Three days later, at the bottom of the secret training room, in the meditation room carved out of a whole meteorite, Li Yao was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the room.
Li Yao was sitting cross-legged at the center of the meditation room. The space around him had been filled with carefully selected Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. The pills and crystals were glittering, illuminating him and making him look crystal clear. His entire body seemed to have been carved out of jade. Strong vitality was surging under his skin like tides.
After more than three years of high-intensity training by himself, Li Yao's temperament had become even more tranquil, peaceful, and profound. In his eyes, there seemed to be an ocean before a storm.
"Finally, I've come to this step."
Li Yao sensed the unrestrained ocean inside his body and the energy that was about to explode. There was no sorrow or joy on his face. There was not even any expectation on his face. Everything was natural.
"My current capability is dozens of times higher than that of ordinary Cultivators at the peak of the Building Foundation Stage. It will be very difficult to compress such enormous spiritual energy from the liquid state to the solid state and keep its structure stable.
"During the compression process, if there is any carelessness, the solid spiritual energy will become irritable and disorderly, turning into pure destructive power that will tear me into pieces. I'm afraid that even the step of 'mental derangement' will be omitted.
"However, if it succeeds …"
Li Yao exhaled softly. All the messy thoughts were expelled from his head along with the breath.
After checking the items that he could use for the last time, he began to form the core!
"I will not fail.
"On the other side of the sea of stars, in my home, there are still people waiting for me!
"I've already figured out a way to calculate the coordinates of the Tian Yuan Realm. The road to my home is right in front of me!
"Nothing can stop me!"
Li Yao gritted his teeth and activated the 'Core Formation Instrument' that was wrapped around his body!
The Core Formation Instrument was a piece of magical equipment that Li Yao had refined himself to assist in the formation of the core. It was like a special iron suit. Countless drug boxes were connected to its shell.
When Li Yao released his spiritual energy incessantly, the fully-enclosed iron suit would cover all the spiritual energy. (?) Coupled with the sealing effect of the meditation room itself, it simulated an environment similar to the "Compressed Crystal Reactor".
Under the strong pressure, all kinds of strengthening potions condensed into streams of water that were thinner than silk. It pierced into Li Yao's body and was released between his muscles, blood vessels, and tendons.
In an instant
As his spiritual energy reached the maximum and began to compress, Li Yao shuddered deeply. He felt that his entire spine had 'woken up'. It continued to expand, expand, and expand until it turned into a giant golden dragon baring its fangs and brandishing its claws!
At the same time, illusions were popping up in his head. Time seemed to have been reversed. His consciousness moved backward like a ebbing tide. He arrived at the surface of Spider Den first and then appeared in Heavenly Saints City. Then, he went to Iron Plateau, the Skyhill Domain, Boneyard, the Tian Yuan Realm, and finally the magical equipment graveyard in the Xing Yao Federation and Floating Spear City.
He was still a baby. Lying in a pile of garbage overflowing with smelly water, he quietly watched the dim yellow sky.
Go on. Go on. He went back on the path of his life!
Everything went black. Li Yao found himself in a pool of warm liquid. He felt extremely comfortable and safe. He had turned into a tiny fetus. He had reached the origin of his life.
At this point, his life had just sprouted, and there were infinite possibilities for evolution. His brain, spine, and limbs did not exist yet. Only the pieces of karma interweaved into spirals and danced like butterflies.
Li Yao's soul was as transparent as the moonlight. He knew exactly what he was going to do.
He had found the code of his life. Next, he would start from the source. He would optimize his life and unlock the seal of evolution so that the speed of evolution would be increased by a hundred times, a thousand times, or even ten thousand times!
Li Yao made up his mind. A stream of feeble spiritual energy flew toward his pieces of karma.
The gene strands were torn apart!
His evolution was advancing rapidly in a completely new direction!
"Boom!"
Li Yao felt as if a thunderbolt had exploded in his spine.
An organ that did not exist in the beginning and was similar to the 'spiritual root' but a hundred times more powerful than the 'spiritual root' began to sprout, grow, and expand at the end of Li Yao's spine!
At this moment, if Li Yao's soul could leave his body and observe himself in midair, he would find that every cell in his body was like a volcano, ejecting infinite light and heat. The light even penetrated the Iron Man suit and turned it as transparent as glass. Eh? [
Under the transparent battle suit, his veins, tendons, bones, and internal organs were clearly visible as if they were soaked in fluorescent white liquid.
"Ah!"
Li Yao finally couldn't take it anymore and let out a wild roar!
He felt that a small black hole seemed to have appeared at the end of his tailbone, which was about to absorb his soul, flesh, and spiritual energy without leaving anything behind.
He had no choice but to summon the spiritual energy all over his body to the maximum and pour it into the 'black hole' incessantly!
