Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

Chapter 167 166, In the dark...

As he was about to reach the street.

Du Wei stopped in his tracks, seeing nothing but pitch darkness before him.

It was deep into the night now.

The skies above Massas City were oppressively gloomy, with not a sliver of moonlight shining down.

Without light, there were no shadows.

But through his Spirit Vision, Du Wei saw something that surprised him...

An Evil Spirit with a Golden Brooch on its chest, leaning on a cane—Mike Stowe.

It stood there in the dark, staring intently at him.

It seemed that the Bone Powder he had burned earlier hadn't affected it much.

But that malevolence was even more terrifying than before...

Hum...

A piercing noise suddenly rang in Du Wei's ears, and with a warmth at the tip of his nose, blood began to trickle slowly down.

In an instant.

Du Wei's expression turned extremely ugly.

When he had been influenced before, he had done many things that didn't fit his logical behavior.

Taking off Mike Stowe's mask was one of them.

The uncertainties left behind at that moment had now erupted.

Now, it seemed his judgment was correct; the mask without features wasn't the medium for this Evil Spirit, but it appeared to have a suppressive effect.

After he removed the mask, the Evil Spirit became even more terrifying.

Yet the Evil Spirit didn't appear before him immediately, which clearly indicated it couldn't move.

Otherwise, with such terrifying malevolence, it wouldn't have merely caused him to bleed a bit without much pain.

There was no longer any talk of light; without light, there were no shadows.

Once he entered the street, it seemed he would be immediately ensnared, unable to escape.

"I can create a shadow."

Du Wei's gaze was a bit strange, but that sentence seemed not to be directed at "himself."

He pulled out a lighter, fiddled with it for a while, then turned his head to look back.

All the Evil Spirits also lifted their heads, with their dead, gloomy eyes fixed on the mask on his face.

Opressed, dark.

But Du Wei didn't pay attention to these Evil Spirits, or rather, it wasn't time to deal with them yet.

He just looked at the thick fog that was gradually creeping in from the back, his dark eyes growing deeper.

In his pocket, the Joker Card grew colder.

Using the connection between the two cards, Du Wei knew that the hunters from the Dusk Bell Church would arrive soon.

How would he get rid of the Evil Spirit Squad without using the Joker Card?

After pondering, Du Wei came up with an answer.

Simply lead the Evil Spirit Squad into the streets.

Taking the Evil Spirits wearing the Golden Brooch as a reference, he could trap all the Evil Spirits here.

He would create a shadow with a lighter and, using the black umbrella with the method from before, leave through a deliberately left open exit. Find your next read at empire

Of course...

Once the entire Evil Spirit Squad entered the street, those ghosts would surely appear, and then the highway would extend itself to cover the area.

So the only two things he needed to consider were,

First, whether the Evil Spirit Squad would lose control once he left the group while creating the shadow, and whether he could limit the extension of the highway,

Second, how dangerous the street itself was and whether he could withstand it.

Du Wei had already figured out what to do about both points.

The first was to delay—the longer the time, the deeper the Evil Spirits would sink in, and ultimately they would remain here forever, immovable. Those ghosts were anchor points for the highway extension and would be likewise immobile.

To assess the street's danger, a suitable "test subject" was needed.

Fortunately...

The dark shadow was very fitting, as aside from a pair of bloodshot eyes, it only had a shadow. In such a place, it might be able to exert an unexpected effect...

And of course, if it, too, became trapped here, that would be even better...

There was also the Evil Spirit Du Wei, for whom he needed to find a way to kill...

...

After Du Wei led the Evil Spirit Squad away,

at that spot,

a ghost suddenly appeared, followed by the spreading of thick fog, enveloping the former location of the Evil Spirit Squad within it.

But what was strange was,

the fog never encroached upon the street itself.

There was a clear separation.

But one could not see ahead through the fog, and upon exiting its boundary, one would directly enter the street,

A trap within another trap.

If the person from Dusk Bell Church hadn't died on the highway, then he would have only two choices: to move forward or to retreat.

If he chose to move forward, he would fall into another deep pit, and what awaited him would be another 'surprise.'

And if he chose to flee by retreating, he would find that he had already entered the range of the highway and was utterly unable to leave.

Andrew Dowqui had died on the bus in the end,

Could a hunter, much less capable than Andrew, survive and leave the range of the terror highway?

Clearly, that would be absolutely impossible.