Chapter 822: Chapter 632: Zero Hourglass
“Speaking of which, Tamasi, why are you affected by fantasy creations like the “Sanctuary” and “Mirror of Flowers”?”
Outside the blue gate of the church ruins, Ash was quite puzzled: “But most spiritual miracles that do not cause physical phenona are ineffective on you… Even the Truth Mist Wall, a barrier miracle, seems to be ineffective for you now!”
Just monts ago, the Black Crow walked through the Mist Wall under everyone’s watch and took out the items behind it.
This scene left everyone stunned—if you could cheat, why didn’t you say so earlier! Do you think we would look down on a cheating dog? We would just cling to your coattails!
The Black Crow was also a bit embarrassed: “I actually never triggered the ‘Truth Link’ from the beginning, it’s just that I didn’t… haven’t much education… so I didn’t think much about it, and you all have ways to break the Truth Link.”
“It was only just now that I rembered, since I never triggered the ‘Truth Link,’ the Mist Wall might be ineffective for too? I didn’t expect that touching it would let pass through.”
Tamasi Ya Sha Jin, as a Void Realm insulator, though exceptionally gifted, could never beco a mage and was not affected by most Technique Spirits, to the extent that he had to heal himself manually, sothing even Qikara knew. However, no one expected that the Black Crow’s characteristic of ignoring Technique Spirit influences would be so effective in such a scenario.
This is why Ash had such a question—why is the Black Crow sotis affected, and sotis not?
“It’s due to the level of fantasy,” Igula speculated: “Creations like the ‘Sanctuary’ and ‘Mirror of Flowers’ are idealism creations, where Technique Spirits probably only play a role in setting the atmosphere, and are unlikely to have much effect.”
“The more absurd the fantasy creation, the less the Black Crow can resist; the more it approaches realistic miracles, the more they are ineffective on the Black Crow.”
Regarding Tamasi’s characteristics, everyone can only speculate and cannot confirm for sure, as this concerns not only him but his interaction with the world of Senluo. Comparatively, everyone was more interested in what he brought out from behind the Mist Wall.
In fact, he didn’t bring anything out, just a faintly glowing hourglass icon on the back of his hand.
According to him, there was a giant hourglass behind the Mist Wall, and when he saw it, his hand felt a heat, and then this pattern appeared. After seeing the Black Crow’s hourglass, Ash and the others also felt a heat on their hands, each gaining an hourglass tattoo—this alone made them realize it was definitely an ultra-fantasy creation.
A characteristic of ‘replicating and spreading just by sight’ is typically applied in combat scenarios, such as being used as a disease, curse, or other negative debuffs. Applying such a feature to an ordinary item is sothing only the idealistic Senluo would do so extravagantly.
After obtaining the hourglass pattern, they also received information about this one-ti item.
“Sanctuary: Temporary Hourglass: Usable once”
“Effect: Once activated, the body’s ti stops, and the soul is in stasis, awakening only after 12 hours. When the hourglass activates, you beco immune to all damage, and after the sand has run out, for the next 600 seconds, you are immune to all external influences, and the spiritual body clears all negative states, restoring to absolute health.”
Ash exchanged glances with Igula and Harvey, eyes filled with boundless delight.
This item not only ans they can escape the ‘ti prison’ of the Dead City—besides the ‘immune to all external influences for 600 seconds after waking,’ just being asleep for 12 hours allows them to escape the night’s clutches.
More importantly, ‘the spiritual body clears all negative states, restoring to absolute health’!
Damaged souls and broken bodies can be fully restored!
No wonder the legendary success rate of Gray Fox Mages is so high; even if they drown in the Void Realm, are eaten by Fish-Slicing Dragons, or crushed by the Heroic Soul Army, they can quickly recover from soul injuries with such idealism creations, clocking in nightly without yielding to the Void Realm’s malice—yes, since they can create idealism creations without limit, they would naturally prioritize creating tools to aid their cultivation and learning!
Gray Fox Mages are not brainless; no matter what their beliefs and ideals, they understand that the higher their power, the easier it is to reach their goals. And they also realize their idealism creations only work in ‘reality’; the Void Realm will not acknowledge their randomly concocted private server items.
Therefore, the correct approach for Gray Fox Mages is to use idealism creations to offset their disadvantages in the Void Realm and shortcomings in talent!
Thus, they have creations like the ‘Truth Link’ which forcefully instill knowledge points, and the ‘Sanctuary: Temporary Hourglass’ which can heal soul injuries!
It’s just that Ash and the others arrived over two hundred years too late; if they could have co during the Gray Fox Era’s pri, they might have seen auxiliary fantasy facilities for exploring the Void Realm such as the ‘Wind, Flower, Snow, Moon Harmony Prohibition Sauna Room,’ ‘Flowing Gold River Swimming Pool,’ or ‘Fish-Slicing Dragon Combat Arena.’
For ordinary people wanting to learn any magic faction, there’s no need to fear a lack of talent, just use the ‘Truth Link’ to forcefully enter!
It was a glorious era, an era of mages’ prosperity.
Knowing more of the inside story, Igula felt it deeply.
