Blind Spot
Chapter 525 - 482 Leave Four

Chapter 525: 482 Leave Four

"Since Junior Sister insists, follow your heart," the old Taoist said helplessly, waving his hand.

"Thank you, Senior Brother," Kui Ling finally revealed a slight smile on her pretty face.

"I noticed the child has deer antlers growing on his forehead, his body harboring mixed bloodlines. It seems he has Giant White Deer blood, thus I’ve named him Bai Lu."

"Mixed bloodlines aren’t necessarily a good thing," sighed the old Taoist.

"That is true, but this child seems to have been born with a purified bloodline. Although he can’t compare to Qing Kong, who was born with a natural talent for the sword and understood all sword techniques at a glance, he is somewhat stronger than the common disciples," Kui Ling said with a smile.

"As long as Junior Sister is happy."

The old Taoist looked at the child who had fallen into a deep sleep and inexplicably thought of Qing Kong, the prodigy he took in several years ago.

Huo Qingkong was the most gifted individual he had ever come across in his life. Practicing the sect’s Holy Spirit Technique, he progressed a thousand miles in a day. Having cultivated for only three years, he had already reached the stage of awakening the Holy Infant.

No one else in the cultivation of this technique had ever taken less than twenty years.

After completing a level of the technique, one would be able to awaken a Holy Infant to cultivate alongside oneself.

This was the power of the Seven Spirit Holy Technique. Apart from the Holy Spirit Technique, Qing Kong also made rapid progress in the offensive and protective Faceless Sword Technique.

After Qing Kong demonstrated his terrifying talent, a craze swept through the sect of adopting orphans as disciples and foster children.

Everyone thought, what if they were also fortunate enough to find a peerless genius like Qing Kong?

Clearly, Junior Sister Kui Ling was influenced by this trend as well.

Senior Elder Kui Ling of the sect also joined the trend and adopted a foster child.

This event was like a breeze in the Faceless Sword Sect, fading away after it passed.

After the sect leader took Qing Kong as a disciple, Kui Ling, the last elder in the Faceless Sword Sect who had not yet taken in any orphans, also declared her participation in the trend.

Several days later.

In front of a grand hall that seemed split open by a giant axe, on the spacious white jade stone plaza.

Li Chengyi stood in a corner, blankly watching the spectacle on the plaza where Taoist disciples of the Sword Sect wielded long swords for practice.

It appeared that he had been influenced by the King’s Eye of All, which purified all impurities within his body. Now, the death energy from his Shadow Dragon bloodline fused with his Blood Essence, uniting all of it.

The Void NightStep had successfully melded imprints smoothly, allowing him to advance into the Five Seals. For the Triple Yin Canon Techniques, he had absorbed enough Essence of the True Seal to break through the limits; with gradual refinement and once his body adapted, it wouldn’t take long to naturally achieve sublimation.

Now, his Consciousness Power had undergone earth-shattering changes compared to before.

If his previous Consciousness Power was like water or powder, then now it was like molten iron, shifting from extremely hidden to unusually conspicuous in an instant.

This seemed to have become something akin to high-temperature psychokinesis.

’Finally, I’ve entered the Five Seals... But the key is, why have I become younger!? And... how did I end up here!?’

Li Chengyi looked at the somewhat familiar scenery in front of him and instantly recalled the heart-pounding experiences he had while exploring these ruins.

This Faceless Dao Palace... Isn’t this the Faceless Sword Sect where the Faceless Scholar resides!?

He had even retroactively traced his Seven Spirit Holy Technique from this place!

After regaining consciousness, he found himself adopted by a female Taoist named Kui Ling.

His body had been purified of impurities, reverted back to when he was eight or nine years old, which was indeed a blessing, as he could once again go through two periods of fast growth and further enhance his body’s strength.

But the issue was...

This place was wrong!

The Faceless Sword Sect!

Wasn’t this where the Faceless Scholar stayed?

Truth be told, the Faceless Scholar wasn’t much of a challenge for him now, but that was just the beginning. If it adapted to his attacks, it would quickly evolve into something terrifyingly formidable.

