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“Everything I've done is for the sake of the Spirit Master's status.”

“If those boorish martial artists were to rise up, have they even considered whether Spirit Masters would still enjoy this status and treatment? Truly, rotten wood cannot be carved.”

Shameless people will never admit their own shamelessness.

Instead, they'll feel that everything they do is for your own good, for the sake of the big picture.

“Besides, Xuan Huang could have lived. Who told you to be so strong, actually solving the eerie corpse tree? That's something even I am wary of.”

“To have such ability right after showing your face, if you were to grow up, how simple would that be? Only when you die can I be at ease.”

This was an important basis for his decisive action.

At first, he was just testing Xuan Huang, but Xuan Huang's performance really shocked him.

To solve the eerie corpse tree with overwhelming force, he couldn't sleep at night with such an enemy around.

Actually, it didn't have to be this way; he hadn't made any big mistakes.

Xuan Huang actually didn't care, but Jia Zhengyi didn't think so.

He thought that giving Xuan Huang a little trouble, testing him out, was a matter of life and death.

It can only be said that his twisted personality made him do things twistedly all the way through.

“Besides…”

He smiled sinisterly: “I am not just the Chief of the Nanshi Town Evil Department; I am the dignified Hall Master of the 'Demon Believers'. Killing those who hinder the arrival of the eerie is my job.”

This is his secret.

The Demon Believers Church is an eerie organization established abroad.

It is an evil organization that believes the arrival of the eerie is salvation and should not be resisted, but rather integrated into as much as possible.

As for the sacrifices during the integration process, they are just small prices to pay.

After all, with god-like abilities, what does it matter if some people die? Dying is your honor.

The Demon Believers Church is a very large organization. It is said that their Pope and two Vice-Popes are all Tier 3 Eerie Controllers.

Under the Pope are twelve Hall Masters, all of whom are Tier 2 existences.

It can be said to be a large organization that even a country would not dare to offend excessively, and is extremely crazy.

Jia Zhengyi is one of the Hall Masters.

Or rather, his identity in Nanshi is just one of the puppets of his Demon Puppet Hall Master persona.

The Demon Puppet Hall Master is a very dangerous and troublesome character in the Demon Believers.

He possesses the eerie ability of a Substitute Puppet. No one knows where his real body is, but his Substitute Puppet is very famous.

It is almost impossible to kill him. Even if a huge amount of manpower is used to surround and kill him, it is only one of his Substitute Puppets.

Moreover, due to the strength of the main body, Spirit Masters below Tier 3 cannot tell whether it is the real person or a puppet.

Even Tier 3 Spirit Masters need to have detection abilities to discover it.

Therefore, he is very troublesome.

“Alas, Xia Country is just pedantic; no advanced ideas are born at all.”

“It was like this before the arrival of the eerie, and it is still conservative after the arrival of the eerie.”

“Foreign advanced ideas have clearly stated that the eerie is an unstoppable law. Don't resist it; cater to it and adapt to it. They're just doing some ridiculous things like trying to defy fate and conquer nature.”

“Relying on a few myths, what 'Jingwei Filling the Sea', what 'Kua Fu Chasing the Sun', what 'The Foolish Old Man Removing the Mountain', 'Da Yu Controlling the Flood' to support themselves is too pedantic.”

“Ridiculous, conquer nature? Bullshit.”

“They just don't learn advanced ideas. Ordinary, useless people die when they die. Protection, protection, what's the use of protecting the weak? What can the weak do?”

“And there's also the dogshit idea of protecting those with hope, escorting them and protecting them so they can grow up.”

“If someone like Xuan Huang was born in a place with advanced ideas, would I need to go through so much trouble to assassinate him? What would be wrong with just killing him directly?”

“Why not kill those who have the potential to replace you as soon as possible? Still thinking of him growing up to be a support is such a laughable idea.”

“When people grow up, will they still remember what you've sacrificed for them?”

“This country is finished; there's no hope.”

“If things really can't be done this time, there are too many people who are dissatisfied with killing Xuan Huang… I'll just have to give up this identity and run away.”

Thinking of this, Jia Zhengyi felt a little better.

The worst-case scenario is that Xuan Huang dies, Xu Ruyi comes back to cause trouble, and he just slips away.

“Haven't had in-depth contact with them yet?”

This is one of Jia Zhengyi's purposes for lurking.

“This broken place always has some unbelievable people appearing; it's eerie.”

Jia Zhengyi shook his head, very puzzled.

“Hmm!”

Suddenly, he noticed an anomaly.

His shadow suddenly swelled, and a huge force struck, causing his body to involuntarily become sluggish.

Then the shadow quickly grew taller, and a giant tree-like shadow emerged.

The roots quickly wrapped around him.

“That's not right, you're not Qi Long, who are you?”

In a panic, he used his Substitute Puppet ability. The legs entangled by the roots quickly withered, turning into cloth legs of a cloth toy.

After breaking free, two complete legs strangely reappeared.

This ability is truly powerful, not only substituting death but also quickly replacing the limbs that make up the body.

Seeing that no one answered, Jia Zhengyi felt a sense of crisis and unhesitatingly ran away as fast as he could.

“Boom!”

Unfortunately, he seemed to have crashed into an invisible wall.

Only then did he realize that he was completely isolated within a few meters of himself.

“Xuan Huang?”

Jia Zhengyi roared loudly.

He thought of something, but the more he thought about it, the more shocked he became. If it really was Xuan Huang, then where did the Weird Shadow's ability come from?

It's impossible to just casually kill Qi Long and immediately control the Weird Shadow, right?

If that's really the case, it's simply terrifying.

Who can fuse with the eerie so easily? Isn't it all a narrow escape from death to barely fuse with the eerie?

Yes, he's right.

But Xuan Huang isn't controlling and fusing; he's directly enslaving and replacing.

Jia Zhengyi can't understand it.

Xuan Huang was too lazy to talk to this kind of person. Killing him directly was the purpose of this trip, not to waste words with him.

Therefore, he didn't make a sound. Jia Zhengyi couldn't even see where Xuan Huang was; only Xuan Huang's unique abilities appeared one after another.

The trapped Jia Zhengyi suddenly felt his life force draining away.

What was even more terrifying was that it included not only the life force of this puppet but also his hidden real body.

It was as if he was absorbing his life force across time and space, just like his old friend Qi Long. It was the first time he had encountered someone even more eerie than himself.

In a flash, Jia Zhengyi made a decision.

“Xuan Huang, I underestimated you. I thought I valued you enough, but I didn't expect your abilities to still be beyond control. You're truly a terrifying young man.”

“However, we will meet again. Prepare for endless assassinations.”

“Boom!”

Just as Jia Zhengyi finished speaking, his body began to twist… until it was no longer human-like, leaving only a strange puppet covered in blood.

“Hmm?”

“He ran away? Substitute Puppet?”

“This guy is Tier 2?”

Xuan Huang immediately flashed over, picked up the puppet that had fallen on the ground, and scanned it.

Unexpectedly, this guy was actually a Tier 2 Eerie Controller?

“That shouldn't be. If he's Tier 2, why would he hide it? Could there be some secret?”

“That's right, Substitute Puppet. In Qi Long's memory, it's the ability of the Demon Puppet Hall Master, one of the Twelve Hall Masters of the Demon Believers.”

“Could this guy be one of the Demon Puppet Hall Master's puppet bodies?”

Xuan Huang seemed to understand something.

……