The demon monk in the second dimension

When it comes to obsession and evil, ghosts are infinitely inferior to black mud.

In other words, the amount of black mud distributed by Xia Zhi's main body to each world is not much, and most of its energy is consumed during the journey. Otherwise, there would be no need to rely on the slow growth of eating ghosts.

With Hei Ni's intervention, Xia Zhi quickly learned what the ghost in the statue was.

The statue that sealed this demon was cast with its hands outstretched like claws, its legs raised, and its whole body leaping into the air; its rules for killing were the same.

Within this ghost's killing rules, a person will be killed as long as both feet leave the ground at the same time.

When this ghost gets close, it will grab a person's shoulder and pull them up, causing their legs to lift off the ground. In the context of ghost tamers, this would be considered a Class B paranormal event.

Unfortunately, this ghost is a whole, not a part, so it cannot be used as a limb puzzle piece for Xia Zhi. He directly uses the black mud to devour it.

Then, with the overwhelming feeling of opening a blind box, Xia Zhi broke the remaining five golden statues one by one, releasing the black mud into them, trapping them like turtles in a jar.

Four of the ghosts were useless to Xia Zhi, but he kept one ghost and did not devour it.

Those were a pair of pitch-black ghost eyes, devoid of any whites or pupils, as deep and unfathomable as a dark cave.

Once you make eye contact with those ghostly eyes, you must face them and not blink at the same time. You must always maintain eye contact, or at least have one eye looking at you, or you will die.

It is not particularly terrifying, but the area covered by its killing rules is more than ten meters wide, and it can move along with the physical body. If it goes outside, it will also be classified as a Class B paranormal event.

These ghost eyes can be extremely deadly to people, since blinking is a subconscious action when people are unaware of their killing rules, and they can be triggered unintentionally.

But ghosts don't blink. For Xia Zhi, this is like a useless thing.

With the attitude that something is better than nothing, Xia Zhi put the pair of ghost eyes into the empty eye sockets of the skull.

But at this moment, the power of the black mud finally reached a certain level and evolved upwards.

Xia Zhi immediately sensed that the power of the Ghost Domain had been enhanced, enabling him to open the sixth layer of the Ghost Domain, and the range had increased by another three kilometers.

He immediately opened the sixth level of the Ghost Domain.

After opening the sixth layer of the Ghost Domain, Xia Zhi felt that within her own Ghost Domain, the black light seemed to be in a liquid state, covering the objects within the Ghost Domain and forming some kind of strange connection.

Time seemed to slow down in the entire ghost realm, flowing at an extremely slow pace, as if one had entered another world.

At this moment, the Ghost Realm is like an alternate dimension. Xia Zhi can send herself and other people or ghosts into this alternate dimension to slow down the changes in their time, but her own time will still flow normally. She can attack them without affecting the outside world.

Similarly, he can easily manipulate the space shrouded in the ghost realm, change the terrain, and move mountains and fill seas with ease.

"They actually touched the power of space and time so easily? It seems that the upper limit of this world is not high. Even with the revival of spiritual energy, it is still just a low-level spiritual energy world."

The more advanced the world, the more difficult it is to grasp and control the terrifying forces of space and time.

According to Xia Zhi's assessment, this power could at most have a significant impact on Foundation Establishment cultivators, while Golden Core cultivators could withstand it and quickly escape its influence.

Summer Solstice focused her gaze on the broken golden statues around her.

One of the statues wasn't badly broken, but two corpses were crammed into the small space inside.

They looked terrified; they must have been the guys who came to steal the gold.

Both corpses had tattoos on them, so they were clearly not respectable people.

All the gold statues were welded to their bases. Careless movement could damage the bases, creating gaps and releasing the vengeful spirits within.

These guys, who looked like Yakuza, were there to steal, not to study. Expecting them to be careful was obviously unrealistic.

Within the Ghost Domain, Xia Zhi removed the two corpses and caused the golden statues to slowly groan under the strain, gradually deforming them into the shapes he desired at a visible speed.

Xia Zhi did not use the power of the demon to directly affect the gold; that was impossible.

He first used his ghostly domain to manipulate the air, increasing the air pressure around the golden statue, and then used the force of the air pressure to flatten the gold.

Gold is not a very hard substance; even an ordinary person can break it with their teeth.

