Horror Resurrection: I Evolve Starting with the Ghost Buddha

[Gained 13 Fear Points from Gu Yiyi.]

[Gained 16 points of fear from Ji Bochang.]

All fear points have been automatically converted into 'evolution points'!

【…】

As Lin Chuan watched his fear level steadily increase, his mood improved.

At this rate, he will soon have accumulated 1000 evolution points.

Thinking of this, Lin Chuan controlled the coughing monster, preparing to give Zhao Bingtian and his group another boost in "intensity".

The scene shifts back to the banquet hall on the first floor of the Zhao family villa.

Thump! Thump thump!

Just as Zhao Bingtian and his group were feeling hopeless, footsteps sounded again outside the banquet hall.

Immediately afterwards, a figure strode in against the dim light of the corridor.

The newcomer was also dressed in a black trench coat and carried a gold briefcase. With each step he took, the ground seemed to tremble.

"Second Uncle!?"

Upon seeing the figure, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in Zhao Bingtian's previously lifeless eyes.

But the next moment, he became alert.

Is the uncle in front of me really my uncle?

However, before Zhao Bingtian could think any further, the man standing at the door spoke authoritatively.

"Bingtian, step back."

As soon as he finished speaking, he raised his hand and waved it. Stretchers of long, jet-black hair flew out instantly, like tentacles, and immediately wrapped tightly around "Qiu Xiaoya," who was hanging upside down in mid-air.

"There's hope!!"

"This time, there's really hope!"

"Taoist priest? Celestial master? No, no, no! Immortal! Please save us!"

Upon seeing this, the surviving rich kids trembled with excitement, as if they had grasped at a lifeline, and rushed towards the man like madmen.

"Please, divine being, take us away from here!!"

"We will do everything in our power to repay the divine being!"

As they spoke, they rushed out of the candlelight and headed straight for "Zhao Linfeng".

however.

Just as they approached "Zhao Linfeng".

A sudden change occurred.

The once dignified "Zhao Linfeng" suddenly collapsed like a limp lump of mud.

Followed by.

puff!puff!

Several sharp white bones emerged from his body, like bone snakes, and pierced directly through the chests of the rich kids.

Blood gushed out, staining the ground red.

At this moment, the man's skin completely peeled off, revealing a rotting... girl's face covered in maggots.

That's not Qiu Xiaoya.

That was another nameless girl who was toyed with and killed by Zhao Bingtian and buried in the back mountain!

"How...could this be...?"

The rich kids stared in disbelief at the bone spur in their chests, their eyes quickly losing their sparkle.

"Hehehe..."

"Young masters, don't you remember me?"

"Didn't you say... my bones were very flexible...? And now? Aren't they... even more flexible?"

The girl with rotting cheeks tilted her head and let out a chilling laugh.

at the same time.

Shadows began to creep around the banquet hall.

More ferocious and grotesque figures emerged.

There was a boy whose leg was broken by Zhao Bingtian and thrown into the river, and a female student who was driven to jump off a building by Meng Minghao...

These people have all turned into fierce and treacherous beings!

They were dressed in tattered clothes and reeked of a foul stench. They formed a circle and stared intently at Zhao Bingtian and the others inside.

"Young Master Zhao...give me back my life..."

"Why...why did you have to hurt me..."

The venomous whispers coalesced into a terrifying sonic wave, relentlessly assaulting the eardrums of Zhao Bingtian and the others.

"Get out of here!! All of you, get out of here!!"

Zhao Bingtian waved the last remaining eerie candle in his hand, appearing as if he were insane.

But the candlelight was already extremely weak and could go out at any moment.

His two henchmen, Li Bo and Wang Zhao, could not withstand the extreme mental torment and began to scream wildly.

"Aaaaaah! No! Spare me!!"

"We were wrong!"

At this moment, due to excessive burning, the light of the eerie candle gradually dimmed and could no longer cover a range of two meters!

Soon, the spot where Li Bo stood was no longer protected by the candlelight.

