I'm Already the Richest Man, Why Did My System Just Arrive?

Chapter 192: Chapter 139: Form 3, Long Blade: Broken Moon, Sad Celestial Rain

The moment the arrow was released, it streaked downward like a shooting star, piercing through everything in its path.

In the blink of an eye, the arrow spiraled with vicious force, tearing through a dozen large trees as it flew straight for the Mighty Man’s face.

But the Mighty Man had already fixed his gaze on the arrow’s origin, his hand reaching into his robes.

TING!

Just as the arrow was about to pierce the Mighty Man, it vanished in a bizarre instant. When it reappeared, it had been inexplicably deflected to the side, where it was now embedded deep in a tree.

The Arrow had passed through a severed hand.

「In Ghost Wail Forest.」

A graceful, alluring figure flitted through the trees like a shadow.

This was Zheng Xiu, currently in the guise of Chu Susu.

Zheng Xiu glanced down at the deep, pale cleavage that swayed with every movement. Amid the constant jiggling, he felt his shoulders ache and his chest feel tight and stuffy.

He and Chu Susu had temporarily swapped "identities."

It was a novel, all-encompassing sensory experience—sight, touch, smell, and sound.

Zheng Xiu had no time to savor the titillating fantasies an "identity swap" might inspire. Right now, all he felt was that the situation was utterly ridiculous.

’This is absurd on a cosmic scale.’

His identity as "Zheng Xiu" had been stolen by "Chu Susu." Chu Susu had become him, while he... had become her.

Before Chu Susu performed the Casting, Zheng Xiu wouldn’t have believed in a million years that something so... big—no, something so absurd could happen to him.

According to Chu Susu, the swap was only superficial. On the inside, they were still themselves.

Zheng Xiu believed her. He was intimately familiar with the Attributes of his own Incarnation; he’d lived in it his whole life. If his body’s physical qualities were to change, he’d notice the difference after just a few steps.

’No wonder she called the Broken Hand Stealing Skill crude and unpresentable. A bizarre Stealing Skill like hers, capable of stealing intangible things... she truly lives up to her title as Void, one of the Ten Greats!’ Zheng Xiu mused. ’I remember Susu mentioning that another Tower Chief, Mountain Spirit, excels at defensive Magic. It seems each of the Ten Greats of Incompleteness Tower has a unique mastery of Miracle Techniques, reigning supreme in their own Domain.’

Lost in thought, Zheng Xiu crossed Ghost Wail Forest in the space of a dozen breaths.

He slapped a slow-to-flee hungry wolf to death with a single palm strike, just as he heard the sound of a longbow’s arrow slicing through the air a hundred meters away.

’Kui Lang has made his move!’

[Stealth]!

His Masterful Level [Stealth] instantly transformed Zheng Xiu into a hunter of the forest.

Yes, a hunter.

Kui Lang had thought himself the hunter. But when Chu Susu had so brazenly "borrowed" Zheng Xiu’s identity, the roles of hunter and prey had been reversed in a flash.

Zheng Xiu moved like a swift and ferocious leopard. Barefoot, each of his steps covered the distance of ten. With a light push from the balls of his feet, he would bound a dozen yards in the next second, landing without a sound.

The astonishing sound of the arrow tearing through the woods was impossible to conceal, allowing Zheng Xiu to easily pinpoint Kui Lang’s approximate location at the moment he fired.

"TING!"

Almost at the same instant the arrow was loosed.

Layers of black, tar-like substance dripped from Zheng Xiu’s body, peeling away like a second skin.

Immediately after, his body, face, muscles, and bones seemed to squirm and shift.

The identity Chu Susu had "borrowed" was returned. In a daze, Zheng Xiu felt as if he had passed through a thin membrane. With a soft POP, he was through, and he had changed back into "Zheng Shan."

Zheng Xiu’s expression darkened. ’Could it be because Chu Susu died?’ he wondered.

But he quickly pushed the distracting thought aside. When Chu Susu had bravely volunteered to act as the decoy, she must have been aware of the risks.

’inspiration!’

A Dice emerged from between his eyebrows, spun in the void, and landed on a result.

[Cunning and Deceitful!]

[Concentration!]

His Spiritual Vision activated.

Zheng Xiu whipped his head around. A hundred paces away, his Spiritual Vision caught a fleeting glimpse of a figure.

The figure only materialized for a single instant under his Spiritual Vision before vanishing.

’That’s enough!’

Kui Lang was an experienced hunter. He understood the principle of "shoot and move," never lingering in one spot.

This was why Zheng Xiu had been unable to pinpoint his position during the first eleven shots.

「Meanwhile.」

"Oh?"

Activating his Wolf Eye, Kui Lang’s vision pierced unimpeded through the darkness and the trees. He clearly saw the Mighty Man’s hand get severed by his arrow.

Kui Lang froze, stunned by the sight.

’How was his hand severed?’

Stowing his Longbow, Kui Lang moved nimbly from tree to tree. Within a few breaths, he had relocated to another treetop suitable for an ambush.

Activating his Wolf Eye again, Kui Lang pressed two curved fingers to his eye sockets. To his utter shock, he discovered that the "Mighty Man" with the severed hand had, at some unknown point, turned into that useless woman. She was kneeling on the ground, a bizarre smile on her face.

’Damn it! It’s a trap!’

Kui Lang was sharp-witted. During his tenure as one of the Twenty-Eight Constellations, he had handled numerous strange cases for Ye Weiyang. This rich experience had taught him that the world was full of wonders, including a plethora of treacherous and unpredictable Miracle Techniques. Techniques that could alter one’s appearance and physique were especially common.

In the blink of an eye, Kui Lang whipped his head around. There, in the woods behind him, he saw a figure approaching with ghostly speed!

Under the moonlight, the figure looked up, and for the first time, his eyes met Kui Lang’s. Their gazes locked for a brief moment.

Zheng Xiu grinned. "Gotcha."

[Surprise Cage]!

Without a second thought, Zheng Xiu began to channel his Big Move.

The phantom of a rust-covered slot machine materialized in the night sky. It looked as eerie as an ancient Relic dredged up from the depths of the sea. A pale, skeletal hand pulled the lever, and the wheels on the machine began to spin.

[Form Three] [Medical Principles] [Unnamed].