"It seems that you are very interested in my personal collection. This is a model of the Black Spot Ants' nest. It is very delicate, like a cluster of silver coral, isn't it? "
Huangpu Shiyi held the model of the ant nest in his hands carefully and touched it softly. With a fascinated expression, he introduced, "The Black Spot Ants are the architects of ants. They can build enormous, complicated, maze-like caves deep below the ground. One ant nest can contain tens of thousands of ants, which is dozens of times more than a common ant nest. Such a splendid ant ant nest is indeed a piece of art.
"However, the Black Spot Ants prefer to build their nests in dry, soft soil. The structures of the pathways are very delicate, too. The slightest force from the outside world can cause the collapse of part of the ant nest.
"Do you want to know how human beings studied the ant nest of the Black Spot Ants and how they created the most perfect model of the ant nest without any flaws?
"It's very simple.
"Heat the aluminum and melt it into liquid. Find the entrance of the ant nest and pour the liquid aluminum into it. Naturally, the liquid aluminum will permeate every corner of the ant nest.
"After the liquid aluminum cools down and turns into a solid entity, it is plucked out as a whole. The result will be what you see right now. Delicate, perfect, and glittering. It will be immortal after thousands of years. To some extent, it will be 'immortal'!
"As for the tens of thousands of Black Spot Ants inside the ant nest, they were naturally melted by the liquid aluminum and vanished into thin air, never to be reincarnated.
"I bought the anthill from a female student of Flying Star University on the Spiritual Nexus."
"I investigated the girl carefully and discovered that she was kind, naive, and diligent.
"She used to be an ordinary girl from a remote village at the edge of the Flying Star Sector. Her parents were farmers, and her mother was sick in bed all year round. With her amazing determination, she took care of her mother and worked to support the family. She also studied and trained herself. Under such difficult circumstances, her spiritual root was awakened. She was admitted to Flying Star University.
"She was still very hardworking in college. She got a full scholarship every year, although her family was not very well-off, either. But she still donated most of her scholarship to help those who were in more difficult situations than her.
"Even the model of the ant nest was sold on the Spiritual Nexus in order to raise a sum of money for the medical expenses of a child in her hometown who was suffering from a serious heart disease.
"In her hometown. All the villagers said. Such a young lady is simply a fairy that has descended to the mortal world! "
"My young friend Li Yao, do you think this little girl is an immortal or a devil to the black-spotted ants?"
Li Yao was silent.
Huangpu Shiyi bent down, and a smiling face approached from behind the desk. He said briskly, "It doesn't matter if it's an immortal or a devil, because the way the black-spotted ants convey information is nothing more than waving their antennae."
"Even if there was a black-spotted ant right in front of this little girl, it would use its shrill voice to shout 'You are a demon who destroyed my home and killed all my family members!' You and I are irreconcilable. I will use my life to take revenge on you! "
"But. From this little girl's point of view, it's nothing more than an ant waving its antennae. "
"In fact, if the little girl hadn't used a magnifying glass and stared at the Black Spot Ant attentively, she might not have even seen the movement of its antennae!"
Huangpu Shiyi sat back and stared at Li Yao with a smile.
To his disappointment, Li Yao was emotionless. He turned his eyes to the monkey specimen and asked, "What's this?"
Huangpu Shiyi put the model of the ant nest back and picked up the monkey specimen. He touched the monkey's head and said casually, "The Brown-Tailed Golden Monkey is one of the most common species of monkeys. It is widely distributed in the Flying Star Sector. You can find traces of it in many world fragments.
"Back in the era of the Star Ocean Imperium, the research-type Cultivators began to explore the mysteries of genes. Do you know what genes are?"
Li Yao nodded. "I do."
"According to the legends, the ancestors of human beings were all great experts in the primeval age who had successfully trained themselves. For example, tyrannosaurus rex, megalodon shark, emperor crocodile, eight-armed gold ape, and so on!
"Even though these almighties possessed extraordinary abilities, under the erosion of time and the attacks of countless Heavenly Tribulations, they had all reached the end of the road, one after another, to extinction."
"Before they went extinct, they condensed the quintessence of their species' telepathic thoughts and mysteries into information streams with their unparalleled techniques and sent it into the body of their chosen inheritors!
"Such information is known as' genetic information '.
"Human beings are the descendants of countless great experts in the primeval age. Therefore, our cells contain the genetic information condensed by the great experts, too.
"The genetic information is like mysterious helical chains that hide thousands of mysteries. They weave into our life and our soul.
"Genetic information is both the foundation of our life and the cause and effect that we bear.
"Foundation, cause and effect. Therefore, the chains of genetic information deep inside the cells are also known as' gene chains'!"
Huangpu Shiyi nodded in satisfaction. "Excellent. You have a comprehensive understanding of the definition of genes! But do you know the difference between the genes of human beings and monkeys according to the latest conclusion of the specialists of the Flying Star Sector? "
Li Yao raised his eyebrow.
Huangpu Shiyi smiled and extended two fingers. "Two percent.