In his eyes, almost instantly, he was grabbed by a group of "fierce monsters" and then torn apart!

boom!

But in Zhao Bingtian's eyes, he was tearing his own body apart in a bizarre, physically unnatural way!

In an instant, blood splattered everywhere, a horrifying sight.

Another rich second-generation named Wang Zhao wasn't much better off.

He had also lost the protection of the candlelight and was now kneeling on the ground, frantically scratching his face.

He continued scratching his face until his skin was torn apart, revealing his bare bones, before finally falling silent in utter terror.

"No...no..."

Zhao Bingtian slumped to the ground, his crotch already soaked.

As he watched the approaching wronged souls and the gradually dying cripples of his cronies and underlings, his mental defenses completely collapsed.

As these demons in human skin died one by one in terror, the information on Lin Chuan's mental panel was almost overwhelmed.

One message after another kept popping up.

[Gained 30 points of fear from Zhao Bingtian!]

[Gained +10 points of fear from Li Bo before his death!]

[Gained 55 points of fear from Wang Zhao before his death!]

【…】

at last.

With Zhao Bingtian's final desperate roar, the number in the evolution value column broke through the one thousand mark!

[Current evolution points: 1020.]

[Consuming 1000 evolution points will instantly evolve it into a D-rank Weird!]

Seeing this, Lin Chuan didn't hesitate at all, and with a thought...

"evolution!"

In an instant, 1000 evolution points were deducted.

A special power quickly surged into Lin Chuan's stone statue body.

His damaged Buddha statue body was gradually repaired by that power!

However, the peeling gold paint on his body did not recover; instead, it turned into a deeper, darker black, like dried blood.

His collapsed stone statue's shoulders rose up again.

His blurry features became clearer.

A hazy face, seemingly smiling yet not smiling, seemingly crying yet not crying, carrying both boundless compassion and boundless evil... slowly emerges!

The information on the board has also been updated:

[Consumes 1000 evolution points.]

[Rank Upgrade: E-rank → D-rank!]

[Congratulations, Master! Your life level has advanced!]

[Unlock Core Ability: Ghost Realm (lv1)!]

[Description of the Ghost Realm: This is your world. Within the Ghost Realm (current radius 200 meters), you can distort reality, create illusions, and even... modify some physical rules. As long as the terror level does not exceed your existence, you can use the Ghost Realm to directly devour or seal it...]

[Master, you have evolved to D-rank! Your interface has also been upgraded.]

[Special Features Unlocked: Fear Shop and Wish Shop Now Open!!]

Lin Chuan sensed the power of the rules surrounding him and attempted to unleash his own Ghost Domain.

Soon, the entire dilapidated temple was enveloped by an indescribable power...

The already dilapidated and gloomy temple became even more terrifying under the influence of this power!

After activating the Ghost Realm, he glanced at the newly opened shop.

The Fear Shop displays various tempting fragments of rule abilities: [Blinding], [Sleep Paralysis], [Being Trapped in a Ghostly Wall]...

Meanwhile, the Wish Power Shop contains all sorts of strange and unusual items: [Substitute Straw Man], [Soul Sealing Altar], [Bloodstained Shroud], [Blood Raven Servant], [Corpse-Nourishing Copper Coffin]...

Unfortunately, these items are all ridiculously expensive.

Each item requires thousands, or even tens of thousands, of willpower and fear points.

Lin Chuan withdrew his gaze and stopped looking at the two online stores.

After gaining willpower and fear points, his top priority is to increase his fear level!

With that thought in mind, he turned his attention back to the coughing ghost and the crying ghost.

Because he sensed it.

Outside the Zhao family villa, a strong aura of order was rapidly approaching.

The source of that aura was clearly a demon tamer!

Moreover, he is a powerful monster tamer who controls two E-class monsters!

He was none other than Zhao Bingtian's second uncle, the deputy director of the Zhengui Division, and one of the most powerful figures in Changyang City... Zhao Linfeng!

