"Excellent!"
Looking at the brilliance of the Crystal Suit that was darting close, Li Yao could not hide the delight in his eyes. He remarked in amazement, "The first wave was the black hole bombs, which destroyed the enemy's magical equipment and crystal processors first and greatly consumed and blocked the enemy's spiritual energy circulation. The second wave was a meteoroid shower that did not contain any spiritual waves and won the battle purely based on speed, impact, and quantity. It weakened the enemy's barely functioning spiritual shield again and perhaps greatly consumed the enemy's physical strength and computational ability. When the duration of the black hole bombs was about to run out and the spiritual magnetic pulses were about to be released, the main force of the third wave of attacks was finally launched and lunged at the enemy precisely!
"The cooperation of the entire tactical attack was almost impeccable. The 'black hole bombs', a piece of magical equipment that had just been invented and boasted a lot of flaws, were able to unleash the highest power in a real battle! Even two legendary Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators could be beaten to a pulp and complained incessantly! Marvelous. Truly marvelous!
"I'm relieved to see that the Federation is such a scoundrel!"
"… Monster Li, you're not teaming up with them to trick me, are you?"
"Fellow Cultivator Long," Li Yao said, "don't be hasty. Don't forget that we still have a trump card, which is me!
Now that I've been caught in such a passive situation because of my carelessness, there's nothing I can do. It seems that I can only reveal the real face of 'Vulture Li Yao, dominator of three Sectors' once in a while in order to reverse the situation and reveal Professor Mo Xuan's true face!
"Are you sure?"
While dodging the rushing meteoroid shower, Long Yangjun asked suspiciously, "You haven't shown up in the New Federation for a hundred years. You have long become a picture in the history books, the kind that many elementary and middle school students would scribble on your face. Think about it from the perspective of a common soldier on the enemy's side. If an uncanny guy suddenly pops up and claims that he is the 'Father of the Federation' for no good reason, will you believe such an absurd thing?"
Li Yao pondered for a moment. "About that …"
"We were obviously targeted by Professor Mo Xuan!"
Long Yangjun analyzed quickly. "Perhaps he was only slightly suspicious of you at the beginning, and he was not entirely sure about it during the test in the dual Spiriters' Realm. But then, you ordered the carrier to jump in advance, which made him even more suspicious. Therefore, he hacked the tower in the spaceport and the mainframe crystal processors of our carrier, jamming the coordinates of our jump, and invading our brains when we were about to jump!
"He did not expect that the two of us would see through his scheme at the last moment and escape from the carrier that was performing a four-dimension jump. That was absolutely impossible for ordinary people, or even Cultivators!
"There was no way that Team Red Lotus could've done such a thing. Whatever our real identities were, we would've been a major interference to his plan. That's what he was certain of right now. Therefore, he must've considered us as key targets. Otherwise, the two moon-white starships wouldn't have come so quickly, and they wouldn't have used such cutting-edge magical equipment as' black hole bombs' at the beginning!"
Li Yao thought quickly and was greatly alarmed. "It also means that our inference just now was correct. Professor Mo Xuan has probably controlled the leadership of the military, the Secret Sword Bureau, and other departments of the Hundred Flowers Space Zone through the 'Spiriters' Realm '!"
"He does not need to control every soldier," Long Yangjun said coldly. "As long as he controls all the leadership and gives false orders through them, such as accusing the two of us of being spies of the Imperium, he will be able to mobilize the garrison troops and the Secret Sword Agents of the Hundred Flowers Space Zone to surround and annihilate the two of us!
"The Exos of the Union Army who are lunging at us aggressively have probably received the intelligence that we are highly dangerous spies of the Imperium. You said that you were the founding father of the Federation? Why didn't you say that you were the emperor of the Imperium of True Human Beings? "
"Give me time," Li Yao said in a hurry. "I can prove it!"
"But what we lack most is time!"
Long Yangjun gnashed her teeth softly. "Didn't you say that the war would break out in twenty-four hours? Also, it would definitely not be harassment or probing but a great battle that would likely involve the main fleets of the two parties. Would there be any time for you to prove your identity?
"Besides, how are you going to prove it? You can only show some of the unique magical equipment and techniques of 'Vulture Li Yao'. However, magical equipment can be duplicated, techniques can be simulated, and the details can be elucidated through interrogation, too!
"Yes, there are other methods such as soul tests and gene tests, but the premise is that you have to surrender obediently and be under the surveillance of the enemy first. Only then will the enemy have a slim chance of believing your words and running such tests, right? Do you think that Professor Mo Xuan will play any tricks on the test results? After all, he moved to Hundred Flowers City when it was first built. How much infiltration could he have achieved in the city in the past few decades?
