"I seem to have used too much strength."
The brand-new appearance was the result of Li Yao's meditation day and night on the spiritual seed that Iron God Yan Ba taught him and the savagery of the ferocious beasts from billions of years ago. His aura was gradually changing and polishing.
However, he looked more like a ferocious beast in the shape of a human being!
The Iron Plateau natives were not primitive barbarians. They were highly civilized. Li Yao's acting skills might have been a bit too much.
But on second thought, it was not a bad thing.
Instead of pretending to be a qi-trainer, who would confess his identity after a few words, he might as well pretend to be a barbarian who had wandered in the desert for years.
There were many dangerous plants in the desert that could destroy one's vocal cords and make it impossible for them to speak.
The venom of many demon beasts could degenerate one's nerves and deprive them of the ability to speak, too.
It was only natural that he would not be able to speak after struggling alone in the Wasteland for ten to twenty years.
Of course, there were a lot of suspicious points about such an identity, but it was much better than pretending to be a half-baked qi-trainer. After all, he knew nothing about the rules of the qi-trainers, and he would be exposed after a few rounds of questioning.
Now, he could only take one step at a time.
Li Yao planned to march toward the direction where the smoke was thinner and thinner.
He believed that it should be a small settlement of Qi Practitioners, and there shouldn't be too many experts in it.
After he reached the settlement, he would be able to observe the qi-trainers' reactions to his new identity and collect more intelligence, especially about the big city where countless smoke pillars were floating.
After he collected enough intelligence and confirmed that the qi-trainers in the big city would not be as agitated as the Burning Sun Tribe, it would not be too late for him to make further plans.
After he made up his mind, Li Yao turned off the light beam on the mirror and returned it to his Cosmos Ring together with his mini crystal processor.
It was the last time that he would use his Cosmos Ring.
That night, he was like a wild beast. He found a crevice on the meteorite mountain to hide himself. He released Neltharion to the treetops on the mountaintop to monitor the environment.
Then, he half-closed his eyes and breathed in and out. He was perceiving the wild strength of the ferocious beasts from billions of years ago.
Tomorrow, he planned to enter a small village about eighty kilometers southwest of here.
According to the investigation of Neltharion during the day, the village was not large in scale and had a population of several hundred at most. It was unlikely that all of them were Qi Practitioners, so the danger should not be high.
Just as he was half-asleep from his meditation, he was awakened by an ear-piercing roar.
Neltharion had detected that a tank of True Qi was rushing close from the other side of the meteorite mountain!
"The pursuers of the Burning Sun Tribe?"
Li Yao quivered, and the hair on his body stood on end. He silently arched his back in the crevice.
The front limbs of the mantis demon beast had been polished to the point that they were faintly glowing. The surface of the limbs was also coated with a layer of venom squeezed out from the roots of the corrosive thorns, which was emitting a faint fishy smell.
Li Yao held the Mantis Saber in his hand. Through the perspective of Neltharion, he discovered that the True Qi tank came from a completely different direction from that of the Burning Sun Tribe, and its style was vastly different, too.
This type of True Qi tank was cruder and clumsier. It was embedded with the bones and shells of demon beasts. There was also a giant horn in front of the tank, which seemed to have been collected from the head of a rhino-type demon beast. It was not painted in the red of the Burning Sun Tribe, either, but dark black.
If … The True Qi tank of the Burning Sun Tribe was a burning leopard, then this type of True Qi tank was like an infuriated black bear!
Behind the True Qi tank, two exhaust pipes soared to the sky. They were more than three meters long, and they were spurting spiritual gas into the sky nonstop. Noise magical equipment seemed to have been installed on the openings of the exhaust pipes, which were letting out thunderous noises. It was just a single tank. But it sounded like an old-fashioned train running past!
The two exhaust pipes were also flagpoles. Two huge war flags fluttered in the wind.
On the flags was a hideous bear head that was biting a bloodstained saber.
"This is the emblem of the Furious Bears Union!" Li Yao mumbled to himself.
Like the Burning Sun Alliance, the Furious Bears Union was one of the six major sects of Heavenly Saints City. Its capability was even higher than that of the Burning Sun Alliance.
Last time, on the carrier of the Temple of Immortals, Huangpu Shiyi and the rest of them had asked their subordinates to pretend to be Exos of the Furious Bears Union to 'rescue' Li Yao, only to be seen through by him immediately.
"The emblem of the Burning Sun Tribe is the same as that of the Burning Sun Alliance. Right now, the emblem of the Furious Bears Union has appeared on this True Qi tank. Things are getting more and more interesting!"
With a closer look, Li Yao discovered that the guy who was sitting on the iron beast more than six meters long and activating his spiritual gas nonstop was a young man around twelve years old.
His body was a bit thin, but his face was rather brutal. He was wearing a mottled bear fur on his head, and two pieces of armor made of bear paws were hanging on his shoulders. The claws and teeth were glittering.
On the left side of the tank was a saber, and on the right side of the tank was a long-handled hammer that was even larger than the man himself. Clanging noises were echoing and sparks were being raised as the tank rushed forward.
