Three days later.

Inside the secret chamber.

Li Cheng颐 still sat cross-legged.

Taking a deep breath, he felt extremely weak all over. After losing the Giant Force Imprint, his strength had declined significantly.

But in its place, within the Yuanshen Sword Palace, the true fire of the sword furnace became even more rich and dense.

He chose to continue strengthening the sword imprint with the feedback essence.

Most importantly, the Huayu (Flower Language) bloodline Yuanyin (Origin Imprint) had clearly been burned, but it could still recover, which was equivalent to getting an imprint for free.

At this time, his overall body had only lost and transformed the Giant Force Imprint. So, his overall Yuanyin count had actually increased by one, from twenty imprints to twenty-one!

With a thought, black, ominous flames ignited on his body.

The flames automatically flowed into his blood vessels, permeated his skin, and fused with his bone marrow.

A terrifying power, far more powerful than before, instantly filled his body.

He didn't know exactly how much stronger this power was, nor did he have a reference point for the time being.

But none of that mattered. What mattered was that he needed to choose his second summoned building.

Three days was enough.

Three days was equivalent to three years in Midraan. Li Cheng颐 went to his teacher, Yin Yue, as soon as possible. From the botanical garden, he once again absorbed new flower energy, and then went to Mo Sha to harvest evil thoughts.

Repeating this process, he finally raised the evolution count of the Jiemao Feilian (Jointed-Stem Flying Monkey Vine) to its final, fifth stage, which was the ultimate form.

This time, he did not immediately burn the Yuanyin. Instead, he chose to retreat into seclusion, waiting for the time when the city gates would be wide open, as the Zhen Bu Daoren (True Lineage Daoist) had said.

Now that he had completed the preliminary test, he planned to maximize the use of Huayu to help himself rapidly improve in the Tian Ju Ge (Heaven Gathering Pavilion) cultivation system.

This completely abandoned his initial path of improvement based on the Evil Flower System.

But he had a vague feeling that this seemed to be the more correct path.

And in the two days that he was quietly cultivating in seclusion, familiarizing himself with his new Zhen Huo (True Fire) realm.

Above the Earth-Moon, in the dark starry sky, suddenly a blurred black shadow tore open space out of thin air, creating a crack, and gently floated out, flying towards the Earth-Moon planet.

The black shadow was draped in a black cloak, and its face was also a dark void, unable to see any features.

Even its eyes did not reflect any light.

It moved swiftly, passing through the atmosphere and clouds, and soon arrived above Yi Country.

Crossing over large tracts of ruins and wasteland, the black shadow soon came to the top of a large, dense sea of trees.

Sunlight illuminated the swaying shadows of the trees.

The sea of trees no longer had the miserable appearance it had after being ravaged by white wax and various dead-angle monsters. Large areas of vegetation had covered and repaired the former wounds.

The surrounding dead-angle monsters had basically been driven away or eliminated by Ming Yuan's people in cooperation with the Garden's powerhouses.

Dead-angle monsters were immortal and indestructible. Even if they were killed, they would be resurrected within their original dead angles. Therefore, the Red God led the powerhouses who had joined the Garden to seal the entrances of the weaker dead angles.

For those that were too strong to seal, high-level experts were dispatched to guard the gates, protecting a range limited to Suiyang City.

There were enough people to go around.

For a time, the entire area around Suiyang quickly became peaceful and stable.

The reappearance of Ming Yuan, bringing peace and stability, attracted a large number of survivors from the periphery to gather.

In just half a month, the city's population had increased by nearly half, attracting almost all the survivors in the surrounding area.

Production activities in all walks of life began to be rebuilt rapidly, and AI-controlled automatic production lines began to quickly cooperate to establish protective safety systems.

"Truly a good dead angle."

The black shadow turned its head slightly, as if scanning the tranquil scene of the sea of trees below.

Then, its gaze fell on Li Cheng颐, who was in the underground base, studying the ultimate form of the Jiemao Feilian with his eyes closed.

