That's the Dragon King's bloodline?


Li Cheng颐's feeling at this moment was...


Jackpot!!


The joy he suppressed in his heart surged uncontrollably.


高等影替 (Gao Deng Ying Ti, Higher Shadow Substitute) aside, the key was the enhancement of the Dragon Breath and Shadow Spring talents, which were the most practical.


The enhanced Dragon Breath was already similar to Xiao Zong's talent bloodline ability, capable of burning the enemy's shadows.


This ability was undoubtedly a weapon with great lethality for many fire-resistant enemies.


And the Shadow Spring gave him extremely powerful stealth ability, and doubled his own recovery power. With his current recovery speed, it was simply a strong enhancement, and he didn't even know what effect it could achieve.


This was survival ability maxed out.


Now, Li Cheng颐 had much more confidence in that unknown new Dead Zone.


‘Next, it’s time to familiarize myself with these talents… Then, find a new main flower to fill the tenth Flower God position.’


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Two days later.


Several dozen kilometers outside Qu Ling Prefecture, in a deserted village.


Li Cheng颐 and Da Xiong landed gently, looking around.


"Wait a moment."


Li Cheng颐 waved his right hand.


A piece of death energy flame suddenly scattered around, sweeping through the entire village.


After confirming that there were no other living things, he looked down at the ground again.


Chi.


The black shadow flickered, and he had disappeared from the spot, appearing in the deep soil layer 100 meters underground.


The powerful body strength forcibly squeezed open the surrounding black soil.


In an instant, Li Cheng颐's main body changed, his body rapidly swelled and grew larger, forcibly squeezing open the surrounding black soil, and soon formed a spacious cave more than 30 meters high and more than 10 meters wide.


Then he opened his mouth and spat out, and a black-red dragon's breath roared out, burning the surrounding cave walls.


The high temperature scorched the cave walls into a crystalline state.


After doing this, he waved his hand to disperse death energy, and the gray death energy began to cool down, lowering the temperature inside the cave to a range that the human body could withstand.


In this way, in just a few tens of seconds, a small cave hidden underground was built.


Then, going up, a several-meter-long golden sword appeared in his hand, aimed at the top, and stabbed it fiercely.


Before long, the golden sword broke through the black soil all the way, penetrated the soil layer, and broke out of the ground from the surface.


Poof!!


A large amount of black soil scattered, Li Cheng颐 returned to the surface, and white blood essence wrapped Da Xiong, and then drilled into the underground along the passage that had just been opened.


A few seconds later, the two came to the underground cave, and the black soil above their heads returned to its original state.


"From now on, we'll use this place as our fixed point for going back and forth," said Li Cheng颐.


Da Xiong had also practiced true qi now, but her cultivation was only two years, and although the intensity was assisted by a large number of resource drugs, she was only slightly stronger than ordinary true qi martial artists. Two years was equivalent to other people's three years.


The gap with a genius like Li Cheng颐 was naturally extremely large.


"Understood." She looked at the surrounding environment, and then focused her attention on Li Cheng颐.


"If the difficulty of the Dead Zone wouldn't accumulate, I would really like to keep researching everything here... Anyway, besides everyone in the team, there's no one I care about over there."


"You can come anytime if you have the chance, but now you have to go back." Li Cheng颐 adjusted his state and noticed that Da Xiong seemed to have undergone a lot of changes.


Compared with when she first came, her skin was much better all over her body, and her aura was much more mixed and powerful than before, giving people a faint... inhuman feeling.


"You're experimenting on your own body?" Li Cheng颐 suddenly said.


"Well... I made a few small changes... I merged the Yuan Tai No. 6 virus that I recently cultivated." Da Xiong replied with a smile.


"How's the improvement? What are the benefits?"


"I can't compare to Brother Yi. There's an upper limit to virus enhancement." Da Xiong smiled.


"Forget it if you don't want to say it. This time when I go back, I'll summon you over immediately, and then I may be pulled into the Dead Zone soon. You keep an eye on the situation on the Earth-Moon side for me. Is that okay?"


"No problem." Da Xiong nodded. She looked at Li Cheng颐, "So, what do I need to do? Get a little closer to you?"


She took the initiative to lean against Li Cheng颐, hooked her arm around his, and unabashedly pressed her upper body against him.


"You?!" Li Cheng颐 was stunned, not paying attention to the softness on his arm, but looking at her in surprise.


His body temperature was now over 80 degrees Celsius, which was a scorching sensation for ordinary people, but Da Xiong could actually touch him as if nothing had happened...


"What's wrong? I've also thought about it. Anyway, I can't possibly find an ordinary person to combine with in the future. But you, Brother Yi, are an individual who can constantly exceed my imagination and become stronger, worthy of my research and exploration for a lifetime. Why don't we... make each other happy?" Da Xiong looked at Li Cheng颐 with a slight tease, and pressed her body even closer to him.


Li Cheng颐 was silent for a moment.


He stretched out his hand and gently rubbed her forehead.


"Don't be afraid. If you really can't hold on, just find a Dead Zone and stay in it forever, never coming out."


Da Xiong's delicate face froze, and her smile slowly disappeared.


"You saw through me... I'm scared..."


"The difficulty of the Dead Zone is getting stronger and stronger. Last time I almost died in it... That kind of fear... I really, really don't want to experience it again..."


She looked up at Li Cheng颐.


"The vast black sea is boundless. If I could explore the unknown without worry, what a wonderful thing that would be... But unfortunately, every time I have such an idea, the Dead Zone will remind me from behind that if I don't run faster, I will die."


