Chapter 85 Beyond the Fear of Death

A fishy wind blew out of Li Kedi's mouth, blowing Shen Cheng's black hair into a frenzy. Then, a huge gravity pressed down on him, making him unable to move.

He opened his bloody mouth and pounced over.

Shen Cheng had no time to digest Li Kedi's words. He pushed his feet hard on the ground and retreated against the huge force of gravity.

At the same time, his brain was working rapidly, thinking about battle strategies.

Seeing Li Kedi flying towards him with his bloody mouth wide open, Shen Cheng seized the opportunity, raised his hand, and thrust his entire arm into his throat, releasing the Dragonborn Fire.

But Li Kedi was faster. He closed his mouth and his sharp teeth were like saw teeth, cutting off Shen Cheng's arm that was in his mouth.

His burly body spun violently, and the thick crocodile tail swept over like a long whip, hitting Shen Cheng in the abdomen and sweeping him away.

After raising his head to swallow the arm, Li Kedi used his strong legs to chase after Shen Cheng again.

Shen Cheng was hit by Li Kedi's tail and flew straight out. After crashing through several walls in succession, he finally broke through the outer wall of the Security Bureau and came to the yard outside.

During this short period of time, he had thought about it countless times in his mind, and finally came to a very pessimistic conclusion - he was no match for Li Kedi at all.

Li Kedi possesses overwhelming power. Within the range of gravity, Shen Cheng can hardly make any effective movements and is suppressed and unable to move.

In addition, Li Kedi was injected with demon serum and has been using gravity to train his body for ten years. He is no weaker than Shen Cheng in strength.

With his abilities and physical strength, Shen Cheng had no chance of winning.

However, all of Shen Cheng's abilities have no effect on Li Kedi.

However, despite such a huge disadvantage, Shen Cheng still had no intention of giving up, because he still had one last chance to win - the true form of the vampire.

The true form is the key for vampires to transcend classes and achieve extraordinary results.

Before this, Shen Cheng already felt that his strength was enough to awaken his true form, but because his foundation was not enough and there was a high probability that the awakening would fail, he chose not to take that step.

What exactly is the background?
Among all the vampires Shen Cheng has come into contact with so far, except for Wang Mu, only Jiang Jing is the strongest.

Jiang Jing just happened to awaken the true form of a vampire. Even though it was an incomplete pseudo-form, he had accumulated enough experience with it.

According to Jiang Jing's own personal experience and the information he has learned, the most important foundation for a vampire to awaken to its true form is actually a strong belief from the heart.

This world is idealistic, and most of the power comes from the beliefs in one's heart, and vampires are no exception.

As vampires have almost immortal bodies, they are more afraid of death than other creatures.

The more immortal one is, the more one fears death.

If you want to awaken to your true mindset, you must overcome the fear of death.

Only by grasping a glimmer of hope when on the verge of death can the Eternals' true power be awakened and their true form be revealed.

This is not difficult to understand, but there are not many vampires who can actually do it.

Jiang Jing is unable to awaken to his true form because he has a strong fear of death.

Shen Cheng couldn't help but ask himself in his heart - Can I overcome the fear of death?
He was knocked into the yard outside the Sheriff's Bureau. Before he landed on the ground, a huge force of gravity was exerted on him, causing him to turn a 90-degree angle from his straight flight and fall heavily to the ground.

The next second, Li Kedi caught up, waving his sharp claws and tail, launching a violent attack.

Countless bloody wounds instantly appeared on Shen Cheng's body. They healed quickly, but more wounds appeared the next second.

Shen Cheng lay down and let himself be beaten, without trying to run away.

He wanted to take a gamble, betting that he could overcome the fear of death and master the true form of a vampire.

Under this premise, he must first fall into a near-death situation, so he completely gave up resistance.

"Are you giving up now?"

Li Kedi made a joking sound: "I haven't had enough fun yet, can't you hold on a little longer?"

After freeing his body from the oppression of gravity, his originally gloomy personality seemed to become more arrogant.

"Can you be a little harder?"

Shen Cheng was lying on the ground, making a mocking sound: "The massage girls in the club are stronger than you."

"Being stubborn will only lead to a more miserable death!"