There was no one behind the young man, there wasn't a second Qi Practitioner behind him. He was all alone in the middle of the night, galloping through the perilous wilderness!
Something seemed to be chasing the young man in the desert behind him. A long dragon rose from the sand, before it collapsed and turned into a ravine several meters deep, as if the sand down there had been dug up by something.
"Chi!"
Driving the True Qi tank, the young man drew an arc of smoke in the air. After taking a big turn, he accelerated at full speed and charged at the thing that had been chasing him relentlessly from where he had come!
"BOOM!"
A black shadow suddenly dashed out of the sand in front of the young man. Its two pincers were more than one meter long, and its tail was thicker than Li Yao's waist. There was a shining, venomous needle at the tip of the tail!
"Emperor Sand Scorpion!"
Li Yao's face changed color.
It was one of the most brutal demon beasts that he had ever encountered on Iron Plateau.
Its armor was as hard as iron and invulnerable. The venomous needle on its tail could be darted out. As long as it scratched the skin of the target, the target would be completely paralyzed in three seconds.
The pincers were so powerful that they could even block the vibration saber easily. Also, it boasted the ability to move stealthily in the sand. Its speed was unbelievably high, too!
The only weakness of the Emperor Sand Scorpion was that when the venomous needle on its tail was darted out, a gap would be opened in the middle of its shell. The fatal core of the Emperor Sand Scorpion would be exposed.
It was a valuable lesson that Li Yao had learned from the serious damage of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit.
Even Li Yao did not dare mess with the Emperor Sand Scorpion easily, but the young man was charging at it head-on. After a huge explosion, Li Yao heard. The horn at the front of the True Qi tank pierced into the shell of the Emperor Sand Scorpion and knocked it to the ground!
The moment before the collision, the young man had leapt high with his saber and his long-handled hammer. Spiritual gas was surging out of his body. He landed on the abdomen of the Emperor Sand Scorpion agilely. He put the saber behind his back and smashed the hammer at the abdomen of the Emperor Sand Scorpion brutally!
"Are you kidding me? He is only thirteen years old, and he has already reached the tenth level of the Refinement Stage? What kind of monster is he? "
Li Yao's eyes were bulging out. He almost exclaimed in shock.
The young man's smooth movements ended with splashing sparks and earsplitting noises. The shell of the Emperor Sand Scorpion's abdomen was extremely solid, too. It looked like multiple shields had been welded together. It was not something that could be smashed by a single hammer.
In the blink of an eye, the young man was thrown to the ground by the Emperor Sand Scorpion. The fierce battle raised a sandstorm and enshrouded the man and the beast.
In less than three minutes, the young man's long-handled hammer was tossed out of the sand. Then, he flew out of the sand like a kite whose string had been cut. Before he hit the ground, he had already grabbed his saber. He stared at his opponent fiercely.
The young man had turned into a man of blood.
There were wounds all over his body. There was not a single part of his body that was still intact. The wound on his left shoulder was so deep that his bones could be seen. He had nearly lost his entire left arm. With such a serious injury, even an adult cultivator in the starry skies might not have been able to withstand it. Yet, the youth's expression didn't change, and his two thick eyebrows arched. His eyebrows were about to crash into each other!
Li Yao secretly cursed. He slid forward silently like a viper slithering in a crevice.
"I am Wu Mayan of the Furious Bears Tribe! I am Xiong Wuji's foster son! I am a real warrior of Iron Plateau! I'm not one of those cowards, cowards, and cowards in the heavens! Let's fight, you stinking bug! "
The young man waved his saber and shouted. His voice was trembling, as if he had been greatly wronged. His mood was very unstable and he could cry at any time.
Li Yao pondered the young man's words. So, the Furious Bears Tribe was really related to the Furious Bears Union?
He did not slow down when he was thinking, nor did he speed up when the young man lost control of his emotions, his saber techniques, or his bleeding.
It was because the Emperor Sand Scorpion was highly vigilant. It would notice even the tiniest trace. Once it snuck into the ground and started hunting, Li Yao was not confident that he could retreat in one piece, much less rescue the young man.
The young man's blood zigzagged on the saber, almost dyeing the blade red. With a roar, he charged into the sandstorm again, but ten seconds later, he was bounced off. With a crisp sound, even the saber was broken into two pieces!
The Emperor Sand Scorpion dashed out of the sand and lunged at the young man, too!
Right when it raised its tail high and shot out a venomous needle, Li Yao dashed out of the darkness like a flash of lightning!
The mantis saber in his left hand darted at the venomous needle and knocked it away from the young man's heart. The bone hammer in his right hand smashed the Emperor Sand Scorpion's head into pieces immediately, leaving only half of its thigh bone in his hand, which looked like a hollow dagger.
"Shua!"
The 'dagger' pierced into the only gap on the Emperor Sand Scorpion's shell precisely and into the venom gland at the center of its body.
"Chi!"
A stream of dark green venom shot out from the hollow thigh bone and exploded in the air like a foul-smelling fountain.
He realized that the Old Cow had set a trap for him.
Before, he could ask for tickets confidently when he was only watching two or three.
But recently, he had been watching three. He was too embarrassed to ask for tickets now. Hahahaha.
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