Blind Spot
Chapter 492: Golden City 450 Four

Chapter 492: Golden City 450 Four

Um...judging by the name, it seems this person is mostly associated with females...

Li Chengyi paused for a moment, uninterested in the gossip contained within, but could deduce from the notes in this poetry collection that the locals referred to this place as the Holy City.

Protected by the Lady of Radiance, the Holy City was under the guardianship of a powerful being with her own will, capable of contending with the Mother of Emerald.

But later, when the Lady of Radiance’s power was insufficient, she decided to leave, initiating the relocation of the residents of the Holy City.

This appears to be an ordinary love letter of someone trying to pull strings.

However, Li Chengyi spotted the key issue within it.

’What is the research on Eternal Darkness? What is the Cipher Tower Association? Moreover, Black Sea Script is used here, clearly indicating a very close connection with the Black Sea.’

He continued forward with the book in hand, this time quickening his pace. Having ascertained that the area was a public space with no excessive dangers, he took the lead in approaching the towers around him.

Very soon.

A Golden Tower, looking the sharpest and tallest, was chosen by him as his object of exploration.

The tower soared into the clouds, surrounded by layers of clouds, with its apex resembling a spike topped by a spherical golden halo shimmering radiantly.

No sooner had Li Chengyi approached than he felt an immense and invisible force field trying forcefully to push him out.

Unfortunately, the place had already been badly damaged, and the force field at best exerted a mere ten tons of pressure, which to him felt like a gentle breeze on his face.

After forcefully approaching, the force field let out a muffled sound with a puff, and then stopped operating.

Boom!!

Immediately following was a tremendous rumble.

The ground began to shake.

Li Chengyi quickly leapt up lightly, his body adorned with the Feilian Floral Dress, wings flapping behind him, keeping him aloft.

Thud!!!

Before he could stabilize himself, a vast amount of white flames steamed up from the numerous cracks in the ground beneath the tower in front of him.

The flames, like flowing water, formed several lines of fire, converging towards the center, and within less than a second coalesced into a pure white fire giant.

The body, five meters tall, was entirely covered with blazing white flames.

In the middle of the giant’s chest, there was a simple human face made of three pieces of gold.

Where the head should have been, there was nothing but a flare of firelight instead.

"Elemental life??" Li Chengyi exclaimed in surprise as he sized up the fire giant, feeling the surrounding temperature rapidly climbing.

The air distorted, moisture instantly evaporated, and the ground began to soften and melt.

"I am the White Flame Monarch Sladin! State the entry passphrase." The fire giant bellowed in a crude and powerful roar reminiscent of a colossal beast.

As if he would know any passphrase.

Li Chengyi took a step forward, conjured a Golden Longsword in his hand, and casually flung it.

The Golden Sword suddenly transformed into a golden streak of light, stabbing fiercely into the face on the chest of the fire elemental giant.

Thud!!

Taken by surprise, its chest was pierced, leaving a gaping hole the size of a watermelon.

"Unforgivable!!" The fire elemental giant roared in anger, about to unleash its rage.

A muffled boom resounded as a vast expanse of gray death energy suddenly exploded from the cavity within its body.

The cold death energy rapidly covered every part of its body, enveloping it entirely.

The white flames began to dim and extinguish.

Soon, the fire elemental giant kneeled to the ground, unable to sustain its own body.

Its form shrank smaller and smaller until it turned into a gold mask burning with white flame, falling onto the floor.

Li Chengyi walked over to pick up the mask and proceeded into the tower.

Thud.

The golden door was pushed open, thick dust splattered and dispersed, spreading through the air.

Li Chengyi scanned the room in an instant, the floor was littered with a jumble of items.

Luxurious robes scattered all over, cups, teapots, bowls, and dishes were even smeared with some dried food remnants.

The cabinet doors against the wall were half open, their contents dragged halfway out and then left as is.

However, these were not the most abundant things—the most were the numerous gold-scripted documents, scrolls, and books strewn about.

Li Chengyi quickly scanned the room, picking up the most ornate and exquisite book he could find.

He was forming some judgments by now, deducing from the architecture here that the original inhabitants greatly favored refinement and grandeur; the more important something was, the more they liked it to be ornate and opulent.

So, it was likely the same with the books.

Indeed, as soon as he picked up and dusted off the cover, Li Chengyi felt a shiver as he read the words on it.

"In-Depth Research Report on the Eternal Dark Dragon"

’Eternal Dark Dragon? What is that?’

Li Chengyi continued to flip through the pages.

’Based on speculations by the Cipher Tower Association and Lady of Radiance on the primordial energy wellspring of Mother of Emerald, the Plateau Tower initiated and attempted light-free experiments.’

’After fifteen years of repeated experiments by the tower spirit, it was confirmed that the source of regeneration and evolution of Mother of Emerald originates from light.’

’Supported by Lady of Radiance’s theory of the source of light, the Primal Tower undertook infinite life evolution simulation experiments. It was ultimately confirmed that the source of light comes from darkness, from Eternal Dark matter.’

’To date, Eternal Dark matter has only been found in thirteen types of beings. After contact with the Evil Soil, we preliminarily decided to hunt down the Eternal Dark Dragon, which has the highest content of Eternal Dark matter, using it as the raw material for extraction.’

Li Chengyi leafed through the pages, which were filled with various experimental records, mostly noted in special patterns he couldn’t understand.

Clearly, this Holy City had developed its own unique research science.

The only thing he could understand was the Black Sea Script marked on top.

But soon, as he continued flipping through the pages, Li Chengyi suddenly realized that this Eternal Dark Dragon... looked more and more like...

