Beyond Blood Spirit

Roarrrr!

The giant jaws of the corpse puppet opened wide as its long tongue flicked around like a snake. Then, the corpse puppet pounced forward as it began to swiftly gallop towards Pro on all fours.

Pro raised his gun with both hands and fired at the corpse puppet sprinting straight towards him in the hallway.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Three bullets traveled through the air before striking the corpse puppet on the face and one of its arm. Pro saw the bullet flatten as it embedded itself into the corpse puppet's skin, but the corpse spirit didn't even seem to feel the pain!

"Seems normal bullets are useless against the undead," Pro concluded with this test.

Pro then slid the gun into apartment 444 and shut the door with a simple wave of his hands. Shing! With a thought, his newly upgraded yin claws were activated.

"Time to test out my new claws," Pro muttered as he confidently dashed towards the incoming corpse puppet like a ninja running towards its enemy.

The two opposing parties approached each other rapidly. Seeing its prey right in front of it, the corpse puppet launched itself forward while aiming at its prey's head with the claws on its hand.

Noticing this, Pro bent backwards and oriented his entire body facing up while using the momentum from his sprint to slide forward. As he narrowly slid underneath the corpse puppet that launched itself into the air, he raised his claws up and fiercely gave the corpse puppet's underbelly a horrendous, bloody scar.

Roarrrr!

Taking a hit after missing its pounce, the corpse puppet roared as it tumbled and rolled a couple of times on the ground before standing upright once more. Black blood dripped from its belly, but it chose to continue its attack on its prey.

Pro was a bit surprised at the tenacity of the corpse puppet, but he still bravely fought back without fear. Side stepping the corpse puppet's pounce, Pro added another gash to the sides of the corpse puppet as it whooshed by his body.

To Pro's shock, the corpse puppet suddenly twisted its around in midair as it swing its claw at Pro! Pro hurriedly swung his claws back, colliding with the claw of the corpse puppet.

Puff! Without any suspense, Pro's claw slashed through the incoming claw like butter, lopping off one of the hands of the corpse puppet. Losing one of its hands, the corpse puppet continued on its original trajectory before it smashed into the ground and painted a black, bloody trail on it.

Not giving the corpse puppet a chance to recover, Pro stepped forward and smashed down his claws at the corpse puppet's head. Suddenly, a long, flexible tongue shot out of the corpse puppet's mouth and wrapped around Pro's ankle!

The tongue then sprung up like a whip as it tried to lift Pro into the air! Pro felt his vision turn upside down as he was lifted upwards, but before he could go any further, Pro bisected the tongue within reach.

Thud! Pro landed on the ground and did a roll before standing back up. He swiftly turned around and smashed his claws forward to defend against the pouncing corpse puppet.

Bam! Pro felt a force resist his attack for a moment before it disappeared as the corpse puppet was blasted outwards and smashed into the nearby wall, causing cracks to form on it.

"Sh*t! I have to pay to repair that!" Pro cursed as he stepped forward to end the fight.

As Pro smashed his claw down at the corpse puppet that tried to get up, the corpse puppet suddenly opened its mouth as a couple of thin black needles shot out of it! Not expecting this sudden attack, Pro could only helplessly watch as the needles pierced into his body and got stuck halfway in; however, this did not stop Pro's attack.

In exchange for its attack, the corpse puppet had its head smashed into pulp, causing black blood to splash on to the surrounding walls. The corpse puppet's body then frantically bashed around for a bit before it lost its strength and fell silent.

Watching the black mist defuse from the corpse, Pro breathed as sigh of relief as he pulled the black needles out of his body. The areas that the needle pierced were actually corroded black, but Pro's resistance was fairly high and the corrosion did not spread far.

Dropping the needles onto the ground, Pro happily watched as his domain absorb it. The fight has finally ended, and Pro now had time to check his spoils as he went to recover in the toilet.

[Host has eliminated an intruder in your domain. Domain is now absorbing the remains of the intruder ...]

[Host has absorbed the life force from the remains of a living being. Host gained 50 life points.]

[Host has absorbed the soul of the invader. System Library updated with new information.]

