Forbidden Zone of Deception

Chapter 182 Bloody Battle

"Found them!"

Zhou Chen used the blood pact to create a rule that "Gu worms will be automatically killed once they reach a certain height!"

The Blood Pact route is the most difficult advancement route for Witch Doctor LV3, and it definitely requires the incorporation of Resentment Shards to generate.

Back in the [Sweet Home] instance, Zhou Chen embedded the resentment crystals into his body, his real purpose being to adapt to the resentment crystals.

Generally speaking, the most difficult problem to solve in successfully integrating Resentment Shards into a class skill is the adaptability of the Resentment Shards. If you are not careful, you will suffer a backlash, and the high-purity Resentment Ashes will instead backfire on you, and you will be assimilated by the Resentment Ashes!

At that time, the reincarnators will no longer be living people, but will become ashes that will forever drift in the annihilation layer!
Zhou Chen is one of the very few Witch Doctor reincarnators who has successfully advanced to LV3 through the Blood Pact route! The title of genius is not an exaggeration at all!
In terms of talent and potential alone, many LV4 reincarnators are far inferior to him!
"follow me!"

Zhou Chen sensed the mark of the blood pact and knew that Yu Tianlun and the others were nearby!

At this moment, he was filled with excitement.

Finally, I can fight Yu Tianlun!

Fight against this former LV4 witch doctor!

At the same time, Yu Tianlun also looked towards the street ahead.

A dangerous intuition kicks in!
"Get ready! The scarlet men are coming!"

Although Crimson has suffered heavy casualties and lost more than 60% of its combat power, but...

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse!

Crimson remains the strongest bloody faction!
Moreover, and most importantly, Zhou Chen, this genius, is still alive!

Not long after, Zhou Chen walked out from the street corner!

At this moment, the distance between Yu Tianlun and Zhou Chen was less than fifty meters!
Zhou Chen's crimson eyes locked onto every single member of the Nirvana team!

"Where is Qin Mei?!"

Zhou Chen swiftly drew his peach wood sword, and almost every member of the Nirvana team felt a chill run down their spine when they saw his scarlet eyes!
The feeling of oppression is too strong!

As a former LV4 sorcerer, Yu Tianlun was naturally an expert and could see that Zhou Chen's blood pact sorcery had reached its peak!
It can be said that Zhou Chen has now begun to pry open the path to LV4!
And thanks to the corpse oil that had been used to cast a curse, the balloon couldn't find them for the time being!

Fortunately, after taking the blue pills and applying the concealment array, Yu Tianlun and the others' balloons did not follow!

Yu Tianlun said coldly, "I originally planned to negotiate with you, but I didn't expect you to play dirty tricks on me!"

“That was Duan She’s own decision!” Zhou Chen’s voice was steady. At this moment, Ruan Hong and Lu Cun had already walked up behind him.

So you're saying this was a misunderstanding?

“Just do as you say,” Zhou Chen planned to stall for time. “Hand over the Resentment Crystal and Qin Mei to me, and everything will be fine! I will speak to the Blood Lord and from now on, we will no longer be enemies with Nirvana. Of course, if Nirvana is willing to become a branch of our Blood Cult, then naturally everything will be fine!”

"The final proposal is out of the question." Yu Tianlun refused without hesitation. "I'm too stubborn to kneel! Otherwise, I wouldn't have been expelled from Dawn, and I would still be the leader of Dawn!"

To Yu Tianlun, being a lackey of the Bloodthirsty Team and having a soul imprint planted on him was no different from death!

No, it would be better to be dead!
"Very well!" Zhou Chen continued, "Then let's draw up a contract! How about it?"

"A notarized contract from the reincarnation system! We must draft the contract documents!"

"can!"

Zhou Chen stared intently at Yu Tianlun.

He was considering whether he could kill Yu Tianlun with a single blow!

Once Nirvana is successfully beheaded, the rest will be easy to control!

It's no exaggeration to say that as long as Yu Tianlun is gone, Zhou Chen is confident enough to wipe out all the other reincarnators on the other side!

Liu Yan? Just a newly promoted witch doctor. Witch doctors are indeed terrifying, adept at killing enemies above their level, but so what? I am a top-tier LV3 reincarnator, with few rivals among my peers. Is it so difficult to kill a LV1 witch doctor like you?
Tomie? She's just a female ghost with a slightly stronger regenerative ability. As long as we overcome her cognitive corruption, she's not difficult to deal with and is nothing to be afraid of!
As for Xu Yinqiu? She's just a level 2 healer, killing her is about as easy as killing a chicken, and it's like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut!
At this moment, Xu Yinqiu leaned closer to Yu Tianlun and whispered, "His SAN value is very stable, which shows that he has fully adapted to the blood pact! So he will have very few concerns when fighting!"

Indeed, Yu Tianlun noticed it too.

