Chapter 103 - 84: Enhanced Vision, Bullet Time

Chapter 103: Chapter 84: Enhanced Vision, Bullet Time

Unlike when his Cyan Lotus Pupil was at the Great Success Level, where Lu Chen could only briefly copy Techniques he had seen, the Broken Mirror Level Cyan Lotus Pupil allowed him to completely copy any Technique he witnessed. As long as he had enough Power of Green Lotus, he could use them indefinitely.

However, this copy ability was not without its limitations.

The first restriction was that the Effect of the copied Technique would remain exactly at the state it was in when the original caster used it. It was a one-to-one replica. He could mimic the form perfectly, but he only knew how to use it, not the underlying principles of why it worked.

The second limitation was that the number of Techniques he could copy was actually finite. For example, the Outer Path One Sword that Lu Chen recorded in the Ancient Cultivator’s Sword Tomb Dungeon took up a full six of his Cyan Lotus Petal Technique slots. Meanwhile, the Jade-faced Saber Mantis’s "Three Prisons Tribulation Killing Array" occupied one Cyan Lotus Petal slot.

However, the capacity for copied Techniques would increase as Lu Chen’s Power changed. Therefore, he did not care too much about this. After all, if a copied Technique proved useless, he could simply discard it to free up space for future Technique Divine Techniques he wanted to copy.

The reason Lu Chen chose to copy the White-faced Spider’s special Superpower was not because he coveted the ability. He merely wanted to use this method to quickly figure out what her Superpower did.

[Hundred Twists and Thousand Threads]

[Effect: Deploys a special silk web around the user. When enemies touch it, it continuously absorbs their Spiritual Power into the user.]

If Hundred Twists and Thousand Threads was not an exclusive ability of a special creature like the White-faced Spider, it would actually be quite a decent Skill for Lu Chen. Unfortunately, since Lu Chen lacked the ability to produce silk, casting these Special Skills would force him to consume his precious Power of Green Lotus to manifest them.

Although he could use Hundred Twists and Thousand Threads during this process to continuously absorb the Spiritual Power of surrounding enemies and become akin to a perpetual motion machine, setting aside the question of whether the Power of Green Lotus or Spiritual Power was more valuable to him, when it came to the Effect of restoring Spiritual Power mid-battle, Lu Chen had many far better solutions.

For instance, he could simply have his in-game avatar frantically consume Elixirs to achieve a similar Effect. There was absolutely no need to waste his precious Power of Green Lotus.

Therefore, Lu Chen intentionally copied her exclusive Superpower right in front of the White-faced Spider for two reasons. The first was to test the Superpower’s Effect, and the second was psychological warfare. After all, mindset was also a crucial factor in determining the outcome of a battle.

Right now, the White-faced Spider’s mental state had completely collapsed because of Lu Chen’s move.

Staring at Lu Chen, who had also deployed massive amounts of Hundred Twists and Thousand Threads, she felt as though her head had been struck hard by a heavy hammer. Her mind went completely blank. The scene before her far exceeded the boundaries of her comprehension. She simply could not fathom why a Human Race Cultivator could cast Special Skills that should have belonged exclusively to arachnid creatures just by glancing at them.

This bizarre situation made the White-faced Spider feel an unprecedented amount of pressure.

Whatever she knew, her opponent also knew. Whatever she didn’t know, her opponent still knew. If not for the fact that her Cultivation was significantly higher than Lu Chen’s, she wouldn’t even know how to fight against a monster like him.

Even so, a strong urge to retreat sprouted in the White-faced Spider’s heart. Unlike the arrogant Jade-faced Saber Mantis, the White-faced Spider owed her successful evolution not only to her decent innate talent but also to her strict rule of never challenging opponents with greater Power and putting herself in danger.

Although Lu Chen’s Power looked inferior to hers on paper, the White-faced Spider felt that if she continued fighting him, it was truly uncertain whether she would be the one to have the last laugh.

However, even though she had already decided to flee, a retreat required proper methods and tactics. The more desperate the situation, the more she needed to put up a posture of fighting to the death. Only then would Lu Chen fail to see through her true intentions, which would make it much easier for her to escape.

In the tunnel, the White-faced Spider glared at Lu Chen, who stood tall amidst the green webs. She said fiercely, "Human Race brat, even if you’ve learned my special Superpower, you can’t change the massive gap in Power between us!"

As soon as she spoke, the White-faced Spider shed her disguise. Her flawless, fair skin suddenly split open, and six hairy spider legs erupted from her back. Before long, a bloated, five-meter-tall white spider materialized in front of Lu Chen.

This was the true form of the White-faced Spider.

Looking at the White-faced Spider in her true body, Lu Chen’s expression remained unmoved, seemingly entirely unsurprised. He took a calm breath and slowly assumed the starting stance of the Dragon Roar Sword Technique.

Witnessing this, the White-faced Spider’s combat intuition—honed from surviving a Corpse Mountain and Blood Sea—made her instantly sense an intense, life-threatening crisis. So much so that her original plan to scare Lu Chen and find an opening to slip away changed in a split second.

"I need to leave. I must leave right now! Otherwise, I’ll never get away!" she thought frantically.

"ROAR!"

The White-faced Spider bellowed, and the massive number of spider cocoons scattered throughout the subway station instantly burst open. Hundreds of slightly immature Spider-faced Men charged out of the ruptured cocoons, rushing madly toward Lu Chen, who was still gathering his strength.

RUSTLE RUSTLE RUSTLE...

In addition, large swarms of Parasitic Spiders poured out from the ceiling of the subway tunnel, the sewer drains, and the cracks in the walls. The dense, teeming numbers quickly formed a terrifying tide of spiders inside the subway tunnel, surging forward like a white ocean wave.