Both start in hell: but their talents are multiplied a hundredfold.

Pirate Shen Jue dragged Death God Shen Jue away.

On the electronic screen, fragments of memories extracted from Junji Ito's mind were being played.

After watching the horror movie for a while, Shen Jue sighed and recounted the ghosts and horrors of that world: the twisted vortex, the multiplying Tomie, the floating human head balloons, the black-clad handsome boy drifting at the crossroads, and the hellish star that was heading towards Earth and devouring countless planets along the way.

He unconsciously rubbed the halo of sunlight he had just removed with his fingertips, and waves of warmth seeped into his heart through his fingertips.

Shen Jue, a horror film enthusiast, has seen countless grotesque monsters in the horror film world, but has never felt so suffocated as she does now.

Junji Ito's world of ghosts never follows common sense. They drag innocent people into despair with absurd rules, like omnipresent prying eyes, leaving no room for escape.

"The people of that world have no idea that what they are facing is never something that can be overcome with courage."

When talking about horror films, Shen Jue recalled the monsters in Junji Ito's world. What was most terrifying about them was never their appearance, but their ability to accurately strike at the weaknesses of human nature, allowing despair to spread like a plague.

Charms, ritual implements, and exorcism tools are very likely to have no effect on those ghosts and monsters. After all, in Junji Ito's works, even "normal" and "logic" are a luxury.

At this moment, Shen Jue, the horror film character, only regrets that he cannot get past Junji Ito's world.

A horror movie world, the terminal of an inland capital airport.

The waiting hall has been completely sealed off, and the business travelers in suits and ties and tourists with their suitcases that are usually there are nowhere to be seen.

A group of Taoist priests dressed in dark blue robes and wearing Hunyuan scarves or Haoran scarves on their heads were densely packed outside the security checkpoint, completely filling the modern boarding gate.

Among these people were an old Taoist priest with white hair and beard, holding a peach wood whisk; a young Taoist boy with a peach wood sword on his back, a childlike face but a solemn expression; and several burly military officers with thick Buddhist beads around their necks and smartphones in their hands.

They weren't queuing up; they were "seeing someone off."

Not far from the security checkpoint, a group of monks dressed in robes and holding staffs or prayer beads were gathered, staring at the Taoist priests with displeasure.

Surrounded by the Taoist priests was Shen Jue.

He was dressed in casual clothes that seemed out of place with his surroundings. He was clutching his boarding pass and passport in his hand, his face full of helplessness, yet also showing a hint of being moved by the excessive enthusiasm.

"Immortal Shen! Please be careful on your journey to Japan!" An old Taoist priest holding a compass practically clung to the safety barrier, grabbing Shen Jue's hands as he spoke, his voice trembling slightly with excitement.

This old Taoist priest was the Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain.

The Taoist priest Ayou, who once taught Shen Jue the Maoshan Meditation Mantra in the port city, was also among these Taoist priests.

The Taoist priests were filled with fervor, eager to follow in Shen Jue's footsteps and wipe out all the evil spirits in the world.

Back in Gangcheng, Shen Jue had already cultivated the Maoshan Tranquilizing Mantra to its highest level.

After spending some time shattering every evil spirit and zombie in the port city with his incredibly pure Yang-attribute magic, Shen Jue, along with Ayou, returned to the mainland amidst the astonished gazes of the port city's feng shui masters, who seemed to have seen a true immortal descend to earth.

Shen Jue visited all the famous Taoist temples and monasteries in the inland areas.

After Shen Jue displayed his immense magical power, which was like the sun rising from the east, these Taoist temples and monasteries opened up all their traditions and books for Shen Jue to observe and learn from.

Having thoroughly studied countless scriptures and consulted thousands of books, Shen Jue integrated hundreds of cultivation methods into one, creating a scripture called the "Great Sun Sutra of Salvation and Morality".

Subsequently, Shen Jue began his campaigns inland.

