Chapter 53: [Danger Level: ★★★★★★]

Lu Yuan stood at the center surrounded by the Seven Malevolences. The blue Daoist robe on his body moved without wind, fluttering loudly.

His right hand emerged from the wide sleeve. In his palm, three ancient coins were already suspended.

The ancient coins rotated on their own, emitting subtle yet dense humming sounds. The mottled copper rust on their surfaces was peeling off, revealing the dark golden luster beneath.

The Disease Malevolence struck first.

Sky-filling blue-black plague mist, like breached ink, swept toward Lu Yuan.

In the mist, countless small twisted human faces appeared and disappeared, emitting soundless shrieks that made one nauseous.

Lu Yuan's left hand formed a "Plague-Dispelling Incantation," index and middle fingers pressed together like a sword, slashing through the air before him.

A "Shennong Pestilence-Expelling Talisman" formed from nothing!

This talisman pattern wasn't cinnabar, but outlined with pure yang qi condensed from his fingertips.

The instant the talisman formed, golden light exploded!

A thirty-foot-tall phantom of Shennong rose from the ground—human body with ox head, draped in green leaves, holding a russet-colored long whip.

The Shennong phantom's face was expressionless. Facing that churning plague mist, it simply lashed out with one whip!

The whip shadow fell.

"Tssss—!"

The blue-black plague mist was like accumulated snow splashed with boiling oil, making sharp evaporation sounds, frantically melting away.

The twisted human-faced insect shadows in the mist let out shrill wails, struggling as they turned into wisps of blue smoke, completely dissipating between heaven and earth.

Just one exchange, one of the Seven Malevolences, the Disease Malevolence, instantly annihilated!

Such domineering methods made Xu Erxiao and Wang Cheng'an watching from the side feel their confidence surge!

Brother Lu hasn't even used his Celestial Master thunder techniques yet!

And he so easily destroyed one malevolent ghost—too strong!!

But this scene, falling into the eyes of that hunchbacked old man and haggard woman, didn't show much surprise.

After all, the failure of the Human-Faced Two-Legged Sheep was thanks to this person.

Although they didn't know what heaven-reaching methods Lu Yuan had used that night, they had long listed him as a mortal threat.

This person's realm had probably already infinitely approached Celestial Master!

Now seeing it, indeed so!

Erasing one malevolence in one exchange, just this "Shennong Pestilence-Expelling Talisman" drawn from thin air.

Absolutely wasn't something ordinary Daoist priests could master. Behind it must be extremely deep sect transmission!

Just then, the Death Malevolence had seized the opportunity to attack!

A huge white bone hand burst from underground with a rumble.

Five sharp finger bones with tips growing pitch-black claws silently reached directly for Lu Yuan's back.

This claw contained the true meaning of "absolute death." Even ordinary cultivators who only had a bit of skin broken would have their life force completely severed within three breaths but Lu Yuan didn't even turn his head.

His right hand backhanded a throw, the three Wuzhu coins in his palm shooting out!

The three ancient coins instantly fixed in mid-air, self-arranging into the "Heaven, Earth, Human" Three Talents array.

From the coin holes, three pale golden light pillars shot out, weaving into a light net that precisely caught that white bone giant hand.

"Burial Gold Suppresses Darkness, Three Talents Lock Malevolence."

Lu Yuan recited the incantation in a low voice, his right hand's five fingers suddenly clenching in the air!

Hum—!

The three ancient coins violently trembled simultaneously, the roaring sound actually like ancient temple bells and tripods, majestic and heavy.

The two characters "Wuzhu" on the coin inscriptions suddenly emerged with golden light, transforming into two talisman seals, fiercely branding onto the white bone hand.

All movements of the bone hand instantly stiffened.

The next moment, countless fine cracks emerged from its surface, starting from the fingertips, shattering section by section.

Finally turning into a pile of pale bone powder, rustling down.

Another single exchange, the Death Malevolence, extinguished again!

In less than half a minute, two of the Seven Malevolent Ghosts had been consecutively destroyed by Lu Yuan!

This scene excited Xu Erxiao and Wang Cheng'an terribly!

Jumping and shouting from the side,"Brother Lu is awesome!!!"

The two from the Life-Severing Wang Family, their pupils sharply contracted.

They had thought Lu Yuan was strong, but hadn't expected he'd be strong to this extent. Instantly killing malevolent ghosts was as simple as eating and drinking.

This eighteen or nineteen-year-old youth's cultivation depth and ruthless methods were simply not like a young person!

This wasn't just about cultivation level.

More so, it was extensive knowledge and experience.

In just one exchange, he could analyze what type of malevolent ghost this was and what type of ritual implement or technique should be used to counter it.

This was truly quite formidable!

Of course... what neither the Life-Severing Wang Family nor Xu Erxiao and Wang Cheng'an could possibly imagine was...

