He became more and more speechless as he listened. Seeing Da Xiong's excited expression, he strayed further and further from the topic, so he quickly pulled the conversation back on track.

"Let's continue with what we were doing. I need to test my physical attributes at this stage. I'm calling this state 'Gray Bone.'"

Gray Bone was actually the name of the engraving, but because of forbidden knowledge, he couldn't directly tell Da Xiong the principles of the engraving, so he settled for a compromise.

Without opening the Non-Gate, there was no way to access anything related to engravings.

So he adopted this roundabout approach.

"In the Gray Bone state, I can freely control the growth, extension, and healing of my bones throughout my body. At this stage, my bone hardness is much, much stronger than before. So what I want to test is the upper limit of bone strength."

"Okay!"

Da Xiong understood the testing goal.

He immediately tapped on the light screen.

Soon, black gun barrels protruded from the surrounding wall holes.

"Then let's start with basic weapons."

Li Cheng颐 nodded and spread his arms.

The Gray Bone engraving on his chest instantly lit up with a red light.

*Chi!*

In an instant, a large amount of grayish-white bone matter pierced out of his skin, covering his entire body, and in less than a second, it transformed into a set of heavy grayish-white bone armor.

The armor's coverage also enlarged his physique by a large circle.

*Pupu pu!!!*

Immediately, the surrounding gun barrels fired, and bullets flew out like raindrops, hitting Li Cheng颐's bone armor.

The sound of clanging reverberated continuously, and the bullets couldn't leave a single mark on the bone armor.

"Switch to a physical railgun." Da Xiong exited the arena and controlled the light screen to change weapons.

With the massive investment of resources and technology from the Mingyuan Group, this underground base now had many different kinds of weapons deployed.

Among them, railguns that required orbital acceleration were also present, and they were perfect for use at this time.

"Yi-ge, I'll use railguns of different strengths for testing next. If you feel like you can't withstand it, raise your hand to stop. No problem?" Da Xiong asked.

Li Cheng颐 gave a gesture indicating that there was no problem.

Soon, the first railgun round, with an impact force of one thousand tons and the size of an adult's fist, was accelerated and shot out of the cannon muzzle on the wall, turning into a gray shadow and slamming heavily in front of Li Cheng颐.

*Boom!!*

The huge impact sound exploded, echoing continuously within the cave, and was quickly absorbed by the sound-absorbing materials.

Li Cheng颐 stood in place, his legs deeply embedded in the ground, drawing two deep trenches that stretched for more than ten meters.

The impact was powerful, but only a small dent appeared on his bone armor.

And the dent quickly recovered as before at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"You can directly go to two thousand tons," Li Cheng颐 said.

Da Xiong followed his instructions, and soon the two-thousand-ton shell crashed into the front of the bone armor. This time, it sent Li Cheng颐 flying heavily, crashing into the high-strength compressed rock layer behind him, smashing a shallow pit into the rock layer as well.

This time, the dent on the surface of the bone armor was much more obvious, and clear cracks radiated around it. It was estimated that half of the entire bone armor had been penetrated.

With a thought, Li Cheng颐 immediately made the bone armor quickly wriggle and heal like a living thing, restoring itself to its original state.

Then came three thousand tons, four thousand tons, five thousand tons

The depth of the bone armor's damage became deeper and deeper until seven thousand tons when finally

After a crisp cracking sound, Li Cheng颐's entire body of bone armor shattered with a bang, turning into countless white powder and dissipating.

He wanted to condense it again in a short time, but a sense of emptiness came from his body's bones, and it was clear that he couldn't condense it again for the time being.

Seven thousand tons.

This was the upper limit of his bone armor.

It was much higher than the upper limit of the impact force he could unleash himself.

"As expected of an engraving whose main ability is bone growth..."

Li Cheng颐 estimated the level of the ninth-rank Flying Instrument Masters he had fought before. He estimated that now that he had superimposed the Flowery Scale Armor and the Language of Flowers, he could stand still and let those Flying Instruments chop at him, and they might not be able to break his defense in a short time.

Of course, the Flying Instruments had a small area and high pressure, so it was impossible to completely defend against them, but it was much, much better than before.

Before, he could only rely on the superposition of the Flowery Scale Armor and the Language of Flowers to have some protection.

More often, he used offense against offense, forcefully controlling his opponent to kill them.

Next, Li Cheng颐 tested his movement speed. He could reach seven times the speed of sound in short-term, small-scale movements. With a full burst, superimposed with all his skills and abilities, he could reach an impact force of nearly five thousand five hundred tons.

If he used sharp weapons such as swords, the pressure generated by this impact force would be enough to cut through any existing known material.

"Overall, it's a big improvement. This harvest is good. It has basically reached the average level of the ninth rank. If I use the Language of Flowers, I might be able to touch the level of Dong Jun, the old master." Li Cheng颐 was quite satisfied with this improvement.

"As expected of Yi-ge, no matter how hard we try, we can only keep chasing behind you," Da Xiong complimented.

"That doesn't sound like something you would say. Just tell me straight what your purpose is." Li Cheng颐 changed into ordinary clothes and looked at Da Xiong, who was waiting on the side, feeling strange.

"It's like this, anyway, you don't need that shield now, Yi-ge, so can I..." Da Xiong said shyly.

"You can borrow it for research, but don't even think about me giving it to you." Li Cheng颐 glanced at the time, smiling as he was about to speak.

Suddenly, his heart skipped a beat.

*Pfft!*

An indescribable, terrifying pressure squeezed over him from all directions.

His vision was instantly lost.

The enormous and terrifying pressure instantly wrapped his entire body in a confined environment.

