Blind Spot
Chapter 645 - 593 Practice One

Chapter 645: 593 Practice One

Li Chengyi and his two companions entered from a gap beside Zhou Lu and the others. As they passed by, Zhou Lu suddenly paused slightly, glanced sideways, and looked at Li Chengyi.

It seemed he sensed something, but it wasn’t clear. At his current realm, he could step into the Saint Position at any moment and become a Saint.

A Saint, impervious to countless calamities, eternal and unique. Once their self-convergence is complete, they achieve a status that transcends cause and effect. As long as one is within the blind spot of their sanctification, they are invincible.

Such a realm is actually akin to being quasi-omniscient. It was quite normal for him to be able to sense the subtle differences in Li Chengyi.

"What’s the matter, Senior Brother Zhou? Could it be that you have an epiphany, a new realization?" A tall fellow sister with a purple flower decoration in her hair softly inquired.

"It’s nothing. Let’s continue our earlier discussion," Zhou Lu replied indifferently, "Regarding the categorization of cellular stress responses at the basal level, I have divided them into seventeen major categories and sixty-five subcategories..."

The group resumed their detailed discussion, their voices unguarded, enough to give Li Chengyi, who was passing by in front, a headache.

"Let’s go, we’ll talk more after we enter," Chun Fan urged him, tugging at his lead.

Following behind Que Ru at the front, the two entered the library together.

No sooner had they entered, than Li Chengyi’s pupils shrank slightly.

This library was nothing like what he had imagined.

The library itself looked no different from a common one, but the key was the books on the shelves.

These books – setting aside the covers – the important part was that some of their physical forms were semi-transparent, phasing in and out of visibility. Some were slowly burning, charred halfway through.

Others were covered with mold spots, appearing disgusting with their greenish-yellow color.

There were even books with tiny mushrooms growing on their covers, colorful and surrounded by tiny insects flying about.

Inside the library, a beautiful, half-transparent woman wearing a gray-black long dress was sitting behind the counter to the right of the entrance, quietly flipping through a book.

Que Ru walked up to the counter and gently pushed out her Purple Cloud Ornament identification badge.

Chun Fan also patted Li Chengyi, signaling him to do the same.

Both placed their badges on the counter.

Li Chengyi was surprised to discover that his badge had somehow reverted to its original state, with the cracks already vanished.

The woman in the gray-black dress raised her head, showing a face that resembled that of Eastern Europeans, pure and beautiful. Her dark eyes scanned the three of them.

"Do not touch the books that are turning transparent and regressing, as it indicates that the systems within are being questioned, leading to systemic collapse, potentially turning them into false books. Absorbing knowledge from false books can cause significant cognitive dissonance for you," she advised.

"Yes, thank you for the warning, senior," Que Ru was the first to bow her head in thanks.

The other two followed suit.

"Keep striving. Your mother and I were close friends back in the day; it’s a pity she missed the opportunity due to a minor mistake and was thus confined to the Saint Position..." the woman in the black dress said peacefully,

looking at Que Ru with a hint of nostalgia in her eyes.

"Yes," Que Ru bowed again.

"Right, you know the taboos of the Forbidden Garden, correct? If so, please remind them for me," the woman in the black dress spoke softly.

"Yes," Que Ru nodded once more.

After taking her leave with a respectful bow, she led Chun Fan and Li Chengyi deeper into the library.

There were a few people scattered throughout the library, but most were searching for books, rather than reading.

Li Chengyi looked carefully and noticed that many who took books immediately walked towards the deepest part of the library.

Clearly, that was where one could read.

The three of them continued along the aisle into the interior. The ominous and spacious hall of the library was wide and desolate.

The temperature was very low, quite dry, and because everyone was using voice transmission to communicate, there was no noise. It was impossible to detect exactly how many people were there unless you saw them directly.

Several times, at a turn of a corner, Li Chengyi encountered several people searching for books without even realizing it.

The place felt desolate because the hall was as large as a soccer field, with the ceiling a hundred meters above the floor, and walls brimming with bookshelves.

Countless books were stacked upon stacks, silently, slowly moving forward and backward.

The ones moving backward were becoming increasingly transparent, while the forward-moving ones were doing the opposite, becoming more solid and even emanating light.

The further one walked inside, the clearer these changes became.

Countless books moved in and out on the wall-shelves, some newly appearing, others vanishing completely.

A cycle of the old giving way to the new and the renewal of All Phenomena, this spectacle inexplicably stirred something in Li Chengyi’s heart.

"Okay, you are now free to search for books. All the prerequisite knowledge required for forbidden studies can be found here. You may freely seek out the books you want to read. You all understand what is needed for Divine Fire, so look for what you lack," Que Ru reminded them.

"Also, I should mention that this place houses an aide for learning called the Forbidden Garden, containing a Blind Spot with Pyroclastic Dao. Time flows at an extreme pace there, so be careful that your own flaws are not amplified when you enter," she added.

"Thank you for the reminder," Chun Fan, evidently prepared, nodded to Li Chengyi and went off to find the books he wanted to read.

As for Li Chengyi, he was a bit confused and continued to question Que Ru.

"May I ask, Senior Sister, what exactly is this Forbidden Garden?"

