Blind Spot
Chapter 386 - 353 Yingfeng One

Chapter 386: 353 Yingfeng One

On a rainy night, in the seaside city of Yi Country—Huanshi County.

Waves undulated ceaselessly against the beach near the county town.

As the white foam receded, a calico cat lazily moved forward, rolling and stretching in the moist sand.

Whoosh.

Suddenly, a black shadow burst out from the sea, flashing past above it.

The shadow landed and came to a halt on the nearby sand.

By the moonlight, it was clear that it was a dark blue fish-shaped flying ship.

The hatch slowly opened.

A few haggard-looking men and women in dirty, disheveled clothes jumped down.

"This is the coastline of Yi Country; we must leave as soon as possible. I’ve already contacted the organization’s temporary personnel here; someone from the Security Department will be here to meet us soon," Barton said, looking exhausted.

"Let’s go; this is no place to talk. We’re not safe yet," Karan added.

The four of them immediately quickened their pace towards the town.

Not long after they left,

a black shadow swiftly darkened the seawater behind the flying ship.

Whoosh.

Suddenly, there was a light noise.

The calico cat lying on the ground was instantly engulfed by a black shadow that sprung from the sea.

It didn’t even have time to cry out before it lay sprawled on the ground, unmoving.

One second.

Two seconds.

Quickly, the colors on the calico cat turned pitch black. In just a few seconds, it transformed from a mottled cat into a pure black cat, darker than the darkest night.

A dense, inky shadow writhed beneath it, refusing to dissipate.

The black cat stood up, stretched its body, and slowly opened its eyes. But what was revealed were no longer the eyes of a cat, but a pair of light-golden dragon eyes with vertical pupils.

"Power has been suppressed a lot.... Besides the scent of pure blood, there’s the mingled blood of other branches of my race...," it said, pausing hesitantly.

Pure blood or mingled, either would enhance its power at the moment and aid in recovering its original strength.

After some thought, it decided to first reclaim the pure blood.

After all, the pure blood was its own and would be absorbed more quickly and easily.

Sss!

In a flash, the black cat vanished from its place.

As for the high-end powers of this world, it had already faced them before. As long as it was cautious, nothing posed a problem.

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The City of the Death Angels.

Five days had passed.

Li Chengyi had been here for five days.

Every twenty-four hours for those five days, a Balance Angel appeared, which he then controlled and rapidly sent towards the Silent Angel on the rooftop.

Afterward, he would fall into a state of headache, alternating between recovery and continuing to study the Necromancer system.

The repeated destruction of the Balance Angel yielded him a substantial amount of ash.

This residual ash was gathered by Li Chengyi into a large barrel, all stored away.

Sitting across from the Skeleton Mage, Li Chengyi flipped through the translated primer of the Necromancer system.

"Consciousness and flesh and blood are not to be divided. Like energy and matter, they are actually two sides of the same coin."

"According to the theory of this Blind Spot system, consciousness and flesh and blood are also the same; consciousness is called an extremely refined particle-like flesh and blood. They interact through chemical reactions and electrical signals, forming a massive network, and then building what is known as complete consciousness."

"Looking at it this way, when flesh and blood reach a certain strength, the naturally formed imprints can indeed move in one of two directions. After a certain level, they can be interchanged."

Li Chengyi raised his left hand, which he had severed the blood flow, and it had slimmed down significantly.

For someone of his combat realm, doing this was not difficult.

Manipulating one’s own flesh with precision was what the combat sect excelled at.

Looking at his left hand that was slowly dying, Li Chengyi’s eyes revealed a hollow, unfocused, strange expression.

This was the Silent Meditation Technique of the Death Energy System.

A person’s thought consciousness cannot be completely silent because one is constantly receiving countless interferences and signals from both external and internal sources every moment.

However, the Silent Meditation Technique finds a different approach.

The Necromancers of this Blind Spot created a method akin to self-hypnosis.

They summarized the sensations and impressions felt when the death energy circulated, information left by the first lucky few who accidentally perceived death energy.

Using drawings and sounds in conjunction with external stimuli like incense, they blended everything together to finally simulate around 10% of the consciousness state when perceiving death energy.

Li Chengyi inspected the Silent Meditation Technique patterns in the book closely.

It was a maze-like pattern that twirled and twisted like a serpent.

White paper.

Black serpent.

The meditation method began at the serpent’s thinnest tail, entering with one’s gaze, and then ended at its largest head, bursting out in one go.

If successful, consciousness would enter a state of utter black silence.

If failed, one would lose the chance to experience death energy and had to hurt themselves again until new death energy gradually emerged, allowing the meditation pattern to be activated once more.

Inside the hall.

Li Chengyi sat alone among rows of chairs, quietly meditating.

His consciousness power was extremely strong; the Shadow Dragon bloodline, and the enhancement from the Holy Spirit Technique, both made his consciousness strength and total quantity far exceed that of any entry-level Necromancer.

But because of this, he experienced far more and much stronger disturbances to his consciousness than the average person.

This made the difficulty of his initial training much greater than for the average person.

Fortunately, the powerful Evil Flower’s Flower Language Technique provided him with assistance.

