Ita Era

Chapter 166 Obsession
However, they finally made contact. Ding Shi entered the two women's boudoirs, briefly explained the possession situation, and then said, "Ji Shan is in the coffin in the left wing of Shuanzi's house."

Meanwhile, trapped in the illusion, Silly Dagger was chasing Ding Shi. He held a gun, and the background was a city with many people. Ding Shi was weaving through the crowd, and Silly Dagger was giving chase. Ding Shi wasn't moving fast, but even at Silly Dagger's speed, he could only see Ding Shi's back. Only one thought occupied his mind: This is the best opportunity to kill Ding Shi; he absolutely cannot let it slip away.

Silly Bike didn't notice that he had walked past the flower girl for the fourth time, crossed the overpass for the sixth time, and bumped into a girl for the third time.

Two women and a man stood by the roadside, watching Sha Bi wading through the paddy field. The Confucian woman, Dongcheng, asked, "What is he doing?"

Ding Shi replied, "Something is lost."

Ji Yue asked curiously, "What is it?"

Ding Shi replied, "The way home. Let's take care of our business first."

The Confucian woman, Dongcheng, was originally supposed to keep watch, but Ding Shi pushed her in, thus taking over the lookout post.

In terms of friendship, Ji Shan and the Confucian woman are both acquainted with Ji Yue, while my relationship with Ji Yue, Ji Shan, and the Confucian woman is just average. In terms of principle, men and women are equal. In terms of contribution: I have already made 70% of the contribution.

A scream rang out, and Ding Shi immediately darted out, only to see a ghostly old man appear in front of Ji Yue. Ji Yue, carrying Ji Shan on her back, was so frightened that she could hardly move. This old man looked exactly like Shuanzi.

The Confucian woman Dongcheng behind Ji Yue reacted quickly and shouted, "Fierce eyes and wielding sword to slay demons and evil spirits!"

A golden blade appeared out of thin air and slashed at the uncle's head. The blade shattered instantly, and the uncle reappeared ten meters away in a flash.

Dongcheng shouted urgently, "Run! I can't think of any other ghost-slaying poems!"

The old man flashed back and attacked again, his withered hand reaching for Ji Yue's head, but Ding Shi's palm light struck out. Although the withered hand stopped attacking Ji Yue's head, it held onto Ji Yue's hair tightly despite the palm light.

Two seconds later, the light in the palm of his hand went out, and the uncle's fingers were about to pierce Ji Yue's head when a Buddhist chant came from outside the courtyard: "Amitabha." This sound was a skill; under the vibration of the sound waves, humans felt no discomfort. The ghost uncle was forced to release Ji Yue's hair, but his hand remained only half a foot away from Ji Yue and followed her closely.

"Amitabha." The second chant came, but its effect was noticeably less than the first. Fortunately, Ding Shi promptly added light to his palm.

Just as Ji Yue was about to step out of the courtyard, the uncle, who had paused, flashed behind her. At the last second, Dongcheng dodged, using his back to block the uncle's attack on Ji Yue. Because Dongcheng hadn't triggered the rules, the uncle was forced to stop. He tried to teleport and chase after Ji Yue again, but there was no space to intercept him.

Like a goalkeeper on a football team, Ji Yue threw herself and Ji Shan out of the courtyard gate.

Sure enough, those who can enter the Nightmare Ghost instance all have a rudimentary skill in dealing with evil spirits, not a single one more.

Having survived the ordeal, Ji Yue, lying on the ground, kept thanking everyone. The monk beside her ignored her, busy wiping his nosebleed. His Buddhist chant had a pseudo-cooldown; based on his Force equivalent and regeneration ability, he could only unleash one every ten seconds. To save someone, he had acted in just two seconds, causing his blood to rush to his head and resulting in a backlash.

The Confucian woman from Dongcheng is a poor student, but she insists on turning poetry into martial arts, and only knows one sentence at a time.

Ding Shi's palm light looked quite powerful, but it was also enhanced by the amount of his Force, so it was only slightly better than nothing.

Of course, if it weren't for a few clueless people, Ji Yue and the others wouldn't have made it out alive.

The monk had lost a lot of his original energy. He stuffed a tissue into his nose and said, "I feel cold all over, and my true energy is hard to recover."

