Netherworld Retrograde

Chapter 84: Chapter 38 Desire_2

”I guess you want to save points to get something... Captain, I can help you apply for a trial of an Anti-Spiritual Ability Helmet. If it works, I can straight up buy it for you, and then you can repay the Merit Points slowly. If it doesn’t work, there’s no need to waste money,” Cheese advised, ”You should focus on enhancing your strength for now.”

Li Yelai indeed wanted to save Merit Points to purchase an Anti-Spiritual Ability Helmet, trying to suppress Li Yunyan’s curse.

If it worked, great; if not... Li Yelai figured he might waste those ninety Merit Points.

Now, with Cheese’s suggestion being quite good, Li Yelai could only nod, ”Thanks.”

Afterward, Li Yelai, along with Cheese and a few other healed comrades, left the containment room.

They arrived at the intersection leading to the Lower District.

Together with other Processors and Iron Guards stationed there, they waited for any needed reinforcements.

While waiting, Li Yelai assessed his current strength.

His Spiritual Ability Equipment was nearly ruined, the Jet Axe was malfunctioning, and only the Summoning Bell was still able to summon the Double Blade Knight.

The loss in terms of equipment was quite severe.

Yet in terms of abilities, Li Yelai had greatly improved.

First off was his physical strength.

Li Yelai followed the Wanxiang Path, and among the Spiritual Ability Users of the same Awakening, the physique of Wanxiang was merely average.

However, this time, through the Heart of Slaughter and a stroke of luck, his physical strength had sharply increased. According to Cheese, his physicality had reached the level of a Third Awakening True Martial.

This meant that with just his physical strength, he, a Second Awakening, could challenge a Third Awakening True Martial.

It gave him the capital to engage in cross-level battles.

Of course, many Processors had enhanced their physicality with the Heart of Slaughter; Li Yelai’s enhancement was just more significant.

Next was the Second Face.

Just like Xiang Yu’s Face, Huo Qubing’s Face also brought many skills to Li Yelai.

Riding and Shooting Skills — Huo Qubing was a master of horseback.

Times had changed though; this skill was probably not very useful. It’s not like he can spend money on a horse, right? And then ride it on missions?

Following that were the archery skills.

Huo Qubing was also exceptional in horseback shooting. But again, times had changed.

Actually, Xiang Yu’s Face also provided Li Yelai with archery skills, even something extraordinary like Consecutive Arrow.

But due to the Spiritual Barrier of Spiritual Ability Users, ranged weapons like bows and firearms were ineffective.

Spiritual Ability Users indeed could infuse Spiritual Energy into arrows and shoot at enemies.

But the Spiritual Energy on the arrows would dissipate in mid-air.

Unless it was a Divine Protection Path Spiritual Ability User, other Path users would lose Spiritual Energy after their weapons were separated from their bodies for some time, unable to break through an enemy’s Spiritual Barrier.

Thus, ranged weapon attacks are often exclusive to the Divine Protection Path.

Even for the Divine Protection Path, few people use consumables like arrows.

Is it because of cost issues? To effectively infuse Spiritual Energy, both the bow and the arrows need to be Spiritual Ability Equipment, right?

Bows are manageable since they won’t break so quickly.

But what about the arrows?

Each arrow as Spiritual Ability Equipment?

Just that alone was enough to deter all Spiritual Ability Users.

Thus, most Divine Protection Path users opted for reusable weapons like flying swords or simply controlled puppets to fight.

Li Yelai’s Overlord’s Spear Throw was effective because the weapon was big enough to contain ample Spiritual Energy.

And because the distance wasn’t too far, it was possible to throw it out for a conquering move — he certainly couldn’t use a gun as an arrow, right?

However, he could consider learning something like Yang Chen’s throwing spear...

So, horseback shooting and archery skills weren’t useful to Li Yelai. He could only hope that when he unlocked later Faces, he’d gain a Divine Protection Path Face.

Next was the third skill from Huo Qubing’s Face, Direction Perception.

It was an intuition-like ability; even in the most chaotic terrains, Huo Qubing could rely on his intuition to discern the correct path.

This was very useful, Li Yelai acknowledged in his mind.

Aside from these skills, the ability brought by the Champion Marquis’ Face was the most perceptibly impactful.

Shadow Army — any unit killed by Li Yelai would have its shadow taken to form a new member of the Shadow Army.

Li Yelai had previously slain over two hundred Zhe Lan Cavalry and thus possessed about twenty Shadow Army members.

Just the addition of these twenty Shadow Army members allowed Li Yelai to burst out with extreme speed and robust defense.

This ability effectively compensated for Li Yelai’s weaknesses.

In the future, he wouldn’t fear not being able to catch up to enemies or worry about being severely injured by powerful attacks.

The enhancement brought by the Shadow Army was multifaceted, though in terms of power, it was not as good as Xiang Yu’s Weakness Perception, but the support effect was extremely strong.

Later, if he were surrounded by enemies, he could use Xiang Yu’s Face to fight effectively, slaying enemies and absorbing more Shadow Army members.

Should the number of his Shadow Army increase again, the enhancement would likely be even stronger.

Thinking this, Li Yelai suddenly furrowed his brow.

”I’m not some kind of killer. Why am I considering this? Could it be that I’ve really been influenced by the Heart of Slaughter?”

Li Yelai shook his head to clear his thoughts.

Although he had experienced countless battles within the illusions of Xiang Yu and Huo Qubing and was no longer afraid of gore,

Li Yelai didn’t want to cause any slaughter.

Currently, the only human who had died at the hands of Li Yelai was that old guy, Wang De.

At that moment, Bai Yang, who had finished bandaging his severed arm, noticed Li Yelai’s movements and couldn’t help but ask, ”What’s wrong?”