"I remember it now, too!"
Han Tuhu suddenly beamed with interest. "Ding Ling Dong is from the Grand Desolate War Institution. So is President Li. You must've had a lot of interactions in the Grand Desolate War Institution ten years ago, didn't you?"
Li Yao's eyelids were twitching. He nodded slowly. "We did have some interactions."
Han Tuhu said excitedly, "That's great! After we return to the Tian Yuan Realm, you can try to get close to Ding Ling Dong. With your keen eyes, you will certainly discover a lot of clues and unveil the real face of the 'Explosive Fiery Tyrannosaur'! Right. What's the relationship between you and Ding Ling Dong in the past? Are you confident that you can get close to her and win her trust? "
Li Yao was emotionless. "It shouldn't be a problem for me to get close to her. We used to be lovers. To be more exact, she was my fiancée. I'm planning to marry her after I return to my hometown."
Han Tuhu: "…"
Suo Chaolong: "…"
Fire Ant: "Cough, cough. Cough, cough, cough, cough. As expected of Vulture Li Yao. Only a seasoned hero such as yourself deserves such a marvelous woman as Miss Ding!"
Suo Chaolong wiped his sweat. "Exactly — exactly. On second thought, Ding Ling Dong is not very suspicious. After all, she is a pure battle-type Cultivator who has gathered a bunch of supporters and admirers with her personal charm. She is not very organized. The real 'Abyss' doesn't seem to be such a person!"
Han Tuhu slapped the table. "Exactly. Now that you mention it, there is one more suspect who is even more suspicious than President Li's fiancée!
"The guy was the most promising star of the Federation before the rise of President Li and Ding Ling Dong. He was also one of the youngest Core Formation Stage Cultivators in the Federation.
"What is even scarier is that the guy is not only good at combat but also very talented in management. He is an out-and-out hybrid-type Cultivator!
"More than ten years ago, this person established a sect in his early thirties. To become the leader of a sect! In just ten years, his sect had expanded crazily as if it had eaten a crystal bomb. Their overall strength had increased by several folds every year! To this day, his sect has attracted the most talented young Cultivators of the Federation to join it. He has been elected as the Man of the Year in the Federation twice in a row. It is safe to say that he is the well-deserved leader of the young Cultivators!
"This man is Peng Hai, the one known as' Fiend Blade '! His sect, the Twin Dragons Association, is ranked 92nd in the Federation's Top 500 in terms of overall strength. It has long surpassed countless great sects with a long history! "
The Fire Ant nodded repeatedly and said, "That's right. Fiend Blade Peng Hai is indeed more likely than Ding Ling Dong. His Twin Dragons Association has a huge influence and a strict organization. It is involved in the research and development of many magical equipment in the Union Army. In particular, the magical equipment they started with, the Demon Beast Detector, has been upgraded to the ninth generation. Every member of the Union Army has a set and it is connected to the military crystal processor. It is one of the most important portable magical equipment!
"Let's say that Fiend Blade Peng Hai is the 'Abyss'. If he slightly tampers with the Demon Beast Detector, the consequences will be disastrous. The consequences will be unimaginable! "
Han Tuhu frowned. "Wait, Demon Beast Detector? I seem to have overlooked something... "
Li Yao coughed dryly. "The Demon Beast Detector is my invention. Fiend Blade Peng Hai is my senior brother. He is also my guide on the road of cultivation. Moreover, I have a lot of shares in this Twin Dragons Association. The 'Twin Dragons' refers to the two of us."
Suo Chaolong: "..."
Han Tuhu: "..."
"Master, are you sure?" Jin Xinyue asked. "Aren't you the 'Abyss' that Elder Nether Spring sent out?"
"Alright. Stop making wild guesses."
He had been in the form of a shadow. Jin Tuyi, who had been listening quietly, finally opened his mouth.
After three months, he looked even older than before. Not only had his hair turned white, but there were also stripes on his cheeks, which were emitting dark gold brilliance.
Under normal circumstances, his eyes were half closed, as if he were sleeping, as if he had no reaction to all the stimuli in the outside world.
Only at such moments would he slightly open his eyes, which were emitting feeble brilliance.
"Li Yao, Ding Ling Dong, and Fiend Blade Peng Hai," Jin Tuyi said casually, "none of them is more than fifty years old. If they are 'Abyss', Elder Nether Spring must have sent a baby or a toddler fifty years old here.
"Such variables are too huge. Who can guarantee that a toddler, or even a teenager, will become a Cultivator, or even an expert like Jin Dan and join the core leadership of the Federation, no matter how much potential they have?
"Besides, they are too young to be absolutely loyal to Elder Nether Spring. How can Elder Nether Spring be so sure that such a 'Abyss' will be loyal to him?
"If he were to send a toddler, he would've sent a toddler in his twenties or thirties, or even fifties. After all, Cultivators are good at retaining their youthful looks. With special secret arts, even someone in their fifties can pretend to be a teenager."
Jin Tuyi's words were reasonable enough. Everybody nodded in agreement.
Deep in thought, Li Yao said, "If that's the case, the range of suspicion will be expanded to include Cultivators in their fifties and beyond a hundred years old."
