanmen (Taoist) sect.

Therefore, I conclude that he is already deeply entangled in a complex web of connections with the Pei family.

A cold light suddenly appeared in Shen Xingzhuo's empty hand.

With the long sword in her hand, even her eyes seemed to grow more dangerous.

She spoke faster.

"Therefore, if we want to go to the ancestral hall in the back mountain to apologize, this is the only main road we can take."

But we are also trapped in this cycle, and if we want to get out—

We need to break this cycle.

"I understand!" Pei Xi exclaimed with delight after hearing Shen Xingzhuo's words, "Mother~ do you mean that if we are afraid of the monsters ahead and choose to run away, then we are going with the flow?"

"Because that would mean we've acted in a way that's reasonable!"

Pei Xi looked at Shen Xingzhuo with sparkling eyes.

Shen Xingzhuo suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction and nodded in agreement.

"My Xi'er is so smart~"

She casually praised him.

"But the most crucial thing is to live in the face of death!"

Her previous reasoning had not incorporated these two rules.

So going forward is wrong, and going backward is also a dead end.

Now, with a new perspective, a path to survival has been found.