[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-ring-of-fate":3,"chapter-the-ring-of-fate-the-ring-of-fate-chapter-829":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Ring of Fate",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2298798,4496,"Chapter 829: Blind War","the-ring-of-fate-chapter-829",829,"\u003Cp>Morola, fifth floor of the Church of Knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A law enforcer in a black robe stood by the window, gazing at the entrance to the subterranean mausoleum, monstrous in scale.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his eyes reflected the figure of Lu Mi descending step by step along the gray-white stone stairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somewhere in Morola, Albus Medich stood likewise by the window, but within his pupils reflected not the building ten meters away, but the graveyard and Lu Mi’s figure invisible from this street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is it about to begin?” the descendant of the “Red Angel” chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mi, blindfolded, moved steadily through the darkness, following the map in his mind, drawing closer to the sensed “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is the end; need to turn left… It really is identical to the textbook illustration…” Lu Mi extended his right hand—not holding the calcium lamp—and touched something cold and hard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must be a wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He turned left immediately, walked a short distance further, then halted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sensed the “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” head was two or three meters to his right, and the surroundings were utterly silent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mi shifted his body and extended his right palm toward that direction; he still touched only cold, hard wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Behind the wall? Hmm, according to the illustration, there should be a room behind it; the door is another five meters ahead…” Though blind, Lu Mi relied on knowledge now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He counted his steps, reached the spot where the door should be, reached out, and confirmed it was wood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mi groped for the handle, turned it gently, and pushed open the slightly ajar door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he muttered inwardly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Could Albus have just tossed the Severed Hand’s head to this exact spot?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even a bouncy ball wouldn’t bounce this far—though the entrance isn’t far, there are two turns, and the door’s closed…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Was the door closed later?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mi grew more cautious, listening intently for sounds behind the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a single sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He slowly, slowly stepped into the room, walking toward the corner where the special connection was now crystal clear and the stench of decay continuously emanated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His right hand reached into the “Traveler’s Satchel,” ready to draw the “Sword of Courage,” while his left hand, holding the calcium lamp, stretched forward to feel for the “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The head was positioned higher than Lu Mi expected—not on the ground, but placed on some kind of shelf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next instant, Lu Mi’s knuckles touched something slick, wet, and gently wriggling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five cold, finger-like objects instantly clamped down, gripping his left fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mi’s scalp went numb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To encounter this while blind was double, no—quadruple, quintuple terror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no idea what this thing was!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could only be certain it wasn’t the “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” head—that was just a head!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, Lu Mi ignited blazing white flame in his left fist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fist didn’t retreat—it surged forward, accelerating abruptly and sharply, striking with a sharp crack between the five finger-like things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The violent explosion blasted apart the slick, wet “fingers”; Lu Mi immediately activated his already half-charged black sigil on the right shoulder, flashing behind the object he suspected was the “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmph!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mi expelled two streams of white light from his nostrils.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt he’d struck the target.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t wait for the opponent to collapse; his left fist, still clutching the calcium lamp, blazed with fire as he slammed it forward, while his right hand remained poised to draw the “Sword of Courage.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>THUD!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mi felt as if he’d struck a piece of dead yet elastic wood; he instantly detonated the accumulated flame energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>BOOM!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The furious wind surge hurled the slick, wet “wood” several meters forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then the thing fell utterly still, making no thud as it hit the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mi cautiously transformed into a spear of blazing white flame and shot after it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt he pierced through a withered tree filled with rust and flesh, landing before the “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” head amid a stench that filled his nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throughout this, he encountered no resistance, no tangible counterattack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is that it?” Lu Mi, completely blind, felt uncertain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He kept his right hand inside the “Traveler’s Satchel,” clamped the calcium lamp’s handle between his teeth, extended his left hand upward at an angle, and remained ready to activate the “Astral Transit” pact ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the frozen silence, Lu Mi touched a slimy, foul-smelling, flaccid mass of flesh, then a greasy, repulsive tangle of “weeds.