[Host has absorbed a corpse filled with yin qi. Host gained 550 life points.]

[Host's domain has absorbed yin needles. Host has gained a special ability, .]

Seeing his new lazily named ability, Pro opened the system library and checked the information for his newly updated abilities.

[Yin Claws] Host's nails can be turned into long, sharp claws that can do yin damage. Nails can cut through anything with the strength of steel or below without breaking. Each cast lasts for 2 minute. Broken nails will disable this ability until nails recover. Cost: 20

[Yin Needle] Condense a needle in host's mouth and fire it in the direction host is facing. The needle can be fired at a target up to 3 meters away. The needle can penetrate obstacles and defenses with the toughness of iron or below, but its penetration force will be reduced for every obstacle it penetrates through. After piercing its target, the yin needle will release corrosive toxin until it dissipates or is pulled out. Distance will grow with host's power. Cost: 50

"Ohhh! Yin claws can even cut through steel now! Also, I finally have a ranged attack and it's a poisonous one, too!" Pro exclaimed as a wide grin appeared on his face.

"Not only that, I also got a butt load of points! I never knew harvesting official mystics can give so much points! Seriously, did these official mystics come to investigate or did they come just to hand me free points as a plot device?" Pro licked his lips as he glanced at his new status screen.

[Name] Pro Ye

[Title] None

[Level] Low-Level Blood Spirit

[Yin Energy] 600/1000

[Possession Object] Toilet

[Abilities]

Toilet Attraction, Constipation, Toilet Paper Illusion, Bathroom Illusion, Sh*t on the Road, Domain Perception, Yin Claws, Yin Needle, Spirit Isolation, Master Key, Nasty Service, Pain in the Ass, System Library, Extra Toilet(1)

[Domain]

Small Bathroom(444), Small Bedroom(444), Small Charred Bedroom(446), Small Charred Bathroom(446), Medium Living Room and Kitchen(444), Medium Charred Living Room and Kitchen(446), Large Distorted Hallway

[Subordinates]

Alice, Toilet Paper Spirit

[Life points] 1890

Pro drooled as he imagine all the points he could get from harvesting mystics, but he soon calmed himself down and held back his urge to turn himself into an enemy of the world, "It's not like every mystic will give this much points and are that easy to handle. Maybe these BDS members provide so much points only because they walk a pathway that uses yin qi, which is very compatible with me."

"Also, these level one yin qi mystics are not too effective against spirits like me, but that spirit medium actually could resist my toilet attraction curse and I even suffered a minor injury in the fight with the corpse puppet. Even my domain was damaged a bit. If I were to accidentally provoke a higher level yin qi mystic or one that uses holy light, I would be doomed," Pro grumbled as he finally stepped out of the toilet while commanding, "Repair domain."

[Consuming 50 life points to repair the barrier of the domain ...]

[Domain barrier repaired.]

The gun that Pro threw to the ground is now sitting on the counter. Pro inwardly thanked his diligent maid and went to reload the gun back to 10 rounds before stashing it away along with its remaining 20 rounds of ammo.

Then, Pro strolled out to the hallway as he silently lamented over the loss of 50 points. Still, it wasn't too painful as he still profited. Collecting the lone leftover talisman in the hallway, Pro stashed it with the rest.

"Now it's time to attempt to figure out what these talisman do from their memories," Pro thought as he plopped down upon his bed and pulled up the life details of the two BDS members.

The names of the two members were Jessie Andieson and Fred Wusley. Jessie was a Spirit Medium and Fred was a Corpse Controller. They took on this investigative mission for the rich rewards because Jessie needed the resource to promote to a second level mystic, Spirit Guide.

According to Jessie's knowledge, a Spirit Guide can contain multiple baleful spirits with little side effects because advancing to a Spirit Guide will grant greater resistance to sunlight, which will offset the weakness from containing multiple spirits.

Not only that, Spirit Guides were also able to release a contained spirit out of its body and control it remotely! Of course, this comes with the risk that the spirit may escape the mystic's control if the distance from the mystic is too far.

