Chapter 2 Light curtains

　　Five hours later, night fell. 　　Next to the 23rd special garbage disposal site is the "Sunrise New Village". 　　Although the name was nice, Sunrise New Village was one of the most dilapidated low-cost housing neighborhoods in Fuego City. 　　Because of the relationship near the tomb of the magic treasure, the environment here is very poor, the air is filled with a pungent odor, even if the main city is blue sky, here is also a gray cloudy piece, in the floating city of nineteen low-cost housing in the community, is the lowest level of a, naturally, the rent is also the lowest. 　　And then low rent, not many people like to live in the garbage dump next to a lot of residential buildings vacant, coupled with the age of repair, the facade is covered with cracks, cobwebs in the hallways, is simply a ghost town. 　　Li Yao is this "ghost city" of the permanent residents. 　　He likes this place is quiet enough, in the home repair and transformation of magic treasure will not be noisy others, from the magic treasure tomb and close to the rent is also cheap, it is simply a one-two punch. 　　His home is a set of more than fifty square meters of suite, inside and outside two rooms, the outer room to eat and drink, inside the bedroom but transformed into a treasure repair studio. 　　Upon entering the room, the first thing that caught his eye was the hundreds of crystal brains hanging down from the ceiling with ropes, like hundreds of tiny skulls. 　　Most of these crystal brains were hundreds of years old and had lost their computing power, and were picked up by Li Yao as a collector's item - he was a fan of crystal brains, and was very interested in this kind of magic treasure that could mimic a cultivator's brain to compute thousands of thoughts. 　　The not-so-large living room was littered with physical books that were rare in this era, from "Outline of Magic Treasure Maintenance", "Brief Tutorial on Elementary Flying Sword Refining", "Self-Cultivation of a Refiner", to "Black Mountain Old Demon Class Crystalline Battleship Maintenance Manual", "Ninety-Nine Ways to Blast a Planet", many of which were hundreds of years old, gray, yellow and crispy. 　　Surrounded by the books and crystal brains was a half-used grass mat, which was Li Yao's dining table, chair and bed. 　　And in the inner room's magic treasure repair workshop, it was piled up with strange and exotic treasures that he had picked up from the junkyard, cold and shining flying swords, talismans that were stroked with a dragon's snake, and elixirs that smelled of a strange aroma ...... 　　More magic treasures were disassembled by him into the most basic components and piled haphazardly in the corners, turning into several miniature mountains of garbage. 　　At this moment, Li Yao was holding a silver-white box-shaped magic treasure, his eyes glittering like a big gray wolf that had seen a white rabbit, and the corners of his mouth almost didn't trickle down a mouthful of saliva. 　　The flying sword with black feathered wings was probing behind him like a curious fat snake. 　　"Surprisingly, it's the latest generation of 'Stereoscopic Light Curtain Instrument' introduced by the Thousand Illusions Sect, which sells for more than twenty thousand dollars on the market! If it can be repaired, it will sell for ten thousand or so at any rate... Blackie, this time we've made a fortune!" Li Yao couldn't help but whistle. 　　The black flying sword "squeak" sound, two pieces of protective wings up and down, dancing, even showed a trace of and the owner of the same "greed" flavor. 　　Li Yao's hand shook, between his fingers appeared seven or eight strange maintenance tools, some like screwdrivers, some like small tweezers, as well as long and thin silver needles and curved tools that could not be named. 　　"Blackie, guess how many seconds?" 　　The black flying sword "squeaked" and sneered twice, using the tip of the sword to gesture a "50" in the void. 　　"Fifty seconds? Underestimate me!" 　　The eyelids closed, took a deep breath, calmed down for three seconds, and when he opened his eyes again, the greed and excitement in his eyes were nowhere to be seen, leaving only the coolness of an ancient well and overflowing confidence. 　　Li Yao's hands suddenly launched, ten fingers into ten streams of light, the silver-white treasure completely covered, at first you can still vaguely see the movement of the fingertips of the trajectory, to later can only see a dazzling white mango, white mango from the "rustle rustle" sound. 　　Half a minute later, the white aura shook, "rustling" sound disappeared, hundreds of residual shadow one by one to return to the body, Li Yao's hands are still placed in the initial position, not even a minute and a millimeter has not moved. 　　The silver-white treasure "Stereoscopic Light Curtain Instrument" had already been disassembled into 425 components by him. 　　"Thirty-nine seconds, done!" 　　Li Yao cheered, squeezed his eyes triumphantly at the black flying sword, and studied it intently. 　　"Tsk tsk, it's really worthy of being the latest model of Light Curtain Instrument refined by the 'Thousand Illusions Sect', the structure is exquisite, the balance between the spiritual forces is as if it's made in heaven, and the most impressive thing is this main chip, the fingernail cap-sized main chip is actually engraved with more than three hundred spiritual talismans, which pull each other to form more than twenty talismanic formations, the It's simply a work of art!" 　　