At night, in the food street of the underground ghost market of Fuge City, in the hot food stalls, the smell of oil smoke and food, the collision of noisy human voices and spatulas, everyone's faces are shiny and full of smiles.

This is the fireworks of the world.

"Dangchang!"

The two chilled fruit wine glasses collided together, and Li Yao and Meng Jiang, his best friend in high school, drank it all, let out an unfinished smack, and smiled at each other.

"I haven't come back for three years, and the mulberry fruit wine of Lao Du barbecue is still just as enjoyable!"

Li Yao licked the corners of his mouth and sighed with emotion.

During the day, after leaving the middle school for the children of miners, he went to find his senior brother Demon Dao Peng Hai, and the two went to visit the enlightenment teacher Sun Lao together.

When Sun Lao was young, he was just a lowly Qi Refining Stage cultivator, but his eyes were like torches, and in his later years, he unearthed two super newcomers, the Demon Sword Peng Hai and the Vulture Li Yao, and even his status in the Chixiao Sect also rose.

In order to have a good relationship with Peng Hai and Li Yao, the Chixiao faction has been taking care of Sun Lao very well over the years, and arranged a good villa on the outskirts of the city for the old man to enjoy his old age.

Sun Lao has always hated the fact that Li Yao, the second lieutenant general of Chixiao, swept out of the house, and he did not fake his colors to the Chixiao faction, but liked to wander around the slums every day, trying to find the next good seedling, which was also a hobby.

Li Yao had dinner with Peng Hai and Sun Lao, and asked Peng Hai to deal with his shares in the Shuangjiao Society, and after dealing with trivial affairs, it was already nine o'clock in the evening.

It just so happened that his friend Meng Jiang also ended his three-year career in vocational college, obtained the license of an intermediate image designer, and was about to enter the society.

Li Yao and Meng Jiang hadn't seen each other for three years, so they just took this opportunity to meet at their favorite underground ghost market food street.

Steaming fried noodles with mutton fat and various skewers thicker than your arm. The spicy clams that make you cry and the fat chicken legs are all delicious foods that you have been dreaming about since high school, and they fill a large table.

"I really didn't expect that we would meet again one day, you can really do it, and you will become a foundation building monk in just three years. It's the same as the demon knife Peng Hai back then! ”

Meng Jiang poured a full wine for Li Yao with a smile, and said with emotion, "I am an ordinary person, I am afraid that I have no great success in this life, and the only thing to be proud of is to have a good friend like you!" I didn't expect that after you became a foundation building monk, you still remember me as a sworn friend, and you are willing to ask me to come to this kind of place to eat, me. Really happy! ”

"Meng Jiang, you will always be my best friend, how can I forget? Back then, I was seriously injured and fell into a coma when I was hunting monsters on Demon Jiao Island, and everyone said that I couldn't wake up, but you tried your best to defend me in school. For my sake, I also had conflicts with many people. I keep all this in mind! ”

Li Yao clenched his wine glass tightly and said with some embarrassment, "It's just that you know that becoming a cultivator is sailing against the current." If I don't advance or retreat, I have to practice frantically twenty-four hours a day, and sometimes I have to go to the battlefield, and I have to fight to the death for months, so I really don't have time. Reunite with old friends! ”

"I understand, now that the situation is so tense, you cultivators must be working hard! Since you have embarked on this path, let's devote yourself 100% to it and keep climbing up! I'm still waiting for the day when you'll come to me for a drink after you've become a primordial monster! ”

Meng Jiang smiled heartily, "Don't let me wait too long, if I become a bad old man, and you become a young monster, I'm embarrassed to take a photo with you!" ”

Li Yao also smiled: "Don't worry, I won't let you wait too long!" ”

"By the way, what about you?"

"Your dream is to become the best image designer in the Federation, and I know that you have worked very hard in school and have obtained an intermediate license that many senior image designers can't get through, so what are you going to do next? Do you work or start your own business? ”

Meng Jiang smiled slightly, and said with a little pride: "I'm going to join the army." ”

Li Yao was stunned: "Join the army? ”

"That's right."

Meng Jiang nodded and said, "Of course I want to start a business and open an image design club by myself, but you also know the environment of my family, I don't have any money at all, and my father has never supported me in this business." ”

"Now that the Federation has entered a state of first-class war, the status of soldiers has been greatly improved, and the standards for joining the army have also been relaxed.

"Secretly tell you, I went to take the test a few days ago, and I have successfully passed, and as long as the data review is okay, I will be a glorious federal army!"

"Ha, even my dad doesn't know about this news, if the old man knows, he must be angry enough!"

"That's ...... so"

Li Yao thought about it, took out a very low-key and luxurious Jin Lingtong card with a black frosted surface from his arms, put it on the greasy table, and handed it over.

Meng Jiang was stunned for a moment, a look of hesitation flashed in his eyes, he drank a glass of chilled mulberry fruit wine, took a deep breath, and pushed the card back.

Li Yao frowned and said, "Meng Jiang, we are best friends, why should you be polite to me?" This money should be enough for you to open a medium-sized image design club, you don't have to work so hard to join the army, and now it is very dangerous to go to the front line! ”

Meng Jiang glanced at the Jin Lingtong card and seemed to regret it a little, but gritted his teeth and smiled again:

"Li Yao, I know you have good intentions, and this money is nothing to you at all."

