In front of the teleportation array, brilliant beams of demonic light soared into the sky, tearing open a series of raging gaps in the sky. Through the gaps, one could vaguely see a cluster of dazzling stars.
A brand-new single teleportation cabin was ready.
Li Yao was in the ultimate level of Jin Dan. His combat ability was equal to that of a Yuanying or a demon emperor. Teleporting him to the Tian Yuan Realm was like teleporting an enormous devilish warship. Therefore, he had to be well protected.
Otherwise, accidents might happen even though the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector were right next to each other. If anything went wrong, they might be torn apart by the storms in the four-dimensional space and end up exactly like the fourteen demon emperors three months ago.
Li Yao said goodbye to everybody in a battle suit of the Union Army that had been carefully repaired.
"President Li."
Han Tuhu looked at him with mixed feelings. He wanted to go back with him, but he was scared that his compatriots and even his family would misunderstand him. After struggling for a long time, he sighed and said, "Please. Give the letters to our families and let them know that we are still alive!"
Li Yao clenched his fists and stored all the letters inside his Cosmos Ring carefully. "Rest assured. I will!"
"Bon voyage!"
Fire Ant, Jin Xinyue, and Suo Chaolong stood together. Their eyes were all complicated, if not in a trance. "I hope that we can hear the news of peace in the near future instead of seeing the billions of iron soldiers of the Xing Yao Federation."
Pausing for a moment, Fire Ant's eyes gradually focused. His eyeballs were covered in a thin layer of ice, making him look somewhat cold. "If the Xing Yao Federation really intends to take the opportunity to occupy the Blood Demon Sector, the demon race will not wait to be captured, including us. We will not wash our necks clean and wait to be killed.
"The Demon God Virus is raging everywhere in the Blood Demon Sector. The epidemic area is still expanding. Right now, the Coalition Army of Demons is struggling to hold on.
"If the Union Army takes advantage of the situation, we will have to deploy most of our troops. We can only divert most of our forces to fight against it, but the plague will definitely go out of control. The entire Blood Demon Sector may be infected.
If the Blood Demon Sector turns into a paradise for the walking dead, will the Tian Yuan Realm be far away?
Li Yao nodded again. "I will do my best to not let such a terrible future come true!"
He walked towards the teleportation array step by step, leaving only Jin Tuyi in front of him.
Today's Jin Tuyi, compared to a few days ago, had aged a lot. His feathers had turned light gray, and his body was slightly hunched.
His eyes seemed to be shrouded by a thin layer of fog. It was unclear if there was any light of intelligence flickering inside.
Li Yao felt a little emotional as he watched the former ambitious and ruthless man turn into such a person.
Jin Tuyi was definitely not a good guy. If he had succeeded in the Red Tide Plan in the beginning, the tens of millions of citizens in the capital city would've been buried together with the plan.
He was an out-and-out careerist.
However, Li Yao did not know how he should hate him. It seemed that no matter how he hated him, it would not affect him at all.
Pondering for a long time, Li Yao said simply, "I'm going home now. Is there anything else you want to tell me, Senior Jin?"
Jin Tuyi smiled. Extending his wings that were shedding feathers, he tapped his temples softly and said, "I don't have much to tell you. I've been taking good care of my brain recently. I can't exhaust my brain power, and I can't calculate many things clearly. "
Li Yao raised his eyebrow. "Taking good care of your brain?"
Was Jin Tuyi's brain worth taking good care of at all?
"Exactly."
Jin Tuyi said casually, "I hope that my brain can work normally and maintain the most basic intelligence until the moment when I stand on the trial platform and confess all my crimes frankly.
"If a complete idiot becomes the No. 1 war criminal in the war tribunal and shits and pees on the trial platform, it will be an insult to both the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector. Don't you think so?
"However, I have a feeling that I won't be able to persist for long. Hehe. So, you must be quick. Settle the whole thing quickly and send me to the trial platform as soon as possible. Don't let me escape from the trial in such an awkward way! "
Li Yao nodded solemnly. "Rest assured, Senior Jin. I will certainly send you to the war tribunal while you are still alive and kicking and end the war!"
After saying that, he strode to the teleportation cabin without looking back.
"Wait!"
Jin Tuyi suddenly stopped him from behind and walked forward side by side with him.
The commander-in-chief of the Coalition Army of Demons and the master of the Blood Demon Sector stared at Li Yao with eyes that seemed to be piercing into the deepest part of his soul. He said casually, "If I have to say that I have something to tell you, I do have something to tell you."
Li Yao stood still and listened attentively while holding his breath.
"I see that you have been racking your brains and arguing over who is a Child of the Nether World and who is Abyss," Jin Tuyi said. "Am I right?"
