The image was transmitted quickly, and within a few minutes, a dictionary of several hundred pages was completed.

'Brother, studying is studying, but please remember, with any system, any knowledge, you must first determine your specific goals.

The mysteries of knowledge, the wondrous beauty, are themselves a strong temptation. It is a kind of desire, and if you don't restrain it, you will also become addicted, thus going in the wrong direction,' Iselin reminded.

'I understand, thank you, Iselin,' Li Cheng Yi said earnestly. 'When I get back, I'll coat your whole body with the best maintenance cream.'

'...' Iselin didn't reply.

Whether it was shyness or something else, as her body slowly grew, her personality seemed different from before.

Li Cheng Yi didn't feel anything, still treating her as the little girl she once was.

After receiving all the dictionaries, he quickly began to cross-reference them with the gray book in his hand.

'Speaking of which, if there are no monsters in the blind spot, it's actually very quiet...very suitable for studying. The flow of time is also different; one hour here might be one minute outside, or even less.'

Looking at the book, this thought flashed through Li Cheng Yi's mind.

'If I could really use the blind spot to create a safe zone exclusively for me...allowing all the doomed blind spot people to enter the safe zone to live and continue their lives when they can't escape. And occasionally communicate with the outside world through the blind spot people who come and go...'

He dismissed the thought.

He focused on translating the book in his hand.

*The Basics of Death Energy Explained*

This was the full name of the gray booklet given to him by the Skeleton Mage. The author was unknown.

Opening the first page, there was a mark of the serpent tree.

The second page was a hexagonal pool pattern.

Around the pool were black lines pointing to text markers.

Below was an explanation.

'From the beginning of its discovery, death energy has shown unparalleled isolation.'

'The priests of the church also call it dull energy.'

'In the absence of undead bones to adhere to, death energy will instinctively condense together, increasing its density, gradually entering a state of high invisibility, and finally merging into the Black Sea.'

'We cannot observe how death energy appears, how it is produced, just as we cannot find the answer to the question of how we ourselves appeared.'

'But the extreme inactivity and isolation of death energy allow us to use it to create special experimental devices that were previously impossible to create. For example: single-element pools.'

Li Cheng Yi looked at it and translated the smaller line of text below: Death Energy Application Appendix.

He continued to turn to the next page.

Below was a pattern he was quite familiar with.

A bone angel.

There were many annotations around it.

At the bottom was marked: Advanced Death Energy Angel Production Diagram.

'Tsk tsk...sure enough, those two kinds of angels were really created by these guys.' Li Cheng Yi marveled in his heart.

It must be said that this death energy civilization was truly powerful. It's a pity that such a powerful civilization also disappeared into the vast Black Sea, becoming one of the abandoned blind spots.

One can imagine how terrifying the dangers they encountered were.

He continued to turn the pages.

Because he had to cross-reference the dictionary one by one, even though his physique was strong and his bloodline amazing, translating a page of the book still took several minutes.

Time flew by.

To prevent himself from forgetting, Li Cheng Yi simply engraved the contents of the dictionary on the empty space on the wall, and then translated the gray book in detail.

Unknowingly, more than ten hours passed on the mechanical watch.

He had roughly translated the detailed learning method for death energy.

Based on death energy, the church in this blind spot had summarized an elemental decay table.

Energy elements will continuously radiate, decay, and integrate into the surrounding environment over time, thereby forming a balance.

The extreme characteristic of death energy decaying only a little bit every hundreds of millions of years made it the bottom zero point of this elemental decay table.

With death energy as the foundation, the church above had summarized hundreds of densely packed single elements.

From bottom to top, the decay rate would become faster and faster.

Because the names of these single elements had no meaning, they were all just pronunciations, Li Cheng Yi simply numbered them according to the numbers, too lazy to remember the names.

'Isn't this the periodic table of elements?' Li Cheng Yi instantly thought of the knowledge he had learned, but it was the Black Sea version.

In addition to the decay table, the gray booklet also recorded a meditation method called Silent Meditation.

It was a basic method specifically for entering death energy.

The method was very simple.

Let a part of your limbs and flesh completely die, becoming a corpse.

In a place where death energy exists, let your flesh slowly die, thereby attracting death energy into your body, and then repeatedly perceive it, and finally gain mastery.

The more death energy your body stores, the easier it is to gain mastery.

Seeing this, Li Cheng Yi suddenly thought of Iselin's words.

Any power will have a price.

And the price of mastering death energy is the permanent loss of a part of one's own flesh and limbs.

'Doing it this way, these guys who have mastered death energy are probably all going to have to mutilate themselves. The better the aptitude, the less self-mutilation, the worse the aptitude, the more self-mutilation.'

Li Cheng Yi sighed in his heart.

He now mastered many Flower Languages, and his power had begun to become chaotic.

Various abilities, various flower scale armors, as well as bloodlines and cultivation methods. Ying Long Sword, the Dragon Realm of martial arts, etc.

After reading this booklet, he was inspired and vaguely had an idea.

'They used death energy to create exaggerated weapons like Death Energy Angels. So what about me?'

