65: Chapter 65 The Shy One Goes Berserk, The Train Appears Again
Lin Chuan noticed that the blood-red handprint on his chest had grown slightly larger, and its color was deepening!
Initially, the handprint was just a faint dark red mark, but now it looked like fresh blood that had just been pressed on. It was even slowly squirming and spreading outward, as if it wanted to dye his entire evil buddha golden body blood-red.
While Lin Chuan was deep in thought, the Mysterious Old Man moved again.
He slowly extended a hand as withered as a dry branch and grabbed towards the pink lump of flesh in the sky!
Although that lump of flesh was only a projection of the Celestial Standing Venerable, its Terror Level had reached the S-rank Fifth Tier!!
Yet in the old man's hand, it was like a piece of dough with no power to resist.
Screeech!!!
The moment the lump of flesh was grabbed, it twisted and expanded frantically, trying to escape the old man's withered palm.
Vaguely, countless twisted human faces emerged on the surface of the flesh, letting out all sorts of chaotic and despairing roars.
But it was all in vain.
The old man's hand seemed decayed and weak, but it contained some kind of irreversible rule.
He gently closed his palm, directly crushing that massive lump of flesh in his hand.
Then... he gave a sudden tug, and the huge lump of flesh rapidly shrank, as if it had become a meat patty!
Immediately after, the old man brought it to his mouth, opened his shriveled, nearly toothless mouth, and began chewing on the lump of flesh.
"Crunch!"
The sound of tearing flesh rang out.
He had actually bitten off more than half of the Celestial Standing Venerable's projection!
Pink taboo blood splattered, staining the corners of the old man's mouth.
He continued to chew expressionlessly, as if he were eating an ordinary meat patty.
Just as he was about to swallow the remaining half of the meat lump, the massive blood-red eyeball in the sky suddenly began to close slowly.
Following that, the eyeball dissipated... and the old man's figure gradually became illusory as well.
Before the old man completely vanished,
he suddenly turned his head, his hollow and lifeless eyes taking a deep look behind Chen Feng and Wu Jian.
He was staring at Lin Chuan!!
Being watched by the old man from across the void, an unspeakable sense of eeriness instantly enveloped Lin Chuan's heart.
But he didn't have time to dwell on it.
Because with the old man's disappearance, the discarded, mangled piece of flesh was trying to reform.
Watching the lump of flesh gradually return to the sky and slowly grow larger, Lin Chuan had a thought.
A massive power of rules descended through Chen Feng's body, using him as a medium.
Boom!!!
A black Buddhist hand that blotted out the sun manifested from the Void Realm and grabbed the squirming lump of flesh.
At this moment, because it had been heavily injured by the old man, the Terror Level of the Celestial Standing Venerable's projection had dropped to the S-Rank First Order.
Facing the rules projected by Lin Chuan, it was completely unable to resist.
Lin Chuan did not hesitate and began to devour it directly!
[Devoured the Celestial Standing Venerable's (Incomplete) Projection!]
[Obtained taboo value Reduction: 0.2 points!]
Noticing the prompt on his consciousness panel, Lin Chuan then turned his gaze toward the Celestial Standing Venerable's kin below through Chen Feng's perspective!
Then, he directly activated the taboo rules—Life-Reaping Sanskrit Sound and Mountain-Moving Strongman!!
Boom!! Boom!!
The grand Buddhist sounds and the Mountain-Moving Strongman giant descended simultaneously.
In an instant, the countless kin entrenched in Takama-ga-hara became Lin Chuan's nourishment.
[Devoured a large number of taboo kin!]
[Obtained taboo value Reduction: 0.3 points!]
After clearing all this, Lin Chuan carefully looked around through Chen Feng's perspective.
At this moment, the entire Takama-ga-hara had been razed to the ground by him.
The shrines collapsed, and the sacrificial altars sank!
Street after street was also blasted into ruins by the Mountain-Moving Strongman!
But what Lin Chuan found troublesome was that the pink mist enveloping the surroundings did not dissipate with the disappearance of the Celestial Standing Venerable and Amaterasu of the Turbid Sun's projections.
Instead... it seemed to have become even denser.
"As expected..."
"Neither this Celestial Standing Venerable nor the Amaterasu of the Turbid Sun are the source of this pink mist."
Lin Chuan looked into the distance again through Chen Feng's perspective.
Over there were the other three islands of Neon Country.
"The waters of Neon Country... seem even deeper than I imagined."
"However..."
"Right now, I'm not strong enough."
"There's no need to court trouble."
Just as Lin Chuan was planning to have Chen Feng and Wu Jian find a way to retreat and leave Takama-ga-hara,
Woooo—!!!
That familiar, shrill whistle sounded once again.
The mist rolled.
That dilapidated, rusty steam train had actually appeared out of thin air again!
It slowly stopped beside the black platform that had already become dilapidated.
The rusty train doors slowly opened.
Like a wide-open mouth waiting for its prey to enter.
This time,
there were no mandatory rule prompts.
Nor was there that eerie conductor to urge them.
