Forty Millenniums of Cultivation

Zhou Zhenghao beamed and nodded.

Although Li Yaoʼs proposal was only palliative, it did solve his urgent problem and was not difficult to put into practice. In fact, it was much easier than resolving the insubstantial mental issues.

His depression caused by elimination was instantly gone!

Zhou Zhenghao even felt that he was lucky to have met Li Yao in the elimination match.

Eliminated by the Thunder Training Camp, he could still try other training camps, or accumulate experience from real combats. There was still a good chance that one day he could become a strong Exo.

But without Li Yaoʼs enlightenment, the leg injury wouldʼve been likely to bother him forever!

”I canʼt thank you enough!”

Zhou Zhenghao paused for a while. Then he said, ”Li Yao, from the way you tossed the axes just now, I can see that your speed and strength were both good enough, albeit not without a lack of subtleness. It appears to me that you havenʼt done much training with flying axes and you were merely throwing them away with brute force.

”In fact, there are many tricks you can use to flying axes. Once you get to the bottom of it and wield axes with your full abilities, the axes will be ten times more intimidating than the flying swords! Iʼve practiced axes-flying for a while, and I think I have some shallow understandings about how to best use it. If itʼs not too presumptuous of me, we could discuss this and see if thereʼs any improvement.”

He was trying to return the favor and also make friends with Li Yao.

After the soul-stirring combat, Zhou Zhenghao was aware of how strong Li Yao was and thought Li Yao deserved his respect.

Also, Li Yao pointed out his problem without holding back and helped to resolve it, which indicated a good personality.

Moreover, Zhou Zhenghao had long known that Li Yao was a Refiner whose name was on the rise.

Now that he was lucky enough to meet a young, strong, upright, genius Refiner who was destined to be the star of tomorrow in the world of Cultivators, how could he miss such a rare opportunity to make friends of him?

This was also how Cultivators normally made new friends and expanded their social network.

What he said lit up Li Yaoʼs eyes, who leaned forwarded and said earnestly, ”Not presumptuous at all. I, for one, admire Brother Zhouʼs strength very much. A super-heavy crystal suit is not something that some random guy can play with!

”I was only taking advantage of my familiarity with the structure of the crystal suit.

”If we have another fight and youʼre aware of the weakness under your arm, there is no way that I will defeat you.

”Youʼre correct. I never learnt the art of flying axes. When I tossed the electromagnetic axes, I did feel that something was wrong. My tremendous strength couldnʼt be transmitted into the axes, and it near suffocated me. Please do enlighten me, Brother Zhou!”

Zhou Zhenghao smiled.

”Your strength is indeed abundant. The explosive power inside your body is disproportional to your tiny figure. What a beast! The key is breathing. Your breath must reverberate with the electromagnetic momentum in a sophisticated way. The following things are of paramount importance…”

Two training maniacs started discussing wholeheartedly.

The breathing method introduced by Zhou Zhenghao gave Li Yao major inspiration, while several of Li Yaoʼs ideas on how to exert oneʼs force caused cold sweat to break out on Zhou Zhenghaoʼs forehead.

The more they talked, the more topics they found themselves both interested in. From the art of flying axes, tricks of super-heavy crystal suitsʼ small-scale movement, ways to minimize the enemyʼs range of activity by flying swords, to the question how to lure the enemy into the Thunder Axe Battlesuitʼs sprint distance.

The two of them were chatting with their arms waving up and down. Even after the instructors escorted both of them out of the arena, they were still in high spirits.

”Iʼm terribly sorry that I eliminated you. I wish we could still learn from each other in the training camp.”

Li Yao meant what he said.

”Indeed, it is regretful. But it doesnʼt matter now.”