After the others tried it, Dongcheng said, "My true energy is slowly decreasing."

Ding Shi said, "It's probably because the yin energy is heavy at night. The village rules suggest not going out after sunset." Ding Shi was completely unaffected. His body optimization card, primal essence, and various rewards had greatly increased his primal energy level.

His current situation is awkward; he possesses a high amount of Force, but lacks high-cost skills.

Ji Yue: "Let's go to my house to avoid this for a while."

The five of them went to Ji Yue and the Confucian woman's house. After entering the courtyard, their primal energy began to recover. However, the lady of the house issued an order to leave: "If you are not our tenants, please leave immediately."

The others are alright, but what about Ji Shan, who is still unconscious? There are evil spirits in Ji Yue and Ji Shan's new house. Although Ding Shi took away the Soul Slave Talisman, they can't just throw Ji Shan into the new house.

The male landlord came out, holding a machete, and said, "Please leave immediately."

Ding Shi was curious: was the reason he wasn't driven away from Liu Niang's house because there was still an empty room, or because Liu Niang hadn't noticed him?

The monk said, "We can only send Ji Shan back to your new home. It's a good thing he's unconscious; if he doesn't move, the killing rule shouldn't be triggered."

Ji Yue was still a little worried, but Ding Shi had already carried Ji Shan on his back and left with the monk. The monk dared not linger any longer, hurriedly said "See you tomorrow," and ran home.

Ding Shi transported Ji Shan to his new home and placed him in the yard. A dark shadow seemed to have appeared in the front hall. The lighting was poor, so Ding Shi shone a beam of light on it, and the shadow disappeared. The next second, the shadow made a close-up, face-to-face attack on Ding Shi.

This was a man in his forties, his face smashed to pieces and his head covered in blood.

Ding Shi, unfazed, stood motionless at the edge of the courtyard: "What are you looking at? Come out, come out and fight me one-on-one." Daring to scare me? One hand can't clap. Ding Shi slapped the ghostly man across the face.

The enraged ghost was in a fit of impotent rage, and his piercing howls echoed throughout the entire village.

The howls were like boiling oil poured into water, or like the howls of a dog; one evil spirit howled, triggering the howls of nearby evil spirits, and then the howls of all the evil spirits in the village. The voices of the horde of ghosts were like the cold, murky springs of the deepest hell, startling Ding Shi into taking two steps back. The thought of being frightened back made Ding Shi even angrier.

Since the evil spirit couldn't kill him, Ding Shi wasn't afraid at all. He stood at the courtyard gate for five minutes, repeatedly shining his palm lightning at the evil spirit for five minutes. The result was an even more shrill ghostly wail. The conclusion was that the yin energy was too strong, and his ability to kill the evil spirit couldn't keep up with its self-healing ability.

Ding Shi turned and headed home. On the way, he saw Sha Bi still wandering around in the field and really wanted to harness him to a plow. He had to admit, this field was quite nice; the ridges weren't high, but the path was, so Sha Bi would automatically swerve left if he bumped into it. Judging by the situation, if Sha Bi couldn't escape the illusion, he'd have to stay here tonight.

Just as he was engrossed in watching, Xi Jiu's voice came from behind him: "Ding Shi."

Ding Shi almost agreed, but luckily his mind was quick. He remembered the taboo he had learned in Taoyuan Village and forcibly suppressed his response. He turned his head and saw a dark figure five meters away. It seemed to be the outline of Xi Jiu, but he could only see the shadow.

After squinting for a while, Ding Shi shone a beam of light over, making a sizzling sound and emitting a little white smoke, but as the saying goes, the lethality was too low, and the other party remained unmoved.

However, Ding Shi used the light to see the face of the shadowy figure clearly. It was Liu Niang's face, with her hair hanging down on both sides, each covering half of her eyes, which were completely black.

As Liu Niang approached, she called out in Xi Jiu's voice, "Ding Shi, Ding Shi, Ding Shi."

What the hell? Shouldn't evil spirits stay at home? Ah, no, people can move around freely, so it's the evil spirit using Liu Niang's body to do evil?
What's there to be afraid of!

