"This is the Divine Palace."
Li Yao blinked, trying to see the whole picture of the Divine Palace in the mist of ice that was rising nonstop.
Looking down from the high stance, he found that the Divine Palace was streamlined like an enormous spindle. However, most of it was deeply embedded into the ground, and only a small part of it was exposed above the rocks. On the top of it were holes that were arranged in circles, leading to the interior of the Divine Palace.
Li Yao pondered for a long time and compared the appearance of the Divine Palace with the internal structure of the Divine Palace in his memory. Then, a shocking idea suddenly popped up in his head.
"Isn't — isn't this a starship from the primeval era?"
Yes. Li Yao had once excavated the debris of some warships of the Pangu civilization and the Nuwa Clan on Kunlun. The circles of holes behind the bottom of the Divine Palace were obviously the exhaust jets that were used to adjust the direction in the universe and propel the jet within the atmosphere.
He had seen the same layout of exhaust flame spurts on some of the warship remnants of the Nuwa Clan in Kunlun before. Also, although the materials of those warship remnants were rusted, after a series of reduction reactions, they were very similar to the materials that were shining in front of his eyes.
If the Divine Palace was a super warship of the Nuwa Clan, everything would make sense.
In the primeval era hundreds of thousands of years ago, before the God-Sealing War began, the Pangu civilization had once ruled the entire universe that people were familiar with.
At that time, the Ancient Sages Sector was the war base of the Pangu civilization.
Then, in the God-Sealing War, it was only natural that the Nuwa Clan would send some super warships to attack the Ancient Sages Sector, and one of them would have crashed deep inside the Land of Eternal Night.
It was not strange at all that the super warship of the Nuwa Clan had a mass and kinetic energy equal to that of a rushing meteorite. It was not strange at all that it dug deep into the ground and created a crater hundreds of kilometers in diameter.
Since it was a super warship of the Nuwa Clan, it was only reasonable that some Colossi and even maintenance and production factories for the Colossi were installed on it.
As for the so-called "Immortal Ascension Path", it was even easier to explain.
The super warships of the Nuwa Clan must have facilities such as escape capsules and portable teleportation arrays that could allow people to appreciate the magnificence of the sea of stars or the Grand Illusionary Land that stored tremendous files of the outside world. Those who entered it would be able to appreciate the different customs of the three thousand Sectors.
The technological capability of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan was marvelous even in the eyes of the Xing Yao Federation. In the eyes of the locals of the Ancient Sages Sector, it was perfectly normal that they were called 'deities'.
And..
It suddenly occurred to Li Yao that, since it was a super warship of the Nuwa Clan, it was very possible that there was communication magical equipment on it that could send messages across the sea of stars instantly through gravitational waves or other unbelievable technologies.
Was the mysterious signal that was sent to the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector a hundred years ago related to the Nuwa warship?
Most likely.
It was because the parts of the Nuwa warship that were exposed to the surface of the planet were emitting a layer of vague silver brilliance.
The ignorant locals of the Ancient Sages Sector might have worshipped the glamorous' deities', but Li Yao knew very well that it was a protective membrane that was used to block the air and prevent the warship from being rusted and damaged.
The protective membrane was still glittering, which meant that the main power source of the Nuwa warship was not completely damaged and had been hibernating for hundreds of thousands of years instead of being 'dead'.
Under such circumstances, even if the Nuwa warship could not cruise in the sea of stars anymore, the tremendous units inside the warship, and even the 'communication room' and the 'teleportation room', could still be functioning normally.
A rather well-preserved Nuwa warship.
Li Yao breathed heavily.
Although he was in the extremely low temperature of minus dozens of degrees, his blood was still boiling uncontrollably, and it was almost flowing out of his eyes and nostrils.
Although the Xing Yao Federation boasted the entire Kunlun relic, most of the debris inside had been corrupted by the waves of the red tide and the pulsar. Even a couple of Colossi could barely be assembled, not to mention most of the debris of the warships. The federation could only study their appearance and internal structure, but it was impossible to get the specific technology of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan.
The Nuwa warship, which was probably carrying a factory of Colossi and had an intact rate of more than fifty percent, was a priceless treasure for the Federation.
Li Yao was so excited that his eyes were spurting fire.
But he was even more hesitant to act recklessly.
If a certain mysterious force did send a mysterious signal to the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Flying Star Sector through the communication room on the Nuwa warship a hundred years ago …
Then, the mysterious force might have already controlled the Nuwa warship.
There was no telling whether or not it was a well-hidden trap.
If the coordinates of the Xing Yao Federation were exposed at this moment, the enemy would be able to track Li Yao's nest on the Nuwa warship with almost a hundred Colossi on board. It would be rather awkward.
Besides, there was still the Imperium of True Human Beings.
Li Yao's not-so-reliable intuition reminded him again that the spies of the Imperium of True Human Beings were probably nearby.
He could even smell the overbearing and arrogant smell of the Immortal Cultivators.
"When this show is over, we'll know what the various forces are up to."
Li Yao glanced at the few super Yuanying Cultivators casually and calculated in his heart.