"Still resisting the pull of the evil source? Let me help you accelerate it a little."

It stretched out its right hand, its fingers pointed at Li Cheng颐.

"Die sooner, take away the Evil Flower, so that the Original Earth Royal City can return to His Majesty."

It murmured in a low voice, and a pink halo suddenly appeared on the tip of its finger.

If someone could look closely at the halo, they would find that it was actually composed of countless tiny pink flowers.

The pink flowers were like countless fine sands, gathering and dispersing erratically, becoming brighter and brighter.

The surrounding space-time began to rapidly decelerate, solidify, and fall into stillness as the halo brightened.

This was a local space-time solidification technique that only a sage could use.

"Who!?"

Suddenly, a sharp shout.

Inside the underground base, Li Cheng颐 activated Shadow Flash and instantly appeared in mid-air.

He looked up and immediately looked in the direction of the cloaked black shadow.

A sharp sense of threat was rapidly coming from the person's fingertip.

Without the slightest hesitation, Li Cheng颐 condensed a golden sword in his hand, and his figure flickered as he shot out.

Sword Art - Instant Hell!

Chi!!

The golden sword drew a black trace, instantly passing through the black shadow's body, and stopping behind it.

Li Cheng颐's figure also appeared behind the other party at the same time, slowly sheathing his sword.

Bang!!

Countless golden sword lights mixed with Wisdom Sword, exploded from the black shadow's body.

Affection threads bound the surroundings, Wisdom Sword exploded internally, and Instant Hell cut the vital points.

Triple annihilation was constrained by Li Cheng颐's extremely high sword skills, within this small hundred-meter radius.

It did not affect any other area.

But, although he succeeded, there was no joy of relief on his face.

Instead, he quickly distanced himself from the black shadow.

A large amount of Wisdom Sword flew back into his body, but the black shadow remained suspended in mid-air, motionless, and even the pink halo on its finger continued to condense, becoming brighter and brighter. It was not affected in the slightest.

"A very beautiful strike." The black shadow said in a low voice, with a hint of a smile, a hint of pity.

"But unfortunately, you and I are not in the same space-time layer. Below the level of a saint, all attacks are meaningless to us. Ten thousand return to one, eternal and unique. Your attacks, to me, are like a flower in a mirror and the moon in the water. No matter how powerful or gorgeous, they cannot break through the picture and touch my body."

"Saint." Li Cheng颐 suddenly understood why the other party's attack was so slow.

This guy was also condensing an attack from another space-time layer, far away.

"Farewell." The pink light in the black shadow's hand had reached a dazzling level like the sun.

At this time, the others in the base also noticed something was wrong.

Figures rushed out quickly, looking up at the sky.

Fortunately, the team members had returned to their respective dead angles for cultivation. Apart from Li Cheng颐, there were only Garden powerhouses and researchers from Mo Sha here.

"What is that!?"

"That black shadow has no physical form, but the light on its hand can actually radiate and spread! What is the principle!?"

"Don't all gather here, disperse! Pay attention to avoiding the explosion!"

The people from the Garden and Ming Yuan noticed something was wrong and began to open the emergency response system.

A piercing alarm sounded above the forest.

Li Cheng颐 stared intently at the black shadow.

"You are from Bai La (White Wax)!?"

"Hehe." The black shadow neither admitted nor denied it.

Chi!!

In an instant, the surrounding large sea of trees, along with all the powerhouses in the base below, everything at this moment fell into stillness.

The wind stopped flowing.

The water flow stiffened in mid-air, and even the splashing droplets and the dew falling from the leaves were suspended and stopped, like a painting.

In the dark green sea of trees, the branches and leaves were forcibly fixed in place in a strange posture.

Several gray birds flapping their wings out of the branches, opened their mouths and were about to scream.

Everything, at this time, seemed to have been pressed the pause button, losing its dynamics.

Li Cheng颐 in the air was also the same.

He maintained his posture of holding the sword and concentrating, his long hair and windbreaker raised backwards, no longer falling.

