"Shua!"
Li Yao put on the Rockman. After the maintenance and strengthening of the Imperium of True Human Beings, the Engineering Crystal Suit had been reborn.
Although the operating system was exactly the same as before, Li Yao discovered that all the performance parameters had soared during the self-examination. The Crystal Suit had been upgraded from the Engineering Crystal Suit to the Battle Crystal Suit.
In the operation menu that was projected to his retina, three groups of controllable light runes had been added, which corresponded to the superstring shield, the Erratic Light Cannon, and the command interface of the spiritual puppets.
Through the command interface, Li Yao was able to release his telepathic thoughts and manipulate part of the spiritual puppets!
After connecting to Su Changfa, Kou Ruhuo, and Tang Qianhe's tactical Spiritual Nexus, Li Yao familiarized himself with the basic operations of the superstring shield and the Erratic Light Cannon under their guidance.
Kou Ruhuo had poured a lot of teaching telepathic thoughts into the mainframe crystal processor of the Rockman so that Li Yao could grasp them as soon as possible in the form of the Half-Step Grand Illusionary Land.
After he familiarized himself with the superstring shield and the shoulder cannon, Kou Ruhuo assigned ten spiritual puppets to him.
Since it was his first time, the spiritual puppets had been set to the automatic defense mode. He did not need to manipulate them in person. Their main purpose was to provide protection for him.
Through the list of spiritual puppets on the tactical Spiritual Nexus, Li Yao could see that the Immortal Cultivators had spared no expense for the exploration deep inside Kunlun. More than eight hundred spiritual puppets had been mobilized to go deep into the underground world with them.
Li Yao was more than happy to see them do that.
After all, the fewer spiritual puppets that were left near the war base, the more convenient it would be for Fire Ant and Professor Mo Xuan to take action.
Chances were that Professor Mo Xuan would find an opportunity to hack the mainframe crystal processor of the war base!
In that case, the three Immortal Cultivators' faces would certainly be very pleasant when they returned from the underground world with a full load.
But he was confused. "Why don't we just send a large batch of spiritual puppets down there for the exploration instead of putting ourselves in danger?"
"The spirit magnetic interference under the Primeval Battlefield is too strong."
Kou Ruhuo explained, "We sent a squad of spiritual puppets to investigate earlier, but we lost contact with the base after moving only ten kilometers forward! I estimate that there is some kind of anti-invasion array in the depths of the primeval battlefield that can block telepathic thoughts. It is still functioning to a certain extent after hundreds of thousands of years!
"Therefore, we have to go down there in person and manipulate the spiritual puppets by amplifying our brainwaves through the control unit inside the Crystal Suit at the shortest distance!"
"I see!"
Li Yao nodded. Thinking for a moment, he asked again, "Eight hundred spiritual puppets. Can you control them all?"
"It's fine!"
Kou Ruhuo smiled. "The spiritual puppets have been set up with almost ten thousand classic tactics in the first place. As long as they are connected to our brainwaves, they will automatically choose the most appropriate tactic after receiving our fuzzy instructions!"
"For example, we only need to issue orders to attack or alert, but we do not need to bother about the specific actions of every spiritual puppet. They will naturally choose the most precise plan!"
Li Yao nodded and understood it.
Spiritual puppets were the upgraded version of the Grand Illusionary Soldiers. They were somewhat similar to the modifications that the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector were performing on the Grand Illusionary Soldiers, too.
"If we can get the technology of spiritual puppets from the Imperium of True Human Beings, it will be of great help to the modification of our own Grand Illusionary Soldiers, too!"
Li Yao was looking forward to the trip inside the planetary warship more and more.
He was eager to know the real capability of the three Immortal Cultivators and what kind of delicate tactics their spiritual puppets could play out.
Very soon, Su Changfa and Tang Qianhe were all ready to go.
In order to manipulate the spiritual puppets, a special brainwave amplification unit had been installed on the back of their Crystal Suit. A few groups of coils similar to telepathic thought amplifiers protruded out of the top of their helmets like intimidating horns, too.
"Let's go!"
Kou Ruhuo waved his hands and pointed at the giant crater at the center of the primeval battlefield.
Su Changfa was the leader of the exploration squad. But after the real battle began, Kou Ruhuo, as the chief of arms, took over the command.
A hundred spiritual puppets formed the vanguard in the front, three hundred were on alert in the rear, and they would protect their retreat at any cost at the critical moment. The other four hundred puppets surrounded them closely.
All the spiritual puppets were no more than three kilometers away from them, which was the limit of their brainwaves.
I didn't know that I would enjoy the same treatment as Xiao Xuance did in the past.
Li Yao felt like laughing. When he was fighting Xiao Xuance in the past, what he hated most was the guy who summoned hundreds of Grand Illusionary Soldiers to attack him together.
But today, he was living a happy life where hundreds of iron sabers and axemen would rush at him and slash him when he coughed lightly.
Observed from a hundred kilometers away, the center of the primeval battlefield was a giant, dark hole dozens of kilometers in diameter.
However, when they reached the edge of the giant hole, they felt that they had reached the end of a cliff, and there was a bottomless abyss in front of them.
Spiritual energy was surging out of the center of the planet like scorching steam.
