The defeated saint is also on the way to tame the evil god today

　Xingmo swung his sword, blocking six consecutive attacks. Just as his stance was about to deviate, Vivian took the opportunity to punch him—

　"boom--"

　Xingmo was knocked away by Vivian's fist and hit a big tree hard. Before she could come to her senses, Vivian suddenly tore open a crack of ice and flame and came to Xingmo.

　Then, she thrust out her silver sword, and the blade pierced Xingmo's chest——=

　"Pfft!"

　Blood gushed out, then gradually turned into starlight and exploded—

　——It’s an illusion!

　There were faint black threads among the starlight. Vivian was careless for a moment, and the black threads wrapped around her body and took deep root.

　The next second, she saw a scorching blade pierce through her chest—Xingmo pierced Vivian from behind with the Spine of Saint Auros.

　"Is he going to die just like that?" Xing Mo whispered in Vivian's ear, "Think about Alice... You'll never see her again..."

　As Xingmo whispered, Vivian's pupils suddenly widened and the illusory scales on her neck flickered.

　The next second, ice-blue flames erupted with her as the center. Xing Mo immediately stepped back, but was still burned by the ice flames.

　This was a kind of pain that went straight to the soul. Even though it only splashed a little on the arm, Xingmo frowned slightly in pain.

　it hurts!

　Xingmo immediately drew out her wand and raised it towards Vivian, who was standing across the field. She slowly turned around amidst the burning ice flames, the flames in her eyes burning fiercely.

　It seems that the power of the reverse scale seems to have taken effect.

　Xing Mo nodded and prepared to play the eight-string magic to test Vivian's strength.

　However, at this moment, Vivian suddenly swayed and fell to the ground, covering her neck.

　"Ah...ah..."

　A look of pain appeared on her face, and the icy flames in her pupils flickered for a few seconds before gradually disappearing.

　"Finish!"

　Xingmo shouted, and as the dream faded, the scenery of the Holy Tree Forest reappeared.

　She immediately ran to Vivian, squatted down, and reached out to check her reverse scales.

　The reverse scale was still in an illusory state. When Xing Mo reached out to touch it, she only felt an invisible gravitational force repelling her hand.

　"It's some kind of...seal." Xing Mo made a preliminary analysis.

　"I feel like I'm just one step away from mobilizing the power within my reverse scales..." Vivian panted, "But there's just this one little step...just one breath...but I can't seem to move forward."

　"But during the Dragon Boat Incident, you successfully mobilized the power of the Reverse Scale..." Xing Mo frowned, "Could it be that... this seal is your self-protection mechanism?"

　Xingmo recalled Ruan Lili's words: activating the reverse scale is equivalent to "becoming a dragon."

　She didn't think that "dragon" in this context was a positive word - just look at the ancient dragon hunter Perses Xia's current appearance, crazy, bloodthirsty, and without a trace of humanity.

　The "dragon" and "man" here should be antonyms.

　However...Xingmo felt that something was not right...

　If we translate the conditions for triggering the reverse scale into the context of modern mysticism, it is actually equivalent to "having a sufficiently strong anchor of reason," which is no different from harnessing excessive supernatural power.

　Enough reason can control enough madness to transform extraordinary power into one's own means.

　Then the logic of the reverse scale is very unreasonable: after having enough anchors of rationality, activating the reverse scale will make you crazy?

　This is illogical, so there must be something wrong somewhere.

　Is it an external influence?

　external force...

　Xing Mo closed her eyes, and the scenes she had seen in Vivian's Shura dream emerged in her mind.

　When Perses Shah fought against the servants of the Black Dragon Society, he broke through

　Breaking the restrictions of the reverse scale, it transformed into a pitch-black dragon...

　At that time, the servant seemed very surprised...

　Just like Poerseth shouldn't have been able to break through...

　If some external force really changed the Ice Dragon family's descendants, and the Black Dragon Society knew about it...

