Chapter 928. Azure Leaf
With the shadow restraint gone, Xia Feng regained his ability to move. He looked around in confusion, searching for Zhuohua’s whereabouts.
“This is a rare V-class Sin Leaf, the Immortal Mud Statue. After the holder consumes a certain amount of Sin Power and sacrifices a portion of their memories and emotions simultaneously, they can transform into Mud Statue Slurry. As long as even a sliver of the slurry remains, the holder can be resurrected through it.”
“The side effect is the continuous inheritance and fusion of past holders’ memories and emotions. Using it too many times or remaining in the slurry state for too long can easily lead to Mental Disorder and Personality Displacement. Furthermore, while in the slurry state, none of their other abilities can be used, and their Sacred Realm’s unique Dao Comprehension Domain will also be invalidated.”
Huang Zhaoyue’s explanation echoed in his mind, and Xia Feng frowned before nodding.
This was also why the Great Sin Shadow Venerable was so difficult to deal with. They could exchange for Sin Leaves through the Tree of Sin, and each Sin Leaf possessed extraordinary abilities. As long as one held several Sin Leaves, their Combat Power Index would skyrocket.
“How many Sin Leaves do Shadow Venerables like Zhuohua usually hold?” Xia Feng asked, perplexed.
“Sin Leaves are categorized as Scrap, Common, Rare, and Legendary. Given Zhuohua’s achievements, he likely possesses two to three Rare-class Sin Leaves. As for Legendary, he isn’t qualified yet.”
Three of them… that’s still a lot. Lost in thought, Xia Feng sensed something and abruptly turned around.
In the sea of fire, a mass of slurry quietly proliferated and condensed into a Mud Statue humanoid figure, its body covered in grayish-brown feathers. The muddy gray face stretched into a creepy arc. “You little beast! Heh heh~ You’ve angered this Venerable.”
As he spoke, dense, ink-black incantations crawled out of his muddy gray face and flowed into his right eye, forming a grotesque, pitch-black ink mass that stared indifferently at the black cat.
And as the gazes of the person and the cat met, the incantations on the Mud Statue’s face instantly became three-dimensional, converging into a cursed arrow that shot towards Xia Feng’s brow!
[Rare III Sin Leaf · Stone Scroll Killing Curse]
[Sacrifice one Dao Fruit, and you can obtain the curse-killing power of the Stone Scroll God. The target’s soul and body will instantly disintegrate into stone particles.
If the target’s Mental Power is higher than yours, their soul and body can be sealed into a sculpture. The seal’s duration is determined by the difference in Mental Power. This curse-killing power is un-evadable.]
[Conditions: 1. The sacrificed Dao Fruit must be at least A-class; the rarer it is, the stronger its power. After sacrifice, one’s realm will fall, requiring re-cultivation and advancement. 2. One must use their biological eyeballs to gaze at the enemy, and the direction of one’s face must also be facing the enemy.]
Huang Zhaoyue’s explanations flashed rapidly through Xia Feng’s mind.
Simultaneously, Xia Feng also activated his A-class Spirit Artifact against Zhuohua.
[A · Saint Hand Guanyin · Overlimit]
[Heart Stealing: When an enemy harbors hostility towards you and attacks you, at any point within one minute, you can steal the enemy’s current thought. The enemy will forget what they were thinking after their thought is stolen. (3 times daily)]
[Currently Stolen Thought: Damn it, forget it. After Huang Zhaoyue dies, I’ll turn this beast into my Sin Leaf!]
It was just a fleeting glance, happening in the flash of an instant. Xia Feng abruptly turned around. Exactly then, the Mud Statue had quietly condensed in the light just behind Huang Zhaoyue, grinning silently.
[A-class Dao Fruit · Light and Shadow All Beings]
[Where there is light, there is me!]
He had already realized how troublesome the Sin Shadow Black Cat was, so he naturally wouldn’t waste any more time with it. After all, if he directly dealt with the frail Huang Zhaoyue, the troublesome black cat would cease to be a threat. Heh heh~ Zhuohua thought wildly, laughing maniacally in his heart as he raised his hand.
