I raised the evil spirit and became an evil investigator

"The front is a restricted area, don't you know?!"

She stretched out her arms, blocking the way of the two men in black, and took a look at their clothes and faces.

Why are they wearing masks?

Aside from being able to tell from their figures that they were women, Yi Qing couldn't discern any other information about them. The two men in black were covered from head to toe in clothing, which seemed to be imbued with anti-detection spiritual skills.

It turned out to be a psychic.

But psykers couldn't do that either. As far as she knew, no fewer than ten psykers had died in that black water pond.

"I see you're from out of town, so it's normal you don't know the dangers of this blackwater swamp. Luckily I'm on duty, otherwise the consequences would be dire! Go back quickly. And don't drink the water from the Yelan River."

Then she saw the man in black in front of her shook his head, and the black and red mask reflected the lacquer light in the setting sun.

"Ma'am, I know you mean well, but we entered that blackwater pond on urgent business. Please make it easier for us to pass."

The person who spoke was Aicheng Hualian, and it could only be her. The evil god beside him was as cold as ice, completely ignoring Yi Qing's intentions.

Not only that, Kagura Hikaru directly ignored Yi Qing and continued walking towards the black water swamp. Seeing this, Aicheng Karen shook her head helplessly and could only follow behind Kagura Hikaru.

"What urgent matter is more important than your own life? Hey! Stop it!"

Yi Qing was naturally very anxious. As an expatriate and guardian here, if someone else died in this black water pond, she would not be able to get over it.

She had trusted others too much in the past, and had watched them die in the restricted area. She would not make the same mistake again!

"Even if I have to force you back, it's better than watching you die!"

A light blue light burst out from Yi Qing's hand, and a lush green bamboo forest emerged from the black land, forming a five-meter-high fence in front of Aishiro Karen and Kagura Hikaru.

[So annoying…]

The eyes under the mask narrowed, and a trace of impatience flashed across Kagura Hikaru's face. While Aishiro Karen was secretly thinking that something was wrong, she gently waved her left index finger, and a visible frost cut through the air, directly covering the bamboo forest in front of her.

"Crack!"

Within three seconds, the bamboo forest created by Yi Qing turned into an ice sculpture.

What shocked Yi Qing even more was that she could feel that her bamboo forest was not simply "frozen", but that every bamboo in it had lost all its vitality!

It is because of the complete loss of life that it seems bone-chillingly cold.

Whoosh!

The frost passed through Yi Qing's body.

"what…"

The excruciating pain of extreme cold instantly knocked Yi Qing to the ground, her body shaking like a sieve. Her lips turned purple, her face pale, and she was filled with fear.

The strength of the person in front of her was so strong that it made her feel fear.

It was as if she was not facing a human being, but a ferocious evil spirit that would choose its prey.

"Hey! Hikaru, you've gone too far!"

Seeing this, Aicheng Hualian hurried to Yi Qing's side. She squatted down, put her hand on Yi Qing's chest, and sent her vital spiritual energy into the other's heart, injecting life into this responsible woman.

In a single breath, Yi Qing's cheeks regained their color, and warm energy flowed through her body. She stood up and was surprised to find that her energy was even more abundant than before.

Looking at Aicheng Hualian in a daze, Yi Qing didn't know what to do for a moment.

"I'm sorry, you're a good person, but we really have an urgent matter." Standing up and walking towards Kagura Hikaru, Aicheng Hualian looked back at Yi Qing, "Maybe you won't have to guard here anymore."

Chapter 113: Evil Spirit - Black Snake in Turbid Water

Watching the two men in black walking away, Yi Qing sat on the ground, no longer having any intention of stopping them.

After the previous fight, she already understood that each of the two men in black was far more powerful than her. She alone wanted to stop them from entering the Blackwater Pond? That was simply overestimating her abilities.

"Their strength is indeed enough to allow them to navigate the Blackwater Marsh unhindered."

Muttering softly, Yi Qing got on her motorcycle and drove towards the watchtower. On the way, a glimmer of hope emerged in her heart.

"Perhaps, they can really eliminate that evil gathering place?"

If this were true, then she would be able to leave the Yelan River that had bound her for thirteen years and go back to see her home.

……

The Black Water Depression, a gathering place for evil spirits that was designated as a restricted area by the Donghua City Evil Response Department seventeen years ago, has devoured countless innocent lives. Even the corpses of psychics are buried there.

"crunch..."

The sound of branches being crushed was heard. Aicheng Hualian walked into the depression and looked at the surrounding plants. The leaves that should have been green seemed to have lost their color here, and were all gray and black. Even the tough bark and branches had become rough, like scraps of paper, and would break at the touch.

She looked up at the sky. All around her were black cliffs, bare without a trace of vegetation. Only the gray sky above was visible, like a rag covering the depression.

She looked down at the ground. The sewage from the Yelan River emitted a pungent smell. It turned a few bends and flowed here, disappearing in a rolling thick fog.

