The Real Enemy

2024-07-31

Chapter 394 The Real Enemy

Li Xiuzhen's appearance surprised and delighted everyone. Zhu Xixi ran straight to the old lady and exclaimed excitedly, "That's amazing! Grandma Li, how did you survive?"

"I just built a mecha, I don't necessarily have to sit in it and pilot it..." Li Xiuzhen smiled and patted Zhu Xixi's head, "Wang Yifan is right, Chu Yunwei isn't the real Peak..."

"I also find this strange. More than twenty years ago, when he disappeared, he was already very close to the Peak of his cultivation. Moreover, as far as I know, his Foundation Establishment had reached the maximum level, only lacking a slight improvement in the Heart Refining Realm. Logically speaking, after all these years as Polluter, he should have broken through long ago. There's no reason for him to be stuck here."

"And what's even stranger is that I didn't see him use any Noble Phantasms during the battle; he relied entirely on his own abilities..." Grandma Li found it increasingly strange as she analyzed the situation. Just then, Wang Yifan suddenly looked towards a collapsed corner of the wall and asked warily, "Who's there?"

Everyone was startled and raised their weapons in that direction. After a short while, a strong man emerged from behind the corner of the wall.

"Wang Shuwen?"

Everyone was somewhat surprised. Wasn't Wang Shuwen just killed by Chu Yunwei? How could this be...?

Wait, could it be that...

Everyone immediately realized something was wrong. At the same time, "Wang Shuwen" on the other side suddenly pulled out a machine gun and started firing at them!

It was indeed a clone!

With everyone on guard, some dodged and others parried, blocking Wang Shuwen's attack. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yu Shan launched Mental Shock, disrupting Wang Shuwen's senses. At the same time, Wang Yifan rushed forward and thrust his slender sword through Wang Shuwen's throat.

Wang Shuwen's corpse fell to the ground, but its surface twisted and Blur, and then it turned into a charred corpse!

"What happened?" Wang Yifan stared in surprise. The others also gathered around and discovered that the charred corpse had a huge penetrating wound in its chest. They could identify it as Xu Li, who had been killed by Ma Lei's clone!

But why did the fake Wang Shuwen turn into the real Xu Li's corpse after his death?

Moreover, the corpse did not exist for long; after it became visible, it quickly withered and decomposed, disappearing with the wind.

The others looked puzzled and couldn't help but look at Li Xiuzhen.

The previous Polluter were all recognized by this Senior, after all, he had been in the cultivation world for decades and had more experience than most people.

This time, however, Li Xiuzhen remained silent, only staring at the corpse on the ground, her brows furrowed and her pupils trembling slightly.

"Grandma Li, what's wrong?" Zhu Xixi asked with concern.

"Impossible...it shouldn't be like this...he should have already..." Li Xiuzhen shook her head in disbelief, as if she had remembered something terrifying.

"Grandma Li... what are you saying?" the others asked curiously.

"I know why Chu Yunwei isn't at his Peak yet... and I know where those clones came from..." Li Xiuzhen said with trembling lips, "We've actually been facing the same person all along, that guy on the other side... is Ling..."

Before he could finish speaking, Wang Yifan suddenly felt a tightness in his chest and instinctively dodged to the side!

As a Insight Faction, Wang Yifan's true strength lies not in his keen senses like hearing and seeing, but in the fact that after honing his perceptive abilities to the extreme, he awakened a powerful ability: Crisis Perception!

He can sense danger even without any warning signs; in a sense, this is the ability to foresee the future!

However, this ability has significant limitations. It's unreliable, and the prediction time is only a few seconds at most. Moreover, it only works when the danger is directed at him personally. Therefore, he was unable to provide warnings when his companions were ambushed.

But this time, he clearly felt a tremendous danger coming from behind him. The terrifying feeling of suffocation made him instinctively dodge, and he couldn't even send out a warning...

Just as he dodged, a terrifying Ghost Shadow swept past him, striking Li Xiuzhen opposite him with a sharp howl!

The moment she was possessed by that Ghost Shadow, the words Li Xiuzhen was about to say caught in her throat. Her eyes widened, she clutched her neck with both hands, her face turned purple, and the veins on her body bulged, as if she were suffocating in agony...

What's wrong?

The others were horrified and immediately tried to help with healing tools, but none of them could alleviate Li Xiuzhen's pain. Soon, black water flowed from the old woman's seven orifices, her blood vessels bulged, and then with a bang, her body exploded into scattered black mud, from which a faint spirit flew out.

"What kind of ability is this?"

This cruel method sent chills down everyone's spines, and they looked in horror at the direction from which the spirit had flown.

From the darkness not far away, a tall, slender middle-aged man slowly emerged. He was impeccably dressed, possessed a refined air, and had a handsome face with well-defined features. Normally, he should have been a very handsome man. But strangely, he had no hair at all. Not only his hair and eyebrows, but not even a single eyelash could be seen, which added to his eerie appearance.

Upon seeing this face, everyone's fear was mixed with confusion. Apart from Grandma Li, who had already been killed, no one recognized this strange person.

"Run!" At this moment, Wang Yifan said, trembling all over, "This guy is dangerous!"

During the recent Crisis Perception, Wang Yifan felt an unprecedented sense of suffocation, which meant that this strange person was stronger than any enemy he had ever encountered.

"He is the Peak on the other side!"

However, their opponents did not give them time to escape. Before Wang Yifan could finish speaking, the Bald Man opposite him had already moved, appearing in front of Yu Shan in a flash!

The kid instinctively tried to use illusion magic for Mental Shock, but his opponent's movements were not hindered in the slightest. With a swift movement, his claws ripped off the kid's head!

Instant kill!

Even Yu Shan was Illusion Faction who wasn't skilled in close combat, he was killed way too easily...

After killing Yu Shan, the man did not continue attacking the others. Instead, he raised his hand and made a grasping motion, as if throwing something into Yu Shan's body.

Then, under everyone's gaze, Yu Shan's body began to twist and deform, and his severed head grew back, eventually transforming him into a frail old woman...

"Grandma Li...?" Zhu Xixi blurted out as she saw the old woman's face.

In the next instant, Yu Shan, who had transformed into Grandma Li, shook her hands and began to exert her power. In front of her, huge parts began to be generated and assembled rapidly. A moment later, the huge mecha stood in front of everyone again!

(End of this chapter)