At this moment, his face was gloomy, and his body reeked of a strong stench of death.

Behind him, he carried a long, golden box.

The moment he stepped into the banquet hall on the first floor, the two eerie creatures he was riding immediately became restless.

"That ignorant fool dares to defy the laws of nature!"

Looking at the mess in the banquet hall, Zhao Linfeng's eyes burned with murderous intent.

In his line of sight.

The banquet hall was filled with "eerie" atmosphere.

And those blood-soaked, ferocious-looking monsters were surrounding his nephew, Zhao Bingtian, baring their fangs and brandishing their claws.

Meanwhile, his nephew, Zhao Bingtian, was huddled in a corner, shivering as he held a nearly extinguished candle in his hand.

"Second Uncle?! Is it really you?!"

Upon seeing the figure at the door, the real Zhao Bingtian was first stunned, then shouted as if he had gone mad.

但他不敢动.

His two previous lessons had made him unable to distinguish between reality and illusion.

"Hmph, useless trash."

Zhao Linfeng snorted coldly and shouted at the "Zhao Bingtian" he saw.

Without further ado, he opened a golden box.

Click.

The box is opened.

A rusty, blood-stained cleaver suddenly appeared in his hand.

That was the E-rank eerie...mysterious blade he wielded!

The moment he gripped the dagger, his once neat short hair suddenly began to grow wildly!

This is the second strange... strange hair he has ridden!

"go!!"

Zhao Linfeng made a move.

With the aid of a strange power, he moved like lightning, instantly rushing into the "monster horde".

puff!

The treacherous blade swung across.

The swollen "drowning ghost" was cut in half at the waist and disappeared into a pool of black water.

shhhhhh!

A flurry of black hair flew through the air, instantly piercing the head of the "jumping ghost."

Zhao Linfeng moved with impunity, slaughtering the "strange creatures" in the hall with abandon.

With each kill, he felt his murderous intent grow stronger.

Anyone who dares to touch the Zhao family, no matter how strange, must pay the price!

however.

What he didn't know was.

At this moment, Zhao Bingtian saw a different hellish scene.

Zhao Bingtian saw it.

After his second uncle rushed in, without saying a word, he swung his knife and slashed at one of his henchmen in the distance.

The boy in that class had just fainted from fright. When he finally woke up from his coma, he saw a long knife aimed at his head.

"No... save him..."

puff!

Before he could finish speaking, his head fell to the ground.

Followed by.

Zhao Linfeng then manipulated that terrifying head of black hair to stab at another rich second-generation who was trying to escape.

"ah!!"

Screams echoed throughout the room.

Zhao Bingtian watched helplessly as his second uncle, like a madman, tortured and killed the survivors one by one.

Blood splattered on Zhao Linfeng's face.

But he was smiling.

The laughter was cruel yet gleeful.

In his eyes, all the "strange" things were suppressed by him.

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

Zhao Bingtian trembled all over, his teeth grinding together, his mind completely broken.

"He's gone mad... Uncle's gone mad too..."

"No! He's not Second Uncle! Hahaha! That's a trick! A trick!!"

"It's all a trick..."

Just as Zhao Bingtian was laughing wildly one moment and crying in fear the next.

Having suppressed numerous "strange" beings, Zhao Linfeng turned around and stared intently at him.

In Zhao Linfeng's view.

At this time, Zhao Bingtian was not his nephew at all.

Instead, it was a monstrous creature covered in lividity, baring its teeth at him!

"Is there one left?"

Zhao Linfeng narrowed his eyes, carrying the still-dripping blood-stained dagger, and walked over step by step.

"No, don't kill me..."

"I am the third young master of the Zhao family."

"Uncle...I'm your nephew!"

"Don't kill me, spare me..."

Faced with death, Zhao Bingtian screamed in terror, tears and snot streaming down his face.

But to Zhao Linfeng...

The "evil monster" simply let out a series of ear-piercing, teeth-grinding, eerie roars.

