Blind Spot
Chapter 464 - 424 Returns 2

Chapter 464: 424 Returns 2

’The condition for using Reverse Marks is to have points that link the Blind Spots on both sides, locating the positions on both ends. It can easily open the conduit. Moreover, Evil Flower utilizes the tendrils emitted by the Blind Spot itself to hook and link, thus its stealth is extremely strong.’

The number of tendrils in the Blind Spot is vast, beyond count. The only trouble lies in its stealthiness....’

Having restored the channel that could return him to the reality of Yi Country, Li Chengyi breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

Standing up, he watched as the vortex in front of him gradually faded away and disappeared.

He quickly raised his hand and pressed on the Purple Magnolia Main Blossom category.

Purple light shone brightly.

’Flower Language: Mother of Heart - Traction.’

At the moment of utilizing the Flower Language Technique, Li Chengyi extended a hand and quickly drew an odd purple symbol in front of him.

The Reverse Mark was used with precision.

Hiss!

In an instant, streaks of purple fluorescence emerged around him, converging to form a three-dimensional complex array.

Li Chengyi’s body was enveloped within it, gradually becoming translucent.

Boom!

Suddenly, there was a soft sound, and his whole body exploded, shattering into countless purple light spots along with the array, dissipating on the spot.

The light spots rapidly dimmed, became transparent, and disappeared.

Everything soon returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.

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Countless images and halos flashed rapidly before Li Chengyi’s eyes.

This experience was completely different from when he had entered Midlane.

This time, it felt as though he was being stretched out, flattened, and squeezed into a narrow glass tube.

Then, like some kind of viscous liquid, he quickly flowed along the tube toward an unknown direction.

Pfft.

A sound akin to farting exploded.

Li Chengyi suddenly opened his eyes.

Around him was a red wooden desk with some scratches, under his feet a dark wooden floor covered in shoe prints, and opposite him an open wardrobe that held Yserine’s stripped Bone Armor and a dog-sized Bone Armor squatting to the side.

Soft, normal sunlight shone in from the window to the right, illuminating the entire room with brightness.

’Is this... my room?’ Li Chengyi slowly stood up, only then realizing he was sitting slumped in a high-backed chair, drenched in sweat, completely naked except for an Illusory Color Dragon Shield pressed against his stomach, serving as the only thing covering his modesty.

Not only that, all the additional decorations on the Dragon Scale Shield, as well as the installed belts, metal loops, and such—anything that wasn’t made of Dragon Scales—were all gone.

Clearly, traversing between the two Blind Spots had caused him no small loss.... At the very least, his gold and silver were gone.

’Why didn’t Chen Jiahan encounter such a situation? Could it be because I’m not up to standard, not taking the official route?’

Both the channel provided by Professor Mimam and Li Chengyi’s own Reverse Mark technique were actually not official conduits.

So he speculated from there.

’Forget it. It doesn’t matter, the important thing is that I’m back....’ He glanced at the calendar clock on the wall.

Less than a day had passed since he left.

It was now the morning of the second day.

But he had already spent over half a year in Midlane....

Standing up, Li Chengyi pulled open the drawer of the desk, preparing to take out the AR glasses to contact others.

Thump.

Suddenly, a loud noise exploded next to his ear.

His vision turned blood red, and instantly he could hear nothing at all.

’What’s going on???’

Everything in front of him began to shake as if there were an earthquake, but all the objects in the room remained still, completely unaffected.

Clearly, this sensation was his alone.

’It’s not an earthquake.... It’s me....!!’

Li Chengyi instantly realized and reached out to steady himself against the edge of the desk, trying to maintain his balance.

But it was too late.

The sensation that something was coming, which had been looming earlier, now surged to the forefront of his mind.

In that moment, he suddenly understood what was about to come.

The imagery in the room began to warp, resembling countless distorted colorful paints.

Pfft.

But quickly, everything came to an abrupt stop.

The distorted imagery in front of his eyes finally corrected itself, returning to calmness.

Li Chengyi stood there in shock, his skin engorged with blood, covered in numerous petechiae.

At the same time, there were faint traces of blood at the corners of his eyes which streamed down, appearing strange and terrifying.

’Just now... did I hear the sound of the ocean?’

He took a deep breath, realizing that upon his return, he had already received a grand welcome....

That familiar sense of oppression and threat, at the first moment he recovered, he recognized it for what it was.

Blind Spot!

And it was a Blind Spot challenge of unprecedented difficulty!

’It seems that my time in Midlane wasn’t excluded from the Blind Spot cycle... it’s been accumulating all along...’

Li Chengyi felt a heavy pressure in his heart.

How long had he stayed in Midlane? Over half a year!

With such an extended period of time accumulating Blind Spots, the difficulty would be alarmingly high... unknown to anyone.

But he knew that what happened just now was likely just a sign.

Following the old rules, he’d be fully pulled into a new Blind Spot on the third occurrence.

"Fuck!"

Thinking of this, Li Chengyi couldn’t help but curse fiercely. He quickly thought of something, searched for his phone, and dialed a special number.

But all he got from the number was a busy signal.

Li Chengyi’s expression finally changed.

The phone call he made was to a member of the Gold Serpent Ring Organization, whom he had rescued from a Blind Spot in Dark City.

The woman was also a member of a great family in Sutan. When they went to Sutan before, she had helped them out.

Quickly changing his clothes, he put on the AR glasses and entered the team channel.

"Tang Tang, do you have any news from Qiong An?"

"Qiong An? Sutan broke out in war a few days ago, and we have lost contact for now. The signal was physically blocked, and even satellites have been jammed." —— Rainbow Candy.

