Chapter 12, Equivalent Exchange
"Well done, big brother! Charge! Avenge our second brother!"
The insect-faced clay figure, perhaps frightened by its elder brother's sinister smile, dared not rest any longer and instead cheered its brother on.
"You've escaped this time by getting away, but it won't be so easy next time."
The butterfly-faced clay figure moved swiftly, flapping its wings and flying towards Zhong Bingxuan, with black powder continuously emerging.
Being close to the two was detrimental to Zhong Bingxuan, so she naturally wouldn't let the Butterfly Mask Mud Man plan succeed. While avoiding the Heart-Piercing Powder, she made sure to keep the distance between them.
“You cunning human, if you’ve got the guts, stand still and have a one-on-one duel with my brother.”
The insect-faced clay figure's provocation had no effect on Zhong Bingxuan. She herself was an expert in this area and naturally wouldn't fall for the insect-faced clay figure's trick. She focused her attention on the butterfly-faced clay figure and maintained her own fighting rhythm without wavering.
No matter what the insect-faced clay figure said, she remained calm in the face of danger and acted step by step according to her plan.
The insect-faced clay figure was so enraged that it focused all its attention on mocking Zhong Bingxuan and disturbing her mind, failing to notice the king and its little cousin who had already arrived not far away.
"Cousin, the Butterfly-faced Clay Figure is amazing, much more useful than your skill."
As Wang Tian's only cousin, others might not know about his innate skills, but surely Wang Tian does.
Equivalent exchange seems impressive, but it's actually not very useful in combat. It's only effective against humans, relying on their greed to sign contracts with hidden pitfalls.
The stronger the cousin's skills, the more advantageous it would be for Wang Tian, his own cousin. He devised a plan to get his cousin to take away the Butterfly-Faced Clay Man talent skill after the battle.
What is difficult for others to transfer superpowers is nothing more than a piece of cake for my cousin.
"Don't say things like that again. Butterfly-faced Clay Man still has Insect-faced Clay Man as his little brother. Insect-faced Clay Man's mind control is no weaker than mine."
Otherwise, Wang would have taken action long ago, and there would have been no need for his cousin to offer advice.
"That's easy, just take care of it."
"That won't do. We still need the Butterfly-Faced Clay Figure to deal with the Headless Witch for now. We can't afford to break ties with her."
Wang Ke knew how much the Butterfly-Faced Clay Man cherished his brother. Despite the Butterfly-Faced Clay Man's fierceness towards the Insect-Faced Clay Man earlier, he was actually the eldest brother who loved the Insect-Faced Clay Man the most.
Otherwise, who spoiled the lazy and unambitious Mudman with his lazy personality? He has so many powerful mental abilities but doesn't use them, hiding behind his big brother and watching the show. If he had stepped forward to help, the headless witch would have been dead long ago.
“Cousin, what are you thinking? What does this have to do with us? It’s not caused by the jealous insect-faced clay man.”
Wang Tian looked at Hai, who was still oblivious to the situation, with ill intent, and whispered some advice in his cousin's ear.
"this……"
"Brother, this is a rare opportunity. If you miss it this time, who knows when you'll get another chance like this."
Wang Tian kept instigating his cousin to push Hai, that guy he looked down on, out as a scapegoat.
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On the other side, Zhong Bingxuan's right hand was covered in black powder from a butterfly-shaped clay figure. A burning, corrosive sensation spread from the spot where the powder touched her, and her entire arm began to melt.
Zhong Bingxuan ruthlessly cut off her right hand, which was covered in black powder, to stop the black powder from corroding her and save her life.
"What a pity, it was just a little bit off. If the reaction had been any slower, the body would have turned into blood."
The insect-faced clay figure clicked its tongue, looking at Zhong Bingxuan with regret in its eyes, when suddenly a tremendous force struck from behind, sending its entire body flying towards the center of the battle.
