Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

At the broken elevated highway.

Du Wei withdrew his dagger and stared expressionlessly at the dirty puddle on the ground for a long time without shifting his gaze.

He was thinking about something now.

The bald man from Dusk Bell Church had managed to create an irregular body through another Joker Card, using the flow of water, and although it did not exhibit lethality, it had already defied the laws of physics.

He could see himself through this method and pinpoint his own location.

But in reality, this ability seemed quite useless...

It couldn't kill, at most frighten people.

Even in this situation, it made the people of the Dusk Bell Church seem somewhat reckless.

The abilities of the other Joker Card should not be limited to this...

And the Evil Spirit part within his own Joker Card was not very substantial.

He could infer that the other Joker Card was a bit stronger than his own, and there might even be a tendency to counter it.

"A dangerous opponent..."

Du Wei's eyes became a bit colder, and he grew more alert in his heart.

The other party was a hunter like himself; they definitely had no shortage of special items, and also possessed the abilities of a hunter.

And in this respect, the other party was stronger than him.

The reason was simple.

His Evil Spirit Transformation was flawed, or rather incomplete...

Du Wei looked at his Evil Spirit Transformed right hand and gripped it firmly.

This hand was indeed much stronger than before, from initially being able to grasp Evil Spirits to now being able to suppress the abnormalities of the Joker Card. If he hadn't encountered the hunter from the Dusk Bell Church, this ability would indeed be very useful.

But now, the more he learned, the more feeble he felt.

"It has something to do with Annabelle..."

Du Wei remembered that the first time he foiled Annabelle, his Evil Spirit Transformed right hand started to lose sensation, like a corpse.

Thinking from another angle.

It was possible that Annabelle had done something to him at that time.

It was just that due to asymmetric information, he had not realized this situation.

"After I go back, I need to research how to resolve this trouble. Maybe burning Annabelle to ash is a good way? But it seems that this thing cannot be destroyed at all..."

"Very troublesome..."

"But before that, as long as I can get the information I want from the hunter of the Dusk Bell Church, perhaps all these problems can be easily solved."

Du Wei told himself this in his heart; he knew things needed to be resolved one by one, following the original plan.

Creating a trap for the hunter from the Dusk Bell Church, if he wanted to kill him, he also had to find a way to pry his mouth open beforehand to get the secrets about the hunters.

The Dusk Bell Church was an organization that had conducted in-depth research on the threats of Evil Spirit Transformation.

In this regard, even the current church could not compare.

But... after considering so many factors, Du Wei's headache only grew worse.

A suitable trap was really hard to come by...

With that thought, he turned his head toward the broken, abandoned elevated highway.

By then, the sky had darkened; the visibility was no more than five meters, very dim and gloomy, as if there were people everywhere around him.

But under the state of Spirit Vision.

The scenery around him changed.

Du Wei saw a vague figure taking steps forward at the break in the elevated highway.

He didn't feel any malice, but that didn't mean it wasn't an Evil Spirit.

Having learned from the previous experience, Du Wei did not immediately approach to check but stood there, quietly watching.

Due to the distance, the figure he saw was very blurry.

Then, under Du Wei's calm gaze.

The figure slowly walked to the location of the break and came to a halt.

An elevated highway is actually a freeway, but it's very high off the ground.

And this uncompleted, abandoned elevated highway in Massas City was once built as a landmark highway; at its highest point, it could be as much as fifteen meters from the ground.

This distance was roughly the height of a four to five-story building.

Immediately after, the blurry figure suddenly turned its head.

Below the mask, Du Wei's eyes turned slightly colder; he felt the chilly gaze had noticed him.

Something's not right...

There's more than one.

He was wearing a mask, yet there was a faint stinging sensation on his cheeks, as if resisting something.

But he wasn't on the overpass, maintaining a distance from it.

This was vigilance...

Afterward, Du Wei pulled out the Black Umbrella that was attached to the side of his backpack.

Whoo...

It was the sound of the umbrella opening.

The next second.

The stinging sensation had vanished completely.

Yet in Du Wei's eyes, he could only see the figure standing at the break in the overpass, turning to face him. The other gazes he had just felt were nowhere to be seen.

The Black Umbrella was the most useful tool against Evil Spirits.

Once opened, Du Wei would be in an absolutely safe state until the umbrella was closed or damaged.

However, after cutting off those unknown, chilling stares, Du Wei couldn't locate their origin.

At this time.

Du Wei noticed the blurry figure facing him hadn't moved at all, which seemed a bit strange...

Suddenly...

Du Wei thought of a possibility.

The figure before him might not be an Evil Spirit, but a ghost...

What is an Evil Spirit?

Infectiousness, purposefulness, mechanism, and malice towards the living.

What is a ghost?

Crude infectiousness, purposefulness, a purely evil soul, much lower-end than an Evil Spirit, and possibly even lacking the mechanism to kill, not very dangerous.

"So, were those gazes I just felt all from ghosts? Then why didn't I see them?"

Du Wei couldn't quite understand. If it were ghosts, such cruder entities than Evil Spirits wouldn't be able to elude his Third Phase Spirit Vision.

It seems this overpass, where hundreds had died, was also somewhat abnormal.

Thinking this, the next second he saw the ghost facing him suddenly move.

It didn't walk towards him, nor did it make any other bizarre gestures.

Instead, it turned around and leaped down.

Quickly.

He heard the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.

Du Wei couldn't help but widen his eyes, his right hand tightly gripping...

What's going on?

Ghosts don't have a physical form!

Why would there be a sound of something heavy falling when it jumped down?

Could it be a person possessed by a ghost?

How could that be!

Du Wei took a deep breath, keeping his emotions calm.

If it were a person possessed, jumping from such a height, the chances of survival were slim, and even if not dead, they wouldn't be able to live on in Massas City.

If it were a ghost, then the situation would be even more bizarre.

Because this indicated the broken overpass and the previous street were the same kind of places.

Eerie, with a strong sense of evil, whether it's humans or Evil Spirits, or something else, once inside its range, they would be influenced by it.

Subconsciously, Du Wei took two steps back.

He didn't want to be too close to such a place.

And just as he had taken those two steps back, a blurry figure suddenly appeared at the spot ahead, without any warning.

Furthermore, this time the location of the figure differed slightly from the previous one; it was at the break in the overpass, about ten meters from Du Wei, slightly "closer" to him.

Then, it walked step by step toward the break in the overpass. When it reached the end, it turned its head and beckoned to Du Wei.

As if inviting...