Blind Spot
Chapter 474 - 432 Probe 2

Chapter 474: 432 Probe 2

The blinding golden light forced everyone to squint and avert their eyes from the intense glare.

Following a massive explosion, the circle of Ouyang Family’s retainers had already collapsed to the ground, their bodies charred and unconscious.

The two Blood Leopards were burnt halfway, thrown and flipped over by the force of the explosion, slamming into the walls of the Pure Yang Tower. For a moment, their blood evaporated in large quantities, rendering them unable to rise.

’Indeed, Glint Flash also increases in power as life force rises... including the Radiance Field...’ Seeing this, Li Chengyi pondered thoughtfully.

There is no useless Flower Language Technique, only useless people; this phrase still applied to any Flower Language Technique he had encountered.

The Sunflower’s Flower Language Technique was just like that, still forming an important part of his lethal array even now.

Lost in thought for a moment, he looked up and focused on what was ahead, on Ouyang Can and his mother, who stood blocking the entrance of the tower.

Their expressions were dull, and they sat atop their horses speechless. Perhaps the events unfolding before their eyes, Li Chengyi’s performance, delivered a shock beyond their capacity to respond.

"Shall we try it?" Li Chengyi revealed a faint, tranquil smile. "Sometimes, courage is more important than instinct."

Ouyang Can felt a chill all over, his eyes fixed on Li Chengyi, with a nameless terror surging violently from deep within.

Only now, upon connecting all the dots, did he suddenly realize.

"It’s you!!" he screamed abruptly, pointing at Li Chengyi. "From the beginning! It was you plotting everything!! You are not a True Qi Martial Practitioner at all! You are Blood Essence! You must be!! A Blood Body with Blood Essence talent, secretly cultivated by the Wang Family!!"

"Go!!" Ouyang Qiusheng, who was standing beside him, grabbed his son’s shoulder and threw him backward while she herself lunged forward, transforming into an aged Blood Leopard and roaring as she leapt at Li Chengyi.

"Go to the Family Head!! I’ll hold him off!!"

She roared, claws reaching for Li Chengyi.

With the Blood Body state, six times the speed of sound, a thousand tons of Giant Strength!

Flame of Severe Cold Technique: Crimson Storm!!

Hum!

In an instant, five Blood Essences turned into black-red stellar particles, emerging in front of Ouyang Qiusheng, rapidly revolving around her, and together smashing toward Li Chengyi.

Each black-red star held about half her strength, combined with the innate toxic and high temperature blood of the Blood Body, such that only another Blood Body could intercept this move head-on.

Unfortunately for her, Li Chengyi didn’t need to engage physically, his index finger once again lighting up with blinding golden light.

’All-Star Dragon Shadow: Glint Flash at ninefold.’

The terrifying golden light, carrying scorching heat, expanded and exploded into a golden orb in an instant, completely engulfing the approaching Ouyang Qiusheng.

The orb continued to grow until it covered a fifteen-meter radius, swallowing all the nearby corpses, before slowly fading, becoming transparent, and disappearing.

At the original spot, Ouyang Qiusheng’s body was charred all over, thrown far away, crashing to the ground.

All the poisonous blood in her body had been burned and evaporated, with scorched scars all over her body, which still emitted wisps of black smoke.

As for the Blood Essences on her body, they had all been shattered to oblivion.

Blood Essence, after all, was only a power akin to an enhanced version of True Qi, and when pushed beyond the limit and broken, it would enter a period of weakness and recovery; it could be exhausted, and it could be forcefully dispersed.

And now...

"It’s over.... We’ve all been... deceived..." Ouyang Qiusheng struggled to speak, muttering to herself.

Fortunately, the only consolation was her son, Ouyang Can... who had managed to successfully escape.

At that moment, the open ground in front of the Ouyang Family’s tower was littered with bodies splayed out in every direction.

The turbulent combat had shattered debris, even involving a few passersby who had come to gawk, resulting in one dead and two injured.

