As for Tianming's (lit. Mandate of Heaven) identity, based on behavioral profile analysis and continuous inference from all past events, it has been preliminarily determined that there is a high probability that he is Li Cheng颐, the captain of the Destiny Garden.

Thug and Tianming (lit. Mandate of Heaven) have highly similar whereabouts to Li Cheng颐. In addition, there is also analysis of body type, wording characteristics in speech, and detailed characteristics of behavior.

They are seventy percent certain that Tianming (lit. Mandate of Heaven) is Li Cheng颐.

Therefore...

No communication, long-range sniping, and full-force sneak attacks; this is their decision.

As for failure? Even if they fail, how dare the other party resist their investigation team? They must know that a nationwide search is underway.

Two gray lights shot towards the Suiyang Mingyuan Building at a terrifying speed of more than ten times the speed of sound.

Like two gray meteors, resolute and ruthless, completely disregarding the hundreds of dead-angle individuals and dozens of ordinary people still working in the entire building.

The ear-piercing sound of cloud explosions rumbled like continuous thunder.

Syndra and Big Bear, still inside the building, seemed to sense something.

Their physical fitness was no longer what it once was; under the continuous strengthening of the Flower Scale Armor, it had reached the limit of the human body.

The two stood up together, looking in the direction from which the gray flying instruments were coming.

Two enormous, powerful, and sharp deadly auras, like two sharp swords, stabbed towards their foreheads in perception.

But the two of them had no way to resist.

The gap was too great.

If they were at the fifth or sixth rank, there might still be a chance to fight back, but at the top tier of the eighth rank...

They had no choice but to wait for death.

But unexpectedly, neither of the two showed any fear on their faces.

They merely solemnly watched the gray light fly closer.

"This is our weakness; the enemy has finally discovered it," Syndra murmured.

"Too bad..." Big Bear was more enchanting than before; her fiery figure was even more prominent, wearing a milky-white tight dress, a purple-black short shawl, and her black silk-stockinged legs were crossed and tilted gently.

"Too bad... everything they've done was predicted by me long ago," Rainbow Candy's voice sounded in their earphones, with a hint of triumph.

Just then, a soft sound quietly spread from the Suiyang urban area.

A streak of pure white sword light rose from the bottom up, intercepting the two approaching gray lights with precision.

The sword light flowed with countless white-gold birds, as if entirely composed of flocks of birds.

At the same time, a light blue disc rose from the ground from another direction, also blasting to meet the attack.

These were the eighth-rank flying instrument masters from the Yan and Li families who had already arrived.

"Master."

Inside Yong'an Garden.

A figure that had been unseen for a long time appeared before Li Cheng颐.

Li Chongnan bowed his head respectfully and saluted him.

"I came with my uncle as soon as I received the news."

At this time, she had undergone tremendous changes compared to before she left Chaoyu.

She was taller and stronger, and there was a rare hint of murderous intent between her brows, obviously having been shown the world by the experts in her family.

Standing there, an invisible emotional thread naturally surrounded one meter around her.

"You've come at the right time; after the Sacred Spirit Art is complete, you have two choices next," Li Cheng颐 said with a smile.

"What choices?" Li Chongnan knew the power of the Sacred Spirit Art, and therefore craved it even more.

"First, continue to temper your consciousness and increase the total amount of the three abilities."

"Second, discover and refine the Sacred Spirit emotions that have been stimulated within you, and condense them into the three abilities. By doing so, you will achieve the Great Accomplishment of the Sacred Infant."

This was the final fork in the road for the Sacred Spirit Art's Sacred Infant, and was not fabricated by Li Cheng颐 himself.

The former was safe and effective, but the improvement was slow, requiring years.

The latter's improvement was extremely fast, but the danger and difficulty were also great. Once failed, one's personality would change drastically, completely transformed into a negative emotional aggregate of the Sacred Infant, losing oneself.

But once successful, the Sacred Infant would achieve Great Accomplishment, restore self, dissolve some side effects, and most importantly, be able to balance power from other Sacred Infants.

This was the ultimate secret method created by the founder of the Seven Intent Sacred Spirit Art, to make up for the excessive gap in strength before and after the Sacred Infant.

After the Sacred Infant achieves Great Accomplishment, the Sacred Spirit power between each other can be transferred and flow freely.

They will naturally form a dynamic balance.

Therefore, the seven Sacred Infants are interconnected; the more Sacred Infants, the stronger the average strength. And the fewer the number, the weaker the strength.

This is also a weakness that is not a weakness of the Seven Intent Sacred Spirit Art.

In other words, once Li Chongnan's Sacred Infant achieves Great Accomplishment, if Sea Shark is stronger than her, she can extract Sea Shark's Sacred Spirit power until the two are the same.

After carefully inquiring about the details, Li Chongnan fell into contemplation.

Seeing this, Li Cheng颐 just patted her shoulder and walked out of Yong'an Garden from the side.

Iserin had already returned; now, it was time for him to stretch his body a little.

At the same time, right in front of Yong'an Garden, an unremarkable white taxi drove up and stopped by the roadside.

The door opened, and a tall woman with long purple hair and a strand of white hair on her forehead, wearing a dark gray waist-belt trench coat, got out of the car.

She put her hands in her pockets, wore tea-colored sunglasses, and painted her lips a pale silver-white.

After getting out of the car, she looked at Li Cheng颐 immediately.

"Li Cheng颐?"

"I am," Li Cheng颐 blinked. "It seems you deliberately hid your tracks to盯(dīng) me." (observe/keep a close watch on)

The woman remained silent, not answering.

Buzz!

In an instant, a vast force field covering hundreds of meters rose up, completely enveloping the entire Yong'an Garden.

"Dual Coordination: Yingtian Number!"