Under the influence of the summer solstice, these golden statues were made into six cages and temporarily placed in the Arhat Hall for use as needed.

After leaving the Arhat Hall, Xia Zhi took out the map again and looked at the layout of the temple.

He discovered that the temple should have been built gradually, from easy to difficult.

The ghosts in the outermost square aren't very scary, so they're hung up by specially made dead trees.

Powerful ghosts, like those in the Arhat Hall, are suppressed using gold.

There must be even more powerful ghosts in the main hall, which is the heart of the temple, and in the ghost well behind it.

Perhaps it was suppressed by a special supernatural object like a human skin bag, or by using the rules of ghosts to restrict each other.

When brute force is not an option, wisdom becomes crucial.

After leaving the Arhat Hall, Xia Zhi did not go any further inside, but instead changed direction and headed to the Heavenly King Hall on the right.

Here are enshrined the Four Heavenly Kings and the Eight Vajra Kings, also twelve golden statues, facing the Arhat Hall.

Just like in the Arhat Hall, these Four Heavenly Kings and Eight Vajras are not in the shocked pose of Vajra's angry glare, but rather in various forms, speechless with astonishment, letting loose their true selves.

This seems to be a reminder from our predecessors through the statues, outlining the supernatural rules governing the ghosts sealed within.

In case anything happens, it will serve as a reference.

Having learned a lesson from the ghost at the threshold of the Arhat Hall, Xia Zhi directly used the sixth layer of ghost domain in front of the Heavenly King Hall to cover the entire Heavenly King Hall.

Although he wouldn't die from the attack, it would be very embarrassing.

When your strength reaches a certain level, your pride becomes very important.

For specific details, please refer to the second-in-command of a Western church who wished to remain anonymous.

There was only one ghostly figure inside the Hall of Heavenly Kings, standing in the center of the hall, facing the entrance, as if afraid that others would not notice him.

As the ghost realm enveloped the ghost, Xia Zhi was also placed among the ghost's targets.

Within the sixth level of the ghost realm, although the flow of time was slowed down, the ghost was still turning around little by little, activating its killing rules.

At the same time, Xia Zhi's body was also slowly twisting and turning.

"It seems that the more terrifying a ghost is, the easier it is for it to break free from the restrictions of the ghost realm."

Within the Ghost Realm, Xia Zhi flashed and manipulated the Ghost Realm to appear before the turning ghost.

He raised his ghostly hand and pressed it down on the turned ghost, while two bandages wrapped around his shoulder.

The ghostly shadow beneath Xia Zhi began to erode the turning ghost's feet, and with the ghostly domain adding to the fourfold suppression, it all descended upon the turning ghost.

Suppressed by four forces, the turning ghost stopped twisting its waist and stood still.

Xia Zhi cautiously observed her surroundings, then released black mud to devour the turning ghost.

He swept his ghostly aura around and found that all twelve statues were intact and undamaged.

It seems that the Yakuza died in the Hall of Arhats before they could destroy the statues.

This ghost that turned around actually matched the appearance of a statue in the Arhat Hall.

Having devoured the ghost that had turned around, Xia Zhi continued the operation from the Arhat Hall, swallowing the ghosts in the twelve statues one by one.

The ghosts here are either extremely terrifying or have a wide impact, and each one has the ability to create Class B paranormal events.

One of the ghosts even possessed a ghost domain.

However, Xia Zhi has encountered more than fifty ghosts in this haunted temple. If it hadn't been for human interference, each ghost would be under suppression.

The person who managed to capture so many ghosts and set up three large, withered trees to trap them must be quite extraordinary to have built this temple.

After leaving the Hall of Heavenly Kings, Xia Zhi headed to the central Buddhist hall, also known as the Great Buddhist Hall, within the temple.

It was a magnificent building constructed of red wood and black tiles, surrounded by corridors with flying eaves and brackets above them, exuding an air of grandeur and solemnity.

Xia Zhi glanced around and suddenly her gaze sharpened.

Beside the Buddhist hall, he saw a well.

The well was exactly the same as the one described in the information the exorcism society had given him; it was just an ordinary octagonal stone well.

Immediately, Xia Zhi unleashed her six-layered ghost domain to freeze the ghost well.

Previously, in order to get ghosts closer to her, Xia Zhi would not keep the Ghost Domain open all the time, so as not to hinder them from delivering goods to her door.

