The first month of the Star Picking Plan.
No matter how dangerous the Star Picking Plan was and what unpredictable consequences it might lead to, its benefits were obvious, too.
First of all, the Ancient Sages Sector was stopped from joining the Imperium of True Human Beings' side immediately and from the Black Wind Fleet's rear base that was abundant in spiritual energy, resources, and cannon fodder.
If the Black Wind Fleet did get such a base, it would make up for the exhaustion and fatigue of the hundred years of journey in only one and a half years, and it would appear in front of the Xing Yao Federation in its strongest appearance. The Federation would not have any chance of winning at all.
Without such a 'stalling strategy', Li Yao and Long Yangjun would not have been able to stop the other two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators and the eight peak Yuanying Cultivators from sending signals to the Black Wind Fleet through Heiye Lan.
Even if Li Yao could send signals to the Xing Yao Federation, Li Yao was not optimistic about the combat ability of the Federation's fleet in such a 'head-on encounter' if the Federation's fleet and the Black Wind Fleet arrived at the Ancient Sages Sector at the same time.
A hundred years ago, during the 'Yuanying Meeting' of the Xing Yao Federation, the general strategy of the 'Defense of the Federation' had been set. They would certainly defend and counterattack based on their home territory. Attacking recklessly and fighting the Black Wind Fleet deep inside the dark nebula was not their advantage. It was a taboo for any military strategist to attack the enemy's strength with one's weakness.
Secondly, if the Yuanying Cultivators and the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators from the age of ancient Cultivators were allowed to appreciate the brilliance of the modern Cultivation civilization, Li Yao believed that most of them would be moved. It would be possible to reach a sincere cooperation between the Federation and the Ancient Sages Sector and even make the Ancient Sages Sector join the Federation sincerely and condense into an inseparable whole!
Li Yao truly believed that the Xing Yao Federation represented the future of the human civilization. It was definitely much better than the Imperium and the Holy League. As long as they could see and experience it with their own eyes, it would definitely attract most of the ancient cultivators.
This was where Li Yao's "Dao heart" lay. He couldn't possibly doubt or retreat on this point.
The Xing Yao Federation was going to march to the center of the cosmos one day and bring a brand-new future to all mankind, including the people of the Imperium and the Holy League!
If even the "ancients" could not be convinced, how could they possibly attract, assimilate, and liberate the people of the Imperium and the Holy League?
Meng Chixin and the other 'ancient people' regarded the Star Picking Plan as an overt scheme that could not be cracked even if it was discovered by the Federation.
But for Li Yao, the plan was also an overt scheme where the advanced civilizations assimilated the underdeveloped ones!
Li Yao believed that the Xing Yao Federation made of Ding Ling Dong, Guo Chunfeng, Jin Xinyue, Fire Ant, Professor Mo Xuan, Fiend Blade Peng Hai, Xiong Wuji, Lei Dalu, Bai Kaixin, and all his family, friends, and compatriots would not disappoint him after a hundred years of rapid development!
It was the most important reason why he devoted himself to the Star Picking Plan.
Besides, the rapid advancement of the Star Picking Plan had a more direct benefit, which was that Li Yao, as the "technical director" of the entire plan, had not only received tremendous magical equipment and jade chips that Meng Chixin and Wu Suiyun had looted from the Nuwa warship over the past decades, but he was also able to study more than ten intact Colossi and even more remnants of Colossi freely. He had even won the trust of Heiye Lan, a female warrior of the Imperium, and was able to elicit tremendous technical intelligence about the Imperium from her!
Heiye Lan was just a warrior. The infiltration operation due to an accident was completely beyond the limits of her abilities. She had already exhausted herself to make it to that point.
When Long Yangjun threw the disguised Star Picking Plan to her, saying that the experts of the Ancient Sages Sector had decided to sneak into the Federation for sabotage and cooperate with the Black Wind Fleet, she did not notice anything wrong with it.
Or rather, she had never dreamed that the "ancient people" who were "bold and delusional" would be bold enough to reject the authority of the Imperium and consider an alliance with such an insignificant country as the Xing Yao Federation instead!
It was useless even if she was suspicious.
The barriers and secret arts of the two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators were not so easy to deal with. Her resistance would only lead to tougher and crueler approaches from the experts of the Ancient Sages Sector, which would only make things worse.
Therefore, after careful consideration, Heiye Lan also chose to cooperate with the twelve experts.
She was born in a noble family of the Imperium of True Human Beings and the daughter of the commander of the Black Wind Fleet. Although her expertise was in the use of the Colossi, she was quite familiar with the navigation and maneuvering of starships and the emergency maintenance of all kinds of magical equipment.
Otherwise, it would not have been possible for her to land in the Ancient Sages Sector on her own after all the crew members on Weary Tooth were ripped apart by the storm in the four-dimensional space.
In the Star Picking Plan, she worked as Li Yao's assistant for the time being and performed the maintenance and examination of the Crystal Suit, the Colossi, the starships, and other advanced magical equipment together.