"What are you yelling about?"

Zhao Linfeng sneered.

"Dare to touch my nephew, Zhao Linfeng? Go scream in hell!"

Swish!

As Zhao Linfeng moved, his black, eerie hair instantly grew wildly, like countless chains, tightly binding Zhao Bingtian and suspending him in mid-air.

"Uh...uh..."

"uncle……"

Zhao Bingtian struggled desperately, kicking his legs wildly.

"die!"

Zhao Linfeng let out a low shout and slashed down fiercely with the grotesque blade in his hand.

puff!

Blood splattered.

Zhao Bingtian's body was instantly split in two.

The two severed pieces of the corpse fell to the ground with a thud, their internal organs spilling out.

Even in death, his eyes remained wide open, unable to close in peace.

"call……"

After suppressing the last "ghost," Zhao Linfeng breathed a sigh of relief.

He wiped the blood from his face and looked around.

"Finally, it's all cleaned up."

"Where's that kid Bingtian?"

He sheathed his dagger and prepared to search for his nephew's whereabouts.

Just then.

The surrounding space suddenly distorted.

The banquet hall, which was originally filled with a gloomy atmosphere, was instantly transformed.

The black water on the ground disappeared.

Instead, the once luxurious decorations were replaced by... corpses scattered all over the ground.

Human corpses.

Zhao Linfeng was suddenly taken aback.

His gaze fell on the two severed corpses at his feet.

Those familiar clothes.

That familiar gold watch.

And that...face, with its eyes wide open in death, filled with endless fear.

"Heng...Hengtian?!"

Zhao Linfeng's pupils contracted sharply, and he felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

Clang!

The dagger in his hand fell to the ground.

He knelt down, trembling, and held Zhao Bingtian's head in his hands.

"How could this be... how could this happen?!"

"The one I killed... was clearly a monster!!"

An unprecedented chill instantly shot from the soles of my feet to the top of my head.

Hallucination?!

Even he, an E-rank Ghost Master who controlled two Ghosts, was hallucinating?!

And without them noticing?!

"Damn it!! Damn it, this is weird!"

Zhao Linfeng suddenly looked up, staring intently at the empty space in the banquet hall, and let out a beast-like roar.

"Get out here!!"

"Get out here!!"

The two fierce demons within him began to stir wildly, their black hair dancing wildly, their murderous aura soaring to the sky.

"As you wish."

A magnificent, grand, yet chilling voice echoed throughout the banquet hall.

hum! !

The air vibrated.

As the sound faded, the ceiling above the banquet hall disappeared.

Instead, a dark red sky appeared.

A huge, broken, golden Buddha statue, dripping with blood and tears, slowly emerged, looking down at the ants on the ground.

That's Lin Chuan's [Ghost Realm] projection!

Although Lin Chuan was in the deserted temple, he directly brought a portion of the ghost domain to this place by coughing!

"What...what is this?!"

The moment Zhao Linfeng saw this evil Buddha, his breath caught in his throat.

Even when facing the head of the Ghost Division of Changming Town, he had never felt such a terrifying sense of oppression.

Grade D?!

No... the level of perfection of these rules...

Could it be a C-grade?!

Just as Zhao Linfeng was filled with doubt and surprise, Lin Chuan's voice suddenly resounded like a great bell:

"I am the ancient Buddha who has been reborn in the Pure Land!"

"Sinner, what you just did was out of attachment to appearances."

"Now that you have seen this Buddha, why don't you lay down your butcher's knife and quickly convert to Buddhism!"

"Know that the sea of ​​suffering is boundless, but turning back is the shore..."

Lin Chuan's voice hadn't faded.

The Crying Demon and the Coughing Demon, who had been lurking in the shadows, suddenly activated their killing rules and attacked Zhao Linfeng.

"Waaaaah..."

A heart-wrenching cry rang out.

Zhao Linfeng felt an overwhelming sadness welling up inside him, and tears instantly streamed down his face.