In a battle between experts, sometimes it comes down to the weakest link. The one who makes the fewest mistakes is often the one who emerges victorious!
His feelings were truly complex at this moment. Such a genius was incredibly rare, appearing only once every few years! And to the current Nirvana team, he was nothing short of death!
If they hadn't grasped Qin Mei, Zhou Chen's only weakness, they wouldn't even have been able to have an equal conversation with him!

Suddenly, Zhou Chen's phone rang.

He looked at the screen and saw that the caller was Qin Mei!

He quickly answered the call and asked, "Hello?"

"Zhou Chen, I've escaped! Don't worry about me. Yu Tianlun and his men are here to kill you! Don't fret about me! Fight them!"

Upon hearing Qin Mei's voice, Zhou Chen was overjoyed!

Zhou Chen stood under the convenience store sign, the tip of his peach wood sword lying on the ground.

Then, Zhou Chen looked up, his scarlet pupils locking onto Yu Tianlun. A fierce killing intent surged forth!

Yu Tianlun, this day next year will be the anniversary of your death!
Yu Tianlun pushed Yu Zi behind Xu Yinqiu, his Taoist robe fluttering even without wind.

From the phone call just now and the change in Yu Tianlun's entire demeanor, he understood...

This head-on battle is inevitable!
Unlike Zhou Chen's chilling aura, Yu Tianlun's body was surrounded by a pale golden light, vaguely forming the shape of a Bagua (Eight Trigrams).

"As expected of someone who follows the path of self-sacrifice, your aura is quite impressive," Zhou Chen said, flicking his peach wood sword. "Very well, today I will see what you, Yu Tianlun, are capable of."

Next, he was greeted by Liu Yan's swarm of Soul-Eating Bees.

Dozens of Gu worms shot towards Zhou Chen like bullets, but were intercepted halfway by a red figure—Ruan Hong's sorcery banner unfolded into a barrier, and the human skin sewn on the banner emitted a baby-like cry. The Gu worms that hit it immediately rotted and fell to the ground.

“Your opponent is me!” Ruan Hong licked her lips, and suddenly more than a dozen bone needles shot out from the curse banner.

Han Wei, standing beside her, simultaneously raised his gun, and specially made bullets blocked all of Liu Yan's evasive angles.

The bullets were blocked by the golden light of the Bagua formation, while two centipedes sprang out from the surrounding walls, one crushing bone needles and the other aiming straight for Han Wei's throat!
The latter dodged with a tactical roll, and the ground where he was standing was riddled with honeycomb-like holes by the centipede!
"Watch out!" Yu Tianlun shouted, suddenly shoving Liu Yan's shoulder.

A large hole suddenly appeared in the utility pole behind where she had been standing—Ruan Hong's remote curse was narrowly avoided.

Then, Yu Tianlun rushed towards Zhou Chen!
Logically speaking, shamans are magic-based classes and shouldn't be fighting in close combat.

However, in a contest between two shamans, the weaker party can choose to engage in close combat as a fighting style! Shamans' spells always require a pre-cast animation, so engaging in close combat can interrupt the opponent's spellcasting as much as possible!
In close combat, Zhou Chen is still young and his experience in fighting is not as good as Yu Tianlun's!

Use your strengths to attack the enemy's weaknesses!
When Yu Tianlun's peach wood sword clashed with Zhou Chen's, it produced a metallic clang.

The two separated as soon as they touched each other. The blood talisman on Zhou Chen's sword suddenly exploded and turned into countless tiny red snakes that coiled around Yu Tianlun. Seven Five Emperors Coins flew out from the latter's sleeve and formed a miniature Big Dipper Formation to pin the red snakes to the ground!
Zhou Chen sneered and swung the peach wood sword through the air!
"Let's see how long you can hold out!"

The peach wood sword twisted into cursed characters in the air, and the temperature in the entire block plummeted!
Yu Tianlun never expected that Zhou Chen could cast witchcraft instantly without chanting incantations and with no reduction in power!
Even though I knew he was a genius, this is just too incredible!
The Blood Lord has managed to recruit such a formidable general!
His path to advancement involves merging his body with the Dao, and the pre-casting animation cannot be omitted!
"The profound origin of heaven and earth, the root of all vital energy—"

The golden incantation and the blood-red curse collided in mid-air, and the shockwave overturned a vending machine five meters away.

Taking advantage of the moment when Yu Tianlun was chanting the incantation, Zhou Chen suddenly changed direction and stabbed the peach wood sword towards Yu's dantian!
"Crack!"

Zhou Chen was actually forced back three steps by the recoil!

To his surprise, Yu Tianlun was wearing an inner armor woven from talisman paper under his Taoist robe, each talisman paper slowly burning.

"The Life-Burning Armor?" Zhou Chen narrowed his eyes. "How long can it burn?"

