Chapter 55: Sequence Five Chaos Master!

Finally, the world seemed to fall silent all at once; everyone stared blankly at each other, even the sky-filling head balloons vanished, revealing a dim night.

Only then did they realize it had already become night without them noticing.

Li Jun's face was somewhat pale; evidently, even with Chen Shoushan's weakening, pulling that many ghosts into the Ghost Realm in one breath was indeed taxing for him.

After all, not every Ghost Master is Yang Jian, using seven or eight layers of Ghost Realm as if playing.

"What a pity, the source ghost isn't inside."

Li Jun shook his head, saying with a tone of regret.

If the source ghost of the head balloons happened to be among that pile of head balloons, Li Jun would have noticed it right away, saving a lot of trouble.

"Judging by the source ghost, it should still be in the Caesar Hotel."

Chen Shoushan looked around, then smiled satisfactorily and said.

"Then it seems we have to go into the Caesar Hotel."

Suddenly a male voice interjected silently.

Following the direction of that voice, Chen Shoushan saw Li Le Ping for the first time.

Unremarkable—this was Chen Shoushan's first impression of Li Le Ping: an unnoticeable height, appearance, voice, as if anything placed before this man would become utterly ordinary.

"Hello, I am the person in charge of Da Chuan City—Li Le Ping."

Li Le Ping introduced himself to Chen Shoushan with a flat expression, knowing Chen Shoushan could not possibly know him.

"Hello, I am the person in charge of Dahe City—Chen Shoushan."

Chen Shoushan smiled and extended his right hand to Li Le Ping.

Bribery—Connection!

At the same time, Chen Shoushan used Connection on Li Le Ping, so no matter how low his presence, Chen Shoushan could sense his existence.

Li Le Ping blinked; such a physical-contact greeting was truly rare in the supernatural circle, for no one knows whether shaking hands with another Ghost Master might cause sudden death.

"Good thing you didn't say 'I've long admired your name'..."

Li Le Ping extended his hand and shook Chen Shoushan's, even cracking a dry joke humorously.

"Alright, let's talk after we resolve the supernatural incident at the Caesar Hotel."

Li Jun interrupted their conversation, somewhat anxiously saying: "If we don't settle the source ghost of the head balloons and the newspaper ghost, this disaster will happen countless times; let's hurry in! Oh, right, Chen Shoushan, you don't need to go in—headquarters said you can withdraw; we'll handle this."

Li Le Ping nodded lightly: "Then let's go; I hope they're still holding out. By the way, where is Tong Qian?"

"Tong Qian should now be in the third room on the right side of the third floor; there's also a terrifying hatchet ghost in the hotel, whose killing pattern is to step on your footprints and kill you—don't try to imprison it, it's too dangerous."

"I got it; according to the satellite phone signal, Feng Quan and Tong Qian should be on the same floor—I hope they're still alive!"

Li Jun nodded to show he understood, then sprinted anxiously toward the Caesar Hotel.

Looking back again, Li Le Ping was nowhere to be seen, but Chen Shoushan could sense via Connection that he was right beside Li Jun.

After Li Jun and Li Le Ping disappeared at the hotel entrance, Chen Shoushan looked back at the chaotic scene and the bewildered crowd, a faint smile curling his lips……

Light-footed, he walked into the previous tent, Chen Shoushan slightly raised his right hand; a mysterious card slowly floated up, and in an instant the tent filled with an indescribable oppressive feeling.

With a thought, the card became three-dimensional, turning into a book; under Chen Shoushan's control the book flipped pages on its own, quickly arriving at page five—Chaos Master.

From the page drifted a clenched, semi-translucent black fist; the fist intuitively conveys a sense of power and eeriness, its patterns, light spots, and nails seeming to follow normal rules yet filled with dissonant meaning, as if concealing great madness and chaos.

This is the extraordinary trait of Chaos Master, and also what Chen Shoushan has been pursuing.

Under Chen Shoushan's control, the extraordinary trait slowly merged into his body.

Pain, excruciating pain—without auxiliary materials, suffering is inevitable, and this isn't even the worst; Chen Shoushan felt his brain about to explode.

Lust, fear, greed… countless negative emotions swirled together in Chen Shoushan's mind, until finally no emotion remained, only endless chaos.

At that moment, Chen Shoushan's mind suddenly displayed the recent chaotic scene: frenzied civilians waving knives, sturdy soldiers holding aloft blast shields; Chen Shoushan, from a god's-eye view, re-watched that chaos.

He could clearly see the emotions on any civilian or soldier's face—resolute, fearful, mad, expressionless… and so on, until in the end every face bore only the same look—blankness.

And the final memory's frame lingered on Chen Shoushan, standing amid the blank‑eyed crowd with a faint smile.

It ended; when the memory's frame stopped on Chen Shoushan, the pain ceased and the various chaotic emotions in his mind vanished.

Sequence Five—Chaos Master!

The promotion succeeded; Chen Shoushan drew a deep breath, feeling the boundless power within his body, every gesture exuding dignity, and the new extraordinary ability—Chaos!

Chaos: induces disorder in a locked target or surrounding area, making attacks hard to land on oneself and causing enemies to err; it can initially alter temperature, terrain, light, etc., within the chaos radius.

Moreover, Chen Shoushan's original extraordinary abilities have also been strengthened!

The barbarian's strength and physique have both multiplied; now Chen Shoushan can lift a bus, and his mental resistance has greatly increased.

Bribery—Weaken: its effect increased from ten minutes to half an hour; when applied to a target, the target becomes weak, feeble, prone to illness, and most importantly it can weaken curses, diseases, and the damage one receives.

Bribery—Connection: the duration of Connection has been raised to 24 hours, a full day, and one can also sense the emotions of the linked target.

As for the charm and arrogance effects of Bribery, they have not been notably enhanced.

However, the cooldown for Bribery's target has also been reduced from half an hour to twenty minutes, which counts as a minor boost.

Twist's range has expanded from ten meters to fifty meters, and Chen Shoushan can preliminarily influence Twist's outcome and shift some damage positions, including minor curses and diseases.

Corrosion's range has increased to one hundred meters, and Chen Shoushan can control whether the corroded become greedy or gloomy, as well as other negative emotions.

(End of chapter)