Chapter 596: Chapter 596 Forced to Make a Move
Fei Zai was no help, and Lin Shen once again found himself in a tough fight.
In actual combat, Lin Shen realized the defense techniques he had trained were utterly useless; he lacked the strength to block the opponent’s attack, and taking hits would only result in injury.
Ordinary injuries were one thing, but being hit directly by a black ray from Changhen Dongli was another, where not dying would still mean losing half of one’s life, an unbearable cost.
Defending oneself with life-risking measures was completely ineffective against two Changhen Donglis.
Lin Shen had thought it a good plan to trade life for life, but reality proved that he would be ganged up on. How many would engage in a one-on-one death match?
Lin Shen frustratingly discovered that his defensive techniques were a waste of effort and not as strong as he had imagined.
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His movement technique was the main reason he hadn’t been killed by the two Changhen Donglis; the Surfing Step, which was a product of Stepping on the Immortal Court and further blended with the Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals, allowed Lin Shen to accelerate continuously with every advance, retreat, and lateral move.
Only with his attribute and Wei’s blessing was he barely able to keep his life under the joint assault of the two Changhen Donglis.
Of course, most of it still depended on Death Powder’s containment; without Death Powder, his body would have probably cooled long ago.
Crack!
Lin Shen was a fraction too slow in dodging, and several of his ribs were broken by the black light, causing fresh blood to seep from his mouth.
“I have to risk it all now!” Lin Shen could no longer hold on, and Fei Zai was no help, merely watching from a distance, afraid to enter the battlefield.
If he continued like this, he would be killed by the two Changhen Donglis, so he had to risk using the power of the Sacrificial Halo.
Although the two Changhen Donglis looked identical, Lin Shen could tell them apart.
The Changhen Dongli that hid inside the Life Base and the one that appeared out of thin air were actually slightly different.
Lin Shen had been observing them, noting that although their skills and abilities were the same, their attack directions were different.
Here there was a left-right reversal issue, and it took Lin Shen a long time to acclimate to this strange environment.
When the two Changhen Donglis attacked with the same skill, their left and right hands were reversed; from this detail, he could distinguish between them.
The one whose hands weren’t reversed was the Changhen Dongli that appeared out of thin air, while the reversed one came from the Life Base.
But which of the two Changhen Donglis was the Life Base clone and which was the real body was not easy to say.
Theoretically, the one that entered the Life Base and came back out should be the real body.
However, the attacks of the Changhen Dongli from before were not inverted, whereas the one that came out from the Life Base now had inverted attacks.
Conversely, the one that appeared out of thin air had attacks that were consistent with the previous Changhen Donglis.
Moreover, the first time Changhen Dongli used the Life Base, the real body entered and then died, so Lin Shen concluded that the one that appeared out of nowhere was the real Changhen Dongli, and the one inside the Life Base was the clone.
Lin Shen needed to strike the one that appeared out of nowhere, the one whose attacks were not reversed.
The only problem was whether Changhen Dongli would still remain unharmed while his clone existed.
If things were still the same as before, Lin Shen should have attacked the clone, forcing them to share the damage and die together.
The issue was that Lin Shen wasn’t sure if this was still the case; under the siege of two Changhen Donglis, he didn’t have the ability to harm Changhen Dongli to verify his thoughts. If he used the Sacrificial Halo now, it would be a risky gamble.
Lin Shen didn’t want to gamble, but his body was on the verge of collapse. His carapace had been swept away bit by bit by the black light, and his body was covered in wounds. Even super reconstitution couldn’t repair the damage in time, leaving his body bloodied as if just pulled from a vat of red dye.
Lin Shen didn’t want to gamble, and there was another consideration; even if he found the real body of Changhen Dongli and killed it, it wasn’t certain whether it would be of any use.
There had been legends of Changhen Dongli annihilating the Dongli Clan, which Lin Shen didn’t quite understand before.
Now he knew that Changhen Dongli hadn’t annihilated the Dongli Clan at all, but the creatures of that planet that he had used as hosts.
The real truth seemed to be that Changhen Dongli performed a heritage ritual on a planet, turning its creatures into carriers for the heritage.
Waiting for the heritage seeds to grow and mature within those hosts, they eventually turned into Changhen Donglis. To become the true inheritors, they slaughtered each other on the planet until only one true Changhen Dongli remained. The planet’s original creatures were eradicated, and the other Changhen Donglis were killed too.
It was likely that someone saw the dead Changhen Donglis and assumed Changhen Dongli had wiped out the Dongli Clan.
In fact, it was just a heritage ritual; the real victims were the planet’s original creatures.
If Changhen Dongli were to repeat this on the Human Mother Planet, humanity’s fate would be the same as the creatures on that planet.
These concerns were for the future and didn’t need to be considered for the moment.
What truly made Lin Shen wary was the fact that during the inheritance, the heritage seeds residing in different hosts would likely endow them with a variety of abilities.
Lin Shen had this speculation naturally because the Black-Carapace Changhen Dongli differed from the other Changhen Donglis.
If his guess was correct, the Blue-Cap Mushroom Beasts likely hosted the Blue-Carapace Changhen Dongli – the Nirvana creatures Lin Shen and his group often encountered in the subterranean space.
Pushing that logic further, the Black-Capped Mushroom Beasts likely hosted the Black-Carapace Changhen Dongli. Considering his use of black light abilities, which was so similar to the Black-Capped Mushroom Beasts Lin Shen had previously encountered, he couldn’t help but draw connections.
If the Black-Capped Mushroom Beasts were indeed the hosts for Changhen Dongli, Lin Shen was certain that Changhen Dongli’s abilities had not yet been fully revealed and some sort of power remained hidden.
“Could the Black-Capped Mushroom Beasts truly have come from the subterranean space? But that doesn’t make sense, the Blue-Cap Mushroom Beasts bred here are of Nirvana Level, and the level of the Black-Capped Mushroom Beasts at that time wasn’t that high. Furthermore, the levels of the Blue Mushroom Beasts at that time were also low, nowhere near the Nirvana Level Blue-Cap Mushroom Beasts here,” Lin Shen couldn’t think too much about it, his situation was already perilous.
Lin Shen kept eyeing the two Changhen Donglis, having made up his mind to use the Sacrificial Halo.
His body just couldn’t take it anymore; if the fight continued, Death Powder would be fine, but he would be beaten to death.
Suddenly, Lin Shen felt a power surge within his body, bursting forth from within him.
Lin Shen was slightly startled – the Life Base Contrarian, which he never used in combat, had unexpectedly emerged from his body on its own.
“Why are you coming out now? Isn’t this just a senseless death?” Lin Shen thought, frustrated.