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Chapter 384 (4200) Vitality Shielding Alloy

Immune to direct attacks from vitality?
Everyone was surprised: "How is this possible?!"

Ma Lei raised her right hand, which was already swollen and twisted. "When we attacked it, we used the power of our vital energy. However, after we hit it, both the vital energy and the elements collapsed at the first touch. Without the protection of the vital energy, this force is not something that a flesh and blood body can withstand."

Wang Shuwen on the side nodded. When he kicked the statue away just now, his right foot was also broken.

"What should we do?" Everyone looked at each other. They mainly relied on the power of vital energy in battle. If they encountered a monster that was immune to vital energy, they would be really helpless.

"The manipulators will definitely work." Xu Li analyzed, "Using Qi to control physical attacks, even if the Qi dissipates after contact, the kinetic energy will not disappear..." As she spoke, she glanced at Liu Yufeng, who was broken into two pieces on the ground, "It's a pity that one of the two manipulators in the team is dead."

"You can also use a treasure." Zheng Yunshan took out a shotgun and pointed it in the direction of the collapsed ancient temple: "It's best to use physical attack. Energy may not work."

Upon hearing this, everyone took out their equipment. At this time, the huge statue had already crawled out from the rubble. Everyone immediately opened fire at it, but ordinary bullets and arrows hit the monster with a clanging sound and could not even leave a scratch.

"Get out of the way!" Zhang Laosan roared, suddenly picked up a rocket launcher and fired at the statue!

At this moment, the statue suddenly moved, waving a big knife and rushing forward, splitting the rocket into two halves. Under inertia, the two halves of the warhead flew to both sides of the statue and exploded with a loud bang!
However, as the smoke and dust cleared, the statue in the center remained unharmed.

So hard? Is this really a bronze statue?

"Element Shielding Alloy." Li Xiuzhen, the oldest among the group, said, "This guy's casting material is mixed with element shielding alloy!"

"I've heard of it!" Zheng Yunshan said in surprise, "It's a special material that is extremely resistant to vitality. Its main component is inert ore from the Abyss. Its output is extremely rare. How could such a large statue appear?"

The introduction of the two people changed the way everyone looked at the statue.

At first, everyone didn't take the statue seriously, thinking it was just a piece of iron that had taken advantage of a sneak attack. Now that they knew it was made of a vital energy shielding alloy, everyone felt threatened.

This is simply a killing monster tailor-made to deal with practitioners!

"Everyone, don't worry too much..." Li Xiuzhen analyzed: "The high-purity Qi-shielding alloy has extremely high Qi resistance and strength. If you want to destroy it, you can only use a physical attack with high enough strength!"

The strength is high enough... Everyone thought it was not that easy. The Yuan Qi Shielding Alloy itself is very hard, and it is not so easy to destroy it. Add to that the Yuan Qi shielding feature, and it would be even more difficult!
As the monster rushed forward with a big knife in hand, suddenly a cold light flashed and hit the chest of the statue, passing through it. The huge inertia carried the metal monster weighing several tons flying out, and with a clang it was nailed to the ground at an angle.

When everyone looked closely, they saw that it was a huge Green Dragon Crescent Blade.

This is……

Before everyone could react, a light blue warm mist rose up, and the two injured people suddenly felt refreshed, and their broken hands and feet felt numb and itchy. Then, a layer of khaki transparent barrier emerged, covering everyone.

"This is..." Everyone looked at Luo Jun at the same time, and saw that he was holding a small rectangular box in his hand.

"I can feel the surging power of elements..." Xu Li of the Elemental School looked at the surrounding barriers and exclaimed: "It's a very strong protective shield!"

"But I'm afraid that elemental protection can't stop that thing..." Zhao Xiaoyu looked at the statue outside with some fear. As an illusionist, she was most troubled by this kind of monster that was not susceptible to mental attacks.

"Even if we can't stop the statue, it's enough to stop the attacker's sneak attack." Zheng Yunshan said with a smile. He had put away the shotgun in his hand and replaced it with a large harpoon gun. It looked as if it was dismantled from a whaling ship. It was more than one person tall when standing up and looked very fierce.

Luo Jun looked at the people around him, and could tell from their subtle expressions that some of them were truly scared, and were truly at a loss in the face of the statue, such as Zhao Xiaoyu and the injured Wang Shuwen... But there were also some who were clearly confident and did not take the statue seriously at all, such as Zheng Yunshan, Grandma Li Xiuzhen, and even the injured Ma Lei.

