Blind Spot
Chapter 670 - 615 Vitality 3 (Old Roll wishes everyone auspiciousness in the Year of the Dragon, good health, and may everything go well)

Chapter 670: 615 Vitality 3 (Old Roll wishes everyone auspiciousness in the Year of the Dragon, good health, and may everything go well)

On a pebbly bank by the edge of a small stream.

Tree leaves blocked the sunlight, and two squirrels agilely ran to the edge of the stream.

"Xiao Hui, what are you doing here?" Ash couldn’t understand; he felt Xiao Hui had changed, becoming neurotic, always saying things he couldn’t understand.

"Looking for something," Li Chengyi replied casually.

"Looking for what?" Ash asked.

"A plant with triangular leaves," Li Chengyi said.

"What’s triangular?"

"It’s the shape of your head."

"What does shape mean?"

"..." Li Chengyi couldn’t be bothered with him and instead scanned the area, observing by the stream.

The preliminary material for Eternal Vitality enhancement, he had already figured it out. The forbidden knowledge quickly identified three types of herbs that, when mixed, could produce a preliminary enhancement.

The herbs, combined with special self-training to activate their effects, plus taking another medicine at a critical moment, and finally, stimulation on the level of consciousness.

Only by combining these elements could he truly initiate the first round of Eternal Vitality enhancement.

The process was complex, artificially recreating one of the many coincidences that occurred within the body of that wild ox was no easy task.

But now, having determined that his own body inexplicably vanished, leaving only his consciousness power in this body, Li Chengyi knew he had no choice.

The pull of the Blind Spot was likely a simple tug of his consciousness into this squirrel’s body.

Shortly, he found the first required herb.

He ran over, gently picked a piece of it, and Li Chengyi started looking for the second one.

Hiss...

Suddenly, a low chuckle came from the side.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk... look who we have here?"

A fox with light red fur slowly squinted its eyes and walked out of the bushes.

"Isn’t this Xiao Hui who fell from the tree before?" The fox smiled, its eyes fixed on Li Chengyi, saliva unconsciously dripping from the corner of its mouth.

It was evidently very hungry.

"Big Red the Fox!!" Ash was terrified, his fur standing on end, and he turned tail to run, scurrying up to a nearby tree and squeezing into a fork in the branches.

Li Chengyi looked at the approaching fox; the latter’s eyes were set on him, clearly targeting him because he was closer.

The fox’s massive size gave it an overwhelming advantage over him at the moment.

But that didn’t matter... victory only required an instant.

"You shouldn’t have disturbed me at this time," Li Chengyi said with no interest in idle chatter with these intellectually deficient animals.

He stepped closer to the fox.

"Really hit your head and went dumb?" The fox was astonished to see Li Chengyi approaching, since usually these two squirrels would turn and sprint away at full speed.

But this time...

Whoosh!

All of a sudden, a flash of grey, and the fox lost sight of the other.

Thinking the other had dashed to the side, it was about to shift its gaze to follow when suddenly, an intense pain erupted from its abdomen.

Accompanied by a piercing scream, the fox rolled on the ground, its belly ripped open, blood spilling out.

"I have claws, teeth, swift movement, unstoppable," Li Chengyi said nonchalantly.

Without a glance at the howling fox on the ground, he casually walked around it, heading in another direction.

In the shadows, a leopard and several weasels watching the scene all had their fur stand on end and retreated in the direction away from Li Chengyi.

Before long, after wandering around the area for more than ten minutes, three different kinds of herbs were carefully laid out in front of him.

On a boulder the size of a washbasin, the leaves of the three herbs still had faint traces of dew on them.

In the midst of the dense forest, on the boulder, gazes from all around concentrated on Li Chengyi, watching this suddenly changed grey squirrel.

Crack.

Li Chengyi grabbed the three herbs and stuffed them into his mouth, chewing the herbs carefully, as if savoring a fine meal, before swallowing them.

Then he paired it with corresponding emotional state fluctuations simulated in his mind.

The digestion of the herbs required the right time and state to achieve a bit of enhanced peak.

As he carefully adjusted his state, not far up in the trees, two green snakes entwined in the branches whispered their hidden conversation.

"What do you think happened to Xiao Hui? Did he eat something that human fed him and turn dumb?"

"I don’t know, but that human should be arriving soon, right? Maybe we will find out why in a bit."

The two snakes muttered, glancing now and then at Li Chengyi and then at a faint forest path in the distance.

That was a track left by a man who often came to practice and train his strikes in the forest.

Time slowly passed by.

Not long after, Li Chengyi finally came back to his senses from his meditative state.

He turned his head, his sharp senses amplified countless times by his vast consciousness power, capturing and analyzing any detail of information.

Someone was coming.

He instantly discerned the source, direction, and creator of the faint noises.

In the simple memory of this squirrel named Xiao Hui, there lingered a man called Kui.

A brawny man who liked to come to the mountain forest alone, carrying a backpack to practice his punches and kicks.

And every third day of the week, he would come here alone for a full day’s practice.

