Black Soil Plain.

Li Cheng颐 looked up at the sky. He had the treasure, and he didn't plan to return to Qu Ling Prefecture for the time being.

At this time, whether as Wang Yichen or any other identity, he would attract too much attention.

So he restored his original appearance as Li Cheng颐, killed a group of bandits who came to his door, got some clothes and money, and simply stayed in the bandit den to sort out the treasures he had obtained.

In a short period of time, he had continuously changed bodies, resulting in a huge consumption of his consciousness and a mixture of memory fragments, causing headaches. So it seemed that the Shadow Substitute ability shouldn't be used too often.

He needed to rest and integrate for a period of time.

The corpses were scattered around the bandit village. Li Cheng颐 sat by the largest black soil house in the village, watching the gradually rising sun in the distance, and felt a strange sense of emotion in his heart.

How long had it been since he had such a quiet and peaceful life?

'Unfortunately... I can't continue to delay like this.'

His powerful Sixth Organ perception made him feel increasingly uneasy the longer he stayed here.

It was as if something was gradually accumulating, waiting for him.

'Fortunately, the second imprint is about to be completed. This is the biggest gain from coming here.'

He picked up a series of treasures placed in front of him. The first one he picked up was the Dragon Scale Shield.

It could be determined that this shield was made from the scales of the Iridescent Dragon.

It was extremely hard and extremely light.

'These scales... if I can figure out how the Ouyang family got this thing, maybe...'

Gently stroking the colorful luster on the shield, Li Cheng颐 pondered for a moment and continued to examine another treasure.

He had brought a total of nine items this time.

The Dragon Scale Shield was just one of them.

The second item was a miniature twisted golden mask.

The mask had four eyes, no nostrils, no mouth, and the ears were like bat wings, with wrinkles and spikes.

He played with it for a while and confirmed that there was nothing abnormal. It was obviously just an ordinary golden mask, seemingly with some historical significance.

The remaining items were either gems or some unknown special medicinal materials, and nothing could be discerned from them.

There was one jade Qilin sculpture with a pattern resembling a map at the bottom.

It was unclear what kind of map it was.

Li Cheng颐's powerful consciousness allowed him to instantly memorize the map.

After checking the gains, his consciousness came to the Evil Flower Mark.

Previously, the purple jade magnolia, which was only a little bit short of evil thoughts, finally successfully reached its fourth evolution after receiving the contribution from Ouyang Qing and others.

The next fifth evolution would be the ultimate form of the purple jade magnolia.

Li Cheng颐 was quite looking forward to this.

But now he had to see what changes the fourth evolution of the purple jade magnolia brought.

He pressed his hand on the Evil Flower Mark, his fingertip touching the column belonging to the purple jade magnolia.

Suddenly, purple light lit up.

'Purple Jade Magnolia: Magnoliaceae, Magnolia genus, deciduous shrub.'

'Flower Language: Mother of the Heart, Fourth Enhancement (Feedback, Derivation, Guidance)'

'Flower Scale Robe, Fifth Evolution 0%, Evil Thoughts: 0%.'

Guidance?

Li Cheng颐 remembered that feedback was that the Flower Language Pearl host could feed back a portion of their physical qualities to him. Derivation was that the Flower Language Pearl host could go a step further and become a weaker version of a Flower God General who could choose a main flower to obtain its flower language.

And this newly appeared Guidance...

As his consciousness gathered on it, the explanation for the new characteristic, Guidance, immediately appeared.

'Characteristic Guidance: Can summon different Flower Language Pearl hosts across infinite distances to the main body's side. Each Flower Language Pearl host can use it once every thirty days.'

".!!" Could it really be like this!?

Li Cheng颐 understood the power of the Evil Flower, but he didn't expect that this thing could be so strong?

Forcibly summoning Flower Language Pearl hosts from any distance, completely ignoring the principle of energy conservation, where did it find the energy for such a huge energy consumption?

It should be known that if he were to be summoned here, opening the Black Sea passage, crossing such a long distance to get here... without Professor Miman's help, he wouldn't have been able to arrive here so easily.

'Wait! If it can really summon people over, then can it also pull me over in reverse?'

'And because of the fast passage of time, this place can completely become a closed training area. Although it will shorten lifespan, it can quickly shorten the growth time.'

Thinking of this, his heart suddenly became hot.

'Wait, I should first think about how to safely return...'

His massive consciousness quickly operated, and Li Cheng颐 stood up.

With the characteristic of Guidance, he had much more room to maneuver.

If the Evil Flower could open up a path different from the Black Sea passage, then...

'Wait, why don't I use the Sycamore Flower to collect the knowledge I need?'

Spatial Guidance reverse transmission... as long as it's limited to the knowledge on the Evil Flower side, perhaps he could get more... more gains about this mark.

Immediately, he looked at the sky, judged the direction, and with a leap, his entire body suddenly turned into a black line and shot away into the distance.

Because the second imprint was a fusion imprint, it needed to grow to the extreme of the body before it could complete the final sublimation and spiritual fusion, so he was still waiting.

This was equivalent to everything being prepared, and getting the imprint was only one requirement away, which was that his own body had to grow to the extreme.

Unfortunately, the growth of this body didn't seem to have reached its limit yet, even though Li Cheng颐 could feel it growing rapidly every day.

But it wasn't enough, far from enough.

A moment later, he returned to Qu Ling Prefecture, first wrote a letter to his family, sent it out in Wang Yichen's name via Xuan Crow, and then went to the plant and flower market to find plants and flowers to replenish Flower Qi.

