CHAPTER 741: 681 RAID THREE

In an unknown region, at the very center of countless black clouds, stands Tian Ju Pavilion, the head pavilion.

On the second floor of the quaint attic.

Three elderly men with white hair and beards sat opposite each other, cultivating in silence with their eyes closed.

The disappearance of Daoist Tianhong, his demise, cast a somewhat somber mood over the atmosphere.

"Unless it’s an accident, someone from the Lian City Association was involved in the attack," Daoist Tianyan muttered softly.

"Such is the fate one faces when crossing boundaries; none are exempt," said Tian Qingzi, the slightly shorter and paler-skinned elder, his expression calm.

"It was the same with the Royal’s City years ago. Touching the boundary brought about such calamities. Even earlier, the Void Sect and the Behemoth Sect suffered the same fate," Tian Xuanzi spoke indifferently. "Survive, and one achieves great freedom; fail, and all comes to an end."

"We’re still missing the final piece of the puzzle, and it has disappeared, unable to find a suitable..." Daoist Tianyan sighed.

He glanced at the other two. "If I’m the next to go, the path ahead will depend on my two senior brothers to continue."

"You’re planning to visit the Behemoth Sect too?" Tian Xuanzi furrowed his brows.

"Of course. Searching for clues now is pointless. The Behemoth Sect, unlike the Void, harbors more goodwill," Daoist Tianyan nodded.

"Do you realize that Tianhong could very well have momentarily lost the Omniscient Realm as he was reconstructing himself, which is when he was ambushed and fell? If you do the same... we won’t be able to look out for you," Tian Xuanzi said. "The moment you fall from Omniscience, even if we intervened, you’d encounter trouble during your reconstruction phase."

"Since we have already decided to walk this path, isn’t it too late to have regrets now?" Daoist Tianyan said with a smile.

The other two remained silent.

They had spent countless efforts and made great sacrifices to reach their current realm. Although they had anticipated such situations, when Tianhong truly perished in concept, they couldn’t help but feel a sense of sorrow for a fellow creature.

"The Mother of the Void once thought she had transcended the ordeal, but alas, she eventually fell into Madness and Chaos. The Behemoth fell into a slumber to avoid the state of Chaos and has not awoken since.

The First Generation of Royal’s City, in an attempt to avoid such fate, split his own power and forcibly downgraded himself, managing to come back. The second generation of the Royal’s City, unaware of the truth, tried to break through and thus was totally obliterated, leaving not even a trace behind. All traces of their impact on history disappeared."

Tian Xuanzi sighed. "Now it’s come to us. The final piece of the puzzle that was calculated to be foolproof has yet to be found. If in the end we still can’t..."

All three fell silent.

At this moment, Quan Li’s consciousness was searching over and over again through every corner of the known areas of the Black Sea.

Trying to find the last two pieces suitable for the sky to fit into the only celestial embryo they held.

The sky couldn’t be filled indiscriminately, it needed to be from an entity possessing mysterious powers.

Common Blind Spots in the sky were meaningless.

Besides, the sky with the mysterious powers had to perfectly match the last two attributes that were needed.

In just a few breaths of time, the three of them had scoured all known regions several times.

The three vast and boundless consciousnesses stirred up storms in the Black Sea as they swept through various Blind Spot areas.

All beings below the dimension trembled unconsciously.

With an infinite supply of energy, Quan Li’s power, in theory, could single-handedly destroy everything in the known regions of the Black Sea.

Unfortunately, despite repeated scans, nothing was found.

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Thousands of memories of failure rushed into Li Chengyi’s mind.

His consciousness was now fully capable of accommodating these so-called picturesque memories.

The only troublesome part were the specific feelings within.

These subjective experiences varied wildly due to differences in individual sensory systems, leading to varied results and interpretations.

Yet, the influx of vast experiences gradually gave Li Chengyi a comprehensive and complete understanding of Eternal Vitality.

’Some have chosen, just like me, a dimensional route based on a sliver of Lifeforce as the main foundation. But they also failed in the end. The reason for their failure is that Eternal Vitality, even at the pinnacle of the dimension, kept intensifying the whole. This gradual hardening of the entire dimension, to prevent imbalance, forced the predecessor to continuously consume vast resources to strengthen both their own and the dimension’s self-healing powers...’

Li Chengyi contemplated the failed experiences of a predecessor in his mind.

’That person’s failure was due to ever-increasing consumption, to the point where they had to devour a large amount of resources from others in the Black Sea. This endless black hole led them to be besieged by others and, in the end, had to ruefully submit under the hand of the Omniscient, sealed for a thousand years.’

’After a thousand years, that person was naturally burst by Eternal Vitality, turned to fragments, and completely disappeared. It shows that this path ultimately leads to unity of all things, and because the strength was less than that of the Omniscient, it was thoroughly blocked.’

Li Chengyi contemplated; he had previously believed that once Eternal Vitality reached the complete form of the Dimensional Demon Gods, it would no longer expand internally.

Now it seems... this entity could still continue to expand. It was just that because of the dimension’s vastness, the pressure to expand became less significant—it had grown many times over, after all.

While deep in thought, he vanished in a flash from the flower forest, and the next second, reappeared amidst a sea of sky-blue flowers.

Countless sky-blue Green Fleece Mugwort swayed with the wind like an ocean, scattering a faint mist of pollen.

He was on a slope, which aside from rocks, was covered in a large number of blue Green Fleece Mugwort.

