Horror Resurrection: I Evolve Starting with the Ghost Buddha

"Gold...cannot imprison forbidden things?"

Lin Chuan was slightly taken aback when he saw the prompt on the panel.

Since the resurgence of terror, gold has been regarded by humanity as the last line of defense against the erosion of rules.

Experiments have shown that gold is not affected by the power of rules and can limit and imprison the supernatural!

This is almost an ironclad rule.

But now, this ironclad rule has been broken.

Just as Lin Chuan was lost in thought, at that very moment, the sky outside the City of Rebirth suddenly darkened.

This darkness is not the arrival of night, but rather the slow swallowing of all light by that smiling human head!

Its power of rules is eroding all light!

As the light in the world completely dissipated, darkness quickly spread like a tide.

And within this spreading darkness, there were also lingering, nauseating stench of blood and decay.

"Uh...ah..."

Beneath the high walls of the City of Rebirth, the New Federation's Demon Tamers, who had originally intended to escape, suddenly began to kneel down one by one, emitting painful howls.

Their skin began to fester, and dark red blood seeped from every pore on their bodies.

And strangely enough... the blood seemed to wriggle and climb all over their bodies like little snakes.

Their bodies were covered and entangled in blood!

Even the strangeness within them was affected by the erosion.

As if sensing danger, a C-rank monster even tried to crawl out of the body of a New Federation monster tamer and escape.

But as soon as it was halfway exposed, it was completely covered by those dark red blood vessels.

sizzle...

With a chilling corrosive sound, the C-rank ghostly figure... was actually dissolved!

It turned into a pool of black slime, which was then absorbed by the blood streaks and became part of the pollution!

"No...don't..."

A demon tamer watched his hand melt away, his eyes filled with extreme fear.

He tried to call for help, but after uttering only two or three words, all he could make was a gurgling sound.

Soon, his facial features disappeared.

His entire face turned into a smooth piece of flesh.

Then, new facial features appeared on them.

It was a distorted face with a strange smile.

It's exactly the same as that baby-like human head...

Despair, oppression, suffocation!

The entire city was shrouded in a terrifying and chaotic force of rules!

Only Shui Linglong and Han Dang are still struggling to hold on.

After all, they are B-level Ghost Masters, and the strange entities within them are powerful enough.

In addition, they also carried a number of strange items to save their lives.

Therefore, they are still able to resist for the time being and have not yet been completely assimilated.

"I don't want to die... I can't die..."

"Ah! Ugh!! No!!"

Shui Linglong gritted her teeth, and her once charming face was now covered with dark red blood vessels.

Her eyes were unfocused, and she was teetering on the brink of mental collapse.

Han Dang wasn't much better off.

His prized "Mountain Moving Demon" was now severely suppressed, almost to the point of "crashing".

And the surrounding area.

Those New Federation Beastmasters, who have been completely corrupted and transformed into monsters, are emerging unsteadily from pools of boiling blood!

Covered in blood and with ferocious expressions, they surrounded Shui Linglong and Han Dang, chanting obscure and corrupting prayers:

"Praise be to my Lord...the end of flesh and blood..."

"Return...Assimilation...Welcome..."

Every syllable they uttered was like a heavy hammer blow, slamming into Shui Linglong and Han Dang's rational defenses.

"It's over..."

The strange prop in Shui Linglong's hand, a bronze mirror that could withstand strange rules, shattered with a crack.

That was her last resort.

"roll!!"

"Get out of my way!!"

Han Dang, standing nearby, was screaming and yelling in despair.

Clearly, he had completely lost his mind, corrupted by the rules and consumed by fear.

Just when the two were about to completely succumb to depravity.

hum! !

A giant, blood-red Buddha's hand materialized out of the void without warning, and it grabbed Shui Linglong and Han Dang.

Then, the strangeness within the two bodies was directly removed!

This blood-red Buddha's hand is none other than Lin Chuan's activated rule ability—[Buddha Kingdom in the Palm]!

"Devour!"

Without hesitation, Lin Chuan devoured the strange entity that had been taken from Shui Linglong and Han Dang!

At times like these, devouring one more strange creature will increase one's own power by one point!

Click!

In an instant, the two B-grade monsters were forcibly merged into his stone Buddha statue body by Lin Chuan.

clack clack...

After devouring the two strange creatures, another eerie friction sound rang out from Lin Chuan's Buddha statue.

Immediately afterwards, his stone Buddha body began to shake violently and transform...

The surface, which was originally pitch black, now revealed a layer of eerie patterns.

Those twisted and tangled patterns seemed to contain some ancient and evil rule or principle.

An unprecedentedly powerful feeling surged through Lin Chuan's entire body.

When he completely merged the two B-grade monsters, a wisp of dark divinity appeared on his body!

[Successfully devoured!]

[Congratulations, Master, on acquiring the rule-based ability—Charm!]

[Charm: Can mentally bewitch and control the supernatural and those who wield supernatural abilities (Note: Ineffective or even ineffective against beings exceeding one's own terror level).]

