Chapter 197 Distant Shadow?

Li Cheng Yi raised an eyebrow. At his current level, there were only a few Gao Keyin powerhouses on this planet who could threaten him.

No, even across two planets, there were only a handful.

"You can call me Xu Meng," the man formed from blue lightning said softly.

"Xu Meng? What is your Distant Shadow's relationship with Li En? What is your relationship with Bai Xing? And what is your relationship with this world?"

Li Cheng Yi's expression was grave.

The first time Distant Shadow appeared, it was with someone who looked like Li En as their representative.

And that squirrel, the King of a Thousand Waters, wasn't it the same as the one he saw in the illusion?

Their figures seemed to be everywhere, yet they seemed to be deeply hidden.

But one thing was certain: Distant Shadow knew a lot of facts, a lot of truths.

"You have disrupted the balance. Originally, we could have ignored you. After all, in a year, everything about you will cease to exist, and your lifespan will only have a little bit left. But..." Xu Meng paused. "I misjudged your speed of development."

"You still haven't answered my questions," Li Cheng Yi said.

"What if I answer? What will you do knowing? Everything is destined to be unchangeable," Xu Meng said.

"You are destined to die here. This will become an unchangeable fact. Everything needs to be corrected." He raised his hand, and a strange, deep blue book with black characters appeared in his palm.

The book was initially only the size of a palm, but it quickly began to grow rapidly over time.

*Pa*.

Li Cheng Yi didn't speak. The Five Seals were indeed very powerful.

So...

He silently took out a cloud-shaped jade pendant.

Dense purple light began to flash rapidly on the jade pendant.

At the same time, countless dark clouds above the entire Sky City were completely dispelled.

Replaced by even more purple mist that appeared out of thin air.

The thick fog rapidly enveloped everything around it.

In the mist above, a huge, blurred figure of an old man was slowly approaching from a distance.

He carried a long sword, wore a Daoist robe, and had dazzling golden light shining between his eyebrows.

"So, what I hate most is you wretches who speak cryptically and don't explain anything clearly!"

Li Cheng Yi sneered.

He might not be able to defeat the Five Seals, so he simply called for backup.

Turning around, he cupped his fists and saluted the sky.

"Disciple Bai Lu, respectfully requests the descent of Master's Dharma Intent!"

The thick fog enveloped the entire Sky City.

*Buzz!!!*

Suddenly, an unimaginable terrifying pressure descended from the sky, like an invisible ocean, slamming heavily into the city.

The air changed from a gaseous state to a solid state, revealing large transparent cracks.

The ground cracked, revealing fissures of unknown depth.

Tall buildings swayed, and large amounts of electronic equipment exploded, shattered, and dissolved into the purple mist.

The New Humans throughout the city were enveloped in mist, completely unable to carry out normal life and work.

The fighter jets and cyborg warriors flying around the battlefield in the sky lost power and fell like iron blocks.

Some crashed into buildings, and some rolled down the building seams, smashing into countless vehicles and killing or injuring the living people inside.

The lights went out, and the energy decayed.

In just a few seconds, the vast Sky City fell into absolute panic.

"This kind of power...!!" Xu Meng and the others' faces, shrouded in light, changed slightly.

"It's an Yinhuan (Imprint Ring) - at least a Shenhuo (Divine Fire) level old monster!!" Mi Na, the woman in white light who was responsible for carrying the Concealment Stone, said urgently.

At this moment, she was also looking at the approaching phantom of the old Daoist in the sky. Although she had abandoned her body's consciousness, she still felt a chilling sense of fear.

The earth began to shake and tremble.

The purple mist became thicker and thicker, almost to the point where one could not see their fingers.

Xu Meng finally couldn't maintain his composure and quickly looked towards Li Cheng Yi.

"Are you crazy!? Do you want to completely destroy the entire Sky City!?"

"Do you want to completely kill the tens of millions of people in the city!?"

"They will die because of you." Li Cheng Yi's expression was calm. He turned to look at the other party, the jade pendant in his hand still shining with dazzling purple light.

"Stop!!" Seeing that the purple mist was about to solidify and turn into purple raindrops,

Xu Meng finally couldn't bear it.

"Tell me what you want to know! I'll tell you everything I can!!" His voice was transmitted to Li Cheng Yi's ears through some special ability.

At this moment, even sound could no longer be transmitted through the air.

The entire Sky City had become deathly silent.

All sound waves were blocked, and everything was about to return to nothingness.

This vast mechanical city, with a diameter of at least a hundred kilometers, could possibly be completely destroyed simply because of a jade pendant.

Even Li Cheng Yi himself hadn't expected such power.

Confirming that the other party had yielded, he quickly put away the jade pendant.

The moment the jade pendant was put away, the surrounding purple mist faded and disappeared.

The mist above slowly dissipated, and the blurred figure of Yin Yue Zhenren (True Man of the Yin Moon) gradually faded and disappeared.

The countless energy lights in Sky City lit up, returning to normal.

Apart from those fighter jets and cyborgs that had lost power and crashed, and the unlucky ones who had been smashed to death,

Everything seemed to have never happened, returning to its original state.

The purple mist disappeared, and the surrounding sky was clear.

The cyborgs and fighter jets that had been besieging them had all disappeared.

Only Li Cheng Yi and Xu Meng were present on the rooftop of the White Emperor's Palace, which had been turned into ruins.

The black squirrel shrunk its body and returned behind Xu Meng, standing with the white-light woman, Mi Na.

Xu Meng had lost his composure, his face under the blue lightning was somewhat distorted as he stared at Li Cheng Yi.

"What do you want to know?"

"The previous questions," Li Cheng Yi said coldly, staring at him.

