Blind Spot
Chapter 399 - 365 Return to One

Chapter 399: 365 Return to One

"Primordial Soil... So, who are your enemies?" Li Chengyi asked the most crucial question.

This was related to the dangers he might face in the future, after all, he had now inherited the Evil Flower.

"The enemy... does not come from the outside, but from within," Ye Lu sighed.

"The Primordial Soil exists within the Black Sea. Essentially, we are also a part of the Black Sea. Later, the Emperor, in his quest for eternity, madly plundered and waged war against all eternal existences... eventually leading to the Empire’s weakness and excessive losses. In the end, during a civil strife, it perished completely with both inside and outside forces working against it. This is, after all, a fate we brought upon ourselves."

"....." There really wasn’t much to say to that.

"Therefore, you need not worry about enemies. We are but remnants of the old Empire, and the Empire’s resources have long been devoured and divided by countless beings. The cosmic plants that absorbed everything have also long withered and shattered," Ye Lu continued, "Furthermore, the reason I manifested myself to prevent you from entering my mind is that, with your current willpower, you are probably unable to bear the residual memories within my mind."

"...How long have you been dead?" Li Chengyi frowned and asked, relieved that there were no enemies. He also casually inquired upon hearing that he couldn’t bear the memories.

"I died young, at about seventy thousand years old. You can tell by the appearance of my soul that in my clan, I was still considered a child," Ye Lu said helplessly.

"...Seventy thousand years..."

Li Chengyi felt even the entire history of his real world might not span seventy thousand years.

From the rise of humanity to stepping out of the planet, it took less than ten thousand years.

"My lord need not concern himself. Beyond the warning, there is still another matter I must remind you of," Ye Lu continued, "The Evil Flower can not only absorb the Flowers’ essence and condense the Flower Language Technique but also has the capability to summon various buildings of the Primordial King City. These buildings have extremely special functions that can help you swiftly and massively resurrect the glory of the past Emperor of Flowers."

"Buildings? How do you summon them?" Li Chengyi’s interest was piqued; he had only been able to grope for the functions of the Evil Flower by himself, and finally, someone came with an explanation.

"Once you collect the Twelve Divine Flower Positions, you can establish the spots for your Twelve Flower Generals, thereby activating the summoning function for buildings, and you can even directly reconstruct the past Royal City out of thin air. Moreover, if you’re willing, you can also re-summon the former Twelve Flower Generals, the Hundred Flowers Demon God, the Thousand Leaves Giant Demon Army, and others to fight for you," Ye Lu answered earnestly.

"Of course, summoning is not without cost; it requires you to find enough eternal substances."

"They’re all dead and can still be summoned?" Li Chengyi asked in a grave tone.

"As long as a trace of their wraiths remains, it’s fine. The soul and flesh can convert into each other. However, those you summon won’t have the same strength they possessed at their peak; they will only have their past memories and must cultivate their levels from scratch," Ye Lu seemed to notice Li Chengyi’s disbelief.

After all, ye Lu was a subordinate of the previous Evil Flower, so it was normal for Li Chengyi to hold doubts.

He gave a bitter smile.

"Of course, if you don’t wish to summon, you can also use the Primordial Soil to capture external beings, allowing the Primordial Soil to erode them and turn them into citizens of the Primordial Soil. The Royal City dominates everything, and any beings on the Primordial Soil are also controlled by it."

"There is still much room for the Evil Flower to grow, and in the end, all the Floral Dress of the Twelve Divine Flower Positions will merge into the Emperor Armor, integrating offense and defense with the entire Primordial King City. The stronger the Primordial Soil and the Royal City, the stronger the Emperor Armor will become."

"What about you? If I want to summon you again, what are the conditions?" Li Chengyi asked, feeling like he had grasped enough information, and so, he asked one last question.

"I... I’m just a pitiful giant demon of the Thousand Leaves Army who died in a foreign land," Ye Lu revealed a trace of sadness, "You only need a hundred units of eternal essence to summon me. Oh, eternal essence is the consciousness, emotions, and Evil Thoughts produced by all beings. A unit is determined by a fixed scale that will appear after you activate the summoning ability. You will understand when the time comes.

Besides, if you start officially summoning buildings, remember to summon the White Tower inside the Royal City first. The White Tower can help you research and optimize the Floral Dress, improving them."

Ye Lu seemed not to have spoken for many years and was quite verbose once he began.

As he spoke, his form gradually became fainter and more transparent.

"Sorry...." He gave a bitter smile, "I cannot communicate with you for too long... My soul is also about to dissipate... Perhaps, it won’t be long before you..."

"Alright..." Watching the stag-horned young man in front of him, Li Chengyi felt something strange, as if something was off, but he couldn’t pinpoint any contradiction.

He was only half-convinced by what the other party said, and as for the truth of it, he would naturally find an opportunity to verify it in the future.

"Can I come to find you again in the future?" he pondered and then asked.

"I don’t know... if I haven’t disappeared by then..." Ye Lu answered softly.

Then he stepped back and bowed deeply to Li Chengyi.

"Whatever happens... I wish you a smooth journey... overcoming all obstacles."

"Thank you. Then, I should go back now. Can you guide the way?" Li Chengyi asked.

"Someone is already trying to reach you. I can feel a certain force stretching this way along something you’ve left behind," Ye Lu said.

Li Chengyi also felt it then.

He looked down at himself.

His body was becoming increasingly transparent.

