by <unknown>
Opportunity! This is definitely an opportunity that just popped up out of nowhere. I must seize it!
Frenzy beamed out of the bottom of Jin Xinyue's eyes as she licked her lips and her eyes shook. Then, her eyes gradually turned red before she suddenly kneeled before Li Yao heavily and cried, "Senior!
"Senior, we had not met before, but you came to my rescue in the emergency and saved my insignificant life even though Elder Nether Spring will certainly be infuriated!
"Right now, I don't know what to do after the sudden changes that happened to me. While I am confused, it is you who is giving me enlightenment and offering me so many ultimate techniques!
"I could not return your great favors even if I turned into a dog that barked for you in the future!
"I—I have thought about it for a long time. There's only one way that I can slightly repay what you've done for me, senior.
"If you don't think that I'm too incapable, senior, I—I'm hoping that I can work for you and be a disciple of yours so that I can serve you and help you in the future!"
Li Yao was dazed, his eyes blinking uncontrollably.
Had the role he was playing not required mysteriousness, he would have burst into laughter.
He had given the techniques to Jin Xinyue for a very simple reason.
After a hundred years of conflict, many experts of the Blood Demon Sector would possess the Cultivation arts of human beings in the Heaven's Origin Sector. Since Jin Xinyue had a capability of the Core Formation Stage, she would definitely find several techniques one way or another.
What Li Yao offered her, on the other hand, were the Cultivation arts of the other sects that the Hundred Smelting Clan had collected.
The Hundred Smelting Clan was best at producing magical equipment. Fighting was not its specialty. Therefore, when other Cultivation sects asked the Hundred Smelting Clan to refine magical equipment for them, they often provided some of their Cultivation arts in return.
It was not hard to imagine that the Cultivation arts that a sect was willing to trade for other items were certainly not the real ultimate techniques. Magnificent as they seemed to be, they often had fatal shortcomings or loopholes.
If Jin Xinyue practiced some other Cultivation arts, there was probably nothing Li Yao could do about it, but if she was to pick up those that Li Yao offered to her, she would never get out of Li Yao's control.
Li Yao was quite wary of the saintess of the Pantheon of Demons who was both brutal and strong-willed. Opening a 'backdoor' inside her body was an approach to keep her in check, too.
But he did not expect that Jin Xinyue would take the chance and try to request to become his disciple.
Li Yao was crystal clear about what was on Jin Xinyue's mind. He snorted and said, "You are a saintess of the Pantheon of Demons. Don't tell me that you don't have a master."
Jin Xinyue sobbed so hard that her face had lost color, as if she were a devastated damsel who had nobody to rely on. She kneeled on the ground and cried, "You are right, senior. I do have a lot of tutors in the Pantheon of Demons. But the tutors merely trained me as a tool. There has never been a master that truly loved me and sheltered me. None of them are worthy enough for me serve them wholeheartedly.
"My father does not have much time to teach me because of the public affairs.
"I have seen a lot of unparalleled experts since I was little, but this is the first time that I've ever seen such an awe-inspiring figure like yourself, senior. That is why I proposed such an outrageous request in the spur of the moment.
"I know that, with my insignificant capability, I am not qualified to be your disciple at all, senior. I will have no complaints even if you say no. As long as I can stay around you as a servant and cater to your needs so that I have the opportunity to admire your demeanor every day, I will be satisfied and die without a regret in the future."
"Is that so?" Li Yao smiled. "Didn't you mention just now that you would like to be a dog barking for me? What if I really have methods that can transform you into a dog?"
Jin Xinyue was dazed for a moment. Her heart quivered uncontrollably. Hesitating for a long time, she gritted her teeth and said, "As long as I can follow you and return your favor for saving my life, I will certainly have no objections if I have to be turned into a dog!
"Senior, truth be told, I'm really at a dead end right now.
"The Blood Demon Sector is a world of hypocrites where the strong prey on the weak. I became a saintess of the Pantheon of Demons after a lot of trouble. Naturally, I made a lot of enemies during the process.
"Now, sudden changes have happened to me, and I have turned into a human being. There is no telling when I will regain my original appearance.
"My enemies will certainly not let go of such a great opportunity.
"Right now, Elder Nether Spring is hunting me down, and the Pantheon of Demons is probably going to capture me and cut me into pieces for research. I don't know how my father will treat me if he is thinking about the 'big picture'.
"I—I have been thinking about a lot of things recently. I have absolutely nobody to turn to, and I am in a desperate situation right now!
"You are my only hope, senior. You are a lantern in the endless night. Is there a second road that I can walk on except following you loyally, senior?"
Jin Xinyue spoke truthfully and sincerely.
Li Yao sniffed lightly. After everything he'd been through in the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector, he was no longer the hotblooded young man he had once been. Naturally, he did not believe a single word that the female demon said.
However, she did have a special identity, which was quite important for Li Yao's plan.
After staying in the Blood Demon Sector for half a month, Li Yao had basically outlined the situation right now based on the information he retrieved from the residents of the Dry Leaf Village, the Lei Chuang and Lei Qi brothers, and Jin Xinyue herself.