Also, she was responsible for teaching some of the twelve experts the simple skills of starship maneuvering.
Long Yangjun was the first to volunteer to learn the skills of starship maneuvering from Heiye Lan.
In such a way, even if she demonstrated astonishing skills in starship maneuvering half a year later, Heiye Lan could be blamed for it.
The condition that the twelve experts proposed to Heiye Lan in exchange was that after the Star Picking Plan was activated, they would bring Heiye Lan to the Xing Yao Federation and ask her to collect the first-hand files about the Federation.
Of course, it was impossible for them to keep Heiye Lan in the Ancient Sages Sector in case more variables were caused. Also, if they were really going to watch the tigers fight, they needed someone who could communicate with the Black Wind Fleet, too.
Naturally, on Li Yao's side, he hoped that Heiye Lan, the daughter of the commander of the Black Wind Fleet, could be sent to the Federation so that the Secret Sword Bureau led by Guo Chunfeng could elicit more intelligence from her.
Poor Heiye Lan, on the other hand, did not know that the 'ancient people' were so shrewd that they considered her to be a fish on a chopping board while they considered how to cut her.
In order to facilitate the cooperation between the Ancient Sages Sector and the Imperium of True Human Beings, she had truly confessed tremendous technical secrets dutifully.
A lot of technical manuals from the Imperium of True Human Beings for the maintenance of the Crystal Suit, the Colossi, and the starships were even placed in front of Li Yao in the form of jade chips.
In Heiye Lan's eyes, 'Master Spiritual Vulture' was just an ancient Cultivator after all. However sophisticated his' ancient refining arts' were, how could he possibly understand the most complicated technical secrets from the Imperium of True Human Beings?
Little did she know that 'Master Spiritual Vulture' had been replaced a long time ago, and the one standing in front of her was one of the most terrifying refiners of the Xing Yao Federation in the past hundred years!
When he was still in the Federation, Li Yao had learned tremendous technical secrets of the Imperium of True Human Beings by analyzing the Crystal Suit and the starships brought by Su Changfa and the other Immortal Cultivators.
However, Su Changfa and his companions were not real warriors after all. They were more like 'pioneers', and they did not carry ultimate weapons such as Colossi, either.
Heiye Lan's jade chips helped Li Yao to fill in the most critical part.
Li Yao was fascinated by them as he devoured the Crystal Suit, the Colossi, and the maintenance manuals of the Imperium of True Human Beings crazily.
The second month of the Star Picking Plan.
After the comprehensive maintenance and debugging in the first month, the twelve experts all chose the Colossi that they were interested in. Under the tutelage of Meng Chixin, Wu Suiyun, and Heiye Lan, they also began the rapid training of the Crystal Suit and the Colossi.
They were all above the high level of the Yuanying Stage after all. Their minds were quick-witted, and their wisdom was unparalleled. It was not difficult for them to make rapid progress in their training.
The elementary ways to use the Colossi, on the other hand, were not so difficult to learn.
Years ago, Li Yao was already able to perform unparalleled techniques and execute a Pangu when he used the Colossi for the first time.
Although he had the assistance of 'Little Black' as a medium, he had been familiar with the Colossi for half a year now. Naturally, he was able to manipulate the Colossi quite well.
As the 'technical director', Li Yao had fully grasped the features of every Colossus and the combat style of every expert. He had also completed the installation of all the 'backdoors' during the maintenance and modification.
The backdoors that he installed on the Colossi and all the Crystal Suit that Heiye Lan brought to the Ancient Sages Sector were mainly of three types.
The first type of 'backdoor' was used to lock onto the target's location.
As long as it was activated remotely by his special telepathic thoughts, he would be able to display the target's location clearly on his receiver.
The second type of 'backdoor' was also remotely activated. Once it was activated, weird space waves would be generated, and it could not be stored in the Cosmos Ring.
The effect of the backdoor was similar to the barriers that Long Yangjun imposed on the Thousand Stars Tray.
The Ancient Sages Sector was a self-enclosed world. A lot of secret treasures had been passed down from the primeval era, including a lot of Cosmos Rings.
The storage space of the Cosmos Rings in this Sector was much larger than that of the Cosmos Rings that the Federation collected from the edge of the cosmos.
During the Dragon Spring Meeting, Yan Liren had once released a giant sword that was dozens of meters long from a Cosmos Ring.
Since the Cosmos Ring could store a giant sword that was dozens of meters long, it was naturally possible for it to store a Colossus that was more than twenty meters tall.
It was possible to find more than ten Cosmos Rings of such a level in the entire Ancient Sages Sector if one searched for them.
It would be too dangerous to let twelve dangerous people run around with their Colossi.
Therefore, Li Yao specifically added the 'insurance'. Once it was activated, the stealth ability of the Colossi would be reduced to zero.
The third type of 'backdoor' was naturally the most direct and thorough barrier that would cut off the connection of the mainframe crystal processor and the power reactor of the Colossi so that the Colossi would be completely paralyzed.
Li Yao had tried his best on the three types of 'backdoors'.
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