“Ugh—!” But just as he was about to activate his attack, his body instantly petrified.
[Absolute Twin Pupils]
[Absolute Defense: Consumes Mental Power. Any physical or spiritual attack sensed by your Spiritual Sense will be absorbed by your Twin Pupils and annihilated within your Twin Pupil space. (Cannot absorb attacks caused by S-class Spirit Artifacts/Spirit Robes)]
[Absorbed Attacks (1): Sin Leaf · Stone Scroll Killing Curse (Releasing)]
The black cat stood in the distant sea of fire, its orange vertical pupils subtly transforming into twin pupils as it calmly stared at the petrified Mud Statue. The mud-gray humanoid form was once again covered in an irregular layer of silver-white stone. And as its twin pupils gazed, cracks began to spread rapidly across these stone layers.
“Crack, crack—” Zhuohua’s Mental Power was far weaker than Xia Feng’s, rendering him utterly unable to resist the curse-killing power. His soul body cracked inch by inch. The sense of impending death made Zhuohua panic once more. Curse! How the hell did this curse affect me?! He couldn’t figure out why, and there wasn’t time to think.
Fortunately, the Immortal Mud Statue could save his life! He repeated his previous tactic, self-destructing to turn his entire body into slurry. This forcibly interrupted the attack of the Stone Scroll Killing Curse.
However, the moment Zhuohua transformed back into a Mud Statue, the world seemed to come to a standstill. Of course, this was only a standstill for Xia Feng. He entered a past timeline, and with cat paws, his figure instantly blazed through the sea of fire, arriving behind Zhuohua.
[Reason: 9080]
Time was limited. Xia Feng’s technique was swift. While casting his Light Constellation Domain, he narrowed the domain’s range to precisely encompass the Mud Statue, and simultaneously released Bloodworms that, following the shadow path, burrowed directly into the Mud Statue’s soul.
Zhuohua’s Immortal Mud Statue was indeed difficult to deal with. As long as it transformed into slurry and scattered, it could continuously regenerate, making it incredibly hard to kill. But that was assuming the slurry had time to scatter and escape.
Earlier, when Huang Zhaoyue finished introducing the Immortal Mud Statue, Xia Feng had already recognized this Sin Leaf’s fatal weakness. Of course, attacking this weakness was not easy. After all, Zhuohua himself knew his weakness, so his scattering speed was extremely fast, leaving enemies no time to react. But unfortunately, he was facing Xia Feng, who possessed the Moon Time Divine Domain.
After narrowing the Light Constellation Domain’s range, its power greatly increased, instantly melting the Mud Statue’s surface, releasing wisps of faint gray mist. And with the simultaneous devouring by the Bloodworms, the melting speed of the Mud Statue humanoid accelerated even further.
If Zhuohua were still in his human form, it would indeed be difficult for Xia Feng to kill him with this method. After all, in his human form, Zhuohua was protected by the Sacred Realm’s Dao Comprehension Domain, as well as layers of Spirit Pressure and spiritual barriers. It would be hard to annihilate Zhuohua with Constellation Energy and Bloodworms in half a second. But it was different when Zhuohua transformed into slurry. In this state, having lost his Dao Comprehension Domain, killing him was as easy as slaughtering a chicken for Xia Feng.
[Reason: 6058 (＜60, ＜10 allows for one Time Cover each)]
Seeing the Mud Statue humanoid completely devoured by the Bloodworms and vanish, Xia Feng had a thought.
[Time Cover —]
In the real world. Just an instant ago, the black cat was turning around in the middle of the sea of fire, and Zhuohua had just turned into a mud statue. The next moment, the world seemed to skip a frame. The black cat stood behind Huang Zhaoyue. In the two meters between them, mist rose in the air, and faint, piercing, desperate screams could be heard, gradually fading away. Those mists condensed into a cluster of strangely veined Azure Leaves, which slowly descended and were caught by cat paws.
Huang Zhaoyue turned back in confusion. Seeing that Zhuohua had died at some point unknown to her, she was slightly taken aback. Her fox-like eyes, gray with a thoughtful glint, asked, “Did you kill him using the Moon Time Divine Domain?”
