Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Li Yao was dreaming again.

He dreamed that he was driving a burning tank on a road that was full of thorns under the dark night sky and the roaring wind. Not only did he overtake the vehicles of his competitors one after another, he also forced them to crash into each other and roar in the darkness.

Sometimes, it was not a tank that he was riding on, but an iron demon that was hundreds of times larger than a tank. He was like an invincible expert who was roaming among the stardust and laughing in the galaxy. All kinds of weird-shaped, ferocious enemies had fallen because of his roars. Even the shining stars had to restrain their furious brilliance in front of him.

The valiancy Valkyrie riding on the tyrannosaurus re-emerged and overlapped with the image of ‘Ding Lingdang’ in the novel ‘40,000 Years of Cultivation’, inviting him to ‘wake up’.

Just when he was about to agree, his opponent seemed to have been greatly affected and turned into a cluster of smoke, breaking into pieces and fleeing into the void.

Li Yao woke up and found himself lying on the bed of his dormitory. His limbs were sore, his internal organs were empty, and he had a splitting headache.

“Wu…”

He had never felt such pain in his head before, as if a burning nail had grown out of the center of his eyebrow.

He had never been so hungry before. The hunger seemed to be swallowing his own internal organs.

Holding back the pain and hunger for a long time, he recalled that he and his roommate were drunk. Then, his memory was fixed on a few kids who were fooling around in toy masks. Later… he seemed to have lost his way. He must’ve called a taxi back to school. The driver of the taxi was driving so fast that goosebumps were all over his body.

He took out his phone and looked at the time. It was already the afternoon of the next day.

“I really can’t drink like this in the future.”

Li Yao thought to himself. For a moment, he did not dare to get out of bed for fear that he would be dizzy and fall off the ladder.

He heard what Yu Xin and Zhao Kai were talking about. They were beaming with joy and gloating.

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“Li Yao, are you awake? That’s perfect. You were the last to come back yesterday. I have something to ask you!”

Hearing the noises on Li Yao’s bed, Yu Xin shouted, “Did you hear anything on the overpass when you came back?”

“What’s going on?”

Li Yao didn’t know what was going on, but the name of the bridge brought back some of his broken memories.

“God of Racing!”

Yu Xin shouted in an exaggerated manner, “The mysterious God of Racing has actually used a taxi to take down more than ten sports cars. This is truly inconceivable! Today, the entire school is discussing this matter. We thought that you would at least have heard some sound when you came back and would have some firsthand gossip!”

“Mysterious… Racing God?”

Li Yao’s eyes bulged. He vaguely remembered that there was indeed such a thing. What had he done when he was, uh, drunk?

“You can check it out on the campus network.”

Zhao Kai also laughed and said, “These guys run like lightning on the highway all day long. I don’t know how many people have woken up from their dreams. This time, they probably met a professional racer. They really deserve it!”

“Even a professional racing driver wouldn’t be this crazy, right?”

Yu Xin stuck out his tongue and said, “I’ve never heard of a taxi being able to compete with a modified sports car… How professional is this?”

Li Yao calmed himself down and opened the campus network of his school.

Since the school was very close to the highway, they were not the only dormitories that were disturbed by the roaring engine in the middle of the night. Therefore, many posts were discussing the matter.

As it turned out, when the group of bikers from last night were running as fast as lightning, a taxi appeared out of nowhere. Yes, it was an ordinary taxi that had not undergone any special modifications. The taxi squeezed into the group of bikers and sprinted among the dozen or so priceless, highly-modified sports cars. Not only did the taxi suppress all the sports cars and take the lead, it was also intentionally or unintentionally interfering with the route of the sports cars. As a result, seven to eight sports cars were continuously rear-ended. Although there were no major casualties, the sports cars worth tens of millions of dollars had turned into scrap metal. Many drivers had broken bones and were screaming. It was quite a thrilling and satisfying scene.

In the first place, the students and residents of this area loathed the street racers who disturbed the residents in the middle of the night. They had reported them many times. However, those who had the ability to drive millions of luxury cars and chase after each other were not powerless civilians. Before the big accident, they had turned a deaf ear to such reports. Now that such a serious accident had happened, these people were asking for trouble. It was unlikely that they would be able to become a racetrack near General Gao openly. At least, the students and residents would have some peace and security. They would not be stingy with a magical urban legend.

Most of the urban legends were just rumors. But the soul-stirring racing match last night on the high street of the college town had been witnessed by a lot of videos. Although most of the videos had been shot by the dashcam and were barely legible, one could still see that the rumors and the rapid brightness were tearing apart the darkness like glittering wolves and leopards.

