Chapter 2090 A Cycle
“A man from the sky?”
Li Jialing twisted the third prisoner’s fist hard, turning his arm from the elbow to the shoulder blade into a screw. “Why does it sound like a tale to ?”
“It’s true. In fact, the environnts we grew up in are really quite similar. They are both living dog-eat-dog hells where there are absolutely no laws and one has to do anything one can, such as draining every bit of physical and ntal strength, just to see the sunrise tomorrow.”
Li Yao said, “As far as my eyes could reach, wolves, tigers, leopards, and jackals in human skins were everywhere. It was not unusual to search the garbage for an entire day without finding any food to eat. Days of starvation and holessness were routine. Broken bones and blood-vomiting because of other people’s beating were more than occasional, too.
“I slowly grew up in such a twisted environnt. The mont I gained enough abilities to protect myself, I already beca cold and heartless. Everything would be fine as long as I could survive. Other people? I didn’t bother to think about them at all!
“While I was not fond of bullying the weak, I never bothered to intervene if the scoundrels in human skins were bullying other people as long as I was not involved.
“At that ti, those guys even gave
a nickna. They called
‘Vulture’, for my sordidness, brutality, and solitude.”
“Vulture Li Yao?”
Li Jialing was slightly dazed. “It sounds like a nickna fit for an Immortal Cultivator.”
“Who can argue with that?”
Li Yao smiled. “If I had kept growing up like that, perhaps I would’ve turned into an out-and-out Immortal Cultivator. I would be indifferent in nature and always act on my own. Maybe I wouldn’t harm anyone voluntarily, but I would not help anyone in trouble either. Just like what you are dreaming to beco right now, I would be as free as anyone could’ve been. Everything would be fine as long as nobody sses with !
“But the old man who arrived from the sky completely changed . He chattered on, ntioning so many things to my ears restlessly every day, telling
solemnly what was right and what was wrong, what was justice and what was evil. He also dragged
to the darkest corner of the magical equipnt graveyard, which was the na of my hotown, to show
how the lonely, helpless little ones were bullied and how they wailed in fear and desperation after that.
“The bullying that the little ones suffered and their wails were experienced by
in exactly the sa way before.
“At first, I could not see any reason in the old man’s words at all. I only thought that he was such a chatterbox that my head was going to explode.
“But he was much stronger than I was, and he allured
with very sophisticated technologies of magical equipnt maintenance and many bizarre gadgets. To learn his skills, I had no choice except to calm myself down and grit my teeth to listen to the old man’s jibber-jabber.
“But as it turned out, humanity is such a strange thing. For even the coldest and heartless man, as long as a tiny seed is planted into a perfect gap in his heart, there will be a day when the seed sprouts flowers and fruits. Also, the mont when the seed of ’empathy’ truly gives birth to a tiny flower, everything is screwed. The days when one cares nothing about the lives of other people but only his own freedom will be gone for good!
“On the surface, I still turned a blind eye to the miserable lives of the helpless orphans who were bullied flagrantly in the magical equipnt graveyard.
“But late at night, when everything was quiet, I began to have dreams, in which the orphans in ragged clothes were shuddering and hugging each other to warm each other up, only to be starved or frozen to death without them knowing it.
“And I was one of them!
“Every ti I woke up from such nightmares, my empathy for those orphans would increase by a little bit, and my fury for the adult scavengers would be deeper.
“At that ti, I still maintained the most fundantal rationality and restrained myself from ssing with the adult scavengers. They all had gangs in their back, which were not sothing that a teenager and an old man could deal with. If I were to ss with them for only a mont of pleasure, it would definitely cause us infinite trouble.
“But at last, when the old man and I were excavating a pile of valuable garbage, we accidentally saw three adult scavengers pushing an orphan no older than ten to a corner and aning to do dreadful things to her. I finally lost control of myself. My head went blank, and my empathy replaced my rationality. Together with the old man, I took down the three scumbags in difficulties, which indeed led to overwhelming trouble later. The old trouble wasn’t even resolved yet, and new trouble was already knocking on our door. Even to this day, the troubles do not seem to have completely dispersed!
“This is perhaps the reason why I beca a Cultivator in the beginning. In fact, everybody can beco a Cultivator as long as he can feel a slight bit of ’empathy’.
“The old man gave
a seed and activated the ’empathy’ in my heart. Now, I’m giving the seed to you. I believe that as an ‘experint subject’, when you see so many people of your own kind enduring the hardship that you endured in the past, you will eventually find so ’empathy’ sowhere deep down inside your heart, won’t you?”
“Are you kidding? I don’t even know what you are talking about.”
Li Jialing frowned deeply. “Why ?”
