Blind Spot
Chapter 173 - 162 Capability 2

Chapter 173: 162 Capability 2

Li Chengyi quickened his steps and walked up the stairs in front of the small store.

As soon as he set foot on the steps, everything behind him was completely engulfed by the gray fog.

The gray fog churned, quickly darkening into the same black mist as before.

His figure paused, then continued forward, approaching the store’s entrance.

The glass door was already open, as if welcoming his arrival.

The lights inside slowly brightened, illuminating all the shelves and displays.

Li Chengyi looked at the still empty store and stepped inside with his right foot clad in black armor.

Step by step, he quickly grabbed a piece of snack food, resembling a chocolate wrapper, from the shelves, something he had never bought before.

Turning around, he walked toward the counter.

The cheaper the item he purchased, the shorter the support time required.

He had discovered this upon entering the store earlier.

Zhong Hui’s notes also mentioned this point.

Pa.

He placed the brown and gold striped chocolate on the counter.

Li Chengyi was about to close his eyes.

But suddenly, on the chocolate’s wrapper, a price tag appeared as if by magic.

’Twenty seconds.’

Only twenty seconds?

The wariness in his heart intensified.

Last time, the widespread disturbance killed so many hidden things; this time, no one knew how difficult it would be.

Ka-chack.

Straightaway, the door behind the counter, which had never been open before, slowly pushed open.

A pitch-black human hand slowly extended from inside.

Bang!!

In an instant, while Li Chengyi’s attention was caught by the hand.

The glass door to his right shattered with a loud crash.

A tall and robust shadow crashed through the glass, arms outstretched, lunging at him.

Atop the shadow’s head was, unmistakably, a crocodile’s head!

The changes happened extremely fast.

From the moment the crocodile head charged in, to the embrace aimed at Li Chengyi, it was only a blink of an eye.

Just as its black arms were about to touch the outer layer of Li Chengyi’s armor.

Boom!!

In an instant, a dazzling bright light sprung up between the two.

Glint Flash!

The golden light, along with its powerful impact, collided head-on with the center of the crocodile head’s fearsome face.

The two mighty forces clashed.

They were at a standoff for a moment.

The crocodile-headed figure was sent flying backward, tumbling back onto the steps outside the store.

Li Chengyi shifted slightly, angling his body to see both the front and the right side simultaneously.

"If it were the me from last time, perhaps I still wouldn’t be a match for your strength," he said.

"But..."

The Inferior Shadow Dragon Bloodline had boosted his basic physical punching power to three tons in just three short days.

Without using Soft Qi, he reached three tons.

With this level of strength, the impact of Floral Brilliance Flash had increased as well.

After all, the core power of Glint Flash originated from the Radiance Field.

And the strength of the Radiance Field was closely linked to his own physical robustness.

Three days before, his basic physical punching power had been just over a ton.

Now, it had more than doubled.

Not to mention other enhancements in perception and physique.

Roar!!

A hoarse roar, like that of a lion, came from outside the store.

Another crocodile head charged in at the blink of an eye, its claw swiping at him.

Without the slightest hesitation.

Li Chengyi raised his hand, punching forward!

Clang!!

Two similar claws collided head-on.

Amid the grating sounds of friction, both sides stepped back simultaneously.

This time, amplified by the Floral Dress, Li Chengyi’s punching power was much stronger than before!

The enhancement provided by the Feilian Floral Dress was only slightly lesser than that of the Ultimate Form’s Titan Floral Dress.

Before Li Chengyi could steady himself, one crocodile-headed figure after another burst through the black mist outside the automatic glass door, charging in his direction.

Right after, the black mist roiled, and a crocodile giant, far larger than the others, towering over three meters tall, thundered out of the black mist, roaring skyward as it charged at him.

At the same time, in the small door behind the counter, that black human hand finally continued to reach out.

The hand grew longer and longer, stretching like clay for over a meter, and still extending.

It opened its five fingers and shot straight towards Li Chengyi. Its speed grew faster and more furious.

By this time, eight seconds had passed.

The crocodile head and the black hand were rapidly closing in, drawing ever nearer to Li Chengyi.

Their claws and hand were almost about to touch the outer layer of his Floral Dress, close enough to touch.

Hum!!!

The red light lit up.

The crocodile helmet on Li Chengyi’s head lit up with a piercing red glow in his eyes at that moment.

Hiss!!

He vanished from the spot in a flash.

The clutches and the hand missed and collided with each other instead, causing a thunderous noise.

The surroundings fell silent.

The crocodile heads began searching the environment, trying to find where Li Chengyi had gone.

Hiss!!

A black light flashed by.

The neck of a crocodile head split open instantly, and the figure fell to its knees on the ground.

Immediately after.

Hiss hiss hiss hiss hiss!!

Continuous streaks of black light swept like a storm among the crocodile heads.

One by one, the crocodile heads were decapitated and fell to the ground.

Roar!!

The largest of the crocodile heads spread its arms wide, dove down, and pressed onto the shadow beneath it.

Thump.

A human figure sprang up from the shadows, as though it was just a pond and he had simply leaped out of the water.

In a flash, the human form in mid-air suddenly disintegrated, turning into a mass of black shadows that parted.

Behind the crocodile-headed giant, a great many shadows converged to form the shape of Li Chengyi.

