Chapter 488
Chapter 488: Such Training! Such Technique!
Translator: flycrane01 Editor: Millman97
Right then, Li Yao raised his head and smiled in her direction .
Xie Anan was suddenly alarmed . For some reason, although his eyes were calm and clear, they effected a much higher pressure on her than Sister Long's .
She couldn't help but walk out to Li Yao . She hesitated for a long time but did not dare to sit down . Instead, she crouched and observed the minced pig liver curiously .
Li Yao had noticed his 'tail' a long time ago, but he didn't sense any hostility from her . Since they were going to meet again the next day, and he was not familiar with the territory of the Skyhill Domain, he didn't want to make a fuss just in order to get rid of her .
Li Yao didn't greet Xie Anan . He took off the grey gloves softly .
His hands didn't look abnormal at first, except for the black stripes around the fingers .
But Xie Anan's eyes were wide open when she took a closer look, because she discovered that the black stripes were actually made of almost a hundred tiny ants .
These ants were attached to the skin of Li Yao's hands which seemed to boast a weird attraction force . They had been hiding behind the grey gloves!
Li Yao placed his hands near the minced pig liver . The moment the ants smelled the stink of blood from the liver, they crawled down his fingertips like two armies and started enjoying the food .
Li Yao explained, "Please do excuse me . I didn't want to leave early, but the ants were too hungry . If I don't feed them, they will go mad soon, and when they do, even I won't be able to resist them . "
Xie Anan blinked and observed the ants suspiciously again .
The ants were only a third the size of regular ants . They were a glamorous violet color, as if they'd been carved from purple crystals . They seemed to be wearing glittering battlesuits, which made them extraordinarily beautiful .
Xie Anan felt that the ants looked familiar .
She thought for a moment, before cold sweat suddenly covered her . She was barely able to keep herself from falling down . She lost control and exclaimed, "Purple Ring Sword Ants! They are the Purple Ring Sword Ants!"
Purple Ring Sword Ants were a kind of insect that were aggressive and lustful for meat . They could release a special poison when they bit their prey . The pain was so excruciating that one might feel that they had been stabbed by a flying sword, which was also the reason such insects were known as 'sword ants' .
According to the analysis of the specialists, the pain resulting from a bite of a Purple Ring Sword Ant was five times more intense than the pain caused by a demon lion's or a demon tiger's!
Moreover, the poison took effect on the central nerves directly and could even interact with the spiritual energy inside a Cultivator's body . However high one's Cultivation was, it was impossible to hold back the pain!
Purple Ring Sword Ants definitely ranked among the top 10 of all spiritual insects in regard of terribleness .
Xie Anan's head was dizzy, and she couldn't believe her eyes . Common Cultivators would always try to stay as far away from Purple Ring Sword Ants as possible . Yet, the guy had been keeping so many Purple Ring Sword Ants on his hands?
Xie Anan knew that Purple Ring Sword Ants loathed restrictions and were never to be caged or domesticated . With the limited space inside the gloves, these insects were definitely irritated to the most furious point and would bite everything they ran into!
Was he not scared of the biting?
What's more—
Xie Anan recalled what had happened just now and was suddenly dumbfounded .
This guy, Li Yao, had been competing with so many expert refiners with a pair of hands that were packed with Purple Ring Sword Ants and was only a few minutes slower than them!
It was funny that everybody thought that his capability was hindered a little bit by the thick gloves; they never knew the existence of such terrible Purple Ring Sword Ants!
If there were no ants on his hands, how horrifying would his true capability have been?
Xie Anan's brain went blank as she stammered, "Are you not scared of being bitten?"
Li Yao warmed up his fingers and inspected the tiny injuries on them with the man-made sunlight from the sky . Then he explained, "This is a special way of training to improve the sensitivity of my hands and my control over the muscles on them .
"Scary as Purple Ring Sword Ants are, they always show signs before they bite, just like tigers need to crouch before they lunge forward .
"As long as one senses the signs of attack in advance, one can control the muscles on the hand to collapse the part where they are biting or simply interfere with them through spiritual threads . In such a way, their attacks can be interrupted .
"So, I'm not afraid of their biting . "
Xie Anan was dazed . She was speechless for a long time before she opened her mouth again . "But… but there are almost a hundred Purple Ring Sword Ants, which are launching attacks all the time!"
Li Yao said, "Not almost a hundred . There are only 91 of them in total .
"Of course, it is not an easy job to deal with so many Purple Ring Sword Ants . At first, I only put five on either of my hands, and yet I was bitten every other few minutes . But practice makes perfect . After training for a few days, the number of them gradually increased . "
Training the sensitivity of the hands with Purple Ring Sword Ants was a real secret technique of the Hundred Smelting Clan .
Li Yao had known the secret art from the classics of the Heavenly Refining Tower . However, back in the Heaven's Origin Sector, there were no Purple Ring Sword Ants that he could use .
Other spiritual insects were either too large or too picky about living environments . Their poison was not intense enough to trigger enough pain, and sometimes there were corrosive contingents inside the poison that could paralyze the nerves on the hands . None of them were suitable for the training with this technique .
After Li Yao arrived in the Flying Star Sector, he had discovered that many world fragments of this Sector were home to Purple Ring Sword Ants .
Li Yao had spent a huge fortune on a batch of Purple Ring Sword Ants online . Then, he'd weaved the pair of gloves with certain Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that simulated the living environment of the ants so that they could stay inside for long periods without dying .
More than half of his money had actually been spent on these little insects and the things they required .
But the outcome was obvious, too . The sensitivity of Li Yao's hands had soared exponentially . He had reached 'Ninety-Ant level' very quickly . Ninety-one ants crawled all over his hands and continued biting him, yet all the attacks missed because of Li Yao's delicate control over the muscles in his hands .
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