Li Chengyi dissipated the armor from his body and switched to the Gladiolus Floral Dress in stealth mode; the only thing that remained undamaged was the Gladiolus.
He headed straight back in the direction of Everpeace Garden.
In his mind, he now had a clear understanding of the power of the Feiyi Master.
Indeed, as Liu Tongbei had said, it was a completely different level, one he could not comprehend at all.
’It seems the protective power of the Floral Dress is no longer sufficient. I must enhance the evolution degree as soon as possible to improve my individual strength. I can’t just focus on unlocking new Divine Flower Positions!’
Because his offensive and defensive strength had been adequate, he had always taken the path of unlocking multiple Divine Flower Positions to gain more Flower Language Abilities and expand his overall capabilities.
But now, as he climbed in levels, he faced increasingly powerful enemies.
Although the strength of his Floral Dress had also been improving, it was far from catching up with the killing power of the enemies’ weapons.
Even the Dragon Blood Enhancent of his body would enhance the strength of his Floral Dress.
But this kind of enhancent, compared to the Feiyi’s exponential increase, was still far from sufficient.
Li Chengyi did not even use his Purple Floral Dress.
The recently ford Purple Magnolia was not a type known for its offensive and defensive abilities. Using it would only add to his injuries without making any significant difference.
’I’m heading back.’
He glanced back in the direction of the short sword.
Although the encounter was brief, it gave him a rough idea of the level of the Feiyi Master.
It was precisely because he had Shadow Mode that he was bold enough to probe.
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In the sky above the wilderness highway.
The blue short sword circled around but couldn’t find any trace of Li Chengyi’s whereabouts.
By the side of the road, a girl in a light blue sweater and jeans slowly stepped out from the shade of the trees.
She wore a black mask covering half of her face, only revealing a pair of puzzled and charming eyes.
’Where did he go? No response from spatial positioning or radiation locking... how did he escape??’
She couldn’t understand.
’Sister Huihui, there’s a prohibited target around two kiloters to the southwest that has entered Heavenly Eye’s range,’ a crisp boy’s voice ca through her earpiece.
’Forget it, I’ll just deal with it on the way. Send the location,’ the woman said quietly.
Two kiloters away at that mont.
’Hahaha, Zhou Yan is back!! This ti, my body is fully upgraded! Thugs, you’re going to die!! This ti I definitely won’t be as careless as last ti!’
In the forest, a humanoid Ultimate Form with dark green skin and four arms was rapidly entering the Heavenly Eye’s range, charging towards the Eternal Botanical Garden.
His mission this ti was to rescue a Blind Spot high-frequency sensor nad Fran that Kadis from the Noel Group had taken into the area.
But Zhou Yan was still dwelling on his previous defeat. He believed that it was not a problem with his strength, but that he had been careless.
Regrettably, later his teacher White Skeleton had stopped him, forbidding him from taking action.
But this ti, with a more advanced body, he planned to ambush and kill the thugs before completing the mission!!
Running at full speed through the forest, Zhou Yan’s mood was wildly triumphant.
With the teacher captured, he, now acting as leader in place of his teacher, also received more resources and modules.
So this ti...
Ssshh!
A flash of blue light suddenly streaked through the forest.
Zhou Yan’s body froze.
’What... happened...!?’
Boom!
He suddenly exploded into countless tal fragnts, scattering across the ground.
The blue short sword appeared and hovered above the crater left by the explosion.
’Another piece of trash from Utopia, just like endless cockroaches.’
The electronic voice ca from the Feiyi.
Then the short sword turned and flew away.
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After making brief arrangents and asking Xindela to take care of the Exotic Garden, and after informing his family that he would be going away on a business trip,
Li Chengyi boarded a plane to Luo An.
He did not take Rainbow Candy’s aircraft but honestly sat with the ordinary passengers on a comrcial flight.
In fact, the safety of large comrcial aircraft was much higher than that of private aircraft.
This was because the nation’s safety requirents for comrcial airlines were very high.
Even the formidable individuals from Eleven Flying Streams wouldn’t dare to harm a passenger plane, attracting the world’s condemnation.
