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Even Su Ming himself hadn't expected it.

After Kayako transformed into a Ju-On and evolved her own Ghost Territory, she miraculously regained her rationality. With the help of the Ju-On House series of urban legends, she eventually birthed a metaphysical Memetic Specter!

Of course...

That would be a story for much later.

With the Ju-On matter settled.

Su Ming immediately set his sights on other demons and ghosts.

From that day on.

The urban legends wandering in the dark corners of Japan were, without exception, visited by Su Ming one after another.

Usually, after a round of 'heart-to-heart' unilateral negotiations.

These legends were either given entirely new rule-based logic or combined with terrain, urban myths, negative emotions, and cosmic negative energy to simulate brand-new Rule-based Ghost Domains.

The Slit-Mouthed Woman was endowed with shallow memetic characteristics.

From then on.

Any sinful person who had heard the legend of the Slit-Mouthed Woman could potentially be targeted by her.

When that time came, the giant scissors—reforged by Su Ming using the power of Creation Genesis—would harvest the lives of the guilty with the sharpness of a Blue-tier weapon.

Hanako-san of the toilet was also visited by Su Ming.

Since then.

Hanako's operational logic changed.

Whenever bullying occurred in a school restroom, Hanako would appear.

As the eerie nursery rhyme of 'Drop the Handkerchief' played, the winner would live, and the loser would die—no exceptions!

There were many cases similar to the Slit-Mouthed Woman and Hanako, to the point that Japan's Supernatural Countermeasures Department was overwhelmed.

The collective evolution of a large number of low-to-mid-tier urban legends disrupted all their deployments.

Admittedly.

The evolved legends generally targeted filthy, sinful people more specifically.

As a result, their actions rarely affected the innocent.

The impact on the fundamentals of society was no longer severe, and the Supernatural Countermeasures Department didn't need to waste massive amounts of manpower and resources on information blackouts.

But unfortunately...

Among the targets of the new versions of these legends...

There happened to be a group of high-ranking big shots. These legends were utterly ridiculous; their main theme was: the guilty must die!

For a time, the public security in Kyoto actually improved—can you believe it?

The Supernatural Countermeasures Department's scalps went numb.

If...

The collective evolution of individual legends was something the department could barely manage to interfere with.

Then the consecutive emergence of Rule-based Legends left them completely stumped.

Kisaragi Station, Midnight Subway, Route 44 Hell Bus, Senso-ji Fasting Day, the Convenience Store at the Crossroads, Heian Apartments, Xishan Zoo, Miracles of the Namiya General Store, Ju-On House, Haunted High School, Akina Mountain Death Circuit...

In less than a single week.

One unheard-of Rule-based Legend after another sprang up like mushrooms after a rain.

Finally, as the seventh day of widespread panic arrived, a piece of good news was reported: since the Akihabara Figure Shop legend appeared at 8 AM this morning, no more Rule-based Legends had emerged!

However.

The Supernatural Countermeasures Department couldn't celebrate for long.

Only ten minutes passed.

Before another piece of bad news arrived.

In nearby Osaka, an old Ju-On House legend had appeared out of thin air!

Two paranormal streamers, one underworld boss, three business elites, and a female council member were unluckily swept into it!

While the Supernatural Countermeasures Department was in a frantic mess.

Su Ming had already brushed off his sleeves and left, and the final gift he left for Japan...

Was Sadako, who existed by relying on the electromagnetic fields within Japan. Unfortunately, the current Sadako was a 'One Missed Call' version enhanced by Su Ming using Midnight's template!

She was a Rule-based Specter that possessed the preliminary Three Laws of Specters!

Specters are immortal!

Only a Specter can fight a Specter!

Discover and find the laws of the Specter!

Merged with the electromagnetic field and possessing a memetic essence, Sadako was the synthesis of Su Ming's practical experience over the past week!

Sadako was formless and generated her own Ghost Territory.

Such a Sadako was naturally immortal and indestructible.

Furthermore, because she was bound to a rule potential well, as long as Su Ming's Order existed for even one day, Sadako would not be subject to any strikes from Order of a non-equivalent level.

This was the so-called 'Only a Specter can fight a Specter'!

As for the laws of the Specter, those were the easiest to modify.

Her core law was: anyone who receives the ghost call will surely die in seven days!