The others were so frightened that they quickly widened the gap, moving even farther away to watch.

Among the shifts of red shadow, figures of martial practitioners appeared on higher ground in the distance, looking toward this scene.

Among them were common onlookers, experts from various families, and foreign masters who had temporarily entered the city.

The Ouyang Family was after all a major clan in Quling Mansion that could stand to count, and now they had encountered a person challenging them so boldly and directly.

For anyone who enjoyed watching the excitement, this was an exceptionally rare piece of sensational news.

"Today, the Ouyang Family shall be history," Li Chengyi said with a slight smile to the other onlookers, his figure suddenly turning into a shadow as he surged into the depths of the tower’s entrance.

As for Ouyang Qiusheng, on the ground, her body suddenly swelled, her abdominal cavity instantly punctured from within by countless unseen blades.

With a thunderous noise, her body exploded, turning into a mass of poisonous blood and flesh, leaving her dead without a complete corpse.

Bang.

The doors burst open, and an ashen shadow arrived instantaneously, with a palm strike hurtling towards Li Chengyi’s face, its speed even more terrifying than Ouyang Qiusheng’s earlier attack.

Before it even touched him, Li Chengyi could feel a massive force carrying scorching waves of heat bearing down on him.

Yet he used the very same move once again.

Ninefold Glint Flash.

With a resounding boom, the golden beam, like a piercing needle, exploded with the help of the Soft Qi Eruption from All-Star Dragon Shadow.

Nine Glint Flashes exploded at the same time.

A golden shockwave erupted from the tip of Li Chengyi’s finger, hitting the approaching ashen shadow hard.

But this time, it seemed different.

The ashen shadow’s body displayed Blood Essence, stubbornly blocking the golden shockwave, quickly neutralizing the two forces.

And the palm strike he delivered somehow forcefully broke through the Glint Flash impact, slamming hard into Li Chengyi’s left temple.

Bang!!!

A huge collision sound echoed like ripples.

The ashen shadow clenched a fist with a ferocious look, landing a direct punch on Li Chengyi’s left cheek.

He was Ouyang Yuanji, who had sensed something off from the start, and currently ranked as the top expert of the Ouyang Family.

With a Bloodline just a hair away from being upper-class and practicing the Flame of Severe Cold Technique to the brink of the Spirit Infusion Threshold, he had amassed Blood Essence as vast as the ocean over decades.

Decades of cultivation burst forth with full force at this moment, striking Li Chengyi’s vital spot with an unashamed sneak attack.

However... in his eyes, Li Chengyi before him seemed to allow the hit to his temple, remaining motionless, and even the floor tiles under his feet hadn’t the slightest crack.

"Vermin."

On Li Chengyi’s side of the face that had been hit, a thin layer of Bone Armor had appeared at some unknown time.

To Ouyang Yuanji at that instant, that seemingly fragile Bone Armor looked like an insurmountable chasm.

"You...!!?" His body grew blood-red fur and instantly transformed into a Blood Body, delivering another punch from close range.

Boom!!

Another thunderous noise erupted.

Li Chengyi’s chest was hit, but the decades of his cultivated Blood Essence erupted, striking his Bone Armor and leaving only a slight crack and indentation.

Instead, the poisonous blood corroded the Bone Armor, causing it to emit green smoke; however, it was quickly neutralized and dissipated by the slight glimmer of the Radiance Field.

"No... impossible!!" Ouyang Yuanji’s face was blank with disbelief, and he had fallen into a state of incredulous madness.

He was the second strongest in the Ouyang Family, a top hundred master in Quling Mansion, and even ranked within the top three hundred in the Sealed Heaven List!

But now... he couldn’t even damage the opponent’s protective armor!??

How was this possible?

"Had enough?" Li Chengyi let the opponent’s wild barrage hit him without flinch.

The ashen white Bone Armor perfectly absorbed all damage.