The previous injuries were caused by not understanding the characteristics of the opponent. After knowing what was going on, this woman must have had a way to deal with the statue in her mind.

Although they are all Class A players, there are still differences between them. A small statue can test their strength.

At this time, there was a clang, and the huge monster stretched out his hand and pulled out the Green Dragon Yanyue Sword that pierced his chest. After comparing, he simply abandoned his original single sword and swung the Green Dragon Yanyue Sword to make a sword flower, looking even more ferocious.

“It’s like adding wings to a tiger…” Wang Yifan pushed his glasses up: “Ye, if I’m not mistaken, your knife is at least an epic weapon.”

Hearing him say this, everyone took a deep breath, especially the few people who were already wary.

"You stay here, I'll go get the knife." After leaving these words, Luo Jun strolled out of the earth barrier. At this time, the statue also came closer, waving the Qinglong Yanyue. With unnatural flexibility, it twisted its heavy body and used a powerful move to split Huashan. The blade smashed down towards Luo Jun's crown!

Facing the knife, Luo Jun calmly stretched out his left hand and grasped the blade seemingly lightly. At the same time, there was a loud bang under his feet, and his feet pierced into the ground, causing the floor tiles to break and lift up, raising a cloud of dust!
Looking at the statue again, no matter how hard it tried, it could not snatch the sword from Luo Jun's hands.

Afterwards, Luo Jun pulled his feet out of the ground, took a step forward, and at the same time, he flicked his right hand easily. The speed was so fast that the practitioners inside the barrier could not see clearly.

With a swish sound, as Luo Jun's right hand swept across, the statue's hands holding the knife handle broke!

"This is impossible!" Wang Yifan blurted out: "The distance between the two hands of the monster holding the knife is at least one meter. With the angle of Ye's attack and the length of his arms, it is impossible for him to sweep across both wrists at once, unless..."

"Unless it used the energy to expand its attack range." Grandma Li laughed and said, "The wrist of the statue was cut off by the energy!"

"Gang Qi...cut off the vital energy that shields the alloy?"

"The Qi-shielding alloy does have extremely strong Qi inertness, and can be called the nemesis of Qi. But correspondingly, items made of this alloy cannot be attached with any Qi power effects at night." Grandma Li explained: "This statue can move on its own, and even launch stealth assassination capabilities, which shows that the content of the shielding alloy is not high. In addition to physical attacks, if the strength of the Qi attack is high enough, it can also be destroyed!" She said it lightly, but looking at the injuries that Ma Lei and Wang Shuwen are still recovering from, you will know how difficult it is to achieve a high enough strength of Qi!

As its wrist was cut off, the statue lost control of the Green Dragon Crescent Blade. Luo Jun caught it and swung the blade across the statue's neck with one arm. The huge head rolled off. Then Luo Jun swung the blade vertically and split the statue in two, revealing the empty interior.

No, it's not empty!
As the statue was split open, a faint blue light emerged and eventually condensed into a translucent figure in front of Luo Jun. The figure bowed deeply to him, then disappeared and turned into starlight floating on Luo Jun.

"That is……"

When everyone saw this scene, they all thought of the side quest in the mission description.

It turns out that the so-called survivors in this small town exist in the form of souls.

After dealing with the statue, Luo Jun returned to the earth barrier. Everyone came up to him curiously and asked, what was the content of the side quest?
"The casting of the statue requires a blood sacrifice. That soul is the sacrifice that is thrown into the molten copper when the statue is cast. Destroying the statue is a relief for him."

Of course, according to common sense, such a statue must have been cast from ordinary bronze, and would not have used the extremely rare energy-shielding alloy. At least the townspeople of Shiqiao Town could not get this kind of otherworldly material. This thing was probably added after the Chaos Quest to increase the difficulty of the Quest.
Luo Jun completed the first side quest, which also brought a lot of inspiration to everyone. After all, completing a side quest is equivalent to getting a gold medal of immunity from death, which is crucial in this chaotic mission.

Next, everyone stayed in Luo Jun's earth mechanism, which had all-round protection and basically did not have to worry about enemy sneak attacks.

The opponent's projection seemed to be aware of this, so it delayed taking action and time passed by.

"Are these guys planning to hide in the dark forever?" Zhang Laosan was a little bored. "It's almost time, and they don't plan to take action?"

