At night, in the food street of Fuge City's underground ghost market, in the hot food stalls, the smoke and the smell of food, the noisy voices and the collision of spatulas, everyone's face is shiny and full of smiles.
This is human fireworks.
"Clang!"
Two ice-cold fruit wine glasses collided together.
Li Yao and his best friend in high school, Meng Jiang, drank the wine in one gulp, making unfinished tut-tut sounds and smiling at each other.
“I haven’t been back for three years, but the mulberry wine from Lao Du BBQ is still as enjoyable as ever!”
Li Yao licked the corner of his mouth and was filled with emotion.
During the day, after leaving the Miner's Children Middle School, he went to find his senior brother Yaodao Penghai, and the two of them went to visit his enlightenment teacher, Mr.
Sun.
When he was young, Mr.
Sun was just a low-strength cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage, but he had a keen eye.
In his later years, he discovered two super newcomers, Demon Sword Peng Hai and Vulture Li Yao, which brought him with him his status in the Scarlet Sky Sect.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
In order to build a good relationship with Peng Hai and Li Yao, the Chixiao Sect has always taken good care of Mr.
Sun over the years and arranged a good villa on the outskirts of the city for the old man to enjoy his old age.
Mr.
Sun has always resented the expulsion of the second lieutenant general Li Yao from the Red Sky faction.
He has no negative feelings towards the Red Sky faction.
Instead, he likes to wander around the slums every day, trying to find the next good talent, which can be regarded as a hobby.
Li Yao had dinner with Peng Hai and Mr.
Sun, and asked Peng Hai to handle his shares in Shuangjiao Association.
After finishing the trivial matters, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.
It just so happened that my best friend Meng Jiang also ended his three-year vocational college career, obtained an intermediate image designer's license, and was 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 fried noodles with mutton fat, and various grilled skewers thicker than your arms.
The spicy clams and the plump chicken drumsticks were the delicacies that I dreamed of in high school, and they filled a large table.
"I didn't expect it.
We will get together one day.
You are really good at it.
In just three years, you became a foundation-building monk, just like the demon sword Peng Hai back then!"
Meng Jiang filled up the wine for Li Yao with a smile and said with emotion, "I'm an ordinary person, and I probably won't have much success in this life.
The only thing I'm proud of is having a good friend like you!
I didn't expect that after you became a foundation-building monk, I’m really happy that you still remember this best friend of mine and are willing to come to a place like this to eat with me!”
"Meng Jiang, you will always be my best friend, how could I forget?
I think back then, when I was hunting monsters on Demonic Dragon Island, I was seriously injured and fell into a coma.
Everyone said that I would never wake up.
But you tried your best to protect me in school.
You even had conflicts with many people because of me.
I remember all of this!"
Li Yao held the wine glass tightly and said with some embarrassment, "It's just that you know that becoming a cultivator is like sailing against the current.
If you don't advance, you will retreat.
I have to practice crazily twenty-four hours a day, and sometimes I have to go to the battlefield.
I have been fighting for my life for several months and I really don’t have time to get together with my old friends!”
"I understand.
The situation is so tense now, you cultivators must be working hard!
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Now that you have embarked on this path, then devote yourself 100% to it and keep climbing up!
I am still waiting for the day when you become the Yuanying old monster , come to me for a drink again!”
Meng Jiang smiled heartily, "Don't make me wait too long.
If I become a bad old man and you become a Yuanying old monster, I will be embarrassed to take a photo with you!"
Li Yao also smiled: "Don't worry, I won't keep you waiting too long!"
"By the way, what about you?"
"Your ideal is to become the best image designer in the entire federation.
I know that you also worked very hard in school and passed the intermediate license that many senior image designers cannot pass.
What are you going to do next?
It's work.
Or start your own business?”
Meng Jiang smiled slightly and said with a bit of pride: "I'm going to join the army."
Li Yao was stunned: "Join the army?"
"That's right."
Meng Jiang nodded and said, "Of course I want to start a business and open my own image design club.
But as you know, my family's environment is very low.
I don't have any money at all, and my dad has never supported me in this business."
"Now that the Federation has entered a state of first-level war, the status of soldiers has been greatly improved, and the standards for joining the army have been relaxed.
After three years of joining the army and retiring, I can get a loan and realize my dream!"
"Let me tell you secretly, I took the test a few days ago and passed it successfully.
As long as there are no problems in the data review, I will be a glorious federal soldier!"
"Ha, even my dad doesn't know this news.
If the old man knew, he would be very angry!"
"So that's it..."
Li Yao thought for a moment, then took out a low-key and luxurious Gold Link Card with a matte black surface from his pocket, placed it on the greasy table, and handed it over.
Meng Jiang was stunned for a moment, with a look of hesitation flashing in his eyes.
He drank a glass of iced mulberry wine in one gulp, took a deep breath, and pushed the card back.
Li Yao frowned and said: "Meng Jiang, we are best friends, why do you have to be polite to me?
This money should be enough for you to open a medium-sized image design club.
You don't have to work as hard as joining the army.
It's very dangerous to go to the front line now. !”
