The setting sun sank bit by bit behind the distant mountaintops.
Lu Ran looked at another toad that had died miserably in the forest. He could not help raising a hand to gently pat the Blood Crystal Mask. "You really are tyrannical."
After several rounds of slaughter, he had more or less figured out the artifact's effects:
It prohibited all acts of vocalization!
Even techniques cast through the mouth would be firmly sealed inside it.
Because the Blood Mask covered half the face, it smothered the target's mouth and nose and sealed their throat. Breathing was not permitted either.
It truly was domineering!
If they wanted to breathe, whoever had been struck could only tear the Blood Mask off their face.
But tearing it off was far more than losing a layer of skin. The dense blood threads had already fused with the flesh and blood on half the enemy's face.
If they forcibly ripped off the mask, the flesh of their cheeks, mouth, nose, jaw, throat, and more would be torn away with it.
That was undoubtedly fatal!
Just thinking about it made Lu Ran's hair stand on end.
Thankfully, Jiang Ruyi was immensely powerful, and the Blood Crystal Mask was only a First Stage artifact. Otherwise, when Jiang Ruyi had forcibly removed the Blood Mask in the bedroom earlier, the consequences would have been unimaginable!
To verify just how overbearing the blood threads were, Lu Ran threw himself into the fray.
He lowered the strength of the Water Flow Armor again and again, from Heaven-grade to Sea-grade, and finally to River-grade.
At last, thread after thread of blood pierced the River-grade Water Flow Armor, then stabbed into Lu Ran's skin and connected with his flesh.
It was clear that First Stage artifacts corresponded to River-grade.
Lu Ran also