From American comics to becoming the mastermind behind the scenes

Ayou placed the curse medium on the table and then took out a rooster, a peach wood sword, yellow paper, and a writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone.

"Do we need to set up an altar?" Constantine asked. "Do you need my help?"

Ayou shook his head and said, "No need."

He then took out a large compass, which was composed of five ingenious mechanisms and had a simple and grand design.

I saw Ah You chop up a chicken, take its blood, draw talismans, and chant incantations.

He then removed a portion of the cursed medium; the instant he removed it,

The Five Elements Compass rotated naturally, and five neatly arranged copper nails appeared in unison.

The compass array began to rotate.

Stark looked on in astonishment: "What kind of energy is this? Is it what you call yin energy or yang energy?"

Stark realizes that the technology he's looking for regarding the application of evil energy lies in the compass. If he can reverse engineer it using the compass, he might be able to create weapons that utilize the yin and yang energies.

"Shh, you need to concentrate fully when casting the spell, don't disturb Ayou," Constantine said.

Stark shut his mouth and watched quietly.

Ah-you made a hand seal, his palms facing upwards, and beads of sweat rolled down his face like soybeans.

"Impossible!" Ayou opened his eyes, his face filled with disbelief.

"What happened?"

"Someone is raising a ghost. If what you say is true, and someone is using the curse medium as a toy, then Chu Renmei should be even stronger after killing so many people and absorbing their resentment. The fact that she is so weak now means someone is harvesting the resentment from Chu Renmei to cultivate evil magic."

After Ayou's explanation, Stark gained some understanding of the Eastern pantheon of gods and monsters.

He was still somewhat surprised: "Cultivation? Someone can directly use this kind of energy?"

Ah You shook his head and frowned: "Once you use this kind of thing to cultivate, you will definitely become neither human nor ghost, and your final fate will be to be rejected by heaven and earth, and your body and soul will be destroyed! Have any children gone missing recently?"

"Besides Chu Renmei and Ren Woxing, it is said that several other children have gone missing."

"I understand," Ayou gritted his teeth, his face filled with resentment, "Someone is cultivating the Seven Fiends Body Formation!"

The so-called "Seven Fiends Gathering Body" involves killing seven children in a specific way, cultivating them into little ghosts, and raising them on one's body, called the "Seven Fiends." These ghosts are then fed with the children's resentment! The souls of the seven children are tormented daily, and their resentment naturally increases. Those who practice this evil art can then improve their physical strength and magical power by weakening the "Seven Fiends"...

Just hearing Ah You's description sent chills down Stark's spine: "There's such a terrifying blood curse in the world? We must stop it."

Constantine, puffing on his cigarette, suddenly said, "The upper echelons of America have far more elaborate schemes than this. Didn't they invite you to their parties?"

Stark frowned. "What party? What do we do next?"

"Since that person is keeping Chu Renmei as a pet, it means he's with Chu Renmei." Ayou folded a yellow talisman into a paper crane with both hands.

"Then let's find him first!"

……

Hell's Kitchen.

Zhao Guizhen sat cross-legged on the futon, his face upturned. "Someone's found out? But it doesn't matter, just hurry up!"

"Yes."

Before Zhao Guizhen stood a huge ebony coffin, covered with all sorts of bizarre red talismans.

Meanwhile, several people were carrying basins filled with crow's blood, which they splashed onto the coffin.

The blood instantly seeped into the coffin upon contact with it, and then the entire coffin began to hum.

"Not bad, not bad!" Zhao Guizhen grinned maliciously. "So what if they find out? Even if they break the restrictions on Chu Renmei! I have other ways to make them too busy to handle anything else and hand over the copper coins!"

Mrs. Gao respectfully placed the copper coins she had acquired from Chinatown on the table, not even daring to look up.

Although Ren Woxing possessed powerful martial arts skills, his actions were generally reasonable; he was simply arrogant.

But Zhao Guizhen's actions were far too bizarre!

For example, this coffin right in front of us!

Zhao Guizhen took out a coil of red thread and skillfully strung the copper coins and red thread together to make a copper coin mask.

"Open the coffin!"

"Yes." The four men stood at the four corners and together lifted the coffin.

Instantly, a strong stench hit you, making you want to vomit.

Looking inside the coffin, it was filled with strange, shiny black "soil," revealing a human face.

It was Murakami, one of the five fingers that was killed!

Zhao Guizhen leaped up and sewed the copper coin mask onto the villager's face.

"That's good, this will give those people a surprise, so they don't ruin the master's good show."

Then, the strange figure reappeared behind Zhao Guizhen; it was Chu Renmei, without Zhao Guizhen needing to give any instructions.

Chu Renmei directly entered Murakami's body, and his previously closed eyes immediately opened.

The pupils of both eyes were dilated, and as black as pearls.

A chilling aura spread instantly.

"Rise!" Zhao Guizhen roared.

The coffin immediately began to shake violently, and the iron chains hanging from it rattled loudly.

Amidst the rising dust, "Murakami" stood up perfectly straight.

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"Now let's give them a surprise, zombies!" Zhao Guizhen sneered, and Murakami, who had already changed into Qing Dynasty official robes, jumped down.

"Even though it's just a twitching motion, it's enough."

……

At that moment, Ayou, who was using origami cranes to guide the way, suddenly stopped and frowned.

"Why did you stop?" Constantine asked.

"I have a bad feeling," Ah-you said, taking out the Five Elements Compass from his bag. The compass array was spinning rapidly.

Stark watched in amazement, clicking his tongue in wonder: "What's going on here?"

"The beauty of Chu Renmei has vanished," Ayou said in a trembling voice.

"It doesn't seem like a good thing."

"Luo Geng is warning me; something terrible has appeared!" Ayou exclaimed. "The Wild Maoshan sect, which keeps Chu Renmei captive, has used her to create something even more terrifying!"

Suddenly, Ah-you seemed to remember something: "Oh no!"

At the same time, within S.H.I.E.L.D.

Secretary Pierce looked at the black liquid Crossbones had brought, shaking it slightly in his hand: "So this is what killed Senator Smith, and those three others?"

"Yes, it's said that this is a medium that can transmit curses," Crossbones said. "However, according to our information, curses no longer rely on a medium to spread."

"What a pity, otherwise this thing could be of some use. We could take it and analyze it."

Upon hearing Crossbones say that the curse had broken free of its medium, Pierce immediately lost interest: "Any new news lately?"

"Nick Fury embezzled more than ten million dollars of operating funds from the operation of hiring Constantine."

"Do you even need to tell me this?"