40,000 Years of Cultivation

At night, in the food street of the underground ghost market of Floating City, in the hot food stalls, the fume and the smell of food, the noisy voices and the collision of the spatula, everyone's faces are shiny and full of smiles.

This is the fireworks in the world.

"Dang Cang!"

Two iced fruit wine glasses collided, and Li Yao and Meng Jiang, their best friend in high school, drank them all in one go. They laughed and laughed at each other.

"I haven't come back for three years, Lao Du's mulberry wine is still as enjoyable!"

Li Yao licked the corner of his mouth and was full of emotion.

In the daytime, after leaving the middle school for the children of the miners, he went to see Peng Hai, the demon sword brother, and the two went to visit the enlightenment teacher Sun Lao together.

When Sun was young, he was just a low-powered cultivator in the Qi-refining period, but his eyes were like a torch. In his later years, he unearthed two super newcomers, Peng Hai and Vulture Li Yao, which brought him his status in the Chixiao School. The tide is also rising.

In order to build a good relationship with Peng Hai and Li Yao, the Chixiao faction has been taking good care of Sun Lao over the years and arranged a good villa on the outskirts of the city for the elderly to enjoy their old age.

Sun Lao always hated the incident of Li Yao, the second lieutenant general of Chixiao, who was not fake about Chixiao faction. Instead, he likes to wander around the slums every day, trying to find the next good seed, which is also a hobby.

Li Yao had dinner with Peng Hai and Lao Sun, and asked Peng Hai to take care of his shares in the Shuangjiao Club. After dealing with trivial matters, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

It just so happens that Meng Jiang, the buddy, also finished his three-year career in academy, obtained the license of intermediate image designer, and is about to enter the society.

Li Yao and Meng Jiang hadn't seen each other for three years, so they took this opportunity to meet at their favorite underground ghost market food court.

Steaming mutton fried noodles, skewers of various colors that are thicker than arms, clams that are so spicy that they shed tears, and fat chicken legs. These are all the delicacies of high school.

"Unexpectedly, we still have one day to get together. You can really do it. You will become a foundation building monk in just three years, just like the demon sword Peng Hai back then!"

Meng Jiang filled Li Yao with a smile, and said with emotion, "I am an ordinary person. I am afraid I have nothing to do in my life. The only thing I am proud of is having a good friend like you! I didn't expect that after you became a foundation-building monk, I still remember my best friend, and I was willing to find me to eat in a place like this. I am really happy!"

"Meng Jiang, you will always be my best friend, why would I forget? Back then, I was seriously injured and fell into a coma when hunting monsters on Demon Jiao Island. Everyone said that I couldn't wake up. But you did your best to defend me in school, and for me, you also had conflicts with many people. I have all this in mind!"

Li Yao clasped his wine glass tightly and said a little embarrassed, "You know, becoming a cultivator is a matter of sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. I practice crazy 24 hours a day, and sometimes I have to go to the battlefield. I've been fighting life and death for months, and I really don't have time to party with old friends!"

"I understand that the situation is so tense now, you cultivators must be very hard! Now that you have embarked on this path, then you should invest 100% in it and keep climbing! I am still waiting for one day when you become the Nascent Soul Boss , Come see me for a drink again!"

Meng Jiang smiled heartily, "Don't let me wait too long, if I become a bad old man, and you become a primordial old man, I am embarrassed to take a photo with you!"

Li Yao also smiled: "Don't worry, you won't be allowed to wait too long!"

"By the way, how about you?"

"Your ideal is to become the best image designer in the entire federation. I know that you have worked very hard in school. You have obtained a lot of intermediate licenses that senior image designers can't get. What do you plan to do next? It's work. Do you start your own business?"

Meng Jiang smiled slightly, and said with a touch of pride: "I am going to join the army."

Li Yao was stunned: "Join the army?"

"Yes."

Meng Jiang nodded and said, "Of course I want to start a business and open an image design club myself, but you know the environment of my home, there is no money at all, and my dad has never supported me in this business."

"Now that the Federation has entered a state of warfare, the status of soldiers has been greatly improved, and the standards for joining the army have also been relaxed. After three years of joining the army, you can get a loan and realize my dream!"

"Secretly tell you, I went to participate in the test a few days ago, and it has passed the test successfully, then as long as the data review is okay, I will be a glorious Federal Army!"

"Ha, even my dad doesn't know this news. If the old man knew, he would be very angry!"

"So it's like this..."

Li Yao thought for a while, took out a black matte surface, very low-key and luxurious Jin Lingtong card from his arms, placed it on the greasy table, and handed it over.

Meng Jiang was taken aback, hesitation flashed under his eyes, he drank a glass of iced mulberry wine, took a deep breath, and pushed the card back again.

Li Yao frowned and said, "Meng Jiang, we are best friends. Why are you polite with me? The money should be enough for you to open a medium-sized image design club. You don’t need to join the army so hard. It’s very dangerous to go to the front line now. !"

