Blind Spot
Chapter 475: Probe Three

Chapter 475: Probe Three

Tian Ju Pavilion interior.

Two slender figures stood by a high window, looking out towards the direction of the Pure Yang Tower.

One was as thin as a stick, yet wore a female’s black dress, completely devoid of any feminine curves.

The other had a white porcelain jar on his head, hiding even his eyes, making it hard for anyone to understand how he managed to travel on a daily basis.

These two were none other than two of the Four Great Yin Gods within the city, Qiu Ming and Yun Song.

"Tiancan is over there. It seems something has happened to the Ouyang Family," Qiu Ming said, somewhat puzzled. "The Ouyang Family alone, back when Ouyang Tong wasn’t injured, still barely had some value in terms of being wooed. What’s the point of going out and taking charge now?"

"Our teacher is temporarily away. Perhaps he’s trying to show his generosity by using the Ouyang Family as an example? After all, his mind only has so much capacity. What else could he possibly be plotting?" Yun Song whispered.

"I actually think it might have something to do with that map the Ouyang Family sent us before."

"The Caiying Map? Maybe." Yun Song sounded somewhat disinterested. Ever since the State Preceptor disappeared, Shaoyin Country had been declining, with various troubles breaking out each month. Today it was the Ouyang Family; yesterday, it was another.

The banners on the city walls were changing constantly, with the flags of the various families continuously altering. Their task, as the Four Great Yin Gods, was to stabilize the situation in Quling Mansion no matter what.

To ensure the basic stability of most of the populace’s lives.

This was the decree left behind by the True Human before his departure.

"When will the teacher return?" Yun Song thought for a moment, then asked.

"He will come back once this evening," Qiu Ming replied.

"Then, please call me this evening. I’m going to get some sleep," Yun Song said as he turned and walked towards the interior of Tian Ju Pavilion.

"You’re not watching?" Qiu Ming asked, puzzled.

"With Tiancan stepping in, the situation is already without suspense. What’s there to watch?" Yun Song shook his head.

"That’s true..." Qiu Ming chuckled, turned around, and prepared to leave as well.

Woo...

Suddenly, a strange beastly roar came from the direction of the Pure Yang Tower.

Along with the roar, invisible and eerie soundwaves spread out, covering a few hundred meters around the Pure Yang Tower.

All of the onlooking martial practitioners hiding in corners, and the common civilians sneaking peeks from inside buildings, felt their heads splitting at that moment.

Some of the Red-eye Disease carriers hidden among the common people rolled their eyes back, trembling all over, their condition rapidly worsening as their bodies quickly deformed and grew lots of dark red hair. Under the control of this eerie sound, they entered a half-Blood Body state and swiftly approached the Pure Yang Tower.

"This is... the Spirit Fusion True Seal Form!? Tiancan actually dares to reveal his true form within the city!? Has he gone mad!?" Qiu Ming’s expression drastically changed.

After reaching the Spirit Fusion Realm, a martial practitioner would fuse the True Seal into their body, turning it into their own True Seal, thus qualifying to initiate a state known as the Spirit Fusion True Seal Form.

Only in this state does a martial practitioner truly become their real self.

But this state has a particularly bad aspect: it naturally influences all those around who are infected with Red-eye Disease, causing their condition to worsen, evolve into half-Blood Body’s Blood Seal Status, and gather under its command to slay enemies.

Moreover, the trouble didn’t stop there; the Spirit Fusion True Seal Form not only affected those infected but would gradually turn even normal people who came near into Red-eye Disease carriers.

They were actually the original source of Red-eye Disease.

And now, Tiancan is daring to defy the True Human’s decree and use the Spirit Fusion True Seal Form in a densely populated part of the city.... This is utter madness!?

What’s more, Tiancan’s First True Seal was focused on simultaneously enhancing strength and speed during explosive movements, which also made him highly prone to collateral damage.

"Let’s go! Let’s see who forced him to use his true form."

Qiu Ming leapt out of the window immediately, her toes touching the air and bursting it compressedly, using the force to vanish from her original spot and rush towards the Pure Yang Tower.

Through the white porcelain jar, Yun Song’s eyes seemed to penetrate and see the situation inside the Pure Yang Tower.

"It seems something interesting has happened..."

Chi!

In an instant, his figure flickered and he turned into a puddle of blood, exploding and disappearing on the spot.

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Inside the Pure Yang Tower.

Li Chengyi stood opposite Tiancan, blood-colored Qi ripples spreading out from Tiancan’s body in all directions like ripples on the surface of water.

Only these ripples were three-dimensional, every direction covered, and they kept expanding outward.

Tiancan’s body continuously grew taller, his silken threads breaking apart. Streams of dark-red blood flowed out of his sides, which upon closer inspection weren’t really blood at all, but clumps of blood shadows.

A strong stench of blood emanated from his body.

Three meters.

Four meters.

Five meters...

Until seven meters.

Tiancan’s body growth slowly halted.

The ceiling burst as his head reached from the first to the second floor of the Pure Yang Tower. Standing there, Tiancan had completely transformed from a normal human being into a gigantic Bloodman, his skin seeming peeled off.

At the sides of his head, bloody tentacles writhed out from his ears. Each ear sported a bunch of tentacles, as if they had grown out of his brain, resembling countless ropes wildly waving about, creating terrifying sonic booms.

Woo...

The air seemed to carry an odd beastly howl.

But Li Chengyi could clearly see that the sound was coming from a row of black holes running vertically down the middle of Tiancan’s body.

"You should kneel and repent!" Tiancan lowered his head, looking down at Li Chengyi, who was now only as tall as his legs. A muffled, enormous voice came out.

"Control yourself while you still can..."

