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Section 114, Chapter Sixteen: Learning Materials for Realms

"What are you doing now, Mr. Li Cheng?"

Walking up the dusty stairs, Jester looked at Li Cheng standing below with displeasure and slowly spoke.

The next moment, Li Cheng's body disappeared from the ground. Almost in an instant, he appeared behind Jester, and a heavy punch swept directly towards the back of Jester's neck, intending to kill him with one blow.

But then, this seemingly fatal punch landed on empty air.

The hit Jester vanished like ripples on water after a heavy object has fallen; Li Cheng felt no real impact whatsoever. Jester before him was like a phantom, disappearing without a trace. Then, Jester's slightly arrogant voice echoed through the factory.

"Is this the legendary strength that can defeat the strongest A-rank team, the Sixth Group? If that's all, then it's far too disappointing."

The sound has several sources...?

"It's hard to imagine why those noble magicians of ancient times would give up specializing in magic to learn from you stupid warriors who only have brute force."

With deep disdain, Jester bluntly expressed his mockery of cultivators like Li Cheng.

"Indeed, your superior physical attributes and high resistance allow you to easily defeat weaker magicians in close combat. But against those who truly master powerful magic, you won't even have a chance to get close. You'll be killed at will from a distance, as easily as killing a chicken—"

Once again vanishing from the spot, Li Cheng gave the other party no chance to continue speaking. Having located the source of the other party's voice, he teleported directly in front of Jester. Before the smug expression on the other party's face could be replaced by surprise, he directly pierced through his head with a single blow.

"Crackling sound—"

Huh, this feels like I'm hitting a glassy surface?

Jester, his head shattered, fell backward to the ground, his body smashing into countless fragments that shimmered faintly in the sunlight streaming in from outside. Clearly, the so-called "Jester" that Li Cheng had struck was nothing more than a piece of glass manipulated by magic.

"Aha, yes, just like that, playing around so casually."

Inside the factory, Jester's slow, mocking voice rang out loudly.

Tch, hiding like a rat, afraid to show its face, and it actually thinks that's noble and glorious? Probably just another brain-dead idiot.

Li Cheng spat, losing all interest in continuing the fight. He turned to look at the unconscious believer who was firmly bound and unable to move. Without spending too much time thinking, he instantly teleported over, cleaved the chains binding the believer with a wave of his hand, picked her up, and prepared to leave.

"Oh dear, that's really disrespectful. But if you do that, you'll kill her. Are you sure you've really thought it through?"

what?

Upon hearing what the other person said, Li Cheng subconsciously stopped in his tracks. Then, he heard something dripping from the believer's body.

He supported the believer's body with one hand, slightly lifting her clothes, and then he saw a bomb wrapped around her stomach, glowing faintly.

"The concentrated gravity bomb is extremely powerful, but its range is very small. It can easily compress anything within ten meters into a small sphere the size of a thumb."

With a series of soft footsteps, Jester, holding a spell, walked slowly down the stairs on one side with a relaxed expression.

"Humans will always be this terrifying when it comes to the technology to kill themselves, won't they?"

"Boom!"

With a vicious stomp, Li Cheng slammed the ground down, instantly appearing where Jester had stood and launching a swift attack. However, his foot still landed on empty air.

“Listen to him properly and finish what he has to say, Mr. Li Cheng,” Jester’s figure slowly appeared in mid-air, with a slightly helpless expression. “This is one of the basic manners of being a human being.”

"Are you even human?"

Li Cheng retorted without hesitation, but unexpectedly, the other party immediately unleashed a bolt of lightning. Li Cheng did not dodge at all, letting the lightning strike him without even changing his expression.

"It didn't work?"

Jester was somewhat surprised.

"It's true that most martial artists only possess close-combat abilities, as you mentioned. However, martial artists train their physiques, so attacks that would be fatal to most people are unlikely to even penetrate their physical defenses."

This time, it was Li Cheng who looked at Jester with a disdainful expression and spoke.

"If you want to cause me real harm, at least show me a B-rank grand magic spell, right? This kind of small lightning that you can only cast instantly can't even tickle me."

"Hmph, you've got a knack for it."

With a cold laugh, Jester's lips twitched slightly as he recited a string of ancient and complex characters, clearly preparing to launch a powerful attack. But before he could finish preparing, a purple ball of light struck him directly on the head, sending him flying through the ceiling and into the second floor of the factory.

"Oh, I just wanted to try it out, I didn't expect it to actually work..."

With a sigh, Li Cheng quickly moved to where Jester had dropped his magic book, picked it up, and tore it in half without even looking at it. The powerful magic instantly dissipated into the air and disappeared without a trace.

It was certain that this book was a very powerful magical artifact, and it was likely quite old, perhaps even a valuable antique. However, considering that it was enemy weaponry, Li Cheng destroyed it without hesitation.

"You bastard...why..."

Flying back from the hole he had created, Jester, his head bleeding, stared at Li Cheng in disbelief and roared in a fit of rage.

