Exorcist's Self-Cultivation

Lightning struck down,

but became nothingness.

The earth shook, and flames burned.

Every strike made Ryan's body violently tremble; his blond hair turned completely white, his body withered, and his fitted priest's attire now hung loose.

The pain in Evil Spirit Du Wei's eyes intensifying.

He clenched his fist.

Blood streamed from his eyes, and the tower above his head became fixed in place, twisting and fracturing, as a crack spread wildly.

Yet he was still dragged powerlessly.

He roared, "Ryan..."

By now, Ryan had become an old man.

Hearing Evil Spirit Du Wei's words, his body shuddered, he turned his head and revealed his aged face, speaking in a feeble and powerless tone, like an old man nearing the end, "Boss, I guess I won't become the deputy dean..."

His voice had barely any strength left.

Black Du Wei grabbed Ryan's neck in one swift motion.

The entire sky raged with its will.

"Die!"

With a swoosh...

At that moment, a long sword descended from the heavens, aiming straight for Black Du Wei.

It instinctively released its grip.

The long sword then fell to the ground, burying itself in the earth.

From the sword, Minette's apparition shielded Ryan, "Live well, I don't want to see him in pain."

Then, Alex's figure stepped forward.

Her silver hair shone, her beautiful face cold and detached.

First, she glanced at Evil Spirit Du Wei.

Then, gripping the long sword, her form overlapped with Minette's apparition, pointing at Black Du Wei, she declared, "Your opponent is me!"

Madness filled the depths of Black Du Wei's eyes.

It spoke with a deep tone, "You, woman, deserve to die the most, had you not been insanely blocking the timeline in the past, my arrival would have been sooner."

Indeed...

Minette had always been in the past, resisting the timeline occupied by Black Du Wei.

Nobody knew how she managed it.

If it weren't for her,

Black Du Wei might have been able to descend successfully right at the moment Du Wei appeared.

Minette, or rather, Alex.

This woman had walked to both extremes.

Divided into two.

Minette resisted Black Du Wei in the past,

while Alex stayed with Du Wei in the modern world.

Fortunately, they were one and the same.

And luckily, they were one and the same.

The woman drew her sword and cleaved at the high tower.

The crack in the tower was completely split open and burst apart.

A gigantic sarcophagus flew out,

but it could no longer suppress Evil Spirit Du Wei.

He simply pointed, and the sarcophagus was utterly frozen in mid-air.

And then...

The Everlasting Flower.

Wait and wait...

Even Lock Ghost Puton,

and Freddy emerged.

Freddy, in particular, upon seeing Ryan's miserable state, a complex array of emotions flashed in its eyes.

There was hatred, schadenfreude, but also deep sorrow.

Another great battle began.

The woman unleashed tremendously powerful strength.

She had ascended to Armored Divinity,

had been killed by Demon Gods,

and had killed Demon Gods as well.

Although she could not suppress the current Black Du Wei, she could resist.

Ryan, on his last breath, looked at Evil Spirit Du Wei, opened his mouth and said, "It's not time yet."

Evil Spirit Du Wei shook his head.

"No need for time."

"Nor to wait for anything."

"Everyone, back off, everything will end now."

Having said this,

a mask formed on Evil Spirit Du Wei's face.

Then,

he removed the mask, and it turned to dust.

A face, serene and indifferent, yet filled with hatred.

Seeing this, Black Du Wei's face changed dramatically, "You're the one fighting me?"

Du Wei coldly replied, "Yes, it has been me from the beginning."

Black Du Wei's unease magnified boundlessly within his heart.

It asked, "Where is it?"

Du Wei replied, "Haven't you already figured it out?"

Black Du Wei opened his mouth.

His body trembled.

A thick black aura also emerged from him.

A will was awakening from within his consciousness.

Black Du Wei struggled frantically.

It said fearfully, "Why is this happening? What did you do to me?"

Du Wei said indifferently, "I have done nothing, what I did, was just to fulfill you, or to say, I've been waiting for this moment."

"I wrote my true name on the stele."

"I inscribed my true name, the pattern of the mask, into Solomon's Seventy-Two Pillars Demon Gods."

"Since then, I've been thinking about how to kill the Seventy-Two Pillars Demon Gods of Solomon."

"But I could not figure it out, so I changed my approach, how to perish together with them."

"The answer is simple, that's for me to become the Seventy-Two Pillars Demon Gods of Solomon, and then..."

Black Du Wei roared frantically, "Then go to die? Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous!"

The aura emitting from its body was so terrifying that nobody could approach.

Day turned to night.

The dark clouds hung upside down, the world was inverting.

"I cannot possibly fail, I am the Seventy-Two Pillars Demon Gods of Solomon, you can never become me!"

Upon hearing this,

Du Wei stepped forward, and the huge stone coffin moved along with him.

"Indeed, I cannot become you."

"But now, you are becoming me."

"Any being that imitates me will transform into me, eventually merging into an existence named Du Wei."

Black Du Wei's body was collapsing.

It wanted to say something.

But its will was replaced by another existence.

That existence was the Evil Spirit Du Wei.

The stone coffin opened.

Evil Spirit Du Wei took a deep look at Ryan, Alex, Minette, then stepped into the stone coffin.

Subsequently,

all of Solomon's Seventy-Two Pillars Demon Gods rushed into the coffin.

The stone coffin crafted by Black Du Wei for Du Wei was a grave, and after Black Du Wei and the Seventy-Two Pillars Demon Gods became Du Wei, the coffin became their grave indeed.

From beginning to end,

Evil Spirit Du Wei never spoke a word.

With a bang...

The coffin lid closed.

But that didn't mean that the Seventy-Two Pillars Demon Gods of Solomon were killed.

Du Wei waved his hand, and the stone coffin floated around him.

Then...

He looked towards Ryan, Alex, and with another wave, beings such as Lock Ghost Puton, all returned to his dreams.

"From now on, there will be no more Evil Spirits in this world."

"Nor will there be any Seventy-Two Pillars Demon Gods of Solomon."

His voice carried a hint of reluctance.

Alex said, "Will the Evil Spirit version of you also cease to exist?"

Du Wei remained silent.

Ryan said, "Director, those beings are just locked in the stone coffin, sooner or later, they will rise from the ashes."

Du Wei nodded and said, "Yes, that's why I must take this stone coffin and leave, to die as the Evil Spirit in the future, or in the past, and put an end to their concept of existence."

Alex suddenly realized something.

She rushed to Du Wei, trying to grab him, but passed right through.

"Why?"

Du Wei looked at her and said, "I am about to leave."

Alex gritted her teeth and said, "You don't need to go, we could live well together, at least until the day we die, the Seventy-Two Pillars Demon Gods won't revive."

But Du Wei shook his head, reaching out to touch her hair.

He could touch her.

But she couldn't touch him at all.

"It's useless, the Evil Spirit me is also a conceptual existence, when the Demon Gods resurrect once again, it will be another cycle, I am them, and they are me."

"I'm truly tired..."

"This journey has left my heart weary, I have lost far too much."

"And now, I'm putting an end to it all."

Du Wei's voice grew fainter and fainter.

He stepped away, and in the darkness, a train came by.

Du Wei entered the train with the stone coffin.

He appeared shackled, his head resting against the window, a look of tranquility in his eyes.

Scraps of paper danced around, and through the window, on the reflection of his shadow, wisps of black aura were barely visible, as if a breeze could blow them away, yet they stubbornly refused to disappear.

(End of Book)