In the original work, every target that this arrow sought out had awakened a Stand, making its accuracy rate one hundred percent. Therefore, Qin Chuan is no longer worried about not being able to awaken his own Stand.

What he's worried about now is what kind of ability his Stand will have. He doesn't expect a time-related ability, but something like Heaven's Gate would be nice too.

"Let me see the power of the Stands in the JOJO world."

Qin Chuan raised the arrow in his right hand and stabbed it hard into his left hand—although according to Part 6, one could awaken a Stand simply by cutting a finger, he felt that people should still have a sense of ritual.

Well, the main issue is that Jolyne Kujo's Stand, which he awakened in Part 6, wasn't very strong, making him wonder if the arrow wound wasn't big enough to cause this.

Although it might just be superstition, Qin Chuan still chose to play it safe. Anyway, with his body strengthened by "qi", he would recover much faster than ordinary people with just a puncture in his hand, and it wouldn't affect his combat ability.

The next moment, the sharp arrow pierced Qin Chuan's palm, and then...

Clang!

The arrow seemed to have struck a very resilient object. Although it dented Qin Chuan's skin slightly, it did not pierce his left hand at all.

"...Oh right, I forgot to remove the 'qi'."

Qin Chuan was taken aback, and then he remembered that in order to ensure that he would not follow in Goku's footsteps in Dragon Ball, he was now keeping his "qi" circulating throughout his body almost every moment.

The physical strength in the Dragon Ball world is indeed very high, but it is basically based on the existence of "ki". Once a person is too relaxed and does not use "ki" to protect the whole body, the physical strength will drop sharply.

In Dragon Ball Super, Goku was scratched by bullets from robbers while plowing a field, was knocked out by a tranquilizer gun in the future world, and was pierced through the chest by a laser gun when Frieza invaded Earth. All of these incidents were caused by Goku relaxing and releasing his "ki".

Qin Chuan certainly didn't want to end up like Sun Wukong, possessing immense power yet failing miserably.

Therefore, after gaining absolute control over "qi", he has been trying to make protecting his whole body with "qi" a habit.

In fact, over the past two days, he has gradually gotten used to this feeling. The protection of "qi" does not turn his whole body into a lump of iron. Even to the touch, he is still no different from an ordinary person.

But breaking through his defenses won't be so easy.

Because he had become completely accustomed to this state, Qin Chuan had even forgotten that his body was still protected by "qi," so when the arrow pierced through, it didn't even leave a mark.

"However, this also means that I have indeed gotten used to using 'qi' to protect my body, which can be considered as initial success."

Qin Chuan nodded in satisfaction, removed the protection of "qi" from his left hand, and then gathered some qi from his right hand to slightly strengthen the "arrow" in his hand.

Using ki to enhance weapons is a common occurrence in Dragon Ball. Trunks' sword could easily cut Frieza into eight pieces, while King Cold couldn't even scratch Trunks' skin with the same sword.

Qin Chuan can also use his Qi to enhance the arrow, mainly to make it sharper so that it won't be too painful to pierce his hand.

The next moment, Qin Chuan thrust his right hand down forcefully, easily piercing his left hand. A sharp pain shot through his palm, and then, under Qin Chuan's perception, a mysterious power began to surge along the wound.

Qin Chuan knew that this was most likely the virus on the "arrow".

The principle behind the "arrow" awakening a substitute is simple: alien viruses reside on these arrowheads, which are made from meteorites from outer space, and these viruses can invade a person's body through wounds.

Viruses are lethal. Ordinary people without sufficient immunity will be directly infected and killed by the virus, while those with sufficient immunity will be immune to the threat posed by the virus.

Those who survive will be rewarded, as if by the survival of the fittest, by awakening a power called "Substitute," undergoing a comprehensive transformation on a spiritual and soul level.

These viruses are not the "stand-ins" themselves, but rather more like some kind of auxiliary program used for screening.

Under the perception of "qi", Qin Chuan could feel something invading the wound on his left hand, but soon, Qin Chuan felt that his left hand gradually stopped hurting, and even the original wound gradually healed.

Seeing this, Qin Chuan understood—the virus had finished its screening process, and he had passed the test with almost no pain.

As his wounds healed, Qin Chuan felt his spirit and soul undergo a transformation, with a new power emerging from his body, much like an animal shedding its skin.

Even more miraculously, for some reason, a name subconsciously surfaced in Qin Chuan's mind—as if it were an innate instinct, Qin Chuan uttered a soft cry:

"BlackBird!"

The next moment, a black shadow burst forth from Qin Chuan's back, and black matter like sludge swirled around, gradually forming a tall figure.

A black bird feather shawl, flowing black hair, and clothing studded with black nails—his body, almost entirely composed of black, constituted Qin Chuan's new power.

Qin Chuan turned around and looked at the tall, black figure—the other was like his own limbs, able to move with his thoughts, and contained powerful spiritual energy.

"This is my stand-in... Blackbird!"

