Blind Spot
Chapter 423 - 387 Madness 1

Chapter 423: 387 Madness 1

The endless Black Sea surged around him.

Li Chengyi was like a fish swimming through the dark waters, shrouded in a beam of white light, speeding through layers of darkness, rushing toward a colossal multicolored vortex in the distance.

Unlike the last time, after opening the gateway, he was now able to sense his surroundings.

The Black Sea remained pitch-dark, imperceptible, but within it floated many blind spots and mysterious matters, all of which he could sense.

The light beam channel in the Black Sea was like a white silk thread, silent and straight, heading directly toward Midlane.

Whoosh!

In the blink of an eye, his figure had disappeared into the vortex.

In the distance within the Black Sea, a vague and massive shadow with countless wings on its back was gradually becoming more distinct.

However, the moment Li Chengyi merged into the vortex, the clarity of this vast shadow seemed to be cloaked in another layer of fog, instantly becoming even more obscure.

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Caw.

The harsh and unpleasant crowing brought Li Chengyi out of his grogginess.

Chilly rain struck his face, sliding down his cheeks and falling onto the damp black soil below.

In the middle of the vast black landscape, he lay quietly in a large pit, his heavy armor silently disintegrating, turning into black granules that drifted away.

Not just that, everything he carried was also disintegrating at this moment, turning into black granules.

Even the covering Life Garment, not a trace was left. Only the tiny door that led back remained, which he had forcibly stuffed into the flesh of his arm halfway through.

"Ugh..." Li Chengyi slowly got up from the ground, his body naked, with only wisps of eerie gray smoke entwining around him.

That was death energy.

He looked around.

In the distant sky, a blood-red sun was gradually sinking, dyeing all the clouds crimson.

The ground was pitch-black, devoid of grass, with only black soil that appeared as a blend of rot and ink.

To his left and right, as far as the eye could see, was a borderless plain.

A few twisted and blackened dead trees stood about dozens of meters away.

Crows with black feathers and red eyes perched on the tree branches.

Hiss.

Li Chengyi gently inhaled, faintly sensing the smell of blood in the wind.

’Is this Midlane?’

With a thought, he tried to don the Floral Dress.

But strangely, countless purple petals emerged rapidly, only to quickly scatter, powerless to form any Floral Dress.

’What’s going on with this place!?’

Li Chengyi was startled and raised his hand to release the Radiance Field.

Fortunately, the Flower Language Technique was still functional, although its strength and range had been greatly reduced.

’No... this isn’t right,’ he suddenly realized.

He quickly switched to a different Flower Language Technique.

Feilian Flower Language Technique, Shadow Dragon Bloodline, Dragon Transformation!

In an instant, a large amount of dark energy surged from his body, mingled with death energy, swiftly enveloping him as if to drown him completely.

Dragon Scales rapidly grew, and his body swiftly swelled in size.

In the blink of an eye, Li Chengyi had transformed from an ordinary man into a three-meter-tall humanoid Shadow Dragon.

Wings, a dragon tail, and horns; blood-red eyes—aside from his smaller, humanoid form, he possessed all the characteristics of a Shadow Dragon.

’This place has no effect on the powers of death energy and the Shadow Dragon; on the contrary, it exerts great suppression on everything else...’

Li Chengyi came to understand immediately.

But soon, he canceled the Dragon Transformation, reverting to his normal body.

Looking down at the Imprint on his chest, it was unaffected and still exuded a ceaseless stream of power.

The Imprint, though it seemed to be located on the chest, could not be removed even if he dug out his entire body and flesh where it was, the power of the Imprint remained.

This was a Sublimation that had melded into his very being; the mark on the chest was merely a symbol, nothing more.

With the Giant Strength Imprint still in place, Li Chengyi felt relieved.

Returning to his unclad state, he began to run hastily in a random direction.

The blood-colored sunset shone on him, still offering him a faint trace of warmth.

This was something no other blind spot could compare with.

Obviously, this death corner of Midlane might well be like the reality he lived in, an ultra-large death corner.

Such dead corners might even have a recycling period of over ten thousand years.

Thump, thump, thump.

Running wildly along the Black Soil Plains, Li Chengyi’s feet kept imprinting the ground with footprints.

However, his footprints were quickly restored by the loose black soil.

The sky grew darker and darker.

Crows with red eyes flew across the sky, shrieking in panic.

It seemed they too were afraid of the coming night.

The light rain that fell on Li Chengyi’s body effectively gave him a free bath.

He didn’t run at full speed, but at about a hundred meters per second, observing his surroundings as he moved.

With Li Chengyi’s current burst speed, he had already managed to reach two to three times the speed of sound.

If one only considered the straight-line burst speed, without controlling for turns, under the Giant Strength Imprint, he could even instantly reach four times the speed of sound.

Speed, along with the growth of strength, would significantly increase.

As strength increased, so did the reactionary force in a burst of speed, naturally enhancing straight-line sprinting speed substantially.

He ran like this for a good ten minutes or so.

All of Li Chengyi’s timing devices had disintegrated and vanished, so he could only estimate roughly.

Finally, just before complete darkness fell, some signs of habitation slowly emerged on the Black Soil Plains ahead.

