98: Chapter 98 The Dramatic Changes at Kunlun Ruins, the Yellow-Robed Cult Leader

Lin Chuan's vast Buddhist chants were like rolling heavenly thunder, exploding thunderously between heaven and earth.

Within the Buddhist chants, strands of Rule Power descended like dense steel needles, directly piercing through the massive body of the Rotting Fiend and pinning it down firmly!

"Ugh!!!"

The S-Rank Eighth-Tier Taboo, which had been laughing crazily and acting invincible just a moment ago, suddenly fell silent.

The countless mouths on its body were still opening and closing, yet they could not make a single sound.

On the sea surface, its massive body trembled violently, and its tentacles convulsed frantically, trying to break free from the invisible shackles of the rules.

But at this moment, it was like a beast trapped in a swamp.

The more it struggled, the deeper it sank.

Aboard the dragon boat.

Everyone was so shocked by this scene that they were speechless.

Especially within the Shaven Empire's team, deep inside the gates of the Black Church—the medium for the taboo of sin—the darkness suddenly surged.

An obscure and profound will seeped out from within, silently locking onto the buddhas shadow in the sky.

A gaze from the taboo of sin attempted to engage in Peeping upon Lin Chuan!

It was observing.

Observing the rules Lin Chuan controlled, and... the Sequence Authority!!

On the other side.

White Rose's beautiful eyes were also wide with shock, her heart churning like stormy waves.

"S-Rank Seventh-Tier..."

"The buddhas shadow... clearly appears to be only S-Rank Seventh-Tier..."

"Why can it suppress a special S-Rank Eighth-Tier Taboo?!"

She was also an S-Rank Seventh-Tier Taboo Master and knew exactly where the limits of Rule Power at this level lay.

But the scene before her completely overturned her understanding... Inside the Rebirth Temple.

Lin Chuan was focusing all his attention on manipulating the Rule Power, crushing the massive body of the Rotting Fiend bit by bit.

"Let it end."

With a thought, he pushed his Three-layer Taboo Domain to its limit!

In the next instant, centered around Zhou Kai and the coughing ghoul clone,

the space within a five-kilometer radius was instantly swallowed by an extreme darkness.

In this darkness,

reality was distorted, and rules were rewritten.

Boom!!!

Between heaven and earth, it felt as if an invisible barrier had been shattered.

The Void Realm was in turmoil!

The entire world seemed to be dyed in the black of Chaos.

That was the manifestation of Lin Chuan's rules completely covering this part of the world.

Amidst that endless black light, countless blood-colored lotuses bloomed out of thin air.

Upon each lotus sat a hideous skeletal Buddha, chanting distorted scriptures.

"na mo... Rebirth..."

"Benevolence, compassion, joy, and renunciation..."

"Om mani..."

Under the suppression of Lin Chuan's rules, the Rotting Fiend began its final struggle!

It wanted to flee, it wanted to resist.

But before that overwhelming Buddha light, it was like an insect trapped in amber, with nowhere to run.

"amitabha buddha..."

The Buddhist chants were incessant, like a rushing tide.

In the sky, the giant Buddha Hand resting upon the Rotting Fiend slowly closed.

Bang!

Accompanied by a dull thud,

the mountain-like body of the Rotting Fiend was squeezed and exploded by that Buddha Hand!

Before the rotting flesh and pink blood could even fall, they were swallowed whole by the rule-based black hole within the Buddha Hand.

[Devoured S-Rank Eighth-Tier Taboo entity—Rotting Fiend!]

[Obtained taboo value reduction: 10 points!]

[Current points required to promote to s-rank eighth tier: 10 points!]

As the massive body of the Rotting Fiend vanished, prompts quickly popped up on Lin Chuan's consciousness panel.

Seeing the data on the panel, Lin Chuan withdrew the Rule Power he had projected onto Zhou Kai and the Coughing Ghoul.

In the next second,

the sky-filling Buddha light dissipated.

The massive buddhas shadow in the sky also slowly faded, eventually disappearing.

Leaving behind only a dead-silent sea and a ship full of people still in a daze... "Let's go."

After a long time,

White Rose was the first to snap back to her senses.

She took a deep look at where the buddhas shadow had disappeared, a complex expression flashing in her eyes.

"Continue forward."

"We must hurry to... Neon Country!"

"The time left for us is running out."

With her command,

the netherworld dragon boat set off again, breaking through the waves and sailing toward the depths of the distant mist... While everyone continued their journey, Lin Chuan, sitting in the main hall of the Buddha of Rebirth shrine, continued to browse the panel in his consciousness.