"...Under the restrictions of Taboo Knowledge, I can't say much." Xu Meng took a deep breath and exhaled a stream of blue ionized gas.

"I can only tell you that Distant Shadow is composed of people who hope to maintain the balance of the world. We don't distinguish between races or types. Whether human or not, we all guard everything for one goal."

"We are the last line of defense for this world. This world is vast, but also small. The infinite starry sky seems within reach, but it is far beyond our reach. We can never get close."

"Li En... is also one of us, but he is one of the two who came closest to succeeding. The first was the founder of Distant Shadow, Lan Meng."

"Founder?" Li Cheng Yi's eyes narrowed.

"Let's talk somewhere else, if you don't want the people listening to die tragically," Xu Meng sighed. "We possess too much knowledge. Even the slightest negative influence from Taboo Knowledge can cause a life that is eavesdropping to die instantly in an accident."

"That's why we in Distant Shadow have to conceal ourselves and minimize contact with ordinary society as much as possible. Even just chatting may put the surrounding mortals in mortal danger."

"Oh, right, the Concealment Stone," Li Cheng Yi reminded.

Xu Meng twitched his face and nodded, suppressing his anger.

"Don't worry."

"Mi Na, I'm troubling you," he turned to look at his side.

"Okay. Please do not resist," the white-light woman said, looking at Li Cheng Yi.

She raised her hand and extended four fingers, each finger tip lighting up with a point of black light.

*Chi!!*

Four black lights shot towards the four people.

The black light enlarged, turning into four black balls, engulfing the four people.

In the blink of an eye, the black balls disappeared, and the four people also disappeared from the spot.

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Red Rock Star - Surface.

The dark red sand dunes stretched as far as the eye could see, seemingly connected to the ends of the earth.

This was an endless desert, without any man-made traces. Two huge planets floated quietly overhead, one white and one blue.

"Those are Earth's moon and Bai Xing."

Black light flashed, and four figures appeared on the sand.

Xu Meng looked up at the planets in the sky and said in a low voice.

"When Li En left, in order to try to circumvent the Taboo Knowledge, he passed down the only hope by dividing his memories into hundreds of thousands of parts, which he gave to hundreds of thousands of clones. Therefore, the Li En Division is now one of the most important divisions of Distant Shadow. All of them are regarded as one person."

"And the real Li En has already disappeared. The only Taboo Knowledge that can get rid of the blind spot and escape destruction can only be mastered by an individual. He mastered it, but he couldn't do it. So..."

Xu Meng said in a deep voice.

"Why couldn't he do it?" Li Cheng Yi frowned and asked.

He had been pursuing this hope for so long, just to get rid of the blind spot, but now the other party was telling him that he couldn't do it?

"I don't know." Xu Meng shook his head. "Only Lan Meng and Li En knew, but neither of them could do it. Li En was okay, but Lan Meng's strength was extremely terrifying. He was possibly the strongest individual to ever appear in the entire world. Even he couldn't..."

"So, none of you dare to try? You don't even have the courage to learn that Taboo Knowledge?" Li Cheng Yi said coldly.

"What do you know!? If you knew but couldn't do it, what would you do? Run away with the only hope? Escape to the Black Sea? We are not Li En and Lan Meng, and we have no way to escape from here!"

The black squirrel said angrily.

"At that time! The only ending is death! Only by disappearing and dying can the Taboo Knowledge be passed down!"

"So, you are so afraid of the unknown possibility that you don't even dare to take a step forward without even knowing what to do?" Li Cheng Yi sneered.

"Since maintaining the balance can allow everyone to live safely, why seek death!?" The black squirrel argued.

"The world is destined to move towards destruction. This is the origin of the name 'Blind Spot,' but this is not our unique destiny. In the Black Sea, countless blind spots are disappearing and being reborn every moment. This is fate's arrangement! It cannot be changed!" Xu Meng also said.

"Isn't a person born to grow old and die?" Li Cheng Yi said, "What's the difference between that and the world?"

"It's different... Once the world is unbalanced, if the fixed structure is damaged too much, everything will restart," Xu Meng shook his head.

"Forget it, I don't care what you do. Tell me how to get rid of the blind spot entanglement on me." Li Cheng Yi stopped talking nonsense and directly stated his core purpose.

"Integrate into us, or leave completely. Before you learn the most crucial Taboo Knowledge, you can have these two choices," Xu Meng replied.

"If there are such safe choices, then why didn't Lan Meng and Li En choose them?" Li Cheng Yi asked rhetorically.

"..."

This question made the three of them silent.

The anger on the black squirrel's face dimmed.

Mi Na lowered her head, and the light on her body faintly dimmed.

The wind and sand blew, and only the whistling wind echoed in the dark red desert for a time.

After a long while,

Xu Meng spoke again.

"Because... whether you leave and enter the Black Sea, or stay and join Distant Shadow, you will gradually become an undead creature and begin to constantly lose your sanity. Until... you completely degenerate into a blind spot monster and exist forever."

"In the past, Distant Shadow was far more than just these people... but now, they have all disappeared, and we have sealed them into the Exile Space to avoid affecting reality," Mi Na continued.

"Are you talking about a place like Yunshan?" Li Cheng Yi suddenly reacted.

"We guided outsiders to create many blind spots as exclusive spaces to place them," Mi Na affirmed.

"..." At this point, Li Cheng Yi already understood what kind of people the so-called Distant Shadow were.

This was a group of pitiful people who, in order to survive, had to integrate with the blind spot, had to maintain the balance of the world, and were losers who were forced to hide in the shadows, unable to see the light.

From them, he also learned a new piece of information.

That was that many of the monsters in the blind spot were not without reason from the beginning. Instead, over time, they slowly and completely lost everything and turned into monsters.

(End of Chapter)