"The Divine Palace has appeared, and the divine gate has been opened. This is our opportunity."
Many Cultivators were awed by the super warship from the prehistoric civilization. They all pointed at the black exhaust spurts at the bottom of the Nuwa warship and roared.
The Cultivators who belonged to different sides had no time to fight each other. Some of the more impatient Cultivators jumped into the canyon and dashed toward the Nuwa warship before the rocks around the crater stabilized.
The remaining Cultivators looked at each other in bewilderment.
It was obvious that all the Cultivators on the spot belonged to two sides and more than ten different forces. Ghost Qin, the Heaven Battering Army, the White Lotus Cult, the Ghost Character, the Grand Mystery Sect, the Purple Pole Sword Sect, the Thunderstorm Valley, the court, and the unaffiliated Cultivators were only temporarily gathered for their own interests.
If they fought each other to the death, the Cultivators of other forces would only take advantage of the situation.
After they seized the Colossi, they would not shed a single tear for the victims.
There was no telling who shouted first, but everybody dropped the grudges that had not dried up in their hands and charged toward the crater, roaring.
The high-level Cultivators whose flying swords were still intact or who boasted the techniques to ride the wind staggered into the sky and lunged at the Nuwa warship like moths darting into a flame.
The low-level Cultivators whose flying swords had been broken and whose Cultivation was shallow, on the other hand, were jumping on the uneven rocks and charging to the bottom of the crater at the risk of slipping into the bottomless gaps between the rocks. Their impatience made them look like a swarm of ants.
Even the two armies commanded by Emperor Phoenix and Han Baling turned their horses around and left the battlefield after a moment of hesitation. They charged at the Nuwa warship from different directions, trying to enter the 'Divine Palace' before the enemy did.
"What are you waiting for, Master Spiritual Vulture? If you don't hurry up, you won't even have a hot meal!"
Qi Changsheng burst into laughter. The flames of spiritual energy around his body soared crazily by dozens of times, and he dived straight down like a spluttering shooting star.
On his way, he encountered a few middle-level and low-level Cultivators who were flying clumsily. Regardless of their camp, they were all blown away by him and fell into the depths of the ice canyon that was thousands of meters above the ground. There was no telling whether they were dead or alive.
It seemed that everybody was rushing forward in silence. The rather 'harmonious' scene was soon disrupted.
Many Cultivators came to the engine spurts at the rear of the Nuwa warship, thinking that it was the 'divine gate' that led to the Divine Palace.
Compared to the size of human beings, the Nuwa Clan was relatively tall. Therefore, their warship was at least dozens of kilometers long. It was like a space city made of metal.
Even the fuel engine spurts that were used to adjust the direction and fly within the atmosphere were more than five meters in diameter. At first glance, it did look like an open gate.
Near the 'divine gate', bloody conflicts of a smaller scale broke out because of who would enter the 'Divine Palace' first.
However, before the parties of the conflicts had a clear winner, they were often crushed into meat pies by the main troops that arrived one after another.
Only the super Yuanying Cultivators such as Qi Zhongdao and Qi Changsheng did not have the courage to mess with them and simply allowed them to march forward and crawl into the engine tubes.
Li Yao frowned hard as he watched.
The situation had completely gone out of everybody's control.
The original plan had been to proceed step by step. Even after the Divine Palace was discovered, the search, mapping, and analysis had to be carried out in an orderly manner. Everybody had their own job, and every exploration team had their own mission.
But right now, the two camps, more than ten forces, and almost a hundred experts of the Yuanying Cultivators had been engaged in a fierce battle. Everybody had turned into a disorganized and disorganized troop.
Not just giving out effective commands, even the procedure of testing the environment inside the 'Divine Palace' to see if it was safe before they entered it had been neglected.
It was not hard to tell that Qi Zhongdao, Master Bitter Cicada, and the rest of them had kept their basic rationality and were not overwhelmed by their greed. They were still shouting desperately and trying to control the situation.
However, at such a moment, the Cultivators of the six major sects did not listen to them at all. Besides, Wang Xi, Wan Mingzhu, Qi Changsheng, and the other bandits had already rushed into the engine tubes of the Nuwa warship without caring about anything else.
Having no other choice, Qi Zhongdao and the other super Yuanying Cultivators could only follow them closely. —
Li Yao secretly sighed. He felt that his head was splitting, but there was nothing he could do except to sneak into the Nuwa warship first.
Naturally, he would not be so stupid as to walk through the engine tubes like the locals of the Ancient Sages Sector, which would be a dead end.
At the end of the engine tubes must be the engine furnace, which was connected to the fuel compartment. Every part of the engine must have been made of the toughest materials that could resist the heat. It would take a lot of effort to break them apart with brute force.
As an 'expert of warship infiltration', how could Li Yao walk such an unsophisticated path like the locals?
Hahaha. It's been a long time.
I haven't gone out with my wife and son for a long time. So, I took a break for a couple of days and felt sorry for everybody.
I'll make it up to you today.
I'll try to do it tomorrow, too.
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