Location

G City.

After seeing Sayako off, Zhong Shenxiu continued playing the role of a midnight demon-exorcising driver, roaming everywhere and letting the eerie beings aid his cultivation.

With the convenience of the Spirit Vehicle, he did not even need to travel elsewhere. He could use No. 81 Zhenyin Road as his base and run wild across the entire world.

He could even charge into Otherworldly Space and search for eerie beings to devour.

By this point, what hindered his progress was no longer the number of eerie beings or his sanity value, but merely the speed at which he refined them.

"Fourth layer..."

Inside the haunted house.

Zhong Shenxiu sat cross-legged, while the shifting, unpredictable phantom of the Variable Dharma Body appeared behind him.

The enormous dharma form was like the deepest darkness, surrounded by specks of light resembling stars.

When Zhong Shenxiu casually touched one of them, he seemed to see Sayako praying through some mysterious connection in the unseen.

And several believers had already gathered around her.

She only just arrived in Dongying, and she's already begun advancing the great cause of the Esoteric Cult?

If this keeps up, won't the commotion become too big...?

I named it the Esoteric Cult precisely because it's supposed to develop in secret...

While he was deep in thought, the phone beside him rang.

Zhong Shenxiu glanced at the screen and discovered that Angel was calling.

"Hello, Mr. Kui..."

The other party exchanged a few polite words first, then mentioned that Wan Xiaolou and Wen Wanqing had successfully completed their training and become interns at the Foundation.

Zhong Shenxiu paid not the slightest attention to the two girls. He brushed the matter off with a few casual remarks, and then Angel finally got to the point.

"Mr. Kui, our investigators have discovered