Li Yao scratched his hair hard. Even if he turned his hair from a bird's nest into a bush, he still could not solve the problem. The situation right now was too complicated, chaotic, and unresolvable!
However, Long Yangjun was quite right about one thing.
Sending a signal to the Xing Yao Federation right now and summoning the fleet from his motherland would not bring him any benefits.
Leaving aside the current situation of the Federation right now, it was possible that he would not be able to summon anything by sending a signal at the risk of alarming the enemy.
Even if the Yuanying and the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators of the Ancient Sages Sector did choose to surrender, such a surrender could not be sincere.
Then, it was very likely that they would be mixed in with the Federation's team and stab the Federation in the back at the critical moment when the Federation and the Imperium were fighting fiercely!
Such 'allies' were even more dreadful than the enemy.
Even if the Xing Yao Federation could get rid of the Yuanying and the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators and directly communicate with the major sects and even the middle and bottom-level people of the Ancient Sages Sector, it would be impossible for them to absorb too many resources from the Sector for the time being.
Li Yao had long been clear about the virtues of the major sects. He would rather deal with the Immortal Cultivators of the Imperium directly than communicate with those greedy guys.
Most of the poor folks of the Ancient Sages Sector were not experts who were calm, rational, and far-thinking like Meng Chixin, Han Baling, and Qi Zhongdao. It was impossible for them to accept an 'alien government' in a couple of years!
The expedition of the Federation's fleet would only bring chaos to the Ancient Sages Sector and even turn it into a swamp of war. Tremendous soldiers and resources of the Federation would be mired in it, and the Ancient Sages Sector would be dragged into the never-ending security wars.
As the Federation, which was about to or had already been engaged in a great war against the Black Wind Fleet, it was impossible for them to establish a brand-new battlefield in the Ancient Sages Sector.
The homeland of the Federation was too far away from the dark nebula after all. If they were too greedy and did not let go of every planet and world, the long supply lines in space would certainly cause a military disaster.
Li Yao repeatedly calculated and felt that the current situation was still in his favor.
Now that he had Long Yangjun as an ally among the twelve of them and the lifeline of everybody's Colossi was under his control, as a "critical person" of the whole plan, he had a lot of say, too.
At least for now, there was no need to rashly change the current situation.
It would be better to wait until three days later when everyone has made their decision!
For Li Yao, the next three days were both as long as a year and as quick as a flash of lightning.
He spent all his time studying the maintenance and modification of the Colossi.
Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun did as they promised. They gave all the jade chips and other information storage devices about the Colossi that they had collected over the past decades to Li Yao, allowing him to study and practice them.
The so-called "jade chips" of the Nuwa civilization were, of course, different from the jade chips in ancient times and modern times. They were what looked like fluorescent sticks. After they were twisted, a few shivering synapses of spiritual energy would automatically emerge from the end and be inserted into one's temples and head, enabling them to record and copy information.
The information transmission methods of the primeval jade chips were very advanced. Language was barely used but directly pasted and copied through some sort of "telepathy". The structural designs of the disassembly, maintenance, and spiritual energy flow of the Colossi were all etched into Li Yao's head.
For those who had never touched a Colossus before, the structural designs and dynamic simulations of the complicated and weak spider threads were definitely unintelligible.
Some of them might even be mentally deranged because of the tremendous data!
However, Li Yao was one of the best specialists of the Colossi in the Xing Yao Federation in the first place. He had the precious experience of studying the Colossi on Kunlun for five years.
The authentic "Maintenance and Modification Manuals of the Colossi" from the primeval era happened to fill in the critical part that was missing in the Kunlun relic. He was almost fascinated by them as if he were a fish in water!
Li Yao absorbed everything about the Colossi almost crazily. He almost forgot everything that was happening in the outside world!
The Colossi were certainly not as simple as the "enormous metal puppets" that the ignorant people talked about. Instead, they were similar to the concept of the "Super Enormous Biochemical Crystal Suit" that Li Yao had proposed in the Blood Demon Sector.
The Colossus was like a giant that boasted its own bones, nerves, internal organs, and flesh and blood system, which had been melted into an organic whole!
The 'bones', 'nerves', and other parts of the body, on the other hand, were probably made of the veins and other organs of a certain ancient alien beast. Also, hundreds of brutal souls had been sealed inside. They were absolutely incomparable to the cold crystal cables and wires!
It was more like a living giant than an "enormous metal puppet", one that was in the state of a "vegetative person" without self-awareness!
The user of the Colossus happened to fill in the gap of self-awareness and wake up the "vegetative person" from the long sleep to roar in fury!
