43: Chapter 43 The Forbidden Reality: The Eight-Headed Serpent

As the grand yet wicked Buddhist chanting continued to echo...

Even the Ghost Controllers of the Black Snake Society began to look dazed.

"I... am guilty..."

"I killed so many people... I am guilty..."

"amitabha buddha... may the True Buddha deliver me..."

They knelt on the ground with their hands pressed together, their faces filled with piety and remorse.

Some even began to slam their heads violently against the ground until blood stained their foreheads, yet they seemed to feel no pain.

"Bastards! What are you doing?!"

"Wake up, all of you!!"

On the high platform, Liu Tiesheng saw this scene with a mix of shock and rage. He roared as his black sacrificial robes suddenly burst apart.

Soon, the shadow beneath his feet began to twist violently.

Followed by...

The silhouette of a hunched, wrinkled old woman slowly crawled out from his shadow.

The old woman wore a bright red burial shroud, her face was coated in thick white powder, and the corners of her mouth were split all the way to her ears, revealing an extremely exaggerated and incredibly eerie smile.

"Hehehe..."

A sharp, piercing, aged, and venomous laugh emerged from her throat.

This old woman was precisely the A-rank Abnormality controlled by Liu Tiesheng—the Smiling Face Ghoul!

Its laughter was itself a terrifying curse.

Anyone who heard the laughter would be marked by her and fall under her influence!

Liu Tiesheng desperately activated the Rule Ability of the Smiling Face Ghoul, attempting to counter the Buddhist chanting that filled the sky.

However...

As soon as the old woman's laughter rang out, it was suppressed by another even more terrifying voice.

"Those who do not respect the True Buddha shall fall into Hell."

"The True Buddha is merciful and grants you rebirth."

That voice was calm and indifferent, like a pronouncement of judgment.

Whoosh!!

The moment the voice fell.

A gust of ghostly wind blew past.

Immediately after, a figure dressed in white, hanging upside down in mid-air, slowly appeared beneath that massive Buddhist face.

Behind the figure, a pair of pale white bone wings slowly unfurled, covered in rotting fragments of flesh and embedded with blood-dripping eyeballs.

She was like a fallen angel from Hell, quietly floating in the shadow of the Evil Buddha, and like a decaying messenger of the Evil Buddha... a terrifying rule power radiated from her, as if she were about to twist reality itself!

The figure was none other than the Fallen Heaven Resentful Spirit!

"Hee... hehe... uh?"

The old woman, who had been laughing strangely, had her laughter cut short the moment she saw the Fallen Heaven Resentful Spirit.

It was as if an invisible giant hand had seized her by the throat.

Her body began to tremble violently, as if being squeezed and corroded by some force... she even involuntarily started shrinking back into Liu Tiesheng's shadow.

Clearly, she was showing signs of entering dormancy or even a complete shutdown.

"How is this possible?!"

Liu Tiesheng was pale with shock.

His Smiling Face Ghoul was an A-rank Abnormality!!

And even among A-rank Abnormalities, the Rule Ability of the Smiling Face Ghoul was considered exceptionally terrifying!

"What... what rank of Abnormality is this?!"

The other two Vice Presidents were also filled with horror.

They could clearly feel that the aura emanating from the upside-down woman was far more terrifying than a typical A-rank Abnormality!

That sense of oppression made their hearts tremble even from a great distance... Before the two could steady their minds, suddenly—

"Cough, cough... cough, cough, cough..."

An aged, raspy coughing sound drifted from the other side of the plaza.

The two looked toward the source.

They saw an old man with a hunched back wearing a tattered burial shroud, slowly approaching like a ghost.

With every step he took, he coughed violently several times.

And with his coughing, the surrounding space seemed to vibrate.

The old man was precisely the coughing ghoul clone controlled by Lin Chuan!

"Another A-rank?!"

The hearts of Liu Tiesheng and the two Vice Presidents of the Black Snake Society sank completely.

"Then... that thing in the sky... what on earth is it..."

"He can actually drive two great horrors that are close to being 'taboos'!"

Liu Tiesheng looked up at the massive black Buddhist face that blotted out the sun, a deep sense of despair welling up in his heart.

He did not know.

The giant Buddhist face in the sky was not actually Lin Chuan's true body.

It was merely a manifestation of rules projected by Lin Chuan using the 'coughing ghoul clone' as a medium.

"A sea of blood and red lotuses to deliver all living beings..."

"Where I reside is the Shore of Rebirth..."

"Ghastly faces and hideous visages dwell in this turbid world..."

"Wishing for all calamities to dissipate..."

Just as Liu Tiesheng's face turned pale.

Between heaven and earth, the grand Buddhist chanting became even more vast.

Every word was like a star exploding, containing a terrifying momentum of rules.

The sound swept across the entire Black Snake Society base city, falling upon the ears of over five million people.

At this moment, all who heard the Buddhist chanting involuntarily knelt down.

"The True Buddha delivers the turbid world; I have seen it, I have heard it... the True Buddha has descended!!"

"amitabha buddha... amitabha buddha..."

Some were muttering to themselves, while others chanted the Buddha's name.

Fear and awe intertwined, quickly transforming into a massive amount of Power Of Will and fear value.

[Power Of Will +100!]

[Power Of Will +1,000!]

[fear value +500!]

[fear value +1,000!]

[...]

Inside the Rebirth Temple, Lin Chuan watched the numbers jumping wildly on the panel, and his mood became even better.

This harvest was going more smoothly than he had anticipated... On the other side.

In the Black Snake Society headquarters plaza.

Cold sweat poured down Liu Tiesheng's forehead, soaking his clothes.

He looked at his subordinates kneeling one by one, at the two terrifying A-rank Abnormalities, and at the massive Buddhist face in the sky... his heart was nearly swallowed whole by fear.

"That thing... that thing is also a taboo!"

"Heh! So what if it's a taboo?"

"This is the Black Snake Society! This is the land protected by the Great Black Snake Taboo!!"

Thinking of this, he suddenly turned and knelt with a "thud" before that pitch-black statue of a strange snake, beginning to pray and call out:

"O Great Black Snake Lord!!"

"Please open your eyes and look! There are heretics invading your territory!!"

"Please send down your wrath and destroy these things that do not know the meaning of death!!"

He kowtowed frantically, blood staining the concrete ground.

But he still did not stop his prostrations.

It seemed he had sensed the call of his Believer.

Rumble!!!

The silent, massive statue suddenly began to vibrate violently.

An ancient, obscure aura of rules, filled with chaos and distortion, surged from the statue!

Crack! Crack!

The stone skin on the surface of the statue began to peel off in large patches.

Revealing what was inside... a pitch-black, ink-like snake body that seemed to be composed of countless writhing tentacles.

"Hiss—!!!"

A Soul-freezing hiss resounded through the world.

Under the horrified gazes of everyone.

That statue... seemed as if it were coming to life!

At the same time as the statue's transformation.

Behind it, space began to twist and shatter.

An even larger, more terrifying phantom slowly squeezed out from the Void Realm.

It was an Eight-Headed Black Snake with eight heads and a body so massive it could coil around mountains!!

On each snake head, a different face grew.

There were those of old men, children, and women... and on the two main heads in the center.

They were surprisingly two... blank human faces without any facial features!