36: Chapter 36 Taboos Everywhere, Taking Control of Qinglong County

"Northern Evil! You traitor!!"

"How dare you betray my master?!"

Seeing Northern Evil kneel and worship Lin Chuan, betraying the 'night locust taboo' believed in by the Redemption Society, the Blood-Eyed Demoness was instantly furious.

Her delicate little face was now filled with ferocity and distortion.

"Die! I want you dead!!"

She suddenly raised the tattered doll in her hand, and the azure Ghost Eye in her palm also abruptly opened.

The Ghost Eye locked firmly onto Northern Evil, emitting layers of eerie light.

"Traitor, be devoured by the abyss!!"

A surge of rule-based power carrying a strong, bloody smell instantly erupted from the Ghost Eye.

That power was distorted, chilling, as if it wanted to drag Northern Evil's Soul directly into an endless dark abyss.

Instantly, Northern Evil's face turned deathly pale, but he did not dodge, nor did he resist.

He just remained kneeling on the ground, kowtowing devoutly once towards Lin Chuan's evil buddha golden body.

He believed the True Buddha would protect him.

Sure enough, just as that terrifying rule-based power was about to touch Northern Evil.

Dang——!!!

A grand, vast, yet endlessly sinister bell toll suddenly exploded in the mind of the Blood-Eyed Demoness.

"Na... Mo..."

Immediately after, streams of Buddhist Chants pierced her ears, continuously assaulting the Blood-Eyed Demoness's mental consciousness.

"Ah!!!"

The Blood-Eyed Demoness let out a shrill scream, the doll in her hand falling to the ground.

She clutched her head with both hands, beginning to writhe in pain on the ground.

The gaze originally filled with killing intent and madness now became dazed and unfocused.

In her gradually collapsing mental world.

A massive, distorted, chaotic Evil Buddha was slowly rising.

That Evil Buddha's entire body flowed with eerie Buddha light, like a dark deity!

The Evil Buddha's face was blurred, constantly spreading Chaos and fear! Simultaneously, it continuously uttered some ancient murmurs:

"Lay down the butcher knife..."

"Convert to my Dao..."

The Buddhist Chants lingered, like carving knives, ruthlessly excising the imprint of the night locust taboo from her Soul.

"No... my master..."

"I cannot... betray..."

The Blood-Eyed Demoness was still making a final struggle.

But her struggle was almost meaningless under the suppression of Lin Chuan's taboo rules.

After only a few seconds.

The pain on her face vanished.

Replaced by an unprecedented calmness and... fanaticism.

She slowly climbed up from the ground.

Straightened her dress, then picked up the doll from the ground.

Then.

She faced Lin Chuan and knelt down respectfully.

"Disciple Bai Ling... pays homage to My Buddha."

Her voice was clear, sweet, yet carried a kind of terrifyingly devout piety.

The originally violent azure Ghost Eye in her palm now obediently closed its eye, as if submitting to its new master.

Bai Ling... was the true name of the Blood-Eyed Demoness!

"This..."

Seeing this scene, Xiao Hong, standing to the side, was dumbfounded.

That arrogant, fanatical, and paranoid Blood-Eyed Demoness had just... betrayed her own faith like this?

Before she could even react.

That suffocating Buddhist Chant also enveloped her ears.

"amitabha buddha..."

A grand and sinister voice suddenly rang in her ear.

"No!! I am a Believer of the Blaze Master! I am..."

Xiao Hong screamed in terror, her overcoat suddenly billowing as she tried to resist.

But it was all in vain.

Only a moment later.

Xiao Hong also knelt down.

Not just her.

The leaders of the other several large and small Ghost Controller forces, even including that group of Fanatic Believers who originally worshipped the nightmare old master.

Now all knelt amidst the ruins.

"na mo Rebirth Supreme Buddha..."

The chanting voices of thousands of people converged, forming a terrifying wave of sound that shot straight into the sky.

At this moment, all the living people and Abnormalities in the entire New Federation Base City... had been forcibly enlightened by Lin Chuan's Life-Reaping Sanskrit Sound!

After everything settled, Lin Chuan issued a command to Zhao Linfeng.

Ordering him to take stock of the city's resources, equipment, and survivors.

And to prepare to migrate everything from the New Federation Base City... to Rebirth City.

Soon, a grand, large-scale migration began.

In addition, Lin Chuan also ordered Xiao Hong and others to lead their respective subordinates, return to their own base cities, empty out all the population, resources, and equipment, and pack everything up to move to Rebirth City.

Lin Chuan wanted to integrate all the survivors and Ghost Controller forces of the entire Qinglong Prefecture and firmly Control them!

...Completing all this took a full four months.

During these four months.

Rebirth City underwent several large-scale expansions, with countless new buildings rising from the ground.

The moment the final batch of survivors from within Qinglong Prefecture entered the city.

The population of Rebirth City officially surpassed twelve million!

This gathered almost over ninety percent of the survivors from the entire Qinglong Prefecture.

During this period, Zhao Linfeng, relying on his outstanding management abilities, was officially appointed by Lin Chuan as the City Lord of Rebirth City.

After several rounds of reorganization, Zhao Linfeng not only managed these over ten million people in an orderly manner but also restored basic industrial and agricultural production.

The entire city displayed a prosperity reminiscent of the pre-apocalypse era.

And Lin Chuan's Rebirth Temple was also expanded to be even more magnificent and vast!!

While Zhao Linfeng was busy, Lin Chuan also manipulated the Coughing Ghoul and Crying Ghost to suppress all the supernatural incidents, large and small, within the scope of Qinglong Prefecture.

Some Abnormalities were directly devoured by him, and some... were used to fuse into the bodies of Believers, creating even more Ghost Controllers!

The A-rank Abnormality that Lin Chuan had scouted using the 'Night Crow Servant'—the Red Bride—was suppressed by him and bestowed upon the Fanatic Believer 'Qin Yao'!

Now, under Lin Chuan's command, there were a full ten A-Rank Ghost Controllers!

Besides Xiao Hong, Bai Ling, and others.

Qin Yao, Zhou Kai, Zhao Linfeng, these initial Believers, also, with Lin Chuan's help, all became A-Rank Ghost Controllers!

Even the nail Lin Chuan had planted in the New Federation Base City... that youth named Chen Feng, also successfully tamed a second Abnormality, becoming a B-Rank Ghost Controller!!

However, even so, Lin Chuan still did not become arrogant or complacent.

Since the Terror Resurgence had completely begun, this world held too many mysteries and terrors... unknown taboos, and those beings known as Old Masters, even Dominators, could all pose fatal threats to Lin Chuan!!

Not to mention distant ones, right within the scope of Qinglong Prefecture, there still existed several restricted zones that even Lin Chuan had to be wary of.

For example, north of Rebirth City, that Void Realm Fissure spanning across the firmament.

Lin Chuan vaguely felt that the rule aura emanating from that giant tentacle, which occasionally revealed a corner from within the chaotic world behind the fissure... even surpassed S-rank.

And also that Gothic-style Church deep in the wasteland.

Although its Believers had already been enlightened and taken away by Lin Chuan.

That statue of the nightmare old master still stood there.

Lin Chuan had also tried to destroy it.

But every time he approached, he would feel a warning from the depths of his Soul.

It was the gaze of an SSS-Rank Taboo.

Even a mere statue medium was still incredibly terrifying!!

"Need to become stronger still..."

"Must have more Believers... more Power Of Will..."

Lin Chuan looked at the over forty million Power Of Will value on his panel, silently calculating in his heart.