Li Kedi didn’t know what Shen Cheng was up to, nor did he think that he would give in so easily.

But he has absolute confidence in his own strength. If he is not the extraordinary Shen Cheng, he will not be able to turn the situation around no matter what he does.

Li Kedi used his claws to tear wounds on his arms, and the highly corrosive blood continued to fall on Shen Cheng as he attacked.

With the continuous destruction and regeneration, Shen Cheng was like being thrown into a meat grinder. He could no longer maintain his human form and turned into an irregular mass of flesh and blood with a hideous evil ghost mask hanging on it.

Li Kedi opened his bloody mouth and began to devour Shen Cheng, stuffing pieces of flesh and blood into his mouth.

His stomach was like a black hole, swallowing up all the flesh and blood with strong vitality and digesting it as its own nutrition.

It is easy for vampires to recover from wounds, but it is a huge burden to regenerate lost flesh and blood.

Shen Cheng's recovery ability is still very strong, but his regeneration capacity is becoming weaker and weaker with Li Kedi's continuous attacks and devouring, and he is gradually heading towards death.

The Public Security Bureau building is in ruins.

Yu Yuanqi's face was pale, with blood at the corner of his mouth. One of his arms hung limply by his side, having been shattered.

Two of his seven black hands have disappeared, leaving five.

And right in front of him, Ruan Qingsha was intact, with faint lines appearing on the skin exposed outside the clothes.

"Oh my, this is such a headache."

Yu Yuanqi couldn't help but smile bitterly. He knew that there was a gap in strength between him and Ruan Qingsha, but he didn't expect the gap to be so big.

If the fight continues like this, he might really be beaten to death by Ruan Qingsha.

Ruan Qingsha had no interest in talking nonsense with Yu Yuanqi.

She wanted to get rid of this guy quickly and then go help Shen Cheng.

But Yu Yuanqi is, after all, at the same extraordinary level as her, and it won’t be so easy to deal with him in a short period of time.

Just as Ruan Qingsha was about to launch another attack, she suddenly noticed something. A surprised expression appeared on her face and she turned her head to look outside the Security Bureau.

In her perception, Shen Cheng's life breath was rapidly fading, and in the blink of an eye it was so weak that it was almost disappearing, and he was on the verge of death.

"You usually act like you're a screw-up, how come you can't hold on so soon?!"

According to Ruan Qingsha's estimation, even if Shen Cheng, as a vampire, was no match for Li Kedi, he should have no problem holding on for ten minutes or half an hour.

She would never have thought that Shen Cheng would give up resistance on his own initiative and reach the point of being on the verge of death.

Ruan Qingsha directly gave up the opportunity to defeat Yu Yuanqi and turned around to rush out.

Yu Yuanqi's perception ability is not that strong, and he doesn't know what is going on outside, but he can guess what happened from Ruan Qingsha's reaction.

Li Kedi, you deserve my help in delaying the game for so long.

Yu Yuanqi grinned and said to himself: "Who says the villain will definitely lose? Who says justice will definitely win? Reality is not a story."

……

As his vitality weakened, Shen Cheng's consciousness gradually became blurred.

In a trance, he found himself sinking into a red ocean.

Above our heads is a surface of water bathed in sunlight, seemingly within reach, representing the direction of new life.

The seabed represents the darkness of death, where one cannot see one’s hand in front of one’s face.

Shen Cheng was sinking, which meant he was heading towards death.

After realizing this, a huge fear of death tightly enveloped his body and mind.

The fear turned into real shackles, tightly wrapped around his body and pulled him hard into the deep sea.

The more fearful you are, the faster you sink, and the closer you are to death, the more fearful you become. It is almost an unsolvable cycle.

The sunlight overhead was getting dimmer and dimmer, and getting farther and farther away from the sea.

Shen Cheng realized that he should do something, but his consciousness was blurred and his body could not move. He could only allow himself to be dragged towards death by the chains of fear.

As he sank deeper, Shen Cheng saw figures in the dark seabed. They were people with distorted faces and faces full of fear. They were bound by chains and floating in the seabed.

A thought came to Shen Cheng's mind - these were all vampires who could not overcome their fear of death.

Will I be like them?

Can I Overcome My Fear of Death?

"Come down! Come down!"

