Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“Is that so?”

Zhang Daniu was still confused. He groped his body instinctively and said, “Why doesn’t my body hurt at all? My face is the only thing that hurts like fire. My molars are all loose.”

“Maybe your resistance infuriated the animals and they were trying to force you to submit in such a way.

Li Yao said, “These guys are brutal by nature. They are all cold-blooded animals who can do anything. Just slapping them is good enough for you. Anyway, just ignore the details. Master Niu, let’s go!”

“Where are we going?”

Zhang Daniu asked curiously, “Aren’t we going downstairs?”

“The corridor is blocked. Their men are outside.”

Li Yao answered simply. He rushed to the third floor, picked a random room, kicked the door open, and brought Zhang Daniu to the balcony.

“These are detectaphones and trackers. They are effective within 500 meters and can be used for 24 hours. They are products of cultivation technology.”

Li Yao stuffed two crystal chips as thin as the wings of a cicada into Zhang Daniu’s hands. “Hide them in the most secret place on your body. If we are unfortunately separated, we will have to rely on these things to save our lives!”

Zhang Daniu took the chip and hesitated. “... Uh, hide it here?”

“What else can I do? Get you a hotel room?”

Li Yao was anxious. “The enemy will catch up to us any moment. Let’s not waste our time, Master Niu!”

“Alright!”

Zhang Daniu gritted his teeth and made up his mind to unbuckle his belt.

“Master Niu, what are you doing?”

“Hiding eavesdroppers and trackers. Didn’t you ask me to hide them in the most secret places on my body?”

“I meant the bottom of your sock, Master Niu.”

“Oh, oh oh!”

While Zhang Daniu was hiding the detectaphones and trackers, Li Yao had already observed the environment behind the neighborhood and figured out eleven routes of escape.

“Yes.”

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Zhang Daniu tied his shoelaces again and looked down from the balcony on the third floor. He clicked his tongue and said, “Are we going to jump off the third floor?”

“Are you kidding me? How could I?”

Li Yao smiled. He suddenly picked up Zhang Daniu by the collar and threw him off the balcony. “I’m throwing you off.”

“AHHHHHHH!”

Zhang Daniu danced and screamed in midair.

Li Yao, on the other hand, was the first to arrive. Like a shooting star chasing after the moon, he was the first to land on the ground. With quick reflexes, he grabbed Zhang Daniu’s ankle and swung it three times like a ball, reducing most of the impact and ensuring that Zhang Daniu landed steadily.

Huchi! Huchi! Huchi! Huchi!

Zhang Daniu’s face was pale and lifeless. His legs were shaking violently.

“If you want to scream, wait until it’s safe. Master Niu, we—”

While Li Yao was talking, his pupils constricted violently, and the hair on his arms stood up like the sharp thorns of a porcupine.

When he was on the third floor just now, he had clearly scanned the surroundings with his vision that far exceeded that of an ordinary person. There was clearly no one in the surroundings of the dilapidated bushes downstairs.

However, when he and Zhang Daniu jumped down together, three weirdly-dressed guys with extremely dangerous auras appeared in front of them and stared at them.

The bald, muscular man in the middle was more than two meters tall. He was wearing a loose version of a large sportswear, but it covered his bulging muscles in a soul-stirring way, as if the sportswear would be torn apart like candy if he moved slightly.

Complicated tattoos were all over his bald head, which seemed to be the pattern of a thunderstorm. What was weird was that the tattoos seemed to be alive. The lines that looked like lightning were blinking weirdly.

On the right side of the bald man was a petite girl. Her body size was in sharp contrast to his, but her gloomy temperament was equally sharp. She was wearing a black suit with lace edges. A crow with scarlet eyes was perched on her shoulder, cawing.

The one on the left was a woman, too, but she hid most of her face in the wide-brimmed hat and the collar of her coat. To be honest, it was quite weird that she was wearing a coat on such a hot day. However, Li Yao noticed that her golden hair, eyes, and the dense tattoos or runes all over her body through the gaps of her coat. It was probably why she had to hide her real appearance.

At this time, the sky was getting darker and darker, which was very abnormal.

There was no telling where the fog came from, but it surrounded the five of them from all directions like overturned dry ice.

Li Yao had a very strange feeling. The air seemed to have turned into thick glue. The alarms of the fire trucks and the noises of the neighbors all turned vague, as if they were coming from hundreds of meters away. Or maybe, he and Zhang Daniu had been dragged into a weird space where they would not be disturbed no matter how they struggled.

“Uh...”

