Chapter 150: Black Gold Flames
Xu Yi rushed to the door where the light switch was right beside it.
The room had been pitch-dark all along, and it was certain that the Incarnation of the Evil God wouldn't turn on the light; the woman, enchanted like a puppet, didn't need Xu Yi to do so either, since he possessed the Eyes of Obscurity.
But now he had to turn on the light; darkness was the evil spirit's home turf, and lighting the room would greatly weaken its power.
The bright white light illuminated the room as if it were day, and Xu Yi looked around but did not find any trace of the evil spirit.
The evil spirit was definitely still in the room.
He had dashed to turn on the light the moment he opened the Treasure Box space; that lingering sensation of cold, unique to the evil spirit, was still hovering around his body.
Xu Yi scanned the shadows created by objects obstructing light, guessing the evil spirit was likely hiding within them.
Instead of looking for it shadow by shadow, which would be too inefficient as the evil spirit could move freely in the dark, he didn't want to play a game of hide and seek.
He took out the psychic portrait of the evil spirit.
Judgment, this ability was extremely useful, especially when facing an evil spirit adept at playing hide-and-seek.
The dagger pierced through the psychic portrait, and as Judgment activated, a beast-like roar came from beneath his feet, startling Xu Yi—it was hiding in his very own shadow!
It wasn't clear whether it thought "the most dangerous place is the safest" or if it was determined to seek revenge after being grievously wounded by Annabelle.
Its body was covered in dense knife wounds; the injuries inflicted by Ratma's rodent teeth were not easy to heal.
The dark figure "grew" out from the center of the shadow, first the head, then the torso, followed by the limbs; behind the evil spirit were spider-like appendages that stretched out in the room like the branches of an ancient, pitch-black tree.
Xu Yi took out another standard-issue dagger.
After the Dagger of Rest had been destroyed, Xu Yi had a batch of daggers made from alloy, each engraved with Necromantic Spells.
The Fog of Obscurity poured from Xu Yi's palm, spreading over the dagger, as if enchanting it with the ability to inflict multiplied damage on Dark Creatures.
The enchanted dagger pierced through the evil spirit's heart, and it let out a wretched howl.
Xu Yi's gun-wielding right hand was busy too, repeatedly squeezing the trigger and sending Exorcism Bullets flying towards the bed, piercing the fleeing Juvenile of the Evil God.
The evil spirit's chest riddled by the enchanted dagger, Xu Yi saw it could not escape for the moment, put away the dagger, and prepared to deal with the Juvenile of the Evil God first.
Feeling the danger approaching, the Juvenile of the Evil God extended its tentacles, but not toward Xu Yi, instead aiming for the evil spirit beside him.
The tentacles of the Evil God wrapped around the articulations on the evil spirit's back, as it roared furiously. Xu Yi didn't know what the Juvenile was trying to do, but he was sure it was nothing good.
Xu Yi lunged at the tentacles, intending to chop them off.
As the dagger fell, the tentacles that had been entwined around the evil spirit suddenly let go, casting a huge net towards Xu Yi.
Xu Yi's pupils constricted, realizing that the Juvenile of the Evil God's initial target was not the evil spirit but Xu Yi himself. Its actions were just a ruse to draw Xu Yi closer to it!
The tentacles bound Xu Yi tightly, but, to the Juvenile's surprise, they couldn't touch his flesh; a thin layer of grey fog kept them at bay.
Pink fog emanated from the tentacles; Xu Yi held his breath, but the fog didn't need to enter through his respiratory tract to take effect.
Low murmurs buzzed in Xu Yi's ears, those whispers crawling into his head like worms.
One of the formidable abilities controlled by the Evil God, Mental Contamination.
This was not the first time Xu Yi had suffered from Mental Contamination, but it was the most intense.
Expertise makes a difference; even though it was Mental Contamination, the effect varied depending on which Evil God utilized it—Xu Yi was clearly facing an Evil God that specialized in Mental Contamination.
Wrapped around Xu Yi, the Juvenile of the Evil God excitedly flailed its tentacles, its eyes gleaming with the joy of revenge, as if foreseeing Xu Yi's pitiful end.
But what it failed to notice was that there was no sign of panic on Xu Yi's face.
