American Exorcism Male God

Mark shuddered violently and slowly awoke, still a bit groggy, until he saw the terrifying deformed people surrounding him and snapped to full awareness.

"Don't! Don't kill me!"

No sooner had Mark's words left his mouth than he was thrown into a metal bucket full of water, with flames roaring underneath, slowly heating the water.

"What... what are you going to do?" Mark suddenly had a bad premonition and shouted at the top of his lungs.

But no one paid him any attention; some deformed people were cleaning a large iron pot, others were sharpening butcher knives, and the flickering light illuminated the leftover bones on the dining table. Mark recognized them at a glance—they were human skulls.

A vast fear enveloped Mark, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

More and more deformed people entered the room. In the corner of the room was their "food storage area," where they carelessly tossed their prey, piling humans like livestock into a small hill.

Some were already dead, their heads chopped off; others were still alive, wriggling their bodies in terror, trying to escape this hell.

Mark looked around, trying to find that familiar figure, but there was no one; he looked over and over, not finding Anna or that annoying pretty boy.

All the deformed people had come back, gathering at the entrance to chat. Although their language was unclear, their excitement could be felt.

Regret colored Mark's face; everyone who had run away with him had been caught and brought back. He should have listened to Anna's advice!

In an endless state of fear and regret, an evil thought suddenly sprang to mind.

"Perhaps Anna didn't escape but was killed outright outside!"

Mark himself was shocked, not understanding why he would come up with such an idea.

But once the thought was there, like seeds that had taken root, it rapidly grew into a wild weed.

"Yes! That must be it! Why was it that everyone else was caught and brought back, but only Anna and that pretty boy are still alive?"

Feeling the shadow of death, Mark no longer restrained the evil thoughts in his mind, trying to comfort himself with this idea.

The water grew hotter and hotter, and Mark writhed in agony. Unfortunately, his legs had been broken and his hands bound; struggling only caused him more pain.

Then, an unbelievable figure appeared in his field of vision.

Between the swaying lights, a human silhouette emerged in the corner shadows, flickering in and out of sight. Mark thought he was hallucinating as he neared death.

He stared fixedly at that spot until he was certain it was no illusion; there was indeed someone standing there, and it was none other than that pretty boy named Xu Yi.

Xu Yi felt Mark's gaze and was momentarily taken aback.

Indeed, he was only a novice at Shadow Stealth, and a mere change in the light had revealed his presence.

But fortunately, it was only Mark who had noticed him, not any of the deformed creatures filling the room—it wasn't too concerning.

However, what Mark did next completely baffled Xu Yi; had the boiling water scrambled his brains?

"There's someone there! At the door, there's someone! Catch him!" Mark bellowed.

For Mark, seeing Xu Yi unharmed and standing there "arrogantly" watching him was more unbearable than death itself!

The deformed person sharpening knives glanced casually towards the corner, saw nothing, stood up, and with a clean motion, chopped off Mark's head with the butcher knife, splashing blood into the water.

Xu Yi watched this scene and shook his head.

Mark still had a chance to live, had he just held on a moment longer, "reinforcements" would have arrived.

...

The deformed people gathered at the entrance abruptly stopped their interaction, looking out with puzzled faces as one of their "family members" approached them unsteadily, covered in black scales.

A deformed person stood out from the rest; he was taller than the others, standing at two meters three, with a muscular body like that of a fierce beast.

The most distinctive feature was his eyes—one was white, and the other was black.

Because of inbreeding, mutations were not uncommon, but mostly they were limb variants—this condition of heterochromia was new.

The heterochromia-eyed deformed person, who seemed to be the "chief" of the tribe, approached the one covered in black scales and let out a bestial roar, which sounded like that of a wild animal, but was a language unique to them.

The black-scaled Deformed Person lunged at the "clan leader" without uttering a word, and his sharp machete pierced through the clan leader's heart.

Hidden in the shadows, Xu Yi watched this scene and silently admired it. Truly a natural-born killer, even though influenced by the Soul Jade and having completely lost his reason, the ferocious killing technique was still retained in muscle memory.

As the usurpation unfolded, the Deformed People were stunned. Moments later, they roared and picked up the weapons at hand, charging at the demonized Deformed Person.

The demonized Deformed Person faced the siege seemingly unafraid, and charged into the crowd with a roar. After demonization, his strength had become greater, and the hard black scales could fend off the slashing of weapons.

There was chaos everywhere. The "clan leader," clutching the wound in his chest, staggered toward the house, trying to find herbs to treat his injury.

Although the Deformed People were not smart, having lived in this forest for so long, they had learned to use herbs for healing wounds.

Xu Yi quietly observed the "clan leader." An ordinary person with such a severe injury would have been long dead, but as a Deformed Person with an extraordinary physique, he could still move.

But clearly, the Deformed People's strong physiques came at the cost of their intelligence.

Severely injured, the "clan leader" received no attention from his people; they all swarmed towards the demonized one.

However, for Xu Yi, this situation couldn't be more advantageous.

Just as the clan leader crossed the threshold, a dagger suddenly appeared from the darkness, piercing through his spleen.

Xu Yi pulled out the dagger, letting the blood flow faster.

Although mutated, the body structure of the Deformed People was almost the same as that of common people. A pierced spleen would lead to overwhelming weakness followed by an inevitable death.

Xu Yi didn't intend to kill him immediately; otherwise, he would have aimed for the clan leader's head, not his spleen.

He lunged at the Deformed Person, seemingly to finish him off, but in reality, he was using the body as cover to feed the Soul Jade and Nest of the Evil God into the other's mouth.

Mere killing of these Deformed People would let them off too easily. They had become his experimental materials.

The heterochromatic Deformed Person writhed in agony on the ground as the Soul Jade began to take effect.

Within the soul world of the Deformed Person, the radiance of the Soul Jade exploded in a burst of rainbow light, scattering like meteors. Experience more content on empire

Xu Yi had been prepared and had activated the Intervention ability of the Nest of the Evil God in advance.

Among the scattering radiance, one speck of light was white, representing the light of "Physical Sublimation."

An invisible force acted upon the white light, trying to guide it into the depths of the Deformed Person's soul, instead of letting it vanish on the surface.

But, unfortunately, the white light dissipated the moment it came into contact with the Deformed Person's soul.

"As expected, it's not that simple!" Xu Yi sighed.

The success rate of these things was very mystical; even with the intervention of the Nest of the Evil God, it could only slightly increase from its original basis.

The rays of the Soul Jade landed on the soul of the Deformed Person, all of them dissipating without any penetrating into the depths of the soul.

Could it be that the Soul Jade had failed? Xu Yi was stunned. This was the first time he had seen such an occurrence.

His pupils suddenly contracted to pinpoints.

The tall Deformed Person abruptly opened his eyes which were neither the black of demonization nor the white of physical sublimation but a despairing gray.

A terrifying aura rose from the Deformed Person's body, filled with a twisted sense.

Xu Yi swiftly retreated several steps, melting into the dark shadows.

He suddenly understood it wasn't that none of the lights took effect but that the light was too faint, faint enough that even the Nest of the Evil God couldn't observe it.

On the heterochromatic Deformed Person, the mutation triggered by the Soul Jade had resulted in an extremely rare occurrence.

Xu Yi subconsciously opened the system panel, searching through all the mutation possibilities of the Soul Jade Entries, but found none that matched the situation before him.

Just as he was about to close the system, a bright red "Demonization" appeared at the end of the Soul Jade Entries.

Xu Yi's eyes widened in shock, the situation was even rarer than he had imagined—the system had actually "added" a mutation effect!