66: Chapter 66 Spiritual Transcendence, Illusion Demon Talks Collapse

Walking out of Mall Building E, Chu Xuan found that official personnel were no longer following him, but the control over the entire market had become even tighter.

The checkpoints at the major entrances and exits were slightly congested.

Chu Xuan quickly headed to the bustling pedestrian street and bought a pile of clothes, shoes, hats, wigs, and other items from various stall owners. It took less than three minutes in total and cost over a thousand yuan.

Finding a secluded spot with few people, Chu Xuan quickly finished changing his clothes. He stuffed the extra clothes and shoes into a packaging bag, left it in a corner, and then walked away quickly.

Chu Xuan's disguise methods weren't particularly sophisticated, nor had he systematically studied professional disguise techniques. However, having experienced a night of life and death and with his basic attributes reaching the Peak values of a normal human, his mindset had already undergone a world-shaking change.

He was calm and unhurried; simply making some surface-level changes to his outfit so people couldn't recognize his image at a glance was enough.

The rest was just using [Heart Bewitchment] at the appropriate time to disturb the opponent.

Chu Xuan didn't care at all what tricks those people were preparing to capture him, because he still had his two most critical trump cards that he hadn't used yet.

"Phantom Demon, why has the sensing weakened?" Chu Xuan found that his perception had become somewhat blurred, far from being as clear as before.

At this moment, he arrived at an intersection. Under that blurred guidance, there was a Specter inside a bustling and noisy Vermicelli Soup Shop ahead.

"Of course, this state cannot be maintained for a long time. After all, I am only relying on your body and do not truly exist in this world, unless you can help me devour spirituality."

"Devouring spirituality?" Chu Xuan raised an eyebrow slightly. "You mean letting me eat human brains and internal organs?"

"You really are smart. If conditions permit, of course, it's best to eat everything clean and not waste anything."

The Phantom Demon's voice was incredibly gentle, yet it uttered a spine-chilling sentence: "But it shouldn't be something that has been dead for too long. It's best to kill and eat on the spot, or even eat it alive."

"No problem."

Chu Xuan's heart remained unruffled, his gaze as calm as still water. "However, you must give me the [Myriad Forms] skill completely, rather than this current temporary and incomplete state. Additionally, help me raise [Heart Bewitchment] to the maximum level right now, and I will help you devour immediately. If one isn't enough, I can eat ten."

"Uh..."

The Phantom Demon immediately changed its tone: "Actually, there is another way. That is for you to praise the Final Phantom God in my name. The deity will naturally sense it and grant me a blessing."

"That won't be necessary. I'll find it myself."

Chu Xuan was unwilling to establish any connection with those so-called deities other than through Transcendent Skills. He walked into the Vermicelli Soup Shop, his gaze inconspicuously scanning the crowd, looking for who might be a hidden Specter.

Just then, a System notification appeared.

[Your spirituality value has exceeded the limit. The excess portion will be lost in 10 minutes.] (Note 1)

Chu Xuan frowned slightly, suddenly recalling that when he received the System evaluation rewards earlier, there had been a reward option to increase his spirituality value to the limit.

However, due to the Phantom Demon's interference, Chu Xuan had given up that reward and instead chose the one-time [Clone] skill.

At that time, the System had given a prompt that the spirituality value limit was "Personal Rank x spirit attribute x 10." In other words, Chu Xuan's current spirituality value limit was "1 x 10 x 10 = 100."

Originally, Chu Xuan wanted to save up more spirituality value as a backup, to be used depending on the situation after entering the dream of the [Precognitive Dream] talent after midnight tonight.

Many important things had to be completed in the dream. He planned to reserve several more resurrection opportunities and wait until he had killed more Specters, or faced an emergency, to increase his Personal Rank and allocate points.

Now it seemed he had to level up immediately.

Otherwise, he could only exchange the excess 20 spirituality value into attribute points or skill points to store for later.

He stepped out of the Vermicelli Soup Shop for the moment. Seeing that there were still no official-looking personnel nearby, he found a quiet corner to sit down and began to level up.

[You have consumed 100 spirituality value.]

[Your Personal Rank +1.]

[Current Personal Rank: LV.2]

[Remaining spirituality value: 20]

The physical abnormalities Chu Xuan had anticipated did not occur. There was no sensation, and his various physical attributes did not increase accordingly. It was as if nothing had happened.

"It seems that increasing Personal Rank is just a matter of breaking through a level, like a threshold fee. Only after breaking through can I continue to add points to basic attributes..."

Chu Xuan understood clearly and had a deeper realization of the importance of spirituality value. It was simply the foundation of everything; any improvement in strength was inseparable from spirituality value.

At this moment, Chu Xuan couldn't help but recall what [Future Tang Zheng] had told him before he died—

[This is a gamble of worlds, a collision of rules, and a struggle for spirituality.]

Humans kill Specters to obtain spirituality, and Specters eat humans for the same reason. Both sides can enhance their strength through spirituality.

This was destined to be a life-and-death struggle where one must forge ahead or be swept away!

So, what was the Phantom Demon's purpose in helping him find other Specters to slaughter, allowing him to gain spirituality value for nothing?

As soon as this question arose, many thoughts came flooding in.

Chu Xuan lowered his eyes slightly, concealing the light within them. He quickly suppressed the thoughts that should have been surging like a tide and prepared to continue following the sense in his heart, returning to the outside of the Vermicelli Soup Shop to continue searching for Specters.

But just then, the blurred sense in his heart suddenly dissipated.

"Alas, my friend, my power is no longer enough to maintain it. My apologies." The Phantom Demon's sigh came from his mind.

Chu Xuan remained silent. Without this sense, the difficulty of hunting Specters would increase manifold, and an inexplicable irritability arose spontaneously.

Chu Xuan immediately became alert. This was not an emotion he should be having right now.

He was constantly restraining his emotions, not letting his deep-seated feelings show, to prevent the Phantom Demon from perceiving his thoughts through this method.

Chu Xuan suddenly understood; this Phantom Demon was intentionally messing with his state of mind.

"You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?"

Chu Xuan suddenly said, "Phantom Demon, did you notice that I urgently need spirituality in a short period of time, so you intentionally cut off my sensing just as I finished leveling up and my spirituality value was greatly reduced?"

"I don't quite understand what you mean." There was a hint of a smile in the Phantom Demon's voice.

"What do you want?" Chu Xuan didn't beat around the bush.

"Hehe! My friend, you really are direct. I think you should share some spirituality with me. After all, without me, you wouldn't be able to kill so many followers of false gods, hmm..."

The Phantom Demon let out a contemplative sound: "At the very least, we should split it fifty-fifty."

"Impossible."

Chu Xuan refused flatly. "Then eighty-twenty. You get eighty, I get twenty."

"No!"

Chu Xuan still refused. "Before this, we had already reached an agreement. One of the conditions for me not increasing my Charm value was for you to guide me to the locations of Specters. Now you're breaking your word. It seems I'll have to use these remaining 20 spirituality value points on the Charm attribute."

"You dare!!"

The Phantom Demon seemed to be provoked, and its gentle, magnetic voice suddenly became incredibly fierce.

An inexplicable sense of fear enveloped Chu Xuan's entire body. The surrounding noisy sounds instantly vanished, and boundless darkness descended. At this moment, it seemed as if Chu Xuan was the only person left in the world.

Lonely and cold.