Chapter 41 The Sudden Attack of Sub-Vacuum

[Current World: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]

Main Quest: Defeat Dio

[Player Kobold's strength synchronization status: 30%]

Players are encouraged to progress through the main storyline to unlock synchronized power levels.

After awakening his Stand "Blackbird", Qin Chuan's synchronization rate immediately reached 30%.

Clearly, the system felt that Qin Chuan's chances of defeating Dio had greatly increased after he awakened his substitute, so it gave Qin Chuan a 20% increase in synchronization rate.

Previously in the Dragon Ball world, he was always stingy, only adding a fraction of a percent to the synchronization rate. Now, in the JoJo world, he's suddenly being so generous, which makes Qin Chuan a little uncomfortable.

After obtaining a Stand, Qin Chuan's first task was to test its strength, as this directly affected his condition when he fought Dio later.

Testing in the room was obviously not a good idea, as it would easily disturb the neighbors, so Qin Chuan chose to go to the alley behind the hotel—he was getting a little annoyed by constantly going into alleys lately.

But there's nothing we can do about it; there are just too few people in the alley.

"Blackbird's power... let's try his fists first!"

Qin Chuan summoned the black bird, and a pitch-black humanoid clone appeared beside him. Under Qin Chuan's control, the black bird reached out and picked up a brick from the ground, gently squeezing it.

crackle.

The bricks were as fragile as mung bean cakes, easily crushed into powder in the blackbird's hands, demonstrating the blackbird's immense strength.

But... Qin Chuan felt something was off, or rather, the black bird's power gave him a strange sense of familiarity.

"Could it be..."

Qin Chuan turned around and looked at the wall next to him—this wall was just an abandoned fence, a large number of bricks piled up randomly and covered with cement, with no special purpose.

In other words, it doesn't matter if this wall is destroyed; it can be used as a sandbag for Qin Chuan to test his strength.

"Punch at the same time as Blackbird!"

Qin Chuan was on the right and Black Bird was on the left. The next moment, their fists slammed into the left and right sides of the wall almost simultaneously. The terrifying force shattered the wall, and a large amount of debris flew out and hit the ground.

Qin Chuan's gaze sharpened slightly as he looked at the rubble on the ground, and he quickly discerned the clues.

"So that's how it is. The black bird's strength isn't that it's powerful enough on its own, but rather that its strength is completely synchronized with my physical strength."

Qin Chuan clenched his fist tightly, and Blackbird clenched his fist as well—he could now feel that both his fist and Blackbird's fist were gathering tremendous power.

This is undoubtedly good news for Qin Chuan, because if his Blackbird, like other Stands in the JOJO world, is completely controlled by the panel, then at most it can only demolish a building.

Star Platinum, hailed as the pinnacle of Stand power, performed exceptionally well in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, but if placed in the Dragon Ball world... to put it bluntly, it wouldn't even survive the first part.

If Blackbird's power is at the level of Star Platinum, then its future role will likely be to attach itself to Qin Chuan, providing him with a way to attack Stands and other forms of spiritual energy.

Possessing a Stand is a common practice in the JOJO world. For people in this world, possessing a Stand usually means strengthening. But for Qin Chuan, it might not be the case.

But now that Qin Chuan knows that Black Bird's power is completely synchronized with his own, it means that when Qin Chuan's power synchronized from the Dragon Ball world is strong enough, Black Bird's power will also increase accordingly.

Blackbird is like a perfect clone of his own strength. As long as Blackbird is around, Qin Chuan will essentially be fighting two versions of himself, giving him a huge advantage in battles of the same level.

If Blackbird were in the hands of an ordinary person, its stats wouldn't be very high, since an ordinary person's strength is only so-so.

However, with the Blackbird in Qin Chuan's hands, its potential is incredibly high. As long as Qin Chuan's power continues to increase, the Blackbird's power can also continue to rise.

"In that case, at least in terms of power, Dio and his Stand 'The World' are no longer a threat. All I need to do is try to get around his time stop and smash my fist into his head."

Qin Chuan turned and walked towards the hotel, preparing to go back and think about how to approach Dio.

For Qin Chuan, Dio's vampire-like regenerative abilities were nothing special. As long as enough damage was done to his brain, his mind could be destroyed, preventing him from recovering in a short period of time.

If Qin Chuan's fist were to land on Dio's head, most of his brain would probably be shattered, and it would be uncertain whether Dio would even be able to get up.

Compared to Dio, Qin Chuan was actually more worried about Dio's subordinates, especially one of his loyal but somewhat obsessive subordinates—Vanilla Ace, whose Stand "Void Miasma" was an out-and-out spatial ability.

In many works, spatial abilities are terrifying, often having the effect of ignoring defenses. Even Qin Chuan has to be wary of its existence.

"..."

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan stopped in his tracks—the door of the hotel where he had just checked in was just ahead, but Qin Chuan felt something was wrong.

Qin Chuan noticed something unusual about the "qi" he sensed—when he left, there was clearly a lot of people's "qi" in the inn, but now, the inn seemed to be empty.

