Blind Spot
Chapter 413 - 378 Andu 4

Chapter 413: 378 Andu 4

The gates opened slowly on their own.

Revealing the inside, a vast hall shimmered with resplendent golden halos.

The floor and walls of the hall were inlaid with thousands of diamond-shaped golden chips.

Surrounding these chips were numerous golden circuits, and it was these dense, intricate lines that emitted the golden light.

Around the great hall, more than ten meters tall, stood golden statues in silence, each of a different form— they were the figures of heroes from Yi Country’s past.

In the center of the golden hall, a white marble square table was placed.

At this moment, Zhou Shi, the one at the very pinnacle of Yi Country, stood in heavy armor beside the long table, his eyes lowered to the large sand table map on its surface, as if pondering something.

On his back, the armor was layered with countless golden wings, quivering slightly like spikes.

The wings’ material seemed metallic, yet also flesh-like, extremely wondrous.

Without any elaborate ceremony, the teams from the Garden of Fate and Shadow Eaters directly entered the hall, and the conveyor belt beneath them stopped moving.

"I am pleased that you have accepted my invitation, come to Andu, come here, which gives us a possibility to stand on the same front," said Zhou Shi.

Emperor Yi turned, his facial expressions hidden behind the golden heavy helmet, but one could tell from his tone that he was indeed pleased.

"Since you’ve accepted our terms, could you hand over those four people to us now?" Shadow Dragon Sal spoke up.

"Certainly," Zhou Shi responded with ease.

"Besides that, to entice us to join your alliance, there’s another condition," Sal said nonchalantly.

"What condition? Speak," Zhou Shi’s attitude was extremely accommodating.

"Our clan has bloodline kin scattered in this realm here. We need to reclaim the bloodline that was inadvertently lost, and we require your cooperation," Sal said with a smile.

"Oh?" Zhou Shi was slightly surprised; he knew that Sal belonged to the Shadow Dragon Clan, a fact gleaned from the intelligence provided by Barton and his team.

However... that the Shadow Dragon Bloodline existed within Yi Country was news to him.

This was indeed a curious affair.

"How should we cooperate?" he asked, curious.

"Assist us in capturing the lost bloodline to prevent their escape!" Sal said with a laugh.

"This is...." Zhou Shi frowned slightly.

"With your place riddled with holes, apart from this, there’s nothing worth our concern. If you don’t agree, once we switch out people, we’re leaving immediately," Sal pressed on.

Seeing that Zhou Shi didn’t speak, he laughed and continued.

"Of course, if you’re too weak and can’t spare the manpower, we can take care of it ourselves."

His gaze moved, falling slowly on Li Chengyi and the others to one side.

That half-blood’s body seemed quite good, perfect for taking as a new surrogate shell.

Now, after several unsatisfactory exchanges, the current shell was too weak.

Li Chengyi had been waiting quietly, for his team’s turn to communicate with Emperor Yi. At this moment, he felt the other’s gaze.

He shifted his eyes slowly, meeting Sal’s draconic gaze.

Hum.

In an instant, the air between the two distorted, spun, and compressed.

Two massive forces of consciousness collided and confronted each other briefly, even causing real airflow to change.

Consciousness Power, in essence, originated from countless tiny fields aggregated together.

Though seemingly intangible, if strong enough, it could subtly influence reality.

But such strength had to be exceedingly great to do so.

And now, both Li Chengyi and Shadow Dragon Sal were of this level.

"If you look at me that way again, I’ll gouge out your eyeballs," Li Chengyi suddenly said.

The smile on Sal’s face stalled, slowly settling down.

"It appears you do not comprehend what the gap in our bloodlines means..."

"Fancy a fight?" Li Chengyi interrupted. "Shadow Dragon? Ah... Now I remember, you’re those worthless beings that I took quite a few things from in the store?"

A look of realization dawned on him.

The familiar feeling of their presence now made sense; they were the former acquaintances from the Silent Store.

"...." The expressions of the three from Sal’s party darkened.

"You were lucky last time, but this time..." Ying said with an icy tone.

Last time, his breath attack had failed and, incidentally, the Silent Store was destroyed.

He hadn’t expected the half-blood they had encountered here to be the same person from last time.

"If I’m not mistaken, your powers have been repressed quite a bit since you came here, right?" Li Chengyi said with a smile on his face.

"What? Think you can win?" Sal sneered.

"Want to try?" Countless petals of Gladiolus Petals suddenly materialized around Li Chengyi, converging into a golden armor covering his entire body.

A circle of golden fire, unbeknownst when, had already quietly enveloped the opposing Sal and his party.

"After all... you’re too close to me..."

He formed a Golden Longsword in his hand silently.

"You two..." Zhou Shi attempted to intercede.

Ao!!

In an instant, Sal lunged forward, transforming into a black Shadow Dragon spanning over ten meters, flapping its wings and blinking behind Li Chengyi in a flash, biting down.

The Golden Sword slashed upward in a flash.

Empowered with twice the strength by the Floral Dress, added with Purple Delicate Flower, and the numerous powers of the Purple Magnolia Flower Language Pearl layered on,

With these cumulative boosts, a simple swing of Li Chengyi’s sword wielded nearly eight hundred tons of Giant Strength.

Chi!!

In an instant, the two passed by each other.

Sal reverted to human form, his complexion rigid, pupils constricted, trembling as he clutched his chest.

Right in the middle of his chest was a gaping wound that went clear through to his back, from which thick, blackish-red Blackblood dripped, evaporating into shadows before hitting the ground.

He missed??

His lunging bite had mysteriously missed its mark!?

