Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 260 Evil Monk
Pompasong's face instantly darkened.

At the same time, a fierce glint appeared in his eyes: "You're courting death!"

Before he could finish speaking, an invisible force instantly attacked Jiang Jin!
At the same time, from the shadows in the corner of the room, several blurry, twisted, and resentful spirits shrieked and pounced on Jiang Jin!

The attack was extremely sudden and ruthless! This evil monk had no intention of talking and immediately struck to kill!
If it's near LV3, then it should be equivalent to a LV2 Yin Fu Master!
"Death knell! Open the ghost realm!"

Jiang Jin let out a low roar and reacted with lightning speed, leaping to the side and back!

The undead hound, Deathstroke, instantly expanded, and the ghost realm suddenly expanded from its center, enveloping Jiang Jin and the approaching vengeful spirits!

The speed of those vengeful spirits suddenly slowed down within the ghost realm, emitting even more shrill screams as they fiercely clashed with the ghost realm power of Deathstroke!
As Jiang Jin retreated, the Mourning Shotgun appeared in his hand!
Without hesitation, he pulled the trigger directly in the direction of Pompadour!

"boom--!"

However, it was as if there was an invisible barrier in front of Pompasong. The bullets exploded half a meter away from him, scattering sparks, and failed to hit him directly!
Jiang Jin felt a chill run down his spine; his opponent was indeed not easy to deal with. The near-LV3 strength, coupled with this eerie environment, was extremely disadvantageous to him.

Pompasong grinned maliciously, muttered incantations, and formed a strange hand seal with his hands.

The talismans in the room began to glow faintly, and even more powerful evil energy began to gather!
No time to waste! We must finish this quickly! This is his home turf! Is he about to use... the abilities of a Yin Talisman Master?

Of course, he is not a reincarnator and cannot use the rules of resentment ashes to corrupt his power, so he will ultimately be weaker than a true near-LV3!
A resolute glint flashed in Jiang Jin's eyes. He abruptly put the now useless hunting rifle back into his watch, and with a flick of his right hand, he took out the Zhong Kui Judge's Pen—an antique-style pen with sharp edges, yet exuding boundless majesty!

This is the weapon used by Fengya, who is at level 4!

The moment the judge's pen appeared, the evil energy in the room seemed to be scorched, emitting a "sizzling" sound. The vengeful spirits screamed and retreated, and even Pompasong's protective barrier fluctuated violently. The sinister smile on his face froze instantly, turning into horror!

After all, they are a group of Thai evil spirits; how could they possibly stop Zhong Kui!

"What...is this?!" Pompasong began to tense up for the first time.

Ignoring the rapid depletion of his SAN value, Jiang Jin brandished the Judge's Pen, its tip radiating brilliant golden light!

He gripped the judge's pen as if it were a sword, and thrust it forward with a sudden thrust!
The golden light, like a sharp sword, pierced through Pompasong's protective barrier in an instant!
Pompasong screamed in agony, his body thrashing backward as if struck by a heavy blow, vomiting a mouthful of black blood. The evil energy field around him instantly dissipated by more than half.

Jiang Jin pressed his advantage relentlessly, taking a step forward and locking the golden light of the Judge's Pen firmly onto Pompasong, the tip of the pen only an inch away from his forehead!
The righteous and unyielding power pressed down on the evil monk Pompasong, causing him to tremble all over. His evil power seemed to melt away like ice and snow under the sun!
The death knell roared as it approached, while the ghostly realm firmly suppressed the remaining vengeful spirits.

Jiang Jin looked down at him with icy eyes, staring intently at the terrified and pained Pompasong with his judge's pen, and demanded in a deep voice, "Speak! Where is the Buddha's treasure? Hand over the Buddha's treasure, and I'll spare your life!"

The golden light of the judge's pen burned Pompasong's skin, emitting a burnt smell, forcing him to answer immediately.

However... Jiang Jin completely underestimated the power gap represented by the evaluation of "near LV3".

Although the golden light of the Judge's Pen severely injured Pompasong and broke through his protective evil barrier, it failed to completely dismantle his fighting power and profound evil skills.

Just as Jiang Jin was pressing him with a stern voice, Pompasong's eyes flashed with extreme resentment and madness.

He suddenly bit his tongue, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and his hands formed a hand seal at an incredible speed, hoarsely roaring out a few obscure syllables!

"Click...click...pop!"

As if receiving a command, the lids of the ceramic jars with talismans pasted on them around the room popped open automatically!

A torrent of thick, dark, and icy resentment surged forth like a flood bursting its banks!

