89: Chapter 89 Threat? Utterly Ridiculous

At this moment, Bao Teng felt as if his Soul was being stripped from his body and cast into a terrifying world filled with blood and wailing.

There were endless cauldrons of boiling oil, mountains of knives, and seas of fire... He saw the enemies he had once brutally murdered, each grinning hideously as they used rusted, blunt knives to carve away his flesh bit by bit.

Since the onset of the Terror Resurgence, he had risen from an ordinary nobody to a Squadron Leader of Bureau 749, all thanks to his ruthless methods!

Even the lives lost at his hands were no fewer than those claimed by some of the most ferocious and eerie taboos!

"Aaaahhh!!!"

Facing the cruel actions of his enemies, Bao Teng couldn't help but scream frantically.

But in reality, his body was merely twitching stiffly.

Everything he saw was an illusion woven by Lin Chuan using Rule Power!

In this illusion, Bao Teng didn't even have time to use his various trump cards... his consciousness and perception... were all twisted!!

Watching Bao Teng's miserable state, Lin Chuan immediately continued to activate his rule—Buddha Kingdom in the Palm!!

Under the continuous eruption of Rule Power, the massive black Buddha Hand suddenly tightened.

Puchi!!

Bao Teng's body shattered instantly, nearly turning into a pile of mangled flesh.

In the next moment, four eerie lights flew out from his corpse.

Within the four lights were: a harpoon, a spoon, an eyebrow pencil, and a Lost Briefcase.

The first three items were clearly S-rank Taboo Items that Bao Teng had fused with! The last item was Bao Teng's strongest trump card!

Seeing the three Taboo Items and that special tool, Lin Chuan's mind stirred.

The Buddha Hand opened again, and the "swastika" symbol in its palm glowed with intense black light, firmly sucking those items in.

Then, he directly devoured the three Taboo Items and the Lost Briefcase!

Soon, deep within Lin Chuan's consciousness, prompts began to appear on the panel:

[Devoured S-Rank Fifth-Tier Taboo Master Origin!]

[Devoured S-Class Rank Six Taboo Item—Rusted Harpoon!]

[Devoured S-rank Fifth Tier Taboo Item—Bent Copper Spoon!]

[Devoured S-rank Fifth Tier Taboo Item—Broken Red Eyebrow Pencil!]

[Devoured Special Item—Lost Briefcase!]

[Obtained taboo value reduction: 15 points!]

After devouring the drops from Bao Teng, Lin Chuan's gaze turned toward the nearby S-rank Fifth Tier taboo, the Tomb Guardian, and those s-rank third tier taboo statues!

Then, he decisively activated his own Taboo Rule!

The black Buddha Kingdom space expanded instantly, as if it wanted to envelop the entire area.

Whether it was the Tomb Guardian or those statues, they were all swept directly into the Buddha Hand by an irresistible force!

After suppressing these taboos, Lin Chuan was like an insatiable Taotie, beginning a frantic devouring process!

[Devoured S-Rank Seventh-Tier taboo entity—Tomb Guardian!]

[Devoured s-rank third tier taboo statue group!]

[Obtained taboo value reduction: 10 points!]

[...]

Following the series of prompts on the panel.

The taboo value reduction within Lin Chuan's body finally reached the threshold required for an upgrade!

[Current taboo value reduction has met the upgrade requirements!]

[Begin evolution?]

The panel continued to refresh information.

"Evolve!!"

Lin Chuan did not hesitate.

Soon, his evil buddha golden body underwent some subtle changes once again!

Upon the Buddha's body, which was as pitch-black as Chaos and seemed to gather all the colors of the world, streaks of even darker and more eerie dark-gold patterns began to emerge.

These patterns were like the manifestation of rules, making Lin Chuan's evil buddha golden body appear sacred, dark, twisted... and impossible to look at directly!!

At the same time, an aura of rules several times stronger than before radiated from his Buddha body!

[Congratulations, Master! Your taboo Rank has increased to S-Rank Seventh-Tier!]

[Unlocked new ability: Three-layer Taboo Domain!]

[Three-layer Taboo Domain: Coverage range 5 li! Rule Power amplified by 30 times! Duration 10 minutes! Cooldown time 24 hours!]

[Note: Under the dual enhancement of the Three-layer Taboo Domain and the Taboo Domain Field, you now possess the strength to confront an ss-grade first tier taboo head-on!]

After upgrading and evolving to S-Rank Seventh-Tier, another series of prompts popped up on the panel deep in Lin Chuan's consciousness!

"S-Rank Seventh-Tier..."

"Three-layer Taboo Domain..."

"So... I finally have the capital to face an SS-Rank Taboo head-on!"

Lin Chuan felt the surging, twisted Rule Power within his body, and his mood was excellent.

At the current stage, most taboos that had descended into this world in their true forms had a Terror Level no higher than SS-Rank Taboo!

taboos above S-Rank only arrived in this world as a Projection or through a medium... It could be said that Lin Chuan had now completely reached the absolute Peak of the era of horror!

