Rules of the Strange: I Became a God in a Bizarre World Through Taoist Arts

"Such a strong ghostly aura!"

Shen Xingzhu struggled to open her eyes, her consciousness drifting uncontrollably.

She clearly remembered that she had dragged the vengeful ghost into the gates of hell just a second ago, so how could she have appeared in such a strange place in the blink of an eye?

The ghostly aura solidified into a dense fog so thick that one couldn't see their own hand in front of their face!

Shen Xingzhu subconsciously made a hand seal, but as soon as he raised his hand, it was firmly grasped by someone, their fingers intertwined.

Before she could react, the girl's trembling voice came to her ears.

"Ugh, another life-or-death question! I can't bear to look anymore!"

"Will Hu Shuo be able to give birth to the Buddha's child?" she asked hesitantly. "The requirement for passing the test is that he must firmly hold onto the Buddha's heart..."

"Can a child really bind him? What if we don't have one, and the Buddhist disciple interprets it as him not loving him?"

Shen Xingzhu could tell that she was really conflicted.

but……

The child of a Buddhist?

What Buddhist disciple would dare to break the precepts so blatantly?

What are those girls looking at? And what does "passing the level" mean?

Is this some kind of brain-dead game livestream?

Shen Xingzhuo looked around, and finally, her gaze was drawn to the bright light in the sky.

The sky here is very high, without stars or moon; instead, there is a curtain of light that almost covers the entire sky.

Shen Xingzhuo saw a man gently stroking his pregnant belly.

For some inexplicable reason, she came to believe that the scene in the sky was also reality.

Shen Xingzhuo looked completely bewildered, and said dryly, "The world down the mountain... is developing... so fast..."

But then she couldn't contain her surprise and her voice rose a few decibels.

"When can a man get pregnant?!"

Shen Xingzhu blinked hard.

The girl holding her hand sensed the doubt in her tone.

"You didn't watch the live stream on Sky Dome, did you?"

"The Chosen One's identity in this ghost story is the Buddha's adopted sister." She paused, "The plot is set up so that the two have a forbidden love. What the Chosen One has to do is prove that she loves the Buddha without reservation and eliminate the Buddha's obsession caused by his sister's constant avoidance of love."

"In the previous few nights, Hu Shuo chose to conceive the child of the Buddha in order to avoid being killed."

"But you know how strange the timing was; just two nights later, his belly started to swell up."

"The Buddhist monk then began to question whether Hu Shuo loved the child more than him, and had his men send Hu Shuo a consent form for an abortion."

The girl's breathing was rapid. "This is another life-or-death situation!"

"But isn't it said that only love can give birth to life? I think I might be able to get a perfect score this time!"

The girl's voice was filled with excitement when she talked about completing the game perfectly.

But then, as if suddenly overwhelmed by an even greater fear, he began to tremble uncontrollably.

"He'll definitely beat the game, right?"

"He must pass this level!"

"Otherwise... we really won't have a chance! He has to clear the level!"

The girl became somewhat manic, and her grip on Shen Xingzhuo's hand tightened considerably.

Shen Xingzhuo silently transferred a wisp of spiritual energy to her to calm her down.

The girl, however, suddenly relaxed and burst into tears.

"I want to live, I really want to live..."

She was already somewhat out of her mind.

Shen Xingzhuo, however, gleaned key information from her earlier statement.

Strange Rules!

Good heavens, the plot of the novel has actually come true!

Shen Xingzhuo's gaze sharpened, and he subconsciously activated the "Qi Observation Technique." He saw a dark blue-black, infant-shaped mass of foul energy coiled around Hu Shuo's abdomen, devouring his life force.

If the ghost fetus is left behind, it will cause harm to the body and bring misfortune; if it is left behind, it will damage the original spirit.

In other words, no matter what choice this person named Hu Shuo makes, he will only face death!

The ghost child will take his life before the punishment of the ghost story.

Shen Xingzhuo's strong professional ethics prevented her from standing by and watching someone die.

She released the girl's hand and formed a mudra with her own. But she didn't expect that the man in the sky, after simply signing the "Abortion Consent Form," would be disemboweled by the evil fetus in his womb and fall into a pool of blood.

"what!"

The sky darkened, and eerie, mournful wails assaulted everyone's minds.

The next second, a faint, ethereal voice rang out.

[Hu Shuo, the 17th Chosen One of Tianxia Kingdom, failed his challenge.]

[The national fortune value of Tianxia Kingdom has decreased by five, and the current national fortune value is fifteen.]

[The Heavenly Xia Kingdom's national fortune value is insufficient to offset the punishment; ten strange tales have now been randomly summoned! Ten percent of the Pure Land area remains.]