"There are many species of monkeys. Some of them have genes that are more than three percent different from those of human beings. Some of the smarter monkeys can even pick up nuts with simple tools in their natural environment. Their genes are only 1.7 percent different from those of human beings. On average, the genetic difference between the monkeys and human beings is two percent!"
Li Yao asked, "So?"
Huangpu Shiyi's smile turned extremely hideous. He said, one word after another, "Do you want to know how big the genetic difference between an ordinary person and a Cultivator is?"
Li Yao's eyes narrowed into two glittering lines.
Huangpu Shiyi did not give him the answer. He sniffed and stroked the monkey's head. "The most important thing for a Cultivator is to find your true self and know what kind of existence you are in the vast, dark universe! I put the two personal collections on my desk and see them every day when I work. I always learn a lot of new things.
"Li Yao, I'm really happy. It's been so many days. You've been immersed in the game that I prepared carefully.
"The game was prepared for Huangpu Xiaoya, but you have brought me a bigger surprise. You have cracked so many crystal cameras and bugs in half of the time that I expected!"
"I can tell from your face. I can tell that you and I are exactly the same kind of people. We are both born for magical equipment. Magical equipment is our entire world, our universe, and our sea of stars! "
"Come on. Join the Temple of Immortals. Become an Immortal Cultivator. I really appreciate you. I'm willing to recruit you as my first disciple. Maybe, you will be my only disciple. You will receive all my knowledge! "
Weird brilliance beamed out of Huangpu Shiyi's eyes. He extended his withered hands to Li Yao.
Li Yao glanced at his hands and suddenly sneered in disdain. His face gradually turned crazy and arrogant. He said, "Huangpu Shiyi, you're right. I don't care whether I'm an Immortal Cultivator or an Immortal Cultivator. The death of the ordinary people I don't know has nothing to do with me, either!
"My dream is to become the best refiner in the universe and refine the most terrifying, violent, and overwhelming magical equipment. I want everyone in the sea of stars to hear the name of Li Yao! I want every star in the sky to tremble because of the brilliance of my magical equipment!
"However, no matter how proficient you are in theory, with those two hands of yours, what qualifications do you have to be my master?"
Huangpu Shiyi's pupils constricted violently.
Li Yao suddenly changed the topic and said, "Unless, as your 'master', you show me your skills first and prove your capability!"
Huangpu Shiyi chuckled. "The shuttle that fooled you is not enough proof?"
"That's not enough. It's far from enough!"
Li Yao said, "Besides, you want me to switch sides and betray the Cultivators. Chances are that I will be hunted by the entire world of Cultivators in the future. I will not be able to enjoy the cheers and admiration of thousands of people anymore. You have to pay me a deposit first, don't you think?
"I'm not a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy who can be fooled by you with some scrap metal or a monkey specimen with a few words of bullsh * t."
"At the edge of the cosmos where I grew up, even half a tank of purified water from urine or a tank of artificial air had to be exchanged with real money. The fancy words that you said just now mean absolutely nothing to me!"
Huangpu Shiyi tapped the workbench. "It won't be long before the Immortal Cultivators arrive in front of the mortals openly. Billions of people will kneel before our feet and worship us! You can get as many people to cheer for you as you want! "
"However, it's understandable that you don't believe me. So, tell me. What kind of deposit do you want?"
Li Yao licked his lips and put on a greedy face. "You showed me and Huangpu Xiaoya the picture of the explosion in the Skyhill Domain. Judging from the picture, the serial explosions took place in more than ten locations at the same time. The damage was quite high!
"I thought that, although there were not many Core Formation Stage Cultivators in the Skyhill Domain, the security would be higher than usual during the Skyhill Sword Seminar after all!
"You were able to sneak into the security circle and plant bombs right under the noses of the Core Formation Stage Cultivators. The number of bombs you planted couldn't have been too many, and they couldn't have been too large.
"Therefore, you boasted several kinds of bombs that were small in size but very powerful.
"In the meantime, there was an expert of explosives among you who knew how to set up the bombs in order to trigger the most destructive power. He even took advantage of the fatal structural weakness of the environment to increase the damage dozens of times! With just a few bombs, the two floating mountains were destroyed! "
"If my guess is correct, the expert of explosives was you, wasn't it?"
Huangpu Shiyi burst into laughter and said proudly, "Yes. I've always believed that crystal bombs are the most powerful magical equipment. Their infinite damage can be fully unleashed within a moment. Even experts multiple times stronger than myself can be killed easily within a breath!
"Don't look at me like that. I'm not a battle-type Cultivator.
"However, thousands of experts have been killed by the crystal bombs that I refined!"
Weird brilliance was beaming out of Li Yao's eyes. He said impatiently, "That's what I've been thinking since I was a kid! Crystal bombs are the most powerful magical equipment! Therefore, teach me all the techniques you know to craft crystal bombs! "
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I'm sorry. I've been tense for a week. Today, I'm finally relaxed. I've been lying in bed for a whole day.
But I'm sure that I'll be done in two days, no matter how late it is. (To be continued)
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