One after another, vague voices rang out, and countless vampires floating below stretched out their hands upwards, like a dense coral reef, waiting for Shen Cheng to fall. I want to overcome the fear of death! I want to overcome the fear of death!
This sentence kept echoing in Shen Cheng's mind, but it seemed to be of no use.

He wanted to breathe, but when he opened his mouth, red sea water like blood poured into his throat and trachea, bringing only pain, and the pain deepened his fear.

The sinking speed was getting faster and faster, and the heartbeat was getting faster and faster.

Pain, fear, sinking, cold sea water, at this moment, Shen Cheng actually felt a sense of familiarity.

His brain was working rapidly, and then he remembered that he had an accident the first time he went diving in his previous life and almost drowned at the bottom of the sea.

However, that dangerous experience did not leave any psychological trauma on Shen Cheng. Instead, it aroused the adventurous gene in his bones, making him yearn for excitement and danger even more.

Pictures flashed through Shen Cheng's mind. They were scenes of him getting into trouble while skydiving, racing, rock climbing, and exploring underground.

The fear of death was fading rapidly, and a sense of familiarity came over me.

Every time a picture appeared, one of the chains binding Shen Cheng broke.

At the same time, his sinking speed also stopped, and he was only a few centimeters away from the hands of countless vampires stretched out below.

The vampires tried desperately to catch him, but they could never reach him.

When all the chains broke, Shen Cheng suddenly opened his eyes.

Overcoming the fear of death?
No, in my previous life I had overcome the fear of death, which is why I embarked on this precarious journey as an explorer.

All the chains called fear have been broken, and Shen Cheng is completely awake.

He waved his limbs and swam upwards with all his might, away from the deep sea of ​​death below.

"Woo woo woo come back! Come back!"

Countless vampires below wailed. They were all losers and were unwilling to see the successful person appear.

This red sea was unwilling to see a vampire escape. Big hands stretched out from the dark seabed and grabbed Shen Cheng's limbs again, trying to drag him back.

But Shen Cheng was sober this time. He swam hard upstream, fighting against several big hands.

He has already understood that breaking out of the deep sea is to grasp a glimmer of hope for survival, while breaking out of the sea surface is the key to awakening the true power of the Eternal Clan.

Under the pull of several big hands, Shen Cheng's upward swimming speed slowed down, but he did not stop.

This is a tug-of-war between death and the will to survive.

Shen Cheng had no other thoughts at this time, he just kept swimming upstream towards the sea full of sunshine.

His strong will to survive gave him great strength, allowing him to constantly break free from the hands that were obstructing him and get closer to the sea surface.

Until finally, Shen Cheng broke free from all restraints and suddenly stretched his hand upwards.

Wow!

Shen Cheng stretched his hand out of the sea, the sunlight shone on his palm, and he clenched it hard, as if he had grasped something.

……

Under Li Kedi's relentless attacks and devouring, Shen Cheng had turned into just a mass of flesh and blood wriggling on the ground. Even his healing and regeneration had stopped, and the evil ghost mask had disappeared.

"Is that the only extent?"

Li Kedi grabbed the flesh and blood on the ground and stuffed it into his big mouth.

He originally thought that Shen Cheng gave up resistance and was preparing for a counterattack, but now it seems that he was a completely overestimated opponent.

Li Kedi did not feel any sense of accomplishment after defeating Shen Cheng, because there was another more dangerous Ruan Qingsha waiting for him.

The moment Li Kedi opened his mouth, the mass of flesh and blood in his hand suddenly stretched out a hand and grabbed his jaw.

Click!

The hand pinched Li Kedi's jaw with such force that it crushed it into pieces.

Li Kedi was shocked and quickly threw away the blood and flesh in his hand.

The flesh and blood fell to the ground, and the hand grabbed the ground and pulled hard outwards, as if trying to pull its own body out of the flesh and blood.

After the arms come the shoulders, head, and chest. In reality, this is the body's ongoing regeneration process, but it looks like a person crawling out of flesh and blood.

Li Kedi covered his chin with one hand, his crocodile eyes showing shock and anger. He didn't expect that Shen Cheng really had another trick up his sleeve.

