I'm a proper student; I only take nine kinds of potions every day.

Chapter 123 The Second Battle! The Collapse of Alcott (Bonus Chapter for Alliance Leader Qiu Ge)

Evan returned to bed and stuffed the remaining three bottles—Shark, Primary Blasphemy, and Lion—under his pillow.

"Be careful when you drink the potion next time."

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He glanced at the panel; the power of the nine dragons already occupied seven of them.

Light Potion, Day Potion, Bloodthirsty Species, Black Sun Potion Aberration, Eclipse Potion, Eclipse and Anti-Moon Chain Reaction, Ironblood Potion.

Only two spots remain.

"If there really is a battle, I'll first reverse the effects of two intermediate potions. Losing a little on the basic potion won't matter. With my current physique and condition, the side effects of the basic potion won't hurt me at all."

He reached out and turned off the gas wall lamp, plunging the entire apartment into darkness.

At the very second the lights went out, a voice suddenly rang in his senses.

It wasn't heard through the ears, but appeared directly in consciousness.

"Arkham, an expert-level superhuman is approaching. They are cultivators, and they are coming with great force."

Ivan sat up abruptly in bed.

"Who are you?"

The voice paused for a second before saying, "My name is Gust, the leader of the Gust Gang. Be careful."

Evan's brain instantly completed the information retrieval.

The Gus gang, the local thugs of Guding Street.

Legend has it that the leader is a prophet, and this guy seems to have been secretly observing me all along.

"Damn it, they actually came."

"The timing was really perfect."

This is indeed Ivan's most vulnerable moment.

The power of the nine dragons has already occupied seven spots, leaving only two reversal slots.

He instantly activated his demon hunter form, his silver hair and golden eyes shining in the darkness.

Looking out the window from my 3 o'clock spiritual vision, I saw a figure rapidly approaching in the distant night sky.

Before Evan could react further, he suddenly felt something tighten around his body.

Invisible threads tightened simultaneously from all directions, binding Ivan's arms, torso, and legs.

"This time, he's directly weaving threads with his own desires?!"

It seems Jack has learned his lesson and this time he's using his own desires to weave the threads of his scheme.

In the instant he was bound, Evan precisely controlled the rectal sphincter.

Click!

The bottle of the Insightful Potion shattered inside his body.

[You have absorbed the Insightful Potion through your rectum. Effects last: 30 minutes.]

[Effect: During the duration of the medicine's effects, Spiritual Vision increases by 15 points.]

You reversed the side effects of the Insight Potion.

[Reversal progress: 60 hours.]

The moment it took effect, Ivan instantly felt a tremendous force merge with his brain and eyes.

In that instant, the whole world became incredibly clear.

Previously, things that were vague and whose existence could only be sensed but whose form could not be seen were now all presented in high definition and full color in his field of vision.

Vision 18.

He saw it!

Two monsters, each the size of a human head, were crouching on either side of his body.

A human face, a spider's body, eight slender legs moving rapidly, transparent silk threads constantly shooting out from the spinnerets on its abdomen, wrapping around its body in circles.

Those threads are completely invisible to the naked eye.

But in the demon hunter's vision of Spectral Vision 18, they appear to have a colorful sheen, like a spider web woven from rainbows.

Beautiful and deadly.

"You bastard!"

Ivan exerted all the muscles in his body at the same time.

The threads tightened instantly, digging deep into his skin; if he exerted any more force, they would slice him to pieces.

Without hesitation, I immediately copperized it!

A dark yellow metallic sheen emanated from beneath his skin, covering his entire body in a fraction of a second.

The patterns carved with tombstones, skulls, and tattered flags spread across his body.

Chirp chirp chirp!

The two lustful spirits let out sharp screams as their silken threads slid and slipped on the coppery skin, unable to embed themselves.

Ivan suddenly broke free of his arms, and all the threads snapped at the same time.

The shattered threads bounced through the air like a snapped string on a musical instrument.

The two spirits of desire were thrown back by the rebounding force, crashing into the wall with terrified squeaking sounds.

Ivan immediately turned around to grab the potion hidden under his pillow.

At this stage, he doesn't want to reveal the fact that he can see the Desire Spirit.

Just as his fingers touched the pillow—

Whoosh!

Two new threads shot out from the side and precisely wrapped around his wrist.

Ivan exerted his strength again and instantly broke free of the silk thread.

But in that instant, an incredibly piercingly cold light shot out from behind.