’Isn’t this the form of the King of Shadow Dragons!?’ He suddenly came to the realization.

The experimental patterns depicted a long black dragon with nine spiked horns, wings on its back, being cruelly nailed to a long table, with its skin flayed and viscera extracted for dissection...

An utterly grueling sight.

Li Chengyi’s face almost turned green as he looked on....

Putting the book down, he quickened his movements and swiftly flipped through the scattered documents on the ground.

Most of them were similar experimental records, only varying in the experimental steps recorded.

Setting these aside, Li Chengyi hurried upstairs.

He began to check each floor, one by one.

The second layer was for living quarters, as was the third, all the way up to the twentieth layer, where things changed.

The twentieth layer was a massive circular golden hall.

At its center floated a golden semi-transparent sphere.

The sphere was at least a hundred meters in diameter, with nested golden spheres inside.

Between each sphere were numerous gold mechanical parts, along with countless white flames burning and flowing in between, serving as fuel.

Li Chengyi approached a place where a sign stood and read the words etched on it.

"One storage room: the only Eternal Dark Dragon Emperor specimen in billions of years."

"Eternal Dark Dragon Emperor?" Li Chengyi licked his lips, clearly feeling his heart skip a beat.

He had just ascended to become the King of Shadow Dragons, also known as the Eternal Dark Dragon here.

And now it appeared that an ancient specimen of the Eternal Dark Dragon Emperor had been found in this place?

"If I could gain something from the Eternal Dark Dragon Emperor..."

Suddenly, he felt that entering this blind spot might not be such a bad thing after all.

"Warning! Warning! An intruder has illegally entered a restricted area and will be eliminated immediately."

Suddenly, an icy mechanized female voice resonated throughout the tower, broadcasting in Black Sea Script.

Li Chengyi paused for a moment.

"Intruder? Who?"

"Could it be me!?"

He blinked and looked abruptly to the right.

In the open space of the right-side hall, a blurry white figure swiftly coalesced and appeared.

"Divine Fire activation in progress, estimated eradication time is two minutes and thirty seconds," the mechanized voice sounded again.

"Uh..." Li Chengyi watched the rapidly forming white figure and a sense of dread suddenly rose within him.

What the hell is Divine Fire?

By then, the white figure had fully revealed itself, clad in a magnificent vine-patterned armor that covered its entire body, with golden spikes like those of burning flames at the back, suggesting a feminine shape from its curves.

But most crucially, a circle of imprints had materialized on the figure’s chest...

Yes, a ring of imprints made up of patterns very familiar to Li Chengyi.

In the center of this circle of imprints, faintly colored flames burned out of thin air, casting colorful light from the inside.

"Giant Strength Imprint... Divine Speed Imprint... Regeneration Imprint..." These were the ones he recognized, but there were many more complex imprints that he had no clue about.

"Holy shit..." Without any hesitation, Li Chengyi’s scalp tingled, and he bolted.

Full speed, Shadow Flash!

In that instant, he did not hesitate to unleash all his power—Soft Qi, Glint Flash, Blood Essence—piling on various enhancements.

His speed surpassed ten times the speed of sound in a very short time, reaching eleven times and nearing twelve times.

But it was still a step too slow.

Swoosh!

The white figure materialized before him in an instant, throwing a punch.

The horrifying speed made it impossible for Li Chengyi to even see where the fist was or if a punch had indeed been thrown.

All he felt was an excruciating pain in his chest as he was sent flying backward, with something seemingly ejected from his back, cold and biting.

Everything before his eyes blurred, and he could see nothing as the surroundings shook violently, as if he had broken through something and was hurled high into the air, rapidly thrown far away.

After an indeterminate amount of time, the severe pain subsided, and Li Chengyi slowly regained his senses from the confusion.

Cough, cough...

He floated in seawater, forcefully coughing up a mouthful of bloody phlegm.

With a splashing sound, his entire body ached as if it had been hammered mercilessly countless times.

He looked up at the sky.

He had fallen.

Punched out of the Golden City and into the sea...

"This challenge... is too exaggerated..." Li Chengyi touched his chest, where the wound had already healed.

Only the large remnant hole in the Floral Dress indicated that it had once sustained a serious injury.

"My chest was pierced through... too exaggerated..." he recalled the ring of imprints on that white-armored person.

"At least a dozen, and there were also many complex imprints..."

He had thought he was quite a figure within a large blind spot, but now it seemed...

"Good thing I maxed out regeneration, just a watermelon-sized blood hole, it healed quite easily..."

At that moment, Li Chengyi was extraordinarily grateful that he had maxed out his regeneration abilities.

The resilience of Green Fleece Mugwort, known for its strong life force and Flower Language Technique, was practically a godsend!

Floating in the sea, relaxing his nerves, Li Chengyi rapidly analyzed the information he had just gathered.

’So it means that the people of this Holy City left this blind spot using something called the Brilliant Boat. This indicates that if I can find the Brilliant Boat as well, I could leave this place in a similar manner.’

According to the core escape method, it was based on imitating the last survivor’s method of departure, repeating it once could make the escape successful.

’It looks like I must visit the Holy City’s Golden City again!’

The bloodline of the Eternal Dark Dragon Emperor was indeed tempting, but one needed to be alive to seize it.

First, find an escape route, and once I am ready to leave this blind spot at any time, I can risk trying to obtain it if the opportunity arises.

If all else fails, I can act when Paine enters.

He believed that his brief appearance and quick pull into the blind spot had been noticed by Tang Tang and the others, and they would arrange for Paine to Flash Appearance into the area next.