The wedding was livestreamed by the sister, revealing his identity as a Taoist priest.

Qin Yuan and Zhao Yue quickly walked to the edge of the deep pit.

At the bottom of the pit, the three-meter-tall black stone Buddha statue was half buried in the soil and half exposed.

The Buddha statue's mouth was strangely stretched upwards, almost reaching its ears.

What's even more chilling is that its eyes are wide open, with bloodshot veins covering the whites of its eyes.

Under the light, it really looks like it's moving!

"What the hell is this thing...?"

Zhao Yue only glanced at it before feeling a churning in his stomach and a sharp pain in his head, as if he had been pricked by a needle.

Qin Yuan pulled him back half a step and pressed the communicator.

"Director Zhou, did you see the footage?"

Inside the headquarters' monitoring hall, Zhou Ce stared intently at the screen, his face so dark it seemed to drip water.

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He quickly typed and searched in the headquarters' confidential database, and a few seconds later, a scanned copy of a yellowed ancient book popped up.

"Old Qin, tell everyone to step back! Don't look into its eyes!"

Zhou Ce's voice boomed through the communication channel, carrying an unusual urgency.

The Buddhist canon states, "Appearance arises from the mind. If a Buddha image weeps blood and has split lips, it is a manifestation of the eight sufferings of sentient beings, transforming into the form of Avici Hell." A similar record can be found in the fragments of the Daoist text, *Yunji Qiqian*, which refers to this as the "Buddha Hanging Upside Down Amidst the Eight Sufferings" or the "Laughing Corpse Buddha."

"What do you mean?"

Qin Yuan stared intently at the bottom of the pit.

"This means it's not for worship, but an artifact used to suppress extremely malevolent places!"

Zhou Ce spoke very quickly.

"A clay sculpture with a smiling face, it can neither save the living nor the dead! This thing has absorbed the resentment of the earth's veins for countless years. Its laughter can directly destroy a person's mental defenses. Once it is completely unearthed, everyone within a ten-mile radius will peel off their skin while laughing maniacally!"

Qin Yuan felt a chill run down his spine.

He remembered the workers in the photo who had torn off their faces.

"The energy is still surging!"

Lin Xue ran over, her voice trembling, clutching her tablet.

"Captain, the surrounding soil is starting to bleed!"

Qin Yuan looked down and, sure enough, a thick, black liquid was seeping out from the yellow soil on the walls of the pit, emitting a pungent, fishy stench.

"What should we do?"

Zhao Yue drew a specially made longsword from his back, and the psionic runes on the blade lit up.

"Use high explosives to blow it to pieces?"

"No!"

Qin Yuan immediately rejected the idea.

"A physical explosion would completely shatter the Yin energy within, turning this area within a ten-mile radius into a dead zone! We need to use a sealing array, combined with high-frequency psionic weapons, to slowly whittle down its Yin energy!"

He turned around abruptly and roared the order.

"Squad one, deploy the 'Four Symbols Locking Yin Formation'! Squad two, charge and preheat the heavy psionic cannons! Everyone, put on your mental protection helmets and cut off external hearing!"

"yes!"

More than a dozen Tian Shu agents acted swiftly.

Four agents, each holding a psionic banner half their height, rushed towards one of the four directions of the pit.

"Charge!"

Four array flags were simultaneously planted into the ground, and blue psionic beams shot into the sky.

A huge net of light formed in mid-air and pressed down hard on the Buddha statue at the bottom of the pit.

Just as the light net was about to touch the Buddha statue.

"Hehehe..."

A faint laugh, seemingly emanating from the depths of everyone's minds, suddenly pierced through everyone's mental protective helmets.

At the bottom of the pit, the eyes of the black stone Buddha statue slowly moved.

He kept a close eye on an agent heading due east.

Its mouth stretched wide, reaching all the way to its ears, and the grin widened even further.

"what!"