One month ago, the Blood Demon Sector launched a large-scale attack against the Heaven's Origin Sector known as the Battle of Dawn. They scourged the entire Grand Desolate Plateau, and their vanguard even reached the Giant Blade Pass at the south of the Grand Desolation Plateau.
As soon as the Giant Blade Pass was broken through, the most prosperous and vulnerable land of the Star Glory Federation would have been open to them.
Although the demons lost the Battle of Dawn in the end, the Blood Demon Sector did not suffer any substantial losses. On the contrary, it was the infrastructures and towns of human beings on the Grand Desolation Plateau that were mostly wrecked.
On the Grand Desolation Mountain, which was in lack of resources and population, it was easy to demolish a town, but it would be extremely difficult to rebuild one.
It was safe to say that the road leading to the abdomen of the Star Glory Federation had been paved after the Battle of Dawn.
Right now, the Blood Demon Sector was in the middle of another mobilization. Even a small, remote village of the chaotic-blood demons such as the Dry Leaf Village had to provide fifty soldiers. It was not hard to guess that the mobilization would be ten times more intense than that of the Battle of Dawn.
This was a general mobilization of the Blood Demon Sector!
Once the general mobilization was completed, an army of demons that was in an unprecedently enormous scale would march toward the Heaven's Origin Sector. It was perhaps going to be the real final war between the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector!
In the final war, the commander-in-chief on the Blood Demon Sector's side would be Jin Tuyi, Jin Xinyue's father!
I have to find a way to approach Jin Tuyi and learn the Blood Demon Sector's plan in the final war. Then, I'll figure out a way to send the war plan of the Blood Demon Sector back to the Heaven's Origin Sector!
Other than that, Elder Nether Spring's schemes are worth noting, too. Is the drug that can turn a demon into a human being a by-product that he got by accident, or are there deeper plots
behind it?
Besides, in order to purge the foreign blood condensed by the Blood Stripe Virus, I must have a deep understanding about cells and genes, which is indeed an aspect that the demons have more expertise on than human beings do.
Thinking about that, Li Yao waved his hands. An invisible force lifted Jin Xinyue up.
Without giving an answer, he said casually, "Stand up!"
Observing his emotionless face, Jin Xinyue did not dare ask for an answer anymore. Her eyes shuddered, and she asked, "Thank you for keeping me around you, senior, but I wonder, how should I address you?"
Li Yao pondered for a moment and said, "I do not want to expose my identity. Just call me 'Lei Qi' and regard me as your subordinate when there are outsiders. As for my real name, just keep it in your mind and never leak it. If anybody else learns it from you, don't blame me for my mercilessness!
"A very, very long time ago, in a place far, far away, everybody called me 'Bloody Vulture'."
A strange brilliance shone in Jin Xinyue's eyes as she said calmly, "It's a pleasure to have met you, elder!"
Jin Xinyue kneeled down again and cheered on the ground. "Elder Bloody Vulture is invincible in the universe with his amazing arts. I am unbelievably lucky to have had the chance to follow elder and do whatever I can to help!"
Chapter 852: Adventure in the Primeval Era |
Three days later, deep inside the Hundred Desolation Mountain, Li Yao was curled up like a hibernating animal in a natural crater hundreds of meters deep.
He was meditating.
Li Yao had received a lot of secret techniques for the training of demons from Jin Xinyue, and Jin Xinyue had begun to study the Cultivation arts of human beings, too. The two of them both needed time to understand and digest the new knowledge. Therefore, they had moved deeper into the Hundred Desolation Mountain.
The three days of journeying had been partly hiking and partly practicing. Li Yao was an expert in the superlative height of the Core Formation Stage in the first place and had inherited part of the techniques of the Blood Stripe Virus, which could transform the body. Therefore, the rudimental theories on genetics and cytology were not difficult for him.
Today was the first day that he would consciously pry into the secrets deep inside the cells.
Meditation meant ruling out all the irrelevant thoughts and achieving the grand unification of the body and the soul so that one would be able to observe their internal organs and even their soul. It was the basis for all kinds of training.
There were hundreds of ways to enter a meditative state. The one that Li Yao chose was 'Fetus Meditation'. He half closed his eyes and relaxed while he began to reflect on his entire life. From his recent experience in the Blood Demon Sector, back to the Flying Star Sector, and back to the Heaven's Origin Sector, his memories were being replayed like an ebbing ocean.
With the flashbacks of his life, all the irrelevant thoughts were dismissed. His consciousness became as pure and stable as a newborn baby, until in the end, his entire world was wreathed in a cluster of warm darkness. His memories had gone back to the time in his mother's womb when he was being bred while he soaked in the warm amniotic fluid.
His soul slightly shivered, and he was secluded from the real world. Li Yao completely entered the meditative state.
His consciousness constricted into a light ball the size of needle tip before it suddenly expanded and filled the entire body.
His consciousness split into billions of telepathic thoughts while he observed his body with his mind from various perspectives.
His vision pierced through his skin and his flesh, allowing him to clearly see the internal organs, his beating heart, his fluctuating lungs, his wriggling intestines, and his gastric juice that was being secreted.
