The place without faith is the best place to establish a righteous path, lest there be other divine spirits competing for incense offerings.

"Let's go out and wander around the community first. Message me once you've found your house."

Sun Yan put away the Golden Halberd and bid farewell to the Card Master.

This person has his own business and can't possibly accompany me around the community all the time.

Anyway, Sun Yan already has a general understanding of Youma Community, so he doesn't need the Card Master to guide him anymore.

"Alright, just wait for my news."

...

Walking in the apartment hallway, even the old streetlights are on during the day, yet the hallway remains incredibly dim.

No sunlight can come through from outside.

"Sosia, go to my car and bring the Earth Shrine we took from the graveyard, place it in the southeast corner of the plaza beneath Youma Community, and remember to light three sticks of incense for it."

Sun Yan stood by the window, leaning out to gaze down at the plaza that resembled a well shaft.

"Okay." Sosia nodded and immediately strode away.

Not long after Sosia left, the corridor lights behind Sun Yan suddenly began to buzz with the sound of electrical currents.

The light abruptly flickered and dimmed, blinking incessantly.

"Hmm?"

Sun Yan turned back to see a man standing at the end of the corridor, facing away from him.

In an instant, the man suddenly vanished from where he stood.

The atmosphere around began to grow eerily quiet, the previously noisy human voices disappearing without a trace, and even the light from the streetlight turned from white to green at this moment.

The entire corridor appeared extraordinarily eerie and sinister under the ominous light.

Sun Yan's eyes were grave as he slowly lowered the Nuo Mask from his forehead.

Ever since he inherited the Mountain-Opening Fierce General's Nuo Opera props, no Evil Spirits dared to appear and jump around in front of him.

Even the head of the Black Curse Buddha Mother has become one of Sun Yan's collected items.

The evil spirits here are so brazen, daring to manifest in broad daylight?

They simply don't take him seriously!

Crack! Crack!

A bizarre twisting noise suddenly echoed from the end of the corridor.

A slender hand slowly extended from behind the corner wall, creeping along the wall, followed by a pallid human face, smiling eerily at Sun Yan.

Its complexion was like the snowy cold of mid-winter, yet the lips were as red as peony in spring moonlight.

Curiously, however, this face was entirely parallel to the ground.

Crack! Crack! Another head emerged thereafter, with a hair tied high, its face as smooth and round as a New Year's painting doll.

Squatting by the wall, shaking a rattle drum in its hand, eyes wide open, unblinking, staring at Sun Yan.

Crack! Crack!

More and more bizarre sounds echoed one after another, accompanied by the appearance of increasingly many odd individuals.

Soon they filled the end of the corridor entirely, each expressing a different demeanor, perceiving Sun Yan as prey.

Clearly there were so many of them, yet there was not a single sound in the corridor, a silence as quiet as a grave.

If a normal person were to experience such a scene, they would have already collapsed and rushed off in escape.

"Mountain-opening Fierce General, cut through barriers of blade and flame, demons and ghosts before mountain-opening, if good folks are bullied by evil spirits, where on earth is pure land, today I ask gods for aid, calling immortals here... Immortals will come!"

Sun Yan raised the Golden Halberd high, stepping into the Mountain Opening Dance.

Chanting his words with resounding drama, his vigor seemed to have washed over him anew.

"Open!"

Stepping forward, Sun Yan shouted.

This sounded like thunder on a clear day, instantly startling the odd individuals at the end of the corridor.

In a fleeting moment, the group of oddities all fell to their backs, limbs on the ground like spiders, rapidly crawling toward Sun Yan.

The floor, walls, ceiling—all at once crawled with various oddities, their eyes hung downward, staring venomously and fiercely at Sun Yan with clear intent to tear him apart.

"Mountain!"

Sun Yan forcefully swung his axe, the Golden Seal in his pocket immediately raging in power, drawing energy with unyielding force into the Nuo Mask and Golden Halberd.

At that instant, the Nuo Mask gleamed with dazzling red light, and behind Sun Yan appeared the Dharma Body of the Mountain-Opening Fierce General.

The Evil God guards the path, what wretches dare cause turmoil!

The Golden Halberd shone with golden light, striking the face of the closest odd individual.

In a mere moment, the evil spirit disintegrated, shattering into countless ashes.

Yet unable to withstand the power of the Golden Halberd, as the Magical Artifact of the Mountain-Opening Fierce General, the Golden Halberd inherently possesses the effect of demon-subduing and monster-slaying.

Not something ordinary evil spirits can possibly endure.

With the Mountain Opening Dance, Sun Yan moved with valiant courage, protected by the Mountain-Opening Fierce General, not a single odd individual can approach within three inches of him.

One by one, odd individuals shattered and scattered under the Golden Halberd, abruptly the green light in the corridor vanished, returned to its original white, leaving the remaining odd individuals to disappear into thin air.

Sun Yan lowered the Golden Halberd, unable to refrain from murmuring to himself: "This place actually contains an underworld, far graver than I had previously thought."

Since walking the path of Exorcism till now, Sun Yan had encountered two underworlds.

The first was near Yellow Rock Town, in the deep mountain chapel, the second at the Chen Family Village shrine.

The common point of these two underworlds is that they both harbor an extremely dangerous evil entity within.

Possibly similar to the Solomon Demon God like Andros, or like the Black Curse Buddha Mother, a South Seas Evil God. In any case, they are not easy to deal with.

Regarding why underworlds form and what conditions they form under, Sun Yan does not currently understand.

However, looking at the circumstances just now, Sun Yan could confirm he had temporarily unwittingly stumbled into an underworld.

It was only because it was him, any ordinary person who encountered this would likely remain in that underworld forever.

"Interesting, I am now more curious about what's truly behind this Youma Community."

Sun Yan removed the Nuo Mask, calmly speaking while gazing toward the end of the corridor.

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