Chapter 76: The Plan
Seeing everyone looking at him, Xia Feng didn’t say much, and pale flames appeared on his body.
The Vermilion Bird Demonic Armor could change its appearance at will and cover his body. Soon, with an awkward squat, his appearance transformed into a girl with light green, slightly curly hair draped over her shoulders.
*Cough cough,* the girl let out a crisp sound: “Cough, um, I, I am Mushroom~~”
Everyone: “…”
“What is this? The ability of the Forest Scepter?” Freya exclaimed in surprise.
After the introduction, everyone knew that Xia Feng was a perverted clone with duplication abilities.
Xia Feng nodded: “Something like that. After my optimization, the Wood General of the Forest Scepter can change its form at will to cover me.”
“This is optimization…” A thought suddenly occurred to everyone: if their spirit artifacts were optimized by Xia Feng, what would they become? Would they become stronger?
“Copy and optimize, what an outrageous spirit artifact ability.”
Old Guan muttered enviously, “It’s probably at least an A-rank. Damn, comparing people is infuriating!”
“So, you disguised yourself as Li Hongdou’s appearance meant?”
“Earl wants to capture Mushroom, right? Then I’ll pretend to be Mushroom and let him capture me. That way, we can enter the barrier.”
Li Sheng’s eyes lit up after hearing this: “Hey, this seems feasible. The formation core of the Boundless Barrier is easy to find. After you go in, find an opportunity to use the magnetic bullets to blow up the formation core, and the formation and barrier will disintegrate. Without Lister’s tortoise shell protection, we’ll naturally have a chance to kill him!”
Everyone nodded, lost in thought.
A stream of light flashed in the Xuanwu Bureau Chief’s eyes, and he saw a man hunched with his back curved, squatting inside a girl wearing a thick down jacket.
His eye twitched slightly, and he chuckled and shook his head: “No, a Fourth-stage Spirit Master would see through you with a single sweep of their spirit pressure. Moreover, your body shape is too large compared to Li Hongdou’s. Move a little, and the illusionary outer layer will distort. Anyone with eyes can see there’s a problem.”
“…” Xia Feng saw that he hadn’t fooled them and shook his head helplessly, standing up. The illusionary outer layer of the Vermilion Bird Demonic Armor disintegrated.
In fact, the ability Xia Feng truly wanted to rely on was not the illusionary outer layer of the Vermilion Bird Demonic Armor, but the replicated form of the spirit artifact’s ability.
[Mirror of Bronze – Duplicate: Perfectly replicates the target’s clothing, hair, accessories, makeup, physique, voice, and spirit artifacts. No time limit.]
The trigger for replicating spirit artifacts is to be attacked by the spirit artifact and touch the spirit artifact.
As for other types of replication, the trigger is to have touched the target person. He had tested it several times before, but he never had the chance to use it in actual combat, and he didn’t know how effective it would be against Fourth-stage Spirit Masters and some detection-type spirit artifacts.
Just then,
Suddenly, a crisp, low voice rang out: “Let me go.”
It was Li Hongdou’s voice. Everyone looked at Xia Feng expressionlessly.
Xia Feng blinked: “This time it’s not me.”
The tent flap was lifted, and a cute girl walked in. She looked up at everyone with a serious expression: “Instead of a fake going, why not let the real me go?”
Xia Feng’s eyes widened: “No!”
“Absolutely not! We’ve already rescued you; going back is like sending yourself to your death?” Xia Feng shook his head repeatedly.
“But isn’t only I able to go in?”
“Besides, as long as I don’t agree in my heart, it doesn’t matter if I verbally call Yue Hongli mother; Lister won’t be able to complete the birth ritual.”
Xia Feng frowned and parted his lips slightly, but Mushroom’s small face was rarely serious. She stared intently at Xia Feng, “Let me go, I want to personally end my grievances with Lister!”
Xia Feng was startled for a moment. This was the first time he had seen Mushroom so determined to do something.
“Actually, there’s something I’ve kept hidden in my heart and never told anyone.”
Mushroom bit her lip and walked to the table, looking around at everyone, “But I want to say it here today.”
“Many people believe my mother committed suicide by hanging herself, but in fact, ten years ago, my mother discovered Lister colluding with the Burning Heaven cult. After several attempts to persuade him failed, she was directly strangled to death by Lister with a rope…
My mother knew too much and had too much evidence. Lister feared that my mother would expose him or leave behind some information, so after killing my mother, he even killed her entire family.”
As she narrated in a low voice, her voice grew clearer.
“Lister thought I knew nothing, but on the day my mother was strangled, I didn’t drink that cup of black tea and naturally didn’t fall asleep. When my mother’s eyes, which couldn’t rest in peace, stared at me, I was terrified…”
Mushroom spoke calmly for a long time.
Everyone inwardly cursed Lister, that ungrateful bastard.
Xia Feng also fell silent. It wasn’t without reason that Mushroom developed such an introverted and withdrawn personality.
The death of her mother and the terror of her father had such an impact on her young heart that it would affect her for a lifetime.
The Xuanwu Bureau Chief fell into thought after hearing the girl’s narration. The Burning Heaven cult mentioned by Li Hongdou should refer to the Burning Heaven Sacred Hall. As expected, before Lister colluded with God’s Calamity Society, he was already entangled with the Burning Heaven Sacred Hall.
Thinking this, the old man looked at the small yet strong girl and inexplicably thought of his granddaughter. His tone softened, and he said kindly:
“According to the information transmitted by Uncle Wei in the previous few times, the Earl seems to want to obtain the allegiance of Yue Hongli, the Princess Consort.”
“And the Princess Consort’s true form is actually a long saber with divinity. Its abilities are related to the law of causality, and any ability involving causality is very strange and can lead to many variables.
So, child, if you really go, you must remember, you absolutely cannot let Lister complete the ritual and obtain this saber.”
“Okay, I remember!” Mushroom’s small face was serious, and she clenched her fist and nodded vigorously.
“Remember my foot!” Xia Feng shouted, “Hey!”
“Feng, trust me this once.”
“…I mean, I have to go too.” Xia Feng said helplessly, his body transforming again. He put on a black robe and covered his face with a pure white mask.
He said in a deep voice, “Since that’s the case, I’ll disguise myself as one of the Earl’s subordinates and take you back to Pingshan Hospital.”
“Little kid, what are you, a First-stage Spirit Master, doing here!”
Bailong stood up and said in a deep voice, “It’s too risky to let the little girl go alone. My spirit artifact’s abilities can simulate everything except appearance, including the Calamity Force aura. Wearing a black robe and a mask, I’ll escort the little girl; it’s the safest.”
Xia Feng looked at the big, burly man, his brows furrowed: “No! I don’t trust you to protect Mushroom.”
“You don’t trust me?” Bailong laughed angrily, his tone a little sarcastic, “I’m a Third-stage Spirit Master, and you, a mere First-stage, say you don’t trust me?”
Xia Feng smiled without speaking. After advancing to Second-stage and obtaining the Vermilion Bird Demonic Armor, his combat power had increased exponentially. He could deal with Third-stage Spirit Masters without any problems.
If Bailong fought him, it was truly uncertain who would win or lose.
