Chapter 570: Bone Powder

Do you even know what “striking an opponent from behind a mountain” means?

The copper disc was two meters in diameter, convex on both sides, hollow inside, its shell made of composite materials: the top layer was piping material casually collected from the [Zero Restart] mission, indestructible; the middle layer was powdered high-energy, high-sensitivity explosives; the lower layer and bottom half were entirely copper alloy, with the very bottom relatively thin.

The [Skull-Shattering Power Hammer]’s effect is penetration and vibration; upon striking the copper disc, the vibrational force traveled through the pipeline material in the battlefield, detonating the high-energy explosives, instantly melting the copper alloy into high-speed liquid metal.

Because the pipeline material was indestructible and naturally curved, this metal jet followed the axis, forming a slender metal rod that shot out of the breach at over ten thousand meters per second, pouring into the top of the Phase-Shifting Demon.

This differed from the damage caused by the light-speed elbow strike: the latter used cavitation effects to compress space and ignite high-pressure, high-speed air for secondary damage, but once the metal jet entered the Phase-Shifting Demon’s body, it split and fractured; the demon’s form trembled as its corrosion ability activated, attempting to assimilate the invading, cooling, solidifying metal—but the partially melted copper alloy bubbled, its surface glittering with impossibly tiny crystalline particles, never absorbed.

【Item Name: Saint’s Bone Powder】

【Type: Consumable】

【Quality: Fine】

These bone powders were purchased from the Slums, originating from a script world where demons ran rampant and mortals suffered terribly; the good news was that some devout, pure religious figures could truly release spells through faith, and their holy relics—even their remains—could serve as spell components.

This turned exorcists into a hereditary profession: before battling demons, one would take up one’s father’s sword, wear one’s grandfather’s armor, and inhale the holy bone ash of one’s great-grandfather, imbued with anti-demon properties.

If one died, one’s body would be burned to ash and passed to descendants or delivered to a church—those who long contacted Saint’s Bone Powder would see their own bones purified and sanctified, allowing for cyclical reuse.

Similar phenomena were recorded in the real world: in North and South America and Southeast Asia, the ashes of dead venomous insects were refined by drug traffickers into new illicit drugs and sold to the next generation of addicts.

Of course, a mere Fine-quality consumable could not hold back the Phase-Shifting Demon for long; in a single breath, all anti-demon properties of the bone powder were worn away.

The Phase-Shifting Demon abruptly spun its “head,” using several hollows to “gaze” at the Gray Rain and activate a certain skill.

An invisible force swept over, like countless invisible nanoscale threads, slicing through Gray Rain’s body.

Pukipaka.

Including the memory stick and CPU embedded in her hair, Gray Rain was cut into hundreds of square blocks by straight lines in every direction; fortunately, she thought quickly—she had tossed away the Skull-Shattering Power Hammer first, then horizontally positioned the [Silver Wing Optic Path] shaped like glasses, avoiding the cut.

This turned her into hundreds of figurine-sized mini-Gray Rains, scattering across the ground.

Due to the supernatural force embedded in the skill, the mini-Gray Rains could not regenerate on their own.

But this was enough—it bought sufficient time.

The rustling sound of turning pages echoed through the pure white space; the book in Li Cheng’s hand, its cover bearing a deer skull pattern, the [Disease-Defiling Tome], flipped wildly without wind.

【Effect 2: Share Suffering. Select a chapter, randomly flip to any page under that chapter, and spread the disease effect to a designated area and oneself.】