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Half a year later …
In the world fragment 'Billowing Star Sea', a few meters below the surface of the sea, inside the thick and deep seawater …
Li Yao stretched out his arms and closed his eyes. He was not wearing anything on his body, nor was he summoning any spiritual energy. He was resisting the fatal pressure of the seawater purely with the iron bones that had been honed by the 'Thousand Tempering Art'.
Suddenly —
His closed eyes suddenly opened. The brilliance pierced through the dark seawater and darted toward the surface of the sea.
Soul Igniting Law, Soaring to the Sky, activated!
The pores all over Li Yao's body were opened to the maximum in the blink of an eye. A tremendous amount of spiritual energy spurted out and stirred up thousands of bubbles in the depths of the sea.
The Refinement Stage!
The 5th level of the Refinement Stage!
The 7th level of the Refinement Stage!
Li Yao's capability soared crazily. The spiritual energy constructed an indestructible barrier around him and squeezed the seawater out.
On the surface of the calm sea, a lot of bubbles rolled out at first. Then, endless waves were raised, which gradually turned into surging tides.
Pillars of water shot into the sky and exploded, turning into a giant whirlpool. It was as if a demon had opened its mouth.
It was as if an undersea volcano was waking up and roaring!
The 11th level of the Refinement Stage!
The 12th level of the Refinement Stage!
The 10th level of the Refinement Stage!
The spiritual energy around Li Yao expanded to the limit and formed a circular space ten meters in diameter.
All the seawater was squeezed out. There was not a single drop of liquid in the space.
Li Yao's body was even more dry. His skin was as clear as jade. His messy hair was emitting feeble brilliance, too. It was moving crazily even though there was no wind.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! "
The undercurrents at the bottom of the sea hit the shell of spiritual energy brutally. The circular space became uneven. Sometimes, it caved in deeply, and sometimes, it bulged out tenaciously. It was expanding nonstop.
Li Yao gritted his teeth. Every vein in his body was like a living creature. It was as if dragons were hiding in his flesh and blood, injecting strength into the deepest part of his brain incessantly.
A swirl was formed at the center of his eyebrows. It was rotating vaguely.
"Hoooo!"
Li Yao's throat thundered. The swirl at the center of his eyebrows protruded out instantly.
A ferocious and peerless power blasted out.
This was a powerful spiritual energy that surpassed the 10th level of the Refinement Stage, and it was also the spiritual energy of all cultivators. It was the ultimate form of spiritual energy control.
Qi Refining stage!
On the surface of the sea, the seawater was boiling. The waves condensed into giant beasts that were baring their fangs and brandishing their claws. They collided and shattered into pieces, returning to the sea.
Deep inside the ocean, the round space of spiritual gas around Li Yao, on the other hand, had been molded into the shape of an enormous human more than ten meters tall. The facial organs and limbs of the human were exactly the same as his. Every detail was vivid and lifelike.
It was as if he was in an instant. It was as if it had expanded several times.
"Huala! Huala! Huala!
Following Li Yao's movements, this incomparably tall and sturdy giant of spiritual energy actually started punching at the bottom of the Billowing Star Sea!
Although it was only the simplest "Ten Forces of War Beasts", when this ten-meter-tall spirit energy giant displayed it in the Billowing Star Sea where undercurrents were surging, it still erupted with an earth-shattering momentum.
The more Li Yao practiced, the crazier he became. The more he punched, the crazier he became. Every time he punched, the seabed was blasted open by him, creating ripples that were thousands of meters long. The ripples didn't disperse for a long time.
After practicing one set of "Ten Forces of War Beasts", Li Yao felt refreshed and comfortable all over his body. Then, he thought of something. The giant of spiritual energy suddenly broke into pieces and turned into a giant bird of spiritual energy. It flapped its wings, raising tens of thousands of meters tall waves at the bottom of the sea. Within ten seconds, it rushed out from the bottom of the sea that was several meters deep. Waves dozens of meters high were raised as it soared to the sky!
Li Yao stood at an altitude of several meters. Looking at the restless sea surface, he was filled with mixed feelings.
"In the past half a year, the school has provided a lot of resources to help me improve my level. I have also bought a lot of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and training equipment!
"On top of that, I've been cultivating day and night," Ye Zichen said.
"Finally, I have reached the Refinement Stage. My control over spiritual energy has reached the most perfect state!
"Next, I have to search for the mysterious feeling and experience the change of spiritual energy from a gaseous state to a liquid state. I have to compress spiritual energy and turn it into spiritual liquid that circulates throughout my body. That is the Building Foundation Stage!"
Li Yao slowly flew to the island in the middle of the Billowing Star Sea.
The island used to be crisscrossed with jagged rocks of strange shapes and filled with stalagmites. It was Li Yao and Ding Ling Dong's training ground.
Two years ago, when Li Yao entered the Billowing Star Sea for the first time, he had been beaten up badly by Ding Ling Dong on this island.
After two years of hard training and countless bloody battles, all the strange rocks on the island had been broken and flattened.
The jagged rocks that used to be crisscrossed with each other were now completely bare. Instead, they were full of punches and footprints, as well as crisscrossing cracks that looked like spider webs.
They were the traces of the battle between the two of them.