[The strange tales have descended; to you of Tianxia Kingdom, best of luck.]

The sound disappeared into the sky.

The sky split open, simultaneously projecting images of the ten areas that had been descended upon by the ghost stories.

The fog thickened, and strange things descended.

Some people were roasted to a crisp by the sudden increase in temperature of 1,000 degrees Celsius caused by the will-o'-the-wisp falling from the sky.

Some people simply turned off the lights and saw a pair of scarlet eyes in their homes;

Some people heard empty footsteps behind them, and the next second, they were dragged into the wedding sedan chair for a ghost marriage...

The piercing wails came from all directions, weaving together a symphony of hell on earth.

The sky was quickly stained crimson.

In just a few breaths, the entire sky had transformed into a surging sea of ​​blood.

Then, a foul-smelling, sticky red rain poured down, like the sky bleeding, or like a celebration of the calamity that had befallen the world.

Desperate cries also rang out beside Shen Xingzhuo.

"Waaah, I really can't go on living..."

"Armed people, hurry and rescue them! My loved ones are still there!"

"Kill me! Kill me! I don't want to live in fear anymore!"

The voices of these people grew increasingly desperate.

As Shen Xingzhuo listened, he could feel the immense resentment of the living. If he didn't intervene, these people would probably turn into living demons immediately.

With a slight movement of her fingertips, she took out several yellow talismans.

Before she could make a move, the sky suddenly brightened, and a blinding light transformed into a cage, trapping her inside.

That hollow voice rang out again.

[The eighteenth Chosen One of the Tianxia Kingdom has been identified!]

The ghost story "Little Sister Carrying a Doll" has begun! Please, chosen one Shen Xingzhuo, enter the ghost story!

Shen Xingzhuo pursed her lips speechlessly upon hearing the voice.

please?

She spoke very politely, but if she really didn't enter the ghost story, she would probably be minced into meat paste by this cage in the next second!

In the instant the light enveloped him, Shen Xingzhuo fully understood his current predicament.

She crossed.

To be precise, it just so happened that when she sent those vengeful ghosts to the underworld, it was during a yin month and yin hour, when the gates of hell were wide open.

The Yin and Yang realms are originally unrelated, but she was really unlucky, stepping on the intersection of time and space and accidentally arriving in the superdimensional era.

This is Earth, hundreds of years from now.

Having survived the apocalypse and interstellar chaos, civilization had evolved to a near-advanced level. But no one could have predicted that what followed would be terrifying and bizarre tales!

These strange tales belong to a new cosmic view, where not only can no one defy the rules of the game it sets, but it will also gradually engulf reality.

In other words, the only possibility for survival in the entire solar system is for the chosen ones to complete the supernatural tales and earn national fortune points to exchange for purification resources that barely sustain them.

No one knows when this will end...

By the time Shen Xingzhuo became the eighteenth Chosen One, the Tianxia Kingdom had successfully cleared 38 rule-based mysteries, and the first seventeen Chosen Ones had accumulated a total of 260 points of national fortune for the Tianxia Kingdom.

But this is still a drop in the ocean.

Even Long Qingyue, the legendary chosen one who cleared five of the strange tales, only brought a faint glimmer of hope to the Tianxia Kingdom and the world.

The chosen ones are still just humans. Even the most cautious person can make a mistake under continuous pressure, not to mention that the strange rules themselves are not fair.

It has never given humanity a chance to fail.

If the chosen one violates the rules or makes the wrong choice in the evolutionary legends, they will be directly eliminated by the monsters within the mystery.

At the same time, the chosen one's nation will have its national fortune value corresponding to the level of the strange tale deducted, and an unpredictable number of strange tales will randomly appear within its territory.

Initially, countries could offset the penalties by relying on their accumulated national fortune points, but as the number of times the chosen ones failed increased, their national fortune points decreased.

Countries around the world are now barely surviving.

The Tianxia Kingdom currently has only 15 points of national fortune value left. It is known that the new supernatural tale will be of the same level as the previous failed supernatural tale. The previous Tianxia Kingdom's chosen one, Hu Shuo, failed supernatural tale, "The Reckless Pampering of the Buddhist Son in the Capital Circle," which was a B-level supernatural tale, corresponding to 5 points of national fortune value.

If Shen Xingzhuo fails this time, Tianxia Kingdom will only have 10 points of national fortune left.

If things get even more unfortunate...

The Tianxia Kingdom has failed once again, and the entire country will face a bizarre and devastating catastrophe!

Shen Xingzhu chuckled softly.

Isn't she the chosen one? She's even a vengeful spirit chosen from across time and space.

I wonder if her small shoulders can bear this heavy responsibility...

Shen Xingzhuo straightened his wide sleeves and stepped into the illusory door...