Gloomy night sky.

Above Qu Ling Prefecture, a gray-white shadow flashed abruptly, and another person appeared in the courtyard belonging to the Yin Gods within Tianju Pavilion.

Li Cheng Yi was surrounded by white mist, his upper body bare, revealing strong, well-proportioned muscles.

In the center of his chest, three complex and delicate black marks were clearly highlighted.

With his arrival, the temperature of the entire courtyard rapidly climbed, as if in warm spring.

The pale yellow lanterns hanging around were shaken by the swirling airflow, causing the light to flicker, making the silent courtyard seem even more peaceful.

Li Cheng Yi casually beckoned, and a set of spare robes on the corridor railing not far away flew towards him and draped over his body.

With the collection of evil thoughts complete, next should be the evolution of the bloodline.

He was filled with anticipation about the changes that would occur after the Shadow Dragon bloodline was enhanced.

The reason he had previously enhanced his life force tenfold was in preparation for this moment.

He learned from Da Xiong that life force, or vitality, was the foundation of everything. If he used the most powerful life force to evolve his Shadow Dragon bloodline, he would definitely achieve the best results.

Whoosh!

Just as he was about to enter the meditation room, he suddenly stopped and turned around.

Behind him, a person had silently appeared at some unknown time.

An old man with white hair and white eyebrows, wearing a tall black robe with silver moon patterns.

A red vertical mark between the old man's eyebrows faintly radiated red light, and his eyes calmly fell on Li Cheng Yi.

"Master!" Li Cheng Yi's heart tightened, and he quickly clasped his fists and saluted.

"The practice of blood essence and true qi are similar, but the progress is much slower. Ten years of true qi is at most equivalent to one year of blood essence. How is your cultivation of Void Night Travel and the three skills of the Yin Canon?" Yin Yue Zhenren said lightly.

He rarely took the initiative to contact and chat with his disciples, but this time, for some unknown reason, he sought out Li Cheng Yi.

Li Cheng Yi's heart stirred, and he lowered his head and replied.

"There has been some progress, but it is only at the foundation. This disciple is foolish."

He had only been initiated for two years, how could there be any progress? It was obvious that Yin Yue Zhenren was just casually starting a conversation.

Sure enough, Yin Yue immediately changed the subject.

"Bai Lu, speaking of which, since you entered the Tianju Pavilion, your master has not given you any protective treasures." He gently took out a cloud-shaped purple jade pendant from his sleeve and gently tossed it to Li Cheng Yi.

"This is the Ziyun Pendant. It contains a strike from your master. It is extremely precious and should not be used lightly unless absolutely necessary."

Li Cheng Yi quickly caught it, his heart filled with joy. In fact, since he had entered the sect, he could feel that Yin Yue's attitude towards him was somewhat aloof, as if he was observing something.

Now that the observation had finally come to fruition, it was clear that he had been recognized, and that was why he was given a life-saving treasure.

"Just keep it. Speaking of which, your master wants to remind you." Yin Yue continued.

"On this Lieti Fengtian Ranking, the strength of experts is updated with a certain delay. Many experts made their move and had achievements many years ago, but after many years, their actual strength, whether it has increased or decreased, is uncertain. Especially the top ten on both lists. If you encounter them, remember to throw out the Ziyun Pendant immediately and run away."

"This disciple understands." Li Cheng Yi nodded.

"It's good that you understand..." Yin Yue stared at him, his eyes flickering with an unusual color. "You must understand that from the moment you joined Tianju Pavilion, everything before has become the past. You are you...No matter who you were before...Now, you are Bai Lu."

Whoosh.

As soon as he finished speaking, Yin Yue's figure disappeared into thin air.

Leaving Li Cheng Yi alone in the courtyard, lost in thought.

His brow furrowed slightly, faintly suspecting that his master's strength was probably far stronger than what he showed on the surface.

But judging from his record, Yin Yue Zhenren's only record in the Shao Yin Kingdom was that battle against the National Preceptor.