"To put it simply, it’s a realm of accelerated time," Que Ru explained patiently, knowing Li Chengyi’s background and thus unsurprised by his ignorance.

"To be specific, the Forbidden Garden is an extremely intense time acceleration realm. The rate of time within it can be decided by you. No matter how long or fast, it’s possible. But this also makes it very dangerous," she said.

"You mean, adjusting the time flow too rapidly?" Li Chengyi frowned.

"Yes, someone once, in a rush to cover gaps in knowledge, adjusted the timing to a million years for every second outside... And then..." Que Ru shook her head, not continuing her explanation.

Li Chengyi felt a chill run down his spine. One second equivalent to a million years... what was the concept of that? He was only around a hundred years old combining his past and present life.

"Now you understand, don’t be greedy when adjusting the flow of time," Que Ru shook his head. "We are cultivators; what is ’the Way’? It is the path, long and perilous. Be neither arrogant nor impatient. Proceed calmly and you will be able to walk even further."

"Thank you for your guidance, senior sister," Li Chengyi said sincerely, bowing with his hands clasped in thanks.

"Go now, and I hope we shall meet again," Que Ru said indifferently, turned around, and left, quickly disappearing among the other bookshelves.

Li Chengyi was left standing alone in the vast hall, with its greyish-black main color scheme, looking at the constantly moving bookshelves and books on both sides, feeling somewhat at a loss about where to start.

He casually took a book from the left side, a Black Book.

"Observing the Changes of All Things from the Perspective of Plant Life," author: Oskalid (Golden City).

"Hmm..." Li Chengyi was somewhat surprised that the random book he picked was from Golden City, a place he had visited.

Putting it back, he walked a few steps forward and randomly picked another book.

"On the Evolution of the Heavens," author: Huang Shanzi (Lian City).

He opened the book and flipped through it casually; it was about the evolution of the skies.

After briefly scanning the book, finding it uninteresting, he continued on.

Based on the various knowledge systems he had absorbed in his two lifetimes, this time he was looking for basic disciplines of modern science and technology.

This way, he could also save quite a bit of time on basic understanding in the early stages.

Following the bookshelves all the way inside, Li Chengyi soon found books related to the technological system.

He didn’t care to be selective and gathered a pile of them, then started moving towards the direction everyone else seemed to be heading.

Before long, at the deepest end of the library, a black circular frame embedded in an empty space on the wall appeared before Li Chengyi.

Inside the circular frame was a spinning black and purple viscous liquid, the material of which was unknown.

One after another, readers were coming in and out through this portal.

No one spoke; everyone was quietly carrying books, coming and going without flattery or comparison. Most showed rational, indifferent, and determined expressions on their faces.

’That’s right, those who have come this far are decidedly determined, having made innumerable efforts and overcome many hardships,’ Li Chengyi reflected inwardly.

Collecting his thoughts, he too approached the circular frame. Before he got too close, a message entered his mind.

’Would you like to adjust the speed of time? (Please be cautious of your own purification; too fast a flow speed will magnify and intensify personal risks)’

Li Chengyi’s heart chilled. Holding a pile of books, he looked at the portal in front of him and stepped through.

Hiss!

A flash of white light crossed his vision.

He entered a pure white space without any furnishings, a void.

The space was square, not even a table in sight, completely empty.

A message entered his mind.

’Please select the ratio of time flow and speak it out. The format is: Adjust time to a ratio of one to xxx.’

Li Chengyi pondered and then spoke slowly.

"Please adjust time to a ratio of one to one hundred."

Here, one hundred days would equate to one day outside. He felt such a speed of time flow was still acceptable.

’Adjustment successful. The current time speed in your space library is one hundred to one,’ the message confirmed.

With that settled, Li Chengyi let go of the books in his hand, letting them float freely around him, and randomly picked up one that explained how basic particles build the structure of metallic materials, and began to read.

Although he possessed untapped talent in the Flower Language Technique, this technique was limited in uses and was better reserved for acquiring knowledge and experience not found in this place.

Knowledge that he could learn on his own should not waste such a precious resource.

Time passed by the minute.

A vast array of knowledge began to integrate rapidly into his mind at that moment.

With the strength of his current Consciousness Power and his quick response, learning was incredibly fast.

The strong Consciousness Power from practicing the Thousand Face Sword Canon allowed Li Chengyi to memorize everything at a glance, far surpassing ordinary people in understanding.

A dense work of several hundred thousand words could be finished in just a few minutes.

Under such terrifying efficiency, after ten minutes, he realized he had taken too few books and had to leave to fetch new ones from the hall outside.

At the same time, he checked if the adjustment of the flow of time had been successful.

While Li Chengyi diligently studied in the Forbidden Library,

In the depths of the Black Sea· Lian City,

An unknown time ago began the division of known territories into three positives and seven negatives to deal with various unknown threats within the Black Sea.

Life groups shared the explored ranges with each other, creating a total of ten massive power territories.

Although the known territories continued to expand, becoming larger and wider, making these ten territories comparatively smaller than before and taking up less proportion within the known ranges,

The division of three positives and seven negatives is still upheld by all the life groups.

Lian City is the headquarters of the Omniscient Council.

This union, which only the strongest forces that have nurtured Omniscient beings can join, represents the highest seat among all life groups in the Black Sea.