Absolute Gate

Chapter 62 Faith Insulator

On the other side of the battle, Long Kui's cold gaze remained unwavering, her body swirling with white freezing air as she forcefully walked out of the gravity field.

However, Xia Heng had already released Luo Yi and didn't even glance at him, even though Long Kui's sharp claws were already pressing down on his ears.

That kind of blow would turn someone's head into mush.

However, Xia Heng remained calm and did not dodge, appearing as if he had Long Kui completely under his control.

"Oh!"

As expected, Luo Yi rushed to Xia Heng's side as soon as he was freed, his dark arm blocking the dragon's claw.

"Tear!"

His Armament Haki was broken, and his arm was instantly torn to shreds! Blood gushed out!

Luo Yi scoffed and pulled Xia Heng back hastily.

"Bro, if you keep acting all high and mighty like that and expect me to save you, I'm really not going to shield you anymore."

Xia Heng calmly said, "You expect me to confront him head-on?"

Luo Yi snorted, "How many bits do you have now?"

Xia Heng said calmly, "Round the change to thirty thousand."

"Holy crap! You've got so many Bitcoins in just six months? Did you rob the Illuminati?" Luo Yi exclaimed in shock.

Xia Heng shrugged and didn't say anything.

Luo Yi spat out a mouthful of blood: "Your multi-dimensional magic is such a waste of all that multi-dimensional power!"

He complained about Xia Heng, knowing that Xia Heng's past lives were all about scientific research.

Xia Heng was mocked and rolled his eyes. His direct combat skills were indeed average, except for the Void Armor set, which could increase in strength with energy, and was still passable.

But he doesn't want to reveal it yet; that outfit is too iconic.

"You're so great, okay! If you're so good, then you do it. Let's finish this quickly, and you can start to annoy people."

Luo Yi chuckled: "What do you mean by disgusting? Get out of here, I'll take care of this dragon."

"Dong dong dong dong!"

Longkui attacked from behind, her ice spikes piercing Luo Yi's back.

Even with Luo Yi unleashing his full domineering aura, he still found it extremely difficult to deal with Long Kui, who had undergone a second-stage dragon transformation.

He barely managed to withstand three of Long Kui's attacks when his imposing arm shattered on the spot, blood splattering like ice crystals, and his chest was horribly caved in.

"Pfft!" Luo Yi tumbled and flew out, crashing heavily into the rocks, causing the mountain wall to crack.

This time, he lost both arms.

"Hmph, such domineering attitude is nothing special!"

Longkui's vertical pupils were sharp, and her shrill voice was like the howling of ice and snow. She rushed forward like lightning, her sharp claws striking, aiming to take Luo Yi's life.

Its claws were incredibly sharp, and its explosive power was astonishing, making the air crackle.

Luo Yi was covered in ice shards, his broken bones protruding, and he looked utterly miserable.

But he still stood protectively in front of Xia Heng, and he was very stubborn: "It's no use! At this level, neither of us can kill the other. The outcome will depend on who can last longer!"

"Ant! You think you can do this?" Longkui sneered, growing angrier with each battle.

She suddenly gathered extremely powerful freezing energy: "Freeze!"

It was that trick again. Although Luo Yi wasn't frozen solid, he was instantly frozen and temporarily unable to move.

Longkui flapped her wings and rose up, then swooped down, revealing the cold glint of her sharp claws as she aimed straight for the head!
Luo Yi had no way to resolve this and was certain to die.

But he wasn't flustered at all. In a flash, he transformed into his shadow form, having swapped places with his own shadow.

"Buzz!"

The shadowy figure directly confronted the dragon's claws head-on, emerging completely unscathed!

However, his strength was too low, only possessing the physical attributes of Luo Yi's pure form. He was sent flying backward on the spot, crashing into Xia Heng, and the two tumbled together in the snow.

Of course, Xia Heng now has a metal body, so he can withstand this kind of impact.

It immediately flipped over, and the laser kept shooting at it.

Long Kui attacked, and Xia Heng immediately grabbed the shadowy figure to block it!

"Pfft!" Xia Heng was thrown back again, his body twisted, but it was nothing serious.

"This move again, a completely black form? It even withstood my dragon breath before, is that a special ability..." Longkui stared intently at the shadowy figure.

