At eight o'clock in the evening, the visiting hours in the ICU came to an end.
Although Li Yao and Xue Yuanxin were both in the mood to talk through the night, Li Yao was still kicked out by the selfless nurse.
On the campus trail, Li Yao walked to the visiting scholars' dormitory under the guidance of Xie Anan.
"Thank you so much for today, Miss Xie Anan."
Li Yao smiled. "I'm sorry to have wasted a day of your time."
"You're being too polite. You saved me on Iron Plateau at the risk of your life. It's only my pleasure to spend a few days with you."
Xie Anan blushed.
For some reason, perhaps because he was her savior, Master Sand Scorpion gave her a very familiar and reliable feeling, as if they had known each other for a long time.
The ridiculous worries that she had before she picked him up in the morning had long been forgotten.
"You don't need to accompany me in the next few days. I have the mini crystal processor anyway. I'll get used to it sooner or later."
Li Yao knew that the students of Flying Star University were very diligent in their studies. It would be bad for their training if they wasted too much time on him.
While they were talking, he noticed that the girl was looking around anxiously. Li Yao found it strange. "Miss Xie Anan, do you have anything else to do tonight? If you do, you can go back now. After all, the visiting scholars' dormitory is right ahead. You can just drop me off here. "
"No, that's not it."
Blushing, Xie Anan waved her hands and said, "I'm fine. But can you wait for me for five minutes, Master Sand?"
Li Yao nodded, of course.
Xie Anan stood on her tiptoes. She looked around and found a small flowerbed in a corner. She squatted next to the flowerbed. She took out a small bag of fresh minced pork from her pocket.
Li Yao remembered that Xie Anan had asked the kitchen to fetch it for them when they had dinner in the hospital.
Cultivators had different eating habits. Some of the secret training arts required "blood food", which was to say, fresh ingredients that had not been cooked yet. Therefore, they were always prepared in the kitchen. Li Yao did not find it strange at that time.
Xie Anan sprinkled some fragrant powder on the grass. He then took out an antique wooden box from his waist and carefully opened it. It slowly tilted over the minced meat.
A dozen purplish-red ants immediately crawled out of the wooden box in groups.
Li Yao raised his eyebrows. "This is?"
Xie Anan poured out all the ants in the box. There were about twenty of them.
These ants had been starving for a long time, and as soon as they smelled the scent of flesh, they were starving. Immediately, they pounced on it and began to feast.
When the tiny ants ate, they made a "kacha kacha" sound. It was as if more than twenty iron pincers were opening and closing. It was extremely frightening.
Xie Anan observed the ants eating the meat carefully. Now and then, she extended one of her fingers and moved the scattered ants to the meat.
Her hand was very fast, and before the ant could bite her, she pulled her hand back.
"These are Purple Ring Sword Ants. I raised them to improve my hand speed. This thing was not easy to raise. It had to eat at this time every day. Otherwise, it would starve. I've already missed the feeding time at noon. So, I'm sorry. Ouch! "
Xie Anan raised her head and explained to Li Yao. She did not notice that a very large Purple Ring Sword Ant was caught off guard. He bit her hard between her thumb and forefinger.
The girl jumped to her feet because of the pain. She hissed and gasped. Her hand was shaking faster than a fan.
However, it was much better than the last time when Li Yao saw her being bitten by Purple Ring Sword Ants.
Last time, she had passed out with foam at the mouth.
Seeing that she was back to normal in only a few seconds, gritted her teeth, and squatted to fiddle with the Purple Ring Sword Ants again, Li Yao was even more surprised. He asked subconsciously, "Purple Ring Sword Ants? It must be very painful to be bitten, right? How did you come up with such a method for training? "
Xie Anan fiddled with the Purple Ring Sword Ants wholeheartedly. In less than three minutes, the minced meat was eaten up by the Purple Ring Sword Ants.
The Purple Ring Sword Ants, who were full, immediately turned hostile and fled in all directions.
However, the powder that Xie Anan had sprinkled in a circle had a natural restraining effect on the Purple Ring Sword Ants. Like an invisible barrier, it trapped the Purple Ring Sword Ants.
The Purple Ring Sword Ants, who had nowhere to run, were even more infuriated. They rubbed their teeth, producing noises of sabers and swords!
Xie Anan bulged her eyes without blinking. Her hands were as fast as lightning as she pinched the Purple Ring Sword Ants one after another and put them back into the wooden box.
"The bite is indeed very painful, but the improvement of my hand speed is obvious, too. My hand speed is now twice as fast as half a year ago!"
Xie Anan held her head high and said proudly, "This is a secret art that I learned from a super refiner. The refiner was the most awesome super genius that I've ever seen. He was also my idol. However, after the riot in the Temple of Immortals, he disappeared. Perhaps he has already perished."
As she spoke, the girl couldn't help but puff her cheeks, with regret written all over her face.
"Well …"
Rubbing his chin, Li Yao was deep in thought. "How many Purple Ring Sword Ants can you train with right now?"
"Thirteen!"
Xie Anan said proudly. Then she stuck her tongue out in embarrassment. "However, if I train with thirteen Purple Ring Sword Ants, I will be bitten every minute. Sometimes, I will be bitten by three or four Purple Ring Sword Ants at the same time. Hahahaha. If I'm really at ease, I can only count about eleven Purple Ring Sword Ants."
