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Why don't I just abandon the ragged peripherals and wear the map core to my belt and run away?
Li Yao thought to himself, but he immediately vetoed the idea.
The peripherals known as the 'Thousand Stars Tray' boasted the ability to analyze the map core, which involved the esoteric technologies in the fields of barriers, spiritual energy, compression and release of telepathic thoughts, and translation of spiritual languages.
Li Yao was not a deity. What he was best at was the production of 'miniaturized battle magical equipment'. He specialized in the Crystal Suit and the Colossi. Not just any magical equipment could be produced.
As for the magical equipment to decompress and translate the information of the primeval civilization, he did not know much about it.
It was especially so on the relatively "primitive" planet. Without the assistance of the arrays of crystal processors and the help of well-trained specialists, it was barely possible to craft a set of decompression and translation magical equipment similar to the "Thousand Stars Tray" from scratch, not to mention that it was needless to write a complicated operation interface with a brand-new rune language.
Without the Thousand Stars Tray, the map of the 'Divine Palace' could not be triggered. Even if it was, there was no telling whether or not more secrets were hidden in it.
Li Yao focused his eyes on Long Yangjun again.
He suddenly realized that Lead Eunuch Wang Xi was a more critical person than 'Mother White Lotus' Wan Mingzhu.
How exactly did Wang Xi discover the existence of the so-called 'Divine Palace', and how did Wang Xi's subordinates open the map of the Divine Palace so proficiently and perform so many complicated operations?
Also, Wang Xi had once told Yan Liren that the people trapped in the Ancient Sages Sector were frogs at the bottom of a well.
Right now, Wang Xi had found the Divine Palace that claimed that it could lead to the deities' realm, and the plan had been carried out since more than ten years ago.
Did it mean that Wang Xi had been planning to jump out of the 'deep well' for a long time?
What was his purpose exactly?
Was the mysterious signal that was sent to the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector a hundred years ago somehow related to Wang Xi?
Or rather, were scouts from the Imperium of True Human Beings hiding behind Wang Xi?
Li Yao had planned to have a good chat with 'Mother White Lotus' Wan Mingzhu.
However, since he had peeked at such an earth-shattering secret, it was doubtful whether Wan Mingzhu could still communicate with him calmly.
For this kind of thing, no matter who it was, they would want to silence him.
It was not like he could directly tell Wan Mingzhu that he was actually a fellow Daoist from an alien planet. In a sense, he was the "immortal" that they had been yearning for day and night.
Whether or not Wan Mingzhu believed it, it would be rather awkward if the Imperium of True Human Beings or an even more dreadful force was lurking behind any of the Four Rapscallions.
Li Yao was never a person who was willing to let his fate be in the hands of others.
This was Wan Mingzhu's home ground. Who knew how much power she could unleash here? Even if she really wanted to communicate, it shouldn't be in such a passive place.
I'd better find a place to have a good chat with this Special Envoy Wang Xi and see what the mysterious eunuch, who used to be so powerful in the court, has up his sleeve.
The more information he had, the clearer the picture of the whole thing would be, and the more active he would be. By then, he would be free to choose whether to expose his identity or go to the "Divine Palace" as' Master Spiritual Vulture '.
"You, put away the Thousand Stars Tray and the map core and come with me."
Li Yao said to Long Yangjun.
"By logic, I shouldn't disobey you, senior."
Long Yangjun was not scared of Li Yao's cold eyes at all. She smiled and said, "However, the mission that Lord Wang entrusted to me hasn't been accomplished yet. I'm very curious about what you can threaten me with, senior. After all, you should know very well that, as a member of the Ghost Character and a special envoy chosen by Lord Wang to carry out the mission, I'm not scared of death."
"Of course you are not scared of death, but you are scared of failing the mission."
Li Yao said coldly, "Come with me right now. If you say one more word, I'll destroy the Thousand Stars Tray and the map core. Then, we'll go our separate ways."
"It doesn't matter to me. I came out for a walk because I had nothing better to do in the first place. Then, I snuck into this place and accidentally overheard your secret.
"The Divine Palace and the Cloud Qin Gold Statues are naturally very attractive, but I won't lose anything if I can't find the precise location to explore them.
"Your master, Wang Xi, has been planning for decades for the mission. If all his efforts are in vain, who do you think will be the biggest loser?"
The smile on Long Yangjun's face gradually froze, and uncontrollable panic popped up in her eyes.
Li Yao sneered. A green fire appeared at the center of his palm, burning more and more fiercely, with creaking sounds of spiritual energy bursting out.
Long Yangjun did not say anything. Holding back the excruciating pain of the shackles, she raised her hands, and the Thousand Asteroids Plate and the rhomboid crystal turned into hundreds of streaks of brilliance and crawled into four Cosmos Rings.
"Very good."
