The method wasn't using the Black Serpent diagram, but another vortex diagram.

The principle was to make the death energy rotate together at high speed, the faster the better, and then, at the fastest moment, instantly reverse the direction of rotation.

The violent conflict caused by the two forces would produce a large amount of chaos, thereby completely crushing the death energy's imprint inside.

Then, Li Cheng Yi would absorb this part of the energy, which had been transformed into pure death energy, into his body.

This was the Vortex Method.

As Li Cheng Yi focused on absorbing death energy, time passed little by little.

He strengthened the Flower Utterance every twenty minutes.

Li Cheng Yi and the Skeleton Mage sat opposite each other, like true research scholars, carefully studying death energy.

When Li Cheng Yi realized a new insight, he would quickly flip through the book to compare.

His control and understanding of death energy also improved rapidly in such research interaction.

Finally.

He didn't know how much time had passed.

Li Cheng Yi extracted death energy flame from the Skeleton Mage for the ninety-seventh time.

*Tear.*

This time, the death energy in his hand was like tape, fiercely tearing off a large piece of gray flame from the other party's body.

He was slightly stunned and looked up.

He happened to see the Skeleton Mage sitting in place, staring at him, with a kind of inexplicable relief in his dark eye sockets.

Silently, it slowly turned into countless white ashes, shattering and scattering from head to toe.

With a *thud*, only a gray robe was left in place.

Li Cheng Yi was stunned.

Looking at the gray death energy flame, the size of an egg, that had ignited in the palm of his left hand.

He had a strange feeling that the Skeleton Mage might never appear again.

Putting away the death energy, he sighed and continued to study the book.

'Brother, are you still inside?' Iselin's voice came from afar.

'Yes, what's wrong?' Li Cheng Yi replied.

'It's about death energy. I found that this energy and the special energy possessed by the Flower Scale Armor on your body are two completely opposite natures. Last time you asked me why death energy has such a strong damaging effect on the Flower Scale Armor? Just brushing against it will bring damage, this is the answer,' Iselin said quickly.

'Completely opposite?' Li Cheng Yi could now probably understand.

Flower Qi must be a type of life energy, so the saying that death energy is the opposite energy is also correct.

'In addition, my teacher also gave a very high evaluation of the death energy matter.

He replied that this is a composite primitive basic energy. Compared with electromagnetic energy, death energy is a more fundamental part that everything must have. Originally, death energy could not be perceived in other places, it is something outside the Non-Gate.

But the dead corner where you are located can directly contact, observe, and utilize it. Therefore, there is no doubt that the potential of death energy is very great.'

'I understand.' Li Cheng Yi felt relieved. 'It seems that my choice is correct.'

'Yes, so the teacher asked me to ask you if you are interested in going to his place for further study for a period of time,' Iselin said. 'The old man seems to have a great interest in death energy.'

'Yes! I am very interested!' Li Cheng Yi said quickly, 'Until now, Iselin's teacher has indirectly given him a lot of help through Iselin. He has been curious about this extremely mysterious existence for a long time.'

'That's good. The teacher said that because he cannot leave the dead corner, although he is very interested in many things outside, he has no way to obtain samples. This is also one of the reasons why he accepted me as a student. If you can also bring various novel things over, then he will also consider taking you as a student,' Iselin continued.

'I understand. Then, let's make an appointment for a later time. I need to solve the current dead corner first,' Li Cheng Yi said.

'Okay.'

The conversation ended.

Li Cheng Yi stood up, stacked the books, and picked them up.

Iselin's teacher's invitation was an unexpected surprise, but there were also certain dangers.

After all, he didn't know the specific strength of the other party. Judging from Iselin alone, the other party would never be a weakling. Once the other party has malicious intentions…

'Don't think about it, first absorb everything in this dead corner as much as possible.'

After absorbing the Skeleton Mage, Li Cheng Yi did not go in the direction of the angel, but turned around and walked out the door.

There were still a large group of skeleton people outside, and the death energy on them was also the object of his plunder.

The plunder of death energy was itself a confrontation of consciousness, but unfortunately, these skeleton people met Li Cheng Yi.

The strange Flower Utterance ability strongly controlled them, allowing them to willingly offer their death energy for Li Cheng Yi to absorb and devour.

Walking out of the door.

Li Cheng Yi's body flashed with a shadow, and he suddenly disappeared in place, appearing in a group of skeleton people.

'You are already dead.'

He changed his wording.

Compared to 1+1=2, this statement was better disguised.

*Boom!*

Instantly, all the skeleton people and wraiths within twenty meters around him sank into the ground with their legs.

'Obediently offer everything, otherwise, I will grant you complete annihilation.'

After changing it like this, Li Cheng Yi felt that it seemed more appropriate. Although it sounded a bit chuuni, the most important point was to cover up the activation principle of Flower Utterance.

Compared to a slight loss of image, strength was the core.

'Then next'

Li Cheng Yi's heart moved.

He spread out his left hand, and a ball of gray flame the size of a basketball ignited in his palm.

Death energy was like icy water in the body, extremely cold. The temperature was much, much lower than the cool Flower Qi.

Just flowing would bring unstoppable damage to the body.

But fortunately, Li Cheng Yi's physique was extremely strong, and with the constant recovery and healing of the Radiant Force Field, he quickly adapted to this low-temperature damage.

'Then...next, use...' Suddenly, Li Cheng Yi's expression paused, and a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind.

'Wait! The essence of the Absolute Resistance Imprint is to resist targeted damage! Then, I have the evolutionary ability of the Dragon Realm, plus the constant repeated healing of the body by the Radiant Force Field. Can I quickly enhance my body's resistance to death energy through trauma training!?'

