Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

[Master, the Envelope really wants to help you, but this time, it truly cannot.]

[Moreover, even if it managed to do so, it might not be of any help to your purpose of awakening this woman.]

[As you said yourself, she might not even be human.]

At this moment.

Du Wei fell silent.

He knew the facts were just as the Envelope had said.

Before, there was no one who could help him.

Now, more than ever, no one could help him.

The Envelope felt Du Wei's coldness.

But.

This made it feel genuine fear from within.

It had an intuition.

If Alex died, this man in front of it might become someone it didn't recognize, a thought that felt utterly hopeless.

So.

The Envelope carefully ventured to ask, [Master, the Envelope wants to ask you a question, if Alex dies, what will you do?]

Du Wei said coldly, "She won't die."

Even if it meant reversing time.

Du Wei would bring her back to life, especially now when she was merely in a coma.

[Alright, Master, what are you planning to do now? As your most loyal lapdog, the Envelope really wants to relieve you of some burden.]

Du Wei spoke gravely, "Hold off on that for now, I need to calm down first."

[Aren't you calm enough already?]

Du Wei did not pick up on the conversation.

He spoke to himself, "Right now, what could be of use to me is the Joker Card that represents wishes, but this thing is unpredictable, and the likelihood that Alex's coma is largely related to my exit from Hell's Gate is high."

"I've acquired more information, but at the same time, I've also lost more."

"Alex could be marked by me, she is Minette's reincarnation, and that prophecy is about her."

"The prophecy was five hundred years ago, while Minette appeared over two hundred years ago."

"The timelines do not stand in opposition."

"Previously, a member of the Vanity Sect wished to marry Alex, that person might know some secrets, if I am to start resolving this, maybe I can begin from there."

"Furthermore, the prophecy left by the Mask Maker is also strange, he even left something similar to the Blood of Jesus for the Wittebach family."

"That thing is right beneath Massas City."

"These are two directions."

As Du Wei said this, he suddenly remembered the moment he was in the underground altar inside the church, facing the Blood of Jesus, he heard Alex's voice.

No...

To be precise, it was Minette's voice.

The voice had said, "Stay away from it."

Before, Du Wei thought it was an illusion created by the Blood of Jesus, but now, thinking it over carefully, there was definitely something wrong.

What if that voice was truly Minette's.

She might have been targeted by the Demon God in some past moment.

But this was just speculation.

"There's a big problem with the Blood of Jesus... Jesus... God, the Lord..."

"The passageway behind Hell's Gate, the pattern that looked like a human face once informed me about a silver-haired woman who was called the Lord by the crazed Bishop Slivka."

"The Blood of Jesus is related to Minette, how did this thing appear in the church then?"

"Could it be that Minette and I went through the same Hell's Gate, and what was in that passage was something she left behind..."

The more Du Wei thought, the more he felt his thoughts were muddled.

Vaguely, he seemed to have grasped a thread, but the information was too scant for him to come to a definite conclusion.

"As for the Vanity Sect, I can try to make contact, even join them, to find the man who wished to marry Alex."

"As for the church, I can go to Pope Ferun."

"The underground of Massas City, I won't consider going there for now unless there really is no other solution."

In this world, for as long as he could recall.

The one place that had always felt most frightening to Du Wei was Massas City.

God knows how many strangenesses lie within its unknown areas.

And that's just on the surface.

Below ground, it would only be more dangerous.

"And Bishop Slivka, I really want to know if the lord he saw was actually Minette."

Du Wei quickly sorted out his thoughts.

There was something he needed to do.

He would start with Alex, to determine the current state of his girlfriend's consciousness.

So.

He closed his eyes.

...

In the dream...

Freddy had never felt this desperate.

It had enjoyed a moment of freedom with Du Wei yesterday, only to be stuffed back into the dream the moment it turned around.

That would have been fine.

The key issue was that there were now over a hundred student Evil Spirits in the dream.

Above the dissection room in the dream.

Freddy hid above, shivering, as it watched the throng of student Evil Spirits, unable to help wanting to cry.

"Ryan used to curse at me, insult me, mock me, but I had a decent time in the dream."

"As long as Du the Devil didn't come in, I could move around as I pleased."

"But now with over a hundred more Evil Spirits, I'm freaking shivering on the rooftop."

"This is supposed to be my prison."

Last night, Freddy hid on the rooftop, getting cursed at by Ryan all night long.

The Evil Spirits all harbored malice toward it.

Because it was the one who dragged them into Du Wei's dream.

In a way.

This was self-inflicted.

And, it could probably understand the pain Du Wei felt with enemies all around.

Luckily, the Evil Spirits probably didn't dare to come close perhaps because of the Demon Nun locked in the dissection room; otherwise, Freddy felt it would definitely be torn to pieces.

It said in utter despair, "I thought the life I had before was miserable enough, but I never imagined there could be worse."

At this moment.

All the student Evil Spirits suddenly lifted their heads to look up.

Freddy was somewhat at a loss.

It lifted its head too, and immediately, tears of excitement filled its eyes, "Du the Devil, have you come back to take those Evil Spirits away?"

Above.

A pale hand reached out and grabbed its neck.

Then, with a fierce yank, it was forcibly pulled into the darkness.

...

"Come out..."

Du Wei slowly opened his eyes.

Freddy appeared in his sight.

Without Spirit Vision, ordinary people could barely see Evil Spirits.

Therefore, Du Wei wasn't worried.

Freddy, seeing Du Wei, was about to say something.

But the next second.

Du Wei's icy, merciless gaze scared it into closing its mouth immediately.

"Take me into my girlfriend's dream."

As long as there is consciousness, there will be dreams.

If he could enter Alex's dream, perhaps it would help the situation.

But.

Freddy's face showed difficulty, "Du the Devil, I can't do that... Your girlfriend has no consciousness, there's no such thing as a dream."

Du Wei was stunned, "She has no consciousness?"

Freddy said, "Yeah... And she feels like an empty shell to me, as if she's not human, yet seems like one, very strange..."

Du Wei couldn't help but stretch out his right hand, brushing his own face.

"Alright... I understand."