Li Yao felt that he had just uttered a tongue twister.
The truth behind the mist seemed to be even more complicated than a tongue twister.
Roars, explosions, and collisions of magical equipment burst out in more than ten corners of East Peace County at the same time, but they did not seem to be continuous. Instead, they were short, fast, and neat, like daggers that were about to cut the throats of the victims.
Those men of sacrifice had committed suicide in such a sordid way that it was impossible to find out more information from them. Pondering for a moment, Li Yao released Neltharion and observed the entire East Peace County from the high altitude.
Despite the serial explosions, not many areas in East Peace County were actually affected. Even the headquarters of the Cultivation sects that were attacked fell silent after a brief battle.
The city towers and the city gates, which were most important, showed no signs of large-scale battles, either. They were still under the control of the Cultivators of East Peace County.
Because the city gates were of utmost importance and could not be lost, the Cultivators who guarded the city gates did not dare act recklessly even though they knew that a riot was going on in the city. They could only defend the city towers.
It also proved Li Yao's speculation that the Cultivators who were suspected to belong to Ghost Qin were a small but well-trained squad of Cultivators. Their purpose was definitely not to occupy East Peace County. Otherwise, they would have controlled the city gates and the pivot of the Ocean Suppressing Array before the reinforcements returned.
Then, what was their purpose exactly?
While Li Yao was thinking quickly, dense smoke suddenly popped up in dozens of locations in the city at the same time. The black smoke soon enshrouded the streets and alleys like a raging mist, casting the entire East Peace County into complete darkness.
Li Yao vaguely sensed that almost a hundred streaks of spiritual energy were dashing out from various directions and fleeing to the east of East Peace County.
East Peace County was a harbor, and further east was a boundless ocean.
At this moment, the serial explosions in East Peace County were sensed by the Cultivators who were chasing the army of ghouls outside. Greatly shocked, the Cultivators, especially those who were local to East Peace County, all retreated, crowding the roads.
With a thought, Li Yao drifted toward one of the Cultivation sects that had been attacked like an illusory breeze.
A few mysterious enemies who were suspected to be Cultivators from Ghost Qin seemed to have accomplished their mission and were retreating in silence.
Like a viper lurking in a crevice, Li Yao dashed out of the black fog. His spiritual energy condensed into four whips, which he lashed out at the four mysterious people.
The four of them turned pale with fright. They let out strange cries one after another. The sky was filled with saber lights and sword shadows, splashing toward Li Yao.
Li Yao pretended to let out a muffled groan and disappeared into the depths of the black smoke again, pretending to be heavily injured by them.
While the two sides were fighting, he secretly stuck two thin metal pieces under the boots of two of them.
These two thin metal pieces had been refined repeatedly by him with his heart and soul. He had also entangled a strand of his Telepathic Thought on each of them. They were equivalent to two relatively primitive GPS devices.
Li Yao blinked his eyes in the darkness. Two dim redness flashed in the depths of his eyes. He immediately sensed that there were two vague red spots in front of him that were moving quickly toward the ocean.
Li Yao smiled and distanced himself from the mysterious enemies who were retreating quickly. After a few leaps and bounds, he reached the port of East Peace County, too.
The wall of East Peace County facing the ocean was not high. Not many Cultivators were guarding it at this moment.
Li Yao sensed that at least a hundred mysterious enemies had leaped into the surging ocean from this place and disappeared into the deep, dark ocean.
Li Yao's curiosity was greatly aroused. He took off the ragged clothes on his body and slid to the bottom of the ocean like a fish without bones, too.
He was still on the continental shelf, and the ocean was not deep. A large batch of mysterious enemies were walking directly on the seabed like a bunch of creepy, horrible zombies.
Li Yao intentionally kept a long distance from them and hid his traces with the seaweed and the reefs. He simply asked Neltharion to follow them not too far away.
There were too many of them, and they also had two GPS devices. They were not afraid that they would be shaken off.
However, Li Yao was confused. Looking from the surface of the ocean, there was no sign of any ship at all. Were they going to hold their breath and walk at the bottom of the ocean for a day and a night against the enormous pressure of the ocean currents and the seawater?
Even for a self-cultivator, such a task was too difficult.
The hundred mysterious enemies walked on the seabed for about fifteen minutes, when a ghost ship suddenly appeared on the seabed up ahead.
Yes. It was the kind of ghost ship that had sunk to the bottom of the ocean hundreds of years ago and had been riddled with holes because of the corrosion of the seawater. Seaweed, corals, and barnacles were growing on it. It would not be strange if a hundred zombies jumped out of it at any moment.
These mysterious enemies crawled into the ghost ship through the broken holes on the ghost ship with great familiarity.
Deep inside the creepy ocean …
Mysterious weirdos walking at the bottom of the ocean …
A ragged ghost ship that was gray and white, with all kinds of hairy seaweed and shells growing on it …
When put together, it was a creepy, horrible scene. Even Li Yao could not help but secretly click his tongue, wondering if those guys were really not human beings but some sort of advanced zombies that had breathing, heartbeat, and blood circulation.
"Wait a moment," the mental devil said.
The mental devil said. "Theoretically speaking, if a zombie boasts breath, heartbeat, and blood circulation, we usually call it a living person.
