Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

“Hunters!”

Li Yao touched his chest and felt a thick, stinky liquid. The bullet-proof and stab-proof suit made of super fiber was as fragile as a wet newspaper under the hunter’s attack. Li Yao felt that every pore on his body was constricting in excruciating pain.

But he still tried his best to keep calm and perceive every millimeter of the other party’s movement in the darkness. At the same time, he shouted, “Lady Gray Mist told me a lot of things. I also heard you and Zhang Daniu talk about a lot of things. Tell me—if we are really living in the labyrinth of time and the prison of reincarnation, why don’t you think of a way to escape together with us? Why do you have to be a pitiful and pathetic dog?”

“Because it is impossible for us to get out.

The indifferent voice of the hunter came over from the darkness. However, what was completely different from the voice was his extremely sharp attack. Before he finished his sentence, he turned into countless gusts of wind again and attacked Li Yao from various angles. The suffocating feeling that seemed to have frozen the space assaulted Li Yao’s heart again.

Thankfully, after swallowing the soul fragment in the depths of Teacher Zhang Jiashu’s brain, Li Yao’s strength had increased by a large margin. He was actually able to barely keep up with the pace of the hunter. The two of them exchanged a series of dazzling and gorgeous attacks in the nearly solidified space. It was clearly a collision of flesh and blood, but it seemed as if they were going to collide into a series of dazzling sparks.

At this moment, Spartan, who was not far away, roared again. Plasma illuminated the dark tunnel briefly, allowing Li Yao to see that the hunter had drawn his pistol, the muzzle of which was very close to his nose.

“Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang!”

The hunter shot out seven bullets in a row. Thankfully, Li Yao reacted in time and collapsed as if he had no bones. He dodged the bullets and kicked the hunter’s tibia hard. When the brilliance of the plasma died down, the two of them were peaceful and peaceful again.

“In the hundreds of reincarnations, countless hot-blooded young men who were full of hope and ambition like you overestimated themselves and tried to challenge the prison, but none of them ended well.

The hunter hid the red-hot muzzle behind his back and continued, “Student Li Yao, what exactly do you want to do? Destroy this prison, or completely destroy this planet? This beautiful, brilliant planet inhabited by six billion people, our only home? Do you know how dark and dangerous the world outside the Reincarnation Prison is? Do you know how bleak and painful our future will be without Earth? No, you know nothing about the real universe. You will only destroy yourself and the future of six billion people!

“While the situation can still be sorted out, quickly give up your ridiculous fantasy and return to the right path. If you join the Heaven’s Enlightenment Organization, you will be able to get almost everything within the rules. Not just in this life, but also in the next five or ten lives. Everything you desire can fall from the sky. You can have whatever you want easily. You will become the true guardian of Earth!”

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“Then what?”

Li Yao sneered, “Do I have to watch the earth being destroyed time and time again without doing anything?”

BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM!

Gunshots echoed in the darkness again. The hunters were firing at where Li Yao was sneering.

But Li Yao was not there, just as the hunter was not in the place where his voice came from. The attacks from both sides hit nothing but air.

“After all, we have almost unlimited lives. We can be reborn after every destruction. Does it matter?

The hunter continued his persuasion, as if he were not the one who had shot the fatal bullet at Li Yao. “Is there anything wrong with such a life?”

“Not good. Not good at all.”

Holding his breath, Li Yao tightened his grip on the light sword on his waist. He raised every hair on his body and used it as an antenna to search for the traces of the hunter. “If we give in or even indulge in such a life, are we really living lives, or are we puppets manipulated by someone else? Or are we even more miserable than puppets? A series of figures in a supercomputer? No. Whether it is happiness or pain, whether it is success or failure, whether it is peace or war, none of that matters. I just don’t like being controlled, anesthetized, and defined by someone else!

“Whatever is outside the reincarnation prison, whether the universe is darker than we imagined or not, it is our own choice. We are willing to pay any price. No force can bind us!

“We’ve made our choice!

The hunter raised his voice. “A long time ago, we chose the unscrupulous and lawless path, only to destroy everything, including ourselves and the universe. Right now, the prison of reincarnation is the consequence that we must bear. We must reflect on all our mistakes and wash away all our sins. Only after billions of reincarnations can we be reborn!

