Blind Spot
Chapter 648 - 596 Practice Four

Chapter 648: 596 Practice Four

The Creation Furnace had one simple command, burn!

Burn yourself, burn others, burn all things. If that’s not enough, then start advocating to burn yourself, for only through self-immolation can the truest and purest burn be achieved, with the least impurities.

In reality, the good and burnable had already been burned away...

While disciples of the same sect cannot kill each other, one can still burn oneself.

At this thought, Zhou Lu held the Purple Cloud Ornament in his hand, stimulating the prohibitions within with his Divine Intention.

Suddenly, a self-activating beam of purple light shot out, flying back towards the Silent Oblivion City from the vortex it came from.

Shortly after, a new beam of purple light returned and merged into the jade pendant in his hand.

At the same time, an immensely large consciousness burst forth from the vortex, instantly sweeping across all the nearby Black Sea.

Afterward, the consciousness spread out, extending far into the depths of the Black Sea.

Within this vast area of the Silent Oblivion spanning tens of thousands of light-years in diameter, grey particles suddenly burst from every blind spot in all regions.

The particles proliferated rapidly, expanding, and in the blink of an eye, they became a new source of the vast consciousness, scanning and spreading in all directions.

For Zhou Lu, such a feat was almost unimaginable.

This was the method of the Omniscient, an infinite force that did not care about the expenditure of energy.

To the Omniscient, space-time, flesh, and bodies were but playthings at their leisure.

Infinite energy brought about infinite revolution.

If they so wished, they could expand a grain of sand into a planet, a star system, or even an excessively large blind spot, including a river system or an entire universe within a technological system.

If the energy release was slow, then they would speed up time—an eon, several million years, several tens of millions, or even more; to them, none of this posed a problem.

To realize thoughts instantly, to have all things follow their will, was mere triviality.

Only beings of similar rank, by establishing cyclical blockades, were but stone barriers against the vast ocean of their will.

But at this moment, Zhou Lu vaguely felt a hint of confusion and anger emanating from the spreading will.

’Did they not find it?’ he speculated in his heart.

"Yes. I have not been able to locate the missing disciple of Silent Oblivion City," a gentle female voice appeared in his mind.

"Zhou Lu pays respects to the City Lord," Zhou Lu said, bowing deeply.

"Child of the Stars, may I ask for your assistance in investigating the traces of this event? I suspect it involves other Omniscient methods, interfering with my ability to trace the origin. Something blocked my attempt to reverse time," the female voice spoke softly. "How does a temporary reward of two stars sound for this task? "

Accumulating nine stars could earn one a chance for unconditional assistance from a senior of the sect.

Zhou Lu’s eyes lit up, and he immediately got spirited.

"Disciple will investigate with all his might!"

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In an unknown space-time.

A pale yellow particle the size of a soybean floated silently, plummeting from the sky toward the ground at high speed.

The cold wind howled, and ice and snow covered everything.

Upon a lofty highland stood an ancient and majestic Black Castle.

The top of the Black Castle was blanketed with snow, and icicles hung down from the eaves.

Inside the castle, in an old bedroom.

A beautiful woman with curly hair and a white dress was carefully feeding a bowl of medicinal soup to the child lying in bed.

The woman had a pale complexion like an Eastern European, along with a tall figure and distinct features.

The delicate skin and beautiful features came together to form a unique blend of beauty.

However, the somewhat faded dress she wore highlighted her dire circumstances.

"Get well soon, Carlos, my son."

The Okra Family had reached its ninth generation.

Carlos was the ninth-generation Family Head, as well as the last male of the Okra Family.

After brutal icy disasters struck their domain, his grandfather, his father, the Family Heads of the two preceding generations, all died in battle surrounding their territory.

Now, within the vast Black Castle, only the mother and son were left to depend on each other.

Besides, even the diligent and dedicated Mister Bark had fallen seriously ill due to overwork.

Just as the natural disaster was subsiding, and it seemed like things were beginning to look up, the Family Head Carlos, the noble lord not yet ten years old, suddenly fell ill.

Some said he was hit on the head by something that fell from the sky, leaving him completely unconscious.

But Melissa searched for a long time and could not find any wounds on her son’s head.

Hmm...

Just as Melissa’s tears were about to fall again, the black-haired boy on the bed groaned and opened his pure purple black eyes.

"My son! My dearest treasure!! You’re finally awake!!" Melissa’s eyes widened with joy, and she lunged forward to hold her son tightly in her arms.

Li Chengyi was completely bewildered, feeling his head still buzzing and his body weaker than he’d ever felt before. Before he could gather his senses, he was engulfed in the embrace of the woman.

At the same time, a not-so-vast stream of memories quickly flooded into his mind.

This time... he hadn’t used Shadow Replacement to take the place of some original inhabitant...

Instead, after he flew into this space-time, he was mistaken for a soybean and was eaten by Melissa, the daughter of a marginal noble.

He then opportunistically entered the body of Melissa’s yet-to-be-formed fetus.

This was tantamount to his consciousness replacing the will of a fetus that had not yet developed any consciousness.

Everything then followed naturally.

He was born again by Melissa, and due to his fragile body unable to bear his terrifying Consciousness Power, he continued to experience a brief delayed awakening.