An invisible force was linking to him, trying to pull him in a certain direction.

"Ye Lu... I will remember you. I’ll gather the Twelve Divine Flower Positions as soon as possible, activate the summoning, and bring you back," Li Chengyi said seriously.

Ye Lu showed a gentle smile, bowed deeply, and did not raise his head again.

After about ten seconds, he stood up again, only to realize that Li Chengyi was no longer in sight.

"Evil Flower..." His expression was one of lonely contemplation, staring in that direction for a long time without moving.

Looking at his body, which was becoming more and more faded, Ye Lu sighed helplessly and with a light leap, he soared into the air.

The space around him twisted in an instant, and the next moment, he was already hovering above a vast steel city bustling with the shuttle of ships.

The entire city was a pale red, and in some places, semi-transparent force fields rippled and dispersed.

Millions of strange one-eyed creatures lived and moved about in the city.

Clearly, this was a technologically advanced and unfamiliar city.

"I’m in a good mood today. I didn’t expect to meet the second master of the Evil Flower before my collapse..."

Ye Lu gazed down at the massive pale red mechanical city below.

"Then, just eat a little more. To celebrate," he murmured softly.

His originally delicate face, the bright red lips slightly parted.

Hiss...

In an instant, his mouth tore open, expanding and turning black, swelling.

Like the rubber of a balloon, in the blink of an eye, his mouth had torn into a black hole, expanding thousands of kilometers, tens of thousands, until it covered most of the sky.

And then downward.

Spurt!

A flash of black light filled the space between heaven and earth.

At that moment, the massive city with at least a seventy to eighty kilometers diameter vanished on the spot.

Leaving nothing but a vast pale red pit in the ground.

The flying vehicles and cars in the distant surroundings simultaneously stalled and rapidly came to a stop.

Then those one-eyed people turned to flee in terror and madness, their mouths emitting incomprehensible screams of fear.

"It seems... I’m this weak now? I’m full after eating just this little..." Ye Lu restored his original shape helplessly, licked his lips, and a faint sadness flickered in his eyes.

Weak, pitiable, helpless, that was his aura at this moment.

"Even eating food, I’m dropping crumbs from my mouth... Sigh..." With a sigh, Ye Lu’s form slowly faded, vanishing from the spot.

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Reality.

Fengnan Province, Suiyang.

Inside Everpeace Garden.

Yserine walked barefoot gently in Li Chengyi’s room, holding the sample of her brother’s fresh blood she had just got from Da Xiong.

She had entered reality from Everpeace Garden and immediately tracked down Da Xiong’s lab by scent, retrieving the blood sample.

The material of reality could not stop her, like a ghostly shadow, she could pass through directly.

But with the teacher’s help, her brother, Li Chengyi’s blood, was constantly emitting a strong guiding scent.

Yserine, like a ghost, passed through walls, crossed layers of earth, quietly entered Da Xiong’s lab, took the blood, and then returned here.

"You must hurry, the passage has been constructed, and I have used his blood to successfully pull him back this way. The time window is about half an hour. In half an hour, if this side isn’t ready, he won’t be able to enter. He’ll have to stay in the Black Sea, where each additional second is a tremendous injury for any entity," the teacher’s voice came to her at this moment.

"Besides, I found something troubling while setting up the tether. You should be prepared mentally," said the teacher seriously.

"Teacher, what is it?" Yserine asked in her mind. She did not stop her hands, quickly waving them to release trails of black mist that surrounded the blood drop icebox she held, consolidating into a multiplex black cube array.

"Where you are, it seems something troublesome has set its sights. The surface outside here has two huge wounds. Although both wounds have been temporarily stitched up by something, I’ve just discovered a third one. It’s small but expanding rapidly," the teacher solemnly said.

"Wounds..." Yserine mused.

She knew that for an entity from the Black Sea like her teacher, her own world was indeed like a larger blind spot.

To the creatures from other blind spots in the Black Sea, weren’t the humans here equally bizarre in appearance?

"As for the wounds, as long as you’re aware, that’s enough. You can discuss it with your brother later. To have lasted so long in the Black Sea and not died, clearly, he has some secrets. Death may be abundant, but you cannot stay that long..."

The teacher’s voice gradually faded.

Leaving Yserine to snap back from her contemplation, she looked at the tethering array floating in mid-air.

She exhaled, closed her eyes, lifted her hand in strict accordance with the teacher’s instructions, and released her own power.

The power of the Tightening Grasp Blind Spot, transforming into a black and purple halo, shone from the center of her palm and cast upon the array.

Since Li Chengyi had yet to be released from the Tightening Grasp Blind Spot, she could still sense his location, coupled with the current blood array tether.

An intangible force began to pierce through reality, passing through the ’un-door’ within Yserine’s body, seeping into the Black Sea, and transforming into a black and purple column of light that soared into the depths.

Yserine, due to her violent death and the accident, was assimilated by the blind spot and naturally possessed an open ’un-door’ as a wraith.

Now, through the array’s blind spot power, with the correct tethering token, it was only natural to find Li Chengyi.

Indeed, it wasn’t long before she sensed Li Chengyi accelerating towards this place.

In the endless darkness, Li Chengyi wore a purple-black Floral Dress resembling a Shadow Dragon, flapping his wings and speeding toward this location.

"It worked!"

Yserine’s heart relaxed. As long as she had found her brother, the next step was to draw him closer and return to reality.

This process should take no more than half an hour.