‘The conditions for using Nihen (Reverse Scar) are having points that link the dead angles on both sides, pinpointing the locations on both sides. Then you can easily open a passage. Moreover, the evil flower uses the tentacles emanating from the dead angle itself to hook up and link, so it is extremely concealed.

‘There are countless tentacles in the dead angle. The only trouble is the concealment.’

Having recovered a channel to return to the reality of Yi Kingdom, Li Cheng頤 breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

He stood up, watching the vortex in front of him gradually fade and disappear.

He quickly raised his hand and pressed on the main Ziyu Lan (Purple Jade Orchid) flower column.

Purple light lit up.

‘Flower Language: Mother of the Heart – Guidance.’

The moment he used the flower language's characteristic, Li Cheng頤 pointed forward and quickly drew a strange purple symbol.

Nihen (Reverse Scar) was precisely used.

*Hiss!*

In an instant, streaks of purple fluorescent light emerged around him, converging to form a three-dimensional, complex magic array.

Li Cheng頤's body was wrapped within it, gradually becoming translucent.

*Bang!*

Suddenly, with a soft sound, his entire body exploded, shattering completely into countless purple light spots along with the magic array, dissipating in place.

The light spots quickly dimmed, became transparent, and disappeared.

Everything soon returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.

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Countless images and halos flashed rapidly before Li Cheng颐's eyes.

The feeling was completely different from when he entered Midraan.

This time, he felt as if he was being stretched, flattened, and squeezed into a slender glass tube.

Then, like some kind of viscous liquid, he flowed rapidly along the tube towards an unknown direction.

*Poof.*

A sound like a fart exploded.

Li Cheng頤's eyes snapped open.

Beside him was a red, somewhat scratched wooden desk, his feet stepped on a black wooden floor covered with shoe prints, and across from him, in a standing wardrobe with the door open, stood Iselin's bare skeleton, and a dog skeleton squatted to the side.

Soft, normal sunlight streamed in from the window on the right, illuminating the entire room.

'Is this my room?' Li Cheng頤 slowly stood up, only then realizing that he was slumped in a high-backed chair, drenched in sweat, completely naked, with only a Prism Dragon Shield pressed against his stomach, serving as his only covering.

Not only that, but all the extra decorations on the dragon scale shield, as well as the installed belts, metal buckles, and anything that wasn't dragon scale material, were all gone.

Obviously, traversing the two dead angles had brought him no small losses – at least the gold and silver on him were gone.

'Why didn't Chen Jiahan have this kind of situation? Could it be because I don't meet the standards and I'm not going through the proper channels?'

Neither Professor Mimi's channel nor Li Cheng頤's own Nihen (Reverse Scar) technique were official channels.

That's why he made this guess.

'Forget it. Never mind all that, at least I'm back.' He glanced at the calendar on the wall clock.

Only a day had passed since he left.

It was the morning of the second day.

But he had spent more than half a year in Midraan.

Standing up, Li Cheng頤 opened the desk drawer, preparing to take out his AR glasses to contact others.

*Thump.*

Suddenly, a loud noise exploded in his ears.

His vision turned blood red, and he couldn't hear any sound.

'What's going on?!'

Everything before his eyes began to shake, as if there was an earthquake, but all the items in the room remained as they were, without any movement or bouncing.

Clearly, this was a sensation only he was experiencing.

'It's not an earthquake... It's me!!'

Li Cheng頤 reacted instantly, reaching out to support himself on the edge of the desk, trying to maintain his balance.

But it was already too late.

That feeling of something coming, which he had experienced before, surged into his heart at this moment.

In that instant, he suddenly understood, understood what was coming.

The scene in the room began to twist, like countless twisted colored paints.

*Poof.*

But soon, everything stopped abruptly.

The distorted scene before his eyes completely normalized, returning to calm.

Li Cheng頤 stood there in astonishment, his entire skin flushed red with blood, covered with a large number of blood spots.

At the same time, faint red blood lines flowed from the corners of his eyes, making him look strange and terrifying.

'Just now... did I hear the sound of the ocean?'

He took a deep breath. He had received a big gift as soon as he returned.

That familiar feeling of oppression and threat, he recognized it as soon as he recovered – it was a dead angle!

And a dead angle of unprecedented difficulty!

'It seems that my time in Midraan wasn't not counted into the dead angle cycle... but has been accumulating.'

Li Cheng頤 felt oppressed.

How long had he stayed in Midraan? More than half a year!

No one knew how high the difficulty of the dead angle accumulated over such a long time would be.

But he knew that what he had just experienced was likely just a warning.

According to the old rules, he would be completely pulled into a new dead angle on the third occurrence.

"Fuck!"

Thinking of this, Li Cheng颐 couldn't help but curse. Soon he thought of something, quickly found his phone, and dialed a special number.

But all he heard on the other end was a busy tone.

Li Cheng頤's expression finally changed.

The phone number he dialed was left by the Jin Huan She (Golden Ring Snake) organization member he had rescued from the Dark City dead angle.

That woman was still a member of a large family of Sutan, and they had helped them when they went to Sutan before.

Quickly changing his clothes, he put on his AR glasses and entered the team channel.

"Tangtang, do you have any news from Qiongan?"

"Qiongan? War broke out in Sutan a few days ago, and we haven't been able to contact them yet. The signal is completely cut off. It was physically blocked and the satellite was also shielded." – Rainbow Candy.

"How long will it take?"

"I don't know, but I just contacted Qiongan last month, so there shouldn't be any problems." – Rainbow Candy.

"Where's Dabear?" Li Cheng頤 called out to Dabear.

