Zi! Zi! Zi! Zi!
After the insane modification was completed, Li Yao painted a red mark on his body with a spray can. It was a giant star with a grimacing face in the middle. 'Fiend Star'!
"Wow!"
Han Te and the Coloured Glaze both exclaimed in shock when they saw Li Yao's brand-new form. "It's so beautiful!"
Li Yao smiled. An electric arc spurted out and pierced Han Te's body brutally, making the little guy grimace and jump up and down. "Of course. Isn't it obvious enough? Who asked you to stop? Keep training!"
Regarding Han Te's' Lightning Strangle ', Li Yao had performed deep studies and major modifications, mainly on the output mode of the spiritual energy.
Inspired by the 'Heavenly Fire Thunderous Strike Ring', he helped Han Te craft a brand-new ring arm armor, which could control Han Te's electric arcs well and form helical shapes, like the acceleration rails of crystal cannons, allowing the bullets to be launched at a high speed instantly.
"The 'Lightning Strangle' that you practiced in the past was purely based on electric arcs to kill and injure the enemy. But the electric arcs perish very fast, and they are greatly damaged when exposed to the air that is full of impurities. It is a very inefficient way of fighting."
Li Yao explained to Han Te, "Right now, I've installed seven heavy metal rings on your right arm to collect and restrain your electric arcs. The electric arcs will form a powerful acceleration field at the front end of your arm, allowing you to launch the metal bullets the size of a grain of rice.
"Of all the techniques in the world, only speed is invincible. As long as you can accelerate the bullets to three to five times the speed of sound, not just the metal bullets, even a random pebble will be invincible!"
By Li Yao's estimation, such a brand-new combat mode could improve Han Te's combat efficiency by at least three hundred percent.
Of course, it was rather cruel to change the flow of the spiritual energy inside Han Te's body into a brand-new combat mode in only half a month.
No wonder Han Te screamed like a pig being butchered every day and was dying because of the torture.
"Are you a psychopath?" the mental devil asked. "Why do you have to reproduce the excruciating pain that you suffered when you just started your training on an innocent child?"
"I'm doing it for his own good," Li Yao said. "After all, he wants to explore 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky' with us. How can he not be stronger? Hehehe … "
As for the Coloured Glaze, Li Yao had also crafted a set of brand-new magical equipment with the metal scraps that had been sealed for a long time in the warehouse according to the Cultivation arts that she had been practicing. They were nine daggers that were as thin as cicadas' wings and shaped like swallows spreading their wings. Every dagger was embedded with a highly-sensitive brainwave receiver chip at the center. They could also be assembled into an enormous flywheel by connecting the head and the tail.
The most delicate design was that the tail of the dagger could be separated from the body. Once the tail was pulled apart, it would be a super-thin metal wire that was as thin as a hair and almost transparent in the air. It could cut iron as if it were mud and cut a human body as easily as cutting tofu.
"The techniques that you have been practicing make the intensity and sensitivity of your brain a hundred times higher than that of ordinary people. They are most suitable for you to manipulate such light and fast magical equipment."
Li Yao said, "The metal rings that I crafted for you earlier can help you stabilize the magnetic field of your brain that is gradually collapsing. They can also be connected to the control chips in the set of daggers.
"Now, imagine that the waves of your brain are extending out like tentacles and controlling the set of daggers. Yes, just like that. Throw them out brutally!"
"Shua!"
The three daggers turned into three streaks of brilliance and were thrown at Han Te brutally. Han Te shrieked in fear and raised his right hand. Three metal bullets darted out and collided with the daggers brutally in midair. However, they only deviated the direction of the daggers, brushed past his head, and stabbed into the cabin wall obliquely as if they had sunk into rotten wood. There was not even the slightest sound of collision!
Han Te and the Coloured Glaze both looked at their brand-new magical equipment in a daze. When they turned around and looked at Li Yao, their eyes were filled with admiration, awe, and even fear.
"Grandpa Yao, who were you exactly in the past? We have never seen a grandpa as strong as you before."
"I would like to know, too, what kind of person am I to such a 'Land of Sins', the sinners living in the Land of Sins, and the angels living in 'Manjusaka, the City in the Sky'?"
Li Yao's soul emitted cold brilliance. "Don't be hasty. We will find the answer very soon!"
…
Half a month later …
"Wu — Wu — Wu — Wu —"
Hasty alarms echoed in the sky of the Village of Peace. It was the day when all the elites of the village would leave for the 'Bliss Ceremony'.
The iron-shelled ships that were usually connected together and anchored in the middle of the great lake to guard against the enemy were all shaken off their chains and iron hooks today. They cut through the waves and sailed toward the shore at high speed. There were even a few iron-shelled ships whose bows rushed to the shore in one breath, creating high waves and silt.