"You want to fight here, not afraid of hurting bystanders?" Li Chengyi looked up at him.

"Come here."

He narrowed his eyes, his shadow flickered, and he disappeared from the spot. The next moment, he reappeared thirty meters away from the tower in the open air.

With a tap of his toes on the rooftop, his figure suddenly accelerated silently and unnaturally fast to seven times the speed of sound. Like a phantom, he sped towards the outskirts of the city.

Ever since he merged the Second Imprint acquired through the channel of True Qi, his speed of movement seemed to defy the very essence of physics. When moving at high speeds or exerting force, the True Qi merged into his body would abruptly appear in a manner similar to Blood Essence, enhancing his movements.

He guessed this might be the origin of the Blood Essence, with the first generation of Blood Essence Martial Artists originally stemming from True Qi Martial Practitioners. After Spirit Fusion and imprinting with True Qi, they gradually transformed their body constitution, producing a sublimated version of Blood Essence.

And he could be in such a state at this moment.

Seven times the speed of sound was the greatest speed of his physical body in its conventional form.

But the bizarre giant that followed him not only kept up but also seemed unencumbered by its massive body, which, far from being a burden, was light as a shadow, pouncing through the air weightlessly.

Even faster than his current sevenfold sonic speed.

Li Chengyi was not surprised. A Blood Essence Martial Artist of the Yin God’s caliber, who had already reached the Spirit Fusion Realm, possessing such strength was not strange.

Without such power, how could one suppress so many experts and mighty figures in Quling Mansion?

He had come to understand that the overall strength of Quling Mansion was not weak within the entire Shaoyin Country.

And the power of the Yin God was at least within the top twenty in the Sealed Heaven List.

So... this time, he could just use Tiancan to test his current level.

In fact, after obtaining the new Flower Language Technique, the passive tenfold increase in life force mainly boosted his basic physical constitution.

A boost to the base constitution, then amplified by abilities like the Floral Dress and others, leads to an extremely exaggerated final increase.

But it was this complexity of enhancement that made him unsure of his actual strength.

Thus, engaging in real combat was the quickest way to assess his position.

After completing the Second Imprint and the tenfold boost to life force, these two enhancements needed a clear reference to determine how much they had truly strengthened him.

Therefore, he directly entered the Ouyang Family to begin his tests, however...

Ouyang Yuanji, the current number one master, greatly disappointed him...

Not only did he fail to force Li Chengyi’s full strength, he couldn’t even draw out his Imprint State...

Shh!

In an instant, Li Chengyi leapt and landed, halting his step and turning around.

By now, he had already left the city and arrived at a barren, sturdy black sea cliff.

To his left was the rising and falling Night Sea, with black waters rolling and crashing against the base of the cliff, creating deafening roars.

Dark seabirds flew overhead, circling back and screeching unpleasantly as if they waited for one of the fighters to fall so they could peck at the flesh.

Tiancan halted similarly behind him, his speed was fast, but along the way, he had not tried to attack Li Chengyi; rather, they tacitly cooperated, moving away from the city together.

After all, if he destroyed Quling Mansion, he would definitely be blamed upon the return of the real person.

And Li Chengyi’s actions were exactly what he wanted.

"Let’s settle it here, a fitting place for your grave," Tiancan said coldly.

His towering figure, over seven meters tall, with dozens of blood-colored tentacles on either side of his head waving as if with their own volition, seemingly venting excess rage.

’Disdain +1’

’Disdain +1’

’Disdain +1’

Evil Thoughts began to stream into Li Chengyi’s mind at that moment and then into the Mark of the Evil Flower.

This somewhat surprised him.

These kinds of Evil Thoughts were new to him, but understandable—after all, as his strength surged, ordinary opponents, even if they believed they could beat him, wouldn’t harbor such superior disdain.

Only the native powerhouses here...

"Do you want to kill me?" Li Chengyi asked.

"Rampaging in the city, killing many of the Ouyang Family, breaking the rules of Quling Mansion—do you think you should be killed?" Tiancan sneered. "Forget it, wasting so much talk with you was already my last act of kindness, now..."

"You can die!"

Before his words were finished, his gigantic body had already turned into a blood shadow, abruptly closing the distance.

Ten times the speed of sound!

The terrifying speed gave onlookers the impression of instantaneous movement, from one point to another in a blink.

By the time Li Chengyi realized it, the other was already in front of him.

The enormous right fist smashed down on him. Just the fist alone was as big as two of his heads. Coming from above, it brought a massive shadow over him, covering his upper body.

More importantly, this strike had surpassed tenfold the speed of sound, reaching an even faster level!

How fast was it? Li Chengyi couldn’t judge, but it was definitively, definitively far beyond his previous estimates.

Twelve times?

Fifteen?

He didn’t know.

At this moment, there was no need to think about that. His already thrown fist also met the opponent’s head-on.

Whoo!

Boom!!!

In an instant, a large and a small fist collided.

The terrifying collision sound mixed with violent winds turned all surrounding air into tangible white mist, spreading in every direction.

The sea cliff under Li Chengyi’s feet couldn’t bear the weight and broke apart, plummeting into the Night Sea.

He and the cliff both crashed into the sea.

Huge waves stirred up, forcibly pressing down the ripples of the waves that kept lapping the shore.

"It’s over, you pitiful worm," Tiancan watched the churning Night Sea with cold eyes as the cliff submerged completely, and all activity ceased. His senses also detected no more movement from Li Chengyi.

He’d thought the other had some ability, but it turned out to be just a single punch, and everything was over.

What’s the use of talking tough if you can’t withstand a single blow and end up a waste in the end?

Taking a step back, he turned around to return to the city.

Plop.

Out of nowhere, a heavy heartbeat echoed from the Night Sea.