“How dare a mere Wei Rong Ling level cultivator act presumptuously before me?” Qiu Ming kicked Ouyang Changhe, reverting him to his human form, before looking up at the three giant figures still fighting in the distance.

The huge, gray-white deer-man was incredibly fast, his attacks casually breaking the sound barrier tenfold, with occasional strikes reaching eleven or nearly twelve times the speed of sound.

However, he was clearly outmatched by the other two Ming Shuai.

Even though Li Cheng Yi had crammed on speed training in the past two years, practicing the Xu Ye Xing martial arts to improve his speed, he was still a step behind against opponents who moved at fourteen or fifteen times the speed of sound.

When it came to speed, a step behind was the difference between heaven and earth, between hitting and missing.

Therefore, after discovering Li Cheng Yi's weakness, the two Ming Shuai joined forces, using their speed to circle the deer-man, constantly dodging the swings of the trident while seeking an opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.

Unfortunately, the reality was cruel.

*Pfft!*

A long spear pierced Li Cheng Yi's left chest, right where his heart was. But the spearhead barely entered halfway before the trident shattered the shaft, causing it to dissipate into countless black wisps.

Li Cheng Yi casually pulled the spear shaft from his chest, crushed it, and the gap in his bone armor instantly healed.

Everything returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.

*Boom!*

Four wolf claws from behind brought a fierce black wind, spinning like a drill, unleashing some kind of killing move, striking the back of Li Cheng Yi's cervical vertebra with full force.

Although the strike was fast, the wolf claws only made Li Cheng Yi's head shake, causing no damage.

Instead, large amounts of bone armor tried to grow and extend along the wolf claws toward him.

"How... how is this possible?!"

Xiao Shuai's face was filled with disbelief.

After fighting for so long, their attacks hadn't even managed to break through the outer armor of their opponent.

明明明明只是一个才进入融印的.

"This boring game should end."

Li Cheng Yi had achieved his goal of testing his strength without using Flower Language.

He didn't want to delay any longer.

He raised his trident.

An invisible wave suddenly covered the area where the two were.

"Indulge!"

The Hand of Indulgence activated instantly.

The two Ming Shuai tried to retreat, but their movements faltered for a moment.

In a fight at over ten times the speed of sound, a moment's hesitation was almost certain to reveal a fatal flaw.

The huge trident turned into a gray blur in an instant, sweeping horizontally, slashing through the two.

*Chiiii!!!*

Blood splattered, blood essence erupted, and two balls of black gas mixed with red light, poised to explode, but were immediately submerged and suppressed by a large expanse of white gas.

Seconds later, everything subsided.

These white Qi true energies, formed from Li Cheng Yi's blood essence, had no real killing power.

Their only effect was regeneration, and only on flesh and bone organisms, simply because there were so many of them.

Li Cheng Yi's centuries of blood essence cultivation, compressed and released, turned into the vast expanse of white gas that now enveloped half the county.

The blood essence of the two Ming Shuai disappeared, their corpses stood motionless, maintaining their original forms even after being slashed by the trident.

One second, two seconds.

*Whump.*

The two were simultaneously cut in half at the waist, their entire bodies surrounded and submerged by countless white wisps.

Li Cheng Yi's massive body rapidly shrank, returning to human form, and he began to retract the white gas.

Qiu Ming also flickered, gently landing beside him, watching the two thoroughly killed Ming Shuai.

"The blood essence in their bodies has been completely submerged and replaced by your blood essence true energy… I never expected that, on your first mission, you would single-handedly eliminate two Tu Shan Kingdom Ming Shuai."

"What level are Ming Shuai?" Li Cheng Yi asked nonchalantly.

"The Tu Shan Kingdom has a similar structure to ours. Ming Shuai are powerful figures second only to the Fu Jun (Prefect) in a prefecture, leaders strong enough to establish a force. Under normal circumstances, if it weren't for war, this level of power could protect several counties for hundreds of years. But now, you've taken out two of them at once," Qiu Ming pointed to the location of the two Ming Shuai.

"Were the high-level members of the Ming Chong (Caterpillar) Sect in the city captured? What about the people from Ling Hui Valley and Huang Gu Pavilion?" Li Cheng Yi asked.

"The sect leader, Ouyang Changhe, was captured, but one person escaped, probably from Ling Hui Valley. The master's decree was to resolve the Ming Chong Sect first, so I hesitated and took down Ouyang Changhe first," Qiu Ming explained.

Normally, she wouldn't explain herself, but Wang Yi Chen was different.

As the Fifth Yin God, he was both her junior brother and a top genius who could defeat two Ming Shuai on his first mission.

It was necessary to build a good relationship with him.

"One person escaped, but it seems like it was a Ling Hui Valley blood essence trait…" Qiu Ming felt somewhat ashamed, after all, Bai Lu came for the people from Huang Gu Pavilion.

"It's fine, the mission is important," Li Cheng Yi replied. Since it wasn't Huang Gu Pavilion, they could talk about it later.

He walked forward to search the remains of the two Ming Shuai, but found nothing except some discarded armor.

Because of the drastic changes in size during blood body transformations, blood body experts generally dislike carrying many items, as they would be damaged or lost after transforming.

"Next, I may have some things I need to handle, please help me with the aftermath, Senior Sister," Li Cheng Yi requested.

"Go, you've done the hardest part, this is nothing," Qiu Ming said with a smile.

Going on missions with this Bai Lu junior brother was easy, she could just stand aside and provide support.

