Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

At this moment, inside the church in North Brook District.

Father Tony was rapidly flipping through a book, and when he came to a certain page, his eyes were filled with shock and anger.

"I've found the records about the Hexagram pattern, it's a sacrificial ritual of the Veda Sect, I must report this to the church. Mr. Du Wei, your decision was right, you need to leave immediately."

"Mr. Du... Mr. Du Wei?"

Father Tony turned his head, and when he saw that the phone screen showed no signal and the call had been automatically disconnected, his face was full of astonishment and panic.

"Damn it! Inside that villa, there is an Evil Spirit that has successfully possessed a body!"

...

Elsewhere.

Footsteps resounded in the villa.

Du Wei stood emotionless at the entrance to Kelly's bedroom, remaining silent, not uttering a single word.

Outside the window, it was gloomy, dark as if it were night, obscuring the view outside.

In Kelly's bedroom, on the Hexagram pattern, the candles placed at the angles were still burning, casting a dim yellow light on Du Wei's face, making it seem somewhat ferocious.

His gaze was icy, fixed on the burning candles, and on Kelly's corpse.

Something was terribly wrong...

Du Wei clearly remembered that the candles placed on each angle of the Hexagram pattern had burned down by more than half, but now they seemed just lit.

The candles had only burned down a little bit.

Kelly's body was the same, the blood that was supposed to have clotted was dripping down.

He began to think, "So, am I experiencing an illusion? Is what I see the vision of Kelly's death? Or is this all real?"

The killing process of the Evil Spirit usually starts by triggering a medium, getting targeted by the Evil Spirit, followed by a mechanism—none of the Evil Spirits encountered so far has been an exception.

After some thought, Du Wei couldn't help but muse, pondering how he had triggered the medium.

Lady Mina had mentioned before that in her dream, as she was dying, she gave him a shushing hint.

It can be interpreted as a signal not to talk.

But when Du Wei noticed the presence of the Evil Spirit getting weaker as he entered the villa, he had spoken and had even called Father Tony.

If not speaking was the trigger for the medium, then such a change shouldn't have only occurred on the second floor.

He felt that what he was experiencing now was more like some sort of spatial shift.

Entering Kelly's bedroom and then coming out again, the surroundings had completely changed.

It seemed there was some sort of mechanism at play.

"Is it the door?"

Du Wei gave himself an uncertain answer and decided to test it.

Thus, he walked into Kelly's bedroom without hesitation and closed the door behind him.

In an instant.

In the state of Spirit Vision, that feeling of utmost oppression intensified, and the malice emanating from Kelly's corpse became even more apparent, almost tangible.

At this moment, in the entire bedroom besides himself, there was only the presence of Kelly's corpse, and the atmosphere was so heavy it was frightening.

The moment the door closed, Du Wei felt a fleeting sensation of being watched, but what was strange was that, other than that, no other anomalies occurred.

Staring at Kelly's corpse, Du Wei glanced at the time on his phone, it was exactly 11:40.

Then, he pushed the door open and walked out again.

To his disappointment, in the state of Spirit Vision, the villa's unusual sensation remained the same as before, with no change whatsoever.

"I can't understand it!"

Du Wei shook his head silently, all his thoughts were kept inside his mind.

Even though he knew he might have triggered some mechanism, it seemed that the mechanism wasn't very friendly to him, leaving no chance for turning back.

"Let's keep moving forward, there's no choice left."

Du Wei took a step and walked toward the other rooms on the second floor.

He thought about jumping out the window, but for some reason, under the state of Spirit Vision, he instinctively felt it was an extremely dangerous decision. If the villa was hiding profound dangers, choosing to jump out would be like flipping the table and exposing everything.

Moreover, the death scene Du Wei had seen was in a completely dark room where he was sitting in front of a table, which hadn't happened yet.

At that moment, he came to a door locked with a padlock and stopped in his tracks.

The doorframe and other parts of the room were very clean, yet the padlock looked as if it had been used for a long time, bearing many scratches.

Seeing this scene, Du Wei couldn't help but frown. Was it Mina's husband's room?

Mrs. Mina's family of three, with the master of the house seemingly turned into an evil spirit after dying on the bus, only left the mother and daughter.

He had now seen Mrs. Mina and Kelly's bedrooms, and the body of Kelly had been found. The only rooms remaining were the storeroom, a spare room, the study, and the husband's bedroom.

Additionally, in the state of Spirit Vision, black misty vapors were seeping out from under the doors of the entire house, akin to the most terrifying and sinister gates to hell.

Yet strangely, though the feeling behind the door was equally startling, it seemed more independent and distinct despite the danger, as if it was separate from the villa itself.

No matter what, something was definitely behind that door.

Du Wei stared at the padlock, a glint of intrigue flashing in his eyes. What would happen if I didn't open the door?

He felt he had grasped a key point for leaving, so he turned around and left, heading in the direction where the sense of danger was strongest under the state of Spirit Vision.

...

Ten minutes later.

Du Wei stood in front of the locked door again, his gaze exceptionally brilliant.

Just now, he had roughly explored all the rooms on the second floor, finding each to be eerily abnormal and oppressively suffocating.

But beyond that, there was nothing else.

No evil spirits, no claimed dangers, and certainly no body of Mrs. Mina.

The feelings perceived in the state of Spirit Vision couldn't be false. Therefore, all the dangers were just like beasts lurking beneath the water, and as long as he didn't fall in, he couldn't die.

And everything he had experienced before seemed more like a threat.

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Make me afraid? Make me scream?

The gesture for silence could mean not to speak, or also to not make any noise.

Since the villa became abnormal, he had not spoken a word, only analyzing in his mind, meaning as long as he stayed calm, the horror behind the door couldn't touch him?

Could it be that simple?

Du Wei was silent for a while before he turned back to Kelly's bedroom and headed straight for the body...

By now, the candle had burned down by half, casting the corpse's face in an even more horrifying and frightening light.

Suddenly...

The body opened its eyes, filled with bloodshot veins, its hollow, numb pupils full of resentment and poison.

Du Wei also crouched down to look into the corpse's eyes, his expressionless face resembling a corpse even more than the body itself.

Moreover, he took out a lighter from his pocket, the new gadget given to him by Father Tony.

He placed the lighter under the hair of the corpse and gently pressed it.

Click...