Guan Xiong laughed loudly, his beard curled up: "A group of little snakes, insects, rats and ants want to suck me dry, go back and practice for another hundred and eighty years! I just fell from the high level of the foundation period to the middle level. That's all, go back and practice for another three to five years, and you will be a living dragon again!"
Li Yao's heart sank when he heard that.
The way of cultivation is full of difficulties and dangers, and every promotion is extremely difficult. Hard work, resources, luck, opportunities... all are indispensable.
After many people cultivate to a certain level, they stay there for the rest of their lives, unable to advance half a step.
Although Guan Xiong is downplaying it, Li Yao knows that it is not so easy to go back to the middle level after falling from the high level of the foundation building period.
Not to mention three to five years, bad luck, ten or twenty years, or even a lifetime, don't even think about going back to practice.
Suffering such a major blow, Guan Xiong still kept his face unchanged, chatting and laughing happily, he is worthy of being a man of the wild with iron and copper!
Thinking of this, Li Yao nodded, and laughed loudly: "That's right, the heroic scene of Brother Xiong rushing forward to the beast tide is still echoing in my mind at this moment. At the first level of Qi, you can still practice and go back!"
"Good boy, you are right, I like you!"
Guan Xiong took out a bottle of spirits from nowhere, crushed the bottle with his teeth, and "gudong gudong" meant that half of the bottle went down.
The wine flowed into the medical potion along his beard, making a "chi chi" sound, and balls of bubbles appeared, but he didn't care, and drank heavily.
Li Yao crawled out of the medical cabin, stood on the ground and moved his hands and feet, feeling the brand new body after becoming a cultivator.
He felt something was wrong, why was his whole body sore and his right eye was swollen
There is a small mirror on the bedside table next to it. When I took it out, I found that my nose was bruised and my face was swollen, and my head was swollen like a pig's head.
And there was a bandage wrapped around his body, with blood stains oozing faintly.
"Is it a side effect of the spiritual root awakening?"
Li Yao was puzzled, he never heard that the awakened spirit root would turn into a pig's head.
Guan Xiong burped: "You don't remember? You were beaten by a kid named Jiang Tao."
"what?"
Li Yao gritted his teeth. "It's simply deceiving people too much. Could it be that the Jiang family's children can beat people casually in public?"
Guan Xiong was speechless, blinked his eyes, and looked at Li Yao with a very strange look.
Li Yao's heart was trembling when he saw it, and he patted his head. Feeling that he seemed to have missed a very important thing, he said anxiously: "Brother Xiong, did I say something wrong?"
Guan Xiong smiled "hehe", turned on the micro crystal brain, and called up a three-dimensional photo.
A bloody monster suddenly appeared in the photo. It's like a skinned monkey, half-dead, dripping with feces and urine, with only one breath left.
Li Yao was taken aback: "What kind of monster is this? It looks so ugly, it makes people sick to look at it for a long time. Brother Xiong, what do you mean?"
Guan Xiong said: "This is not a monster, this is Jiang Tao."
Li Yao was stunned: "Jiang Tao? How could he..."
"What do you think? I was beaten by you!"
"I?"
Li Yao was speechless for a long time. After being stunned for a while, I vaguely remembered that it seemed that I really did it first, and that Young Master Jiang was just acting in self-defense. And after only defending for two rounds, he was powerless to fight back, letting him ravage him like a three-year-old child.
Guan Xiong was amazed:
"You are really cruel, but you are just a first-level cultivator in the Qi-refining stage who has just been promoted, and you can beat up a third-tier cultivator in the Qi-refinement stage until he is out of shape, and he is still lying in the intensive care unit! Look! Your appearance is considered gentle, but I didn't expect you to be so violent when you go crazy!"
The corner of Li Yao's mouth twitched. Make a light fist.
He finally remembered that his first punch had slammed into Jiang Tao's face. Slam his nose all the way into his face.
The refreshing feeling of blood splashing and bone bursting is really wonderful.
Guan Xiong said with a smile:
"Boy, you are too impulsive. You beat a Jiang family boy like this. It's too late to regret."
"regret?"
Bit by bit, Li Yao slowly recalled the whole incident, and also recalled what Jiang Tao said.
His expression gradually changed from confusion and hesitation to an indomitable determination.
"Brother Xiong, you're wrong. The matter of beating Jiang Tao until he pissed and pooped... I didn't act impulsively, and I didn't regret it at all."
"Oh?" Guan Xiong raised his eyebrows, like two swords out of their sheaths.
Li Yao clenched his fists and stretched them flat in front of him. Feeling the pleasure of the spiritual energy penetrating through the meridians, strengthening the muscles, and blazing on the fists, he said word by word:
"Whether it's Ding Yin's seven cultivators, or Brother Xiong, in order to save the lives of a carload of people, knowing that you must die, you still go forward and fight to the end. You are all heroes, and even Li Yao's savior!"
"Now someone is calling my savior an 'idiot' in front of my face, how can I swallow my anger and be a coward?"
"If I don't hit his nose in the head, or beat him till he piss and shit, I'm not even a man, and I'm still a cultivator!"
"Jiang Tao wants to take revenge. It's alright to come. I grew up in the tomb of the magic weapon. There are not one or two people who want to kill me. When I was seven years old, I was surrounded by a dozen strong men with machetes. But now , I'm still alive and kicking!"
