Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 242 Sacrificial Vessels
"activation!!"

As Xiao Ran thought about it, the cursed pattern [Horizontal Training] emerged from under the skin and merged with the [Spiritual Clothes] in front of him.

C-level cursed item [Spiritual clothing·Horizontal training]

Privilege 1: Night Tour

Once activated, one's soul will be separated from the body and move freely in broad daylight.

Travel a hundred miles a day and ride the wind.

(Note 1: During this period, you cannot use physical attacks, but you can use magic, including cursed objects. The spirit clothing will gain a strength value equal to your own spiritual strength x3.)
Privilege 2: Day Trip

Once activated, your soul can leave your body and move freely in the daytime.

Invisible to the naked eye, it can penetrate mountains and escape underground.

(Note 2: During this period, you cannot use magic attacks, but you can use physical attacks. The spirit clothing will gain a strength value of its own physique x3.)
(Note 3: Each of your attacks will consume strength. Please be sure to return to your physical body when the strength is exhausted. Otherwise, you will suffer a huge blow and even risk the destruction of your soul!)
(Note 4: The strength value can be restored under certain circumstances, please try it yourself!!)

"This thing is really interesting!!"

Xiao Ran looked at the power displayed by the [Spiritual Clothes] and his eyes lit up.

With this thing, I can take the initiative whether I am seeking information or anticipating the enemy's moves.

Just the ability to ride the wind and fly into the sky and hide in the ground made Xiao Ran's heart burn with excitement.

Then he used scholars and corpse collectors to try again.

Two of the privileges of scholars are more interesting.

Privilege 1: Learning Spirit

Summon a scholar soul and wear it on your spirit clothes. The scholar soul can help you find solutions to many difficult and complicated problems, but for every problem he helps you solve, you need to pay 100 points of ghost money.

Privilege 2: Ghost Merchant

Randomly summon a netherworld merchant, who will temporarily use spirit clothes to trade with you. The items for trade vary depending on the spirit merchant. They may be cursed items, rare materials, or even more strange and bizarre things, and the prices are very high.

Both perks have a 24-hour cooldown.

Xiao Ran tried again the privilege of receiving corpses.

As a result, Xiao Ran's pupils began to twitch.

This is the only privilege a corpse catcher has, but it is enough to excite any beginner.

【Spirit Clothes·Corpse Collector】

Privilege 1: Return to Life

The imprint of your own soul is engraved into the spirit garment, and this privilege is passively activated after your physical body suffers a devastating blow and dies.

You will be resurrected with the help of the spirit garment and restored to your best condition.

(Note: It can only be used on the person who activated the spell pattern. After use, the spirit clothes will disappear. Please use with caution!)
"Resurrection, this is equivalent to giving myself an extra life!!!"

Xiao Ran's heartbeat suddenly quickened. In a place like the Mystery City, being able to save an extra life was something that no one could imagine its value.

Not to mention myself, even the leader of the Changchun Society would probably be tempted by it.

Take the [Dream Pool] for example. If he had this thing, I believe that even if Li Jingqi wanted to kill Sun Miao, it would not be an easy task.

“It’s worth it!!”

Thinking of this, Xiao Ran took a deep breath. Although this trip to [Dream Pool] was not really entering the mystery city, the gains were no less than a trip to the mystery city.

Li Qijing gave him this thing as compensation for being used as bait by him.

"This guy... is really... arrogant!"

Xiao Ran couldn't help but curl her lips when she thought of Li Jingqi's look of contempt for everyone. He used his own life as a chess piece, and in the end he gave himself a life.

Well... he's a very particular person.

Xiao Ran now became excited, and wanted to start right away to engrave his soul mark on it. But when he put his hand on it, he suddenly hesitated.

He stared at the spirit clothes in front of him and frowned.

There is a post on Tianya.

If you could ask the gods for one wish, what would you choose?

Money? Immortality? Power?

There were various answers, but there was only one that Xiao Ran still remembered vividly.

"Resurrect my mother!"

This is what Xiao Ran was thinking of at this moment, but the difference is that the person he wanted to resurrect was his grandfather.

But this thought only flashed through his mind for a moment before Xiao Ran gave up helplessly.

My grandfather is not a beginner, and without the activated spell pattern, this thing is of no use to the old man.

"But if there are even things like this in the mystery city, there may be stronger cursed objects. Maybe there is something that can bring people back to life?"

Xiao Ran calmed himself down. As long as the old man's soul did not fall into hell, he would just take his time. One day he would find a way to bring the old man back to life.

After making up his mind, Xiao Ran placed his hand on the [Spiritual Clothes], closed his eyes, and tried to engrave the imprint of his soul on the spiritual clothes.

As a gravitational force surged from above, Xiao Ran immediately felt as if a part of his body was cut off, and then a palm print mark the size of a palm was left on the [Spiritual Clothes].

The palm lines above are clearly visible, and if you feel it carefully, there seems to be something related to your own aura.

The mark has been imprinted, and even if it is no longer activated, or even if other spells are used, it will not affect your use.