Still playing traditional ghost-catching??

Lu Yuan looked at another line of blood-red text charging toward him and almost laughed out loud.

[Type: Seven Malevolences Ghost, Separation Malevolence]

[Cultivation: Condensed by "Malevolent Slaughter Register," no cultivation]

[Weakness: Five Elements rotation, Separation Malevolence self-resolves]

[Special Notice: Separation doesn't harm flesh, specializes in severing human connections and separating souls. Once entangled, within seven days relatives scatter, teacher and student turn against each other, husband and wife become enemies]

[Danger Level: ★★]

The answer was written on its face—how could he lose?

Of course, to say Lu Yuan relied entirely on the system would truly be burying Lu Yuan.

If not for his normally meticulous cultivation practice, having countless incantations and talismans thoroughly memorized.

Even if the answer was placed before him, facing enemies in battle, he simply wouldn't have time to react.

After all, some people during school open-book exams, even with answers written on the blackboard, could copy them wrong.

At this moment, the Separation Malevolence had arrived.

Countless blood-colored threads manifested from thin air, like lovers' entangled hair, or like life-claiming spider webs, covering the sky and earth.

Lu Yuan's eyes slightly closed, a point of golden light suddenly brightened at his brow.

His divine soul was stable as a mountain. No matter how those blood threads invaded, upon touching within three feet of his body, they melted like ice and snow meeting blazing sun but he didn't stop there.

His left hand took from his chest a palm-sized bagua mirror, the back carved with Twenty-Eight Constellations, the rim inlaid with the Big Dipper.

Lu Yuan's tongue tip pressed up, biting through his tongue tip. A mouthful of true yang saliva containing supremely pure yang qi suddenly sprayed on the mirror surface!

"Li is fire, fire generates earth, earth overcomes water, water nourishes wood, wood generates fire... Five Elements rotation, Separation Malevolence self-resolves!"

The mirror surface instantly reflected those sky-filling blood threads. Then, the scene in the mirror began to frantically flow and turn.

The blood threads in the mirror world transformed into raging flames, the flames burned mountains to scorched earth, scorched earth buried rivers to turbid water, turbid water nourished wood to towering trees, forest wood reignited into new fire...

The mirror world cycled a full nine times at a speed hard to discern with the naked eye.

In the reality outside the mirror, those sky-filling blood threads also became faint, transparent, finally completely dissipating in the air without trace.

Another malevolence destroyed!!

Speaking of which... these Seven Malevolent Ghosts were far too simple.

The danger rating given by the system was only four stars.

Lu Yuan knew this rating was dynamically adjusted based on his own strength.

He was already a Celestial Master. This was his first battle after advancing. The past star level standards were no longer applicable and needed recalibration but these Seven Malevolent Ghosts were truly too weak, so weak they were instantly killed upon appearing, completely unable to serve as effective reference points.

Was it because after becoming a Celestial Master, he had become ridiculously strong?

Daoist teachings did say that advancing to Celestial Master and mastering thunder techniques was a qualitative transformation like a carp leaping the dragon gate but... he hadn't even used his trump card thunder techniques yet.

That thing was prepared to be saved for these two main targets, for a fatal strike...

Just as this thought flashed through Lu Yuan's mind, the remaining Destruction, Mutilation, and Decline malevolences had simultaneously pounced.

Lu Yuan's form flickered, instantly creating distance, preparing to defeat them one by one.

Even a lion uses full force hunting a rabbit—absolutely cannot have a contemptuous heart!

However, just as he flashed away and prepared to strike again, all movements in his hands suddenly froze.

His entire person, as if falling into an ice cave, stood dumbly in place.

At some unknown time, the "Malevolent Slaughter Register" that old woman had been clutching in her arms was now floating above her and the hunchbacked old man's heads.

Rustle rustle—

The pages frantically flipped on their own, so fast they formed a blurry black shadow.

Endless black qi surged wildly from the book, gathering in mid-air, writhing, condensing into a huge ghost shadow a full thirty feet tall!

That ghost shadow had no facial features, only a giant mouth occupying the entire "face."

The giant mouth continuously opened and closed, filled inside with layer upon layer of sharp teeth, breathing out suffocating filthy malevolent qi.

In Lu Yuan's mind, blood-red characters frantically refreshed, finally freezing into a line that made his scalp tingle.

[Type: Super Great Completion Malevolent Ghost]

[Cultivation: No cultivation, condensed by "Malevolent Slaughter Register"]

[Weakness: No weakness, but will self-dissipate before dawn]

[Time until complete form condensation: 00:03:15]

[Danger Level: ★★★★★★]

Lu Yuan: "???"

Twelve... twelve stars??!!

Super Great Completion Malevolent Ghost?!!