"They may have already made a move..." Wang Yifan pushed his glasses. "The statue was able to escape my insight and kill Liu Yufeng silently. It seems that it used the assassination ability mentioned in the mission description... This is probably related to the other party's projection."

"The ability to transfer one's own abilities to others..." Xu Li nodded: "I've never heard of such an ability. Could it be a mysterious one?"

"It's very likely..." Grandma Li nodded and said, "And maybe it's not his own ability, but the ability to transfer other people's abilities at will... If it's true, I think I roughly know the identity of this person."

"Got it?" Everyone looked at Grandma Li in surprise, only to see her sigh: "The power weaver, Feng Tianci."

"Is it him?" Zheng Yunshan looked surprised, obviously he had heard of this person's name.

"Who is that?" Zhu Xixi asked innocently.

"Feng Tianci is an explorer of the Southwest Branch of the Yuanxiu Society. He was once extremely active in the [supernatural] world and completed key missions many times... But he lost contact during a mission more than 20 years ago. After months of unsuccessful searches, it was later determined the following year that he had become a polluter!"

Zheng Yunshan, who was also from the Southwest Branch, introduced Feng Tianci's background, then frowned: "But according to the information I have, Feng Tianci's ability should be 'rental'. He can use his ability to temporarily borrow a certain ability from others to use. The person whose ability is borrowed cannot use the ability temporarily, and as a price, when he uses the ability, he needs to pay double the vitality, half of which is used to use the ability, and the other half is paid to the borrower to temporarily increase his vitality limit. It is said that Feng Tianci is born with a very high spirituality and a higher vitality than others, which can support him to use this ability."

When everyone heard this, they all praised him for having such a powerful ability. Grandma Li nodded after hearing this: "You are right... But the official also doesn't know that Feng Tianci's borrowed abilities don't necessarily only belong to him, he can also lend them to others."

"How could it be?" Zheng Yunshan asked in surprise, "How come the government didn't record such important information?"

"Because this trick only exists in theory..." Grandma Li shook her head. "He and I were old acquaintances back then. He once said that his abilities were not perfect yet. His ideal power should not only allow him to use the borrowed abilities himself, but also lend them to others. I laughed at his wild ideas at the time, but now it seems that Feng Tianci did not stop exploring his abilities after becoming a polluter. He may have achieved his previous wish."

“If it’s really him, then we’re in trouble…” Zheng Yunshan frowned. “Although Feng Tianci is not at the peak, he is also a first-class master. The Southwest Branch’s several attempts to encircle and suppress him have failed. If his abilities have evolved further than before, it will be really hard to guard against.”

"No matter how strong he is!" Zhang Laosan disagreed: "Now the time is almost up, we just need to survive one round in this big barrier, and he will not be the attacker next time."

"We can't let our guard down. Now is the most dangerous time." Xu Li reminded, "The projections are not real people. They probably won't choose not to attack just because they are afraid of failure. They have waited until now without making a move. They must be looking for the weakness of this barrier... Now that time is almost up, they will launch an attack at the last minute no matter what!"

As soon as the words fell, obvious ripples suddenly appeared on the originally calm earth barrier!

"We are under attack!"

Everyone immediately became alert, but after careful observation, they could only see that the barrier was attacked, but could not see the attacker at all.

"Even if it was an assassination, the person should have revealed himself after breaking the invisibility attack. Since we can't see the other party's figure, it means that it is..." Wang Yifan took off his glasses and looked in the direction where the ripples were the most intense: "It was a long-range attack!"

In his field of vision, on the roof of a three-story building hundreds of meters away, a man with a gloomy face was holding an exaggeratedly large sniper rifle and aiming it at this place.

"Three o'clock direction, sniper!" Wang Yifan reminded loudly, and everyone raised their weapons and aimed at the attacker.

"Don't act rashly!" Luo Jun warned, "The barrier is two-way. Attacks from outside can't get in, and attacks from inside can't get out. My barrier is not seriously damaged, so it can hold up."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, but as soon as Luo Jun finished speaking, the earth barrier suddenly began to tremble violently, the ripples became more obvious, and it even began to flicker!

This scene made Luo Jun frown. He had no way of determining the remaining "blood volume" of the barrier and could only judge its status based on previous experience. The sentence just now was also a reassurance to everyone to prevent panic.

But now it seems that the condition of this barrier is obviously very bad. What means did the other party use to destroy the earth barrier so quietly?

(End of this chapter)