In the courtyard, Li Huaxing was still practicing his sword. He stopped practicing when he saw Chen Jing's tired figure return.
"Jing-ge'er, you're back?"
Chen Jing forced a smile in response:
"I'm going to rest for a bit first."
Li Huaxing said, "Wantong and Sister Taoying took Uncle Zhang for a walk. There's still some food left on the table."
"I understand." Chen Jing didn't have much energy, and walked inside as he spoke.
Li Huaxing hesitated for a moment, but still said:
"Brother Jing, don't overwork yourself, take more rest."
He had a lot more to say, such as asking Chen Jing to teach him swordsmanship, and asking Chen Jing to talk to him and his sister more often, like before, and to tell him all sorts of interesting stories that Chen Jing had heard from who-knows-where. But when he thought that Chen Jing was now a member of the Black Hand gang and had a lot to do, and probably hadn't slept all night, he was too embarrassed to say it.
Chen Jing turned around and nodded at him.
Once inside, Chen Jing saw a bowl covering a plate on the table. Lifting the bowl revealed food that wasn't too cold yet.
After a few bites, Chen Jing reached the bedside, which he hadn't slept on many times, took off his silver mist cypress, put Tianxin aside, and lay down on it.
Exhaustion and worry kept him awake, so Chen Jing forced himself into a meditative state to restore his energy.
He still had eleven more chances to enter that strange dark gate and challenge "himself," which Chen Jing used without hesitation during his rest.
Chen Jing was well aware that as a newly minted cultivator, he possessed a wide variety of abilities, none of which had been truly integrated or mastered. He also lacked experience in many on-the-spot reactions, skills that could be quickly acquired through combat.
Chen Jing regarded the version of himself in the empty valley behind the Dark Gate as his teacher and humbly learned from him.
When he reappeared in the empty valley filled with stardust, Chen Jing immediately looked at his other self in the stardust.
When the two of them used Shadow Cloak to disappear at the same time, Chen Jing, who had been focused, indeed noticed some details.
There was a slight disturbance near the stardust, and the stirred stardust slowly outlined a certain direction.
As expected! Chen Jing was certain.
The invisibility is merely optical invisibility, not true invisibility like noise invisibility, which hides all information.
Chen Jing did not immediately shoot at the dancing stardust, but instead lay down and fired randomly at the surrounding area.
Chen Jing needed to conceal the fact that he had seen through the other party's location.
After both sides fired three shots into the empty space, Chen Jing used Shadow Step to teleport a distance.
There was stardust lighting everywhere, and Shadow Step was even usable. Chen Jing had originally planned to use other methods to move quickly and avoid the invisible palm grenades thrown by the opponent if Shadow Step was not usable.
boom!
The explosion occurred at the location where Chen Jing was originally, which was also the moment when the Shadow Cloak's duration ended.
Repeated use of the Shadow Cloak in a short period of time can cause a huge mental burden, so this is a window of opportunity where neither party can remain invisible!
Chen Jing had been watching the movement of the stardust, and the moment the other person appeared, Chen Jing raised his gun and aimed.
But around that Frankenstein's monster Chen Jing were phantoms of Chen Jing, which would appear or disappear as he moved.
This is... Shadow Step?
Chen Jing thought of this footwork-based martial art because the footwork-based martial art he used most often was Assassination Eye, which conflicted with Shadow Step, so Chen Jing hadn't used this martial art much.
Chen Jing initially thought that his noise invisibility was also a type of footwork martial art, but after practicing it a few times, he found that it could be used together with the Assassin's Eye without any conflict.
Those rapidly moving, afterimage-fading, stitched-together monsters all raised their revolvers and aimed at Chen Jing.
However, Chen Jing had also made preparations in advance, using a small illusion technique to create his own illusion.
Bang! Bang!
The two men opened fire simultaneously.
Chen Jing also activated his Assassination Eye, trying to find the opponent's "weakness" in order to see which one was real and which one was illusory. However, Chen Jing discovered that Shadow Step seemed to be able to counter the Assassination Eye. Under the effect of Shadow Step, the red dots representing weaknesses on the stitched-together Chen Jing's body became blurry and difficult to locate.
Chen Jing was hit by a bullet, but his shot was blocked by Shadow Step and hit empty air. However, Chen Jing seemed not to see it and stared at the stitched-together Chen Jing near Shadow Step. The second bullet was not fired immediately.
Finally, he witnessed the lightning of the explosion.
boom!
After Chen Jing used Shadow Step, he immediately threw an invisible palm grenade with the effect of a dark sword near the moving stardust where the stitched monster Chen Jing was!
Chen Jing aimed at the Frankenstein's monster Chen Jing, who was out of balance due to the explosion in the stardust, and pulled the trigger.
When the bullets that had been fired tore through Chen Jing's body, Chen Jing smiled.
The moment Chen Jing, the Frankenstein's monster, was knocked down, he felt a strange power surging from his body and heart.
Chen Jing subconsciously looked up, and the infinite darkness floating above the empty valley began to writhe, releasing wisps of power.
"So the 'power' in 'knowledge and power' doesn't refer to combat experience, but to real power."
Those forces hovered above the empty valley, and finally, only one strand fell down and landed on Chen Jing.
And those powers naturally carry knowledge that is like an instruction manual.
Chen Jing opened his eyes from the bed, a look of surprise in his eyes.
"I obtained three spells. Although they all have a limited number of uses, they are all very powerful."
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