"Dual Coordination: Thunder Sea!"

Two voices sounded simultaneously.

At the same time, within a thousandth of a second.

A spear composed of blue-purple liquid shot out from Li Cheng頤's left side, carrying a circle of terrifying airflow ripples.

Even during high-speed flight, a large number of modules on the spear shaft kept protruding, receding, and replacing.

As if it were simply composed of countless building blocks.

On the other side, on the right.

A deep blue thunder and lightning condensed into a huge eagle-bird.

The eagle-bird spread its wings and let out a sharp cry, swooping down towards Li Cheng颐.

That shape was the thunderbird in mythology!

The thunderbird trailed a long blue shadow, in which countless black threads, like living things, squirmed and intertwined, rapidly condensing into floating black spikes.

Two eighth-rank individuals attacked with full force simultaneously.

And at this moment.

The purple-haired woman standing in front of Li Cheng颐 suddenly lunged forward, opened her arms, and jumped up, approaching this side.

"!!??"

"!!??"

The eighth-rank flying instrument masters on both sides were shocked.

The woman was Zhao Yanzhen, one of the Zhao family's only three eighth-rank individuals!

They were only invited to cooperate with the other party in sniping the target; Zhao Yanzhen was the main force.

How could this guy be acting like she was proactively rushing to protect the target...!?

In desperation, the two hurriedly turned to pull away their flying instruments, giving up the assassination.

Two streaks of light crossed each other and quickly flew back to their original positions.

"Protect me," Li Cheng颐 whispered near the purple-haired woman's ear. "Otherwise, I'll kill you."

The Evil Flower on the back of his hand was shining with a faint purple light.

Just now it was only the effect of overlapping with the Hand of Indulgence; if someone could see the position where the woman stood before, they would see two footprints deeply embedded in the soil.

Zhao Yanzhen's eyes were dazed; landing, a silver cone flew out of her trench coat, flying around her and Li Cheng颐 together.

Li Cheng颐 glanced at Li Chongnan, who was dumbfounded at the door, and with a flash of his figure, he suddenly used Shadow Flash.

Shadow Flash superimposed with a sprint, he almost instantly reached the position where the spear flying instrument on the left flew out.

There stood a masked, gray-white, single-clothed, tall, long-haired man.

This man concentrated and raised his hand; a blue-purple spear reappeared from behind him, blasting out and stabbing towards Li Cheng颐.

Dang!

Something that terrified him happened.

Zhao Yanzhen, who should have been in the same camp, actually raised her hand and emitted a silver light mark at the same terrifying speed of more than ten times the speed of sound, intercepting the spear that was shot out.

Under the violent collision, the spear and the silver cone were knocked away at the same time.

Li Cheng颐 fell from it, condensing a golden sword in his hand, slashing down from above.

Golden fire circles had already floated around him at some unknown time.

Flower Utterance—Tianming (lit. Mandate of Heaven) - Absolutely Accurate Blade, silently activated.

Effect: Those whose power is weaker than oneself have their speed halved within the range of Flower Utterance.

Li Cheng頤 fell with a strange smile on his lips.

The eighth-rank individual's force field shattered like a soap bubble in an instant; the golden sword, carrying terrifying force, easily landed on the flying instrument master's chest, slashing down.

Chih!!

The remaining force of the golden sword smashed into the ground, instantly cutting out a bottomless black crack.

The masked flying instrument master stood there blankly, his body split in two from head to crotch.

Li Cheng頤's footsteps did not stop; his figure flickered, rushing towards the other side.

The force field shield that the other party had unfolded for the assassination had now become a prison from which they could not escape.

Zhao Yanzhen followed closely behind him, manipulating the flying instrument silver cone, expressionless.

"No!! Zhao Yanzhen, you bitch!!" The second flying instrument master was also masked; a woman, she now screamed angrily.

Her whole body was submerged in countless lightning bolts, and a thunderbird even larger than before pounced out. It was not rushing towards Li Cheng頤, but towards the shield above her head.

She wanted to escape!

"You're afraid," Li Cheng頤 laughed.

The distance approached twenty meters; Flower Utterance activated.

Boom!!

The masked woman, who had just taken flight, fell like a weight of a thousand catties, slamming into the ground, her legs digging out two pits, her expression returning to peace.

All the gathered thunder and lightning dissipated, and the thunderbird disappeared into thin air.

Sensing the consciousness in his mind that was rapidly being consumed, Li Cheng颐 gripped his sword.

The golden fire circle reappeared.

Pfft!

The Heavenly Mandate's (lit. Mandate of Heaven) Must-Hit Blade activated.

The golden sword cut the masked woman in half at the waist; golden light exploded, and the corpse fell to the ground and exploded, turning into a mixture of flesh and mechanical fragments.

"Finally."

He turned to look at Zhao Yanzhen.

At this time, the purple light on the back of his hand was already flashing.

The other party was obviously about to break free from control, but it was too late.

Golden light flashed.

There were no tricks, just a simple raising and lowering of the sword blade.

The vast power, amplified by the force imprint, was like a tide, unstoppable, crashing down.

Rumble!!!

The position where Zhao Yanzhen was located was completely transformed into a blurry pit of flesh and blood fragments.

The pit, more than ten meters wide, was like being hit by a meteorite, with a depth of more than ten meters, almost forming a cylinder.

Hot smoke slowly rose from inside.

A silver, twisted cone, quietly broken into three sections, lay at the bottom of the pit.

"Then... it's the Zhao family's turn again. It's time to try to get rid of them once and for all."

He was already very tired from solving the huge threat of the dead corners all day long.

He didn't want any other interference to affect him.

Therefore...

"Tangtang, help me book a flight to Chaoyu."

He opened the AR communication channel and said.

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