"Ding! Killed a B-rank ghost, gained 10,000,000 experience points."

"Ding! Killed a B-level ghost, obtained the Blood Fiend Golden Body."

The system notification finally rang in Cao Kun's mind, indicating that he had completely eliminated the witch demon.

"It's actually a B-rank ghost. No wonder it's so troublesome."

Cao Kun muttered something, then waved his hand again, and the ground closed up again, the magma and the monsters within it all vanished.

That Satan, of course, isn't real.

It was created by Cao Kun using the technique of materializing fear.

The witch's greatest faith was in Satan, but at the same time, her greatest fear was also Satan.

Sometimes, faith originates from fear.

Therefore, when Cao Kun discovered her fear, he materialized it.

Cao Kun doesn't need to worry that this Satan will look fake, because this is just the witch's conjecture about Satan.

No matter what the image looks like, if the witch believes it to be true, then it must be true.

Of course, what Cao Kun manifested was definitely not the real Satan.

With his current abilities, it's impossible for him to actually manifest it.

There's even the possibility of getting entangled in deeper karma with Satan, which would be a huge loss.

All he needs to do is capture the witch's fear and then simulate it using the ghost mirror.

When the witch is frightened, everything becomes real in the witch's mind.

It's impossible to directly kill the witch with simulated power.

The witch was too scared to resist, which is why she fell into Cao Kun's trap and was defeated in one fell swoop by Cao Kun's close-range attack with the Ten Thousand Soul Banner.

Now, he not only received the reward of killing the witch demon, but also gained a great general in the Banner of Ten Thousand Souls.

From this day forward, the witch Basshiba will replace Imhotep as the strongest among the Ten Thousand Souls Banner.

With the death of the witch, the eerie atmosphere in the house quickly dissipated, and the temperature rapidly rose.

With a wave of his hand, Cao Kun sent out array objects and yin talismans flying from the ground into his hand, where he put them away.

Of course, there's also that ghost mirror, which is indispensable.

This time, the ghost mirror proved invaluable several times.

"You can get up now," Cao Kun said, gesturing towards the two radishes.

"Master Cao Kun, that evil spirit is dead... dead..."

Julia made the final confirmation.

"Dead." Cao Kun gave her the answer she wanted.

"call……"

Julia let out a long sigh of relief.

Her gaze turned towards the inside of the room.

The room is now covered with a thick layer of sand.

Apart from the sofa they had just been on, there were sofas everywhere else.

“You can pay the final payment now,” Cao Kun said. “Also, you’ll need to clean this room yourself.”

Julia: "I will bring back the previous maid."

Now that the witch is dead, the servants will be safe and can return to their homes.

The reason no one died this time is partly because the servants didn't have any children yet.

Secondly, Julia was alert enough that she immediately sought out an exorcist to resolve the issue once she realized something was wrong.

If this drags on for a few days, given the witch's power, none of them will be able to escape.

Julia quickly wrote the check and handed it to Cao Kun.

After Cao Kun put it away, he said, "I hope there will be no more opportunities to cooperate."

Julia laughed and said, "I hope so too, but we can collaborate on movies."

Cao Kun did not agree: "There will be an opportunity."

Emma asked, "Will we not have nightmares tonight?"

Cao Kun: "No. However, we should open the windows more often and let the room get more sunlight."

Emma nodded her little head and, like an adult, stretched out her hand to shake hands with Cao Kun: "Goodbye."

Cao Kun hesitated for a moment, then shook her hand and said, "Goodbye."

Upon returning to the Gathering Evil Land, the Holy Son from the foot of the mountain greeted them and asked, "Master, would you like some midnight snacks?"

Cao Kun: "No need, go about your own business."

With that, he went to his training room.

Upon entering the system, he saw that his current experience points were 10,004,400.

His experience points reached eight digits for the first time.

Ironically, despite having so many experience points, his cultivation level could not be upgraded.

Because, to advance from the seventh to the eighth rank of the Soul Devouring Realm, a full 12.8 million experience points are required.

Cao Kun looked helpless.

However, so many experience points are certainly not entirely useless.

Apart from cultivation level, all other upgrade buttons are now lit up.

And of course, there's the newly acquired "Blood Fiend Golden Body".

As Cao Kun reviewed the information about the "Blood Fiend Golden Body" in his mind, he became increasingly astonished.

This "Blood Fiend Golden Body" is an extremely evil body-refining method.

The so-called Blood Fiend is to extract the fiendish energy from someone's blood and integrate it into one's own body in order to refine one's physical body.

Ideally, this blood should be diverse.

A single type of blood may be useful at first, but it will gradually lose its effectiveness as the level increases.

The more types of blood involved, the better the effect.

In particular, some powerful and rare beings.

If this body-refining technique hadn't been a system reward but had been obtained in reality, Cao Kun definitely wouldn't have practiced it.

Because in this degenerate age, many beings who need blood simply do not have it, or cannot find it.

However, if the system can be upgraded, these troubles can be avoided.

The experience points required to level up must be considerable.

Cao Kun thought for a moment. Body Refining Technique was directly related to combat power and physique, so other spells could be put aside. This "Blood Fiend Golden Body" technique could be upgraded first.

"upgrade!"

Cao Kun clicked the upgrade button next to "Blood Fiend Golden Body".

Instantly, Cao Kun felt pain in every muscle, bone, meridian, and skin membrane throughout his body.

It was as if it was being constantly torn apart, broken, and destroyed.

The pain was excruciating, even more so than when he first upgraded his cultivation and expanded his meridians.

Expanding the meridians only involves the meridians, but this affects the entire body.

This meant his entire body would be shattered and reassembled, and the pain was beyond Cao Kun's previous understanding.

"ah……"

Even though Cao Kun had a fairly good willpower, he couldn't help but cry out in pain at this moment.

If it weren't for his training room, which had already been sealed off by an array, the Holy Son from the foot of the mountain would have rushed over by now.

"ah……"

Cao Kun screamed incessantly, as if he were enduring the most painful torture in the world.

His clothes were already soaked with sweat, and a puddle of sweat had gathered in front of him.

His bones were cracking and snapping constantly, and his muscles were being torn apart piece by piece.

Cao Kun felt that this was roughly what the ancient form of death by a thousand cuts was like.

Lingchi (death by a thousand cuts) only targets the flesh, but this doesn't even spare the bones.

"ah……"

Cao Kun's forehead veins bulged, and his blood vessels throbbed, making him look very frightening.

After nearly half an hour, the pain finally began to gradually subside.

After it completely disappeared, Cao Kun clearly felt that his body had changed.

His bones and muscles underwent a significant strengthening process.

Previously, he needed to fill his body with magic to withstand bullets.

But now, he can easily withstand it with just his physical body, which is a qualitative leap.