It just sat there quietly.
As if asking the two: "Want to leave? Or want to stay?"
Chen Feng and Wu Jian glanced at each other, both seeing the hesitation in each other's eyes.
Stay here?
Although Takama-ga-hara had been cleared, the surrounding pink mist was growing thicker, and as time passed, who knew what other horrors might occur in Takama-ga-hara!
Moreover, without the train, they simply couldn't leave this isolated island.
After all, Neon Country was separated from the Great Xin Dynasty by tens of thousands of miles of sea!
As for getting on the train?
That train itself was a great horror; once they boarded, their lives would be in fate's hands.
"Get on the train."
Just as the two were hesitating, Lin Chuan's voice suddenly rang in their minds.
Lin Chuan's original plan was to activate the taboo rule [Teleportation] and forcibly take the two across the sea to leave Neon Country!
But after the train appeared, he found... his teleportation rule was being suppressed!!
Mainly because Chen Feng, the medium, was too weak! After his rules were projected, their strength was only one-tenth of his main body's!!
Hearing Lin Chuan's instructions, the two no longer hesitated, gritted their teeth, and stepped onto the train.
After all, they currently had no better choice.
As soon as the two boarded, the dilapidated door shut with a "clatter," like a Vicious Beast closing its fangs.
Soon, the train started again, slowly driving deeper into the mist.
Inside the carriage,
the lighting was still dim.
But what made Chen Feng and Wu Jian's hair stand on end was... the carriage was actually full of people again!
And... at the end of the carriage that originally belonged to the Train Administrator, an aged figure appeared once more.
Although that figure's face was different from the Old Man with the Lantern, the pressure he emitted was not the least bit weaker than that of the Old Man with the Lantern!!
Clearly, he was the new Train Administrator!
Even more terrifying was that in a few seats in the corner,
Chen Feng and Wu Jian actually saw several familiar faces.
Ye Qian!
Lin Ying!
These two people, who had clearly died before their eyes, were now sitting there perfectly upright.
Their faces wore that eerie smile, and their eyes were hollow and lifeless.
And next to Ye Qian and Lin Ying,
Yu Wei, who had been eroded and assimilated as soon as he got on the train earlier, was also smiling and waving at them.
"This..."
Wu Jian only felt a chill rush from the soles of his feet to the top of his head; his legs went weak, and he almost failed to stand steady.
"Don't panic."
Chen Feng grabbed him to steady him, his eyes cold.
"With My Buddha's protection, even if this train is taking us to Hell, we can still walk out!!"
...Inside the Rebirth Temple.
Lin Chuan had already withdrawn the will projected onto Chen Feng, switching his vision to a Blood Crow Servant.
Through the eyes of the Blood Crow Servant, Lin Chuan saw a desolate and deathly silent Gobi desert.
This was three thousand miles north of Rebirth City.
Lin Chuan saw a tall, thin, pale, and completely naked "humanoid creature" moving across the Gobi at high speed in an extremely bizarre posture.
It had no facial features, only a huge, mourning mouth.
Its limbs were disproportionately long and thin, and when it ran, it looked like a giant four-legged spider.
This "humanoid creature" was precisely the projection of the SSS-Rank First Order taboo, The Shy One!!
At this moment,
it was sprinting continuously toward a direction thousands of miles south of Rebirth City.
Wherever it passed, whether it was wandering weirdness or surviving human settlements, everything was instantly torn to shreds by it.
It was like an out-of-control killing machine, spreading chaos, slaughter, and fear!!
"What is it doing??"
Lin Chuan was somewhat puzzled by the berserk state of The Shy One's projection.
According to its killing rules, as long as one didn't look at its face, it usually wouldn't attack of its own accord.
But now, it was as if it were looking for something, or perhaps influenced by some force, becoming frenzied, restless, and increasingly dangerous!
Lin Chuan controlled the blood crow, following far behind to carefully monitor its movements.
A few hours later,
The Shy One's projection finally stopped.
In front of it,
a range of rolling mountains appeared.
And within those mountains,
stood a massive, ancient, and intricate labyrinth structure.
That labyrinth seemed alive; its walls were constantly moving and reorganizing, emitting a bizarre aura that made one feel lost.
That was the S-rank Third Tier taboo original body—The Labyrinth!
"Wooooo—!!!"
The Shy One's projection let out a shrill wail.
It crouched down and, using both hands and feet, rushed directly into that labyrinth.
Boom!!!
With its intrusion,
the entire labyrinth seemed to be activated.
Countless high walls rose from the ground, trapping The Shy One's projection within.
On the walls, eerie human faces emerged, letting out bursts of mocking laughter.
The ground inside the labyrinth constantly cracked open, revealing bottomless traps one after another.
"Roar!!!"
The Shy One's projection roared in anger.
It swung its long, thin arms, frantically attacking the surrounding walls.
taboo rules instantly erupted from its body, turning several high walls into powder in a flash.
But in the next second,
more walls drilled out from the ground, surrounding it once again.
Moreover... these newly grown walls were even harder and more bizarre than the previous ones.