Blind Spot
Chapter 392 - 359 Angel of Death Three (Thank you Alliance Hierarch 20181010045018841)

Chapter 392: 359 Angel of Death Three (Thank you Alliance Hierarch 20181010045018841)

Reality.

Above the skies of Yi Country, within the Jiu Yi Ping Tian Fortress.

The massive fortress, with its black base and white patterns, resembled a huge rock floating above Yi Country.

On the outside, it was camouflaged with irregular rocks and vegetation, much like a gigantic peak that had risen abruptly from flat ground.

However, the peak was a bit too large, measuring tens of kilometers in length and width.

Satellites occasionally swept past its surroundings.

Below, the bright pale blue halo of Earth-Moon reflected on its surface, dyeing the black rock at the bottom with a touch of eternal blue.

Whoosh, whoosh.

Two soft sounds came swiftly from below.

Two bright white sword lights shot out from Earth-Moon, piercing through the blue magnetic atmosphere, circling around the fortress to a cave in the middle.

The sword lights entered the cave, winding along the tunnel inside, traveling hundreds of meters until they emerged into a clear space.

A spacious black stone hall, about a hundred meters wide and spherical in shape, lay hidden deep within the fortress.

Inside the hall, darkness reigned, surrounded by countless blue, fish-shaped light orbs.

On cylindrical stone pillars rising from the floor, black and white Tai Chi cushions were placed.

There were nine stone pillars, nine cushions, but at that moment, only three were occupied.

"Has Lord Dongjun not left his seclusion yet?"

The silver-haired woman sitting in the fourth place, her skin so white it seemed to glow with a layer of white light, appeared both bewitching and ethereal.

A vertical line of two red dots adorned her forehead. Her eyes were not human, but black voids filled with numerous dispersing and converging silver dots.

Even as she sat on the cushion, she was hardly sedate; one leg was raised, and the other folded.

With her elbow on the raised knee and chin resting on her hand, she appeared to lounge lazily, her gaze drifting over the other stone pillars.

The two sword lights descended, landing above two pillars, and once again, two figures appeared.

"More than half of us are here; it’s unlikely the old master will join us this year. Let’s start without him," replied the white-haired old man in black robes and a tall crown seated at the fifth pillar.

He was none other than Fengxue Li Yuan of the Chao Yuli Family, Grade Nine.

"Then let’s begin," nodded the man in the black robe with golden phoenix patterns at the sixth pillar.

Immediately, the cave door closed.

An invisible barrier enveloped the interior of the hall.

Hum.

Beneath the nine stone pillars, the ground lit up with countless white lights, and a white, lava-like viscous liquid flowed from the edges of the floor, submerging the bases of the pillars to a depth of over ten meters.

Terrifying high temperatures began to rise.

In an instant, the air temperature soared to tens of thousands of degrees.

At these temperatures, apart from the few Grade Nine individuals, nothing else could operate normally here.

Even the higher-grade Reinforced Humans who could survive in such harsh conditions would need to activate their high-powered systems to cope.

And once these systems were activated, their presence could not be concealed, leaving them exposed to the detection of Grade Nine of Jiu Yi.

"Ding Meng, what’s the purpose of calling this emergency meeting? This isn’t a good time; each of us has important matters and can only spare a little time," the man in the phoenix-patterned robe said, looking towards the silver-haired woman at the fourth pillar.

Ding Meng of Jiu Yi, number four—Seductress Ding Meng.

She was also the current Family Head of the Andu Ding Family, one of the leaders among the Great Nobility of Yi Country. The most famous industry under her family’s development was Weibang Energy Group, a name seen in the news every day.

Within Weibang, her Ding Family held over 30% of the shares and command of the group.

"There was an episode in Star Lake in Chaoyu recently, Utopia, and some internal issues with the children have caused some overreach.

And now, new developments have surfaced along the coastlines. Has anyone else noticed?" she asked softly, her voice gentle and elusive, tickling the listeners’ senses.

"I also voted in favor of this meeting. The disturbances from the coast are known to stem from Star Lake; due to an experimental mishap, a subject has escaped..." Li Yuan said with a frown.

"No...it’s not just an experimental subject, but a special creature from the Blind Spot," the man in the sixth position, dressed in the black robe with phoenix patterns, interjected.

"Furthermore, the one that’s escaped isn’t just any subject, it’s Star Lake itself. The intelligence my side received indicates that Star Lake has suffered heavy losses, and their headquarters, Xuan Ming Island, had to relocate, with its current position unknown.

As for the so-called experimental subject, based on the Heavenly Eye detections along the route and information from the Moral Ethics Committee personnel, it’s preliminarily confirmed to be a special creature from the Black Sea within the Blind Spot that has escaped."

"Creatures from the Black Sea?!" Li Yuan’s expression grew tense, his familiarity with such creatures indicated the trouble they posed.

"Exactly. To facilitate identification, we discussed with the military and decided to collectively name these creatures from Star Lake as Shadow Eaters, for their ability to move through shadows and devour living beings," the man in the black robe continued.

"Another one of those... Can the military’s Grade Eight solve this? What about the Strategic Association?" asked Li Yuan.

The military and Jiu Yi were not entirely integrated but operated separately.

The military also had a formidable organization of Feiyi Masters responsible for external combat, known as the Strategic Association.

Included within were many high-grade strategic-level Feiyi Masters.

The Feiyi they controlled were not merely swords or similar weapons, but spacecraft, fighters, starships, etc.

Due to their excessively powerful destructive force, a slight mishap could annihilate cities and obliterate nations.