Just like Utopia before, they never dared to tamper with such large ans of transport.
The repercussions would be too vast and horrendous.
No country or organization would allow such terrorist acts to occur on their turf.
If they ever did take action, Utopia’s backers, White Star, would undoubtedly retaliate against them.
The whole journey, including security checks and other procedures, took a total of an hour and a half.
Li Chengyi then arrived in Luo An City.
Luo An City was much larger than Suiyang, with four districts in total. Each district was as large as the whole of Suiyang City.
The four districts were Nantong District, Nanming District, Guanghui District, and Jiaozhi District.
Zhongyi University was located in Guanghui District, about fifty-sothing kiloters from the airport according to the map.
Li Chengyi did not head there imdiately but first visited the largest botanical garden in Luo An — Blue Willow Botanical Garden.
Compared to Suiyang, there was only one botanical garden here, indicating that not many people enjoyed visiting such places.
After probing Li Shenhui from Zhongyi University, Li Chengyi had only one thought in mind, which was to enhance the evolutionary tier of his main flowers as quickly as possible.
Everything else could wait.
He planned to fully absorb the Flower Qi from the main flowers first.
Inside Blue Willow Botanical Garden.
Li Chengyi looked at the vast expanse of Purple Magnolias in front of him, tree by tree adorned with hundreds of purple-red blossoms, as if costing nothing.
His sowhat anxious mood eased considerably.
’Let’s start with a gentle touch...’ he moved forward, arriving under a tree while checking his surroundings.
Making sure no one was paying attention to this area.
He then began to gently touch each blossom.
This species, known as Star Magnolia, was a variant of the Purple Magnolia with relatively larger flowers that naturally spread open like a palm.
They felt good to touch, like cold silk, very soft and smooth.
As his fingers moved from flower to flower, a refreshing stream of Flower Qi continuously flowed into the back of his hand.
Li Chengyi was not surprised by this, for Purple Magnolias were flowers that blood during this season.
The timing was perfect.
What he was about to test was the key.
Now that Evil Flower had a fixed blooming season, could the evolved flowers from other places absorb flower essences in different seasons?
This was his primary focus.
Soon, in less than half an hour, the essence of the Purple Magnolia was fully absorbed, reaching 100%.
’Next is Evil Thoughts. No rush, I’ll handle it after I’ve collected the essences of the other main flowers.’
Withdrawing his hand, Li Chengyi let out a satisfied sigh.
He climbed down from the tree.
Below, he saw a chubby worker in blue clothes.
Obviously, the other party had been watching him for a while now.
"Uh... Actually, I’m researching flowers, and I just wanted to observe and study this Star Magnolia up close," Li Chengyi explained a bit awkwardly.
The chubby man didn’t speak, just opened his hand with a you-know-what-I-an expression.
"..." Li Chengyi, speechless, took a hundred-yuan note from his wallet and placed it in the other’s hand.
"By the way, what other flowers are currently blooming in your garden? May I ask?" Li Chengyi suddenly said.
Since he’d already given money, wouldn’t it be a waste not to ask sothing?
"What flowers are you researching?" the chubby man asked, raising his eyebrow.
"Do you have Wisteria?"
"Gone for a while now."
"Sunflower?"
"You’ll need to go to a farm for those."
"Gladiolus?"
"Plenty."
"Feilian?"
"None."
"All gone... Wait a minute!" Li Chengyi suddenly realized sothing. "Did you just say that you have Gladiolus?"
"Yes, we’ve just introduced a new variety of Pure White Gladiolus. It has a very long blooming period of four months, and they haven’t withered yet," the chubby worker replied.
A four-month blooming period?! Li Chengyi’s heart trembled with excitent. That was the ultimate blooming period for Gladiolus.
"Can you take to see them?" he asked eagerly.
"..." The chubby man pointed to a tourist sign nearby.
"Thanks!" After glancing at the sign, Li Chengyi imdiately saw a direction sign for Gladiolus Garden.