Only at nine years old did he finally, stealthily, obtain an identity in this space-time continuum.

"The talent of the Shadow Dragon Clan’s Ultimate Form is truly remarkable... This ability is breath-taking,"

Li Chengyi mused in his heart.

Feilian, after evolving to its Ultimate Form, gained the Flower Language Ability, a special bloodline known as the Divine Dark Dragon.

The power increase compared to the previous Eternal Darkness Dragon Emperor wasn’t much when it came to destructive capacity, but in terms of stealth and parasitism, it was much stronger.

One could say that this bloodline took the Shadow Dragon’s parasitic ability to the extreme.

Putting aside the fact that one would naturally possess nineteen Origin Seals after maturing for ten thousand years, let’s talk about its core parasitic ability—Destiny Origin.

This ability could make the host become intangible when necessary, completely replacing everything about the target from the very beginning.

This replacement is a thorough change performed synchronously across all entangled causality.

It is a complete replacement in terms of cognition.

There is no need for the original body to become someone else; instead, all others associated with the target adaptively transfer their cognition of the target to the original body.

At this moment, he still looked just like a smaller version of Li Chengyi, unchanged from before.

Compared to in Panguang, this time, he was truly born from Melissa, thus the causality was even more complete.

In Melissa’s embrace, Li Chengyi closed his eyes, feigning rest, while his mind rapidly traced back to the situation of this world.

He remembered, in his last moment, being dragged away by the Blind Spot he had been accumulating, forcibly pulled into an unknown Blind Spot.

But distressingly, he couldn’t feel any of his own strength here.

He also couldn’t sense any other powers or wills from the outside world.

The air was devoid of the diverse floating energies that permeated the Mosha.

Here, there was only a mixture of pure gases in various proportions.

No elements, no spiritual energy, no scent of Blind Spots, not even the energy of death.

This world was barren...

"Mother, don’t cry, am I not well?" After assimilating his memories, Li Chengyi spoke without any barriers to comfort Melissa.

After all, his body was indeed born from Melissa; calling her ’mother’ was no loss to him, and if he feared embarrassment later, he could just pretend ignorance.

"I’m just so happy... really... so very happy..." Melissa let go of him, wiping tears from her face while petting Li Chengyi’s short hair.

The Okra Family belonged to the Sola Empire, situated on the Eastern outskirts as an inland barony.

The founder of the first generation was ennobled for the merits of eliminating barbarians and building cities from wild lands, thus passing it down through generations.

It has a history of several hundreds of years to date.

As a notable part of the Ice and Snow Empire, the Sola Empire is covered with ice and snow all year round, and agriculture is extremely scarce; food needed to be imported in large quantities from other nations.

Thus, the population was not large.

Yet such an imbalanced nation was still a renowned powerhouse on the White Sand Continent.

In the memories Li Chengyi had acquired, the fundamental reason for this was recorded.

It all came down to mages.

After finally comforting Melissa, this makeshift mother hurriedly went to the neighboring study to reply to a letter from her parents.

She left a maid behind to take care of Li Chengyi’s rest and meals.

This gave him some free time to carefully organize the detailed situation of this place.

"How can there be mages without any elements in the air? What’s going on?" Li Chengyi couldn’t comprehend.

Even though all his cultivation abilities were suppressed and unusable, his consciousness power, close to Divine Fire, was still there.

The advantage of terrifying consciousness power is extremely quick thinking, photographic memory, and many other intellectual benefits.

Right now, he desperately wanted to know where he had been pulled to.

Also, how can he leave, and what is the specific flow rate of time in this Blind Spot?

Before long, Melissa hurried back.

She opened the door, her eyes slightly reddened as she looked at Li Chengyi.

"Carlos, your maternal grandfather will arrive soon; he knew we were facing difficulties here and rushed over at the first moment. With him here, all difficulties will be resolved, they will indeed be resolved, and everything will get better..."

"..." Li Chengyi nodded, not sure what expression to use at this time.

"It seems you are still a bit tired; eat something and rest well. You must recover quickly; you are the Family Head of the Okra Family. If people see our plight, some may..."

"I understand, Mother," Li Chengyi nodded.

Next, the food and drink were brought by the maid, followed by rest.

Li Chengyi leaned back on the bed, bored, so he requested some books to read leisurely.

By day, he read books and pondered, tried to cultivate, and by night, he observed the stars.

To his surprise, the starry sky seemed completely different from the Blind Spot like Earth-Moon.

The sky here was full of stars, far exceeding the few seen from Earth-Moon.

After repeatedly testing whether his inner cultivation could be used, Li Chengyi determined that everything, the Sword Furnace and the Sword of Wisdom, were completely shackled as if non-existent.

However, the Flower Language Technique, although heavily weakened, was still usable!

Under these circumstances, he began to rapidly restore his body’s health using the Flower Language Ability.

In just a few days, he was able to get out of bed and walk.

Once he could move around, the first thing he did was find books to read.

After going through the few pitiful books in Black Castle, he decisively made a request to Melissa.

He wanted to read, read more books to understand the composition and fundamental principles of this world.

It was both to prepare for departure and as a precursor to igniting the Divine Fire.