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

"The key to healing is not to awaken Snow White, but to depose the king!"

As Shen Xingzhuo thought this, those words slipped out of his mouth.

Before she could finish speaking, a thought flashed through her mind, and a semi-transparent task progress panel appeared before her eyes.

Hidden Quest: The Vanishing Rule - Progress 100%

[Hidden Quest: Kill the Hollow Man - Progress 50%]

Main Story Exploration - Progress 85%

Sure enough, once those five hidden rules appeared, the task of "the vanished rules" was completed.

And her guess about the hollow man was also confirmed:

Hollow people are not people without souls, but rather personalities formed from fragments of the soul that have split off due to trauma.

There are actually two ways to kill a hollow person.

The first option is to actually destroy her, while the second option is to merge all her personalities into one.

Therefore, the quest progress only updates after her pig personality merges with Lia and Richard.

But Shen Xingzhuo suddenly realized that the previous strange tales had only reported the overall progress of the mission.

However, the completion of the hidden mission was not announced separately, nor were any rewards distributed.

Her gaze met that of Guan Shanyue, who was outside the ghost story.

The fingers had just typed out the Morse code for "addition"...

"ah--!!!"

A piercing scream suddenly echoed throughout the entire hotel.

The voice was filled with fear, which made Shen Xingzhuo's heart skip a beat.

Something happened to Jenny!

Before she could even think, her body shot out like an arrow, bursting through the door connecting the kitchen and the main hall.

In the center of the long hall.

Jenny was bound in mid-air by thorns, the sharp thorns piercing her flesh and leaving one bloody hole after another.

Her cheeks flushed red and then turned purple, as if she were being choked by an invisible force.

The king sat high on a throne that appeared out of nowhere, looking down at Jenny with disdain.

Beside him, Gregor's dog face had almost fully recovered.

He bared his teeth and looked extremely fierce.

At the king's feet leaned Charlotte, whose red hair was as red as fire. She lazily played with her hair, but her eyes glanced sideways at Shen Xingzhuo.

"You can't save her." Her breath was sweet, but her tone was full of sarcasm. "A pathetic wretch who doesn't even know who she is dares to dream of defeating my wise and mighty King?"

"That's... a pipe dream."

"Charlotte!"

Jenny screamed.

"You sycophantic scoundrel! You've forgotten our original intentions..."

Before she could finish speaking, two deep, bone-revealing wounds were torn open at the corner of her mouth by thorns.

Charlotte frowned at her, her tone laced with venom: "Your original intention?"

She sneered, "My only goal was to live a good life."

Her hand climbed onto the king's thigh, and she leaned against him delicately.

Then he looked at Shen Xingzhuo and curled the corners of his mouth.

Shen Xingzhuo felt a sudden chill run down her spine.

Piao Piao had somehow broken free from the puppet's restraints and pressed herself tightly against Shen Xingzhuo's back.

It pointed to the king's army and whispered seductive words in her ear.

"Do you see? The King is an insurmountable mountain in the Otherworld."

"You want to depose the king? That's just a pipe dream."

It floated towards Shen Xingzhuo's other ear.

"It's not too late to admit your mistake to the ghost story now, otherwise you'll never have the chance to choose the normal way to complete the game. Choosing the normal way to leave is the smart thing to do."

The barrage of comments exploded instantly.

[This army must have at least 200 people, right? My sister Shen started as a pig, and this king was born a king?!]

No wonder the normal pass requirements seemed so easy! Turns out, this is what was waiting for!

How is Sister Shen supposed to fight like this? The ghost stories never intended for us to live from the start.

[Hua Xu Team, quickly contact someone and let Shen Xingzhuo come out first.]

Wait, wait a minute. Why does Sister Shen's expression seem... a little... sly?

In the ghost story, Shen Xingzhuo held a knife in one hand and a talisman in the other, striking a starting pose.

Her voice remained calm and even. "Let's fight."

As she spoke, her figure darted away.

The blade, imbued with spiritual energy, slashed towards the charging soldiers. Meanwhile, the talismans spontaneously combusted, transforming into lightning that exploded amidst the soldiers.

Shen Xingzhuo's knife was so fast it was like cutting tofu.

One slash and one kill! Two slashes in one go! Ten slashes in one go!

She's going absolutely crazy.

In an instant, most of the king's soldiers had been wiped out.

But at that moment, a sense of exhaustion seeping from the depths of his soul swept over his entire body.

Her spiritual energy circulation suddenly became sluggish, and her hands and feet felt heavy as if they were filled with lead.

The worst part is that all her strength has been drained, and she can barely even stand up!

Shen Xingzhuo was panting heavily.

She was well aware that her current condition was compensatory exhaustion resulting from the fusion of her personalities.

It's not mental pollution; it's more like a real complication that appears randomly.

While the Heart-Cleansing Mantra can preserve mental clarity, it cannot replenish rapidly lost energy.

She could only grit her teeth and slash her skin with the two knives to fight off the waves of overwhelming sleepiness.

On their high thrones, the King and Gregor, as if they had anticipated this, watched with great interest as Shen Xingzhuo fought like a cornered beast.

Meanwhile, Piaopiao, who had been observing coldly, took advantage of her moment when she was off guard...

"careful!!!"

Jenny's eyes were bloodshot.

The yin energy dagger pierced his abdomen.

There is a traitor in the hotel.

Shen Xingzhuo dragged his sluggish body back and saw Charlotte lying in a pool of blood.

The red-haired figure had somehow broken free from the king's side, smashing past Piaopiao with near-decisive speed and delivering himself to the blade.

"Why?" Piaopiao asked, puzzled. "Don't you want him dead too?"

Charlotte understood that Piaopiao was referring to the body itself. A self-deprecating smile tugged at the corner of her lips.

"Ha...to shield the primary personality from harm...it really is my destiny..."

She said this in a voice that was neither too loud nor too soft.

But it struck Shen Xingzhuo and Jenny like a thunderbolt.

Jenny's pupils dilated instantly.

Memories of her past with Charlotte flashed before her eyes.

The anger and misunderstandings that arose from her overly calm response to suffering...

Those seemingly flattering, yet actually restrained, ambiguous actions she took time and again...

Countless fragments flashed, collided, and reassembled wildly in my mind!

Jenny burst into tears. It turned out that she had been misunderstanding Charlotte's true nature all along because of her prejudice!

From the perspective of the dominant personality, she subconsciously felt that Charlotte's actions that made the dominant personality uncomfortable were accomplices in the dominant personality's slumber.

But they forgot that it was Charlotte who repeatedly took the place of the main personality in enduring that abuse!

Jenny wept tears of blood.

However, after hearing the term "dominant personality," Shen Xingzhuo conceived the idea of ​​"usurping the throne"!

If she merges with another person, she can evolve into the dominant personality and get rid of the current fatigue complication.

as well as……

Compared to a dominant personality that avoids reality to the point of spontaneous dormancy.

Wouldn't it be better for her to rule this world by simply slaughtering her way through?