He didn’t even know why he missed; just as he was about to reach his opponent, he suddenly veered off course for no apparent reason.

"What... happened?!" He couldn’t understand what had just occurred.

Pfft!!

Blackblood sprayed everywhere, spattering the surroundings.

"Too weak..." Li Chengyi’s voice seemed to drift from afar, faint yet discernible.

"So weak it’s hardly stimulating. How can such trash be allowed into this hallowed hall?"

Pfft!

Rage exploded in Saul’s heart.

A mere half-blood?! Daring to call him trash?!

Kill him!

Kill him!

Kill him!!!

Ferocious anger was born from humiliation.

’If it weren’t for safety, they would have only sent a clone. How could this half-blood scum have the audacity to be so rampant now?!’

Unfortunately, the him that was about to dissipate couldn’t utter a sound but could only fall to the ground in frustration, turning into a puddle of shadow that dissipated into nothingness.

Rage +5.

Rage +4.

Rage +5.

A dense cluster of Evil Thoughts was rapidly absorbed by Li Chengyi.

"Sorry... I take back what I said, trash does have some use..." Li Chengyi, feeling the inflow of Evil Thoughts, somewhat regained his composure.

The entire hall was silent at that moment.

The fight was over so quickly that everyone failed to react in time.

Zhou Shi had intended to call for a break in the fight, but the outcome was decided too swiftly...

In just an instant, Saul was obliterated by Destiny.

Without any chance to fight back.

Shock.

Whether it was Zhou Shi or Zhou Shuo, as well as the other two Shadow Dragons, Ying and Farn.

Nobody expected Saul to lose so quickly.

Even though this was just a clone with only a tenth of his strength, to be killed instantly was perhaps a bit too exaggerated?!

A flood of information passed through their minds in that instant, and the way Ying and Farn looked at Li Chengyi changed.

From the initial disdainful indifference, it turned into cautious vigilance.

"Ah... there was no need for this, we are all pillars of the Empire, soon to be comrades fighting side by side, there’s no need for such rigidity," Zhou Shi sighed, adopting a regretful demeanor.

"Your Majesty worries too much. Someone so weak but with such arrogance, such worthless trash would only burden comrades on the battlefield," Li Chengyi said coolly. "It would be better for me to clean up inside first, to minimize the loss."

"Arrogant!" Ying’s gaze was icy as she stared at him.

"I am merely stating facts," Li Chengyi said. "If you disagree, you are welcome to come to Fengnan Province anytime to find me."

"If you think that was all of Saul’s strength you just saw, then you are wrong... You have now thoroughly enraged him!" Farn said coldly.

His appearance was that of a middle-aged man with white hair and triangular eyes, exuding a somewhat moribund aura.

"So, should I go eliminate the root of the problem as soon as this meeting concludes?" Li Chengyi laughed.

"..." Ying and Farn didn’t speak again.

They were, in fact, constantly reviewing that one sword strike in their minds—how Saul could have missed, why he received a critical strike to the chest without any resistance, and died instantly?

They didn’t know.

If they couldn’t clarify this point, even at their peak, they were likely to lose more than win against this guy.

"Alright, let’s all calm down and not damage the camaraderie among colleagues," Zhou Shi spoke in a soothing voice.

"The conditions for both parties’ promotion have been written in the document. Please confirm them. If there are no issues, you may sign it."

He looked towards the Shadow Eater’s side.

"We can deliver the people you need, and for daily necessities, you can freely devour the opposing side on the battlefield, without limit on quantity."

"If we can confirm there’s no limit, we have no issues," Ying said coldly, her gaze still fixed on Li Chengyi.

"I don’t have any problems either," Li Chengyi said, having previously received the document with conditions and content that remained the same.

Join the military department, become a general, and gain merits in space warfare.

In exchange, he would receive national-level resource supply and the same various rights, privileges, and benefits as other Grade Nine ranks.

Since he didn’t require large amounts of energy on standby like the other Grade Nine ranks, his status was even more special and valuable.

One could say he was the only one among the Grade Nine ranks who could act freely and strike instantly.

This was also why Zhou Shi, regardless of the Zhao Family’s feelings, was determined to win over Li Chengyi.

"Additionally, space warfare will require a significant change in weaponry, so if there is anything you need, as long as it’s for participation in the war, feel free to ask," Zhou Shi said generously.

"I need the highest quality of special alloy materials, as well as micro energy units and all information regarding Non-gate, Black Sea, et cetera. Is that okay?" Li Chengyi asked.

"Simple. I can give you a special Feiyi warship. I hear you are also a Feiyi Master?" Zhou Shi smiled and said.

"Yes, but... a Strategic Feiyi Master, that’s not something one can just transition into easily, right?" Li Chengyi seemed surprised.

"True, so if it doesn’t work out, you are free to participate in warfare in the way you’re most accustomed to," Zhou Shi responded.

"A warship?" Li Chengyi suddenly seemed pensive.

Rainbow Candy and Da Xiong’s cumulative Flower Language had given him quite a few ideas. What he lacked now was precisely this kind of cumulative Flower Language.

What would be preferred was something that aided in operations, research, and accumulating Imprints.

Now that the Empire was about to grant him Grade Nine treatment, massive resources were going to be available to him.

It would be wasteful not to make good use of them.

It just so happened that in the scriptures obtained from the City of the Death Angels, there were methods to fuse inert materials with necromantic energy to create elemental pools.

He could establish his own Tower of Necromantic Energy and transform the warship into a movable Tower of Necromantic Energy.

’It would be best to have a Tower of Necromantic Energy that could move within the Black Sea. It would be ideal for creating Imprint Orbs in a highly secretive environment.’