78: Chapter 78 The World's Attention, The Unique Sequence!

"My friend, why do you insist on being so stubborn?"

Accompanied by a soft sigh, the Phantom Demon's voice was filled with melancholy.

"Wouldn't it be nice for us to coexist peacefully like this? This time, I truly promise you that I will no longer exert any influence on you. You only need to help me find a suitable vessel... that is, a human belonging to the Dreammaster pathway! Turn off your phone, don't look..."

The Phantom Demon's words were rich with infectious emotion, sounding like a close friend of many years about to turn into an enemy over some matter, filled with reluctance and struggle, yet helpless.

And he himself only needed to turn off his phone and stop asking for a countermeasure to keep this friend.

"Heh heh..."

Chu Xuan gritted his teeth tightly.

The flesh on his legs had long been sliced off bit by bit, piece by piece, and tossed aside carelessly. He sat in a pool of blood, and the entire room reeked of iron. During this time, the System had repeatedly flashed notifications; his health points had unknowingly dropped to half.

The smile on Chu Xuan's face did not fade; instead, it revealed a hint of madness. "I will never... be controlled by you again!"

Puchi!

A knife plunged into his abdomen. The intense pain cleared his head once more. He didn't care about any of it, his eyes remaining fixed on the phone screen, waiting for a message from [Future Tang Zheng].

[Tang Zheng: Chu Xuan, I know you're very unwilling right now, but this is a dead end! Because the information contained in that method is quite vast, the Specter inside you might take action before you even finish reading...]

[It should be a believer of the Final Phantom God, right? The max-level [Heart Bewitchment] ability of an S-rank Specter is not something you can resist. It can completely distort your perception; it has already stood in an Innate position of invincibility! Instead of struggling in vain, you should cherish the little time you have left...]

[Do you know? In these three years, I have walked alone in this apocalypse, and it has been far too painful. I exhausted my efforts to finally contact the past you, thinking I could change everything, only to find it was still in vain. It was all a wasted effort. In the end, we are still going to die; the ending cannot be changed after all.]

When this paragraph of text from [Future Tang Zheng] appeared on the phone, the Phantom Demon suddenly let out a burst of eerie laughter.

"My friend, do you see? This is how a smart person acts. Your friend from the future doesn't want you to die right now; he wants you to linger on for a while longer! But you can rest assured, I won't harm you!"

The laughter wasn't loud, yet it vibrated and boomed.

Chu Xuan felt his head buzzing. He could only grit his teeth and slice his own stomach open horizontally, his gaze never leaving the phone screen.

He knew Tang Zheng; he knew the man wouldn't be this long-winded, let alone this pessimistic. Since death was certain anyway, how could he not put up a fight?

The reason for this must be to deceive the Phantom Demon and also to remind him to focus entirely, so that at a certain moment, he could suddenly send all the content over.

Definitely! It had to be like this!

Chu Xuan gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot.

[Tang Zheng: Do you know why I communicate with you through a mobile chat app? Because the more I communicate in a way you can understand and accept, the less it consumes me.]

[Actually, I could also establish contact with you by calling you, but compared to texting, that wouldn't last very long.]

[I could even communicate with you on a spiritual level, directly transmitting what I want to tell you into your consciousness, allowing you to instantly comprehend what I want to say. However, doing so would consume even more, even causing severe overexertion and sequelae for me.]

[Tang Zheng: But since I'm about to die anyway, I don't need to care about those things anymore...]

[Tang Zheng: Next, before I die, I'm going to tell you a secret I've kept in my heart since I was a child. This is a secret even more explosive than peeping at the widow Wang next door taking a bath. I don't want to keep it bottled up when I die!]

[Tang Zheng: Are you ready?]

It was coming!

Chu Xuan's eyes widened. He suddenly pulled out a length of intestine covered in blood and water and sliced it off with a savage stroke. The intense pain made his scalp tingle, but his consciousness was clearer than ever at this moment.

The Phantom Demon's laughter continued. "What are you still expecting? This method of self-mutilation is not a good choice. It can only keep you awake temporarily, but afterward, your consciousness will fall into a coma, and survival instincts will let your body be driven by me..."

