With a firm belief and a clear path ahead, Li Yao did not seem to be at a loss anymore even though he was stranded on a perilous, alien planet all by himself. He retrieved all the items from his Cosmos Rings and counted them while he considered his next step of the plan.
The Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was first of all.
During the fierce battle against Fengyu Zhong, its chest had been pierced through by a spear, leaving a terrible hole. The two breastplates were completely useless.
Then, it had been hit by the blast from the planetary ring brutally. Thankfully, Li Yao had his back to the planetary ring at that time. Otherwise, the blast might have flooded in through the hole in his chest and smashed him into meat paste!
Right now, although his life was saved, the power rune arrays and the crystal reactor on the back of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit had been seriously damaged and had to undergo major maintenance in order to restore its combat ability.
Right now, the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit was no longer as majestic as it had been in the planetary ring. Shocking claw marks were left on the surface of the lackluster armor, as if it had been savaged by a ferocious beast.
Li Yao was quite shocked when he saw the claw marks.
They had been bitten by a terrifying demon beast lurking in the atmosphere when he fell into the atmosphere of Iron Plateau.
The atmosphere of Iron Plateau was like a thin layer of gray fog. Such demon beasts lurked in the gray fog and could blend themselves into the fog with camouflage. They were so fast that Li Yao could not see their full appearance clearly. Sometimes, more than ten of them appeared together and hunted in groups. They were quite tricky to deal with.
In order to escape from the demon beasts, Li Yao had exploited the last bit of potential of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit at the risk of disintegration in midair. He was lucky enough to escape.
The crystal reactor has to be replaced. More than half of the crystal processor has been blown up, too. I have to find a place for a thorough maintenance!
Li Yao scratched his head. Where could he find a place to repair the Crystal Suit in such a desolate, desolate place?
There were no Spiritual Towers floating in the space of the Iron Plateau Space Zone. There was no network in this area.
Something seemed to be hidden in the atmosphere of Iron Plateau, too. It was difficult to receive messages from the outside world, let alone send signals to the outside world.
This place was like a lone island in the middle of the vast sea of stars, completely isolated from the outside world.
Li Yao could only rely on his own strength. Only after he repaired the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit and became fearless of the flying demon beasts in the atmosphere would he be able to leave Iron Plateau.
However, even if they were to break out of Iron Plateau, the Iron Plateau Space Zone was a forbidden zone for Cultivators. There were no sailing routes at all. Very few starships came and went.
The Crystal Suit could be used for short-distance battles in the universe, but long-distance flying from one star field to another? That was a joke!
If that was the case, he would need a starship that could cross space zones. He wondered if such a thing existed on Iron Plateau.
Li Yao sighed, calmed his mind, and continued to check the rest of the items.
The good news was that there was no shortage of food and water.
He had plundered a lot of supplies from Fengyu Ming. In the past, no matter how difficult it was, he would rather go to the market to buy chive pancakes instead of using them. Now, he was finally rewarded. There was enough food for him to eat for several years.
He hadn't gone out to hunt the Iron Gravel Worm for food, but for the alloy that had been refined from its body.
The Iron Ore Worm was like a natural furnace for smelting steel. It could swallow all kinds of minerals and trigger complicated reactions inside its body. In the end, they would be transformed into super alloys that looked like pearls. They would be shot out as bullets.
After Li Yao discovered the weakness, he had risked hunting a few Iron Gravel Worms and collected a lot of alloy, hoping that it would be of help to his maintenance later.
Although there was enough food and water, the crystals inside Fengyu Ming's Cosmos Ring had been taken by Li Yao a long time ago. Half of them had been used for his training, and the other half had been refined into crystal bombs.
After a few rounds of consumption, especially when he had squandered a lot of them in the planetary ring, he had almost run out of crystal bombs. There were only a few left.
As for his weapon, the Boiled Blood Wind Slashing Saber had suffered the most serious damage after the head-on collision with Fengyu Zhong's Devil's Cry. Tiny cracks were everywhere on the surface and inside of the saber. If it was not refined in a hurry, it would completely collapse after another two or three heavy collisions.
Tiny cracks had appeared on the Purple Electric Blue Fire Claw, too. After it was condensed into a drill of mystic rays, its flames were much weaker than before.
Li Yao smiled in self-mockery. "I've run out of supplies!"
Two streaks of brightness, one black and the other red, suddenly flew out of his Cosmos Ring and hovered around him slowly.
While flying, the black streak was wagging its tail proudly, as if it were saying, "Look. I'm the most reliable one, aren't I?"
"Little Black, stop fooling around!"
Seeing the Black Wing Sword, Li Yao's mood finally improved a bit.
The mysterious flying sword that his father had passed on to him hadn't been of much use after he left the Tian Yuan Realm. It had only been installed on the back of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit so that it could boost the speed and agility of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit when necessary.
The sword seemed to be quite dissatisfied with such an arrangement. After it landed on Iron Plateau, it had been flying out on its own to beat Li Yao. Yes, Li Yao's head with the hilt of the sword. Li Yao couldn't have been more infuriated!