However, this ability is still useful as losing a contained spirit that is not the main spirit used for advancement will not cause any damage to the Spirit Guide. This means that Spirit Guides can truly use spirits as scouts and as a minion for remote attacks!

On the other hand, a Corpse Controller will advance into a Coffin Carrier. Through a ritual, a Corpse Controller will be able to craft their coffin to store their corpse in. These coffins have a unique space inside them that can hold undead up to twice the size of the coffin itself! This means that if the corpse puppet was small enough, the coffin may hold multiple corpses!

After advancing to a Coffin Carrier, the weak Corpse Controller's body will finally gain some extra strength, mainly to be used to carry their coffin. They will also be more nimble with higher perception that can be used for controlling their corpses more efficiently. Their coffin will also help the corpses stored in it grow over time and it can also serve as a shield for the Coffin Carrier.

Imagining dealing with multiple powerful corpse puppets at the same time, Pro can feel how troublesome it would be. Although he could beat them, it may come at a hefty cost. Then, there's also the annoying Spirit Guide that will have even more weird spirit abilities. Just from these pathways alone, Pro could already sense a bit of the horror of a level three mystic!

Pro sighed before he continued to skim through the unimportant info and finally found the small details regarding the talismans that each man held.

The only talisman left by Fred was a yin barrier talisman. Activating it will cover the user with a yin barrier that can block up to three curses from baleful spirits or one curse from a low-level blood spirit, but it is useless against physical attacks that contain no yin energy, and the barrier only lasts five minutes at most.

Of the three talisman of Jessie, two of them were curse resistance talismans that will increase the mental curse resistance of its user for five minutes. With this mental curse resistance, the user can resist curses that target the mind with strength up to the mid-level blood spirit rank.

The final talisman, that Jessie originally intended to activate before his death, was actually a level two spell, exorcise! Jessie found it as a spoil of a mission, and after identifying it, Jessie knew that it was a level two spell that a level three mystic of the mage path can cast to banish spirits!

As long as it is below the rank of top-level blood spirit, activating this talisman will banish the evil spirit to the underworld! Although Jessie didn't know what or where the underworld is, he knew that many powerful spirits were banished to there, but barely any came back. Pro wiped his sweat as he realized that he was actually that close to perishing, but fortune favored him as his plan worked out fine.

After finding the info he was looking for, Pro then skimmed through the rest of the details to check if there are anymore information he could get from it. It was through this that noticed an important section regarding the investigative task.

The task was to investigate the fourth floor of the apartment where the elder felt a demonic spirit invading. Although the demonic spirit had already been warded off, the elder wanted to know if its invasion caused any abnormalities or unnecessary influence. Still, it didn't seem to be a big enough deal to interrupt whatever the elder is currently doing, so he only commissioned a task.

According to Jessie's knowledge, a demonic spirit is the rank above a blood spirit. Demonic spirits are powerful existence beyond Jessie's imagination. It has a multitude of powerful curses and weird abilities that can have danger ratings of red to purple!

But that is not the demonic spirit's most frightening part! The true reason why demonic spirits have such a high danger rating is the fact that it is no longer bound by its domain!

Demonic spirits can travel outside of its domain and spread its influence out into the world. Powerful demonic spirits can even spread their influence throughout an entire country or maybe even outside the country if they had a special ability! This means that a demonic spirit can technically hide anywhere and it will be difficult to find its true body, let alone kill it.

Remembering the powerful existence behind the spirit inside the television, Pro confirmed that it was probably a demonic spirit! However, Pro was not frightened, but excited! He has finally discovered the key to escaping this apartment building!

"If I become a Demonic Spirit, I can finally leave my domain and probably this apartment building as well!" Pro's eyes glinted with fierce emotions as his road forward was now clear.

However, Pro soon calmed down as he realized that although the path was clear, the road was still long. For now, he had other worries.

"Will killing the two members who had come to investigate attract the elder's attention? What if he personally comes to investigate?"

Hugging Alice who had buried herself into his arms at an unknown time, Pro's mind couldn't help but cloud with worry regarding his future.

"It's all boiled down to strength ... now I should put my 1840 points to use. Time to expand!"