202: Chapter 202 The Source of the Nightmare is About to Awaken

"Or rather, I wish to enter into a cooperation with all of you."

Lin Chuan's grand and cold Buddhist voice of rules echoed within the meeting room of Bureau 749.

The voice carried not a hint of human emotion, yet it exuded an absolute, high-and-mighty majesty.

Under the shroud of rules amplified a hundredfold, the space of the entire meeting room was completely frozen.

Hearing the voice conveyed by Lin Chuan, Xia Xuanyuan's expression remained calm.

Behind him, the numerous S-rank Taboo Masters all had their brows tightly furrowed.

"I require the faith of the Yanlong Empire."

Lin Chuan's voice continued to echo.

"Aside from faith, I will not interfere in your internal affairs."

"You may still maintain your order."

"In exchange, when true calamity descends, I will... within the scope of my power, protect the Yanlong Empire!"

Facing the terms of cooperation proposed by Lin Chuan, Xia Xuanyuan did not refuse, nor did he respond immediately.

As the Chief Executive, every one of his decisions had to be made with extreme caution!

Seeing Xia Xuanyuan fall into deep thought, Lin Chuan was in no hurry.

He believed that this old man would make the correct choice.

After a long time.

Xia Xuanyuan suddenly turned his head and looked at the Mysterious Youth standing in the corner.

The youth carried a rusted broken sword on his back, his face as peaceful as water.

Facing Lin Chuan's intentions, the youth did not step forward to stop him.

Seeing this, Xia Xuanyuan looked around again, his gaze sweeping over each of the Taboo Masters of Bureau 749.

After weighing the situation repeatedly, he made his decision!

"The Yanlong Empire is willing to cooperate with Your Excellency."

"But please, Your Excellency, remember today's promise!"

"Good!!"

With his goal achieved, Lin Chuan decisively withdrew the will he had projected onto the Dongsheng Continent.

As Lin Chuan's will departed, the originally tense atmosphere within the Bureau 749 meeting room instantly vanished.

...

Soon, as Lin Chuan's faith spread throughout the Yanlong Empire, the Power Of Will he obtained began to skyrocket exponentially!!

[Power Of Will +1 million!]

[Power Of Will +5 million!]

[Power Of Will +20 million!]

At the same time, the panel deep within Lin Chuan's consciousness had completely finished its upgrade!

A brand-new panel interface slowly presented itself in his mind.

The main page of the panel displayed Lin Chuan's current information:

[Master!]

[Form: evil buddha golden body (Ego Godhead fragment 17%)]

[Terror Level: SSS-rank eighth tier (Mid-level Dominator)]

[sequence status: 49]

[...]

Looking at the refreshed panel, Lin Chuan's gaze quickly locked onto the conditions for his promotion to SSS-rank Ninth Tier.

[Next Stage: S-Rank Ninth Tier (high sovereign/Pseudo-Demigod)]

[Required taboo value: 300,000 points!]

Three hundred thousand points!

Seeing this, Lin Chuan was slightly stunned!

Even if he now had a large number of Believers providing Power Of Will, he estimated it would still take a long time to accumulate three hundred thousand taboo value points!

After all, in the current Real World, most uncontrollable anomalies and taboos... had either been devoured by Lin Chuan or had become his Believers.

At this thought, Lin Chuan focused his mind and shifted his attention to the three newly unlocked permissions on the panel.

[Rule Synthesis!]

[Rule Creation!]

[Law Construction!]

"Let's try Rule Synthesis first."

With a thought, Lin Chuan brought up all the rules he currently controlled.

[Blood-Tear Illusionary Realm], [Life-Reaping Sanskrit Sound], [Universal Illumination of Buddhas Light], [Ghost Dream]...

As Lin Chuan's Terror Level continued to rise, these Taboo Rules had begun to seem somewhat trivial!

With a thought, Lin Chuan used [Blood-Tear Illusionary Realm], [Universal Illumination of Buddhas Light]... directly for synthesis!

However, Lin Chuan soon discovered.

Synthesizing rules... actually consumed taboo value!!

Ultimately, after paying some taboo value, the synthesis officially began.

[Rule Synthesis in progress.]

[1%, 2%...]

[Synthesis successful! Congratulations, Great Master! You have obtained a new Taboo Rule: Blood-colored Buddha Land!]

[Rule Ability: Construct a rule space to restrict, erode, and convert targets...]

Facing this new rule produced by synthesis, Lin Chuan wasn't particularly satisfied.

Because the power of this rule was still only mediocre.

In terms of effectiveness, it wasn't even as good as [Buddha Kingdom in the Palm].

