"Little Black, what have you found?"
Li Yao thought to himself while he sent a telepathic thought into his Cosmos Ring. [(? Net?
For some reason, Little Black had been lethargic and lazy for the past few months after breaking free from the seal of Black Wing, but it was particularly excited after it came to Kunlun.
It was especially so when Li Yao approached the debris of some Colossi. The guy was even agitated inside the Cosmos Ring, as if it were itching to have a try.
Li Yao observed for a moment. Being closely monitored by dozens of spiritual puppets, he did not dare to summon Little Black recklessly. But he simply flew in the direction that Little Black was pointing at without saying anything.
Pushing aside a cluster of broken debris and passing through a few dehydrated dead bodies of the Pangu Clan, Li Yao discovered the remains of a dark red Colossus that was lying there quietly in the middle of a swirl of magical equipment garbage.
The debris of the Colossus was piled up together with the garbage of other magical equipment. It was lackluster in the first place. Even the crimson brightness on the surface was like mottled paint that was almost falling apart.
It was truly unattractive. Had it not been for Little Black's reminder, Li Yao would never have noticed it in the debris of the battlefield that was as vast as an ocean.
It had been about fifteen meters tall and in the shape of a human being, but the details all over its body had the distinctive features of dragons and griffins.
The overlapping stripes of red waves on the surface of the plate looked both like burning flames, the scales of dragons, and the feathers of griffins.
Li Yao flew around it but did not find any weapons. Perhaps they had been dropped during the fierce battle. However, there were two unbelievable wings on its back that were more than twenty meters long. Crimson swirls were condensing on the surface of the wings, as if they were made of magma!
But right now …
It could not have been more miserable!
The entire left arm and a large piece of the left shoulder had been ripped off by brute force, revealing the broken coils, rune arrays, crystal tubes, and wires inside. They had been corroded beyond recognition and melted into a cluster.
It was like an ugly scar that had not been carefully maintained and had healed savagely.
Its head, which had three horns protruding out like a dragon, was also crushed by the heavy magical equipment. The left half of its head was completely caved in, and its two crystal cameras were squeezed out. They were barely connected to the eye sockets by two crystal wires as thin as spider silk.
Its breastplate had been torn apart, too, revealing an empty cockpit. The wings on its back that were fully extended were riddled with holes. It reminded Li Yao of an old hen that had shed its feathers. He felt that the two wings would break by themselves if he flapped them lightly!
All the other parts of the plate armor were full of cracks. If one were to look inside from the damaged parts, one would be able to see components that were seriously corroded.
The Colossus was a hundred times more miserable than the remnants of many Colossi that Li Yao had seen on the primeval battlefield. It should've lost the value of maintenance or even dismantling in any case.
Li Yao didn't understand why Xiao Hei had to drag him to the front of this giant soldier god.
It was not until he circled around the Colossus three times that Li Yao finally realized what was wrong.
The Colossus looked like a victim of both polio and paralysis. Even the breastplate, which was the most solid part, had been blown up by the enemy.
However, the inside of the cockpit was miraculously intact. Li Yao narrowed his eyes and observed carefully, only to discover that the entire cockpit was enshrouded in a vague red mist that was vaguely spreading out the aura of magma!
As for the other Colossi that Li Yao had seen on the primeval battlefield, however perfect they looked, the interferences of minerals and spiritual energy had long leaked into the cockpit, turning it into a lifeless cave!
"Can this Colossus still move?"
Li Yao's heart was pounding. He tried to extend part of his telepathic thoughts into the cockpit of the Colossus.
Entangled with his telepathic thoughts, his telepathic thoughts pierced into the red mist that filled the cockpit and explored the depths of the red mist. In the end, he seemed to have touched something that was similar to … a crystal!
Xiao Hei sent out feeble waves inside the Cosmos Ring, as if he were instructing Li Yao on how to deal with the weird red mist.
Li Yao made up his mind and condensed his telepathic thoughts into the sharpest 'needle'. Aiming at the object that seemed to be a crystal deep inside the red mist, Li Yao pierced it brutally.
Hum!
A red, ball-shaped ripple blew away all the remnants of magical equipment around!
The weirdest scene took place!
The crystal deep inside the red mist seemed to have been pierced into pieces brutally. Like a supernova, infinite redness spread out and flowed on the surface of the Colossus immediately!
The redness was compressed nonstop until it became thick and stagnant, making the Colossus seem to be surrounded by magma in a cocoon of magma!
When the 'magma' was reabsorbed by the Colossus and all the details were displayed in front of Li Yao, the previously mottled plate armor was as bright as new. The lackluster color was replaced by the brilliance of a red diamond!
It seemed to have traveled through hundreds of thousands of years from the primeval age to the modern age through the cleansing of fire, regaining the toughest vitality!
In the meantime, Li Yao's brain was bombarded by the ocean of fire crazily, too!
The overwhelming streams of information made his head ten times bigger all of a sudden.