In an instant, the temperature in the entire room plummeted, frost condensed on the walls, and countless twisted, tormented, and hateful phantoms crawled out of the jar, shrieking and filling the entire space!
These are the vengeful spirits that Pompasong cruelly created and imprisoned, and now he has released them all by damaging his own foundation!
The terrifying spiritual pressure pressed down on Jiang Jin as if it were a physical entity!
Although the golden light of the Judge's Pen can suppress evil spirits, Jiang Jin's own level is too low, only LV2, and he cannot fully exert the power of this treasure like Feng Ya!
The golden light began to sway violently under the impact of such a massive amount of resentment, and its range was drastically compressed!

"Death knell!" Jiang Jin roared.

The undead hounds roared and pounced, attempting to attack Pombason's main body and relieve the pressure on Jiang Jin!

It bit into Pompasong's ankle!
Pompasong winced in pain, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes. He drew a bone dagger wreathed in black energy and slashed down fiercely!

scoff!

Deathstroke's head was severed by this single blow!
However, Deathstroke is a ghost, and the severed neck emits a large amount of resentful ashes, which then reassemble and transform into a new head!

But this attack clearly dealt it a heavy blow; its size shrank, and the power of its ghostly domain plummeted! The re-formed head began to whimper in pain.

To Jiang Jin’s dismay, the noise downstairs and outside streets continued as before, but the fierce fighting, the wailing of the vengeful spirits, and the gunshots on the third floor did not attract any onlookers or stop the fight!
It was as if this space had been invisibly isolated. This was definitely not normal; either it was a barrier set up by Pompasong beforehand, or... the reincarnation system had, to some extent, "tacitly approved" or "shielded" the conflict in this advancement mission!

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Pompasong staggered backward, his hands forming a mudra once more. It was as if countless insects were wriggling beneath the skin of his face, making him appear incredibly ferocious.

"With my lifeblood, I feed the evil spirits! The Demon-Planting Technique—Bone-Clinging Ulcer!"

He slammed his fist on his chest, spitting out another mouthful of black blood. The black blood transformed into a strange rune in the air before instantly disappearing into the void!
Jiang Jin immediately felt an extremely cold power ignore the golden light of the Judge's Pen and the external physical defenses, and directly invade his body!

"Ugh!" Jiang Jin groaned, his face turning deathly pale, and cold sweat beading on his forehead.

His SAN value began to drop rapidly, and he felt a wave of weakness.

This "ghostly technique" is extremely vicious, directly affecting the very source of life!
We must finish this quickly! Otherwise, we'll be worn down and killed by this insidious technique!

Despite his discomfort, Jiang Jin once again activated the Judge's Pen, sending golden light piercing towards Pompasong.

But Pompason cunningly hid behind the horde of vengeful spirits, while simultaneously manipulating them to launch suicidal attacks, depleting Jiang Jin's power and the might of the Judge's Pen.

The situation took a sharp turn for the worse! Jiang Jin tried everything he could, but found himself in a desperate situation!
He took out the scissors that could cut the curse threads again and cut at the invisible "ghost seed" connection in front of him!
Snap! With a crisp sound, the seemingly tough scissors, upon contact with the eerie connection formed by the Ghostly Technique, couldn't withstand the powerful evil force and snapped in two!

Pompason let out a smug, eerie laugh: "Useless! Just obediently become nourishment for my demon seed!"

In despair, Jiang Jin swiftly retrieved another cloth bag from his Reincarnator Watch—Blood Fiend Glutinous Rice!
This is a loot from the treasure chest of Li Zhen, the sorcerer from the Shadow Blade team. It contains extremely strong power to ward off evil spirits and suppress malevolent forces, and is specifically designed to suppress evil ghosts and spirits!

He grabbed a handful of glutinous rice and, disregarding the loss of SAN value, fiercely threw the blood-red glutinous rice at the onrushing horde of vengeful spirits and Pompasong!

"Sizzle sizzle sizzle—!!!"

Like a red-hot iron meeting ice water!

When the blood-red glutinous rice came into contact with the vengeful spirits, the spirits instantly let out extremely shrill screams, their bodies emitting green smoke as if being corroded, and they all disintegrated!

Pompasong was also hit by a few grains of glutinous rice. He immediately let out a painful roar, and his facial skin began to burn, leaving charred marks. His movements also froze!
opportunity!

A fierce glint flashed in Jiang Jin's eyes. Enduring the excruciating pain from the erosion caused by the ghost seed within his body, he charged forward!
This time, he pulled out Chen's boning knife and stabbed it straight into Pompasong's throat, which was beginning to spasm in pain!