Like the Mother of Emerald, it was extremely troublesome. The second time it encountered the same type of attack, it became immune. And it was indestructible...

Though he now possessed various controls over the Flower Language Technique, it was uncertain if they would become immune to it in the future...

’So... What the hell kind of place have I come to? What’s with this blind spot? Could it be that I’m in that time when the blind spot in the Faceless Sword Sect reactivates?’

He mused wildly in his head.

It was indeed possible...

Because he vaguely remembered that when the Faceless Scholar revealed its true form, one of the numerous heads was seemingly the face of Kui Ling Taoist, who had now adopted him.

Li Chengyi sighed.

He wanted to use the Reverse Mark to leave, but he couldn’t sense the Floral Bead that was essential for positioning.

The distance to the other Floral Bead bearers was vast, too vast.

"Bai Lu, have you ever seen such sword practice before?" Kui Ling’s voice came from behind him.

She was holding a waist token, which she had just received from the main hall. It was a specially made identity token for him.

"Look, from today onwards, you are my adopted son, a disciple of my Faceless Sword Sect. Are you happy?"

She kindly reached out and touched one of the antlers on Li Chengyi’s forehead.

"Happy! Thank you, Mother!" Li Chengyi called out with no sense of dignity, his face beaming with joy.

After all, Kui Ling Taoist was at least two thousand years old, much older than him; calling her a few times didn’t matter.

Looking at the beautiful woman peering out from beside him, Li Chengyi felt somewhat helpless in his heart.

Now that he couldn’t leave this blind spot, going out directly might lead to being trapped by the King of the Death Angels, wasting an entire year of self-sealing time.

He did not want to waste another year.

And this blind spot... it seemed rather peculiar.

He had secretly tried to communicate with the non-gates and reach out to the Black Sea, but to no avail. It was as if a thick layer of flesh blocked his contact.

"As long as you’re happy." Kui Ling smiled and stroked a few strands of hair on Li Chengyi’s forehead.

"Come, Mother will take you for some delicious food." Kui Ling appeared quite pleased, holding Li Chengyi’s arm as an invisible green light circled around her, transforming into countless tiny green swords.

The small swords wove into a green cocoon enveloping them both, shot upwards, and flew toward the outskirts of the sect.

The mountain foot here still embraced the primitive era of farming, with town dwellers mainly using horse-drawn carriages and oxen as their primary means of transportation.

There was not a single trace of technology.

After gorging themselves with Li Chengyi, Kui Ling returned to the Sword Sect and settled into her private attic.

Considering that Li Chengyi was still young, Kui Ling carefully washed his face and feet and checked the warmth of his clothes before tucking him into a special little bed.

Li Chengyi felt somewhat surprised and a bit intrigued; not being from Earth-Moon, the care of Kui Ling evoked a nostalgia for the times with his own mother.

Lying on the small bed, he gazed at the crescent moon hanging outside and listened to the intermittent sounds of insects.

At that time, the Faceless Sword Sect was a secluded sect brimming with vitality.

Today, after a rough inquiry, Li Chengyi learned that there were less than three hundred people in the entire sect.

One sect leader, six elders, about thirty stewards whose numbers varied, and over two hundred disciples.

That was the entirety of the Sword Sect.

The main cultivation practices within the sect focused on the Seven Spirit Holy Technique and the Faceless Sword Technique, pursuing the integration of seven spirits to achieve the highest realm of the Heavenly Holy Spirit.

And Master Kui Ling was one of the six elders, second only to the sect leader.

The elders held equal status among themselves, with no distinction in rank.

The other elders all had the prefix ’Ling’ in their names and were Yun Ling, Air Spirit, Mu Ling, Yuan Ling, and Yu Ling, respectively.

Gazing at the moon, Li Chengyi thought about many things for a while.

’Forget it, let’s finish all the imprints first, then there are three more Imprints to be gained from the Triple Yin Canon Techniques. By then, it will be Eight Seals, completing eight sublimations! Although the number of Imprints does not represent an absolute gap in strength, as long as the essence of life does not differ too greatly, the Imprints are indeed indicative of actual combat power.’

Since he had come here, he decided to settle down first, and then focus on getting stronger quickly.