She didn't know that Luo Yi had switched with his shadow; she thought this was a form Luo Yi had transformed into.

The shadowy figure couldn't speak, so he ignored her and just used his body to block the attacks.

Anyway, the Shadow King is immune to physical attacks and can't be killed.

With such an invincible tank, Xia Heng is able to hold his own against Long Kui for the time being.

In a flash, the shadowy figure transformed back into Luo Yi.

Luo Yi was radiant, his arms were intact, all his injuries had disappeared, and he was in his prime!
"what!"

Longkui was dumbfounded; this scene was truly terrifying.

Luo Yi twisted his neck: "Come on! Let's see who lasts longer!"

“Blackberry, you’re disgusting…” Xia Heng smirked.

How could they possibly be unable to defeat Long Kui? They just didn't want to reveal too much just now.

Luo Yi, with his invincible softness, is extremely disgusting; at least Xia Heng has no way to deal with him.

It is already powerful in combat, and also has the characteristics of the Shadow Lord and the Mad Blood Clan.

When these three elements are combined, if you encounter a formidable enemy, you can use the shadow to switch targets and rely on soft invincibility to mitigate damage.

If someone is seriously injured, the shadow can also delay the main body, allowing the main body to find someone to drain blood for treatment... and sometimes even grab a meal along the way.

The shadow is immune to physical damage, its only weakness is its mental power.

Most people wouldn't notice the switch between the two forms because the Shadow King form is a completely realistic silhouette of Luo Yi, a three-dimensional entity. In actual combat, they would only perceive that this person suddenly becomes completely black and invincible...

Its all-black appearance even resembled a full-body Armament Haki aura.

Therefore, Longkui will be facing a monster that can be 'invincible in darkness' at any time to withstand fatal attacks.

"Come on! This is my 'Black Body Overpowering Form'!" Luo Yi spouted nonsense, but his body charged towards Long Kui fearlessly.

"I don't believe it! I don't believe it!" Long Kui panicked. She had attacked with all her might, but her eyes were unharmed. The person in black had taken all the damage. How could she fight back? She would be worn down to death.

She could only gamble that Luo Yi couldn't enter this form at any time, otherwise why didn't he enter it in the first place?

There should be a cooldown period, or an extremely high cost.

As long as we can kill Luo Yi before he transforms into the Shadow Lord, that's fine.

However, she was wrong... Luo Yi was now going all out.

"Die to me! Die to me!"

"It's useless! It's useless!"

The two strongest fighters on the field engaged in a fierce battle amidst the icy snow, fighting until the sky darkened.

"Clang clang clang!" Luo Yi parried the attacks one after another, briefly switching to the Shadow Lord form with each strike.

Sometimes it's completely black, sometimes it's normal, sometimes it's completely black, sometimes it's normal.

He played with all his might, wearing only a pair of pants, yet he still managed to fight the Dragon Girl head-on!

"Thump thump thump thump thump!" The two sides engaged in a fierce battle at high frequency, with wind and snow swirling around them and sand and stones flying everywhere.

Xia Heng did not participate in the battle, but instead searched everywhere in the snow and ice for a fountain pen.

"Brother... I've got this sorted out." Wu Zhong then dragged the nearly lifeless Jordan to meet him.

"I didn't expect you to beat him so quickly, otherwise it would have been quite troublesome for Luo Yi to get treatment." Xia Heng nodded at Wu Zhidian.

Wu Zhong stared in shock at Luo Yi's black and white flashing: "Uh... healing is just icing on the cake, his black body combat technique is too overpowered, isn't it?"

If Luo Yi wants to find someone to heal him, he must make preparations in advance, or Xia Heng can use teleportation to take the shadow to a place with many people suffering from recurrent mental illnesses.

In this icy and snowy landscape, he would not have been able to easily treat the patient.

However, with Wu Zhong, things are different.

Wu Zhong's initial embrace mechanism is costless. Luo Yi is treated for her illness, and Wu Zhong then bestows it upon her again, thus forming a treatment cycle through the medium of Yangchun Sand.

He could directly help Luo Yi, and also became a cheating battle maniac who could heal infinitely.

Just now, it was he who helped Luo Yi recover to his full strength.