　Then the one who changed their existence could only be the Dragon Lord...

　Dragon King Bahamut once said that a tribe should have only one shed-scale dragon as the leader of the entire tribe.

　However, most of the ice dragon family are shed-scale dragons, existing in human form.

　This kind of shedding of scales... first of all, we have to rule out the possibility that it is a form of evolution - if the Dragon Lord planned the death of the Ice Dragon Emperor, then why would He strengthen the power of the Ice Dragon Emperor's descendants?

　After all, a shed-scale dragon like Bahamut could switch freely between human and dragon form, but Vivian couldn't.

　Ancient Dragon Hunter can obviously do it too.

　So... obviously...

　"What the Dragon Lord took away was the reverse scale of the Ice Dragon's descendants."

　Xingmo came to a conclusion.

　"Such limitations can be breached, but the price of breach is madness—with or without the anchor of sanity."

　"That's also why you fell into the Shura dream at the end of the Dragon Boat Incident."

　"Is there any way to break through this limitation?" Vivian frowned.

　"Yes, I have."

　Xing Mo blinked, and an inexplicable possibility emerged in her mind:

　"As the saying goes, you are what you eat."

　"I'll find you a piece of reverse scale to eat. Maybe it can...repair your reverse scale?"

Chapter 410 When the Wind Howls (Part 7) -4k- (Double Update in One)

　After completing the training, Xingmo and Vivian walked to the other end of the forest clearing.

　Over there, Alice was discussing something with Aurora, and emerald green symbols were flashing in the air.

　As she approached Alice, Xingmo heard what her senior was saying:

　"If we reestablish contact after it's been severed, and then reestablish it back to when it was completely severed, can we extend our exploration time in the unknown?"

　"That's a good idea," Aurora nodded. "But establishing a connection must be done before entering the unknown. If we want to reestablish it after it's severed... then we need a way to cross the unknown to establish a connection."

　"So, the qualifying characteristics?" Alice raised her eyebrows.

　"Indeed, the premise of this concept is that we can obtain the characteristics suitable for traveling through unknown areas," Aurora said, turning to look at Xingmo beside her. "Is the training completed?"

　"Well, I've discovered the problem. The Ice Dragon's reverse scale has been taken away. This is why Vivian can't use the power of the reverse scale like Bahamut."

　After Xingmo finished speaking, Alice said:

　"But... Ancient Dragon Hunter is also an ice dragon, but he unleashed the power of his reverse scales, didn't he?"

　"Indeed, I speculate it's because of his bloodline," Xing Mo nodded. "Ancient Dragon Hunter is a genius seen only once in a thousand years, possessing the bloodline of an ancient dragon that Cain would admire. So... the scales that were taken away seem to have grown back on their own."

　"However, Vivian's reverse scales didn't grow so smoothly. Although she is the younger sister of the Ancient Dragon Hunter and supposedly has ancient dragon blood, perhaps because her blood concentration was not high enough, her reverse scales were not able to grow completely."

　"Or maybe the conditions we face aren't extreme enough..." Vivian whispered.

　"This is really difficult," Aurora muttered. "Is this like removing an organ? Like a kidney or something like that?"

　"Don't sound so scary." Vivian stuck out her tongue.

　"Anyway, my current idea is that maybe I can give the Dragon King's reverse scale to Vivian," Xing Mo nodded. "I don't think Zuo Shangtang has time to take it away."

　"Well, all of Zuo Shangtang's stolen goods are basically locked up at the Patrol Bureau," Alice nodded, "We can go get them later."

　"no problem."

　Xingmo looked at Aurora, then looked up at the green light symbols and said:

　"Have you found a way to extend our time in the unknown?"

　"Alice proposed a hypothesis," Aurora nodded. "While the connection is being eroded by the unknown, using external interference to reestablish the broken connection, as long as the speed of establishment can match the speed of disconnection, theoretically, the time spent in the unknown realm can be extended indefinitely."

