An hour later, Li Yao appeared at the foot of a magnificent meteorite mountain.
The meteorites that fell from space all had different origins. Some of them contained abundant spiritual energy and resources that could nourish living creatures. Therefore, they were often found here. The surrounding area was a desert, but the mountain at the center was a weird, lush mountain, like an oasis in the desert.
This' oasis', on the other hand, was full of dangers.
Li Yao dashed to the middle of the mountain after a few leaps. There was an inconspicuous gap in the middle of the bushes.
The shrubs next to the gap, on the other hand, were wriggling as if they were alive. A cluster of light gray thorns danced crazily like a hundred vipers. The front ends of the thorns cracked like petals, and dirty liquids flowed out. They hissed like the tongues of vipers.
Li Yao held his saber tightly and bellowed, "Do you want to die?"
The bramble shook for a while. It was unknown whether it had understood Li Yao's words or sensed his fierce killing intent, but it did not dare to entangle with Li Yao.
Li Yao raised his hand, and a piece of meat flew toward the thorns. It was immediately entangled by dozens of thorns and melted by the corrosive liquids. It was quite a feast for the thorns.
Li Yao took the opportunity to flash past the thorns and dashed into the gap behind them.
There was another world inside the gap. It was a cave that was neither large nor small.
Li Yao sprinkled the ashes and sand on the ground, making it clean and dry.
The cave was not large, and the spiritual energy was not abundant, either. There were several caves on the meteorite mountain that were better than this one.
What caught Li Yao's attention, however, were the corrosive thorns outside of the cave.
Such greedy carnivorous plants would not let go of an intruder. Also, when they entered the alert state, they would squeak. They were the best watchdogs.
Deep inside the cave, the thorns could not reach this place. Li Yao took off the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit and lay down, taking a long breath in relief.
Then, he suddenly jumped up. Unwilling to give up, he increased his spiritual energy again and used the Soul Ignition Technique to push his limits!
Boom!
In the depths of the cave, a glittering array glyph seemed to have appeared. Li Yao's body was surging with faint spiritual light!
"First level of the Refinement Stage! Fourth floor! Seventh Floor! "
"Ninth level of the Refinement Stage! The eleventh floor! The thirteenth floor! "
"Peak of the Refinement Stage!"
After breaking through to the peak of the Qi Refining Stage, the spiritual energy surrounding Li Yao's body had already reached its limit. The entire cave was immersed in a faint golden sea of light. Even the most ordinary of rocks were sparkling like demonic spirit diamonds.
However, just as the Spirit Qi was about to shrink … Just as he was about to enter the Liquefied Phase and enter the Building Foundation Stage, nine streams of black gas burst out from Li Yao's chest. They were connected head to tail and intertwined with each other like a sinister shackle, locking his heart firmly!
Li Yao groaned, his expression pained. Cold sweat poured down his forehead like a waterfall. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't condense his spiritual qi.
A moment later … Li Yao helplessly retreated his spiritual qi and maintained it at the level of the third level of the Refinement Stage with the Soul Converging Technique.
"The Black Spider Death Curse is truly creepy!"
Li Yao tore open his mustard-seed combat suit and observed his chest, only to discover nine black stripes on the left side of his chest. The stripes interweaved into a weird serial tattoo of nine snakes, which penetrated deep into his skin and flesh and tied up his heart.
Gently caressing the "tattoo", it was as if it was completely connected to his heart. Caressing it. If he touched it, his heart would be pounding, not to mention completely removing it.
Looking at the tattoo, Li Yao hesitated. He didn't know whether or not he should regret the battle a month ago.
Yes. When he learned that Storm Prison was ambushing the Great Horn Exo Society, an unstoppable idea had occurred to him.
Fengyu Zhong, the expert who had killed Jin Dan!
The reason was simple. Li Yao never believed that there were secrets in the world that could never be exposed.
Although he had killed Fengyu Ming secretly, there were too many coincidences between the beginning and the end.
Before, his capability was too low for other people to associate him with the incident.
But after he made a name for himself in the Skyhill Sword Seminar and made a name for himself in Heavenly Saints City, his capability would be exposed to the world sooner or later.
By then, with Fengyu Zhong's wisdom and the intelligence network of Black Spider Tower, he would definitely catch some traces.
Li Yao had never been a man who would wait to be killed.
He was also unwilling to watch an expert from Jin Dan making plans to deal with him in secret one day in the future while doing nothing.
The one who strikes first gains the upper hand, and the one who strikes later loses. Instead of waiting for Fengyu Zhong to discover the truth, he might as well kill the father and the son while they were still ignorant!
Li Yao hadn't known about the planetary ring before. He only knew that the Iron Plateau Space Zone was full of stone belts.
Therefore, his plan had been to hide in the stone belts and release all the crystal bombs that he carried with him during the chase so that the environment inside the stone belts would be disrupted and Fengyu Zhong would be delayed as much as possible.
He was betting that the reinforcements of the Cultivators would arrive in time and surround Fengyu Zhong to kill him!
The odds of success were slim, but how could a Building Foundation Stage Cultivator not try his best to kill a Jin Dan Cultivator?
When he discovered that the planetary ring around Iron Plateau was actually a piece of powerful defensive magical equipment, he changed his plan and decided to trigger the defensive magical equipment with the crystal bombs as the fuses!
