Chapter 115: New World
Translator: Ash Editor: Geoffrey
His voice had yet to dissipate, yet Jing Tao could already feel a vigorous force surging towards his stomach. To his dismay, Li Yao had pushed him 3-4 steps away and had also tossed the gold transfer card at his face.
Li Yao's eye had turned blood-red as a mysterious power started gushing from the depths of his bone marrow, causing him to give birth to an unstoppable feeling and an urge to fire his burning fist towards Jiang Tao's mouth.
Jiang Tao was stunned. Not even in his dream would he have imagined that so hick would actually not only not give him face but also even dare to shove him.
And, to his disbelief—he had even been pushed away!
The awakening of the spiritual root was the most mysterious phenona in the world of cultivation. The state of awakening one’s spiritual root differed from cultivator to cultivator. For instance, Jiang Tao, who was a pure creation-type cultivator, simply didn't have such a painful reaction when his spiritual root had awakened.
Even in his dreams, he would not have imagined that Li Yao was on the verge of awakening his spiritual root.
And as long as he got a little more stimulus, even a tiny bit of stimulus, he would then be—
Jiang Tao burst into anger. In a single step, he arrived before Li Yao and grabbed onto his collar as he spoke through clenched teeth:
"I was kind enough to befriend you, yet you actually dare to humiliate
like this! I was being considerate, and yet you failed to appreciate my kindness!"
"Why? Do you think that those seven 'idiots' are heroes and I am coward? Is that what you think? Aren't I alive, while those seven 'idiots' are dead? I can keep on living and live a happy life, while not even dregs are left of those seven 'idiots'!"
"I-D-I-O-T-S?"
From the depths of Li Yao’s eyes, flickering flas appeared one after the other.
Jiang Tao grinned hideously:
"They were all powerful cultivators, and yet for so ordinary people, they chose to die. If they aren't idiots, then what are they?"
"Let
tell you this—you are a stupid brat. We are in the Wasteland, where the number of cultivators is way more than in the inland. There were at least ten cultivators on the train who, like , had made the wisest choice."
"Are we really cowards? Of course not! We were retaining our strength, biding our ti. For a gentleman to take revenge, waiting ten years is not too late!"
"But only those seven idiots stepped forward and clashed head-on with the beast tide!"
"'The blood of strong must flow for the week'? Hahaha, what era do you think we are living in!? Such nonsense is simply laughable!"
"In short, you better listen to . I am a 3rd level Refinent Stage cultivator and a descendant of the Jiang Family. My strength is beyond your imagination. So long as you dare to speak half a word, I, like stomping an ant to death, will crush-a-hick-like-you-to-death, do-you-hear-?"
No.
Li Yao didn't hear anything.
The only thing he heard at the mont was a deep rumbling akin to a taut string snapping echoing in his ears. Deep within his brain, sothing had ruthlessly snapped.
"Ding!"
As if a shackle that had been restraining his soul had been smashed to pieces, as if a dam that had been stopping the flood had completely collapsed… strength surged forth like a tsunami from the deepest parts of his brain, thereby increasing the size of his pineal gland by a couple dozen tis before blasting out through his glabella.
A blood-red fla soared to the sky!
In the blink of an eye, everything before Li Yao was blood-red; it was as though the whole world had been dyed red as rumbling resembling the howling of the wind and the seas resounded in his ear. It was as though millions upon millions of crystals had burst at the sa ti, blasting him into a marvelous new world!
Li Yao had completely lost the ability to think. His hungry and thirsty, iron-like fist turned into a roaring, ferocious beast and bolted out before his brain had even issued any command.
"Crack!"
A sound akin to a waterlon bursting apart was followed by a blood-curdling shriek.
As if a horn to comnce the battle had resounded through the sky, making Li Yao’s blood, to the very last drop, boil.
His other fist similarly turned into a ferocious beast; involuntarily tightly clenching, the fist was raised to his chest and pulled out before punching ahead!
What he did next, he had no idea…
...
God knows how long after did Li Yao finally fiercely open his eyes. His mind was completely blank, and soon, he discovered that he was inside a small dical tent.
Half of his body was imrsed in a light green dical solution, which made him feel very comfortable at the places where it was in contact.
However, his entire body, from head to toe, was in incomparable pain; it was as if a crystal train had rolled over him back and forth a dozen tis.
But what made him most surprised was...
"Color? So many colors?"
Blinking his eyes, Li Yao looked all around in confusion.
He discovered that the whole world was completely different from before. It was incredibly resplendent and brimming with colors. There were even a few hundred colors which he could not na.
Moreover, many tiny, gorgeous specks of light of many colors were also floating in the air.
This kind of strange state could not describe in words.
It was like soone who was color-blind since birth and only knew two colors—black and white—in his life had suddenly gained the vision of a normal person. If the kind of incomparable shock that he got when crimson, orange, red, green, azure, blue, purple... gorgeous lights of countless color entered his retina was again multiplied by a hundred tis—that would be precisely what Li Yao was feeling at this mont!
Furthermore, Li Yao discovered that not only was the brilliance radiated by every object in the surroundings incredibly resplendent, even his own body was emitting faint, rainbow-like radiance round after round.
On his forehead, just a bit above his glabella was three thin and long "spirit threads" that were lightly swaying along with his breathing.
When a few tiny specks of light gradually floated over, the "spirit threads" would suddenly reach out and fiercely suck in the specks of light.
As if a long snake was swallowing an egg, the specks of light would be sucked into his brain through the spirit thread, and via the pineal gland, it would be converted into a very pure energy which would then be absorbed into every part of his body, causing his entire body to feel calm and comfortable; it was extrely pleasant.
"What is this?"
Li Yao reached out to grab the spirit threads, but his palm instead directly passed through them. He simply didn't feel anything.
