Blind Spot
Chapter 150 - 139 Blue Book 1 (Thank you Alliance Hierarch Radish Pills)

Chapter 150: 139 Blue Book 1 (Thank you Alliance Hierarch Radish Pills)

The Golden Sword reflected the light of the sky, barely flickering past Marian’s eyes.

The bright and sharp blade was almost too fast to see, and even with her enhanced vision, she could only discern a blurred outline.

In that moment, time seemed to slow down.

Reflected clearly in her pupils was the full figure of Li Chengyi standing before her.

’Killing intent... I feel it... but... something’s not right.’

This feeling was different from the one she was deeply familiar with in the past...

In an instant, her figure shifted slightly.

Her body twisted into an eerie curve with the precision of the finest ballet dancer.

The Golden Sword Blade whisked by her side, missing her entirely.

But it wasn’t over yet.

Li Chengyi swung the Golden Sword, this time with both hands.

One in each hand, a horizontal slash followed by a diagonal cut, two different angles converging on her at once.

Whoosh!

It was a repeat of the previous move as Marian’s body suddenly contorted, defying physiology as she precisely evaded both blades.

She stood in place, not even moving beyond a one-meter radius.

And yet, she wasn’t grazed by the Golden Sword at all.

"Decades of time have been enough for me to elevate many things to a height incomprehensible to the common person."

She suddenly struck out, her right palm precisely hitting Li Chengyi’s wrist, disrupting his rhythm.

"Just like now."

Bang!

A forceful blow, and a dull sound erupted between them.

Li Chengyi was forcefully pushed back, regaining his posture. He simply frowned and stood still, stopping more than two meters away from her.

It wasn’t that he didn’t want to continue, but... even though he had unleashed his true killing intent, the opponent still showed no intention of a counterkill.

He had only pretended to be ready to kill, but in fact, self-hypnotizing for a short period of time wasn’t a difficult task.

Irrespective of whether Marian bore any grudge against him, as a strong Flower Language Technique material, he wouldn’t squander her at once.

But now, strangely, Marian didn’t erupt with emotional killing intent?

"Why don’t you strike back? Just dodging and defending?" he asked, staring at Marian, his voice altered by the voice changer, indifferent to the eager onlookers ready to call the police with their phones.

"You’re not his emissary," Marian said with a smile. "Young man, the moment I employed that technique just now, you already revealed your weakness."

She moved forward step by step, closing in.

"If you were one of his, seeing that I have mastered his skills, you couldn’t possibly remain unshaken. But you... didn’t budge...."

"...." Li Chengyi had no idea who ’he’ was, and it seemed that this old witch was not easy to fool.

"Your skills are rusty, obviously a beginner, young man. Do you think such meager abilities are enough to test me?

Marian flicked her right hand, and suddenly, a gray dagger appeared in her palm.

Upstroke.

Whoosh!

The tip of the dagger aimed at Li Chengyi’s visor and sped towards it.

But while Li Chengyi’s skills were poor, his physical quality was genuinely enhanced in every aspect.

Modern genetic science usually amplifies certain aspects of one’s physical condition, but nothing like his comprehensive enhancement.

The dagger came openly, but the speed of the attack from the draw to near impact was explosively fast, resembling a surprise attack.

Li Chengyi raised one hand, completely disregarding the dagger aimed at his face, while his sword blade also swept towards his opponent’s chest.

Given the thickness of their chests, the opponent would surely be struck before him!

He was counting on the Wisteria Floral Dress he was wearing for protection. With such defense, an ordinary dagger couldn’t harm him.

Marian had no choice but to retract her move quickly, blocking.

Clang!

The two separated again.

This time too it was a draw, but Li Chengyi felt that Marian’s absolute strength was clearly inferior to his.

She had used some highly skilled technique to deflect much of his strength.

Then, using the residual force, she counteracted and launched a counterattack.

In reality, the intensity of her effort was at most a quarter of his.

As the clang of their collision rang out repeatedly, every strike from Li Chengyi was precisely intercepted, and her weapon wasn’t the kind that he could easily break like previous junk, clearly made of a high-strength, high-density special alloy.

After dozens of continuous sword strikes, he knew that if he didn’t use the Flower Language Ability, he probably wouldn’t stand a chance against her.

But once the Flower Language Ability was used, without warning and without defense, it might cause injury or even death.

He just hoped to scare Marian so that next time he could ’withdraw’ again.

But the current situation put him in a difficult position.

’Forget it.’

Finally, after the last sword strike was parried, Li Chengyi decided to give up.

He learned a lesson from this encounter.

One should pick young Flower Language Technique materials. The older ones are hard to trigger Evil Thoughts. The effort was too great and not worth it.

He took two steps back, calculating the time. The security agency personnel would arrive soon. It was time to leave.

Li Chengyi quickly retreated.

"Planning to leave? So tell me, what exactly did you come for?" Marian quickly said.

"You’re different from what I imagined," Li Chengyi answered, turning to leave.

Whoosh!

In an instant, Marian’s figure left a blur as she swiftly moved past his side, blocking his way forward.

She stood atop the concrete podium separating the sidewalk from the road, each hand grasping a gray dagger.

"Did I give you permission to leave?" Marian’s blue pupils faintly conveyed something strange.

"You give permission?" Li Chengyi was surprised. He had already shown mercy by not killing her, and now she dared to block his way?

