Yeli Xing hadn't expected Cha Naixue to be so dishonorable; she struck without warning, and he took a hit unprepared. Under the assault of the purple lightning, his back went 'bang bang bang' as he crashed through one tree after another.
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Cha Naixue's purple eyes were cold as she stepped on air and instantly turned into a cold white afterimage that streaked into the pitch-black forest.
"Hold on for a while, I'll deal with him as quickly as I can and come back to help you."
Cha Naixue was decisive and swift, leaving only a retreating cool, low voice before disappearing without a trace.
"Ha~" The Believer chuckled and shook his head. Thinking of coming back? Coming back to collect corpses?
He patted his companion on the shoulder and grinned, "One for each of us, let's see who can strip the other naked first, how about that?"
The Yellow Rat's eyes lit up, "Okay with me, I'll take this beauty."
Saying so, they walked toward Xia Feng and Mu Qingtong.
Xia Feng and Mu Qingtong exchanged glances; during their eye contact, both figures flashed simultaneously, turning into two streamers rushing towards them.
The Believer and the Yellow Rat were momentarily stunned. How dare they?
But they also sensed at the same time that the Spiritual Pressure coming from these two people was Second Order?
"This is getting interesting." The Believer hadn't expected these two students to actually be hiding their strength, but it didn't matter anymore.
He curled his lips into a smile, lifting his right hand adorned with a grey ring ready to attack, but his expression suddenly froze.
A strange spiritual power surged into his mind abruptly; it wasn't attacking him but trying to absorb his soul, attempting to pull his soul out of his body and into the black pupils of the man rushing toward them from afar.
He was startled, suddenly avoiding Xia Feng's gaze and feeling uneasy.
"Something's not quite right." As he pondered, he stepped on the ground, ready to retreat for the moment, but that kid opposite him, though clearly Second Order, was peculiarly fast. In an instant, he closed in to within ten meters while the Believer was caught off guard.
What he didn't know was that his sensory delay was caused by the absorption of souls into the spiritual artifact space. Though it lasted less than half a second, on the rapidly changing battlefield, it was enough to allow an enemy to move within striking distance.
However, the Believer wasn't panicked. Although Xia Feng's abilities were somewhat bizarre and unexpected, the Spiritual Clothes, "Flame Wind Wall," which he had studied diligently for eight years, could ensure he'd survive even a full-force strike from a Fourth-order Spirit Master.
"I want to see what tricks you've got up your sleeve." The Believer's gaze was calm, his hands suddenly ignited with dark red flames, he bent his knees and coiled his power, leaving a flame afterimage and darted straight toward Xia Feng.
Yet, before he could rush out even one meter, almost all the muscles in his body twitched at the same time. His nervous system seemed to go haywire. Thud, thud, thud— he suddenly lost strength and tumbled awkwardly down to the base of a tree trunk.
What puzzled him even more was that the stable and orderly structure of the Spiritual Particles inside him suddenly became congested and disordered, causing an interruption in the output of his Spiritual Pressure, and the red defensive Spiritual Clothes on the outer layer quickly dissipated!
"What in the world is this power?!"
After paralyzing him, they also prevented him from using his Spiritual Clothes! The Believer was thoroughly panicked, hurriedly lifting the only eye that could still move. Luckily, that trickster Xia Feng had also collapsed to the ground, convulsing.
However, what confused him was that the blood-red Miao Blade floating beside Xia Feng seemed to have stabbed its own master in the heart the moment the boy hit the ground.
Although he did not understand why, Xia Feng's inexplicable death was still a good thing. He breathed a sigh of relief—
Not at all! The Believer was startled, and less than half a meter in front of him, a white-clad silhouette quietly formed and caught his eye. The man raised his finger as if it were a gun aimed at his forehead and smiled, "Suzheng!"
As the word fell, a cross-shaped pitch-black frenzy sparked at the tip of Xia Feng's index finger. A black beam like that from a massive caliber laser cannon violently burst forth, immediately engulfing the Believer. Terrifying shock waves swept through in waves, accompanied by ghastly screams, shaking the mountainside.
