Zuo Dao Becomes a God Starting from American Horror

Chapter 294 Subduing the Cursed Demon: A Born God with a Soul-Souling Demon

The karmic fire was getting closer and closer.

The wrinkled Kayako's soul screamed even louder. As if sensing a threat, a thick black aura appeared from nowhere and joined the struggle as a new force. It actually managed to tear a bit off Kayako's arm, freeing up one hand.

just now.

Some previously restricted capabilities are now available.

In the spirit realm where there was no water, the air suddenly became humid, and a huge amount of water droplets began to gather. This was not the condensation of water vapor, because there was no such amount of water vapor in the spirit realm at all.

To achieve this effect, it's more like she's distorting reality and forcibly creating it.

but.

Suddenly, a hand burning with light and flame pressed down and grabbed her "cheek".

Looking up, Louis's eyes, burning with golden light, were looking down at her. "The so-called curse, whether it's distorting reality, affecting time, interfering with reality, or physical attacks, all rely on curses."

"Any curse is the natural fuel for karmic fire."

"Now, accept your trial."

Boom!

Crimson flames burst forth from his palm; though the color of blood, they were now imbued with a sense of holiness and judgment.

"Giggle giggle giggle—"

The number of bubbly sounds increased suddenly.

The surrounding black hair no longer resisted the light and flames and the karmic fire outside, but instead frantically gathered towards the center, trying to kill Louis.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

Exploding flames!
Burning hair!
A torrent of blood!
Enveloped everything.

Louis gripped Kayako's "cheek" tightly, veins bulging in his arms. He moved forward step by step, and Kayako's bones creaked and groaned under the weight.

At the same time, silver threads shot out from Louis's other palm, piercing through space and covering and sealing off the surroundings.

The Soul-Suppressing Ruler has emerged from between his brows, hovering above his head, emitting bursts of light to protect his soul.

This is all to prevent the Kayako from causing any trouble, such as escaping.

Faced with all this, Kayako's wrinkled white eyes, filled with resentment, stared intently at Louis. The strange bubbling sounds in her throat became more and more obvious, but no matter how loud they were, no matter how much she used her ability to distort reality, Louis's hands still gripped her firmly like iron hoops.

Stand upright from the ground, with your waist and arms as one.

His muscular body, strengthened multiple times, possessed immense strength, and he slammed Kayako to the ground with a single palm strike.

boom!
sizzle-

The flames on Louis spread outwards, completely burning through his black hair, and roamed freely behind Kayako.

Fat, roasted meat, tendons, flesh, charred bones...

In the sky, a massive flame dispersed the dark clouds, then coalesced into a single point, a ball of pure white-gold flame slowly descending from the sky.

Louis controlled the fireball that had consumed most of his Yang God power and absorbed it into Kayako's body.

In an instant, the fireball of light and flame transformed into countless threads, swimming towards the limbs and bones.

It was annihilating one cloud of black energy after another.

Kayako's soul was still resisting, with endless streams of black energy emanating from nowhere. However, under the suppression of the crimson flames in Louis's palm, her soul eventually began to shatter and dissipate, leaving only her resentful white eyes unchanged.

Finally, the platinum flames completely spread throughout his body.

The soul of the wrinkled Kayakaya also vanished at that moment.

boom!
A faint, soft sound, like a mirror shattering, rang out.

A faint, ethereal figure flashed behind Kayako's head; that figure was "a family of three".

The white-clad Kayako, with her hands and feet twisted and bent like a spider.

Covered in blood, holding an iron weapon, Takeo Saeki.

The dead boy, Toshio, hugged his knees, his eyes filled with lifelessness.

They look exactly the same as they did in the original timeline.

The phantom image vanished in a flash.

Louis was now certain that the creature that had mutated from Kayako's body like a virus was the original Kayako from another timeline.

"It only affects another version of yourself from the past. It seems your ability to influence time isn't that great."

"Indeed, the essence of your power is ultimately just a curse."

Even so, Louis began gesturing behind Kayako's back.

Manipulating the flowing flames within its body, it outlined some strange patterns. When the last flame connected with it, the pattern was formed.

A huge white-gold flame tattoo appeared on Kayako's back, covering her entire back and even part of her waist and hips. Yes, Kayako was completely naked.