Qin Chuan had honed his perception of "qi" to perfection over the past few days, and he was certain that he had not misjudged the situation; the "qi" of the people in the inn seemed to have disappeared.

Either all the guests, including the owner, left the hotel during the short ten minutes or so I was gone, or...

Everyone inside is dead.

Dio lives in Cairo, and I just bought arrows from Enya, one of Dio's subordinates... Although in the original story, Kira Yoshihiro successfully left Egypt with the arrows, it seems that it won't be so easy for me to leave.

"Blackbird".

At Qin Chuan's call, the black bird instantly appeared behind him, bent down, picked up a piece of gravel from the ground, and hurled it hard into the half-open hotel door.

This was a power perfectly inherited from Qin Chuan. With Blackbird's throw, the rubble instantly emitted a violent whistling sound as it shot into the inn's main entrance, and then...

They vanished into thin air!

Upon seeing this, Qin Chuan immediately realized who the newcomer was, and his expression changed. He quickly turned and dodged to the side.

The next moment, a gust of wind swept past Qin Chuan, and the ground where Qin Chuan had been standing was dug out into a smooth, hemispherical pit, as smooth as if it had been designed that way from the beginning.

"Speak of the devil and he appears..."

Qin Chuan looked at the smooth marks—this attack method was undoubtedly caused by the opponent digging out the entire spherical space from this area.

The one who could do this was none other than Vanilla Ace, the Dior subordinate whom Qin Chuan had been wary of earlier.

And its space-removing substitute, sub-space miasma!

Chapter 42 As long as the fist is hard enough

"Your name... is Qin Chuan, right?"

A deep male voice slowly echoed from the void, and under Qin Chuan's gaze, a head resembling a demon slowly emerged from the air in front of him.

This head is part of Vanilla Ace's Stand "Void Miasma," while the lower half of this Stand is twisted and stuffed into its own mouth.

The ability of the sub-void miasma is that it connects to the space of a location through that mouth, and can use this mouth to gnaw on the space within a spherical range, thereby achieving the effect of eliminating the spherical space.

Within the miasma's mouth, Vanilla Ace's face slowly emerged—he concealed his true form within the space of the miasma's mouth, thus preventing others from attacking him.

At this moment, he poked his head out and spoke to Qin Chuan, as if he were putting meaningless pressure on Qin Chuan... But Qin Chuan knew that this was actually Vanila taking this opportunity to observe his position.

By placing his own body inside the Stand's mouth, Vanilla would prevent the Stand from observing its external environment, leaving it to wander aimlessly like a headless fly.

Therefore, when he wants to launch a precise attack on a target, he must first peek out to see the target's location or predict the target's running direction before controlling his Stand to rush over and clear the space.

"Did you see it in the hotel register?"

Vanilla was confirming his own location, and Qin Chuan was also confirming Vanilla's location. Vanilla's Stand was indeed troublesome, but all he had to do was attack the moment it peeked out.

At this point, Vanilla should not have been transformed into a vampire by Dio's blood as in the original work, which is why she can appear in the sunlight.

But that also means that if Qin Chuan punches him in the head, he won't survive.

However, it was indeed Qin Chuan's mistake that Vanilla was able to call him by his name. When he signed the hotel registration book earlier, he subconsciously signed his real name.

This directly resulted in Vanilla now knowing his name... but it's not a big problem, as long as we kill Vanilla here so he can't go back to report.

In the future, when Qin Chuan encounters this situation again, he will learn his lesson and choose a pseudonym to write it down.

“That’s right, you bought the arrows from Enya, so I’ve come to check on you. If you pose no threat to Lord Dio, then I can let you go.”

Vanilla's voice carried a hint of coldness, and his eyes were filled with anger as he looked at Qin Chuan.

"But the moment I saw you, I knew it—you harbor deep malice towards Lord Dio. Although I don't know if you're with Joestar's group, I must eliminate you!"

So that's how it is. Now Qin Chuan understands too. It turns out that in the original work, after Kira Yoshihiro bought the arrows from Enya, he was probably also secretly observed by Vanilla.

However, Kira Yoshihiro did not know any Dio or the Joestar family, so Vanilla judged that Kira Yoshihiro posed no threat and let him leave Egypt.

But Qin Chuan was different. Qin Chuan knew about Dio, and Dio was his ultimate target—Vanilla, Dio's biggest fan, actually sensed this.

This is incredible to most people, but Vanilla Ace showed an extraordinary obsession with Dio in the original work, and even went so far as to cut off his own head for Dio.

Having gone this far, he could sense the malice others harbored towards Dior, and Qin Chuan actually felt he could understand it.

"Qin Chuan, I will tear you to pieces and bring the arrow back to Lord Dio!"

After uttering those harsh words, Vanilla locked her eyes on Qin Chuan's location, then withdrew her head, and the miasma in the sub-space disappeared from Qin Chuan's sight.

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