Chapter 550: Bone Powder

"Do you even know what 'striking the ox from across the mountain' means?"

The copper disc was two meters in diameter, convex on both top and bottom, hollow inside, its shell made of composite material. The topmost layer was piping construction material picked up from the 【Reset Restart】 mission—impervious to destruction. The middle layer was powdered high-energy, high-sensitivity explosive. The lower layer and bottom half were entirely copper alloy, with the very bottom being relatively thin.

The special effect of the 【Skull-Crushing Power Hammer】 was penetrating shockwave. When it struck the copper disc, the shockwave force passed through the arena's piping construction material and detonated the high-energy explosive. The resulting high temperature instantly melted the copper alloy, turning it into high-speed liquid metal.

Because the piping construction material was impervious to destruction and had a natural curvature, this portion of metal jet traveled along the axis, forming a slender metal rod that shot out through the gap at over ten thousand meters per second, pouring into the top of the Phase-Change Demon's head.

The damage this caused was somewhat different from that of the light-speed elbow strike. The latter used the cavitation effect to compress space, plus ignited high-pressure, high-speed air to cause secondary damage. But after the metal jet entered the Phase-Change Demon's body, it split and fractured. The Phase-Change Demon's form trembled, and its corrosion power activated, attempting to assimilate the metal that had invaded its body and cooled into solid. However, those half-melted copper alloys bubbled, their surfaces glinting with extremely tiny crystalline particles, and were never absorbed.

【Item Name: Saint's Bone Powder】

【Type: consumable】

【Quality: premium item】

This bone powder was purchased from Squalid Alley, originating from a certain script world where demons ran rampant and mortals suffered greatly. The good news was that some devout, pure religious figures truly could channel spells through faith, and the holy relics they left behind—even their mortal remains—could serve as spellcasting materials.

This led to exorcists becoming, to some extent, a hereditary profession. Before fighting demons, one would take up a parent generation's blade, don a grandparent's armor, and inhale a great-grandparent's sanctified bone ash with its demon-breaking properties.

If one died oneself, one would also be cremated, the ashes handed to descendants or sent to a church—those in long-term contact with saint's bone powder would have their own bones sublimated and sanctified, allowing for recycling.

Such matters are also recorded in the real world: in South America, North America, and Southeast Asia, when drug addicts die, their ashes are refined by drug dealers into new contraband drugs and sold to the next batch of addicts.

Of course, a mere premium item-quality consumable naturally couldn't hold off the Phase-Change Demon for long. In the span of a breath, all the demon-breaking bone powder was worn away.

And the Phase-Change Demon suddenly rotated its "head," using several hollows to "look" toward Hui Yu, unleashing some kind of skill.

An invisible force swept through, like countless invisible nanoscale threads slicing through Hui Yu's body.

Squelch-crack.

Including the memory module and CPU she wore in her hair, Hui Yu was sliced into over a hundred cubes by horizontal and vertical lines. Fortunately, in a flash of inspiration, she first tossed away the Skull-Crushing Power Hammer, then held the glasses-shaped 【Silver Wing Light Path】 horizontally in front of her, and only thus avoided being cut.

This also turned her into over a hundred figurine-sized little Hui Yus, scattered all over the ground.

And because the skill carried attached supernatural power, the little Hui Yus were temporarily unable to recover on their own.

But this was already enough—enough time had been bought.

The "shashasha" sound of pages turning echoed through the pure white space. The book in Li Cheng's hands, its cover printed with a deer-shaped skull pattern—the 【Book of Impure Pestilence】—began flipping wildly without any wind.

【Special Effect 2: Shared Misery. Select a chapter from the table of contents, randomly flip to a certain page under that chapter, and spread the disease effect to a designated area and oneself】