Evil Spirit

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Evil Spirit (邪祟)
Alias(es)	Also rendered as “Malevolent Spirit,” “Evil Entity,” or “Evil Creature” in the supplied passages.
Species/Race	A broad designation for supernatural entities; Ancient Evil Spirits are specifically distinguished from the many Malevolent Spirits given this name 1793.
Affiliation	Varies. Some receive worship through cults, while others inhabit supernatural locations or are laboratory creations 1103 1583 1969.
Occupation/Role	Supernatural threats; some also grant power to believers through the Path of Incense and Fire 1605 1969.

Nature & Classification

“Evil Spirit” does not identify a single creature or uniform species. Moon Laurel distinguishes ordinary entities bearing the name from Ancient Evil Spirits, which emerged from the Abyss beyond the galaxy 1793.

Category	Defining characteristics
Malevolent Spirits	Born through the Supernatural Invasion. They grow by slaughtering living beings and remain fundamentally hostile to life even after reaching Demigod status 2235.
Incense-and-Fire Evil Spirits	Malevolent Ghosts following the Path of Incense and Fire can be called Evil Spirits. Their strength ranges from below Sixth Tier to Demigod level; Demigod examples can be called evil gods 1467 1799.
Ancient Evil Spirits	Primordial entities that crawled out of the Abyss and possess exceptional suppressive power over the supernatural 1793 2063.
Psychic Anomalies	Entities or curse-like phenomena existing in the mental and spiritual realm rather than as normally visible, tangible bodies 1701.
Vengeful spirits	Creatures formed from dying resentment combined with supernatural phenomena. They are closer to manifestations than true Malevolent Spirits 1509.

• Self-awareness is not universal. Many Malevolent Ghosts act mechanically, while some entities can speak, bargain, imitate people, or display fear 479 1347 3107.
• Appearance often reflects ability. Jiang Qiao uses a spirit’s form to infer its killing mechanism, particularly when dealing with Weird Tales 905.
• A humanoid appearance does not establish humanity. Evil Spirits may reproduce human bodies, memories, and behavior without possessing human nature 1799 2062.

Background / History

Ancient Origins

Moon Laurel recounts that supernatural forces attracted evil creatures from the depths of the universe. One historical theory held that they were the civilization responsible for creating the supernatural, subsequently eroded into distorted monsters. Moon Laurel describes these beings as possessing consciousness without memory, like brains floating in the Void 1793.

Yang Ling later provides a more specific account: Ancient Evil Spirits were remnants of a destroyed civilization’s God-Making Plan, an attempt to create beings capable of completely suppressing the supernatural. The project failed, and its remnants eventually appeared outside the galaxy 2082.

Attempts to resist them included sealing the galaxy and creating the Red Moon to block the Abyss. The Red Moon failed to sever the Ominousness and was ultimately contaminated 1793 2063.

Other Origins

• Mountain Ghost imitation: Mountain Ghosts can imitate living people, including their memories, and become self-aware Malevolent Ghosts. They cannot reproduce Blood Essence or humanity 2062.
• Supernatural erosion: Living people exposed to sufficiently altered environments can become possessed by Malevolent Ghosts. Weirdness differs by retaining life despite the erosion 2062.
• Evolver transformation: Parasitic ghosts gradually erode an Evolver’s consciousness. At advanced stages, the host becomes a Malevolent Ghost retaining human thoughts rather than a living Evolver 235 1799.
• Artificial creation: The Research Institute’s C Area contains laboratory-produced Evil Spirits associated with paintings, mirrors, lanterns, and couplets 1583.
• Suspected human construction: Jiang Qiao judges the colossal infant-headed, fish-tailed entity near the Tomb Entrance to be artificially created rather than a natural product of supernatural erosion 3011.

