However, Li Yao did not want to resort to such a method unless it was absolutely necessary. It was just the ultimate 'insurance'.
Ba Xiaoyu and Master Bitter Cicada were both good guys. Li Yao did not want to fight them at all.
Even Han Baling, Qi Zhongdao, Qi Changsheng, Wan Mingzhu, and the rest of them had their redeeming qualities. They were not entirely selfish and unpardonable.
Li Yao sincerely hoped that they could perceive something that they had never thought of before in the Xing Yao Federation so that they could make a breakthrough in their belief!
The third month of the Star Picking Plan.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
BOOM! BOOM! Deep inside the Land of Eternal Night, above the Nuwa warship, in the middle of the snowstorm that looked like a swirl, two Colossi were having a fierce battle like two barbaric giants!
The first Colossus was around twenty meters tall. Its silver shell was translucent, as if it had been melted with the wind and snow. Sharp blades protruded out of its shoulders, elbows, knees, and other body parts. The overall style of the Colossus was the epitome of 'sharpness'.
What was even more eye-catching was the two-handed sword in its hands, which was almost as tall as the body of the Colossus and had a broad edge and a thick back. The surface of the sword was carved with stripes that looked as complicated as spider webs, as if it could transform into a different form at any moment and slash a mountain in half!
It was a Colossus that Li Yao had carefully selected for 'Sword Maniac' Yan Liren.
As one of the strongest points of attack in the team, Li Yao had dismantled the units of quite a few Colossi for further strengthening. It was a Colossus that carried out the essence of 'attack' in the most vivid way.
Yan Liren had named it 'Big Sword'!
Its opponent, on the other hand, was round, chubby, and small at the top and large at the bottom. It was like a roly-poly doll that had been enlarged tens of thousands of times, or a Buddha that was sitting cross-legged on a lotus throne. Eighteen bright gold, round balls surrounded the Colossus, emitting gentle and profound brilliance, formed an indestructible spiritual shield that took the attacks of the sword in silence time and time again.
It was "Buddha", Master Bitter Cicada's Colossus, which boasted the highest defense ability of all the Colossi. When its spiritual shield was fully activated, it could cover hundreds of square meters and protect everybody inside!
The strongest attack and the strongest defense collided fiercely, creating dazzling sparks and stormy waves of shockwaves.
Li Yao, on the other hand, collected and analyzed their battle data nervously, trying to adjust the connection and array of the units of the Colossi to a level that better matched their own features.
Behind the 'battlefield of the Colossi', flying boats were flowing nonstop, transporting the units and the critical facilities dismantled from the Nuwa warship to the south.
The other few Colossi of the twelve worked as temporary "porters". With the enhancement of the iron giants, they seemed to be able to conquer even the violent tempests. The Land of Eternal Night had turned into a large, bustling factory.
While Li Yao was devoted to the studies of the Colossi, the rest of the twelve experts were not idle, either. The Star Picking Plan was pushed forward quickly.
Meng Chixin, Han Baling, Qi Zhongdao, Qi Changsheng, Wan Mingzhu, Emperor Phoenix … Those people controlled the most powerful forces in the Ancient Sages Sector. When they worked together, the energy that they could unleash was astonishing.
In the south, in the middle of the border between Cloud Qin and the Great Qian Dynasty, they found a large refining workshop that had been used to produce flying boats and modified it into a secret base for the maintenance of Weary Tooth, the Bloody Blade -level assault warship of the Imperium of True Human Beings.
A lot of units and facilities on the Nuwa warship had been shipped to the vicinity to upgrade the assault warship.
Naturally, such a huge movement could not have fooled the high-level Cultivators of the six major sects who had entered the Divine Palace together.
However, two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators and ten super Yuanying Cultivators, the twelve experts who represented the most powerful forces in the Ancient Sages Sector, had all gathered and suppressed them together. What could they do except to obey obediently?
Besides, Long Yangjun had figured out what those people were thinking very clearly. She had made very tempting promises to them.
"There are only so many Cloud Qin Gold Statues in the Ancient Sages Sector. Naturally, we cannot give any of them to you. Even if we end up on bad terms, it will not do you any good. You are all well aware of that, aren't you?
"However, it doesn't matter. We have learned shocking news about the deities' realm from Deity Raincloud, and we are about to establish the channel of information from the Ancient Sages Sector to the deities' realm!
"As long as the channel of ascension is successfully established, not only will we receive tremendous magical equipment from the deities' realm, including the armor of the deities and the Cloud Qin Gold Statues, the difficulty of ascending to the deities' realm will also be greatly reduced. Even you will be able to enter the deities' realm easily!
"Our trip won't be long. In a year and a half, or three to five years at most, we will certainly return with a large batch of ultimate treasures. Chances are that we will bring more people to the deities' realm by then. As the saying goes, when a man succeeds, even his chickens and dogs will follow him!
