The terrifying atmosphere in the room had now reached its peak.
Lin Jun forcefully swallowed his saliva, but resolutely stood in front of Yu Xin and her daughter.
However, no matter how he observed, he couldn't find the source of the ghost, and because he was the only one with abilities, he didn't dare go too far from Yu Xin and her daughter.
From the outside, the villa looked completely normal.
Through the window one could see Yu Xin now holding her daughter while sitting at the dining table feeding her, with Lin Jun chatting with Yu Xin in a distracted manner, his face still flushed.
But the scene inside the room was becoming more and more terrifying.
From the pot that was cooking, the sound of boiling water kept coming, and under the burning green flames, one could clearly see blood continuously gushing out from the pot.
It was as if there was an invisible person standing by the wall, continuously writing something.
Blood red words kept appearing on the wall.
"I miss you..."
"Miss you..."
"Won't you come see me?"
The words started out neat, but gradually became more and more irritable, as if the person writing was becoming more and more angry.
"I'm in great pain now!"
"Come accompany me!"
"Die!"
"Die!"
In the end, the only thing continuously appearing on the wall in fresh blood were the words "death", full of gloom and twisted features.
The cooking pot suddenly exploded. Yu Xin instinctively let out a cry, and quickly reacted by tightly closing her mouth and hugging her five year old daughter.
The girl's face was already covered in tears, her eyes full of fear, her body trembling nonstop.
After the pressure cooker exploded, countless blood splattered and stained the walls, blending with the words and continuously dripping down. As if by coincidence, the blood now looked like a face, numbly and emotionlessly looking at Yu Xin and her daughter.
Something seemed to have fallen out of the pot, continuously rolling on the floor, finally stopping at the daughter's feet.
It was actually a boiled human head.
Now the head's eyes were wide open, pupils bulging, its gaze meeting the daughter's.
Gradually, the corners of the head's mouth slowly curved into a smile.
"Ah!!!"
No matter how strong she was mentally, she was after all only five years old. At this moment she finally could not control the fear in her heart anymore, and started screaming, tears falling nonstop as she wailed loudly!
"It's daddy!"
"Daddy's back!"
The girl's cries grew louder and louder.
But Lin Jun's expression became even more solemn: "Sister-in-law, what you saw was Brother Liu?"
"Mm..."
Yu Xin hugged her daughter tightly, her body shaking uncontrollably from fear, and softly responded.
Lin Jun's brows furrowed deeply, and after a long while he heavily said: "What I saw was my mother!"
"This ghost seems to be able to reflect the person deepest in one's heart that they miss most."
Although he had only awakened his powers once, in Tian Group's records Lin Jun was still considered to have quite good potential, and had cooperated with veteran espers to handle two paranormal incidents, surviving them.
So even though he was also rather panicked inside, he kept analyzing the abilities of this ghost.
But now next to him there were still two ordinary people, which meant he absolutely did not dare act rashly, basically shackled in place here.
'Thud.'
'Thud thud.'
At this time, a somewhat muffled sound rang out.
Unlike knocking on a door, this sound was clearer in comparison.
Yu Xin subconsciously looked over, her already extremely pale face now filled with terror.
By now it was night, equally dark inside and outside the house.
In the moonlight, one could vaguely see a figure standing outside the window, stiffly stretching out a hand and lightly knocking on the glass.
And its emotionless eyes were fixedly staring at Yu Xin and her daughter.
Yu Xin, who had been barely keeping the fear in her heart at bay, finally broke down at this moment, screaming while holding her daughter.
"Parlor tricks!"
As an esper, his psychological endurance was still better than Yu Xin and her daughter's.
Disregarding the cold sweat dripping down his forehead, Lin Jun clenched his teeth, a faint light shining from his hand as he charged at the window and swung his fist.
The window shattered.
The bizarre figure disappeared.
And Lin Jun's hand was cut by the glass, blood flowing nonstop.
But what shocked him was that in just one second, the window bizarrely recovered to its original state. Only the flowing blood on his hand proved that everything before had really happened.
In the air, the atmosphere of terror at this moment reached its peak.
On the ceiling, a soft sound suddenly rang out, as if someone was walking, the creaking sound continuously coming.
Yu Xin subconsciously looked up.
A figure with its feet bound in rope suddenly hung upside down from above.
The rotten face of the figure was nearly touching Yu Xin's!
Yu Xin's eyes dilated as she directly fainted on the spot, but her hands were still tightly clutching her daughter.
But the scene her daughter saw seemed somewhat different. Her terrified gaze was fixedly staring into a corner not far away as she kept sobbing.
A sense of despair rose in Lin Jun's heart.
Perhaps...
He would fall here.
It was just that as an esper, being unable to even protect two ordinary people, his heart was filled with powerlessness.
At this time...
The room door suddenly made a loud bang, and in the next moment the tightly shut door smashed into pieces!
Through the moonlight one could vaguely see a figure standing upright at the door.
"A ghost that reflects what's in one's heart?"
"A rare breed, huh."
The figure indifferently said, then walked into the villa, his gaze falling on Lin Jun.
"Take this mother and daughter away first."
"You staying will affect me."
Lin Jun blankly looked at the figure and nodded in a daze. He hurriedly went to Yu Xin and her daughter, carrying the fainted Yu Xin on his back, then picked up the child and rushed to the door.
But...
Next moment, a figure suddenly appeared hanging from the beam over the door, eyes bulging out, bloodshot, glaring at him resentfully.
Lin Jun hesitated for an instant.
Wang Ye coldly snorted, swinging the wooden chair in his hand at the hanging corpse.
With a muffled thud, the corpse disappeared.
Lin Jun looked at Wang Ye in shock, firmly remembering his face. Carrying Yu Xin and her daughter, he swiftly left.
As the two departed, the shattered door silently recovered to normal and closed noiselessly.
In the still burning green flames of the kitchen, it was as if a pair of eyes stared fixedly at Wang Ye's back.

