Chapter 261 The Era

"Slander can melt metal." Tianhong's body disintegrated, transforming into countless colored lights that merged into the giant Buddha behind him.

The giant Buddha rapidly formed from the void, its lotus platform landing within the crystal, its size expanding rapidly.

With cracking sounds, the giant Buddha's head hit the crystal ceiling, producing a brittle sound.

At the same time, countless scarlet mouths on its face emitted a new wave of transparent sonic vibrations.

Wherever the sound waves passed, the crystal ground, walls, and everything else were transformed into brilliant pure gold.

Crack.

At the same moment, after briefly suppressing his opponent, Tianhong raised his head and struck heavily towards the ceiling with a palm.

Pfft!!

In an instant, his hand froze.

Suspended in the air, he was as stiff and unmoving as a sculpture.

A completely new, previously undetected, terrifying power instantly descended upon him, immobilizing him for a moment.

Just that moment.

Tianhong shuddered all over.

Everything seemed to freeze completely.

He slowly lowered his head, looking at his chest.

There, a huge broadsword, shimmering with countless silver-blue starlight, pierced through from behind.

Countless tiny floral patterns were engraved on the sword's blade, and a faint floral fragrance emanated from it.

Whoosh.

Countless colored petals fluttered and flew out of thin air within the crystal, converging and piling up to form a human figure, standing precisely behind Daoist Tianhong.

With a crisp crash, countless petals scattered, revealing a heavy, pure gold armored humanoid figure.

The figure wore a heavy white cloak with silver trim, and faint colored light converged behind it into a gorgeous halo, on which twelve differently colored positions of the Flower God could be vaguely seen.

If Li Cheng Yi were here, he would immediately recognize that as the source of the Flower God positions, the manifested form of the Evil Flower itself.

"It's time to end this," a solemn male voice issued from beneath the humanoid figure's helmet. "The era of Tian Ju Ge."

He gripped the sword hilt with one hand and exerted force abruptly.

Pfft.

The giant sword was pulled out of Daoist Tianhong's body in one swift motion, bringing with it a large amount of black blood.

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Earth-Moon.

Wang Du, the very top of a ruined building.

Li Cheng Yi stood quietly at the edge of the rooftop, gazing at the city that had only recently risen again from ruin.

The black and white ruins had been cleared, leaving only remnants, and a large number of new silver-white buildings had sprung up, resembling cold and technologically advanced mountain peaks.

Between the mountain peaks were massive transport airships.

Whoosh.

Li Cheng Yi sighed softly.

He was recalling what Senior Brother Lan Meng had said—that in times of peace, they would feed on dead ends, burning them completely to obtain the resources they needed.

Fortunately, the massive casualties brought about by the war had also brought a huge amount of resources for future development. This allowed them to not have to chase after data to improve themselves, as they would in times of peace.

"The battlefield... Ancestor has already stated that it might be very dangerous, so it's best not to go. It seems that if I want to continue improving, my only path is that..."

Li Cheng Yi's thoughts were clear.

The great aftereffects of the panic and loss of one of the Four Elders of Gathering Heaven that Tian Ju Ge was suffering were gradually becoming apparent.

The battlefield no longer received a steady stream of reinforcements; instead, a large number of experts were retracting and occupying various parts of Tian Ju Ge.

The pressure on Liancheng had therefore increased sharply.

After all, Tian Ju Ge could not care less, but those who bordered the Void Beasts could not ignore it.

Conferences were held in Liancheng every day, but before Daoist Tianhong was found, everything was useless.

Exhaling a long breath, Li Cheng Yi turned around and took a step forward.

The next second, he had already appeared in the Flower Language Cavern within the Ming Yuan Group's underground base.

This was where the Wisdom Tower and the Root of Evil were built.

Now, he had come here not to build anything else, but to completely fill out the last of the Flower God positions and enter the state of a complete Ultimate Body.

In the dim underground space, Li Cheng Yi gently flicked his finger.

With a snap.

The entire surrounding cavern suddenly brightened, and the automatic lighting system turned on the white light.

Within the cavern, there stood two very small, strange buildings.

One was entirely blue, resembling a stack of plates. This was the Root of Evil.

The other was a two-story white tower, which looked unremarkable, like a white obelisk. This was the Wisdom Tower.

Li Cheng Yi entered the first floor of the Wisdom Tower and looked at the random book that was currently there. It was a children's fairy tale about children, but the content seemed a little strange.

It was not written from the perspective of humans, but from the perspective of animals writing about humans.

The cover read "Love and Forgiveness."

It was written in Black Sea language.

Li Cheng Yi thought this book was quite interesting, so he took it out and kept it for the time being.

Leaving the Wisdom Tower, he went to check on the Root of Evil.

"Brother," a crisp female voice floated from an empty space on the first floor of the Root of Evil.

"Iserine?" Li Cheng Yi looked in the direction of the voice. It was dark here, and there was nothing there, but in the darkness he could now see Iserine wearing a pure white dress, with long hair draped over her shoulders, holding a silver short staff in one hand, smiling as she approached.

Her arm was still missing.

Li Cheng Yi sighed inwardly.

"Are you here to harmonize your body as well?"

"Yes. I recently harvested a lot of evil thoughts from the snail side. Those little snails actually dared to resist me, so I suppressed them all!" Iserine revealed a fierce smile.

