Ace of the Dragon Division

Chapter 394: Like-Real-Like-Fake

Xu Cheng finally knew why the old man assessed him with that method back when they first met.

In fact, back then, the old man had already laid out the plan for today. He knew that as the successor, Xu Cheng would face the Little Joker’s revenge sooner or later, so he taught Xu Cheng very subtly using the opposite principle.

One must admit that this old man was really a master of Chess!

And how did the Little Joker grasp the essence of Shadow Fist? Just like Xu Cheng said, he was someone with a strong inferiority complex, and the stronger the person’s feelings of inferiority, the more they would try to escape from their true self. Therefore, he lived his life behind a mask, and he never treated people heart to heart, instead seeing himself as a character that could manipulate and trick everyone. So, he coincidently grasped the true meaning of Shadow Fist, which was creating a visual fantasy!

This was also why Xu Cheng was at a disadvantage fighting the Little Joker, he kept being tricked by the illusions and no matter how he tried to crack it, he couldn’t beat the Little Joker at all.

But, in fact, most of the movements in the fight were superfluous, just like how Xu Cheng told the old man that he forgot most of the moves. It was because he learned to ignore the complicated moves, because they, in fact, didn’t exist.

Xu Cheng blindfolded his eyes and didn’t watch the Little Joker’s unpredictable movements. He just needed to catch the Little Joker’s real movements.

The Little Joker didn’t sweat at all when he saw that Xu Cheng had seen through him. Rather, he smiled and said, “So what if you cover your eyes? Things won’t get easier for you just because you are blind now.”

After Xu Cheng completely covered his eyes, he stood still there.

Looking at the surveillance footage, everyone in the underground base were all very curious. “What is the Division Master doing? Has he gone mad?”

At that moment, an old research scientist slowly said, “Having lived for so long, sometimes the higher I reach in academics, the more I feel that in this world, not everything you see is real. There’s a good saying, when God closes a door, he will open another.“

Everyone was confused.

Xu Cheng obviously wouldn’t tell the Little Joker that even though he covered his eyes, he still had his bat ultrasound senses! In addition, who said a piece of cloth could cover up his vision? It was all just for show.

The Little Joker directly kicked up a stone from his feet and sent it to Xu Cheng’s direction. Xu Cheng immediately punched forward and shattered the rock.

“Not bad, your awareness is pretty good, but it’s useless!” Behind the mask, the Little Joker sneered and then picked up three more stones with his feet and kicked them towards the sky, making them land in three different directions around Xu Cheng to interfere with his hearing and awareness.

At the same time as the stones landed, the Little Joker would attack as well.

If Xu Cheng was purely relying on his ears, then indeed, when those three stones land, it would prompt him to mistake them for enemy movements and then anxiously react to it. At that time, the Little Joker would deliver a fatal blow. 

When the Little Joker charged over, Xu Cheng pretended to have dodged away from the three stones’ landing locations and the Little Joker landed a solid palm strike on Xu Cheng’s chest. Xu Cheng deliberately took the hit, and he utilized his tortoiseshell patterns to protect his organs from being destroyed. However, not all of the internal damage was prevented, and he flew back a bit as he coughed up blood!

“Someone that’s blind will only have ears to rely on. But when the ears are fooled, then he will be a deaf and blind person!” The members in the underground base were all very nervous for their Division Master. It was obvious that Xu Cheng suffered quite a bit of damage from that attack!

“Wouldn’t it be better if he just goes full out and fights the Little Joker with everything he got? Blindfolding himself is basically making him into a target that takes free hits! I don’t understand Division Master’s thinking…”

The Little Joker watched as Xu Cheng slowly got back up. There was blood coming out of his mouth and although he had a mask covering his face, blood was still dripping off of his chin; it was clear that he was injured.

“Division Master!” Bei Shan was determined to come back to protect Xu Cheng, but he was suppressed by one of the four devils. Strictly speaking, they wouldn’t be able to beat those people one on one at all, and even though they had 3 Sky Kings and 9 Earth Kings fighting those four devils, the devils still managed it well. It was clear that the overall strength of the Dragon Division was really low, or the Little Joker wouldn’t be confident enough to come back to destroy the Dragon Division. Without Zhang Chenfeng, the Dragon Division indeed lost its prestige.

No one could come to Xu Cheng’s aid, and the Little Joker just watched as Xu Cheng stood there, struggling to go on. He smiled and said, “You won’t see my illusory attacks after you blindfold yourself, but you also won’t be able to see the real attacks.”

Then, the Little Joker stomped the ground and kicked forward a piece of rock behind Xu Cheng. When the rock landed, Xu Cheng thought the Little Joker was attacking him from behind, so he turned around and stabbed forward!

But, the Little Joker was in fact just standing in the same place, and he was just testing whether Xu Cheng could see.

A disdainful look appeared on his face. “To have this kind of capabilities at such a young age, you are really a talented prodigy of this generation! It’s just a pity that you got yourself into an abyss with no way back.”

Then, the Little Joker threw his cloak towards Xu Cheng. When the cloak was just about to really surround Xu Cheng’s head and eyes, the Little Joker appeared behind him.

But the Little Joker would never, even in his wildest imaginations, think Xu Cheng could actually see, even with his eyes blocked!

This was really the like-real-like-fake trick that could deceive anyone!

When you think I’m blind because my eyes are blocked, I can still see you! Maybe no one in this world would ever think that there was even a slight possibility that even with my eyes blindfolded, I can still see through you!

Do you tease people with illusions? I tease people with reality! It would be so real that you would have no choice but to believe it!

When Xu Cheng’s head was covered up by the Little Joker’s cloak, normally, a person would instinctively attack towards the direction Little Joker was last at. But, he appeared behind Xu Cheng, and he was about to slap Xu Cheng’s head off of his neck!

Just at that split second, Xu Cheng swiftly lowered his head and dodged that strike.

Originally, the Little Joker’s objective was very simple, and it was to quickly take down Xu Cheng. However, just because he had that mentality ready, he didn’t have any preparation to counter any possible counter-attacks. In other words, the Little Joker didn’t believe at all that Xu Cheng could see this palm strike coming! With the two probing attacks just now, Xu Cheng’s actions showed that he couldn’t just use his ears alone and achieve a level of having perfect awareness in his surrounding environment. So, now with the cloak interfering with his hearing even more, Little Joker felt he wouldn’t need to even use any extra distractions and could simply kill him directly.

But, as Xu Cheng stabbed forward with one hand, his other hand was actually stabbing towards his back!

Pshhh!

Little Joker felt a chill in his abdomen; Xu Cheng’s blade had already stabbed through his body!