Now, Luo Yi can not only block damage with his Black Body Battle Technique, but also come back to Yang Chun Sha to heal himself after being seriously injured.

However, it would be quite difficult for him to suffer another serious injury.

Longkui was already at her last gasp; her true form had long been brought to the brink of death by Ai Luo's suicidal attack, and she was only able to survive by relying on ice and snow magic.

After being ground down for several minutes, the ice crystals became fewer and fewer, the power became weaker and weaker, and finally the body collapsed on its own.

"Crash!"

She was like a porcelain doll; the ice crystals on her body crumbled, and her weakened body collapsed to the ground.

Dragon scales shattered on the ground.

Finally, the woman was dealt with, and the group breathed a sigh of relief. Xia Heng then went to the battlefield and chiseled out the body of Airo, or rather, the bearded man, who had been frozen by the dragon's breath.

After the ice melted, Xia Heng discovered that the person was completely dead. He easily searched the body but couldn't find the pen.

"Huh?" Xia Heng couldn't help but wonder, where was the pen? Could it really have been blown away by the explosion?
No, judging from Ai Luo's calm demeanor earlier, he must have been holding the pen.

So, his soul could actually carry a pen with him? If that's the case, then it seems that Airo's soul has already escaped.

Just as Xia Heng was pondering, Jordan cried out.

"I am Wu Dong! I am Wu Dong! Aren't you here to find me? Just kill me, and you can have my calamity artifact. Just let my sister go."

Seeing Longkui collapse, Jordan weakly pleaded, vomiting blood.

Xia Heng and Luo Yi were both stunned. Huh? He admitted it? Well, Jordan and Long Kui had both lost, and their lives were in the hands of others. Seeing this, Jordan simply admitted that he was Wu Dong, hoping only to save Long Kui.

Taking the opportunity, Xia Heng asked, "Besides offering it as a sacrifice, is there any other price to pay for this tortoise shell?"

Jordan said hoarsely, "The ritual my sister talked about is a lie. To use it, you just need to cut the offering in half, open its chest and abdomen, and take out its internal organs."

"Only cattle and humans can be used as sacrifices, with humans being the best. The more people sacrificed, the richer and more accurate the divination information will be."

Xia Heng nodded. This was a standard intelligence-type anomaly.

He pressed further, "Is there really no other cost? Anyone can use it? Then why doesn't Endless Summer use it herself?"

Jordan took a few breaths and said weakly, "Because possessing it will cause you to lose your faith forever, and any existing faith will also crumble directly."

Everyone was stunned. How could a calamity-inducing object used for sacrifice and divination make people immune to faith?
It was supposed to have existed since the Yin-Shang period, right? Wasn't it used for sacrificial rites in ancient times? So the user himself had no faith at all?

Luo Yi dragged the unconscious Long Kui over: "What? Using this will cause any faith to crumble?"

Jordan said, "Yes, any faith, directly becomes faith-immune."

"However, it doesn't actually affect my life at all; in daily life, it just means I'm indifferent to all the claims and ideas."

Wu Zhong couldn't help but say, "I thought you were a bit slow on the uptake because of it, but it turns out it's because you can't have faith? What kind of price is this? This seems to be a kind of spiritual resistance, doesn't it?"

Xia Heng pondered for a moment and said, "Absolute immunity to faith is indeed a good thing for some superstitious memes and distorted minds."

Jordan said weakly, "I also think it's a good thing, but my sister doesn't like it because the magic she possesses is a gift from the gods. If she can't believe in the Dragon God, she can't transform..."

Wu remained silent.

Yes, many magical abilities of awakened beings require faith.

While an enlightened being may not be so devout, allowing their past selves to be fanatically believe, an enlightened being cannot become completely devout.

Existing beliefs will be undermined. In other words, the power of faith can be borrowed, but if it is forcibly borrowed, it will automatically break the spell...

"I think I can use this?" Wu Zhong said.

Xia Heng nodded. Mental resistance, in other words, is a positive form of mental distortion.

Conversely, these two statements actually represent the same characteristic.

Therefore, regardless of whether this 'belief collapse effect' is positive or negative, Wu Zhong can use it.

Even if you do get infected, it's not a very serious consequence.

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(End of this chapter)