Blind Spot
Chapter 359 - 332 Xuan Ming Island 4

Chapter 359: 332 Xuan Ming Island 4

Early the next day.

Li Chengyi first visited his sister and found her in poor health with a lackluster spirit. Realizing there was no hope, he then went to see Marian Union, who had been readmitted to the hospital.

Her spirit was still fair, but her gaze was vacant, and she would occasionally pause abruptly and become fixated.

Li Chengyi worried that any more forceful actions might cause her permanent mental illness, so for the sake of sustainable development, he switched to other targets.

In the morning, he went to a nearby maximum-security prison; by afternoon, he had rushed to Nanzhou, the provincial capital, to perform in a grand impromptu magic show of fear.

By evening, the Evil Thoughts level at the Divine Flower Position of Feilian had reached 87%.

It was just shy of perfection.

This was a case of quality being made up for with quantity, and the efficiency wasn’t bad either.

As long as it wasn’t a daily harvest, the occasional effort proved very effective.

As dusk fell.

At the top of the Fortune Dragon Hotel in Nanzhou was the revolving aerial restaurant.

Soft music gently wafted around.

The banquet hall, slightly dim, had its four walls transformed into the vast expanse of the starry sky.

The sparse guests stood among them as if they were in the profound and distant dark space.

Above their heads floated a golden sun, burning and casting light.

Around it, planets of different colors and sizes circled slowly, dancing around the attendees.

Occasionally meteors and comets shot past the crowd in a flash, prompting people to reach out in an attempt to touch them.

The theme of the banquet was eternity, starry nights, and love.

Officially, it was not organized for Li Chengyi but was an academic banquet aimed at exploring the relationship between space and humanity.

The invitees were mostly business leaders and academic talents.

In a corner,

Zhao Enshi, the host of the banquet, wore a black robe tied with a silver sash. The sash faintly shimmered with purple light that appeared and vanished.

This was the favored style of the upper-class nobles of Yi Country.

Their clothing was flowing with broad sleeves and tall crowns, appearing unrestrained; this was related to the upper-class’s admiration for the mystical teachings of Taoism.

Zhao Enshi was a direct descendant of the Zhao Family.

There were only a dozen or so direct descendants, and he ranked fifth among them, Zhao Xianrou’s older brother.

After the Chaoyu terrorist attack, Zhao Xianrou became implicated and was being investigated, currently under house arrest at home.

He had always been fond of his sister, so he began to investigate the details and discovered the animosity between Li Chengyi, the leader of the Dragon Whisker Sect’s Garden of Fate, and his sister, Zhao Xianrou.

Within the family, the members of the direct line competed for the position of Family Head and sought to increase their significance in future struggles, gathering potential talents to enhance their own foundations and strength.

Zhao Enshi was no exception. After realizing Li Chengyi’s value and its symbolic significance, he immediately sought to make direct contact with Li Chengyi under the pretext of making amends to his sister.

At the prime age of seventy-nine, strengthened by the Genetic Enhancement Needle and with the significant age-delaying effects of various Taoist elixirs, Zhao Enshi was a powerful contender for the Family Head position, even within the entire Zhao Family.

Before Li Chengyi arrived, Zhao Enshi sat quietly, observing the chatting guests.

His clan brother, Zhao Enran, had invited many related talents through his network of connections.

This banquet was partly to woo these talents and not solely for Li Chengyi.

Accomplishing multiple objectives was commonplace for people like them.

However, as he waited in the corner, observing others, in another corner farther away, a young couple hugging and gently kissing each other were in fact secretly observing him.

"Is that Zhao Enshi?"

The man in the couple asked in a low voice.

"Mhm, be careful. That guy is strong, a Reinforced Human of Grade Six and also a Feiyi Master of Grade Five, with high-rank bodyguards protecting him around the clock," the woman said. She looked innocent and pure, wearing a light green dress, seemingly only seventeen or eighteen years old, pretending to be a couple with the man as she whispered instructions.

"The patrol routes and intervals have been investigated. Zhao Enshi’s bodyguards consist of three layers," the man, who appeared to be an ordinary tender young man with a soft demeanor and a shy, harmless smile, continued.

"The first layer: a duo of Reinforced Humans, Left Ear and Treasure Bead, with unknown strength but who once dispatched two Sixth Rank Reinforced Human assassins in five seconds."

"The second layer: a twenty-man squad led by Chen Kaiming from the Twin Yi Sword School. The team members are on average Grade Three Reinforced Humans, and Chen Kaiming, a Feiyi Master temporarily stationed in the military, has an unknown upper limit of strength, at least above Grade Six."

"The third layer: the Zhao Family’s basic guard team, consisting of twenty people. They aren’t very strong, all at Second Rank, but the alert and communication network they form is quite troublesome," the man explained step by step.

"The gap in the three layers of security occurs during the one-minute interval of changing guards. That minute is the handover time for the patrol teams."

"Understood," the woman nodded.

This assassination mission targeting Zhao Enshi was the biggest task their entire Splendid Organization had ever undertaken.

Both in terms of the monetary reward and difficulty, it was unprecedented.

And if they completed this mission, they could swiftly move abroad through a special channel in Dragon River.

It could be considered one big job that would suffice for a lifetime.

The two of them, the man codenamed Fei Yun and the woman named Wood Flower, were the main executors of this operation.

Their strength was not formidable; even in direct combat, they might not match many Grade Four Reinforced Humans.