CHAPTER 960: CHAPTER 928: VERDANT LEAF

With the Shadow Binding gone, Xia Feng regained his ability to move. He looked around in confusion, searching for Zhuo Hua’s whereabouts.

"This is the Rare V-level Sin Leaf·Immortal Mud Sculpture. The holder consumes a certain amount of Power of Sin and simultaneously sacrifices a portion of their own memory and emotion to transform into mud sculpture clay. As long as a piece of clay exists, the holder can resurrect and be reborn through this clay."

"The side effect is the continual inheritance and fusion of past holders’ memories and emotions. Prolonged use and longer durations in clay state can easily result in spiritual chaos and personality displacement. Moreover, in clay state, no other abilities can be used, and the Dao Thought domain unique to the Holy Realm also becomes ineffective."

Huang Zhaoyue’s explanation resounded in his mind, and Xia Feng frowned and nodded.

This is also why the Sin Shadow Venerable is hard to deal with. He can exchange Sin Leaves through the Tree of Sin, and each Sin Leaf’s ability is extraordinary. Even holding a few Sin Leaves would cause one’s combat power to skyrocket.

"For a Sin Venerable like Zhuo Hua, how many Sin Leaves would he typically have?" Xia Feng asked in confusion.

"Sin Leaves are divided into garbage, ordinary, rare, and legend. Given Zhuo Hua’s achievements, he likely possesses two to three Rare Level Sin Leaves; as for legend, he doesn’t qualify yet."

Three pieces... that’s quite a few. As he pondered, Xia Feng suddenly sensed something and turned abruptly.

Amidst the sea of flames, a mass of clay quietly proliferated to form a mud figurine with soil-colored feathers, its muddy face grinning menacingly: "You little brat! Hehe~ You’ve angered me."

As he spoke, dense black spells crawled over his muddy face, flowing into his right eye to form a bizarre black ink mass, coldly staring at the black cat.

As the man’s and the cat’s gazes locked, the spells on the mud figurine’s face instantly became three-dimensional, merging into a spell arrow that shot silently at Xia Feng’s brow!

[Rare III Sin Leaf·Stone Talisman Killing Curse]

[By sacrificing one Dao Fruit, you gain the curse killing power of the Stone Talisman God. The soul and body of the curse target will disintegrate into stone particles instantly.

If the target’s spiritual power exceeds yours, you can seal the target’s soul and body into a sculpture. The sealing duration is determined by the spiritual power gap. This curse killing power cannot be evaded.]

[Conditions: 1. The sacrificial Dao Fruit must be at least A-level; the rarer, the stronger its power. After the sacrifice, one’s realm falls and must be re-advanced. 2. Must have eye contact with the enemy and face directly toward the enemy.]

Huang Zhaoyue’s explanation quickly flashed through Xia Feng’s mind.

Meanwhile, Xia Feng targeted Zhuo Hua with an A-level Spiritual Artifact.

[A·Holy Hand Guanyin·Superlimit]

[Heart Stealer: When an enemy harbors hostility toward you and attacks, you can steal their thoughts at any point within a minute. After stealing their current thought, the enemy will forget what they were thinking. (3 times a day)]

[Current Successfully Stolen Thought: Damn it, forget it, once Huang Zhaoyue dies, I’ll turn you, little brat, into my Sin Leaf!]

In just a brief eye contact, everything occurred in the blink of an eye. Xia Feng swiftly turned around, just as the mud figurine silently materialized in the light right behind Huang Zhaoyue, grinning silently.

[A-Level Dao Fruit·Light and Shadow Beings]

[Where there is light, I exist!]

He had already realized the difficulty of the Sin Shadow black cat and naturally wouldn’t waste time with the black cat.

After all, if he dealt with the frail Huang Zhaoyue directly, that troublesome black cat would no longer be a threat. Hehe~ Zhuo Hua’s thoughts went mad, laughing wildly inside. He raised his hand,

"Uh——!" But just as he was about to launch an attack, his body instantly turned to stone.