"How long will it take?"

"Unclear, but just last month, I was in contact with Qiong An, so there shouldn’t be a problem." —— Rainbow Candy.

"Where’s Da Xiong?" Li Chengyi called out to Da Xiong.

"In the lab, what do you need, Master?" —— Da Xiong.

The fellow actually sent a voice message, his voice lazily seductive.

"Help me out." Li Chengyi took a deep breath. On his trip back, he had memorized at least a hundred different martial arts secret manuals. The only thing he lacked now was the accompanying herbal recipes. What he needed was for Da Xiong and Rainbow Candy to work together to calculate the needed prescriptions for the various martial arts.

In addition, his new Imprint hadn’t fully formed yet because it was a fusion of two. It required a massive input of high-energy nutrients. There weren’t such good conditions in Midlane, so now that he was back, he had to complete the Imprint fusion as quickly as possible.

Twenty minutes later.

Inside the underground base of the Garden of Fate Team, Li Chengyi strode into the sealed large laboratory.

Numerous input tubes automatically hung down around him, which he caught with one hand.

Through the transparent glass window of the laboratory, Da Xiong, wearing a white lab coat, watched with a solemn expression.

"Brother Yi, the fastest way to digest and absorb is to first physically pulverize all food externally and then directly inject it into the stomach and intestines. At the same time, nutrition is injected into the blood via injection. Two-pronged approach. But this places a heavy burden on the body."

"No problem, let’s do it." Li Chengyi’s expression remained unchanged. He walked to the center of the pure white laboratory and sat down cross-legged.

If he were still in Midlane, he would have to utilize eating and drinking to slowly accelerate the concentration of the Imprint.

But here... there were far too many ways to supplement nutrition.

Watching Li Chengyi at this moment, Da Xiong couldn’t shake the feeling that their mysterious boss had changed into a different person in just a few short days.

His physique was still good, just a little more robust, but his temperament had become even more profound and unfathomable.

"If you can’t endure it, Brother Yi, you can press the sensing button on your body. I’ll stop immediately. According to the data calculations, your body requires at least three days of growth hormone stimulation and an infusion of nutrient-rich substances before it can fully mature."

As a professional who had long studied Li Chengyi’s cell and flesh, Da Xiong was naturally an expert in this field.

"Alright."

Li Chengyi nodded, forcefully inserted the tubes into his skin and blood vessels, and also fitted a large tube into his mouth for the infusion of food.

This trip to Midlane had confirmed that it was indeed a good place to train, but now it seemed, there had to be precaution for the significant increase in Blind Spot difficulty faced upon returning. Good thing Chen Jiahan was not a Blind Spot Individual...

No matter what, he calmed his mind and started to fully accelerate the completion of the Second Imprint.

The new Imprint was actually already complete. As long as his body grew to its peak, it would naturally achieve Spirit Fusion.

But growing to peak condition wasn’t easy for someone with such strong bloodlines as him.

Once fully fused with the new Imprint, Li Chengyi understood that his strength would be massively enhanced in all aspects.

The initial Giant Strength Imprint had instantly elevated him across several ranks, capable of battling the Grade Nine.

Now to receive another Fusion Imprint...

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July.

While Li Chengyi was preparing for the upcoming Blind Spot predicament.

The first full-scale battle between Earth-Moon and White Star finally erupted.

Close Earth orbit, space.

Across the vast surface of White Star, countless silver-white dots soared into the sky, swarming like bees toward the azure Earth-Moon.

As the dots approached and magnified, they were revealed to be giant Reinforced Humans, over ten meters tall, armed with guns and shields, shimmering in white.

With blue light particles jetting from their backs, they arranged themselves into battalions, flying toward Earth-Moon with a terrifying speed, dozens of times faster than the speed of sound.

In space, without atmospheric drag, their velocity was much greater than within the atmosphere.

At the same time, several black space fortresses in Earth-Moon’s close orbit lit up with dense points of light.

Squadrons of small space fighters launched from the fortress hangars.

These fighters were fish-shaped, with wings above and below, accompanied by numerous sword-shaped special black Flying Yi vehicles.

Unlike the millions of Reinforced Humans from White Star, the swarming Flying Yi and fighters pouring out of Earth-Moon’s fortresses were only a small fraction of White Star’s Reinforced Humans.

The two forces slowly converged, their remarkable speeds reduced to a crawl in the vast distances of space.

What really determined the outcome of the battle were the destructive power of the weapons and the superiority of the predictive calculation and targeting systems.

In an instant, as the two battalions made contact, numerous explosions of varying sizes burst into light.

At that moment within Earth-Moon’s atmosphere, a huge black fort-like mothership slowly emerged.

On the mothership, high-end forces such as Jiu Yi and Shadow Eater all gathered, looking up at the battlefield.

At the same time.

Behind White Star’s numerous Reinforced Humans, a giant eye-like silver-gray mothership also floated gently out of the atmosphere.

The mothership’s surface twinkled with countless electronic lights and streams of deep blue particles.

Among the flowing streams of particles, streaks of blurred white light converged to a point, gradually forming the outline of an enormous woman, over a hundred meters tall.

That was a tall woman shining with white electrical arcs, surrounded by sharp white metallic spikes rising from her sides.

She wore a golden crown signifying emperorship, her eyes flickering with a blinding golden light, gazing toward the Earth-Moon. Her gaze clashed with that of Jiu Yi.

"For freedom. Attack!"

The grand, cold electronic sound flowed along with the light waves, spreading through all surrounding channels.

With the White Emperor’s command, the full-scale war between Earth-Moon and White Star was officially declared to have begun.