Seeing that Li Yao was about to rush in front of the blonde woman, the brawny man whose face had caved in displayed an astonishing vitality. He actually stood up abruptly and even broke a branch at the side, sweeping away thousands of soldiers as he pounced towards Li Yao.
His skin was overflowing with an inhuman metallic luster, like a piece of lumpy iron. When he punched out, the air was filled with the sound of wind breaking.
Li Yao's direction and speed didn't change in the slightest, but his body suddenly leaned forward, his right hand on the ground, and his legs kicked towards the bald man's iron fists. Only a series of rapid and dull sounds could be heard, and between the two people's fists and feet, dazzling sparks actually appeared.
"Bastard!"
The bald man finally let out an exasperated roar.
Li Yao, on the other hand, did not look like he was in the middle of a fierce battle. Instead, he looked like he had just taken a hot bath for two hours and was about to ask someone to give him a Thai massage. Accompanied by the hurried and heavy bombardment of the bald, brawny man's iron fists, every orifice on his body was opened.
"Bang!"
Another muffled sound rang out. Li Yao had held back half of his strength, and when his kick landed on the bald man's body, it suddenly exploded. Not only did he kick the bald man three to five meters away, but he also flew close to the ground like a bat, continuing to rush toward the blonde woman.
After being blocked by the bald man and the raven girl, the mysterious and complicated runic array that the blonde woman had drawn on the ground was nearing completion.
She took off her wide-brimmed sun hat, and her windbreaker fluttered in the wind, revealing the tattoos that extended from her arms to her neck, and then grew from her neck to between her eyebrows like vines. The tattoos were countless small characters that zigzagged like tadpoles. In Li Yao's knowledge, they did not belong to any of the ancient languages on Earth. Instead, they seemed to be a variant of cuneiform.
Her hair and eyes were originally a dazzling golden color like the sun, but at this moment, they had completely faded away, turning into the bleak color of an albino patient. A series of strange syllables came out from the depths of her throat, similar to Zhao Kai's "eh eh eh eh", but more rhythmic, as if it had some kind of ancient and mysterious meaning, as if it was an incantation that contained great terror.
As the spell fluttered, the cuneiform tattoo on her body and the runes on the ground began to shine.
"Not good!"
Li Yao instinctively sensed a great threat. He kicked on the ground and accelerated again, turning into a streak of light.
However, an incomparably shrill croaking sound came from the sky, and a few stinky things shot towards him at high speed, exploding violently in front of him.
They were crows.
Not all crows and sparrows were fake. Among the thousands of illusions, there were a dozen real crows and sparrows. Under the control of the girl, they crashed into Li to face to face to face to face to face to face to face.
Li Yao's extreme speed was comparable to a jet airliner flying high in the sky, so the result of the crows and sparrows crashing into him was as tragic as a bird crashing into a jet airliner.
Even with Li Yao's strong body that had been awakened, after being hit by the crows and sparrows, he couldn't help but slow down by half a second.
In this half a second, countless weeds and vines grew out from the ground, entangling his ankles like iron wires, deeply embedded into his skin and flesh. The more he struggled, the tighter the entanglement became. Li Yao couldn't break free for a moment. His original high-speed charging posture was disturbed by the crows and vines, causing him to fall to the ground.
When he blew away the feathers, broke free from the vines, and regained his balance, the blond-haired girl had already completed the whole process of chanting and casting the spell.
It was as if she had been seriously ill, and all her vitality had been sucked away by the pattern under her feet. Her originally plump flesh was withering at a speed visible to the naked eye. She looked like a skeleton, and only a pair of bright eyes remained, staring at Li Yao.
Her mouth was already closed, but the strange "eee eee eee eee" spell was still around, or rather, it was echoing in Li Yao's mind, getting sharper and sharper, louder and louder.
The sound agitated Li Yao, and his blood boiled. He felt that somebody had lit a fire in his internal organs, making his every cell rub at a high speed, and his every mitochondria went out of control, unleashing all the heat.
"Damn it, I've been hit!"
Alarms went off in Li Yao's head. "What kind of superpower is this? It used some kind of high-frequency wave to make my cells go out of control and tamper with the order of the mitochondria to produce energy, causing the temperature of the cells to keep rising, causing the human body to spontaneously combust and burn me alive?
"Is this a superpower or … magic?"
Boom!
As soon as the word "magic" appeared in Li Yao's mind, his internal organs and skin were burning fiercely, and he turned into a bright fireball. Then, the picture and memory became fragmented and blurred. He only saw Daniel Zhang screaming, raising his hands high, and being taken away by three superpowered people, or rather, sorcerers.
