Although Li Yao, the Fire Ant King, and Professor Mo Xuan had been through hundreds of battles and had been on the brink of death countless times, they could not help but feel that their mouths were dry, and their souls were jumping.
This was the first time that they had ever met real Immortal Cultivators. They were not counterfeits such as Xiao Xuance and Lu Zui, nor were they part of the remaining soul such as the star child. They were authentic Immortal Cultivators from the Imperium of True Human Beings!
"Their spiritual pressure is so strong. Judging from the twisted air around, they can't be weak at all!"
"There is no telling how advanced their Crystal Suit is yet, but judging from their glamorous and delicate spiritual shield, their control over the force field is definitely better than ours. Chances are that the bullets that we shoot at them will be deflected or even reflected by the spiritual shield!"
"Li Yao is right. It is not wise for us to fight three Immortal Cultivators and so many Grand Illusionary Soldiers with just the three of us. Even if they are no match for us, they will at least have enough time to retreat into their turtle shells!"
While Li Yao and his companions were discussing, the three Immortal Cultivators far away took off their facial covers and revealed their real faces.
Perhaps they were confident in their own capabilities and believed that nothing could threaten them on such a planet that had been asleep for a long time!
The three Immortal Cultivators were two men and one woman. The shortest of them was an old man with a face full of wrinkles, a hooked nose, and gloomy eyes. The strongest of them was a bald, middle-aged man whose face was full of scars and who had a beard that looked like a black caterpillar. The youngest of them was a good-looking woman. She was also the most impatient of them all. Looking at the primeval relics that were scattered around, she could not hide the delight on her face and was almost jumping for joy.
They seemed to have just woken up from a long hibernation. Their faces were somewhat pale, but they were reddening at a visible speed.
The three of them all took a deep breath and revealed intoxicated expressions. They slowly floated in midair, patrolling their new "territory" and chatting with each other in a relaxed and comfortable manner.
Li Yao and his companions were too far away to eavesdrop on their conversation. They could only observe their lips and guess what they were talking about by reading their lips. Because of the angle, they could not see clearly and could only read intermittently. After more than ten minutes, they could only basically guess what they were talking about.
The female Immortal Cultivator took a deep breath first and said, "It's been a long time since I last breathed such natural air!"
Then, her eyes glittering, she looked around and said, "I was right. There is indeed something here. It's a relic of the Pangu civilization! Even if the crimes we committed in the past were ten times more serious, it would still be enough to offset such a great contribution! As long as we send the message back to the Imperium, our titles, territories, and slaves will all be returned to us. They may even be given ten times or even a hundred times more! "
Of the two male Immortal Cultivators, the bald, scar-faced man who looked like a black tower was a taciturn man. He might not even reply to the female Immortal Cultivator when she was chattering. He simply kept scratching his beard and nodding his head while looking at the relics around.
The old man whose face was full of wrinkles was rolling his eyes quickly, with the air of a sophisticated man. There was no telling what was on his mind, but he echoed the female Immortal Cultivator's words.
Their accent of the Imperium was different from the accent of the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector. It was impossible to grasp every word clearly, either.
Li Yao and his companions could tell that they had been exiled to this place to expand the territory of the Imperium of True Human Beings because they had committed certain unforgivable crimes in the homeland of the Imperium of True Human Beings.
Inside the war base, the three of them were the only ones who had been hibernating all the time. It was not until the mainframe crystal processor of the war base detected the feeble signals from Kunlun that they were woken up.
The female Immortal Cultivator seemed to be some sort of 'navigator'. It was she who insisted on her opinion and jumped to this place at the cost of what little fuel she had left. That was how she discovered Kunlun!
"As I expected, the Imperium of True Human Beings has long learned of the relics of the Pangu civilization. After they found this place, they were not surprised but excited!
"Also, the slavery system is indeed maintained in the Imperium of True Human Beings. The three Immortal Cultivators all had tremendous slaves in the past. They were only deprived of all their slaves because they committed certain crimes! However, as long as they make more military contributions, their slaves will be returned to them!
"Super large star beacons must be being built in their war base. As long as they are completed and activated, they will be able to reach out to the expedition army of the Imperium and even ask the expedition army to jump over directly!"
Li Yao and his companions were discussing the countermeasures in the communication channel when they suddenly felt stinging pain that felt like the tip of a needle at the same time. Their pupils constricted to the minimum!
What they saw in the picture sent back by the crystal cameras was a scene that made their hearts palpitate.
It was unknown when the three immortal cultivators had stopped their conversation. Some of their vigilant gazes shot in their direction one after another.
"We've been discovered!"
The three of them were anxious. They did not expect that the senses of the Immortal Cultivators were so keen. They did not make eye contact at all but observed through the crystal cameras. How had they been discovered?