At least for a short while, he could be called invincible in this world!!

After upgrading to S-Rank Seventh-Tier, Lin Chuan did not linger in the Kunlun Ruins.

He glanced around and slowly disappeared into a crack in the Void Realm.

As Lin Chuan's true Evil Buddha form vanished, the massive crack in the Void Realm also slowly closed.

All that remained was a mess of surroundings and a group of dumbfounded survivors.

Everyone was so shocked by the scene just now that they were speechless.

Suppressing an S-Rank Fifth-Tier Taboo Master with a single palm!

Simultaneously devouring a terrifying S-rank Fifth Tier taboo!

And over a dozen S-rank Taboo statues were all dealt with... Such power was truly terrifying!!

*Gulp...*

Someone swallowed hard.

Looking at Zhou Kai, who stood in the middle of the ruins with a stone tablet on his back and a black pen in his hand, their eyes were filled with awe and fear.

They knew very well that the Evil Buddha just now was clearly related to Zhou Kai!

"Dammit! Captain Bao... is dead?!"

In the Bureau 749 team, a middle-aged man wearing a captain's uniform had a face that was extremely ugly to behold.

He was the deputy commander of this operation, s-class fourth tier Taboo Master—Wang Yue.

Bao Teng's death was like a bolt from the blue to him.

This not only meant the mission was close to failure!

After all, without Bao Teng leading the team, what would they use to suppress that thing in the depths of the Kunlun Ruins?

"Retreat! Retreat quickly!!"

Wang Yue made a prompt decision.

"Leave this place! Return to the General Bureau to report the situation!!"

He glared fiercely at Zhou Kai, then scanned the Ghost Controllers of the Great Xin Dynasty.

"Just you wait!"

"How dare you kill a Squadron Leader of our Bureau 749..."

"The Great Xin Dynasty... is finished!!"

"My Yanlong Empire will make you pay the price!!"

Hearing this.

The Ghost Controllers of the Great Xin Dynasty immediately panicked.

"This... what should we do?"

"Zhou Kai did it all! It has nothing to do with us!"

"Right! Zhou Kai was the one who killed him! We didn't do anything!"

Some even began to blame Zhou Kai.

"Zhou Kai! Are you crazy? Do you want to get us all killed?!"

An enchanting woman with heavy makeup, a Ghost Controller, screamed as she rushed out.

She pointed at Zhou Kai's nose and cursed loudly:

"You jinx! It's one thing if you want to seek death yourself, but why drag us down with you?!"

"Hurry up and kneel down to apologize to Captain Wang! Maybe he'll at least leave your corpse intact!"

While she cursed, she winked at Wang Yue, trying to distance herself from the situation.

Zhou Kai looked at the woman coldly.

He knew her.

An A-Rank Ghost Controller of the Great Xin Dynasty, code-named "Scorpion."

Relying on her looks and strength, she had bullied newcomers quite often and had even secretly schemed against him.

"Apologize?"

A mocking arc curved at the corner of Zhou Kai's mouth.

"Do you think... I'm in the wrong?"

"Of course you're in the wrong! You killed someone! You killed an officer of Bureau 749!"

Scorpion shrieked.

"Not only are you in the wrong, you deserve to die a thousand deaths!"

As she spoke, a cloud of green poisonous mist condensed in her hand; she actually intended to attack Zhou Kai.

"Oh!? So... you want to kill me too!?"

A fierce glint flashed in Zhou Kai's eyes!

Then, he raised the prophecy pen in his hand and tapped lightly in the void.

"Die."

Hum!!!

A black "Die" character appeared out of thin air and was instantly stamped onto Scorpion's forehead.

"You..."

Scorpion's body suddenly stiffened.

Before she could even react, her entire body crumbled bit by bit like a weathered sand sculpture, turning into a pile of dust on the ground.

Dead silence filled the area.

Everyone looked at Zhou Kai in horror.

Determining life and death with a single stroke!

None of them had expected that Zhou Kai would kill someone so casually over a disagreement!

"Who else thinks I'm in the wrong?"

Zhou Kai looked around, his gaze cold as a knife.

No one dared to speak.

Even Ning Shou looked at him with a complex expression, remaining silent.

He could feel that Zhou Kai was terrifying at this moment!

"Hmph!"

Seeing this, although Wang Yue was furious, he also knew that now was not the time for a hard confrontation.

"Zhou Kai, is it? I'll remember you!"

"Let's go!"

He led the people from Bureau 749 and turned to run back the way they came.

As long as they left the Kunlun Ruins and returned to the Yanlong Empire... even if Zhou Kai was an S-rank Taboo Master, he would surely be unable to escape death!!

However.

Just as they ran to the previous entrance.

Everyone stopped in their tracks.

A look of horror appeared on their faces.

"The path is gone?!"

Where the exit should have been, there was now a massive, mirror-smooth cliff.