Right then, Li Yao raised his head and smiled at her.
Xie Anan was greatly alarmed. For some reason, although the guy's eyes were clear and indifferent, they gave her even more pressure than Sister Long did.
She couldn't help but walk to Li Yao dutifully. She hesitated for a long time but did not dare to sit down. Instead, she squatted and looked at the chopped pig liver curiously.
Li Yao had noticed the little tail a long time ago, but he didn't feel that she meant any harm. Besides, they were going to meet again tomorrow, and he was not familiar with the Skyhill Domain, so he didn't want to waste his time to get rid of her.
Li Yao ignored Xie Anan and took off his grey gloves softly.
At first glance, his hands looked ordinary and unremarkable, but there were black stripes twining around his fingers.
Xie Anan observed carefully and widened her eyes. The black stripes were actually made of almost a hundred tiny ants.
Li Yao's hands seemed to boast a weird attraction force that attracted the ants to his skin and hid them inside the grey gloves!
Li Yao put his hands next to the chopped pig liver. Smelling the blood of the liver, the ants immediately turned into two armies and crawled down from his fingertips, gobbling up the food.
Li Yao explained, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to leave early. It's just that the ants were starving. If I didn't feed them, they would've gone berserk. Even I wouldn't have been able to resist them."
Xie Anan blinked and observed the ants suspiciously again.
She discovered that the ants were only one third the size of regular ants. They were in a glamorous purple color as if they were made of amethyst. They seemed to be wearing a suit of Purple Gold Battle Armor. They were very beautiful.
Xie Anan felt that the ants looked familiar.
After recalling for a moment, her back was soaked in cold sweat, and her legs were shaking. She exclaimed, "Purple Ring Sword Ants! They are Purple Ring Sword Ants! "
The Purple Ring Sword Ants were a very terrifying species of spiritual insects. They were carnivorous by nature and were highly aggressive. They could also release a special kind of venom to bite their prey. When bitten, they would feel excruciating pain, as if they had been stabbed by a flying sword. That was why they were known as' Sword Ants'!
According to the analysis of some experts, the pain of being bitten by a Purple Ring Sword Ant was five times more excruciating than being bitten by a lion-type demon beast!
Moreover, this kind of pain directly acted on the nerve center. It could even react with the spiritual energy inside the cultivator's body, no matter how high his cultivation was. They couldn't completely block it!
The Purple Ring Sword Ants were definitely among the top ten of all the insect-type spiritual beasts!
Xie Anan felt that her blood was freezing. She could not believe her eyes. Normal Cultivators would try their best to avoid the Purple Ring Sword Ants, but the guy had been keeping so many of them in his hands all this time?
Xie Anan knew. The Purple Ring Sword Ant was a kind of spiritual insect that did not like to be restrained. It was impossible to raise or refine it. In such a small space inside the glove, these spiritual insects were absolutely irritable to the extreme. They would bite whoever they saw!
Wasn't he afraid of being bitten?
Furthermore …
Xie Anan recalled what happened a moment ago and felt dizzy.
Li Yao had just competed with so many experts of refining with a pair of hands that were crawling with Purple Ring Sword Ants. He was only a few minutes slower than them!
It was hilarious that everybody thought that his capability was only slightly suppressed by the thick glove. Little did they know that there were so many terrifying Purple Ring Sword Ants!
Without the Purple Ring Sword Ants, his real capability … How horrifying would it have been?
Xie Anan's head went blank. She stammered, "Are — are you not afraid of being bitten?"
Li Yao warmed up his fingers and examined the tiny wounds on his hands with the help of the artificial light in the sky. He said, "This is a special training method to improve the perception of the hands and the control of the muscle fibers.
"Although the Purple Ring Sword Ants are intimidating, there are always some weak signs before they bite. It's like a tiger crouches down and exerts its strength before it launches an attack.
"As long as you perceive the signs of attack in advance and control the muscle fibers on your hands to slightly bend the part of your hands that the Purple Ring Sword Ant is about to attack, or disturb it with your spiritual threads, you will be able to interrupt its attack rhythm.
"Then, you won't have to worry about being bitten."
Xie Anan was dumbfounded. She was dazed for a long time before she said, "But — but there are almost a hundred Purple Ring Sword Ants here. They are attacking all the time!"
Li Yao said, "Not a hundred. There are only ninety-one of them in both hands.
"Of course, it is not easy to deal with so many Purple Ring Sword Ants. At first, I only put five on each of my hands. Still, it was inevitable that I would be bitten every few minutes. But practice makes perfect. Gradually, the number of Purple Ring Sword Ants increased.
"Ninety-one is not a big deal. If the number of Purple Ring Sword Ants increases to more than a hundred, this technique of perception and control will be a minor achievement."
Training the perception of the hands with Purple Ring Sword Ants was a real secret art of the Hundred Smelting Clan.
Li Yao had learned the secret art from the classics of the Heavenly Refining Tower a long time ago. However, there were no Purple Ring Sword Ants in the Tian Yuan Realm.
Other Purple Ring Sword Ants were either too large in size, too picky in their living environment, too weak in their venom, too weak in their bite, or too corrosive in their venom, which could paralyze the nerves of the hands. None of them were suitable for the training of the technique.
However, after he came to the Flying Star Sector, he discovered that Purple Ring Sword Ants were abundant in several world fragments.
Li Yao had bought a batch of Purple Ring Sword Ants online at a high price. He had also weaved the gloves with the stem of the Vanilla Grass, the Mist Pistil, and other Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, which could simulate the living environment of the Purple Ring Sword Ants so that they would not die quickly if they stayed inside for a long time.
More than half of his wealth had been spent on the Purple Ring Sword Ants.
