Smack!
The sound of something shattering sounded.
Just as he caught the little red ball, before he could even smile, a pitch-black spear pierced out through his chest.
Behind Ji Jue, Wen Wen's exhausted figure suddenly dissolved into phantom light.
Fake!
The real killing blow had already struck the instant Holy God's Shadow appeared—when Ji Jue had pulled Wen Wen behind him, the illusion had already flowed along with Ji Jue's spirit essence and covered her.
Since they had taken a holy god as their hypothetical enemy, they naturally had to make preparations.
That was how prepared Artisans worked. It could go unused, but it had to exist—and there had to be backups, with backups for those backups.
And after repeated pressure and PUA, Ji Jue had finally squeezed some useful material out of Old Geezer Qitan, who could no longer bear the harassment—a deceptive disguise created by combining the urban legends of [Imaginary Friend] and [Doppelganger]!
Its function was simple: leave all aura and spirit essence fluctuations in place, temporarily switch between real and illusory, and turn oneself into an Imaginary Friend that no one else could perceive.
As long as one did not actively attack, and as long as the self left behind remained in place, the Doppelganger state could be maintained.
And when Holy God's Shadow's attention had been wholly drawn to the little red ball, when every observation of that giant eye had fallen upon Ji Jue, Wen Wen had already silently arrived behind him and calmly found the best angle to strike.
Then, without hesitation...
Backstab!
This time, it was your turn, you bastard!
The spearpoint beneath the peeling gold lacquer was utterly black. The Spirit Essence Poison Ji Jue had created for the Convergence of Faith and Self violently spread, completely freezing Holy God's