Chapter 131 Gathering Flowers

Li Cheng颐 dispersed the scales and armor on his body, switching to the Sword Orchid scale armor in its invisible state. Now, the only thing undamaged was the Sword Orchid.

He headed straight back towards Yong'an Court.

This time, he had a clear understanding of the strength of the Feiliu Feyi masters.

Just as Liu Tongbei had said, they were on completely different levels, levels he couldn't even comprehend.

'It seems that the protective power of the scale armor is no longer enough. I must increase its evolution level as soon as possible to improve its individual strength. I can't just focus on opening new flower god positions!'

All along, because his attack and defense strength had been sufficient, he had focused on opening multiple flower god main positions to acquire more flower language abilities and expand his overall strength.

But now that the level has increased, the enemies he encounters are also getting stronger and stronger.

Although the strength of his previous scale armor had also been improving, it was far from keeping up with the weapon damage of his enemies.

Even the Dragon Blood-enhanced body would叠加增强 the strength of the scale armor.

But this疊加 was still far from enough compared to Feiyi's leap-forward enhancement.

Li Cheng颐 didn't even use the Purple Magnolia scale armor.

The newly formed Purple Magnolia was not specialized in attack and defense, so using it would be meaningless other than adding to the damage.

'Going back.'

He looked back at the direction of the short sword.

Although the exchange this time was brief, it gave him a rough understanding of the level of the Feiliu Feyi masters.

It was precisely because of Shadow Transformation that he had the confidence to test them.

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Above the desolate highway.

The blue short sword circled and flew around, unable to find any trace of Li Cheng颐.

On the side of the highway, a girl in light blue knitwear and jeans slowly walked out of the shade of the trees.

She wore a black mask that covered half of her face, revealing only a pair of slightly puzzled, charming eyes.

"Where is he? Space positioning and radiation locking aren't responding... How did he escape??"

She couldn't understand it.

"Sister Huihui, there's a prohibited target entering the Sky Eye range about two thousand meters southwest," a clear, young voice came from her earpiece.

"Alright, I'll take care of it. Send me the coordinates," the woman said quietly.

At this moment, two thousand meters away.

"Hahahaha, I, Zhou Yan, am back!! This time, my modification has been fully upgraded! Thug! Prepare to die!! This time, I will never be as careless as last time!"

In the mountains and forests, a humanoid complete form with a dark green body and four arms was rapidly entering the Sky Eye range, rushing towards the Evergreen Botanical Garden.

The mission he received this time was to rescue a dead-angle high-frequency sensor named Fran that the Noel Group's Cadice had brought in, as quickly as possible.

But Zhou Yan was still brooding over his defeat last time. He didn't think there was a problem with his strength, but that he had been careless.

Unfortunately, he was later stopped by his teacher, Bai Kulou, who forbade him from taking action.

But this time, with a more advanced body, he planned to sneak attack and kill the Thug before completing the mission!!

In the mountains and forests, Zhou Yan ran at full speed, feeling extremely unrestrained and proud.

After the teacher was captured, he replaced the teacher as the host of their department, and also obtained more resources and modules.

So this time...

Chi!!

A blue light flashed suddenly in the forest.

Zhou Yan's body froze.

"What's going on!?"

Boom!

His entire body suddenly exploded, turning into countless module metal fragments scattered all over the ground.

The blue short sword emerged, floating above the bottom of the explosion pit.

"More garbage from Utopia. It's like you can't kill these cockroaches."

An electronic voice came from the Feyi.

Then, the short sword turned and flew away.

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After tidying up a bit, he asked Cindy to help take care of the different garden, and explained to his family that he was going out on a business trip.

Then, Li Cheng颐 boarded the plane to Long'an.

He didn't take Rainbow Candy's aircraft, but honestly traveled on a large passenger plane like ordinary passengers.

In fact, large passenger planes are much safer than private aircraft.

Because the country has much higher safety requirements for large passenger planes.

