The moment that ghostly face appeared, Zhao Kongcheng felt as if the world had turned upside down, and an unprecedented sense of dizziness surged into his heart.
He frowned and tensed his body to barely keep his balance.
In his vision, everything before him was like a spinning kaleidoscope, chaotic and scattered, with no discernible trace.
"Damn it... It can actually use the Forbidden Ruins. I'm doomed..." Zhao Kongcheng muttered to himself, the words Wu Xiangnan had spoken before the battle resurfacing in his mind.
"...Forbidden Ruins Sequence 176, [Ghost Face Manifestation], within the Forbidden Ruins, it can deceive the perceptions of all beings whose realm is less than or equal to its own, and reverse the concept of space."
Within the Ghost Face Realm, everything—up, down, left, right, front, and back—can change at any time according to the Ghost Face King's will. Although one can resist to some extent with their own consciousness and experience, there is no doubt that all of one's attack methods will be affected within this forbidden realm, greatly reducing one's combat power.
Therefore, apart from the captain who is also from the 'River' realm, none of the other members can fight the Ghost-Faced King head-on, otherwise they will only face certain death...
It really was an extremely disgusting forbidden ruin... As someone who experienced it firsthand, Zhao Kongcheng truly understood how perverse this forbidden ruin was.
So, it was in this forbidden ruin that the captain managed to severely injure the Ghost-Faced King.
He's a pervert too!
Zhao Kongcheng took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes.
"Roar roar roar!!!"
Roars came from all directions, making it impossible to pinpoint the location of the Ghost-Faced King. The earth trembled slightly, and Zhao Kongcheng could sense that the Ghost-Faced King was rapidly approaching!
Where will it come from?
In reality.
On that eerie and hideous ghost mask, Zhao Kongcheng stood there with his eyes closed, like a statue, his hands gripping his knife, pointing forward, his brows furrowed.
He was completely unaware that the Ghost-Faced King had silently moved behind him.
In Zhao Kongcheng's perception, his senses of sight, hearing, smell, and touch were changing rapidly, as if he had been stuffed into a super-powerful washing machine. False information filled his mind, making it impossible for him to distinguish anything in the real world.
The Ghost King stared at the oblivious Zhao Kongcheng, a bloodthirsty smile appearing on his pale ghost face.
It crouched slightly, then crashed through the rain like a giant cannonball, its body moving so fast it left afterimages. Its sharp claws flashed with cold light as it slashed towards Zhao Kongcheng's neck!
It seemed to already anticipate the exhilarating scene of warm blood gushing out and covering its body.
But just as its sharp claws were about to touch Zhao Kongcheng's body, a sudden change occurred!
As if he had eyes in the back of his head, Zhao Kongcheng suddenly dodged and narrowly avoided Ghost Face King's claw!Immediately afterwards, his straight sword drew a long arc in the rain, aiming straight for the Ghost-Faced King's head!
Clang—!
A sharp clanging sound rang out as Ghost Face King gripped Zhao Kongcheng's blade tightly with his hand, then kicked out, sending Zhao Kongcheng flying like a sandbag!
Even so, it couldn't hide the shock in its eyes.
It couldn't understand how Zhao Kongcheng had detected its attack.
Zhao Kongcheng fell heavily to the ground, cried out in pain, and struggled to get up, but couldn't help but smile.
"Surprised? Unexpected?"
Zhao Kongcheng supported himself with his straight sword and laughed, his smile full of mockery.
"Your forbidden realm is truly monstrous. Under normal circumstances, I would have fallen for your trick and died at your hands, but alas..."
Zhao Kongcheng held up one finger and pointed to the sky, "It's raining today."
"You can deceive the senses of living beings, but you can't stop rainwater from falling under gravity. When rainwater falls on my skin, it gives me a tactile sensation."
"You can alter my sense of touch, making me feel that the rain is falling on me from all directions... and I can use this to deduce the true direction!"
"Once you know a standard direction, the rest becomes much simpler."
Zhao Kongcheng chuckled, spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm, and arrogantly raised the straight sword in his hand, pointing the blade at Ghost Face King.
"I'm not bragging, but if I also had a Forbidden Ruins, you'd be dead eight hundred times over!"
"Roar, roar, roar!!"
The Ghost-Faced King was successfully provoked by Zhao Kongcheng and charged towards him madly. Zhao Kongcheng continued to keep his eyes closed, predicting the direction from which the Ghost-Faced King would arrive.
Ding ding ding ding!!
Zhao Kongcheng and Ghost Face King were locked in a fierce battle. Relying on his terrifying combat intuition and experience, Zhao Kongcheng managed to exchange several blows with Ghost Face King!But that's all there is to it.
Under the full force of the Ghost King's attack, Zhao Kongcheng, with his mortal body, quickly could not withstand it. The Ghost King seized the opportunity to strike his chest, shattering two of his ribs, and sent him flying backward.
This time, it took Zhao Kongcheng a full five seconds to barely stand up.
If it weren't for the straight blade blocking some of the damage, that blow would have been enough to kill him.
"Cough cough cough..." He coughed up several mouthfuls of blood, his face deathly pale.
The Ghost-Faced King stood tall in the rain, his gaze piercing, and approached him step by step...
Just then, a voice suddenly came from behind Zhao Kongcheng!
"Zhao Kongcheng! Zhao Kongcheng!!—Zhao Kongcheng!!!"
Zhao Kongcheng was taken aback. He vaguely felt that the voice sounded somewhat familiar.
Wait, this isn't this...
He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but after hesitating for a moment, he chose to remain silent.
His gaze was full of complex emotions....
At this moment, outside the [No-Rule Space].Lin Qiye stood near the open space, his hair soaked by the rain, but he seemed oblivious, shouting at the top of his lungs:
"Zhao Kongcheng! Stop hiding! I know you're around here!"
After Lin Qiye finished shouting, he listened quietly for a while, but there was nothing but the noisy sound of rain.
"Damn it, that bat clearly saw a cloaked man and a monster suddenly disappear here, how come they're not here... Could it be that he just saw it wrong?"
Lin Qiye frowned and looked around.
Suddenly, his gaze sharpened.
Just a dozen meters away from him, three strange-looking signs stood there all alone.
Lin Qiye stepped forward, wiped the rain off the notice board with his hand, and softly read out the words on it.
"No Entry Ahead? When did this sign get put up here? And... this setup is really weird."
Lin Qiye lowered his head in thought, when suddenly, as if he remembered something, his eyes gradually brightened.
"He seemed to have said that his forbidden realm was an auxiliary forbidden realm for the hidden battlefield, something like... [Boundless Void]?"
Lin Qiye carefully examined the three notice boards in front of him, a smile appearing on his lips, and shouted again at the top of his lungs:
"Zhao Kongcheng! I know you're in the Boundless Void! Open the door and let me in!!"
One second, two seconds...
Zhao Kongcheng's voice drifted faintly from behind the notice board:
"What the hell are you doing out here so late at night instead of eating?! Get the hell out of here!!"