But there was nothing beautiful or sexy about it, because her entire skin was charred black, and the oil was even sizzling and bursting, and half of her body had been roasted.

Who would crave a piece of roast meat?

At this moment, Kayako, who was facing the camera, had already been overwhelmed by the extreme pain, and her body automatically activated its self-protection mechanism, causing her to fall into a coma.

Looking at her body, not a single piece of flesh was intact, she had transformed from a graceful young woman into this state of being worse than dead.

Louis's eyes flickered slightly.

He crouched down, stretched out his hand, and began to use his magic to alleviate the pain.

His skills were mostly in the areas of cunning and killing, with very little knowledge of healing and wound treatment.

Moreover, Kayako's current condition is even more severe than severe burns. She should have died, but she survived because of her magical power and her own unique characteristics. Ordinary Wan Shui disease spells would probably be useless.

Thinking of Kayako's desperate attempts to stop him and her venting dying words.

Louis felt a slight tremor in his heart.

He channeled a large amount of magical power into it to nourish its internal organs, and then lifted it up with one hand.

Louis retrieved his magical artifact and looked at the Po-Xu Demon, which was still being scorched by flames on the mountainside. Compared to the powerful Ju-Yuan, the Po-Xu Demon was pitifully weak.

It is still being burned by flames to this day, with no way to stop them, let alone extinguish them.

He saw Louis looking over.

The Po-Xu Demon, which was still rolling around and using various powers to slow down the flames, actually took a step back despite the burning flames. Its constantly changing head even showed fear in a human-like way before it turned and ran away.

"Oh? His intelligence is even higher than I thought."

The Po-Xu Demon possesses intelligence, as evidenced by its ability to intercept the arriving exorcists.

However, the fact that this Po-Xu Demon can feel fear means it already possesses the most basic emotions of a living being.

between words.

Louis appeared before the Soul Demon. The Soul Demon was startled, immediately changed direction and continued to flee, even beginning to use its spiritual realm to teleport repeatedly.

But it soon discovered that its spiritual realm was filled with flames. It knew all too well how terrifying those flames were. Even now, its body was still burning. Under these circumstances, its teleportation distance was greatly limited.

Louis, however, was able to easily intercept the flames and move at high speed.

No matter where the Po-Xu Demon appears, Louis will be in front of it a second later, and the distance will get closer and closer.

This is practically a horror movie!

As a terrifying creature approaches step by step, you move left and right, frantically trying to escape, but in the blink of an eye, the terror not only doesn't get away, but gets even closer!

If this continues, how many seconds will it take before the terror catches up?
This is a math problem.

The Po-Xiong Demon did not understand.

But it understands fear.

It sensed that the countless child souls that constituted its core, which had lost their own will, were trembling unconsciously!
and so.

escape!
Keep running!
It's like a headless fly, futilely struggling in a confined environment.

As Louis drew closer, they caught up.

One minute later.

Seeing Louis only three steps away, the Po-Xiu Demon finally stopped running away.

However, it wasn't that it didn't want to run away; its rudimentary intelligence hadn't yet figured out other ways to survive. It simply had no other way to run.

The flames had burned most of its body, including its legs and limbs, leaving only an arm, head, and neck, making it look like a still-burning, mangled corpse.

"Are you still running?"

A steady sound rang out.

The demon looked at Louis in fear and let out a desperate cry like a child.

Looking up through the gap in its neck, it was completely empty, except for a black obsidian-like crystal that kept flashing with various images.

The cries of aborted babies, children suffering from domestic violence, children who committed suicide due to school bullying...

Fear and pain were written on each of their seemingly young faces.

After the crystal was exposed, the sound it emitted also changed, becoming completely different from the previous hallucinations, and became extremely shocking, as if it had transformed into some kind of deeper emotional power.

That is a resonance and empathy stemming from human nature.

Louis did not reject the resonance that stemmed from his own humanity, but rather manipulated and observed it with reason, so as not to affect his rationality.

His expression then changed, and the various scenes were truly shocking.

He was still human after all. Even after cultivating for so many years and reaching the Yangshen realm, which was comparable to a terrestrial immortal, he was only one step away from the Yuanshen realm of a half-immortal. He deserved to be called a person with profound cultivation.

