Blind Spot
Chapter 341: March 15th Investigation Three

Chapter 341: March 15th Investigation Three

"Hesitation at a time like this shouldn’t be happening to me now..."

With a single hand, Li Chengyi condensed countless Gladiolus Petals into a Golden Longsword. The golden petals transformed into a sword over two and a half meters long, clutched in his grasp like a beam of golden light.

In front of him, the second floor of the house, the entire bedroom, was being cut horizontally through the middle, splitting in two at an inconceivable speed.

The upper half of the roof slowly slid to the left, and two seconds later, the entire roof completely collapsed, falling outside the small building.

White daylight poured down from above, casting a hazy blur over everything.

"Brother, you...!" Yserine attempted to say something.

But it was already too late.

Li Chengyi casually waved the Golden Sword in his hand.

Whoosh!

The ground abruptly cracked open, creating a gap over three meters wide.

The floor collapsed, shattered, and a large hole several meters in diameter opened up.

The staircase structure was utterly destroyed in an instant.

"Since it’s the only real object here, then something like the Blue Book isn’t the kind of thing that can be easily destroyed." Li Chengyi had obtained a forged Blue Book from the Lan Meng Mountain Master, and even such a forgery was protected by Mysterious Power, not easily damaged.

Then this treasure of the Fallen Clan must also have similar protective forces.

Li Chengyi glanced at the crack below, which revealed the strange bedroom on the first floor where Elsa and the others had been not long ago.

"Careful! The power of the Blind Spot is seeping in!!" Yserine suddenly exclaimed.

Li Chengyi didn’t even have time to respond before he felt everything around him beginning to crack and show fractures.

Amidst snapping sounds.

The surroundings, like glass panes with photos adhered to them, began to break into pieces and fall, revealing the white expanse of emptiness behind.

’Glint Flash.’

Li Chengyi’s expression was unchanged as he released Flower Language Technique once again.

A blinding golden light exploded, followed by a burst of dense golden sparks scattering about.

The scorching Purifying Power seemed to agitate some special forces in the area.

The shattering suddenly accelerated.

Crash!

With a crisp sound.

Everything split apart.

Li Chengyi found himself plummeting downward, along with a mass of debris.

’Radiance Field.’

The Flower Language Technique of the Sunflower silently unfolded.

A pale golden flame suddenly covered all around Li Chengyi within a ten-meter radius.

Centered on him, a spherical space with a diameter of ten meters in all directions lit up with golden flames at the same time.

"Where will I end up if I keep falling like this?" Li Chengyi pondered inwardly.

"This is Elsa’s illusionary world; her illusions have made contact or connected somewhere, and I don’t know where. It’s like asking me what station someone is listening to on the radio when there is no sound—I wouldn’t know either." Yserine replied.

"Then forget it."

Li Chengyi suddenly switched to the Feilian Floral Dress.

The metallic Shadow Dragon wings on his back suddenly fluttered.

In an instant, a flash of black light crossed his body, and he disappeared from his original spot, reappearing at the edge of a piece of debris not far away.

There was a faint shadow on the edge of the debris, and with the Seven Spirit Holy Technique now enhancing his Consciousness Power significantly, that bit of shadow was enough for him to Shadow Flash over.

"Brother, you’re really too reckless," Yserine couldn’t help but complain. "Elsa’s illusion has already connected with the Blind Spot next to it. When you shattered the illusion, you also let the force of the Blind Spot invade faster."

"What determines the strength in an illusion?" Li Chengyi asked, disregarding Yserine’s complaint.

"Imagination and logic," Yserine answered. "The teacher once said that the battle between consciousnesses is persuasion."

"Persuasion?"

"Yes, you first have to imagine a power that is strong enough, constructed by the limits of your imagination, and then endow it with sufficient detail in logic. Then use it to defeat your opponent. This part is about comparing imagination."

"But if the opponent points out the logical flaws in your power, then your consciousness will waver, and your power will collapse as well."

"That’s the battle between consciousnesses. The slightest falter can lead to instant collapse. It’s very dangerous," Yserine quickly explained.

"Understood."

Li Chengyi nodded with comprehension.

Looking around, he and the fragments continued to fall together.

These fragments still displayed various detailed scenes.

All the images were scenes from the small house where Elsa lived.

Many fragments under the cover of Li Chengyi’s golden flames quickly ignited, spewed black smoke, and then dissolved away.

But there were also some that remained intact, still present.

’The ones emitting black smoke must be parts invaded by the Blind Spot.’ Li Chengyi surmised.

His gaze flickered across the fragments, trying to find parts that contained real objects.

Whoosh!

He continuously Shadow Flashed, moving his position to cover more of the surroundings with the Radiance Field.

Soon, he spotted a distinctly unique fragment. The image on the fragment showed.

It was a secret chamber behind a wall in Elsa’s bedroom.

