One of the scrolls depicted a towering mountain that was surrounded by strong air currents that tore the sky apart like a peerless saber. The sea of stars flowed out and formed an enormous eye of the cosmos.
Another scroll showed a boundless desert. Under the influence of a sandstorm, stormy waves were rolling up. A small figure was fighting on the sand and dust until the last breath of his life.
There were also a few scrolls that depicted bloody and cruel battlefields, misty mountains, and dark, bottomless valleys.
There were even two scrolls where light and shadow were intertwined and colorful. It was as if the ink had been accidentally knocked over. It was impossible to see what the painting was at all.
All the scrolls contained extremely powerful soul power. Li Yao was deeply attracted by them after only one glance, as if nine vortexes were sucking his soul into them.
He suddenly appeared on a towering mountain and tried his best to climb toward the endless stars in the roaring wind.
He suddenly appeared in the depths of the desert with billions of tons of sand raging above his head. He gritted his teeth and tightened his muscles, resisting desperately.
He suddenly appeared in the misty valley on a crystal clear stream. He drifted with the waves on a small bamboo raft. His telepathic thoughts melted into the mountains and rivers. He was content, carefree, and free of desires.
He even completely melted into the two colorful ink scrolls. In the emptiness, he carefully experienced the mysterious mood.
However …
The scroll that he stared at the longest was the ninth scroll.
This scroll was completely different from the previous eight scrolls. It only depicted an ordinary, commonplace vegetable market with the tiniest brush strokes.
It was the kind of vegetable market where people were noisy, dirty water was flowing, and people were jostling each other. It was full of vegetables, onions, fish, ribs, and beef.
Li Yao's soul entered the scroll and smelled the freshness of vegetables. The sweetness of fruits and the strong smell of fish. He heard bargaining and quarreling. He heard the sound of meat being chopped. There was also the laughter of the neighbors as they chatted. There were also the gleaming, satisfied faces of the neighbors.
Li Yao did not know. Why did the expert's understanding of the Building Foundation Stage turn out to be a vegetable market that could be seen everywhere?
He only felt that the picture somehow resonated with his heart.
The picture gradually blurred. The smiling faces of the people were replaced by smoky faces.
They were the people who had fought side by side with him in Red Lotus City over the past ten days.
Among them, there were veterans who had been in the army for more than twenty years. There were also rookies who had just joined the army half a year ago and knew nothing about the Building Foundation Stage.
There were experts like Jin Dan, who could blow up a building with a wave of their hands. There were also those whose spiritual roots had just awakened. Low-level Refinement Stage Cultivators who were looking at him respectfully and calling him 'senior brother'.
The faces, be they ordinary people, soldiers, or Cultivators, crossed each other, narrowed their eyes, curled their lips, and bared their white teeth. They were all smiling brilliantly together.
"BAM! Bam! Bam! bam! "
Li Yao's heart was beating faster and faster. His blood was circulating ten times faster than before.
His Spirit Root was also pulsating like a heart under the influence of some mysterious force!
Absorption! Absorption! The spiritual energy contained in the flesh and blood was all absorbed by the Spirit Root. Not a single drop remained.
"Ahhh!"
Li Yao's eye sockets exploded. Two streams of blood flowed out of the corners of his eyes. He felt that his spiritual root was expanding nonstop. Gradually, it occupied his entire brain.
The invisible tentacles of spiritual energy tied up the network of nerves and veins and formed an inseparable system with his body.
"CRACK!"
When he couldn't bear it any longer and thought that his skull was going to be broken by the spiritual root, he suddenly felt that his head was going to explode. His spiritual root began to constrict violently. All the spiritual energy inside was compressed into liquid form and flowed along the invisible tentacles of spiritual energy. The spiritual energy flowed to his limbs and bones.
It was as if there were ten thousand large rivers running rampant in his body. Dashing left and right, he crushed every cluster of nerve endings and every cell.
And the vitality contained in the depths of the river. The crushed cells and nerve endings were reorganized in the blink of an eye, making them stronger and more hopeful than ever.
The nine paintings of 'Catalog of the Building Foundation' flashed in front of his eyes like a merry-go-round. The 'Breaking the Formation' bombarded his nerves again and again. More than twenty years of memories flooded into his brain and formed a magnificent building that was ablaze with lights in 3D.
Every cluster of nerve endings had been filled to the maximum by the rivers of liquefied spiritual energy. Li Yao floated in midair with his arms and legs crossed. Cracking noises were echoing inside his bones, and roars that sounded like surging tides were echoing inside his veins. The rhythm of his heart and his spiritual root gradually reached the same rhythm and resonated with the loudest sound that he had ever heard before!
There was no telling how much time had passed.
"Hu …"
Li Yao woke up from the unbelievable anomalies inside his body and found himself lying on the ground. His limbs were as thin as firewood, and his skin was covered in lackluster mud.
They were all the waste products that had just been metabolized.
He had been reborn and taken a huge step forward on the path of evolution!
In his perception, a year and a half seemed to have passed.
But when he raised his head and looked at the clock, he found that only half an hour had passed since he entered the training room.
