Chapter 69 The Sin of Gluttony

After the cardinal spoke those words, Fang Senyan and Aziz suddenly felt as if time had stopped in that instant. They could even clearly see the myriad dust motes floating in the air as sunlight streamed into the dim room. More bizarrely, all the nearby scenery rippled like water, becoming blurry and indistinct!

The two men’s expressions changed drastically. They wanted to react, but it was as if they had fallen into a deep nightmare. Their bodies were completely unresponsive, unable to move at all!

“This is… attribute suppression!” The thought immediately surfaced in Fang Senyan’s mind. “Another damned illusion!”

Immediately afterwards, illusions appeared behind them like a movie being played, each one a replay of their life’s events!

Soon, the shimmering illusions behind Aziz solidified into a series of scenes. Upon closer inspection, Fang Senyan realized that they were all bedroom scenes of this cold-blooded fellow and women.

It seemed that Aziz had inexhaustible energy. The women he was intimate with in the illusions behind him were all buxom and curvaceous. Their skin tones alone ranged from black, white, yellow, wheat-colored, and everything in between. There were even perverse scenes involving multiple partners. A quick glance revealed at least fifty or sixty different women!

“Vile sinner!” A voice seemed to come from beyond the heavens! Majestic, sacred, and grand! The cardinal calmly said, “You have fallen into the sin of lust?” Fang Senyan immediately understood. Wasn’t lust one of the seven deadly sins in Catholicism? Only at this moment did Fang Senyan realize that the cardinal had been fighting them by exploiting their weakest aspects!

As the cardinal’s words ended, a huge milky-white cross suddenly appeared behind Aziz!

Inscribed on the cross was the Hebrew character representing lust!

The next moment, Aziz broke free from the illusion. He was surrounded by surging magma and flames! The acrid smell of sulfur enveloped him. Aziz, having regained his ability to move, dodged nimbly, escaping the range of the magma and flames. However, those flames and magma suddenly coalesced, merging together to form three or four raging fire giants, who charged towards Aziz.

And their battlefield was right in the heart of bustling New York City! The fire giants strode forward, leaving burning footprints with each step. The only thought in these brutal fellows’ minds was to complete their mission!

Next, the cardinal looked towards Fang Senyan. Fang Senyan narrowed his eyes, trying to avoid making eye contact, but eventually, the illusions behind Fang Senyan also began to solidify. Looking closely, they were scenes of him enjoying various foods at a dining table, eating heartily: oysters, dog meat, red bean ice, lobster, mixed chicken…

“Spreader of plagues,” the cardinal’s voice was especially angry, because Fang Senyan had broken one of his arms! He would never forget such a blasphemous crime! “I sentence you to the sin of gluttony!”

Following the cardinal’s pronouncement, a huge milky-white cross also appeared behind Fang Senyan. Inscribed on the cross was the Hebrew character representing gluttony!

The next moment, the cross transformed into a giant hand that grabbed Fang Senyan’s neck. Then, several disgusting rats, toads, and snakes appeared out of thin air and were about to crawl into Fang Senyan’s mouth.

Watching the squeaking gray rats and the warty toads, Fang Senyan struggled desperately. Anyone with a sound mind would not want to be force-fed this stuff! At this point, he could almost confirm that the cardinal’s power was indeed derived from the seven deadly sins: because gluttony was one of them!

Despite Fang Senyan’s frantic struggles, he was firmly gripped by the giant hand, his head throbbing with pain, golden stars dancing before his eyes, as if he had been struck hard on the head. He also experienced strange hallucinations, as if his limbs were imprisoned by ruthless force, his entire body losing control!

With great effort, he managed to regain some control over his body, but another giant hand had ruthlessly pinched his mouth open, seemingly intending to force-feed Fang Senyan. If he was force-fed like this, then without a doubt, Fang Senyan would be left with a layer of skin peeled off even if he didn't die.

“Ahhhhh!”

Fang Senyan roared. Every muscle in his body bulged, his tendons stretched taut like iron, and blue veins rose up as if about to burst out of his skin. The nightmare imprint on his forehead flashed with a blinding light, and a pattern of a clenched fist and shield intertwined appeared!

His eyes were now bulging from lack of oxygen, filled with red threads like a dead fish’s eyes, his whole body twitching violently, his throat rattling, his feet kicking wildly, digging a hole in the ground.

