Chapter 43: Satisfied Smile
Chapter 43: Satisfied Smile
“Thunder-Summoning Curse!”
A thunder-summoning field formed instantly. Four lightning bolts crackled high in the sky several hundred meters above and randomly struck the ground. Unfortunately, their accuracy was pitiful. Even if that eyelash was immobilized by Iron Prison Discipline, they still might not hit it.
But that wasn’t important. What mattered was Li Si’s next move: Palm Thunder!
“Crack!”
An unprecedented clap of thunder exploded right on the spot. Within the magnificent flash of lightning, three mysterious and elusive lightning runes twisted like tadpoles searching for their mother, homing in with perfect accuracy and crashing directly onto the eyelash with a boom.
There was no helping it—with the thunder-summoning field active, even Li Si’s carelessly released Palm Thunder was guaranteed a hundred percent hit rate.
In an instant, an extremely mournful, piercing shriek tore through the sky. Boundless resentment shot upward, as if a hornet’s nest had been stirred up!
But before this surging resentment could fully erupt, the thunderstorm triggered by the combined effect of Palm Thunder and Thunder-Summoning Curse—which had a certain chance of occurring—ignited instead.
It was all a matter of luck.
For a moment, the entire deserted village turned stark white. Centered around the Quiet Room, over thirty lightning bolts writhed like golden snakes leaping into a pot of oil, squirming and twisting wildly.
Crackle, pop! Crash, boom!
Wow, this was too brutal.
It was also thanks to this lightning that Li Si discovered, to his horror, that the area around the Quiet Room was densely packed with at least several hundred dark shadows. The Three Talents Demon-Purging Array and the Five Tribulations of Lightning Method Array were apparently treated by them like magic doors—they came and went as they pleased!
But now, with the thunderstorm erupting, at least half of the dark shadows began to sing their surrender amidst the boiling lightning…
Only that eyelash, at this critical moment, used some unknown method. It blinked once uniformly, and the imprisoning effect of Iron Prison Discipline ended prematurely.
Watching this, Li Si broke out in a cold sweat, drenched from head to toe…
At this crucial moment, he didn’t attempt to cast another Heart Cleansing Curse or Iron Prison Discipline. Even Thunder-Summoning Curse probably wouldn’t have been fast enough, because the next moment, that eyelash would surely return to the Illusory Void. Creatures that could attack the Mortal Realm directly from the Illusory Void were like ordinary people encountering a ghost wall—there was simply no way to deal with them.
So, Li Si directly fired off another Palm Thunder—no, three consecutive Palm Thunders.
At that moment, lightning still raged around the Quiet Room. He couldn’t guarantee a hundred percent hit rate, but it should still be pretty good.
“Crack!”
“Boom! Boom!”
Three Palm Thundsesss exploded almost simultaneously. The first one missed, but the second one grazed the target, immediately hindering the eyelash’s attempt to return to the Illusory Void. Then, the third Palm Thunder surprisingly triggered another round of thunderstorm.
Well, this was mainly because the first thunder-summoning field Li Si had cast earlier was still active—it could last for three seconds. How many lightning bolts it would summon was random.
When exactly the lightning would strike was also random.
So, right at that moment, a bolt of lightning descended from high above and happened to collide with Li Si’s third Palm Thunder. Thus, the thunderstorm occurred.
No matter how many methods that eyelash possessed or how powerful it was, it was submerged in the dense thunderstorm. The surrounding dark shadows once again leaped up uniformly in surrender…
For Li Si, this was extremely precious time. He quickly replenished his Magic Power. Infinite mana was just that awesome.
Then, he spammed Heart Cleansing Curse, Iron Prison Discipline, and Devil-Sealing Curse without regard for cost. Because he had realized: this eyelash had an extremely high health pool. Relying solely on Palm Thunder couldn’t eliminate it in one go. So, the key was to delay it! Trap it.
Then, Thunder-Summoning Curse + Palm Thunder, Thunder-Summoning Curse + Palm Thunder!
Spammed without regard for cost!
“Boom!”
“Crack!”
“Boom! Boom!”
“Crack! Crack!”
Once the lightning flared up, all monsters, ghosts, and wandering spirits turned into ashes.