There was a hint of ferocity in Li Yao's eyes, and he said with a smile:
"Originally, I wanted to use the nickname 'Demon Star' to walk in the wilderness, but Jiang Tao really wants my life, and I don't mind letting the terrible name of 'vulture' resound throughout the wilderness!"
Guan Xiong was moved, and slapped the medical cabin hard, leaving a penetrating handprint on the metal shell, and shouted: "Good boy, you are a man, you friend, old Guan is settled!"
After a pause, he smiled again, "But you don't have to worry, you got lucky this time, there was a monitoring probe on the ceiling behind you, even though the sound collector is broken, you can still monitor it. On the screen, according to Jiang Tao's mouth shape in the screen, experts identified everything he said, that is to say, everything he said was recorded. This kid has touched the bottom line of a cultivator. He is dead, and the Jiang family can't keep him. "
"The bottom line for a cultivator?" Li Yao was taken aback.
Guan Xiong nodded and explained:
"That's right, although in the circle of cultivators there are rules such as 'protecting ordinary people is the bounden duty of cultivators' and 'the blood of the strong must be shed for the weak', after all, not every cultivator is willing to hesitate Die generously."
"If a cultivator flees in the face of a catastrophe, although the news will be ugly, other than condemning him morally, others can't say much. After all, life is precious. No one is born obliged to sacrifice for others."
"However, Jiang Tao not only ran away, but also humiliated the cultivator who made the sacrifice afterwards, and even threatened you. This kind of behavior has violated the bottom line of the cultivator!"
Guan Xiong took a deep breath. sighed:
"The vast universe, the endless sea of stars, besides our human race, there are many other powerful races—monsters, demons, extraterrestrial demons, not to mention all kinds of weird alien races in the starry sky."
"The reason why our human race can conquer these demons and heretics and stand at the strongest peak in the universe is that the practitioners and ordinary people unite as one, live and die together. Fight side by side!"
"Although cultivators are powerful and have a long lifespan, they are too few in number. Moreover, there are various restrictions on the use of spiritual energy."
"Although ordinary people are poor in combat power, they are numerous and have strong reproductive power, which can support a large-scale interstellar civilization across the star field."
"Not to mention, the vast majority of cultivators are born from ordinary people. And among the descendants of cultivators, a large part of them are ordinary people."
"Cultivators are fish. Ordinary people are water. Cultivators are trees, and ordinary people are the solid earth. In a word, a huge number of ordinary people is the foundation that supports the cultivation world. Without ordinary people, the cultivation world will completely collapse. !"
"For example, the spar battleship floating above our heads is designed and refined by practitioners, but in the manufacturing process, it also needs thousands of ordinary workers to assist, not to mention a series of supporting large industrial systems , were built by ordinary people!"
"Without the efforts of hundreds of millions of ordinary people and without the foundation of a powerful interstellar civilization, we cultivators can refine simple flying swords at most, how could we refine so many large-scale super magic weapons, how could we create such brilliant Splendid comprehension civilization?"
"If Jiang Tao's words are spread and heard by tens of billions of ordinary people in the Federation, at a light level, it will cause dissatisfaction among ordinary people and increase the hostility of ordinary people towards cultivators; at a serious level, it will cause cultivators and With the division of ordinary people, the foundation for the existence of the Federation will be gone, so why should we compete with the Yaozu, Demon Dao, and alien races in the starry sky?"
"To put it bluntly, if your cultivators are a bunch of gutless gangsters and top-notch scum, what's the difference between you and a demon cultivator? If I'm an ordinary person, it's fine to just join the demon cultivator. What do you want you to do as a cultivator?"
"The elders of the Jiang family must have told Jiang Tao about these principles, but this kind of wealthy son grew up in a greenhouse, has never experienced wind and rain, and is used to being domineering. How can he take these words to heart?"
"There is a big incident this time, there must be trouble waiting for him, you don't have to worry too much."
Li Yao breathed a sigh of relief after listening, and concluded:
"I understand. What Brother Xiong means is that you can choose to be a coward, but you can't take cowardice and cowardice as a matter of course after becoming a coward, and turn around and insult heroes—this is the bottom line of a cultivator. right?"
Guan Xiong gave a thumbs up: "Yes, the summary is in place."
Li Yao is now a ignorant rookie in the cultivation world, and wants to ask Guan Xiong for some inside information and rules of the cultivation world.
The tent was suddenly lifted by a female major with an icy temperament. She scanned around, her gloomy eyes resting on Guan Xiong's hand.
Guan Xiong's expression changed, and the wine bottle suddenly disappeared.
As if nothing had happened, he looked at the female major innocently.
The female major snorted softly, and said coldly: "I'll deal with you later!"
As he spoke, he threw a set of combat uniforms without badges towards Li Yao: "Put it on and come with me, he wants to see you."
"Who?"
Li Yao blinked, but didn't ask, he put on his combat uniform honestly, and followed behind the female major.
When he reached the door of the tent, Li Yao stopped and asked Guan Xiong one last question:
"Brother Xiong, when you single-handedly rushed into the overwhelming beast tide just now—did you really never think of dying?"
Guan Xiong grinned, took out the wine bottle from nowhere and took a big gulp, winked his eyes and said, "Boy, I didn't become a cultivator for such a boring thing as 'immortality'."
"If it's not for longevity, then why?" Li Yao asked.
"Of course it's for the joy of killing a thousand with one rider!"
Guan Xiong laughed loudly, and drank the spirits in one gulp, "Kacha Kacha", he even chewed up the bottle and swallowed it, his beard full of shards. ()
...