174: Human peculiarity

After Creature Transformation, the Sky-Reversing Blade Fish became much more bizarre. Its entire body was paintblack, and its shape truly resembled a large blade.

Its skin didn't soften and twist or grow tentacles; instead, it hardened, as if growing an exoskeleton.

Su Yuan coiled it with a tentacle, holding it like a small knife.

"This Creature Transformation of the Sky-Reversing Blade Fish is quite unique. Next time, I can transform eight large Sky-Reversing Blade Fish, and then I can moonlight as a blademaster."

Su Yuan chuckled to himself, feeling refreshed.

This second passive skill had a profound impact on him, potentially even affecting his previously established plans.

The first passive skill was the prerequisite for everything, allowing it to survive in freshwater even when weak.

But this second passive skill would be the core of his future strengthening!

Just as Su Yuan was still musing...

"Your Evil Human Kin has caused fear in humans, gaining 1000 evolution points."

"Your Evil Human Kin has caused fear in humans, gaining 998 evolution points."

...Just then, Su Yuan felt several strong surges of fear integrate into his body.

"1000 evolution points? And eight times in a row??"

Su Yuan was stunned. Could it be that his Evil Human Kin had scared eight very powerful Awakened Ones?

But that couldn't be right!

An Awakened One capable of contributing 1000 evolution points worth of fear, even if they were scared to death and their fear level was maxed out,

Their strength would still be at least a thousand times greater than a small Sky-Reversing Blade Fish.

Su Yuan knew that even Father Paul would not be a match for an Awakened One of such strength.

A thousand times the strength of a small Sky-Reversing Blade Fish, among humans, would be almost a superman, capable of punching through walls and causing buildings to collapse if they unleashed their full power.

Such Awakened Ones could definitely rival giant beasts of the tens-of-meters class.

If they encountered eight such Awakened Ones, there would be no question who would be scaring whom.

So, Su Yuan was very curious. He could sense which Evil Human Kin caused this commotion.

However, the distance was too great; he could only sense its location but not see it.

"Mind Whisper must be strengthened, and Creature Transformation can increase the strength of my Evil Human Kin."

"But given the current situation, does this mean that human fear is much more intense than that of other creatures?"

"Otherwise, this astonishing amount of fear cannot be explained at all."

"Furthermore, ancient legends say that humans are the spirits of all creation! Ancient Outlierspractitioners all took achieving human form as the ultimate goal, to be closer to the Dao of Heaven and Earth."

"Those immortals, monsters, and even devils are all humanoid! Does this not indicate the special nature of humans?"

Su Yuan muttered to himself, speculating.

"Your Evil Human Kin has caused fear in humans, gaining 100 evolution points."

"Your Evil Human Kin has caused fear in humans, gaining 996 evolution points."

...At this moment, the System's notifications rang out again, continuously, from three different sources, and all the evolution points were above one hundred.

"So many evolution points again?"

At this point, Su Yuan confirmed that humans were indeed different from all other creatures.

"It seems that humans are indeed special, the spirits of all creation, the Dominators of the world!"

"In that case, my Church of Eternal Life can truly play a role."

"However, I need to change the doctrine. I can't sacrifice people too crazily; each person is a precious producer of fear!"

"The Church of Eternal Life needs to be more active from now on, but try not to harm human lives. Its purpose is to spread fear!"

"I am the lord of eternal life, spreading fear in a false world. Fear will be like a shadow, enveloping the entire world!"

"Humans, weak as ants, give up your resistance. Let reason shatter in endless fear, let madness become a kind of freedom, sink into endless fear, and seek that glimmer of possible salvation!"

Su Yuan chuckled to himself, then spoke in the tone of a charlatan.

He had also sensed his Evil Human Kin sacrificing individual, living people to him before.

However, even he couldn't forcibly forbid their sacrifices.

This time, it was perfect. He would change the doctrine and try to use animal carcasses for sacrifices as much as possible.

But, would simply using animal carcasses not easily cause fear?

Su Yuan pondered. Finally, he felt that it couldn't be that simple. His main goal was to spread fear, and sacrifice was a means.

Sacrificing people was undoubtedly the most effective way to evoke human fear.

