Blind Spot
Chapter 486 - 444 Life 2

Chapter 486: 444 Life 2

"Merely the level of an un-fused spirit, and you dare to act so recklessly before me?" Qiu Ming kicked Ouyang Changhe hard, causing him to revert to his human form, before looking up to the three giant shadows still in battle in the distance.

The gray-white giant deer person was very fast, casually striking at ten times the speed of sound, and occasionally a blow could even reach nearly twelve times that speed.

But compared to the other two underworld generals, there was a considerable gap.

Even though Li Chengyi had spent the last two years intensely improving his speed and cultivating the Void NightStep martial arts, raising his speed significantly, he was still more than a beat slower than his opponents who casually moved at fourteen or fifteen times the speed of sound.

In the realm of speed, being just a beat slower was the difference between heaven and earth, between hitting and missing.

Therefore, upon discovering Li Chengyi’s weakness, the two underworld generals began to circle the deer person at speed, constantly dodging the tri-pointed halberd’s swings and seeking opportunities to deal him a fatal blow.

Unfortunately... imagination is beautiful, reality is cruel...

Pfft!

A long spear thrust fiercely into Li Chengyi’s left chest, but as soon as it penetrated halfway, the spear’s shaft was smashed by the tri-pointed halberd and dissipated into countless wisps of black gas.

Li Chengyi casually pulled out the spear from his chest, crushed it, and the gap in the bone armor healed instantly.

Everything was restored to its original state as if nothing had happened.

Boom!

Behind him, four wolf claws unleashed a fierce black wind, spinning like drills and unleashing some kind of fatal technique, striking Li Chengyi’s neck with full force.

But although the blow was fast, the power of the wolf’s claws only caused Li Chengyi’s head to shake, with no injury whatsoever.

Instead, a large amount of bone armor began to grow along the wolf’s claws, trying to extend onto his body.

"How... how is this possible?!"

Xiao Shuai’s face showed disbelief.

Up to this moment, their attacks and killing techniques had not even broken through the opponent’s external armor.

It was clear... clearly just someone who had just entered the Spirit Fusion...

"This boring game should end now."

Li Chengyi had tested his own strength without using the Flower Language Ability and considered his goal achieved.

He immediately lost interest in dragging the fight out any longer.

He raised the tri-pointed halberd.

An invisible fluctuation suddenly covered the area where the two were standing.

"Indulge!"

The Hand of Obsession was activated instantaneously.

The two underworld generals tried to back away, but their actions were delayed for an instant.

In a battle exceeding ten times the speed of sound, even a moment’s delay nearly ensured a fatal flaw would be exposed.

The giant tri-pointed halberd turned into an ashen shadow and swept across violently in an instant, slashing diagonally across the two figures.

Hiss!!!

Blood exploded, Blood Essence erupted, two black mists mixed with red light charged up for an explosion, but were immediately overwhelmed and suppressed by a vast white vapor.

Seconds later, all was silent.

This white Qi made from Li Chengyi’s Blood Essence actually had no lethality.

Their sole purpose was regeneration, and that too only effective on flesh and bone organisms; it was just that there were too many of them...

Decades of Li Chengyi’s Blood Body cultivation, released and transformed into True Qi of much lesser density, now flooded half the county city as the vast expanse of white vapor.

The two underworld generals’ Blood Essence had dissipated, their corpses stood rigid, maintaining their original form even after being sliced by the tri-pointed halberd.

One second, two seconds.

Swish.

Both figures were split in half at the waist, their bodies and flesh engulfed by countless white Qi.

Li Chengyi’s massive form rapidly shrank, returning to human shape as he began to retract the white Qi.

Qiu Ming’s figure flickered and she quietly landed beside him, looking at the two underworld generals who had been completely killed.

"Their bodies’ Blood Essence has been completely overwhelmed and replaced by your Blood Essence True Qi... I never imagined that in your first battle, you alone would take out two underworld generals from Tushan Country."

"What rank are the underworld generals?" Li Chengyi remained unimpressed.

"Tushan Country’s structure is similar to ours; underworld generals are strong individuals just below the rank of a prefecture lord, capable of establishing their own influential forces. Normally, unless in times of war, individuals of such rank could guarantee the peace of several counties for hundreds of years. But now, you’ve taken out two of them in one go," explained Qiu Ming, pointing to the two generals’ positions.

"Have the higher-ups of the Armyworm Cult within the city been captured? And what about the people from Spirit Wisdom Valley and Huanggu Pavilion?" Li Chengyi asked.

"The cult leader Ouyang Changhe has been captured, but one got away; it should be one of those Spirit Wisdom Valley people. The master’s edict was to deal with the Armyworm Cult first, so I hesitated for a moment and decided to capture Ouyang Changhe first," explained Qiu Ming.

Normally, she wouldn’t bother to explain her actions, but Wang Yichen before her was different.

As the Fifth Yin God, he was not only her junior disciple, but also a top-tier genius who had dealt with two great underworld generals alone, just after joining.

Fostering a good relationship with him was a must.

"One got away, but it seems to be the Blood Essence characteristic of Spirit Wisdom Valley..." Qiu Ming felt somewhat ashamed, after all, Bai Lu had come for the people from Huanggu Pavilion before this.

"It’s fine, the mission is the priority," Li Chengyi replied. Since it was not Huanggu Pavilion, that matter could be dealt with later.

He walked forward to search the remains of the two underworld generals, but found nothing except some discarded armor.

Since the transformation of a Blood Body often involved drastic changes in physique, Blood Body powerhouses typically disliked carrying many things, given that any belongings would be damaged or lost during the transformation and hard to find.

