It was the size of a fist and was neither gold nor wood. Ridges were entangled on it, making it look like a cocoon carved out of rock. It was quite heavy to the touch.
Li Yao tried to extend his spiritual threads into the cocoon, only to be blocked by the shell.
He took out the vibration dagger, which was specially designed for dissecting demon beast materials, but it failed to leave a single crack on the shell. All that was left was a shallow white mark.
Half a minute later, even the white mark was gone, as if the wound had healed itself.
Li Yao thought for a long time, but he couldn't think of any material that could boast such a weird feature.
He didn't have many tools that he could use. Besides, this was not a refining workshop. It was inconvenient for him to make too much noise.
He simply threw the marrow crystals and the weird cocoon back into his Cosmos Ring and decided to study them after he returned to the Grand Desolate War Institution.
The main reason why he returned to Floating Spear City was to find his Senior Brother Fiend Blade Peng Hai.
Since Peng Hai left the Crimson Nimbus Guild, he had been trying to break through to the Core Formation Stage as an unaffiliated Cultivator.
Although he hadn't succeeded yet, he was one of the strongest Cultivators at the peak of the Building Foundation Stage in the Federation. He was quite influential in the world of Cultivators.
Besides, Peng Hai was not a pure battle-type Cultivator. When he was in the Crimson Nimbus Guild, he had been in charge of a critical department and helped the Crimson Nimbus Guild to open a new business route.
Opening a new business route required strong combat ability, but management skills and connections were indispensable, too.
Li Yao had talked with Fiend Blade Peng Hai before. He knew that Peng Hai's ambition was not only to be a strong Cultivator, but also to establish his own sect.
Li Yao was not an admin-type Cultivator. He didn't know how to promote the Demon Beast Detector and compete with the Zephyr Guild.
As it happened, Fiend Blade Peng Hai had just finished his training in the Dark Desolate Domain and returned to Floating Spear City to digest his trophies.
Both Serpent City and Floating Spear City were in the south of the Federation.
Li Yao came to visit him. He wanted to ask for some advice.
He and Fiend Blade Peng Hai had agreed to meet at 9: 00 the next morning.
Although he had enjoyed himself racing in Serpent City, his soul was also exhausted. After storing all the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures into his Cosmos Ring, Li Yao fell asleep.
This sleep. He slept all the way until the next morning. He felt refreshed and refreshed. There wasn't a single part of his body that wasn't happy.
Pulling open the curtains, his eyes were filled with red clouds, like a wildfire in the barren mountains, dyeing the sky red.
This was the Upper East Side, where cultivators gathered.
Early in the morning. Countless Cultivators flew into the sky and absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon while the sun and the moon were alternating. They inhaled and exhaled the essence of the sun and the moon to cultivate.
"Two years ago, I could only stand on the ground and stare blankly at the cultivators in the sky. Shine brightly. "
"Now, I've become one of them!"
In Li Yao's heart. Like a cat scratching an itch, he wondered if he should also fly into the sky and cultivate for a while to satisfy his little vanity.
Right at this moment, the Interspatial Ring suddenly jumped slightly. It was getting hotter and hotter, and its surface was dim. It gradually emitted an orange-red light.
"What happened?"
Li Yao was greatly alarmed. He hurried to extend his spiritual threads into the Interspatial Ring, only to discover that the storage space seemed to have been hit by a tsunami. All the materials had been riddled with holes and were in a mess.
As for the marrow crystals that he put in the storage space last night … Three of them were missing!
"Swoosh! Swoosh! "
A black shadow shrieked and dashed in the narrow storage space. Now and then, it crashed into the barrier of the storage space, triggering deafening explosions and wild tides of spiritual energy.
The storage space was like a house in a storm. It was on the verge of collapsing at any moment.
"Little Black!"
Li Yao cursed in his heart. How could he have forgotten that the greedy Black Wing was still inside the Interspatial Ring?
The guy was a piece of magical equipment that could train by itself. The crystals it consumed were no less than his. Also, its appetite was very tricky and had a high demand on the purity of the crystals.
Little Black must have mistaken the marrow crystals for common crystals and swallowed three of them in a row!
But as it turned out, the purity of the 'crystals' was too high, and the spiritual energy they contained was too violent for Little Black to digest and absorb. It was rolling on the ground in pain inside the Interspatial Ring!
Li Yao was greatly anxious.
Without a catalyst, even a Building Foundation Stage Cultivator would explode and die if they swallowed three marrow crystals in a row!
Besides, the Interspatial Ring was a highly unstable man-made space. If it kept crashing into the storage space, it was very likely that the barrier would collapse and the space would be obliterated. Little Black and all the materials would be reduced to two-dimensional or four-dimensional forms in the space turbulence and vanish into nothingness!
Gritting his teeth, Li Yao stabbed all his spiritual threads into the Cosmos Ring and dragged the crazy Little Black out by brute force.
"Swoosh!"
Leaving a long blurred shadow, Black Wing crashed into the wall like an infuriated black dragon.
"Bo!"
As if it had hit an invisible liquid, bright yellow ripples spread out slowly.
Li Yao was slightly relieved.
Thankfully, he had deployed barriers around the room. Otherwise, the entire building would have been blown up by Little Black.
After swallowing three marrow crystals in a row, Black Wing had undergone drastic changes. The black gas around it was getting denser and denser. It gradually evolved from a gaseous state to a liquid state, as if it were surrounded by countless black water droplets.
"This is …"
Li Yao was dumbfounded.