However, in the sixth level of the ghost realm, this ghost well suddenly disappeared.

Xia Zhi curiously looked around, but found nothing.

But after he canceled the ghost domain, he found that the ghost well was still standing there perfectly fine.

The summer solstice was suddenly strange.

"This ghost well is not affected by the ghost realm?"

He once again expanded his six-layered ghost domain to confirm that the Ghost Well was not among them.

Xia Zhi had a sudden inspiration and weakened the ghost realm by one level.

A bizarre thing happened: the ghost well reappeared in the ghost realm just as abruptly as it had disappeared.

But when Xia Zhi tried to move it, the Ghost Well was completely out of the Ghost Realm's control and didn't react at all.

After several attempts, Xia Zhi understood.

"This well is far more terrifying than my sixth-layered ghost domain; it probably doesn't even exist in the current timeline! That's why I can't influence its time. Perhaps the temple was actually built to suppress this ghost well that can transcend time!"

With that thought in mind, Xia Zhi decided to avoid the well.

Although the black mud is his true form and he is not easy to kill, he may be sealed away.

Xia Zhi currently only has six layers of ghost realm, but perhaps when it reaches the seventh or eighth layer, it will be able to affect this well.

Xia Zhi deliberately avoided the Ghost Well and went to the Buddhist temple instead.

But as he entered the Buddhist hall, strands of hair floated out of the ghost well and gradually spread outwards.

……

Xia Zhi originally thought that this large Buddhist hall, as the center of the ghost temple, should be filled with ghosts dancing wildly, allowing him to have a good meal.

As a result, the main hall of the Buddhist temple was very clean, not very large, and there wasn't a single ghost inside.

In the center of the Buddhist hall stands a golden Buddha statue, about three meters tall, guarding the hall in a seated posture.

It looks like an ordinary Buddha statue, but Xia Zhi's hundreds of years of experience in the demonic path made him realize at a glance that it was not a proper statue at all, but a cruel method of killing.

This is essentially pouring gold into a living person, burying them inside, and casting them into a Buddha statue to be suppressed for eternity.

Upon entering the Buddhist hall, Xia Zhi noticed a magnetic field influencing the surroundings, isolating the Buddhist hall from the ghost temple.

"A ghost realm? And a sixth-level ghost realm just like mine?"

Xia Zhi stared at the Buddha statue for a while and felt that the one imprisoned inside the statue must be a ghost tamer, and one who had voluntarily been cast in gold.

This Buddha statue is not an ordinary golden Buddha statue, but was made into a supernatural object, with its own six layers of ghostly energy to suppress the Buddhist temple.

Upon arriving in front of the Buddha statue, Xia Zhi intended to observe it further, but somehow triggered the rules of the Buddha statue.

The once clean and tidy Buddhist hall was suddenly shrouded in fog; this was the work of the ghost realm.

The fog here quickly turned into a thick, dark gray fog, and even with Xia Zhi's Ghost Eyes, he couldn't see very clearly beyond a meter.

Xia Zhi felt a teleporting force coming from the surrounding ghost realm, trying to move him away to some unknown place.

Xia Zhi would certainly not agree.

A flash of black light appeared on the black mud inside his body, and his own sixth-level ghost domain opened.

The drifting black light immediately created a sizable area within the Buddhist hall, enveloping Xia Zhi and confronting the ghostly aura emanating from the Buddha statue.

The black light and the gray mist vied for territory, and the ghost realms clashed directly and fiercely.

At this moment, Xia Zhi's ghostly domain fully expanded inside the Buddhist hall, but it only occupied one-third of the space.

The ghost realm of the Buddha statue not only occupies two-thirds of the area, but also receives some kind of blessing, giving it a home-field advantage, and is constantly encroaching on the ghost realm of the summer solstice.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Xia Zhi forcibly altered the ghost domain space, bringing the gate behind her into the ghost domain, and retreated step by step, trying to leave the Buddhist hall and temporarily retreat.

But just as he left the temple gate, he suddenly encountered an obstacle under his feet, stepping on something soft, like fur.

Xia Zhi noticed out of the corner of her eye that it was a large patch of hair protruding from a stone well.

He was suddenly startled.

"It's a ghost well!"

The ghost well actually moved again and appeared behind Xia Zhi!

The moment her heel touched the Ghost Well, the hair around the Ghost Well immediately wrapped around Xia Zhi's body.