Blind Spot
Chapter 440 - 401 Test 3

Chapter 440: 401 Test 3

The drizzle scattered.

The capital of Shaoyin Country—Li City.

Buildings made of Black Stone—pavilions and towers rose like dark peaks, among which specks of yellow and red ghostly lights penetrated, resembling the ghastliness of specters.

There were no citizens here, and the streets were dominated by troops of faceless Power King Army soldiers clad in black armor, patrolling everywhere.

The Power King Army soldiers, towering over three meters tall, were to ordinary people nothing short of exaggerated and terrifying beasts.

Any one of them could easily take on thousands.

On the wide black streets, a slender figure slowly raised an umbrella, strolling leisurely.

He was dressed in deep blue silk, faintly shimmering with silver due to the threads of silver woven into it. His shoulders were slightly raised, fashioned into the shape of shoulder armor.

On his chest were patterns of sea waves and a silver Kunpeng, symbolizing his eminent status second only to one person and above thousands.

The golden dragon-patterned Epiphyllum arm protectors wrapped around his arms indicated that he had once held the position of the Grand Tutor, as the current Junior Emperor had.

A black umbrella.

A white person.

Under the setting sun, his skin was as pale as snow, complemented by an icy high bun dyed with ink, with a ponytail hanging down to his waist from behind.

Any discerning person, upon seeing him for the first time, would have the same impression.

That would be coldness, dazzling beauty.

These two absolutely contradictory feelings weirdly fused together in this man.

He held a black umbrella with strange white characters written on it, step by step, he walked on the deserted street.

Occasionally, when the Power King Army soldiers passed by, they too would silently stop and bow with a hand on their sword in salute.

The three-meter-tall Power King soldiers bowing to a man not even two meters tall only served to accentuate the man’s distinguished identity.

Moving forward, he passed through a forest of high towers secluded behind black walls.

The man stopped in front of a building resembling a huge black toad with red edges.

Blood Toad Palace.

These words hung on the building’s signboard.

The palace gates slowly opened.

An emaciated old eunuch, all skin and bones, slowly emerged from the darkness.

Looking up at the man standing before the gate.

"The State Preceptor is back. May I ask if you have brought back the Cyclopean Demon Serpent’s eye?"

"What about the Emperor?" the man said softly, his voice crisp and cold.

He raised his head, revealing a delicate face more beautiful than that of a woman, his pink lips faintly revealing an eerie chill amidst the rain.

Yet for some reason, this face carried an inexplicable hint of sorrow.

"The Emperor is occupied with pill refinement and cannot leave at the moment, I hope the State Preceptor can understand," the old eunuch answered in a shrill voice.

"....."

The man fell silent.

Thunder rumbled faintly in the sky.

The drizzle grew denser, yet the wind eerily stilled.

"State Preceptor...."

"Tell His Majesty to come see me," the man interrupted the eunuch.

"How bold! His Majesty is busy with important matters concerning the divine pill. If the State Preceptor has not brought back the Sacred Treasure, please withdraw immediately!" the eunuch couldn’t help but step back, raising his voice urgently.

State Preceptor Song Yunhe.

The most powerful man in all of Shaoyin Country, unparalleled.

Many said that as long as Song Yunhe was in Shaoyin, there would never be an uprising; no rebellion or unrest could withstand his single sword strike.

In his forty-two years in power, everything had been as rumored; any band of rebels or thieves would seem like mere dust and ants under his sword, easily swept away.

Crack.

A bolt of lightning streaked across.

The setting sun, the drizzle, the lightning—the blend of the three cast a strange colorful film over Song Yunhe in the rain.

One of his hanging hands slowly reached for the sword hilt at his waist.

"Is it that the Emperor is unwilling to see me, or are you people thwarting me in secret..."

The old eunuch’s throat bobbed. He too hailed from a top bloodline, and his martial prowess was among the top ten in the whole of Shaoyin, making him a renowned warrior on the Heaven Sealing List.

But this strength in front of Song Yunhe...

He didn’t even have the courage to resist.

Plop...

Suddenly a raindrop fell in front of him.

Red.

A striking red.

The eunuch’s eyes startled, looking up slightly.

The fine rain that had been falling from the sky, at that moment, inexplicably turned into blood.

The rain of blood dyed everything on the ground red, coupled with the bloody sunset, the scene turned into an asura hell, a deep abyss of blood.

Only the black umbrella with white characters and the man beneath it retained their own colors.

But amid the countless reds, that particular color was as striking as if existing in a world of its own, terrifyingly distinct.

"Blood Rain refines the world..." the eunuch muttered, as if remembering something.

"You saw it..." Song Yunhe continued to walk forward. "So why block my way..."

He walked past the eunuch, straight into the darkness.

The eunuch who should have stopped him did not move an inch, only standing there dumbfounded.

Whoosh.

In an instant, his body along with his robes dissolved, turning into a pool of blood and collapsing.

"Do you see?"

"Heaven weeps."

Song Yunhe’s voice emerged from the darkness.

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"Hmm?"

In the midst of the Black Soil Plains, Li Chengyi suddenly turned his head, looking towards the distant horizon.

Just in that instant, he seemed to have sensed something.

’That direction...there’s some extremely vast power that just flashed by...’

He had come face to face with Dongjun of Grade Nine, experiencing the exaggerated power of Yi Country’s most elite.

But even Dongjun’s power seemed far inferior compared to that fleeting force he just felt.

But that power only appeared for an instant before it was quickly suppressed and disappeared.

Pushing aside the doubts in his heart, he turned his head and looked at Song He, who was trembling beside him.

"How about it? Thinking of running away?"

Fear +2.

Fear +2.

Fear +2.

....

...

The intense fear kept transmitting from the two servants.

