I Contracted All Ancient Divine Artifacts

Chapter 65: Chapter 65: Illusion

”It’s a barrier, and it’s a High-Tier barrier!”

Mu Yang, the elder of the Longevity Company, looked up at the crimson blood moon in the sky and murmured.

He was dumbfounded.

Mu Yang froze, but the monsters on the other side of the street did not. They turned and charged towards him.

As they ran, the mutated monsters suddenly sprouted wings on their backs and lifted off the ground, attacking at incredible speed.

Mu Yang’s expression hardened. He pulled out a green syringe and stabbed it into his arm.

The green liquid was injected into his veins and quickly flowed throughout his body with his blood.

Thump, thump, thump!

Mu Yang’s originally short hair rapidly grew, falling to his shoulders. From his shoulder blades came two sharp cracking sounds as two incredibly sharp bone blades extended from his back.

A flash of madness crossed his eyes.

This was the Superstate Type 1 Potion from the Longevity Company, refined from Tier Four Insect Race Dark Scale Blood Claw Insect. For this trip to Deep Blue City, the company equipped each of them with three vials just in case.

”We can’t escape, follow me and fight our way out!”

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”Han Zhan, look!”

Inside the villa, Xia Youwei noticed something strange by the dining table and grabbed Han Zhan’s arm.

The flesh ball enclosing Li Shutong and the Tier Nine Insect Emperor Nightmare started pulsating vigorously, and as the powerful heartbeat resounded, the previously halting flesh began spreading across the entire villa area again!

The speed wasn’t fast, but swallowing the entire villa was only a matter of time!

”Looks like we have to leave here now.”

”Follow me closely, inform each other if anything unusual happens!”

Saying this, Han Zhan was the first to push the door open and step out.

He had just awakened the Celestial Serpent Body, his defense was strong enough, and with the Eight Urgent Fist protecting him, he could react immediately to any danger.

But as soon as he pushed open the door, the scene outside left Han Zhan dumbfounded.

Disappeared.

Everything had disappeared.

Only thick gray fog remained, enveloping everything, making it impossible to see what was within.

He stepped out, while reminding Xia Youwei and Li Lingzhen behind him, ”Stay close to me!”

No one responded.

Han Zhan quickly turned around and was shocked to discover that the villa behind him had vanished!

Xia Youwei and Li Lingzhen were nowhere to be found.

When did this happen?

He had only taken one step, how was this possible?

Faced with unknown terror, Han Zhan instinctively released the Three Urgent, releasing white mist from his body.

It spread like a net, slowly merging into the surrounding gray mist.

Han Zhan used the white mist’s perception to scout and stay alert.

At this moment, a shadow flashed through the gray mist before Han Zhan.

”It” stirred the entire gray mist, like a gust of wind, tangling the gray within a mass.

Whoosh—

A chilling breeze brushed Han Zhan’s neck, the bone-piercing cold raised every hair on his body.

Without thinking, Han Zhan twisted and threw a punch into the gray mist behind him.

The fist slipped into the mist, hitting nothing tangible, retreating empty-handed.

Just when Han Zhan thought there was no one behind him, a powerful force suddenly struck his abdomen, bending him over to endure the hit.

If someone was beside him at that moment, they would see that the instant Han Zhan was attacked, a faint layer of transparent scales appeared on his skin.

The scales resembled snake skin patterns, with slight variations.

As the gray mist attack hit Han Zhan, the Celestial Serpent Body activated instantly, with snake scales absorbing most of the impact, and the Eight Urgent Fist’s white mist armor unraveled immediately.

Even so, Han Zhan still coughed up bitter liquid.

Despite the dual protection of the Celestial Serpent Body and Eight Urgent Fist’s white mist armor, he still spat out bitter liquid, and crucially, he hadn’t seen what had attacked him.

With these thoughts, Han Zhan grew more cautious.

Yet, in the next second, his back suffered a second attack.

This time, it was a blade.

It sliced through the white mist armor and struck the protective scale armor of the Celestial Serpent Body, sparking, then finally slicing through the defense, leaving a bloody mark on Han Zhan!

In the state of Three Urgent release, Han Zhan’s reaction speed was extraordinarily fast.

But even so, he still couldn’t respond and couldn’t see the attacker’s movements!

Han Zhan felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

”This is, after all, the Tier Nine Insect Emperor’s barrier, how can I withstand the Tier Nine Insect Emperor’s attacks? No, I can’t withstand them!”

”Youwei and Lingzhen have disappeared, and we’ll be picked off one by one, completely defenseless.”

”It’s too strong, it’s too strong, I can’t resist, I can only take the hits, take the hits...”

Han Zhan’s mental state quickly deteriorated, and despite focusing entirely, he couldn’t defend against the attacks. With negative emotions dominating his mind, he completely gave up.

More and more attacks rained on him from the gray mist.

The wounds on Han Zhan’s body kept increasing.

He barely stayed conscious, and as he was about to perish, many images flashed through his mind, rousing his heavy mind in an instant!

”No, no!”

”This isn’t right!”

Why do I think that the attacks within the Tier Nine Insect Emperor Nightmare’s barrier must be of Tier Nine level?

Know this, the attacks from the gray mist didn’t even break my body’s defense at first!

When did they start getting stronger?

The first attack, it made me spit out bitter liquid, because I couldn’t see its move and panicked due to Li Lingzhen and Xia Youwei’s disappearance.

That’s why the intensity of the second attack escalated, barely breaking my defense.

After the defense was breached, my mental pressure increased, becoming more fearful of this unseen enemy in the gray mist, and then the attacks became more frequent and stronger.

But this has a flaw!

”I haven’t triggered the threshold of life and death with the Eight Urgent Fist.”

Han Zhan looked at his hands, yes, even now, when his entire body was riddled with wounds and bleeding profusely, he still hadn’t triggered the threshold, and the amount of white mist hadn’t increased at all.

What does this mean?

It means my situation hasn’t reached life or death crisis level.

This is a decision bug!

”Your attacks aren’t strong at all!”

”That first attack made me spit bitter liquid only because Li Lingzhen and Xia Youwei’s disappearance created an emotional flaw.”

”I’ve heard Gongyang Jin talk about it, she said that the true terror of the Nightmare is playing with people’s minds.”

”So, what I’m seeing and experiencing now, everything is an illusion!”

It’s all an illusion!

When Han Zhan uttered these words, his entire demeanor soared and revived.

As a practitioner of the Eight Urgent Fist, Han Zhan, having faced life and death many times, possessed an extremely resilient mind. Having conquered death itself, how could he fear an illusion!

With this thought, he closed his eyes completely.

Not only that, but he also actively dismissed the Three Urgent state, forsaking the Celestial Serpent Body, placing himself entirely in the gray mist.

”Come on, if you can, then kill me.”