Li Yao held a magnifying glass and carefully observed the disassembled main chip, his face was filled with pilgrimage-like fascination, as he watched, his expression became more and more grave. 　　"No...... is more than just three hundred spirit symbols, this main chip seems to have used crystal folding technology, it is stacking three chips together, storing a total of thousands of spirit symbols, making up hundreds of three-dimensional runic arrays, it's too unbelievable!" 　　The more he studied, the more profound he felt, Li Yao was completely engrossed in it, forgetting the passage of time, and after drilling into it for more than three hours, he was unable to parse out even a single complete runic formation, but he made himself dizzy, and his eyes blackened for a while. 　　He is now at most only "primary treasure repairer" level, from the "Thousand Illusions Sect" refining master level, is too far, too far. 　　If it was the "main chip" that had gone wrong, then he had no choice but to sell the three-dimensional light curtain instrument as scrap. 　　Fortunately, after inputting a spiritual energy with the "Spirit Storage Device", Li Yao found that the spiritual energy of the main chip was running smoothly, the spiritual path was clear, the runic array was stable, and there was nothing abnormal. 　　Upon closer inspection, he found that the problem was with one of the lowest-grade crystal circuit tubes, which was burnt out due to abnormal fluctuations in spiritual energy. 　　This kind of crystal circuit tube was a standard part and was easy to replace, Li Yao quickly found a replacement from his home inventory. 　　Closing his eyes, he silently recalled the disassembly process just now, a gigantic and detailed structural diagram appeared in his mind, his hands naturally launched, and in a burst of wind, the stereoscopic light curtain instrument was reassembled! 　　With the spirit storage device to input a spiritual energy, the white shell of a ghostly blue aura, like a piece of crystal clear jade, but also like a genie with life. 　　And being swept by the blue aura across his forehead, dozens of control runes naturally surfaced in the depths of Li Yao's mind. 　　"Light Curtain Instrument, turn on!" Li Yao recited silently in his heart, and a control rune in his mind immediately flashed. 　　The blue aura on the Light Curtain Instrument converged into a "back" shaped symbol, resembling a vortex, spinning twice, and from the center of the vortex, a blue beam of light shot out, and condensed into a huge light curtain in mid-air, which flickered, revealing the image of a middle-aged cultivator in Bagua Taoist robes, which was very vivid and vivid. 　　Behind the cultivator was an even more enormous light screen, which was intertwined with red and green runes, numbers, and arrows that constantly pulsed and changed. 　　The middle-aged cultivator's face was expressionless, and he said in an ancient manner, "We will continue to broadcast the financial news for all of you, and the following is an overview of the stock market - the biggest news of the day is undoubtedly the announcement of the latest generation of flying swords driven by the 'Shadowless Sword Sect' The 'Purple Electricity' runic array was introduced, it is claimed that after applying the 'Purple Electricity', the maximum speed of the flying swords can be increased by nine percent, the instant destructive power can be increased by eleven percent, and the consumed spiritual power can be decreased by five percent, which is a very obvious enhancement to the comprehensive performance of the flying swords. " 　　"Affected by this favorable impact, the No Shadow Sword School's stock price rose all the way up, before ten o'clock is close to stop and keep all the way to the closing." 　　"And the entire sword cultivation plate, including the Giant Sword Sect, the Extreme North Sword Sect, the South Sea Sword Sect, and twenty-two other sects, the stock price also went all the way up, and as of the closing bell, the sword cultivation plate as a whole rose by 5.42 percentage points." 　　"On the other hand, the stock prices of the defense-oriented 'Golden Armor Sect' and other sects are falling all the way down, analysts generally believe that with the successive introduction of new runic formations such as 'Purple Electricity', the flying sword technology will produce a revolutionary leap, and the current mainstream battle armor is simply unable to defend against the latest model of flying sword attacks, and as of the close of trading, the Golden Armor Sect's stock price fell by over 8%." 　　"The Golden Armor Sect held an impromptu press conference after the close of trading, the Golden Armor Sect spokesman, Elder Blackrock, announced that a breakthrough has been made in the research and development of the newest generation of 'Star Strike Shield' Battle Armor, and that a prototype will be released within the year, which will be able to defend against absolutely all flying sword attacks. " 　　"And in the grassland area in the north of the federation, the black nematode epidemic continues to spread, it has spread to the spirit beast breeding bases of multiple beast harnessing sects, the affected spirit beasts exceeded half a million heads, the rare disaster has made the stock price of the Imperial Beasts Sector continue to run at a low level, and the stock prices of multiple beast harnessing sects have fallen below the three-year minimum line." 　　