“Right now, we are not far from the end of the reincarnation. I can vaguely sense that most of the heroic spirits have washed away the sins deep inside their souls and become pure and free. But the few of you… germs, viruses, and cancer are not satisfied yet. They are still restless and want to lead the six billion heroic spirits down the wrong path again so that the billions of years of punishment and redemption will be wasted. No. I will not let you succeed.”

“What a joke!”

Li Yao shouted, “Who is qualified to judge and punish us except ourselves? What is the so-called ‘will of the earth’? I will not allow such a monster to order us around and control our lives!

“You really don’t understand anything, Student Li Yao.”

The hunter smiled. “The ‘will of the earth’ is not a monster. Of course, it is not a planet such as Earth that has come to life and has its own life. The so-called ‘will of the earth’ is the will of all the earthlings. It is the intense regret, pain, guilt, fear, unwillingness, and so on. It is the ultimate product of a series of emotions. It is our strong desire to repair the universe that we destroyed with our own hands. It is our own verdict!

“Therefore, it was not somebody else who built such a prison of reincarnation and threw us into it. It was us who created such a marvelous space and performed a sincere meditation and prayer for the six billion souls of the deceased thousands of times over billions of years. Or in your words, it was a special ‘closed-door training’!

“Right now, our training is coming to an end. We are going to arrive in the universe in a brand-new appearance and embark on a brand-new journey, and you are going to return everything to the original point at such a critical moment. Do you really know what you are doing?”

“What—”

Li Yao was dazed.

Right then, the roaring train drove out of the tunnel.

In front of him was a mountain pass between two towering mountains. A bridge flew across the mountain pass. Under the ravaging of lightning, thunder, and storm, the bridge seemed to be shivering and in peril.

In the middle of the hill, there should’ve been a stream that was so clear that one could see the bottom of it. But right now, it was drowned by the torrential rain and the mud on the two sides of the hill, turning into a raging dragon that was roaring earsplittingly.

Shua!

When the dim lights outlined the two of them, the hunter had already lunged close from Li Yao’s left. A luxurious black umbrella had appeared in his hand at some point. He slashed the umbrella at Li Yao’s abdomen like a saber. Despite Li Yao’s quick reactions, he still left a deep wound on Li Yao’s body.

Li Yao took the opportunity to turn on his light sword and waved it.

Hum! Hum! Hum!

After what sounded like a fluorescent light, the hunter’s right hand, which was holding the umbrella, flew into the air. The wound seemed to have been burnt by a high temperature.

BAM BAM BAM BAM!

The hunter was not affected by the super weapon in Li Yao’s hand at all, nor was he sad about his missing right arm for even half a second. His left hand was still holding the gun in the most precise and stable way, firing all the bullets at Li Yao’s face.

His patience and calmness finally had an effect. Li Yao’s entire body shook as if he had been shot. He fell off the top of the train and fell below the raging bridge. His lightsaber also flew out of his hand and flew far away.

“Li Yao!”

The grey mist lady exclaimed in shock not far away. However, she had been harassed by several other Awakeners of the Heaven’s Origin Sector, too, who also had their own team and would not be able to get rid of them easily.

Right then, something unexpected happened.

The flying sword was far away from Li Yao and even out of everyone’s sight.

However, as if it had been pulled by a mysterious force, it made a weird turn in midair and pierced through the wall and the roof of the tank from below. Scorching flames pierced through the tank and crawled out of the hunter’s feet.

The hunter did not expect that Li Yao had grasped the technique of controlling objects from a long distance in only several days, and that he could control the direction, distance, and angle so precisely.

All his attention was focused on Li Yao, who was falling from the sky. He did not expect that a light sword would crawl out of his feet. The crimson brightness pierced through the middle axis of his body and split him into two halves from his crotch to his head.

It was not until this moment that Li Yao threw out his belt, hooked onto the window of the train, and jumped up again.

Sweat the size of beans was all over his face. He glanced at the dead body of the hunter to make sure that the guy was dead for sure. Then he looked at the shocking wounds the size of bowls on his shoulders and abdomen and was somewhat relieved.

That was close!

If he hadn’t paid such a high price, taken advantage of his opponent’s carelessness, and wielded a marvelous weapon that could cut through iron as if it were mud, it would have been impossible for him to take down such an important opponent like the ‘hunter’.

Neither the ark nor the apocalypse had expected that the hunter would be killed by Li Yao. They were both dumbfounded, and the place fell into a weird silence.

However, in the next second, the body of the hunter suddenly shivered!