Zuo Dao Becomes a God Starting from American Horror

Chapter 315 The Ceremony of Ascension to Godhood: Carrie's Changed Sentimental Nature

Furthermore, they differ in function: one is primarily for healing, with the secondary function of absorbing life force and fortune, while the other is primarily for attack, known for its extreme yang energy.

Louis planned to make good use of this unexpectedly acquired superior magic artifact bead, since he also had seven matching magic artifacts with different functions. Once he mastered them all, the eight combined would form a primordial spirit magic treasure.

It offers good value for money.

Finally, there's the Soul Demon Orb, which replaced the Moth God's divine realm space and became Louis's current storage device.

But this is only one of its functions. As the core of the spiritual realm, the "mountain" spiritual realm can not only serve as a means of travel, but also as a place of practice.

That's right, a dojo.

A monastery represents a practitioner's place of residence; in layman's terms, it is their home.

Many legendary masters of supernatural powers often have their dojos in famous mountains and rivers, but there are no such conditions in America.

Using a spiritual realm that can disappear into the void and vanish without a trace as a training ground is the best choice at present. Although it is inferior to those famous mountains and rivers, it is not bad either.

After that, once the altar was opened and the temple was set up in Orlando, the foundation was laid.

The difficulty in refining the Soul Demon Orb will no longer exist, and the Spirit Realm of the Mountain will officially belong to him, thus eliminating the last remaining hidden danger.

With a wave of his hand, everything was put away.

"Whoo~"

"It will be much clearer once it's organized."

"On ordinary days, I just casually study the experimental materials and nurture a few magical artifacts."

Louis felt that the large formation in Japan still had two guardians, and he believed that the arrangements were quite proper, so there was no chance of any mistakes. In this way, all the gains from this trip to Japan were now accounted for.

But the story doesn't end there.

Louis rubbed his temples and projected the diagram of the ascension ceremony.

The overall outline of this array projection resembles the shape of the United States, and the scattered dots on it emit different shades of light and shadow.

Densely packed and extremely complex.

At first glance, it's like being immersed in a kaleidoscope, with rotations, overlaps, and connections, each intersecting with the others, yet sometimes forming a bizarre and wonderful pattern.

Just as I was about to take a closer look, the pattern changed again, replaced by a new one.

These are actually the nodes of the ascension ritual array. Louis put in a lot of effort. During this time, in addition to the important nodes that Emma and others were responsible for, the Cano family also rushed to complete some peripheral and less important nodes throughout the United States. Just like in the demon-refining array in Japan, they built small altars that looked simple but were actually just disposable items, and then buried them underground.

But ever since he acquired the Star Array, Louis has become dissatisfied.

He felt that the ascension ceremony was still somewhat rudimentary, or rather, had some loopholes and flaws that could be further optimized.

This matter concerns his ascension to godhood more than a year from now, and it is of utmost importance, so Louis cannot afford not to strive for perfection.

At that moment, Louis's eyes shone.

At this moment, the powerful Yang Spirit began to operate at full capacity, with logical thinking, analytical thinking, memory, judgment, and so on all being enhanced!
Aside from the inability to increase true wisdom, the Yin Spirit, Yang Spirit, and Primordial Spirit are like replacing one's own software, turning it into a supercomputer and enhancing its computing and other capabilities.

This ability would be extremely disadvantageous in terms of comprehending techniques and gaining wisdom, but it would be very suitable if it were only used to enhance thinking, reaction, and filling in gaps in knowledge.

Like now.

One after another, node modification plans that conformed to the Star Array were born in Louis's mind. His brain even prompted his telekinesis to open the computer and start searching for information on states, cities, districts, towns, and so on, and to start building new nodes according to local conditions.

Extremely fast.

Louis's eyes were trembling, and blood vessels were creeping back into his eyeballs. This hadn't happened for many years. Under these circumstances, a perfect array diagram began to gradually emerge in Louis's mind.

The projection in mid-air gradually transformed into a picture of the sun and moon in the same sky!

The sun and moon hung high in the sky.

Thousands of stars twinkled around it, like soldiers guarding the center, or like ministers bowing their heads, with the sun and moon reigning supreme.

"it is good!"

Louis's eyes suddenly lit up.

A beam of light shot out from it, instantly piercing the projection in front of them.