Creak! Creak!
The heads of the ships opened like dark mouths. Hundreds of rusted shuttles that had been installed with iron plates and machine gun turrets, making them look like iron beasts, rushed out.
"Aooo! Aooo! Aooo!"
On every shuttle, there was a protruding external structure. Many brawny, arrogant, and domineering men in leather armor that was embedded with rivets were hanging on the structure, waving their weapons and guns, roaring and yelling, showing off their power.
A lot of other shuttles had been modified to land directly on the ground and to increase the towing ability with tires and tracks. Enormous containers had been added to the back of the shuttles.
It was needless to say that the enormous containers were all used to carry the harvest. But right now, they were crammed with the old, the weak, the women, and the children. While the strong men were confronting the warriors of other villages in the front, the women and the children were responsible for collecting the assets from the sky quickly.
Idlers were not kept in the Land of Sins. Everybody had to make their own contribution.
There was even a caterpillar that was decorated with lanterns and streamers, dragging an iron tower behind it. On the tower were dozens of old villagers who were wearing masks and helmets that were a hundred times more hideous than gas masks. Breathing out colorful smoke, they were dancing and singing weird music on the tower.
Han Te and the Coloured Glaze, one on the left and the other on the right, crawled on Li Yao's body and told Li Yao in a low voice that they were the priests of the village who were praying for more good luck to the angels so that the village could seize more assets in the 'Bliss Ceremony'.
At the front of the overwhelming team, a shabby platform had been established on three thick masts. Ding Zhengyang, Zhao Lie, and the other leaders of the Village of Peace were observing the battle from the platform and giving orders.
In the previous years, Ding Zhengyang had been in the middle, but this year, it was Zhao Lie, the captain of the exploration team with gloomy eyes, who was pointing at the center. Ding Zhengyang was merely coughing next to him.
"Haha. Is this the garbage that you have modified with garbage puppets? What kind of 'Fiend Star' are you?"
Zhao Chong rushed close from the rear in a single shuttle that was embedded with sharp thorns. There was no telling whether or not he was doing it intentionally, but he raised a lot of dust at Han Te and the Coloured Glaze. "It does look decent, but I wonder if it will turn into a pile of garbage in three seconds in a real battle!"
Han Te and the Coloured Glaze glared at Zhao Chong.
"But rest assured. My father is in charge of the operation this year. Nothing will go wrong."
Zhao Chong smiled gloatingly. "We will also reap ten times more assets than when Leader Gu was in charge in previous years. You and this garbage can just sit in the back and watch my father and the Iron Blood Youths show off their skills. Hahahaha!"
Zhao Chong whistled and rushed forward with more than ten ferocious-looking young men who were also riding single shuttles.
"Why are you in such a hurry?"
Li Yao sensed the young man's fury but did not think it was a big deal. "With your current capability, it is enough for you to travel to the Bloody Worlds after you receive tremendous assets in the Bliss Ceremony. There is no need to tangle with such a minor character."
The team rolled forward and reached a ruined city known as' Broken Stone City 'in less than half a day.
The specific date and location of the Bliss Ceremony every year would be projected by the angels from the Heavenly Rails one month ago. Broken Stone City was the destination where a lot of assets would be delivered this year.
According to Han Te and the Coloured Glaze, it was the most complicated and dangerous environment.
It was because the ruined city was full of skyscrapers that were riddled with holes and on the verge of collapse. One cough could completely collapse them. If assets fell into such a building and someone picked them up recklessly, it was very likely that the building would collapse, and they would be buried by thousands of tons of rocks.
Also, the city environment that was as complicated as a maze also significantly increased the odds of conflicts among various forces. It was also possible that the bandits and thugs who had been eliminated from the Bloody Worlds were lurking among the broken walls, hoping to rob them and run away.
"It would be much better if it were a plain or even a hilly environment where everything within ten square kilometers could be seen clearly."
Han Te spat at the jagged weeds on the roadside and said angrily, "It's a pity that in the ten Bliss Ceremonies, three or four of them are in such an extremely dangerous city environment, and three or four of them are in high-radiation areas where tremendous mutated beasts are everywhere. Before the assets fall, we have to fight the mutated beasts! I really don't understand. The angels live on the Heavenly Rails. They should be able to see the terrain down below, shouldn't they? If they are really helping us out of kindness, why don't they throw the assets where we can easily find them instead of giving us such a hard time? "
"Perhaps," the Coloured Glaze said, "this is a way for the 'sinners' like us to atone for our sins."
"Damn it. I don't buy it."
Han Te stared at the sky and said, "Perhaps, as my master said, the angels like to see us bite each other like hungry wild dogs. Dogs bite each other, and humans kill each other!
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