Su Zhou didn't waste any words. He reached out and pressed his hand against Shao Qiming's chest.

His own spiritual power surged, pouring into the fragment of the crucifix on the other's chest, awakening the spirituality dormant within.

Spiritual power and spirituality.

If spiritual power was the universal transcendent power that permeated the entire world, the entire universe, then spirituality was a unique and concentrated spiritual force, highly personal.

Spirituality could convert attribute-less spiritual power into a form similar to itself, like ink dyeing water. It was essentially a unique energy property converter for each person, the embodiment of the spiritual law of "the only true spirit in all realms."

To put it simply, spiritual power was true qi, spirituality was a spiritual root, and a greater concentration of true spirit was a golden core or nascent soul.

Now, Su Zhou's spiritual power poured into the crucifix fragment, touching the spirituality of this holy object—pure white, sacred light flared up instantly, sweeping across Shao Qiming's entire body.

The light easily, almost naturally, cleared away all the hidden, gloomy energy!

*Poof.* The stubborn little black dots of yin spiritual power vanished like illusions. Before Shao Qiming could react, Su Zhou withdrew his hand, smiling as he looked at him.

"You, you succeeded?"

Shao Qiming was somewhat incredulous.

"Of course."

Hearing Su Zhou's firm reply, Shao Qiming took a deep breath—it really was much smoother! But as he was about to continue enjoying this unobstructed breathing with a look of pleasant surprise, Su Zhou patted him on the shoulder and shook his head. "Be careful. The curse is gone, but your body has been tormented for nearly a decade. You're in a recovery period now and need to take care of yourself."

"The centipede egg soup I sent over earlier was made with the eggs of a fiend I killed. It has the function of conditioning the body and strengthening immunity and self-healing abilities. One bowl should be enough. I was afraid you wouldn't be able to handle too much nourishment."

"Also, you can't eat spicy food or anything too greasy recently..."

As Su Zhou rambled on, listing a series of precautions, Shao Qiming lowered his head and couldn't help but laugh. "Why are you suddenly acting like an old mother hen?"

"Don't worry, I was just excited for a moment. Of course I know how to protect my body."

"Eh, that's good." Su Zhou nodded in satisfaction. He said, "Aunt Wen's problem is more complicated. I estimated just now that the True Cross fragment needs to be held close for a while to exorcise the demons, which is very inconvenient... How about this, after I go back, I'll bring a whole Holy Water Cross tomorrow and try again."

Having settled the awakening ritual and exorcised the remaining curse, the two of them should have cleaned up the ritual site—but because all the ritual materials had been transformed into spirituality and absorbed by Su Zhou, the entire basement was as clean as a blank slate. After gathering the mixture of real and fake strange objects, the two of them went out and left.

Of course, because the ritual process was too fast, and Su Zhou's previous excuse was to go for a walk outside, they couldn't go back so quickly. The two called for a Didi taxi, chose a Sichuan restaurant, and booked a private suite for dinner.

They didn't order much, just a portion of hot dry noodles, a large grilled fish, preserved vegetable braised pork, big plate chicken, lotus root and pork rib soup, stir-fried lotus root slices, lotus root cakes, and a spicy crab. (Totaling 6175 calories)

Oh right, they also ordered two large servings of rice (2768 calories). Anyway, the waiter asked several times if there were other people coming, and the look in his eyes after confirming there weren't was as if he was looking at a monster.

But a ruthless, high-capacity eating machine wouldn't care about such things. Having just reached the Awakened stage, Su Zhou had already planned to eat and drink to his heart's content.

The eating process naturally doesn't need to be described in detail. What's worth mentioning is that the spicy crab was unexpectedly delicious.

In order to avoid being seen that the color of his pupils was wrong, Su Zhou, disguised as a squinting man, specially asked the boss, and the boss said that the crabs they had recently purchased were getting bigger and bigger. Heaven knows why, but they were happy as long as the customers were satisfied—what’s worth mentioning is that Shao Qiming ate more than he had in the past, and even finished half a plate of stir-fried lotus root slices by himself. It seemed that he really felt much better.

He even sighed halfway through the meal, looking up at the ceiling, as if lamenting something.

And just as Su Zhou was eating voraciously...

Yala poked her head out from his hair. She bit the young man's ear and praised, "This time, the blood tastes better than last time!" Then, she asked with a grin, "Su Zhou, you now possess the power of the top transcendent in this world—I guarantee that before the revival of spiritual energy, any existence that can enter the Awakened stage is a genius of their generation, born of destiny, and I believe everyone knows this."

