Exorcist's Self-Cultivation-Chapter 726 - 704, Red Gate Unlimited

Chapter 726: 704, Red Gate Unlimited

“This place, it simply can’t be something Ryan Hamel conjured up.”

“He doesn’t possess that kind of power.”

Du Wei’s heart’s was cold.

He was very clear about Ryan Hamel’s capabilities.

But what exactly were these human faces all about? Du Wei couldn’t figure it out at all.

What purpose did the human faces serve?

Why did they assemble into a face identical to his own?

Who was plotting against him?

Or was someone attempting to create him?

At that moment,

Du Wei suddenly remembered something.

He had obtained two masks one after another in the past.

Both masks had shattered later on, but one had no features, while the other only had eyes, and inside them was an Evil Spirit, one of which was the precursor to the current Evil Spirit Du Wei.

Upon further reflection,

The Vanity Sect also had thirteen masks, known as the Primitive Masks.

The features of those masks were also incomplete, none were whole.

But if all combined,

They also constituted a human face.

Even in the basement of Esselgreen, at the end of the tunnel behind the Hell’s Gate that Du Wei first entered, there was also the outline of a human face at the top.

Anyone who looked up would see a face.

But everyone saw something different.

Only Du Wei couldn’t see it.

…

Meanwhile,

Alex, who had just landed in England, suddenly looked up.

She gazed at the sky, bewildered.

For some inexplicable reason, tears began to stream down her cheeks.

“What’s happening? Why… why am I crying?”

Alex wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes, puzzled.

A feeling of overwhelming sadness and pain began to surface in her heart.

In her mind, a consciousness was weeping bitterly.

A fragment of forgotten memory appeared in her recollection.

It was Minette’s memory.

On a certain day, at a certain time, Minette was in a dark altar, defiantly shouting at an unseen entity, “Did you even seek my consent before doing this, do you know how grave the consequences will be?”

“You know full well, so why proceed regardless?”

“Is what you believe in really that important?”

“Let me tell you, I disagree, and I’ll prove you wrong, there’s more than one way to end all this, I will find another.”

“Please, believe in me just once, will you? I’m not your enemy, I’m your lover, I should be standing by your side, sharing all the burdens with you, why do you refuse me?”

Minette left defiantly with tears in her eyes, and in this memory, her power had grown to a terrifying level, perhaps she was already on the path of Armored Divinity Ascension.

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But after she had left,

In that darkness, a cold, indifferent voice emerged.

“Because this is the ending I’ve arranged.”

When the memory ended,

Alex was shocked. That voice sounded exactly like Du Wei’s. But Minette had already left, so why was this sentence there? Was it directly appearing in her memory?

Was it trying to tell her something?

But…

The very next second,

Alex felt a sharp pain in her head, and with a sense of helplessness, she reached out, trying to grasp at something.

But it was to no avail.

The memory vanished without a trace in the blink of an eye.

Alex stood in place, tears falling blankly.

“What just… what happened to me?”

“What was I supposed to do?”

“I remember now, I have to retrieve my sword.”

Saying this, Alex’s gaze regained its determination as she walked out of the airport, where people were already waiting for her.

“Miss Alex, the British Museum has been closed off, and today it is open just for you.”

…

Elsewhere,

Du Wei was watching the faces on the wall, frowning to himself.

As he looked,

He thought about some things.

It wasn’t about whether his existence was created or real.

What he was thinking was, setting aside why there was a wall of human faces here at all, could these damned things be used to trap one’s enemies.

But first.

Du Wei had to understand the function of the eerie faces.

These things had been trying to latch onto his own face all along.

Yet they completely ignored the shadow.

It was clear they were aimed at him.

Du Wei, for his part, saw no reason to use himself as a guinea pig, but there was a Black Du Wei, and it had even released an Evil Spirit Du Wei, carrying an envelope and looking for him outside.

A perfect opportunity delivered right to his doorstep.

“It’s just not very safe, its thought patterns and intelligence are on par with mine, so it won’t be so easily outwitted by me.”

“Besides, just because I can run doesn’t mean it can’t.”

“There’s definitely a connection between the faces and the masks. Maybe I need to change my approach, either swap them onto members of the Vanity Sect or try swapping them onto others.”

Conveniently, Du Wei had one of the faces in his hands.

He thought for a moment.

Right Hand made a Mark.

Then, he carefully retreated, careful not to disturb the entity within the wall of faces.

By the time he reached the entrance to the Red Gate.

Half of his body was already outside the gate.

At that moment, he thought, since he had already made the Mark and it was inconvenient to take the thing with him, he might as well throw it into the gate and close it.

When it was needed, he could activate the Mark and pull it out again.

Although it would also bring countless black threads with it, by that time, Du Wei figured that either he was facing a certain death, or he was in the middle of dealing with the Vanity Sect.

It would be just the right time to take them all out.

It wouldn’t be a problem.

So.

Du Wei left only his left hand inside the gate, while his entire body withdrew. Moreover, he grabbed the doorknob.

As long as he released his left hand, the strange face would break free from its binds.

If he was quick enough.

He could leave the face inside the gate.

No sooner thought than done.

Du Wei suddenly let go, quickly backed away, and at the same time, closed the gate.

Just as he let go.

Rustle, rustle…

On the entire wall of faces behind the gate, all the faces stirred. They fell to the ground or hung in the air, squirming or drifting, all pouring toward the back of the gate.

Du Wei felt his scalp tingle.

“These damned things, they’re all one entity?”

He immediately closed the gate.

The entire Red Gate shook as if countless faces were striking it.

Trembling.

The tunnel itself trembled.

Dust flew everywhere.

Du Wei’s complexion became exceptionally vivid.

He finally understood why, when he first opened the gate and grabbed one of the faces with his left hand, despite the presence of many similar beings behind it, none of them moved.

Because his left hand’s ability was to coexist peacefully, and these faces happened to be part of a whole.

Control one, and you control them all.

Which means, the next time he dared to activate the Mark.

He would have to face countless faces all vying to cover his own face first.

“Who came up with this thing? It’s repulsively revolting.”

A chill ran down Du Wei’s spine.

At that moment.

The surroundings suddenly returned to calm.

The banging from behind the Red Gate ceased to exist.

An eerie aura quietly emanated from within the Red Gate.

This sensation was exceedingly strange.

It felt as though everything had refreshed.

“This…”

Du Wei gritted his teeth, his face alternating between shades of light and dark.

For some reason, he always felt that this Red Gate wasn’t so straightforward; the Red Gate might have been made by Ryan Hamel, but the being inside may not be.

“I want to open it again.”

With too many questions swirling in his heart, Du Wei placed his hand on the doorknob once again, then gently twisted it and pushed open a small gap.

A dim light then shone through.

Du Wei frowned: “Strange, wasn’t it pitch black inside?”

As he spoke, he peered through the crack into the interior.

Then his pupils sharply contracted.