Compared to Senluo, the Extre Master of Blood Moon had the least interference with the Blood Moon, so the developnt level of the Kingdom of Blood Moon was the weakest;
The All-knowing Weaver sent divine beings to interfere with the Gospel, which led the entire nation’s civilization to be based on the Gospel System, and if this system is destroyed, the entire nation would collapse and regress;
Lord Senluo Zhan transford Senluo completely, even becoming the Dream Master of Senluo’s mirage himself, causing Senluo to erupt with multiple eras of prosperity, with a developnt level likely the highest among all nations, but if Lord Senluo Zhan encounters issues, the entire nation would be buried with it.
Perhaps the Divine Lords do not love mankind, but in the face of the examination of civilization, they all answered seriously.
However, for Ash and the others, the fantasy healing effect of the ‘Temporary Hourglass’ ans they can lift the Bloodline Curse even without having killed the Silver Lamp.
After nearly two months of relentless pursuit, they finally achieved half their goal.
“Aside from the Temporary Hourglass, what else was behind the Mist Wall?” Igula asked.
The Black Crow shook his head, “There’s nothing there, just a huge hourglass. And I’ve tried many ways, but can’t take it down no matter how hard I try. However…”
He paused, “A few lines of text appeared beside the hourglass.”
“What did they say?” Ash asked before realizing, “Can you write those down from mory?”
The Black Crow fell silent. Although no one could see his expression, they could all imagine the embarrassnt under his mask.
He squatted down and began drawing on the floor.
Igula went over to take a look and saw only a crooked, bizarre symbol that couldn’t match any text. Sensing sothing, he asked, “Do all texts appear to be crawling and writhing in your eyes?”
The Black Crow nodded slightly.
No wonder!
Igula had long been puzzled as to why a combat genius like the Black Crow couldn’t read. After all, the Ya Sha Jin sect wasn’t without basic education, and the Black Crow’s combat talent proved he had a high intellect. Learning to read should be a walk in the park for him.
Even if he didn’t know complex characters, he should at least know basic numbers, right? But he couldn’t even understand numbers!
It turns out the Black Crow’s illiteracy wasn’t due to external factors, but because he had a severe reading disability!
Igula had previously browsed information about such conditions, and it was said that people with this condition could understand simple patterns, but couldn’t read any text with informational content. For them, text was not identifiable as static, inert objects but lived and wriggled!
Do people with this condition also face aversion from the Void Realm? Igula didn’t know. After all, unless soone’s talent was so exceptional that ‘it’s unreasonable not to be a mage,’ no one would be surprised if soone with a reading disability didn’t beco a mage.
As for whether the Black Crow was truly scorned by the Void Realm, nobody was really sure. Maybe mages just wanted to find a reason for the Black Crow’s unusualness, after all, they couldn’t just be beaten by an ‘ordinary person,’ right? Especially those mages who had been brutalized by the Black Crow, how could they accept losing to a re mortal?
Thus the rumors of the ‘Void Realm Insulator, Ya Sha Jin Maniac’ erged.
Igula even suspected that the initial Tamasi was an ordinary person who couldn’t beco a mage due to a reading disability. But as the rumors spread, he slowly acquired effects like ‘immune to technique spirits,’ truly becoming an insulator—in the idealistic Senluo world, the people’s deification or demonization of him beca the source of his strength.
But this way, they wouldn’t be able to know the ssages behind the fog wall unless they waited for Ash to gain citizenship and go in to check. However, not only Ash, but they all wouldn’t be willing to hold out here for three years.
“However, we still need to test the effect of the ‘Zero Ti Hourglass’ first…”
Being always cautious, Igula naturally wouldn’t completely believe in this illusion creation. So, he looked at the outsiders in their group: Gwen and Qikara.
The Beastman brother scratched his head. Since he had already slid to his knees, he was naturally prepared to do the dirty, laborious tasks. But Gwen raised her hand, “I’ll be the first to test it.”
“…Alright.”
Upon receiving approval, Gwen pressed the hourglass symbol on her hand, but nothing happened. It wasn’t until Igula waved his hand in front of her that they realized her hourglass had activated.
The Spirit Mage examined her closely and discovered that even though Gwen’s eyes were open, there were no ntal waves in her mind, and her soul was completely dormant. Then he let Black Crow try and found that even the Gray Fox Blade couldn’t harm Gwen at all, nor could it move a single finger of hers.
Gwen was completely embedded in ti, unaffected by any external influence. Igula laid her horizontally on the ground and said, “It’s basically the sa as the description—though unaware during the hourglass countdown, you’re completely safe; even a Silver Lamp can’t harm us.”
“In other words, we can escape the Dead City at any ti.”
“But it’s rare to have an environnt entirely free from external interference and independent from normal ti passage,” Igula glanced at the group, “You guys should also want to take this opportunity to cultivate, right?”
Everyone nodded, especially the Black Crow, who was already cracking his knuckles.
Only Ash’s face suddenly dropped, “Um, I’m feeling a bit tired, maybe—”
“Ash, didn’t you say before that you wanted to learn combat energy and ntal thods from ?” Black Crow grabbed Ash’s arm, “We never had the chance before, tonight I’ll teach you my life’s greatest skill!”
“If I say it was just politeness, will I get beaten up?”
“Yes.”
“Alright, how do you plan to teach ? Surely we’re not starting with basic physical training?”
“No need, your physical foundation is decent, so we can jump right into practical training.”
“Practical training, aning…?”
“You’ll get beaten up.”
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