Blind Spot
Chapter 397: Shadow Eater 3

Chapter 397: Shadow Eater 3

Black Sea.

The massive grey-white giant was like an enormous island floating in the depths of darkness.

The island burned with faint gray flames, dimly illuminating the space around it.

Upon the giant island, a tiny, sesame-sized, purple-black figure was slowly moving forward.

This figure was none other than Li Chengyi, who was continually enhancing his absorption of death energy.

He followed the giant’s thigh bone upward, aiming for the giant’s facial openings.

He wanted to see what that massive cavernous face was and where it led.

Ever since he had encountered Geon, an odd sense of familiarity had inexplicably risen in his heart.

This feeling of familiarity did not stem from Geon but rather, paradoxically, from the enormous giant beneath his feet.

Yes.

The more he observed his surroundings, the more he felt an odd familiarity with this giant, as if...

’As if I’ve seen this big fellow somewhere before...’

Li Chengyi continued to observe his surroundings.

If he hadn’t seen the giant’s entire form at the beginning when he was approaching, he might have thought he was walking on a grey-white plain.

The grey flames of death energy severely obstructed his vision, allowing him only to see blurry images of the distance.

After walking forward for about several minutes.

Soon, he arrived at the giant’s chest.

On the chest was a huge irregularly shaped gap, clearly the fatal wound that led to the giant’s demise.

Li Chengyi stood at the edge of the gap and looked down, seeing only the profound darkness that was the Black Sea behind the giant.

The Black Sea could not possibly be only black, but since he had not activated the Fei Men, he perceived it as merely black.

’Perhaps this is also one of the reasons why the outside world calls this place the Black Sea...’

He sighed in his heart and moved through the chest toward the face, speeding up.

By now, the death energy his body could absorb had been completely consumed.

The intensity of the death energy he had previously accumulated had by then greatly increased.

When he was about to reach the neck.

Suddenly, his footsteps halted. The grey-white bone before him arched with crescent-shaped giant ribs.

The ribs were neatly arranged, forming a giant skeletal cage, or a bone corridor, displayed before his eyes.

However, what caught Li Chengyi’s attention was not these ribs.

Despite each rib being over a thousand meters long and tens of meters thick.

What actually caught his eye lay in the middle of the rib corridor, a fallen leaf-shaped dark green pendant on the ground.

Yes, it was at least dozens of meters in length and width, a dark green jade pendant.

The overall shape of the pendant was Y-shaped, carved with delicate venation, and at a glance, it really seemed like a leaf.

At the very top of the pendant, a hole had been pierced and strung with a gray-black thin cord. This thin cord alone was as thick as a person could embrace, for Li Chengyi.

For some reason, at the sight of the pendant, a faint sense of sadness suddenly welled up in his heart.

As if he knew what it was and what it represented.

’What’s going on!?’ Li Chengyi stood in place, questioning whether he was under the influence of a hallucination or something affecting his emotions.

But after carefully checking with the Seven Spirit Holy Technique’s method of Clarifying Thoughts, he found no issues.

’Since there’s nothing wrong with me, then... the source of this sensation might just be transferring its emotions to me...’

Li Chengyi looked around for the source.

Quite soon...

He was shocked to discover that the Mark of the Evil Flower on the back of his hand was slowly lighting up with a faint green glow.

Not just one Divine Flower Position shining, but the entire Mark of the Evil Flower was glowing with a faint light.

However, the light was very weak; unless one looked closely, it was nearly imperceptible.

"What is this...!?"

Li Chengyi instantly realized that this emotion seemed to be residue seeping out from the Mark of the Evil Flower!

’Could it be... this pendant is related to the Evil Flower!?’

He had many speculations about this biggest cheat that had always been his reliance.

The ancient, dilapidated Armor that initially emerged from the darkness was clearly a remnant of a horrific slaughter.

Considering how formidable the Evil Flower was, only an entity of extreme terror could have fought and killed its previous owner.

And now...

For the first time.

For the first time, he discovered other traces of the Evil Flower nearby.

’I came to this world because I accidentally encountered that small flower in the wilderness. And now, here inside the Black Sea, I’ve stumbled upon clues possibly related to the Evil Flower...’

Li Chengyi looked at the enormous pendant.

On the dark green leaf, upon closer inspection, you could still vaguely see there were characters.

But those characters seemed to be worn quite a bit, some unreadable.

To get a clearer look at the characters, he moved forward again, getting even closer.

"Hmm? What is that!!?"

Suddenly, Li Chengyi seemed to have seen something incomprehensible, and his golden pupils instantly widened.

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Tong City.

There was a thunderous boom.

Five high-rise buildings in the main urban area were chopped down and collapsed, crashing heavily onto other nearby buildings.

The immense impact force also brought about a catastrophic collapse of the building into ruins.

The affected police officers and passersby screamed, trying to escape, but only a portion were lucky enough to avoid the disaster.

The rest were either buried by the falling building or cut into pieces by the ripples from the fierce battle inside the hotel, falling to the ground dead.

Dust, rubble, smoke, screams, crying.

And various flames and electric arcs spewed from the damaged unknown equipment.