Everybody looked at each other in bewilderment. The range was indeed boundless.
Cultivators in their fifties and beyond a hundred years old were the prime years of a Cultivator's life. Their experience, knowledge, and resources had all reached the peak, and their physical strength and soul strength had yet to decline. They were the most precious years of their life!
Many leaders of the central departments of the Federation were such 'young and vigorous' Cultivators.
Also, to become the leader of the central department, which one of them did not fight their way out of mountains of corpses and oceans of blood? Which one of them did not have remarkable military exploits and fortuitous encounters? Which one of them was not a 'rarely-seen training genius'?
According to such criteria, half of the managers of the major sects of the Federation, the middle-level and high-level officers of the Union Army, and the directors and directors of the government agencies would have to be arrested!
Jin Tuyi coughed softly. "We don't have any evidence right now. It is impossible for us to come up with a definite conclusion even if we sit here and wait until dawn. Therefore, we might as well analyze Elder Nether Spring's purpose first and infer what the Children of the Nether World and Abyss are up to exactly."
Everybody nodded quickly. Li Yao said, "Exactly. However deep the Children of the Nether World and Abyss are hiding, they will jump out sooner or later. As long as we know their purpose in advance, we will be able to adopt targeted strategies!"
The Fire Ant's eyes were glittering. "Have you guessed it, commander?"
Jin Tuyi smiled and struggled to shake his head. "Elder Nether Spring has turned into a rabid dog that has been driven into desperation. Who can tell exactly how he is going to 'jump'?"
"However, there's one thing that's for sure."
"For the zealous hawks of the Xing Yao Federation, this is the best opportunity to attack the Blood Demon Sector in the past five hundred years!"
Everybody almost stood up after hearing what he said.
Jin Tuyi breathed heavily. "In the past hundred years, the comprehensive capability of the Blood Demon Sector has always been higher than that of the Tian Yuan Realm and suppressed the Tian Yuan Realm. However, the Tian Yuan Realm was developing faster than the Blood Demon Sector. Therefore, the Tian Yuan Realm decided to be on the defensive and trade space for time. They planned to launch a counterattack after they accumulated absolute advantages through technological development.
"If there were no sudden changes, it would take at least a few decades for such an absolute advantage to form."
"However, the situation right now is different. The destruction of the Eye of Blood Demon took away fourteen demon emperors and countless elite soldiers. The scourge of the Demon God Virus greatly diminished the fundamental forces of the Blood Demon Sector and stalled a lot of soldiers. During the process, we seized power quickly and created a lot of oppositions, too!
"In the four Great Fey Kingdoms, there are too many old nobles who want to eat our flesh and skin!"
"If we had a few years, the Blood Demon Sector would've been able to recover from the chaos. However, right now, the Blood Demon Sector has the fewest demon emperors, the army is the most chaotic, the internal conflicts are the fiercest, and the plague is the fiercest in the past thousand years!
"Do you think that the most determined hawks of the Xing Yao Federation, who have invested all their assets and even most of the assets of their sects in the 'victory fund', will let go of the opportunity?"
Everybody gasped. Jin Xinyue frowned and said, "It is impossible for the Xing Yao Federation to know anything about us!"
Jin Tuyi smiled. "What if the Children of the Nether World let them know?"
Everybody was silent. The atmosphere was even more depressing than a moment ago.
Jin Tuyi struggled to drink a mouthful of water. Breathing heavily for a long time, he massaged his temples softly and said with his eyes closed, "The core of the Spore Stratagem is to raise a 'world war' between the Tian Yuan Realm and the Blood Demon Sector. In the destructive war, we will find an opportunity to release the Demon God Virus and create a cruel new world.
"The first plan of the Spore Stratagem is to launch the final battle in the capital city through the Eye of Blood Demon.
"Right now, the first plan has failed.
"However, if the Children of the Nether World can convince the leadership of the Xing Yao Federation that the Blood Demon Sector is at its weakest right now, and if they launch a large-scale attack right now, the Blood Demon Sector will certainly be suppressed and the demons will be captured as slaves to deal with the expedition of the Imperium of True Human Beings in a hundred years … Then, who says that the Spore Stratagem cannot be revived?"
Li Yao rose up abruptly. "Let's go to Lu Wuxin and dig out the other half of the intelligence. Then, we will return to the Tian Yuan Realm immediately and hand over all the intelligence to the leadership of the Federation. We will tell them the truth!"
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
Before Li Yao's voice died away, the sound of someone smashing the door in exasperation came from outside the conference room. Bumps appeared on the thick and heavy steel plate.
Everybody looked at each other in bewilderment and raised their wariness. They opened the door, only to discover that it was Wei Tianqing, the demon emperor of the wolf clan who was responsible for watching over Lu Wuxin.
"General Wei, what are you doing here?"
Fire Ant stood up and said solemnly, "Shouldn't you be watching over Lu Wuxin? This' Mad Medic 'is cunning and sordid. He can run away at any moment! "
Wei Tianqing's face was pale. His furry tail was shaking like a grass in the wind. He breathed hard for a long time before he gnashed his teeth and said, "He — he can't run away. He is dead!"
"What!"
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