“Because of a certain mysterious and unpredictable cycle. Or rather—”
Li Yao said in a smile, “It is just fate!”
BOOM!
Li Jialing blew away the third prisoner with a punch, who wriggled on the ground in difficulties, unable to get back to his feet anymore.
Breathing rapidly and frowning hard, the young man hinted at the surveillance cara at the corner. “It is not satisfying enough. Give
another thirty—no, fifty random prisoners!”
Very soon, fifty bizarre-looking, brawny, and hideous prisoners stood before Li Jialing.
They were all foaming hard, their eyes bloodshot, and the muscles all over their bodies were shivering very unnaturally. It was obvious that they had been injected with excessive excitants.
“This is more like it!”
The young man grinned creepily. The power rune arrays of his crystal suit were triggered to the maximum. The tiny training room was filled up by the noises of exhaust flas tearing apart the air. The blasts swept across every inch of the space like surging tides.
“Hiu!”
Li Jialing turned into a streak of brilliance and lunged at the fifty prisoners.
The prisoners were much stronger than the three prisoners just now. Although they did not carry any equipnt, their fists and claws were already the most dangerous weapons. With five fearless berserkers fighting against one Li Jialing, Li Jialing could not completely crush them but was blown away by them again and again into the transparent glass wall brutally.
But in the ecstasy of killing, Li Jialing stomped on the transparent glass wall, again and again, to exert his strength and charge forward. The exhaust flas that spurted out of the power rune arrays at the bottoms of his feet significantly weakened the hardness of the transparent glass wall too.
Finally—
Li Jialing blinked past the sharp claws of two prisoners. On one of his knees, he opened his hands, raising a mini crystal cannon from each of his wrists and shoulders. The four crystal cannons were aid at the prisoners and bombarded them crazily, but most of the bullets and the mystic rays actually hit the transparent glass wall that was facing the hollow channel of ascension at the center of the prison!
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
As if he were crazy, Li Jialing shot out fiery bullets from his hands and his shoulders, which swept across everything like a storm.
Other than blowing away a large batch of prisoners, they also caused interconnected cracks that looked like a spider web on the transparent glass wall.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The wall of the tempered glass here had only considered the situation where the prisoners hit it with a body of flesh and flood. It was beyond the designer’s expectation that soone would launch magical equipnt attacks from inside to outside.
Also, Li Jialing’s few heavy thuds at the beginning already significantly diminished the hardness and stability of the transparent glass wall.
Now that it was bombarded by the crystal cannons like a heavy storm, it could not sustain for long at all, and devastating holes imdiately appeared on them.
The prisoners who were attacking Li Jialing imdiately fell quiet. They looked at the broken glass ball, sowhat in disbelief.
Li Jialing also stopped attacking, as if he was at a loss about what to do.
“Aoooooo!”
The prisoners let out desperate roars that were mixed with the most intense hope and ecstasy. They were almost dancing in joy.
None of them bothered to look at Li Jialing anymore. Everybody simply jumped out through the broken glass wall.
Unhurried alarms imdiately began to echo all over the beehive prison.
Hum! Hum! Hum! Hum!
As the red and green mystic rays flashed in turn, an invisible, mysterious strength ascended quickly like a flood, drowning the entire beehive prison instantly. The complicated rune arrays on the wall nearby began to emit glamorous and brilliant lights, triggering visible electric arcs between themselves and the shackles of the prisoners!
For a mont, all the prisoners in the cells of all directions were stuck to the floor with their arms and legs stretched. Their shackles were firmly stuck to the floor, and there was not even a gap for a piece of paper.
The prisoners who had already jumped into midair were pulled back by the overwhelming magnetic forces too. They were smashed to the wall, the floor, and the ceiling, like rats that were pinned to a board by nails, unable to move at all.
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!
So of the prisoners who were particularly stubborn intended to break free from the shackles, only to make their bodies burst out earsplitting sounds of broken bones. The pale, shattered bones even pierced through their flesh. But there was more sorrow and desperation on their faces than pain!
“Ao! Aooooooo!”
Like beasts, they roared at Li Jialing and the entire prison.
With his hands in his back, Li Jialing looked at the prisoners coldly.
“I’m very curious. When you were tied up and moved to the operating table for refinents, did you grimace in pain like animals the sa way they are doing right now?” Li Yao asked.
Li Jialing narrowed his eyes and sniffed. For so reason, he lost the courage to look at the faces of the abnormal prisoners, nor was he capable of giving Li Yao a straight answer to his question. He simply changed the topic and said, “How about it? I have already allured the prison to activate the great array. Have you figured out the model of the entire magnetic field and its weakness?”
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