Su Changfa shook his head and said, "That's inappropriate."
"Master Su, what's wrong?"
Tang Qianhe was confused. "The boy is not an important person. I don't believe that he knows too much information. Why waste so much time and effort on him?
"As long as we get enough intelligence from his head and determine the basic coordinates of the Flying Star Sector, we will be able to build an enormous space gate and summon the expedition fleet. We will be able to swallow the Flying Star Sector!
"What's the use of keeping the boy alive?"
"If your purpose is to summon the expedition fleet, it is indeed useless to keep the boy alive."
Su Changfa's face suddenly turned weird. He said mysteriously, "Otherwise, he might be of great use to us!"
Tang Qianhe and Kou Ruhuo were greatly surprised. They looked at each other and frowned at the same time. "What do you mean, Master Su?"
"The three of us are losers who have been pushed out because of the failure in the competition between our families and sects!"
With a gloomy face, Su Changfa said, one word after another, "We have lost everything we had in the past. Position, glory, territory, and slaves. We have even been accused and exiled to the desolate land at the edge of the cosmos, where we will never be able to rise again!"
"I am old and feeble, and I've long let go of everything. But you two are still young. Are you really willing to live like that for the rest of your life?
"But right now, we have discovered the relic of the Pangu civilization!"
Tang Qianhe said in a hurry. "Isn't the greatest contribution enough for us to rise again?"
"You're wrong, Little Tang."
Su Changfa sighed and said, "If we had simply discovered the Flying Star Sector dutifully and made a contribution that was neither too big nor too small, it would have been possible for us to be cleared of some of our crimes and regain some of our status. Our enemies in our families and sects wouldn't have thought much of us, either!
"However, such a great contribution as discovering the relic of the Pangu civilization … Is it something that the three of us can bear?
"Those guys who regard us as thorns in their eyes will not allow us to return with such a contribution, take back everything that belongs to us, and even seek revenge on them!"
Tang Qianhe and Kou Ruhuo both fell silent.
"Moreover, don't forget who the expeditionary army is this time!"
Su Changfa said coldly, "They are Black Wind cultivators from the Black Wind Realm!"
"The Blackwind Realm is one of the most dangerous Greater Thousand Realms within the Empire's territory. The people of the Blackwind Realm have been fighting with the Holy League and the Extraterrestrial Demons for many years. They themselves have become as cold and heartless as the Holy League and as cruel and bloodthirsty as the Extraterrestrial Demons. Although they are cruel and merciless to their enemies, they are also merciless to their own allies. For the sake of fighting for merits and spoils of war, they can even slaughter their own allies when they go crazy!"
"The Black Wind people were originally a bunch of mad dogs and locusts who don't follow the rules. This time, the Holy League gathered their main forces and occupied the Black Wind World in one fell swoop. The lone Black Wind army stationed outside lost their mother planet, so they were even more furious and went completely crazy!"
"They're roaming around the capital star region, stirring up trouble. They're clamoring all day long for His Majesty to immediately dispatch troops and take back the Black Wind Realm for them!"
"The national affairs are not child's play. Every battle will trigger the whole situation. How can His Majesty summon troops just because of their minor complaints?
"However, it is not a good idea to have such an army of unruly locusts with thorns all over their body wandering all the time. What if they really decide to occupy a random Sector when they are angry? What should we do then?"
"Therefore, after receiving the signal from the Flying Star Sector, His Majesty chose the Black Wind Fleet as the expedition army because he wanted the troublesome guys to be as far away from the capital star region as possible!
"A remote Flying Star Sector is certainly not enough to satisfy the appetite of the people of the Black Wind Fleet. It is said that His Majesty and the people of the Black Wind Fleet have reached a deal. After they leave the territory of the Imperium, all the Sectors that the Black Wind people conquer on their way will be their territory!
"Think about it. The people of the Black Wind Fleet are all hungry dogs with hooks in their stomachs. If they are summoned to this place, will there be any benefits for us?"
Tang Qianhe was dazed for a moment. She mumbled, "Will the people of the Black Wind Fleet stay here for a long time? Didn't they say that they would march back to the Black Wind Sector after exchanging their military credits? "
"That's just a bluff!"
Su Changfa sneered. "The people of the Black Wind Fleet are just crazy, not idiots. The Black Wind Sector is located between the Imperium and the Holy League. It is the frontline where the battles are fiercest. However abundant the resources are, they have to consider whether or not they have the brains to enjoy them! Although this place is at the edge of the cosmos and is rather barren, it is the rear of the Imperium after all. They can develop in peace for hundreds of years!
"The people of the Black Wind Fleet said that they would march back to the Black Wind Sector immediately. It was just a means to negotiate with His Majesty, and this is the final condition! How can they leave when they are really here? "
"You do have a point, Master Su," Kou Ruhuo said solemnly. "The people of the Black Wind Fleet will certainly swallow the Flying Star Sector without leaving anything for us!"
"That's good enough," Su Changfa said gloomily.
"The Flying Star Sector is just a piece of bone. The relic of the Pangu civilization is the real meat. Once the people of the Black Wind Fleet discover it, there will be no share for us at all!