Li Yao scanned with the special crystal cameras that had been mixed with the powder of rare metals. He saw colorful 'fountains' rushing out and congregating into giant pillars that soared into the sky and filled the sky! Beep! Beep!
Beep! Beep!
The units of the Crystal Suit were all alarms.
Even the operation interface that was projected onto his retina had colorful ripples and waves.
It was a very serious interference of spiritual energy.
Water could float a boat, but it could also sink a boat. Spiritual energy was certainly indispensable for both Cultivators and Immortal Cultivators. However, if the spiritual energy was too dense, it would spread out like a flood that had just broken the dam.
It was like how one's stomach would explode if they ate too much food, and how one would be poisoned if they drank too much water. If they were soaked in spiritual energy that was too dense, not only would the units of the magical equipment be affected, even the circulation of spiritual energy in the body of the Cultivator would be affected. They might even be mentally deranged!
Li Yao finally understood why they had to go down in person.
In such a complicated environment, any piece of magical equipment that was remotely controlled by telepathic thoughts would malfunction.
Hundreds of spiritual puppets flew into the dark abyss as the first batch.
Even though they were under severe spirit energy magnetic field interference, they still sent back a lot of blurry images.
The channel that led to the center of the planet might be the entrance of a certain medium-sized starship. It was more than a hundred kilometers long. Complicated burn marks were on the wall of the cave, which looked like bizarre paintings.
"Let's go down!"
One minute later, the spiritual puppets that had descended three kilometers did not encounter any anomaly. Li Yao and his companions drove the Crystal Suit and flew down slowly, too.
Zhi! Zhi! Zhi! Zhi!
Zhi! Zhi! Zhi! Zhi!
Right in the middle of the surging tides of spiritual energy from the core of the planet, Li Yao immediately heard screams, as if the darkness below their feet was the gate leading to the deepest level of hell, where countless hungry ghosts and devils were waiting for them to walk into the trap.
"Don't worry!"
Kou Ruhuo said solemnly in the communication channel. "It's not a living creature. It must be a special flame of spiritual energy whose frequency and nature are unknown that is interfering with our monitoring rune arrays!"
The four of them held their breath and continued descending. As they expected, after flying for almost a hundred kilometers, they did not encounter any anomaly except for the screams that were getting more and more miserable.
However, some glittering floccules gradually appeared in the darkness ahead of them. They looked like fluorescent jellyfish or translucent hairtails.
When the few spiritual puppets at the bottom touched the floccules, they immediately entangled them and tied up the limbs of the few spiritual puppets.
From the display menu of the tactical Spiritual Nexus, Li Yao could see that the few spiritual puppets' components were wearing out rapidly. It was obvious that they had been attacked by the floccules.
"Those things must be mutated creatures that slowly bred after the planetary warship was abandoned. But they are still in a very low-level phase."
While observing the floccules attacking the spiritual puppets, Tang Qianhe said in a low voice, "I feel that they are somewhat similar to the Spirit Devouring Bug Grasses from the primeval era. However, the Spirit Devouring Bug Grasses were low-level creatures that lived in the ocean, and those things are floating in the air."
"The spiritual energy here is so abundant," Su Changfa said.
"Perhaps, it can provide a certain force field similar to buoyancy for the creatures that feed on spiritual energy such as the Spirit Devouring Bug Grasses. A very unique mini ecosystem can be constructed here!"
"Be careful, everybody. The Spirit Devouring Bug Grasses are one level higher than the moss and shrubs that we found on the ground. Although they are not very aggressive, it can still be quite troublesome if they entangle the joints and gaps of the Crystal Suit.
"Their appearance suggests that there must be a complete ecosystem down below. Perhaps, even more ferocious ancient creatures are lurking inside the broken planetary warship and have survived generation after generation in the form of living fossils!"
Although the Spirit Devouring Bug Grasses were weird, they were drifting very slowly, and they were not close to each other. Therefore, they could pass through them easily.
After passing through the active area of the Spirit Devouring Bug Grasses and descending for another thirty kilometers, they found a fork in the road ahead.
It was an enormous hole more than three kilometers in diameter on the smooth wall of the tube that was pointing straight downward. A channel parallel to the ground had been created.
"According to my speculation," Su Changfa said solemnly.
Pondering for a moment, Su Changfa said, "The tube through which we flew in should be a jet propulsion tube of the planetary warship. Through the power rune arrays deployed at the core of the planet, the direction and the rotation speed of the planetary warship can be adjusted by blowing out the spiritual energy crazily.
"Obviously, the power rune arrays at the core of the planet must've been damaged to some extent, resulting in the leakage of spiritual energy. That's why the spiritual energy here is so intense!
"I've tested it. The density of spiritual energy here is more than two times higher than that at the entrance. If we explore further, neither the Crystal Suit nor we will be able to bear it. Also, the spiritual energy is oversaturated. One moment of carelessness, and a great explosion of spiritual energy may be triggered!
"The hole on the wall of the tube was obviously blown open by the invaders in the primeval war.
"They must've chosen this place for a breakthrough for their own reasons. Perhaps, the most valuable objects are behind the fork!"
Su Changfa's speculation was very reasonable. Li Yao and the rest of them nodded.
"I've detected a lot of signs of life!"
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