Chapter 152: Synchronization of the New Cheat
[Fate · Tyranny.]
Sensing the sudden information, Xia Feng was a little confused.
What kind of thing is Miss Mu’s cheat? It feels a bit awesome.
There are four basic indicators for measuring the strength of a Spirit Master: Strength, Agility, Spirit, and Mind.
Strength refers to physical power, including but not limited to brute force, physical toughness, and physical recovery.
Agility refers to physical speed and spatial perception. Those with high spatial perception can even traverse space and achieve Instant Steps.
Spirit, naturally, refers to Spirit Particles and Spirit Pressure.
Mind, namely Mental Power.
Among the four basic indicators, Strength and Agility do not improve significantly from Novice to Third-stage Spirit Master. Only upon entering the Fourth-stage…
At this stage, the life level of Spirit Masters undergoes a fundamental sublimation, and Strength and Agility will greatly increase. This is also why Spirit Masters of Fourth-stage and above are not easily killed.
The unit of measurement for Strength is ‘d’ or ‘points’.
Under normal circumstances, a Third-stage Spirit Master has a maximum of 300 points of Strength. A single punch can instantly knock out a strong, healthy normal male. After advancing to Fourth-stage, Spirit Masters’ Strength values are around 1000 points, enough to easily kill a tiger with one punch.
Although the cheat Mu Qingtong just comprehended only provides a 0.1 point increase in Strength, as long as it accumulates, beating people every day, continuously beating people, and causing continuous pain to enemies, her Strength will increase infinitely, eventually becoming… a one-punch witch!
Similarly, Xia Feng will also become… a one-punch man!
Yes, although he cannot use Mu Qingtong’s cheat, he can enjoy the benefits brought by this cheat.
This is different from Mu Qingtong’s Psychic-type Spirit Artifact, where the Spirit Artifact brings her massive Mental Power, which is an amplification, like putting on armor.
However, the strength increase brought by the Fate Stone directly acts upon her physical body and soul, which Xia Feng can naturally synchronize with.
Thinking of this, Xia Feng’s eyes lit up, and he suddenly got up.
“If that’s the case…”
He suddenly felt a tingling on his skin.
He pushed the door open and walked out with bright black eyes. He happened to see the black-dressed woman standing up in the distance, saying gently and softly, “Mr. Xia, I—”
“Stop with the ‘I’, you foolish woman named Mu. Let me see how much you’re worth now!” Xia Feng sneered arrogantly. With a stomp of his foot, he instantly turned into an arrow shot from the bow, hurtling towards the black-dressed woman!
*Dong—*
However, he had only flown halfway into the air when his mind felt a momentary trance. The moment his body was suspended, a lightning glow flashed on the fingertip of the black-dressed woman in the distance. A super-high-intensity Spirit Pressure beam suddenly pierced his abdomen from above. A beautiful tearing pain spread through his abdomen, reaching his spinal nerves.
[You have caused 1.2t of pain to the target, gaining a 0.12 point Strength increase.]
Xia Feng fell to the ground, blinking and looking up at the white light. Is this what Strength feels like!
He liked it very much!
Xia Feng sprang up like a carp, “Ha, Miss Mu, is that all?”
As soon as his provocative words fell, he discovered that the black-dressed woman had already appeared in front of him at some point. She gently pressed her slender index finger against his brow, counteracting his forward momentum.
Mu Qingtong’s soft gaze was helpless. She said softly, “Mr. Xia, can we take care of business first?”
“…” Xia Feng felt a very strange maternal radiance emanating from Mu Qingtong. Her tone was gentle, making people subconsciously calm down.
As if! Xia Feng tilted his neck back and sneered, “Miss Mu, you’re a bit timid lately. Are you that afraid of me?”
“It’s a mess outside. Are you sure you’re not going to do something, Mr. Xia?”
Mu Qingtong’s hands were also a little itchy, wanting to beat up this foolish junior student severely, but now was not the time.
After all, conquering Mr. Xia requires a sense of ritual. It must be in a private, undisturbed, enclosed space where they can fight freely for seven days and seven nights.
The current Calamity Realm couldn’t last long, and there were too many uncertain factors.
Seeing Mu Qingtong’s calm demeanor and lack of desire to beat him, Xia Feng felt a little helpless. Why was this woman like this? Couldn’t she take the opportunity to beat me up properly?
However, it was also true that now was not the time to be beaten.
“Xia Feng, have you two been cultivating until you fainted? Are you still going to manage these people!” Cha Nai Xue’s displeased voice echoed in his mind.
“Alright, alright, I’m coming.”
Xia Feng said helplessly, and with a thought, he transported two black-robed figures into the sky above the ground outside.
Under the drizzling rain curtain, it was already a river of blood.
Nearly a hundred men and women stood in the river of blood, their faces covered in mud, their eyes vacant, their lips pulled into silly smiles, “They’re all dead… Hahaha~ They’re all dead~”
They murmured foolishly, with disgusting severed limbs, organs, and eyes wide open in death floating on the river, washing past their ankles.
‘The Gods’ numbered three hundred, while the nobles were only a little over a hundred. It was indeed a one-sided slaughter, and it ended quickly.
What surprised Xia Feng, however, was that Jiang Zhizi had collected the souls of the nobles, which were about to scatter, and absorbed them into a snow-white gardenia in her hand.
“Ughhhh— Let me out—”
Above the snow-white flower, countless tiny, pitch-black human faces roared and gushed out, like countless vengeful spirits from hell, with ferocious expressions.
“Jiang Zhizi! You slut! Let us out—”
“Slut—” “I’m going to kill you! Kill you!! Ughhhh—”
Amidst the curses and roars of malice, despair, fear, and unwillingness, countless terrifying negative emotions intertwined. The sound waves howled through heaven and earth, and the entire world seemed to dim a few shades.
