The gate opened automatically and slowly, revealing a vast hall inside, shimmering with a brilliant golden halo.

The hall's floor and walls were covered with thousands of inlaid rhombus-shaped golden chips.

Surrounding these chips were a large number of golden electrical lines, the dense golden light emanating from them.

Around the hall, golden sculptures, each over ten meters tall, stood silently, in various forms, each representing a heroic figure who had appeared in Yi Nation.

In the center of the golden hall was a white jade rectangular table.

Zhou Shi, the Yi Emperor, the most powerful man in the entire Yi Nation, stood quietly at the edge of the long table in heavy armor, looking down at the massive sandbox map on the table, seemingly lost in thought.

Behind him, countless layers of golden wings rippled on his armor, floating slightly like spikes.

The material of the wings was both metallic and flesh-like, extremely peculiar.

Without any complex fanfare, the two groups from the Destiny Garden and the Shadow Eaters entered the hall directly, the conveyor belt beneath their feet coming to a halt.

"I am very pleased that you accepted my invitation to come to An Du, to come here. This makes it possible for us to stand on the same front."

Yi Emperor Zhou Shi turned around, his face obscured by the golden heavy helmet, making it impossible to read his expression, but his tone suggested that he was indeed very happy.

"Now that you have accepted our conditions, can we have the four people?" Shadow Dragon Sal asked.

"Of course," Zhou Shi replied easily.

"In addition to that, if you want us to join your alliance, there is one more condition," Sal said casually.

"What condition? Tell me," Zhou Shi adopted a humble posture.

"Our clan has some of its bloodline scattered abroad, in this territory. We want to recover the accidentally lost bloodline, and we need your cooperation," Sal said with a smile.

"Oh?" Zhou Shi was slightly surprised. He already knew that Sal belonged to the Shadow Dragon clan, which was intelligence he had received from Barton and the others.

But there was already Shadow Dragon bloodline existing within Yi Nation?

This was indeed a strange matter.

"How will you cooperate?" he asked curiously.

"Cooperate with us to capture the lost bloodline and prevent them from escaping!" Sal said with a smile.

"This..." Zhou Shi frowned slightly.

"Your place is riddled with holes. Besides this, there's really nothing worth our attention. If you don't agree, we'll leave immediately after we get our people back," Sal pressed.

Seeing that Zhou Shi didn't say anything, he smiled and continued.

"Of course, if your strength is too weak and you can't spare the manpower, we can do it ourselves."

His gaze shifted and slowly landed on Li Cheng Yi and the others to the side.

That mixed-blood's body seemed good too, just right to take as a new replacement skin.

He had changed skins several times now, and none of them were satisfactory. Their strength was too low.

Li Cheng Yi had been waiting quietly, waiting for his team to communicate with the Yi Emperor. At this moment, he felt the other party's gaze.

He slowly moved his eyes and met Sal's dragon eyes.

Buzz.

In an instant, the air between the two subtly twisted, rotated, and compressed.

Two massive forces of consciousness collided and clashed in an instant, even causing changes in the real airflow.

The essence of consciousness comes from countless tiny fields aggregated together.

Seemingly invisible, it can subtly affect reality if it is powerful enough.

But this requires extreme power.

And Li Cheng Yi and Shadow Dragon Sal were now at this level.

"If you look at me like that again, I'll dig out your eyeballs," Li Cheng Yi suddenly said.

The smile on Sal's face froze, then slowly calmed down.

"It seems you don't understand what the difference in bloodline between us means..."

"Want to fight?" Li Cheng Yi interrupted him. "Shadow Dragon? Ah... I remember now, you're those wastes who had a lot of things taken from the shop by me?"

He revealed a look of realization.

No wonder he felt a faint sense of familiarity from the other party's aura. It turned out he was an acquaintance from the Silent Shop.

"..." The expressions of Sal and the other two darkened.

"Last time you were lucky, but this time..." Ying said coldly.

Last time, his breath missed, and he destroyed the Silent Shop as well.

He didn't expect that the mixed-blood he met here was the same person from last time.

"If I'm not mistaken, your strength has been suppressed quite a bit since you came here, right?" A smile appeared on Li Cheng Yi's face.

"What? You think you can win?" Sal sneered.

"Want to try?" Countless Sword Orchid petals suddenly appeared around Li Cheng Yi, the petals condensing into golden armor that covered his entire body.

A circle of golden fire had quietly enveloped Sal and the other two opposite him at some point.

"After all... you're too close to me."

A golden longsword silently condensed in his hand.

"Your Majesty," Zhou Shi spoke, trying to dissuade them.

Awooo!!

In an instant, Sal pounced, his body suddenly transforming into a black Shadow Dragon over ten meters long, shaking his wings, instantly appearing behind Li Cheng Yi, and biting down.

The golden sword slashed upwards in an instant.

The doubled power of the Flower Scale Clothes after amplification, the superposition of Zi Jiao Hua, and the many powers of the Zi Yu Lan Flower Language Pearl were superimposed.

Layer upon layer of blessing, Li Cheng Yi's simple swing of the sword possessed a massive force of nearly eight hundred tons.

Chi!!

In an instant, the two crossed paths.

Sal returned to human form, his face stiff, his pupils constricted, covering his chest and trembling all over.

In the center of his chest was a large bloody opening that pierced through to his back, from which thick black-red blood dripped, disappearing as shadows before it even touched the ground.

Missed!!?

His pounce just now had inexplicably missed!?

He didn't even know why he missed. When he was only a little away from the other party, he suddenly skewed for no reason.