　"So complicated." Vivian's eyes were extremely clear.

　"It means that you keep adding noodles to your bowl while you are eating. As long as you don't eat the noodles as fast as you add them, you will never finish them." Alice gave an authoritative explanation of the field that Vivian was more proficient in.

　"I understand now." Vivian nodded. "Then why not do this?"

　"There's only one obstacle left. We lack a way to connect with the unknown realm." Aurora spread her hands. "Let's find a member of the Black Dragon Society and tear off his arm. Then we should be able to study him."

　"Don't say such scary words in a serious manner..." Xing Mo muttered.

　"This should be the fastest way," Aurora muttered, "but it's hard to find members of the Black Dragon Society..."

　Indeed, most of the official members of the Black Dragon Society are

　Very deep, strange whereabouts.

　For example, weirdos like Heimutou, who appear and disappear mysteriously.

　"Let's take it one step at a time. I'll go get the reverse scale first," Xing Mo said. "Vivian, rest for a while. Even though it's just a dream, your spirit should be affected to some extent."

　"I'm fine."

　Although Vivian muttered this, she obediently walked to the other side of the Holy Tree Forest with Alice's support.

　Xingmo felt her sleeves being gently tugged twice. She looked down and saw Aurora blinking mysteriously.

　"Personal time!" she chuckled cheerfully.

　More than ten minutes later, Xingmo and Aurora arrived at the door of the Danzhou Patrol Bureau.

　After explaining their purpose to the guard at the door, the two waited silently at the door for a while.

　Xing Mo looked up at the sky and saw layers of gray clouds intertwined, and drizzle drifting in the wind, falling among the outlines of the city.

　"The large-scale military operation should have already begun," Xingmo said, "we have to hurry and do the dirty work."

　"You talk as if we're just doing dirty work," Aurora stretched. "The White Tower's Extraordinary Department has only just been established, and its reputation is already ruined?"

　"That's right," Xing Mo nodded thoughtfully, "Then let's do the dirty work in the name of the Holy Tree Cult."

　"Hello...!"

　"It's an evil organization anyway, right? You said it yourself, isn't it evil?"

　"It's not impossible to think so."

　Amidst the scattered conversation, a patrolman came out and gestured for the two to come in.

　"Commander Chen said you two can take anything from the evidence room as long as you register it. However, he's not here right now, so he's asked someone else to help."

　"Okay, trouble."

　Xing Mo nodded and entered the patrol bureau under the guidance of the patrol guard.

　After walking through the long corridor, Xingmo and Aurora arrived at the door of the evidence room.

　"Please wait here for a moment."

　After the patrolman finished speaking, he left.

　Xingmo recalled the environment of the Patrol Bureau. Unlike the police station in the academic city of Akademi, the Patrol Bureau had a much heavier atmosphere of mysticism. For example, there was a poster hanging on the wall introducing all the patrol guards' spears. The picture showed the disassembled structure of the spears. It was not until Xingmo saw it that he realized that those spears were actually a kind of extended staff that could provide recommended starlight shields and fire string shots.

　To use this kind of spear, one needs some basic knowledge of mysticism, and must be at least a wizard of the second string.

　Looking back at the North City Police Station: most of the police force are mortals, with a few wizards as analysts at most. The gap suddenly seems a bit big.

　After all, most matters involving the supernatural and the secret are left to the bell keepers...

　Now it seems that it is more stable to expand the power of mysticism... Although this means the expansion of extraordinary and uncontrollable factors, it can at least strengthen public security to a certain extent.

　Just as Xing Mo was lost in thought, a patrolman pushed open the door of a side office and walked towards the two of them.

　"Hello, I'll open the door for you, please..."

　He froze in the middle of his words, and Xingmo and Aurora were also stunned.

　Because the person coming was Zuo Huai, the son of Zuo Shangtang!