"Hehe. We are all stray dogs, but there are only three of us, and the people of the Black Wind Fleet have a whole fleet! This place is too far away from the Imperium. It is difficult for news to be sent back to the homeland of the Imperium. It is more than easy for them to make the three of us' disappear 'in the relic of the Pangu civilization! "
Li Yao was eavesdropping nearby. He was both delighted and worried. He was delighted that the situation in the Imperium of True Human Beings was exactly as Professor Zhou Yifu described. There were 'limits of a great nation'. The worlds that were really under the emperor's control were only the dozens of worlds around the capital. The worlds further away, however, boasted a certain degree of independence.
For example, the people of the Black Wind Sector who lived in the 'Black Wind Sector' were not entirely obedient to the emperor's orders. They could negotiate with the emperor!
Judging from the tone of the three of them, such a thing was not a special case within the Imperium. It was probably the same for all the border worlds that boasted troops.
Such an organizational structure of warlords would undoubtedly provide significant changes for the strategic layout of the Xing Yao Federation.
But he was worried because the people of the Black Wind Fleet who had come on a large scale did not have a good reputation even among the Immortal Cultivators. They were obviously the most ferocious and inhumane guys!
Also, now that their own world had been occupied by the Holy League, they had no intention of returning to their hometown but had come out to look for a new place to live.
As a result, there was no room for reconciliation between the two parties. They would only fight to the death!
Li Yao considered the countermeasures while he continued eavesdropping.
Tang Qianhe smiled bitterly. "Master Su, according to your analysis, we are most likely to be killed, aren't we?"
"Not most likely," Kou Ruhuo said coldly. "We are definitely going to be killed. Otherwise, why would our enemies give us the opportunity so pretentiously and ask us to come out and 'redeem ourselves'? They are trying to kill us with a borrowed knife. They are trying to kill us with the hands of the people of the Black Wind Fleet! "
Su Changfa sighed and said, "I'm already old. I have neither the will to struggle nor the strength to counterattack. If I'm all by myself, does it matter if I end up as a pile of dry bones at the edge of the sea of stars?"
"But are you two really willing to die?"
"Master Su, of course we are not willing to be captured without putting up a fight," Tang Qianhe said in a hurry. "Please enlighten us!"
"I don't care about death," Kou Ruhuo said coldly. "But it will be even better if I can chop off the heads of a few of my enemies before I die!"
Su Changfa chuckled creepily. "If the two of you still want to counterattack, I will fight another round with you. What do you think? Right now, there is only one solution. Instead of summoning the Black Wind Fleet, we will conquer the Flying Star Sector on our own! "
Li Yao felt his heart tighten for a moment, but then he was relieved. As long as the three Immortal Cultivators did not summon the main force billions of lightyears away, everything would be fine.
The three of them wanted to conquer the Flying Star Sector at this moment?
It would be like barging into hell when there was a path to heaven!
Tang Qianhe and Kou Ruhuo looked at each other in bewilderment and fell silent.
"Even if the intelligence about the Flying Star Sector that the boy said just now is true, it will be difficult for the three of us to occupy the entire Flying Star Sector," Kou Ruhuo said solemnly.
"The Flying Star Sector is a spacious but sparsely populated civilization after all. Almost a thousand sects are scattered in dozens of space zones. Even if there are no experts, how can the three of us be enough?"
Su Changfa smiled and said unhurriedly, "You should understand now why I didn't destroy the boy's brain and soul with heavy methods in the beginning, right?
"Since he is the son of an elder of a local sect in the Flying Star Sector, he might be of great help to us in conquering the Flying Star Sector if we keep him alive!
"Also, this relic of the Pangu civilization is a planetary warship. The debris of the primeval battlefield scattered on the surface of the planet is just a drop in the bucket. The real marvelous weapons and primeval techniques must be hidden deep inside the planet!
"If we can go deep into the planetary warship and excavate some marvelous weapons from the primeval era, we will have the confidence to survive!"
Tang Qianhe and Kou Ruhuo gasped. "Go deep into the planetary warship?"
"Exactly!"
Su Changfa's face suddenly turned extremely hideous, and his voice was filled with excitement. "I was exiled to a desolate land at the edge of the sea of stars. All my hope was gone a long time ago. But now that the heavens have given me a chance to discover such an unparalleled treasure, there is no way that it will slip through my fingers again!
"Even if I have to die, I will die deep inside the relic of the Pangu civilization. It will be better than being killed by the Black Wind Sector people or the sneers of my enemies!
"However, what if we're lucky enough to survive and find countless treasures from the depths of the Ancient Ruins? Hehe, hehehehe!"
Hearing Su Changfa's laughter that was filled with hatred, Tang Qianhe and Kou Ruhuo were both greatly moved. Greed and hatred were beaming out of their eyes, too!
"But the boy is still hiding something!"
Tang Qianhe shrieked. "He is a very unstable factor because of his ill intentions!"
"It doesn't matter. I can basically guess what he is hiding now!"
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