But he was still full of humanity. Although he was sometimes insidious, cunning, ruthless, and indifferent to appointments and trampling on the law, he also had a good side, just to an extreme.

Louis, who had not lost his humanity, was now deeply shaken.

The story that touched him most among these images was one about a middle school student who discovered his mother's infidelity. He tried to tell his father several times, but his mother dissuaded him each time. Then one day, school let out early, and when he returned home, he heard noises coming from his bedroom...

This time, he refused to tolerate it any longer and insisted on telling his father. The adulterer began to beat him and even tried to kill him to prevent being discovered. The boy fought back desperately and deliberately made noise.

Until the adulterer said, "He's too strong, you can't kill him, come and help me."

The hands that used to take care of household chores, cook, do laundry, and look after him were now resting on the boy's body.

The boy suddenly stopped struggling, staring blankly at his mother. Darkness descended, and he stepped into death.

A strong sense of despair washed over me.

That's not all. The father, who had married a stepmother, threw the twins off a building; a mischievous child cut open the body of a frail child with a knife just for fun; a biased father beat the eldest son to death; a child committed suicide after being constantly verbally abused and physically punished at home for being stupid; and a primary school teacher sexually assaulted the child…

There are countless dark sides to this world, happening every moment. The more people there are, the darker the darkness becomes.

As countries enter the modern era, the surge in population and the emergence of the darker side further fuel this trend.

This is the fundamental reason why this generation of Soul Demons was able to rival, no, surpass all previous generations of Soul Demons in just thirty years.

Its power or not depends entirely on humanity itself.

If it weren't for this encounter with Kotoko Higa, Ju-on, and Louis...

In another ten years, the emergence of the Internet will add the final fuel to its path to becoming a true demon!

"A collection of resentment, a manifestation of children's hatred, the dark side of the times, this guy... has astonishing potential, he's practically a 'born god' in Japan, a special country dominated by the power of emotions."

Louis was slightly shaken. Such a 'natural deity' was manifested more as an evil demon in Japan because of its peculiar nature.

If it were the Eastern Kingdom, how could an entity born from a certain collective will have degenerated to this extent?

Neon is such a special place...

Images of garbage incineration plants flashed through Louis's mind, and he felt they were strangely fitting for the scene.

Take a deep breath and calm your mind.

Looking at the Po-Xu Demon, who, despite its cunning, possessed only basic intelligence and was essentially like a mentally challenged child, Louis reached out and, with a thought, most of the flames on its body instantly extinguished, leaving only a small amount of flames swirling around it, forming chains that bound it tightly, resembling blood-red flame tattoos.

The Po-Xu Demon tried to break through several more times following its instincts, but all it got was pain.

Just as even a mindless animal knows to seek advantage and avoid harm, the fear-inducing demon finally learned its lesson and stopped trying to resist, standing there blankly, staring at Louis.

It seems they have given up the struggle.

Looking at the Soul Demon, Louis activated his magic, and the flame chains contracted, transforming the Soul Demon into a small black ball the size of a palm, covered with flame tattoos, which landed in Louis's hand.

It bounced around, feeling as light as nothing.

Now that the Soul Demon has been captured, what about this Spirit Realm...?

Louis suddenly looked up at the sky, where cracks still stretched across the dark expanse.

After being ravaged by the curse of Ju-on, Louis's "Mountain" spirit realm, which was burning with flames, was riddled with gaps. He didn't care before, because no matter how much he liked it, it belonged to someone else.

Things are different now; this is my own spoils of war, and extremely valuable spoils at that.

Their attitudes are naturally different.

"We need to find a way to gain control and make repairs; this leaky system won't do."

A thought came to my mind.

The Yang Shen power that had temporarily recovered within him was unleashed, temporarily concealing the crack.

Subsequently.

While continuing to channel his magic into Kayako, Louis began to experiment with controlling the Soul Orb, and walked around the Spirit Realm, exploring every inch of its land.

He remembered that the spread of the curse from the Ju-on was terrifying, so much so that it could be described as something that even gods and ghosts could not detect. In this respect, only Sadako's information virus could be compared with it.

(End of this chapter)