As if sensing the arrival of others, Jiang Zhizi, who was grinning bloodthirstily and excitedly, slowly raised her head.
Two black-robed figures wearing K and Q masks appeared beside the K-Masked Man. She glanced lightly at the three of them, then lowered her head again to stare at her gardenia, as if nothing in the outside world could interest her.
“Is this your Spirit Artifact?” The K-Masked Man came to her side and asked in confusion.
“Mhm,” Jiang Zhizi replied, but she didn’t look up, still excitedly staring at the vengeful souls struggling in despair in the center of the petals. She said calmly, “A B-grade Spirit Artifact, Gardenia Bloom. It can infuse all my despairing memories into the target, making them feel the same.”
As she spoke, her tone became excited and cheerful, “These swine will impersonate me and relive all my despair! Every second we talk, they will fully experience my seven years of hell! Now… now they have already experienced over a thousand years! Heh~ Hehehehe~”
“…”
Xia Feng exclaimed in his mind, “Amazing! Good heavens, is this a legendary torture-type Spirit Artifact? Terrifying!”
However, the restrictions were quite significant, and it was useless to him. Xia Feng then looked at a corpse in the distance.
It was the corpse of the blond man. His limbs had been severed into a human-like statue, and a small knife was inserted into his throat, pinning him to the ground. At this moment, a semi-transparent Spirit Body was struggling and roaring between his eyebrows.
!
Considering Xia Feng might want to question him, Cha Nai Xue specifically asked Jiang Zhizi to leave one person behind and not collect him into the gardenia.
However, Xia Feng didn’t really want to ask anything. The only thing he wanted to know was who the garden owner was, but the blond man knew nothing and only kept begging for mercy.
Xia Feng was too lazy to bother any further. He tossed the blond man’s Spirit Body to Jiang Zhizi as well and smiled, “Make him experience the beauty of the human world properly~”
Jiang Zhizi’s eyes lit up, “Okay! I will definitely satisfy you.”
Amidst the blond man’s horrified screams, Xia Feng and the others returned to the Rules Space.
“We still don’t know the situation outside. This Calamity Realm can last for 24 hours. We can place these three hundred people inside the Calamity Realm for now. Let’s go out and see what’s inside the Star Bone Pillar and if we can broadcast the garden’s image again.”
The two women had no objections to Xia Feng’s proposal.
Since Uncle Wei was within the barrier of the Star Bone Pillar, Xia Feng’s attempt to absorb him into the Calamity Realm encountered strong resistance, and then Uncle Wei was grabbed by the garden owner’s golden hand and disappeared.
Old Wei was always courting death. He didn’t know if he could survive this time.
The exit of the reshaped Calamity Realm was the entrance and the only exit. Xia Feng and the two women took off their black robes, resumed their appearance from the banquet, and walked into the exit light portal.
The three had been in the Calamity Realm for quite some time. By now, the first and second floors of the glass room were already surrounded by Knights of the Black Moon Holy See. A total of eighty Knights stared at the suddenly appearing light portal with serious expressions.
It had to be said that the Black Moon Holy See’s reaction speed was indeed fast. Reinforcements were sent immediately after the Saintess got into trouble.
Xia Feng and Mu Qingtong followed behind Cha Nai Xue and walked out of the light portal.
The Knights all bowed slightly and saluted in unison, their voices resounding, “Saintess.”
“Saintess, are you alright?” A middle-aged Knight with a beard and a square face stepped out from the ranks and walked towards Cha Nai Xue, his voice filled with concern.
“Pope Carl, I’m fine,” Cha Nai Xue shook her head. “You don’t need to make such a big…”
Mid-sentence, she suddenly paused. Her purple eyes narrowed, and she quickly grabbed Xia Feng and Mu Qingtong by the shoulders and retreated a step. At the same time, three ferocious snake mouths suddenly sprang out from the ground where they had been standing, their bloody fangs still containing ground human flesh.
*Snap—* The three giant snake mouths bit into empty air.
The three of them took another step back in unison, re-entering the light portal and returning to the Calamity Realm.
“…”
“Good heavens, are you guys from the Black Moon Holy See crazy too?” Xia Feng asked in confusion.
“I just received a secret transmission from Yin,” Cha Nai Xue said with a slight frown, her voice deep. “She said that the Archbishop has ordered the capture of a traitor to the Holy See—Cha Nai Xue.”
“Huh?”
“The Archbishop seems to believe I am a member of the Peach Organization and that I released the Seven-eyed Level Calamity Realm, sucking all the nobles from the garden into it.”
Cha Nai Xue frowned. “He defined the Peach Organization as a cult and believes I am now impure and need to be captured and brought back to the Holy See for judgment.”
Xia Feng raised an eyebrow. He found the Archbishop’s actions rather baffling, with a sense of inexplicable strangeness.
“The light of the Calamity Realm came from the second floor at that time. He probably made a misjudgment, thinking that you released the Calamity Realm,” Mu Qingtong said lightly, her beautiful eyes narrowing. “But at that time, only the garden owner could have observed the release of the Calamity Realm. Only the garden owner would target the Peach Organization.”
Cha Nai Xue was stunned for a moment, then thoughtfully, “So, you mean that the Archbishop is actually… the garden owner!”
Xia Feng frowned and pondered. If that were the case, this Archbishop probably wanted to trap them in the Calamity Realm and kill them.
Facing a powerful expert at the Archbishop’s level, he currently had no countermeasures or escape methods— Wait, no.
Perhaps he could escape through the Evil Dragon Space?
Thinking of this, Xia Feng rubbed his chin and nodded. It was time to meet Miss Evil Dragon.
