How did someone get here so quickly?
Li Yao was greatly alarmed. He felt that he was already fast enough. He had snuck in from the middle of the Nuwa warship and was relatively familiar with the internal structure of the warship. That was why he had found his way to the place so quickly.
Most of the other people had crawled in from the rear of the warship. Also, because of the fierce battles on their way, Li Yao had thought that it would take them several hours to slowly infiltrate every corner of the warship and find this place by accident.
Who was the newcomer? Was it a coincidence or on purpose?
Li Yao looked around and retrieved a stealth membrane suit from his Cosmos Ring as quickly as possible.
The biochemical suit provided by the Fire Ant had played a critical role in the battle to sneak into the Eye of Blood Demon. As long as he remained still, he would be almost 100% invisible.
Putting on the stealth membrane suit, he crawled behind a pile of ragged armor of the Nuwa Clan in a corner. Then, he lowered his breathing, heartbeat, and spiritual waves to the minimum with the Great Dream Tortoise Hibernation Art that Gui Suishou had taught him. Li Yao stared at the darkness coldly like a stone and a ghost.
Not long after, a staggering figure emerged from the end of the tunnel.
It was the mysterious Lead Eunuch Wang Xi, the initiator of the operation to explore the Divine Palace.
How is it possible?
Li Yao's pupils constricted violently, and he could not figure it out at all.
It was because he had seen Wang Xi crawl into the engine tubes at the rear of the Nuwa warship with his own eyes. Unless he was very familiar with the internal structure of the Nuwa warship, how could Wang Xi have passed through the internal cabins of the warship that were as complicated as a maze and reached the command area from the engine area in only half an hour?
At this moment, Wang Xi was still in the appearance of a middle-aged, beardless scholar. However, other than the paleness on his face, there was also green brilliance that suggested that he had been poisoned.
His body was stained with blood, and there was a ghastly wound on his thigh. His flesh was turned outward like a baby's lips. The wound was perfectly straight, without the slightest bit of curvature. There was not even a single hair's deviation.
What an astonishing sword aura!
Li Yao secretly clicked his tongue.
He was very familiar with this kind of wound. In the past few months, he had seen the same kind of wound on many fierce beasts used for sword practice almost every day.
In the entire Ancient Sages Sector, only Yan Liren's unstoppable sword aura could've cut such a splendid wound.
Wang Xi had a head-on clash with Yan Liren, and it seemed that he had suffered quite a bit of a setback.
It did make sense. Perhaps only a freak such as Yan Liren would not care about the Cloud Qin Gold Statues. He had only joined the trip to the Divine Palace because he wanted to have a sword competition with the experts.
Wang Xi was able to retreat unscathed when Yan Liren fully activated his sword aura and only suffered some flesh wounds on his thigh. His Cultivation was already quite impressive.
Wang Xi stumbled all the way to the front of the three silver gates. He craned his neck and looked at them for a long time. His expression was both confused and absent-minded, and his eyes were shining with mysterious light.
Countless pieces of magical equipment used by the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan were scattered around, but Wang Xi did not even bother to look at them. His eyes were somewhat out of focus, as if he were caught in the memories of a long time ago.
Mimicking Li Yao, he touched the three silver gates for a moment before he turned around and studied the barriers of the gate.
"Take your time."
Li Yao sneered. "Let's see how you can open the cabin door of the Nuwa warship that even I failed to crack."
Wang Xi pondered for a moment and activated the scanning and unlocking interface of the cabin door just like Li Yao did.
The first part that popped up was the facial feature recognition. A cluster of gentle blue light floated up unhurriedly like a beautiful jellyfish.
There was no telling what was on Wang Xi's mind, but after a brief daze, he stuck his face to it.
Li Yao almost burst into laughter. What was the guy thinking? The Nuwa warship was too advanced for him to accept. Did he think that anybody could show their face on it?
As he expected, the cluster of blue light wriggled on his face for a moment before it turned into bright red. The gate was still closed, showing no sign of opening at all.
The test had failed.
Wang Xi was somewhat dazed. Rubbing his face softly, he paced back and forth. Suddenly, he dashed back to the pathway and observed for a while, before he deployed quite a few alarm rune arrays in the pathway. One of the rune arrays was so inconspicuous that it almost missed the armor that Li Yao was hiding in. Li Yao was so anxious that cold sweat was almost dripping off his forehead.
What was the guy up to? Why was he so solemn?
After deploying seven alarm rune arrays and ensuring that nobody would break in, Wang Xi returned to the test magical equipment on the silver gate again.
He suddenly opened his eyes wide and took a deep, deep breath. He sucked in so much that his chest puffed up.
