The air in the corridor was thick and sticky. Time seemed to be frozen. A weird face suddenly protruded out of the colorful carpet and watched Li Yao and Fei Ming walk past it in silence.
It was not until the two of them disappeared into the emergency channel that the weird face said in a low voice, "Plan No. 1 has been implemented successfully. Squads, clean up the mess. Retreat in half a minute."
The weird face blew at the air softly. After a 'bo' sound, as if something had been broken, the hot and sticky corridor was immediately refreshed.
The weird face smiled and melted into the carpet, disappearing into thin air.
Li Yao sat in a fully-enclosed luxury shuttle. All the windows were blocked by light beams, making it impossible for him to see the outside world.
The shuttle was running smoothly, almost as if it were still.
Li Yao studied the gyro wholeheartedly. There was an expression of fascination on his face.
His computational ability, on the other hand, was rising slowly and quietly like a tide at night. He analyzed the route of the shuttle according to the slight tilt, turn, acceleration, and deceleration of the shuttle and overlapped the route with the 3D map of the Thousand Edges Mountain.
He discovered that, although the shuttle was moving at a high speed, it was circling all the time. It seemed that it had been moving for more than an hour, but in the end, it had returned to the hotel where he was staying!
Li Yao remembered that it was a gray, inconspicuous seven-story building.
The shuttle stopped. It was not until ten minutes later that the door of the shuttle was opened slowly. A fully-enclosed pathway made of soft, silver materials had been opened on the outside of the shuttle.
At the end of the pathway was an antique gate.
Li Yao sneered in his heart. If he were a pure refiner, he would've thought that he had been sent thousands of miles away and would've been completely confused.
Fei Ming knocked on the door softly three times and bowed deeply to Li Yao. "Master Li Yao, please."
The gate was slowly opened. A faint scent of sandalwood wafted out. Inside, it seemed to be a messy antique shop. On the dim display shelves, there was a dazzling array of gold, stone, jade, and all kinds of miscellaneous items.
Li Yao's eyes didn't stop on them for half a second. His attention. Had been taken away by someone nearby.
Huangpu Xiaoya!
It seemed that the process of her being "invited" here was not so smooth. Her face and hands were full of scratches, her clothes were a little messy, and her eyes were bloodshot, constantly emitting electric sparks.
She seemed to be restricted by some kind of restriction. When she saw Li Yao appear, a hint of surprise appeared in her eyes. A moment later, he sank into even deeper despair. He tried to open his mouth to speak, but he could only make hissing sounds.
Fei Ming smiled and said, "Master Li Yao, please sit with Miss Huangfu for a moment. My master will be here soon."
As he spoke, a white-haired man slowly walked out from behind a bamboo screen. He was a middle-aged man who had been through a lot.
His appearance was plain and unremarkable, but his eyes shone brightly. However, his eyes were ten times brighter than normal people. His hands were withered like rotten wood, and his left hand had six fingers.
If an ordinary person had six fingers, the extra finger would definitely be like a burden and would appear very strange.
But this middle-aged man's left hand … It was perfectly natural, as if he were born with six fingers. It even gave a feeling of perfection.
It was as if it was not that he had an extra finger, but that everybody else had one less finger.
Such a weird left hand made Li Yao's heart beat fast.
He observed the middle-aged man's face carefully. A bolt of lightning flashed through his mind.
Before Li Yao opened his mouth, Huangpu Xiaoya's barrier had been lifted. She seemed to have seen the most unbelievable person in the world. Her face was completely twisted as she exclaimed, "You are … Uncle Shiyi?"
With a closer look, the middle-aged man did look somewhat similar to Huangpu Xiaoya.
Li Yao's pupils constricted violently, as he exclaimed, "Huangpu Shiyi?"
Huangpu Shiyi was an unavoidable person in the circle of refiners in the past thirty years!
He was the most talented, hardworking, and arrogant genius refiner of the previous generation of the Huangpu family!
In the Skyhill Sword Seminar twenty-nine years ago, Huangpu Shiyi had appeared out of nowhere and won the title of 'Sword Master' in an absolutely overwhelming manner. The Skyhill Sword Seminar that year was almost a one-man show for him. All kinds of sophisticated techniques and techniques were as good as Li Yao's' carving of chips with human flesh ', if not better!
When Li Yao read the files of the Skyhill Sword Seminar, he had seen the videos of Huangpu Shiyi's refining, which had left a deep impression on him. Even the 'monster' that he was, couldn't help but feel that it was too unbelievable!
That year, Huangpu Shiyi was less than thirty years old. He was in the prime of his life.
There was no telling whether he was arrogant or crazy. After winning the title of 'Sword Master' easily, he was still not satisfied. He challenged the leader of the Mo family in front of thousands of spectators and all the seniors in the circle of refiners, claiming that he would defeat all the refiners of the Mo family in ten years!
"Two noble families of refining that have been around for a thousand years? Too many! One is enough! "
Those were Huangpu Shiyi's own words.
After that, he began his cruel training in all kinds of crazy ways.
Li Yao was training his hand speed and senses with the Purple Ring Sword Ants. Huangpu Shiyi, on the other hand, had found a world fragment where the spiritual energy of thunder was intense. He was training himself in the middle of a thunderstorm, trying to attract the thunder and lightning into his hands so that he could trigger the most primitive potential in the cells of his hands!
Unfortunately, he was mentally deranged in an accident and his hands were crippled.
