Right before the space jump was about to take place, Li Yao's soul was boosted to the maximum. His telepathic thoughts suddenly blossomed from the depths of his brain like an octopus, with tremendous information streams flowing toward Long Yangjun incessantly!
It was highly dangerous to do so when there was only one second left before the 'space jump'. It was possible that Li Yao's own soul would be lost in the turbulence of the four-dimensional space and torn apart by the dimensional storms!
But there was no time. Li Yao could only choose such a risky approach and tell his deduction to Long Yangjun! Shua!
Shua! Shua! Shua!
For a moment, Li Yao's telepathic thoughts and Long Yangjun's telepathic thoughts were deeply entangled. Countless streams of information were interacting quickly in mysterious ways!
"Something is wrong," Li Yao said. "Professor Mo Xuan's test on me through the 'Dual Spiriters' was highly problematic. Now that I think about it, even if the Secret Sword Bureau really wanted to ensure my safety, they shouldn't have adopted such an abrupt approach. Even if they were, the leadership of the Secret Sword Bureau should've apologized in person afterward. After all, I am representing Speaker Cui Lingfeng of the Star Ocean Republic right now!
"But they simply apologized through Ling Xiaole, and Ling Xiaole received the instructions from her portable crystal processor!
"I assume that it was indeed a test, but it was not necessarily the Secret Sword Bureau's test on me. It was Professor Mo Xuan who took advantage of the Secret Sword Bureau in a certain way!
"Professor Mo Xuan was already suspicious of me and the real purpose of my visit to the 'Tinder Plan'. I thought that I did not reveal any loopholes in the 'Dual Spiriters', but who knows? Maybe Professor Mo Xuan saw something wrong!
"Also. Also, we were supposed to leave in the afternoon, but we cut the queue in advance and left the Hundred Flowers Space Zone three hours earlier. If Professor Mo Xuan knows about it, he must've guessed that we were suspicious of him, too!
"The conclusion is that Professor Mo Xuan was suspicious of me, and he knew that I was suspicious of him, too! Long Yangjun, think about it. If Professor Mo Xuan is really planning something big, is it possible that he will let us go to the Tian Yuan Realm? "
"If so, we should leave the Hundred Flowers Space Zone and jump to the Tian Yuan Realm as soon as possible. This is Professor Mo Xuan's home field!"
"The point is, who can guarantee that we are jumping to the Tian Yuan Realm?"
Li Yao's telepathic thoughts jumped like flames. "Have we 'seen' the Tian Yuan Realm? No. The mainframe crystal processor of our starship received the coordinates of the star beacons that claimed to be from the Tian Yuan Realm. Also, the control tower of Hundred Flowers Spaceport had planned the sailing route. We performed the jump according to the coordinates and the sailing route that they provided!
"Who can guarantee that the coordinates and route they gave are correct? Who can guarantee that Professor Mo Xuan won't be able to invade this place? If he is really planning something big, he must've found a way to hack most of the crystal processors in the Hundred Flowers Space Zone. At the very least, he must've controlled the most important 'port'!
"He can totally manipulate the command tower of the spaceport to process the coordinates of the star beacons sent from the Tian Yuan Realm and lead us to an unknown place!
"He can even hack the crystal processor of our starship one step ahead of us. This is not a main-force warship of a very high level. It is just a carrier!
"The most dreadful thing is that he can launch an 'invasion' on our soul when our body and soul are unfolded from the three-dimensional to the four-dimensional space, which is when we are most vulnerable and unprepared!"
Soul invasion was not an easy task, especially for a Yuanying level expert such as Li Yao. In order to drag him into the 'Spiriters' Realm ', he would have to lie in the virtual cabin obediently and connect himself to the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus willingly.
Even in such a state, Li Yao still had a lot of initiative. If he wanted to quit, he could always turn the whole place upside down with the 'brute force cracking' method, and he would be able to quit sooner or later.