[Absolute Rebirth]

[Absolute Defense: Consumes spiritual power, any physical or spiritual attack sensed by your Spiritual Sense will be absorbed into your Heavy Pupils and vanish in your Heavy Pupils Space. (Cannot absorb attacks from S-Class Spiritual Artifacts/Clothes)]

[Absorbed attack (1): Sin Leaf·Stone Talisman Killing Curse (in progress)]

The black cat stood in the distant sea of fire, its orange slitted pupils quietly morphing into the shape of Heavy Pupils, silently watching the petrified mud figurine.

It’s as if the mud-grey humanoid was covered again with an irregular layer of silver-white stone.

Under the gaze of his Heavy Pupils, the cracks on those stone layers began to spread rapidly.

"Crack crack——"

Zhuo Hua’s spiritual power was far weaker than Xia Feng’s, unable to resist the curse killing power. His soul body shattered inch by inch, the crisis of death making Zhuo Hua terrified once again. Killing Curse! Why the hell did the Killing Curse affect me!!

He couldn’t figure out why, nor did he have time to think further.

Fortunately, he had the Immortal Mud Sculpture to save his life! Again using the same trick, he self-destructed to turn his whole body into mud.

Forcibly halting the Stone Talisman Killing Curse attack.

Yet,

the moment Zhuo Hua turned back into a mud figurine, the world seemed to freeze quietly.

Of course, this freeze was subjective to Xia Feng alone.

He entered the past timeline, the cat stepped through the flames in an instant, arriving behind Zhuo Hua.

[Sanity: 90...80...]

With little time, Xia Feng’s hands moved swiftly. He cast the Light Constant Domain, shrinking the domain’s range to just enclose the mud figurine while unleashing the Blood Beast along the shadow’s road straight into the mud figurine’s soul.

Zhuo Hua’s Immortal Mud Sculpture was indeed troublesome; as long as it turned into scattered mud, it could be reborn repeatedly, making it hard to kill.

But only if the mud had time to scatter and escape....

When Huang Zhaoyue introduced the Immortal Mud Sculpture previously, Xia Feng realized the fatal weakness of this Sin Leaf.

Of course, attacking this weakness wasn’t easy. After all, Zhuo Hua knew the weakness well, so he dispersed quickly without giving the enemy time to react.

But unfortunately for him, Xia Feng possessed the Moon Time Divine Domain.

After shrinking the Light Constant Domain, its power surged, instantly melting the mud figurine’s surface, evaporating wisps of gray light mist, while the Blood Beast simultaneously devoured, accelerating the melting of the mud figurine even more.

If Zhuo Hua were in human form, Xia Feng would have difficulty killing him this way.

After all, Zhuo Hua in human form had the protection of the Holy Realm’s Dao Thought domain, as well as multiple layers of Spiritual Pressure and Spirit Barrier.

Eradicating Zhuo Hua within half a second using Constant Energy and the Blood Beast was nearly impossible.

But it was different when Zhuo Hua turned into mud; in this form, losing the Dao Thought domain, Xia Feng could slaughter him like a chicken.

[Sanity: 60...58...（＜60,＜10 allows for one Time Cover each）]

Seeing the mud figurine utterly devoured by the Blood Beast, dissipating into nothing, Xia Feng shifted his thoughts.

[Time Cover——]

In the real world,

Clearly, in the previous instant, the black cat was in the midst of the fire turning around, and Zhuo Hua had just turned into a mud figurine.

In the next instant, as if the world had dropped frames, the black cat stood behind Huang Zhaoyue. Between the two, a space of two meters in the air had mist rising, faint echoes of a wrenching, despairing scream faded gradually.

The mist condensed into a feather-veined green leaf, gently falling and caught by the cat’s paw.

Huang Zhaoyue turned back in confusion and noticed that Zhuo Hua had unknowingly died. Slightly stunned, her fox-gray eyes seemed thoughtful: "Did you use the Moon Time Divine Domain to kill him?"