"However, I have always regarded the two of us as best friends, and the friendship I have formed since middle school is the purest thing, and I regard it as a treasure!"

"So, I can't use your money to start a business, otherwise I always feel that this kind of friendship is no longer so pure, flawed, and tasteless."

"What's more, compared to the success that can be easily obtained, I still prefer to use my own hands to fight my world little by little!"

"Only in this way, when I finally create a big image design empire, looking back on the past, I will not feel even the slightest bit of emptiness!"

"Even if one day, you really become a baby monster, I can still straighten my waist and eat meat and drink wine with you!"

These words made Li Yao ponder for a long time, and finally touched his head and laughed:

"Okay. Meng Jiang, I didn't expect that after three years of not seeing, your realm has also improved so much! ”

"Of course!"

Meng Jiang grinned, his eyes shining with pride, "With a super genius like you as a dead friend, I'm under a lot of pressure." Of course, you have to work hard to improve your realm, so as not to distance yourself too much! ”

"Although I have average talent, it is impossible for me to awaken the spiritual root in this life, I am just an ordinary person, but the last time I parted, I told you that ordinary people can also do a great career, and it may not be much worse than a cultivator!"

"Perhaps, I can't become a cultivator in the eyes of the world, and I will be famous all over the world. Shake the Commonwealth. ”

"But I can at least become my own cultivator, cultivate my own life, and control my own destiny!"

Li Yao was moved.

Under the light of the red fire, the face of the sworn friend Meng Jiang was shining, full of expectations for a better life in the future, and the confidence that he was willing to make all his efforts for this and fight to the end with fate.

This kind of light made Li Yao full of joy. Raise your glass again:

"That's a good point, Meng Jiang. We are all cultivators of our own lives, and since we have chosen the path we want to take, we should put all our efforts into it, step by step, no matter how hard it is, no matter how difficult it is. No matter how tired you are, don't give up! ”

"Cheers!"

"Cheers!"

……

Three days later, in the northwest of the Star Federation, on the endless Gobi Desert, the Tianyuan cannon was located!

A radius of 500 miles was tightly blockaded by the Federal Army. At least five Yuanying-level powerhouses were firmly monitoring the heavens and the earth.

In the control center, more than a dozen research-type cultivators in the Dan Formation Period, leading hundreds of experts, scholars and staff members in the Foundation Building Stage and Qi Refining Period, were operating nervously.

There were still five minutes left before the first launch of the Tian Yuan cannon.

Li Yao had seen that the large disc that was deeply sunken towards the ground, and millions of spirit runes began to shine, like a red sun rising.

Even though it was a sunny day, the light from the psionic fluctuations still overshadowed the blue sky and white clouds.

In the middle of the circular crater, deep in the silo that leads straight to the ground, a little red light grows bigger and bigger, and there is a faint roar like wind and thunder, like a magma beast lurking in the depths of the earth, about to roar out.

It was under the movement of the earth's crust and the changes in the spiritual veins, the earth fire that had been calm for half a year was about to burst out with incomparable energy!

And in the control center, the cultivators are accurately calculating the angle and direction, trying to add fuel to the fire of the earth!

"The last three minutes!"

"One hundred and eight hedron bombs, activated at the same time!"

"The Earth Fire Amplification Array, start running!"

"Boom, boom, boom!"

There was a slight vibration from the depths of the earth, and a circle of ripples rippled in the water glass placed on the table.

Including the primordial old monster, the expression on the face of every cultivator was as unpredictable as ripples.

The underground rock formation, which could have blocked the earth fire, was shattered by the spar bomb, and the amplification circle could make the huge energy contained in the earth fire be activated in an instant.

The launch process has already begun, and no force can interrupt it, and the next thing they can do is wait.

Modern cultivators are natural atheists.

They may believe that there is some kind of "race of gods and demons" that is incomparably powerful and capable of destroying or transforming all the stars.

But I absolutely do not believe that there is a kind of "god" that cannot be perceived, observed, or proven, and manipulates everything in the dark!

However, during these three minutes of near-stagnancy, many of the most staunch atheists on weekdays were also like ancient cultivators 40,000 years ago, babbling and praying to gods that did not exist.

The magnitude of the mountain shaking became larger and larger, the red light in the silo became more and more dazzling, and within a radius of hundreds of miles, scorching steam gushed out from the cracks in the ground, converging into a cloud of white mist with teeth and claws, and the temperature increased by at least ten degrees.

The Tian Yuan cannon is aptly named, explaining the structure of this super teleportation array, and the star orbit spirals downward in the silo like rifling.

There are a total of five shuttles, each 100 meters apart, quietly docked at the bottom of the silos.

Inside one of the shuttles, the Star Rangers sang loudly, and the loud national anthem and military anthem echoed repeatedly in the cramped cabin.

Inside the other shuttle, the Star Rangers made crude and wild jokes to express their deep tensions.

There were also two star shuttles that were silent, and each Star Ranger closed their eyes and listened quietly to the roar of the fire beneath their feet.

There is still one last minute until launch! (To be continued......)