Li Yao today was no longer the rookie who could be finished off by Ding Ling Dong in less than a minute.
With the use of spiritual energy in the Qi Refinement Stage, coupled with the super strong physique tempered by the Smelting Clan's secret technique "Thousand Tempering Training", he could even fight a battle maniac like Ding Lingdang who was in the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Over the past month, the battle between the two of them often took ten minutes to decide the winner.
Then, it would be a battle on a different level.
It would take more than fifty minutes for the battle to end.
However, Ding Ling Dong was not here today.
She had been leaving the Grand Desolate War Institution a lot lately. There was no telling what she was doing mysteriously.
When Li Yao asked her about it, she said that she would tell him when Li Yao reached the Building Foundation Stage.
The two of them were both obsessed with training. Therefore, they often went out for training. Li Yao did not ask much and simply trained by himself in the Billowing Star Sea.
As it happened, he had some secret weapons and new tactics that he could test out.
With a telepathic thought from Li Yao, "Shua Shua", two air-breaking noises were heard.
From a corner of the island, two streaks of brightness, one black and the other silver, darted out and revolved around him quickly like two unstoppable tornadoes.
The black streak of brightness was naturally Black Wing.
Right now, Li Yao could be counted as a millionaire who had purchased a lot of crystals and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures for Black Wing to swallow at any cost.
Black Wing did not refuse any of them. No matter how bizarre the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures were, as long as they contained abundant spiritual energy, Li Yao would gladly accept them.
Over the past half year, the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that it had swallowed were even more than what Li Yao had consumed during his training.
Its speed and the range of its spiritual threads had been further improved, too. It was now able to perform all kinds of unbelievable movements in the supersonic state without any trouble.
However, Li Yao had not figured out the shortcoming that it could not attack. Therefore, he could only consider Black Wing as the best shield and escape tool.
As for the attack, it would be carried out by another streak of brightness.
The streak of brightness was the model of a warship of the Star Ocean Imperium that he had found in his Cosmos Ring!
After it was done, Li Yao finally had time to explore the mysteries of Neltharion slowly.
Neltharion was not a common toy model. It was extremely complicated to operate.
Li Yao estimated that it was a piece of training magical equipment from the Star Ocean Imperium that was used to raise the captains of warships in the fleet of the Star Ocean Imperium.
When he sank part of his telepathic thoughts into it, his consciousness would be split into two halves.
The half that was controlling Neltharion was faced with an extremely complicated and mysterious control interface.
At first, Li Yao had no idea what to do with it at all. Neltharion would hit a wall or 'crash' after flying for half a minute.
Such a training method was very taxing on the soul, too. If Li Yao did not have the powerful soul that Ou Ye had refined, his mental power would have been drained and he would've fallen into a coma within several seconds.
After half a year of groping and 'crashing' almost a thousand times, he was finally able to control Neltharion within a range of several meters.
At this moment, he discovered two marvelous advantages of Neltharion.
Firstly, stealth.
Neltharion boasted a special stealth technique. Once it was activated, it would completely vanish from the world. It could neither be seen nor touched, but it could still observe the world from where it was in a mysterious way.
Li Yao had tried it several times in front of Ding Ling Dong, but she did not react at all. It was obvious that such stealth was not something that Building Foundation Stage Cultivators could see through.
As for the experts of Jin Dan, there were several of them in the Grand Desolate War Institution, too. Li Yao had released Neltharion to the range of several meters away from the experts of Jin Dan, but they did not react at all, either.
But Li Yao did not dare draw close to the range of several meters away from them.
Such stealth observation ability meant that he had a crystal camera that would not be discovered or destroyed on a battlefield.
It was a huge advantage.
Secondly, collision.
Just like a real crystal warship, Neltharion had a spiritual shield as its defense. It was very sturdy.
Although it was not as fast as Black Wing, the damage of collision was not small at all. With a telepathic thought, Li Yao could launch a collision from an unbelievably tricky angle.
Together with the stealth ability, it was an undetectable trump card!
Black Wing and Neltharion were two streaks of brilliance, one black and the other silver. The former was in charge of defense, and the latter was in charge of attack. Together with the capability of the Refinement Stage, Li Yao was confident that he could defeat five of them!
They were not all of his trump cards, either.
"Shua!"
Li Yao exited the Billowing Star Sea and returned to Ding Ling Dong's bedroom.
The teleportation array leading to the Billowing Star Sea had been modified. It was larger and more complicated, with an additional control platform next to it.
Li Yao operated quickly on the control platform. The light beam next to him blinked, and the destination changed from 'Billowing Star Sea' to 'Diminutive Dust Domain'.
The 'Diminutive Dust Domain' was the world fragment that Li Yao had bought for himself. It was a 'refining workshop' that belonged to him alone!
Li Yao stepped into the teleportation array again. After a dazzling brilliance, he was teleported to the 'Diminutive Dust Domain'.
It was a super small world fragment no more than a thousand meters in diameter.
The rules were exactly the same as those in the Tian Yuan Realm. But there was a giant swirl in the blue sky that absorbed the dust and floating particles in the air, creating a natural dust-free room.
It was the most suitable place for refining.
Li Yao had built it into a vintage refining workshop according to the methods of the Refiners. (To be continued.)
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