Meng Jiang glanced at the Golden Link Card and seemed to regret it, but gritted his teeth and smiled again: "Li Yao, I know you have good intentions.
This money is nothing to you."
"However, I have always regarded the two of us as best friends.
The friendship we have formed 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 will always feel that this friendship is no longer so pure, has flaws, and has changed."
"What's more, compared to the success that can be achieved easily, I still prefer to use my own hands to build my world bit by bit!"
"Only in this way, when I finally build a large image design empire, I won't feel even the slightest bit guilty when I look back on the past!"
"Even if one day you really become a Nascent Soul monster, I will still be able to straighten my back and confidently eat meat and drink wine with you!"
These words made Li Yao ponder for a long time, and finally he rubbed his head and laughed: "Okay.
Meng Jiang, I didn't expect that after three years of not seeing you, your level has improved so much!"
"Of course!"
Meng Jiang grinned.
His eyes were shining with pride, "I have a super genius like you as my best friend.
I'm under a lot of pressure.
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Of course I have to work hard to improve my level so that I won't be too far away from you!"
"Although my talent is average and I will never be able to awaken my spiritual roots in this life.
I am just an ordinary person.
But I told you when I left last time that ordinary people can also do great things and may not be worse than cultivators.
How many!"
"Maybe.
I can't become a cultivator in the eyes of the world, be famous all over the world, and shake the federation."
"But I can at least become my own cultivator, cultivate my own life, and control my own destiny!"
Li Yao was moved.
Under the glow of the red fire, the face of his best friend Meng Jiang was shining, full of expectations for a better life in the future, and the confidence that he was willing to make all efforts for it and fight for his destiny to the end.
This kind of light filled Li Yao's heart with joy.
Raising the glass high again: "That's so well said, Meng Jiang, we are all cultivators of our own lives.
Now that we have chosen the path we want to take, we must put in all our efforts and go on step by step, no matter how hard, no matter how difficult, no matter how tiring, Don’t give up!”
"cheers!"
"cheers!"
… Three days later, in the northwest of Xingyao Federation, in the endless Gobi desert.
The location of the Tianyuan Cannon!
The five hundred miles radius was tightly sealed by the federal army, and at least five Nascent Soul-level powerhouses were closely monitoring the sky and the earth. in the control center.
A dozen research cultivators in the Dan Formation stage lead hundreds of people in the Foundation Establishment stage.
Hundreds of experts, scholars and staff in the Qi refining period are working nervously.
There are only five minutes left before the Tianyuan Cannon is fired for the first time.
Li Yao once saw a large disk that sunk deeply into the ground, and millions of talismans began to shine, like a red sun rising slowly.
Even though it was a sunny day, the light inspired by the spiritual energy fluctuations still eclipsed the blue sky and white clouds.
In the center of the circular pit, deep in the launch silo that leads directly to the ground, a red light gets bigger and bigger, and it makes a faint roar like wind and thunder, as if a giant magma beast dormant deep underground is about to roar out.
That is the earth fire that has been calm for half a year due to the movement of the earth's crust and changes in the spiritual veins, and is about to burst out with unparalleled energy!
In the control center, cultivators are accurately calculating angles and directions, trying to add fuel to the fire's outbreak!
"The last three minutes!"
"One hundred and eight crystal bombs, activated at the same time!"
"The Earth Fire Amplification Formation is starting to operate!"
"Boom boom boom!"
A slight vibration came from deep underground, and ripples rippled in the water glass placed on the table.
Including the old monster Nascent Soul, the expressions on the faces of every cultivator were as unpredictable as ripples.
The underground rock formations that could have blocked the underground fire were blown to pieces by the crystal bomb, and the amplification array could activate the huge energy contained in the underground fire in an instant.
The launch process has begun, and no force can interrupt it.
All they can do next is wait.
Modern cultivators are natural atheists.
They may believe that there is some kind of "race of gods and demons" that is so powerful that it can destroy or transform the stars.
But I absolutely do not believe that there is a "god" that cannot be sensed, observed, or proven, and controls everything in the dark!
However, in these nearly stagnant three minutes, many of the most staunch atheists in daily life, like the ancient cultivators 40,000 years ago, muttered and prayed to gods that did not exist.
The magnitude of the mountain shaking and the ground shaking is getting bigger and bigger, and the red light in the launch silo is getting more and more dazzling.
Within hundreds of miles, scorching steam spurts out from underground cracks, converging into clouds of white mist, and the temperature at least rises.
More than ten degrees.
The name of the Tianyuan Cannon is just right, which explains the structure of this super teleportation array.
The star track is like a rifling, spiraling downward in the launch silo.
There are five star shuttles in total, each one hundred meters apart, parked quietly at the bottom of the launch silo.
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In one of the star shuttles, the star patrollers sang loudly, and the loud national anthem and military songs repeatedly echoed in the narrow cabin.
In another star shuttle, the Star Patrollers were making crude and wild jokes to express their deep inner tension.
There was silence in the two star shuttles.
Every star patroller closed his eyes and listened quietly to the roar of the fire beneath his feet.
There is only one minute left before launch!