"Bitten by three or four Purple Ring Sword Ants at the same time?"
Li Yao was dazed. "Does it not hurt?"
"Of course it does!"
Xie Anan extended one of her fingers and let a Purple Ring Sword Ant crawl on it. Controlling the bouncing muscles and the flow of spiritual gas on her fingertip, she froze the Purple Ring Sword Ant inside like an invisible amber.
No matter how the Purple Ring Sword Ant waved its claws, it could not bite her finger at all.
Xie Anan placed the Purple Ring Sword Ant in front of her eyes and stared at the glittering bug in a purple armor. "However, this is what training is all about. It's either pain or exhaustion. How can you succeed in your training by eating and drinking in bed?
"However … Such a training method is too cruel. "
Li Yao was confused. "Miss Xie Anan. "Xie Anan, if my memory serves me right, you come from a noble family of refining. There must be a lot of secret arts in the Refining Department of Flying Star University, too. I'm afraid that your training will not be so painful.
"Why did you give up on those easy secret techniques and insist on cultivating such a cruel divine ability?"
Xie Anan flicked the last Purple Ring Sword Ant into the wooden box softly. Taking a long breath in relief, she sat down next to the flower bed. She opened her hands and said, "It can't be helped. Although I come from a noble family of refining, I've known since I was little that I was not very talented in refining.
"Let's not talk about Master Sand. Compared to Master Li Yao whom I met before, even compared to Sister Long Yunxin, and the brothers and sisters of my generation in the Xie family, my talent is the worst. "
"When we were little, we trained together. Many secret arts could be grasped by others as long as they were read aloud. But for me, even if I ate the entire crystal processor for three days and three nights, I might not be able to grasp them.
"That was my only advantage. I was hardworking and good at memorizing. When I was seven or eight years old, I had already memorized the entire 'Encyclopedia of Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures'.
"However, memorization can only help me get into Flying Star University at best.
"But when I got into the university … I realized that my classmates were all one-in-a-million geniuses. I was no match for them at all. No matter how hard I tried, I was always at the bottom of the class.
"Although … although nobody gave me any pressure, and even my family didn't have high expectations for me, and it would be fine as long as I could graduate smoothly and work as an ordinary refiner in the family business. But, I just couldn't reconcile myself to it!"
"Even if I can't dominate the Skyhill Sword Seminar like the genius refiner Li Yao, at the very least — at the very least, I want to participate in a Skyhill Sword Seminar like Sister Long Yunxin did. I want to experience the atmosphere of the competition in person and the heart-pounding feeling when I compete with the unparalleled experts on the same stage!"
"Training with Purple Ring Sword Ants is, of course, very painful. There are a lot of secret arts in the Refining Department that are safer, more reliable, and less painful.
"However, please don't laugh at me. Teacher Sand, I don't understand those secret techniques. Even if I force myself to cultivate them, the effect won't be great. The result of my ten days of cultivation can't even compare to those geniuses' one day of cultivation."
"But the training method of Purple Ring Sword Ants does not seem to require much brain work. As long as one can endure the pain, it will be fine. It is very suitable for idiots like me. Ha!
"After Li Yao rose to fame in the Skyhill Sword Seminar, many students in Flying Star University and Heavenly Saints Institute trained with Purple Ring Sword Ants. But as far as I know, I was the only idiot who persisted after half a year!
"Other people often laughed at me, or perhaps kindly reminded me, saying that the training method of Purple Ring Sword Ants only belonged to the unparalleled geniuses such as Li Yao and that an ordinary person like me was not suitable for such a genius's training method at all.
"However, in my opinion, that was not the case.
"Maybe the gap between Li Yao and me is even greater than the distance between two Sectors. Maybe I can't catch up with one tenth of his achievements even if I train for my entire life.
"But at the very least, if Li Yao, an unparalleled genius, can train with Purple Ring Sword Ants, I, Xie Anan, can do it, too!
"Maybe, after twenty years of training, I will be able to control even more Purple Ring Sword Ants than Li Yao did years ago. Haha. Hahahahaha!
"Besides …"
The girl suddenly changed the topic and said, blushing, "I haven't heard anything about Li Yao for a long time. Maybe he has really perished. If so, at the very least, I can pass on his training method."
Li Yao couldn't help but cough. While he coughed, he said, "Are you trying so hard to become a master of refining?"
"I don't care about being a master. With my talent, I don't think I can become one. Hahahaha!"
Xie Anan sucked the part between her thumb and index finger that was slightly red because of the Purple Ring Sword Ants' bite. She gave Li Yao a brilliant smile and said, "I just like refining. I know that I'm not talented, but I like it. I like it very, very much."
"Okay."
Li Yao was silent for a long time. Illuminated by the hazy street lamp, his lips gradually curled, and he put on the same brilliant smile as the girl.
"I've changed my mind."
Li Yao smiled and said, "Miss Xie Anan, I'm afraid that I'll have to ask you to familiarize me with the environment of Flying Star University for a while. It may take a lot of your time. I wonder if you mind?"
"Of course not. Please don't stand on ceremony with me."
Xie Anan shook her head hard. She thought for a moment and said in embarrassment, "However, next time when you are discussing with Master Xue, if it is convenient, can I listen in on your discussion with Master Xue?"
Li Yao was amused. "Do you understand?"
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