But to Xia Feng's surprise, under the Suzheng Cannon, while the Believer's heart and brain had died, the grey ring on his thumb suddenly lit up, transforming into a monstrous grey rat with blood-red eyes that shielded him from the Suzheng Cannon's blast.
[Detected a copyable Spiritual Artifact—Giant Rat Ring]
Giant Rat: "You can choose to enlarge any part of your body, or enlarge your entire body to gain defense abilities that are double your current state. However, after using the ability, the enlarged part will shrink slightly under normal conditions."
Note: Little rat here, I'm gonna get big!
Detected an anomaly with the copiable Spiritual Artifact——
Giant Rat Ring (Artifact Disaster Form): The Spiritual Artifact can transform into a gray Giant Rat, and develop its own consciousness.
Artifact Disaster Enhancement: Can gain defense abilities that are 2.29 times your current state, and also allow the Giant Rat Ring to transform and shield the owner from attacks.
You have to admit, the world really is full of wonders. This Spiritual Artifact's ability... it's quite unique, Xia Feng mused to himself.
What shocked him, though, was what was this Artifact Disaster form? It sounded like a power belonging to some major disaster, able to turn a Spiritual Artifact into a living thing?
"Interesting," Xia Feng blinked, a thought flickered, and he decided to copy the Giant Rat Ring.
Due to reaching the limit of Spiritual Artifact Positions, "D·Giant Rat Ring" has replaced "A·Spiritual Artifact Space."
As long as the original owner of a Spiritual Artifact is not dead, the overlaid Spiritual Artifact can be copied again, but there is a time limit—for instance, Black Crow's Spiritual Artifact Space would require a 12-hour cooldown before it could be copied again.
And as for the Forest Wand and Vermilion Bird Demon Armor, their original owners were killed by Xia Feng, so choosing to overlay these two Spiritual Artifacts would mean they could never be copied back.
Current possessed Spiritual Artifacts: Giant Rat Ring, Vermilion Bird Demon Armor and Forest Wand (Sealing Position).
Because he hadn't used the Forest Wand much recently, he put the wand in the Sealing Position the last time he entered the Third Rank state—only in the Third Rank state can the Sealing Position be adjusted, and after falling back to Second Order, the Spiritual Artifacts in the Sealing Position cannot be used anymore.
As the message of successful copying flashed in his mind, Xia Feng suddenly became stunned. He sensed that the ring seemed to be connected to an unknown spacetime, and from that spacetime, a terrifying Evil Power reaction was pouring towards him, like a huge mountain pressing down on the land, capsizing towards Xia Feng!
Anomaly—Each Artifact Disaster Spiritual Artifact is connected to the Origin Sea of a Heavenly Gifted Disaster. Copying such a Spiritual Artifact, if not a Heavenly Gifted Believer, will result in being devoured by Evil God Level Evil Power!
Do you want to disconnect the copy?
"Holy shit—" Xia Feng's expression showed slight shock. The Origin Sea of a Heavenly Gifted Disaster? This...
There's such a good thing?!
Isn't this like sucking a Heavenly Gifted Disaster dry?
He hastily stopped resisting, letting the Evil Power surge from the unknown spacetime assault his soul. The Blood Beast separated, and a continuous stream of Evil Spirit Liquid poured into his heart.
Spiritual power +1+1+1...
The rat's burnt corpse collapsed on the ground, its semi-transparent Spiritual Body slowly drifting away.
Xia Feng's succession of odd techniques completely confused him—this kid was actually a Second-order Spirit Master? In less than three seconds, he'd been beaten to death, just shy of his soul dispersing.
After his soul separated from the body, the rat didn't dare linger. He cursed under his breath and turned to run in fear, but Xia Feng's next move made him change his mind again.
"This kid... really isn't that sharp," he laughed out loud when he saw that Xia Feng, clearly winning, suddenly copied his own Spiritual Artifact.
He controlled his Spiritual Body to stop fleeing and quietly awaited this foolish young man's death.