Chapter 161: Byers Moonlight Sword (Three-in-One) _4
Chen Lun received a notification and his heart leaped with joy.
'Is this the strange fruit that grows on the Giant's palm? It must be higher-grade Transcendent material!' he thought.
Luckily he had recently mastered the "Byers Moonlight Sword," a high-damage skill, and encountered the bizarre Transcendent amplification phenomenon known as the Immortal Realm. Otherwise, he would not have had a chance to harm this immensely powerful contaminated Giant.
Boom!
The sky suddenly darkened.
Chen Lun's "Spiritual Intuition" once again sounded a frantic alarm!
A giant, disheveled head slowly turned upside down, descending from the sky.
Among the vine-like "hair," two rotting fruits teeming with maggots served as its "eyes," staring fixedly at Chen Lun.
'Run!!'
Chen Lun screamed inwardly.
He dashed toward the direction he had initially planned, with the wind howling past his neck.
Whoosh!
Bang —!!
He felt a tremendous force strike his back, along with a burst of intense pain, making his body feel as if it had fallen apart.
Chen Lun promptly shifted into "Great Serpent Form," and after being slapped, he curled up into a ball and rolled some distance over the ground. The scales on his armor reduced most of the damage from collisions and friction.
With a thud, he knocked down a tree, then quickly bounced up, wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth and dashing forward.
A faint green light emanated from his chest as the "Wake of Insects" bookmark unleashed Life Force to heal him.
After running for a while, the rumbling and trembling behind him faded away.
Chen Lun let out a silent sigh of relief, knowing he had managed to lose the "Wasteland Giant" for the moment, and it couldn't catch up to him immediately.
'Now that I'm here, let's see if I can make a dash for it and reach the cabin directly,' he thought and quickened his pace.
Feeling the Sanity Value within the Maggie Statue, he had a little over 1100 left. The savings from half a year hadn't increased much because each trip to the Mystic Realm was a significant expense.
It wasn't just for offsetting the time consumption; occasional recovery from injuries and the activation of his gloves also required Sanity Value.
Chen Lun was too poor. Right now, he desperately wished for players to "fund" him, to "donate" to him, to "crowdfund" for him.
So, he ran for over twenty minutes.
All of a sudden, through a gap in the dense forest, he caught sight of a familiar cabin corner.
But the area was filled with continuous thunderous sounds, and in the blink of an eye, seven or eight gigantic bone-plated mice emerged, each with a bone-faced monkey sitting on its back.
Squeak... Squeak Squeak...!
The calls were incessant, as if more companions were swarming towards this place.
'There are formidable enemies lurking near every cabin...' Chen Lun murmured to himself.
With a flick of his hand, he took out two purple potion bottles from the Blood Poem Ring and tossed them forward.
Bang!
The bottles exploded on their own, emitting two plumes of purple smoke.
These were the poison bottles called "Hallucinogenic Poison" that he had obtained from Maggie.
The bone-plated mice fell into a bit of chaos, seemingly overstimulated by the poisonous fumes and scurrying in all directions. The bone-faced monkeys on their backs were not doing any better, pulling out wild fruits from their baskets and hurling them at each other.
Taking the opportunity, Chen Lun took out a "Black Patterned Cufflink," fastened it on his sleeve, then sprayed himself twice with the "Restful Perfume."
Puff, puff...
Black smoke enveloped Chen Lun, and a pleasant yet complex ocean fragrance filled his nostrils.
Chen Lun felt a slight dizziness, and he started feeling a bit sleepy.
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Fortunately, his poison resistance was high enough that he quickly recovered to normal.
By the time the purple mist had dissipated, the dozen or so gigantic bone plate rats that had gathered were puzzled to find that the strange upright creature that had been there before had now vanished without a trace.
The monkeys on their backs were chirping incessantly, frantically slapping their giant pig mounts.
'The forest isn't bathed in direct sunlight, and the light is quite dim, which is perfect for the cufflinks to stay hidden... Add to that the perfume which also has an effect of lowering one's presence, round it up, doesn't this amount to invisibility?'
Chen Lun thought to himself.
He held his breath and sauntered past the dozen or so behemoths, making as little noise as possible.
A bone plate rat's nose twitched as if it had caught a scent.
Its eyes, filled with madness, quickly became puzzled, and then its eyelids began to droop.
Within seconds, the monkey on its back had also sprawled out and fallen asleep.
The other bone plate rats and bone-faced monkeys sensed something was amiss and immediately started to keep their distance, but they didn't leave entirely, instead hovering nearby.
Chen Lun didn't pay them any attention and walked straight to the door of the wooden cabin, giving it a gentle push.
Creak...
The wooden door opened, and Chen Lun walked in.
The interior decor and furnishings were still the familiar sight; Chen Lun came to the table and saw a small box placed on top of it.
The box was scribbled with colorful graffiti and had a sloppy smiley face painted on it.
It was Philip's style.
Chen Lun reached out, drew closer to the box, and tried to pick it up for a closer look.
Bang!!
A loud noise.
The box suddenly burst open, and countless colored confetti flew around.
A red thing attached to a spring flew out of the box, hurtling towards Chen Lun's face.
Chen Lun's brows furrowed slightly; his "Spiritual Intuition" had not given any warning, so he simply raised his staff to block in front of him.
"Surprise! Hehehe! Guffaw!"
Half the size of a palm, resembling two sausages stacked together, the "lips" connected to a spring swayed back and forth in front of Chen Lun.
They opened and closed, speaking in a human voice and laughing mirthfully.
Just as Chen Lun was puzzled, it continued:
"Hey, my friend, I'm glad you've found another 'fragment'..."
The voice was definitely that of a young man, light-hearted and energetic. Experience new stories on My Virtual Library Empire
"The gift I've left for you here is a piece of knowledge, oh, very rare knowledge... We call it 'Supernatural Law of the Mystic Realm'!"
The spring twisted, the "Fiery Red Lips" opened and closed, emitting a string of peculiar tones that didn't seem like language at first.
"You have discovered [Supernatural Law of the Mystic Realm II (partial)], earning 10,000 experience points!"
"Supernatural Entropy Increase Law (incomplete): ... Supernatural characteristics will not destruct, only transfer from one vessel to another, will not decrease, only increase..."
'Supernatural Indestructibility...'
Chen Lun realized.
No wonder that after the death of a Transcendent, their spirituality turns into Mysterious Objects, and after the death of Supernatural Creatures, they leave behind supernatural materials... Even when Mysterious Objects collapse, they decompose into Mysterious Substance.
And as Mysterious Substance is the most basic unit of trait manifestation, it is indestructible.
'Supernatural entropy increases, never diminishing, only ever growing... open beta... players...'
Chen Lun's brows knitted tightly.
In that instant, he seemed to catch glimpses of the future.
Earthquakes, sinkholes, tsunamis, wars, and all sorts of terrible disasters...
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