"Rest assured, Master!"
Han Te waved his fists passionately and declared, "We will certainly try our best to pave the entire Land of Sins with the Gold Barley!"
Gu Zhengyang hesitated for a long time before he waved his hands. "Alright. You must be tired after three days and three nights of exploration outside. Go take a rest now and prepare yourself for the 'Bliss Ceremony' in half a month!"
Han Te and Coloured Glaze nodded and left the greenhouse for the warehouse.
On their way, Coloured Glaze could not help but ask, "Grandpa Yao, how is my father?"
Pondering for a moment, Li Yao said, "Based on my senses just now, his problem is indeed very similar to Han Te's. The excessive waste discharged from his mitochondria because of the Lightning Strangle has blocked his veins, nerves, and internal organs. That's easy to fix. I can teach Han Te a secret technique to accelerate the circulation of spiritual energy. It will form a few clusters of electric currents inside his body that will hit the acupoints that are blocked.
"Han Te only needs to ask Master to examine him carefully with the excuse that he is not feeling well. He will naturally be able to perceive something. If he trains himself according to such a method, his symptoms should be greatly alleviated, and his capability should be partly recovered.
"However …"
Han Te and Coloured Glaze asked in a hurry, "However what, Grandpa Yao?"
Li Yao thought for a moment and said, "In fact, Leader Gu was right about one thing. He must've been through too many fierce battles in the past decades. His body is riddled with wounds and holes, and he is already on the verge of exhaustion.
"According to my observation, his muscles, veins, nerves, and critical organs have all reached the limits. Even the fire of his soul is dimming beyond his control. That is the most important problem."
"Well …"
The two little fellows looked at each other in bewilderment and begged, "Grandpa Yao, please help us!"
"It is the law of nature to be born, grow old, and die. After one's soul, life, and combat ability reach the peak, they will naturally decline. Nobody can avoid it."
Li Yao said casually, "I may be able to deal with simple injuries, but how can I reverse 'aging'? Even if he gets rid of his fleshly body and hides inside an iron shell like I did, the complicated thoughts inside his soul will gradually become redundant, overflow, and eventually collapse. Nobody is immortal.
"Thankfully, Leader Gu is not that old yet. If he can treat his wounds according to the secret technique that I taught Han Te, it shouldn't be a problem for him to live another twenty years."
Han Te and Coloured Glaze looked at each other.
In the Land of Sins where the strong preyed on the weak, it would be the luckiest thing for them to live twenty years in peace.
"Leader Gu is right," Li Yao said. "The new generation is the hope of the Village of Peace and the Land of Sins. However strong the older generation is, you cannot count on them forever. Instead of thinking about how to restore Leader Gu to his peak combat ability in the past so that you can hide under his wings, you might as well think about how to improve your own capability quickly, take over Leader Gu's legacy, and guard what he wants to protect forever!"
"We will certainly work hard, no matter how tiring, no matter how dangerous, and no matter what price we have to pay, we will pave the entire Land of Sins with Gold Barley one day!"
Han Te declared with determination on his face. Then, he scratched his hair in confusion. "However, my master hesitated in the end, as if he had something else to say to us."
"I basically know what your master wants to say," Li Yao said. "However, what he is going to say may not be what you want to hear."
Han Te blinked quickly and asked, "You know, Grandpa Yao?"
"Exactly," Li Yao said.
"Yes," Li Yao said. "I assume that what your master is trying to say is, even if we pave the entire Land of Sins with Gold Barley so that everybody can fill their stomachs, so what? Can we really end all the conflicts in the Land of Sins so that people will no longer attack each other?
"The reason why people fight endlessly and kill each other is not as simple as just filling their stomachs. Cultivation techniques, wealth, power, fame, desire, any small reason can cause the flames of war, blood to flow into rivers, and the lives of the people to be plunged into misery."
"Well …"
The two little fellows were slightly dazed. At first, confusion appeared on their faces. Then, the brilliance in their eyes and on their faces dimmed. They said softly, "We don't know, but we have to try. The Gold Barley is our only hope. If the Gold Barley cannot save the Land of Sins, where is our hope?"
"I don't know, either."
After a brief silence, Li Yao said firmly, "But I believe that hope must be somewhere. It all depends on whether or not we are brave and smart enough to find it."
"Hope …"
The two little fellows said in a daze. Their eyes were glittering, as if they were piercing through the dark iron shell, the sky that was filled with lead clouds, the Heavenly Rails, the City in the Sky, and Manjusaka, all the way to the depths of the sea of stars.