The journey began in the Changbai Mountains and the Heilongjiang River. In the old forests of Northeast China, Shen Jue used the Great Sun Method from the "Great Sun Sutra of Salvation" to burn the thousands of miles of black forest to ashes! He wiped out all the five major immortal clans that had long been cannibalistic, and hammered away those evil cultivators who had acted as accomplices to evil spirits!

Shen Jue traveled south to western Hunan, where he unleashed a blazing fire that consumed the thousand-year-old drought demons within the deep, ancient forest, turning the zombie clan that had enjoyed blood and food for millennia into ashes.

Traveling west to the northwestern Gobi Desert, Shen Jue infused the Great Sun Magic Power he had gained from practicing the "Salvation Morality Great Sun Sutra" into the "Mirage Ghost Realm," burning the "Mirage Ghost Realm," which randomly devoured travelers, into a piece of transparent glass.

Heading east into the water towns of Jiangnan, Shen Jue laid down hundreds of exorcising purple talismans passed down from Longhu Mountain, which wiped out countless "water monkeys" that haunted the waterways.

Shen Jue casually skinned and gutted the evil dragon that had been sealed in the water for thousands of years, and made a set of clothes and magical artifacts from it.

The Gu King of Miao Jiang, the Yin Soldiers of Lingnan, the Flying Zombies of the Southwest—Shen Jue traversed the inland mountains and rivers, and wherever he went, centuries-old legends melted away like accumulated snow, and millennia-old monsters died without a burial place.

Until there were no more ghosts or evil spirits inland that could make Shen Jue stop.

Shen Jue made a decision. He ended his journey in the inland and, at the urging of his many followers, resolved to travel the world and eliminate every evil spirit he encountered.

"Immortal Shen, your merits in vanquishing all evil spirits are immeasurable, but with the world undergoing such a cataclysmic change, its descent into a realm of ghosts is inevitable!" An old Taoist priest, whose age was impossible to discern, pleaded with Shen Jue to stay. "Please be careful! The wickedness of the human heart surpasses even that of evil spirits!"

Shen Jue naturally recognized the old Taoist priest; he was the last surviving master of the Maoshan Taoist lineage.

Most of the Taoist priests of the Maoshan lineage died on the road of slaying demons and monsters, which is why the Maoshan lineage is incomplete, with only a few remaining.

Shen Jue smiled and declined, saying, "Those newly born little demons and monsters will be dealt with by the magical artifacts and talismans that you and I make and give away."

"I will wipe out all evil spirits in this world," Shen Jue said. "Humans are not food for these evil spirits to raise."

The Taoist priests and monks present all had an almost devout look in their eyes at that moment.

That was absolute worship of Shen Jue, and the purest longing and reliance.

These Taoist priests and monks, under Shen Jue's instructions, remained inland and could not travel across the ocean, so they could only send all their heavy hopes and blessings to Shen Jue.

Shen Jue's power and magical abilities, which exceeded the existing understanding of the cultivation world, led these cultivators to regard him as the sun emperor descended to earth from ancient mythology.

Temples and statues of the Sun Emperor are being built throughout inland areas.

Shen Jue did not stop these actions. From Shen Jue's perspective, this could bring a glimmer of hope to people trapped in cognitive filters.

That's right, cognitive filters are one of the ultimate means to prevent the world from falling into chaos and apocalypse.

Practitioners from all over the world united and used their ancestral artifacts to set up an array covering the human mind in the underground of the United Nations headquarters.

This formation allows humanity to reproduce and survive amidst numerous and terrifying evil spirits, rather than suffering a complete mental breakdown and going insane.

Shen Jue bid farewell to the many Taoist priests one by one, and under the pitiful gazes of the monks in the distance, boarded the plane that carried only him.

The plane's destination was Japan.

"Sadako, Kayako..." Shen Jue sat in first class, carefully reading the information about Japanese ghosts and monsters.

At this moment, the plane began to shake and turbulent violently.

"Hmm?" Shen Jue chuckled softly. "You want me to crash like Prisoner?"