Chapter 229: Pseudo-Kaisha! Pseudo-Hexi

On this day, Su Ming brought the pseudo-clones of the two Queens and teleported into the US Horror Agency.

Just as he took out the pseudo-clones of the two Queens.

Before the pseudo-personalities could even come online, Hexi impatiently crossed the boundary to suppress the pseudo-personality's will, forcibly dominating this Third-Generation God Body.

Scanning with her Eye of Insight, Hexi marveled:

“Perona and Alessa, these two ghosts, have actually been quite diligent lately. One is playing hide-and-seek with Vampires in Europe, and the other is messing around with a brat (Child's Play) on the North American continent... But this is just as well, so they don't spend all day doing nothing productive.”

Su Ming smiled:

“You shouldn't say that; they are my outstanding employees.”

Hexi rolled her beautiful eyes:

“Free ones are naturally outstanding, right!”

Just then.

Kaisha also replaced the clone's pseudo-personality, driving this strange yet familiar body with a bit of stiffness.

“It's quite novel. I haven't experienced a Third-Generation God Body in over ten thousand years; I'm not quite used to it...”

Well.

She said she wasn't used to it.

But in the next second, she paced toward Su Ming with elegant, swaying steps.

Leaning her upper body forward slightly, she gently poked his chest with a slender jade finger.

Kaisha complained with a playful pout:

“My little male god, you should also take a moment to examine your actions. I just arrived and I already see you frantically planting landmines. What, are you planning to trigger a tide of supernatural recovery?”

“I don't care if those evil people die or not, I'm just worried about your alignment shifting...”

“Good boy, you don't want to become a lunatic of the Chaotic alignment, do you?”

Su Ming: “...”

Hiss!—

What's with this overwhelming sense of maternal instinct?

Even calling me 'good boy'...

I'm... actually quite excited?

Hexi giggled incessantly and added another jab:

“It's more than just supernatural recovery. He is our King of Heavenly Principles, after all. Tomboy, would you believe that once his arrangements are fully detonated...”

“This planet is definitely going to have a version update!”

Su Ming was dumbfounded, his brain feeling a bit like it was crashing.

Wait.

Where did you two get such precise idealistic perceptions?

Kaisha knew that alignment shifts would inevitably lead to shifts in one's state of mind!

Hexi was even more ridiculous; she had actually calculated where the critical limit for pushing a version update was in an idealistically biased cosmic structure!

If he couldn't figure it out, he'd just ask.

“Wait, alignment shifts and all that is one thing—it's normal to understand that based on the Comprehensive Network intel I gave you... Hexi, how did you calculate the critical limit for a version update?”

Hexi wasn't wrong.

A subset of the Circle of Reason hung high, and seven major rule potential wells were rooted in the ground!

Urban legends were collectively evolving!

Rule-based Legends were emerging one after another!

Even Rule-based Specters were being personally created by Su Ming!

Not to mention the Hells Nest lying in wait!

Once the aforementioned arrangements were fully detonated, the Earth... no, it should be said the entire Solar System, would surely welcome a major version update.

At that time.

Ghosts, vengeful spirits, poltergeists, earthbound spirits, evil spirits, and other ghost variants would no longer be born naturally.

Legends such as the Slit-Mouthed Woman, Hanako, and the Spirit of the Pen would no longer derive...

In their place.

Rule-based Specters would emerge, derived from natural phenomena, human consensus, folklore, and urban myths!

Simply put.

At that time, Earth would welcome a real-life version of Supernatural Recovery!

But that would only be the beginning.

Rule-based Legends with mental pollution, cognitive distortion, and instant-death judgements would also emerge sequentially until the entire planet was shrouded in rules!

And human civilization itself would fall into the 'mandatory' abyss of rules!

Sighing, Su Ming defended himself helplessly:

“I'm not some madman. This is just an exploration to complete the dark side of the Way of Star Casting, nothing more...”

Hexi was somewhat skeptical:

“Are you sure?”

Su Ming rolled his eyes:

“Nonsense. If I really wanted to practice my Path, the Dream Multiverse of the Circle of Reason is the best carrier. Haven't you noticed?”

“In some of the Dream Multiverse worldviews, backgrounds of supernatural recovery and descending legends have already appeared!”

“More importantly, in my system, the mere existence of intelligent life provides massive gains. I'm not stupid; I won't do something like killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.”

Kaisha had a forehead full of black lines.

Wait.