Not only that, Shen Cheng's breath, which was originally weak to the point of being on the verge of death, was also recovering rapidly.

Li Kedi would not watch Shen Cheng reborn. Just as he was about to stop him, the wall of the Security Bureau was broken with a bang and Ruan Qingsha rushed out from inside.

The appearance of a powerful enemy forced Li Kedi to focus his attention on Ruan Qingsha.

And Shen Cheng has been completely reborn from flesh and blood.

He was naked, and his body was like that of the ancient Greek god who mastered bodybuilding, without any flaws or blemishes, a perfect work of art.

The short hair completely turned into long black hair, scattered on the back, and the originally healthy yellow skin turned into moon white with a faint luster.

Suddenly, two lumps appeared on the back and kept twisting, as if something alive was trying to run out of them.

The next second, flesh and blood were torn apart, and a pair of pitch-black wings emerged from Shen Cheng's back and spread out in the air.

At the same time, an extremely astonishing aura burst out from Shen Cheng's body and turned into substance, blowing around like a strong wind.

The knowledgeable Ruan Qingsha and Li Kedi recognized Shen Cheng's current appearance at the same time - the true form of a vampire.

And the appearance has not turned into an ugly monster, this is the perfect form without any flaws

Only those vampires who hold the title can master their true form, or conversely, only vampires who master their true form can obtain the title.

And they are collectively called transcendents.

Li Kedi's face turned extremely ugly. He knew that Shen Cheng's sudden giving up of resistance was not admitting defeat, but was planning a big move.

It was ridiculous that he just lay there and let himself be hit, and I didn't even interrupt the casting of his ultimate skill.

Ruan Qingsha breathed a sigh of relief, and then smiled from the bottom of her heart: "Boy, you always come up with something new for me."

Shen Cheng's momentum and vitality continued to rise. He raised his head, his eyes flashing with a heart-pounding scarlet light.

"Qingsha, let me deal with Li Kedi, don't interfere."

Shen Cheng's voice also showed obvious changes. It became deep and magnetic, with a gender-neutral charm.

Ruan Qingsha didn't care that Shen Cheng called her name directly: "It's no problem to leave it to you, but don't let me overturn it."

"Roll over?"

Shen Cheng grinned: "It won't turn over at all, because I will tear his car apart."

Li Ke Di was glad about Shen Cheng's arrogance. If he and Ruan Qingsha joined forces, he would surely be defeated.

At the same time, I was angry at Shen Cheng’s arrogance—What do you think I am?
Li Kedi's broken jaw had slowly grown back. He sneered, "Even Wang Mu wouldn't dare to brag in front of me. What gives you the right to do that?"

"Because I'm stronger than you!"

Shen Cheng pressed his hands on his face. The pitch-black evil ghost mask covered his entire face and head. A thick black ghost aura surrounded his body and hands.

At this moment, he looked like a devil from hell, chilling.

Li Kedi's face was solemn and he clearly felt the threat, which was something he had never felt before.

The moment Shen Cheng became a superhuman, he had the power to kill another superhuman.

Under pressure, Li Kedi took the initiative.

A huge gravity descended from the sky and pressed down on Shen Cheng.

Shen Cheng's feet sank into the concrete floor, leaving two deep footprints, but his body remained straight as a pine tree, unlike before when he was pressed and hunched over.

Shen Cheng endured the gravity, and suddenly a deck of cards appeared in his hand. He began to shuffle the cards with a pleasing movement.

Li Kedi's eyes shrank slightly, because he recognized that this was the same joy-type ability as Lan Fei, the cursed playing cards.

It's not that there are no similar abilities in this world, but it's not such a coincidence.

Did he take away Lan Fei's ability?
Under Li Kedi's incredulous gaze, Shen Cheng drew a Joker card.

It wasn't because he was lucky, but because he used the cursed playing cards which allowed him to draw a designated card every day.

"Looks like you're out of luck."

Shen Cheng pinched the cursed poker card between two fingers and shot it hard at Li Kedi.

He didn't use the cursed playing cards on Li Kedi before because he was one level lower than Li Kedi, and the effect of the playing cards was almost zero.

Now that both sides are at the same level, even if the cursed playing cards are only two-star elite level, they can still play the greatest role.

(End of this chapter)