Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

The man stood in the coffin.

Evil Spirit Du Wei sat on a throne made up of pale human faces.

By contrast,

it was actually the rightful owner who seemed more terrifying and sinister.

All beings, compared to it, seemed harmlessly domesticated.

Invisibly, this was a form of suppression.

Evil Spirit Du Wei looked down from on high.

Its unchanging indifference rang out, "I thought I could fish out a big catch to make things a little more interesting, but I didn't expect that what took the bait would be less than even a tiny shrimp."

"I am very dissatisfied."

The man below said, "Fishing? Who do you think you are, the past and the future, do you really understand them?"

"The you of now has not yet experienced those sad pasts."

"The ending you speak of is nothing but speculation."

To the side,

Minette looked at her beloved "person," and couldn't help but feel her scalp tingle.

Who is the real Du Wei?

Why does it feel like the one below is?

She couldn't help but want to ask.

But she eerily found that she simply could not utter a word.

As if, the concept of speaking had been stripped away in this place.

She could only stand to one side, watching the man seated on the throne, resting his chin on one hand, looking down at everything below him.

From start to finish,

the man had not exchanged a single word with her.

Only glanced over once.

At this moment,

Evil Spirit Du Wei smiled.

It said to the man below, "The only reason I am speaking to you here is because I find it amusing, do you think I want answers from you?"

"Merely an experimental subject."

"I just wanted to see how much like me you are."

"But now, you have greatly disappointed me, and the big fish I was waiting for has already arrived."

As Evil Spirit Du Wei said this, it casually took one face from the throne made up of pale human faces and flung it down below.

"Illusions are not necessarily unreal."

"And reality is often just a concept."

"What you see is all that I allow you to see."

"And what I see, you will never behold."

The man below heard these words.

He immediately furrowed his brows, with strange ripples spreading in his dark eyes.

"Immobi..."

This was the power of Immobilization.

He wanted to immobilize that human face.

Because instinctively, he felt that something was not right.

However,

it was to no avail.

The face was not affected at all, pale and sinister like a mask.

"No physical form?"

A thought flashed through the man's mind, and he said softly, "Shadow."

Immediately, an even more terrifying black shadow appeared from his own shadow, right in front of the human face.

The Dagger thrust through.

But the human face was not hindered at all, as though it existed in a completely different dimension, it rushed towards the man below.

"How is this possible..."

The man instantly teleported away, but the human face kept on rushing towards him, the distance never changing.

Above,

Evil Spirit Du Wei spoke as if to itself, or perhaps to others, "Why attempt to scheme against me?"

"Do you think you will succeed, or is there a sliver of chance?"

"I cannot understand, for that possibility does not exist."

"All concepts pertaining to me shall revert to me."

The man below continued to try to resist.

But in the end, that pale human face still covered his own.

Just an Illusion...

Yet it left him completely powerless to resist.

Evil Spirit Du Wei didn't even need to lift a finger, simply taking one of the numerous faces, tossing it down like throwing away trash.

Just now, he seemed to see through everything, seemingly a man from Du Wei's past, yet he lost his ability to resist.

The dark shadow and the yellowed envelope, both became blurred.

As did the man's body.

In the blink of an eye, everything turned to nothingness.

A pale face drifted slightly, with nothing but another face beneath it.

Both the same.

Both faces flew together toward the throne.

The Evil Spirit Du Wei said coldly, "Every face is an experiment, you're trying to create my existence, are you trying to make a copy?"

"I have come here, and so has the power of the Demon God."

"I know exactly what you're trying to do."

"False replaces the real."

"If my future is the past, then by that reasoning, you're trying to transmit power back in time, trying to kill me in the past, you're trying to break the cycle."

"I thought at first that I was the one acting."

"But such a method is too despicable, I would never engage in such an ineffective act."

At this point,

The gaze of the Evil Spirit Du Wei was fixed on the darkness below.

The floating stones, the soil had already begun to fall slowly downwards.

As if below was the abyss.

The Evil Spirit Du Wei said coldly, "In this world, the only entity that harbors an unbreakable hatred for me is the Solomon Seventy-Two Pillars Demon Gods."

"I detest your existence."

"Because you disgust me."

"And in this cycle, it's you apart from me."

"You are afraid of me."

"But that's alright, because I don't like the cycle either, I will give you the chance to break it, until you all die at my hands, and become a part of me."

The words of the Evil Spirit Du Wei grew increasingly obscure and difficult to comprehend.

It was as if he was performing a monologue.

Yet without a real audience.

He simply stood up, his pitch-black pupils locked on the space below.

He kicked down.

Crash...

The sound of shattering rang out.

The darkness, like a mirror, fractured into countless cracks.

And, light was coming through.

The view below was even more terrifying.

Through the cracks, one could see another Lake Island below.

Only, it was the perfect opposite.

The Lake Island below revealed the bottom first, and then the scenery on the island.

The setting sun, the gentle breeze.

Everything seemed so beautiful.

And compared to the Lake Island where the Evil Spirit Du Wei was, which had completely collapsed, they were two extremes.

At the bottom of that Lake Island, an Evil Spirit Doll floated amidst it, and the strange illusions brought by the previously appeared Rahmer, Valak, and the other three Demon Gods, were all there.

The demeanor of the Evil Spirit Du Wei was very casual.

It walked down leisurely through the air, and when it reached the dark crack,

Crash...

It broke completely.

It entered into another Lake Island.

That was the world beyond Hell's Gate.

When the Evil Spirit Du Wei entered, the impact it brought instantly vanished.

The Envelope and Minette regained their freedom.

[Master, wait for me...]

The Envelope immediately followed, also entering the other Lake Island.

Minette didn't want to be left behind.

But she was blocked from the outside.

Between the two Lake Islands, it was as if there was a transparent wall.

Minette swung her sword, but she only cut through the air.

No matter what she did, she couldn't get in.

"Why..."

"Why can't I get through..."

Minette's helpless cries echoed, but she then noticed that everything around her was gradually becoming nothingness, as if the basic concepts that built the world were disappearing.

Like an illusion.