一 pine nut was enough to fell the highly skilled bodyguard under the command of Chief Ma?

She could only force a faint smile, tentatively asking, "I wonder, young sir, you are..."

"You can leave."

Lin Yue glanced at her, then looked at Master Fang, saying, "So you're Master Fang, want to chat?"

Fang Xugu frowned.

The charming woman, unable to stay any longer, hurriedly left.

"Who are you?" Fang Xugu scrutinized Lin Yue.

Lin Yue smiled and said, "My name is Lin Yue."

"It's you?"

Fang Xugu's expression changed.

He had clearly cast a curse to kill this bastard child of the Canal Transport Chamber's president after receiving five thousand silver coins yesterday, yet the person was still alive?

And now... they even came to find him?

"Are you so confident in your abilities?" Lin Yue glanced at him and said, "Does performing a curse mean I will definitely die?"

"It's my lack of recognition of true talent," Fang Xugu took a deep breath and said, "It seems you're also someone possessing a Daoist path, I wonder... where does Young Master Lin hail from? Which god do you revere?"

"Where do I hail from?"

Lin Yue gave Fang Xugu a once-over, then suddenly lightly tapped his finger on Fang Xugu's shoulder.

Fang Xugu's expression changed, his whole body shivered, and he gritted his teeth hard, yet he did not fall into a stupor.

"Oh?" Lin Yue slightly raised his eyebrows, "You've got some ability."

Lady Lin, an ordinary person like her, was unable to resist his hypnotic spiritual power at all, yet this Master Fang barely managed to resist.

He could sense a power protecting the other, not belonging to Fang Xugu himself.

Regarding this world, his understanding was limited to the memories of his predecessor; as a bastard son, his predecessor was unable to grasp many hidden unknowns.

Besides...

The Ancient World was clearly attacking the Yanfu World; after the arrival of Ancient World's divine beings, he hadn't heard of any exceedingly powerful extraordinary forces, not even the West Continent Alliance attacking the East Continent.

Where did the divine beings of the Ancient World go?

Yanfu World was the domain of the Master of Yanfu, and the ancient strong people following the Master should also exist within the Yanfu World, so why hadn't he seen any?

To investigate the cause, he could only start from the extraordinary traces in this world.

For instance...

Like this Master Fang who seemed to have some ability.

"Your spiritual power..."

Master Fang stared at Lin Yue as if he had seen a ghost, his eyes full of disbelief, saying, "Are you really human? How can you have such terrifying spiritual power? Could it be you're one of those who've signed a covenant with a god?"

"Signing a covenant?" Lin Yue said with interest, "Spill it, if you're not lying, I'll spare your life, how about it?"

Although his predecessor was killed by Master Fang's curse, the main culprit was Lady Lin.

Master Fang was merely the knife used for killing.

Killing him wouldn't accomplish anything.

"Alright, what do you want to know?" Master Fang asked in a low voice.

Lin Yue replied tersely, "You mentioned revering gods, what do you mean?"

"You don't know?"

Master Fang looked at Lin Yue with suspicion before saying, "Whether it's the Poisonous Insect Technique, Divination, Soul Summoning Technique, Nightmare Suppression Technique, or any curse, they mostly require revering a god and praying for divine assistance; otherwise, they're virtually useless."

"Praying for divine assistance?" Lin Yue raised an eyebrow.

"Although I don't know much about other god-revering people, I do know a few things."

Master Fang said, "For Poisonous Insect Technique, on the fifth day of the fifth month, one needs to burn incense and make offerings, worship, and pray to the Gu God. For Soul Summoning Technique, whether summoning a living soul or dead soul, one must borrow a god's invocation; and my Nightmare Town technique also relies on revering gods, acquiring various evil things..."

He couldn't help but glance at Lin Yue and asked, "Aren't you the same?"

Lin Yue didn't reply, simply pondered for a moment, then said, "Now, try using your Nightmare Suppression Technique in front of me, let me see how you do it."

Master Fang couldn't help but ask, "On whom?"

"On me."

Lin Yue said blandly.

Master Fang was taken aback, asking, "What do you mean?"

"Use your most powerful curse on me, try it. Or rather... are you just a fraud?"

Master Fang hung his head and said, "I need some preparations, just give me your true birth date and a drop of heart blood from your fingertip."

...

A moment later.

Master Fang stared at the doll-like figure in his hand, trembling with the silver needle in his grasp, unable to pierce it no matter how hard he tried, as if an invisible force shielded the surface of the figure, causing beads of cold sweat to form on his forehead.

This Lin Family bastard... just who is he?

He had thought there was an issue with Lin Yue's birth date and blood he received yesterday, leading to the curse's failure.

But now...

He couldn't even pierce the figure with a needle for a curse?

Did another god protect him?

"Is this your so-called curse with a voodoo doll?" Lin Yue shook his head, slightly disappointed.

"Let me try again."

Master Fang wiped his sweat, suddenly biting the tip of his tongue, and slashed a wound in his palm, letting the blood drip onto the figure's surface.

As the blood dripped, with only a few drops shed, his face quickly paled.

Lin Yue squinted, noting this person's Vitality Essence diminished somewhat.

Had his lifespan decreased?

Then, Master Fang picked up the silver needle once more, forcefully jabbing it into the figure.

This time, the silver needle finally pierced through the figure's invisible barrier, stabbing into the head.

Lin Yue felt a large unseen will brush past silently.

"Haha, you actually dared let me perform it? You'll die now!"

Master Fang, holding the bloodstained figure, couldn't help but laugh maniacally, turning to Lin Yue with a loud laugh saying, "This is what you deserve!"

But those eyes of Lin Yue, as calm as water, immediately stopped his laughter cold, making him speechless in an instant.

"You... you..."

Master Fang trembled all over, shakily pointing at Lin Yue, "How can you be unharmed... you..."

Just then—

"Ugh!"

He suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood, severely weakening his Vitality Essence in an instant, and he collapsed powerlessly on the ground, struggling with barely a sigh of life left.

"No... Kill the Buddha Mother... How can... don't abandon me..."

Master Fang lay in a pool of blood, trembling as if trying to grab onto something, but after a futile struggle, he finally crumbled.

In the blink of an eye, he lost all vitality.

"Backlash?"

Lin Yue slightly furrowed his brows, examining Master Fang's lifeless body.

He realized that this Master Fang must have noticed his ignorance, assumed he regarded him as a Jianghu fraudster, and intended to take the opportunity to kill him.

Yet he not only failed, but suffered a backlash.

"My hidden Primordial Spirit indeed sensed an attack... is this the cause of the backlash?"

Lin Yue pondered.

His Primordial Spirit, Inner Heaven and Earth, Spiritual Body hadn't disappeared, merely hid away.

The moment he entered the Yanfu World, due to the influence of world rules, his Primordial Spirit, Spiritual Body, and Inner Heaven and Earth power had all been concealed and transformed into another kind of existence.

He couldn't mobilize his power; only when Master Fang cursed did he feel it slightly.

—Hmm, like getting hit by a speck of dust on the skin.

A very faint stimulus, almost negligible.

"He mentioned, 'Kill the Buddha Mother' earlier?"

Lin Yue scrutinized Master Fang's body, "Could this be the god he revered?"

Reflecting for a while, he suddenly began to understand the Master of Yanfu's intentions.

The Master of Yanfu hoped for the people of this world to live in suffering, yet also gave them hope, or rather... spiritual support.

Like faith.

Human faith becomes firm in times of suffering.

Especially when the god of faith truly exists, this faith becomes even firmer.

"Could it be... the native proving strong people of Yanfu are those gods?"

Lin Yue speculated in his mind.