Li Yao pondered whether or not he should greet the three weirdos first and get some information from them.

But the golden-haired woman in the coat shook it open, revealing countless tools that looked like brushes and paints. She drew something on the ground skillfully. After only a few seconds, Li Yao saw the outline of a complicated, round pattern.

The smell of energy gathering was rolling in the air, like static electricity before a storm.

Whatever the blonde woman was drawing, it must be something extremely dangerous. Li Yao changed his mind. He could not let her finish it.

Hiu! Hiu Hiu Hiu Hiu!

More than ten steel nails were launched at the same time, drawing more than ten miserable arcs in the air. Except for two of them, which were aimed at the bald man and the crow girl, the rest of the steel nails were all aimed at the blonde woman. Even Li Yao himself was hiding behind more than ten steel nails and shooting at the other party like nails.

The bald man, the crow girl, and the blonde woman all put on a mocking smile at the same time. The blonde woman didn’t dodge and continued drawing her weird patterns. The bald man, on the other hand, strode forward and roared. He tightened his muscles and formed a giant shield of flesh and blood to block all the nails.

Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi!

The iron nails pierced into their flesh. The bald man and Li Yao both exclaimed in disbelief.

As far as Li Yao was concerned, he did not expect the bronze muscles of the bald muscular man to be so tough that the iron nails that he had shot through walls and steel plates failed to pierce through them.

On the bald man’s side, he had underestimated Li Yao’s strength. He had thought that he would be able to knock the iron nail away. He did not expect that the nail would pierce half an inch into his flesh and release a burning pain, making him cry out in surprise.

However, the nails alone were far from enough.

The bald muscular man pulled out an iron nail from his muscle and licked the blood on it. The hideousness on his face was even more intense as he strode toward Li Yao.

With every step he took, the muscles all over his body wriggled and rolled like giant serpents. Soon, all the iron nails were squeezed out by him.

Hu!

The bald muscular man raised his saber and slashed down.

Since Zhang Daniu was right behind him, Li Yao had no choice but to cross his arms and take the attack.

BOOM!

Li Yao felt that a crashed plane had crashed between his arms and almost knocked him into the mud. Blood was surging inside his chest, and his heart was beating so fast that it seemed to be bursting out of his ribs and chest.

However, it was exactly the bombardment that unlocked a certain... shackle deep inside his brain or his heart inch by inch. The strength that he had not felt for a long time poured out of the collapsing dam, making him feel hungry!

It had been a long time since Li Yao was this hungry.

It was not the hunger when the super power was just awakened, but the emptiness deep inside the soul that could not be described with words. Such emptiness could not be satisfied by food. Only the painful moans of the enemy could soothe it temporarily.

Li Yao let out an inhuman roar from the depths of his throat. He actually grabbed the right arm of the bald muscular man. His ten fingers pierced deeply into the muscles like a pair of tongs, using the heart-wrenching pain to numb the muscular man’s reaction. Immediately after, his pair of hands fiercely pulled downwards, and his entire body soared into the air. His knee ruthlessly crashed into the face of the muscular man as if it were a drill. Only a “crack” could be heard. Even if the bald muscular man had trained his body to be as hard as steel, he was unable to cultivate a layer of muscles on his tibia. When Li Yao landed on the ground, half of his face had already collapsed. Blood spurted out from his nostrils and eye sockets. The malevolent look on his face turned into shock and horror. He was no longer as calm as a few seconds ago.

Before the bald, muscular man moaned, the crow girl exclaimed in shock. She didn’t expect that the dangerous aura of the unknown Li Yao would be ten times stronger than before. With a shake of her shoulder, the crimson-eyed crow soared into the sky and lunged at Li Yao.

In the meantime, countless flapping wings echoed in the mist. Crows, sparrows, night owls... All kinds of famous and unknown birds blocked the sky, the fog, and Li Yao’s five senses, as if he had been trapped in a maze of black feathers.

It’s—an illusion!

Li Yao was very sure that, in such a crowded, brightly-lit metropolis, even if the enemy had the ability to communicate with birds, it was impossible for them to summon so many birds in such a short period of time, and it was also impossible for the normally docile birds to turn into terrifying sky predators. Therefore, it was all an illusion and could not fool him!

Li Yao sniffed and closed his eyes, ignoring the noises around him. Instead, he constructed an identical battlefield of mist in his brain according to the information and data he collected just now and rushed toward the golden-haired woman in his memory.

As he expected, thousands of sparrows, crows, and night owls were hovering in the sky, pretending that they were going to attack him, but none of them really landed on him.