Cracking sounds were echoing inside his body, which sounded both like his bones being twisted weirdly and his muscles and veins being torn apart, growing, and condensing.
As he slowly exhaled, a weird scene took place.
Wisps of milky white mist rippled out from every pore of his body, wrapping him up like a cocoon.
"Slurp, slurp, slurp, slurp" sounds came from inside the cocoon, accompanied by low moans.
When the mist gradually dispersed, his appearance, body shape, and vibe had undergone drastic changes.
She turned from a handsome middle-aged scholar into a plain-looking but curvaceous female assassin "Long Yangjun".
"What, what kind of divine ability is this? It's too advanced, isn't it? In just a short instant, he can freely switch between male and female. He's half-man, half-woman."
Li Yao was so shocked that his eyeballs were almost falling out of their sockets.
The Yuanying Cultivators could freely control the secretion of hormones inside their body. If Li Yao stimulated the secretion of estrogen inside his body and suppressed the secretion of testosterone, it was possible that he could change his body shape and promote the development of secondary sexual characteristics similar to that of a woman.
But that was definitely not something that could be done overnight. It might take a few months, or even a year and a half to complete the initial transformation. Moreover, other than looking more feminine after the transformation, it was impossible for there to be a complete change in the appearance of a different person.
The mutation of Wang Xi, or rather, Long Yangjun, was far beyond what the Yuanying Cultivators could achieve.
Hu.
Wang Xi had no idea that somebody was peeping at his or her 'transformation'. He was so relaxed that he took a long breath in relief, as if he had gotten rid of a layer of restraint and camouflage.
Although her appearance had been changed, Long Yangjun, the female assassin, was quite tall in the first place, and the tight sword suit was not too cumbersome on her.
She smiled and touched her brand-new face. Then, she bent toward the blue light ball again.
Wang Xi's face disappeared into the blue light ball, leaving only his graceful body exposed. He did not realize that a highly-dangerous enemy was hiding right next to him at all.
However, Li Yao did not intend to attack right now, either, because he was too curious about Wang Xi's abrupt actions.
Beep!
A moment later, a crisp and pleasant sound echoed from the depths of the blue light ball. The light ball turned green, indicating that she was about to proceed to the next test.
She — she had passed the test of facial feature recognition.
Li Yao was dumbfounded, as if he had been struck by lightning.
How — how was it possible?
The Nuwa warship had crashed in this place more than a hundred thousand years ago. The bridge was under the highest level of security. Only a few core crew members could pass the facial feature recognition.
Wang Xi, a native of the Ancient Sages Sector who had lived more than a hundred thousand years in the future and had nothing to do with the Nuwa warship, had been accepted.
Li Yao was completely dumbfounded.
He then observed Wang Xi's face. She did not seem to have expected that she would pass the test at all. She was both surprised and overjoyed. She was even exclaiming in shock.
Taking a deep breath, she submerged her hands into the light ball according to the instructions on the interface of the test.
Li Yao's heart palpitated again.
On the interface of the magical equipment on the Nuwa warship, the language of the Pangu Clan and the Nuwa Clan was naturally displayed.
Although it was similar to the common language of human beings today, there were still significant differences. It was mainly because it had been constructed in a special form from three to two dimensions. The amount of information contained in one character was more than ten times that of the common language of modern human beings.
The Xing Yao Federation had collected a lot of ancient characters from the Kunlun relic. After five years of research by historians and linguists, they had managed to figure out the structure of some of the ancient characters and roughly parsed the information contained in every character.
Even so, Li Yao was still guessing when he read the characters. He could only roughly understand them.
But Wang Xi seemed to have no problem at all and could read the instructions on the interface smoothly.
It made Li Yao think about the map of the Divine Palace again. How exactly had Wang Xi grasped the way to analyze the map of the Divine Palace and how had she learned to manipulate the complicated interface?
Beep!
While Li Yao was thinking quickly, Wang Xi had passed the test of palmprint, voiceprint, and iris smoothly. There was only one dynamic password left.
In front of the hundreds of flickering talismans, she once again revealed a dazzled and bewildered expression.
However, this kind of expression was replaced by strands of strange comprehension a moment later.
The brilliance inside her eyes was clearer and clearer, and she was more and more relaxed, too, as if something that had been frozen for a long time was gradually thawing out of her body and about to break out of the shell.
Wang Xi's hands turned into two clusters of gray mist as she tapped the virtual runes as fast as lightning. As if it were her natural instincts, it took her only one second to input the three dynamic passwords.
"Hiss."
The tallest silver door in the middle, after making a sharp and thin sound, actually slowly split from the middle, shrinking into the walls in all directions in a spiral shape.
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