As soon as the Human Emperor Banner came out, I became the Lord of the Old Ones

Chapter 181 Xiong Tieshan's Youth
Xu Yan patiently adjusted the frequency of the fireflies' flickering.

They kept experimenting to find out the optimal flashing frequency to induce the most intense convulsions in the mutated mice.

In just half a minute, he had completely messed up the mutated rat.

With a piercing scream, the mutated rat's two eyeballs burst open, turning into two bloody holes that went straight to its brain.

The rash all over the body also broke open in large areas, oozing thick, foul-smelling blood.

Even if the heart stops beating.

The mutated rat's limbs were still twitching.

It was as if they were being drawn by an unseen demon.

Xu Yan used the talisman brush to completely disassemble the mutated rat, removing its brain and internal organs one by one.

It was discovered that its heart was highly swollen, three times the size of a normal mouse, so swollen that it could not even be contained in the chest cavity, and the sternum was protruding outwards, deformed and twisted to such an extent.

Dozens of thick, dark green blood vessels, like the claws of a demon, are wrapped around the heart, repeatedly stimulating the mutated rat's blood supply system, making its capillaries several times denser than those of ordinary rats, tightly binding its muscles and bones.

This body structure explains its abnormal expansion and the source of its brutal aggression.

The side effect is that its brain surface is covered with tiny gray spots.

Perhaps the calcification was caused by excessively strong nerve currents and repeated impacts.

It is these lesions that cause it to react extremely strongly to flashes of bright light at specific frequencies, triggering symptoms similar to epilepsy.

Xu Yan carefully compared the details he observed with the experimental data in the boss's top-secret documents.

He soon found the answer.

……

It was already 12:30 a.m. when I got back to the Kuangtie Club.

Re-employment training programs remain popular.

The host was somewhat unexpected for Xu Yan; it turned out to be Xiong Tieshan, the former headmaster of the Kuangtie Martial Arts School.

To his even greater surprise, Xiong Tieshan, who seemed to have secretly escaped from the hospital, did not impart the essence of cardless payment to the members.

Instead, he strapped a card reader to his arm and used Black Iron civilian cards such as "Firefly," "Phantom Jellyfish," and "Red-Eyed Oil Mackerel" to recreate classic scenes from the Crazy Iron Team over the past few days.

His movements to activate the sealed card were smooth, precise, and skillful.

The coordination between his fists and feet and his guardian spirit was also seamless and perfectly executed, even more so than that of Hou Zhijian and the Xiong brothers.

While simulating the process, the instructor explained the intricacies to the members in the simplest and most understandable language.

The text perfectly presents Xu Yan's meticulous planning, including the characteristics and psychological activities of the opponent, as well as why specific cards and tactics should be used to counter those characteristics and psychological activities.

Xu Yan raised his eyebrows slightly.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would have thought it was some multi-calorie streaming expert coming to give guidance!
Xiong Tieshan also saw Xu Yan, who was standing quietly to the side observing, and nodded slightly to him.

After meticulously instructing them for half a day, he reluctantly let the members train on their own. He stroked his stiff beard and strode towards Xu Yan. "A-Yue and the others are in the hospital. Ah Hu is quite badly injured and will probably need to stay in bed for a couple of days before he can get out of bed. I'll keep an eye on the club for everyone."

Xiong Tieshan paused for a moment, then grinned when he saw Xu Yan's gaze fixed on the card reader on his wrist. "Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated. The Dao of Absolute Gods is going to sweep away all the remnants of the past and all the demons and monsters. I've fought these guys my whole life, how could I not know how to use their equipment?"

"of course."

Xu Yan asked, "But is Director Xiong's health better?"

"Don't worry, I've already spoken to the doctor."

Xiong Tieshan grinned, "I've been lying in bed for more than half a month, so bored that I feel like worms are growing in my bones. It's better to come back and move around; it's better for my health."

"By the way, A-Yue said that your 'Mind Palace Meditation Method' has broken through the first stage, and that the 'Island of Beasthood' has risen from the depths of the 'Primordial Sea'?"

Xu Yan nodded.

That happened a week ago.

He already had a foundation in meditation, Zen practice, and Zen meditation.

After adapting to this world with scarce spiritual energy and mastering the tricks of the trade, progress naturally became rapid.

"good."

Xiong Tieshan opened the door to the Kuangtie team's exclusive training room, turned his head to observe Xu Yan's eyes, "Ordinary people who have just cultivated to the 'Island of Beasthood' realm, in a state of deep meditation, see their seven emotions and six desires and their most primal desires transformed into ferocious beasts with bared fangs and claws and freely soaring birds, often get lost in it, are influenced by their beastly nature, and even become slaves to their desires."

"Your eyes are as clear as when you first came to the Kuangtie Club."

"It seems you have indeed mastered many things in the depths of the wilderness that the Alliance of Heroes cannot learn."

He closed the training room door, removed the card reader from his wrist, and gently placed it aside.

Xu Yan then noticed that it was an old-fashioned card reader that was in very good condition.

Judging from its square shape and the exposed rivets, it should be a military style from fifty or sixty years ago, when the Heroic Spirit Alliance was still in a period of great expansion.

There aren't even indicator lights on the outer shell; instead, clock-like hands are used to show the guardian spirit's status.

Both the outer casing and the hands were frequently wiped clean by the owner, and to this day they remain shiny and bright.

Xu Yan even noticed that the side of the card reader that fit against his wrist was engraved with a clenched fist pattern containing the character "山" (mountain).

"This is a card reader I used when I was young. It's an early product from DeepBlue Technology, the 'War God-2'. It's a very sturdy and durable classic model. Although it only has two card slots and no fancy features, and the activation speed is so-so, it wins because of its simple structure, robustness, and durability. It rarely breaks down and is very easy to maintain. Many people have used it for decades, just like me. It's not even in the same league as those 'multi-functional card readers' that look good but are useless now."

Xiong Tieshan saw the doubt in Xu Yan's eyes and laughed even more heartily, "What, did you not expect that a stubborn old man like me would use a card reader and a sealing card when I was young?"

There's no right or wrong way to answer this question.

However, Xu Yan knew that Xiong Tieshan wouldn't speak without reason. He scratched his head and waited quietly for the old curator to continue.

"Even laymen like you can see the many flaws in the cardless strategy, so how could we, who have cultivated the cardless strategy for generations, not know?"

Xiong Tieshan stroked the back of the old-fashioned card reader, where a fist pattern bearing his name was engraved. His gaze was deep as he drifted into distant memories. "Let me tell you," he said, "when I was young, I was an even more radical reformer than A-Yue. I simply couldn't understand why those old-timers in the cardless style were so stubborn. I wanted to kick all those old guys into the trash heap and let me, Xiong, learn from everyone's strengths and let the cardless style, which has been passed down for thousands of years, be completely destroyed and reborn from the ashes!"

(End of this chapter)