I slay evil in the Department of the Supernatural

Xu Lindong raised his hand and saw that his palm was covered with an unnatural bluish-black color, like a branded wound.

A wisp of cold, foul corpse energy was coiled around it, clinging to it and impossible to dispel.

"Are you kidding me?"

His expression changed slightly.

It was as if it had been cursed by a vengeful ghost, exuding an ominous aura of being "possessed by a ghost."

You should know that he had only pressed the old man's wound with his palm through the barrier of the "stove ash" used to ward off evil spirits and the heat from the stove lamp.

And so, I still got entangled with them.

"That strange object... could it be more than just a wandering spirit from the ninth sequence of the underground passage? Could it be something left behind by a ninth-sequence underworld official?"

Xu Lindong frowned.

Based on his experience, he judged that this matter was beyond the scope of what a trainee executive could handle.

Curses are troublesome.

The corpse's aura can dissipate, but the curse will repeatedly grow, and even evil spirits may come looking for you through the curse.

"Dong-ge, what's wrong?"

Li Yunfan sensed something was wrong and immediately moved closer. When he saw the bluish-black patch on Xu Lindong's palm, his expression changed.

Xu Lindong shook his head, glanced at Old Man Zhou whose condition had temporarily stabilized, and calmly said:

"Report this to Captain Lu first. I suspect that the evil entity that infected Old Zhou is a [Yin Messenger] of the eighth sequence in the underground passage."

"Sequence Eight Yin Messenger?" Li Yunfan exclaimed in surprise, "Are you kidding me?"

"Very likely."

Xu Lindong raised his hand in greeting.

He was, after all, a top student at Jiangcheng University, so his knowledge of foreign object classification was very solid, and he said with certainty:

"If it's just a Sequence Nine evil entity, it's impossible that I would be cursed even though I took precautions and only came into contact with the infected without directly touching the entity itself."

"I'll contact Captain Lu right away!"

Li Yunfan realized the seriousness of the situation and immediately took out his phone to report it.

Liang Qizheng, who was standing to the side, also looked grim.

Although he was not a superhuman, he understood what it meant for a Sequence 8 evil creature to appear in a residential area.

"Brother Dong, the matter has been clarified."

Just then, Xiao Qing, who had been outside gathering information, walked in with a young man who looked to be about twenty-six or twenty-seven years old.

"This is Old Zhou's son; he knows some of the details."

Xu Lindong immediately looked at the young man, his expression grave. "How did your father get that wound on his head?"

The young man looked respectful and dared not hide anything, saying, "I heard from my dad that I was accidentally cut by the hairdresser at the barbershop across the street the day before yesterday."

"Oh? You got a cut at the hair salon? What's the name of that hair salon?"

Xu Lindong looked surprised.

"It's called Golden Phoenix Hair Salon, it's just across the street."

The young man honestly said, "Later, my mother went to that hair salon to argue with them, but she found that the hair salon was closed and hadn't been open for the past two days."

The young man glanced at the wound on the old man's forehead, which was covered by cigarette ash, and said nervously, "At first, this wound wasn't big, but last night my dad came to our room and started biting everyone he saw. We were terrified and immediately held him down."

But he became very strong, and it took several of us to barely hold him down.

That's when we noticed his head wound had gotten bigger, turned black, and was emitting a foul odor; we knew something was wrong.

Xu Lindong said, "Something felt wrong. Why didn't you take him to the hospital immediately?"

The young man said helplessly, "I've already taken my wife to the hospital; she was bitten by my dad."

But my mother is quite superstitious and insisted on using folk remedies, so we had no choice but to go along with her. Besides... we were also afraid...

Xu Lindong immediately understood.

The old man was biting people randomly, and the family was afraid that if they took him to the hospital, he might bite other people and they would have to pay compensation.

Moreover, the older generation tends to be quite superstitious, and some are unwilling to go to the hospital and spend money when they are sick, instead seeking out folk remedies for treatment.

Regardless of the circumstances, the family did the right thing; the old man shouldn't have been sent to the hospital, otherwise it would have caused trouble.

He immediately looked at Li Yunfan: "Yunfan, you go to the hospital with him."

His wife was bitten, and I'm worried something bad might happen. Could you take some offerings to her to help her get rid of the bite?