"You are clearly a martial artist, so why can you use magic?"

"Oh, was that considered a magic trick?"

Li Cheng laughed, and the purple light condensed in his hand again, turning into an oval sphere. He then flung it at the empty space of Jester.

"I only remember that this thing was called 'Rampaging High-Speed ​​Flight Entity'. Hmph, I have to say it's quite easy to use."

Flustered, Jester dodged the incredibly fast attack, his face darkening as he stared at Li Cheng, then at the shredded magic book at Li Cheng's feet. His expression shifted from heartache to pain, and then from pain to rage.

"As I command, Shadow of Death, Pierce!"

As the magical voice faded, several dark figures shot out from Jester's body, attacking Li Cheng on the ground. Li Cheng simply raised his hand, and a dark rift opened in his palm. The menacing attacks were immediately sucked into the rift, and faintly, mocking gazes seemed to pierce through it. But the next moment, the rift vanished without a trace, as if it had never existed.

"This...this is impossible..."

Is this the power that Zi wants me to master?

Feeling the strange power coursing through his body, and hearing the beautiful girl's soft murmurs within that power, Li Cheng became slightly lost in thought. Meanwhile, Jester, in front of him, had become somewhat irrational after his repeated failed attacks.

"Impossible, impossible! I absolutely refuse to accept that ridiculous way of breaking it! Shadow of Death! Pierce him!! Pierce him hard—"

Numerous dark figures, like blades, pierced through and swarmed towards Li Cheng. But this time, Li Cheng didn't even move. He simply closed his eyes and tried to guide the power according to his own will.

Then, countless tiny, fingertip-sized gaps, each corresponding to one of the black shadows attacking him, were swallowed up in the blink of an eye. When Li Cheng opened his eyes again, all he saw was Jester, who was somewhat weakened from absorbing a large amount of magic power.

The next moment, Li Cheng's body passed through the black rift and appeared behind Jester. He threw a punch at Jester in mid-air, and as expected, once again felt like he had hit thin air.

Jester's body, like the last time, rippled and disappeared.

Did you transform your body into something like a shadow? By becoming non-physical, do physical attacks become ineffective?

Li Cheng smiled.

“That won’t do, Mr. Jester, running away is wrong.”

From fist to palm, Li Cheng opened his palm. To Jester's utter horror, he was forcibly pulled back from his phantom-like form to a physical one.

"To use Zi's words—"

Reaching out, he grabbed Jester's sleeve, clenching his other fist and bending his arm to gather strength. Li Cheng faced Jester and spoke calmly.

"This technique is called 'The Boundary Between Illusion and Reality'!"

The next moment, a vicious punch embedded itself in Jester's face, sending him crashing to the ground and creating a shallow crater in the concrete.

"Thank you for your cooperation in becoming my learning material (sandbag), Mr. Jester."

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I have nothing left...

Yet, I still cannot escape...

All that remained was a heart full of hatred and rage...

So... let me embrace this spiral of contradictions until my destruction...

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Section 115, Chapter 17: The Undercurrent of Detection

"Cough, cough—"

Jester, whose face was almost completely dented by Li Cheng's blow, struggled on the ground for a moment before slowly getting up. The gruesome wound on his face, which would have been fatal to a normal person, slowly healed, and in less than half a minute, he was completely restored.

"Why didn't you kill me when you shot me down? I remember the Sixth Group was supposed to be pretty ruthless. Have you guys suddenly become gentler?"

Despite being significantly weaker, Jester maintained his arrogant demeanor, sneering loudly.

"It's just that you're too weak. It's okay to deal with it later."

Not far away, Li Chengping's calm voice came from nearby.

Jester turned his head at the sound and saw Li Cheng laying the believer flat on the ground, examining the bomb on her waist, seemingly thinking about how to remove it.

"Haha, it's useless. There's no way to disarm that bomb. From the moment it was activated, only I, as the one who activated it, can shut it down. You can't—what?"

Just as Jester was about to mock Li Cheng's foolish behavior again, he opened his mouth, but after only two sentences, he froze on the spot.

He stared in disbelief as Li Cheng grabbed the bomb, a few faint purple lights flashing almost imperceptibly in his hand. Then, the bomb shut down with a "ding," and he immediately dismantled it, crushed it into pieces, and tossed it aside.

"This, this, this...this is not scientific..."

Stunned by what was happening, Jester could only stammer out words to express the shock he felt. Li Cheng, who had orchestrated all of this, paid no attention to Jester, focusing instead on his own hand.

"At first, I thought this so-called 'realm' was just something like magic, but I didn't expect it to be such a diverse range of abilities? No, it's practically an all-powerful ability. There's no environment that this power can't adapt to, right?"

Looking at the strange halo flowing in his hand, Li Cheng revealed a slightly complicated expression.

He was merely thinking about disarming the bomb, yet this power naturally guided him to unleash the "realm of opening and closing," effortlessly shutting off the bomb. It was just like the "realm of illusion and reality" he had immediately used when Jester dematerialized him.