Even if the people of Eleven Feiliu were strong, they would not dare to risk the world's condemnation and attack passenger planes.

Even Utopia didn't dare to attack such large means of transportation back then.

Because the impact caused would be too great and too bad.

No country or organization would allow such terrorist activities to happen on their territory.

Once they took action, Bai Xing behind Utopia would definitely take action against them.

The entire journey, including the security check, took a total of one and a half hours.

Li Cheng颐 arrived in Long'an City.

The entire Long'an City was much larger than Suiyang, with a total of four districts. The area of a single district was equivalent to that of Suiyang City.

The four districts were Nantong District, Nanming District, Guanghui District, and Jiaozhi District.

Long'an University of Science and Technology was located in Guanghui District, which was more than 50 kilometers from the airport according to the map.

Li Cheng颐 did not go there immediately, but first went to the largest botanical garden in Long'an, the Lanliu Botanical Garden.

Compared to Suiyang, there was only one botanical garden here, apparently because not many people liked to visit such places.

After testing Li Shenhui of Zhongyi University, Li Cheng颐 now had only one thought in mind, and that was to improve the evolution level of the main flower as soon as possible.

Everything else could be put off until later.

He planned to absorb all the flower energy of the main flowers that could be absorbed first.

Inside the Lanliu Botanical Garden.

Li Cheng颐 looked at the large patch of purple magnolias in front of him, with tree after tree of purplish-red flowers, like they didn't cost any money. There were at least hundreds of them.

His originally tense mood relaxed a lot.

'Let's touch them first,' he walked forward, stood under the tree, and looked around.

He made sure that no one was paying attention to him.

Then, he reached out and touched the flowers one by one.

This variety was called Xinghua Magnolia, which was also a variation of purple magnolia. The flowers were relatively larger and spread out naturally like palms.

They felt good to the touch, like touching cool silk, very soft and smooth.

As his fingers continued to move, a trace of cool flower energy continuously flowed into the back of his hand.

Li Cheng颐 was not surprised by this, because purple magnolias bloomed in this season.

Now was the perfect time.

What he was going to test later was the key.

Since the evil flower had determined the fixed flowering season, could other variations of flowers in different seasons absorb flower energy?

This was what he was focusing on.

Soon, in less than half an hour, the flower energy of the purple magnolias was fully absorbed, reaching 100%.

'Next is the evil thought. Don't rush, wait until I gather the flower energy of the other main flowers before doing it together.'

He retracted his hand and sighed contentedly.

He climbed down from the tree.

He saw a chubby staff member in blue standing under the tree.

Apparently, the other party had been watching him here for a while.

"Uh... I'm actually doing flower research. I just wanted to observe this Xinghua Magnolia up close," Li Cheng颐 explained a little awkwardly.

The fat man didn't speak, but spread out his hand. He had an expression that said, 'You know.'

"..." Li Cheng颐 was speechless. He took out a hundred yuan bill from his wallet and put it in the other party's hand.

"By the way, what flowers are blooming in your garden now? Can I ask?" Li Cheng颐 suddenly said.

He had already given the money, so wouldn't it be a waste not to ask something?

"What flowers do you want to study?" the fat man raised his eyebrows and asked.

"Do you have wisteria?"

"It's long gone."

"Sunflowers?"

"You have to go to the farm to find them."

"Gladiolus?"

"A lot."

"Cirsium setosum?"

"No."

"You don't have any... Wait!" Suddenly Li Cheng颐 reacted. "You just said you have gladiolus?"

"Yes, we just introduced a pure white gladiolus. It has a long flowering period of four months, and it hasn't withered yet," the fat man replied.

Flowering period of four months!?

Li Cheng颐's heart shook. Awesome! This was the limit of gladiolus flowering period.

"Can you take me to see it?" he asked hurriedly.

"..." The fat man pointed to the tourist signs next to him.

"Thanks!" Li Cheng颐 looked at it and immediately saw a sign with the direction of a gladiolus garden.