The liquefaction of spiritual gas was a sign of the Building Foundation Stage.
Was Little Black about to enter the Building Foundation Stage?
But on second thought, it did make sense. After swallowing three marrow crystals in a row, it was perfectly normal that Little Black could soar into the Building Foundation Stage after absorbing all the spiritual energy inside.
Li Yao's face was full of weirdness.
A flying sword that could practice on its own was already unbelievable enough.
A flying sword in the 'Building Foundation Stage' was probably a monster that had never appeared in the entire Tian Yuan Realm before.
"Little Black, come on!"
Li Yao clenched his fists and shouted in a low voice.
"Swoosh!"
"Swoosh!"
"Swoosh!"
The speed of Black Wing was three times faster than before. It dashed left and right in the room. The afterimages soon formed an airtight net that did not disperse for a long time.
"Crack!"
After hundreds of collisions, the restriction crystal in the southeast corner suddenly burst.
"Crack! Crack! "
The restriction crystals in the northeast and northwest corners also burst one after another half a second later.
There was only one restriction crystal left. The strength of the restriction had dropped to the lowest point.
Black Wing seemed to have realized that after a few more collisions, the entire restriction would be destroyed by it, and its secret would be exposed in front of everyone.
It let out a shrill cry and forcibly stopped its momentum. Hundreds of small black water droplets flew out. They swirled around it at high speed.
"Crack!"
Suddenly, a crisp sound came from the Black Wing Sword.
A dragon-shaped crack appeared on the sword's body, baring its fangs and claws!
Li Yao turned pale with fright.
Although the Black Wing in the past was tattered, it was just rust. There had never been such a large damage to its structure!
He was a refiner. He could see at a glance that this was a crack that ran through the sword. It would greatly affect the strength of Black Wing, just like a person's spine breaking.
"Little Black!"
Li Yao threw caution to the wind and rushed forward.
Unexpectedly, after the crack appeared, Black Wing did not show the slightest sign of pain. Instead, it seemed to have vented all its anger and was floating in the air, exhausted.
Li Yao was stunned. Looking at the dragon-shaped crack on Black Wing, he was deep in thought.
Black Wing was surrounded by water droplets of spiritual liquid. They were vaporized again and were sucked back. Then, dozens of thick black spiritual threads were released.
Although Black Wing had not succeeded in the Building Foundation Stage, it was definitely at the peak of the Refinement Stage!
"You little brat, I thought my cultivation speed was already fast enough after having so many fortuitous encounters over the past year."
"I didn't expect that your cultivation speed would be even faster than mine!"
Seeing the Black Wing Sword safe and sound, Li Yao finally let out a sigh of relief. He also released dozens of spiritual threads from his spiritual root and touched Black Wing's spiritual threads softly.
After the touch, Li Yao sensed that something was wrong.
Although Black Wing had not entered the Building Foundation Stage yet, three marrow crystals had exploded inside its body. Yet, it had grown in a single night.
Or rather, a part of its body that had been asleep for a long time had been awakened by the explosion.
For a moment, mottled, incomplete pieces of information appeared in Li Yao's mind.
"No wonder your flying sword can only fly but not attack!"
"So, the flying sword is not your real body at all!"
"Or perhaps, this isn't a flying sword at all. It's a restriction, a restriction that's imprisoning your true body!"
"What … what are you exactly?"
Even Black Wing did not have an answer to this question.
It flew for a long time in confusion. In the end, it wrote four words in the air with the tip of the sword.
"I am Little Black."
Li Yao was dazed for a moment. Then he smiled.
Yes. Whatever the background of Black Wing was, it was Little Black, the Little Black that had grown up with him!
"Rest assured. I'll find a way to crack the barrier and set you free!"
Li Yao knew that the Black Wing Sword must have come from outside the Heaven's Origin Sector, from a vaster and more powerful world.
The barriers of this world were not something that a Cryptbreaker such as Yuan Qi could break.
Li Yao made up his mind that he would take Little Black to the center of the sea of stars, where the world was more splendid, one day!
"The things I put in my Cosmos Ring are marrow crystals. You can't swallow them randomly. You must bear with it. You won't be so lucky next time!
"After I return to the Grand Desolate War Institution and find enough catalysts to refine the marrow crystals, I'll give them to you. Rest assured. You'll get one if I get one!"
Li Yao had made up his mind. He would divide the remaining marrow crystals into four parts.
One for himself, one for Little Black, one for Ding Ling Dong, and one for himself. He would keep the last one and refine it into strengthening drugs and recovery drugs of the highest level in case of emergencies. He could also use it to help his best friends.
Brother Guan Xiong of the Mountain Sea Sect had been heavily wounded when he rescued a train of ordinary people including Li Yao from the beast tide a year and a half ago. His capability had plummeted.
He was Li Yao's savior. The drugs made of marrow crystals would certainly be of great help to him in recovering his strength.
While thinking, Li Yao started cleaning up the mess in his Cosmos Ring.
"Huh?"
He retrieved the weird stone chrysalis, only to find that one end of the chrysalis had been cut off.
It must have been when Little Black swallowed the three marrow crystals. His spiritual energy soared and he accidentally broke the chrysalis when he was rushing forward.
But the chrysalis was hollow. It was filled with a half-solidified liquid that was even thicker than glue. It was impossible to pour it out even if the chrysalis was upside down.
Li Yao tried his best to suck the half-solidified liquid out of the chrysalis.
But he found that there was a sword-shaped object the size of a finger inside the half-solidified liquid.
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