Huangpu Shiyi's attention was completely attracted by Li Yao's words. When he was young, he had been as arrogant and proud as Li Yao at this moment. However, after his hands were crippled, he had tasted all the sufferings of the human world and experienced all the changes in the world. Therefore, his temper was slightly toned down.
But deep down, he was an absolutely arrogant man, too!
Furious flames were burning in Huangpu Shiyi's eyes. He said, "It's my fault that I didn't show my real skills in front of you for so many days. I didn't expect that you would want to challenge me! You want me to worship you as my master? Good boy. I like your arrogance, but I don't know if you are qualified to be arrogant! "
Li Yao rolled his eyes and said, "Worship me as your master? That's just an empty promise. How about this? Tomorrow, we will each present ten techniques and have a duel!"
Huangpu Shiyi narrowed his eyes. "A duel?"
Li Yao licked his lips. "Yes. I know that you didn't teach me the real essence of crystal bombs. Also, as the most distinguished heir of the Huangpu family thirty years ago, you must have a lot of knowledge about the refinement of sabers and swords, too! You can pick ten divine abilities from here and condense them into a jade slip. "
"Of course, I will also present ten techniques into a jade chip and give them to somebody else tomorrow. Say, Black Stone or White Dew. They will be the stakes of the duel!
"Don't look at me like that. You seem to be the one who has been taken advantage of.
"You and I both know that you have been teaching me these days. But in fact, we are exchanging techniques. Also, the techniques that I give to you are more valuable!
"But I don't care. Do you know why? Because in my mind, there are even more profound divine abilities! "
"You should know that I was born at the edge of the cosmos. I was taught by an eccentric. I also had other adventures. More or less, I inherited a lot of techniques, too.
"It's a pity. When I was seventeen, for half a bottle of fresh air, I had a fight. I got into a fight with someone and accidentally killed a family of five. In the end, that old bastard found out and he didn't even give me a chance to explain. He turned hostile and tried to kill me on the spot. Hmph, hmph, fortunately, I was prepared. I secretly cultivated a martial skill and killed that old bastard instead! "
"It's a pity that without that old bastard's help, I can't analyze those too profound divine abilities with my intelligence. I can only memorize it! "
"Dammit! If I knew this would happen, I would have definitely not allowed that old bastard to die so easily. We must tear him into a thousand pieces and grind his bones to dust! "
Li Yao gnashed his teeth, his face twisted.
Huangpu Shiyi sneered in his heart after hearing that. Killing someone on the spot in a fight can be considered an accident, but killing a family of five can be considered an accident. This was a deliberate extermination! The guy was indeed vicious and merciless. No wonder he was the one-armed man on the Spiritual Nexus. He would've seen through his nature and wanted to eliminate the bastard as soon as possible!
"However, the eccentric man was probably a pure refiner. How could he have been a match for Li Yao with only a few pieces of attack magical equipment? Instead, he was killed by him!
"This Li Yao, without the enlightenment of his master, of course couldn't have grasped many of the advanced techniques! He must have participated in the Skyhill Sword Seminar because he wanted to distinguish himself and attract more attention so that he could be enlightened by experts to crack the techniques, right? "
At this moment, Huangpu Shiyi's confusion was finally resolved. He knew that Li Yao had shared the techniques with him so generously because there were more advanced techniques in his head that Li Yao couldn't analyze on his own. He had to find a top-tier expert to analyze them with him.
In that case, wouldn't he be a top-tier expert himself?
Huangpu Shiyi swallowed. His eyes beaming, he asked, "What are the techniques?"
Li Yao pondered for a moment and replied, "There are three ancient methods that can be used to analyze the Dragon Elephant Hermit Algorithm. They are one third faster than the common methods. But the three ancient methods are all incomplete. I can't infer the whole process on my own.
"There is also a technique that can transform the Blue Clouds Purple Glow Array into seven variants and increase the power of the array by more than four times! There are also two critical points that I haven't figured out yet!
"The other dozens of techniques are the same. I've studied them for five years, but I haven't made any progress. I can only say that I'm not strong enough to do it on my own. I have to find someone to cooperate with.
"However, of course, I don't want to share the techniques with any random Tom, Dick, or Harry. I have two conditions.
"Firstly, the other party has to be very good at both theoretical knowledge and practical skills. Secondly, the other party has to share a lot of techniques with me, too!
"I'm not an idiot. Why would I share my techniques for free? Even if I can't analyze the techniques, I'd rather let them rot together with my head than share them with anybody else if they don't bring me any benefits!
"The reason why I haven't agreed to become your disciple is because your hands are too useless. You definitely won't be able to cultivate with me for a long time."
"However, I didn't know that there was such a thing as switching hands. That's not a problem at all! If you had told me about such a secret art earlier, chances are that I would've seriously considered becoming your disciple a long time ago!
"How about it? I'll give you ten of the techniques that I mentioned just now and store them in a jade chip. I'll ask Black Stone and White Dew to keep them safe. Of course, you are free to check them in advance. I guarantee that there won't be any problem.
"Then, we will have a great battle. If you win, I will be your disciple willingly. The ten techniques will be my gift to you!
"If I win, I don't want you to be my disciple. I only want your ten techniques. We can call each other fellow Cultivators in the Temple of Immortals from now on!"