"Whether it's killing evil people or occupying a high-level position in the officialdom in the future, I'm sure no one will refuse your requests... So, how do you plan to use this power?"

--After possessing the power to break the order around you, what do you plan to do?

The serpent spirit asked softly, already mentally prepared to be met with silence, because this was not an easy question to answer.

Yala patiently waited for an answer.

"Is there even a need to say?"

Who knew that Su Zhou didn't even hesitate. While easily crushing and peeling open the shell of the spicy crab, he casually replied, "Of course, it's to kill evil people!"

"...Uh, is that all?"

Struck by the overly quick answer, the serpent spirit was a little dazed. She tentatively asked, "Is there anything else? Like, ruling the world, becoming the strongest person in the world, enjoying supreme power..."

"Yala, are you trying to tempt me to become a demon king?" Su Zhou first looked at the serpent spirit warily, then ate a bite of crab meat, scooped up a large mouthful of rice, and said vaguely, "Let me tell you, although I'm not exactly upright, I still have a conscience and principles! Most importantly, I'm not stupid. Ruling the world, constantly dealing with all those messy things, how can it be as enjoyable as dispensing justice!"

While speaking, he stretched out his hand, and azure-purple spiritual light transformed into flames. The unheated Hellfire of Evil Burning burned fiercely, strengthening the chopsticks in his hand into ironwood engraved with swirling dragon patterns, as if they had been weathered for thousands of years. With a single chopstick, he directly shattered a crab claw, as if crushing a piece of tofu.

His tone was extremely unclear because his mouth was full of rice, but that firm will could not be ignored by anyone.

"Kill evil people, kill monsters, until no one in this world dares to be evil again, no one dares to call themselves wicked."

As he said this, he used the wooden chopsticks strengthened into dragon-patterned ironwood to pick out a piece of meat from the already shattered crab claw and put it in his mouth.

"...This is not what a hero would do, it's simply what a chuunibyou would say."

Faced with Yala's sigh, Su Zhou just glanced at her strangely, and then continued to eat the lotus root cakes. "I'm not going to be a hero, *munch*, and besides, I also know which people are better judged by the public, and which people are better off being sent to the afterlife on the spot—don't worry, I have basic judgment... Of course, maybe my idea is a bit naive and childish, but Yala, didn't you say that I have the most powerful strength in this world?"

"In that case, even if I can't defeat airplanes, cannons, giant ships, and missiles for the time being, and can't remove the mountains in people's hearts... but in the future, I believe that even this naive, childish, and chuunibyou idea, I can turn it into reality."

——To turn false ideals and unrealistic wishes into reality, that is the meaning of transcendent power.

"...And then what?" Yala was really sighing at this moment, but she also felt that it was interesting. She shook her head and said with a smile, "This world has been shaped according to your heart's desire, what are you going to do next? Don't forget that our future is not limited to this small planet."

"Then go kill in other worlds—I want to make all the worlds free of injustice, and that there will never be even one innocent victim again! Right, Qiming!"

Carelessly answering the serpent spirit's question, Su Zhou turned his head and looked at Shao Qiming, who was smiling and watching the exchange between the one person and the one snake. Amidst the other's slightly caught-off-guard expression, he smiled brightly and cheerfully: "Those guys who randomly curse people, no matter what world they're from, I have to scatter their ashes one by one! Scatter them all into the Nanjiang River!"

"I support you."

What he received was such a straightforward answer from his friend: "Let them all feed the fish!"

If Su Zhou was a bit suppressed before he fully awakened his transcendent power.

Now, after awakening and obtaining true transcendent power, he had somewhat revealed his true nature.

"...It's just like a demon king... the killing intent is so deep."

Even Yala couldn't help but chuckle at this time: "You guy, the 'Evil-Devouring Demon Lord' supernatural power, really can't be awakened by just anyone..."

"By the way, Yala." Having had this topic brought up by the serpent spirit, Su Zhou also remembered some questions at this time. He blinked and asked somewhat mysteriously, "That wooden centipede... what exactly is the source of the fiend? Is it some great existence like you?"

He was really very interested in these mysterious things, and what's more, in the future he would use the power of the 'Celestial Scale' to travel to the worlds behind these monsters.

After thinking of this, he naturally became even more interested.

"Who else could it be? It's nothing more than one of the two great divine tree sources."

Yala shrunk back into the young man's temples and replied casually, "The World Tree, the Tree of the Great Dao, just like all dragon snakes originate from me, all the legends of the divine trees originate from them, including the Good and Evil Discernment Tree in your house as well, are the descendants of their information disturbance in the various worlds."

"That bit of aura is too flamboyant, I'm a bit confused as to which one it is, but it must be one of the two."