The magma and the fire blended and crawled into his every brain cell by brute force, before they condensed into four ancient and yet eye-catching words deep inside his brain cells!
"Draconic Phoenix!"
Li Yao seemed to have 'seen' a ferocious beast that looked both like a dragon and a griffin enshrouded in infinite fire soared into the sky and tore it apart, flowing blatantly in the sky like boiling magma!
When the image of 'Draconic Phoenix' gradually turned into thousands of sparks and dispersed deep inside Li Yao's brain, he was sweating so hard that he was breathing heavily.
"Is Draconic Phoenix the name of this Colossus? It is indeed intimidating!
"Little Black, why do you feel that something is wrong with this' Draconic Phoenix 'and that it is controllable?
"Speaking of which, this thing … How do I control it?!"
Li Yao blinked and observed the cockpit of Draconic Phoenix suspiciously. There was neither a crystal processor, a joystick, or a control light beam inside. There did not seem to be any devices such as a virtual helmet or a connection system for biochemical neurons, either.
Then, how should he play it?
Li Yao swallowed greedily. He was about to crawl into the cockpit and study it when the picture under the surveillance of the crystal processor showed that Kou Ruhuo was rushing toward him.
It seemed that Kou Ruhuo's attention had been attracted when he 'woke up' Draconic Phoenix a moment ago.
As the chief of weapons, Kou Ruhuo should be the strongest of the three Immortal Cultivators. Li Yao did not want to attack him recklessly until he found the best opportunity.
Thinking of something, Li Yao stepped aside obediently.
On one hand, he was interested to know whether or not the Immortal Cultivators could manipulate a Colossus.
On the other hand, a maniac of magical equipment such as Kou Ruhuo would certainly be attracted by the Colossus. Chances were that it would create the best opportunity for Li Yao.
Although Li Yao was not very willing to assault the three Immortal Cultivators in such a place, he might not be able to hold himself back if the opportunity was too good.
As he expected, hardly had Kou Ruhuo lunged at him when he was deeply attracted by the 'bright as new' Draconic Phoenix. He stared at him without blinking, completely ignoring Li Yao's existence.
Li Yao heard the sound of Kou Ruhuo swallowing in the communication channel.
I don't know what happened, but I extended a few spiritual threads into it to explore. There's no telling what I hit, but it — it just hummed and brightened! "
Li Yao pretended that he did not know what to do and explained in a hurry.
"It's fine. It's fine!"
Overjoyed, Kou Ruhuo exclaimed, "Fellow Cultivator Li, it seems that you are truly our lucky star! With you here, we are truly lucky. Not only have we found a living Pangu, we have also found a Colossus with such an intact spiritual residence! "
Pausing for a moment, he explained, "Spiritual residence is a term used in the field of Colossi. It refers to the cockpit of the Colossus. Although the limbs of the Colossus are seriously damaged, and the left arm is even missing, as long as the spiritual residence is not damaged, it can serve as the core to assemble the Colossus!
"As long as we can find the hands and feet of other Colossi and connect them to this one, we will still be able to wield sixty to seventy percent of our combat ability!"
Kou Ruhuo's words, however, slightly dazed Li Yao. Alarms were ringing in his heart.
The ominous feeling that had been haunting his head a moment ago surfaced again and stared at him coldly as a dark shadow.
Kou Ruhuo was an expert in the Yuanying level after all. Sensing Li Yao's subtle stiffness, he immediately broke free from the excitement of discovering a Colossus and turned around. "Fellow Cultivator Li, is there a problem?"
Li Yao shook his head hard, trying to make the shadow clearer. He mumbled, "Senior Kou, don't you feel that … something is not right?"
Kou Ruhuo narrowed his eyes. "What do you mean?"
Li Yao scratched his helmet so hard that it was squeaking. He said solemnly, "Everything seems to be … going too well!"
"Senior Kou, to tell you the truth, I have been a loner for a long time. My life has been full of twists and turns. Whatever I do, it has never been smooth. There are always a few accidents big and small. Eventually, I finally reach the destination after a lot of twists and turns!
"Including the missions that I've teamed up with other people to explore relics and hunt demon beasts. All in all, no matter what the missions are, no matter how safe and reliable they seem, they always turn out to be soul-stirring and perilous. Several teammates have to be sacrificed in order to succeed by luck!
"But this time, it has been too smooth, hasn't it? Not a single teammate has died after exploring such a weird primeval battlefield and Pangu relics? It doesn't make sense! "
Kou Ruhuo: "… Why didn't you tell me earlier that you have such attributes?"
Li Yao: "Cough, cough. Leaving my personal attributes aside, based on the analysis of the exploration, do you really not feel that it has been too smooth?
"Your starship happened to land right next to this propulsion tube. After you descended, you 'happened' to find a branch. After passing through the branch, you 'happened' to find a city of Pangu people. Then, after a random search inside the city, you found the teleportation array that led to this place. In the end, you found living Pangu people without any trouble!
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