Blind Spot
Chapter 576 - 529 Leaving Three

Chapter 576: 529 Leaving Three

Two days later.

In the central region of Panguang, on an open grassland between the Faceless Sword Sect and the Suyue Sect.

The plains were covered with ice and snow, the former grasslands long since turned into withered black ash, and the sky still sprinkled dark snowflakes. Deformed monsters, thoroughly made hideous, crawled, tumbled, and fought on the ground.

The once peaceful Panguang had turned into such a purgatorial wasteland overnight, demonstrating just how powerful the pollution from the Evil Soil was.

Li Chengyi walked silently across this land with all the Sealing Spheres in tow.

"Eldest Senior Brother, do you see? This is the evil result of our battles... If it weren’t for my aim to stop you from destroying the world, I would never have wished to wield such a malevolent power... Now that the earth is contaminated, the greatest responsibility lies with you."

Li Chengyi sighed inwardly.

"....." Huo Qingkong had nothing to say. Although the logic was sound, didn’t you play a part in this as well?

"You two are quite something... Now isn’t the time to argue over whose responsibility is greater, right? We should quickly address the trouble that will come when Huo Qingkong breaks his seal in the future," the Demon Emperor said, enjoying the drama from the side.

"Of course, that needs resolving, and the pollution here is also problematic," said Li Chengyi, "because if not handled properly, it will continue to expand and spread, until it completely covers the whole world... turning every living thing into grotesque, mutated creatures."

As the new successor to the Emperor of Flowers, he naturally had the power to control the spread of the Evil Soil, but doing so would require his continuous presence here.

Because the erosion by the Primordial Soil on blind spots was permanent. Unlike the monsters, which could revert to their original form by entering Royal’s City, and perhaps even evolve into the more beautiful forms of the Thousand Leaves Army and the Divine Flower Generals.

If the blind spots or the world become corrupted by the Primordial Soil, reversing this could be possible, but Li Chengyi didn’t know of any method.

Therefore, for now, controlling the expansion of the Primordial Soil was the most pressing concern.

At this moment, Li Chengyi could sense that the spread of the Primordial Soil had temporarily halted, but as soon as he left this place, the pollution would start again.

"That serious!?" The Demon Emperor and Huo Qingkong were both startled.

"Yes, which is why I’m so grave," Li Chengyi sighed deeply.

"That power of yours... It’s simply... sinister!" The Demon Emperor felt his skin crawl. Who could possess such a purely destructive force, meant only for pollution and devastation?

Every force comes into being for a reason, with a specific purpose. But what was the purpose of this one?

Simply to destroy the whole world?

"Is there really no way to stop it?" the Demon Emperor asked gravely.

"There is... but I have one method," said Li Chengyi in a low voice, "It can address not only the release of your evil god, Eldest Senior Brother, but also control the spread of this land’s corruption. However..."

"However what?" Huo Qingkong knew that in this world nothing came without a cost. Such a perfect solution was sure to have its price.

"However... Eldest Senior Brother, you must truly and completely trust me, believe in me," Li Chengyi responded.

Yes, the method he thought of was just one.

By turning Huo Qingkong into one of the Divine Flower Generals, it would naturally allow him to control the spread of the Primordial Soil and select the Royal’s City guard from the Thousand Leaves Army.

Hearing Huo Qingkong’s silence, Li Chengyi was not in a hurry.

"Moreover, Zhao Yuan’s transformation is partly your responsibility. Don’t you want to restore her to her original state?"

He knew that when Zhao Yuan turned into a pig-head, Huo Qingkong had been silent, but surely felt repressed inside.

The power of the Faceless Scholar was so evil it inadvertently harmed his own friends and family.

Zhao Yuan was just his little fan, but after all, they had grown up together. He might not feel romantic love for her, but he certainly had a lot of familial love.

Now due to his own actions...

"Tell me! What is the method?" Finally, Huo Qingkong took the bait.

Li Chengyi’s lips curved slightly, and he opened his palm to reveal a pale purple, spherical crystal bead lying quietly within it.

"This is the Floral Bead. If you truly trust me and use your power to envelop it, it will integrate into your body, and by touching external flowers, bestow upon you a unique ability of your choice. Among the abilities to choose from, there is one that can help you solve the issue of the evil god," he explained.

The Flower Language Ability was definitely a higher privilege and rank than the Faceless Scholar. Li Chengyi could be sure of this after seeing the effects of a simple seal; the Faceless Scholar was strong, but compared to the Evil Flower, still fell short.

So by using the Flower Language Ability again to control the evil god, and even integrate and dissolve it into Huo Qingkong himself, was not an impossibility.

Li Chengyi finished explaining, and the Demon Emperor and Huo Qingkong fell silent.

Such a powerful and miraculous thing existed in this world... But the stronger it was, the greater the price to be paid.

"Tell me, what’s the price?" Huo Qingkong asked with a deep voice.

"The price... is actually quite simple," Li Chengyi said, "It is to be forever bound with me, fighting side by side. And in the future, I may face a truly terrifying war that is far more brutal than the battles we have previously fought. I will need your help then!"

"Is this like signing a pact for life and death?" asked Huo Qingkong.

"I’m sorry, but this is the best solution I could think of," Li Chengyi sincerely replied.

Having said his piece, he stood still, waiting for the other party to decide.

Even though Huo Qingkong was sealed, the Floral Bead was not physical but made of the Flower Language Ability, a fusion of consciousness power and certain complex substances, directly integrating it into the Sealing Sphere would suffice.