In an instant, the survival instinct, which originated from the depths of his blood and was filled with primal terror, immediately turned into hysteria.

silver!

Evan's hand, out of his control, instinctively retracted and hastily dodged away.

clang!

A cross-shaped longsword was embedded in his pillow, the blade piercing through both the pillow and the bed frame.

The bottles of potions were smashed by the immense force, and the mixture soaked into the pillow.

The silver blade reflected the moonlight, creating a gleam that sent chills down Ivan's spine.

If he hadn't pulled his hand back, the silver sword would have immobilized his palm there.

The damage inflicted by the silver weapon on the Bloodthirsty Clan was enough to render his self-healing ability completely ineffective!

"My potion!!!" Ivan roared in fury!

It was clear that he cared more about the potion than the deadly silver.

His regret and anger over the potion directly suppressed his fear of people.

Three good potions were wasted!

This is all money!

These are all attributes!!!

Outside the window, Jack's figure floated in the night sky, his body suspended by two large spirits of desire, like a manipulated puppet.

His face was contorted with rage as he spoke through gritted teeth.

"You're really clever! You lowlife."

As he spoke, the silver cross sword was pulled back into his palm by a silk thread.

"Kneel down!"

Jack once again activated his desire control.

Ivan's expression was like that of a ferocious demon: "I'm going to kill you!!!"

The next instant, he crushed both potions.

But he did not choose to reverse the Ironblood Potion.

He reserved the last spot for an intermediate-level blasphemous potion.

Second, the three bottles shattered inside the body.

[You have absorbed the Ironblood Potion through your rectum. Effects last: 1 hour.]

[Effect: During the duration of the drug's effects, all emotional fluctuations are lost, and resistance to mental control is increased. Mental strength +1.2.]

[Your rectum absorbed a mid-level blasphemous potion.]

[Duration of effect: 30 minutes.]

[Effect: During the duration of the medicine's effects, resistance to silver artifacts is increased by 50%.]

[You reversed the side effects of the intermediate-level blasphemous potion.]

[Reversal progress: 60 hours.]

The fluctuations of desire control collided with the mental barrier of the Ironblood Potion, like waves crashing against rocks, shattering into harmless bubbles.

Jack's expression froze.

"You!! You!!!!"

His voice cracked after he became extremely angry.

"Are you drinking Iron Blood Potion 24/7?!"

Jack was already somewhat on the defensive at this point.

As a cultivator, controlling desires is his core skill.

Over the years, countless enemies have not even lasted a single round against him. They were controlled as soon as they met and then left to his mercy.

But today, he suffered two losses at the hands of an apprentice.

More than an hour had clearly passed, and the duration of the Ironblood Potion is one hour, so it should have expired long ago.

This attempt to control desire failed again.

"What exactly is going on? Logically speaking, even the Iron Blood Potion shouldn't be able to completely resist my effects; it can at most offset about thirty percent of the influence."

"Why does this little guy seem to be completely immune?"

He couldn't figure it out.

In the few seconds it took him to hurl insults, Ivan's body had already moved.

With a constitution of 11.6 and a 10% burst damage boost from the snake venom buff, he was like a cannonball launched from the window, hurtling straight at Jack, who was suspended in the night sky.

"die!!!"

A cold smile flashed across Jack's lips.

In the air around him, a large number of silk threads instantly unfolded and wove together into a large net.

At the same time, the spirit of desire began to pull his body up rapidly, trying to distance itself from this brute.

However, in the next second—

quack!

A chilling sound of bones cracking rang out.

Jack isn't flying fast enough.

Ivan's bronze-colored body smashed the sharp spiderwebs to pieces, and his bronze-colored fist landed on Ivan's knee with incredible speed.

The immense force combined with the hard fist shattered his entire knee.

Bone fragments were scattered everywhere, and the lower leg even detached from the thigh and fell onto the clothes rack outside Evan's window.

The immense impact sent Jack flying backwards for over ten meters through the air, like a baseball that had been punched.

"ah!!"

A heart-wrenching scream echoed through the night sky, but the surrounding residents had become accustomed to similar cries.

Feeling incredulous, Jack stopped and looked down, gritting his teeth as he spoke.

"Impossible—no matter how strong your body is, it can't withstand my spider silk—"

He stopped mid-sentence.

Because at that moment he saw Ivan standing on the roof of the apartment, his whole body radiating a cold, bronze-like light.

Copperification!

Jack's pupils constricted to the extreme, his tone filled with disbelief.

"Copper—copperification?!"

