Pop!
A bullet pierced his forehead. The explosive round detonated, instantly blasting his head to pieces. Red, white, and yellow matter burst outward like fireworks. The headless corpse fell stiffly to the ground. Beneath where the body lay was a mysterious formation, its multicolored spiritual glow flickering unsteadily.
"It worked!" Zhuge Lian opened his eyes, his face still wearing that unchanged, calm, confident smile. "Ju-On has been killed."
Pseudo-Naruto asked skeptically, "Are you sure?" He could not help doubting it. During the previous experiment, the Ju-On drawn into the "human pillar" had not only survived, but grown even stronger. Pseudo-Naruto had suffered badly because of it—it had possessed him outright! If not for the power of the Nine-Tails sealed within him, even if he had not died, he would have endured terrible torment.
Zhuge Lian said with apparent sincerity, "Yes. This time, I definitely killed the Ju-On. As for before... my apologies. That truly was my oversight."
Previously, Zhuge Lian had directly used a living person as a human pillar, luring the Ju-On into possessing them before killing the pillar. Yet while the Ju-On had been killed, the human pillar's wrongful death had produced a new Ju-On. At the same time, it absorbed the resentment of the possessing Ju-On and became an even stronger one. Unfortunately, Pseudo-Naruto, who had rashly approached in his eagerness to inspect the results, was possessed by it.
Ju-On possession varied from person to person. The weaker one's body was, the easier it was to be possessed; those with darkness in their hearts were also more susceptible. If an ordinary person stood together with Zhu Tong and the others, the ordinary person would certainly be possessed first. Moreover, Ju-On did not need physical contact to possess ordinary people as it did with academy students. A single