This change was like a tightly locked door suddenly opening a crack.

If it were before, when Li Cheng Yi didn't have such a strong understanding of the shadows, he wouldn't have felt anything.

But now, after studying the entrance for so long and coming up with many tricks in shadow manipulation, he instantly saw a glimmer of opportunity.

Sitting in his office chair, he raised a hand and pointed.

Immediately, streams of Wisdom Swords shot into the gap at high speed. The Wisdom Swords were condensed from mental energy and could be as large or as small as Li Cheng Yi subjectively decided. His limit of observation was the limit of the Wisdom Sword's thickness.

The Wisdom Swords, one after another, turned into a silk thread, rushed into the gap, and condensed into a blurry, transparent figure in the dark space on the other side.

'Although I can't enter in my true body, it's not bad to enter with my primordial spirit.'

Li Cheng Yi raised his hand and looked at himself. Now his body was condensed from a large amount of Wisdom Sword mental energy. It was a sub-body separated from the primordial spirit Sword Palace.

Although his strength was only one-third of his true body, it was enough.

Just exploring the Dragon Lair, this much power was enough.

Immediately, with a thought, he flew toward the depths of the shadow Dragon Lair.

Suddenly, the black mist churned, and the shadows in front dispersed, revealing a vast gray-white plain.

The ground was covered with gray-white powdery substance. A black monster with a huge horn and multiple wings was quietly趴 (pa) on the ground, snoring loudly.

Li Cheng Yi raised his hand. Without saying a word, a Wisdom Sword burst out from his palm, silently crossing thousands of meters and hitting the monster's head hard.

Regardless of the consequences, he would strike first. Even if he were to subdue subordinates, he didn't need the weak.

Anyone who couldn't withstand a casual blow with one-third of his normal strength could just die.

He didn't care about the existences within the Dragon Lair anyway. They were all a bunch of unforgivable villains.

*

*

*

The divine kingdom of Wu Di, the God of Mountains and Hills.

As the strongest representative of the middle-level divine power within the Pure White God System, Wu Di, the Mountain God, originated from the East and was a righteous immortal Dao inheritor who was conferred as a god.

His divine kingdom also upheld this style, built like a fairyland, with pavilions and towers, undulating mountains, lush and natural land, floating celestial palaces in the sky, misty clouds, and the occasional chiming of ancient bells.

Taoists in groups flew through the air or rode cranes westward.

At the highest point in the mountains, inside a pure gold divine palace as dazzling as the sun.

Wu Di wore a tall crown and a black robe, his face as beautiful as jade, his skin like凝脂 (ning zhi, congealed fat), surrounded by wisps of pure mountain divine power, which occasionally transformed into cyan-black ribbons, adorned with glittering golden divine patterns, constantly dancing.

He was调息 (tiao xi, regulating his breathing) his inner energy, purifying and refining the radiated divine power of the faith flame, making it more pure and storing it.

This was an unavoidable path for every deity. When the divine power reserves were sufficient, they would be qualified to expand the scope of their divine duties, thereby modifying their divine personality and enhancing their divine flame.

The size and direction of the divine duties determined the solidity and size of the divine personality.

The divine personality was like a stove, also determining the strength and purity of the divine flame within it.

One link after another, the deities would make a fuss about these links, striving to be the best in every link as much as possible.

"A guest has arrived." Suddenly, Wu Di slightly opened his eyes, his pure gold divine eyes looking into the distance.

The several Daoist boys in the divine palace quickly got up and went to greet the guest.

However, after a while, the three Daoist boys returned, puzzled.

"Divine Master, we didn't find any guests entering outside?"

Wu Di frowned slightly, wanting to speak.

嘭!

Suddenly, the three Daoist boys in front of him suddenly exploded like balloons.

The exploded bodies were not flesh and blood, but gray-white, sticky liquid like wax.

Countless wax liquids splashed around, adhering to the inner walls and ground of the divine palace.

Wherever it reached, all the faint and ethereal divine light dimmed and went out.

Not only that, outside the divine palace, countless active Holy Spirits suddenly exploded for no reason, turning into countless wax liquids, splashing and scattering.

"White Wax!!? Are you crazy!?" Wu Di was shocked and stood up abruptly, roaring in anger.

At the same time, he quickly lit up purple magic treasures around him to protect himself.

He tried to send out a message, but the entire divine kingdom was completely sealed off.

The inner surface of the divine kingdom, like a giant胎衣 (tai yi, fetal membrane), was covered with a thick layer of white wax at some unknown time.

It was this layer of white wax that isolated all messages and signals.

At this moment, a gray-white humanoid figure, its head resembling a white bonsai with countless branches, floated out of thin air above the divine palace.

"You're the first." The tree-headed humanoid figure pounced down, and the whole person disappeared into the divine palace in the blink of an eye.

Not long after, bursts of surprised and angry roars and huge explosions came from inside.

But everything was sealed within the thick white wax, unable to leak out.

About a few minutes later, everything returned to calm.

Wu Di, the Mountain God, slowly opened the gate of the divine palace, flew out, his face still as usual, peaceful and calm, and left towards the outside of the divine kingdom.

The direction he went was the divine kingdom of another middle-level divine power god, the Ice and Snow God.