Ding Shi stepped forward and delivered a side kick, sending Liu Niang flying. Liu Niang stood up, calling out Ding Shi's name, and walked towards him again. The black aura around her had diminished considerably, and her voice began to change. Ding Shi kicked Liu Niang away again.

Liu Niang stood up again, the black aura dissipated, Liu Niang's figure reappeared, and her voice changed back to Liu Niang.

Ding Shi kicked Liu Niang again, and then he was shocked to find that he had actually kicked off Liu Niang's outer garment. Liu Niang, wearing a red bellyband, let out a seductive voice: "Ding Shi, come on, come and have some fun."

Ding Shi, driven by malice, launched a series of attacks: hook punch, swing punch, elbow strike, peach-stealing punch, two punches to the ears, an over-the-shoulder throw, a hair grab, a Muay Thai knee strike, and finally a high kick to Liu Niang's chin, sending her flying.

Then the red bellyband disappeared, leaving Liu Niang with only a thin cloth tied around her chest and super short shorts on her lower body. What the heck? Did her clothes rip off?

Despite being beaten half to death, Liu Niang seemed completely unharmed, her eyes now filled with tenderness. And then, damned, the moon happened to appear, allowing Ding Shi to see her even more clearly. This wasn't Liu Niang; this was the Moon Goddess.

Ding Shi punched Liu Niang again, knocking her down. This time, Liu Niang didn't take off her clothes again. The dog system understood men, knowing that the final step had to be done by the man, pushing the temptation to its extreme.

Ding Shi's heart pounded like thunder, and he couldn't help but look at the part that Liu Niang was covering. His blood rushed to his head, and a strong impulse arose in his heart.

Ding realized belatedly that he had been tricked; it was all an illusion!

I'm so bored and have nothing better to do than watch that idiot plowing the fields. Where is that idiot? I must have entered the idiot's illusion.

Thinking of this, Ding Shi finally noticed his surroundings and found himself on a dimly lit open-air rooftop. There was a waterbed on the ground, and Liu Niang, who had been knocked down, was propping herself up with one hand, leaning against the waterbed with a seductive smile. Her other hand was raised, waiting for Ding Shi to come over and take her hand.

Ding Shi tried hard to imagine himself plowing the field in a realistic way to avoid being bewitched by Liu Niang. He believed that if he slept with Liu Niang in the illusion, something terrible would definitely happen in reality.

Ding Shi slapped himself; it hurt. Then Ding Shi turned around, started running, jumped onto the fence, and leaped down.

The body fell, lights flashed around it, and a few seconds later it crashed to the ground.

The pain is unbearable. Have I been run over by a truck in real life? It feels like my bones are shattered, and I can't move at all.

To Ding Shi's utter despair, Liu Niang reappeared before him, along with the waterbed. Ding Shi tried to focus on his surroundings; it seemed many people were walking around, but no one seemed to care what was happening here.

This is not logical.

No response. I filed a complaint at 10:00 AM. System: No error. No repeat complaints allowed within ten minutes.

What's worse, Liu Niang came over, lay down on the spot, and pulled Ding Shi into her arms. What followed was a three-minute struggle, clearly Liu Niang wanted to 404 (a euphemism for sexual intercourse) with Ding Shi.

Ding Shi slammed his head on the ground. He absolutely couldn't go to Liu Niang's place; otherwise, something terrible would definitely happen. Ding Shi regretted jumping off the building. If he hadn't jumped, he could have controlled his own destiny. Now, he was being manipulated by Liu Niang like a toy.

BUG, where is the bug in the illusion?

The environment itself is not wrong; what is wrong is definitely the things that mislead us.

Strips of cloth? That makes sense. Pants, that makes sense, hair, eyes, nose, even the feel of them makes sense.

Liu Niang launched a full-scale attack. Ding Shi felt a deep sense of desolation. He looked up at the sky and shouted in his heart: Damn you, God! Damn system!

Just as she was about to be violated, Ding Shi saw the moon, and it was the moon that gave Liu Niang her holiness and allure.

Ding Shi cried out in his heart, "The moon is wrong." He had no idea what the lunar calendar date was, nor did he know if there would be a moon in the sky, but this was his last straw.

As Ding Shi cried out in his heart, the illusion collapsed.

In reality, Ding Shi is faced with a tree, and all Ding Shi has left is a pair of underwear.