[Congratulations, Master, on acquiring the Rule Ability - Mountain Moving Warrior!]

[Mountain Moving Warrior: Can condense a guardian ghost servant, possessing extreme power and defense; a single punch can temporarily disable a ghost of the same level!]

[Master has currently consumed 460 million evolution points, and can directly evolve into—A-Rank Mysterious Being!!]

"Um?"

Lin Chuan looked at the data on the panel, his mind stirred slightly, and he was somewhat surprised.

Originally, it would have taken him 500 million evolution points to evolve into an A-level monster.

However, after devouring two B-grade monsters, the evolution points required were reduced by a staggering 40!

Even so, he still needs a massive amount of evolution points to evolve to A-level.

Meanwhile, on the other side...

Shui Linglong and Han Dang, whose bodies were mysteriously taken away by Lin Chuan and who had lost the protection of the strange power, were completely powerless to resist.

Countless dark red blood vessels surged from their bodies, instantly covering their entire bodies.

In the blink of an eye, their eyes became empty and numb.

Immediately, their bodies melted and reformed, eventually turning into grotesque, twisted, blood-soaked figures.

"Blessed... my lord..."

They knelt on the ground, bowing in worship to the human head that was suspended in mid-air.

at the same time.

On the illusory panel deep within Lin Chuan's consciousness, blood-red prompts popped up again.

[The First to Cry Blood: Fully Awakened!]

[Forbidden Sequence: 209!]

[Forbidden Rule: Blood Realm (Using demonic blood as a medium, it expands infinitely, distorts spacetime, affects reality, and constructs a forbidden kingdom)!]

[Current Rank: S-Rank, Tier 1!]

"Sequence 209..."

Lin Chuan felt a chill run down his spine.

Although it's unclear what this sequence specifically represents, the level of S-rank, first tier alone is enough to instill despair.

Just then.

The baby head that had been smiling with its eyes closed suddenly opened its eyes.

Its eyes were pitch black, deep, with no whites, only endless stillness and coldness.

The next moment, its gaze pierced through layers of void and landed directly inside the main hall of the Temple of Rebirth.

It landed on the stone Buddha in Linchuan.

Click!

It was just a glance.

Lin Chuan's stone Buddha body, which had just undergone a transformation, was cracked with fissures, as if it was about to collapse and disintegrate...

"not good!!"

Lin Chuan was terrified.

Since becoming a strange Buddha statue, his emotional fluctuations had almost disappeared, but at this moment... his heart was still trembling uncontrollably!

Without any hesitation, Lin Chuan immediately activated the second level of the Ghost Domain!

With the power of the rules amplified tenfold, it barely managed to block the erosion of the head's vision.

"A deadly chant!"

"A Buddhist Kingdom in the Palm of Your Hand!"

"The Illusion of Blood and Tears!"

"A bizarre dream!"

As he opened up the second layer of the strange domain, Lin Chuan simultaneously activated all of his rule abilities!

A grand, distorted Buddhist chant resounded throughout the heavens and earth, a gigantic, blood-red Buddha hand blotted out the sky, and terrifying illusions layered upon each other.

He even summoned the [Mountain Moving Warrior] that he had just acquired.

It was a giant with a blue face and fangs, ten meters tall, swinging its huge fist and smashing it hard at the head in the air.

"Cough cough! Cough cough cough!!"

The coughing clone, which had already evolved to level B, was also controlled by Lin Chuan and appeared on the city wall, emitting a heart-wrenching cough.

However, the impact of these rule-based abilities had no effect whatsoever in the face of that severed head.

It simply floated there quietly, with more and more blood flowing from its seven orifices.

The drops of blood that fell to the ground could turn into a pool of blood!

The pool of blood surged and rose into the sky, easily swallowing the Buddha's hand, drowning the Mountain-Moving Warriors, and scattering the chanting.

Even the deadly rule of the coughing monster was assimilated and dissolved the moment it touched the sea of ​​blood.

"It's useless... completely useless..."

Seeing this, Lin Chuan felt a pang of heart palpitation.

With his own control over the rules, he couldn't even put up a fight against that strange human head, let alone suppress it!

If it weren't for the support of the second layer of the Ghost Domain, I would probably have already been corrupted and assimilated by now!

The problem is that the second-level ghost domain can only be maintained for three minutes!

Three minutes later, the second level of the Ghost Realm will enter a 24-hour cooldown period!

Thinking about this, Lin Chuan became increasingly uneasy.

If I can't find a way to fight that severed head, I'm afraid my consciousness will be erased and I'll become its puppet...

Lin Chuan's thoughts raced as he desperately considered possible ways to break the deadlock.

But at that very moment, outside the city...

Shui Linglong, Han Dang, and the dozens of demon tamers from the New Federation were roaring and charging toward the city gate of the City of Rebirth with twisted gait.

sizzle...

The city gate, which had been imbued with the power of rules by Lin Chuan, quickly decayed and rotted upon their touch.