However, the near-LV3 powerhouses' perception and reaction to danger far exceed expectations!

At the last moment, Pompasong suddenly turned his head, and the boning knife grazed his cheek, drawing blood, but it was not fatal!
"Damn it!" Jiang Jin cursed under his breath.

Just as Pompason was filled with shock and anger and was about to unleash his evil magic again, Jiang Jin did something that would make all the reincarnators feel crazy and extravagant!

He swiftly retrieved a shard of resentment from the Reincarnator's Watch!

At this moment, all he could see was victory, survival, and the hope of the "Deceptive Lawyer" advancing!
Without hesitation, he forcefully and violently shoved the shard of resentment into Pompason's thigh! "Aaaaaaahh ...

Pompason let out a bloodcurdling scream that was absolutely inhuman!
The power of shattered resentment crystals is highly toxic to humans who haven't been granted professions by the reincarnation system that allow them to adapt to various corrupting rules! It's a devastating pollution!

In an instant, the wound on his thigh turned pitch black, and his skin, muscles, and blood vessels rotted and melted away, revealing the stark white bone, which was also rapidly turning black and shattering!
Even more terrifying, that polluting force spread wildly upwards along the blood and energy channels, rushing straight to the brain!
Pompasong's face rotted and peeled off at a visible speed, and his eyeballs even melted away, revealing dark eye sockets and a pale skull!
But thanks to his profound evil skills and near-LV3 vitality, he did not die immediately, but was enduring the most extreme pain in the world!

It's likely that only Jiang Jin would use Resentment Crystal Shards as weapons. Ordinary reincarnators treasure even a single Resentment Crystal Shard, never daring to use it lightly, let alone use it against an enemy!

But Jiang Jin is different! He's a tycoon, and he has plenty of resentment and broken crystals!

Without hesitation, Jiang Jin swung the boning knife again, this time with perfect precision, slicing through Pompasong's neck, which had lost half its flesh and was barely held together by evil power!

puff!

Half of the head flew off!
A large amount of blood spurted out, and the half-head, still bearing the remnants of endless pain, resentment, and shock, rolled to the ground. The remaining headless corpse twitched a few times before finally collapsing with a thud.

The lips of that half-skull were still moving, uttering indistinct yet extremely vicious curses: "You think you've won? But you, you don't know you... you're about to die... I can see it clearly... you... are not far from death..."

Before he could finish speaking, his last chance of survival was completely extinguished.

Jiang Jin was breathing heavily. The power of the Ghostly Technique within him was weakening due to the death of the caster, but it had not completely disappeared and was still causing a dull ache.

His SAN value dropped significantly due to the continuous use of powerful items and the attacks he endured. He also suffered multiple scratches from vengeful spirits, leaving him covered in blood.

He dared not delay, and immediately took out a bandage from his Reincarnator watch, quickly and skillfully wrapping it around the wound, treating the injury and restoring his SAN value at the same time.

After doing all this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, but his heart was still pounding.

He won this battle somewhat by luck; if he hadn't had enough trump cards, he might be the one lying dead on the ground right now.

He quickly searched Pompadour's gruesome body and eventually found a small brocade box wrapped in a talisman inside his clothing.

Upon opening it, one finds a golden Bodhi leaf, imbued with gentle yet powerful Buddhist energy—the very gilded Bodhi leaf required for the mission.

Finally, I got it!

He carefully put away the Buddhist treasure and cautiously looked around.

Jiang Jin quickly cleaned up the scene, storing any potentially useful items (such as the bone dagger and some unopened, strange pottery jars) into his Reincarnator watch. These items were used by sorcerers and might be of use to Lin Lu.

Then, he closed the door and hurried downstairs.

When he passed the front desk of the massage parlor, the two men who were guarding the place saw him covered in blood but did not react at all.

Jiang Jin understood that this was most likely information blocking implemented by the Reincarnation System to ensure the smooth progress of the advancement mission.

He walked out of the alley, and Lin Lu immediately ran over from the fast food restaurant across the street. Seeing the blood on him, she turned pale with fright: "Officer Jiang! Are you...are you alright?!"

"It's nothing, just a minor injury. The mission is complete, let's go back quickly." Jiang Jin didn't want to linger in this troublesome place, so he pulled Lin Lu away quickly.

In the real world, at Muxu City and Yaochi Club.

Long Mingzhang emerged from the luxurious jacuzzi, wrapped in a soft bathrobe, and walked into the room.

On a huge, circular waterbed lay two hot, blonde, blue-eyed young American women, both gazing at him with seductive eyes.