"I may have some matters to attend to next, so I’ll need my senior sister’s help with the aftermath," Li Chengyi requested.

"Go ahead; you’ve done the hardest part, this is nothing," Qiu Ming smiled and said.

Working on a task with this Bai Lu junior is quite relaxing, I just stand aside and casually provide some assistance.

Li Chengyi didn’t waste words, and after collecting the remaining white vapor, he turned into a shadow of ash and vanished in the blink of an eye.

Several days later.

In Tushan Country’s Tianjing Prefecture, two mysterious disappearances of underworld generals were linked to Shaoyin Country’s Quling Mansion’s two great Yin Gods who took action to strangle those two generals; the news corresponded.

Immediately, Li Chengyi was moved up for the first time to the thirtieth position on Shaoyin’s Earth-Split Sky Seal Ranking.

On both rankings, the top thirty marked a clear boundary; the turnover within the top thirty was much slower than in the lower ranks.

This was closely related to these individuals’ status, strength, and background.

Those who made it into the top thirty were at least dual-seal powerhouses. This time, Li Chengyi and Qiu Ming acted together to kill two underworld generals.

Due to Li Chengyi’s secret request, Qiu Ming had no choice but to include himself as well, making it out to be an effort shared by both to take down the two generals.

Now that Li Chengyi’s basic needs and goals had been met, the things and resources from Quling Mansion, including martial techniques, were sufficient for his use. Further increasing his fame would bring more harm than good and could potentially lead to more dangers.

So he shared the credit with Qiu Ming.

Of course, it was mostly to make the enemy underestimate his true strength.

On the sixth day after the news came out, the lord of Tianjing Prefecture in Tushan Country — Heaven Buddha Hand Jiang Dingcheng was furious to the extreme. He personally took action and slaughtered two towns on the border of the two countries as an act of vengeance and publicly vowed to exterminate all members of Wang Yichen’s Wang Family to avenge his disciple.

But at this time, Li Chengyi was still in the Tian Ju Pavillion inside Quling Mansion, calmly preparing for the next Flower Language Technique.

He had to prepare for everything.

For the Flower Language Ability of the Green Fleece Mugwort was unlike the others,

enhancing vitality to ten times its current state...

This trait of the Flower Language Technique, the tough vitality, was just too exaggerated in its effects.

It could likely cause drastic and unbalanced changes in every aspect of his body, so he had to be fully prepared from the start.

’At its core, tenfold intensification of tough vitality is as effective as other Imprint effects. Does this mean that Flower Language itself is similar to Imprints, a form of Sublimation? Just that it follows a fixed path?’

Li Chengyi sat cross-legged in the meditation chamber of his courtyard designated for the Fifth Yin God.

After adjusting all his states to optimal, perfect condition.

He focused his mind and spirit, his fingers pressing on the Mark of the Evil Flower, touching the section belonging to Green Fleece Mugwort.

’Activate the passive Flower Language Technique — Tough Vitality 2?’

A sliver of inquiry flowed into his mind.

’Yes.’

The instant he confirmed,

Li Chengyi suddenly felt intense pain all over his body. All his cells seemed to have been nourished by a mysterious power at that moment, and time began to speed up.

Cells expanded and grew large; bone marrow, bones, internal organs, the nervous system, the endocrine system, muscles, fascia, and everything else started to grow rapidly.

Not just his body, the Blood Essence within him was also multiplying and becoming denser as his vitality increased.

For Li Chengyi at his current level of vitality, to surge ten times...

It was practically a grade-leaping mad enhancement.

With an immense increase in vitality, Li Chengyi’s body had swelled to over three meters tall within his meditation chamber.

His skin, flesh, organs, and other tissues all reached an exaggerated level of high density.

His weight also jumped from the previous normal of over a ton to over three tons.

And this wasn’t even his Spirit Fusion True Seal Form.

Even more exaggerated was his body temperature; the intense vitality led to a terrifyingly high temperature that was inconceivable.

The surface temperature alone had reached over eighty degrees.

The myriad small details had already indicated that he had completely surpassed the normal human life threshold and reached a special level never attained by anyone before.

Lifting a finger, he released a wisp of Blood Essence.

But the previously grey-white Blood Essence had now turned pure ash. The texture, once reminiscent of flowing water, had now become like lava.

Just nearby the Blood Essence, it was evident from the surrounding air that heat distortion waves were rising, emanating from above the Blood Essence.

Li Chengyi took a long breath, and his breath actually formed a heatwave in the air, mixed with numerous black-ash substances that stuck to the room’s door, windows, and walls.

And seconds later, large black spots appeared corroded on the door, window, and walls.

’Bacteria carried out with the water vapor in my breath?’

Li Chengyi mused.

The human body naturally harbors many symbiotic bacterial colonies, which over countless years of evolution, have become completely integrated as a part of the human body.

Such as the common E.coli, Streptococcus saliva, Staphylococcus aureus, and so on.

These abundant bacterial colonies actually far outnumber the human body’s own cells. They too could be considered a part of the collective human will.

That is to say, an individual’s will already includes these symbiotic bacterial components.

So with an overall enhancement in vitality, these colonies would be equally strengthened.

Essentially, the definition of a human, numerically speaking, is more comprised of countless bacteria, merely supported by larger and heavier cells.

’If we consider the bacterial viewpoint... humans are actually life forms composed of both bacteria and cells. If vitality is enhanced, it is actually the various bacteria that are enhanced to a greater extent... that is to say...’

Li Chengyi, witnessing the smoking, corroding door and windows, stood up, went over to touch the black substance, and then sniffed it.

A whiff of his own saliva scent...

’Could this be... the bacteria from my saliva?’