The Bloody Blade Battlesuit had been completely wrecked. The mainframe crystal processor had lost most of its functions. But the timekeeping function was still working. One day and one night had passed.
"The demon infiltration squad should have left by now, shouldn't they?"
Li Yao dismantled the mainframe crystal processor of the Bloody Blade Battlesuit and wrapped it together with the three reverse scales in a ragged combat suit. Then he picked up his saber and groped his way to the ground.
Soon, he encountered a pile of collapsed rocks that blocked his way.
After he had advanced to the 11th level of the Refinement Stage, Li Yao's senses had become sharper than ever. He released hundreds of spiritual threads and crawled out through the gaps of the rocks. He found that the rocks were not thick, and there was nothing but dead silence outside. There was no trace of the demons.
Li Yao stuck his hands to the rocks. He took a deep breath and suddenly exerted his strength. A giant eagle of spiritual energy seemed to have flown out of his body and smashed into the rocks with its claws and tail. A tunnel was blasted open instantly!
"This is the strength of the high level of the Refinement Stage. Awesome!"
Li Yao jumped out of the smoke and appeared in the main body of the underground cave, which had mostly collapsed.
"The explosion of the demon cores was truly powerful!"
Li Yao clicked his tongue as he looked at the underground cave that had been destroyed beyond recognition.
A strong smell of blood lingered in the air. More than twenty Demon Generals had been blasted into pieces, mixing with the mountain rocks.
Many demon generals had revealed their original forms, which were hideous, giant demon beasts.
"Such a bountiful trophies!"
Li Yao's heart was beating fast. Greed beamed out of his eyes.
He didn't sense any demon king among the corpses of the demon beasts. He didn't know whether or not Wang Ji had been killed, either.
But why didn't they clean up their companions' corpses and leave them in the wilderness?
The demon generals from the Blood Demon Sector were all elite warriors of the demon civilization. Their bones, cores, and scales were much better than those of the wild demon beasts. Besides, many of them were carrying magical equipment from the Blood Demon Sector. Although most of them had been damaged in the explosion, Li Yao didn't refuse any of them.
"Eh?"
The corner of Li Yao's eyes twitched as he sensed a strand of strange aura coming from under a pile of rocks. He pulled it open and saw that it was a snake-shaped dagger with crooked runes engraved on it. It was like an extremely distorted face of a ghost, and it made one's hair stand on end.
"It's the Soul Seizing Nail!"
Li Yao was dazed for a moment. He thought that the infiltration team must have encountered an emergency. Otherwise, such a precious magical equipment like the Soul Stealer would have been retrieved no matter what.
This Soul Seizing Nail was covered in dust from the explosion of the Demon Core. There were even a few cracks on it, and wisps of black gas were leaking out.
However, Li Yao didn't dare to be careless. He bit the tip of his tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood mist. Then, he made a hand gesture with his right hand and threw it at the Soul-Seizing Nail.
A beam of red light whizzed out from his finger and entered the Soul Seizing Nail.
What he was performing was the unique testing method of the Hundred Smelting Clan forty thousand years ago before they seized the magical equipment.
For such an evil magical equipment as the Soul Seizing Nail, it was possible that the previous owner had set up some barriers on it. If he tried to grab it recklessly, he might be counterattacked. Therefore, he decided to test it first.
However, after the red light circled around the Soul Seizing Nail, nothing happened. There wasn't even any spiritual energy reaction.
"This means that the previous owner of the Soul Seizing Nail is dead. It is now an ownerless item.
"Odd. The previous owner of the Soul Seizing Nail was either Young Master Wang Ji or an expert of the demon king level. It is unlikely that he was killed by the explosion of the Demon Core."
Li Yao put the Soul Seizing Nail into his pocket and decided to study the method of sacrificial refining after he returned.
But when he turned around, he was faced with a dilemma when he saw the broken bodies of more than twenty demon generals.
"How should I transport so many invaluable treasures?"
Pondering for a long time, he decided to go out and check the situation first. Maybe he could weave a rope with the fibers of the demonic plants and sew a giant package with animal skins.
After all, he could carry a lot of weight. All he needed to do was to select the most valuable Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.
Li Yao crawled out of the cave cautiously.
The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. Everything was peaceful and peaceful, as if the thunderstorm the previous day was just a nightmare.
He had been too late for the gathering. Maybe Instructor Mao and the rest of them had started searching for him. But he was in the depths of the Thunderous Sound Mountain, and the spiritual signals were blocked by the mountains.
Li Yao tried several times, but the communication channel was still buzzing. He could not reach out to the outside world.
Right then, he smelled vague demonic energy. All the hair on his body was standing on end.
After searching carefully for ten minutes, he finally found a broken tail of a snake at the corner of a stream.
"A tail that contains so much demonic energy. Chances are that it was the tail of a king-level demon. How did it end up here?"
Weighing it in his hand, he felt that it was a bit weird.
Li Yao observed the broken tail carefully and soon found out what was wrong with it.
After peeling off a layer of snake scales, a pitch-black iron ring was actually embedded in the flesh.
The iron ring was inconspicuous at first glance. It was deeply embedded into the tail of the snake as if it had been worn for many years.
"How could a common iron ring have been on the tail of a demon king for decades?"
Li Yao sneered and plucked the iron ring from the tail with the vibration dagger.
After the tail was separated from the body, its flesh had already withered. The iron ring fell into Li Yao's hands effortlessly.
He spat out a mouthful of blood and tested the iron ring, only to discover that it was as empty as the Soul Stealer without any reaction of spiritual energy. Then, he boldly held the iron ring in his hand and studied it carefully.