Pfft.

A muffled sound.

His claws plunged deep into the back of the crocodile head’s neck.

The crocodile-headed giant froze.

Hold for one second.

He toppled forward heavily, crashing to the ground with a loud bang.

Li Chengyi withdrew his hand, landed gently, unscathed.

He looked at the black hand floating in mid-air and slowly stepped forward, shaking off the black blood from his claws.

The black hand slowly retreated, then suddenly lunged forward.

Whoosh!

Li Chengyi’s head tilted slightly.

The black hand swiped past his ear, trailing a violent howl.

’Glint Flash.’

A dazzling golden light exploded, the scorching blast hitting the black hand’s arm squarely.

With an almost inaudible scream, the black hand snapped in mid-air, convulsing violently, it began to disintegrate into countless drops of black viscous fluid.

Drip, drip, drip.

Li Chengyi, his feet full of scales and spikes, slowly walked among the fallen crocodile heads.

Soon, he was back at the counter, reaching for the piece of chocolate.

The surrounding crocodile heads were not dead, still writhing and convulsing on the ground; their heads and bodies had reattached, but the wounds were not fully healed.

Li Chengyi, holding the chocolate, turned and walked towards the store’s exit.

Suddenly feeling something, he looked up towards the fog above.

The fog dissipated.

A pair of huge dark golden pupils emerged, quietly looking down at him from high above.

Dragon!!!

Li Chengyi gazed back at his counterpart in silence.

But to his surprise,

Beside those dragon eyes, the black fog dispersed again, revealing another pair of dark golden vertical pupils.

And that was not all.

The surrounding black fog scattered, revealing more and more dark golden vertical pupils.

Ten pairs!

Twenty pairs!

Forty!

Sixty!!

Li Chengyi looked up and around.

Outside the Silent Store, in all the black foggy sky.

Tightly packed dark golden vertical pupils filled the sky!

A subtle vibration, like the sound of insects, was gradually rising from the surroundings.

Boom!!!

An invisible, terrifying distortion surged madly from all around.

Accompanying the invisible distortion were pillars of pitch-black fire!

Black fire pillars, each over ten meters in diameter, roared out from the surrounding fog, smashing towards Li Chengyi at the center.

Just before the flames were about to fall, Li Chengyi picked up the chocolate and gave a slight nod to the dragon eyes before him.

"Goodbye."

Whoosh!

He disappeared on the spot.

Time was up.

At the same time, countless black flames and massive distortions finally fell, enveloping the entire vicinity of the Silent Store.

Boom!!

Stone slabs melted, walls collapsed, green belts, shop doors, billboards, everything was dissolved into viscous black water under the destruction of black fire and the twisting force field.

The silhouette of the Silent Store, too, was slowly dissolved under the vast destruction, vanishing into the darkness.

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In the taxi.

Li Chengyi suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the middle-aged driver who was driving in front.

He raised his hand, in his right palm was the chocolate he had just obtained from the Silent Store.

On the chocolate’s wrapper, the previously illegible scribbles slowly contorted, deformed, wriggling like insects.

Soon, new text formed.

’Lost Circuit: From a long-extinct civilization’s circuit board, purpose unknown, activates when connected to electricity.’

’This thing...’ Li Chengyi looked at the chocolate in his hand, which had changed.

The original wrapper had turned into a dark purple patch of thin film.

Through the semi-transparent film, one could see many white, egg-like objects tightly packed inside, like bug eggs arranged together.

The board, overall, looked less like a circuit board and more like amber solidified with many bug eggs.

Li Chengyi inspected it closely.

He found that they indeed were eggs; even though it was not very clear through the layer, one could see that some of the eggs were beginning to hatch, sprouting fierce spider-like sharp mouthparts.

Li Chengyi sighed inwardly; who would dare use something called a circuit board if it actually looked like this?

With such an appearance, no one knew what would happen upon activation.

He sat in the seat, listening to the music on the radio turned on by the driver, putting away the board.

Recalling the harrowing moment just past.

The Feilian Floral Dress had one ability after activating the Inferior Shadow Dragon Bloodline in the Flower Language Technique.

Similar to the Gladiolus’ Golden Sword.

This ability was quite formidable.

That is, while wearing the Feilian Floral Dress, if shadows existed within a certain range, he could consume physical strength and Consciousness Power to merge directly into that shadow.

Then wait for the time, up to three seconds, before leaping out of it.

This special ability was named Shadow Mode by Li Chengyi himself.

Combined with his current high-intensity burst of power, the physique remodeled by his bloodline.

In those short twenty seconds, he was able to score such terrifying feats of combat.

The simple-minded crocodile heads had brute strength but were still unable to evade the piercing slashes from behind.

’The only trouble is, it’s a bit consuming. And merging into the shadows seems to cause some discomfort to the body.’

Li Chengyi raised his hand and saw the fine black lines appearing on the surface of his palm.

This was a sign of bodily injury, accompanied by pain.

He quietly released the Flower Language Technique: Luminescence Force Field and then watched as the black lines slowly began to fade.

’It seems I shouldn’t use Shadow Mode too much for a short period and should wait for the body to have time to heal.’

He was unclear what the repercussions of an excess of these black lines would be, but the pain suggested nothing good.