Now that Li Yao and the rest of them were all suspicious, pressing the twelve experts of the Ancient Sages Sector into the neural interaction liquids in the virtual cabin was obviously more difficult than pressing the heads of twelve tyrannosauruses to make them drink water.
It was true that the Spiritual Nexus had the function of 'wireless connection'. A 'Meditation Healer' who was adept at the arts of soul training and attack could also perform 'hypnosis' on an ordinary person or a low-level Cultivator remotely and make them fall into a certain illusionary state.
However, 'wireless connection' was too unstable and had too many limitations after all. Even ordinary people would not be fooled, not to mention the Yuanying experts.
It was different when the four-dimensional space was unfolded, the void was broken, and the space jump was performed!
It was the best opportunity to invade the soul!
Li Yao knew that because when he returned to the Tian Yuan Realm from the Flying Star Sector, when his brain was unfolded and his soul was almost torn apart during the space jump, he had been invaded by the 'Blood Stripe Virus', another weird life form of pure energy!
It was the most dangerous soul battle that Li Yao had ever had in his life.
He had even been prepared to die together with the Blood Stripe Virus.
Of course, because he had realized the existence of the Blood Stripe Virus before the space jump, he had been alarmed and deployed a series of traps on his starship.
In the end, the Blood Stripe Virus did not completely succeed in swallowing his soul. It only corrupted part of his soul and gave birth to the weird 'mental devil'.
Professor Mo Xuan knew the whole thing very well. Well, Li Yao had told him about it himself through the videos in the jade chips.
Who knew whether or not he would be enlightened and do the same thing again?
But this time, there were no traps on their starship. The ten experts other than him and Long Yangjun were not prepared at all, either.
In fact, despite the immeasurable Cultivation of the experts of the Ancient Sages Sector, they were from the world of ancient Cultivators after all and had not experienced many space jumps. They were not used to the feeling of 'breaking the void' at all.
Li Yao and Long Yangjun looked at each other and saw the shock in each other's eyes at the same time.
"The space jump has to be stopped!"
"Wake everybody up now!"
There was no time!
Li Yao inferred the cause and effect of the whole incident from the minor suspicions that did not even count as clues. The last second had already passed!
Hum! Hum! Hum! Hum!
The vibration of the starship was less and less intense, but the frequency was higher and higher. Everything in front of Li Yao and Long Yangjun's eyes began to blur, as if they had fallen into a certain indeterminate superposition state and were about to unfold in four dimensions!
The space jump had already begun. The ivory mystic rays that enshrouded the starship before leaked into the starship one drop after another. The starship seemed to be melting into the white light, melting into space with the white light, and surpassing space and the universe above three dimensions!
In the meantime, Li Yao and Long Yangjun both trembled violently. They both sensed that a boundless mental power seemed to be swooping down from the highest galaxy into their crazily shaking and tearing brains!
Li Yao's eyes were immediately frozen.
The mental power gave him the same feeling as the silver liquid metal that was Professor Mo Xuan's original self!
It was as if somebody had opened his skull by brute force and poured a large cluster of mercury into his brain!
Li Yao had never suffered such an overwhelming mental attack before. He felt that the cluster of nonexistent 'silver liquid metal' was about to swallow him and drag his soul into a brand-new world, a world that could not have been more horrifying!
He could barely resist the attraction and pull of the uncanny force.
Thankfully, he had already raised his wariness to the maximum during the communication with Long Yangjun a few seconds ago. Therefore, he was still able to keep his soul and belief clear.
Also, his soul was much more solid than that of other people. It would not be so easy to invade his mind when he was alarmed.
Boom!
Flames of spiritual energy surged out of Li Yao's body. The protective gel and the cocoon cabin were all shattered into pieces.
He rolled on the ground and was about to attack Long Yangjun's cocoon cabin despite his splitting headache.
Before he did anything, Long Yangjun had jumped out on her own.
Li Yao was slightly dazed. Then, he put on an ugly smile.
