Peter’s consciousness was beginning to fade.
The entity his mother Linda had summoned into her body through the ritual earlier had greatly enhanced her strength.
Even if he wanted to break free, it was useless.
In a daze, he thought he heard someone singing.
Outside the door, the gathered followers had begun to chant a hymn.
In the church, boys whose voices hadn’t changed yet were placed in the choir.
Because the unchanged voices of young boys are close to a soprano, fuller and richer, giving a sense of purity to the high-pitched choral parts.
However, the choir at this moment was a group of adults, and it sounded deep, low, and eerie.
Their ugly bodies were brazenly exposed to the sunlight, swaying to the rhythm of the hymn. It was such a bizarre scene that it sent shivers down the spine of anyone who witnessed it.
Steve’s ribs were broken, and he couldn’t get up. He could only watch helplessly as everything unfolded.
The singing from outside sounded more like a funeral dirge for this family.
Suddenly, the hand that had been tightly gripping Peter’s neck let go.
Steve’s eyes, which had been ashen and lifeless, regained a glimmer of light.
Had Linda come to her senses?
But what he saw next quickly dispelled that hopeful fantasy.
It was as if something was tugging at Linda’s hands, pulling them straight up into the air.
“Crack! Crack!”
With two sickening sounds of bones being pulled, her arms fell limply to her sides.
Some mysterious force had actually dislocated Linda’s arms!
The pain brought back Linda’s rationality. In a daze, she looked down and saw her son, nearly unconscious beneath her.
Not far away, her husband lay spitting blood, too severely injured to get up.
Fragmented memories washed over her, and Linda finally realized what she had just done.
She shot up as if shocked by electricity, looking around at the scene. Tears streamed down her face involuntarily, her eyes wide open, her mouth agape in a silent scream.
Unemployment, her daughter’s tragic death, losing her mind, injuring her husband, and nearly strangling her own son.
Under such a heavy blow, her already fragile spirit had finally collapsed completely!
Peter, on the floor, was slightly more awake but watched in horror as a streak of blue light flashed across his mother’s cheek!
The regret, pain, and collapse from before seemed as if they had never existed.
In the blink of an eye, Linda’s twisted face returned to a calm expression.
She stared blankly at her son, who was backing away from her.
Peter’s heart pounded wildly.
A brief moment of clarity, only to witness this scene—his mother Linda’s spirit was shattered, and Paimon had seized the opportunity to completely control her.
Using both hands and feet, he crawled to his father’s side and took out the last talisman the young exorcist had given him earlier that morning.
But almost instantly, a crack appeared in the talisman!
“Linda,” her eyes unfocused, seemed hindered by something but still slowly approached them step by step.
As the distance between them closed, the talisman in Peter’s hand visibly deteriorated.
The flames in the fireplace beside them began to flicker unnaturally, then suddenly surged, licking towards Steve.
Peter instinctively raised his hand to shield his face and closed his eyes, but he didn’t feel the searing pain of the fire.
Opening his eyes, he saw an invisible protective shield seemed to have formed around him and his father, blocking the flames.
It worked! The talisman was still working!
Without time to think further, Peter immediately hoisted his father off the ground and headed for the back door.
A group of strangely behaving people had gathered at the front door; the back door was their only remaining escape route!
But they were quickly blocked by “Linda,” who appeared out of nowhere!
“Boom!!!”
After a thunderous crash, sunlight streamed through a hole in the roof into the dark space!
A figure had smashed through the ceiling and landed!
Seeing that distinctive black hair, Peter finally saw a glimmer of hope in his despair!
It was him!
The young exorcist he had met in the early morning had finally appeared before him again!——
[One step too late.]
Su Fan looked at the woman in front of him, clearly being controlled, his brow furrowed.
After giving Peter the talisman, he had gone to the gathering point of the cultists within the community to eliminate Paimon’s minions.
Wherever there was a totem mark, Paimon could coordinate with the strange formations they had set up to temporarily transfer believers.
Since he couldn’t strike a fatal blow in one go, he would have to investigate one by one.
At first, he found nothing, but as Su Fan continuously used his Dan Fire to eliminate the totem marks, the locations Paimon’s followers could be transferred to dwindled. Soon, they began dying one after another at Su Fan’s hands.
But after finishing the investigation, Su Fan immediately rushed to Peter’s house.
However, who would have thought that the cultists had already set up a formation around the place to block outsiders from entering?
Su Fan used the Five Thunder Talisman to forcibly break the formation, but ultimately, he was still one step too late.
He stared at “Linda.” Through his Tongyou vision, he could see another figure’s presence within her.
“Long time no see.”
Su Fan grinned.
