Time was limited, and he would be suspected if he stayed in the toilet for too long. Li Yao seized every second and logged into 'Heaven's Origin News Network', the biggest news website of the Xing Yao Federation, with the help of the middle-aged man's crystal processor, and browsed the news of the past three months.
The first thing that he paid attention to was naturally the Coalition Army of Demons that had been teleported to the capital city three months ago. He wanted to know how much damage they had caused and what kind of chain reactions they had triggered.
Dozens of news reports popped up on the light beam. Li Yao held his breath and browsed through them. The more he read, the more furrowed his eyebrows were.
Three months ago, when he destroyed the Eye of Blood Demon, a batch of the Coalition Army of Demons had been teleported to the sky of the capital city through wormholes. According to the news reports, there was at least one demon emperor and quite a few demon kings among them.
Before the Cultivators arrived and annihilated them, the demons had caused serious damage to the capital city. More than ten skyscrapers had been destroyed, and a lot of civilians had been killed or wounded.
Other than the material damage, what was more serious was the psychological trauma. The destruction of 'Heavenly Sword Plaza', a landmark of the capital city, by the Coalition Army of Demons was a huge shock for the residents of the heartland of the Federation who had not experienced a large-scale war for more than a hundred years.
"As it turns out, a sharp saber has been hanging above our heads all the time, ready to fall at any moment!"
The deep sense of insecurity was still haunting the heart of every citizen of the Federation a hundred days after the assault.
For the Cultivators and the Union Army, the assault infuriated them even more.
They had been gathered on the eastern coastline of the Federation, preparing to annihilate the Coalition Army of Demons that had attacked from the bottom of the ocean. But after waiting for days in a daze, not a single snake had crawled out of the ocean. Instead, their nest had been dug out.
The humiliation of being fooled disgraced all the Cultivators and the Union Army. They did not know how to face the elders of the capital city.
As a result, the entire Federation — The ordinary people, the Union Army, and the Cultivators — were all more radical.
"Blood for blood!"
"Expedition! Expedition! Go to the Blood Demon Sector and avenge the innocent victims! "
In the comments section below most of the news. They were all filled with angry comments, and the anger of the people gathered into a vast and mighty river. Unstoppable!
As the latest news of the Secret Sword Bureau was publicized, the furious river was surging even more furiously.
According to the evaluation of the Secret Sword Bureau and the Union Army, the assault that had been unstoppable in the sky of the capital city but was interrupted mysteriously was because of the malfunction of the large teleportation array in the Blood Demon Sector, which led to the complete collapse of the enormous wormhole.
Such a collapse was very likely to result in the loss of a large number of elite troops!
Furthermore. All the signs indicated that serious civil strife had broken out in the Blood Demon Sector because of the failed assault!
"Right now, the Blood Demon Sector is at its weakest. It is now or never. If we miss this opportunity, we will have to wait at least another few decades before we can launch the war of revenge!"
On the streets and alleys, there were countless "civil politicians" saying this.
On some semi-professional military forums, all kinds of serious analysis were flying everywhere. Their conclusions were almost the same.
As it turned out, one month after the assault on the capital city, the Union Army was ready to take action. Quite a few large-scale military exercises were conducted on the Grand Desolate Plateau. It was obvious that they were about to abandon 'strategic defense' and turn to 'active attack' in an expedition to the Blood Demon Sector.
The soldiers of the Federation who were stationed everywhere requested to go to war. The members of the parliament who had military backgrounds directly threw out the expedition plan. The Veterans Association even organized parades for the wounded and disabled soldiers every two to three days. The impassioned military songs echoed in the sky of every city of the Federation day and night. Under the encouragement of the military songs, the soldiers were inspired. The number of people who applied to join the Union Army in the past month had reached the highest point in history!
The entire Federation. All of them were shouting for revenge!
The expedition proposal was supported by more than half of the representatives. Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao made a rare public statement, too. The Union Army had made all the preparations. They were absolutely confident that they could crush any enemy at any time and any place, defend the glory of the Federation, and guarantee the safety of the lives and properties of the citizens of the Federation!
At the critical moment, it was Jiang Hailiu, the Speaker of the Federation, who kept a high level of calmness.
Jiang Hailiu had been the most resolute supporter of war in the beginning. But when the entire Federation was burning with fury, he uncharacteristically expressed that the foundation of 'strategic defense' should not be shaken. The Federation should not be disrupted by the assault but should stick to the original plan and communicate with the Flying Star Sector actively to improve their comprehensive capability so that the gap between them and the Blood Demon Sector would be further widened.
"My lord, do not launch an attack in anger!"
Jiang Hailiu quoted a famous quote from the ancient Cultivators in parliament.
Right now, such was the situation in parliament. Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao, Director Lu Zui of the Secret Sword Bureau, and more than half of the representatives were in favor of switching from defense to offense.
Speaker Jiang Hailiu and the minority wanted to wait for more intelligence from the Blood Demon Sector before making a decision.
Although not many representatives supported Jiang Hailiu, he was the Speaker who had the highest decision-making power after all. Therefore, the two parties were at an impasse.
However, judging from the few special meetings recently, the political columns of the major media were not optimistic about the Speaker's side and believed that Jiang Hailiu would compromise very soon.
As for the general public, it was needless to say that they were the super supporters of war whose blood was boiling.
"That's not right!"
The news made Li Yao feel that something was wrong.
Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao was indeed a stubborn, short-tempered veteran, but he had carried a gun for two hundred years in the Union Army, and he had fired more bullets than he had eaten. He should have understood the logic that 'a general should not be provoked into a war'.
In any case, three months ago, the comprehensive capability of the Blood Demon Sector had been higher than that of the Tian Yuan Sector. The Coalition Army of Demons had been suppressing the Union Army all the time.
Besides, the environment of the Blood Demon Sector was harsh and full of venomous fog and venomous gas. The common soldiers of the Federation might be poisoned if they were exposed to the air for too long.
Such disadvantages could not be reversed by the death of more than ten demon emperors and a batch of elites.
What was it exactly that gave Zhou Hengdao and Lu Zui the confidence to launch an expedition right away?
It must be noted that the situation right now was in the Federation's favor. There was no need to gamble at all!
Very soon, a piece of breaking news two months ago made Li Yao understand everything.
What had given Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao his confidence was a warship from the Flying Star Sector!
More than half a year ago … After Professor Mo Xuan and the rest of them returned to the Tian Yuan Realm, the communication between the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector had been very smooth. The depth and breadth of the communication far exceeded Li Yao's expectations.
It was especially so for the five 'star spirits' including Mo Xuan. After swallowing the enormous computational ability of the 'star brain', the scale of their computation had been developing rapidly, too. In only several months, the original star beacons of the Heaven's Origin Sector had been modified. A super remote star beacon system was produced in the orbit of the home planet of the Heaven's Origin Sector, guiding the direction of the Flying Star Sector billions of lightyears away!
The warships and war assets from the Flying Star Sector were shipped to the Tian Yuan Realm incessantly. The techniques of the two parties were exchanged on a large scale. The highly complementary technologies made the technological reserves of the Tian Yuan Realm soar!
Just like that, two months ago, the communication between the two parties finally took a qualitative leap!
A super warship that the Heaven's Origin Sector had never seen before was launched into the Tian Yuan Realm through the 'space slingshot'!
It was Heavenly Phantom, the flagship of the Grand Illusionary Group, the nest of Xiao Xuance, the leader of the Immortal Cultivators, and the strongest warship of the Flying Star Sector!
It was a super warship dozens of kilometers long. It was the culmination of countless specialists of warships of the Flying Star Sector. In the riot of the Immortal Cultivators that Xiao Xuance raised, it had caused a lot of trouble for the Cultivators including Li Yao.
It was safe to say that … In the riot, Heavenly Phantom alone was enough to crush dozens of starships under the control of the Cultivators easily!
Li Yao still remembered how intimidating the 'Heavenly Might Cannon', the main gun of Heavenly Phantom, was when it was fully bombarded!
In the end, Heavenly Phantom was not completely destroyed. It was only because the 'star brain', the mainframe crystal processor, was hacked by the 'star spirits' such as Li Yao and Professor Mo Xuan that it was temporarily paralyzed.
After the riot of the Immortal Cultivators, the Flying Star Sector repaired Heavenly Phantom. Six super crystal processors were moved out of the 'Star Prier's House' below the ground of Spider Den. A new mainframe crystal processor system was built on Heavenly Phantom. Replacing the original 'star brain', Heavenly Phantom regained its combat ability and was renamed 'Burning Prairie'.
A single spark could set a prairie ablaze. The super warship would bring the sparks of the civilization of mankind to every corner of the dark, boundless sea of stars!
The starship technology of the Flying Star Sector was far more advanced than that of the Heaven's Origin Sector. In the eyes of the ordinary Flying Star Sector residents, the newborn Burning Prairie was already an unbelievable warship, not to mention the 'bumpkins' of the Heaven's Origin Sector.
A super warship that was dozens of kilometers long!
Compared to Burning Prairie, the 'heavy crystal warships' of the Xing Yao Federation were like dinghies!
Li Yao could totally imagine Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao's dizziness and ecstasy when he saw Burning Prairie, as well as his uncontainable ambitions that followed.
When one had a sharp weapon, one would naturally be determined to kill, not to mention a super sharp weapon such as Burning Prairie, which was loaded with two hundred thousand Grand Illusionary Soldiers!
After the riot of the Immortal Cultivators was suppressed and the star child perished, all the Grand Illusionary Soldiers lost control and turned into garbage.
There had never been a good way to deal with the Grand Illusionary Soldiers.
After all, they had been produced at the cost of tremendous resources in the Flying Star Sector. It would have been a shame if they were all wasted.
As it turned out …
As a specialist in Crystal Suit, Li Yao came up with an idea for the Flying Star Sector before he returned to the Tian Yuan Realm. The Grand Illusionary Soldiers should be separated from the mainframe crystal processors and controlled by brainwaves instead.
One Exo would lead five Grand Illusionary Soldiers and establish a small local area network. The Grand Illusionary Soldiers would be under the control of the Exo's brainwaves after the basic battle telepathic thoughts were imported. The Exo would be able to manipulate the Grand Illusionary Soldiers with a telepathic thought.
In such a way, even if something went wrong, only five Grand Illusionary Soldiers would be affected. The possibility that the Grand Illusionary Soldiers could be manipulated by the ambitious schemers would be eliminated.
In the beginning, it was just Li Yao's immature idea. He did not expect that it would be realized so soon after the intense collisions of the theories of refining in the communication between the Flying Star Sector and the Heaven's Origin Sector!
If two hundred thousand Grand Illusionary Soldiers were assigned to the Union Army, how many levels would the capability of the Union Army be improved? — —
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