"Minister Long... Shall we continue tonight?" the American girl asked coquettishly in broken Chinese.

Long Mingzhang waved his hand, a hint of sage-like languor on his face: "No need."

At this moment, his gaze was already fixed on the door.

The door opened silently, and a figure walked in.

The two American women on the bed couldn't help but show a hint of amazement and inferiority in their eyes when they saw the newcomer.

She was clearly an Asian woman, yet she possessed a stunning figure that even European and American supermodels could hardly match.

She wore a well-tailored dark red cheongsam that perfectly accentuated her curves. Her appearance was extremely beautiful, yet she possessed an eerie and dangerous aura; her eyes, when they moved, seemed capable of bewitching and captivating.

This woman is none other than Xia Yu, the "Witch Queen" who is extremely famous in the reincarnation circle.

"Minister Long, how did your 'foreign language learning' go tonight?" Xia Yu asked with a light laugh, her voice sweet and alluring.

Minister Long also laughed. Ever since a certain popular TV series aired, the word "learn a foreign language" has long since deviated from its original meaning, just like "get a haircut".

Long Mingzhang sized up Xia Yu, then glanced at the two Western beauties on the bed who suddenly seemed gaudy, and couldn't help but sigh inwardly: Damn... that Blood Owl guy... he's really lucky with women! He can actually sleep with a beauty like Xia Yu every night... if she were willing to go into prostitution, she would definitely be the top courtesan at Yaochi Club!
The two beautiful women were also sensible people. Upon seeing Xia Yu arrive, they immediately put on their clothes and quietly left the room.

Xia Yu walked to the wine cabinet, elegantly poured two glasses of red wine, and handed one to Long Mingzhang: "Minister Long, we've just received a batch of excellent 'materials,' all with a South American flair. There's the passionate Venezuelan rose, the samba-dancing Brazilian beauty, and the aloof and haughty Argentinian lady... Which one are you more interested in?"

Long Mingzhang took the wine glass, swirled it gently, but did not answer directly. Instead, he asked, "Xia, what about Xue Xiao? I haven't heard from him lately."

Xia Yu smiled and said, "The guild leader has recently had some insights and is currently in seclusion trying to reach a higher level. By the way, how was the 'Death Coin' that the guild leader gave you to play with last time? Are you satisfied?"

A hint of satisfaction flashed in Long Mingzhang's eyes: "We have begun to generate new resentment fragments. Although the speed is slow, the advantage lies in the powerful rule pollution."

As they spoke, Long Mingzhang used drinking as a cover, but his gaze unconsciously drifted towards Xia Yu's high breasts.

Xia Yu naturally noticed his gaze, but her smile became even more alluring.

In truth, if she hadn't already been imprinted with an inescapable soul mark by the Blood Lord, given her extremely loose nepotism, she would never have minded having something happen with this powerful Minister Long.

She changed the subject with a charming smile: "If the 'Final Destination' meme can be stably replicated through this coin, and even mass-produced into weapons, the prospects would be amazing. Even if it's just used by ordinary soldiers on the front lines to deal with meme contamination, it could greatly reduce casualties, right?"

Long Mingzhang shook his head: "It's not that simple. The controllability and safety of meme weapons are the biggest challenges, and a lot of experiments and data accumulation are still needed. Ordinary people are different from us; they haven't been given professions, so they ultimately can't withstand the corruption of the rules. However... this direction has great potential."

He took a sip of his drink and then looked at Xia Yu meaningfully.

The two chatted for a few more minutes before Xia Yu rose to take his leave: "Minister Long, please rest well. I won't bother you any longer. I'll instruct those new 'materials' outside to intensify their 'training' so they can be ready to serve you at any time. You are our most important guest, and we must not neglect you."

Stepping out of Long Mingzhang's luxurious suite, Xia Yu immediately instructed his subordinates waiting at the door: "Go, have the people below intensify their training of the newly arrived batch of goods. Teach them all the rules and make sure nothing goes wrong. Minister Long is our biggest backer; we must serve him impeccably and not offend him in the slightest."

She was walking along in high heels when suddenly—

"Ugh!!!"

An indescribable, intense pain, originating from the depths of one's soul, suddenly erupted!
Xia Yu screamed and clutched her chest. She felt as if she had been struck by an invisible hammer. She staggered a few steps and fell heavily onto the carpet!
She felt as if her soul was being forcibly torn apart and ripped away by some force!
at this time……

The old witch who had received 10,000 baht from Jiang Jin was holding the doll in front of her and began chanting incantations as she performed a ritual!

(End of this chapter)