*

*

*

Shadow Dragon Lair.

Rumble!

With a loud noise, a jet-black giant beast resembling a whale slammed heavily onto the black earth, on the verge of death.

The giant beast was covered in wounds. Its original terrifying self-healing power seemed to be fixed by something at this moment, without any movement.

Li Cheng Yi crossed his arms and floated in mid-air, overlooking the opponent.

This was the ingenious application of the new Flower Utterance ability, Eternal Sleep.

The effect of Eternal Sleep was now very powerful. Compared to the initial Flower Utterance ability, which could only strongly control monsters for a moment, it was simply not the same thing.

Eternal Sleep had a 50% chance to make Li Cheng Yi's hands, or the attacks launched by his hands, also carry the effect of Eternal Sleep.

The range and strength of this effect were completely controlled by Li Cheng Yi himself.

After many tests, he found that the effective range of Eternal Sleep was directly proportional to the activation time.

'Sure enough, the faster the activation requirement, the smaller the range. But it doesn't matter, I only need the range to be reduced to the range of my attacks.'

'Like this...'

Li Cheng Yi once again moved his mind, condensing a new Wisdom Sword, which appeared out of thin air in front of the giant beast and stabbed fiercely into its body surface.

Aowu!

The giant beast, unable to resist, let out a painful scream, but dared not fight back.

The bloodied wound that was stabbed out showed no signs of the initial rapid healing, but was completely fixed, as if a transparent, invisible glass tube had been inserted into the wound, supporting it and preventing it from closing.

Fresh blood spurted out from the internal blood vessels, but the healing ability took effect on the innermost blood vessels, quickly stopping the bleeding and reducing the amount of blood loss.

Seeing this scene, Li Cheng Yi nodded with satisfaction.

'Eternal Sleep can be used as a special means to suppress the opponent's regeneration ability. This is a pleasant surprise.'

Making the opponent's wound eternally sleep, fixed and immobile, completely losing its healing ability, this kind of application instantly made Eternal Sleep's practicality a lot higher.

It was especially suitable for the standard strong regeneration power of this world.

Leaving a strand of mental energy in the giant beast's mind at will, and accepting its surrender with resentment, Li Cheng Yi continued to leave this cage and head to the next.

In the few days since entering this place, he had successively contacted more than thirty cages, subduing or suppressing twenty-nine powerful beings.

The weakest of them were also Gold-level like the Gem Dragon Buduna, and the strong ones were directly Demigods, and even two Evil Gods and True Gods with weak divine power.

These Evil Gods were surrounded by countless resentments, which were malicious mental energies generated by slaughtering countless innocent people and victims.

And only extreme hatred could make mental energy extremely condensed and persistent.

This meant that the sins committed by these two Evil Gods were extremely profound.

But what Li Cheng Yi was most happy about was suppressing these two Evil Gods.

Because such cases were extremely rare, he was preparing to study how to transfer evil thoughts from other individuals and absorb them into himself.

So these two, one Dream God and one Plague God, just happened to become his experimental subjects.

Within the Shadow Dragon Lair, one powerful ancient evil being after another was being released. At this time, the power of Li Cheng Yi's garden had expanded and grown even larger than before.

He was also rapidly eroding the divine kingdoms of the Elf God System outside.

Under threat and coercion, he mobilized the gods and quietly controlled a middle-level divine power Elf God named the God of Murals and Sculptures.

But with the rapid increase in the number of strong people under his command, the influence of the Garden was becoming a little uncontrollable.

After all, so many Gold-level, Demigods, and Gods, acting everywhere, the chaos they would cause was unimaginable.

All the turmoil was concentrated in the Venus Federation, which caused the entire Federation to fall into chaos.

With Li Cheng Yi's deterrence and threats, the Garden's strongmen did not dare to attack kind and righteous individuals, but were ruthless towards various criminals who committed evil deeds.

Attacks, explosions, and murders continued to break out around the Federation.

As the strongmen within the Shadow Dragon Lair were continuously released, the Garden's sphere of influence gradually became dissatisfied with the Venus Federation and began to spread and infiltrate into other countries in Anzer.

All resisters and those who tried to investigate deeply either mysteriously disappeared or lost their memories and were completely unaware.

The Hunters tried to mobilize favors, asking the clergy of the Sunlight Council to investigate and consult the True God.

But unfortunately, even the divine oracle only gave the order to avoid conflict and keep to their own duties.

As time went by, half a year passed in the blink of an eye.

The power of the Garden grew like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger. Although they only operated in the shadows and did not interfere with the operation of everything in the daytime, the increasingly thick and vast deep shadow made the Gods Alliance and the War God System restless.

The two major God Systems held several internal meetings, but failed to initiate a joint investigation due to insufficient votes.

They could only watch helplessly as the sphere of influence of the Garden became larger and larger. A large number of strongmen loomed, making people feel frightened.

On the other side, the Pure White God System's offensive, the Holy War, had also inexplicably slowed down a lot.

One elite team after another, heading to arrange the destruction ritual table, quietly went to various countries and regions in Anzer under such circumstances.

Within these teams, the shadow of White Wax was also silently eroding the inherent power of the Pure White God System.

At this point, the world began to be gradually shrouded by two mysterious and strange shadows.

(End of chapter)