With the Radiance Field present, Li Chengyi attempted over ten times to bring his right hand to a near-death state.

Then, after failing, he forcibly pulled it back, regenerating bone and flesh to its original state.

This was something that Necromancers at the entry level could not possibly enjoy.

His own strong control over flesh and the potent recovery abilities of the Shadow Dragon, combined with the accelerated healing power of the Radiance Field.

The combination of these three conferred upon him a method akin to exploiting a bug over and over again.

Cold wind kept blowing in from outside the window, producing a whistling sound.

The skeleton frames outside began wandering aimlessly again. The clattering of their bones against each other created a cacophony of noise.

Hu, hu, hu...

Loud flapping sounds came from the rooftop, the commotion caused by the Silent Angel.

Having stayed here for several days, Li Chengyi could hear the Silent Angel flapping its wings at noon each day, flying away into the distance.

After roughly half an hour, it would return on the same path, transforming back into a statue, waiting for whatever was to come.

At this moment, Li Chengyi was in no mood to pay attention to anything else. His gaze followed the black snake as he walked forward, this being the eighth attempt.

Eight attempts, and he had still not managed even the basic entry into the Death Energy System.

Death energy was related to faster acquisition of Imprints.

Moreover, as a powerful system completely unrelated to the Evil Flower, he could fully integrate it as his core, alongside his evolution in combat to elevate further.

In the previous seven attempts, Li Chengyi had failed due to his inability to suppress the miscellaneous thoughts in his mind.

But this time, he strove to control his thoughts, focusing all perception on the black snake, remaining motionless, forgetting everything else in the outside world.

One minute.

Two minutes.

Ten minutes...

Sss!

Finally, a wisp of grey, semi-transparent light slowly brightened on Li Chengyi’s left arm.

That was death energy.

But it was an extremely weak trace of death energy.

If the death energy ignited in the hands of a Skeleton Mage was a hundred, then what now glowed on Li Chengyi’s left arm was 0.1.

"But no matter what, I have finally made a breakthrough!!" Li Chengyi opened his eyes, recalling the state he was in at the very moment when the death energy emerged.

Strangely enough, his vast Consciousness Power, strengthened by the Holy Spirit Technique and the Shadow Dragon Bloodline, became much more serene than before through these eight meditation attempts.

It also became much quieter.

As if many impurities had been expelled during days of meditation.

Pfft.

Li Chengyi gently closed the book and stood up, lifting his left hand.

A faint trace of grey light shone on his arm.

The light was not strong, but it was the beginning of everything.

"Next comes the Imprint. How to acquire the characteristics of the Imprint, that’s the key to everything."

Having struggled to reach the threshold, Li Chengyi felt a lot more at ease and took out some food he had previously tucked away, quickly resolving his hunger.

Then he found a place to take care of his bodily needs before returning to his original spot, ready to continue his studies and research.

What he ate and drank were compressed nutrition cans prepared in advance, with water, meat, vegetables - a hodgepodge of stuff, all in one, convenient and worry-free.

These were special supplies customized by Mingyuan specifically for Blind Spot Individuals entering the Blind Spot.

Back in his spot, Li Chengyi just saw a Skeleton Mage being conjured up and appearing again.

It sat in the seat right in front of him.

"I’m very glad to see you again. Let me tell you a rule that applies to all things in the world."

"That is, 1 definitely equals 1."

The Skeleton Mage had just started to get up, condensing a clump of grey Flames of Death Energy in its hand when it was influenced by the Flower Language Power and sat back down.

"Very good, it seems you agree with my statement," Li Chengyi nodded. "Now, show me the Flames of Death Energy in your hand. Don’t refuse, or I might have to be rude to you."

Perhaps out of loneliness, he tried to make the activation of the Flower Language seem more natural, as if he was really having a casual conversation with the other party.

The benefit of this was that it made it difficult for others to easily detect the principles behind the activation of the Flower Language.

The Skeleton Mage soon held out the Flames of Death Energy in its palm towards Li Chengyi.

The palm-sized Flames of Death Energy leapt up more than ten centimeters high and kept flickering and burning.

The flames were semi-transparent. Odorless and somewhat cold.

Li Chengyi examined the flames and, after a moment’s thought, extended his hand.

His left hand had already returned to its original state, and his fingers were also covered with a layer of grey death energy.

’According to the records, death energy can be absorbed and merged with one another. Or rather, death energy must be absorbed and merged from external sources because Mages themselves cannot constantly produce death energy. Only true dead matter can continuously generate death energy.’

’So... theoretically, I can devour this death energy...’

Li Chengyi carefully controlled his death energy, and like dipping a brush into ink, "biu," he dabbed a bit from the Flames of Death Energy.

It seemed that the density of his death energy was naturally much stronger than that of the Skeleton Mage.

The two were like the difference between a rock and tofu.

The Holy Spirit Technique and the Shadow Dragon Bloodline still had their benefits.

The strength and density of the death energy produced by him were far higher than ordinary death energy.

Taking advantage of this,

Li Chengyi touched and promptly retreated.

Then, controlling his own death energy, he encapsulated the Skeleton Mage’s death energy, stirred it, and then used the training methods from the Silent Meditation Technique to absorb and assimilate it.