With dry eyes, Louis waved his hand, the array retracted, and he began to press his eyes with both hands.

He succeeded.

The ascension ceremony has been successfully modified.

The original ascension ritual had flaws and its power was somewhat scattered, failing to gather the power of all the nodes, which was largely a waste.

But things are different now.

Louis modified its core, transforming it from a constantly changing and unpredictable operating model into one that gathered strength from all sides to consolidate the center and consolidate local power to strengthen the region.

The change in the pattern represents this situation.

The sun and moon, representing yin and yang, naturally refer to Orlando and Miami.

This will also be the most crucial element of this ascension ceremony.

but……

The ceremony of ascending to godhood will likely be quite grand, and the time required for the ascension is not fixed. Even with celestial phenomena as cover, the resulting fluctuations will not be hidden from those mysterious astronomers.

Especially those figures involved in divination and prophecy.

Therefore, this place will definitely attract a large number of mystical people, and the Church's attitude at that time will become unpredictable.

Don't be fooled by the fact that the church has always been at the forefront of exorcisms, thinking that it has a glorious and righteous image. In fact, the essence of the church will not change.

Monotheistic religions are too xenophobic.

Upon seeing this guy who dared to aspire to godhood, would he rush over and burn the heretical god alive?

In particular, some aspects of the ascension ritual are taboo, and there is a suspicion that they involve stealing God's divine power...

Thinking of this, Louis frowned slightly.

Throughout history, religious fanatics have been the most incomprehensible, especially those from religions that have split into countless factions, each with its own interpretation rights...

We need to prepare for the worst.

Next, distribute the new node map and then arrange the defense for Orlando and Miami.

To prepare for a rainy day, just in case.

It's never a bad thing to prepare in advance.

Having decided what to do next, Louis rubbed his bloodshot eyes, which were red from thinking so quickly in a short period of time, and lay down on the bed.

The emerald green spell beads in his bosom glowed faintly, healing his eyes.

……

The next morning.

Emma and Maria are back.

Louis is having breakfast.

Wontons with fried ham and a plate of watermelon chunks—simple yet delicious.

David and Jenny, on the other hand, were still upstairs, lingering and dawdling, and probably wouldn't come down for a while.

"Come, sit down, let's eat together."

Emma sat down, then picked up a slice of watermelon and popped it into her mouth. The sweet and crisp watermelon squeezed out rich juice, bringing a delightful sweetness to her tongue.

Maria didn't eat, but said, "Louis, everything's been arranged at the base. All the experimental subjects you mentioned have been imprisoned."

"However, Nancy..."

She hesitated to speak.

Louis chewed on the thin-skinned, generously filled wontons, swallowing them in one gulp with the delicious broth. He wiped his mouth, then tossed the whole watermelon over to Emma. Emma licked her lips, picked up a skewer, and stabbed the watermelon pieces one by one, eating them incredibly fast. In no time, only five or six pieces remained.

"What happened?" "She's still at the base; something's happened."

Maria said.

"She was unconscious at the time, so we took her to the medical room to rest. We didn't expect that when she woke up, she would be somewhat confused."

“I often find myself going back in time to a few years ago, turning into a high school student, and they don’t recognize me at all.”

"In just a few hours, she has already lost her memory three times. Basically, every time she loses her memory, she returns to normal once, and the cycle repeats itself endlessly."

"I've already had our doctors examine me, and even after using equipment to examine my brain, they couldn't find anything wrong."

"So, I think it's still related to Freddy."

After listening to Maria's story, Louis stroked his chin.

Nancy has amnesia? Back to a few years ago?

Subconsciously, Louis thought of Nancy's sealed memories, which seemed to be caused by her dealing with Freddy in high school.
What a coincidence in timing!
Not too possible.

In this terrifying world, most coincidences are not coincidences, but inevitabilities.

Therefore, Maria's thinking is probably correct; Nancy's amnesia is most likely related to Freddy's or his sealed memories.

"Let's go, let's check it out on the way."

"On the way?" Maria looked at Louis strangely, then her expression turned tense. "Louis, are you leaving again?"

"Hmm? Take me with you!"

Emma seemed to have triggered some keyword, her voice immediately rose several octaves, she stopped eating the melon in her hand, and stared straight at Louis, with a look that resembled an eagle eyeing a chick.