"Right. You may be able to reach out to the people you are familiar with, such as Ding Ling Dong or Jin Xinyue, but they are all far away and must be communicated with via the Spiritual Nexus. Do you think that Professor Mo Xuan will give you the opportunity? Is it possible that he will create a fake Ding Ling Dong or Jin Xinyue on the light beam? After all, he already simulated me, Ling Xiaole, and Wei Qingqing in the 'Spiriters' Realm '! "
Li Yao thought quickly and realized that, after Long Yangjun put it that way, every possible way to prove his identity in twenty-four hours seemed to have been blocked!
The third attack group made of hundreds of Exos would be engaged with them in less than ten seconds.
"If you introduce yourself, you will be walking right into the trap," Long Yangjun continued, "because other than Ding Ling Dong and Jin Xinyue, there is one person in the Hundred Flowers Space Zone who knows Li Yao best and is most qualified to judge whether he is the real Li Yao or not, which is Professor Mo Xuan!
"Professor Mo Xuan's entire plan is just our speculation, and it seems to be a rather absurd speculation. We do not have any proof. Why should he trust two people of unknown backgrounds?
"If you say that you are Li Yao, he will only ask Professor Mo Xuan to identify that you are his disciple! If Professor Mo Xuan says that you are a fake and a spy of the Imperium, what can you do about it? After a long argument, a war will break out! "
Li Yao could not help but spit on the ground. He realized that the trap was even more troublesome than the last time he returned to the Federation.
Last time, he had at least ten days to half a month to deduce and arrange everything calmly.
This time, he had twenty-four hours at most, if not less, before the war that would decide his fate was about to break out!
"Unless it is absolutely necessary, I don't suggest that you reveal your identity right now."
Staring at the attack groups of the Crystal Suit that were drawing closer and closer, Long Yangjun said, "I've thought about it carefully. Professor Mo Xuan's' Spiriters' Realm 'equals to a large-scale, deep-level mental and illusionary attack. When it comes to mental attacks, the more familiar they are about you, the more powerful they will be!"
Li Yao was an expert in mental attacks himself. Years ago, in the tenth space ring of Heavenly Saints City in the Flying Star Sector, 'Hellsword Zhuang Ziyou', the first Yuanying monster that he killed in his life, was best at mental attacks. Li Yao had grasped the advanced mental attack methods from the jade chips that Zhuang Ziyou dropped.
He immediately understood what Long Yangjun meant.
When it came to mental attacks and illusionary attacks, the more familiar one was with the target, the more likely it would be that the target would be unable to tell the difference between reality and illusion.
For example, if one knew in advance that the target was scared of snakes, insects, rats, and ants, one could create some fake venomous snakes and insects during the mental attack, which would certainly strike the target's mind hard.
However, if the target was a weirdo who was good at controlling insects and rats in the first place, why would one create the illusions of snakes, insects, rats, and ants? To cheer for the enemy?
Just now, Professor Mo Xuan only knew Li Yao's identity as' Spiritual Vulture, captain of Team Red Lotus'. The 'Long Yangjun' that he created was immediately seen through.
However, if Professor Mo Xuan knew more and learned the identity and information of 'Master Spiritual Vulture' from the Ancient Sages Sector, the illusions would be even more realistic!
If he learned Li Yao's real identity, he would be able to create more targeted illusions according to Li Yao's personality, Cultivation, and social relationships. Then, he would be able to plant the virtual Ding Ling Dong, Jin Xinyue, Wu Mayan, and the rest of them in the illusions!
By then, even if Li Yao knew that the virtual images were all fake, it was inevitable that he would be greatly disturbed!
In a mental battle, 'real identity' was the most critical factor. Right now, Li Yao and Long Yangjun seemed to be caught in a passive situation, but they had seen through the mastermind of the scheme, and Professor Mo Xuan did not know who they were yet.
That was their greatest advantage!
"We will have a head-on confrontation with Professor Mo Xuan sooner or later," Long Yangjun said.
Long Yangjun said, "Since your identity is an 'ace card', how can you play the king at the beginning of the game?"
"Exactly. Now is not the time yet. Why don't we give the professor a 'surprise' later?"
Licking his lips, Li Yao looked past the Exos that were about to arrive and at the artificial celestial bodies that were scattered around the Hundred Flowers Space Zone. He suddenly said, "Whatever scheme Professor Mo Xuan has, as long as he intends to control the grand-unified Spiritual Nexus, he will have to transmit his telepathic thoughts, viruses, and instructions through the nodes of the Spiritual Nexus deployed everywhere in the Hundred Flowers Space Zone and the network bases that can break the barrier of the four-dimensional space.
"What do you think if we summon the Colossi right now and destroy all the bases so that the Hundred Flowers Space Zone and the seven Sectors will be completely 'disconnected'?"
Long Yangjun glanced at him. "The Hundred Flowers Space Zone is the control center of the Spiritual Nexus of the entire Federation. If we sabotage the place, the network speed of the entire Federation will be reduced by at least half. Are you sure you want to do that when the Black Wind Fleet is coming?"
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