The insect-faced clay figure stared incredulously at Hai's still-unretracted hands behind him, and involuntarily fell in front of Zhong Bingxuan.
At the same time, the Butterfly-Faced Clay Figure unleashed its ultimate move again. This was its fourth time using its ultimate move. That bitch Zhong Bingxuan was too difficult to deal with, living up to her title of headless witch, forcing it to steal its magic power to kill the enemy.
If it weren't for his second brother's death because of this person, Butterfly-faced Mudman wouldn't want to deal with such a troublesome character.
But the butterfly-faced clay figure didn't expect the tragedy to happen again. For some reason, its third brother, who was standing behind it, ran in front of Zhong Bingxuan and blocked its last full-force attack for her.
"No, third brother."
The butterfly-faced clay figure looked terrified and tried to rush forward to save its third brother, but its body was exhausted from its magic power and it collapsed to the ground, unable to move at all.
Then, remembering something, she turned to Wang for help, "Wang, please save my brother. He's my only brother."
"Brother, don't beg it. It was it that made the sea push me out. Brother, run away quickly and avenge me."
The insect-faced clay figure only saw Hai make a move and was unaware of whether Wang was involved. However, given the strangeness surrounding Wang, it still had some understanding of the matter. Fearing that its elder brother would continue to be loyal and be used by Wang, resulting in a gruesome death, it lied and said that the matter was related to Wang and that Wang had instructed Hai to do it.
Then it turned into blood and was completely destroyed by Zhong Bingxuan using a mirror.
It was truly a perfect storm of favorable circumstances, with everything in her favor. Unexpectedly, the Butterfly Face Clay Figure group had internal strife. That Wang guy, with his shallow eyelids, actually took matters into his own hands and eliminated his own right-hand men.
Although the reason is unknown, it all benefits Zhong Bingxuan, giving her a bugification card, a disguise card, 100 days of life points, 1000 points, and the Butterfly-faced Mudman's combat power is almost non-existent, so Zhong Bingxuan can easily defeat the opponent.
However, an unexpected event occurred. Before Zhong Bingxuan could even reach the butterfly-faced clay figure, black mist rose from its body and spread outwards.
"Ah Xuan, run! The Butterfly-faced Clay Figure is about to explode!"
Li Hanmo hid in the shadows, on high alert, ready to act the moment Zhong Bingxuan lured the faceless mud figure into the trap. Because of the damage the butterfly-faced mud figure had caused to his girlfriend, he kept a close eye on its every move. He noticed something was wrong with the butterfly-faced mud figure immediately, jumped out of the bushes, picked up the still-dazed Zhong Bingxuan, and ran away into the distance, away from the area covered by the black mist.
"Cousin, what should we do?"
Wang Tian didn't expect that the insect-faced mud man wouldn't target the sea, but instead targeted his own cousin, causing the butterfly-faced mud man to launch a desperate counterattack. It was so terrified that its legs trembled. It hadn't forgotten that both the beast-faced and insect-faced mud men, those two powerful mud men, had been reduced to bloody pulp and died in agony by the butterfly-faced mud man's attack. It didn't want to experience that kind of suffering.
"So cowardly, yet you dare to plot to kill others. Next time, learn from your cousin what it means to remain calm in the face of danger."
For the king and those around him, the self-destruction of the butterfly-faced clay figure had no effect other than causing their bodies to turn into blood and water, resulting in extreme pain.
As the black mist dissipated, Wang, relying on his unique abilities, was the first to return to normal. He ran to the slowly recovering butterfly-faced clay figure and transferred its innate skills to himself.
When a faceless clay figure is killed, it will revert to its original form, but this does not prevent it from retaining its innate abilities; it will only lose one star level.
The ability that Wang acquires through an equivalent exchange will lose one star and will not be a high-star talent ability. Transferring other Mudman talents to himself is not worthwhile for Wang at all, and will also waste his monthly free exchange opportunity.
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