Chapter 9: Hope III (Thanks to the Night’s Alliance Master for the Cramp)
Li Chengyi strained his eyes, looking toward the direction of the light.
He saw a purple light approaching, getting closer and closer.
It was a purple ring.
The ring was divided into twelve sections, each housing a crystal pedestal.
And in the center of the ring was darkness, but within that darkness, it seemed as if something was approaching, emerging into view.
Li Chengyi’s gaze was unconsciously drawn to the darkness at the center of the ring.
He tried hard to see, to observe, attempting to make out what was emerging.
Buzz! In an instant, two points of silver light shone out from the darkness.
A set of purple-black, crystal-gem-made menacing metal armor slowly emerged from the darkness.
The armor assembled into a humanoid shape, looking overall like a person seated.
The helmet was diamond-shaped, with extravagantly complex patterns and characters engraved all over the cheeks and forehead.
From the back of the head extended an X-shaped gray armor, its purpose unknown.
On its back, it carried two giant broad straight swords in an X shape, resembling a pair of folded wings.
The swords were sheathed, their surfaces also covered with a lot of exquisite and gorgeous pattern engravings.
Overall, the armor’s material wasn’t thick, appearing like a set of decorative war armor that an ancient warrior would wear.
In detail, it was also possible to see signs of wear and tear. There were damaged and missing parts on the arms and legs, as well as web-like cracks.
It was as if it had experienced countless brutal combats.
‘Successful load of Flower of Evil.’ An invisible information stream entered Li Chengyi’s mind.
‘Please freely choose twelve different flowers, each flower can form its unique Flower Scale Armor, possessing unique flower language abilities.
A total of twelve positions of Moon God can be filled. Once filled, all Flower Scale Armors will merge, creating your own ultimate Flower Scale Armor.’
‘Different flowers possess different flower language abilities and have different evolutionary paths. Once chosen, it will permanently occupy a Moon God position and cannot be changed. Please choose carefully.’
‘The message will self-destruct in five seconds.
Finally, successor, do not forget your original intention when you inherited the ability.’
‘Destruction or creation is all in a single thought.’
The darkness suddenly dispersed.
Li Chengyi stood still, holding his phone in his hand, pointing it at the back of his right hand.
The black pattern on the back of his hand had now turned into a purple-black ring.
The ring was divided into twelve sections.
Each section seemed to harbor a life, constantly sending out messages of thirst to him.
They were longing for the designated flowers to fill them.
‘What is this? Looking for different flowers to fill the twelve sections?’
He looked down at the purple-black ring on the back of his hand, unsure of what to do for a moment.
‘Does it have to be flowers?’
He looked at the green grass beneath his feet. There were no flowers.
The lush green grassland, with clumps of dark green dwarf trees shaped like buns, and a row of bare black trees of unknown species.
‘Flowers! Must find flowers now!! I could be pulled in at any moment! Must hurry!’
Li Chengyi was momentarily stunned, then immediately snapped back to reality. He could be pulled into a dangerous situation at any moment, so finding flowers to fill the ring was key!
Immediately, he looked around.
It was early May, the neighborhood was busy with people coming and going, and there weren’t many flowers to be seen.
The first thing he saw was the white and yellow flowers swaying in the wind at the corner under the wall of the community in the distance.
Li Chengyi immediately stepped out of the green belt and rushed straight to the cluster of small flowers.
‘Whatever the flower, let’s try it out!’
He ran all the way, quickly reaching the corner of the wall. Bending over, he reached out to gently touch the cluster of small flowers.
‘It was just a touch before, it should be the same now.’
Li Chengyi’s chest heaved violently, but his movements were exceptionally gentle, fearing to damage the small flowers.
He extended his index finger, gently and slowly, touching one of the small white flowers.
This small white flower was only the size of a fingernail cap, the petals were white fan-shaped, surrounding a tender yellow pistil. The pistil was like a miniature honeycomb, composed of many sesame-sized bubbles.
‘This is just a wild daisy, right?’ Li Chengyi’s previous self, after all, studied plant care and vaguely remembered the name of this small flower.
He didn’t care much, just tried this “Flower of Evil” ability first.
As his fingertip approached, his breath also quickly suppressed, becoming lighter.
He was observing carefully, to see how this ability actually works.
Pfft.
Finally, the nail of his index finger lightly touched the white and yellow hearted small wild daisy.
A touch-like electric breath instantly flowed from the edge of the petal, entering Li Chengyi’s finger.
Then this breath flowed from the finger to the back of his hand, into one of the sections of the purple-black ring.
At the same time, a stream of related information entered Li Chengyi’s mind.
‘White Wild Daisy: Often found beside roads and fields, very tenacious in life, even if the stems and leaves are picked, it can recover quickly after rain. Possesses heat-clearing and detoxifying medicinal effects.’
‘Flower language: Tenacious Heart.’
‘Flower Scale Armor Collection Rate: 1%. Evolution Counts: Insufficient information.’
‘Do you want to fill it?
Please note, only by developing the Filled Flower Scale Armor to the extreme, can the second Moon God position be unlocked, and the second flower can be filled. Please choose carefully.’