Blurred vision and sluggish movements.

"Cough cough... cough cough cough..."

Immediately afterwards, a violent coughing sound exploded in his ears.

Every cough felt like an invisible hand was squeezing his lungs.

"Aaaaaah! Get out of here!!"

Zhao Linfeng roared, attempting to unleash the power of the Ghost Hair and Ghost Head Blade within his body to fight back.

but.

He had just overused his strange power, and his emotions were in turmoil.

The fierce balance within him... was broken.

The evil hair began to retaliate, tightening its grip on his neck.

The grotesque knife began to tremble, as if it wanted to strike his neck.

"Namo..."

At this moment, Lin Chuan also activated his rule-based ability... Soul-Reaping Chant!

In an instant, the metallic chanting echoed continuously, like steel needles piercing Zhao Linfeng's brain.

"No...stop reading!!"

Zhao Linfeng clutched his head in anguish and rolled wildly on the ground.

In that grand and eerie chanting, he seemed to see the sins of his entire life.

I saw those people who were killed by the Zhao family.

The evil Buddha sitting atop the clouds became his only salvation.

"I am guilty..."

"I am guilty..."

Gradually, Zhao Linfeng stopped struggling.

He knelt on the ground, his face covered in blood and tears, and kowtowed repeatedly to the Buddha statue in the air.

"I beg Buddha... to save me."

[Congratulations, Master! You have successfully converted a fanatic (E-rank Ghost Rider)!]

[Gained Wish Power: +100!]

Lin Chuan looked at Zhao Linfeng kneeling on the ground, a glint of light flashing in his eyes.

He originally intended to kill Zhao Linfeng directly.

Unexpectedly, the other party was actually "converted" by him.

However, it's a good thing that Zhao Linfeng can be kept.

The Zhao family has deep roots in Changyang City and controls a large amount of resources and intelligence.

Controlling Zhao Linfeng is practically equivalent to controlling half of the Zhao family!

"Zhao Linfeng".

Lin Chuan's voice echoed in his mind.

"Disciple is here."

Zhao Linfeng answered respectfully, his eyes filled with fervor and devotion.

"Take care of everything here."

"Don't let the Zhengui Division trace it back to me."

"Furthermore... I need a list of all the evildoers in Changyang City."

"And information on all paranormal events."

"Yes! Your disciple obeys!"

Zhao Linfeng kowtowed repeatedly.

Upon hearing this, Lin Chuan withdrew his gaze with satisfaction.

The next second, the eerie realm vanished.

The banquet hall returned to calm.

Only Zhao Linfeng remained, kneeling amidst a pile of corpses, a strange yet sincere smile on his face.

……

Inside the deserted temple.

Lin Chuan counted the remaining Willpower and Fear Values ​​on the panel.

The harvest this time was enormous.

His terror level not only rose to D level and he opened the Ghost Domain, but he also unexpectedly subdued Zhao Linfeng, an important pawn.

Now, in this world where terror has resurfaced, he has some ability to protect himself.

however.

Before he could even catch his breath.

A strong sense of unease suddenly came from afar.

Lin Chuan suddenly turned his head and looked towards the depths of the mountains.

That place is... Qingquan Village!

Even if they are several miles apart.

He could also clearly sense that a thick, impenetrable black mist was surging wildly in that direction.

Glug... Glug...

Indistinctly.

He seemed to hear muffled splashes of water, like some enormous creature feeding.

The eerie realm there... is expanding again!

Moreover, it is extremely fast and makes a great commotion!

"At this rate... it probably won't take more than two or three days before it affects me."

Lin Chuan's heart sank.

The source of the eerie realm within Qingquan Village is at least a C-level anomaly.

It could even be... a Class B mystery!

"We cannot sit idly by and wait to die."

"We must gather information beforehand!"

"If we really can't handle this, we'll have no choice but to have Zhao Linfeng bring people over and move my stone Buddha statue away..."