Chapter 60: Ritual
Translator: Lordbluefire Editor: Lordbluefire

Thereafter, Chen Shouyi continued to experiment on the Atmospheric Control and then completely gave up on the wishful thinking of developing it.

That pathetic attacking prowess wouldn’t even be able to blow away the small shell girl. It could only be used to deal with ants.

He had thought that this ability was weak and could only be used to act cool.

However, it wasn’t long before Chen Shouyi realized that it wasn’t completely useless.

He made this discovery when he was going through with his sword training thereafter.

…

The speed at which he thrust out his sword now was extremely fast. After his agility had increased by another 0.1 points, just his pierce strikes alone could steadily break through the speed of sound on Earth. Even in the Otherworld, where gravity was three times that on Earth, he could reach a rate of 300 meters per second.

At this speed, air would feel about the same as liquid.

However, back then, when he had performed his sword movements, he could clearly sense a powerful air resistance that had seriously obstructed the further improvement in his speed.

But today, he realized that there were a few times when he performed the sword movements and the resistance reduced by quite a lot.

When he performed pierce strikes, it seemed as if the air would dodge to two sides in advance by themselves. It was as though an invisible force was separating everything.

Moreover, it didn’t require intentional control. This ability seemed as if it was instinctive, being completed subconsciously.

…

“Hsss hsss hsss!”

He performed a few pierces, came to a stop, and frowned as he thought hard about it.

“Why is it that sometimes, the resistance is reduced by a lot; while other times, it is reduced only by a little? There must be some crux behind this!”

Very long later, he performed another pierce.

This time around, the speed at which he struck out was faster. However, the sound released when the sword’s tip pierced through the air wasn’t very different.

He then performed a few more pierces. Sometimes, he would do so casually and the resistance would be very high. And sometimes, he would be fully focused and the resistance would be a lot lower.

“It seems that the more focused I am, the weaker the resistance and the faster my sword attacks would be.”

He noticed the difference between them.

After realizing this phenomenon, Chen Shouyi immediately started to intentionally focus his attention.

He had a huge advantage in this area. Regardless if it was Entering Meditation or the optimized Thirty-six Stances of Body Training, both required meditation.

This allowed him to be able to enter a high level of concentration when he was performing a task.

He kept on thrusting out his sword, becoming increasingly focused. There were lesser and lesser distractions in his mind with every thrust.

He had no idea how long he trained for, but his concentration suddenly focused at a very high level, and he thrust out his sword fiercely. He could feel that the pierce in this sword attack was very exhilarating, reaching a peak both in terms of speed and technique compared to how it had been in the past.

He faintly felt that there was a stream of faint azure cone-shaped force that instantly shot out from the sword’s tip. It only dissipated after shooting out for three to four meters, integrating into the air.

“What was that earlier?” He noticed the abnormality from earlier, and he could no longer keep a calm state of mind. He quickly stopped.

It was only then did he realize that his mind felt a little fatigued, his head throbbing a little. It was as if something had flowed out together with his sword attack.

He turned his head, wanting to ascertain this with the shell girl, only to realize that she wasn’t paying attention over here at all.

Ever since the shell girl received the big glass marble, she had been searching for gold with great enthusiasm.

“Forget it. Since it appeared once, there’ll definitely be a second time.”

He continued with his sword practice. It was a pity that this condition seemed to be one that came with luck. Even until the Otherworld’s sun was setting in the west, it didn’t happen again.

…

Chen Shouyi changed into his original clothes and stuffed his weapons and backpack into the cave. He then put the shell girl into his briefcase and walked out of the space channel.

It was only 2 p.m. on Earth.

As the electricity continued to be cut off, Dongning City inevitably became a lot quieter, no longer bustling with activity like it did in the past.

He wasn’t very surprised.

This electricity cutoff wasn’t an ordinary occurrence.

It also wasn’t a problem with a certain circuit or region, but that most of the circuits across the entire country had the same problem.

Putting aside other things, just the wires required for replacing the aging circuits had already become a rare commodity in the market.

Chen Shouyi even suspected if Dongning City would be able to purchase sufficient wires.

Even if they could, replacing all of them wasn’t a simple task that could be completed within a few days.

Moreover, the invasion of the mysterious force field had caused an intensified loss in the process of electricity transmission. Even if all the circuits were recovered, the electricity that could be supplied across the country would probably only be 50 to 60% of what they had been in the past.

The entire country would face a shortage of electricity across a large area.

As a small city, Dongning City was neither an important industrial site, nor did it enjoy a strategic location. Even if the circuits had been repaired, it’d be wishful thinking for the electricity to be routed here within a short period of time.

…

In mid-October, the temperature was already turning a little cold.

Chen Shouyi held onto this briefcase and rushed back home.

After passing through a crossroads, he suddenly saw a group of people surrounding the outside an office building. He could see several policemen through the gaps in the crowd.

“What happened?” he thought to himself.

He quickly walked over, and very soon, he could smell a faint scent of blood from the distance.

His countenance turned grim. This place was just a short distance away from his place. Could it be that something had happened?

“What are you squeezing for! Are you trying to take advantage of me?”

“Ah, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Please excuse me!”

The complaining young married woman had wanted to continue cursing but swallowed back her words after seeing Chen Shouyi’s handsome and youthful face.

Chen Shouyi apologized while he gently pushed the crowd away to make a path to the front.

His strength was astonishing now, and given an ordinary person’s weight of about 100 or more jin, he’d be able to lift them up single-handedly, let alone push through them. He’d even be able to throw them out several meters away.

It didn’t take long for him to squeeze in.

The office building’s entrance had already been cut off by the police tape, and a few policemen wore grim countenance as they came out from the building, lifting stretchers.

Some corpses had already been placed into bags on the stretchers, and there were many of them. In this short period, he had already seen five to six sets of corpses being placed into the police’s vans.

“So pitiful. Those who had died are all young ladies about 15 to 16 years old. There are over 20 sets of corpses.”

“The society is getting increasingly chaotic recently. There were no such cases in the past.”

“They seemed to be holding some kind of evil cult ritual. When they were discovered, the victims had already died. This is really inhuman.”

Hearing the words ‘evil cult’, Chen Shouyi’s heart skipped a beat.

For the past 20 years, all the countries across the world had been seriously tackling evil cults, especially those who revered gods from the Otherworld. They were strictly forbidden, and upon discovery, they would be treated seriously.

As the internet became more and more advanced, supervision became increasingly stringent. Those cults had gradually disappeared, and there were very few cases of them heard.

He hadn’t expected that they’d been revived.

Moreover, they even performed such a bloody and brutal ritual in Dongning City.