It was a winding yellow earth road that lay quietly between the expansive stretches of black soil.

The yellow earth road stretched from left to right as far as the eye could see, about three meters in width.

On both sides of the road, there lay some decayed wooden cart wheels and a smashed carriage.

And several bodies lying on the ground.

Li Chengyi’s eyebrows furrowed as he approached.

The carriage was toppled over on its side, its grey-brown fur cushion soaked by the rain, half exposed and already covered in greenish-gray mildew.

The side of the carriage was adorned with unintelligible script and a white stag, forming a circular emblem akin to a family crest.

Looking at the clothing of the bodies lying on the ground.

There were five corpses, three men and two women.

The men were dressed in grey-black turtleneck long coats, loose-fitting and with ties at the wrists and ankles.

The material was made of thick cotton fabric, inlaid with some hard black animal fur.

The women were in high-waisted black-grey long dresses with the waistline very high, the waistband cloth-bound, tied up to above the chest.

Overall, it resembled the traditional attire of the Joseon people from his previous life.

Their hairstyles were long hair tied up, fashioned into a bun, leaving a broad forehead exposed.

And both women, they were wearing black veils with white lace.

He bent down and walked over to a male corpse, giving it a kick.

Blood slowly dripped from the body’s mouth and nose.

This was a very young man, probably only in his twenties, the youngest of all present.

He was still clutching a finely made black iron sword in his hand.

The sword guard was fashioned into the shape of deer antlers, somewhat decorative in design.

Seeing the young man’s appearance, Li Chengyi crouched down, extended his hand, and the Radiance Field struggled to flow into the man’s body.

"Cough cough..."

Against all odds, the young man coughed out loud and came back to life in an instant.

He was only feigning death.

It was because Li Chengyi deduced this that he used the Radiance Field.

Sure enough, it brought the man back to life.

"*****!"

The young man struggled to lift his head, muttered a few words, but soon, his head dropped back to the ground, blood spilling from his mouth in increasing amounts, and once again, he lay motionless.

No injuries were visible on his body, nor was it clear what fatal wound had led to his death.

Watching the young man collapse again, Li Chengyi exhaled and his eyes faintly flickered with golden vertical pupils.

The Shadow Dragon Bloodline surged rapidly within his body.

Soon, another innate ability, in addition to Shadow Flash, began to emerge slowly.

’Shadow Exchange: The ability to dissolve oneself into a shadow, merge with the target’s shadow, completely replace the target, devour the target, and become the target.’

’It seems this place is well-suited for those with dead energies and Shadow Dragons to thrive...’ Li Chengyi observed as the young man once again began to lose signs of life.

Without hesitation, a flash of gold appeared in his eyes.

Whoosh!

In an instant, his entire body melted away like a candle, pouncing onto the young man as if he were a liquid, merging into the slight shadow beneath him.

Hiding oneself first, then using a native to understand and test the surrounding environment, was the safest approach.

After merging.

The young man’s body shook violently, his eyes suddenly shot open, and a puff of black air spewed from his mouth and nose, dissipating into the air.

He slowly got up and moved his body.

’The fatal injury was in the heart, the heart shattered, but there were no wounds on the outside... this place... is interesting.’

He became accustomed to this new body.

The ability of the Shadow Dragon’s Shadow Exchange, in fact, turned out to be much stronger than he anticipated.

Not only did he gain control of this body, but he also obtained a great deal of the body’s memories, language, and even some residual emotions from the remaining brain cells.

Although the memories were fragmented due to the body’s damage, they still provided him a great convenience.

After adjusting to the body, Li Chengyi once again used the Radiance Field to forcefully heal him for a while.

Then he went to check the others.

Soon, a middle-aged man began to cough slowly and wake up.

That was all...

The rest were already beyond help.

Propping up the middle-aged man to sit against the carriage, Li Chengyi stood up straight and sorted through the fragmented memories in his head.

’Trading company, transporting goods, picking up someone, being attacked...’

The young man he had taken over as a shadow was named Wang Yichen, the third son of the arrest officer Wang Yifeng from Xinmeng Town.

Xinmeng Town was an ordinary town on the Black Soil Plains, belonging to Shaoyin Country.

A population of a thousand households was needed to qualify as a town.

Xinmeng Town just barely met the standard.

Li Chengyi rubbed his temples, the memories in his head were patchy and intermittent.

The most vivid were the scenes and sounds of being killed at the end.

The one who had killed them was a crazy old woman in tattered red clothes who didn’t speak upon seeing them but struck each person with a single palm.

Her movements were extremely fast, like a phantom, and in an instant, she knocked down all five people.

"Yi Chen! Yi Chen!" Just as he was trying to understand more about the general situation here.

The middle-aged man who had been revived suddenly started calling out.

Their language was the dialect of Shaoyin Country, but with the Shadow Exchange, Li Chengyi could now understand it as well.

The middle-aged man’s name was Chen Zhong, a constable who had come to pick someone up with them.

"Hurry... hurry back to the town. Once it gets dark, we’re certain to die!"

Chen Zhong struggled to his feet, not even glancing at the other corpses, pulled Li Chengyi up and started running down the yellow earth road.

After a few steps, he put his fingers to his lips and blew forcefully.

A sharp whistling sound came from his mouth.