Shua! Shua!
Shua! The facial covers of the three Immortal Cultivators were closed again. The flames around them expanded and became brighter and brighter.
Dozens of Grand Illusionary Soldiers flew toward where Li Yao and his companions were hiding in a battle formation.
"If we start a battle now, it will be very disadvantageous for us whether we win or lose. We must not let them notice our real purpose and try to stall them until Burning Prairie arrives!"
Thinking quickly, Li Yao said quickly, "I'll distract them and try to stall them. I'll get more intelligence about the Imperium of True Human Beings by the way! Let's not contact each other unless it is absolutely necessary, unless I can't control the situation anymore or something else goes wrong! "
Seeing that the dozens of Grand Illusionary Soldiers were about to reach them, many of the Grand Illusionary Soldiers had activated their crystal cannons. Powerful spiritual waves were glittering around the barrels of the cannons, which looked like colorful swirls.
Having no time to discuss countermeasures, Li Yao took off the Crystal Suit as well as the mustard-seed combat suit as quickly as possible and put on a fiber combat suit made of common materials that were seriously worn out. He then put on the 'Rockman', a ragged, rusted Crystal Suit for engineering purposes that he had carefully prepared before he set off!
Gritting his teeth, he dashed out of the crevice!
Li Yao dashed among the rocks and debris like a rabbit whose legs had been broken. His movements were rather clumsy, and the word 'panic' was written all over his body.
He could clearly sense that the dozens of Grand Illusionary Soldiers in the sky had locked onto him, but they did not launch an attack for a long time and simply surrounded him at a distance.
"Shua!"
Right then, a streak of brilliance appeared in front of him as quickly as a lightning!
He crossed his arms in front of his chest out of natural instincts. An orange spiritual shield was condensed immediately, only to collapse in 0.1 seconds!
He was blasted away by a strange force and crashed into a rock, creating a huge crater. Cracks spread out in all directions like a spider web.
It was the youngest female Immortal Cultivator who had kicked him in the chest, crushing his spiritual shield together with the 'Rockman Engineering Suit' into garbage!
Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi!
Chi! Chi! Bright sparks burst out of the 'Rockman', and its limbs were cramping weirdly.
Li Yao moaned in excruciating pain, as if he could not even get back to his feet.
The three Immortal Cultivators slowly landed on the ground. The rest of the Grand Illusionary Soldiers, on the other hand, searched where Li Yao and his companions had been hiding.
While Li Yao attracted the firepower, the Fire Ant and Professor Mo Xuan had long escaped. Naturally, they would not leave any traces behind.
Li Yao was greatly relieved. He calculated the speed and strength of the female Immortal Cultivator's kick just now and inferred her real capability based on it.
The female Immortal Cultivator closed her fingers. A delicate blade of light was slowly condensed on her fingertips, before she stabbed it at Li Yao brutally.
Controlling his every nerve cluster and muscle fiber precisely, Li Yao held back the urge to counterattack and pretended that he could not move at all, allowing the enemy to do whatever they wanted.
His gamble paid off.
The enemy did not hurt him at all. They only dismantled the broken 'Rockman engineering suit' on his body and set him free.
The three Immortal Cultivators eyed him curiously as if he were a gorilla in a zoo.
"Cough, cough. Cough, cough, cough, cough!"
Li Yao coughed loudly and crouched like a dried shrimp. Tears, snot, and blood were all spurting out. Pretending to be shocked and scared, he asked in a shivering voice, "Who — who are you exactly?"
The three Immortal Cultivators ignored him. They dismantled a lot of components from the 'Rockman engineering suit' and covered them in mists of light, as if they were performing some sort of analysis.
Very soon, the old man said, "The metal reaction of his Crystal Suit is different from the metal reaction on this planet. He can't be a native of this place!"
"His Crystal Suit is obviously different from the primeval armors of the primeval era and the style of the Holy League," the middle-aged man said. "It carries the intense style of the Star Ocean Imperium. He must be a remnant of the Imperium at the edge of the cosmos."
The female Immortal Cultivator who kicked Li Yao's chest, on the other hand, took out the crystal processor of the Rockman engineering suit gloatingly and smiled. "A very low-level crystal processor that can be cracked without any trouble. Let me see what information is stored inside … Ha. The Flying Star Sector? He's from the Flying Star Sector? "
Despite the thick armor, Li Yao could still sense clearly that the three Immortal Cultivators' eyes were glittering.
They had come to the edge of the cosmos because they had been attracted by the coordinates sent by the star child from the Flying Star Sector.
The Flying Star Sector was their original target.
The killing intent on the female Immortal Cultivator was even more intense. The four crystal cameras embedded on the facial cover were all emitting malicious brilliance, as if they were going to cut Li Yao into pieces and study him.
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