For the Fire Ant King, the next half a minute was the most torturous thirty seconds of his life. After witnessing how the mica threads were slaughtering people without a sound, the deadly weapons were cutting him around at five times the speed of sound, spluttering scorching metal scraps. It was truly creepy for the Fire Ant King.
The Fire Ant had never thought that his life would be in the hands of a Yuanying Cultivator in such a way, not to mention such a young Yuanying Cultivator!
What was even more frightening was the expression of the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator. Although he was cursing and sweating, there was a smile in the depths of his eyes of different colors. The corners of his mouth were curled up unconsciously, and excitement was leaking out of every pore on his body. Every now and then, he would smile lightly. He did not look like he was dismantling the most terrifying magical equipment, but more like he was enjoying a delicious meal in front of him.
As the dismantling went on, his face became more and more colorful. Now, he was frowning, now gloomy, now excited, and now furious.
The Fire Ant was not scared of death, but the feeling of being dragged back and forth on the verge of death was too torturous for him!
Half a minute later, Li Yao took a long breath in relief. All the mica threads slowed down.
"Did it work?"
The Fire Ant held his throat and tried not to sound too anxious.
"Not at all."
Li Yao said with great appreciation, "Jiang Shaoyang truly deserves to be one of the best experts of refining in the Federation. He hid the 'Winter Thunder Rune' below the Three-Layer Gold Ring Rune and created a tiny trap. He even improved the sensitivity of the 'Winter Thunder Rune' by more than ten times. Just now, the rune array was triggered when it sensed the feeble quakes when I manipulated the mica threads, and it almost detonated in half a second!
"Thankfully, I established a new circuit for the 'Winter Thunder Rune' temporarily, which misled it into thinking that the activation signal had been transmitted to the mainframe chip. That's why it did not detonate.
"Marvelous. This is truly marvelous. Jiang Shaoyang's layout and micro-carving skills have reached the pinnacle of perfection. It was possible that many master refiners of the Xing Yao Federation had 'died' in this trap when they were trying to crack the Venomous Scorpion Bone Biting Shackle. Hahahaha! "
Fire Ant: "… Fellow Daoist, there are still two minutes and forty-two seconds left!"
Li Yao nodded. He rubbed his chin and muttered, "This is going to be difficult. Jiang Shaoyang has placed more than one Winter Thunder Shock Talisman in the depths of the Venomous Scorpion Bone Biting Shackle. Instead, there are more than twenty of them, and nine of them use a synchronized series structure. It's like twenty alarm bells hanging on a rope. As long as the rope is lightly touched, the alarm bells will explode at the same time! "
"With my maximum hand speed, I can crack three 'Winter Thunderous Runes' at most. Twenty of them are beyond the limits of any refiner!"
Li Yao stared at the translucent components, lost in thought.
The tens of thousands of components behind him were still like living giants of sand. They condensed, collapsed, condensed, and collapsed again.
Time went by one minute after another. After one minute, Li Yao was still in a daze. He didn't start any new cracking.
Fire Ant stared at the jumping numbers on the light beam. His eyeballs were almost drilling into the light beam!
Li Yao finally extended his hand again and pressed on the top of the Venomous Scorpion Bone Biting Shackle, while he narrowed his eyes. His spirit energy was like a trickling stream that silently seeped into his body.
Fire Ant held his breath, fearing that his voice would disturb Li Yao.
But out of his expectation, Li Yao maintained the posture without the slightest intention of cracking it.
Behind him … Countless components gathered and grew stubbornly again. This time, they persisted for dozens of seconds. Like sand piled into a tower, they were more and more complicated and precise. It turned into a complicated, strange-looking magical equipment.
However, right when the Fire Ant King's hope was rising to his throat, the magical equipment collapsed again after a loud crash!
At this moment, there was only half a minute to go before the Venomous Scorpion Bone Biting Shackle detonated!
"I can't do it."
Li Yao finally opened his eyes. The expression in his eyes was hard to describe. He said half in frustration and half in excitement, "Jiang Shaoyang's design is impeccable. This is a piece of magical equipment that can never be cracked by brute force!
"I didn't expect that his capability would be improved to such an extent after only ten years. I really hope that I can compete with him face to face one day with the same materials, the same topic, and the same magical equipment!"
Fire Ant: "…"
Behind Li Yao, most of the components bounced off. Only hundreds of the simplest components were still floating in the air. They collided with each other and bit into each other, constituting a piece of magical equipment that was relatively simple in structure and extremely ugly in appearance. It looked like a piece of scrap metal.
One of the components extended a long crystal wire. Under the control of Li Yao's telepathic thoughts, it was connected to a slot of a mini crystal processor.