The Phantom Demon hadn't even finished speaking.

A piece of information instantly appeared in Chu Xuan's mind like a brand!

At the same time, Tang Zheng's voice abruptly echoed in his ears.

Not only that, but a message from [Future Tang Zheng] also appeared on the phone.

And in every place his vision could reach, there was dense text. The content of this text, the message on the phone, the voice echoing in his ears, and the information that suddenly appeared in his mind—all of them expressed the same content.

[Chu Xuan, please be sure to remember the following!]

[To solve the hidden danger of the S-rank Specter in your body, at your current time node, there is only one way: to step onto the only sequence of this world—the Purifier!]

[The most important purpose of my contacting you is precisely this!]

[Unlike those Evil God authorities copied from the Dark World, after enduring multiple invasions from the Dark World, the [Purifier] is the only remaining sequence after the game of worlds, the collision of rules, and the severing of all other transcendent pathways.]

[Its core mission is to purge all life that does not belong to this world and to eliminate all World Traitors!]

[The moment you become a Purifier, you will surely receive the world's focus, and any alien life parasitic within you will surely be obliterated by the world's rules.]

[Under the pressure of the Dark World, stepping onto the [Purifier] pathway can be described as full of difficulties. Five prerequisites must be met—]

[First: Step into any evil god sequence and raise the first skill to max level;]

[Second: Retain at least 1000 spirituality value;]

[Third: Raise your personal Rank to at least 5, and increase your stamina, strength, and agility attributes all to their limits;]

[Fourth: The Charm attribute must not exceed 20. This point must be treated with caution! This was originally one of the pathways used to counter Specter parasitism, but it has been tainted by the Dark World. Before your strength reaches a certain level, you must not inform others at will, or you will surely suffer calamity;]

[Fifth: Obtain a [Curio];]

[You should be able to easily understand the first four conditions. As for the [Curio] needed for the fifth condition, it is an overflow from the collision of rules, also known as a rule fragment. When absorbed by a living being, there is a chance to awaken a certain talent ability; when it falls on a dead object, there is a chance it will turn into a [Curio].]

[At your point in time, I know of two Curios suitable for you to use. One is in the capital, but you cannot obtain it right now. The other is on the [Great Buddha] of Shouguo Temple on West Mountain in Haicheng. You can get the Curio just by killing it.]

[My original intention was to have you wait for about another month and go to the Xiangcheng District of Xuzhou to wait for a Dark Rift to appear. At that time, an S-rank Specter will recklessly cross over physically. When it is obliterated by the world's rules, the overflowing rules will turn into a Curio. If you prepare in advance, there will be a high chance of getting it first.]

[But you are already in a symbiotic relationship with an S-rank Specter. In a moment of life and death, you might not be able to wait a month.]

[Then, you might only be able to go find the Great Buddha, and you have only this one chance today! Because before sunrise today, the Great Buddha will promote to A-Rank and disappear from Haicheng. When it appears again, it will be a truly terrifying existence.]

[And the place where the Great Buddha is located has been tainted for a long time due to the appearance of a Dark Rift. Normal methods might not allow entry; you need to take the [eerie bus]...]

[Chu Xuan, I don't know what confidence you have to survive, but I have told you everything I know. Whether you choose to find the Great Buddha immediately or wait a month to go to Xuzhou is entirely up to you.]

[When you satisfy all five conditions, you will naturally receive a calling. Using the Curio as a guide, yourself as the altar, the evil god sequence as the sacrifice, and 1000 spirituality value as assistance, you will formally enter the [Purifier] sequence!]

[That's all. Revealing so many things to you at once has exhausted me to the limit. I don't need to be hunted down anymore; I'm about to die soon too. I can only answer one more small question for you...]

Chu Xuan crushed a section of his intestine. The intense, twisting pain filled his eyes with blood vessels. He tapped the screen with a finger covered in blood and grime, struggling to speak through gritted teeth.

"How can I take the [eerie bus]? Think carefully, is there anything else you missed? Don't forget the rule intervention from last time!"