Li Yao was not satisfied yet. His consciousness dived deeper. All the internal organs, flesh, and blood disappeared. They were replaced by dense veins, lymph, and nerve networks that looked like honeycombs.
He saw sparks bursting out brilliantly deep side his brain cells and flowing toward the nerve endings through the nerve tracts with lightning-like speed, constituting a magnificent, complicated palace that looked as neat as a labyrinth.
Deeper, deeper.
Just like waving away the layered clouds and falling to the ground, when Li Yao's consciousness explored deeper into the microscopic universe, his veins, lymph, and nerve networks disappeared just like his internal organs did. In front of him was a wonderful new world that looked like a crammed universe. Transparent, colorful planets were floating everywhere. Each of them was releasing lightning, flames, and storms while receiving everything from other planets.
Li Yao knew that those transparent planets were his cells.
He mumbled the spell of the secret techniques that he had just learned and covered his consciousness with spiritual energy. Then, he tried to penetrate an enormous cell like a tiny tadpole.
The membrane of the cell seemed as vulnerable as a bubble. Yet, it was extremely tensile. Li Yao slid off the membrane multiple times, and it was not until his soul released a special weak electric current and tickled the membrane that it absorbed him promptly after shaking slightly.
The world inside the cell was a glamorous, splendid ocean with colorful, bizarrely shaped plankton everywhere.
Some of the plankton looked like cocoons. They released a bright golden brilliance and unleashed clusters of lightning-like energy while they shook unstably in the undercurrents like golden aquatic plants.
They were the mitochondria, the fundamental provider of energy for a cell and the source of strength.
However, Li Yao had no time to train the mitochondria today because his soul had been attracted to the nucleus.
In the center of the cell, the nucleus looked both like an enormous swirl and a weird eye. It sent an enchanting invitation to him, and his soul could not help but swim over immediately.
Like a starship captured by the gravity of a planet, his soul could not resist it at all when it was absorbed into the nucleus.
Li Yao seemed to have passed through an endless, dark pathway where time and space were both meaningless. The various kinds of plankton that had been stretched resembled the stars in a clear night sky. He had only seen such unbelievably splendid views before when he was travelling in the four-dimensional universe.
Maybe the demons are right. Every cell is a tiny universe where endless mysteries are kept, even including the secrets of the primeval era…
His thought flashed and quickly disappeared. Li Yao forgot everything and completely dwelled in the deepest part of his cell.
He seemed to have been absorbed into a black hole. Everything behind him had become narrow, long lines.
After Li Yao floated for he didn't know how long, enormous chains in pairs that tied each other up helically appeared. They surrounded him and span slowly like behemothic pythons that bit each other's tails and were about the swallow the universe, forming a cone-shaped 'funnel'.
Along the edge of the funnel, Li Yao dived deeper and deeper into the funnel one circle after another. As the diameter of the funnel diminished, his speed became higher and higher until he was almost stretched into a noodle billions of lightyears long.
Li Yao could see that every helical chain was connected to each other by glamorous scripture and that the scripture consisted of astronomical information. The information was not text, images, or sound, but 'super information' that was folded and compressed from the four-dimension or even higher dimensions!
"Ahhh!"
When he fell to the bottom of the cone, Li Yao's soul was wrapped into a singularity. He suddenly felt frightened for reasons he did not know, and he suspected that he would be trapped there forever. Therefore, he shouted and struggled hard!
Maybe, before the universe was born, a certain existence sleeping deep inside the nothingness shouted and struggled in exactly the same way, and thus the universe was created!
BOOM!
The palace of g
ene strands collapsed all of a sudden. All the broken parts of the genes turned into glittering pieces, and all the pieces assembled into a brand-new world.
Li Yao found himself standing on wet, hot ground. He stood in a daze for a long time before he finally remembered who he was.
It was a nascent world. The earth seemed to be made of flames. The crust was extremely unstable and shaking violently all the time, and volcanoes rose from the bottom of the ocean every once in a while. The magma vaporized the seawater and brought about a bright purple sky.
It was… the primeval era!
Li Yao was not the only creature in the scorching, desolate world. Earsplitting explosions resembling unceasing thunder were echoing in the sky.
Li Yao raised his head, only to discover two super starships that were so enormous that they seemed to have been made by emptying and refining two planets.
The starships were so large that they occupied more than half of the sky. Their attraction force even tore apart the feeble earth, making countless rocks and even hills fly into the sky toward them, only to be crushed into pieces when they hit the spiritual shields of the starships. In the end, glamorous rings were formed around the starships.
Even the seawater had been absorbed up into the sky, forming waterspouts that could be tens of thousands of meters high. The mountains of water seemed to be the young arms of the newborn world trying to touch the powerful civilizations from the depths of the universe.
"Kunlun!"
"Penglai!"
Li Yao thought of something. For some reason, the names of the two super starships popped up in his mind naturally.
When his eyes passed the two super starships, he saw an unfathomably huge sun in the high sky that was radiating light and heat incessantly. The tentacles made by the solar prominences seemed like it was reaching for the planet and would destroy everything there at any time.