His eyeballs were fixed and still, staring at the black shadow without turning, like a wax figure.

Only a little purple-black mark on the back of his hand was still shining with a faint fluorescence.

That was the special mark of the Evil Flower.

At this moment, all the power in his body, Yuanshen Sword Palace, Sword Furnace True Fire, had fallen into absolute stagnation.

Even his thinking, at this moment, almost fell into stagnation.

But only almost.

Just as Li Cheng颐 was about to fall into a standstill, the Evil Flower mark sent out a trace of cool flower energy, quietly protecting the sword furnace inside his Yuanshen Sword Palace.

The sword furnace was the main body of Li Cheng颐's consciousness, the place where his true soul resided.

Under the protection of the flower energy, the true fire in the sword furnace only had a slight movement.

Although it was a very slow burning dynamic, being able to move compared to all other things outside was already an essential difference.

"Hmm? Still able to continue moving under space-time solidification?" The black shadow was slightly surprised, and looked at Li Cheng颐.

Originally, it thought that the immature third generation would at most be easily fixed, and then be catalyzed to death, which would be considered completing the task.

But the reality seemed to have changed.

It pondered for a while, turned around, and flew towards Li Cheng颐.

Ka.

Suddenly a subtle crisp sound came from Li Cheng颐's body.

The black shadow was slightly stunned, shifted its gaze down, and looked at his waist.

A purple jade pendant hanging on Li Cheng颐's waist, was now slowly developing a crack.

A white, subtle, extremely inconspicuous crack.

"This is.!" The black shadow felt something was wrong.

Crack!!

Suddenly a purple lightning flashed across the sky.

The still sky had become overcast at some point, and thick clouds were constantly overlapping.

Thunder rumbled, and the gale roared, unexpectedly breaking free from its saintly stagnation for no reason.

Boom!

Another thunderous roar.

A blue electric arc flashed past, illuminating the depths of the clouds directly above for a moment.

It also illuminated the huge blood-colored human eye in the depths of the clouds, quietly staring at this place.

‘Ju Tian (Gather Heaven)!’

‘Ju Tian!’

‘Ju Tian!’

‘Ju Tian!!’

In an instant, dense and countless chanting voices appeared in the black shadow's mind.

As if at this moment, countless people were sitting around it, chanting these two words cross-legged.

The sound waves seemed to cross all restrictions, frantically drilling into the depths of the black shadow's consciousness, trying to brainwash and enslave it.

"What is this!?" The black shadow's voice was low and tinged with anger. "Tian Ju Ge (Heaven Gathering Pavilion)? A mere upstart force dares to interfere with our layout!?"

"The Original Earth Royal City? It is indeed our predecessors."

Suddenly, a semi-transparent, illusory Daoist appeared in front of Li Cheng颐, blocking the black shadow's gaze.

"Since you know the cause and effect, it's not too late to step aside now." The black shadow said coldly.

The old Daoist chuckled.

"Seeing your aura does have an ancient meaning, respecting you as a senior is looking up to you. You don't really think you have a lot of face?"

"I've long heard that Tian Ju Ge has the heart to unify the connected cities, and now it seems that it is indeed true." The black shadow's tone was icy. "This matter has too much karma, you'd better pretend you don't know, otherwise"

"You have karma, and we also have Zhen Bu (True Lineage) karma. If it were the previous generation, you might still have some face. But this generation... this pavilion is the strongest."

The old Daoist bowed slightly.

"This poor Daoist has traveled through the heavens, and no one has ever dared to ask me to give them face in person."

"You!?" The black shadow raised a pink halo again, obviously angered and about to attack.

Just then, the black clouds in the sky suddenly exploded, pierced through by a purple lightning bolt, and slammed down on the black shadow.

With a loud bang, the black shadow disappeared.

The stagnant space-time suddenly shattered.

Everything returned to flow.

Recommend an old veteran author's new book, the writing is definitely guaranteed, I Conquer Immortals with Strength.

(End of chapter)