The Heavenly Talent of his generation immediately became the biggest joke in the circle of refiners. He fell into the dark abyss forever before he really rose to power!
Later, it was said that, in order to find a cure for his hands, he went to the Ten Thousand Square Space Zone at the edge of the Flying Star Sector. But his starship was destroyed in a cosmic storm, and he was buried in the sea of stars.
A genius of his generation had passed away like a shooting star, leaving only the title of 'crazy, arrogant, and genius'!
But it never occurred to them that the genius who should have been buried in the sea of stars for more than twenty years would appear in the Skyhill Sword Seminar again in front of Li Yao and Huangpu Xiaoya!
Huangpu Shiyi, who had been through a lot, did not have the slightest arrogance or craziness on his face anymore. He was like a gentle middle-aged teacher now. He smiled and said, "Xiaoya. When I set off to the Ten Thousand Square Space Zone, you were just born. I didn't expect that you would grow up in the blink of an eye and be qualified to represent the Huangpu family in the Skyhill Sword Seminar! I've often studied your refining videos, and I've seen your strength. Your strength is almost the same as mine when I was a kid!
"My young friend Li Yao, you are the greatest surprise that I've found in the Skyhill Sword Seminar! Your hands are supersonic, you are carving chips with human flesh, you are enduring unbearable pain, and you are training your hand speed and senses with Purple Ring Sword Ants! Crazy. Truly crazy! I seem to see my old self in you again! You and I are the same kind of people. The same kind of refiners! "
There was intense confusion on Li Yao's face. He mumbled, "What is this all about?"
Before the sixth word left his mouth, Li Yao's temperament had undergone a drastic change.
A moment ago, he was still ignorant. But the next moment, he was jumping up like a cheetah and showing his sharpness!
Two sonic booms were echoing below his feet. Every muscle on Li Yao's body was constricted to the minimum. He turned into a streak of brightness. He lunged at Huangpu Shiyi like a saber that had been unsheathed.
In the meantime … An unstoppable white brilliance appeared on his left arm and spread to his entire left arm. It turned out to be a sharp saber that was as thin as a cicada's wing!
As quiet as a paralyzed virgin and as moving as a rabid hare, Li Yao attacked without hesitation. Without any hesitation!
But Huangpu Shiyi seemed to have foreseen that he would launch an attack. He was smiling without any panic.
A cluster of weird waves popped up in front of him. The air seemed to have turned into a swamp, which slowed down Li Yao's speed.
In the blink of an eye, Huangpu Shiyi was standing right next to him. Two figures, one black and one white, showed up abruptly.
The woman on the left was extraordinarily long. Her neck was twice as long as normal people's, and her skin was as dark as coal.
The man on the right, on the other hand, was short and fat. His skin was so white that it was almost transparent.
The two of them roared at the same time and stood in front of Huangpu Shiyi, blocking Li Yao's fatal attack easily.
Li Yao was emotionless, and his eyes were cold. Seeing that his attack had failed, he turned around like a tornado and retreated to a corner. He held the middle finger and the index finger of his right hand close to the spiritual root on his forehead, while he mumbled to himself.
Streaks of brilliance flashed out of his body and gradually condensed into the prototype of a suit of armor.
He was summoning the Crystal Suit!
It was a pity that he was too slow. Before the Crystal Suit was fully summoned, the woman with the long neck had already blinked to his front and whipped his abdomen brutally with her long legs!
BAM!
Iron rings were attached to the woman's legs. They seemed to be some sort of aggressive magical equipment. Dazzling brilliance was emitting out of them as they flooded into Li Yao's abdomen.
Li Yao's eyes suddenly bulged out. The summoning was interrupted. The components of the Crystal Suit that had been summoned fell to the ground in spluttering noises. They turned out to be an 'Eight-Armed Crystal Suit' refined by the Silver Heart School that boasted both battle and maintenance functions!
Li Yao made a retching sound in his throat as he collapsed powerlessly.
The woman's killing intent erupted like a volcano. She cackled like a night owl. A black, shining blade popped out of her boot and slashed at Li Yao's carotid artery in a shriek!
Li Yao put on the most terrified expression, but his legs were too weak for him to react.
Seeing that the blade was about to cut the artery, Huangpu Shiyi coughed softly.
A trace of mockery appeared in the eyes of the charcoal woman. She withdrew the blade in an instant and took the opportunity to kick Li Yao in the chest.
Li Yao screamed miserably and rolled into a corner like a gourd.
From the moment Li Yao jumped up to the moment he rolled to the corner, the whole process took only five seconds.
Huangpu Xiaoya was almost dazed by the scene.
Her eyes glanced at the woman and the fatty for a moment, before she shivered again and shouted in shock, "Black Stone! White Dew! The two most famous freelance Exos of the Tianxiang Space Zone five years ago! Weren't you assassinated by Spider's Thorn a long time ago? "
The woman's name was not Black Stone, but White Dew.
The short fatty, who was fair and noisy, was actually Black Stone.
White Dew and Black Stone smiled. They returned to Huangpu Shiyi's side and stood in silence.
Li Yao was cramping and breathing heavily. His hands were on the ground. He breathed heavily for a long time, before he spat out a mouthful of saliva mixed with blood. He glared at Huangpu Shiyi and asked hoarsely, "When did you realize that I was not hypnotized?
"I knew from the very beginning that you would not be hypnotized."
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