Yu Tianlun did not answer. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw that Fu Jiang was being attacked by Lu Cun's cursed wooden puppets—those small wooden figures engraved with her birth date were actually sucking away her regenerating flesh and blood.

To make matters worse, he was also manipulating a scarecrow at the same time. The scarecrow's hands were making a choking motion, and there were already marks on Tomie's neck!

Meanwhile, in a place that appeared empty to everyone else, Yuko Oda saw a nearly transparent thread extending from the neck of the medium Meng Chang, with the other end connected to a balloon floating at the height of the second floor.

Meng Chang's balloon has arrived!

"There's a balloon on Meng Chang's head!"

Xu Yinqiu looked at the spot Yu Zi was pointing to, immediately opened her Zhu You Eye, and then threw out a silver needle!
The silver needle swiftly streaked across the sky and burst Meng Chang's balloon!
Meng Chang's head deflated like a punctured balloon, and he collapsed to the ground! The Crimson Team has lost another member!
At the same time, Xu Yinqiu looked at the sorcerer Lu Cun.

Incantation and apotropaic practices are precisely two professions that restrain each other!

She immediately ran to Tomie's side and released the aura of incantation to counter Lu Cun's curse!
Before long, Tomie felt much better!
"Too slow! You should have come sooner!"

Tomie showed no gratitude for Xu Yinqiu's rescue; instead, she complained.

Her wounds healed rapidly under the influence of the incantation aura, while the cursed puppet began to move slowly under the aura's effect!
"Where did that Shirakawa Rin go?"

Lu Cun discovered that he could no longer sense the puppet—it was being purified by the aura of incantation!
Zhou Chen's expression changed slightly. Yu Zi was too much of a threat on the battlefield. His peach wood sword suddenly changed direction and threw out a blood talisman straight for Yu Zi's throat—which was immediately blocked by Yu Tianlun with his peach wood sword!
"Your opponent is me!" Yu Tianlun absolutely cannot let Yu Zi die!

Suddenly, Zhou Chen shouted, "Ruan Hong, bow your head!"

While Ruan Hong was locked in combat with Liu Yan, she suddenly looked down and discovered that the ground was crawling with gray threadworms! Unfortunately, the warning came too late; three Gu worms had already burrowed into her calf.

"Ah!" Ruan Hong screamed in agony as a writhing lump swelled up under her skin.

Han Wei immediately rushed back to help, but was entangled by Liu Yan's centipede whip at his ankle and thrown five meters away.

The tide of battle began to turn.

Suddenly, Zhou Chen's fingers swept across the peach wood sword, and the moment the runes on it lit up, his speed suddenly increased dramatically. Then... the peach wood sword left a deep, bone-revealing wound on Yu Tianlun's shoulder!

"You're distracted." Zhou Chen's voice echoed, and his pupils became even more blood red, leaving afterimages with each swing of the peach wood sword.

Yu Tianlun retreated repeatedly, and cracks had begun to appear on his peach wood sword.

Worse still, he felt the witchcraft within him being eroded by some force—Zhou Chen's blood curse was seeping into his wounds.

It's true what they say: the devil is always one step ahead of the saint!
The blood pact route is inherently superior to the route of physical union!
"Yuko..." he called out through gritted teeth, "Are there any other balloons nearby?"

If only Zhou Chen's balloon could appear right now, and then we could pop it...

The tide of battle will be completely turned!

With Zhou Chen dead, he was confident enough to kill Ruan Hong and Lu Cun!

The girl shook her head and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Yu, we don't have their balloons!"

Zhou Chen seized the opportunity to form a hand seal, and seven blood arrows shot towards Yu Tianlun from different angles.

The latter barely dodged five wounds, the remaining two piercing his thigh and right abdomen respectively. Blood quickly soaked through his Taoist robe, and Zhou Chen immediately revealed a sinister grin!

Yu Tianlun seized the opportunity and quickly formed hand seals in the air with his blood-stained fingers!
"Liu Yan, help me!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Yan immediately unleashed three Soul-Eating Bees.

Zhou Chen was, after all, young and impetuous, and naturally, he couldn't avoid the weaknesses of youth... arrogance!
His momentary smugness made him careless, and the Soul-Eating Bee stung his neck fiercely!

Zhou Chen immediately knelt on one knee and spat out a mouthful of blood!

But with a single sweep of his scarlet eyes, the Gu worms died instantly!

“Beautiful.” Zhou Chen wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, but revealed a strange smile. “But you’ve forgotten something.”

He snapped his fingers.

Yuko suddenly screamed—she saw all the corpses of the fallen Gu worms floating up, forming a huge black magic array.

Despite her serious injuries, Ruan Hong laughed triumphantly: "My curse can even work on dead Gu worms!"