In order to make Fengyu Zhong be fooled, he had even fought Fengyu Zhong head-on and been heavily wounded.
He had taken all the details into consideration.
However, he didn't expect that Fengyu Zhong's nose would be so keen that he would notice something wrong even though there were no loopholes. Therefore, Fengyu Zhong had escaped in advance.
Li Yao didn't expect that the blast after the planetary ring was detonated would be so powerful!
His original plan had been to hide inside the planetary ring and wait for reinforcements.
However, the blast had blown him into the range of gravity of Iron Plateau like a tsunami. The Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit had been seriously damaged and lost most of its momentum. Unable to break free, it had been forced to land on Iron Plateau.
After landing in a world that was even more dangerous than the Grand Desolate Plateau, the trickiest problem that Li Yao was faced with was not the brutal demon beasts. It was the Black Spider Death Curse that Su Jiuzhen had imposed on him with his soul before his death.
If this strange talisman had directly attacked his brain and wanted to kill him, he could have relied on Ou Yezi's Spiritual Energy to contend with it and eliminate it directly.
However, the Black Spider Death Curse seemed to have intelligence. However, it was as if it had a mind of its own. It could automatically adapt to the environment and evolve the most suitable attack pattern.
After an intense outbreak and almost being driven away by him, the curse knew that it was impossible to kill him. Therefore, it lurked near his heart and stabilized, turning into nine weird shackles.
The nine shackles were neither painful nor itchy in normal times. They didn't stop him from fighting, either. However, when he tried to liquefy his spiritual gas with the Soul Igniting Law and boost his capability to the Building Foundation Stage, the insidious strength would be triggered and stab into his heart at the critical moment!
He seemed to be restricted to the Refinement Stage by nine invisible shackles. Over the past month, no matter what he tried. He couldn't make a breakthrough no matter how he burned his soul power!
After another failed attempt, Li Yao was not too frustrated. He curled his lips and sat down against the wall of the cave, contemplating in silence.
Stubbornness was beaming out of his eyes. They were glittering and not dimming at all.
It's not necessarily a bad thing to be confined to the Refinement Stage by the Black Spider Death Curse!
He had awakened his spiritual root, become a Cultivator, and advanced to the high level of the Building Foundation Stage. Occasionally, he had the combat ability of the peak of the Building Foundation Stage. Everything had happened in less than five years.
To advance from an ordinary person to the high level of the Building Foundation Stage in five years. Such an appalling Cultivation speed was truly horrifying in the Tian Yuan Realm, the Flying Star Sector, the Star Ocean Imperium, and even the ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago!
It was not necessarily a good thing to have such a fast Cultivation speed. If he made a breakthrough in a hurry when his foundation was not solid enough, it might be harmful to his future Cultivation.
Ever since he stepped into the high level of the Building Foundation Stage, Li Yao had been at a loss on his path of Cultivation. He didn't know how to make further progress.
His hands were trained with the Purple Ring Sword Ants, and his body was tempered by the Thousand Tempering Hundred Tempering Hundred Times, but they were all making progress on a specific technique.
However, in terms of the overall level, he seemed to be trapped in a maze. He was walking on the same spot no matter how hard he tried.
From the beginning level to the middle level of the Building Foundation Stage, he had relied on the spiritual seed of Iron God Yan Ba, the old monster of the Yuanying.
From the middle level to the high level of the Building Foundation Stage, he had made a breakthrough in the space swirl during the True Fusion.
How should he proceed from here?
The Black Spider Death Curse and the heavy shackles might be of great help to him.
The Soul Burning Art that Li Yao practiced was named 'Soaring to the Sky in One Leap'. The basic meditation method was to imagine yourself as a proud eagle king who had been shackled in a valley since childhood and had never tasted the feeling of flying freely. All you could do was watch countless ordinary birds fly by above your head.
Just like that, fury, endurance, struggle, and hibernation, one day, you would finally break free from all the shackles and soar to the sky, becoming the king of the sky!
It was the essence of the Soul Burning Art's' Soaring to the Sky in One Leap '!
Wasn't Li Yao exactly an eagle king shackled in a valley right now? It was exactly the same as the Soul Burning Art.
"Perhaps, this is my opportunity!"
It took me four years to reach the high level of the Building Foundation Stage from an ordinary person. It was too fast, and my foundation was not solid enough!
If I had trained myself in the normal way, it might've taken me another four years to consolidate my level and foundation. Then, it would've taken me another twenty years to solidify my spiritual energy and enter the Core Formation Stage!
Forming the Core Formation Stage before the age of forty is already an unbelievably fast speed. It will only be possible if everything is smooth and perfect.
But I can't wait that long!
Five years! I have to form the Core Formation Stage successfully in five years. Only then will I be qualified to compete for planetary magical equipment and be qualified to return to the Tian Yuan Realm and participate in the final battle!
The battle against Fengyu Zhong, who was at the peak of the Core Formation Stage, made Li Yao realize how weak he was. Schemes, schemes, and schemes were all worthless in front of absolute strength.
It's not easy to form the Core Formation Stage in five years if I want to make a fortune through risky training!
Although the Black Spider Death Curse has suppressed my capability to the Refinement Stage for now, isn't it an opportunity for me to form the Core Formation Stage?
As long as I attack the Black Spider Death Curse with the Soul Burning Art's' Soaring to the Sky in One Leap ', I will eventually break it!
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