"Let's stop thinking about the things that are so far away for now. Let's focus on how to let the two of you be reborn in half a month so that you can distinguish yourselves in the Bliss Ceremony!"
Li Yao smiled and said, "Since both of you say that you are not scared of any hardship, exhaustion, or danger, it will be much easier!"
…
The warehouse of the Village of Peace occupied three floors of the deck of an iron-shelled warship. The dazzling magical equipment and weapons dazzled Li Yao and the mental devil, and they were both amazed by what they saw.
"So many advanced weapons. The Immortal Cultivators are truly generous!"
The mental devil shrieked nonstop.
"Of course. The more weapons there are, the less food and clean water there will be. The more intense the war of the 'sinners' will be, and the better the quality of the weapons will be tested!"
Li Yao scanned the magical equipment that was covered in dust on the metal shelves with his telepathic thoughts. He was quite tempted, too.
The design idea of all the magical equipment in this place could be summarized as' simple, crude, and insane '. It seemed that the Immortal Cultivators had gathered the craziest, most unbelievable, and certainly most unstable designs and given them to the' white mice 'for their use.
The sinners in the Land of Sins might not be able to see through the mysteries hidden deep inside the magical equipment.
But for Li Yao, a top-tier master of refining, he could sense the most delicate, new ideas from the craziest designs, as well as the infinite possibilities that he had never dreamed of before.
It was the same for the techniques and arts that the Immortal Cultivators offered to the sinners out of 'kindness'.
Everything was in short supply in the Land of Sins except for techniques and arts that were abundant and not too precious. When the new generation of techniques that were more powerful fell from the sky, the older arts would be stored in the warehouse, where anybody could study them if they were interested.
Although those arts all had fatal shortcomings, they also contained the Immortal Cultivators' painstaking efforts in the utilization of spiritual energy.
It was impossible for the general sinners to dissect and understand the essence at the deepest level, but for Li Yao, a great expert who had advanced into the Divinity Transformation Stage, he could break the mysterious mist and point at its core. He could then perfect his own spiritual field and soul fire with the essence of the arts!
It was almost an infinite treasury. Li Yao could not help but recall his years of training in the Grand Desolate War Institution like a whale sucking in water.
A tiny village in the 'Desolate Worlds' had stored so many treasures. There was no telling how many cutting-edge techniques and magical equipment that had just been developed by the Imperium of True Human Beings and were in dire need of testing were stored in the 'Bloody Worlds', the 'Elysian Worlds', and even Manjusaka.
"I have to go to 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' and see what the Immortal Cultivators are up to exactly. Chances are that I can absorb the latest research results of the Imperium of True Human Beings into my body. Hehehehe. I really want to see the marvelous faces of the Immortal Cultivators when a 'fiend star' suddenly jumps out and turns' Manjusaka, the City in the Sky 'upside down when they think that everything is under their control!"
In the half month that followed, Li Yao began a brand-new training with Han Te and Coloured Glaze.
As the daughter and disciple of the leader of the village, they had certain privileges. Han Te and Coloured Glaze successfully applied for a maintenance room to modify and upgrade Li Yao's body.
When other people heard that they were fantasizing about transforming a civil maintenance and cleaning puppet into a military war puppet, they all sighed and did not know how to stop them.
Zhao Chong, Zhao Lie's son, on the other hand, specifically came down and mocked them after he heard the news. Han Te simply held back his fury and ignored him.
But Zhao Chong and the villagers did not know that, when the cabin door of the maintenance room was tightly closed, the furnaces and all kinds of maintenance magical equipment that were controlled by Li Yao's soul inside were emanating the most dazzling brilliance and functioning at an efficiency multiple times higher than their own performance.
The seemingly lackluster, plain, and wasted materials, on the other hand, were also transformed into wonders under Li Yao's uncanny craftsmanship. They were emanating sharpness that could cut a hair.
After only three days, Li Yao's shell was entirely different from the past.
On the left side was a drill that could penetrate through the hardest rocks easily. On the right side was an enormous chainsaw that had been plated with three special metal membranes. On his waist was a triple-headed Six-barreled Vulcan Machine Gun. On his left shoulder was a honeycomb-type mini flying sword launcher, and on his right shoulder was an extensible foldable crystal cannon. The furthest range of the cannon was five thousand meters. Locked onto by Li Yao's soul, the cannon was absolutely accurate!
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