And besides fear, there were many other ways to scare people: fright, torture, and so on.

So, he decided that the Church of Eternal Life's sacrifices would not be concerned with whether it was human or not, but rather make sacrifice a special ritual.

For example, sacrifice rituals could only be performed during weekly services, and the number had to be strictly controlled.

As for the choice of sacrifices, Su Yuan thought about it and decided to guide his Evil Human Kin: the more heinous the person, the more evil they had committed, the better the sacrifice effect.

Moreover, some truly evil people might hold unusual positions, and once something happened to them, it could attract a lot of attention and contribute more fear.

This way, it could spread fear and also not reduce the human population.

Compared to car accidents, diseases, or even mosquitoes, the number of deaths caused by his Evil Human Kin's sacrifices was undoubtedly far less.

On weekdays, followers could freely make animal sacrifices.

Such methods could also cause fright to many people.

As for other methods of fright, Su Yuan was not a Great Master, so he left it to his Evil Human Kin to develop them themselves.

"However, many of my Evil Human Kin have already run far away, and some of the faster ones have even gone abroad to develop."

Su Yuan began to sense the location of each Evil Human Kin, his mouth twitching slightly.

At such a distance, it would be troublesome even if he went there himself.

It seems that the Mind Whisper skill must be strengthened immediately.

Whether it's transmitting sound or projecting vision, it requires a stronger skill Rank.

And Heart of Fear, as the most important skill currently, must also be strengthened.

Su Yuan glanced at his evolution points.

"evolution points: 11481 / 350000" (Increasing by devouring psionic energy)

The next moment.

"Your Evil Human Kin has caused fear in humans, gaining 1 evolution point."

"Your Evil Human Kin has caused fear in humans, gaining 1 evolution point."

"Your Evil Human Kin..."

..."One evolution point?"

Su Yuan was surprised. Compared to the recent amounts of evolution points, these 1 evolution point meant these people were only slightly scared, right?

Su Yuan guessed that this slight fright wasn't like others discovering the Evil Human Kin's crime scenes; it was more like browsing photos.

"It should be that some Evil Human Kin attracted the attention of the Public Security Bureau. The Public Security Bureau tracked them down, took photos at the scene, and uploaded them to the bureau. The people viewing the photos were also slightly scared."

"However, this also reminded me that in the modern world, the information age, the internet is the best way to spread fear!"

"Even if individuals provide very little fear because they are not experiencing it firsthand, the internet faces the entire world's population!"

"Even if only one-tenth of the population in the Rabbit Country provides me with 1 evolution point of fear per person, I could take off immediately!"

Su Yuan felt his blood boil just thinking about it.

But how to do it specifically? That was a big problem.

Live-streaming sacrifices was definitely not an option; any illegal or criminal activity couldn't be live-streamed.

Besides illegal activities, if he wanted to make viewers feel fear, Su Yuan could only think of exploration/ghost-hunting live streams, or showing horror movies involving Evil Human Kin, Evil Human Kin playing horror games, Evil Human Kin telling ghost stories, etc.

But these always felt insufficient.

Perhaps, when he became powerful enough, he could transform into a terrifying existence, pressing down on the hearts of all humanity, letting them know that their lives were not in their own hands. Then, fear would definitely be unavoidable.

If so, he would definitely gain a large number of evolution points.

But for now, he really couldn't think of how to spread fear on a large scale in human society.

Currently, he could only let his Evil Human Kin do ghost-hunting live streams, tell ghost stories, and so on when they had nothing else to do.

While Su Yuan was thinking, the System's notifications kept ringing.

They were all messages of 1 evolution point coming in.

What Su Yuan didn't know was that he had basically guessed correctly before.

The cities surrounding Linan City had all received the information sent from Linan City, including those terrifying bloody sacrifices, which startled many Security Officers.

Linan City alone had over ten thousand Security Officers in its Public Security Bureau, plus the Public Security Bureaus of several surrounding cities.

They had basically all received the information, requiring them to report similar bloody sacrifices, etc.

So many Security Officers provided Su Yuan with over twenty thousand evolution points.

Now, his evolution points had already surpassed thirty thousand.