I have to get lucky right away.

Chapter 627 Dark Alchemy, right?
The so-called "art of cursing" is, as the name suggests, a means of defeating the opponent by suppressing the target. What Feng Xue is using at this time is the most classic one, the "substitution method," which can be easily understood as "stabbing a voodoo doll."

Most common form-substitution spells use objects that can accurately represent the target, such as birth dates, nails, hair, names, or photographs, as a medium. They use objects like dolls or paper figures to represent the target and influence the target by harming the substitute. The most famous of these is the Seven Arrows of Nailhead.

However, the target of the method of substitution is not only people. For example, in the world of folklore, the Japanese have stolen fortune through the connection of dragon and snake beliefs. In a broader sense, this is also a kind of "substitution".

The strength of the shape substitution method is affected by three factors: distance, accuracy, and similarity (Note ①).

Feng Xue, on the other hand, replicated the opponent's defensive spell one-to-one and completed the counter-spell at an almost impenetrable distance, thus minimizing the negative impact that distance, accuracy, and similarity might have caused.

As the magic array he replicated collapsed, the temple's originally sturdy magic array also began to crumble.

Without giving the spell a chance to recover, Feng Xue reached out and clenched her fist. The Primordial Qi instantly spread inward, seeping into every crack in the defensive spell and perfectly filling every flaw.

The defensive array returned to normal in an instant, but this normalcy was now infused with a large amount of Feng Xue's power.

The Primordial Qi began to differentiate and evolve. The matter that Feng Xue had previously stripped away quickly returned. The temple, which was enveloped by the transparent defensive barrier, trembled instantly. The invisible barrier transformed into tangible matter at this moment, scattering like fine sand across the ground.

"This is good stuff."

Feng Xue reached out and made a grasping motion. The sand, radiating a star-like glow, gathered in his palm, combining into a dense, silver-gray sphere, which he then tucked into his pocket.

For him, primordial substances are things he can create at will, but that does not diminish their value.

After doing all this, Feng Xue glanced back at Chen Xuan and saw that he had given up his illusions and started fighting. She nodded in satisfaction and then kicked open the temple door.

The door, made of an unknown material, swung open with a loud crash, revealing the dimly lit interior of the temple to Feng Xue. Then, he fell silent.

Because the temple was not like he had imagined, with altars and statues of gods, but rather rows of stone slabs as tall as a person.

The stone slabs were carved with all sorts of monsters, and below the reliefs were special characters that even a translation system could not decipher. Aside from these, Feng Xue could also see the rich power of will carried on each stone slab.

"Goodness, Yu-Gi-Oh!, right?" Feng Xue rolled her eyes, finally finding the source of that déjà vu. Goodness, Egyptian dark alchemy, right?

So Hermes and Thoth... the Triple Great Hermes? The Emerald Book? Alchemy?
At this moment, Feng Xue suddenly had a lot to say, but she didn't know where to start. There was no one to listen to her, so she could only swallow her words and start studying the stone slabs.

There are only about twenty stone slabs in this temple. You can find the canines, dung beetles, and cobras that you saw before, as well as cacti and dates outside the door, but there is only one of each kind.

"So, a single stone slab can produce multiple monsters?" Feng Xue thought of the confession of the bewitching priest and suddenly felt that this system was quite superior. Originally, a person could only create one natal monster, and the death of the monster would also affect the original body.

This system not only transforms specially crafted monsters, which require careful use, into readily deployable cannon fodder, but it can also turn unique monsters into mass-produced soldiers. The only drawback, perhaps, is the temple that enshrines the stone slab.

but……

"Are these stone tablets the monster's true form? Or are they merely a medium used by so-called gods to contain the monster's power?"

Feng Xue had a lot on his mind, but his hands moved quickly. In the blink of an eye, he stuffed all twenty-odd stone slabs into his Hutian Bag. He also had Xiao Lingdang record the layout of the entire temple to avoid missing any special rituals.

However, even after he had completely emptied the temple and even started digging deep into the ground in an attempt to find any possible secret doors or tunnels, the so-called gods never appeared.

"Would attacking the oasis increase the opponent's chances of winning, or would the opponent simply not care about losing the oasis?"

Even now, Feng Xue remained wary of the prophetic abilities of the god Toto, to the point that she hadn't considered the possibility that he hadn't anticipated her attack on the oasis.

Seeing that neither detection spells nor radar scans yielded any new findings, Feng Xue finally concluded that there was nothing else in the temple and slowly walked out of it.

But as he took this step, he raised an eyebrow, because he discovered that those people in the village who wore monsters like Kamen Rider had not lost their powers.

"These monsters didn't disappear after I retrieved the stone tablets? That's interesting!"

Muttering random thoughts to herself, Feng Xue unleashed her senses to search.

Chen Xuan was now brimming with confidence. Although he was in excruciating pain all over his body, and even blood was starting to seep from his skin, he was incredibly excited, like a dump truck driving onto the sidewalk, recklessly crushing anyone who dared to stand in his way.

Although he looks a bit like a berserker, a closer look reveals that his fighting style is quite refined. When facing a cactus with the ability to reflect damage, he will only finish it off with a single punch when he is blocked, and then he will run at full speed and keep chasing after those units that release ranged attacks.

In a one-to-many brawl, once the number of people exceeds a certain limit, the advantage can no longer be accumulated. Unless you use a human pyramid technique to suppress the opponent with dozens or hundreds of people, at most only the closest few people can take action. At most, you can save energy and achieve the effect of attrition by taking turns.

Long-range attacks are different; as long as they are within range, any number of people can cover a single target.

Chen Xuan's simple and brutal fighting style was naturally easy for the Egyptians to understand, but it was precisely because they understood it that Feng Xue was given an opportunity to take advantage of it!

As the front row continuously shifts and narrows the encirclement, there are bound to be individuals resting and recovering on the periphery, and these easy targets are exactly what Feng Xue is after!

"Yingbao, unleash your full power, super-wide area-of-effect Ghostly Bewitching!"

(End of this chapter)