Under the erosion of the golden Sanskrit characters, the meat strips and body of White Jade rapidly dissolved.
He found it impossible to believe. After learning the secret of the Eerification stage, he had discarded his mortal frame to cultivate a second life.
He had plotted for hundreds of years, raising evil spirits and searching for a vessel. He had finally completed the fusion and attained an Arhat's body. Why, at the hands of Smiling Face, could he not even survive a single move?
Had he not already succeeded?!
Smiling Face had clearly failed his cultivation, and the Locust Mother had not become an evil spirit even after being refined for a century. How could he possibly surpass him?
White Jade’s eyes threatened to split from rage.
"Little ghost, stubbornness is not the righteous path of cultivation."
The countless smiling faces on the monk wiggled in unison, letting out an even more grand Brahma chanting.
"You should enter the Pure Land sooner, lest you delay this monk's cultivation."
As the words fell, the golden light flared intensely.
However, the chanting formed by the countless golden Sanskrit characters was abruptly shattered by another orb of lustrous white light.
A completely different, majestic will suddenly descended.
Cold and deathly silent.
Originally appearing sinister and frenzied under White Jade’s control, Jian Huaishuang’s aura underwent an earth-shaking transformation in an instant.
The jade-colored evil light in his eyes belonging to White Jade was extinguished, replaced by a profound, abyssal darkness.
The restless meat strips and fluttering white paper around him seemed to be organized in that moment, becoming orderly and disciplined.
Chen Zhou, through the ability of Bone Incarnation, had used it as a bridge and leveraged Jian Huaishuang's Perfect Vessel trait to truly descend.
It was an extremely novel experience.
Chen Zhou could clearly see the outside world and feel every sensation of Jian Huaishuang’s body.
He could even vaguely perceive the loyal will belonging to Jian Huaishuang himself suppressed deep within the consciousness, as well as the curled up, terrified White Jade on the other side.
With three people in one body, he could practically start a card game.
The countless faces on the monk, squinted into crescents, showed a slight stiffness.
"Oh?" His compassionate voice betrayed a hint of surprise. "Swapped one out? You are not White Jade."
"This vessel is quite interesting. Two souls in one body? No, it's a cuckoo taking over the nest, or... perfect symbiosis?"
Chen Zhou smiled. "Oh? Can't tell that I am a god?"
He took a moment to adapt to the body, and with a slight thought...
On the left, countless pieces of paper flew around like living snowflakes, their edges glinting with a sharp, cold light.
On the right, the slimy meat strips that originally belonged to White Jade hung down obediently, yet their tips quivered slightly.
The deathly qi belonging to his main body surged through the meridians, merging perfectly with this vessel without the slightest rejection. The energy flowed with seamless harmony.
He could even use the abilities of the Zhenjiang Shrine and White Jade simultaneously.
The special trait Perfect Vessel truly had an astounding effect.
"Very good," Chen Zhou whispered, his voice issuing from Jian Huaishuang’s throat. "That makes things easy."
He raised his hand. Ghost Domain, expand.
He didn't pull the entire reality into a different space; instead, with the body he had descended into as the center, he rapidly expanded the power of the Ghost Domain outward like a territory!
Gray-white deathly qi permeated the air, instantly enveloping an area of ten thousand feet.
Within the gray-white mist, one could faintly see piles of white bones and hear the wails of resentful souls, overlapping and intertwining with the scenery of reality.
At the same time, feeling like a fish in water within the Ghost Domain, Chen Zhou planted a Seed of Resentment (Enhanced Edition) into the monk.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Countless white papers, carrying sharp deathly qi sword intent, turned into streaks of white lightning, shooting toward the monk from all directions.
Facing the assault, the monk lightly stomped his bare feet.
Even more brilliant golden light immediately erupted from his body. Within his split lotus-like head, the Brahma chanting suddenly rose in pitch, sounding as if thousands of monks were reciting sutras at once.
Grand and solemn, yet carrying a kind of distorted joy.
The white paper was constantly annihilated in the golden light but was continuously regenerated from the deathly qi of the Ghost Domain.
Chen Zhou could clearly feel that this monk's strength was extremely formidable. The Brahma chanting and golden light could even cause damage to the deathly qi.
His foundation was profound, definitely reaching the peak of the fifth-stage, perhaps even touching the threshold of the sixth-stage.
But strangely, his aura wasn't as clearly layered as a regular cultivator's; instead, it felt like a jumbled mixture.
While defending against the endless attacks of white paper, the monk spoke again, his voice still compassionate.
"Benefactor is not of the Buddhist sect, yet you can control such profound deathly qi with a body only at the first turn of Eerification. You must have a deep affinity with Buddha!"
He looked at the body of Jian Huaishuang, which Chen Zhou perfectly controlled, with undisguised admiration and a flash of greed masked by compassion.
"Why not take refuge in my Buddhist sect? With your talent, if you receive the enlightenment of the Buddhist path to see your nature, attaining the status of a Golden-Bodied Arhat in the future will not be out of reach."
The monk's voice was filled with seductive power. "When the Golden Buddha descends to the world to deliver all living beings, we can both obtain immeasurable merit, without being confined to the mire of the mortal world."
Chen Zhou pulled back a cold smile devoid of warmth.
"Deliver all living beings?"
He repeated the words, looking at the monk's face which was split like petals, his voice full of irony.
"I think you've got quite a big face. Don't misunderstand—I mean it literally."
"Since the sea of bitterness is boundless, and your face has spent so much time soaking in it that it's gone puffy, how about I send you to the Pure Land myself?"
Hearing this, the smile on the monk's face finally faded slightly, as if carrying a hint of regret.
"Why must the benefactor also be so stubborn?"
He pressed his palms together, and all the human faces opened their mouths simultaneously. "In that case, this monk will simply have to... forcibly deliver you!"
The hundred faces turned from smiles to weeping. Their features distorted, eye sockets split, and the joyful chanting took a sharp turn into a shrill Rebirth Mantra.
The golden light exploded as the compassionate smiling masks shattered completely.
Under the Rebirth Mantra, Chen Zhou remained unmoved, quietly activating the Seed of Resentment.
"Ugh...?"
The hundred weeping faces of the monk all froze at once. He felt countless whispers echoing in his ears.
Although the enhanced seed, which cost 1,000 units of currency to exchange, couldn't directly control a target with a stage as close to Chen Zhou as Smiling Face...
In the instant Smiling Face was casting his full power and his mind was stirred, creating a lightning-fast lapse in concentration was more than enough!
The meat strips that had been hidden in the shadows, covered by the white paper, seized that fleeting opening.
With deathly qi leading the way, they broke through the disordered golden light defense, and the meat strips lunged like venomous snakes, stabbing fiercely into the monk's head.
Gulch...!
The sound of suction rang out.
The abilities of predation and fusion derived from White Jade were activated. The monk's brain matter was continuously sucked out, and the Eerie Fusion trait lit up.
At this moment, Chen Zhou was in the state of descending into a believer via Bone Incarnation.
Not only could he perfectly command the paper armor of the Zhenjiang Shrine and the meat strips of White Jade due to the Perfect Vessel, but he could also exercise all his authorities as an evil spirit without reservation.
Among these, naturally, was the most fundamental ability of the Bone Altar—Sacrifice!
Chen Zhou glanced at his panel.
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