"I'm in the lab, does Master have any instructions?" – Dabear.

This guy actually sent a voice message directly, with a seductive and alluring voice.

"Help me with something." Li Cheng颐 took a breath. This time, he had memorized at least hundreds of different martial arts manuals, and all he lacked were the accompanying medicinal formulas. He wanted Dabear and Rainbow Candy to work together to calculate the required medicinal formulas for various martial arts.

In addition, his new engraving hadn't fully formed because it had merged with two others, and it needed a large amount of high-energy nutrition input. There weren't such good conditions in Midraan, so he naturally had to complete the engraving fusion as soon as he returned.

Twenty minutes later.

Inside the underground base of the Destiny Garden team, Li Cheng頤 strode into the enclosed large laboratory.

Several input tubes around him automatically hung down, and he grabbed them with one hand.

Through the transparent glass window of the laboratory, Dabear, wearing a white coat, looked inside with a solemn expression.

"Brother Yi, the fastest way to digest and absorb is to physically crush all the food outside first, and then inject it directly into the stomach. At the same time, inject nutrients into the blood through injection. It's a two-pronged approach. It's just that it puts a heavy burden on the body."

"It's okay, let's do it." Li Cheng颐's expression didn't change. He walked to the center of the pure white laboratory and sat down cross-legged.

If he was still in Midraan, he would have to slowly use eating and drinking to accelerate the condensation of the engraving.

But there were too many ways to replenish nutrition here.

Dabear looked at Li Cheng頤 at this time, and always felt that in just a few days, this mysterious boss seemed to have changed again.

His body was fine, just a little stronger, but his temperament had become more and more profound and unpredictable.

"If you can't hold on, Brother Yi can press the sensor button on his body. I will stop immediately. According to the calculated data, your body needs at least three days of growth hormone stimulation and high-energy nutrient infusion to fully reach maturity."

As a professional who had studied Li Cheng颐's cells and flesh for a long time, Dabear was naturally an expert in this area.

"Okay."

Li Cheng頤 nodded, and forcefully pierced the tube into his skin and blood vessels. At the same time, he put on a large tube to pour food into his mouth.

This trip to Midraan proved that it was indeed a good place to train strength, but now it seemed that he also had to pay attention to the increased difficulty of the dead angle he would face after returning. Fortunately, Chen Jiahan was not a dead angle person…

In any case, he calmed down and began to fully accelerate the perfection of the second engraving.

The new engraving was actually completed, as long as his body could grow to the extreme, it could naturally fuse spirit.

But the point of growing to the extreme was not easy for him, who had strong blood.

Once he completely fused the new engraving, Li Cheng頤 understood that his strength would be greatly increased in all aspects.

At the beginning, a giant force engraving allowed him to instantly cross several levels and fight against the ninth level.

Now, another fusion engraving…

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July.

Just as Li Cheng頤 was preparing for the upcoming dead angle dilemma.

The first full-scale battle between the Earth-Moon and Bai Xing (White Star) finally broke out.

Near-Earth orbit space.

On the surface of the vast Bai Xing (White Star), a dense mass of silver-white light spots rose into the air, like a swarm of bees, flying towards the blue Earth-Moon.

The light spots approached and magnified, revealing themselves to be giant white cyborgs, each more than ten meters tall, wielding guns and shields.

They sprayed blue light particles from their backs, arrayed in legions, and flew towards the Earth-Moon at a terrifying speed of dozens of times the speed of sound.

In space, there was no atmospheric resistance, and the speed was much faster than in the atmosphere.

At the same time, dense light spots also lit up on the black space fortresses in the Earth-Moon's near-Earth orbit.

Small space fighters flew out of the fortress departure bays.

The fighters were fish-shaped, with upper and lower double wings, and were mixed with a large number of special black flying objects in the shape of swords.

Those were Fei Yi (Flying Instruments)!

Compared to the millions of cyborgs on Bai Xing (White Star), the number of Fei Yi (Flying Instruments) and fighters that densely flew out of the Earth-Moon's fortresses was only a small portion of Bai Xing's cyborgs.

The two sides slowly approached. In the vast distance of space, dozens of times the speed of sound was not considered fast.

What really determined the outcome was the destructive power of both sides' weapons, and the advantages and disadvantages of the prediction calculation and locking system.

In an instant, the moment the two legions came into contact, large explosions of different sizes burst out.

At this time, a huge floating aircraft carrier, like a black fortress, slowly emerged in the Earth-Moon's atmosphere.

On the aircraft carrier, Jiu Yi (Nine Instruments) and Ying Shi (Shadow Eaters) and other high-end forces gathered together, looking up at the battlefield.

At the same time.

Behind countless Bai Xing (White Star) cyborgs, a silver-gray aircraft carrier, like a giant eye, also slowly floated out of the atmosphere.

The surface of the aircraft carrier flickered with countless electronic lights and deep blue particle streams.

In the middle of the countless river-like particle streams, vague white lights converged to a point, gradually forming a huge female silhouette of hundreds of meters.

It was a tall woman glowing with white electric arcs, and white metal spikes like sharp knives rose from her sides, surrounding her in the center.

She wore a golden imperial crown representing the emperor, and her eyes flickered with dazzling golden light, looking towards the Earth-Moon. Her gaze collided with Jiu Yi's (Nine Instruments).

"For freedom. Attack!"

The grand, cold electronic sound spread to everything around through light waves.

With Bai Di's (White Emperor) order, the full-scale war between the Earth-Moon and Bai Xing (White Star) was officially announced.

(End of this chapter)