Louis raised an eyebrow. "What are you thinking? We're not going far, just going back to our hometown."

"Now that we're back, we should naturally go and see our grandfather."

Maria relaxed.

Emma, ​​on the other hand, seemed relaxed at first glance, but her eyes were slightly darting around, as if she were thinking about something.

Louis ignored her, handed the last piece of melon to Maria, and was about to leave.

at this time.

"Dong dong!"

There was a knock on the door.

“Carrie, come in,” Louis said.

Click.

Carrie, still dressed in black, walked in, her expression somewhat strange.

Louis glanced at him. "What's wrong? What happened?"

Because he didn't want to invade Carrie's privacy, Louis didn't use his powers to sense the situation at Carrie's house yesterday, so he naturally didn't know what had happened at Carrie's house.

Carrie pursed her lips. "Louis, do you think religion shouldn't exist?"

She said something completely inexplicable.

Louis remained silent.

As the person who has gone through the most adventures with him, and currently the strongest among all the women besides Kayako, Carrie couldn't possibly be unaware of the existence of God and other deities in this world with gods.

Religion and such, it's really hard to say...

But she still said it.

Did her mother do something?

Louis Yang Shen swept across.

They instantly learned about the situation next door.

Margaret, the religious fanatic, continued to pray at home as usual, seemingly unaffected.

"Religion is mostly a bad thing. Only in its early stages is it more beneficial than harmful. Otherwise, unless there is strong intervention, it will only go further and further astray and become more and more evil." Louis did not casually comfort Carrie, but answered her question seriously.

This also reflects Louis's attitude towards religion: it must be strongly supervised, otherwise it could do more harm than good and be very dangerous.

Upon hearing this, Carrie nodded.

She scratched her head in distress, "I find it increasingly difficult to communicate with her now. Although we have some misunderstandings, she raised me and I feel that there should be a bond of kinship between us."

"But……"

“In her eyes, religion seems to be more important than me.”

“When I got home yesterday, she greeted me so warmly that I thought she had let go of the past and that we could try to be a loving mother and daughter. But before we could even exchange two words, she veered into religion and tried to find a suitable reason for my witch powers.”

“I say that my strength is a gift from the Lord, and that the bullying and other things I suffered before were also tests from the Lord, just like those church saints in history. Everything is the Lord’s arrangement.”

“Bullying…is a test or something…heh…”

Carrie's expression was complicated, her eyes flashing with resentment. The period when she was bullied was the most painful and confusing time of her life, and it was because of that incident that she awakened her power.

As a result, you, as my mother, regarded this suffering as God's test for me?

Emma walked over at that moment, patted Carrie on the shoulder, and pouted, "So pretentious."

"Haven't those believers always been like this?"

Seeing that Emma's words had an effect on Carrie, Louis straightened his back again and listened quietly.

Emma's "speech" continues.

"When they encounter difficulties and someone helps them, they believe it is the Lord who sent people to help them; when they suffer, they feel it is the evil in people's hearts at work, and they ask the Lord to take away the wicked people..."

"Anyway, all the credit belongs to God."

"Furthermore, do you still truly love your mother? Think back to when you were at home; did she bring you more happiness or sadness?"

"Oh, it seems you have the answer."

"So, isn't love just an excuse?"

Emma suddenly leaned close to Carrie's ear and whispered something.

The sound was very soft, but when it reached our ears at home, it sounded as heavy as a boulder.

!!!

Her pupils contracted sharply.

Gumbling—

Yes, do I really love her?
Scenes from the past swirled in my mind.

After a long time.

She managed to say with difficulty, "I think I love her, but more than that, it's just a sense of responsibility and compassion."

Having said this.

Carrie breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Emma.

"Thank you so much, Emma. I thought you only knew how to..."

She stopped mid-sentence, and seeing this, Emma frowned, her eyes narrowing slightly. "What are you trying to say?"

“…It’s nothing, anyway, thank you, I won’t be so sentimental anymore.” Carrie quickly ended the conversation and looked at Louis.

"Louis, are you getting ready to go out?"

"Yes, that's right. Let's go first, we'll talk on the way."

As soon as he finished speaking, a green crack flashed past beneath his feet.

(End of this chapter)