Blind Spot
Chapter 407: Condition 373 Five

Chapter 407: Condition 373 Five

Destiny...

In a distant floating restaurant, the Zhao Family Head’s group remained silent, gazing at the chaotic and scattered battlefield afar.

The leisure plaza had turned into a complete wreck.

Under the relentless bombardment, the entire square had been transformed into a pitted landscape, with ruins full of craters and debris everywhere.

The scorched marks of death rays, the deep pits created by exploding shells, the honeycombed bullet holes — all bore witness to just how terrifying the recent battle had been.

Yet against such forces, facing Destiny Li Chengyi, they couldn’t even manage to injure him.

His speed wasn’t fast, but his defense was terrifying.

The three stages of Dragon Realm, after adapting to the Giant Strength Imprint, offered an all-around boost to physical strength.

And upon that foundation, after undergoing Dragon Transformation, layered with the various enhancements of the Floral Dress, plus the proportional enhancement provided by the Floral Fortress...

At this point, Li Chengyi, based solely on his Floral Dress’s strength, had already reached the power level of Grade Eight, not to mention the strength of his actual flesh and blood...

Even if some explosions and piercing blasts breached the Floral Dress and struck his body, they were like mosquito bites to him, completely insignificant.

Even the high-temperature impact that could gravely injure or bring a Grade Eight Conductor to the brink of death, once filtered through the Floral Dress, felt like a breeze upon his skin.

This was the truly terrifying aspect.

Modern technology, the real limit to individual strength isn’t the technology itself, but the quality of its wearer.

"He... What kind of monster is he!?" Zhao Enshi looked fierce, his eyes reflecting an unbelievable mixture of shock and dread.

He couldn’t imagine that the Zhao Family, one of the Nine Great Families, would face such setbacks against an organization that had only been established for a year.

Even now, two out of the three Grade Eight powerhouses in his family were dead.

Watching Destiny, who was confronting the Family Head in the distance, his mind was a tangled mess of disbelief.

The young members of the Zhao Family around him were silent, their expressions similar to his.

"The Family Head is invincible," Zhao Xianrou suddenly said. Her gaze was calm, "Destiny will ultimately be resolved, turning into a short-lived meteor."

Zhao Enshi glanced at her. Given the current situation, even he didn’t have much confidence in that assertion.

But Zhao Xianrou...

"Just watch... Grade Nine represents the pinnacle of the nation, it embodies our foundation for the struggle against White Star. It’s a power far surpassing all other levels," Zhao Xianrou clenched her fists involuntarily.

"Therefore, the Family Head will resolve everything!" she declared emphatically.

"No," Zhao Enshi shook his head. "You don’t understand anything. By now, Destiny has already achieved his goal."

"The Family Head is far beyond Grade Eight, a Grade Nine power; how can you say I don’t understand!?" Zhao Xianrou’s voice became sharp, daring to openly contradict Zhao Enshi.

"Grade Nine isn’t exclusive to us!" Zhao Enshi said, trying to suppress his voice. By now, he could almost guess the forthcoming outcome.

"But if everyone challenges Jiu Yi like he does, where will the prestige of our nation stand!?" Zhao Xianrou exclaimed loudly. "The Family Head cannot lose!! It’s impossible!!"

"Shut up!" Zhao Enshi suddenly stretched out his hand and slapped her hard.

Instantly, the main vein’s crowd was stunned, and Zhao Xianrou stood there disheveled and dazed.

"What the hell do you know? The situation now is that the Imperial Family cannot control Destiny, but they can control us!! Do you understand!!? Do you think the power of Jiu Yi comes from one person? From one family’s achievements!?"

Zhao Enshi’s face turned red, his brows fierce.

"Do you know that just to start the Family Head’s Flying Yi requires the functioning of three independent nuclear power plants!? You don’t know anything!"