"However, as to whom we will give the ultimate treasures we bring back, and to whom we will open the channel of ascension to the deities' realm, it will depend on your attitude today!"
Everybody was successfully intimidated by her words.
Besides, Long Yangjun was not exactly lying. Their cooperation with either the Federation or the Imperium was not something that the insignificant six major sects and the disorganized Cultivators could afford.
Whoever dared to play tricks while they were away from the Ancient Sages Sector would not be blamed for being merciless and getting even with them when they returned from the deities' realm!
Together with Han Baling, Qi Changsheng, Long Yangjun, and the rest of them, they had a batch of loyal subordinates in the first place.
Those people did not betray them even under the overwhelming pressure of 'Deity Raincloud'. Naturally, it was impossible for them to betray them when they were in a favorable situation with twelve Colossi under their control!
With the loyal subordinates to stabilize the situation, and with the legendary 'deities' realm 'as their hope, the Ancient Sages Sector would not fall into chaos in the next couple of years.
The fourth month of the Star Picking Plan.
In a secret dock in a valley at the border of Cloud Qin and the Great Qian Dynasty, the maintenance of Weary Tooth was progressing smoothly.
The assault warship of the Imperium had certain structural features that were similar to 'Flourishing Sun' that Su Changfa, Kou Ruhuo, and Tang Qianhe piloted by the first batch of Immortal Cultivators that the Xing Yao Federation got in touch with. Both of them boasted advanced automatic repair and expansion functions.
As long as abundant resources were found, tremendous mining spider puppets, maintenance spider puppets, battle spider puppets, and so on could be produced to perform simple self-repair on the warship.
Heiye Lan's progress had been slow because she could not find most of the rare metals and Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures. Also, mining, refining, and maintenance would cause too much noise, and the spiritual waves would spread to hundreds of kilometers away. The experts of the Ancient Sages Sector would certainly sense them.
That was why she put the maintenance plan on hold.
Right now, neither of the two problems existed anymore.
With the support of the twelve experts, all the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures and rare materials in the Ancient Sages Sector could be consumed freely. Not only was there no need to keep it a secret, but the forces under the twelve experts' command and the six major sects had also mobilized a large batch of experts in refining for assistance. Together with the ready-made units and facilities dismantled from the Nuwa warship, although they were patched on top of each other and looked rather unsightly, the sailing performance parameters of Weary Tooth were improving rapidly. It was estimated that in less than a month, it would be able to resume the ability to cruise in space and even jump in the four-dimension!
The fifth month of the Star Picking Plan.
The studies on the star map of the primeval era and the setting of the sailing routes of the space jump had made significant breakthroughs, too.
The star map inside the Nuwa warship recorded the situation in the sea of stars hundreds of thousands of years ago.
For a civilization, hundreds of thousands of years might be a long life from its rise to its decline. But for the big concept of 'universe', it was nothing more than a moment. The relative position and situation of the sea of stars would not change much in such a short time.
As the daughter of the commander of the Black Wind Fleet, Heiye Lan certainly knew how to read and deduce star maps. Although the star map that she had deduced and calculated was not as accurate as the coordinates in Li Yao's hands, which allowed them to jump directly to the orbit of the home planet of the Heaven's Origin Sector, they were not far away from the Heaven's Origin Sector and the Blood Demon Sector at the very least.
They would jump to the vicinity of the Xing Yao Federation through a super long-distance space jump first. Then, they would survey the latest situation in the space zones nearby and adjust the parameters of the jump so that they could perform a second precise jump. That was their plan.
After a secret discussion, Li Yao and Long Yangjun did not want everybody to jump to the central area of the Federation directly. An unexpected encounter would not do any good for either party.
Eventually, Long Yangjun proposed that the destination of their first jump should be a place named 'Shimmering Light Space Zone' on the star map.
The place was a certain distance away from the Heaven's Origin Sector, the Blood Demon Sector, and the Flying Star Sector. It was unlikely that they would be discovered by the people of the Federation the moment they jumped over.
Although there were no habitable planets hundreds of thousands of years ago, there might still be some metals and crystals on the few resource planets marked on the star map, which could provide supplies for Weary Tooth after the long-distance jump.
They could decide what to do next after taking a brief rest in the 'buffer zone'.
Long Yangjun had 'learned' the arts of starship piloting from Heiye Lan for a few months. Her 'progress' was quite fast. In the 'observation group' of twelve people, she would be the navigator of the starship.
The jump point that she proposed was rather safe and was soon unanimously approved.
The sixth month of the Star Picking Operation had passed.
Everything was ready except for the departure.
Weary Tooth, after being repaired, was standing quietly in the depths of the valley like a cluster of dark red crystals. Although it had not been activated, it was still releasing an intimidating aura.
The five hundred square kilometers around had been designated as a forbidden area. Except for the most loyal subordinates who had passed multiple tests, anyone who dared trespass would be killed without mercy!
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