Soon, Lin Chuan turned his gaze toward the second new permission: [Rule Creation].

"I need a rule... that can strip away an enemy's concept of 'existence'."

"Not just the body and Soul, but to erase the traces of their existence from the timeline."

Lin Chuan pondered, attempting to create the rule.

Using the panel to create rules did not require consuming taboo value.

However, the process of creating a rule caused Lin Chuan, this SSS-Rank Taboo existence, to feel an intense fatigue!!

After a long effort, a dim, illusory, and tiny rule thread that seemed as if it would dissipate with the wind finally struggled into formation.

[Rule Creation successful! Obtained incomplete rule: Karma Stripping (Pseudo)!]

However, seeing the detailed description of this rule, Lin Chuan was somewhat disappointed.

The rule he had painstakingly created was extremely imperfect!

First, its range of influence was very small, and the activation time was very long.

Secondly, it only had a certain effect on ordinary anomalies below S-rank.

"It seems creating one's own rules is not an easy task."

Lin Chuan instantly reached a conclusion.

This incomplete rule would require him to invest long years to supplement and perfect it before it could truly be useful.

The path of creating rules was temporarily unfeasible.

Because instead of slowly creating rules, it would be better to purchase ready-made rule abilities in the Fear Mall!

Or, directly devour those ancient taboos and plunder their rules!

Giving up the idea of continuing Rule Creation.

Lin Chuan finally turned his gaze toward the last permission—[Law Construction].

Laws are the authority above rules!

Only by mastering Laws can one step onto the threshold of a "God."

"Attempting to construct... the Law of 'Devouring'."

Lin Chuan's mind moved.

But after only three seconds, a failure notification popped up on the panel.

"No good?"

"It seems the Domain of Laws is not something the current me can easily touch."

Lin Chuan did not feel discouraged.

His current Terror Level was insufficient; it wasn't surprising that creating a Law failed.

...

While Lin Chuan was studying the various new permissions on the panel.

Time passed.

In the blink of an eye, half a year of peace went by.

During this half-year, under Lin Chuan's influence, the anomalies and taboos lurking in the Real World basically ceased their disturbances.

The world seemed to have returned to the time before the Terror Resurgence.

Cities began to be rebuilt, and destroyed factories once again emitted black smoke.

People took to the streets, and they could even see the long-lost stars at night.

Countless ordinary people were all immersed in tranquility.

It seemed as if that terrifying era had completely come to an end.

However, only the high-level officials of various countries knew.

The current peace was merely the final calm before the storm.

As time marched on.

The signs of the storm's arrival were gradually manifesting!

Those 'Doors' of various sizes and shapes scattered across the world.

They were gradually beginning to loosen.

In the sky of the Real World, extremely eerie sounds would often ring out without any warning.

Those sounds did not belong to any known language, yet they were filled with ultimate Chaos, madness, and despair.

It was as if countless indescribable monsters were frantically scratching their nails across the dimensional barriers.

Those were the shrill whispers from the depths of the Nightmare!

At first, these sounds only rang out in the deep of the night in the wilderness.

But slowly, they began to echo above the bustling cities, echoing in broad daylight!

"Aaaah! Bugs! My head is full of bugs!"

On the street, a white-collar worker in a suit and leather shoes suddenly clutched his head, letting out a heart-wrenching scream.

He frantically scratched his scalp with his fingers, rawly tearing his skull open.

Amidst the dripping blood, he died on the spot with an extremely eerie, wild laugh.

"They are coming... the great Abyss... They are calling me..."

A female college student in class suddenly rolled her eyes back, her mouth chanting obscure syllables.

Eventually... her body rapidly inflated like a balloon, finally exploding with a "bang" into a puddle of foul-smelling, rotten flesh and blood.

Terrifying rule pollution began to spread!

Upon hearing those sounds in the sky, many ordinary people's sanity instantly dropped to zero, and they went completely mad, became delirious, or even mutated into indescribable existences on the spot!

West Continent, Rebirth Temple.

Lin Chuan activated his rules, attempting to curb all of this.

But he failed.

As the whispers in the sky grew grander and clearer.

Even with Lin Chuan unfolding his Domain, it was to no avail!

"Is true calamity about to descend?"

As an SSS-rank eighth tier Dominator, Lin Chuan could Peep that the second and third layers of the Nightmare World were undergoing a massive upheaval!

Certain distorted, chaotic, and ancient evil existences were, as if driven mad, desperately crashing against the dimensional barriers of the Real World!

From their distorted and frantic rule fluctuations, Lin Chuan felt waves of extremely pure fear!

They were trembling, they were fleeing!!

Perhaps it wouldn't be long before the entire Real World would be crowded with their figures!