Because Xiao Hui was the only one who accompanied him, he would bring some food for the squirrel each time.

After several occurrences, a silent understanding had formed between them.

Thinking of this, Li Chengyi felt the trickle of warmth inside his body, the warmth that was slowly transforming his physique.

This meant that the first Eternal Vitality enhancement had succeeded.

Eternal Vitality, after mastering forbidden knowledge, enhanced at an extremely fast pace. One could say that, as long as it was properly coordinated, it would be successful.

That was the power of forbidden knowledge.

Moreover, since it could only be enjoyed by one person, there was no need to worry about disrupting natural balance, nor about promoting it, no matter how swift the process was.

’The enhancement needs to continue for about three days without any side effects. This is the first time. But after that, the next enhancement will be even greater. If my flesh and blood cannot keep up, they will be violently torn apart and burst. That is where the real danger begins... To survive three consecutive enhancements is to condense the first Life Vitality Imprint.’

Li Chengyi recalled the contents of Eternal Vitality that he had learned in the library.

He leaped gracefully onto a tree trunk, just like the earlier Xiao Hui, waiting for the man’s arrival.

Soon after.

From the depths of the forest, a short-haired man with an inverted triangle upper body slowly approached.

The man was strong and well-proportioned, with eyes bright as stars and black metal bracers on both arms, inscribed with black tiger patterns.

Besides that, the man also carried a bulging cowboy backpack, obviously filled with many things.

Observing his attire, Li Chengyi quickly deduced that the human civilization in this world was obviously at a highly modernized level.

At least, the simple T-shirt and jeans belt on the man were not something that could be produced in ancient times.

He jumped back several times and soon returned to the oak tree where his tree hole was located.

Standing on a horizontal branch, Li Chengyi looked down at the approaching man.

"Hi," the man said, tossing his bag to the ground and waving at him.

"Catch." He then took something small out of his pocket and tossed it over.

Li Chengyi caught it precisely, only to see that it was a walnut the size of an egg.

"No need to thank me, I saved it for you," the man said indifferently. After that, he no longer paid attention to him and turned to find a clearing to start taking off his shirt.

His exposed upper body was muscular and tanned, with ferocious scars that spoke of countless battles.

After jumping around to get loose, he began to warm up.

Moving side to side with small steps, stretching his hands, shoulders, doing leg presses, push-ups, and single-arm pull-ups.

Once he finished a series of warm-up exercises, the man suddenly stood still.

Whoosh!

All of a sudden, he threw a punch.

The fist seemed to disappear in an instant, thrown with tremendous speed and then retracted.

At that moment, Li Chengyi’s usually calm pupils sharply contracted.

He instantly realized that the speed of that punch had reached thirty meters per second.

What was the concept?

A normal human being, if not subject to Genetic Enhancement, in the Earth-Moon era, could only achieve a punch speed of up to fifteen meters per second.

And here...

Was it possible that any random person could reach thirty meters per second!?

Thinking this, Li Chengyi instantly understood that this world might not be as simple as he had imagined.

Immediately after, he began to watch the man’s cultivation with full concentration.

The man’s cultivation was simple, just repeatedly punching, dodging, and punching again, occasionally mixing in leg strikes, horizontal sweeps, and straight kicks.

It looked quite simple.

Time passed little by little with the punches.

Li Chengyi didn’t move and continued to watch the man practice from the tree branch.

Suddenly, from behind him, a grey furry claw pounced.

It was a claw similar to that of a cat, viciously swiping at Li Chengyi with incredible speed.

It was a wildcat!!

Li Chengyi came to his senses, but it was too late to dodge.

But it didn’t matter.

From the beginning, he had no intention of dodging.

Whoosh!

With a light leap upward, Li Chengyi turned to face the imminent claw, then threw his own claw out like lightning, tapping the cat’s paw.

A hiss and a spray of blood shot out as the wildcat shrieked and retracted its claw, nearly tumbling down the branch.

Now, its right paw was bleeding profusely, slashed across with a vicious wound more than ten centimeters long.

Li Chengyi landed gently, turned around to face the wildcat, and said, "I was just in the mood for some meat."

The wildcat, provoked by his gaze, growled angrily and leaped from the tree, lunging toward Li Chengyi.

Swipe!

A flash of blood.

The two passed by each other.

Under the man’s astonished expression, Li Chengyi slowly retracted his claw and turned to look at the wildcat.

By then, the throat of the wildcat had a clear blood hole.

Gurgle.

The wildcat fell to the ground, dead, its body twitching as it bled profusely.

The man stared dumbfounded at Li Chengyi, and then at the wildcat.

"You..." he began, speaking in a string of gibberish that Li Chengyi couldn’t understand at all.

But that didn’t hinder their communication.

After the incident with the wildcat, Li Chengyi returned to his spot, dragging the dead animal’s body, and quietly continued to watch the man practice his punches.

The man also got used to the presence of a squirrel that could hunt wildcats, and after the shock, he even continued to focus on his practice.