Even when he rubbed his glabella, he didn't feel anything strange.
His soul, on the other hand, could clearly feel it. There was a new organ in his neural field; an organ that had evolved from his pineal gland, and this very organ was controlling these spirit threads.
With a move of his telepathic thought, these spirit threads started dancing and very soon swallowed a few dozen specks of light before completely sucking them into his neural field, thereby nourishing his soul and body.
The specks of light, upon seeing this, escaped in succession. The speed at which these specks floated beca much faster, much like frightened planktons in the ocean.
"If I can produce so more and grow them a bit longer, it would be a lot better!" Li Yao thought.
Just as this thought appeared in his mind, his brain started aching as strength stored in his soul, in a steady stream, infused into the new organ evolved from the pineal gland.
Not only had the three spirit thread grown a little longer, a slightly shorter fourth spirit thread had also been ford. Furthermore, the movent speed of the spirit threads had also increased by a lot.
Soon after, over a hundred specks of light were captured.
"So formidable! If I could grow over a hundred spirit threads at once, wouldn't I be able to sweep all the specks of light floating in the air?"
Li Yao beca extrely excited.
But this ti, the new organ evolved from the pineal gland didn't respond to his call; on the contrary, from the depths of his neural field ca a faint warning, waking him in the blink of an eye.
This request was far beyond his capabilities. Unless he was willing to overdraft his life, it was impossible to achieve it in a short period of ti.
"It seems that the growth of the spirit thread is limited. I must, step by step, grow slowly. This is not sothing that can be achieved overnight."
From the dical treatnt pod, Li Yao sohow sat up and curiously observed the strange new world.
He discovered that even if he closed both eyes, he was still able to perceive this incomparably new gorgeous world. Furthermore, it beca even more clear and vivid.
"Is it possible that this new organ evolved from the pineal gland can directly perceive the world?"
Right away, Li Yao used both his hands to cover his eyes as he gathered his telepathic thoughts in his forehead and scanned his surroundings.
"Well?"
Li Yao quickly discovered that there was another dical treatnt pod just opposite to him and laid inside was a wounded man.
The "radiance" emitting from this person's body was a hundred tis stronger than his!
The radiance around Li Yao's body was still not firm; it was like a flickering fla swaying in the wind, weaving in and out, giving off a feeling that it might be extinguished at any mont.
But the radiance around this person was like water in a stream that was flowing slowly. The radiance had ford a sparkling armor which tightly covered his entire body.
Furthermore—
There were only four spirit threads on Li Yao's forehead, and he relied on the movent of these spirit threads to swallow the floating specks of light.
But the spirit threads on that man's forehead were not only nurous but were thick as well. Furthermore, they had also interwoven together to form a huge vortex that was producing a powerful suction force, allowing him to inhale countless floating specks of light.
It was as easy as blowing off dust! It was a hundredfold more efficient than that of Li Yao.
"The structure of this spirit thread vortex is really mysterious!"
Li Yao secretly praised. Just as Li Yao carefully tried to take a closer look, a dazzling beam of light suddenly shot over from the wounded man's body, causing Li Yao’s brain to feel a prickling pain.
When he looked again, the wounded man was covered in a black sheet, rendering Li Yao to be unable to see any of his spirit aura.
"Little Brother, casually spying on soone else's cultivation law is the biggest taboo in the world of cultivation. As you had just beco a cultivator, this father will not haggle with you, but keep in mind that outside, you can not stealthily inspect other cultivators like this."
A coarse voice said with a laugh.
Li Yao was surprised for a mont and opened his eyes to look. In the opposite dical treatnt pod sat an ugly man who was as tall as a bull and as robust as a horse. The man had a beard that was stiff and straight, as if swords had been hoisted from his face.
Li Yao flushed red in embarrassnt. Just as he wanted to apologize, a word from the other guy's mouth had made him surprised for a mont before he beca wild with joy as he jumped out of the dical treatnt pod.
"Cultivator? Right, right, my pineal gland has evolved into a spiritual root! My spiritual root has awakened—I am a cultivator!"
Li Yao yelled. As he waved his right fist, a series of water-like ripples appeared in the air, spreading and propagating for a long ti.
For three months, he had been wandering all over the country, yet from the beginning to the end, he couldn't find an opportunity to break through. Never in his imagination would he have thought that on the northbound train, watching the magnanimous sacrifice of Ding Yin and the other seniors, such a bloody scene, as well as being angered by Jiang Tao would cause his blood vessels to expand, his soul to be set ablaze, and his spirit root to be awakened!
From this mont onwards, he was no longer an ordinary person and he was no longer weak.
After encountering last night’s soul-stirring scene, he would no longer need soone else's protection.
Now, it would be possible for him to fight shoulder to shoulder to the bitter end together with Ding Yin, Wei Qingqing, and the red-eyed officer.
The robust man watched Li Yao with a grin. Only after Li Yao had cald down a bit did he slowly say, "I am Guan Xiong, a Building Foundation Stage cultivator from the Mountain Sea Sect. In the Wasteland, everyone calls
'Mountain Sea Guan Xiong'!"
"Mountain Sea Sect, Guan Xiong?"
Li Yao imdiately rembered that after the sacrifice of the seven cultivators, a cultivator who was not far away had co over quickly. With his own strength, he had blocked the beast tide, preventing it from reaching the crystal train. He was the cultivator who had bravely charged straight to the demon clan giant while waving the Anti-Ship Swords of Flas.
This rough man with a stiff beard in front of him was none other than—Mountain Sea Guan Xiong!
"Brother Xiong, you didn't die? Aweso!" Li Yao was happy from the bottom of his heart. This was truly an unexpected yet pleasant surprise.
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