Without breaking defense, and even unscientifically absorbing all impact force as well, it felt to him as if a pitiful infant was futilely wailing in despair.

"No...!!?"

Thwack.

Ouyang Yuanji’s howl abruptly ceased, as if a duck’s neck had been pinched.

The chest of his transformed Blood Leopard was easily pierced by a finger, penetrating through.

And then...

’Glint Flash: Ninefold.’

Boom!!!

A dazzling golden light exploded from within his body, turning into a terrifying golden halo that layered and overlapped, completely tearing Ouyang Yuanji apart.

Against Li Chengyi, who was no longer concealing his strength, the outcome of this battle was never in doubt from the start.

This was a slaughter between one with an Imprint and one without.

Or rather, an overwhelming crushing.

From the beginning, it was never a fair duel—only the Ouyang Family was blissfully unaware of that fact.

Withdrawing his index finger, Li Chengyi looked at the black smoke rising from the corrosive damage on his skin.

Unexpectedly, after enhancing his vitality, the Radiance Field had shown a clear restraint against the poisonous blood of the Blood Body.

His Bone Armor had also been corroded away just now, but as the Radiance Field enveloped the area, it forcibly blocked the infiltration of the poisonous blood.

Only the skin on his fingertip was injured.

"You see, even bugs, when striving forward, can leave their final mark on an opponent."

He lifted his head to look at Ouyang Tong, the Ouyang Family Head, who had just come down from the top of the tower.

Ouyang Tong was shaking all over, looking at his collapsed brother on the ground and the multitude of corpses outside the door.

These were the very foundation of his family!

And now...

"Who... exactly are you!?" He suppressed the rage and fear in his heart, glaring at Li Chengyi.

"You shouldn’t have said that." Li Chengyi stepped forward, closing in. "If you want to beg for mercy, you should kneel and kowtow; if you want to fight to the death, you should use any means necessary. Not like you—hesitating in place, caught in a dilemma, doing nothing but shouting at me dryly."

"Well said."

Clap clap clap.

A somewhat familiar figure appeared at the entrance behind him, at the door of the Pure Yang Tower.

Seeing the person at the door, Ouyang Tong’s eyes lit up with intense relief and a desire to live.

"My lord!! Please execute this man quickly! He..."

Ssss!!

In an instant, Li Chengyi vanished from his spot and appeared behind him, one finger extended.

A burst of golden light shone, and Glint Flash: Ninefold explosively unfolded.

But all of the golden light was caught single-handedly by another figure that also appeared suddenly at his side, the White Shadow.

What was about to be an explosive surge of light was forcibly contained, like flowing water being pulled back, compressed into a single spot, and then exploding with a bang.

The range of the golden light’s effect was drastically reduced. Ouyang Tong, dripping with sweat, transformed into a Blood Body in an attempt to flee.

But...

The speed of his originally extremely swift movements was now as if a slow-motion button had been pressed, slowed by a third.

"Stop!!" Suddenly, he heard a stern shout coming from the side.

’Love Thread: Dragon Slayer.’

Thwack.

A large hand shot out lightning-fast from behind, accurately grasping Ouyang Tong’s head, and squeezed.

Monstrous Giant Strength burst open like a tsunami.

The head exploded along with the air around it.

Boom!!

With blood and black smoke splattering, Li Chengyi withdrew his hand, looking at the now chillingly cold expression of the pale figure.

"I don’t like noise when I am speaking," said Li Chengyi, withdrawing his hand and looking towards the man beside him.

The man was clothed in white silk that wound around his body, revealing himself as Tiancan, one of the four Yin Gods of Quling Mansion, and a disciple of the Yin Yue True Person.

"I told you, stop..." Tiancan’s fingers were oozing deathly blood water that began to cover his entire palm.

A bone-chilling and deadly aura swept and blossomed from him, filling the entire level of the tower in a heartbeat.

"Too bad, you couldn’t stop me," Li Chengyi said with a faint smile.