Power & Development

Evil Spirits have no single documented advancement sequence. Their strength and methods differ substantially between ordinary ghosts, faith-supported entities, and Ancient Evil Spirits 1467 1793.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Below Sixth Tier	1467 1593	Some worshipped Evil Spirits fall below Sixth Tier. The Research Institute’s Broken Blade can slay Evil Spirits below this threshold.
Eighth Tier	1120 1467	An Eighth Tier Malevolent Spirit can overturn many first-rate factions. The Rainbow Island spirit is assessed as likely belonging to this tier.
Ninth Tier	1162	Advancing beyond Eighth Tier requires comprehending Ninth Tier special abilities, not merely accumulating more power.
Seventh Step of the Divinity Staircase	2097	The spirit grown from half an Ancient Evil Spirit’s body is assessed at approximately this level. Its partial Earth Vein control helps it suppress incomplete divine beasts.
Ninth Step of the Divinity Staircase	2402	Jiang Qiao assesses the Abyssal Evil Spirit on Floor -98 as equal to him in realm.
Demigod	1467 2235	Powerful Incense-and-Fire spirits can become evil gods. Malevolent Spirits do not lose their hostility toward life upon becoming Demigods.

Sources of Growth

• Slaughter: Malevolent Spirits require large numbers of living victims to grow 2235.
• Fusion: The Weird Tales Inn’s Butcher can increase its strength by continually stuffing other Malevolent Ghosts into its body 1120.
• Faith: Accumulated human Mental Power can make firmly held beliefs about a spirit’s divine abilities become real 1516.
• Summoning: Each summoning replenishes spirit-medium Evil Spirits and helps stabilize their rules, although these entities attempt to kill their summoners 2281.

Appearance

Evil Spirits range from human disguises to objects, shadows, and bodies that do not resemble living organisms 1742 2082 2306.

Manifestation	Distinguishing features
Incense-smoke girl	Artificially smooth, pale skin without pores or normal texture; her apparently physical body is entirely incense smoke. She later reveals a nine-meter-tall form 1742 1743.
Earth Vein Ancient Evil Spirit	Initially a towering humanoid shadow. Its true body consists of tangled lines covered in translucent cyst-like bumps containing embryo-like structures 2071 2082.
Floor -98 Abyssal Evil Spirit	A pale, grotesque mask large enough to cover a house, with black holes where its eyes, nose, and mouth should be 2399.
Consciousness-type entity	A human-shaped tangle of black yarn wearing a dark gray, old-fashioned factory uniform 2917.
Colossal waterborne entity	A giant, rotting infant’s head with a fish tail and a stitched-together appearance 3011.
Shrouded spirit	Wrapped in a burial shroud, draped in rusty iron chains, and possessing grayish-white eyes 3105.

Behavior

Some Evil Spirits operate through rigid supernatural rules rather than conscious decisions. The entity trapped behind a door repeatedly pushes it closed instead of removing the metal rods obstructing it. Jiang Qiao also encounters apparently playful ghosts whose lack of self-awareness makes him suspect an external controller 1774 2278.

Intelligent examples can be deceptive, vindictive, or cautious. The incense-smoke spirit disguises itself as a timid girl before threatening to turn Jiang Qiao into a clone. Other spirits attempt escape when overpowered, display fear, or explain past events through conversation 1742 1743 2402 3105 3107.

Abilities & Skills

Mental Influence & Replacement

Many Evil Spirits attack consciousness, perception, or identity rather than relying on physical injury.

• Alter memories and relationships between ordinary people 1738.
• Control victims through supernatural threads, as demonstrated by the Snow Deer puppet 2917.
• Project nonexistent figures into a victim’s mind until those figures animate and replace the victim 2306.
• Induce uniform happiness and smiles despite catastrophic surroundings 2072.
• Manipulate desires and emotions; Yin Qiu suffers a backlash from these same abilities 2547.

Supernatural Spaces & Reality Distortion

Some entities inhabit, generate, or closely integrate with supernatural environments.

• The Weird Tales Inn’s corridor spirits appear inseparable from the inn itself 1103.
• The incense-smoke spirit attempts to draw Jiang Qiao into its supernatural space 1742.
• The Floor -98 spirit escapes close combat by shifting Jiang Qiao into an apparently endless corridor 2401.
• The colossal waterborne entity distorts its surroundings with faces, shadows, and corpses; believing its manifestations are real can make them real 3011.

Curses & Rule-Based Attacks

Their killing methods can depend on highly specific conditions.