He hadn’t expected to find a new variety of Gladiolus that he could absorb here. He had thought he would need to look elsewhere for a main flower.
After saying goodbye to the chubby worker, he quickened his pace and hurried in the direction indicated by the sign.
After walking a few hundred ters, he quickly found the Pure White Gladiolus Garden, cordoned off by a fence beside a pool.
At first glance, there were at least a hundred blossoms.
The long, sword-like green leaves were adorned with strings of white flowers, as if they were linked by swords.
Li Chengyi first approached a worker nearby, explained his ’research interest’ briefly, gave a tip, and then hopped over the fence into the garden.
Then he went on a spree of touching flowers.
Half an hour later, he had successfully absorbed the full amount of flower essence.
Gladiolus was already halfway through its second evolution, and this full absorption left only Evil Thoughts remaining.
Without hesitation,
Li Chengyi booked a plane ticket and headed to the bloom site of the main flower he had previously chosen.
As expected,
it was feasible!
Within a week, he had run to three different locations, successfully collecting the full essence of the Wisteria Flowers.
Since Feilian wasn’t widely cultivated, he could only accumulate its essence slowly. Sunflower was ultimately not possible, as it had already reached its Ultimate Form. It couldn’t evolve further and therefore couldn’t absorb any more flower essences.
Li Chengyi had held onto a glimr of hope, but it still didn’t work.
Fortunately, the Radiance Field that Sunflower brought him proved very useful in the Blind Spot.
In this way, he had gathered in one go the essences for the third evolution of Wisteria, the second evolution of Gladiolus, and the first evolution of Purple Magnolia.
All that was left was to supplent these three main flowers with concentrated Evil Thoughts.
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February 19th, early morning.
"Hey, Mom, has Sister returned yet? Not yet, huh? Oh, okay, then take care of yourselves, don’t overwork, we’re not short on money at ho now. Mhm, got it, don’t worry, I’ll hang up first."
Li Chengyi put down his phone, his expression sowhat wistful.
His sister had joined the military, gone to the border for deploynt, and hadn’t returned ho... and it seed that she wouldn’t have any leave for a few months.
Without being able to fight with his sister, there was a significant loss of sources of Evil Thoughts. What a pity...
He then picked up his phone again and dialed the second number.
"Master, has Xiao Zhuang returned? Not yet? Then I’ll call her. All right."
After hanging up, he quickly dialed Zhuang Yijing’s number, but got no answer.
He sighed.
Without Xiao Zhuang around, that high-quality flower fertilizer from the Marian Union was also missing.
He had thought that the survivors in the Yunshan Blind Spot would be a new supply of fertilizer, but Yunshan had closed down.
’Fertilizer is only missed when one runs out of it...’ he thought.
In his hotel room, he paced for a bit, then rembered the stock of fertilizer, Zheng Qingrong, stored in the company. But she was tough, resolute, with very little emotional fluctuation.
He had tried several tis but couldn’t extract any Evil Thoughts from her.
She felt only gratitude for him...
The prison was also no longer reliable; no inmates believed him anymore. The prison authorities wouldn’t allow them to be beaten or humiliated because of human rights laws.
Difficult...
’It seems I need to find so new fertilizer...’ Li Chengyi thought of his original goal.
Connecting with the Eleven Feiyi.
’I’ll go to Luo An Institute of Technology anyway. If I could get my hands on a control-level exoskeleton or Force Field Generator and integrate it into my Floral Dress, the strength might be substantially improved.’
Having personally witnessed the power of Li Shenhui’s Flying Yi, Li Chengyi thought about whether he could attain that level of technology for Flying Yi and Force Fields, since both relied on piling up resources and technology.
This was the fundantal reason he ca to Luo An.
If high-level Feiyi Masters were so powerful, why couldn’t he beco one of them?
Combining Flying Yi with Flower Language Ability, using the invisibility power of the Floral Dress for close combat, and integrating a Force Field Generator to strengthen his defensive power.
If he could join Eleven Feiyi, he’d surely have an advantage over all other Feiyi Masters! He’d be stronger!
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