"It's truly … sharp!"
Although they had witnessed it being repaired and strengthened bit by bit by the maintenance spider puppets and many refiners from the ragged state that was riddled with holes in the past half a year, they were still amazed by it.
However, when the twelve experts of the Ancient Sages Sector stood in front of 'Weary Tooth', which was fully equipped and ready to go again, they could still sense the coldness that was entirely different from the ancient Cultivators when they saw it for the first time from the lethal weapon built by the modern Immortal Cultivators.
Many of them could not help but mumble to themselves.
'Bloody Blade' -level assault warship of the Imperium, as its name suggested, was really like a bloody dagger made of countless crimson crystals and a man-eating shark that was cruising at the bottom of the red ocean. Even though it was standing quietly in the depths of the valley, it still gave the feeling that it would open its bloody mouth at any moment.
Thankfully, Li Yao and Heiye Lan had added countless messy, unnecessary remnants of magical equipment to the shell of Weary Tooth under the command of the maintenance spider puppets. On one hand, they could resist the collisions of meteoroids and the bombardment of the enemy in space and on the other hand, on the other hand, they could slightly cover the intimidating aura of the Imperium.
Although it was impossible to fool everybody's eyes, the remote scanning that was beyond the visual range and hundreds of thousands of kilometers away might not be able to detect the real identity of the warship.
It matched the false identities that Long Yangjun had set up for them, too.
Long Yangjun had set up three overlapping false identities for the highly-dangerous observation team.
On the outermost level, the observation team was from the 'Burning Stone Sector', a world that had been suppressed by the Imperium of True Human Beings more than five hundred years ago.
It was a Sector that did exist for real. It was also a world of Cultivators that had been stubborn and unwilling to surrender to the Imperium.
The Cultivators of the Burning Stone Sector had once challenged the Imperium. In the end, they were brutally suppressed without any suspense in the most gory and bloody battle. The entire Burning Stone Sector was almost reduced into a pool of blood and an ocean of fire.
Before it encountered the Imperium of True Human Beings, the Burning Stone Sector had developed a rather advanced space cruising ability.
After the battle, countless resistance warriors had fled to the depths of space on starships, turning into small resistance armies and guerrillas within the Imperium.
They looted the carriers that the capital of the Imperium plundered resources from various worlds and attacked the mining sites in the vast, desolate space zones of the Imperium. Some of the extreme avengers even entered the core area of the Imperium, assassinated the officials of the Imperium, preached the ideology of resistance, instigated the relationship between the capital and the local areas, instigated the autonomy and independence of the peripheral worlds of the Imperium, and even carried out terrorist attacks for the purest revenge.
It took the Empire two hundred years to swat these annoying flies to death.
However, it wasn't until three hundred years after the suppression of the Burning Stone World that the last Burning Stone Cultivator's warship was discovered. Only then did the "Burning Stone Chaos" finally come to an end.
The information was revealed by Heiye Lan. It had been verified by the two Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators and proved to be reliable.
Then, according to the script that Long Yangjun made up, it was assumed that some of the Burning Stone Cultivators escaped from the cruel hunting of the Imperium as fish that escaped the net. They even seized a warship of the Imperium during the battle and fled all the way to the edge of the cosmos after hundreds of years, just like "Firefly", the last force of the rightful government of the Star Ocean Republic.
In such a case, it would be reasonable to explain why they suddenly appeared in the sky of the Federation on the 'Bloody Blade' -level assault warship.
For that reason, Long Yangjun interrogated Heiye Lan about all the details of the "Burning Stone Chaos".
It was not a military secret of the Imperium, and it happened hundreds of years ago. There was no need for it to be sealed. Heiye Lan confessed everything dutifully.
Based on the details, Long Yangjun made up brand-new identities for the twelve of them, no, the thirteen of them, including Heiye Lan.
She was the leader and creator of "Ghost Character", an intelligence and assassination agency. Li Yao estimated that she must've been involved in stealth and infiltration in the army of the Nuwa Clan in the God-Sealing War hundreds of thousands of years ago. Naturally, she was familiar with everything.
It was just their first disguise.
If their first disguise was seen through — and the twelve experts of the Ancient Sages Sector had never underestimated the formidability of the Federation. The possibility of their disguise being seen through was very high. Then, they would activate the second identity.
In the second identity, they would reveal part of the truth.
The best lies were always like that. They were wrapped and camouflaged by abundant truths.
They would admit that they were from a certain 'civilization of ancient Cultivators', but they would be vague about the coordinates of the Ancient Sages Sector. Also, their own capability and that of the Ancient Sages Sector would be significantly reduced.
In the Ancient Sages Sector in the past, because the spiritual energy was too abundant and could be squandered blatantly, there was no such thing as the 'Soul Converging Technique' to conceal one's aura and capability.