Remember, if anything happens, don't touch her wound; let me handle it.

"Understood, Brother Dong."

Li Yunfan responded, then glanced at his hand, "Your hand..."

"I'll handle it, don't worry."

"Okay! I'll take care of it right away."

Li Yunfan didn't say much and immediately left with his men.

Seeing that Old Man Zhou's condition had stabilized, Xu Lindong immediately instructed Liang Qizheng to lead people to guard him while he went out of the room to offer a few words of comfort to the family.

He then returned to the kitchen alone, staring at the bluish-black mark on his palm, his expression darkening.

"This world... is indeed very dangerous."

Even though he was well-prepared and cautious enough, he still fell into the trap.

If this curse was indeed left by the authentic Sequence Eight [Underworld Messenger], it won't be so easy to remove.

"Looks like I'll have to use my real skills."

Xu Lindong's gaze sharpened, and his extraordinary power erupted, turning his pupils golden-red.

"tumultuous!!"

A large burst of golden-red flames suddenly erupted from his palm, the heat surging, whipping his hair, distorting the air, and causing the room temperature to rise sharply.

This "stove fire" consumes a huge amount of energy and has an extremely high temperature, making it remarkably effective in warding off evil spirits.

The bluish-black marks on his palm faded quickly, but eventually left a shallow imprint that could never be completely erased.

"The fire in the stove can't be burned clean... It's most likely a curse from an evil spirit from a Sequence 8 messenger."

Xu Lindong frowned, but remained calm.

After a moment's thought, he took out a stack of red paper, a small lantern, and two bamboo chopsticks from his waist pouch.

The lantern was wrapped in red paper, and extraordinary power was poured into it.

The lanterns suddenly lit up, casting a dim red glow.

This is called "benevolent wealth".

He then used bamboo chopsticks as a carrying bar, threaded them through the lantern, and made a small "Kitchen God sedan chair".

As his extraordinary power was channeled into it, he lifted the two bamboo chopsticks as if they were levers.

Instantly, the last faint bluish-black mark on his palm disappeared.

The power of the curse has been transferred into the lantern.

This is another sequence of power for the Kitchen God, the Kitchen God's sedan chair.

The bonfire lanterns carrying statues of gods were originally used to send off the gods, but they could also be used to seal off or expel evil spirits.

He had only recently mastered this extraordinary ability, which belonged to a relatively high level.

If it weren't for his profound foundation built up beforehand, coupled with the repeated honing of his skills in the Tower of Babel over the past few months, he simply wouldn't have been able to master it.

But as the power of the curse flowed into the lantern, the originally steady flame flickered and quickly dimmed, almost going out.

Clearly, the Kitchen God's sedan chair wouldn't last long either.

The three paths of Heaven, Earth, and Man are of equal rank and power.

Even using the Kitchen God's sedan chair, it would be difficult to contain the excessively powerful Sequence 8 Yin-Different Level Curse.

"A powerful curse! I must move immediately... or I'll be in big trouble."

"Use the Tower of Babel, and afterwards report and hand over the Kitchen God's sedan chair, saying that the power of the curse has dissipated inside the sedan chair."

Even the curses of the underworld officials vary in strength depending on their residual intensity; no one would doubt that the Kitchen God's sedan chair could extinguish a wisp of a curse.

Xu Lindong's eyes darkened, and he reached into his robes, pulling out a necklace.

The pendant was actually a ten-story tower, the very "Tower of Babel" that he had carried with him since the beginning of his transmigration.

This tower can not only accelerate spiritual practice through the energy transformed from merit, but also imprison all kinds of divine, supernatural, and even evil entities.

It can even suppress or alleviate conflicts between different extraordinary sequences.

The ability to "resolve sequence conflicts" alone made Xu Lindong doubt whether the legend circulating in Xia Kingdom that "one can become an immortal and attain enlightenment once the three paths of Heaven, Earth and Man are perfected" was true.

After all, it is almost impossible for ordinary people to cultivate both pathways simultaneously, and even those who succeed are extremely rare.

The desire to cultivate all three paths simultaneously would be fatal simply because the extraordinary powers of different sequences would clash with each other.

But with the Tower of Babel, this greatest obstacle was overcome.

At this moment, Xu Lindong was about to use the Tower of Babel to imprison the evil power of the curse...

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