After that, there was no record of any other encounters. So he had reason to suspect that Yin Yue's true strength was stronger than imagined.

Looking at the location where Yin Yue had stood before, Li Cheng Yi vaguely guessed that Yin Yue might already know that he was not a native of the Shao Yin Kingdom. After all, Da Xiong, Chen Jiahan, and this group of subordinates had revealed too many flaws.

Many things, many instincts, were naturally revealed.

But since he was the one who signed the contract, the last sentence was obviously meant for him.

Putting away the Ziyun Pendant, Li Cheng Yi entered the meditation room. Next, he had to complete the evolution, choose a new primary flower, and head to the new dead zone.

The dead zone could not be delayed for too long, lest something happen. Also, Da Xiong should return. In the past two years, the difficulty of her dead zone had probably accumulated a lot.

'Now it seems that using the dead zone to avoid the dead zone is indeed feasible, but it's still like drinking poison to quench thirst, just a temporary measure.'

Entering the meditation room, he lit a candle.

He closed the door and windows, and then placed the Ziyun Pendant on the ground, instantly covering it with death energy, isolating it in a small death energy array.

After doing all this, Li Cheng Yi took a deep breath, adjusted his state, and gently touched the Mark of the Flower of Evil.

At this time, in the slot belonging to Jie Mao Feilian, the evolution of the flower's language had been completed and was waiting to be activated.

This was Jie Mao Feilian's third evolution. From the initial inferior Shadow Dragon bloodline, to weak, to ordinary.

The previous two evolutions had given him bloodline transformations at the level of an ordinary Shadow Dragon.

And this third evolution...what would it be?

'Activate the passive flower's language?'

The Flower of Evil's inquiry came.

'Yes.' Li Cheng Yi responded affirmatively in his heart.

Suddenly, the flower god position of Jie Mao Feilian bloomed with purple-red fluorescence, and a bat-winged dragon shadow like a giant python kept circling and twisting within it.

'Evolution begins...'

Soon, after about ten seconds, the new flower language ability entered his mind.

'Jie Mao Feilian (Contaminated): Perennial plant'

'Flower Language: Shadow Dragon King Bloodline (Those with innate talent among Shadow Dragons, whose talent far exceeds ordinary Shadow Dragons, are Shadow Dragon Kings. Dragon King bloodlines are divided into innate and acquired. Acquired ones can be purified and fused through bloodline, and a Dragon King Ritual can be held to become a Shadow Dragon King bloodline...)'

There was a bunch of subsequent information, all about the introduction of the Shadow Dragon King. Including its abilities and talents.

Li Cheng Yi glanced at it simply, roughly saying that the Shadow Dragon King bloodline was equivalent to the top geniuses of the Shadow Dragon clan. The gap between geniuses and ordinary people was similar to that of humans. Sometimes it was even bigger than the gap between humans and dogs.

"Not bad." He was satisfied in his heart.

He thought it would be something like a superior Shadow Dragon bloodline, but he didn't expect it to be a big step up in bloodline directly.

The collection degree of the flower scale garment below had begun for the fourth evolution.

It was a pity that Jie Mao Feilian's flower energy was used up. He had to re-cultivate a new variant, otherwise...

'Should I wait another two years, cultivate new flower energy, and complete the fourth evolution, or...' Li Cheng Yi hesitated in his heart.

The difficulty of the dead zone was still accumulating, and he was a little unsure.

After hesitating for a while, he quickly made a decision.

"No, I have to go back once, otherwise, even if I can withstand it, Da Xiong will definitely die if I delay it for another year."

He had to go back to Earth-Moon and call Da Xiong back.

After making a decision, he immediately prepared to get up and rehydrate.

Thump!

In an instant, a violent heartbeat exploded from his chest.

In his shadow, it was as if something was trying to struggle out of it.

The black shadow twisted wildly, wriggling, with sharp thorns protruding.