The chamber was obscure, with a lit candelabra placed on a wooden table.

On the tabletop, there lay an open black book of considerable thickness.

"That is...!?" A thought struck Li Chengyi; he quickly Shadow Flashed toward that particular fragment.

Pop!

In an instant, his vision blurred.

He somehow appeared at the edge of another fragment, completely off course.

’Is this the "Book of Distortion"?’

He was slightly surprised.

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Inside Elsa’s mansion.

In the second-floor bedroom, Elsa and Li Chengyi, one lying on the bed and the other sitting by the bedside, both had their eyes closed as if asleep.

The smoke of the Miringbell Grass enveloped the entire bedroom in a mist.

Under the influence of the smoke, both were immersed in Elsa’s illusion, unresponsive to any external information.

At this moment.

Outside the fence of the mansion, mysterious figures in dark red robes stealthily positioned themselves around the building.

They set up a highly practiced defensive formation to safeguard and monitor the place.

If Li Chengyi were still lucid, he would quickly recognize the badge they all wore, which looked somewhat familiar to him.

The badge was almost identical to the one Haini had given him, though his was certainly much more complex.

In the distance, in front of an abandoned house.

Haini, in a white lace dress, was gazing intently at Elsa’s mansion.

After quarreling with her brother Lekra, she mobilized some followers from the Eternal Song Association who were loyal to her to protect Li Chengyi.

"Vice-President, the pursuers that we intercepted at the beach earlier, although they didn’t have a uniform emblem, are quite strong. Was it too rash to take action against them and get involved in an unknown trouble?" The red-robed elder, Remondo, expressed cautiously by Haini’s side, one step behind.

"Remondo, you were raised by me since you were small, you should know that when I decide to do something, I don’t care about any potential impact or trouble," Haini replied without turning her head.

She had lived for so many years, and this was the first time she had experienced such a heart-fluttering feeling.

Therefore, she was willing to do things for Li Chengyi, hoping to earn his praise and favor through her dedication.

"But now, the commissioners from the committee are here again, and they have been investigating your case," Remondo reminded softly.

"It’s just a commissioner, pay no mind," Haini said impatiently.

"Yes."

Remondo felt helpless and fell silent.

There were only two founders of the Eternal Song Association, Lekra and Haini.

They both held the positions of President and Vice-President.

Below them were ranks that included Singers, Poets, Great Blood Corpses, and Blood Corpses.

Whether they were Singers or the lowest-ranked Blood Corpses, all had the blood of Lekra and Haini flowing in their veins, differing only in purity.

The mutated blood brought about by the Eternal Surgery, through injections and sharing, had fully corrupted and transformed their body structures, granting them greater speed, strength, and recovery.

However, they also suffered more severe side effects.

They could not be exposed to sunlight for extended periods and needed to regularly consume blood.

These were the side effects of the Eternal Song Association.

Yet none of these changed the fact that their chances of survival within the Blind Spot had greatly increased due to their newfound power.

Remondo looked towards the distant Elsa’s mansion, feeling that the strong man inside would bring substantial trouble.

But at the moment, Lady Haini simply wouldn’t listen.

"Follow the orders, seal off the beach, and do not allow any suspicious individuals to approach," Haini commanded coldly.

"...Yes," Remondo complied, albeit reluctantly.

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Tens of sea miles away from Naxi Town’s small island.

A boat without any flags was slowly approaching from this direction.

The boat, a hundred meters long, wasn’t large, painted blue all over, and was virtually indistinguishable in the sea if not looked at closely.

At this moment on the small deck, squads of Reinforced Humans shrouded in faint ash light were silently waiting, gazing at the gradually approaching island.

These Reinforced Humans were all of a uniform design.

An ash-colored body measures one meter eighty in height, the arms and legs adorned with red lines as decoration.

The head was circled by a red luminous band, replacing their vision.

On the back and waist were mounted numerous temporary weapon modules of varying sizes.

This was the Military Perfect Form from Utopia Red Temple—the Whisperers.

As the most basic yet most elite Perfect Forms of the Red Temple.

The Whisperers, unlike any other Perfect Forms, have special modules, a sound wave module and a regeneration module.

If Li Chengyi were present, he would undoubtedly recognize this special model he had previously encountered.

In terms of combat prowess, these Military Level forms were slightly stronger than those from Yi Country, constituting the real backbone of Utopia stored overseas.

Each could confront a Grade Four soldier from Yi Country.

Here, all of these Perfect Forms, numbering at least fifteen, were all silently awaiting orders on the deck, standing behind two other individuals.

At the very front, to the naked eye, one appeared to be a young scholar in a grey-white overcoat with a somewhat frail demeanor.

The other, wearing a beret and white gloves, was a white-haired woman with one eye in a sleek black military uniform.

The woman’s one eye was covered with a black patch, and even the look of her remaining eye seemed cold and dangerous as she gazed at the island.