"Just a little more..."

"To evolve to s-rank eighth tier, I still need 10 taboo value points!"

"Also, it is time... to expand the field."

With a thought from Lin Chuan,

the Rule Power within him surged out like a tide in an instant.

Crash!!!

An invisible ripple swept across.

With Qinglong Prefecture as the core, it gradually covered the entire Yanmang Province.

Then, Lin Chuan began to continuously imprint his own rules within the Taboo Domain!

Having finished everything, he turned his gaze toward the remaining taboos within the Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore.

He planned... to sacrifice these taboos to help himself evolve faster to s-rank eighth tier, or even S-Rank Ninth Tier!!

While Lin Chuan was busy expanding and constructing a larger Taboo Domain and preparing to accelerate his upgrade speed,

in the distant Yanlong Empire, deep within the Kunlun Ruins,

beside the Bronze Palace that Zhou Kai had sealed with the Ancient Demon-Sealing Talisman,

the originally calm ground suddenly split open with a tiny crack.

A pitch-black wooden box, only the size of a palm, slowly squeezed out from the crack.

The wooden box looked ordinary and was covered in mud.

But the moment it was fully exposed,

"Click..."

The lid of the wooden box opened automatically.

Inside, there were no gold or silver treasures, nor any peerless Secret Manual.

There was only a... dog's head.

A dog's head that had long since rotted away, leaving only skin and bones.

However,

the moment the box opened,

the flesh on that dog's head suddenly began to squirm.

Immediately following,

countless tiny, densely packed eyes opened from beneath that rotting skin.

In every eye, an eerie green light flickered.

"Woof... Woof..."

A series of indistinct, low, and profound whispers, as if not belonging to this world, came from the dog's long-weathered mouth.

The sound wasn't loud.

Yet in an instant, it spread throughout the entire Kunlun Ruins.

It even penetrated the Seal and entered the Bronze Palace.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Inside the palace, the knocking sound that had already subsided rang out once more.

And this time,

it was more urgent than before, and even more terrifying!

At almost the same time,

within the Yanlong Empire, in an unknown underground base.

This place was located a thousand meters underground and was heavily guarded.

Originally, this was one of the largest underground black markets in the Yanlong Empire.

But now,

it had been stained red with blood.

Countless corpses lay scattered on the ground, the face of every corpse carrying an expression of extreme terror and distortion.

In the deepest part of the base,

upon a high platform temporarily built of white bones,

a middle-aged man with a sinister face, dressed in a yellow robe, was spreading his arms and delivering a frenzied speech to the Believers below.

"God says the world is false!"

"God says only madness is real!"

"God says we must... reshape this world!"

His voice was full of seductive power, every word acting like a hallucinogenic poison, eroding the hearts of the listeners.

The Believers below knelt on the ground one by one, their eyes fanatical, as if they were possessed.

If Lin Chuan or Zhao Linfeng were here, they would definitely recognize this man.

The man was none other than Zhao Lintian! The very head of the Zhao family who had supposedly "died accidentally" in the Changyang City experiment!

Now, his form appeared extremely bizarre!

On his back, the once-smooth skin had already split open.

Countless slimy, thick yellow tentacles extended from within, dancing wildly in the air.

Each tentacle was covered with suckers and sharp teeth, emitting a nauseating stench.

"Hehehe..."

Zhao Lintian looked at the group of fanatical Believers below, a distorted smile curling at the corners of his mouth.

"Brother, oh brother..."

"For you to cling to that 'Ancient Buddha of Rebirth' is simply foolish!?"

"Also, you shouldn't have lied to me back then!!"

"You killed Bingtian, I don't blame you for that... but you shouldn't have lied to me... and you certainly shouldn't have betrayed me..."

"However, none of that matters anymore."

"Because as far as you're concerned... I'm already dead... Jie jie jie..."

At this point, a venomous light flickered in Zhao Lintian's eyes.

But in the next instant, his expression became incredibly fanatical!

"Sigh... Brother! You probably couldn't have imagined! When the disaster occurred in the Laboratory, not only did I gain new life in death, but I also met a true deity... the great Yellow-Clad Cult Master!!"

"He is the one and only supreme being of this world!"

As he spoke, he stroked the wriggling tentacles on his back as if he were stroking the most precious treasure, constantly muttering to himself.

"Just wait..."

"Soon..."

"I will return to find you with the Cult Master's decree."

"I will make that Evil Buddha, and that so-called Land of Rebirth on the Other Shore..."

"all become... sacrifices for the Cult Master!!"

"Jie jie jie!!"