Li Cheng Yi was not surprised but delighted, knowing that this was the Shadow Dragon King bloodline beginning to exert its transformation effect.

Bloodline transformation was never accomplished overnight, but was a continuous process.

He quickly looked at the flower language.

Sure enough.

'Flower Language: Shadow Dragon King Bloodline (Transforming)'

The blood was rapidly cooling down, and a large amount of shadow twisted into a gaseous state, surrounding him and beginning to expand.

The body temperature that had just increased was also rapidly dropping from more than eighty degrees.

Black lines emerged from Li Cheng Yi's body surface, and his entire body began to grow black scales. The scales slowly thickened, exuding black air.

A large amount of black air shrouded his head, condensing into a huge shadow dragon phantom.

However, the shadow dragon was different from ordinary ones. There were a total of nine spike-like horns on its head. Its huge dragon eyes burned with cold black flames, and black smoke came out of its mouth and nose.

The surface of its body was covered with dense black-red cracks. These cracks were all over the scales, emitting black flames, as if they could devour all light.

Apart from these, the most conspicuous thing was a complex and twisted mark that appeared in the center of the dragon's body.

It was an oval shape, containing a flame symbol composed of three comma-shaped jades.

The symbol was looming, but Li Cheng Yi recognized it instantly with his understanding of the true imprints. It was an engraving!

'This is...an innate engraving!!'

He was shocked in his heart.

He thought that the flower language system was independent of the true imprint system, but now it seemed that what he had thought before was somewhat wrong...

He already had three engravings before, and now if he added the innate engraving of the Shadow Dragon King bloodline, he would instantly be at the level of four imprints!

'I didn't expect that the bloodline enhancement would give me such a big surprise...'

With joy in his heart, he quickly sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and cooperated with the bloodline transformation to adjust his physical state and accelerate this change.

Strength did not increase. The Shadow Dragon King bloodline did not increase strength, but it did add a new talent ability and strengthened all the previous talent abilities.

Shadow Shift, Shadow Flash, Breath, Shadow Affinity, all were enhanced.

In terms of physical fitness, what surprised Li Cheng Yi was that the new bloodline actually further strengthened his life force.

He clearly felt that his whole body's energy was stronger and thicker than before. Under the shadow's shroud, it was as if he would never be tired, and his energy and mental power were not depleted at all.

An hour later.

The transformation was initially completed. The strong vitality and the powerful physical body brought about by martial arts greatly shortened the time of the bloodline transformation. This time, it only took two hours to completely complete the transformation.

He sensed the information in the Flower of Evil mark and showed a satisfied smile.

'Flower Language: Shadow Dragon King Bloodline (Talent 1: Advanced Shadow Affinity. Talent 2: Advanced Shadow Flash. Talent 3: Advanced Shadow Substitution. Talent 4: Enhanced Dragon Breath. Talent 5: Shadow Spring)'

'Fourth Evolution Degree of Flower Scale Garment: 0%. Evil Thoughts: 0%.'

Li Cheng Yi quickly checked the information of each talent.

'Advanced Shadow Affinity: Any shadow-related abilities or spells and martial arts will be greatly accelerated during learning.'

'Advanced Shadow Flash: Increases the Shadow Flash distance to 100 meters. The larger the body, the greater the consumption of Shadow Flash and the shorter the distance. Consumption is mainly based on the shadow power within and around the body.'

'Advanced Shadow Substitution: Can more perfectly transform into the other party during Shadow Substitution, reducing the chance of being recognized, and completely recalling all information about the other party from birth to the present.'

'Enhanced Dragon Breath: Your dragon breath will be able to suppress all ordinary Shadow Dragons and burn all shadows. When the shadow disappears, all individuals except shadow-like beings will be forcibly erased by time and space.'

'Shadow Spring: When in shadow, you will enter the shadow layer. All your recovery abilities will be doubled. And you will automatically hide your body's aura.'

(End of this chapter)