Li Yao vaguely had a feeling that, if he could fill the 'black hole' before his spiritual energy ran out, he would advance into the Core Formation Stage and condense a unique Jin Dan!
If the 'black hole' was not fed enough after his spiritual energy ran out, it would continue swallowing until Li Yao was completely 'collapsed' into the most fundamental atoms. He would be obliterated and completely vanish!
Time and space had lost their significance. Li Yao did not know how long the whole process lasted, either.
He was like a lonely cell drifting in the boundless universe. His telepathic thoughts left him in the form of light and soon turned into glittering stars in the dark sky.
Did I succeed?
Did I succeed?
Did I succeed?
Did I succeed?
Did I succeed?
More than a year had passed.
It had been five standard years of the Star Ocean Imperium since the great competition between the old and the new generation of space pirates.
The Flying Star Sector had undergone more changes in the past five years than it had in the past five hundred years.
Many space zones were swallowed by the flames of war. Countless Cultivators had unfortunately perished. A lot of forces rose in the flames of war, too. Many experts of the younger generation walked on the stage and painted a new picture with their blood and blades in the sea of stars.
Capital Nest, the largest city on Spider Den, had been deformed beyond recognition in the incessant flames of war, too.
One afternoon, in a forsaken tunnel deep inside Capital Nest …
Zi! Zi! Zi! Zi!
Zi! Zi! The earth was shaking slightly. Feeble noises echoed from deep below the ground.
A moment later, the ground suddenly bulged and then collapsed, revealing a hole with a diameter of more than half a meter.
The broken stones collapsed without a sound. There was no sound of them hitting the ground for a long time. The hole seemed to be very deep and led to the center of the planet.
Half a minute later, a young man of moderate height struggled out of the hole.
He looked very plain. His messy hair was loose on his shoulders. Because he had not been exposed to sunlight for a long time, his skin was so pale that it was almost transparent.
His eyes were very weird. They seemed to be covered in a colorful membrane. Even though he was in the middle of darkness, his eyeballs were still emitting colorful brilliance when they moved.
He looked thin and weak. There were barely any muscles on his body. However, when the sharp edges of the rocks brushed past his skin, they did not cut his skin. Instead, the edges of the rocks were polished until they were smooth and delicate, as if somebody had rubbed them thousands of times carefully. They were emitting a jade-like luster.
Almost ten colorful rings seemed to be covering the young man's pupils. In the darkness, all the rings were expanding and contracting nonstop, as if the most precise crystal cameras were adjusting their focus.
When he sensed a ray of light coming from outside the tunnel, the young man was stunned at first, and then his eyes were soon filled with tears. He lay on his back on the ground, his limbs flailing wildly, and his chest and abdomen were undulating, as if there was a vast ocean in his belly. Deep in his throat, there was a sound that could be a laugh or a cry.
The young man was Li Yao.
After five years, he had finally escaped from Yan Xinjian's residence!
"Old Yan, come on."
Li Yao cried and laughed for a while. Then, he took out a metal cylinder with ventilation holes and opened it carefully. Inside the cylinder were two mice with gold stripes.
During the five years, Yan Xinjian's remaining soul that had been attached to the mice gradually withered. On the day Li Yao broke out of seclusion, all the remaining souls were gone. The mouse that had been emitting white brilliance was the only one that survived.
However, the white brilliance on the mouse was gradually dispersing, too. Its behavior was no different from that of regular mice. Occasionally, regret and longing similar to that of human beings would flash in its eyes, but it was soon covered by the brilliance of animality.
When Li Yao left Yan Xinjian's residence, he brought out the mouse and the mother mouse that it had been clinging to the whole time without letting go of.
"Go now, Old Yan, and your Xiao Yu."
Li Yao put the two mice on the ground. The two mice, one male and one female, leaned against each other and wriggled toward the depths of the tunnel. Very soon, they disappeared into the darkness.
Looking at the backs of the mice, Li Yao was both delighted and frustrated.
Calming himself down, he considered the next step of his plan.
While he was still drilling underground, he had vaguely sensed that intense explosions were taking place on the surface of the planet. A fierce war seemed to be taking place.
It was a good thing. It meant that Xiao Xuance's Grand Illusionary Soldiers had not completely conquered Spider Den yet.
There should still be room for negotiation.
Xiao Xuance, the uncrowned king of the Flying Star Sector. It's finally our turn to fight!
Li Yao smiled and walked out of the forsaken tunnel. He raised his right hand casually and retrieved a ragged gray linen from his Cosmos Ring. He put it on.
After every step he took, the air around him would change subtly. The brilliance inside his eyes was gradually gone, and they became cloudy. His skin, which was as smooth as jade, gradually turned rough, too.
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