Supermarkets connect to all realms, it's not too much for a succubus to like me, is it?

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Mo caught a faint sound, like a blood vessel bursting.

The sound didn't come from inside the store, but from that dark alleyway.

"puff--!"

The old Taoist priest in black robes was struck dumb, and his whole body suddenly arched like a boiled shrimp.

A mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs was sprayed onto the cement floor as if it were free, instantly congealing into a thin layer of blood-red ice crystals.

"My...Five Ghosts!"

His eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief and horror.

Just now.

The mental connection between him and the five puppets he had painstakingly crafted over half his life was suddenly "physically severed" by a domineering force!

The break was swift and decisive, catching everyone off guard!

The excruciating pain from the spell's backlash caused his internal organs to become displaced.

"Impossible... Absolutely impossible!"

The old Taoist priest leaned against the wall, breathing heavily.

"How could a mere supermarket possibly harbor such a terrifying extreme cold restriction?"

"This...this is the kind of skill only a top-tier mountain-protecting formation could possess!"

In his cloudy old eyes, greed instantly overwhelmed fear.

Although the Five Ghosts Transporting Technique is exquisite, it is essentially still about controlling ghosts.

The five ghosts he created possessed pure Yin energy, making them impossible to stop with ordinary magic arrays.

There is only one possibility that could freeze their souls instantly—that shop hides a treasure beyond his imagination!

A magical artifact with the power of ice, powerful enough to suppress an entire region!

or……

It's simply a naturally formed "mysterious yin acupoint"!?

Regardless of the type, for a heretical cultivator like him who specializes in the path of ghosts and demons, it would be an incredible opportunity to ascend to heaven in one step!

"Fortune favors the bold... I can't lose my Five Ghosts!"

The old Taoist priest in black robes wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, his eyes turning crazed and ruthless.

He pulled out a yellow talisman paper covered with strange, blood-red runes from his sleeve, bit his tongue, and spat out a mouthful of blood essence onto it.

"Bloodlust clears the way, nothing is forbidden! Break through!"

Inside the store, Lin Mo had no time to pay attention to the unlucky guy outside who was trying to add drama to his life.

His entire attention was now focused on the "ice sculpture gate" in front of him.

【warn! 】

The temperature in Cold Storage Area B has dropped to -193.2℃, close to the boiling point of liquid nitrogen!

[The cold air field is expanding outward at a speed of 0.3 meters per second, and is expected to break through the wall in 3 minutes and 17 seconds, causing irreversible and permanent damage to the main structure of the store!]

【warn! 】

To maintain basic operation of the cold storage, 12% of the system's backup energy has been consumed and is continuing to decrease!

"Holy crap!"

Lin Mo's face turned green.

"This isn't just about freeloading; this guy's trying to eat my whole place up as dessert!"

The parasite named "Little White" was clearly a creature with quite a temper.

I was so angry that five little devils disturbed my midnight snack that I created an "Absolute Zero" domain.

If it continues to be this "angry," not only will the supermarket be affected, but the entire area within a kilometer radius will turn into an ice age.

"Zero! Is there any way to stop it?"

[Option 1: Consume 80 million Realm Points to exchange for one 'True Fire Talisman of the Sun,' which can instantly vaporize the target, achieving physical extinction.]

Lin Mo's eye twitched violently:

"8000 points?! Why don't you just rob someone?"

"Anything gentler and cheaper?"

Make him spend 8,000 points to blow up a slime that's been hanging on his refrigerator?

He must be crazy to do that!

That's enough for him to upgrade his shop!

Option 2: Use the store manager's authority to forcibly remove the target.

[Success rate: 17%]

Failure will cause the target to go completely berserk, increasing the expansion speed of the Frost Domain by 500%.

Lin Mo:

"...Never mind, I didn't ask."

How is this any different from betting on Russian roulette?

It's the kind where five bullets are packed into six chambers!

[Option 3: The host can consume 500 points to perform the first 'containment item' extraction.]

[There is a chance that items that counter the target will appear in the prize pool.]

"Draw! Draw it now!"

Lin Mo did not hesitate.

Although it's still gambling, he can afford to lose a bet of 500 points!

Points deducted successfully...

[The "Myriad Wonders Gashapon Machine" is now open!]

A cool virtual gashapon machine interface, visible only to Lin Mo, unfolded before his eyes.

"Clang, clang—"

Accompanied by the sound effects of a cheap slot machine, an ordinary gray gashapon rolled out with a "glug glug".

[Congratulations, host, you have acquired the containment item: An ever-burning lighter (disposable item)]

[Item Name]: An ever-burning lighter

[Type]: Regular type of strange item

[Quality]: Ordinary (?)

[Effect]: Once ignited, its flame will absolutely not be extinguished by any external force (including but not limited to gales, vacuum, deep water, absolute zero) before its energy is exhausted.

[Note]: Friendly reminder, its fuel is your life force.

Use with caution; be aware of the risk of mid-life hair loss.

Lin Mo stared at the ordinary, common plastic lighter that had suddenly appeared in his hand—a lighter so common that no one would bother to pick it up if it were just thrown on the side of the road—and fell into a three-second silence.

"Zero, you call this piece of junk a 'curio'?"

[Rules supersede phenomena. Please trust science… uh, trust the system.]

Lin Mo took a deep breath, too lazy to complain anymore.

Let's try anything, even if it seems hopeless!

He glanced at Su Jiu'er beside him, whose lips were already purple from the cold, yet she clung tightly to his arm and refused to let go, and gave the order:

"You wait here, get your chain ready. When I tell you to do it, you'd better tie that lump of jelly up tightly!"

"Boss, you...you want to go in?"

Su Jiu'er was terrified, her face turning pale. "It's colder in there than the icy hell of our demon realm!"

"It's okay, I'm fine."

After saying that, Lin Mo put the lighter in his pocket, raised his palm, and pressed it against the huge ice door.

Store manager privileges activated!

"Squeak—"

Accompanied by a teeth-grinding scraping sound, the seemingly indestructible ice layer was actually melted open from the inside by an invisible force, creating a narrow passage that could only accommodate one person.

The biting wind lashed at him like a knife, and Lin Mo felt as if a layer of frost instantly covered his eyebrows and hair.

Without the slightest hesitation, he stepped into this absolute territory belonging to "Xiaobai"!

Inside the cold storage, it was a completely different world.

The walls, shelves, ceiling—everything was covered by a thick layer of ice crystals that shimmered with a ghostly blue light.

The air seemed to have frozen; every breath felt like swallowing shards of glass.

On that completely broken-down refrigeration unit, the translucent spherical object "Little White" was pounding violently like an angry heart.

It had clearly detected the intruder.

"Buzz!"

Without any warning, the ground beneath Lin Mo's feet instantly "came to life"!

Dozens of sharp, sword-like ice spikes burst forth from the ice with lightning speed, piercing towards Lin Mo's body from all directions without any blind spots!