Li Yao nodded in satisfaction. He snapped his fingers, and three streams of ghostly fire were shot at three critical parts of the shackles on Long Yangjun's body. The thorns that had been deeply stabbed into her veins were slightly retracted so that it would be easier for her to summon part of her spiritual energy.
"You are a smart person. Don't do anything stupid. Your life is worthless, but the map of the Divine Palace is. Don't act recklessly and give me a reason to destroy it."
Li Yao's voice was emotionless, as if it were a machine that was made of gears and bearings.
Long Yangjun nodded obediently and walked in front of him under Li Yao's hint.
When the two of them left White Lotus Island without a sound, the skeletons and remaining souls that were stationed on the island had yet to realize what was going on.
However, in the seawater not far away, there was a turbulent undercurrent that was turning back in exasperation.
Mother White Lotus realized that she had been tricked and was returning.
Shua! Shua!
Shua! The jellyfish floating around White Lotus Island suddenly grew agitated. They all opened their translucent bodies, like balloons that had been filled with air.
Scanned by the colorful mystic rays, Li Yao and Long Yangjun immediately had nowhere to hide.
Countless round jellyfish floated to the two of them. When several of the jellyfish collided, they exploded without a sound.
"Let's go."
Li Yao pushed Long Yangjun's back hard. His spiritual energy flooded out of every pore on his body like a flood, turning him into a propellant submarine and crawling out of the siege of the hundreds of jellyfish before they reached him.
The explosion of the hundreds of jellyfish provided a powerful impetus for Li Yao to dash forward. Then, he retrieved dozens of bizarre-shaped components from his Cosmos Rings and put them on his hands, feet, and back. They were like enormous fins, and every one of them could rotate agilely.
Shua!
Watched by Long Yangjun's astonished eyes, Li Yao controlled the 'fins' precisely, raising ripples at the bottom of the ocean as he dragged her all the way up.
This place was still within the range of the continental shelf. A moment later, the two of them leaped out of the seawater.
But on the dark ocean, lightning was flashing, and the tides were surging. The most violent spiritual waves filled the world, and the weather could not have been harsher.
It was a sign of the arrival of a febrile typhoon.
Qi Zhongdao had said earlier that two febrile typhoons would attack the coastal area one after the other.
The previous one had already caused a great natural disaster. The one that was coming at them was the latter one.
"Senior Spiritual Vulture."
Glancing at the sky where the purple lightning was dancing crazily, Long Yangjun raised her voice and said, "Senior, you are not a hardcore Cultivator of the Great Qian Dynasty, and you are not related to the Great Qian Dynasty at all. We have absolutely no reason to be hostile. Why don't we sit down and have a nice chat?"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! Explosions that sounded like thunder echoed in the seawater behind them. An enormous bone dragon hundreds of meters long, made of the bones of countless undersea demon beasts and as large as a skeleton warship, surfaced on the surface of the ocean. Opening its bloody mouth, it roared at Li Yao deafeningly. A streak of bluish ghost flames spurted out of its throat and darted into the dark clouds, brushing past Li Yao's head. After a cracking sound, the dark clouds were almost completely ripped apart.
Between the enormous horns of the bone dragon, 'Mother White Lotus' Wan Mingzhu was glaring at Li Yao furiously with overwhelming ghost flames.
Li Yao looked at Long Yangjun.
"I was wrong, senior," Long Yangjun said. "You'd better run now, senior."
Li Yao licked his lips and dragged Long Yangjun to the sky, running to the place where the spiritual energy was the most disordered and the lightning was the densest and loudest.
Long Yangjun was so scared that her blood was freezing. Her hair was all erect because of the static electricity. She shouted, "Senior, senior, it's possible that we will run into a febrile typhoon ahead!"
That was exactly what Li Yao wanted.
The sky above the ocean was completely unobstructed. There was no place to hide at all.
If he were on his own, he was confident that he could run as fast as Mother White Lotus.
But right now, he was carrying such a burden as Long Yangjun. If he were to go in a straight line, Mother White Lotus would certainly catch up with him before long.
Escaping into the febrile typhoon was the only way of survival.
Although the febrile typhoon looked dreadful, it was not the first time that Li Yao had trained himself in a thunderstorm and defeated the enemy with the help of the power of wind and thunder.
It was a joke. Back in the Flying Star Sector, he was not even scared of the violent turbulence unleashed by the supernova in the 'Wraiths' Wrath '. What could a tiny febrile typhoon do to him?
Li Yao released thousands of spiritual threads and sensed where the febrile typhoon was coming from. After a long roar, he dragged Long Yangjun and crashed into the febrile typhoon head-on.
Mother White Lotus chased after them on the enormous bone dragon. There was no telling how many ghouls and experts of Cloud Qin and the Heaven Battering Army were following them, too.
Li Yao accompanied his wife to the hospital for a postoperative examination in the morning. Everybody knew the hospital nowadays. They spent the whole morning waiting in line.
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