"Okay, here's the famous stock critic Tian Xing Zi for individual stock reviews." 　　"......" 　　Li Yao watched half a day, found that the picture is stable, the sound is clear, and there are no snowflakes and specks, especially the stereoscopic sense is very strong, people have a sense of immersive, it should be fixed. 　　After thinking about it, the brain domain meditated again, "Switch to the entertainment channel." 　　With a flash of blue aura, the middle-aged cultivator and the red and green light curtains instantly disappeared, replaced by a hot stadium. 　　The large stadium that could hold 100,000 people was packed to the rafters, the crowd was noisy and boisterous, and under the flash of colorful light, 100,000 fervent young boys and girls raised their hands in the air and shouted a name together: 　　"Lu Yinxi!" 　　"Lu Yinxi!" 　　"Lu Yinxi!" 　　On the three-story high main stage, crisscrossed with dozens of sharp crystals, when the cheers of young boys and girls converged to the extreme, the thickest crystal suddenly burst, a face as cold as snow, but the eyes of a white girl as hot as magma from the crystals out of the pop-up, her waist slung a crystal stacked up as if the ancient zither, a delicate hand swept over the strings of the zither, blasted out of the clanging of the jingoism! Magic sound! 　　"If you have a dream in your heart, you should fly with arrogance, the other side of the star river is our direction! This belongs to us, cultivation! True! New! World! Era!" 　　Like all young boys and girls, Li Yao's blood began to boil. 　　The hot girl on the stage, "Lu Yinxi", is an idol female singer who has just risen in the past two years, attracting a large number of teenagers with her icy look and powerful singing style as soon as she debuted, and her famous song, "Cultivating the True World for 40,000 Years", has become popular throughout the entire federation in just half a year, and countless teenagers were inspired to embark on the road to cultivation by the very song. Cultivation of truth. 　　Li Yao was also a fan of her songs, but the reason was different from others, he liked Lu Yinxi because we all had the same life. 　　Both were orphans. 　　Li Yao was born in the 23rd Special Garbage Disposal Yard, and the sky had always been gray and yellow since he could remember. 　　He ate the rotten meat in the garbage, drank the polluted water, relied on beast-like instincts and a little "secret" deep in his memory to survive, and was bullied from the beginning to become the most dangerous "vulture" in the tomb of the magic treasure more than ten years later. 　　If it wasn't for the appearance of "Pops", Li Yao would have been hanging around in the garbage dump, becoming another "fat dragon" or "wild wolf". 　　But one day, six years ago, a garbage ship threw Pops down together with dozens of tons of garbage, and Li Yao was so compassionate that he dragged Pops, who was bruised and battered, back to his home. 　　From then on, his fate changed completely. 　　Pops never talked about his origin, Li Yao only knew that he must be a very powerful magic treasure modification expert, in just five years, Pops taught Li Yao tens of thousands of strange and bizarre magic treasure modification techniques, and also taught him all kinds of basic disciplines, and also spent money to pay for him to go to the city's private high school, so that he could integrate into the normal society. 　　A year ago, the old man died of an old injury, leaving Li Yao a mysterious flying sword called "Black Wing", which is said to be a weird guy that he had studied for most of his life but could not figure out a way, and there is also a quote: 　　"Xiao Yao, in my life, I've traveled to dozens of great worlds and seen tens of thousands of treasure modification masters and weapon refining masters, and your talent is the highest!" 　　"To be able to repair a low-ranked magic treasure with the hands of a mere mortal, you, are truly amazing." 　　"But relying on talent alone is not enough! Relying on talent alone, you'll only ever be able to repair low-ranked magic treasures, civilian magic treasures!" 　　"Promise Pops that you'll study hard, and strive to go to university and become a cultivator! Only by becoming a cultivator will you be able to go further in the repair of magic treasures, and even one day ......" 　　"Become a true master refiner!" 　　The scene when Pops said these words, with his eyes wide open, the essence in his eyes blossoming and his aura boundless, was still fresh in Li Yao's memory. 　　Master Weapon Refiner ah ...... that was one of the most respected professions in the circle of cultivators. 　　He did not know if he would let his old dad down. 　　The black winged sword silently accompanied him, listening to the young girl in the light screen instrument like a volcanic eruption of singing, the two protective wings are still twisting with the powerful song and dance. 　　After a long time, the teenager's eyes brightened up, and the corner of his mouth rekindled a smile full of concern. 　　"What's the point of thinking so much? No matter what, just fight!" 　　"Lu Yinxi can go from a little orphan girl to the hottest female singer in the Federation, why can't I go from a little trash bug to a true master refiner?" 　　The teenager remembered a phrase he had heard a long, long time ago, far, far away: 　　"Always have a dream, what if it comes true?"