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Chapter 243. Under the Mask (1)

[No, is this correct?]

Jiang Jianxin nearly broke down when he saw the girl in the fisherman's hat's severed arm grow back.

[Unlimited resurrection and the ability to switch between different characters at any time?]

Jiang Jianxin couldn't believe it.

She had never seen such an extraordinary talent in the cultivation world before, yet she had encountered one in the realm of talent.

Is it really possible to win this battle?

Jiang Jianxin asked his intuition.

The hundred-plus rounds of sparring with Ju Zi had already depleted a large amount of her spiritual energy. She could feel a faint weakness in her stomach, something she had never experienced since she mastered the Sword Sovereign's abilities.

She was on the battlefield and didn't have time to message Sang Xiaoxiao to recharge her energy. Facing such an enemy, she couldn't possibly eat bread while fighting.

How to sustain the power of the Sword Master has become her biggest problem now.

[Don't try to fight her head-on. You definitely can't win if you do. She has the power of the King of the Underworld as a backup... You should know about the King of the Underworld's abilities, right?]

Intuition spoke slowly.

She could draw life from the vegetation within a ten-mile radius, killing enemies and then replenishing the plants. Thus, the wild grass, bushes, desolate forests, and vine-covered thickets here were all her blood pouches.

[If you try to fight him head-on, you're just comparing your endurance to that of the King of the Underworld... He's known as "immortal" on the forums, how could you possibly win?]

Jiang Jianxin was at her wit's end, so she tentatively asked:

[Should I charge up my sword and kill her in one strike?]

Intuitively, I answered:
Even if I kill her with one sword, it won't work; she can still switch to the King of the Underworld.

[You know the saying, "Wildfire cannot burn it all, the spring breeze brings it back to life," right? The wood element represents boundless vitality.]

Those are the myriad beings... an endless cycle of life that cannot be severed by a single sword.

Jiang Jianxin felt suffocated.

Cultivators with wood-elemental roots in the cultivation world aren't that strong. In the past, novels always portrayed wood-elemental cultivators as weak, helpless, and pitiful.

When you actually encounter a powerful wood-type ability, you realize it's like a vine covering the mountains and fields, tightly wrapped around your neck, impossible to kill or cut, until it wears you down until you suffocate.

"...So, my most pressing task now is to stop her from becoming the King of the Underworld?"

Jiang Jianxin asked tentatively.

[That's more like it. The King of the Underworld is troublesome, but you're not fighting the King of the Underworld himself. She's just a fool playing the role of the King of the Underworld. You should fight her from the perspective of a fool.]

"Intuition tells me."

That's terrible.

Jiang Jianxin replied.

I have never fought the Fool.

【…】

The mental conversation lasted only a moment before Jiang Jianxin felt the vines coiling upwards. He immediately grasped the Tangguang Sword, using it to levitate in the air and break free from the vines.

The girl in the fisherman's hat stood still, then reached out and grabbed the spot where she was suspended.

"Ugh——"

In an instant, the vines drooped down, and a thousand winds suddenly arose.

To prevent the hurricane from converging and tearing him apart, Jiang Jianxin had no choice but to swing his sword at the air a few times.

Previously, with abundant spiritual energy, I didn't feel the sword energy, but now that my stomach felt weak, after swinging the sword twice, I felt my stomach suddenly deflate and a pain came through.

The stinging pain in her stomach calmed Jiang Jianxin down. She knew she couldn't continue to be passive like this; she needed to find a way out.

Fool...

—How should one deal with the Fool?
[The answer is truthful: Does the Fool not have an energy bar?]

Jiang Jianxin asked his intuition.

She needs to eat to recharge and gain strength, Yin Ju needs to soak in water to draw strength—but what about the Fool?

What is their source of energy?
The Fool sequence is different from the War Faction sequence.

"The order of war factions needs to draw strength from the outside, while the Fool's strength comes from their golden inner strength," Intuition slowly explained.

As long as they maintain their own understanding, they will continuously possess power. Take this masked person as an example; every time she switches characters, her energy bar refreshes—without relying on external forces, as long as her understanding remains intact.

Jiang Jianxin, holding his sword, hovered in the air and looked at the masked girl, suddenly realizing something.

So, all it takes is disrupting her distorted perception to render her powerless?

【right. 】

Intuition tells me this.

Jiang Jianxin showed a thoughtful expression.

To disrupt Orange's perception, you must first understand what her perception actually is.

From the moment she first appeared on the battlefield, this person always wore a white mask and a long black robe. No one knew her real name, and no one ever saw her face.

She was like a shadow without a shape, with no memorable features to be found on her body.

Even if some people are impressed by her iconic white mask, what is her name—Orange?
Is it a type of fruit?

Her existence seemed to be deliberately designed into a form that was difficult to remember and impossible to name.

The killings were mechanical, lacking any distinct personality or unique charisma.

People only remember the various roles she played, and even take the abilities of those roles as her own.

That mask can bear anyone's face, but it doesn't belong to the real her.

—This is a perfect "actor".

What is her Fool's ability called?

Jiang Jianxin asked.

[You've already guessed it, it's "actor".]

"I answered intuitively."

Jiang Jianxin remained silent; now she understood the source of the powerful person before her.

Only a person without form can have all faces combined into one.

When the world can only refer to her by the orange embroidered on her hat, her talent as an "actress" has reached its peak.

"So this is the kind of foolish ability it is...?"

Jiang Jianxin muttered to himself.

She was starting to understand how to deal with her.

To defeat the Fool, one must disrupt cognition. The most important quality of the "actress" is formlessness, so she needs to aim her sword at the mask.

"Ugh——"

A whirlwind suddenly condensed into an invisible giant blade tens of meters long between heaven and earth.

The wind blade was completely transparent, yet it stirred the surrounding air, creating ripples and distortions, before slashing down at her with overwhelming force.

"boom----"

Jiang Jianxin's sword technique suddenly changed, and the Tangguang Sword burst forth with a dazzling cold light, unleashing a sword aura that stretched across the sky.

The two forces collided in mid-air, unleashing a deafening roar.

As the air surged, she staggered back several steps, a sharp pain shooting through her stomach.

—The spiritual energy is about to run out.

Jiang Jianxin's face was pale as his mind raced. He remembered that Xie Yan had given him half a bottle of nutrient solution from the Zhenbei City incident, which he hadn't drunk yet.

So she took out the remaining half bottle of nutrient solution from her spatial storage and drank it all in one go.

"Om..."

Abundant spiritual energy once again flowed through the meridians.

Jiang Jianxin casually tossed the bottle aside, then picked up his sword and attacked directly.

She first unleashed three sword energies to the left. Just as the latter thought she was going to cut off his arm and dodged the sword energies to the right, she threw her sword to the right, creating a white sword energy that struck the fisherman's hat girl's face.

I won't be creating a reader group, my darlings, because the book isn't very popular, and not many people have read it. I'm not a very talkative person, and I'm afraid of awkward silences, so I'll pass. ^
Waaaaah! Today a colleague saw my initial data on Hongxiu and said it was pretty good, so why isn't it popular? I almost died of shock! Because Hongxiu is a distribution channel, not my initial release site!! I released it on Qidian, and Qidian is practically dead^ I don't know why Beast Academy, with twenty sci-fi books and nineteen beast-themed books, would like this one. I never expected this reversal! Who's the kind person whose distribution channel has three times the number of fans as the initial release? I calculated everything, but I still overlooked something^ Now I have zero recommendations on Hongxiu, but my popularity has surpassed Qidian, which has recommendations every month. I'm so heartbroken... I should have released it on Qyue first, at least I'd get some recommendations^