God-Tier Fishing System - Chapter 372
Chapter 372: Chapter 372
This speed… Ethan’s pupils constricted sharply.
Compared to before, Thousand Faces’ clone was more than twice as fast. The black long sword swept horizontally, leaving behind an ink like stroke, as if a grandmaster painter had waved his brush through the air.
The sword shadow sliced through space itself—clean, neat, effortless.
“What a powerful force… He truly has the strength of the Peak Intermediate Supreme realm. So this is his real strength!”
Ethan’s thoughts flickered rapidly.
But at that same moment, a faint smile tugged at his lips—his physical strength had finally recovered enough.
The Chaos Clock could now be used again.
He prepared to summon it, but—
“Wait.”
Onyx Orchid’s voice echoed abruptly within his mind.
“This is fake. Not the real thing.”
“What? Fake?”
Ethan was stunned for half a breath, then immediately gathered his original power. Golden light fused with black demonic mist on his palm.
“Black Mist Hands!”
A colossal golden palm, wrapped in writhing streams of black demonic energy, manifested behind him. Ethan thrust his arm out, and the spectral palm lunged forward, catching Thousand Faces’ clone’s long black sword mid-swing.
A massive wave of force surged and rolled.
The clone’s offense was immediately halted.
“…This feels off.”
Ethan narrowed his eyes.
If this were a true Peak Intermediate Supreme strike, deflecting it so easily would be impossible—even with the Black Mist Hands.
“You finally noticed,” Onyx Orchid said lazily.
“Although the clone’s aura is at the Peak Intermediate Supreme realm, its combat strength is too weak. And mask of that man calling himself Thousand Faces—his aura is from the same origin as mine, but far too shallow. Obviously… the mask itself is not here.”
Onyx Orchid scoffed.
“We are called Onyx Orchid—the Ghost God. But we are merely fragments of his, condensed into masks. This one is the Mask of Cowardice. How can a coward dare to act so boldly?”
“He must be hiding somewhere, observing. Only a coward would do that.”
“No wonder…” Ethan muttered.
Everything suddenly made sense.
No wonder Thousand Faces seemed so reckless.
He wasn’t reckless.
His true body wasn’t even here.
“This guy is extremely cautious… no wonder even the Blood Tavern’s owner couldn’t catch him.”
Ethan opened his Heaven-piercing Mind Eyes once more, studying the two fake bodies carefully. After a few seconds, he found it—
There was no concentration point of spiritual energy.
No dantian.
No core.
Which meant…
These fake bodies had no continuous source of power. Their strength was declining rapidly as time passed.
“What a clever trick. I didn’t notice at all at the beginning.”
Ethan expanded his mental energy, sweeping the entire 500-meter radius. His senses moved like invisible ripples, touching every rock, plant, and dust particle.
But—
Nothing unusual.
“If he controls fake bodies, his real body must be nearby. My detection range must be too small.”
“The Coward Mask can transform into humans, beasts, plants, rocks—anything,” Onyx Orchid replied.
“But because his power originates from the same root as mine, I should be able to find his true body.”
“Good. I’ll handle these fake bodies while restoring more strength.”
Ethan nodded and transmitted to Asher:
“Senior, something’s wrong. These two are likely fake bodies. Thousand Faces’ real body is hidden nearby.”
“All fake?”
“I knew something was off. Too weak for a Peak Intermediate Supreme, and his spiritual energy declined too quickly. So it’s just a fake…”
Asher chuckled coldly.
“He hid it even from me. No wonder the Blood Tavern Master can’t find him.”
He abruptly spun and kicked the Thousand Faces duplicate across the battlefield.
“…!”
The fake Thousand Faces stumbled back dozens of meters, barely stabilizing himself. His face turned gloomy.
He had looked down on them.
These two were sharper than he expected.
But it didn’t matter.
His plan remained unchanged.
Because even this body— the one speaking, sneering, clashing— was nothing more than a fake.
How could the true Thousand Faces casually reveal himself to seize treasure?
Nonsense.
He was a coward to the bone and treasured his life above anything else.
But the anger earlier had been real.
Being recognized by a junior—almost instantly—had humiliated him beyond reason. Ethan must have some secret method… or perhaps he simply guessed correctly.
Regardless, it no longer mattered.
If he could exhaust the two of them— then detonate the fake body— he would win.
Losing a permanent fake body hurt, but gaining Ethan’s storage ring would heal any heartache.
“Hehehe… I underestimated you two,” Thousand Faces’ fake body chuckled sinisterly.
“But now… I’ll get serious.”
His fake body’s aura surged again, rising step by step.
This one was a “permanent fake body,” crafted via a special refining technique—functionally a puppet, perfectly mirroring his true self.
Its strength depended entirely on Thousand Faces’ control.
The other one—the clone—was nowhere near as refined.
After strengthening the permanent fake body’s aura, Thousand Faces manipulated both fakes relentlessly.
Consume their strength.
Wear them down.
Then self-destruct.
Even if he failed to kill them, exhausting them was enough.
By then, he would swoop in from hiding— and take everything.
“Hehe… Blood Tavern’s old man… If you knew what was happening here, that your guardian and genius prodigy died in my hands… I wonder how your face would look?”
Thousand Faces grinned widely, white teeth gleaming with wicked delight.
“You’re smiling happily,” Asher sneered.
“But it’s a pity—you won’t be laughing much longer.”
He transmitted to Ethan:
“Can you find his true body’s location?”
“I’m trying. It’ll take a moment.”
“Hurry. I’m itching to drag him out and beat him until he regrets being born.” Asher urged excitedly.
“After we’re done, I’ll give you tremendous benefits!”
“Haha, thank you, senior.”
Ethan then spoke inwardly:
“Onyx Orchid, how is it?”
“It’s hidden deep. Just wait.”
One minute passed.
Onyx Orchid’s eyes suddenly opened inside Ethan’s consciousness.
“This guy is a coward, but he really knows how to hide!”
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