Even when faced with an extremely dangerous and life-threatening situation, one can use [Spiritual Clothes·Horizontal Training] to quickly abandon the physical body and escape. Once the physical body is destroyed, one can quickly revive with the help of the spiritual clothes.

After putting away the [Spiritual Clothes], Xiao Ran looked at the bracelet on his wrist. This thing was the source of the war between Wuxiantang, Changchunhui, Zhou, Yang, and other families. Although the old man of the Sun family secretly fueled the flames, it could also cause this huge chaos and bloody battle. You can imagine how precious this thing is.

But as Li Jingqi said, it is not easy to take this thing off once it is worn on the arm.

Xiao Ran tried to pick it several times, but failed in the end.

As for the effectiveness of this thing...

Xiao Ran couldn't figure it out either.

That's why he didn't include this thing in the list of his harvest this time.

After all, if you don’t even know what it does or what information it contains, it’s useless even if you know it’s a treasure.

It feels particularly heavy when worn on the arm.

Go out and go to the third floor.

After knocking on the door and getting Liu Rui's consent, Xiao Ran pushed the door open.

Liu Rui was sitting on a chair. When she saw Xiao Ran coming, she waved to him with a smile and said, "Come and sit down. I'll help you loosen your bones."

"Hey!"

Although Liu Rui's words sounded strange, Xiao Ran was not worried that Liu Rui would hurt him, and sat down like a good boy.

Liu Rui put her hands on Xiao Ran's shoulders.

Those hands were very cold, but the skin was not as stiff as a dead person's. It felt quite comfortable to pinch them.

"Hold on, I'm quick!"

Liu Rui raised the corners of her lips slightly, and then pinched Xiao Ran's shoulders with her fingers.

With a "click!" sound, Xiao Ran felt his eyes become clear instantly. An indescribable feeling, so sour and refreshing, made him howl uncontrollably.

But this was just the beginning. Following closely, the arms, fingers, spine, lumbar vertebrae, and Liu Rui's movements were very fast, but she did not say how much strength she had.

He pinched that place with both hands, as if he was forcibly pulling Xiao Ran's bones apart.

Xiao Ran screamed in pain with his teeth gritted.

It was only after five or six minutes that Liu Rui let go of Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran quickly sat up from his chair and was about to complain to Liu Rui for being too heavy-handed when he received a series of warning sounds.

[You get special treatment, bone loosening, spirit +5, constitution +5]

Xiao Ran was stunned, then looked at Sister Liu in surprise: "Sister, if you have this skill, come earlier, it won't be a problem to come a few more times in the future."

Liu Rui rolled her eyes at Xiao Ran and said, "You are practicing step-stepping horizontal training, but your bone seams are not open. It will be very difficult for you to walk in the future. The first session will give you a little boost, but this boost is all your own potential and has nothing to do with my technique."

“Oh, I see!!”

Xiao Ran nodded thoughtfully.

"What do you want me to do? You're not looking for me to loosen your muscles."

"Of course not, can you help me take off this bracelet?"

Xiao Ran stretched out his hand and revealed the bracelet beneath his sleeve.

There is nothing I can do, maybe Sister Liu will have an idea.

Sister Liu looked at the bracelet and suddenly her expression became serious: "I can't take this thing off. It seems to have taken root in your body. Rather than saying it's a bracelet, it's more like..."

Liu Rui had never seen such a magical bracelet before. She stared at it carefully for a while before saying, "I feel... this bracelet is like a sacrificial vessel."

"Sacrificial vessel?"

Liu Rui stood up and walked to the head of her bed and opened the inconspicuous small cabinet in front of the bed.

As mentioned before, Liu Rui’s bed is an old-fashioned bunk bed.

This kind of bed has a secret compartment inside, and only extremely valuable things are placed inside.

Liu Rui took out a book from it.

Xiao Ran took a look and found that the book was very old, had no title, and the contents looked like casual notes.

After flipping through a few pages, Liu Rui looked at Xiao Ran's bracelet again, then put the book back.

"I'm telling you a story, but it can only serve as a reference for you. You need to find the answer yourself whether it is true or not."

"Oh!"

Xiao Ran nodded, and looking at Liu Rui's expression he couldn't help but feel nervous.

Liu Rui's voice is very charming.

It is said that there was once a Taoist priest who wanted to become an immortal.

But the way to become an immortal is to reach peaks in all aspects that are unimaginable to ordinary people. It is unprecedented for an ordinary person to be able to achieve just one thing in his lifetime, let alone all aspects.

So he refined his head and torso into treasures and gave them to five people with predestined relationships.

These treasures can help those who are destined to have them quickly improve their strength, luck, courage, intelligence, and scheming.

But at the same time, it was also slowly eroding into their bodies, until the strength and power of the five people reached the peak, and then it immediately used the treasure to control the five of them and carried out a super-large-scale sacrifice.

Eventually he used five people to become a god.

Therefore, this kind of thing is often called a sacrificial vessel...

　There will be another update in the evening

　　
　
(End of this chapter)