Suddenly, the illusion of the Stairway to the Sun exploded behind Fang Senyan. Black tentacles flailed wildly, fiercely lashing at the illusory giant hand that was restraining Fang Senyan! At this moment, Fang Senyan’s entire body felt the threat of death. All his strength was gathered together, erupting with full force!!

Finally, cracks appeared on the surface of the giant hand, like ice patterns on porcelain. Fang Senyan struggled desperately. The giant hand had to use even greater force to resist him. The ice patterns became more and more obvious, and finally shattered with a crack, dissolving into the wind.

At this point, Fang Senyan’s lips had already touched the toad’s skin that was being delivered to his mouth. It was cold, bumpy, and had a pungent, fishy smell. Fang Senyan slapped it away with a backhand, then landed on the ground.

The scenery in front of him immediately became real again. He was back in the bustling Manhattan district.

However, the toad, gray rat, and entangled snakes that he had slapped away were all tearing at each other frantically. In the end, the toad won, rapidly expanding in size and turning into a huge monster, pouncing towards Fang Senyan!

“This ability is the materialization of illusions! This damned guy has even learned this trick!” Fang Senyan said through gritted teeth.

The essence of the terrifying and powerful ability of the seven deadly sins was still illusion. However, the cardinal in front of him had advanced this illusion ability to a level where truth and falsehood were intertwined! It could be said that it combined the power of faith, his own strength, and the power of the space into one, which was extremely terrifying.

The so-called materialization of illusions sounded somewhat mysterious, but it was not difficult to understand. For example, in many Chinese myths and legends, there were stories of someone subduing demons, and then visualizing heavenly soldiers, generals, Buddhas, and other spells to suppress the monsters.

This was actually an illusion created by combining their faith and their own abilities. But those with truly profound cultivation could actually summon heavenly soldiers and generals to descend to earth! This was actually the materialization of the illusion of heavenly soldiers and generals. Relying on one’s own ability and powerful faith, the illusion could be transformed into a real, flesh-and-blood creature in a short period of time! This was the true terror of the materialization of illusions!

At this time, Aziz was being chased by several lava monsters and was unable to take care of himself. Fang Senyan had also encountered such a fierce and evil toad monster! Not only were the two of them being chased around in a very sorry state, but the poor innocent civilians were also suffering a great disaster.

The monsters materialized by the cardinal were very fierce and ferocious. Although their main goal was to hunt down the two men, they would definitely not obey traffic rules or abide by the laws of the United States along the way. Civilians were dying in terrible numbers, and their corpses were being devoured by these monsters!

After Aziz noticed this, he even more maliciously led the monsters into the crowds. His purpose was naturally very shameless. The more civilians died and the more serious the situation developed, the faster the official intervention would be. As for the possibility of attracting other participants, it was like drinking poison to quench his thirst; he couldn't care so much anymore.

The toad representing the punishment of gluttony that was attacking Fang Senyan looked fat and bloated, reaching two stories in height, but its movements were very agile. Especially its tongue, which shot out and retracted in no more than 0.1 seconds, was as fast as lightning.

Fang Senyan had been hit by the tongue three times in a row. It was not that he didn’t want to dodge, but that he couldn’t!

Each time the tongue attacked Fang Senyan, the piercing force on the toad’s tongue was enormous, as if it was going to pierce through Fang Senyan’s chest. Not only that, but the mucus attached to it was also poisonous. It would continuously turn the skin blue and cause it to fester. Although Fang Senyan was immune to toxins, the impact force after being licked still made him vomit blood. Once, he was even wrapped up by the tongue and almost swallowed whole. If it wasn’t for a Devouring Beast hitting the tongue, he really wouldn’t have been able to stop it.

After Fang Senyan fought and retreated for dozens of meters, he was rejoicing that he had finally escaped the range of attack. He didn’t expect that the huge toad would suddenly exert force with its hind legs, and a ten-story building behind it immediately shook violently a few times, and then collapsed with a bang. The toad had already taken off with its fat body, and Fang Senyan felt a terrifying sensation of Mount Tai pressing down on him!

He scrambled away in a hurry, but a Ford Raptor next to him suffered, being directly crushed by the terrifying weight! Fortunately, it didn’t cause a terrible explosion, otherwise, Fang Senyan would have been seriously injured!

However, a young man who was doing parkour on the street was unfortunately caught in the crossfire and was crushed to a thickness of three centimeters. The bloody smell was pungent from a distance. He was rolled into the toad’s belly with one lick.