Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun patted Li Yao's shoulder neither too heavily nor too lightly with their cold, bony hands.
Li Yao could not help but exclaim aloud!
"As we learned just now," Meng Chixin said solemnly, "Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture, you are one of the best masters of sword forging in the Ancient Sages Sector right now. You had a delicate competition with 'Sword Maniac' Yan Liren in the Dragon Spring Meeting. Then, you hosted a meeting in person and presented a marvelous speech, demonstrating your expertise in sword forging and refining!
"In the half year that followed, you wandered among many sects and helped the Cultivators of various sects forge, refine, and modify magical equipment. Sabers, spears, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, and tridents. There seemed to be no magical equipment that you did not know how to refine, maintain, and modify. The magical equipment that was repaired and modified by you was more than twice as powerful.
"Also, we are told that Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture once received the heritage of 'Yan Zhu', a sword forger from the Great Zhou Dynasty. You are nicknamed 'Grandmaster of Great Zhou' in the outside world, right?
"The Great Zhou Dynasty was the second dynasty that continued the Cloud Qin Dynasty. The Cloud Qin Dynasty started with the 'twelve Cloud Qin Gold Statues'. The twelve Colossi should not have been completely destroyed when they arrived in the Great Zhou Dynasty. At least half of them were preserved!
"Since this' Yan Zhu 'was one of the best sword forgers in the Great Zhou Dynasty, did he ever get in touch with any of the Cloud Qin Gold Statues? In his notes and heritage, were there any secret arts on the adjustment, modification, maintenance, and maintenance of the Cloud Qin Gold Statues? Have you learned any of the secret arts, Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture?
"Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture, we all know that the secret arts must be your trump cards and that you are unwilling to show them to other people easily. However, this is a moment of life and death for the Ancient Sages Sector right now. We should all open our minds and cooperate sincerely! Wu Suiyun and I are both preparing to disclose our heritage to the public. There is no need for you to keep it to yourself anymore, Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture! "
Li Yao's heart was pounding, and his brain was about to explode!
Even though he had been thinking about exposing his identity, he had completely dropped the idea!
Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun, the two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators, were suggesting that he should be the 'technical director' of the twelve unparalleled experts. He would be fully responsible for all the technical issues regarding the Colossi and other magical equipment!
What an important post it was!
On second thought, who else was qualified to take on the responsibility other than himself, the Grandmaster of the Great Zhou Dynasty, except for him?
As a result, the other's life, the lives of the eleven unparalleled experts would be in their hands.
Li Yao was one of the best specialists on the Colossi in the Star Glory Federation! After Vulture's Spiritual Vulture and had, the Colossi ''s's after was. Now, he had grasped the performance performance performance, the Crystal, after grasgrasping grasgrasafter grasping' completely, he, and his, tell, had be's.
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"The mental devil bellowed inside his brain." Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun are definitely not fools. Don't let your ecstasy get to your head. Chances are that they are still testing you and waiting for you to reveal your flaws in your ecstasy. Or maybe they have seen through your identity and are simply playing hard to get. They will use you for a while to adjust and maintain the Colossi so that they can learn your skills in secret, just like how they learned the tricks to control the Colossi through Heiye Lan! "
Li Yao was greatly alarmed.
The mental devil was quite right. The two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators had trusted him so easily and given him such an important mission. It was indeed a bit hasty!
Although the situation was urgent and there was no time for him to think, he should still be vigilant and not underestimate the wisdom and strategies of the ancient people. Otherwise, he would end up even more miserably than Heiye Lan!
After hesitating for a moment, Li Yao said solemnly, "It's true that I've learned a few words about the maintenance of the Cloud Qin Gold Statues from the heritage of Yan Zhu, the sword forger of Great Zhou. However, the mottled knowledge is not systematic, and I've never practiced it in person. I'm not confident that I can accomplish such an arduous mission at all!"
Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun looked at each other and both pretended to be greatly relieved. They smiled and said, "It's good that you are willing to shoulder the burden. Regarding the Colossi and the universe beyond, aren't we all blind and groping blindly? At the very least, as the best sword forger of the Ancient Sages Sector and the Sword Grandmaster of Great Zhou, you are more confident than we are. That will be enough! "
"Thank you for your trust, seniors!"
Li Yao said excitedly, "I'll certainly do my best!"
"Very good. Other than the maintenance of the Colossi, there are two other missions of paramount importance that can't be done without you!"
Meng Chixin said. "Firstly, to strengthen the barrier between the Nuwa warship and the underground palace of Pangu.
"According to Wu Suiyun's and my calculation earlier, the barrier might not be able to persist for another ten years under the repetitive attacks of the underground monsters. Right now, we are faced with a life-and-death choice, and we don't have the time to deal with it for now. Perhaps we won't be able to come back and solve the problem of the underground palace of Pangu once and for all until we acquire more powerful techniques and magical equipment from the Imperium of True Human Beings or other forces in the universe!