The Dragon Realm can allow him to evolve rapidly. Unless he reaches a new limit, this method can be used continuously!

Just like Muay Thai fighters use kicking trees to injure their leg bones, thereby stimulating the body to synthesize stronger bones to resist external damage.

What he was doing at this time was the same principle, but the healing speed of the Radiant Force Field accelerated this process.

Although it would shorten his lifespan, the problem was whether his current lifespan could last for two years, so he couldn't care so much. Moreover, the Shadow Dragon bloodline couldn't possibly have no life-extending effect.

Standing in place, Li Cheng Yi fell into contemplation.

'Constantly using the Radiant Force Field, combined with Dragon Realm evolution, to quickly strengthen my resistance to a certain aspect of damage. If I extend this resistance training to various types of damage, would the final result be the so-called Absolute Resistance Imprint?'

Using Flower Utterance as an auxiliary tool to give himself a much stronger starting point than others.

Flower Utterance, martial arts, and all other systems can ultimately be attributed to the imprint system.

'This method might be feasible. I can try it first, and then improve it after I find the method to obtain the imprint in this dead corner and compare them.'

Relying on the thick skin and flesh of the Shadow Dragon bloodline, and the abnormal recovery power of the Radiant Force Field, Li Cheng Yi slowly walked through the crowd of skeletons. Wherever he passed, pieces of skeletons turned into white ashes.

A large amount of death energy was constantly absorbed into his body.

Flower Utterance was constantly repeated. Although the consumption of consciousness for these low-level skeletons and wraiths, whose strength was far inferior to his, was very small.

But it couldn't stand the large number.

Half an hour later.

Li Cheng Yi stopped absorbing, his expression a little tired. He stood on the edge of a collapsed ruin, looking at the empty dead corner city around him.

The huge amount of death energy was constantly flowing and circulating in his body. This was already the limit.

His consciousness could only control so much death energy, and more would automatically escape from his body.

It's almost time, it's time to find a way to obtain the imprint.

Balance Imprint.

Li Cheng Yi turned around and walked straight towards the direction of the angel.

If he could obtain the method to obtain the Balance Imprint, then coupled with his many Flower Utterance abilities, his strength would undergo a qualitative leap.

He had been stuck at the eighth level for too long.

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In reality, in Yi Country, in the Round Stone County Security Agency.

In the bright white office, Liu Shao Ming, the director of the County Security Agency, stood up and shook hands with Barton.

'I just received a notice of cooperation from the Ethics Committee. You are the survivors who just escaped from Star Lake, right? Mr. Barton?' he asked in a deep voice.

'Yes, please arrange a plane to the provincial capital for us, Director,' Barton nodded.

They had to gain the attention of Yi Country as soon as possible. Relying solely on verbal statements without evidence, it was already good luck to have their asylum application approved by Yi Country.

Therefore, in order not to implicate the other party, they had to go to the strongest region of Yi Country as soon as possible to receive the protection of the strong.

'It's already prepared. The four of you can depart at any time. However, there are no immediately departing flights for the plane, so I have arranged a small aircraft that can directly reach Tong City,' Director Liu Shao Ming said solemnly.

'Thank you so much,' Barton shook his hand forcefully.

'When are you leaving? Why don't you eat something and wash up first?' Liu Shao Ming asked.

'No, the situation is urgent, we'll leave now.'

Barton and the other three left a sentence and quickly left the Security Agency, getting into a white aircraft.

The Security Agency's logo lit up on the side of the aircraft, and it took off into the distance.

'He didn't even have a meal, is he that anxious?' Liu Shao Ming frowned.

'Are you sure they are really from the Ethics Committee?' Vice Director Lin An asked suspiciously from the side.

'I have repeatedly checked, they are indeed, but...' Liu Shao Ming picked up the thermos cup on the table, unscrewed the lid and took a sip of warm water.

Suddenly, his gaze swept to the Security Agency's hall outside the office.

'Huh? Why is it so quiet outside? Weren't there still many people just now?'

'Well, teams five and six just came back, there should be more than a dozen people, right?' Vice Director Lin An frowned and looked at him.

The two of them moved slightly in their hearts, and at the same time, their minds moved.

One raised his arms, and the skin on his arms quickly turned metallic black.

The other raised his hand, and a silver briefcase in the corner rapidly changed, dissolving into an arm-length silver short gun, flying silently to the side.

It's just that neither of them noticed.

Their shadows.

Under the light, they were slowly twisting and trembling, as if afraid of something.

*Whoosh.*

A gust of breeze suddenly rolled up from the enclosed office.

Outside the window, a mud-like black shadow silently drilled into the room from the cracks and pounced on the shadows of the two.

*Thud.*

The lights went out.

Immediately afterwards, there was the sound of two human bodies colliding as they fell to the ground.

Not long after, a black cat with pale golden eyes entered from the Security Agency's gate.

A few minutes later, Liu Shao Ming slowly walked out of the gate. He was wearing sunglasses on his face. Under the sunglasses, there were pale golden dragon pupils that were completely different from before.

'This world, except for a very few, the rest are too weak, like bubbles.'

He spoke in a language that had never appeared on Earth and the Moon.

'Essence blood ran away again... Go, help me find them, catch them.'

He turned his head and looked inside the door.

Inside the Security Agency.

More than a dozen police officers were expressionless, and they all lowered their heads.

Their shadows, reflected on the wall on the side, showed huge monster shadows of crocodile-headed humans.

If Li Cheng Yi were here, he would be able to recognize at a glance that it was the appearance of the crocodile-headed Dragon Descendant he had encountered in the Silent Shop.

(End of this chapter)