With every breath, the smell that enters the nose is foul and challenges the human sense of smell. Every second spent here, the gloomy and dark scene around is like a pile of rocks that keeps piling up on the heart, making it hard to breathe.

"This is where evil spirits gather...it really makes people feel uncomfortable."

Looking at the desolate scene around him, Aicheng Hualian felt an urge to burn everything here to ashes.

She slightly untied the evil god's restraints, allowing some of his spiritual energy to return to her body. While regaining her own strength, she also allowed the evil god to unleash even greater power.

"Roar!"

Sensing her uninvited guest, an evil creature flying in the sky roared and rushed towards her.

Those evil spirits were like giant black snakes with countless eyeballs on their heads, piled together in a scarlet color.

Looking at these evil appearances, Aicheng Hualian came to a conclusion in his mind.

"Sure enough, the gathering place of evil spirits is inseparable from human resentment."

Evil spirits feed on human negativity and are attracted to people's resentment.

The more widespread public resentment there is, the greater the likelihood of evil invading from the Warp. Wherever evil gathers, there inevitably exists a concentration of intense negative human emotion. Furthermore, the appearance and form of evil, which feeds on negative emotions, will also be affected by them.

For example, demons that feed on the fear of aging often take the form of corpses or skeletons, while demons that feed on hatred often have bodies covered in blood and covered in sharp teeth and claws.

These evil spirits in the Black Water Depression are called Turbid Water Black Snakes. They are as big as giant pythons and as black as ink. They feed on the villagers living around the Yelan River's disgust towards the river.

Thirty meters away from Aicheng Hualian, the evil spirit opened its mouth, and the continuously breaking mouth tore its head apart, revealing a bloody mouth, and bit towards Aicheng Hualian fiercely, wanting to swallow her whole.

In the eyes of the evil spirit, Aicheng Hualian in front of him was a sweet snack, just enough to replenish the strength he had lost from fighting with his own kind.

As for the evil god beside Aicheng Hualian, it could not sense any emotional fluctuations from the other party. It was like a cold stone, standing there stupidly, with no need to worry at all.

It flew forward, and the mask on the orange-haired girl's face gradually expanded in its eyes. The other party stood there motionless, as if she was frightened silly.

Not only that, it also felt that its body was becoming lighter and lighter, and its flying speed was becoming faster and faster, as if it had thrown away a lot of unnecessary burdens and was undergoing an unknown evolution!

But just where it couldn't see, its long snake-like body was rapidly dissipating from the end. Even it itself didn't notice this dissipation and thought it was getting lighter.

It wasn't until it was only ten meters away from Aicheng Hualian that it realized something was wrong. But by then, only the ugly head remained of its body, and everything else had become a meal for the evil god.

"Gah!"

The black snake that attacked first let out a scream of unwillingness and fear, and never knew who took its life until it died.

Aicheng Hualian stood where he was, watching its only remaining skull fall to the ground in front of him, and finally turned into powder, leaving not even a trace of it.

An E-level evil spirit died without any resistance.

"Killing people without being seen... or, killing evil without being seen?" Aicheng Hualian made a comparison in her mind. If she took action, although she could easily defeat this evil creature, it would inevitably cause some noise, and she would not be able to crush it "silently" like the evil god.

"hiss!"

In the sky, those black snakes with low IQ were not afraid at all because of the death of their companions. They were attracted by the spiritual energy on Aicheng Hualian and rushed towards her like moths to a flame.

The result can be imagined.

If there were other people watching, they would find that Aicheng Hualian seemed to be covered in an invisible cover with a radius of 30 meters. Any evil spirits that rushed into the cover would have their bodies disappear rapidly from the end and turn into powder, until their entire bodies were destroyed into nothingness by an unknown force.

No matter how hard the tens of thousands of black snakes that had been lurking in this dark water swamp for decades attacked, they couldn't even get past this forbidden area! They couldn't even hurt a hair on Aicheng Hualian's head!

But Aicheng Hualian felt a sense of worry.

Standing next to the evil god, she could feel his aura rising. The black-haired girl devoured all the evil energy and took it for herself.

The temporary body that Aicheng Hualian prepared for the evil god showed signs of collapse.

If this continues, the gap between her and the evil god will grow wider and wider until she loses the qualifications to be the other party's vessel and eventually explodes and dies.

"This is not okay."

"Xiao Guang, I want to eat too."

She said to the girl beside her, and under Kagura Hikaru's somewhat doubtful gaze, she took the initiative to walk out of the protective circle set up for her by the evil god.

"Roar!"

Dozens of muddy water black snakes roared and bit towards her, but Aicheng Hualian smiled slightly. She raised her hands high, released the spiritual energy in her body, and swung a bright red arc in the air.

The spiritual energy full of vitality enveloped all the evil in front of her.

"Pfft!"

On the bodies of these muddy water black snakes, bright orange flames suddenly ignited.