However, the 'Soul Converging Technique' was not a sophisticated or complicated technique. Both the Xing Yao Federation and the Imperium of True Human Beings had a lot of similar techniques. Naturally, Heiye Lan had dabbled in quite a few of them.
Years ago, when Li Yao had just awakened his spiritual root and was still a common college student, he had already grasped the 'Soul Converging Technique' and the 'Soul Burning Technique'.
The Yuanying Cultivators and the Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators, who had high Cultivation and wisdom, had been training hard for half a year. How could they not have grasped the techniques?
Therefore, at the very least, they could suppress their cultivation bases by one or two major realms and disguise themselves as ordinary Foundation Establishment or Core Formation cultivators at most. It wouldn't be difficult for them to do so.
Long Yangjun had also designed a brand-new script for the second identity. It described how they accidentally excavated a prehistoric warship from the underground of their own world, how they finally grasped the driving methods of the warship after studying it for hundreds of years, only to be discovered by the claw fleet of the expedition army of the Imperium during their first space voyage, and how they seized the warship of the Imperium after a battle of wits and brawn and fled all the way to this place …
Of course, the story had a lot of loopholes that could be seen through.
Therefore, they had a third identity — a real identity.
Under the most extreme circumstances, they could tell the truth about themselves, the Ancient Sages Sector, the Nuwa warship, and even the 'Bloody Blade' -level assault warship that had been forced to land in the Ancient Sages Sector.
However, there was one thing that required minor 'adjustments'.
In the story, they did not side with the Imperium of True Human Beings. Instead, after they interrogated the warrior of the Imperium on the assault warship with the 'soul-searching technique', they killed the warrior because they exerted too much strength.
After killing the warrior of the Imperium, they had no choice but to side with the Xing Yao Federation.
With the three identities, even if the authorities of the Federation did discover their existence, they would still be able to disguise and cover themselves layer by layer. Such an idea gave most of the experts of the Ancient Sages Sector a great illusory sense of security.
"Master Spiritual Vulture, Weary Tooth has completed the self-examination. It is ready to be activated at any moment!"
Heiye Lan, the female warrior of the Imperium, said respectfully next to Li Yao.
In the past six months, she and Li Yao had been together almost every day for the studies and maintenance of the Colossi and the starship.
Master Spiritual Vulture's crazy learning speed in the arts of modern magical equipment maintenance frightened Heiye Lan. In less than three months, he had already caught up with her and far surpassed Heiye Lan's level.
Heiye Lan was both surprised and awed by the 'Grandmaster of Great Zhou'. She was truly awed by the marvelous ancient sword forging techniques that he revealed unintentionally, especially the application of the 'ancient techniques' to modern magical equipment. She couldn't help but admire his natural, ingenious, and uncanny skills!
Such marvelous ancient sword forging techniques and such 'natural-born' instincts for the Crystal Suit and the Colossi would certainly be of great help if they could be applied to the technical department of the Black Wind Fleet!
Heiye Lan considered Li Yao to be one of the ancient Cultivators in the Ancient Sages Sector who was most worthy of the Imperium's recruitment. She tried all kinds of methods to win him over and addressed him as' master 'while performing the etiquette of a disciple dutifully.
She was told that 'Master Spiritual Vulture' had not recruited any disciples yet and was all by himself.
Although she was a pure warrior and did not intend to become a refiner, it was certainly not a bad thing to build a good relationship with such an excellent refiner!
Li Yao was more than happy to have such a female warrior of the Imperium as his assistant, servant, and maid. Naturally, he would not turn down her hospitality. Occasionally, he would teach her a few moves of the 'ancient sword forging techniques' half-sincerely.
As a result, the 'female warrior of the Imperium' and the 'spy of the Federation' were rather close and 'happy'!
"Fellow Cultivators, it's getting late. Let's go!"
Li Yao smiled at the other eleven experts of the Ancient Sages Sector in front of Weary Tooth, who were wearing different expressions.
The boarding pathway of Weary Tooth slowly extended to everyone's feet like the long tongue of a behemoth.
Everybody looked at each other and gritted their teeth before they strode into the pathway!
When it was Ba Xiaoyu the Beggar's turn, the fearless, sloppy warrior had sweat the size of beans popping up on his forehead. He was chewing his tobacco pipe so hard that it was cracking, and he was hesitating in his steps.
"Fellow Cultivator Spiritual Vulture, you are responsible for the maintenance of the starship in person. Tell me the truth. Can — can it really take us beyond the clouds, through the sea of stars, and to places hundreds of thousands of kilometers away?"
Ba Xiaoyu hesitated and asked in a low voice.
Before Li Yao replied, he waved his hands randomly again, trying to wipe away what he had just said. "Forget it. Forget it. We will be killed whether we stick our neck out or not. It's pointless to ask. Are we going to run away at such a moment? We will be dead for sure if we stay in the Ancient Sages Sector. However dangerous it is, we have to take the step forward one day! "
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