"How did you suppress them?" Li Cheng Yi also remembered the snail merchant he had first met.

"I made them many new snail shells that were much, much better than the ones they carried, and then I bought them from here and used preferential prices to suppress their import channels, hehehe... Now they can only work for me. They sell things everywhere in other dead ends, and I take ten percent of everything," Iserine said with a smile.

"..." What kind of suppression was that?

Li Cheng Yi was speechless.

"Have you found the coordinates I wanted?"

"Yes, I found them. I've been wandering around everywhere, so I've already swiped them," Iserine said with a smile. "Sycamore flowers, snow lotus, green velvet poppy. They all have large-scale gathering points. So, what about the evil thoughts? Aren't you still short of a lot of evil thoughts?"

"Evil thoughts are actually very easy now..." Li Cheng Yi sighed.

The fact that he could stand here safely now was due to the large amount of evil thoughts he had harvested in the past.

However, he would need more evil thoughts in order to completely perfect all his Flower Languages next.

After all, among the remaining three Flower Languages, the green velvet poppy was the most dangerous.

This was because his vitality had already reached an immeasurable level of terror.

If he were to forcibly double that with the green velvet poppy... that total amount...

"Also, Rainbow Candy is researching the situation of aggregating basic substances into a final Ultimate Body. If you have time, you can help them collect some special substances," Li Cheng Yi instructed.

"Yes, I know." Iserine nodded.

She took out a folded piece of paper from a small pocket in her skirt and handed it to Li Cheng Yi.

Taking the paper, Li Cheng Yi could see the three coordinates recorded inside without even opening it.

"Thanks. This time, it should be able to quickly solve the problem of your remaining hand."

"I'm fine, I'm used to it," Iserine said with a smile.

Li Cheng Yi reached out and stroked her hair. He thought that he could completely ask Senior Brother Lan Meng to see if he could restore it.

Anyway, he could get it for free from Senior Brother Lan Meng, and the application quota accumulated by the sect could be saved for later use.

"It's coming soon, very soon, I'll help you solve it. Don't worry," Li Cheng Yi comforted.

After confirming the coordinates, he said goodbye to Iserine.

Suddenly, his figure flashed and disappeared from the spot.

When he reappeared, he was in front of a large area of three-ball sycamore flowers.

Countless tiny white flowers swayed constantly in the wind among the trees and green leaves.

This was a mountainous area, and the slopes beneath the blue sky and white clouds were densely planted with mutated three-ball sycamore trees.

With reasonable cultivation and maintenance, almost all the trees were now in bloom.

Without hesitation, Li Cheng Yi quickly stepped forward and absorbed the flower energy.

After a moment, the flower energy was complete, and Li Cheng Yi also took out the Evil Thought Bead and absorbed the evil thoughts within.

Before long, the evil thoughts were complete.

A clear inquiry message entered his mind.

'Do you want to perform the Ultimate Evolution of the Three-Ball Sycamore?'

This main flower could only evolve twice. It had already evolved once before, and now this second time was the Ultimate Body.

But, even though it was only twice, Li Cheng Yi did not feel regret for this Flower Language.

After all, being able to directly seek knowledge from the entire Black Sea and get the information he needed was already enjoying the ability of omniscience in advance.

'Yes.' Li Cheng Yi once again confirmed the knowledge information content he wanted.

With his current mental power and the speed at which he absorbed information, this time, the direction he could absorb would be much greater.

As soon as the response fell,

Li Cheng Yi stood quietly in the forest, his eyes slightly narrowed.

He had adjusted his whole body to its most perfect state.

'Do you want to use the Flower Language, Exceptional Talent?' The Evil Flower's inquiry came again.

'Yes!'

Li Cheng Yi reaffirmed.

'Please confirm the direction of traction and use: I specify the traction format.' The Evil Flower's prompt came again.

Li Cheng Yi steeled his nerves and took a deep breath.

"I specify..."

Countless thoughts, hesitations, and doubts flashed through his mind at this moment.

But no matter what the hesitation, he forcibly suppressed it.

"I specify, the method to achieve the All-Knowing of the Eternal Life system!!"

Crack.

In a daze, he seemed to hear a faint cracking sound, as if something had broken.

'What's going on...??' Before the thought could even form in his mind,

A sea-like flood of memory information poured into his consciousness from all directions in the void.

One by one, the successors who had failed to inherit Eternal Life, their scenes, images, and memories, all rapidly poured into Li Cheng Yi's mind.

What surprised him a little was that Eternal Life did not actually begin with Tian Ju Ge.

But in an even more distant era, there were non-humanoid successors constantly trying, constantly accumulating the first piece of valuable information about it amidst exploding and shattering.

The powerful Evil Flower position, at a height higher than that of Eternal Life, forcibly gathered the massive streams of countless related information into Li Cheng Yi's mind.

The memories of more than thousands of successors and failures poured into Li Cheng Yi's mind, turning into his precious resources.

The direction they took, the types of attempts they made, the types of methods they had thought of... Thousands of failed memories gave Li Cheng Yi a huge and comprehensive understanding of Eternal Life in an instant.

It could be said that, from this moment on, no one understood Eternal Life better than him. Even the All-Knowing, due to the limitations of forbidden knowledge, could not surpass him.

(End of this chapter)