However, the effect was indeed remarkable. The perception of Li Yao's hands soared and soon reached the level of 'ninety-one ants'. Ninety-one Purple Ring Sword Ants crawled all over his hands and bit him nonstop. However, he could make every attack miss with the precise control of the muscle fibers of his hands.
Xie Anan was completely dumbfounded. She asked, "So, just now, you were controlling the muscles of your hands to resist the serial attacks of ninety-one Purple Ring Sword Ants while competing with more than ten experts from noble refining families in terms of skills, and you only lost a little bit in the end without being bitten by the Purple Ring Sword Ants?"
"Not exactly."
Li Yao sighed and said, "My Cultivation is not good enough yet. It was fine when I was focused, but just now, I was slightly distracted and was bitten by the Purple Ring Sword Ants. Six bites in total. "
"Huh?"
Xie Anan recalled for a moment. Was it possible that Li Yao had been gnashing his teeth so hard that his veins were bulging? It was not because the competition was hard, but because he had been bitten by the Purple Ring Sword Ants?
It couldn't be, could it?
According to the legends, when one was bitten by the Purple Ring Sword Ants, they would be in excruciating pain, as if their soul had been pierced through by a flying sword. How could he have endured it by 'gnashing his teeth'?
"Such a training method … Can I have a try?"
Seeing that Li Yao was talking about it casually and casually, Xie Anan asked, feeling that something was wrong.
Li Yao nodded. He had been in the Flying Star Sector for a long time. The enlightenment of many fellow Cultivators had benefited him a lot and changed some of his ideas. He did not mind sharing the superficial training arts with his fellow Cultivators.
Li Yao picked up a Purple Ring Sword Ant from the ground with his little finger and put it on the back of Xie Anan's hand. He said, "Open your senses. Tie your spiritual threads to your arm and pass through it. Let them flow to the back of your hand like a tide at night … "
He put the Purple Ring Sword Ant down softly.
The Purple Ring Sword Ant, which had been obedient on his little finger, immediately perked up when it was on the back of Xie Anan's hand. It was possessed by the Insect Demon. It bit the ant brutally.
"Ahhh!"
Xie Anan screamed miserably and collapsed to the ground as if she had been electrocuted. Her limbs were cramping, and she was foaming at the mouth. Her pupils were dilated.
Li Yao slightly frowned. He recalled the Purple Ring Sword Ant and let it enjoy the feast of pig liver.
But he warmed up his fingers and enjoyed the moment of leisure after the meal.
It was not until three minutes later that Xie Anan regained her ability to speak. But her hair was messy, and her face was pale and haggard. She looked at Li Yao as if he were a monster.
This monster is unbelievable. My soul was almost torn apart when I was bitten. This guy was bitten six times in a row just now, and yet he was able to finish the high-intensity polishing work?
Xie Anan had the urge to run away immediately.
Li Yao glanced at the back of her hand and said, "Judging from your performance, the Purple Ring Sword Ant is not suitable for your training. Why don't you try training with butterflies?"
Xie Anan was still in a trance. She mumbled, "Butterflies?"
Li Yao extended his right hand.
One and a half months ago, his hands had been as smooth as jade and as smooth as silk, as if they were glowing from his flesh and blood.
But at this moment, his hands were as plain as the grasses, stones, earthworms, and birds in the garden. They had become part of nature.
Suddenly, something weird happened!
In the small garden, a lot of butterflies were dancing among the flowers, but they were all attracted by the invisible threads and flew to Li Yao's right hand. Their colorful wings were flapping crazily, but they were all stuck to his hand!
Li Yao said, "Butterflies will send out feeble signals before they take off. As long as you seize the moment and disturb them with your spiritual threads, they will be stuck in your palm. They will not be able to fly no matter how hard they try."
Li Yao loosened his fingers. More than ten butterflies flew out of Li Yao's fingers and danced happily above his head as if they had been freed from their shackles.
Li Yao said, "Such a training method is less painful and more suitable for beginners. Of course, you can try it with one or two butterflies at the beginning."
Xie Anan was surprised. "But how did you make so many butterflies fly to your palm?"
Li Yao said, "Just now, my right hand was vibrating at a very subtle frequency, releasing a special signal that was very attractive to the butterflies. They were attracted to me by the fragrance of flowers."
"Such a technique is not something that you can grasp right now. Therefore, you can try to smear some special potion on your hand to simulate the fragrance of flowers and attract the butterflies."
The minced pig liver had been cleaned up by the Purple Ring Sword Ants. Not a single bit of it was left. Li Yao opened his hands and put them on the ground again.
His hands seemed to be endowed with weird charm, which made the Purple Ring Sword Ants crawl to his fingers in two groups.
Li Yao put on the gloves carefully.
In Xie Anan's eyes, the most hideous gray gloves had become a marvelous weapon to confine demons!
Li Yao crumpled the paper and threw it into the trash can. He turned around and smiled. "If there are no other questions, let's meet again tomorrow. You'd better not tell Long Yunxin and the rest of them about what happened just now.
"I don't really care if such a training method is exposed. Whoever wants to learn it is free to do so.
"I'm just worried that if you tell them now, their belief will be disrupted and their state in the competition three days later will be affected."
Xie Anan's head was in a mess. She was dazed for a long time. Seeing that Li Yao was about to disappear around the corner, she suddenly said, "Wait. Senior Brother Li Yao, so, you intentionally hid your capability when you competed with them just now because you didn't want to affect their belief?"
"That's not the case."
Li Yao stopped and thought for a moment. Then he turned around and said, "I didn't take off the gloves because I didn't want to disrespect you or affect your belief.
"However, if I took off the gloves, I wouldn't be able to do my best. Do you understand?
"Such a competition of absolute dominance would only be a waste of each other's time."
Li Yao left after finishing his speech.
Xie Anan was left alone in the garden, dumbfounded!
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