In just a dozen seconds, this once peaceful block had transformed into a living hell.

Boom!

In an instant, the collapsing hotel building’s walls were blown open again by a tremendous force.

A bloodied figure blasted out, crashing directly into the side of a hovering heavy-armed flying vehicle.

The flying vehicle was pushed inward upon impact, broke in midair, and exploded into a ball of fire, crashing to the ground.

The thing that hit it was none other than a bloodied and disheveled figure—Zhao Chengyu!

At that moment, his face was covered in blood, his hair unkempt; the feather fan in his hand was long gone, and his Chopping Knives had shattered into oblivion. The Tai Chi Diagram on his cheek was dull and lightless.

"The force field... was shattered!!?"

His Grade Eight force field... was it really... just cut apart and blown to pieces by the terrifying ripples of explosions that splashed out!?

"How is that possible...!?" Zhao Chengyu felt a sharp pain in his chest and couldn’t help but spit out a mouthful of blood.

The shattered force field still had residual force that smashed into his body, which was strengthened to the limit and was wearing a special Life Garment, puncturing through it and causing him severe injuries.

Too strong...!!

That guy... gave him the feeling of a Grade Nine, one that brought about despair!

It was a dominance like the depths of an abyss!

"Weakling...to actually attempt to confront my clan head-on is sheer stupidity."

In the ruins, the strong man with black hair and golden eyes now had his clothes completely blasted off. His body rapidly swelled and bulked up, and myriad muscles with black lines quickly became larger and harder, forming decorative arrangements like armor covering his entire body.

Six sharp horns grew upward from his forehead, and a pair of black bat wings silently emerged from the shadows, slowly connecting behind the man.

"Let’s end this quickly. This boring game."

The man’s golden eyes shone brightly, and his mouth rapidly exuded a great amount of thick smoke.

"Remember, your devourer is I, Saul of the Shadow Dragon Clan!"

Hiss...

Instantly, countless shadows around him crazily surged like shattered pieces, rising into the air and converging towards the man’s mouth, being inhaled into his body.

A terrifying sense of oppression welled up in Zhao Chengyu’s heart.

"The ultimate accord..." He broke out in goosebumps, knowing that if he did not struggle now, he might never have another chance.

Therefore, with difficulty, he lifted his hand.

"Crimson Phoenix!!!"

Top-tier Feiyi Masters rarely ever employed their ultimate form frivolously, because for Feiyi Masters from Yi Country, activating the ultimate accord meant an overclocking of maximum strength without regard for the damage to the Feiyi.

This state was destructive not only to the Feiyi but also to the Consciousness Power of the Feiyi Master connected to the Feiyi.

The horrendous explosive fluctuations were enough to injure the Feiyi Master before even harming the enemy.

But correspondingly, the ultimate form brought about by the ultimate accord was also each Feiyi’s most potent and glorious moment.

Even though that glory could only last for an instant.

Hum.

After the activation phrase was unlocked.

The Tai Chi Diagram on Zhao Chengyu’s face lit up with a blinding golden light.

The vague figure of a woman holding a giant Chopping Knives emerged and floated behind him.

The woman’s body quickly covered with an intricately delicate golden phoenix armor, and the Chopping Knives in her hand silently ignited with golden, liquid fire.

Dense blue-black electric arcs spread like wild from him at the center, instantly covering dozens of meters around.

That was the uncontainable energy leakage caused by the abusive use of resources.

"Kill!!"

Zhao Chengyu took the initiative, pointing his finger at the man opposite him.

The golden-armored woman behind him also lifted her giant knife, with many deep blue seal-like modules densely packed on the blade, lighting up simultaneously.

Boom!!!

Instantly, the woman’s figure lunged forward, her body igniting in golden flames. The flames formed a solid gold phoenix, plunging straight towards the golden-eyed man in the distance.

At the same time, the man also opened his mouth, and the numerous shadows he had just inhaled turned into black flames at that moment, spewing out from his mouth.

Boom!!!

One gold, one black, two pillars of fire collided mid-air.

What’s different is that the golden flame was a straight cylinder, while the black flame was cone-shaped, a bit more dispersed.

Based on shape alone, indeed the cylindrical flame had a greater density and more concentrated power, and it should have had the advantage.

But unfortunately, power is not determined merely by shape.

What truly decided the contest was essence.

Whoosh!!

The stalemate lasted less than a second before the black flames engulfed and devoured the golden phoenix.

The remaining black fire even had enough residual power to transform into a dispersed sea of fire, lunging toward Zhao Chengyu, who was barely clinging to life.

"Stop!!"

Just then, two beams of light shot from the distance and fell in front of Zhao Chengyu, guarding him.

Two solid force fields easily blocked the remaining black fire.

As the fire dissipated, the arrivals were revealed to be Ding Xianhong and Zhu Bin of Dragon Slayer Scorpion, who had just hurried over from another district.

The two of them had actually seen the commotion here for a while but hesitated for a moment about whether to intervene, and so they didn’t move.

By the time they decided to intervene, it was already over.

Zhao Chengyu’s defeat was too rapid; within two exchanges, he played all his cards, only to find himself on the verge of losing his life.