"How come you can turn bronze?!"

He never imagined that during their first encounter, Ivan had hidden such a crucial backup plan!

Seeing the other party's shock, Ivan didn't say a word.

The Iron Blood Potion suppressed all his emotional fluctuations.

He had only one thought in his mind: to kill this bastard who wasted his potion right now!

The three bottles of medicine under the pillow—Shark, Primary Blasphemy, and Lion—were all shattered by that silver sword!

That's money! That's his life!

The Ironblood Potion prevented him from getting angry, but his determination to kill this guy remained unchanged.

Upon witnessing Ivan's terrifying physical prowess, Jack immediately issued an order.

Then I saw him controlling the two desire spirits to quickly increase the altitude.

Thirty meters, forty meters, fifty meters.

He had to keep his distance, otherwise the monster's physical strength would prevent him from reacting in time.

While stretching himself, he made a large wave of his hand.

Two more head-sized spirits of desire sprang out from the darkness.

Its eight legs moved through the air, then it stuck out its buttocks and sprayed a large amount of silk threads at Evan below.

The silk threads fell from the sky like a spider web descending from heaven, directly binding Ivan's limbs and torso.

Jack was floating high in the sky, a smug smile on his twisted face.

"Haha! Apprentice! I'm going to smash you to death! Let's see how tough your body is!"

His plan was simple: suspend Evan a hundred meters in the air with silk threads and then release him.

Even if copper could withstand the impact, the shock of the fall would still be enough to displace his internal organs and shatter his bones.

Then----

boom!boom!

Two muffled thuds.

Even with his fists bound by silk threads, Evan killed the two Desire Spirits with incredible precision and ease.

The enhanced Insight Potion, granting him 18 points of Spiritual Vision, allowed him to clearly see the positions of the two spiders.

The two Desire Spirits exploded instantly under the attack of the fist.

Without any conventional flesh and blood, the body exploded into multicolored gas, like a fuel bomb that had been detonated, before quickly dissipating into the night sky.

As the Desire Spirit was attacked, Jack, fifty meters in the air, suddenly trembled.

That incredibly pitiful scream rang out once again.

At that moment, Jack's eyes went unfocused, and he stood there motionless, stunned.

The Desire Spirit is a part of his desires, and the backlash from its destruction will naturally affect his soul directly.

Seeing Jack momentarily stunned, Ivan drew his Colt revolver from his waist.

He couldn't reach it himself, but the bullet could!

With a strong arm gripping the gun handle, he fired a shot at the target in the sky.

boom!

A copper bullet struck Jack in the chest instantly.

The copper-plated bullet tore through clothing and skin, penetrating the chest cavity.

As the warhead shattered inside Jack's body, it carried Ivan's orders and a large amount of concentrated virus directly into Jack's bloodstream.

But Jack, over there, also snapped out of his daze from the intense pain.

He looked down at the bullet hole in his chest, then glared at the silver-haired youth with a look of anger and disbelief, and shouted angrily.

"You fucking bastard!!"

"How did you drink that potion?! Why can you see my lust spirit?!"

"A madman! A potion madman!"

He felt as if he were having a nightmare in which his enemy was so counterintuitive and unbelievable.

"Let's see how many potions you have! How many potions you can drink!"

"Idiot! Thank you for the bullet that woke me from the backlash! I have all the time in the world! How long will your drug last?!"

In response to these words, Ivan remained calm and composed.

"5————"

Jack was taken aback: "Five? Five what?"

Jack frowned, sensing that something was amiss, but he couldn't pinpoint the source of it.

"4.."

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1!

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As the countdown reached zero, Jack in the air suddenly felt a violent dizziness.

Then a violent cough surged up from his chest, causing his body to convulse.

While coughing, a large amount of mucus also flowed from the nasal cavity, and soon the nose became congested.

Next comes the skin.

While experiencing both pain and itching, numerous twisted and grotesque growths appeared.

"Damn it! What is this thing?! What kind of curse did you put on me?!"

As Jack roared, you could see his neck rapidly swelling.

The lymph nodes on both sides grew dozens or even hundreds of times larger at an incredible speed, while simultaneously putting enormous pressure on his throat and trachea.

As Jack instinctively reached for his neck, he felt all the muscles in his body begin to contract.

Breathing becomes difficult, and mental concentration is impossible.

My vision started to blur, and I couldn't see anything at all.

Finally, the mental energy controlling the flight of the Desire Spirit also began to dissipate.

Jack crashed!

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