He didn't expect that there would be new gladiolus here that he could absorb. He thought he would have to go to other places to find the main flower.

After saying goodbye to the fat staff member, he quickened his pace and rushed towards the direction indicated by the sign.

After walking a few hundred meters, he quickly saw a pure white gladiolus garden surrounded by a fence by a pool.

At a glance, there were at least a hundred flowers.

On the green leaves that looked like long swords, white flowers were connected in a string, as if they were strung together by a sword.

Li Cheng颐 first found a staff member on the side, explained his 'research content', and then gave some benefits, before jumping into the garden.

Then, he started touching them randomly.

Half an hour later, he successfully absorbed the flower energy as he wished.

The gladiolus had already reached half of the second evolution level. With this absorption, it was directly filled, only lacking evil thought.

Without hesitation.

Li Cheng颐 booked another plane ticket and went to the main flower blooming place he had chosen before.

As expected.

It really worked!

Within a week, he ran to three places in a row and successfully collected the flower energy of the wisteria.

Cirsium setosum couldn't be collected in large quantities because no one planted it in large quantities. Sunflowers ultimately didn't work, having already reached the ultimate form. They couldn't continue to evolve, so naturally they couldn't absorb flower energy.

Li Cheng颐 originally had a glimmer of hope, but it still didn't work.

Fortunately, the radiance force field brought to him by the sunflowers played a big role in the dead corner.

In this way, he collected the flower energy for the three evolutions of the wisteria, the flower energy for the two evolutions of the gladiolus, and the flower energy for one evolution of the purple magnolia in one go.

The rest was to focus on supplementing the evil thought for these three main flowers.

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February 19, morning.

"Hello, Mom, is sister back? Not yet? Oh, okay, then you guys take care of yourselves and don't get too tired. Anyway, the family doesn't lack money now. Okay, I know, don't worry, I'll hang up first."

Li Cheng颐 put down his phone, his face a little melancholy.

His sister had joined the army and went to the border to participate in the garrison. She hadn't returned home yet... And it seemed like she wouldn't have a vacation for several months.

He couldn't beat his sister, so the source of evil thought would be much less. What a pity...

He then picked up his phone again and dialed a second number.

"Master? Is Little Zhuang back? Not yet? Then I'll call her. Okay."

After hanging up the phone, he quickly dialed Zhuang Yijing's number, but no one answered.

He sighed.

Little Zhuang was not here, and that high-quality fertilizer, Mary Anxi, was also missing.

He originally thought that the survivors in the Yunshan dead corner would be new fertilizer, but Yunshan was closed.

'It's a pity that the fertilizer is used up when it's needed.'

In the hotel room, he wandered around a few times and thought of Zheng Qingrong, the reserve fertilizer stored in the company. But that woman was stubborn and unyielding, with very little emotional fluctuation.

He had tried several times, but couldn't absorb evil thought from her.

She only felt gratitude towards him...

No prisoners believed him in the prison either. Because of human rights laws, the prison was not allowed to beat or humiliate them.

Difficult...

'It seems I have to develop new fertilizer.' Li Cheng颐 thought of his original goal.

Contact Eleven Feiliu.

'Or go to Long'an University of Science and Technology. If I can get a set of controlled-level exoskeleton or force field generator and integrate it into my scale armor, the strength might be greatly improved.'

In addition, after personally experiencing Li Shenhui's Feyi power, Li Cheng颐 wondered if, since it was all about stacking resources and technology, could he get a Feyi and force field of that level?

This was the root cause of his coming to Long'an.

Since high-level Feyi masters were so awesome, why couldn't he become one of them?

Feyi combined with flower language ability, close combat could use the invisible scale armor ability of secondary evolution, and integrate a force field generator to enhance defense ability.

If he could enter Eleven Feiliu, he would definitely have more advantages than all the Feyi masters! He would be stronger!

(End of chapter)