The fog around him gradually thinned out, and the familiar neighborhood appeared again. He could hear the sirens of fire trucks and ambulances. After that, he did not know anything.
…
Li Yao had a brand new strange dream.
It was a strange dream that had never happened before. It was completely different from the Tyrannosaurus Rex with lipstick, the woman with a wicked smile, and the computer with thin arms and legs.
He was running around in a city, maybe it was Jiangnan City, or maybe it was the city he had lived in in his previous life or the life before that, as if he was hiding from something in a panic. The city was empty, and there was no one except him. However, the structure of the roads and streets changed randomly, like a living maze.
Not far behind him, an enormous silver ball that looked like a balloon was floating in the air, chasing after him at a leisurely pace.
Li Yao ran and ran, trying to get out of the silver ball's scanning range. However, no matter how fast he was, and how tricky his route was, every time he looked back, he would see the silver ball following behind him.
Looking carefully, he found that there was a thin silver line at the back of his head. He did not know whether it was a blood vessel or a nerve, but it dragged all the way out and connected to the bottom of the silver ball.
It turned out that it was not the silver ball that was chasing him, but he was the one who was leading the silver ball forward.
Li Yao felt an indescribable sense of powerlessness in his heart. He stared blankly at the silver ball.
The shell of the silver ball was shining, like a bumpy mirror. His reflection in the mirror was broken and distorted, and did not look like himself at all.
Then again, who was he, and what should he look like?
"Who am I?
"Am I Li Yao?
"What is the so-called 'Li Yao'? Where did I come from? Where am I going? What is my mission?"
…
Li Yao shuddered. When he woke up from the cold iron bed, he found himself wrapped in a layer of airtight plastic film. There was a zipper in front of him that pulled the plastic film all the way to the top of his head.
"What is this? Why did you put me in it? It hurts, it's stuffy, it's itchy!"
Li Yao thought to himself and tried to recall everything that had happened when he was in a coma. Finally, he understood. "This is a body bag, isn't it?"
Li Yao immediately woke up. He felt that he was like a sweet potato that had been overbaked. The shell had been completely carbonized and turned into a black lump. Thankfully, the inside was still moist and sweet, and he could still be saved.
Badump! Badump! Badump!
Thinking in that way, his heart immediately resumed beating. The blood that flowed through his body seemed to contain miraculous recovery drugs that could promote cell division, flesh regeneration, and wound healing. It even gave him the feeling of being reborn.
Yes, it was amazing. Li Yao seemed to be able to 'see' that the 'mitochondrial factories' inside all the cells in his body had resumed normal operations, providing stable and powerful energy to promote cell regeneration. The broken nerves, blood vessels, and muscle fibers were reconnected in a way that was beyond the scope of human beings. They were connected together in a way that was even more solid and tensile.
His brain cells, too, seemed to have received a "comprehensive upgrade" in the burning flames, which allowed him to awaken more mysterious abilities. He was even able to record what happened around him when he was unconscious.
From the looks of it, after the three superhumans set him on fire and turned him into a giant fireball, they kidnapped Zhang Daniu. Perhaps because they were running out of time, the mist barrier they set up around them was dissipating and would be discovered soon. Or perhaps because they were very confident in the 'magic' of the blonde — or the white-haired woman, they did not give the burning Li Yao the finishing blow. Well, since he was already burned to such an extent, what was the point of giving him the finishing blow?
After that, the other party disappeared, and the fog dissipated. Naturally, Li Yao was discovered by the firefighters and the crowd. Although they did not understand how a fire on the fifth floor could affect the bystanders on the ground, he was still put out by the firefighters who did their best to extinguish the flames on his body. He was sent to the ambulance and sent to the emergency room of the hospital. Well, fine, he was directly sent to the morgue.
"That's magic, right? That has to be magic, right?"
Li Yao asked himself. "Anyway, in the world of '40,000 Years of Cultivation,' there shouldn't be such a magical ability. Although the casting time is long and requires a variety of complicated materials, once completed, there is no need to aim. It can directly lock onto the target's body and start burning from the depths of the target's internal organs and even the cells. It is indeed a strange and unpredictable technique that is impossible to guard against.
"But, how is that possible?
"Why is there such an unscientific thing as' magic 'in this world?
"Of course, as a 'Cultivator' who came back from the dead, I don't have the right to criticize magic as unscientific. But, sigh, it's just that, first cultivation, then magic. God knows how many more incredible powers and mysterious life forms exist in this world. What kind of world is this?"
Li Yao thought as he tried his best to recover his bodily functions.
At that moment, he heard light footsteps coming from outside the morgue.
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