Li Cheng Yi didn't waste any words. After collecting the remaining white gas, he turned into a gray shadow and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Several days later.

The news spread that two Ming Shuai of the Tu Shan Kingdom's Tian Jing Prefecture had mysteriously disappeared and that two Yin Gods from the Shao Yin Kingdom's Qu Ling Prefecture had eliminated the two Ming Shuai.

Immediately, Li Cheng Yi was moved up to thirtieth place on the Shao Yin Crack Earth Sealing Heaven List for the first time.

On both lists, the top thirty were a clear division, and changes in the top thirty, whether on the Crack Earth or Sealing Heaven lists, were far slower than in the lower rankings.

This was closely related to the status, strength, and background of these individuals.

Those who could enter the top thirty were at least two-imprint powerhouses. This time, Li Cheng Yi and Qiu Ming worked together to kill two Ming Shuai.

Because of Li Cheng Yi's secret request, Qiu Ming had to add herself, saying that they had worked together to eliminate the two Ming Shuai.

Now that Li Cheng Yi's basic needs and goals had been achieved, the things, resources, and martial arts he could obtain from relying on Qu Ling Prefecture were enough, and further increasing his fame would be more harmful than beneficial, potentially bringing more danger.

Therefore, he shared the credit with Qiu Ming.

Of course, he also wanted to underestimate his true strength.

On the sixth day after the news spread, the Fu Jun of Tu Shan Kingdom's Tian Jing Prefecture – Tian Fo Shou (Heavenly Buddha Hand) Jiang Dingcheng was furious, personally slaughtering two towns on the border between the two countries to show his revenge. He also threatened to kill Wang Yi Chen and his entire family to avenge his disciples.

But at this time, Li Cheng Yi was still in the Tian Ju Pavilion of Qu Ling Prefecture, quietly preparing for the next Flower Language.

He had to prepare everything.

Because the Flower Language ability of the green velvet poppy was different from others.

Increasing vitality to ten times the current state.

This second trait of the Flower Language's tenacious life was simply too exaggerated.

It could potentially cause drastic changes and imbalances in all aspects of the body, so he had to prepare everything from the beginning.

'Essentially, the tenfold increase in vitality from tenacious life is no less effective than other imprinting effects. Does this mean that Flower Language itself is similar to imprinting, a kind of sublimation effect? But just a fixed path of sublimation?'

Li Cheng Yi sat in meditation in the quiet room of his Fifth Yin God courtyard.

After adjusting all his states to be perfect and complete.

He concentrated and pressed his finger on the mark of the Evil Flower, touching the column belonging to the green velvet poppy.

'Activate passive Flower Language – Tenacious Life 2?'

A trace of inquiry information flowed into his mind.

'Yes.'

At the moment of confirmation.

Li Cheng Yi suddenly felt a pain all over his body. All his cells at that moment seemed to be nourished by a mysterious force, and time also began to accelerate.

Cells expanded and enlarged, bone marrow, bones, internal organs, nervous system, endocrine system, muscles, fascia, and everything else, were rapidly growing at this moment.

Not only his body, but also the blood essence within him, was rapidly becoming more abundant and denser with the increase in vitality.

With Li Cheng Yi's current life intensity, increasing it tenfold.

This was almost a violent boost that crossed levels.

With the massive increase in vitality, Li Cheng Yi's body in the quiet room had swelled to more than three meters in size.

His entire skin, flesh, organ tissues, and internal organs had all reached an exaggeratedly high level of density.

His weight also increased from the previous normal of over one ton to over three tons.

And this was not yet in the Rong Ling True Imprint state.

Even more exaggerated was his body temperature. The super vitality brought a terrifying body temperature that was unimaginable.

The surface temperature alone reached more than eighty degrees.

Multiple detailed traces had already indicated that he had completely exceeded the life boundary of ordinary humans, reaching a special level that no one had ever reached before.

Raising his finger, he released a wisp of blood essence.

But the original gray-white blood essence had now turned pure gray. Before, it gave a flowing water texture, but now it had turned into lava.

It could be seen from the surrounding air near the blood essence that there were bursts of high-temperature light distortion, which was transmitting and evaporating from above the blood essence.

Li Cheng Yi exhaled a long breath, and the breath turned into a heat wave in the air, mixed with many black-gray things, attached to the front doors, windows and walls.

And a few seconds later, the doors, windows and walls were actually corroded with large black spots.

'Some bacteria brought out by the water vapor in my mouth?'

Li Cheng Yi had some enlightenment in his mind.

The human body itself has many symbiotic bacterial colonies. Thousands of years of evolution and adaptation have made these bacterial colonies completely a part of the human body.

For example, common E. coli, Streptococcus salivarius, Staphylococcus aureus, etc.

The number of these large bacterial colonies actually far exceeds the number of human cells themselves, and they themselves are also part of the human body's collective will.

That is to say, the will of an individual originally contains the components of these symbiotic bacterial colonies.

Therefore, with the comprehensive enhancement of vitality, these colonies will also be comprehensively strengthened.

In essence, the definition of a person, in terms of quantity, is actually composed of countless bacteria, but the cell is the main support, and the cell is larger and heavier, that's all.

'According to the bacterial theory… people should actually be regarded as life forms composed of bacteria and cells. If vitality is strengthened, what is strengthened is actually all kinds of bacteria, that is to say—'

Li Cheng Yi looked at the doors and windows that were corroded and began to smoke, stood up, reached out and dipped some of the black on it, and then smelled it.

A smell of his own saliva.

'This thing... could it be my saliva bacteria?'

(End of this chapter)