Li Chengyi watched as his Purple Magnolia Evil Thoughts swiftly climbed to seventy percent and continued to rise.

"I was just... passing by..." Song He managed to squeeze out the words with difficulty.

"No worries." Li Chengyi smiled, "I’m just passing by as well."

His eyes fixed on Song He.

"However... I feel like you might know me?"

"I... don’t know..." Sweat slowly oozed from Song He’s forehead, her muscles tensing to the point of near spasm.

"Not much time left..." Li Chengyi suddenly said. "It’s a pity that if we had more time, I would have liked to keep you a bit longer. But..."

Bang!!

In an instant, the burly man beside them turned and bolted, transforming nearly into a blood shadow, hurtling furiously into the distance.

His speed instantly shot up to twice the speed of sound.

Such a drastic movement tore open the thigh that had been pinned down, breaking it apart.

The possibility of suffering such grievous injuries did not slow the burly man; he frantically pumped his blood, leaping into the air and accelerating further with each touch of his single leg on the ground.

However...

Bang!!!

Before he got far, the burly man’s body suddenly inflated like a balloon and burst.

Chunks of flesh and bone shattered like pulverized dust, scattering in all directions, staining the Black Soil red.

Meanwhile, Song He also took the opportunity to retreat, her body rapidly transforming, entering her True Blood Form.

Drenched in fresh blood, she grew to three meters tall, her long arms and legs propelling her across the ground like a wild beast, running on all fours toward the distance.

’Fast! Faster! Faster!’ she thought, her mind in chaos.

What she had thought was a simple assassination mission had turned unexpectedly...

That member of the Wang Family, Wang Yichen, had been hiding such an exaggerated facet!

The sense of immense and unfamiliar threat she felt was entirely different from the danger she sensed from the other Blood Bodies.

She didn’t know what he was, nor why he had been concealing his power without showing his full strength.

All she knew was that if she didn’t run faster at this moment, she would end up just like that burly man, instantaneously turned into a bloody pulp!

’I must go back and tell my foster father right away! This Wang Yichen is concealing his strength; he must be plotting something big! Once he succeeds...’

Thump.

Suddenly, she felt her vision spin, and the world seemed to wobble.

Her body became extremely light, as if she had lost all her limbs...

No....

Suddenly, in her tumbling line of sight, Song He saw a familiar body.

A body with no head.

That was...

Thump.

Her head rolled on the ground, spinning a few times, her eyes wide open in death, gazing at Li Chengyi who slowly approached.

There were no weapons on him, yet just now she...

"What a shame, our meeting at the wrong time only leads to the wrong outcome..."

Li Chengyi said, sounding regretful.

These two in the Red-eyed phase were excellent subjects for cultivation. It’s a pity he was pressed for time; otherwise, he would have locked them up in a good place and drained them daily.

Watching the two bodies quickly dissolve into blood and merge with the soil, leaving behind only a few clothes.

He went forward, scavenged the Silver Coins, and obtained a sachet, ten Gold Leaves, a few pieces of broken Silver, and large Copper Coins.

The currency system of Shaoyin Country mainly consists of Copper Coins, large Copper Coins, Silver Coins, and Gold Leaves.

The copper wasn’t ordinary copper but was a red copper coin mixed with a particular substance, etched with "Emperor Yin Hua’s Treasure" on it.

’Emperor Yin Hua, huh?’ Li Chengyi put away the coins, wrapped them with True Qi to remove the poisonous blood, and then placed them into his wallet.

Yes, he had switched to using a large bag typically used for luggage to carry his money.

After collecting these, he glanced at the direction and in an instant, his figure turned into a black line, vanishing toward the distant horizon.

Having gathered Gold Leaves and Liu Mingyang, Li Chengyi returned to meet up with Wang Yifeng; the whole process took less than ten minutes.

This included robbing money on the way and dealing with Song He and several others in the Red-eyed phase.

He explained to Wang Yifeng that Liu Mingyang was someone they encountered on the way who had become separated from a caravan and was also heading to the county town. Head Constable Wang did not ask too many questions.

People like that were common in the wilderness.

It was no big deal to bring them along, just doing a good deed.

Slowing down a bit on the official road, the trio reached Cangshi County in about an hour.

The scale of Cangshi County was much larger than Xinmeng Town. From a distance of over ten miles away, one could see its tall walls thoroughly enclosing the entire city.

Something viscous had been poured over the ten-meter-high black walls, making the gaps between the bricks disappear completely.

Squads of tall, armored soldiers patrolled back and forth on top of the walls.

The city gate linked to the official road, with a constant stream of carriages, horses, and people entering and exiting.

Everyone entering the city had to pay a certain fee as a protection charge.

Approaching from five miles away, Wang Yifeng and the others frequently encountered the county’s circular patrol teams.

Each patrol team consisted of ten members, with a very formidable aura emanating from their team leaders, nearly comparable to the Red-eyed phase burly man that Li Chengyi had encountered earlier.

Clearly, they were also Blood Kin.

From what he had learned from Wang Yifeng, Li Chengyi understood the difference between the Blood Kin and the wild Red-eyed monsters.

In terms of strength and speed, Blood Kin were not as powerful as the Red-eyed monsters, but with their rationality, they could use weapons, Armor, and martial arts, significantly overpowering those afflicted monsters in the wilderness.

Moreover, the martial arts used by the Blood Kin were completely different from True Qi Martial Arts.

They used Blood Essence as a force analogous to True Qi, driving their bodies in combat.

Compared to Blood Essence, True Qi was much weaker; ten units of True Qi were barely enough to counter one unit of Blood Essence.

This was the fundamental reason why the Blood Kin looked down on True Qi.

The second reason was that Blood Essence and True Qi were not compatible; rather, Blood Essence was in conflict with all other forces.

Its domineering and monopolistic nature was very strong.