Li Yao nodded. "Yes. Jin Xinyue and I have made a list of hundreds of names after reviewing all the intelligence. All of them are likely to be Children of the Nether World. Even Abyss has found more than ten suspects and ranked them according to their degree of suspicion. When I return to the Tian Yuan Realm, I will certainly be more vigilant if I run into the people on the list."
Jin Tuyi smiled. "You have made a list of hundreds of names in only a few days. My daughter is truly remarkable! So to speak, do you all believe that the Children of the Nether World and Abyss are the greatest enemies on the trip to the Tian Yuan Realm? "
Li Yao was dazed. "Are they not?"
The mist in Jin Tuyi's eyes was suddenly gone. The beautiful aurora in the sky was reflected in his pupils that were as clear as water. The brilliance made him look dozens of years younger, and he became the Jin Tuyi who had the universe in his hands three months ago again!
"Do you know why I wasn't involved in the compilation of the list in the first place? My lack of brain power is only one reason. More importantly, I don't think that the Children of the Nether World and Abyss are necessarily your greatest enemies.
"Or rather, it is pointless to care about who Abyss is.
"Elder Nether Spring's purpose is to instigate the bloody hatred between the two Sectors so that a world war will be triggered in a short time.
"The Children of the Nether World and Abyss are not the only ones who can achieve that.
"Do you remember what I said to you during our first meeting? Even if the attack of the Imperium of True Human Beings is confirmed, the Tian Yuan Realm will not necessarily give up the war against the Blood Demon Sector. If anything, they will attack the Blood Demon Sector at any cost and send all the demons to the depths of the sea of stars for mining.
"Perhaps, in the eyes of the leadership of the Federation, this is the best way to deal with the threat of the Imperium of True Human Beings.
"Hehe. If so, does it really matter who Abyss is?
"Perhaps, there is an Abyss in everybody's heart. When the dark side of grief, anger, hatred, greed, conceit, and all the other emotions swallow one's soul, everybody can become an Abyss.
"Ding Ling Dong can. Fiend Blade Peng Hai can. Speaker Jiang Hailiu can. Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao can. Lu Zui, director of the Secret Sword Bureau, can. Guo Chunfeng, supervisor of the Demon Execution Division, can. I, Jin Tuyi, commander-in-chief of the Coalition Army of Demons, can. Of course, you, Vulture Li Yao, can."
Li Yao was greatly moved. He said subconsciously, "I am not Abyss. Definitely not!"
Jin Tuyi smiled. "It's true that you are definitely not the Abyss that Elder Nether Spring created. But are you sure that you will not turn yourself into another Abyss under any circumstances?"
Li Yao shuddered violently, as if he had been enlightened.
Jin Tuyi's eyes seemed to have swallowed a tremendous amount of aurora, which was pouring into Li Yao's body incessantly. He said casually, "Do you understand now? Perhaps, after you return to the Tian Yuan Realm, the real enemy that you will be faced with will not be the Abyss that Elder Nether Spring created but countless Abysses made of anger, greed, ambition, conceit, and hatred.
"The first Abyss is easy to deal with, but the second Abyss is invisible and omnipresent. How are you going to deal with it?"
Li Yao's pupils constricted violently. "Are you suggesting that I have to find a way to eliminate the hatred between the two Sectors, Senior Jin?"
Jin Tuyi coughed and waved his hands. "You're wrong, young man. Hatred can't be eliminated, and it is not necessarily something that must be eliminated, either.
"In the short term, the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector have been fighting each other for a hundred years. In the long term, after the division of human beings and demons, human beings and demons fought bloody wars for forty thousand years. How can the hatred that has been condensed for forty thousand years be eliminated overnight?"
Li Yao was silent.
Jin Tuyi sighed. "I'm not asking you to eliminate hatred. I'm only hoping that you, and everybody else who can decide the future, will not be swallowed by hatred and fall into the dark 'abyss', where you will make decisions that you will never regret when you lose your rationality."
He paused and smiled in self-mockery. "Isn't it too ironic to hear such words from the mouth of an insane warmonger?"
Jin Tuyi's back hunched, and he staggered away.
"Senior Jin!"
Li Yao's head was in a mess. He raised his voice and said, "On many occasions, I can't even completely cut off the anger, greed, hatred, killing intent, and other dark emotions in my heart. How can I stop other people?"
Jin Tuyi waved his hands casually without looking back. "Don't be silly, young man. Kindness and evil are the two sides of the soul. How can you completely cut off the evil side? A person without evil thoughts, could he still be considered a person? Learn to coexist peacefully with your dark side! "
Above the Ninth Abyss, a strong wind was blowing. In the middle of the sandstorm, the aurora was shaking. Li Yao could not even see his own fingers. Jin Tuyi's back soon disappeared in the dust.
Calming himself down, Li Yao stepped into the teleportation cabin and closed the cover. He took a deep breath and wiped his face hard.
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