Li Yao's heart suddenly palpitated, and his soul operated quickly. There was no telling what went wrong, but A Boxing Champion seemed to be suspicious of him.
It did not make sense. In the battles in the past month, he had been keeping a low profile and playing the role of a spiritual puppet dutifully without doing anything out of line.
Li Yao was not scared of 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie, but the Immortal Cultivators must be monitoring the place closely. He did not want to expose his identity so early and wanted to see what the Immortal Cultivators were up to in the 'war game'!
As he expected, A Boxing Champion's eyes were glittering. His spiritual energy turned into threads and swam into Li Yao's iron shell.
Ripples spread out of Li Yao's soul and activated the defense rune arrays around the crystal processor, blocking A Boxing Champion's probing from his core components without alarming anyone. But he was frowning hard in his heart.
'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie was both a super expert who dominated the Land of Sins and an unparalleled refiner. Would he see through his disguise?
Li Yao's heart was in turmoil, and he was somewhat hesitant.
Chi! Chi!
When A Boxing Champion's threads of spiritual energy touched the defense rune arrays inside Li Yao's body, they retreated abruptly like earthworms that had been burnt by fire.
Li Yao could clearly sense the turbulence in A Boxing Champion's heart. Even his eyes that were focused on him were much more profound and lackluster than before.
"Shua!"
The spiritual threads that had swam into his body split into hundreds of 'branches' and marched forward at the same time, trying to find the gaps on his core components and invade his crystal processor.
Li Yao secretly complained, but the reaction of his soul was not slow at all. He deflected all the Fist King's probing attacks at ease.
Their eyes had subtle collisions through the blinking of the crystal cameras. Perhaps it was Li Yao's illusion, but a few sparks that were not too malicious seemed to have been raised after the collision.
Was he … exposed?
Out of Li Yao's expectation, A Boxing Champion did not probe further but simply retreated his spiritual threads and eyes without leaving a trace. He glanced at the three Immortal Cultivator players casually and said, "Not bad. You are indeed qualified to stand in my central army and fight side by side with me. Also … this spiritual puppet is rather interesting, too. It seems to be a model with automatic learning and communication functions, as well as self-repair and self-upgrade?"
Li Yao knew that, as an important type of military magical equipment, the Immortal Cultivators had projected hundreds of experimental spiritual puppets to the Land of Sins in the past hundreds of years. Some of them were cutting-edge models with automatic learning and upgrading functions.
Of course, most of the spiritual puppets had a limited range of self-learning logic and upgrading. They were not very stable, either. Often, they would be mired in logic black holes, unable to extricate themselves. They were even no better than regular puppets. Therefore, they were not favored by the gangs.
In any case, there was nothing suspicious about this identity.
Red Viper, Black Spear, and Flash Point looked at each other and said unconcernedly, "A Boxing Champion, if you like them, feel free to take them and study them."
Han Te and Coloured Glaze were both shocked, but they did not have the courage to turn down such an unparalleled bandit as A Boxing Champion. They seemed to be hesitating.
A Boxing Champion laughed and extended his muscular arms. He said casually, "As you have seen, collecting spiritual puppets is my hobby, especially the bizarre models and jumbled monsters. I like to collect them and study their structure carefully.
"However, a great war is coming soon. My little hobby has to be put aside. Let's talk about everything after we conquer Liberty City!
"Please go back and have a good rest tonight. My men will deliver enough crystals, ammunition, and high-energy nutrition drugs for your consumption. Tomorrow morning, we will attack Liberty City. I only hope that every part of you will be intact after the battle!"
…
Li Yao returned to his camp full of questions. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie was neither as simple as the legends nor as simple as he appeared to be.
He must've noticed the anomaly on Li Yao's body. The hundreds of collisions of spiritual threads in the blink of an eye were definitely not something that a regular spiritual puppet could've done.
But why did he not point it out in public or probe further?
Also, when he said 'I hope that … every part of you will be intact' in the end, it was obviously meant for Li Yao.
In other words, he knew that Li Yao could 'understand' what he meant and was looking forward to a deeper communication with him after the Battle of Liberty City was over?
What was going on exactly …
"I vaguely have a feeling that A Boxing Champion is not malicious. He is only interested in you," the mental devil said gloomily.
The mental devil said gloomily, "Perhaps, it's because he has a very special fetish. That's why he wants to play with you and study your structure."
"What the hell?"
Li Yao was greatly shocked. "So perverted!"
"This is the Land of Sins. What kind of perverts can't be found here?"
The mental devil said solemnly. "Try to recall the ripples of spiritual energy that spread out of A Boxing Champion's body. Did you not sense any ecstasy or lust?"