The detective let out a scream, dropped the flags, and covered his ears tightly.

Dark red blood gushed out from between his fingers, the corners of his eyes, and his nasal cavity.

"Buddha smiled...hehehe...Buddha smiled!"

The agent's facial muscles twitched violently, and his hands uncontrollably reached for his own cheeks.

"Damn it!"

"Hold him down!"

Qin Yuan's eyes were bloodshot. He rushed forward and delivered a powerful chop to the back of the agent's neck, knocking him unconscious.

However, the formation was missing a corner, and the light network collapsed instantly.

"Damn it! I'm going to chop its head off!"

Zhao Yue roared and unleashed his full A-level physical abilities.

He gripped the specially made longsword tightly with both hands, the blade crackling with the power of thunder and fire, and slashed down fiercely at the Buddha statue's neck!

"when!!!"

Amidst the flying sparks, Zhao Yue felt as if he had struck not a stone, but an indestructible divine iron.

The high-strength alloy longsword, strong enough to cut through an armored vehicle, shattered instantly!

Only a faint white mark remained on the Buddha statue.

The next second, a large amount of black, viscous liquid seeped from the surface of the Buddha statue, spreading wildly along the broken blade towards Zhao Yue's arm.

"hiss!"

Zhao Yue felt a chill penetrate his very bones.

The polymer combat suit on the arm was corroded away the moment it came into contact with the black liquid.

"Let go! Retreat!"

Qin Yuan roared from above.

Zhao Yue decisively abandoned his knife, tumbled out of the deep pit in a sorry state, and rolled several times on the ground before regaining his balance.

Looking down, he saw that his combat uniform on his right arm had been corroded into a large hole.

"fire!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Qin Yuan immediately issued the order to open fire with heavy firepower.

At the edge of the crater, two heavy psionic cannons were fully charged.

"Boom! Boom!"

Two thick, blue, high-frequency psionic beams slammed into the Buddha statue's chest.

However, a desperate scene unfolded.

Suddenly, a layer of dark red blood light appeared on the surface of the Buddha statue, forming a semi-transparent light shield.

The beam of light from the psionic cannon struck the light shield, but instead of shattering it, it was continuously absorbed by the shield!

As spiritual energy was infused, the Buddha statue's laughter grew louder and louder.

"Hehehe... Hahahaha!"

The entire construction site began to shake violently, the ground trembled violently.

Black blood gushed out from the bottom of the pit like a fountain, instantly submerging the lower half of the Buddha statue and forming a churning pool of blood.

"Beep beep beep beep!"

The tablet in Lin Xue's hand emitted a piercing, frantic alarm.

"Captain! Let's retreat!"

Lin Xue's voice was choked with sobs; she had completely broken down.

"We can't control it anymore! Its energy has directly broken through the A+ level, and its energy field has begun to distort reality. If we don't leave now, we'll all die here!"

Qin Yuan gritted his teeth, the veins on his forehead bulging like earthworms.

withdraw?

Where to retreat?

Less than three kilometers behind is a dense residential area. Once this smiling corpse Buddha completely crawls out of the pit, the western suburbs of Jiangcheng will become a living hell tonight!

"Get out of here my ass!"

Qin Yuan drew his spare dagger from his back, his eyes turning bloodshot.

"The rule of Tian Shu is: as long as we live, the city stands! Everyone, prepare for a fight to the death!"

All the agents were pale, but not one of them retreated.

They silently drew their weapons and stood between the deep pit and the city.

Just then.

Suddenly, Qin Yuan heard a terrified report from the perimeter security agents through his communication headset.

"Captain Qin... Captain Qin! There's... there's a group of people outside!"

Qin Yuan was furious and roared into the communicator.

"Whoever they are! Fire a warning shot! Stop them! This is an S-class restricted area!"

"We can't stop them! Captain, we simply can't stop them!"

The detective's voice was trembling uncontrollably.

"They...they are Taoist priests!"

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