Halfway up the Rocky Mountains, where wind and snow howl.
A large group of terrifying evil spirits gathered together, carrying a figure as they walked across the snow.
The snow, as soft as cotton, leaves no trace after people walk on it; truly, walking in the snow leaves no mark.
Ten minutes later,
In this vast, white, snowy world, Wu Heng discovered a wooden house half-covered by snow, and he commanded his horde of evil spirits to go and stay there.
Wu Heng jumped off the deck chair, his foot crunching through the snow as he stepped into it. The snow reached up to his calves, almost up to his knees.
This icy land has finally It Comes a glimmer of life.
Wu Heng stepped through the snow puddles, pushed open the door of the wooden cabin, revealing an interior floor that was 1.2 meters sunken beneath the snow and covered in dust.
He raised his hand and waved it, and five shovels appeared on the ground. Five evil spirits grabbed them and expressionlessly shoveled up the snow.
Once some of the snow at the entrance had been cleared, creating a slightly more open space, Wu Heng led the remaining evil spirits into the wooden house, leaving the five evil spirits who had been shoveling snow to continue guarding outside.
Inside the room, Wu Heng had laid a wooden plank on the floor and hung a red rope from the beam. He looked up at the 48 evil spirits neatly arranged in three rows.
He planned to try and create some more powerful evil spirits himself.
The essential condition for the Seven Fiends Rebirth Ritual to function is a spiritual being.
Ordinary evil spirits might not easily meet this condition, but many of the evil spirits in front of us possess the ability of the Shining, which is likely similar to a psychic ability.
After all, Gypsy witches' mediums are also psychics, and many of them have abilities similar to the the Shining. The Shining and the Ghost Eye are both products of coincidence and are closely related to the supernatural and mysterious.
Wu Heng sifted through the group of evil spirits and selected Jack Torrance, the twins, and the black man in the suit. Dick Hallorann was left behind because in the story, he had become a conscious spirit and could teach Danny to use the Mind Cage to imprison the evil spirits that appeared in his mind.
Wu Heng also noticed that Dick Hallorann's evil spirit was constantly fluctuating, seemingly poised to regain consciousness at any moment.
As for Danny's mental prison, in the story, it's because even though he's far away from the hotel, he can still feel the terrifying scenes inside.
The evil spirits in the hotel kept appearing in his mind and approaching him, so at Dick Hallorann's suggestion, he created a box and imprisoned them in the box using his thoughts.
However, judging from the evil spirits Wu Heng captured today, Danny may have only imprisoned his delusions. But this does not diminish Wu Heng's interest in Dick Hallorann and Danny; it's just that time is of the essence, and it's not the right time yet.
Of course, this is only Wu Heng's own opinion; he will only be able to understand the real situation after he meets Danny.
He then set up the conversion ritual, first having the man in the suit stand on the wooden board. Of the four evil spirits, it was the least important, so he would start with it.
Wu Heng himself didn't know whether his the Shining ability counted as a psychic constitution, or whether the ritual would be successful.
Experiments always have the potential to fail.
Seven ordinary evil spirits stood around the man in the suit, each in their own position. Because of Wu Heng's control, they had no ability to resist and could only watch as the ritual started.
Having used the Seven Fiends Rebirth Ritual many times, and especially after experiencing its powerful effects firsthand, Wu Heng was already very familiar with it. He executed the ritual with ease, flawlessly, without making any basic mistakes.
The black mist flowed into the body of the man in the black suit through the red rope. As the bodies of the seven evil spirits gradually dimmed, the man's body began to solidify, and he began to exude a cold aura.
This aura could make an ordinary person fall ill instantly.
Wu Heng prefers to call it Yin energy, Yin energy so dense that it is visible to the naked eye.
The seven evil spirits, impaled by seven red ropes within his illusory body yet unable to move an inch, were finally exhausted. Wu Heng quickly dripped a drop of blood, which seeped into the suit-wearing man's forehead and disappeared.
Because the instant the ritual succeeded, he felt his control disappear!
This ritual is like a fusion machine similar to the one in The Fly; when the subject is reshaped, it undergoes some transformations based on the fused object.
Only after feeling the re-establishment of control did Wu Heng put away the Exorcism Token and loosen the rope holding the talisman cage on the ceiling.
He had anticipated and planned for the unexpected situation at the beginning of the ceremony, so he had taken precautions in advance.
Otherwise, if you try to play with a hawk but end up having your eyes pecked out by it, that would be truly embarrassing.
Wu Heng carefully observed the black evil spirit in the suit in front of him.
Perhaps because two of the seven evil spirits were white-skinned, its skin also turned from black to white, and its facial features were reshaped; its originally thick lower lip became thin.
It looked like a normal corpse, but there was a fresh knife wound on its abdomen, and it exuded a chilling aura that was different from frost; it was a kind of cold that was not intense, but could penetrate to the bone.
Wu Heng ordered him to open his mouth.
Its tongue was charred black, and a few sparks lingered in its throat. Beneath its chilling exterior, its internal organs remained acrid, burnt carbon.
The evil spirit before them was a level above the previous ones.
For evil spirits, this represents a qualitative leap.
Wu Heng saw that there was already a successful experimental subject, which meant that his idea was reasonable, and having the ability to the Shining could be considered as being a psychic.
He followed the same pattern again, modifying Jack Torrance and the twins.
During this process, Wu Heng made new discoveries about the Seven Fiends Rebirth Ritual.
This ritual fusion seems to involve more than just absorbing the benefits of the seven evil spirit materials to enhance and reshape the subject; it is also related to the subject's obsessions.
Jack Torrance was a writer who struggled to come up with good storylines and always felt that his brain wasn't up to the task.
So after the ritual, Jack Torrance grew three heads and two right hands, seemingly to supplement his brainpower and conceive better stories, and the extra right hand also allowed him to write faster.
"No wonder he's a novelist!" Wu Heng exclaimed in admiration of its new appearance, then turned to look at the twins.
The twin sisters were treated as two separate individuals, and the ritual was performed on them separately by Wu Heng.
But their desires seemed to be very similar; both of them grew to be 1.8 meters tall, with strong muscles covering their arms, completely resembling the image of a female bodybuilder.
The bulge of internal organs squeezed out of their abdominal wounds was encased by the bones extending from their ribs, forming a bony sac. Their fangs became sharper, even piercing their own lips.
They have completely lost the eerie little girl image of the twins they once were.
They were murdered by their most trusted fathers before their deaths. Perhaps their current strong physique reflects their inner desires; if they had been that strong back then, they could certainly have rebelled against their fathers.
This may be the obsession in their hearts.
Wu Heng was fairly satisfied with the four modified evil spirits before him; they had all reached the strength he had expected, and they had given him a deeper understanding of ritual modification.
Overall, some progress was made.
"Time to get to work!"
Wu Heng surveyed the evil spirits in the room. They automatically took the four modified evil spirits as their leaders and stood quietly inside.
The ritual consumed 28 evil spirits; 26 remain.