"Well," Li Yao said. "Not exactly lust, but ecstasy … Now that you mention it, it does seem to be true!"
"That's why," the mental devil said.
"I don't know the reason, but he does seem to have a special feeling for you. Be careful. He will certainly keep his eyes on you. I do not want to fall into his hands and be dismantled by him for further study."
"The game is getting more and more complicated."
Li Yao extended his mechanical arm and scratched his iron skull. "The Immortal Cultivators must've kept their eyes on A Boxing Champion, but A Boxing Champion is interested in me for some reason. How can I keep a low profile?"
"Then, there's no need to keep a low profile!"
The mental devil grinned hideously. "I don't think that the Battle of Liberty City will be so simple. A lot of things are going to happen. All in all, no matter what, as long as we can loot a burning house and get a piece of 'high-molecular layer-by-layer scanning magical equipment', we will be able to slip away and perform the 'perfect fusion'. After our soul is melded with our body, we will step into the level of a 'seasoned expert' or a 'Divinity Transformation Stage expert'. What's the point of keeping a low profile then?"
Li Yao was of a mind to sneak into A Boxing Champion's nest and figure out the truth, but the place would certainly be closely monitored by the Immortal Cultivators. Naturally, he could not walk into the trap right now.
He said that he was going to let them have a good rest, but the Fist King's camp was ablaze with noise and lights. Everybody was mobilizing nonstop.
The thousands of camps and tents were all cleaned up. The bandits and thugs that were scattered like sand regrouped and redeployed according to their performance in the past month, barely managing to assemble the mobs into various battle fronts that could charge forward uniformly.
The Red Viper Squad was indeed arranged to attack the front defense line of Liberty City, which was the most heavily defended, directly. After decades of hard work, the place was now a hellish hell brimming with trenches, barricades, landmines, lightning towers, and all kinds of defense arrays.
At dawn …
The morning sun tore apart the night sky. Blood that was as intense as fire flowed out, illuminating the land into an ocean of blood. Everybody was like a slaughter machine that had just been bred in a pool of blood.
The hundreds of sirens all over Great Iron City began to roar, raising shrieks that tore apart the sky, awakening the brutality deep inside the bones of all the attackers.
Around Great Iron City, hundreds of thousands of chainswords, vibration sabers, and storm bolters were raised high. Reflecting the dazzling, bloody sunlight, they congregated into destructive storms.
Countless bandits had waited for more than a month and had reached the limits of their patience. They finally burst out at this moment and roared, venting their greed, fury, and violence.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!"
"Let's march into Liberty City and get whatever we want!"
"Kill Xiahou Wuxin, the leader of Liberty City, and we will be the dominators of the 'Elysian World'. We will be able to ascend to Manjusaka and become the supreme angels. Hahahaha!"
The sirens were louder and louder, gradually suppressing the roars of all the bandits. Everybody focused their eyes on the top of Great Iron City, as if a second brilliant sun was rising there.
"It's A Boxing Champion!"
"'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie has finally shown up!"
"A Boxing Champion, A Boxing Champion, the invincible A Boxing Champion!"
Fascinated, all the bandits extended their arms and roared at the sky.
"We were born in the desolate, barren wilderness and struggled in the cruel, bloody abyss. We deformed ourselves into ferocious animals and managed to survive in the so-called 'Bloody Worlds' with great luck."
From the top of Great Iron City, A Boxing Champion's thunderous roars echoed. "What kind of life are the strongest warriors among us living? Are they living a miserable life? Are they living a life worse than animals? Are they living a drunken life?
"Look at yourselves and look at your companions. Is this what you want? Is this the life that you want to live until you die?"
None of the bandits expected that 'A Boxing Champion' Lei Zonglie would say something like that. They were all stunned on the spot.
"But there, in the so-called 'Elysian World'!"
A Boxing Champion waved his hands and pointed at Liberty City not far away. "There are the cleanest water sources, the most abundant assets, the delicacies and all kinds of comforts that you can't even imagine, and the most advanced medical magical equipment that can repair your incomplete, twisted body!
"The people in the Elysian World have nothing to do all day long. Lying on a bed full of springs, they can watch assets falling from the sky without doing anything!
"Why?
"Why can they get everything without the slightest effort, while we struggle in the Bloody Worlds, brutalize each other, and even turn ourselves into wolves, wolves, tigers, leopards, and even sheep, only to get less than one percent of what they have and to be mocked by them blatantly? Why?
"Today, let me demand justice on behalf of everyone and take back what belongs to us in the first place!"
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There are two thousand chapters of 'Forty Thousand Years of Cultivation'! Two years ago, I would never have thought that such a day would come!
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