• Vision: Laboratory entities impose different restrictions on looking at paintings, mirrors, lanterns, and couplets 1583.
• Darkness: The room-bound spirit’s behavior suggests it can exist only in darkness, though this remains an inference 2278.
• Imitation: Snow Children reproduce Mao Zhen’s voice with exact personal mannerisms during a hide-and-seek-like pursuit 2957.
• Expressions: The four-faced statue’s curse makes Fang Xun’s summoned figures mimic its expressions before being destroyed 2602.
• Decay: The Floor -98 spirit uses a decay rule against Jiang Qiao 2401.

Ancient Supernatural Suppression

Ancient Evil Spirits exert unusual suppression over other supernatural powers.

• Even one-third of an Evil Spirit Body weakens most supernatural attacks 2418.
• The Earth Vein spirit breaks free from Black Tortoise and Azure Dragon’s rule-based attacks 2076.
• Suppression is not absolute: Yuan Yu’s attack bypasses Jiang Qiao’s partial Evil Spirit Body and enters his body directly 2319.
• Destroyed Ancient Evil Spirits can provide fragments capable of repairing Jiang Qiao’s own Evil Spirit Body 2402.

Faith & Divine Descent

Incense-and-Fire spirits exchange supernatural benefits for worship.

• Devout followers may receive access to accumulated spiritual power 1605.
• Belief opens followers to the spirit’s mental influence, gradually producing fanatical devotion 1969.
• Powerful human partners can cooperate with spirits to recruit believers and divide the resulting Incense and Fire 1969.
• Modified bodies can serve as tailored Divine Descent vessels. Jiang Qiao suspects two Sixth Tier Evolvers with hidden higher-tier auras are such containers 1799.

Notable Encounters

Encounter	Outcome
Weird Tales Inn	Jiang Qiao cannot initially identify the corridor spirits’ nature or strength because they seem completely integrated with the inn 1103.
Research Institute pursuit	A skin-like spirit catches a fleeing white-haired man; witnesses expect him to become another conjoined figure within it 1596.
Room-bound spirit	Ma Teng, Zhang Ming, and Xiao Shen combine three supernatural phenomena to exceed its endurance and kill it 2279.
Earth Vein emergence	Half an Ancient Evil Spirit breaks free, causes a worldwide earthquake, and reaches the altar where its nonbiological true form is exposed 2071 2082.
Floor -98	Jiang Qiao destroys the Abyssal Evil Spirit’s mask. The Simulator confirms its death and awards a fragment for completing his body 2402.
Island cave	Jiang Qiao defeats the spirit attacking with ghost hair, sewage, and power-suppressing liquid. It drops the Special Item “Fish Master” 2584 2585.
River of Forgetfulness	Jiang Qiao uses Possession and the Mad Scientist’s mysterious world to break and alter two powerful spirits, then employs them in a curse against Fang Xun 2604.
Shrouded spirit interrogation	A chained spirit is immobilized by electrical arcs, becomes terrified, and later tells Jiang Qiao about the Hu Family and a Ghost Bride 3105 3107.
Tanjung Sepat	Rampaging spirits stop moving en masse when Hu Yongchang dies 3163.

Relationships

• Jiang Qiao — Repeated opponent, investigator, and user of captured supernatural power. His Evil Spirit Body incorporates Ancient Evil Spirit remains 1602 2402 2604.
• Moon Laurel — Explains Ancient Evil Spirits, their Imprints, and the distinction between them and ordinary spirits 1790 1793.
• Yang Ling — Identifies their connection to the failed God-Making Plan and explains the unusual structure of their true bodies 2082.
• Cultists — Supply faith and Incense and Fire; continued exposure can turn opportunistic recruits into devoted, extreme followers 1969.
• Major factions — Commonly suppress evil-god worship because its followers destabilize human settlements 1969.
• Nether Sea immortality seekers — Used Evil Spirit Imprints as models for transforming themselves, taking a path Moon Laurel describes as mistaken 1790.

After Death

• Powerful Evil Spirits can leave Imprints. These are incompatible with the real world and attract Ominousness 1790.
• Rule eruptions following a Demigod’s death can attract Evil Spirits attempting to enter reality 1790.
• Malevolent Spirits can be processed into supernatural items, although ordinary crafting usually reduces their power and leaves side effects 2250.
• The Floor -98 spirit leaves a usable Abyssal Evil Spirit Fragment, rather than merely disappearing after destruction 2402.