Yes. However magnificent his teacher's vision was and however precise his calculations were, he could not have foreseen that the so-called "Team Red Lotus" was made of twelve terrifying experts who were at least in the high level of the Yuanying Stage, including himself and Long Yangjun, who were such 'monsters'!
There was no need to mention Li Yao. As a 'Nuwa warrior' from the primeval era, Long Yangjun's brain must've received special training, too. It would not be so easy to invade her mind!
"Save them!"
Li Yao lunged to Yan Liren's cabin, which was the second closest to him.
Through the translucent cover of the cabin, he discovered that Yan Liren was gritting his teeth in the buffer gel with his eyes closed and his teeth clenched. There was a painful expression on his face, as if he were dwelling in a terrible nightmare.
Also, Yan Liren, the cabin, and Li Yao himself were all gradually turning transparent!
"Their souls have been deeply entangled with the mental power of the invaders. We cannot wake them up right now!"
Long Yangjun said in a hurry. "We are about to enter the unfolded state of the four-dimensional space. Even if you can wake them up by force, their souls will certainly not be able to withstand the storm in the four-dimensional space. They will be ripped apart into idiots or vegetative patients. The spectral Cultivators such as Meng Chixin, Wu Suiyun, and Wan Mingzhu may perish immediately!"
Li Yao cursed hard and made a decision. "We cannot be annihilated. The souls of Yan Liren and the rest of them are too strong to be completely corrupted and controlled in a moment. Let's go back to the Tinder Base and find Professor Mo Xuan. We'll figure out a way to get them out!"
Time was running out. Both of them felt that their bodies were slowly expanding, unfolding, and extending. The whole world had turned weird, like dancing butterflies of light that were about to fly away.
If they did not leave now, they would not be able to leave at all. Once they completely fell into the four-dimensional space, their bodies and brains would be completely unfolded. Who knew if they could resist the weird mental scourge and where they would be teleported to?
Li Yao and Long Yangjun took action at the same time. They turned into two streaks of brilliance and dashed toward the escape room at the rear of the carrier.
They could not blow a hole on the body of the carrier recklessly, which would result in the carrier being torn apart in the four-dimensional space together with everybody on board!
When they reached the escape area as quickly as they could, the carrier and themselves were almost entirely transparent.
It was as if there was a giant whirlpool behind them, producing a terrifying suction force that was trying to suck in every cell and strand of their Divine Will.
The two of them did not even have the time to activate the escape capsules. They simply put on the Crystal Suit, opened the airtight door, and rushed out, activating every power rune array on the Crystal Suit to the maximum!
Chi! Chi! Chi!
Being in the interference area of the twisted space was like being at the periphery of a swirl. Both Li Yao and Long Yangjun felt that their bodies were now large and small, long and short, transparent, stagnant, expanding, and compressing. The few seconds felt as long as hundreds of years!
They could only grit their teeth and try their best to release the flames of spiritual energy while they sprinted into space, staying as far away from the carrier that was performing a space jump as possible, in case they were swept by the space ripples caused by the space jump. It was very likely that their upper body would be teleported to an unknown place together with the carrier while their lower body would be left in the Hundred Flowers Space Zone!
After a long time, the 'surging tides' behind them gradually died down.
The two of them examined their bodies in shock. After confirming that their limbs and internal organs were all intact and that none of them had been teleported together with the carrier, they were more or less relieved.
When they looked back, the carrier was already gone, leaving a cluster of light that looked like smoke that was slowly dispersing.
Li Yao and Long Yangjun both floated in space with their limbs stretched out, like two dead fish that had been slapped to the shore by a giant tide.
Their headaches were still not gone yet. They did not want to move at all. Chi!
Chi! Chi!
Long Yangjun turned on the point-to-point communication channel, the kind that did not require the Spiritual Nexus, and said in a low and attractive voice, "How can you lose when twelve experts from the Ancient Sages Sector hit you in the face, huh?"
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