As for the red streak, it was' Neltharion ', a piece of magical equipment for starship piloting.
In such an unfamiliar environment as Iron Plateau, Neltharion was of great use because it was the best piece of reconnaissance magical equipment. As long as Li Yao attached part of his soul to Neltharion, he would be able to observe the surroundings from the perspective of Neltharion. It also boasted a certain degree of stealth ability. It could sneak into the air without anybody noticing and barely be discovered.
"Right now, you're the only ones who can keep me company."
Holding Black Wing in his hand, Li Yao waved the sword randomly. He seemed to have returned to the days five years ago when he and Little Black were struggling to survive in the magical equipment graveyard.
Recalling that he was just a penniless middle school student at that time, but he was full of hope for the future and dared to try his luck no matter how dangerous the road was, he couldn't help but feel proud.
"We've survived so many storms on our way. The prince of demons didn't kill me, and I drilled a hole in the body of an unparalleled deadly demon from forty thousand years ago! How can a tiny planet like Iron Plateau trap me?
"Come on! I will certainly repair the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit, find a starship, and get out of Iron Plateau! "
Right then, a piece of alarm magical equipment that he deployed deep inside the cave emitted feeble redness.
"They're here!"
Li Yao was refreshed. He put everything back into his Cosmos Ring and dashed out of the cave, leaving only Black Wing and Neltharion behind him.
When he reached the entrance of the cave, he threw a piece of the meat of the Iron Ore Worm to the corrosive thorns guarding the entrance. While the thorns were tearing the meat, he dashed to the highest point of the meteorite mountain.
"Neltharion, attack!"
Li Yao crouched in a cluster of weeds and tried to lower his body. He tied Neltharion with his soul.
After a moment of trance, a new vision popped up in his brain, as if Neltharion had become his' eyes'!
Swoosh!
Neltharion turned into a red line and flew out!
Li Yao did not dare fly Neltharion too high. Iron Plateau was a place hundreds of times more dangerous than the Grand Desolate Plateau. Flying too high in such a place would be suicide. Quite a few demon beasts here boasted keen anti-stealth abilities.
Therefore, Li Yao flew Neltharion to the southeast almost close to the ground until it reached the foot of another meteorite mountain. Then, he hid himself in the middle of a tree and stayed still.
Neltharion turned around and peeped at the southwest.
In such a way, even if somebody in the southwest noticed that they were spying, they would not be able to trace Li Yao's hiding place.
In a strange world, one could never be too cautious.
A fleet of carriages came aggressively from the southwest, stirring up sand and dust in the air like an earth dragon baring its fangs and brandishing its claws.
Every three days, this team of ten to twenty members would appear once to hunt in the Wasteland.
It was the most important reason why Li Yao had chosen the meteorite mountain as his hiding place.
He wanted to observe the natives of Iron Plateau closely.
Although he did not dare to let Neltharion get too close because he was worried that the enemy might have anti-stealth methods, he had collected some intelligence after so many days.
According to the files, a lot of demon beasts and primitive barbarians were living on the few habitable planets of the Flying Star Sector.
Now, it seemed that the demon beasts were real, but not necessarily the barbarians.
The natives of Iron Plateau might not be as civilized as the residents in space, but they knew how to drive tanks, and they used a lot of magical equipment when they hunted demon beasts. Also, they knew when to advance and when to retreat, and they cooperated with each other skillfully. They were definitely not barbarians but highly civilized.
They should be the 'qi-trainers' that Huangpu Xiaoya had mentioned.
Li Yao knew that 'qi-trainers' was another name for Cultivators in the ancient world of Cultivators forty thousand years ago. Many of the more elegant Cultivators called themselves qi-trainers.
But he had no idea what kind of people the qi-trainers on Iron Plateau were.
However, the wind and sand in the desert were too strong. Every time they showed up, they would raise a huge cloud of dust, which made it difficult for Li Yao to see them clearly.
Li Yao did not dare let Neltharion get too close to them, because he did not know whether or not the qi-trainers had any anti-stealth methods.
Li Yao moved his eyes away and studied the signals of spiritual waves sent back by Neltharion wholeheartedly.
These were converted into various parameters through the ripples in the air.
By analyzing the changes of the parameters, Li Yao could roughly estimate the intensity of a battle and the combat ability of the qi-trainers.
It was like judging the size of a stone thrown into the center of a pond by the strength of the ripples at the edge of the pond.
"These guys are only in the Refinement Stage."
Li Yao analyzed carefully. He then retrieved the analysis reports of the previous spies and studied them carefully.
He had observed six battles in total. Neltharion had never sensed that the spiritual gas in the air was liquefying, not even once.
From beginning to end, they did not unleash the capability of the Building Foundation Stage, not even when they were in danger.
"They are just a bunch of Refinement Stage Cultivators. Although they are battle-type, they are not that scary."
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