"What's going on!?" He couldn't understand what had just happened.

Puff!!

Countless black blood splattered out, scattering around.

"Too weak..." Li Cheng Yi's voice slowly seemed to float from a distance, faintly discernible.

"So weak that it doesn't even make me alert. How can such weak trash enter this highest hall so brazenly?"

Puff!

Rage exploded in Sal's heart.

Just a mere mixed-blood!? How dare he call him trash!??

Kill him!

Kill him!

Kill him!!!

Violent anger grew from humiliation.

'If it weren't for safety, they would have only sent avatars, how could this mixed-blood bitch be so arrogant now!!'

Unfortunately, the about-to-dissipate him couldn't make any sound at all, he could only fall to the ground in frustration, turning into a pool of shadows and disappearing into nothing.

Anger +5.

Anger +4.

Anger +5.

Dense malicious thoughts were quickly absorbed into Li Cheng Yi's body.

"Sorry... I take back what I said just now. Trash, still has a little bit of use as trash." Li Cheng Yi felt the malicious thoughts flying over and felt somewhat recovered.

At this time, the entire hall was silent.

The two fought too quickly, so quickly that no one had time to react.

Originally, Zhou Shi planned to have people separate them for a truce, but unfortunately, the outcome appeared too quickly.

In just an instant, Sal was killed instantly by the Destiny.

He had no power to fight back.

Shock.

Whether it was Zhou Shi, Zhou Shuo, or the other two Shadow Dragons, Ying and Faun.

No one expected Sal to lose so quickly.

Even though this was just an avatar with only one-tenth of the power, it was instantly killed. Wasn't this a bit too exaggerated!?

Instantly connecting a large amount of information, Ying and Faun's gazes towards Li Cheng Yi also changed.

From the initial indifference and contempt to caution and vigilance.

"Oh, why did it come to this? Everyone is a pillar of the Empire, and we are about to become colleagues fighting together. There's no need to be so stiff," Zhou Shi sighed, looking very regretful.

"Your Majesty is overthinking it. To dare to speak wildly with such weak strength, such a waste, even if he goes to the battlefield, he will only be trash who drags down his comrades," Li Cheng Yi said lightly. "It's better for me to clean it up internally first, which can reduce losses."

"Arrogant!" Ying stared at him with cold eyes.

"I'm just stating the facts," Li Cheng Yi said. "If you don't agree, you are welcome to come to Feng Nan Province to find me at any time."

"If you think that was all of Sal's strength just now, then you're wrong... You have completely angered him now!" Faun said coldly.

His appearance was that of a middle-aged man with white hair and triangular eyes, looking somewhat lifeless.

"So, I should go eliminate the root after the meeting?" Li Cheng Yi smiled.

"..." Ying and Faun didn't speak anymore.

In fact, the two of them had been reviewing the sword just now, why Sal missed, why he didn't resist, and was inexplicably stabbed in the vital point, dying instantly?

They didn't know.

If they couldn't figure this out, even in their prime, they would definitely lose more than they would win against this guy.

"Alright, alright. Everyone calm down and don't hurt the harmony between colleagues," Zhou Shi said gently.

"The promotion conditions for both sides this time have been written on the documents. Please confirm them. If there are no problems, you can sign."

He looked at the Shadow Eaters side.

"We can send the people you need, and you can freely devour the enemy on the battlefield for the daily food you need, with no limit to the amount."

"If we can confirm that there is no limit to the amount, we have no problem," Ying said coldly, still staring at Li Cheng Yi.

"I don't have any problems here either," Li Cheng Yi said. He had already received the documents before, and the conditions and content on them were the same as before.

Join the military, become a general, and earn military merits by participating in space warfare.

In exchange, he would receive state-level resource supply and various permissions, discounts, and benefits equal to the other ninth-level existences.

Because he, unlike other ninth-level existences, required a large amount of energy to be supplied at any time, his position was more special and valuable than others.

It could be said that he was the only ninth-level existence who could act freely and strike instantly.

This was also the reason why Zhou Shi had to recruit Li Cheng Yi, regardless of the Zhao family's emotions.

"In addition, space warfare requires a significant change of weapons, so if you need anything, as long as it is used in the war, feel free to ask," Zhou Shi said generously.

"I need the highest-level special alloy, as well as micro-energy modules, etc., and all information about the Non-Gate, the Black Sea, etc., is that okay?" Li Cheng Yi said.

"It's very simple. I can take the lead and allocate a special Flying Yi battleship to you. I heard you are also a Flying Yi Master?" Zhou Shi said with a smile.

"Yes, but a Strategic Flying Yi Master, shouldn't it be possible to transform casually?" Li Cheng Yi said in surprise.

"Indeed, so if it really doesn't work, you can participate in the war using the method you are most familiar with," Zhou Shi replied.

"Battleship?" Li Cheng Yi suddenly pondered.

Rainbow Candy and Big Bear's accumulative Flower Language gave him a lot of inspiration. What he lacked now was this type of accumulative Flower Language.

Those that were helpful to operation, research, and accumulation imprints were the first choice.

Now that the Empire was giving the ninth-level existence treatment, vast resources were about to open up permissions to him.

It would be a waste not to make good use of it.

Coincidentally, the classics obtained from the City of the Death Angel contained a method of using death energy to fuse inert materials and create element pools.

He could completely build his own Death Energy Mage Tower and transform the battleship into a mobile Death Energy Mage Tower.

'It would be best if it was a Death Energy Mage Tower that could move in the Black Sea, so he could have a top-secret environment to create imprinting spheres.'

(End of this chapter)