After a long and tedious brainwashing session, the agitated believers finally left the area.
The bishop looked at the three of them with a hint of a smile on his face, gesturing for them to follow him.
Wei Kaiyang followed behind the bishop, gradually approaching the prayer room.
He noticed that over a dozen figures in black robes were standing at the entrance to the prayer room.
"They are the exorcists of our Order. It is hard work, but for the Lord God, everything is worth it," the bishop introduced.
Wei Kaiyang and the others could not see their faces clearly. They simply followed the bishop into the prayer room.
Just as Zhao Lei had said, the place was unremarkable, except that now a circle of Order members stood against the walls.
They stared at the three with burning eyes.
Wei Kaiyang had a bad premonition.
"They're dead." Lin Ye turned off the television directly and let out a long breath. "Though, for these useless trashes to survive this long is already a huge win, alright."
The girl beside him blinked and asked, "How do you know they're dead?"
"Because..." Lin Ye naturally couldn't say the system told him. He pointed to his head. "They don't use their brains. The best opportunity was to sneak back into the prayer room to look for clues during the day when the Order was conducting its activities. Yet, they foolishly stood there and wasted a whole day! Once it gets dark and the three-day time limit is up, they will undoubtedly die."
The girl looked at him with some admiration. "But, don't regular instances count as cleared once the time is up?"
"In a triple-S rank instance, how could time be the key to clearing it? The only explanation is that they only have three days. Once the three days are up, even if they evade the demons' pursuit and possession, they will be eliminated by this mysterious Order."
"This Order looks like the good guys, though."
"No, no, no, you're wrong. There is definitely something wrong with this Order." Lin Ye pulled the girl into his arms and then silenced her mouth to stop her from asking any more questions.
Actually, his system was not wrong.
Just as Zhao Lei and the other two grew increasingly uneasy, the sky gradually darkened, and the bishop's smile became somewhat sinister in the candlelight. The old man slowly walked to the desk and pressed a mark on it.
With a click, the wall directly facing the door slowly opened, revealing a hidden passage.
The bishop waved at the three of them. Wei Kaiyang glanced behind him and found that the black-robed men were blocking the door. Knowing there was no way out, he followed Zhao Lei forward.
The three entered the passage, and the other members behind them immediately followed. They were muttering incomprehensible incantations, which made people feel rather uncomfortable.
As they reached the end, a massive room appeared before their eyes.
Suddenly, a cry came from behind.
"Let me go!"
Wei Kaiyang immediately turned his head, only to be greeted by an iron collar. Even Zhao Lei was subdued before he had time to activate his skills.
"Outsiders... you possess power comparable to demons..." The bishop slowly took off his hood. The two sharp horns on top of his head now explained everything.
"Demon! You are a demon!"
Wei Kaiyang instantly understood, but it was to no avail.
As the cult members took off their hoods one by one, their pupils glowed golden yellow, and fangs protruded from their mouths.
"Your flesh and souls are the best sacrifices for that Lord," the bishop said. Wei Kaiyang and the other two were hung upside down. Blood rushed to their heads, making Wei Kaiyang feel extremely uncomfortable.
He had thought that this Order might just be a group of swindlers, and he had considered that they might be using the public's fear to gather faith, but he had never imagined that this Order was also made up of demons!
How despairing must this world be!
Known for always playing it safe, he now began to curse loudly.
Facing his anger, the demon bishop merely watched him quietly. "Outsiders, you carry a fascinating scent... It is a good thing you found your way here yourselves, rather than letting those low-level fools outside have you."
They could actually detect the skills on his body? This absurd thought flashed through Wei Kaiyang's mind.
Watching a grinning creature walk toward Luo Huan with a sickle in hand, Wei Kaiyang closed his eyes in agony, then suddenly opened them. "I'm sorry."
He said this to his wife and child who were watching the live broadcast.
However, he did not know that ever since he walked in, the live feed had been cut off.
Some kind of power had blocked the broadcast.
Luo Huan was already scared silly. She screamed and struggled continuously, trying to dodge the sickle swinging toward her neck.
The sound of something shattering rang out, and the executioner holding the sickle looked toward the door in astonishment.
"I say, digging such a massive basement here, isn't that an illegal construction?"
Wei Kaiyang became excited. This voice! It was that hidden expert!
"Who are you?" The demon bishop looked at the newcomer in shock. At this moment, Fang Zhiyi was grabbing an exorcist by the face, and with a forceful throw, he tossed the man straight out.
"Me? Just an ordinary person who loves peace." Fang Zhiyi smiled, his face full of sincerity.
"A human exorcist?" The demon bishop's face turned ferocious. His human visage rapidly collapsed, revealing a demonic face covered in fine, dense blood vessels.
"Kill him."
The members of the Order revealed their true forms one by one, and they closed in on Fang Zhiyi.
"Hey, I have to ask, has it been a long time since you all returned to your foul-smelling Abyss?" Fang Zhiyi suddenly asked.
Hearing him mention the Abyss, the demon bishop's orange-yellow eyes scanned him up and down. "Human, you have actually been to the Abyss?" Its flared nostrils took a deep breath. "Indeed, you carry the scent of a demon. Human, what exactly are you trying to do?"
"The point isn't what I am trying to do, but what you are trying to do." Fang Zhiyi picked at his ear. "I thought it was strange before. A demon invasion happens, and the Order suddenly appears... Turns out you guys are playing both the gods and the monsters. Either way, you profit, huh?"
He took a step forward, and his confident demeanor made the demons surrounding him hesitate.
"If I'm not mistaken, your next move is to use the public's fear to make them turn on their own kind. Meanwhile, you not only get to continue masquerading as saviors but can also stand back and reap a harvest of souls, right?"
"Especially those... poor souls who are still fighting against the demons. You borrow human hands to plunge them into utter ruin, turning them into spirits filled with resentment toward humanity. Seriously, are you guys really that twisted?"
"What does it matter if you know? The great Lord of the Abyss has already planned everything. You cannot save anything."
As he spoke, a cacophony of noises arose. The demons who were just about to reach for Fang Zhiyi froze in place, as over a dozen twisted shadows suddenly burst forth from within this human's body!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
. As long as he maintains the villain image and follows the plot to the grand finale, he can obtain generous rewards and return to the real world. So Gu Chen'an entered the role and began to act as a scumbag villain, but who would have expected that the female leads could hear his inner thoughts. Miss Su from the Su family was shocked: "I originally thought Gu Chen'an was a scumbag, but I didn't expect he turned out to be a gentleman! What? You said I have to call off the engagement? I definitely won't, I'll piss you off!" Bai Yuan Tian was dumbfounded: "Young Master Gu is usually unreasonable and a complete brat, but he actually calls me little sweetie in his heart? What, Young Master Gu even said he likes me?" As the female leads' images collapsed more and more, the plot also collapsed with it. Gu Chen'an looked at all this chaos. "Ladies, don't aggro me, if you keep this up the male lead really will stab me, I still need to survive to the grand finale!"
transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”
tions: attribute allocation, analysis, proficiency, and simulation. Specializing in mechanical alchemy, from crafting sorcerous battle armor to handcrafting mechanical maidens, his mechanical legion conquers endless realms... Relying on his wits, he begins with a student-teacher romance, wins over a female director, enslaves a female assassin and a underworld queen, becoming the husband of a Grand Duchess... He enslaves the Goddess of Magic from the divine realm, developing his power simultaneously in both the Wizard World and the Realm of Gods...