While called green, Green Fleece Mugwort was actually blue. Here, ’green’ referred to its delicate green fleece, hence the name Green Fleece Mugwort. It had nothing to do with the color of the flowers.

Standing amidst the sea of flowers, Li Chengyi’s form flickered, and within a second, he had touched numerous petals around him.

Vast amounts of Flowers flooded into him, fulfilling the necessary evolutionary degree of Flowers.

Then he took out an Evil Bead, gently absorbing the Evil Thoughts within.

Most of the collected Evil Beads were used to balance his body, and although what was left wasn’t much, it was more than enough to enhance the Evolutionary Flower Language.

Essentially, the Evil Flower didn’t require much Flowers, but could produce a variety of miraculous abilities, which always amazed Li Chengyi.

But after hearing Ancestor Tianyan’s question, he suddenly realized.

’If, as the Ancestor suggested, I carry half of the Omniscient nature that was disseminated by the First Generation Flower Emperor, then these Flower Language Abilities might have originally been specialized abilities developed by the First Generation. Maybe they are inherently part of the half that includes Omniscient nature, which is why they could have such high status?’

He pondered in his heart.

Based on the abilities of the Rainbow Candy, most of these Flower Language Abilities are indeed conceptual abilities, many of which are entirely unreasonable.

This aligns perfectly with the description and definition of the Omniscient level.

But now was not the time to ponder these matters. He quickly absorbed the Evil Thoughts. Looking at the Disk of Evil Flower, a new Divine Flower Position lit up with a blue glow.

It was the light of the Green Fleece Mugwort, gradually brightening.

Soon, a new message entered his consciousness.

’Do you want to carry out the ultimate evolution of Green Fleece Mugwort?’

The Green Fleece Mugwort could evolve three times, and he was now at the second evolution. This third evolution was also likely to be the most dangerous.

Because his lifeforce had already exceeded the previous second evolution by far too much.

The expansion of Eternal Vitality had reached an extravagant level at this stage, that if Li Chengyi did not have a method to balance self-healing powers by transforming Evil Thoughts, he would probably have to follow the path of that predecessor—devouring other resources everywhere to enhance his recovery.

’Not enough realm, not high enough energy conversion rate, high consumption. Can only continue to digest more, inevitably leading to being besieged and attacked... This path undoubtedly leads to certain death...’

Li Chengyi sighed, sensing the inquiry from the Evil Flower, he fell silent.

After several seconds, he finally gave a slow affirmation.

"Yes!"

All fell silent.

The Evil Flower on the back of his hand also extinguished its blue light and temporarily disappeared.

It seemed as if all things had fallen silent.

The sound of the wind disappeared.

The rustling sound of the sea of Flowers shaking also vanished completely.

Li Chengyi stood at the center, closed his eyes, and carefully felt the changes in his body.

His body, at first glance, appeared to be merely human, but the human body was just a representation.

Most of his consciousness power had already merged with the expanding Lifeforce Dimension, becoming one with the Dimensional Realm.

And the so-called embryonic dimension actually referred to this human body, or rather, the Holy Body.

It was incredibly robust, indestructible through countless tribulations, unified in primal chaos, but such sturdiness, at the dimensional level, ironically became a prison that bound its transcendence.

The more resistant the body, the greater the power needed to break this final embryonic state.

Of course, that was the case for others.

For Li Chengyi, it was very easy to break his Holy Body because the internal pressure from Eternal Vitality was simply too great.

What he needed to be careful about was not to go too far when exploding so as not to cause a chain reaction and detonate his entire dimension as well.

One second.

Two seconds.

Three seconds.

Hum!!

In an instant, countless blue lights shone from beneath the skin of Li Chengyi’s body.

The lifeforce within him, expanded by Eternal Vitality, was growing at a terrifying speed, becoming larger and multiplying rapidly.

Countless lifeforces poured into his body and dimension like an ocean, causing his entire dimension to expand wildly.

Inside the Dimensional Realm, where everything had been composed of faint pink lifeforce strands, there was infinite darkness.

But now, a massive amount of lifeforce was acting together in this infinite darkness.

Something unknown seemed to have begun to sprout...

’Alert: Lifeforce expanding too quickly, leading to a collapse phenomenon; the collapse will eventually form a balanced state due to the concept of gravity, do you want to forcefully suppress it?’ The prompt from the Evil Flower emerged suddenly.

Li Chengyi was stunned.

’Would it harm me?’ he inquired inwardly.

There was no answer. Clearly, the intelligence level of the Evil Flower was not that high.

After thinking for several seconds, Li Chengyi decisively changed his approach.

’What will happen if it’s suppressed?’

’Suppression will cause the expansion of lifeforce to be forcibly interrupted,’ the Evil Flower responded.

’Then don’t suppress it,’ Li Chengyi had no reason to hesitate.

So far, the Evil Flower System had never caused him any harm.

Once the prompt was acknowledged, it quickly disappeared.

The lifeforce continued to rocket upward within the dimension like a frenzied surge.

Crack.

Li Chengyi’s body suddenly split open a crack.

It was due to the surging lifeforce being too abundant, resulting in signs of being unable to contain it.

Luckily, the enhancement from the Green Fleece Mugwort wasn’t only about strengthening the internal pressure; it simultaneously increased the speed of lifeforce recovery.

Two forces began to wrestle within Li Chengyi’s body.

One side recovering, the other side intensifying.