Countless insect corpses exploded simultaneously, and poisonous fog instantly enveloped the entire battlefield!
Xu Yinqiu immediately released the Zhuyou Aura, but it was too late—Liu Yan's Gu worms all died, Fu Jiang's regeneration speed slowed down significantly, and even Yu Tianlun's Golden Bagua Formation dimmed considerably.

Zhou Chen slowly stood up, pointing his peach wood sword at Yu Tianlun: "It's over."

Yu Tianlun kept spitting out blood!

The poisonous mist continued to invade his body, and at this point, the healing speed of the Zhuyou Aura simply couldn't keep up!

"To merge with the Dao is nothing more than this!" Zhou Chen said coldly. "The essence of reincarnators is to absorb resentment and use curses for their own purposes, using curses to fight ghosts! Taoist methods can't suppress ghosts at all; at most, they can only fight weaker reincarnators! You were once a Level 4, don't you understand this principle?"

Zhou Chen didn't kill Yu Tianlun immediately, not because he didn't understand the adage that villains die from talking too much, but because if he pushed Yu Tianlun into a corner now, and Yu Tianlun burned all his talismans to self-destruct, risking mutual destruction, that wasn't the outcome Zhou Chen wanted. Ideally, he'd use the poisonous fog to gradually wear Yu Tianlun down, causing him to die from the poison! Of course, the continuous erosion of Yu Tianlun's sanity would also be enough to give him a run for his money!
"Retreat!" Yu Tianlun roared, throwing out the last three purple talismans.

The purple fire wall formed by the burning talisman temporarily blocked Zhou Chen and the others.

"Everyone, follow me! Quickly!"

Zhou Chen's scarlet pupils locked onto Yu Tianlun's staggering retreating figure, the blood curse on the peach wood sword still lingering.

He waved his hand coldly: "Chase them! Leave no one alive except Liu Yan!"

At this moment, Han Wei stepped forward and reported, "Commander Zhou, I just sensed that Jiang Jin is nearby!"

Zhou Chen didn't even turn his head: "Fine, go over there and use the magic-suppressing shackles to capture them alive."

Han Wei licked his lips and pulled out a pair of black anti-magic shackles from the Reincarnator's Watch.

Then, he flashed away and ran in another direction!
Unfamiliar with the terrain, the Nirvana team, all injured, retreated into a dead end.

Yu Tianlun leaned against the wall, black blood continuously spilling from the corner of his mouth!

The poisonous fog was corroding his meridians, and even breathing was a burning pain.

Liu Yan's Gu worms were almost completely wiped out, and Fu Jiang's regenerative ability was also suppressed, greatly slowing down the healing speed of his wounds.

Xu Yinqiu was using her healing arts to barely maintain Yu Tianlun's heartbeat, but her SAN value was also about to drop to 30%.

"They're here." Shirakawa Rin's paper doll emerged from the crack in the wall, her voice icy.

Everyone stared coldly at her now. Shirakawa Rin hadn't even bothered with an act during the fight; she'd blatantly coasted through! She'd barely moved an inch from beginning to end. The Crimson Clan members were equally tacit; they simply didn't attack her either!
"You're a member of the Bloodthirsty Gang, aren't you?" Liu Yan said angrily. "You were just sitting on the sidelines watching the fight!"

"So what?" Shirakawa Rin didn't care at all: "I'm not a member of the Nirvana team. We're just cooperating temporarily for the sake of interests. Do you expect me, a Level 1, to fight Lu Cun, Ruan Hong, and Zhou Chen?"

Yu Tianlun waved his hand and said, "Never mind, she wasn't wrong."

At this point, we can't push Shirakawa Rin into the Crimson Team's camp again; that would only make things worse.

Next, Ruan Hong's curse banner came into view, and the human skin on the banner was twisted into a painful human face!

Lu Cun followed closely behind, toying with a cursed wooden puppet engraved with birth dates and times, its neck wrapped with a wire.

Finally, there is Zhou Chen, holding a peach wood sword.

"Run, why aren't you running anymore?" Lu Cun grinned, his fingers tightening suddenly.

The wire instantly pierced the puppet's neck—however, the expected scene of Yu Tianlun suffocating and collapsing did not occur.

"Pfft!"

Lu Cun's head suddenly burst open like a balloon!

There was no blood, no brain matter, only a shriveled skin hanging on his neck, like a punctured rubber mask.

His headless body swayed and then collapsed to the ground with a thud.

Four hundred meters away, Jiang Jin put down his gun and patted Deathstroke's head beside him.

Reminded by the death knell, he had just spotted Lu Cun's balloon in the sky using his hunter's vision and then shot it to pieces!
At that moment, he suddenly turned around!

"Come out, Han Wei!" Jiang Jin's hunting instincts quickly told him who the enemy was.

Han Wei's dark eyes glowed green in the darkness as he walked out from beside a power distribution box.

"I've found you, Jiang Jin."

(End of this chapter)