"Until then, perhaps we should gather the strength of the twelve of us and establish a foolproof barrier to reinforce the gate together!
"Many of the twelve of us are experts of barriers, but whether or not we should add any other shackle-type magical equipment to the gate will depend on you, Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture! I'm told that you are one of the most distinguished experts in the production of shackle-type magical equipment, too? "
The mission was quite reasonable. Li Yao had no reason to turn it down. He nodded his head and said quickly, "Of course, I'll try my best to make sure that the gate of the underground palace of Pangu is foolproof and will not be breached by the monsters!"
"Excellent!"
Meng Chixin smiled. "You are truly straightforward, Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture. We did not misjudge you! The third mission will be a test of your mind and wisdom. Perhaps, under certain circumstances, we will need you to watch over the female warrior of the Imperium of True Human Beings! "
"Watch over her?"
Li Yao was slightly dazed. "What do you mean?"
"Although the woman is a pure warrior, her father is the commander of the Black Wind Fleet after all," Meng Chixin explained. "She is sort of a 'noble' in the Black Wind Fleet. Judging from her appearance, she seems to have dabbled in certain techniques related to the maintenance of magical equipment and the maneuvering of starships, too. Such techniques will be of great use to us.
"In the plan later, it is very likely that we will need the woman's help to dismantle and crack the Nuwa warship, undertake part of the maintenance work of the Colossi, and even repair 'Weary Tooth', the 'Bloody Blade' -level assault warship of the Imperium of True Human Beings. Only when we have the ability to cruise in the universe can we get rid of the identity of 'frogs at the bottom of the well'!"
Li Yao nodded quickly.
The two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators were indeed far-sighted. They had already set their eyes on Heiye Lan's starship so quickly.
It was true. Only when the Ancient Sages Sector had its own ability to cruise in the universe could they avoid being butchered like fish on a chopping board. If they could not defeat the enemy, they could at least run away!
"That's exactly what we're thinking. But we're also worried that she might play some tricks in secret despite her cooperation on the surface."
Meng Chixin hesitated. "After all, the technologies and techniques that she has from the modern civilization of Immortal Cultivators are too complicated. Even though we are both in the Divinity Transformation Stage, it is impossible for us to figure them out for the time being.
"If she pretends to be very cooperative and helps us repair Weary Tooth, but she secretly activates a certain piece of magical equipment that can send telepathic thoughts to the mothership and summons the Black Wind Fleet before we are ready, we will be in a very passive situation!
"So we need an expert who is proficient in armament refining, to keep a close eye on her! Naturally, the mission will be yours, Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture! "
Li Yao narrowed his eyes and thought quickly.
Meng Chixin's three missions were all reasonable. He was indeed the best candidate for the mission.
It appeared that he was indeed the key person who would decide the life and death of the Ancient Sages Sector. No wonder the two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators had summoned him for a secret meeting so mysteriously.
Keeping an eye on Heiye Lan would be of great help to Li Yao, too.
On one hand, he could take the opportunity to steal a lot of secret arts and techniques of the Imperium of True Human Beings.
In the more extreme case, he could even consider killing Heiye Lan directly to prevent the Ancient Sages Sector from joining the Black Wind Fleet's side!
Of course, such an approach might backfire, too. Nobody could tell what kind of crazy things the Cultivators of the Ancient Sages Sector would do when they were infuriated when they realized that they had been tricked.
But in any case, there was one more option, and it would be easier for him to deal with the situation.
"I'm not as optimistic as you," the mental devil said in a creepy voice.
The mental devil said gloomily in his brain. "I've thought of a story."
Li Yao thought of something and asked, "What story?"
"Two countries were at war. Zhang San was a spy sent by Country A to Country B. One day, Zhang San received a mission to secretly escort Li Si, a spy of Country A, to the headquarters. His superior told Zhang San that Li Si did not know that his identity had been exposed yet. On the surface, the two of them were simply going to the headquarters to report their work together.
"Zhang San knew that the responsibility on his shoulders was heavy and that he could not expose his identity. Having no choice, he could only sacrifice Li Si, his compatriot.
"Therefore, on the way, Zhang San and Li Si, the two 'spies of Country A' who did not know each other's identities, put on a thrilling show. In the end, Zhang San finally 'escorted' Li Si to the headquarters without any mishap!"
"However, the moment they arrived at the headquarters, Zhang San and Li Si were both captured by the military of Country B.
"As it turned out, Country B had long known that Zhang San and Li Si were both spies, but they did not want to alert the enemy in case they ran away. Therefore, they set up such a trap. They told Zhang San that they were escorting Li Si in secret, and they told Li Si that they were escorting Zhang San in secret. In fact, they were asking the two spies to escort each other, and Country B would take advantage of the situation and capture the two spies without the slightest effort!"
"What a childish story."
Li Yao said calmly, "There are too many loopholes. Such a thing can't happen in reality."
"It is indeed impossible."
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