Meng Jiang glanced at the Jin Lingtong Card and seemed a little regretful, but gritted his teeth and smiled again:

"Li Yao, I know you are kind, and the money is nothing to you."

"However, I have always regarded the two of us as best friends. The friendship we forged since middle school is the purest thing, and I regard it as a treasure!"

"So, I can't use your money to start a business, otherwise I always feel that this kind of friendship is no longer so pure, flawed, and changed."

"What's more, I still prefer to use my own hands to work out my world bit by bit, compared to the easy success."

"Only in this way, when I finally build a big image design empire, looking back on the past, I won't feel even the slightest guilty conscience!"

"Even if one day, you really become the Nascent Soul Boss, I will still be able to straighten up, eat meat and drink with you with confidence!"

These words made Li Yao ponder for a long time, and finally touched his head and laughed:

"Okay, Meng Jiang, I didn't expect to see you in three years, your realm has improved so much!"

"Of course!"

Meng Jiang grinned, his eyes glowing with pride, "With you as a super genius, I am under a lot of pressure. Of course, I have to work hard to improve my realm so that I won't be too far away from you!"

"Although I have average talent, it is impossible to awaken the spiritual roots in this life. I am just an ordinary person, but I told you the last time I parted that ordinary people can also do great things, and they may not be worse than those who cultivate. How many!"

"Perhaps, I can't become a cultivator in the eyes of the world, and I will move the world and shake the Federation."

"But I can at least become my own cultivator, cultivate my life, and control my destiny!"

Li Yao was moved.

Under the red fire, the face of the buddy Meng Jiang gleamed, full of expectations for a better life in the future, and the confidence that he was willing to make all efforts for this and fight his destiny to the end.

This kind of light made Li Yao full of joy and raised his glass again:

"That's great, Meng Jiang, we are all cultivators of our own lives. Since we have chosen the path we want to take, we will make all our efforts and go step by step, no matter how hard it is, no matter how hard it is, no matter how tired, Don't give up!"

"Cheers!"

"Cheers!"

...

Three days later, in the northwestern part of the Xingyao Federation, on the endless Gobi desert, where the Tianyuan Cannon is!

Five hundred miles in a radius were tightly sealed off by the Federal Army, and at least five powerful men of the Yuan Ying level were closely monitoring the sky and the ground.

In the control center, more than a dozen research-type cultivators in the alchemy phase, leading hundreds of experts, scholars and staff in the foundation-building phase, and hundreds of experts, scholars and staff in the gas refining phase are operating nervously.

The Tianyuan Cannon was fired for the first time, with the last five minutes left.

Li Yao once saw the large disc sunken deep into the ground, and millions of magic charms began to shine, like a red sun rising slowly.

Although it was a broad day with clear weather, the light inspired by psychic energy fluctuations still eclipsed the blue sky and white clouds.

In the center of the large circular pit, deep in the silo that goes straight to the ground, a little red glow grows bigger and bigger, faintly roaring like wind and thunder, as if a giant magma beast dormant deep in the ground, about to roar out.

It was the earth fire that had been calm for half a year under the movement of the earth's crust and the changes in the spiritual veins, and unparalleled energy was about to burst out!

In the control center, the cultivators are accurately calculating the angle and orientation, trying to add fuel to the ground fire!

"The last three minutes!"

"One hundred and eight spar bombs are activated at the same time!"

"Ground fire increase array, start to operate!"

"Boom boom boom boom!"

There was a slight vibration from deep underground, and ripples rippled in the water glass placed on the table.

Including Yuanying boss, the expression on every cultivator's face was as uncertain as a ripple.

The underground rock layer that could still block the ground fire was smashed by a spar bomb, and the amplifying array could activate the huge energy contained in the ground fire in an instant.

The launch process has already begun, and no force can interrupt it. What they can do next is to wait.

Modern cultivators are natural atheists.

They may believe that there is some kind of "god and devil race" that is extremely powerful and capable of destroying or transforming the stars.

But I absolutely don't believe that there will be a "god" that can't perceive, observe, or prove, manipulating everything in the dark!

However, during this almost stagnant three minutes, many of the most steadfast atheists in daily life, like the ancient Xiu 40,000 years ago, were babbling and praying to non-existent gods.

The mountain shook more and more, and the red awns in the silo became more and more dazzling. Within a radius of hundreds of miles, hot steam spewed from the cracks in the ground and gathered into a white mist with teeth and claws. The temperature increased at least. More than ten degrees.

As the name suggests, the Tianyuan Cannon explains the structure of this super teleportation array. The orbits of the stars are like rifling, spiraling downwards in the silo.

There are a total of five star shuttles, each one hundred meters apart, resting quietly at the bottom of the silo.

In one of the star shuttles, the star-watchers sang loudly, and the loud national anthem and military anthem echoed repeatedly in the narrow cabin.

In the other Star Shuttle, the Starwatchers made crude and wild jokes to express their deep inner tension.

There were also two Star Shuttles that were silent, and every star patroller closed his eyes and quietly listened to the roar of the ground fire under his feet.

There is one last minute to launch!