"…" Li Yao.
Right then, weird changes suddenly took place on the creepy sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.
Milky streams of light gradually flowed out of its body. Stimulated by the streams of light, the seaweed and barnacle vines that were attached to the shell of the ship slowly wriggled and spurted out abundant natural gel, sealing the damaged parts of the shell without leaving any gap.
Chi!
Li Yao clearly sensed that tremendous water was being squeezed out from the bottom of the sunken ship, which must've drained all the water inside the body of the ship.
As a result, the sunken ship that had been riddled with holes turned into some sort of underwater vehicle that was similar to the 'submarines' in the modern Cultivation civilization.
"Seriously? Does it have to be so advanced?"
Li Yao was more and more curious about the force or person who built the ghost ship and directed the scheme.
After draining most of the water inside the cabin with the thousands of barnacles attached to the shell of the ship, it floated up after a while and snuck toward the depths of the ocean.
Naturally, Li Yao carried out his best stealth technique and followed the ship like a haunting ghost.
He tried to maneuver Neltharion to sneak into the depths of the ghost ship many times.
However, the ghost ship that seemed to be riddled with holes had been built for deep-sea cruising in the first place. There was not the slightest gap on the surface that could be exploited.
Li Yao did not dare drill through the shell of the ghost ship with the drill of mystic rays recklessly, fearing that the pressure inside and outside would change and that the enemy would notice his existence.
He could only roughly figure out the structure of the ghost ship and order Neltharion to stick to what seemed to be the command room carefully.
Shua!
The front of Neltharion was opened. A tool that looked like a trumpet flower extended out and stuck to the shell of the ghost ship softly.
Neltharion was a training starship that was modeled after Sparkle, the 'multipurpose exploration starship'. The piece of magical equipment that looked like a trumpet flower had been designed on the multipurpose exploration starship to explore the complicated underground structures.
Its mechanism was to send waves of a special frequency to the underground world and analyze the aftermath of the reflection. Then, it would be able to basically scan the details of the underground world.
However, after minor adjustments, it could accept the feeble soundwaves from the outside world, too. It was essentially a highly-sensitive eavesdropper.
Sha! Sha! Sha!
A lot of noisy soundwaves mixed together and flooded into Li Yao's brain, like an unexpected storm.
Li Yao held his breath and boosted his computational ability to the maximum. He performed high-intensity filtering, analysis, and restoration inside his brain. It took him almost an hour before he finally extracted intermittent sounds from the noises.
"Found it. This is it."
At first, it was a pleasant female voice that was full of delight. She smiled and said, "I didn't expect that the core that we've been looking for after all this trouble would fall into the hands of the Cloud Ocean Sect. It's hilarious that the Cloud Ocean Sect was as blind as a bat and did not know its value at all. They simply used it as an item to suppress the defense rune array. What a waste of God's gifts."
"Everybody."
The mellow female voice, which was as pleasant as the spring wind and rain, suddenly changed the topic. "This operation went so smoothly. I have to thank everyone for working together and sacrificing themselves at all costs."
"If Mother White Lotus hadn't released the news that she was going to attack East Peace County, it would've been impossible for East Peace County to absorb so many foreign unaffiliated Cultivators and disaster victims in a panic, allowing our men to infiltrate the city among the unaffiliated Cultivators and disaster victims.
"Later, Mother White Lotus also paid a heavy price to divert the main force of the enemy away so that we could take advantage of the situation and attack.
"Of course, without the valiant battles of the warriors of Cloud Qin and the elites under King Huntian's command, it would've been impossible for us to find what Lord Wang was talking about.
"Right now, the core has fallen into our hands. As long as the four of us can still cooperate without any reservation like today, the world will definitely belong to us."
The pleasant female voice was like a gentle spring breeze and a summer rain.
But when it poured into Li Yao's ears, it felt like a bucket of cold water was flowing into his brain through his cochlea and all the way down along his spine. Even his buttocks were almost frozen.
Li Yao had thought that Mother White Lotus had cooperated with Ghost Qin and took advantage of the situation under the banner of the Heaven Battering Army.
But as it turned out, according to the pleasant female voice, the Heaven Battering Army was indeed involved in the whole thing.
Wonderful. Truly wonderful!
They pretended to be members of the six major sects at first, and then they pretended to be members of the Heaven Battering Army under the identities of the six major sects. As a result, under the influence of the stereotype, even if their first two identities were revealed, few people would think that they were members of the Heaven Battering Army.
But little did they know that some of them were members of the Heaven Battering Army who pretended to be members of the six major sects and then pretended to be members of the Heaven Battering Army.
Also, who was the 'Lord Wang'?
Recalling the uncanny deaths of the few warriors of Ghost Qin, the answer was obvious. 'Lord Wang' was Lead Eunuch Wang Xi, who used to be the most powerful man in the past but was hated by everybody right now.
Lead Eunuch Wang Xi, 'Heaven Battering King' Qi Changsheng, 'Mother White Lotus' Wan Mingzhu, and Regent of Ghost Qin Han Baling, the 'Four Rapscallions' who awed the Ancient Sages Sector, had joined hands.
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