"I made it!
"The spiritual gas inside my body has all been transformed into liquid and is circulating slowly inside the newly-formed spiritual mother lodes. Also, my spiritual root has evolved and can transform the spiritual gas into liquid incessantly!"
Li Yao wanted to laugh, but he did not even have the strength to move his lips.
"Zi! Zi!"
From the holes in every corner of the training room, deep blue, thick liquids suddenly flowed out. They were the super high-energy nutrition liquids that were specially prepared for the Cultivators who had just entered the Building Foundation Stage.
Very soon, Li Yao was floating in the middle of the deep blue nutrition liquids. Like a reincarnated hungry ghost, all his pores were open, and he was absorbing the spiritual energy crazily.
With him as the center, a swirl was revolving slowly inside the training room.
While he was absorbing the spiritual energy, Li Yao's soul flew into the depths of his memories and dashed toward Ou Yezi's tree of memories eagerly.
As he expected!
As he ascended to the Building Foundation Stage, Ou Yezi's tree of memories was further unlocked.
Now, the crown of the entire Tree of Memory was shining with golden light, illuminating the depths of his Sea of Consciousness with brilliance.
"Ou Yezi's enormous memories after he ascended to the Building Foundation Stage can also be absorbed by me!"
Li Yao was extremely excited.
Forty thousand years ago in the Hundred Smelting Clan, during the decades when Ou Yezi ascended to the Building Foundation Stage, a lot of major events had happened.
Firstly, Ou Yezi was finally qualified to enter the second floor of the Heavenly Refining Tower and practice the more advanced refining arts!
Secondly, the invasion of the demonic Cultivators. After a series of bloody battles, Ou Yezi deduced the "One Hundred and Eight Hands Chaos-Gale Hammer Technique" to 189 hands, which shone brilliantly on the battlefield and killed twenty-four demonic Cultivators in the Building Foundation Stage.
Thirdly, Ou Yezi was accepted as a disciple by Elder Yu Chang of the Hundred Smelting Clan and became a core disciple of the Hundred Smelting Clan!
This was the memory of Ou Yezi when he first came in contact with the core secret arts of the Hundred Smelting Clan.
Now, all of them belonged to Li Yao and could be absorbed by him to his heart's content.
"Excellent!"
"As long as I absorb all the memory pieces of Ou Yezi when he was in the Building Foundation Stage, I will be able to master the real core secret arts of the Hundred Smelting Clan and refine the most powerful weapons!
"I will also be able to practice the most brutal arts of killing in the battlefield where the demonic Cultivators invaded forty thousand years ago!
"By then, I will be able to fight back even if I am faced with a demon king!"
The glittering memory pieces made Li Yao's mouth water. He almost couldn't wait to study them without sleep and food right now.
However, he knew that it was not the right time yet.
Withdrawing from Ou Yezi's memory pieces unwillingly, Li Yao's soul returned to reality. The thick, blue nutrition liquids had become clear and tasteless.
The spiritual energy contained in them had been absorbed by Li Yao into his limbs and bones.
Li Yao's body became plump and full again, as vigorous as a newborn baby.
The waste water was soon drained through the manhole at the bottom of the training room. After a while of humming noises, even the air became dry.
Ten round punching targets suddenly fell from the ceiling. Driven by the power rune arrays, they were shuttling and spinning in midair agilely.
Li Yao smiled.
It was a test that he had set up in advance. He wanted to see how much his capability could be improved after he entered the Building Foundation Stage.
"The speed is still not fast enough. I'll improve it … by three times!"
"Swoosh! Swoosh!"
The ten punching targets were spinning at a high speed of thirty rounds per second while they were flying irregularly in midair.
Every punching target was the size of a watermelon, but there was only a fist-sized sensing area on it. Only by hitting the sensing area precisely would the target be counted as a 'hit', and the strength of the punch would be recorded. Otherwise, it would be a failure.
It was certainly not an easy task to hit the sensing area on a punching target that was spinning thirty rounds per second.
Li Yao took a deep breath and slightly bent his legs. A dense aura suddenly burst out of his body!
At first glance, it was more restrained and constricted than when he was in the Refinement Stage.
But it was more solid, vigorous, and incessant. There was not the slightest flaw or oversight.
Li Yao turned into a streak of brightness in the blink of an eye. Almost a hundred blurred shadows of him filled the training room. A series of numbers were displayed on the light beams around him. It was not until a moment later that the sound of punching targets being hit echoed.
Half a minute later, all the blurred shadows were condensed into Li Yao's real body at the center of the training room. The ten punching targets were shivering above his head and were about to fall down.
A drop of sweat was popping up on Li Yao's forehead.
He looked at the circular light beams around him in satisfaction.
On the first light beam, the number displayed was 111.11 kilograms.
On the second light beam, the number displayed was 222.22 kilograms.
So on and so forth. On the tenth light beam, the number displayed was kilograms.
In half a minute, he had punched a hundred times on every target with the same strength. His punches were progressively increased according to the number of the punching targets without the slightest error.
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