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“These must be the Severed Hand’s hair… no other anomalies…” Lu Mi gathered courage and continued probing downward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, he touched what felt like a decaying neck, then a “shoulder” with distinct wounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Shoulder… Lu Mi had expected it, yet still flinched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could the “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” head have grown its own body?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After waiting several seconds without sudden attack, Lu Mi raised his left palm, gripped the tangle of “weeds” he assumed were hair, and pulled them toward himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he increased his strength, a wet, reluctant “plop” echoed ahead, like pulling a wine cork.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mi’s center of gravity wobbled, as if his force had met nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had torn the target’s head clean off!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost simultaneously, his right hand inside the “Traveler’s Satchel” sensed the two corpse fragments of the “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” stirring—but they couldn’t breach spatial barriers, only wriggling toward each other, slowly pushing aside piles of debris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So this is the Severed Hand’s head… then who just tried to shake my hand?” Lu Mi’s mind flashed with scenes:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A head flying with a bloodied spine trailing behind it; a headless corpse chasing after the head…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The subterranean mausoleum sealing ‘0—01’ had similar headless corpses—did one of them claim the Severed Hand’s head as its own, grafting it onto its neck? No wonder Albus’s casual throw sent the head ‘running’ here…” Lu Mi swiftly formed a theory, finding the situation both absurd and horrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the headless corpse and the “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” head remained fused for half a year or a year, something terrible might happen…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mi dared not place the “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” head into the “Traveler’s Satchel”—it would inevitably trigger corpse aggregation, summoning the “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” and completing its reassembly. He planned to do so only after encountering Zhu Li, Sarist, Albus, or Vanac.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He held the “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” head in his left hand, along with the calcium lamp for show, preparing to leave the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Suddenly, Lu Mi sensed something and flinched his right shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He felt something trying to pat him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But when he dodged, no anomaly remained—only silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blazing white flame erupted across Lu Mi’s body, swelling into a spherical form and thrusting outward in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It ignited the very object that had once held the “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unable to see, Lu Mi didn’t obsess over what had tried to pat his shoulder; recalling the prior battle, he quickly determined his current position and orientation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he walked steadily back to the door and stepped out, behaving as if he could see every detail of the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally securing the “Pus-Swollen Severed Hand” head gave Lu Mi slight confidence; following the 3D map in his mind, he descended toward the lower level of the mausoleum, packed with soldier dolls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wrapped in layers of white bandages over his eyes, he turned right at times, moved forward, descended stairs, and felt his way to open heavy or simple doors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never forgot to activate the brass talisman with Ancient Hermes script, one ear learning, the other monitoring surrounding sounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he walked, a flame suddenly coalesced in Lu Mi’s right palm and flung sideways, forming a blazing straight sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed to cleave something—but perhaps it was only an illusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lu Mi didn’t sustain the flame sword, let it die out, and didn’t investigate whether the encounter was real or a hallucination from extreme tension and loss of sight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though none of the knowledge he possessed explicitly stated this, his prior experience gave him a hunch:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the subterranean mausoleum, whatever you believe to be real, likely becomes real!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as it doesn’t directly threaten you, treat hidden dangers as nonexistent!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After completing another flight of stairs, Lu Mi suddenly felt dozens of eyes watching him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, he had the urge to tear off the bandages covering his face and see what was happening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plop—a cold drop landed on the back of his left hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was slightly sticky, yet Lu Mi smelled no blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plop, plop, plop—the cold “raindrops” grew more numerous, more urgent, like a sudden downpour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the mausoleum, twenty to thirty meters below ground, a “downpour” had begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What the hell is going on? What does it look like around me?… That book only mentioned a large hall here, that walking straight would reach the exit—but gave no layout, no details about what was inside… Lu Mi endured the soaking “rain,” under countless watching eyes, and stepped forward with his right foot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>THUD!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A drumbeat suddenly rang out, as if striking Lu Mi’s heart, filling him with a nauseating urge to vomit blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>THUD THUD THUD!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The drumming grew clearer, more intense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Lu Mi faintly heard a thin, irritating, whispering laugh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1555,"2026-06-20T06:22:37.987Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","3ccd637e16447df308a85b43b07775fa7257f00cf08d704ca637f73f20faaec9","the-ring-of-fate-chapter-830","the-ring-of-fate-chapter-828",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-ring-of-fate-cover.jpg"]