When I Became the Calamity Itself

"What kind of joke was this?"

Lord Sui's pupils constricted slightly. He noticed that the flames had clearly spread into the cave. Even if the Wuzhuang Temple Daoists knew some wicked Arts, they should not have been able to survive the searing heat.

He had led troops to eliminate evil for over a decade, killing no fewer than eight hundred Daoists, if not a thousand. Yet he had never encountered anything like this.

Where there was an abnormal occurrence, there was surely a demon at work.

"Quick, make the fire stronger! Don't stop! Use the Demon Suppressing Soldiers against those wicked cultivators!"

The Demon Suppressing Soldiers referred to the cannon barrels held by the Dao soldiers. They were forged from refined copper essence and filled with explosive gunpowder, also called "Black Taisui" by the Ministry of War.

The dozens of Dao soldiers came to their senses and wriggled over to gather firewood.

Lord Sui faced a great enemy.

He discovered that most of the Dao soldiers were still staring fixedly at the flames with obsessive eyes. They had clearly already been influenced by the evil.

Lord Sui only hoped that the Dao soldiers would not become Daoists who worshipped evil in such a short time. Otherwise, this journey would have been like drawing water with a bamboo basket—nothing but emptiness.

The less he wanted it to happen, the more events veered in an unexpected direction.

As expected, the bewitched Dao soldiers began to exhibit strange abnormalities. Some even started imitating the Wuzhuang Temple Daoists and chanting scriptures.

Under Lord Sui's watchful gaze, the Dao soldiers began to undergo indescribable Aberration. Their limbs twisted and deformed to varying degrees.

The Dao soldiers could not help but fall into chaos, since their meager mana could not sustain the Demon Suppressing Soldiers for