The destiny the family was about to face, the possibilities that were about to emerge in the future, were making the oppression in his heart even more suffocating, and Zhao Xianrou’s rebuttal, oblivious to reality, now gave him an outlet for venting.

"The strength displayed by Destiny until now... it has been enough to turn everything around," Zhao Enshi looked at the dazed Zhao Xianrou, then turned his head to look at the two people confronting each other outside.

It appeared that the Family Head was still composed, but he already knew. The outcome had been predetermined.

Those above had not yet spoken simply because they wanted to see to what extent Destiny could go.

At this moment, in the field.

Li Chengyi raised his head to look at Zhao Chengxi standing on the nameplate of the high building.

Zhao Chengxi was also watching him.

Neither of them had made a move, but from the moment Li Chengyi displayed a terrifying strength that surpassed Grade Eight, from the moment Zhao Chengxi truly appeared, the Zhao Family had already lost.

Both of them actually understood this.

Grade Nine was a national weapon, intended for battling a single entity within Yi Country internally; this was not a normal thing to do.

"The Imperial Family and Jiu Yi have already voted to temporarily freeze my control over the Grade Nine capabilities of the Black Phoenix," Zhao Chengxi spoke as if talking about something unrelated to himself.

"So, there are two minutes left."

He stepped forward, as if there were stairs in the sky, walking step by step, treading on air, approaching Li Chengyi.

"I will grant you eternal silence..."

"I am also looking forward to seeing the complete strength of real Grade Nine," Li Chengyi’s defensive intensity had already surpassed that of a Grade Eight field, but how it compared to Grade Nine, he did not know.

This was also a suitable opportunity to test the strength of Grade Nine.

"You will pay a painful price for your stupidity," Zhao Chengxi’s emotions settled down.

"The reason why it is Grade Nine is not simply because it is one level stronger than Grade Eight. It is the extreme of the orders of nine."

"The reason I am here listening to your nonsense is also because I want to witness just how strong Grade Nine is," Li Chengyi countered, "So..."

In his hand, countless golden petals condensed into a sleek, purple-black Yinglong Sword.

The Yinglong Sword, which was summoned by the Gladiolus Ultimate Form, was also the sturdiest blade he controlled at present, making it the ideal choice to use now.

Even if it hadn’t recovered from cooling down, it was still far harder than a common Golden Sword.

"If you can make me now feel despair and pain... I would be ever so grateful..."

"Hehehe..." Zhao Chengxi raised his right hand, and in his palm, a cluster of black flames ignited out of nowhere.

Whoom!!!

An elliptical black force field, with him at its center, rapidly spread out, growing larger, covering everything around.

In the blink of an eye, the force field had swelled to encompass thousands of kilometers around, bringing all the nearby buildings and streets into its range.

"Let’s have you witness my own exclusive Radiation Protection Field," Zhao Chengxi gently lowered his hand, allowing the cluster of black flame to float in midair, burning on its own.

"Black Flame Abyss."

He muttered softly.

Boom!!!

Numerous black flames turned into black lotuses, and bloomed out of thin air around him in the sky.

Above its head, a massive black lotus converged into a terrifying giant bird, a hundred meters long, suspended with its wings spread.

Red lights gleamed from the giant bird’s eyes as it stared down at Li Chengyi.

Hum!!

Terrifying layers of gravitational force pressed down on Li Chengyi.

With a mass surpassing a hundred tons, his movements and even the lifting of his hand became remarkably sluggish.

As the red gaze intensified,

The temperature around Li Chengyi soared rapidly.

One hundred degrees, three hundred degrees, six hundred degrees!

In the blink of an eye, it had crossed a thousand degrees, climbing toward two thousand.

The high heat brought with it a tremendous thermal load; had he been a true Reinforced Human, or a Feiyi Master, he would now face a huge burden of heat dissipation.

In such an environment, clashing with Black Phoenix without even making a move would mean losing by a wide margin.

"This is my protective force field—Black Flame Abyss," Zhao Chengxi introduced calmly.