'The foundation of everything in Flower Language is flower energy (huaqi). If I want to walk my own path, I can't rely on flower energy as the main focus, but only let it be auxiliary. Therefore, the power of the Holy Spirit Art and the bloodline both originate from flower energy, so they can't be the main focus either. They can only assist.'

'That is to say, the only choices I have are the path of flesh evolution in the Dragon Realm and the death energy of this completely new system in front of me.'

'This way, even if the Evil Flower disappears, I can still have my own powerful power. And it's a power that can be used in the blind spot.'

Thinking of this, Li Cheng Yi suddenly felt that his previous worries were swept away at this moment.

After determining that flesh evolution was the main focus, he looked at death energy and the many Flower Languages of the Evil Flower again.

Suddenly he had a different feeling.

He picked up the other books he found and continued to translate them.

The remaining three books were *Ghost Observation Records*, *Hypotheses about the Underworld*, and *Introduction to the Black Sea*.

Among the three books, Li Cheng Yi first translated *Introduction to the Black Sea*.

After only translating a small section, he was sure that he had found a treasure.

In a great mood, he actually became subtly addicted to this process of focused research and learning.

The opening of *Introduction to the Black Sea* mentioned engraved characteristics.

The first sentence shocked Li Cheng Yi.

'Any Black Sea entity, after its own essence has become powerful to a certain extent, will inevitably develop characteristics.

The characteristics exist in the body in the form of imprints. According to observations, the initial first characteristic of some Black Sea creatures should be shadow-shifting and flickering displacement, rather than the previously discovered complete resistance.

This is a special ability that naturally appears when a Black Sea creature becomes powerful to the first imprint stage. It can jump short distances to any location where shadows exist. The cooling time is determined by one's own physique.'

'Isn't this... Shadow Flash!?'

Li Cheng Yi was shocked.

This was the second time he had seen this sentence. The information that Syndra gave him also mentioned this imprint.

However, the information Syndra gave him did not mention Shadow Flash. Instead, it mentioned complete resistance, super-speed recovery, and rejection. Three characteristics.

Thinking of this, Li Cheng Yi continued reading.

And the next paragraph truly changed his expression slightly.

'All things have birth and death, and the day the world falls is getting closer and closer. Any energy source also has birth and death. Archbishop Siver sacrificed himself, and before completely disappearing, finally found the imprint—Balance—and found a way to transfer it to himself.'

'Hall of Secrets, Oshus followed closely behind, at the cost of his life, and found a way to obtain the second imprint—Complete Resistance.'

'We saw hope, but the Black Sea is boundless, and everything is already too late.'

'Everything has imprints, and imprints represent your position in the universe.'

'The universe is dispersing, and we must gather. The power of the two must be balanced in order to avoid falling into the Black Sea.'

'From this point of view, imprinted characteristics may not be unique to the Black Sea, but rather the final dying radiance of the universe.'

'We have now found six imprints, but that does not mean that there are only six imprints. If anyone can see this book, I hope they can supplement more on this basis and point the way for more latercomers.'

Closing the last page.

Li Cheng Yi had an overall understanding of everything about himself.

'No matter how many Flower Language powers and cultivation methods I master, they can all be classified into the imprinted characteristic system.'

Whether it's various Flower Languages, the Seven Intent Holy Spirit Art, or the Shadow Dragon bloodline, no matter how many fancy things there are, it's not an imprint until it is.

Even if you pile up more afterwards, you may not be able to move to a higher position.

In the past, he had no related direction, but now, in this special blind spot, he accidentally found a special system of a world that had already been destroyed.

And with this, he can determine the direction he will go in the future.

Find imprinted characteristics, obtain them, and strengthen them.

He thought that the Seven Intent Holy Spirit Art seemed to be the same. When cultivated to the later stages, it would naturally obtain some characteristics similar to imprints, such as the Faceless Scholar's second attack immunity and the Indestructible characteristic. They were all like this.

And the Shadow Flash characteristic of the Shadow Dragon bloodline seemed to be the same. Its acquisition of a stronger flesh body to resist various attack threats seemed to be the direction of absolute resistance.

The fighting martial arts were also the same, following the direction of absolute resistance.

As for Flower Language, he couldn't see any pattern yet. Some were of the imprinted characteristic type, and others were different. He still needed to observe them later.

Looking at it this way, it seemed that all his abilities could be attributed to this system.

The imprinted characteristic system.

Closing the book, Li Cheng Yi took a deep breath, stood up, turned around, and looked at the stairway leading upstairs.

It wasn't that he didn't want to continue reading, but he didn't have time.

*Ka.*

At the staircase on the second floor, a new, complete Balance Angel slowly emerged.

It seemed to appear out of thin air, from transparent to solid, without needing any material to condense. It just popped out like this, sitting on the steps, maintaining the posture it had when they first met.

"Since it's been reshaped, then let's do it again."

The Sword Orchid Ultimate Body flower scale armor appeared on Li Cheng Yi's body.

This time, he planned to carefully observe the details of the so-called imprinted characteristics.

The Balance Angel was a very good test subject.

As long as he understood how the Death Angel Church transferred the imprint to the angel, then he could transfer it to himself too!

(End of chapter)