Dark red bloodstains seeped in through the cracks in the door.

Wherever it passed, even the air began to distort and deform.

Under the influence of those blood rules, even with the support of the second layer of the strange domain, Lin Chuan's consciousness felt somewhat muddled.

……

Inside the underground shelter of the City of Rebirth.

Two hundred thousand survivors huddled together, shivering.

Although they cannot see the outside world.

But the gradually descending, suffocating sense of oppression still clearly reached everyone's hearts.

"My hands... why have my hands turned red?"

A middle-aged man looked at his arm in horror; a red patch had appeared on it without him noticing.

"I feel...so sleepy...I really want to sleep..."

Another old man leaned against the corner of the wall, his eyes beginning to glaze over.

The pollution has already seeped through the earth's strata.

despair.

It spread here.

"No! We can't die!"

"Buddha will save us! He definitely will!!"

Just then.

A childish voice rang out.

It was a little girl wearing a tattered red dress.

She knelt on the ground, clasped her hands together, closed her eyes, and loudly recited:

"Namo Amitabha Buddha, the Supreme Buddha of Rebirth in the Pure Land..."

Her voice trembled, but it was full of determination.

"Yes! Pray to Buddha!"

May the Buddha protect you so that you may be reborn in the Pure Land!

A woman standing nearby, holding her baby tightly in her arms, also knelt down.

"Namo Buddha of Rebirth in the Pure Land!!"

May Buddha protect us!

More and more people knelt down.

In this moment of despair.

Lin Chuan became their only lifeline.

It is also their only faith.

The prayers of 200,000 people converged and quickly transformed into streams of fervent power, flowing towards Lin Chuan.

……

The main hall of the Temple of Rebirth.

Lin Chuan, whose consciousness was already beginning to fade, suddenly shuddered.

He saw the numbers of willpower on the illusory panel deep within his consciousness begin to jump wildly.

[Gained +100 Wishes!]

[Gained +500 Wishes!]

[Gained +10000 Wishes!]

……

In just a few seconds.

The number of wish power points has exceeded one million.

Three million!

Five million!

Six million!!

On the verge of life and death and despair, the believers in the city unleashed an unprecedented power of faith!

"Six million..."

Looking at the numbers on the panel, Lin Chuan felt reassured.

"That's enough!"

"That's enough for evolution!!"

"Panel! Convert all!"

"Give me...evolution!!"

As Lin Chuan consumed 460 million evolution points, in an instant...

Rumble!!!

The desolate mountain where the Temple of Rebirth is located suddenly trembled violently.

An indescribable aura of terror surged up from the depths of the main hall.

At the source of that aura, a dark red, malevolent light surged, forming a pillar of light that reached the heavens and the earth, directly tearing apart the darkness that shrouded the city.

[Consumed 460 million evolution points.]

[Terror level increased: B-level → A-level!]

[Congratulations, Master! Your level of terror has successfully advanced!]

[You have unlocked a new rule ability—Radiant Light!]

[Ability Description: Condenses eerie Buddhist light; wherever it shines, all laws retreat! Easily suppresses all A-rank anomalies, and can even briefly contend with S-rank first-tier forbidden abilities!]

When Lin Chuan completed his advancement and a notification popped up on the panel, his stone Buddha body underwent another earth-shattering change.

The original rough stone texture completely disappeared, replaced by a strange substance that was neither gold nor jade, and shimmered with a dark red light.

Behind him, a huge, dark red halo slowly emerged.

Within that halo, it seemed as if countless vengeful ghosts were chanting scriptures, and as if countless gods and Buddhas were weeping.

Sacred and evil.

Compassion and cruelty.

They blended together perfectly at this moment.

"The Buddha's light shines everywhere!"

hum! ! !

Lin Chuan activated the rule-based ability he had just acquired!

Soon, a dark red wave of light, centered on the Temple of Rebirth, spread outwards like a nuclear shockwave.

Wherever they went.

The darkness melted away.

The sea of ​​blood evaporated.

The grotesque blood-red figures, corrupted and mutated, who were frantically attacking the city gates, let out a piercing scream when illuminated by the Buddha's light.

sizzle...

Their flesh and blood began to dry up and fall off rapidly, eventually turning into piles of black ash.

In just a moment.

The crisis within the City of Rebirth has been completely resolved.

But the dark red Buddhist light did not stop.

It continued to spread outwards, crashing violently into the suspended human head in mid-air.

boom!!!

Two terrifyingly powerful forces of law collided head-on in mid-air.

On one side is the S-rank forbidden [Blood Realm].

On one side is the "Buddha's Light Shining Everywhere" of the A-level evil Buddha.

The world changed color.

The space seemed to be breaking apart.

The head that had been smiling eerily also subtly changed its expression.

"Wow!!"

It opened its mouth and emitted a series of sharp, distorted murmurs.

The sound was like a baby crying, or an old man sighing; every syllable contained decay and chaotic, polluted rules.

Immediately afterwards, the blood flowing from its seven orifices became even more turbulent and crimson...