The entire deserted village was illuminated by lightning as bright as day. The dense thunderstorm forced the Dark Mist outside the village to retreat several hundred meters.
Until that eyelash was completely suppressed amidst the rolling thunder, vanishing without a trace. From beginning to end, it didn’t even greet him, and he never learned its name. It just left hastily, leaving Li Si behind with lingering thoughts…
Life really is unpredictable.
“Alienation Contamination Degree +50%!”
“Because you used thunder techniques throughout, Alienation Contamination Degree reduced by 25%.”
“Because of your Bloodline and Bone Evolution Progress, 20% was resolved.”
“Because of your Heart Cleansing Curse, 3% was resolved.”
“Slayed a clone of the Thousand-Eyed Evil Spirit. Obtained 30 units of White Fate Firewood. Obtained special material: Thousand-Eyed Remnant Exuviae.”
“Slayed 369 follower ghosts of the Thousand-Eyed Evil Spirit. Obtained 36,900 units of Gray Fate Fuel.”
After quickly glancing at this information, Li Si didn’t dare delay. He rushed forward, picked up the Wish-Fulfilling Pearl that had fallen to the ground and was now stained pitch black, and also picked up the Thousand-Eyed Remnant Exuviae, which resembled a mask. As soon as he touched it, more information appeared.
“Thousand-Eyed Remnant Exuviae: Three hundred years ago, a powerful Evil God Cultist, unable to suppress the power granted by the Evil God within his body, eventually turned into a monster. He slaughtered an entire city controlled by the Evil God Cult and then vanished without a trace. Along with him disappeared the eyes from 109,832 corpses.”
“Description: Can be used. Usage method: Wear the Thousand-Eyed Remnant Exuviae mask to discover a treasure within a hundred-mile radius (or other targets; just silently recite your intention in your heart). But each use requires paying the cost of Alienation Contamination Degree +10%.”
“Description: Due to your Bloodline and Bone Evolution Progress, 5% can be resolved. Due to your Heart Cleansing Curse, 2% can be resolved. Due to your Calamity-Dispelling Curse, 1% can be resolved.”
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“Wish-Fulfilling Pearl (Contaminated). Requires one unit of Black Fortune to purify and restore.”
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Li Si skimmed through this information quickly but didn’t rush to deal with it. He hurriedly set up a Demon Sealing Domain around the Quiet Room. It wasn’t that he was scared; it was because the three sticks of Black Soul Incense were now less than one centimeter tall. This meant that if another Evil Spirit clone showed up next, whether he could kill it or not, Xu Shen, who was refining an artifact inside the Quiet Room, would definitely be in trouble.
Then, without delay, Li Si first reduced his own Alienation Contamination Degree back to 15%. He also reapplied Mind-cleansing Aura, Evil-Warding Aura, Disaster Warding Aura…
“Poof!”
Suddenly, one Disaster Warding Aura burst. At the same time, a sharp pain struck his chest, and a message appeared.
“You have been marked by the Thousand-Eyed Evil Spirit. You have been implanted with the Thousand-Eyed Evil Spirit’s brand. Within three days, you will die. No exceptions.”
Li Si’s expression changed. He immediately knew this wasn’t over. This was even more troublesome and terrifying than the previous Attached Ghost Child!
Hmm, so scary!
Li Si decisively exchanged for 10,000 points of Magic Power and began frantically layering Disaster Warding Auras on himself…
For a while, it was just poof, poof, poof, pop, pop, pop, bang, bang, bang. These Disaster Warding Auras were cast one after another, bursting without even a splash.
But it didn’t matter. If ten Disaster Warding Auras weren’t enough, he’d use a hundred. If a hundred weren’t enough…
“Boom!”
Just as Li Si cast the 101st Disaster Warding Aura, he felt his whole body explode—oh, it was a comfortable explosion. It was like after being tortured, squeezed dry, and treated like dregs, he now felt as if he had obtained a legendary sword—so large that one bed couldn’t contain it…
“Erased the brand of the Thousand-Eyed Evil Spirit. Obtained 30 units of White Fate Firewood.”
Yes, you read that right. When Disaster Warding Aura was used, it never accumulated Alienation Contamination Degree!
Li Si smiled with satisfaction.