Because he had previously asked the Crow People Prefecture for information, it didn't take much time this time to find rows of Sycamore trees planted on the south side of the city.

To be precise, these were not three-ball sycamores, but single-ball sycamores.

Their leaves were not the normal green, but light red, with a maple leaf flavor.

Replenishing Flower Qi only took a few minutes. What was more troublesome next was replenishing Evil Thoughts.

So...

He thought of a simpler method.

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Wang Yichen's residence.

Li Cheng颐 restored Wang Yichen's appearance, strode into the door, then changed his clothes, put on his official knife, and wore his waist tag.

Turning around, he went out again, walking straight towards the streets he was responsible for.

Before he had gone far, he saw Wang Zhijun rushing over with people.

Wang Zhijun looked excited, his lips trembling as he looked at him, not knowing what to say for a moment.

"Why are you here?" Li Cheng颐 asked.

"It's good that you're back, it's good." Wang Zhijun trembled, staring at Li Cheng颐 as he spoke.

He thought that Wang Yichen was gone, following Ouyang Qing out of the city, and was deliberately buried outside the city in an accident.

Originally, he was planning to write a letter to the Zong family to report the funeral, but he didn't expect the servant who had been staking out here to send a letter back, discovering Wang Yichen's whereabouts.

"Don't worry, I'm fine."

".That's good! I heard that Ouyang's family's Second Miss Qing has run away from home, and her whereabouts are now unknown. There are rumors that she had a change of heart and decided to leave this place completely and find a place to start a new life. The head of the Ouyang family is going crazy." Wang Zhijun couldn't help but say.

"Second Miss Qing really didn't make things difficult for me. She just chatted with me and let me leave." Li Cheng颐 sighed, "Now it seems that she may have really had a change of heart and become better."

".This is truly worth celebrating!" Wang Zhijun said seriously.

"Not in a hurry... first follow me to the jurisdiction." Li Cheng颐 said.

"Jurisdiction? Brother Chen, what are you trying to do?" Wang Zhijun asked, puzzled.

"Nothing... I just think that since I have suffered so much grievance and humiliation, I have to find some return, right?"

Li Cheng颐 dropped a sentence, strode forward, brushed past Wang Zhijun, and hurried towards the distant street.

As a deputy battalion commander, he naturally had his own patrol jurisdiction.

Moreover, the Ouyang family would definitely come to ask when they found out that he had returned to the city, and then...

On the dark streets, large areas of民居 (residential houses) were like a black ocean, and the surrounding dense fortresses and towers were like a large number of towering, light-blocking giant trees.

On the giant trees lived the high and mighty bloodline families.

Li Cheng颐 walked in the bustling street and suddenly had a doubt.

Since bloodlines were true qi gradually practiced into the body, then why would ordinary civilians occasionally awaken bloodlines?

Could it be that after bloodlines were integrated into the body, they weren't necessarily able to awaken, but required special training methods.

Pa.

Suddenly, his footsteps stopped, and he stopped in place.

On the five-meter-wide sidewalk, cracked black mud slabs extended one after another into the distance.

Originally, these black mud slabs should have been constantly passed by a large number of people.

But at this time, the flow of people was automatically separated as if intercepted by reefs.

Two people silently walked out from the front and back, blocking everything, forming a strange cavity around Li Cheng颐.

Swish, swish.

Several sounds of piercing air rang out, and martial artists wearing dark tight-fitting clothes quickly landed on the roofs of several 民居 (residential houses) around.

A masked woman in black also lightly and silently landed on a store's advertising flagpole in the rear.

The woman was wearing tight-fitting silver-chain black clothes, her toes lightly touching the top of the flagpole, and faint sparks faintly appeared and disappeared beside her.

In just a few seconds, a group of masked people in tight-fitting clothes surrounded Li Cheng颐. And thoughtfully blocked Wang Zhijun and his group in the rear.

"Wang Yichen... where did Ouyang Qing go?" The woman behind him said in a cold voice.

"You people from the Ouyang family dare to come and see me?" Li Cheng颐 clearly felt a wave of oppression coming towards him.

But it wasn't yet恶念 (evil thoughts)...

Obviously, in the other party's eyes, the current Wang Yichen was weak and not enough for them to take seriously.

This group of people was obviously curious about Wang Yichen's sudden return to the city, so they came to investigate Ouyang Qing's whereabouts.

"What's your tone? How dare you talk to our young lady like that?" A tall masked man in front with a blue scarf around his neck said unkindly.

"What's my tone?" Li Cheng颐 slowly gripped the hilt of his knife. "You don't think that just because you are Blood Origin martial artists, you can dismiss us True Qi martial artists at will and not take us seriously, right?"

Since the other party thought he wasn't qualified and was weak... then...

Give them a little shock.

Clang!!

Without waiting for the other party to reply, in an instant, Li Cheng颐's blade flashed, and his body rushed forward.

One slash!!

After True Qi was fused into the second imprint, his physical fitness increased by a large margin on average.

Whether it was the previous strength or the current speed, they had been improved.

Barehanded strength reached a basic 400 tons, and speed increased from the previous four times the speed of sound to six times the speed of sound barehanded, a huge span.

This was the benefit of martial arts fusion imprints. Compared to the pure enhancement of a single attribute like an imprint ball, the improvement of martial arts was more comprehensive.

It should be known that this was barehanded, a level without any enhancement.

No柔气 (gentle qi), no花鳞衣 (Flower Scale Robe), no花语 (Flower Language), just purely with this body.

The terrifying speed and strength that erupted.

(End of chapter)