My face...
Upon hearing the Faceless Man's inquiry, Leon's soul fragment fell silent for a moment, not immediately responding.
The Faceless Man wasn't wrong; Leon had indeed been directly hit by the rules of Zhanhuai Mountain earlier, and he suffered quite severe effects.
After all, he had already fallen to a Contamination Value of 70 as a Taurus-level, and while the Mountain Patrol Woman was severely injured, she was still a genuine Taurus-level Overlord of the Dead Realm. It wasn't as easy to invade her Heart Lake as he had just claimed.
Without truly letting her "catch" him and creating an extremely intense emotional fluctuation, given her level of defense over her Heart Lake, he might not have been able to breach it while he was significantly weakened.
And even though he had previously touched Zhanhuai Mountain and received resistance bonuses from Materialism, being directly hit by the rules of an Overlord of the Dead Realm still cost him a lot.