Hence, strategic-level Feiyi Masters were not allowed to operate any Feiyi on Earth-Moon, and for safety reasons, once they transitioned, they would settle in fortresses in near-Earth orbit and seldom return to Earth-Moon.

"The military probably can’t handle it; this situation should fall to us and the Security Bureau to resolve. Let the people from the Thirteen Flying Flow take action," Ding Meng suggested.

She tilted her head slightly, turning her gaze to the seventh stone pillar, which had been silent all along.

"Little Silver Sparrow, we’ll be depending on you for cooperation."

On the seventh stone pillar sat a handsome man in a white robe with black hair cascading down his back. He sat there with a chilly demeanor, a pure white long sword placed on his knees, its scabbard faintly covered in swarming tadpole-like silver luminescence.

"Okay."

The man’s eyes remained slightly closed as he squeezed out a single word and then fell silent again.

"We’re confident in the Yan Family’s web security. Now let’s move on to the next topic," Ding Meng said with a smile, her gaze shifting to the sixth stone pillar, where a man in a black robe with phoenix patterns was seated.

"In the direction of Fengnan Province, I hear your Zhao Family has suffered a little setback?"

Fengnan Province?

The five people present all felt a slight stir in their hearts.

Last time, at the Martial Arts Field, Chaoyu’s Garden of Fate had dramatically resolved the trouble that followed Utopia and Star Lake.

It could be said to have saved face for both the Security Bureau and the Li Family, but for the Zhao Family, it wasn’t so friendly.

Afterward, when the younger members of the Zhao Family went to Fengnan Province for the second time and had an incident again, they were ostensibly saved by the Garden of Fate but were actually defeated and tossed back.

The key point was that the Zhao Family had to thank the other party publicly, swallowing the loss without being able to express their grievance.

If one could say that before Chaoyu’s event, the upper echelons of the Fengnan Province disturbance were indifferent as it was none of their concern, with a dismissive attitude.

Then after Chaoyu, after Fengnan, everyone’s attitude toward the Garden of Fate was somewhat different.

"The Blind Spot Individual group is indeed a problem; we’ve discussed it before. We can’t solve it by brute force. After all, any family could have a Blind Spot Individual. Not everyone can enjoy the isolation field of the Imperial Family," the man in the black phoenix-patterned robe said placidly and calmly.

"It seems some people are too accustomed to looking down from above, thinking that as soon as they see a bit of benefit, they’ll rush in to harvest their share, but in the end... heh heh." From the corner, on the eighth stone pillar, an old man in dirty, disheveled gray Taoist robes, unkempt and scruffy, chuckled.

"Was it Yan Chengjun of the Kongtong Sect who caught them? Or was it your granddaughter, Brother Zhu, who sorted out the trouble? Do you even have the leisure to worry about my Zhao Family’s affairs?" the man in the black phoenix-patterned robe shifted his gaze to the old man.

"Heh heh, it’s precisely because I have so many troubles that when I see others in trouble too, I feel in a better mood," the old man said with a grin.

"Alright, no more quarreling, both of you. The current issue is that Tong City in Dongshan Province has already dispatched personnel, but we need to provide high-end forces. What do you all think?" Ding Meng interjected.

"I can spare one person," the old man chuckled, "Zhao Chengxi, don’t be a coward. Your direct descendants have suffered a loss; shouldn’t you make a good show of response?"

The man in the black phoenix-patterned robe didn’t move an inch.

"I can also spare one person; let my younger brother take action."

"Can’t spare anyone," the seventh person, Silver Sparrow, said with eyes closed, sparing his words like gold.

"Then I’ll spare another person," Ding Meng said with a smile. "Three Grade Eight experts should be able to resolve the trouble."

The Grade Eight masters they were calling upon were naturally not the common Feiyi Masters from the outside, but the top Grade Eight masters, built up by the countless resources of the great families, personally instructed by Grade Nine, equipped with fearsomely luxurious gear.

The nine pinnacle warriors of Jiu Yi could join hands to fend off White Star’s full-scale assault and determine the outcome of a major battle, terrifying sovereigns indeed.

These nine were the beings standing at the very pinnacle of the entire Earth-Moon.

Be it Utopia or Star Lake, they regarded them as mere nuisances.

The nine major powers had been oppressing Yi Country and ruling everything for far too long.

Some of their families had even existed for thousands of years, with a history older than the age of the nation.

For anything not too severe, most of the time, they watched everything with the attitude of spectators.

After all, even for Grade Eight, although there was only one digit difference in the name from them, the difference in strength was like heaven and earth.

The fundamental reason is that Grade Eight could be achieved through a talent sprint.

But Grade Nine could only be reached by mastering massive resources, and the number was limited.

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Murky.

Cold.

As if stuck deep in the mud, unable to extricate oneself.

Li Chengyi floated quietly in the boundless darkness.

Unable to see, unable to hear, with only a tactile sense of everything around him wrapped in something slimy.

’Am I... in the Black Sea?’

He was still in his Dragon Transformation, his Floral Dress still intact, but the voice of Yserine was no longer audible to his ears.

Only a maddening silence remained.

Such extreme quietness is something many people have actually never encountered.

It’s a state capable of driving one mad, of making one hallucinate.

Without sounds from the outside world, people spontaneously feel as if they hear noises.

In this moment, such was the case for Li Chengyi.

He lay back, floating in darkness, with no boundaries or ends around him.

When the outside world fell silent.

The only thing he could hear was the internal activity within his own body.

The flow of Flowers, the flow of death energy, the circulation of blood. And... the flow of Consciousness Power from the Holy Spirit Technique...