Li Yao opened a random video clip. The deafening roar of the engine immediately triggered his memories.

Li Yao’s eyes were bloodshot, and he was sweating hard.

“It is said that the mysterious God of Racing was not driving his own car but a random taxi that was not locked.

Yu Xin was still talking. “The weirdest thing is that, although there are a lot of surveillance cameras on the side of the road, none of them captured how he stole the car. The taxi that was stolen by him was found under the highway later, too. In order to avoid quarrels with the passengers, the taxi nowadays has surveillance cameras inside, too. But the driver’s face was never captured, only a funny mask. How weird!”

“Maybe he was not a professional racer at all.

Zhao Kai thought for a moment and said, “Judging from his methods, he seems to be one of those mysterious special forces soldiers.”

“Mysterious special forces? I’m in the ‘Dragon Group’!”

Yu Xin scolded jokingly, “Your imagination is quite rich. You’ve read too many web novels!”

Li Yao could not bear to listen any longer. Jumping off the bed, he first went to the toilet to retch for a while before ruthlessly washing his face. Ignoring the shouts of his two roommates, he clutched his stomach and ran out.

He had never been so anxious, nor had he ever been so hungry. He felt that every drop of energy in every cell of his body had been drained last night. He needed to eat. He needed to eat a lot of things!

…

“Fellow student, your noodles.”

The auntie at the window of the cafeteria pushed out a bowl of noodles and stared at Li Yao with a very strange look, causing Li Yao to break out in cold sweat.

No matter who it was, after eating three bowls of “super beef noodles with beef and two sunny-side-up eggs” in one go, it was likely that the cafeteria auntie would look at them like this.

And before he ate three bowls of Super Beef Noodles, Li Yao had already run through all three cafeterias on campus. On average, he changed four windows in each cafeteria and ate food that an ordinary person might not be able to eat for half a month.

But right now, his stomach was not as hungry as before. It was no longer growling. He was still far from being full, not to mention bulging and burping.

Li Yao was not someone who liked to copy the ostrich. He thought that he was safe just because his head was buried in the sand.

He thought that the problem did not exist when he covered his eyes with his hands. Such a self-deception was not going to solve anything—he was very clear about that.

Besides, no matter how much he tried to fool himself and explain himself with excuses such as ‘illusions’, ‘nervous breakdown’, or ‘drunk’, there was no way to explain how he could eat hundreds of buns, dozens of bowls of noodles, and countless high-calorie foods.

Although he went through three cafeterias and a dozen or so windows, the way he ate was enough to attract everyone’s attention. Thankfully, it was already past dinnertime. Otherwise, he would definitely be surrounded by people.

“That’s impossible. Such a way of eating has long surpassed the limits of a glutton. He will definitely be stuffed to death!”

“But I didn’t feel uncomfortable at all. On the contrary, I felt that there seemed to be a super-compressed crystal reactor inside my stomach that turned all the food into pure energy and nourished my long-dried cells and limbs. I could even feel the growth of my muscle fibers and nerve endings. What is going on?

“Last night, the so-called God of Racing. Was it me?

“How is that possible? Although I have a driver’s license, I went to take the exam together with Yu Xin, Zhao Kai, and the others not long ago. I only passed the three tests after stumbling and stumbling. After I got my driver’s license, I didn’t even touch the steering wheel once. It’s the standard ‘original driver’. If you really want me to drive, it would be good enough if I could walk in a straight line. Moreover, I drank alcohol, so I was dizzy. I didn’t know my own name. I couldn’t even walk steadily, so how could I drive?”

“Hehe. Stop lying to yourself. How can it be possible? Haven’t you seen enough weird things over the past two days? Compared to eating hundreds of buns in a row, racing is nothing. It is much more relaxing and refreshing than eating buns!”

Li Yao held his head and moaned in pain.

A peaceful life was like the surface of a frozen lake. Once it cracked, it meant that a great change was coming. Maybe it was a storm, or maybe it was a thunderstorm. In short, it was impossible to return to the past.

Not far away from him, the TV in the cafeteria was playing the latest international news. “Tragedy is unfolding in the biggest ‘T3’ game exposition in the United States. At least three armed gunmen have broken into the hall and opened fire. Several players, spectators, and visitors have been assaulted, including the production team of the popular game ‘World of Stars’. At least a hundred people have been killed or injured… Please watch the detailed report later.”