Chapter 114: Feeding on Evil Spirits

The flame burning on the black snake in the turbid water is one of Aicheng Hualian's spiritual skills.

If a psychic wants to develop his own unique psychic skills, he must either receive official training or rely on his own understanding to comprehend and break through.

Naturally, Aicheng Hualian could not rely on the former to obtain her own spiritual skills. Since she awakened her psychic powers and signed a contract with the evil god five years ago, in the eyes of others, she was a "freak who suffered a great disaster but did not awaken her psychic powers." Naturally, there was no need to teach her to develop her own spiritual skills.

But she has evil spirits.

Although the power of the evil god is evil energy that is completely different from psychic energy, it is still energy after all, and there are still some references to its operating rules.

During the long-term erosion of evil energy, although Aicheng Hualian suffered greatly, she also mastered some of the operating methods of evil energy and tried to use this operating method to drive her own psychic power, hoping that her psychic power would also have the same strong aggressiveness as evil energy.

The effect was unexpected.

Her spiritual energy, full of vitality, should have been an excellent means of healing wounds, but when it was operated in the way of evil energy, it turned into a prairie fire that burned life and purified evil spirits, burning the muddy water black snakes in front of her, causing them to scream in pain, their skin and flesh to be torn, and they continued to struggle in the air.

Under the scorching fire, foul-smelling black smoke emerged from the bodies of these turbid water black snakes, and their bodies gradually shrank.

Not only that, the flesh and blood under the flames began to gradually fade away from the ugly black color, revealing a color like barbecued meat.

As time passed, the nearly nine-meter-long black snake was reduced to a few dozen centimeters of "evil barbecue" under the scorching flames. This barbecue had no taste, only steaming hot, and its entire body was dark brown, like a miniature version of the black snake.

Aicheng Hualian took a bite of the barbecue. The tough texture felt like she was biting into a piece of rubber, scalding hot. But soon, the solid heat melted into liquid, a brown stream of heat flowing down her throat and into her stomach, where it was rapidly absorbed and transformed into Aicheng Hualian's new spiritual energy.

"It worked. Using this psychic flame, I can indeed transform the evil spirit's body into a neutral substance full of energy."

By combining the violent and fierce nature of fel energy with the moderate and peaceful nature of psychic energy, Aicheng Hualian successfully created a method that could purify evil spirits into pure flesh and blood.

If it were pure evil energy, it would naturally contradict the goal of purifying the evil spirits. If it were pure spiritual energy, the moment spiritual energy and the evil spirits collided, a violent resistance reaction would occur.

Only psychic energy that is integrated with the characteristics of evil energy can purify the evil energy in the bodies of evil spirits before their instincts react. It is like putting on a layer of clever disguise, eliminating the conflict between psychic energy and evil energy.

She didn't have the ability to completely transform the evil spirit into spiritual energy right now. But purifying the evil spirit's body, turning it into a neutral substance, and then consuming it, transforming the substance into spiritual energy, was also a remarkable achievement!

Evil Purification Flames were the names of these flames, simple and easy to understand. Even when she was serving as Investigator Chiyan, Aicheng Karen had never displayed these flames in front of others, nor did she need to. Back then, the Evil God was still within her, and she didn't need to do it herself, as the Evil God could devour the evil spirits.

But now, the evil god has left his body and turned into a young girl. If she wants to absorb nutrients from the evil, she can only rely on herself.

Fortunately, her efforts over the past few years had not been in vain. Her Evil Purifying Flame could indeed burn the evil spirits into the purest "energy barbecue", which was absorbed and transformed by her body.

Standing in the back, the evil god Kagura Hikari, who was drinking evil energy amid the siege of evil spirits, watched Aicheng Hualian eat the evil spirits that were roasted into strips of barbecue one bite at a time. Even with her status as an evil god, she couldn't help but be surprised by Aicheng Hualian's talent.

Although Aicheng Hualian's eating speed was as slow as a snail compared to her, it was already a miracle that he could devour evil spirits with his own power like her.

Seeing that the evil spirits around Aicheng Hualian were almost burned to death, she had an idea and quietly narrowed the range of her hunting and devouring, allowing more turbid water black snakes to pounce towards Aicheng Hualian, so that Aicheng Hualian could devour more evil spirits.

I hope Hualian can grow up as soon as possible. Hualian is still a little weak now.

Those evil spirits, burned by the scorching flames, turned into strips of barbecued meat that fell to the ground and were eaten by Aicheng Hualian.

This is a completely different way of advancement than other psychics.

Most other psychics enhance their psychic powers by tapping into their own potential or extracting the positive emotions of other intelligent beings.

But Aicheng Hualian has walked her own path. She is like a smaller evil god, treating evil as food for her growth.

What would be the outcome of this journey? She didn't know. Perhaps she would degenerate into a subordinate of the evil god, becoming neither human nor ghost. Perhaps she still couldn't keep up with the evil god's progress and would eventually explode and die. Perhaps this road would end in a dead end, preventing her from making any further progress.