Ding Shi felt a chill run down his spine. If he wasn't mistaken, his next step was to put a 404 error on the tree. And it would be a continuous, non-stop 404 error.

If the hallucination continues until tomorrow morning, not only is the scene unimaginable, but I also can't imagine what my body will be like.

Ding Shi looked around to make sure no one was watching, then quickly put on the clothes and pants he had thrown aside. Without looking at Sha Bi, who was still plowing the field, he ran towards Tie Zhu's house.

Meanwhile, Sha Bi was still chasing Ding Shi through the city. Although Ding Shi and Liu Niang appeared on the road, Sha Bi didn't pay attention to them. His eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at Ding Shi, who was weaving through the crowd, and relentlessly pursued him.

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Ding Shi didn't expect that Tie Zhu's family was also in turmoil. Tie Zhu, dressed in a Taoist robe, was jumping around, trying to stop Cui Hua from leaving, with a wooden bell in his left hand and a Bagua mirror in his right.

Cuihua stood upright with her eyes closed. A yellow talisman was pasted on her forehead. The talisman floated in the night wind, then spontaneously combusted without fire. The talisman detached from Cuihua's forehead and drifted away with the wind.

Cuihua opened her eyes, her sluggish expression replaced by a resolute and determined one. Tiezhu quickly slapped on a new yellow talisman, and Cuihua closed her eyes again.

Ding Shi leaned closer: "Uncle Tiezhu..."

Tie Zhu, covered in sweat, said, "There's a book at the bottom of your aunt's jewelry box in my room. Go get it quickly."

Ding Shi didn't ask any more questions and quickly brought out a thread-bound book called "Huang's Secret Techniques," which was a handwritten copy.

Tie Zhu replaced the talisman with a new one and said, "Recite the Mysterious Incantation."

Ding Shi opened the book and read aloud, "Yun... what character is this?"

Tie Zhu, exasperated, said, "Turn around."

Ding Shi: "The clouds and seals are in the vast void, at the beginning of the great calamity, sometimes far, sometimes near... Sick illnesses can be cured, worldly troubles can be overcome, the netherworld will have something to rely on, and thus one can ascend to the celestial capital." He finished reciting it; it wasn't long.

Tie Zhu said, "Repeat it repeatedly, keep reciting it, and speed it up."

Ding Shi was very obedient. Under the lantern, he held the book and began to recite the Xuan Yun Mantra over and over again. Back in high school, if he had studied this hard, he wondered how many girls would have liked him.

As Ding Shi began reciting the entire text, Tie Zhu's situation improved. Finally, Cui Hua collapsed, but Tie Zhu caught her and carried her back into the house.

Ding Shi returned the Huang family's secret technique to Tie Zhu, who carefully put it away, closed the door, and sat down with Ding Shi in a chair. They lit a water pipe before Ding Shi explained, "It's Cui Lan."

Cuilan was the only daughter of Tiezhu and Cuihua. She drowned before her marriage at the age of 17. Tiezhu used a soul slave talisman to introduce the evil spirit that Cuilan had transformed into into Cuihua's body.

The Soul Slave Talisman is a yellow talisman hidden within the Huang family's secret techniques, not drawn on a book. Because the book's pages were too short, to best preserve the Soul Slave Talisman, Cuihua's father used his own life essence to draw a perfect talisman. With the blessing of Cuihua's father's highly skilled life essence, this Soul Slave Talisman's spiritual energy will not dissipate for a hundred years.

Cuihua was, after all, a woman, and Tiezhu was merely her son-in-law; neither of them could properly draw the Soul Slave Talisman. For the safety of his wife and daughter, they decided to use the Soul Slave Talisman left behind by Cuihua's father.

The problem should have been perfectly resolved, but the couple didn't expect that Cuilan harbored such an obsession, yearning to be with XX forever. Cuilan died five days before her wedding, her resentment transforming into a deep-seated grudge and obsession. In other words, the ghost inside Cuihua wasn't the evil Cuilan, but rather the obsessive Cuilan, which was the culprit behind Cuihua's slow reactions.

Seven days before the anniversary of Cuilan's death, Cuilan's obsession intensifies at night, allowing her to control Cuihua's body and make her determined to go out and find her lover.

(End of this chapter)