【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)

end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia

transmigrates into the world as the sect master of the Heavenly Yan Sect, which is on the verge of being wiped out. He binds a system that grants him cultivation power based on the number of disciples he has: for each disciple, he automatically gains a year's worth of cultivation every single day! Take one disciple: every day he gains 1 year of cultivation power. While others struggle through a year of bitter training, he gets the same just by sleeping through a single night. Take ten disciples: every day he gains 10 years of cultivation power. Foundation Establishment, Core Formation, Nascent Soul—he breezes through all bottlenecks without lifting a finger. Take one hundred disciples: every day he gains 100 years of cultivation power. Even a Soul Transformation Venerable before him can’t survive a single blow. Take ten thousand disciples: every day he gains 10,000 years of cultivation power! With a wave of his hand, he topples empires. With a single step, he crushes the sacred grounds of the universe. ... While others fight tooth and nail for secret techniques, Lin Yan casually hands out Nascent Soul-level cultivation manuals as beginner textbooks. While others strain to find talented recruits, Lin Yan opens his doors to anyone—so long as they’re human. In just three short years, the Heavenly Yan Sect went from a backwater sect made up of three crumbling huts to a sacred land that every cultivator under heaven would kill to enter. ... One day, otherworldly demon gods invade, with a million demon soldiers pressing down upon the realm. Lin Yan, yawning, rises from his lounge chair and glances at the system panel: [Current Disciples: 1.28 million] [Daily Cultivation Increase: 1.28 million years] He waves his hand casually, and the countless demon soldiers are reduced to ashes in an instant. “So noisy… interrupting my fishing.”

for mindless slaughter, this isn't for you.] My name is Ye Shu, and I'm a transmigrator. It seems I'm supposed to be the protagonist, but that feels pretty unlikely. This world has been invaded by a system. The antagonists on the other side have suddenly become pure, flawless saints. The female leads have been force-fed the so-called "original plot," making them think they've been reborn. Now, everyone thinks I'm scum. Including the old lady in my ring. And here I am, in the Monster Beast Mountain Range, braising pork. To put my situation in perspective— It's as if, the moment Xiao Yan stepped into the Monster Beast Mountain Range, the Soul Emperor already knew he would become the Flame Emperor, and Yao Lao had been turned to the enemy's side. I have nothing right now. Oh wait, that's not true. I do have a white-haired loli child-bride who's the Heavenly Dao, and her only skill is acting cute. So, tell me guys... what are my chances of making it to the end?