Huangpu Shiyi's eyes were rolling quickly. The techniques that Li Yao had presented over the past few days were already tempting enough. He didn't know that there were so many techniques that were far more advanced in his head.
As a fanatical refiner, he couldn't find any reason to turn down Li Yao's offer.
Chuckling, Huangpu Shiyi said, "So, you still want to take advantage of me. You don't want to be my disciple, and you want to take away my techniques! But you have to win against me. Your chances are slim! If you unfortunately lose, you won't regret it, will you? "
Brilliance beamed out of Li Yao's eyes. One of his lancets suddenly disappeared. Instead, it turned into a streak of silver light and quickly circled around his finger.
Blood immediately spurted out.
Li Yao snapped his fingers and drew a complicated rune with his blood as the ink in midair.
While he was drawing the rune, he declared resolutely, "With the blood on my fingertip as my witness, at this time tomorrow. Li Yao and Huangpu Shiyi will have the arts of refining as our battlefield. If I lose the battle, I will be Huangpu Shiyi's disciple on the spot! If I break the oath, I will be haunted by the devil in my heart forever. If my hands tremble all day long, I will never be able to refine a piece of qualified magical equipment!
"Blood Oath of the Devil in the Heart, receive!"
Li Yao pressed down hard. He opened his mouth. The bloody rune condensed in midair immediately turned into a streak of redness and dashed into his mouth.
Li Yao shuddered. Redness beamed out of his eyes.
The expressions of Huangpu Shiyi, Black Stone, and White Dew all changed.
The 'Blood Oath of the Devil in the Heart' was a common swearing technique used by both Cultivators and Immortal Cultivators.
However, it was not as exaggerated as described in the ancient classics. Those who broke the oath would have their oath fulfilled 100% of the time.
The mechanism of the oath seemed to be a special psychological suggestion, which was why Li Yao had made such a vicious oath. If he violated it, his hands would not really tremble all the time in the future, but this "inner demon" would indeed linger in his brain for a long time. When he was refining, his hands would occasionally tremble slightly, which would slightly reduce his success rate.
The shortest period would be a year and a half. The longest period would be three to five years. Nobody knew how long the devil would bother him.
Huangpu Shiyi thought from another perspective. If it were him, he would not be willing to lower the success rate of refining from 80% to 79%!
"This silly boy is indeed sincere!"
Huangpu Shiyi was almost touched by Li Yao's vicious oath.
Li Yao had been so arrogant since the very beginning. He had even declared that he would be Huangpu Shiyi's master. In the eyes of the righteous Cultivators, it was absolutely intolerable.
But in the eyes of Huangpu Shiyi, an Immortal Cultivator, it was quite normal.
The Immortal Cultivators believed that every man for himself, and the devil took the hindmost. The Immortal Cultivators in the Temple of Immortals were full of cruel competitions, too. Was there any warmth between a master and a disciple?
Many disciples, before they learned anything, were loyal and filial. Their faces were full of smiles, and they wished they could be a lapdog at their master's feet.
But when they grew wings and grasped techniques, and their master was in dire straits due to bad luck, they would not feel sorry for their master if they turned on their master right away.
Moreover, there were even some that plotted in the dark, harbored evil intentions behind their backs with honeyed words, and silently put their master to death and took all of his master's inheritance for themselves!
Huangpu Shiyi would never dare to recruit such a disciple.
It was also the reason why he had never recruited a disciple or an experiment assistant after twenty years in the Temple of Immortals.
It was because his hands were too useless. He was afraid that a capable disciple might harm him one day.
But Li Yao, this silly kid, don't look at how arrogant his mouth is. Doesn't this prove that he has no ulterior motives? If he had other plans, he wouldn't have been so arrogant. It was as if he was afraid that he would be infuriated!
Instead of recruiting a hypocrite who was always scheming against each other, he would rather recruit such a 'simple and adorable' crazy boy. Besides, there were so many techniques in the boy's head. After he got Huangpu Xiaoya's hands and dug out all the techniques in his head, his capability would be greatly improved. Chances were that he would be able to advance into the high level of the Core Formation Stage and become a real 'Jin Dan Refiner'.
By then, he would be able to do whatever he wanted in the Temple of Immortals. Who would he be scared of?
Thinking about that, Huangpu Shiyi burst into laughter. "Good! Good! Good! Thirty years ago, when I participated in the only Skyhill Sword Seminar, I crushed all my opponents. It was not difficult at all, and I was not interested in it at all!
"But this year, I interrupted your Skyhill Sword Seminar again. It is only reasonable that I make it up to you!
"Then, at this time tomorrow, let's have a special Skyhill Sword Seminar in the sea of stars!
"Let's see who will be the real king of the Skyhill Sword Seminar, the dominator who dominated the Skyhill Sword Seminar thirty years ago, and you, the strongest newcomer who distinguished yourself in the Skyhill Sword Seminar thirty years later!
"It's a deal! Tomorrow, at this time in the sea of stars, the Skyhill Sword Seminar! "
Li Yao took a long breath and walked to Huangpu Xiaoya. He drew a line on her elbow with the lancet and smiled at her casually. "I'll keep your hands for one more day."
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