It was exactly because the Colossi were "alive" in some sense that it was so difficult to preserve them. As a result, few of the Colossi that had once been all over the universe during the God-Sealing War were left today after hundreds of thousands of years of erosion.
In three days, Li Yao examined all the Colossi in the maintenance warehouse and found fourteen Colossi that could be put into battle after minor maintenance.
Although the other Colossi were worth repairing, Li Yao did not intend to fix them for the time being. Instead, he was planning to dismantle them as the spare parts for the twelve Colossi.
It was especially so for the "Tartarean Skeleton". Since it was his dream ride, Li Yao naturally had to build as many strengthening components for it as possible. Hehehehe!
Everything was done behind Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun's back.
In the eyes of the two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators, Li Yao was still holding many "light sticks" and swallowing them with a gloomy face. Occasionally, he would crawl to the Colossus and grope it, but he would also crawl down a moment later, shaking his head. He even vomited a lot of times because of the excessive transmission of information from the ancient jade chips!
It was exactly when Li Yao felt that something was going on.
Every time he left the warehouse of the Colossi and returned to the rest area, he would immediately feel that a day was as long as a year because of the oppressive atmosphere.
Heiye Lan, the female warrior of the Imperium, had told him a lot of things, including politics, economics, culture, history, military affairs … Everything was covered.
After every jade chip was filled, eleven copies would be made immediately and distributed to the ten Yuanying and the two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators for study.
The truth from the depths of the universe was bashing and destroying the previously unbreakable beliefs of the locals of the Ancient Sages Sector like a ferocious beast.
Qi Zhongdao, Han Baling, Ba Xiaoyu, Master Bitter Cicada, Qi Changsheng, Wan Mingzhu … Be they kind or evil, all the Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators and Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators sat cross-legged deep inside their cabins in a daze like idols with a few jade chips in their hands.
Sometimes they were dumbstruck, sometimes they were deep in thought, sometimes they were wild with joy, sometimes they were depressed to the extreme, and even lost their souls, as if they had gone mad!
During the three days, whenever Li Yao stayed in the rest area, he often had the illusion that he had entered a bizarre hospital for lunatics.
Even Master Bitter Cicada, the most handsome man in the Ancient Sages Sector in his eyes, vomited blood on the second day and was almost mentally deranged, not to mention Emperor Phoenix, who was a young emperor whose worldview had not been fixed yet.
Li Yao actually understood their feelings very well.
It was because Heiye Lan's confession included not only the basic information about the Imperium of True Human Beings but also part of the 'brainwashing tutorials' that Su Changfa had imposed on Li Yao in the past.
Although it was only a 'text version' and not as vivid and emotional as the 'brainwashing room' back then, it was still not as cold and harsh as the 'brainwashing room'.
However, the sharpness and coldness in his words were not reduced in the slightest. In fact, it was even more direct and violent!
Back then, even Li Yao, who was also from the 'modern Cultivation civilization' and had a firm belief, was almost tricked. It was needless to say that the ancient people who did not have the slightest concept about modern civilization would not be affected at all!
Their deep confusion and confusion in the first two days, and their more and more resolute expression on the last day, had truly put Li Yao on edge.
He meant to find an opportunity to gather Qi Zhongdao, Ba Xiaoyu, Master Bitter Cicada, and the other righteous Cultivators in private and give them a heads-up, but he never found an opportunity.
There was only so much space in the rest area. When they left, they were in groups of three and supervised each other. Also, Li Yao himself was' particularly valued 'by the two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators, who had been studying the issues related to the Colossi with him every day.
Therefore, three days later, when everything was settled, everybody seemed to have reached their own preliminary conclusion after reading all the intelligence that Heiye Lan had provided. When they gathered again, Li Yao still did not find an opportunity!
The meeting was held in the small restaurant at the end of the rest area.
The restaurant should've been designed for human soldiers in the first place. The long table was exactly the right size.
Meng Chixin, as the host of the meeting, sat at the head of the long table. Wu Suiyun, another Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivator, sat at the other end of the long table. The other ten people looked at each other in five seats.
It was a rather shabby environment.
But it was very likely to decide the history of countless planets in the next ten thousand years!
Many of the people who were going to make the judgment, however, were still in a trance, unable to break free from the blast of the torrent of stars that was as vast as an ocean.
"Everyone!"
Meng Chixin clenched his fists and knocked the table neither too heavily nor too lightly. He said solemnly, "I know that you must be greatly shocked right now. You find it hard to believe that such an unbelievable universe exists beyond the highest sky!
"However, whether or not you believe it, and whether or not you can accept it, the universe is right there! We will either suppress it, or it will swallow us!
"Time waits for no one. We have no time for sighs and hesitation!
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