"It inherently holds a slight power to weaken opponents, I hope you can adapt."

"Where is your Flying Yi?" Li Chengyi asked in a deep voice.

This effect naturally had very little impact on him, but if this was just the opponent’s protective force field...

He looked around.

Within a kilometer radius, all the buildings within the force field were unscathed, only his surroundings exhibited high heat and pressure.

This clearly demonstrated the opponent’s ultra-precise control capability.

"My Flying Yi, haven’t you already seen it?" Zhao Chengxi slightly tilted his head upward, looking towards the huge suspended black flame bird overhead.

"The flight mode of the Heifeng Spiral Knife, within a fifty-kilometer range, primarily utilizes spatial jumps."

"Its own temperature reaches as high as one million five hundred thousand degrees. It’s just that, confined by the force field, the temperature does not dissipate externally.

And the moment it touches you, you will melt, vaporize..."

"So..." Zhao Chengxi looked at Li Chengyi. "This is where it all should end."

He calculated the passage of time, his eyes flickering with an indecipherable expression.

"In an instant."

"You will turn to black smoke and vanish into nothing."

"One million five hundred thousand degrees..."

Li Chengyi licked his lips, gazing at the gigantic black bird in the sky.

He wasn’t certain his body could withstand such a terrifyingly high temperature.

But... he was very clear.

About the distance between him and Zhao Chengxi, less than thirty meters.

Just one Shadow Flash...

The Hand of Obsession could take control and expose a fatal flaw in his opponent.

"Time is almost up, right? So... why haven’t you made a move?"

His lips split into a smile.

The high temperature of one million five hundred thousand degrees, combined with instantaneous spatial jumps, he might not withstand it.

But if he used Shadow Flash, a Hand of Obsession overlayed with the Destiny’s blade that was guaranteed to hit, leveraging all attacks to slash out, Zhao Chengxi would also likely die.

From Zhao Chengxi’s face, he saw a hint of something.

At this moment, both of them felt a whiff of fatal threat.

Too close...

Zhao Chengxi wasn’t sure if his protective force field Black Flame Abyss could withstand that all-pulling slash from before.

One truly realizes the oddity of this fellow only when facing Destiny up close.

He thought his Grade Nine force field could absolutely ignore the other party, blocking any danger.

But...

The two-minute freeze time was about to end.

Zhao Chengxi took a deep breath.

"One-fold Synergy Rule."

The Black Phoenix above his head trembled slightly, its pitch-black flames lighting up with countless silver specks.

Li Chengyi likewise gripped the Yinglong Sword tightly.

Countless streams of Soft Qi converged, solidifying onto his arm in a double burst manner.

At the same time, shades of gray death aura finally surged out of his body.

So potent it almost became a physical muck, the dense death energy quickly covered the Floral Dress on his body.

Transforming the original golden Gladiolus Ultimate Form into a strange ash-gold color.

Waves of cold death aura, with him at the center, rapidly lowered the surrounding temperature, offsetting the previous high-temperature scorching.

And it didn’t stop there, the temperature continued to fall.

Around Li Chengyi, within several meters, the temperature dropped rapidly below zero, and the ground even frosted over with a thin layer of white.

"What is this!?"

Zhao Chengxi frowned, that gray substance... it could actually withstand his Black Flame Abyss’s weakening effect.

But time was pressing, and he had no time left to ponder.

Any more hesitation, and he would have to return to Jiu Yi.

At this instant, Jiu Yi, Zhao Family, the Security Bureau, Taiyi Palace, Garden of Fate, all eyes from the Chao Yuli Family, Yan Family, and other great clans, countless gazes were all fixed here.

This was the pinnacle Grade Nine Jiu Yi’s first official challenge in the nation in a century.

’Let’s end it then.’

Zhao Chengxi’s black robe lit up with golden specks as he took one last look at Li Chengyi and recited the Synergy Rule initiation phrase.

"Void Flash!"