Chapter 856: Snake Skin and Temple Oil Painting

Feisu Chinese.

He held the sword with both hands and slashed a 【Moonlight Slash】 forward. The brilliant moonlight temporarily illuminated the corridor, but it went straight through the snake's head, as if the snake was really just an illusion.

The snake looked at Xia De, moving slowly but with increasingly strong whisper power, swimming toward him.

【Because I don't know the relic's characteristics, I can't know the specific reason. But just now contacting that snake, it can be determined that the opponent is in a physical state.】

"Then why..."

【When your attack touches its snake skin, the corresponding position is transformed into a special void state. You did hit the target, but failed to hurt the opponent. This should be one of the relic's characteristics.】

"Attack where, where will it become void?"

Xia De understood, and to deal with this kind of enemy, the best method seems to be to attack the opponent's whole body in an instant, but there is also the possibility that the opponent can fully virtualize.

"It's really a troublesome relic. No wonder he dared to perform such a task with only three rings. When I was three rings..."

Thinking about what he was doing when he was three rings, Xia De thought again:

"However, since it's not avoiding the attack, but making the attack invalid, then it's not really without weaknesses."

He thought of another method, and the pitch-black Sin Chain flowed out from his left sleeve. The 【Gluttony】, 【Greed】, and 【Sloth】 runes written in the languages of different eras were connected and intertwined on the chain. After associating 【Sloth】 with this extraordinary art through the ritual, the strength and length of the Sin Chain became better than before.

Coupled with the cooperation of the curse - 【Living Rope Trick】 learned from "The Pink Book", Xia De can now control this chain more freely.

The slender black chain climbed toward the giant snake along the carpet in the darkness, and the pitch-black giant snake also crawled toward Xia De. When the chain and the giant snake touched, the latter didn't care about this slender "peer" at all. As Xia De expected, the Sin Chain tried to bind the snake, but it still passed through the snake's body.

And at this moment, the giant snake that was climbing paused abruptly, and at the same time, Xia De felt that his spirit was consuming rapidly because the chain was imprisoning an extremely powerful guy:

"Sure enough, although it can't be attacked, it can still be imprisoned!"

The giant snake didn't stop completely, but its wriggling body was like being hit by a not-so-clever petrification spell.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xia De took a step forward, appeared directly in front of the giant snake, and slashed down with both hands. The silver moon light mark left a brilliant afterglow in the darkness. But at this moment, the imprisoned giant black snake actually melted into the darkness, and Xia De's attack missed again:

"Space movement relying on darkness? What kind of creature did that snake skin originally belong to?"

【Left side.】

Clang~

The greatsword swung toward the strange triangular snake head that bit from the left. Clearly, the snake had escaped the chain by relying on the space movement ability, but Xia De's sword didn't pass through the snake head, but really slashed on the snake head, making a heavy collision sound:

"Space power and virtualization power, cannot be used at the same time?"

The Moonlight Greatsword pushed the snake away with force. The giant snake that landed hissed and flicked its tongue at Xia De, looking at the human in front of it in the darkness, it was becoming more and more powerful.

"Space Stability Halo!"

Xia De stepped on the ground with his left foot, and invisible ripples spread toward the surroundings. The black snake seemed to feel something and turned to retreat.

"Sin Chain!"

The chain slid toward the ground again. The giant snake wanted to dodge nimbly, but "The Pink Book"'s 【Living Rope Trick】 specifically restrained this kind of flexible movement. Even the most agile lady would find it difficult to dodge a rope manipulated by a trick, let alone a snake. Therefore, in the short confrontation between the snake tail and the chain, it was still pierced by the chain.

The snake head turned slowly toward Xia De, opened its mouth to reveal sharp teeth, as if wanting to make a desperate strike, but Xia De would no longer give it a chance. The last thing the snake saw was the incomparably brilliant moonlight.

"Moonlight Greatsword!"

The silver greatsword fell behind the giant snake, passed through the snake head, and scattered into dots of brilliance in the darkness.

Plop~

The snake head fell on the carpet, and the heavy corpse fell with it.

Xia De breathed a sigh of relief, noticing that as the giant snake corpse burned, the gas lamps in the corridor lit up quickly. But he still frowned, because inside the burning snake corpse, the man's body appeared again, and the corpse's head was broken just like the snake corpse:

"This relic is really evil."

When the last pitch-black fire disappeared, the giant snake corpse was completely burned into ashes, leaving only the man's corpse lying on the carpet, but strangely, no blood flowed out. In the man's mouth, a small piece of snake skin was exposed.