So, as long as Huo Qingkong was willing, everything was solvable.

Even Li Chengyi had already picked out the suitable Flower Language Technique for him, one that would help the Eldest Senior Brother strengthen himself, gradually assimilate, and devour part of the evil god’s power.

This Flower Language Technique was encountered by him long ago, right here at the Faceless Sword Sect.

It seemed that their previous meeting had been in preparation for this moment.

"Will I... still be myself?" It took a while before Huo Qingkong spoke again slowly.

"Of course. The Floral Bead will not change anyone; it will only create an eternal bond between us," Li Chengyi replied with a gentle smile on his face.

Upon hearing this inquiry, he understood that his senior brother, the superb Divine Flower General, had made up his mind.

"Then... I promise you,"

Huo Qingkong’s voice, at last, was decisive and without hesitation.

"You won’t regret it!" Li Chengyi said earnestly.

Gently holding the Floral Bead, he raised his head to see the sky, where invisible forces were radiating towards him, the repulsion growing stronger.

Clearly, the complete separation he had been longing for was about to be achieved.

Turning around, Li Chengyi shot up from the ground and hurried back to the Sword Sect.

Having acquired the Thousand Face Sword Canon, and with the Qiankun Bag storing supplies soon in hand, everything would be completely finished.

"When do you plan to leave?" the Demon Emperor suddenly asked.

"Tomorrow, I guess. There’s no time like the present. With godmother and senior brother here, I can always return at any time," Li Chengyi replied with a smile.

"I truly wish to join you, to leave this place once and for all, and head to the vast Sea of Profound, to explore the unknown..." the Demon Emperor sighed deeply.

Li Chengyi remained silent, knowing there were not many positions left among the Twelve Flower Generals, and while one could be given to his senior brother, this unfamiliar old fellow, the Demon Emperor, didn’t inspire enough trust or have the strength, so he was unwilling to casually offer a spot.

Seeing that he did not respond, the Demon Emperor fell silent as well.

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The next day.

The Black Sea.

The massive Panguang Blind Spot twisted and writhed as it drew in numerous dark-red vapors, forcefully plucking a silver-white rock from its body and flung it outwards.

Whoosh!

Li Chengyi was that silver-white rock.

Curled up, he used the repulsion and drawing power of the Blind Spot, his Shadow Dragon King wings unfurled sharply behind him, and he flew toward the depths of the Infinite Black Sea.

Looking ahead at the familiar vast blackness around him, and at the weirdly shaped Blind Spots of various colors in the distance, Li Chengyi felt a sense of freedom and exhilaration like a fish entering the sea.

Inside the Panguang Blind Spot, constantly forced to increase his strength without rest, he finally had a moment to relax.

With the Good Fortune +2 he had accumulated over the years, he felt that even if he encountered the King of the Death Angels, he could...

"Wait, where’s the King of the Death Angels?!" Li Chengyi suddenly startled.

Where was that massive monster the size of a Blind Spot that had been following him?

He flew at full speed, looking around, hoping that the creature would pop out from somewhere, giving him a chance to test his significantly improved strength and see if he could win the fight now.

But curiously, there wasn’t a single monster around.

The large form of the King of the Death Angels was nowhere to be seen, apparently hidden somewhere.

’Wait... where am I right now?’ Li Chengyi’s heart skipped a beat.

He had just flown out at full speed with the help of the Blind Spot’s power, but he couldn’t control the direction. That move might have carried him a great distance.

Surrounded by a seemingly infinite starry expanse, unfamiliar Blind Spots of different sizes floated near and far, moving like fish in a dark ocean environment, twisting their bodies and extending numerous tentacles as they captured and expelled various substances and impurities.

Li Chengyi surveyed his surroundings, but all the Blind Spots were unfamiliar.

Upon looking back, the Panguang Blind Spot had shrunk to the size of a sesame seed.

The repulsion had been strong, flinging him far away in an instant, and his own flight was only a very minor contributing force.

Alone in the vast, dark expanse of the Black Sea, Li Chengyi floated, ghosting past one peculiar Blind Spot after another.

In the whole Black Sea, apart from Blind Spots, there was only the thick black smoke-like seawater.

It felt like being soaked in black mud.

With the innate, high-grade bloodline of the Shadow Dragon King, Li Chengyi found it relatively easy to swim.

During the fusion with the Divine Flower Gourmet, his Shadow Dragon King bloodline had been strengthened, filling in many of the innate talents he had previously lacked.

One of those talents was Shadow Flash.

In the Black Sea, the colossal Shadow Dragon King primarily used its own body length as the base unit for the distance of a Shadow Flash.

The typical limit for a Shadow Flash was about a thousand times the length of the Shadow Dragon itself.

But Li Chengyi’s previous Shadow Flash distances had always been on the scale of hundreds of meters.

After the enhancement, the distance of his normal Shadow Flash increased significantly, with a single upper limit of ten kilometers, or ten thousand meters.

If he transformed into his Bai Lu body, the distance would increase substantially in proportion to his body size. He hadn’t tested exactly how much, but it would certainly not be less than that of the three smaller Shadow Dragons from before.

Now flying in the Black Sea, he carefully sensed the calling power of the Evil Flower.

The sensing capability of the Floral Bead, apart from the senior brother from Panguang, found no other connection.

’... I’m not sure if this is the right direction, but let’s try and see.’