A moment later, Li Yao's eyes were glittering in both surprise and delight.
He placed the iron hoop between two large bluestones and put them together in the stream. He rubbed the bluestone with all his strength.
The stream was immediately clouded. Countless bubbles popped up as if it were boiling.
Three minutes later, he raised the iron hoop and aimed it at the moonlight. The iron hoop was as smooth as jade and emitted a mysterious luster. Inside it were specks of stars, like a frozen ocean or a universe of stars.
"Cosmos Ring! It's a Cosmos Ring! "
Li Yao was so happy that he almost fainted. After surviving a great disaster, one was bound for good fortune. He had picked up a treasure!
Cosmos Rings, like Mustard Bags, Storage Bags, and Space Rings, were common storage magical equipment in the world of ancient Cultivators.
A small piece of magical equipment had a storage space that could store a lot of items. It was very convenient to use them at will.
However, the refinement of storage magical equipment was very complicated and involved a lot of rare materials. Many of the materials had gone extinct after tens of thousands of years.
In the era of the Star Ocean Imperium, storage magical equipment was already invaluable and far more valuable than common magical equipment.
And in the Heaven's Origin world, most of the magical powers used to refine storage-type magical equipment had been lost, and there was no way to refine them themselves. All storage-type magical equipment had been passed in from the outside world by chance, making their value even more unattainable.
A piece of storage magical equipment with several cubic meters of storage space was even more expensive than a Crystal Suit!
In the past, Li Yao wouldn't have dared to dream that he could own a Cosmos Ring!
"The Cosmos Ring is in a primitive shape, and its spiritual energy is concealed. The runes carved on it suggest that it is a piece of magical equipment refined in the Star Ocean Imperium, too." Judging from its style, it should be a piece of magical equipment refined in the Star Ocean Imperium.
"After thousands of years, it finally fell into the hands of the snake-type demon king. He put the Cosmos Ring on his tail. Somehow, his tail was chopped off and he was killed, too. But it was all mine!"
Li Yao's heart was beating fast. He snuck back to the underground cave, sat down cross-legged, and put the Cosmos Ring in front of him solemnly.
He rubbed his hands. His fingertips were all crushed, and ten drops of blood were squeezed out.
As the saying went, the ten fingers were connected to the heart. The blood of a Cultivator's fingertips carried spirituality, too. It was only second to the blood in the heart.
The ten drops of blood from Li Yao's fingertips turned into ten thin, long threads that entangled the Cosmos Ring and slowly penetrated into it.
He was polishing the Cosmos Ring with the ancient arts of the Hundred Smelting Clan.
The Cosmos Ring was not a piece of evil magical equipment like the Soul Stealer. It was peaceful and not aggressive at all. Also, as a product of the Star Ocean Imperium, its previous owners had all been human beings. Therefore, they didn't have much resistance to Li Yao.
After polishing the Cosmos Ring for an hour, Li Yao grasped the basic control of the Cosmos Ring. A technique vaguely popped up in his head, which turned out to be the operation menu of the Cosmos Ring.
The Cosmos Ring had been divided into two areas by its previous owner. One of the areas had been sealed with a secret technique, making it impossible for Li Yao to explore what was inside, let alone take it out.
The other area, on the other hand, was empty. It was about ten cubic meters in size.
"Ten cubic meters is enough for now. As for the sealed area, I'll attack it with the large-scale crystal processors with high performance after I return to the Grand Desolate War Institution. I don't believe that I can't crack the seal!"
Li Yao was satisfied. He cast another stealth technique of the Hundred Smelting Clan and dimmed the Cosmos Ring so that it was even more inconspicuous than before. Then, he put it on his wrist.
In the following day and night, he searched the underground cave carefully and collected all the magical equipment and materials that the demon generals carried with them into the Cosmos Ring.
He also found a lot of bones and claws of the mutant lion dragon, to his surprise.
Those items were extremely tenacious and hadn't been damaged in the explosion of the demon cores. They were the best materials to be refined into attack magical equipment!
Five days passed.
Li Yao strode forward in the Thunderous Sound Mountain.
When the weather was clear, he could tell the direction by the sun.
He had an arc-shaped saber in his hand, a Demon Beast Detector in his ear, a mainframe crystal processor in his Crystal Suit on his back, and three reverse scales of the mutant lion dragon on his chest.
As for the other items, they were all stored in the Cosmos Ring.
When he ran into a small group of demon beasts, he would fight them to improve his capability.
When he ran into a large group of demon beasts, he would take out the demon bones and demon cores from his Cosmos Ring. The powerful demonic energy that he emitted would often scare the demon beasts away.
After careful consideration, Li Yao decided to keep what had happened to him a secret.
It was not that he was a villain, but he couldn't explain why he was still safe and sound after swallowing six drops of blood from the heart of the lion dragon. He hadn't been corrupted by the demonic energy and turned into a demon who knew nothing but killing.
As a result, it was very likely that Ou Yezi's existence would be exposed.
It was Li Yao's biggest secret, which might even be related to the origin of his soul. He didn't want anyone to know.
Traveling on foot and training with demon beasts was much slower than when he was in the Crystal Suit. After another three days of traveling in the forest, Li Yao finally reached the foot of the mountain and saw a vast plain.
"Beep! Beep!"
Dozens of urgent calls came over in the communication channel.
Li Yao turned around and glanced at the dark forest.
He had a feeling that Young Master Wang Ji was still alive.
"Next time we meet, I might be the one hunting you down, Wang Ji!"
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