Xia De bent down and pulled the snake skin from the corpse's mouth, confirming that this was the relic itself. Probably because Xia De just defeated it, its whisper elements were much weaker than just now:

"Document-level (Level 4) trophy, but this thing is really disgusting."

Clipping the snake skin into his notebook, Xia De simply searched the man's corpse, but found nothing:

"Going out without a wallet, without confidential letters, not even a diary? Is he poorer than me?"

He complained in a low voice, restored the canvas toy with a handkerchief, and turned the corpse into a toy with the canvas.

Looking at the corridor damaged by the short battle just now, he took a deep breath, 【Breath of Time】 reversed time, and restored everything to its original appearance.

Without staying here for long, Xia De continued to walk forward along the corridor. After going up the stairs, he soon came to the door of Miss Sylvia's lounge, but there was no response after knocking.

"Sorry, please forgive my rudeness."

Xia De said softly, turned the handle, and pushed the door open.

It was a pity that although the lights were on in the room, there was no one there. The windows of the room were tightly closed, and the thick embroidered curtains covered the moonlight outside the window.

"Where did Miss Sylvia go?"

He walked quickly to the window, pulled the curtains, and looked outside. The garden that should have had gas lamps was pitch black at this moment, but relying on dark vision, Xia De could see three low-ring mages of the church fighting with a five-ring mage holding a flower pot, and could also see a six-ring mage of the Machinery Church building machinery in the void, fighting with a six-ring mage manipulating vines.

There were at least a dozen people fighting in the garden of this manor, and the two sides were the church and the hired Pantanal Voodoo Society, and it was obvious that the church had the upper hand, but everyone tacitly did not use curses and extraordinary arts with obvious sound and light effects.

Xia De didn't find Miss Sylvia's trail in the garden, frowned and looked at the room again, then closed his eyes, held his breath, and concentrated. Following the faint inspiration, he opened his eyes and came to the door, then looked at the oil painting facing the door:

"There is a problem with this painting."

The gas lamps in the corridor were very bright, and the red carpet under his feet even looked like a scarlet color in the light.

The oil painting under the gas lamp was a gray temple located in the dense forest, like a pyramid. The temple was built of square bricks, and giant trees and vines almost completely submerged it. At first glance, there was nothing special, just an ordinary ruin landscape painting, but staring at the painting, there was a faint illusion of being sucked in.

In the blinking of an eye, the oil painting screen turned into a strange, indescribable thing made of trees, vines, grass, flowers, and thorns, but after blinking again, it turned back to its original appearance.

Xia De took a step back in surprise, but soon came to the wall. Reaching out to take down the oil painting, he felt four elements at the moment of contact.

He reached out to touch the screen, but his hand was immediately bounced away by a huge force:

"What's the situation?"

【A sub-space is sealed in the painting, similar to "Language of Sublimation" and "Lost Lock", but not the former two. Emma Sylvia is likely in it, and can feel the witch's power in the painting.】

"Can I go in?"

Xia De frowned slightly. Although he didn't know what was going on, as long as he found Miss Sylvia, all problems could be solved.

【Use your sword to pierce it. But you have to be careful, similar spaces are easy to enter, but difficult to leave.】

"I know."

His right hand pulled the Moonlight Greatsword from the air again, but this time it was the slender yellow greatsword. Xia De held the sword with both hands, pointed the tip of the sword at the oil painting screen, and his expression was serious:

"I want to see what happened."

The tip of the sword pierced into the oil painting, and the bright light in the corridor suddenly went out. Everything around was fading, and those illusory colors were reorganizing rapidly.

Xia De looked around vigilantly, and the stench and rot came. He was standing in a tunnel with sewage flowing on the ground. The stone walls around were covered with green plants. These plants emitted green ghostly light, providing lighting here.

This looked like the interior of an ancient building that had long been abandoned in the big swamp. This desolate tunnel exuded a sense of antiquity and vicissitudes, and nature and mystery seemed to be perfectly integrated here.

Carefully observing the stone walls covered with green plants, carefully looking at the shallow flowing water at his feet. Walking forward along the tunnel, the things on the wall that emitted faint light like tree roots, or like creepers, became more and more thick. The air gradually became thin, and the inexplicable mental pressure made every step Xia De took difficult.

He soon reached the end along the tunnel. It was a square temple space. All six sides of the room were made of gray rough square stones, and there was a stone platform on the innermost wall, on which a terrible statue made of plant remains was enshrined. ===== CHAPTER 857 =====