"Rapid progress?"
Hao Liang said, "Sequence awakening has only existed for a few years, yet you wasted two years."
"That means you are about forty percent behind my progress."
"Moreover, the first three years of sequence awakening research are mostly spent exploring directions, with limited substantial progress."
"The progress I have made in these two years, Li Tianming, you cannot even imagine."
"This gap, as long as you're alive, is impossible to close."
Hao Liang's face displayed an incredibly radiant smile:
"Old Li, you can't defeat me."
Li Tianming remained silent, lowering his head and smoking his cigarette.
Guo Jiuxiao was telling the truth.
A two-year gap is indeed difficult to make up.
The other professors also couldn't refute this.
But Qin Siyang, standing nearby, spoke up, "Old Li, professors, you are really being blinded by your emotions."
"Little Qin, what do you mean by that?"
"He is Guo Jiuxiao, your sworn enemy, and you just believe whatever he says?"
Chang Tianxiong explained, "Little Qin, you have never done research before. To be honest… what Guo Jiuxiao said is actually not far from the truth."
Little Qin shook his head, "I may not understand research, but I do have a brain to think."
"Maybe it's precisely because I'm not involved in this matter that I can see things more clearly than you professors."
Then he turned to look at Hao Liang, "Professor Guo, I don't know if I should say something or not."
Hao Liang said coldly: "If you don't know whether to say it or not, then don't say it."
Qin Siyang nodded: "Alright, then I'll say it."
"…"
"Professor Guo, I have a trait. I can't stand people acting superior in front of me."
"Hmm?"
"You just said that your progress is something Old Li and the others can't even imagine, and the gap is impossible to close."
"That you've been conducting research for two years, and that the information Old Li holds is already outdated."
Hao Liang said flatly: "So what?"
"Since Professor Guo admits it, then I can't help but ask a question."
"If Old Li's information has long since stopped being a threat to you…"
"Then why did you wait until now to take action?"
"Wouldn't it have been better to just kill Old Li and Principal Zhang when they were still exiled?"
"Quietly, without anyone knowing."
Qin Siyang shrugged.
"The fact that you dare to act only now proves that you only recently made progress and no longer fear Old Li's threat."
After Qin Siyang finished speaking, everyone was slightly stunned.
Yeah.
What was Guo Jiuxiao doing before?
If he was really that powerful, why did he wait until today to act?
Li Tianming and the others looked at Qin Siyang with admiration.
Zhao Longfei also nodded secretly.
Hao Liang's eyes suddenly turned cold as he looked at Qin Siyang: "Little Qin classmate, when I wanted to talk to you, you wouldn't speak. But when I'm talking to Old Li, suddenly you have a lot to say."
Qin Siyang felt a surge of killing intent and shrank his neck: "Professor Guo, don't blame me, it's just my personality to speak bluntly."
"You were just interested in my teleportation skill, weren't you? We still have opportunities for cooperation, so let's not ruin things."
"If you're angry, take it out on Old Li! He's your true mortal enemy."
Qin Siyang admitted defeat so quickly that it caught everyone off guard.
Just a moment ago, he was full of confidence, and now he was acting timid.
Qin Siyang didn't feel embarrassed.
After all, everyone standing here was his senior.
He was still just a kid.
Moreover, Li Tianming had said that Qin Siyang was undoubtedly the weakest.
If he couldn't beat the other professors, then he definitely couldn't beat Guo Jiuxiao.
Better not to provoke someone he couldn't handle.
Anyway, Guo Jiuxiao wasn't like Xiao Zhigang. He didn't seem to want to kill him.
Qin Siyang's words made Li Tianming's forehead veins twitch.
'This kid. Every time you want to praise him, he turns around and pulls something ridiculous.'
'Making you feel both love and hate.'
Li Tianming looked at him with disdain and said: "You brat, are you a dog?"
"I'm a monkey."
Hao Liang continued: "Even if I only recently had a technological breakthrough, Li Tianming, you still won't catch up to me."
Li Tianming said: "That may not be true. As long as I break through the technological bottleneck, your threat will be eliminated."
Hao Liang scoffed: "What a joke. That so-called technological bottleneck. I have already figured it out."
"The simplest way to break through it is to create an adaptive God-hunting tool."
"But creating such an adaptive God-hunting tool is pure fantasy!"
"Not to mention the research conditions required, just gathering the necessary materials is impossible."
"And two years have passed, yet those materials are still just theoretical. At least in the safety zone, no one has ever obtained them. Even if they did, success would still be uncertain."
Li Tianming said indifferently: "And you think you know what materials my God-hunting tool requires?"
"Of course."
"Thunder Snow Wolf's fangs."
"Corrosive Black Centipede's venom sac."
"Ice Crystal Moth's ice crystal wings."
"Lava Crocodile's lava hide."
"Titan Grass's inner leaves."
"A fist-sized chunk of pure Red Crystal."
"And Yellow Silver Star Ore."
"Well? Did I get it right?"
With each item Guo Jiuxiao listed, Li Tianming's face grew darker.
Guo Jiuxiao said smugly: "Each of these things is incredibly rare."
"Even the least rare one. Thunder Snow Wolf's fangs, has already been bought up at high prices by West Glory University."
"Even if I give you three to five years, you might not be able to gather all these materials."
"Li Tianming, right now, you have no money and no power."
"Because of material constraints, your technological breakthrough is nowhere in sight."
"What do you have to fight me with?"
After hearing Guo Jiuxiao's words, everyone once again became serious, lowering their heads and sighing.
Even Zhao Longfei had a trace of worry in his eyes.
But among them…
The most conflicted expression belonged to Qin Siyang.
Even Li Tianming didn't understand why Qin Siyang looked more troubled than him when Guo Jiuxiao was criticizing him.
'Was he… heartbroken?'
'Sigh!'
'It seems that, in Qin Siyang's heart, he really cares about me.'
Qin Siyang tightly gripped the Rubik's Cube-sized storage box in his backpack.
With his other hand, he scratched his head.
Then he curiously looked at Hao Liang.
At first, he was listening with great interest.
Wanting to know what treasures Li Tianming's research was still missing.
When he first heard "Thunder Snow Wolf's fangs," he was secretly delighted.
He could help Old Li a bit.
When he heard "Corrosive Black Centipede's venom sac," he almost shouted in excitement.
Another chance to extort Old Li.
But as he kept listening, Qin Siyang's excitement faded.
The more he listened, the more something felt off.
Guo Jiuxiao wasn't just listing what Li Tianming was missing.
He was literally listing what Qin Siyang had.
'Damn.'
'Everything I own…'
'That bastard Guo Jiuxiao just exposed it all.'
'Can Guo Jiuxiao… read minds?'
Qin Siyang stared at Hao Liang.
And saw that Hao Liang's face was full of confidence.
Meanwhile, Li Tianming and Zhang Kuang, no matter how much they tried to hide it, had worry in their eyes.
Qin Siyang smirked.
'No way.'
'Could it really be this much of a coincidence?'
'Am I actually…'
'Old Li's true destiny?'
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