"This is our destiny, to find the root of the Dead Zone and completely get rid of the entanglement. Do you remember our original purpose?" Li Cheng颐 asked.


"To find the Eternal Wishing Book and completely get rid of the Dead Zone," Da Xiong replied seriously.


"Do you believe me?" Li Cheng颐 asked.


"...I believe you!" Da Xiong hesitated for a moment, then responded extremely firmly.


"Then don't be afraid, follow me." Li Cheng颐's eyes flashed with absolute confidence, "As long as I'm still here, still alive, sooner or later, I will definitely be able to get rid of the Dead Zone entanglement! Believe me!"


Da Xiong took a deep breath...


"Okay!"


She responded forcefully.


Holding Li Cheng颐's arm, she rested quietly for a while, adjusted her mood, and quickly returned to her original calm and composed image of a strong woman who had everything under control.


"Prepare." Li Cheng颐 said in a low voice.


A flash of black light, and the Reverse Trace unfolded.


Suddenly, he himself disappeared from the spot.


In less than half a minute, soon, an invisible gravity instantly fell on Da Xiong, completely enveloping her, as if being erased from top to bottom by an eraser, disappearing in the blink of an eye.


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Earth-Moon · Suiyang City · Yongan Garden.


In the center of the spacious courtyard, the space on the lawn suddenly twisted, forming a transparent vortex.


With a puff, like a fart, the vortex squeezed and squeezed out a person.


It was Da Xiong in a red dress with a belt around her waist.


"Brother Yi?" She staggered to her feet and quickly looked around.


But she didn't see any trace of Li Cheng颐.


Immediately, she knew that Li Cheng颐 had been pulled into the Dead Zone.


Standing in place, she was silent for a while, put her hands in front of her chest, closed her eyes and silently prayed.


Puff.


In an instant, a wave of distortion flashed by.


A breeze blew, and the lawn was now empty, leaving only the faint incense from Da Xiong's body.


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In the boundless sea of white clouds.


A huge sphere composed of countless pure white spikes appeared in front of Li Cheng颐.


‘Mother of Verdure!? ’ He felt a chill in his heart, and immediately without saying a word, he shadow-flashed and rushed towards the golden buildings in the sky above.


It was not a wise move to confront the Mother of Verdure head-on.


A hundred meters later, Li Cheng颐 looked back and observed that the Mother of Verdure only had the vines on its surface wriggling a few times, and then there was no movement. Obviously, for some reason, it did not chase him like last time.


He breathed a sigh of relief, and then shadow-flashed again, a hundred meters forward.


After the shadow flash was strengthened, the cooling time was still one second. Although it was still impossible to use it in high-intensity battles, it was still very practical for rushing and escaping from dangerous situations.


Soon, the Mother of Verdure was left behind by him and submerged in the clouds.


Li Cheng颐 raised his head and continued to look up.


Above the sea of clouds, layers of cloud curtains overlapped, becoming extremely thick.


That mysterious golden building was built on the cloud curtain, stable and unmoving.


With constant shadow flashes and full-speed flight at ten times the speed of sound, soon, the golden buildings were getting closer and closer.


One after another, light golden buildings stood close together, as if made of gold, reflecting gorgeous brilliance under the halo.


A few minutes later, Li Cheng颐 slowed down gently and landed directly in front of the golden buildings.


At what seemed to be the entrance, he floated down.


On both sides of the entrance were two buildings similar to golden boats, with the bows facing each other, each with a naked golden statue, holding a water bottle in its hand, as if to baptize every living person entering here.


Li Cheng颐 stood at the entrance and looked inside.


Inside were golden bridges, one after another. They intercepted the clouds at the entrance. If you wanted to enter, you had to pass through the arches under these golden bridges.


Various golden statues stood on the bridge. Some of them held fruits, as if holding a celebration, some sat cross-legged to each other, as if playing chess, and some held weapons, standing opposite each other, as if guarding.


Li Cheng颐 did not enter rashly, but first approached and stepped on the clouds.


Puff, puff.


There was a solid sound of stepping on the mud under his feet. Even with his current weight of more than three tons, it did not collapse at all.


‘This place is interesting.’ He squatted down and reached out to dig up a ball of white clouds.


The walnut-sized cloud of air was like white plasticine in his hand, kneaded into a circle and rubbed around.


‘The hardness is very high, and the flexibility is very strong. This thing looks like a cloud, but it’s actually not a cloud...’


After dropping the white cloud, Li Cheng颐 focused his attention on these golden buildings.


He went to the left and slowly approached the golden statue at the entrance.


He stopped a few meters away from the statue, and then reached out and touched the surface of the building.


The golden exterior of the building felt cold and hard to the touch, and it was very smooth.


‘My body temperature is too high now, and I can only feel cold when I touch anything. It would be great if I had modern equipment’ Li Cheng颐 sighed in his heart.


He found that the details of these buildings were decorated with rhombus-enclosed vines everywhere.


The ground stripes of the buildings, the patterns on the stone pillars of the walls, and the gorgeous decorations on the edges of the eaves were all various rhombuses containing various symbols, decorated by complex twisted vines.


Standing up, he carefully looked at the statue, did not find any movement from it, and then raised his foot and walked inside.


Not surprisingly, this should be a surviving city completely destroyed by the Mother of Verdure.


There may not be many dangers, but perhaps he can find some information about this place to provide enough clues for Payne to come in and help later.


In addition, this time he did not choose a new Flower God position to come in, because he was ready to leave a place for the mutated flowers in the Dead Zone to use.


After all, many times, danger is accompanied by huge opportunities.


(End of this chapter)