In an instant, everyone surrounded Li Hai.

Then they all began to shout loudly, calling him "Saint Anthony"!

Li Hai was utterly bewildered, not knowing what was happening.

And just then.

From the center of Crystal Lake's bottom, which had been almost completely drained, leaving only a thin layer of water, Jason's figure immediately crawled out.

"The demon has appeared!"

A scream immediately erupted from the crowd around Li Hai, scaring everyone into shrieking and retreating.

At the same time, Jason, who had just crawled halfway out of the shallow water, silently swung and threw the large machete in his hand towards Li Hai.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! But just as the machete flew a few dozen meters and had not yet reached the lake shore, it was struck by several invisible Sword Qi shot from Li Hai's raised finger, splitting it into several pieces of scrap metal that scattered and flew away.

As for Jason himself, he was also blasted into a pile of shattered corpses and broken remains by dozens of invisible Sword Qi that followed closely, scattered in the water and finally resting in peace.

"Phew~"

Mr. Williams let out a long sigh upon seeing this scene and smiled, "God bless, this demon still died under Saint Anthony's invisible holy sword."

As he spoke, he turned to look at the bald, middle-aged bearded man who was recording everything with a camera and asked:

"Charlie, did you record everything?"

"Don't worry."

Charlie replied without turning his head, focusing on recording, "I recorded everything from beginning to end, not a single frame was missed."

"Very good!"

Mr. Williams said with satisfaction, "After we edit this recording, we will spread it throughout California. We want everyone in the state to see Saint Anthony's miracle! Amen!

"Amen!" Charlie, carrying the camera, laboriously made the sign of the cross and asked, "What form should it take?"

"Listen--" Williams paused, then hesitated, "Let's use the form of an evangelical documentary. I'll discuss it with Father Kevin then."

"A documentary, huh."

Charlie mused, "Eh~ What do you say—how about we send this film to the Oscar committee? If we could get an Oscar nomination for a documentary—"

"Daydreaming."

Williams shook his head, "Our small faction has just been established. We don't have the qualifications or ability to contact or even lobby the Academy. Don't fantasize."

"OK~" Charlie shrugged and said no more.

Subsequently, perhaps due to his impending demise, Jason's revival frequency also began to noticeably increase.

After only one minute of death, his scattered fragments of remains inexplicably reassembled and repaired themselves,

and he crawled out of the water again.

This scene stunned everyone present.

Is the demon really that powerful? He was dismembered and could still revive like building blocks?!

Li Hai, seeing this, coldly remarked, "A persistent ghost."

With that, he again shot dozens of Sword Qi from his fingers, remotely blasting the newly reassembled Jason into a pile of minced meat.

But this was only the beginning.

In the time that followed, as Crystal Lake became increasingly dry, Jason's revival frequency also rapidly advanced from once per minute to once every ten seconds.

So the several hundred people present, as well as the construction workers around the lake shore, watched in stunned silence as Jason was repeatedly blasted apart and fell by Li Hai, only to painstakingly revive and crawl back up again and again.

This made them marvel at the miraculous and mighty power of Li Hai's angelic strength, and also at Jason's extremely tenacious vitality.

At the same time, Jason's immortal characteristic also made them deeply feel the terror of the demon.

"Fortunately, fortunately we have Saint Anthony."

A woman made the sign of the cross on her chest and said thankfully, "Amen!

The people around her were influenced and also made the sign of the cross on their chests, devoutly sighing, "Amen~"

Finally, after being instantly killed by Li Hai a full one hundred times, Jason did not revive again.

His body, so tattered it was like minced meat, slowly spread out in all directions like mashed potatoes, no longer gathering.

And at this moment, Li Hai saw from afar that in the pool of dark, filthy minced meat, there was a fist-sized, blood-colored sphere quietly 'lying' within it.

"Could it be the Core of Fear?"

Thinking this, Li Hai stomped his foot and, at a speed far exceeding that of normal people, covered several hundred meters in a few seconds, reaching the vicinity of the pool of minced meat at the bottom of the lake.

This scene, once again, caused a commotion among the several hundred people present:

"Is Saint Anthony flying?"

"So fast, faster than Michael Jackson!"

"It's like a rocket! He flew over in the blink of an eye!"

"This is also a miracle! Every action of Saint Anthony is a miracle!"

But Li Hai, the central figure of all these discussions, had no time for them at the moment.

Because he discovered that this lump... was indeed the Core of Fear.

However, this Core of Fear was not a physical entity, but a formless, illusory, non-material thing.

The reason Li Hai could see it was because Jason had truly fallen into a dying state, and also because Li Hai himself was an Evil Spirit.

If he were still human, he probably wouldn't be able to see it at all now.

"Could it be that only by destroying this fear core can Jason be completely killed?"

Harboring this curiosity, Li Hai immediately pointed his fingers and conjured a section of invisible Sword Qi, striking it with a single sword slash towards the fear core in the minced meat beneath his feet.

Swish?

—

The Sword Qi swept through the middle of this fear core but left no mark, as if this blood-colored sphere was merely an illusion.

"Interesting, it doesn't take physical damage."

Marveling, Li Hai bent down and reached out to touch this fear core.

And when his fingertips touched the surface of this fear core, a strong urge to eat suddenly surged within him.

Hungry! Hungry! Hungry!

Eat! Eat! Eat!

Driven by a strange instinct, a large mouth with jagged teeth suddenly split open in Li Hai's palm. This mouth gaped open and swallowed the fear core in one gulp.

Subsequently, Li Hai felt a sudden sensation of heat from his palm, which instantly spread throughout his entire body.

At the same time, he also obtained two fragments of a strong individual.

This indicated that Jason had finally—completely died.

But at this moment, Li Hai no longer cared about these things.

Only because, after he "ate" Jason's fear core.

A new skill tag, "Evil Spirit Killer," suddenly appeared in the skill bar of his personal interface.

And the specific ability effect of this skill also appeared in Li Hai's Sea of Consciousness in the form of pure information.

It turned out that its effect was to allow Li Hai to, to a certain extent, block, reduce, and even ignore the immortality of any Evil Spirit.