Being in such a situation before would have indeed been difficult to deal with, but not now; Xu Yi's status had changed.
The tentacles of the Evil God Juvenile suddenly trembled, but this time not out of excitement, but fear.
Like water, a shadow spread from Xu Yi's feet, engulfing both Xu Yi and the Evil God Juvenile.
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Mental Contamination is indeed a terrifying weapon for humans, but if the target is another Evil God, it is nothing more than a plastic toy gun.
By actively initiating the authority of the Evil God, it meant that Xu Yi was determined to kill the Evil God Juvenile.
Government personnel were about to arrive, and the fact that he possessed the Power of the Evil God could not be revealed.
Xu Yi's palm turned into a blade, and his hand, coated in the Fog of Obscurity, was as sharp as a razor's edge.
The palm blade pierced through the body of the Evil God Juvenile, and suddenly from the center of the palm, a black-golden flame erupted and instantly ignited the Evil God Juvenile.
These black-golden flames were the Demon-Suppressing Power of the Cat Spirit Bastet; since Bastet became his incarnation of the Evil God, this was the first time Xu Yi borrowed Bastet's power.
Xu Yi felt terrible, as if he was encased in mercury, with mercury flowing through his veins, an indescribable heaviness over his whole body.
He had grasped the authority of the Evil God, but his body was not a Divine Body and could not fully bear the Demon-Suppressing Power of Bastet.
This was the result even after his body was strengthened by the Fog of Obscurity; if it were a common person's body, it would have likely collapsed long ago.
"If I could acquire the entry for Hyper Accelerated Regeneration, perhaps I could withstand this power," Xu Yi thought to himself.
Why didn't he let Bastet use the Demon-Suppressing Power directly, instead of suffering a huge burden himself? The reason is simple.
The Demon-Suppressing Power used by Bastet could only suppress, but Xu Yi was different.
The Demon-Suppressing Power he used, represented by the black-golden flames in front of him, was activated through the authority of the Evil God... this was not an ordinary flame, but... divine fire!
The divine flames of the Evil God burned the Evil God Juvenile and incidentally ignited the incapacitated dark Evil Spirit nearby.
The moment Xu Yi sensed the annihilation of the Evil God Juvenile's soul, he immediately shut down the authority of the Evil God.
Without the power of the Evil God authority to sustain it, the black-golden flames extinguished instantly, for the fuel of the flame was the authority of the Evil God, and nothing else.
Xu Yi collapsed onto the ground, gasping heavily, as if he were trying to inhale all the air in the room into his lungs.
The sensation of forcefully invoking the divine flames of the Evil God was deplorable, like a person drowning, trapped on the boundary between life and death, feeling like the next second would bring their demise, yet unable to die—a feeling so worse than death that no one would want to experience it a second time.
Perhaps the Demon-Suppressing Flame is the greatest gain from becoming an incarnation of the Evil God, but using it forcefully has too many drawbacks.
Until he acquired the entry for accelerated regeneration, Xu Yi had no plans to use this ability again.
The Evil God Juvenile released its tentacles, collapsing weakly onto the ground. There were no burns on its body, because the Demon-Suppressing Flame targeted not the flesh, but the soul.
"What a pity!"
Xu Yi had planned to suppress the opponent's soul into a Soul Jade, but now it was impossible, since the soul itself had been burned away.
He looked at the still-living body of the Evil God Juvenile and, struck by a thought, gathered it into the toy Treasure Box.
The birth of an Evil God Juvenile typically occurs in various Different Spaces and only after growing to a certain extent might it descend into the human world.
But the Evil God Juvenile in front of him had somehow been born directly into the human world!
Xu Yi didn't yet know the utility of the dead body of the Evil God Juvenile, but he had a premonition that something so rare must be of great importance.
His gaze fell upon the dark Evil Spirit.
The Evil Spirit was merely grazed by the divine flames of the Evil God, but if even the Evil God Juvenile couldn't withstand the flames, much less could it in its severely injured state.
Red lines of soul binding flew from his hands, intricately entwining the Evil Spirit.
Xu Yi was a bit hopeful, wondering if the Evil Spirit before him could drop the entry for "Dark Stealth."