Hearing disappeared, touch disappeared, and all was pitch black before his eyes, without any light.

It was utter darkness, with nothing at all. He couldn't see his fingers even when he reached out, and he couldn't even tell if his hands were moving.

The salty and humid seawater was like steel, squeezing in from all directions, oppressive and terrifying.

'The new blind spot!! It's here!!' Li Cheng颐 held his breath. He didn't expect the blind spot to appear just when he had exhausted his bone armor and was waiting to recover.

But in any case, now that it was here, he had to find a way to deal with it first.

A layer of brilliant golden Flowery Scale Armor quickly covered his body surface. The strongest Sword Orchid Flowery Scale Armor, supplemented by the Language of Flowers Fortress, had always been his most used combination.

With his current physical strength, the Flowery Scale Armor was further amplified and strengthened in proportion.

Immediately, the surrounding huge pressure instantly eased up.

Slightly relieved, Li Cheng颐 then had time to release his consciousness and extend it upwards.

In an instant, the scene hundreds of meters away was fed back into his perception, but it was useless. Hundreds of meters away, it was still pitch black.

The same was true downwards.

His perception couldn't sense any light at all.

In the darkness, Li Cheng颐 floated quietly.

He used his consciousness to constantly spread out and probe the surroundings.

Time passed bit by bit, and finally, he noticed a slight difference.

A slight difference between up and down.

Above him, a faint pulling force was constantly being transmitted.

'If that pulling force is gravity then my down should be towards the surface of the sea!'

He thought of Xiao Zong's older brother, Da Hei, who, when he died, was instantly pulled into the deep sea and instantly crushed by the huge water pressure of the deep sea. He didn't even have time to react and buffer before he was completely gone.

Now he was also encountering this situation. Fortunately, his own physical strength was much higher than Da Hei's, and he had a buffer time for a moment, which allowed him to hold on.

Having determined the up and down directions, Li Cheng颐 began to change direction and accelerate towards the surface of the sea.

Ten thousand meters, twenty thousand meters, fifty thousand meters.

He swam at least a thousand kilometers before Li Cheng颐's consciousness sensed a faint light projected down from above.

Seeing hope and feeling the pressure weakening, he immediately accelerated and swam towards the surface of the sea at full speed.

Gradually, faint beams of light began to appear in the surrounding seawater.

Golden sunlight penetrated the seawater, turning into beams of light that brushed past Li Cheng颐's side.

With a kick of his legs, he suddenly darted upwards.

*Splash!*

His head finally broke out of the sea, breathing in the first breath of fresh air.

"Cough cough cough!" Unfortunately, there was no oxygen in the air, only an unpleasant unknown gas.

It smelled like rotten eggs, terribly foul.

Li Cheng颐 coughed a few times and decisively entered a state of breath-holding.

Floating on the sea, he looked around.

The boundless sea was all pitch black.

There were no islands, no ships, no fish, only he alone floating in the center.

"What the hell is this place!?" Li Cheng颐 had been through quite a few blind spots, and this was the first time he had such a terrible start.

He raised his head, trying to see the sky.

But.

The scenery in the sky above him made him couldn't help but be stunned.

In the sky where countless white clouds gathered, a faint golden, huge building was faintly glowing, looming between the clouds.

Quiet, silent, lifeless.

For some reason, the golden, huge building made Li Cheng颐 involuntarily think of the cloud city in Western mythology, the city of angels, or the kingdom of God.

But if it was a cloud city why was it

His powerful eyesight could clearly see that the golden building was empty, without a single soul or any living thing.

Moreover, the architectural style was not like the holy and majestic style of angels.

It gave people more of a strange and precise feeling, with mysterious runes and unknown symbols everywhere, and all kinds of crystal gems.

It was like countless golden, exquisite parts, combined and piled up into sharp-topped, magnificent temples, only the style of these temples was more like some elements he was somewhat familiar with.

"This place" Li Cheng颐 was no longer the simple academic underachiever he used to be. After a lot of hard study and two instillations of the Language of Flowers, his current knowledge reserves had far surpassed any scholar on Earth and the Moon.

"Wait.!" Suddenly he remembered something.

"Why does the style there look a bit like a cluster of mage towers?"

Li Cheng颐 was shocked.

In the knowledge system of the Death Energy system, there were also pictures and scenes of Death Energy mage towers, but they were mainly grayish-white, unlike here, which was mainly golden, supplemented by the colors of other various messy crystals and gems.

He retracted his gaze and first observed the surroundings nearby, again confirming that there was nothing around

"Hmm??"

Li Cheng颐 suddenly widened his eyes, looking into the distance on the right.

In the extremely distant sea, a patch of silver-white light spots was rapidly flying towards here.

The light spot was like a giant wall, with the lower half piercing into the sea, moving towards this side at high speed as if without resistance.

Although he didn't know what that thing was, Li Cheng颐 felt chills all over his body with just a glance from afar, as if some fatal threat was rapidly approaching.

Even when facing Dong Jun or Midraan Yin God, he had never felt like this.

He looked left and right, and found that the high wall formed by the silver light spots spanned the sea, with no end in sight, and continued upwards to connect to the clouds, making it impossible to hide.

Immediately, Li Cheng颐 turned around and accelerated, transforming into the Segmented Hair Flying Lian Flowery Scale Armor. Combining shadow flash and wings, he instantly rushed out of the sea, soared into the air, and flew in the opposite direction of the wall of light.

In any case, he had to escape this wall of light that looked like a natural disaster first.

Anyway, he was only temporarily entering. He wouldn't truly and completely enter here until the third time. He would run and delay the time first.

(End of this chapter)