"Hum!"
The cluster of scrap metal trembled violently as if it would fall apart at any moment.
Fire Ant breathed heavily and was sweating profusely.
In front of Li Yao, more than ten light beams were triggered again. Each light beam was full of glittering control runes.
In a flash!
His hands turned into ten streaks of brilliance, piercing through and tearing apart the light beams!
Nineteen seconds, eighteen seconds, seventeen seconds …
The number on the light beam was still jumping unhurriedly. Fire Ant was almost desperate.
Li Yao's hands moved faster and faster. At first, there was only a vague burnt smell. Then, the ten streaks of brightness were all mixed with redness. Sparks were hovering around the streaks of brightness, as if countless red fireflies were dancing in the sky!
Fire Ant was shocked. He knew that it was a sign that the hands were being ignited due to the friction between the hands and the air when they were accelerated to the highest speed!
It was as if the young Yuanying's ten fingers had turned into ten meteoroids that had broken into the atmosphere and were burning furiously in the high-speed friction!
"Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!"
Crimson ripples appeared on all the light beams. The spiritual stripes and the data were twisted.
Fire Ant was even more dumbfounded. The young Yuanying's hand speed had been improved to such an extent that even the spiritual waves that constituted the light beams were affected!
Nine seconds, eight seconds, seven seconds!
"Pa! Pa! Pa! "
The leather coat of the Nether World Watch that Li Yao was wearing was torn apart into pieces starting from the sleeves, to the shoulders, and to the chest!
It was because the coat could not bear Li Yao's high-speed operation for a long time. The fibers were aging, tearing, and shattering!
Six seconds, five seconds, four seconds!
Even the battle suit that he was wearing, which could be extended to dozens of meters long and boasted a high hardness and defense ability, could not bear it any longer and seemed to have been cut by invisible sonic blades. Long, narrow cracks appeared on it!
The last three seconds!
The ten streaks of brilliance were condensed into ten fingers again. But they were emitting translucent orange brilliance, as if they were ten burning iron rods!
Two seconds!
Biting his lips softly, Li Yao turned on a brand-new light beam as quickly as a dragonfly touching the surface of the water.
Fire Ant discovered that it was the control menu of a certain piece of magical equipment.
One second!
Fire Ant's heart was beating faster than ever. He thought of a lot of things in that moment.
The brilliance of God Chaos, Elder Nether Spring's scheme, the fate of countless low-level demon brothers, his own negligence and stupidity, the young Yuanying who had appeared out of nowhere, and the future of Void Turmoil City that he had built up through all the trouble.
It did not matter if he was dead, but what about the future of Void Turmoil City?
What was the future of the Blade of Chaos? What was Elder Nether Spring's ultimate plan? What was the so-called 'third life form', the god race that was above human beings and demons, exactly?
Fire Ant was suddenly dazed.
Well. The one second seemed to have passed too long.
He focused his eyes, only to discover that the number on the light beam was stuck at '1' steadily, as if it were dragged by an invisible chain and could not jump to '0' at all!
"It worked? Have you really cracked the 'Venomous Scorpion Bone Biting Shackle'? "Fire Ant mumbled to himself with complicated feelings.
He was not sure whether he was alive or dead.
Perhaps, it was just an illusion created by the last bit of his remaining soul?
"No. Like I said, Jiang Shaoyang's work is immaculate. It is impossible to crack it by brute force."
Li Yao blew out the fire on his index finger softly. "Maybe, if you give me three days and three nights, I will be able to figure out a way to have a good competition with the magical equipment and crack it by brute force.
"But it is absolutely impossible in only five minutes!"
Fire Ant frowned. "Then, how did you —"
"I did not crack the magical equipment by brute force. I only crafted a new controller."
Li Yao shook the mini crystal processor on his wrist that was connected to the cluster of garbage. "The controller was reconnected to the 'Venomous Scorpion Bone Biting Shackle', and it was switched back to the 'remote control mode'. Naturally, the countdown stopped."
Fire Ant was dumbfounded. "You crafted a new controller? How is it possible? "
"Of course it's possible."
Li Yao explained patiently, "All the changes are the same. No matter how it is remotely controlled, it will always send spiritual waves of a certain frequency and a certain property to a certain receiver chip of the 'Venomous Scorpion Bone Biting Shackle'. So, what I need to do is actually very simple. I need to figure out the overall framework of the magical equipment by infiltrating it with my spiritual energy and redraw the structural diagram in my head. Then, I will find the receiver chip by following the clues.
"After I find the chip, I will calculate the property and frequency of the spiritual waves that it will receive according to the spiritual stripes on the chip.
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