He suddenly raised his hand, but not to drive the demon possessing Linda out. Instead, he tossed two protective talismans behind him.
The moment the talismans attached themselves to Peter and Steve, “Linda” suddenly opened her mouth!
Visually discernible soundwaves formed ripples in the air, distorting everything in sight, rushing straight at them!
Su Fan raised his hand and beckoned. The old piano in the living room flew over, blocking the attack before instantly exploding into pieces!
Fragments flew in all directions like bullets, embedding themselves in the walls and floor, shattering many glass items.
All the model artworks Linda had collected were destroyed.
But Peter and Steve remained unharmed, protected by their talismans.
The soundwaves had expended part of their energy shattering the old piano, but they still surged toward Su Fan.
With a wave of his hand, he summoned a gust of wind that instantly dispersed the sound!
The high-velocity airflow lifted “Linda’s” body and pinned her firmly against the wall!
From the wreckage of the piano, the piano wires shot out and snapped taut.
Aided by the speed, these tough, thin strands acted like deadly blades, wildly cutting everything around them!
Most struck out at Su Fan, one flew towards Steve.
And one more was heading straight for “Linda’s” own throat!
Paimon had never given up on destroying Peter’s spirit.
He wanted Peter to witness his parents’ heads being severed by the piano wires!
In his dreams!
Su Fan instantly saw through its intention.
With his Divine Sense activated, he immediately tracked the exact location and trajectory of every single wire.
He raised his hand and waved, activating the divine power of Er Qu, and the flying piano wires halted.
But almost immediately, they broke through the restraint and shot towards the three of them again!
Su Fan’s heart sank. He released the wind that was restraining “Linda.”
He intensified the force of Er Qu!
The piano wires immediately snapped back, like a tape rewinding, returning to their original places!
During this interval, “Linda,” now free again, actually raised her hands to grab her own jaw, trying to tear it off with her bare hands!
Blood oozed from Linda’s face, and the corners of her mouth were almost instantly ripped open.
Su Fan raised his hand again.
Zhao Lai!
With his improved proficiency in divine powers, Su Fan’s Zhao Lai was now vastly different, capable of capturing even the finest details!
This time, he targeted the hands of the self-harming “Linda”!
Her arms uncontrollably stretched out towards Su Fan, forcing “Linda” to stop her action.
Seizing the opportunity, Su Fan threw out four more talismans!
Three for Suppressing Evil, one for Body Binding!
The first two Suppressing Evil talismans expended their power and shattered in mid-air before even touching her.
But the subsequent two, exploiting the opening created, stuck onto “Linda”!
“Linda” tried to move, but her body could only tremble slightly.
A demon might be able to force a broken human body into other actions, but the Body Binding talisman completely sealed the body’s movement!
He took out the Thunderstruck Wood Knuckle Dusters, put them on, and stepped forward!
Su Fan’s figure almost teleported right in front of “Linda”!
Spiritual energy flowed, pouring into the knuckle dusters. Faint wisps of electric arcs appeared in the air.
A dull rumble of thunder echoed, and the fiercely struggling “Linda” froze for an instant!
Su Fan punched her right on the crown of her head!
This blow wasn’t delivered with force; otherwise, Linda’s fate would be easy to imagine.
His target had always been the Paimon inside her body!
The heavy, muffled thunder sounded again. Linda’s body convulsed violently, and a faint blue light was directly punched out of her!
Seeing Linda’s soul about to leave her body, Su Fan quickly threw out another Spirit-Calming Talisman, forcing her soul back into place!
Just as he was about to pursue the blue light, a sudden warning arose in his heart!
“Mom!”
Seeing the black energy expelled, Peter had just begun to feel joy when he was cut off by Su Fan’s sharp shout.
“Get down!”
The former instinctively obeyed. The moment he and his father Steve hit the ground, a sound like firecrackers erupted from outside the door—the dense, rapid crackle of gunfire!
Bullets quickly shredded the wooden front door of Peter’s house. Glass shattered, and the interior was a mess!
Peter was terrified.
These people had completely lost their minds!
They wanted to erase everyone inside the house from the world!
Su Fan kicked up a stone table that hadn’t completely shattered, sending it flying towards the source of the gunfire!
The already crumbling front door was utterly destroyed. The stone table smashed into the arms and faces of the firing cultists, taking out many more behind them!
A clear, resonant sword cry rang out as the long sword flew, swift as a streak of light!
Through the smoke and darkness, relying on his Divine Sense, Su Fan had a perfect view of the positions of all the cultists outside!
At this point, there was nothing left to say.
Choosing an evil god, killing people as sacrifices—these people deserved to die!
Today, he would slaughter his way through!