"It’s time for you to step aside."

His voice grew stern.

"Although I have a bit more patience for superior materials... my patience has its limits."

"Then come and kill me," Marian challenged with a smile, "if you can."

She extended her slender finger, pointing toward her own heart. "Cut here."

Bang!!

With a dull thud, the standoff escalated.

Li Chengyi’s right leg cracked the ground as the Golden Sword blurred into a phantom trail, thunderously slashing toward Marian.

Clang!

The two clashed once again.

The Ash Blade collided with the Golden Sword, then separated.

Marian was about to ease her force, but her expression suddenly changed this time.

Her right hand, holding the blade, suddenly swung out of control toward the ground on her left.

Not only that, her entire body seemed to be controlled by some giant strength, violently lunging toward the ground to her left.

Swish!!

At the same time, a second Golden Sword pierced straight out from his back, stabbing toward her heart.

"!!!!?"

Marian’s pores constricted, a deadly threat she had not felt for many years now surged wildly in her heart.

She wanted to counterattack or block, but her body couldn’t move at all!!!

Pu-chi.

The Golden Sword pierced through the back of her clothes, landing on the bulletproof vest and incurring a gash.

Marian violently broke free from the control, rolled over, and increased the distance between them.

As she stood up, she half-kneeled on the ground, glaring intensely at Li Chengyi as he sheathed his sword and turned around.

"Who the hell are you!!?"

That previous strike, she had really been on the brink of life and death, nearly meeting her end.

What exactly was that eerie technique...?

"If you block my way again, I’ll kill you," Li Chengyi said indifferently as he quickly walked away toward the distance.

As the saying goes, coming with high spirits and leaving with disappointment, he had thought he could easily harvest Evil Thoughts.

But he hadn’t considered one problem.

The more resolute and powerful a person is, the more stable their emotions and thoughts usually are, making it difficult to breach and cause significant fluctuations.

He had overlooked this point, hence the situation turned out as it had.

Marian was unmoved.

His attempt at rapid charging had failed.

Quickly dashing into a corner, he stripped off his clothes, and in the shadows away from the cameras, Li Chengyi removed his breastplate.

’+15 Arrogance’

’+17 Arrogance.’

"??" He suddenly paused in his actions.

What were those Evil Thoughts just now??

Before he could collect his thoughts.

’+17 Anger’

’+13 Anger’

’+10 Anger’

Three powerful Evil Thoughts rapidly flooded in.

Li Chengyi was dumbfounded as he watched the previously half-full Evil Thoughts instantly break the limit, reaching the maximum value of one hundred...

’Titan Sunflower has reached the highest level and cannot evolve further.’

’Final evolution has begun, Flower Language Technique is evolving, Floral Dress is evolving...’

Evil Flower’s notification instantly appeared.

Li Chengyi came back to his senses from his astonishment and quickly turned his head to glance toward Marian’s direction from the corner.

There, a few men and women who were clearly not ordinary characters surrounded Marian, their faces filled with concern.

These people, both men and women, were robust or nimble, all with extra-normal aura about them.

As he saw these people slowly calm down and regain composure following Marian’s explanation, he decided to skip the subsequent handling steps.

At that moment, Li Chengyi didn’t know which of these people had sent those Evil Thoughts.

But without a doubt... they had all come because of Marian.

It seemed that his injuring Marian had triggered great emotional upheaval among these people.

What surprised him even more was that not only was Marian herself strong, but she also had so many powerhouses at her side.

It looks like there was good reason for her to be in such a circle.

’Interesting... so when one door shuts, another opens?’

Packing away the blocking device, Li Chengyi felt the Titan Sunflower, now having undergone three evolutions, begin to slowly strengthen his entire body.

He tucked away his phone, his mood uplifted as he walked out of the alley, heading in the opposite direction of Marian and her companions.

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Fuzong Province, Yunshan County.

This secluded small county town, almost half cut off from the world, had a perfect transportation system but never managed to develop.

The local people were relatively insular, living honest lives generation after generation without any curiosity about the developed outside world.

Whether they were young or old, they all seemed content to stay here, quietly living their lives from birth, through aging, illness, and death.

Getting off a vehicle at the side of a street in the county town, Li Chengyi immediately felt a strange aura permeating this county town upon his arrival.

Whether people were walking, driving, or shopping in stores, they all offered him a sense of laziness and lethargy.

Beep beep.

His phone rang.

It was Song Ran.

Picking up, Li Chengyi immediately heard a faint cough coming from the other end of the line.

"Brother Song, are you alright? I’ve arrived in Yunshan County. Where should I go now?"

"Come to Pengcheng Library, we’re here," replied Song Ran.

"Library?" Li Chengyi was somewhat puzzled, but he immediately hailed a cab to head to the location.

The man who had picked him up at Qunan Airport, upon reaching Yunshan County, jumped out of the car and ran off, as if his responsibility to drop Li Chengyi off had nothing to do with him anymore.

As a result, Li Chengyi was left standing on the street alone, forced to rely on maps and cabs to reach his destination.

Standing on the roadside, he took out his phone and opened the taxi-hailing app.

However, after sending out the order, it took a whole ten minutes before a car finally accepted the fare and started heading toward him.

Even though Li Chengyi had seen at least five or six taxis pass by while he was standing.

Soon, a car with a taxi sign on its white roof slowly stopped in front of him.