A series of messages made Li Chengyi quickly understand the use of this “Flower of Evil” ability.
The flower language is the special ability inherent to different flowers.
Flower Scale Armor is similar to an armor, with a certain defensive function, capable of enhancing a certain strength of its own, amplifying the flower language ability of special weapons.
Silent for a moment, Li Chengyi instantly understood the entire “Flower of Evil” ability system.
Simply put, it’s the ability to transform different flowers into various superpowers and special armors.
‘Tenacious Heart.’ He focused his attention on the flower language ability.
‘What’s the use of this ability?’
There was no explanation, only a few simple names and words.
‘And the Flower Scale Armor collection rate is only one percent, which means I have to find at least a hundred wild daisies to get the Flower Scale Armor?’
Li Chengyi squatted down, his mind swirling, and quickly extended his hand to touch the other wild daisies around him.
Fortunately, this small flower was everywhere. Along the corner of the community wall at a glance, there were densely packed many.
He touched one flower then another, and soon, the collection rate had risen to 10%.
But then, his eyes landed on the white pentagon flowers interspersed among the wild daisies.
This flower looked like a soft version of a pentagon star, the petals had fine yellow line patterns in the middle, and the center pistil was dark yellow with black dots.
Li Chengyi gently touched the flower petal with his hand.
Instantly, a new stream of information flowed into his mind.
‘Roadside Thorns: Evergreen small shrub, root stem leaves can be used as medicine, disperse liver and relieve depression, clear heat and promote dampness can treat acute tonsillitis, pharyngitis, etc.’
‘Flower language: Mirror of Longing.’
‘Flower Scale Armor Collection Rate: 3%. Evolution Counts: Insufficient information.’
‘Do you want to fill it?’
Can’t you get a more practical flower language ability?
Li Chengyi’s heart started to rush.
This Mirror of Longing, at a glance, wasn’t suitable for survival or saving lives, not like the earlier Tenacious Heart.
He quickly got up and swept around.
The surrounding grey-white residential buildings stood quietly, like silent white giants.
In the distance, the exit of the underground garage slowly drove out a black car, the headlights drawing two white light tracks in the evening.
The car tires rolled over the grey-black ground, stirring up a piece of fine yellow-green small leaves.
Li Chengyi stood up straight, quickly scanning everything around with his eyes. He felt like there wasn’t much time.
This was an indescribable feeling, for some reason, he just knew that the critical moment was coming.
‘I must hurry! Quickly!’
Suddenly, his gaze swept across, and at a glance, he saw in the middle of the community, next to an old grey pavilion, a wooden rack that someone had built there.
On the square wooden frame, hung strings of grape-like small purple flowers, falling down from above.
The color of the flowers was a bit dark; it seemed they had bloomed for a while. There were also many fallen ones on the ground, and some flower branches that children had broken off to play with.
At this moment, there were two seven or eight-year-old children in the pavilion, holding sticks and hitting the purple flowers wildly.
Li Chengyi took a deep breath and rushed towards the purple flowers.
Within seconds, he rushed to the base of the purple flower wooden frame, gasping for breath, grabbing a strand of purple flowers hanging down.
The flowers were beautiful, most of the bodies were long tubes, the purple petals from the edge to the inside gradually lightened until they turned pure white.
A string of flowers, hanging down from top to bottom, looked like grapes, with at least dozens of flower bodies distributed on it.
And all the open flowers, the size gradually decreased from top to bottom.
The fragrance was also very slight, very faint, if you don’t smell it closely, you can’t smell it at all.
Li Chengyi’s hand reached out, and immediately information came.
‘Wisteria: Leguminosae, Wisteria genus, has strong resistance to sulfurous acid, hydrogen and other harmful gases, can adsorb airborne dust, helpful for water and swelling, insecticidal, analgesic and other uses, slightly toxic, not for long-term use.’
‘Flower language: Hands of Intoxication.’
‘Flower Scale Armor Collection Rate: 3%. Evolution Counts: 2.’
‘Do you want to fill it?’
‘There’s a good amount, if the flower language ability means what it says on the tin, it might be somewhat useful, plus there’s that evolution count thing.’
Li Chengyi rapidly weighed and compared in his mind.
Compared to the previous two types, the flower language ability of Wisteria seemed to have more practical value.
If it could shift the attention of that monstrous face.
He stood still, holding the Wisteria flower, murmuring to himself, making the two kids still playing nearby somewhat back away, unsure what was wrong with him.
Soon, the two kids ran off to other places, no longer attacking the Wisteria.
‘It’s this one!!’
Finally, Li Chengyi glanced at the seven or eight strands of Wisteria flowers hanging on the wooden frame around him, making up his mind.
As soon as his mind was set, the inquiry message on whether to fill it up, immediately disappeared on its own.
A cool breath continuously flowed out from the Wisteria flowers, entering his fingertips, to his right hand, into one of the sections of the purple ring.
‘Filling the Moon God of Time with: Wisteria.’
‘Flower Scale Armor Collection Rate: 5%. Reach 100 to materialize the Flower Scale Armor. Please collect more Wisteria flowers.’
(End of Chapter)