There were also the Twelve Divine Flower Positions, and this time Li Chengyi planned to completely fill all the positions and acquire the fused Divine Flower Garment.

All this while, to deal with various emergencies, he had kept some Divine Flower Positions empty, waiting for the right moment to choose the corresponding Flower Language Ability to resolve crises.

But now it seemed that the abilities of common Flower Language techniques wouldn’t be much help to his current situation.

Only by enhancing his overall strength could he be truly helped.

’I wonder how things are over at Earth-Moon? And Midlane....’

It had been so long that he couldn’t remember the last time he had lain in bed so peacefully to rest.

All this time, chased by blind spots like death’s own spectres, he felt a crazed pressure constantly forcing him to run forward.

Get stronger, stronger, and stronger!

He dared not stop even for a moment.

And now... it seemed...

"I wonder if Bai Lu has fallen asleep? When I saw those seven or eight-year-old kids down the mountain, some were still nursing... Should I... maybe I should go...."

"Master... children of seven or eight don’t need to nurse anymore!" another female voice replied, sounding helpless.

That was Kui Ling’s disciple speaking.

As a senior elder, Kui Ling naturally had personal disciples, two in total, named Tie Zhu and Yun Chen.

Upon joining the Sword Sect, their former names had to be annulled, using only their Taoist names henceforth.

Tie Zhu was an honest and straightforward young Taoist with fair talent. Average in both appearance and innate ability, he possessed strong determination, and it was only because Kui Ling valued fate so highly that she accepted him as a disciple.

Yun Chen, the girl with the twin ponytails who was speaking, appeared to be about eighteen or nineteen years old and often tied her hair in two little buns.

"They don’t need it anymore? But what if he’s not used to life on the mountain? That child is so adorable, I can’t bear to see him cry... I simply can’t stand seeing cute little children cry," Kui Ling said with exasperation.

"It’s okay, it’s okay. Just step away, Master, when the time comes, and I’ll take over. I’ll teach him the rules, sword techniques, body forging, and then tempering of the consciousness and the divine sense step by step," Yun Chen replied with even more exasperation.

"Then you must teach him well. If I find out you’re not doing a good job, I’m going to hit you," Kui Ling said earnestly.

"....." How did this become my problem!? Yun Chen felt utterly defeated.

She was going to get hit for helping out? How did that make any sense?

Li Chengyi, lying on the small bed, with his extraordinary hearing, could clearly hear every word.

At this moment, he couldn’t help but smile slightly at the corner of his mouth.

Now, with his physical body purified by the Eye of the Thousand Beholder, impervious to all poisons, repelling all evil, and even slightly improved in constitution, his already powerful hearing had become even more sensitive.

’Let’s settle down here for now and wait till I reach the peak of my strength before figuring out a way to leave...’

Gradually, he closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.

It had indeed been far too long...

Since he had had a good night’s sleep.

Not long after he fell deeply asleep, the door to the room was slowly opened, and Kui Ling peered through the crack at the lying Li Chengyi.

She reached out and gently tapped.

Suddenly, the blanket was pulled up, covering Li Chengyi’s neck more snugly.

"Are you sure he doesn’t need to nurse? What if I just let him suckle? It’s not like I have milk anyway," she once again turned back to ask her disciple Yun Chen.

"He really doesn’t need it...." Yun Chen looked exasperated.

"And what about washing his bottom? Won’t he get sick if we don’t wash it?" Kui Ling asked seriously.

"...." Yun Chen was completely at a loss for words.

"It’s not like I can use the Sword of Wisdom to slice off a layer of his butt, can I?" Kui Ling said, feeling troubled.

"You could hire someone! I heard that the West Mountain Sect has a creature called the Nine-Teats Demon Cow that is a spirit-transformed dairy cow—maybe we could ask it to come and nurse and take care of our junior brother!" Yun Chen suddenly had a spark of inspiration.

"But what if outsiders can’t take good care of Bai Lu? He’s so adorable; what if he gets disfigured later on? How would I handle that?" Kui Ling expressed her worries.

"....." Yun Chen fell completely silent.